Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

He was doing pretty well until #7. If you're going to praise the Garand heritage gas system, why not go ahead with a M14/M1A and get the real deal in a cartridge which knocks piss outta all kinds of stuff.


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Who knew? Reloadable 7.62 by 39 ammo can be had for a couple of cents per round more than one-and-done steel case. I would make feeding the AK a cheaper proposition.
 
Life's easy to live for someone unscrupulous, cunning as a crow, corrupt, back-biting, forward, & brash; But for someone who's constantly scrupulous, cautious, observant, sincere, pure in his livelihood, clean in his pursuits, it's hard.

~ Dhammapada




I recall someone saying to me, 'Anger is fear under pressure.' I've found it to be true. Behind anger fear is always lurking.

~ Unknown




A man of word and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

~ Unknown
 

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Being as the origin of this one isn't on some guy's reloading table/bench and that the bullet gurus made it, I reckon it might just well have legs.
I can make the same argument for the 6.5x55 Swede and it has a MUCH longer track record. :D
 
I had no time to Hate –
Because
The Grave would hinder me –
And Life was not so
Ample I
Could finish – Enmity –

Nor had I time to Love –
But since
Some Industry must be –
The little Toil of Love –
I thought

Be large enough for Me –

~ Emily Dickinson
 
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily


How the Ivy League Broke America​

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
By David Brooks


Every coherent society has a social ideal—an image of what the superior person looks like. In America, from the late 19th century until sometime in the 1950s, the superior person was the Well-Bred Man. Such a man was born into one of the old WASP families that dominated the elite social circles on Fifth Avenue, in New York City; the Main Line, outside Philadelphia; Beacon Hill, in Boston. He was molded at a prep school like Groton or Choate, and came of age at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. In those days, you didn’t have to be brilliant or hardworking to get into Harvard, but it really helped if you were “clubbable”—good-looking, athletic, graceful, casually elegant, Episcopalian, and white. It really helped, too, if your dad had gone there.

Once on campus, studying was frowned upon. Those who cared about academics—the “grinds”—were social outcasts. But students competed ferociously to get into the elite social clubs: Ivy at Princeton, Skull and Bones at Yale, the Porcellian at Harvard. These clubs provided the well-placed few with the connections that would help them ascend to white-shoe law firms, to prestigious banks, to the State Department, perhaps even to the White House. (From 1901 to 1921, every American president went to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.) People living according to this social ideal valued not academic accomplishment but refined manners, prudent judgment, and the habit of command. This was the age of social privilege.


And then a small group of college administrators decided to blow it all up. The most important of them was James Conant, the president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953. Conant looked around and concluded that American democracy was being undermined by a “hereditary aristocracy of wealth.” American capitalism, he argued, was turning into “industrial feudalism,” in which a few ultrarich families had too much corporate power. Conant did not believe the United States could rise to the challenges of the 20th century if it was led by the heirs of a few incestuously interconnected Mayflower families.

So Conant and others set out to get rid of admissions criteria based on bloodlines and breeding and replace them with criteria centered on brainpower. His system was predicated on the idea that the highest human trait is intelligence, and that intelligence is revealed through academic achievement.

By shifting admissions criteria in this way, he hoped to realize Thomas Jefferson’s dream of a natural aristocracy of talent, culling the smartest people from all ranks of society. Conant wanted to create a nation with more social mobility and less class conflict. He presided during a time, roughly the middle third of the 20th century, when people had lavish faith in social-engineering projects and central planning—in using scientific means to, say, run the Soviet economy, or build new cities like Brasília, or construct a system of efficiency-maximizing roadways that would have cut through Greenwich Village.


And so on . . . .
 
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily


How the Ivy League Broke America​

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
By David Brooks


Every coherent society has a social ideal—an image of what the superior person looks like. In America, from the late 19th century until sometime in the 1950s, the superior person was the Well-Bred Man. Such a man was born into one of the old WASP families that dominated the elite social circles on Fifth Avenue, in New York City; the Main Line, outside Philadelphia; Beacon Hill, in Boston. He was molded at a prep school like Groton or Choate, and came of age at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. In those days, you didn’t have to be brilliant or hardworking to get into Harvard, but it really helped if you were “clubbable”—good-looking, athletic, graceful, casually elegant, Episcopalian, and white. It really helped, too, if your dad had gone there.

Once on campus, studying was frowned upon. Those who cared about academics—the “grinds”—were social outcasts. But students competed ferociously to get into the elite social clubs: Ivy at Princeton, Skull and Bones at Yale, the Porcellian at Harvard. These clubs provided the well-placed few with the connections that would help them ascend to white-shoe law firms, to prestigious banks, to the State Department, perhaps even to the White House. (From 1901 to 1921, every American president went to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.) People living according to this social ideal valued not academic accomplishment but refined manners, prudent judgment, and the habit of command. This was the age of social privilege.


And then a small group of college administrators decided to blow it all up. The most important of them was James Conant, the president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953. Conant looked around and concluded that American democracy was being undermined by a “hereditary aristocracy of wealth.” American capitalism, he argued, was turning into “industrial feudalism,” in which a few ultrarich families had too much corporate power. Conant did not believe the United States could rise to the challenges of the 20th century if it was led by the heirs of a few incestuously interconnected Mayflower families.

So Conant and others set out to get rid of admissions criteria based on bloodlines and breeding and replace them with criteria centered on brainpower. His system was predicated on the idea that the highest human trait is intelligence, and that intelligence is revealed through academic achievement.


By shifting admissions criteria in this way, he hoped to realize Thomas Jefferson’s dream of a natural aristocracy of talent, culling the smartest people from all ranks of society. Conant wanted to create a nation with more social mobility and less class conflict. He presided during a time, roughly the middle third of the 20th century, when people had lavish faith in social-engineering projects and central planning—in using scientific means to, say, run the Soviet economy, or build new cities like Brasília, or construct a system of efficiency-maximizing roadways that would have cut through Greenwich Village.


And so on . . . .
And then the new crowd decided to base admissions on DEI criteria. So instead of the 'best and brightest' we got the 'cripples and clowns.'
 

In a camp such as this (what the world is becoming), one draws one's menials from a small and brackish pool.​


~ E. B. Farnum
 
When I was going through chemo, people would say to me, ‘You’re so brave. I don’t know how you do it.’ And I’d look at them and respond, ‘What’s the alternative?’

~ Chris Evert
 
https://athlonoutdoors.com/article/...s+Winner+Julie+Golob+Joins+Springfield+Armory


Julie Golob Joins Springfield Armory as Professional Shooter and Brand Ambassador​



A veteran of the elite U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, Golob’s titles include top honors in Bianchi Cup, Steel Challenge, USPSA, IDPA, and IPSC competitions, as well as being named U.S. Army Female Athlete of the Year. Over the course of her career, she has earned more than 170 championship titles and top scores in international, national, and regional marksmanship competitions across seven different shooting disciplines. She is also the first and only 7 Division USPSA Ladies National Champion.

Shooter – Instructor – Speaker – Ambassador

Golob shares her passion for firearm safety, shooting sports, conservation, and hunting as an instructor, consultant, speaker, ambassador, and creator. As a published author of a primer on shooting sports and a children’s book on firearm safety, Golob has also written numerous articles for prominent firearms publications. Be sure to watch for her upcoming contributions to The Armory Life.

Taking her place alongside Springfield Armory’s legendary pro shooter Rob Leatham, Golob will employ her proven skills as a professional shooter and content creator in addition to helping guide new product development for the company in this new role.
 
https://athlonoutdoors.com/article/...s+Winner+Julie+Golob+Joins+Springfield+Armory


Julie Golob Joins Springfield Armory as Professional Shooter and Brand Ambassador​



A veteran of the elite U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, Golob’s titles include top honors in Bianchi Cup, Steel Challenge, USPSA, IDPA, and IPSC competitions, as well as being named U.S. Army Female Athlete of the Year. Over the course of her career, she has earned more than 170 championship titles and top scores in international, national, and regional marksmanship competitions across seven different shooting disciplines. She is also the first and only 7 Division USPSA Ladies National Champion.

Shooter – Instructor – Speaker – Ambassador

Golob shares her passion for firearm safety, shooting sports, conservation, and hunting as an instructor, consultant, speaker, ambassador, and creator. As a published author of a primer on shooting sports and a children’s book on firearm safety, Golob has also written numerous articles for prominent firearms publications. Be sure to watch for her upcoming contributions to The Armory Life.

Taking her place alongside Springfield Armory’s legendary pro shooter Rob Leatham, Golob will employ her proven skills as a professional shooter and content creator in addition to helping guide new product development for the company in this new role.
A lot of good shooters come out of that outfit. :)
 
Here's wagering it ain't still the same interviewing process.
They are now getting raked over the coals.

They don't want to work and the first little perceived hiccough and they go running to HR. They are the reason that Musk was able shit can 80% of the deadwood without interruption of service. Many of them in the non-STEM fields were able to find a home in the government or with NGO's and that career path isn't working out for them now either.

You can only get away with turning out an inferior product for so long.
 
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