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  1. To cap this off, yeah, a Beeman R7/Weihrauch HW30 would be an excellent pesting solution. So would a DIana 34, though there are reports that Diana quality has fallen off in the last few years.
  2. Yeah don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of spring piston airguns broadly. I shoot a Weihrauch HW97 in field target competition. Just not the ones at big box stores. And due to their idiosyncracies, may prove unsatisfactory for the average Joe. Any any spring piston gun that's put 500-1000 rounds down the tube, if the spring doesn't fatigue and crack, is highly likely to become a pretty sweet shooter. There's not a lot of tuning that can be done that's as good as just having the thing wear in. Also, pro tip for those attempting to shoot a spring piston accurately. A light and loose grip is key, careful with that "cheek weld," and sure, firmly seat it against your shoulder, but after that loose as a goose. Also, avoid trying to shoot off a rest.
  3. 700fps gives something like a 7" drop at 50 yards, I have no idea what 100 is and wind effects at ranges over 25 yards are extremely non-negligible.
  4. Well yeah, a Beeman R7 is a sweet little rifle. It's actually a Weihrauch HW30 at about 700fps. And a far cry from most of the junk sold in big box stores these days. Goes for about $450 these days. To be completely fair, though, those big box guns are often Chinese copies of Weihrauch and RWS/Diana designs that can be made quite decent, but need some polishing and tuning.
  5. Oh, airguns are supremely accurate. But spring-piston airguns have slow lock times and unusual recoil (forward, lateral, and rotational components in addition to the rearward), making them difficult to shoot accurately without some adaptation to those facts. And the cheaper, higher velocity ones are that much worse. And they will destroy scopes that aren't built for it. 750fps is a good sweet spot for a spring piston gun and is lethal to most varmint types at backyard ranges. I wouldn't take many 100 yard shots at a living target with most airguns other than some PCPs.
  6. You're very correct that many aspects of our criminal laws are medieval in origin and lifted intact from England circa 1789 with remarkably little change over the intervening 250 some odd years. The codification of criminal laws (meaning rendering them into statutes and then into organized penal codes) effected a sort of modernization of criminal laws that was mostly unintentional. That is, the goal was to get them written down, not to improve them or adapt them to modern civilization, although some of that occurred. But with that came the shift of the definition of crimes and penalties from the judicially controlled common law to the legislative branch. And with that came political pandering by criminal legislation. Somewhat surprisingly, I think Texas did a pretty damn good job of codifying and modernizing its Penal Code. It is so much "cleaner" and freer of medieval concepts than the criminal statutes of most states. And Texas, again surprisingly, has largely avoided much of the pandering by criminal legislation that has occurred at the federal level, which has been out of control for decades. And I think one of the reasons for that is guidance from professors at our universities, including Bob Dawson, George Dix, and others. The one major complaint I have about all of it is a general one toward legislatures everywhere. They enact stuff and rarely revisit it to evaluate whether it carried out its original purpose, produced unintended and undesirable consequences, and should be revised or replace or repealed.
  7. That's a month old, so invalid.
  8. High and tight and 55 years old and never spent a day in the Corps. Hope he enjoys his five hour deposition and subsequent contempt citation. https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/23/judge-allows-further-questioning-of-border-patrol-commander-greg-bovino-as-hes-hit-with-new-tear-gas-claims
  9. Where did @RollLeft's super srs troll thread go? Daily Texan?
  10. TwiceHorn

    Burgers

    Celis White accelerated my surrender to alcohol by probably five years.
  11. Joe Beaman? I thought most of the ME faculty in the late 80s early 90s.were pretty cool. Beaman was a prick about signing PTS and TBP books and is a prick as an expert witness.
  12. With your fist? Maybe both fists? 😬😬
  13. That was a product of Technocracy, Inc., and most of today's technocrats/tech oligarchs are direct descendants of that. And Elmo's maternal grandparents were big fans.
  14. Why not both?
  15. I have had more than one asshole try to tell me their 401k was better under Trump than Biden. When I point out that every major index was higher during Biden's term than during Trumps and finished at all time records, they're like, it just was. Allergic. To. Facts.
  16. What's bizarre is that our OL, maybe on the strength of talent, took a noticeable step up upon Sark and Flood's arrival. But it also kind of plateaued at good but not great.
  17. The nattering nabobs have been grumbling about Sark for several years now. But that could be dismissed as nitpicking and the usual stupid fanbase shit. I'd have to think that regardless of W/L record, this year's fall from grace and grotesque offensive ineptitude would a) put CDC on Sark's ass and/or b) force some changes.
  18. I'll help ya out, Lee, and save us all some money in the process. The chemtrails people are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. That's the bottom line.
  19. If noise is an issue, isn't range? I'd be worried about a .22 in an urban/suburban setting unless you're using subsonics, which I assume won't cycle a semi-auto. There are some fun airguns out there. Spring pistons of the inexpensive variety (big box stores) probably aren't them, though. The challenge they present to accurate shooting can add a dimension though.
  20. Well, either they provide the Fed with the same data that's publicly announced, in which case why say anything. Or, they give the Fed something they don't give the public. And if the latter, which seems more likely, why?
  21. Actually one of the healthiest fast food options I believe. Healthy being measured by farts per ounce.
  22. These motherfuckers love them some circuses.
  23. Also, that's stupid as fuck. It's not a calculation, it's looking up the melting point of steel.
  24. Generally agreed. If that politician confines his remarks to something apolitical, that would be ok. "But we should support Israel" is not that.
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