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All the members of Congress in that video were veterans (one was CIA). Kelly is the only one who is receiving a pension, but all veterans. I am no lawyer, but I suspect this will be viewed legally much like the letter signed by the former intelligence officials (several on military pensions)...

I think you could be wasting a lot of valuable time with your current plan. I would strongly suggest picking two or three guided free range hunts in reasonable driving proximity. In my experience Europeans have no real idea how large this country is. You could book a hunt for whitetail in the...

Interesting data release from Ukraine. Most casualty claims from any side are inevitably exaggerated during wartime. The difference with these is that these are just drone engagements and they are recorded as they strike their target. In other words, they should be more accurate than simple...

How about this officer who many on the right praised? Isn't this a direct challenge to good order and discipline and undermines trust in the chain of command? Many on the right were outraged he was charged under UCMJ.

Not yet. Hegseth issued a formal letter of censure and began formal proceedings that could result in a reduction in his rank and thus a cut in retirement pay. He is currently a retired Navy Captain (O6). I am not sure how this flies in whatever turns out to be the final judicial review. All...

This should help make a New York property owner feel secure.

Perhaps. Though were I commanding the PLA, I would take the US military action - in conjunction with the B2 raid on Iran, particularly the way we easily eliminated regional air defense and command and control systems, as a cautionary rather than persuasive action with respect to Taiwan.

Looks like both Nancy and I will be able to make dinner on the 6th at DSC if still room.

You are exactly right. That would be the traditional way it should have been managed. Had it been so, I suspect the last twenty years may have looked far different. I believe you have drawn the opposite conclusion from what happened, and I am confident most of the historians of the period...

This is the most thorough summary of events that I have read this morning. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna252041

The invasion of Iraq, my friend, was hardly an "ad hoc operation," and yest CENTCOM had neither enough troops nor an implementable occupation plan for the day after the government fell. The US military scrambled to deal with that oversight, always with inadequate troop strength and no clear...

I do hope we have the morning after worked out. We did not in Iraq and it cost us dearly. I have seen no evidence we have as yet.

Which is why we are not building a traditional "battleship." I am sure the navy is cringing a little over the use of the term. This will be a new class of ship. I think guided missile battle cruiser would be most accurate. It will carry a far larger inventory of long range offensive strike...

Unless you are emptying an AR at hostiles, I would not worry about it on a hunting rifle.

The Pottery Barn rule of international intervention as quoted by Collin Powell to President Bush, "If you break it, you own it." We'll see how this one goes. The Panama intervention was far more devastating for the Panamanians, but worked out pretty well for all sides once the fighting was over.

I am still speculating here, but if indeed a snatch and grab, then I would bet a serious mortgage payment it was carried out by Delta and there won't be a Mark Wahlberg movie.

LOL. Apparently, Hugo Chavez's mausoleum was one of the targets last night.

If this was a "snatch and grab," then it will be the most successful decapitation ever conducted by SOF. It will be interesting to see if instead some sort of negotiated exit was in play along with selective strikes on command and control nodes. However accomplished, the military side of this...

I am retired and have been for 12 years. Fortunately, we were wise enough to go to ground on a bit of acreage in central Texas. I have plenty of quality time on the tractor, mower, or with a chainsaw - sometimes far too much following a flood, ice storm, or hurricane. I tell everyone that I...

If I may offer a little known explanation, many continental rifles were regulated to put one barrel on at 100 and the other at 200.

They are truly wonderful and yet sadly under appreciated rifles. I think it is because they are in useful chamberings, don't weigh as much as a light machine gun, and don't look like a "proper" SxS double to those into reenacting short clips of a 30's era safari in seven - to - ten days with a...

Tells me Yankees have what one would expect in taste for rifles, and it hardly surprises me they would perceive informed opinion as "fanaticism." :cool: I am confident that I own and have owned as many types of rifles as most dealers will see. They range through every American name and a...

This character actually said ‘We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.’ Strange times - He is advocating a Borg culture in the center of capitalism of the Western World - and an American audience cheered.

The problem with Mamdani's reign will be the time it takes for his decisions to be felt negatively by the average New Yorker. For the first couple of years he will be touting the roll out of new programs, niche taxes on the evil rich, and lots of favorable, even fawning, press. New York's...

Luddite :A Too Cool:

My leopard and three of my four buffalo were with PH's with whom I was hunting for the first time. So that is not a consideration for me. The fourth was a repeat performance with one of the first three. One was armed with a .416, one with a .458, and one with a .375. I could have cared less...

Ideal African rifle is my R8 with the standard .375 barrel in place. My ideal everything else rifle is the R8 with another of several barrels in place. Finest production general purpose rifle yet produced by human hands.

The Gumps are already demanding DeBoer’s head.

Or perhaps real patriots, professionals sick of watching their President lie to the American people, or perhaps worse, uncritically ally himself to the despot in the Kremlin, decided the American people deserved the truth on this issue. Or perhaps Trump might just review the facts of an issue...

Well, imagine that. Were Biden acting either this confused, or naive, or this complicit with an international competitor, the vast majority of contributors here rightfully would be outraged. U.S. Finds Ukraine Didn’t Target Putin in Drone Strike...

We have indeed given Ukraine just enough not to be defeated. For instance we gave them exactly 31 M1 tanks - we have over Three thousand in storage - hardly providing "every kind of weaponry." However, I believe the "Biden strategy" was hardly Machiavellian, but rather simple fecklessness out...

I am not sure what you wrote had to do with the concern I expressed. Thus far Russia has seized approximately 20% of a sovereign country and inflicted several hundred thousand military and civilian casualties on a people whose only crime was wanting to chart a democratic future aligned with...

Not sure how I missed the actual hunt the first time around. What a great experience! That elephant the Lechwe were incredible.

I think all of that is largely true. What worries me is the apparent belief in this administration that a peace that rewards Russian aggression is somehow in the interests of our country and our allies.

Someone should.

The really sad thing is that I am confident the NRO has a 90+ % visibility of every long range drone or missile flown by either side. To listen to Trump complain about it and acknowledge that it was Putin who informed him is so sadly telling. Rather than play into the hands of Russia's victim...

Special place, special folks.

One of my favorites! With a tough 150 gr bullet she will be just fine. Either of those options will do the job. I would select the one that gives her the most accuracy. I personally use A-Frame, Oryx, or TSX family for almost everything these days, but your two will be fine as well.

Not exactly. True "Best" doubles are regulated with an effort to achieve parallel bullet flight to "infinity." That is obviously very difficult to achieve. Crossing at some point, as far out as possible, is obviously better than gradual separation. Convergence into a three-inch target at...

Though Ukraine is hardly a bastion of uncorrupted commercial opportunity or governmental honesty, it has made meaningful strides over the last half decade as it attempts to meet EU membership requirements. There is an actual data source you can go to which lists perceived corruption of 180...

I could not use a double that fired its "regulated" load that badly at that range. That isn't a group, it is a pattern. And yes, you have two barrels that want to shoot. JJ Perodeau or Owens can regulate it easily, if not cheaply. for your preferred load. Of course, you will get lectured by...

To be precise, I have a set of 30-06 barrels for my Blaser S2. They are very accurate and I have used them here and in Africa. Below is a lovely nyala from Mozambique. The Anglophile purists will tell you to only own a rimmed chambering for a double rifle. But if I may offer a little...

It largely depends on the rifle and quality of its basic regulation. All three barrel sets of my Blaser S2 shoot MOA or better from each barrel. The rifle is designed for the Blaser quick detachable scope mount, and I sight each set at 100 yards. All three sets (500/416, .375, and 30-06)...

My problem with that thesis is - were that the case, he would be more actively supplying Zelensky with the materiel necessary to prolong the war indefinitely. I think it is more an issue of Trump viewing Zelensky, and by extension Ukraine and the EU, as impediments to the relationship he wants...

That was @RedTag not me (Red Leg), but I would agree that the right wool layers can save a hunt, maybe even a life in really cold conditions. While many Germans and Austrians have moved on to high tech fabrics, I still find a loden jacket or coat the best cold weather option that I own. Sadly...

I think that is wonderful that you have associated with Africans. But I suspect you know absolutely nothing about the military - Africa or much of anywhere else. The units you listed were indeed excellent, and were all extremely well trained and led. However, all had a distinct, however...

No one selling likes to provide as sold prices (cars, guns, art, whatever). Circumstances such as acquisition cost, consignment or own, time in inventory, negotiations, etc. affect accepted offers. With respect to previously owned firearms, I don't think that I have ever paid the list price...

Move - south.

My "Ghost and the Darkness" rifle. The classic SMLE hunting rifle has to be the Lee Speed. This one was sold by WJ Jeffery, and likely to a young junior officer on his way to Africa or the Raj - or perhaps to a colonist in British East Africa. The second photo is of the underside of the stock...