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A little while back I posted about obtaining this pair of rifles. I know we have some 22 guys that will appreciate these. These are consecutive serial numbered Remington 40xb's from the CMP. What's somewhat rare about these is 1) They are part of a small Air Force run towards the end of the government contract for 40x's and 2) they are as close to new as you will find out of the CMP. In one case there is zero wear on the lugs or the lug raceways. The other has so little I bet it hasn't been cycled 100 times. The only real downside is the bolt's don't match the guns, but that's basically the way it is with CMP guns. Anyway, I found a pair of excellent condition 20x Unertl's to go on them. I have had mounts on order for 8 weeks and they finally came in yesterday. Headed to a buddies this afternoon to shoot these. I love shooting my custom 22's, but something about shooting these old guns is so satisfying.

It turned out great, took about 7-8hrs. I'm going to have to change my rub recipe this one was just a little to spicy for me this time, my tastes have changed do to my Chemotherapy treatments, so I'm going to have to back off the heat. All I really did was rub some yellow mustard on the brisket then mixed about 1 1/2 table spoon of salt, 4 1/2 table spoon of fresh ground pepper and a touch of dillo seasoning, mixed it together and rubbed it on the brisket then fired up the pellet grill set to the smoke setting for the first hr, then went to 225° for about 3hrs then turned it up a little to about 250° for about 2hrs. till it got to an eternal temperature of 160°-170•. Then I pulled it of and wrapped it in butcher paper and placed it fat side up for about 1.5hrs and just checked for tenderness and when I felt it was good to go I took it off and let it rest wrapped up for about 45minutes, then sliced it up and ate it. Turned out tender with just a little chew to it. This was the first time cooking a Brisket on a pellet grill I've always done it on a gas grill but I'm liking this pellet grill.

I'd say something about beating a dead horse, but this ones at 128 pages and showing no signs of slowing down. People have expressed appreciation for posting links outside the main media sources. So theres this to chew on: https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the-cdc-is-manipulating-data-to-prop-up-vaccine-effectiveness/ The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data logging and testing for “Covid19” in order to make it seem the experimental gene-therapy “vaccines” are effective at preventing the alleged disease. They made no secret of this, announcing the policy changes on their website in late April/early May, (though naturally without admitting the fairly obvious motivation behind the change). The trick is in their reporting of what they call “breakthrough infections” – that is people who are fully “vaccinated” against Sars-Cov-2 infection, but get infected anyway. Essentially, Covid19 has long been shown – to those willing to pay attention – to be an entirely created pandemic narrative built on two key factors: False-positive tests. The unreliable PCR test can be manipulated into reporting a high number of false-positives by altering the cycle threshold (CT value) Inflated Case-count. The incredibly broad definition of “Covid case”, used all over the world, lists anyone who receives a positive test as a “Covid19 case”, even if they never experienced any symptoms. Without these two policies, there would never have been an appreciable pandemic at all, and now the CDC has enacted two policy changes which means they no longer apply to vaccinated people. Firstly, they are lowering their CT value when testing samples from suspected “breakthrough infections”. From the CDC’s instructions for state health authorities on handling “possible breakthrough infections” (uploaded to their website in late April): Throughout the pandemic, CT values in excess of 35 have been the norm, with labs around the world going into the 40s. Essentially labs were running as many cycles as necessary to achieve a positive result, despite experts warning that this was pointless (even Fauci himself said anything over 35 cycles is meaningless). But NOW, and only for fully vaccinated people, the CDC will only accept samples achieved from 28 cycles or fewer. That can only be a deliberate decision in order to decrease the number of “breakthrough infections” being officially recorded. Secondly, asymptomatic or mild infections will no longer be recorded as “covid cases”. You can't tell you're being played?!?!?! Seriously?!?!?! I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I'd like to talk to you about, and I just heard about a crazy deal on this bridge in Brooklyn, you're not going to believe it!

Does anyone have anything new or different to offer after 3,180 posts of the same people saying the same thing?

I understand that some folks are making money off of COVID. Some directly, like the big pharma...others indirectly like the insurance companies who had a lot less claims to pay out in 2020, and those who benefited when work from home went big (Amazon, Zoom, Microsoft). On the inverse, a lot of companies took it on the chin like the airlines, hotels, food service industry...so it balances out somewhat. I readily admit government stimulus tipped some scales here. What I was trying to say is, as a society, we've been able to understand and keep diseases at a manageable level where they are aren't a threat to everyday interaction writ large. COVID shut everything down because we didn't know anything for sure in the beginning aside from how contagious it was, how it stayed in your system for a few weeks, and for some it kept them in a state where productivity wasn't happening. The common cold, while transmissible in many ways similar to COVID only takes you out for a day or two, could be mild enough where you just need a day or two at home and you're better. Whereas COVID infections last for almost two weeks, with some varying degrees of how it hits you, and possible lingering after effects. Cancer, hideous as it is, isn't transmissible person to person so it's a completely different medical discussion.

I switched from gas to charcoal years ago specifically to cook brisket after sampling some in West TX. I've never gotten around to trying it, but my favorite marinated grilled chicken, porterhouse steaks, and even hot dogs are even better after the switch. I don't adhere to the "might as well cook on the stove if you're gonna use gas" philosophy, but there is something about smoke.

Would you believe me if I told you the speed in developing these vaccines was due to cutting bureaucratic red tape and removing the funding delays that typically slow things down? That’s how we got it from an average of 12 years down to 11 months. I’m not a public health person - but I am a scientist - and I can say confidently that there’s not been a vaccine developed since they started blowing dried pustules from cows into open lacerations on people that has been done in a more open and public manner. These are literally the most advanced vaccines that have ever been made. And with the success of the mRNA technology that Moderna and Pfizer have brought to market - if you pay attention over the next ten years you’re going to see advancements against diseases that have plagued humanity for hundreds of years. Moderna has already gotten good phase I results from a malaria vaccine. That has the potential to change the world for the better. Now to testing, I get the hesitancy over the EUA. It was a trade off to combat a disease that went from zero to a top 3 cause of death in a year. Is there risk there? Yes. But it’s a measured (and closely monitored) risk with limit stops in place. You saw the J&J vaccine get paused to study the risk of certain blood clots. That’s the system working as designed. The process to full FDA approval can’t be shortcut. There is data required that has path dependencies that are time based. We need six to nine months to collect those samples. On the plus side, we’ve got a huge pool to draw from - so that path should be shorter rather than longer. I know there are talking heads who are saying these were rushed, not designed well, and not tested. Of course there was a rush - but there is a robust testing process that is working. You can see evidence of that by the vaccine candidates that didn’t move forward.

I decided to throw on a Brisket this morning on my new Pellet Grill. Got everything going around 8am. Now I'm setting back and enjoying the wait.

If'n you run out of room for the both of em, I could probably put one up. Very nice!

Lovely set of rifles. The scopes just make them stand out.

Let us know when you finally can say I live in Tennessee. Please do not bring any Cali thinking with you. Be safe and have fun!

Gorgeous!

Those are awesome.

Congrats on getting it all to come together.

As close to twins as 2 guns come, congrats.

Okay I will share my recipe, NOTE: use at your own risk. I shoot mine out of a Taurus 65, .357. This can be used in both .38 special and .357 revolvers. I use .357 brass and because there isn't a bullet protruding from end it will cycle in both. Take a dozen or more brass and remove the primers then open up the primer pocket flash hole to about twice as big.This will help prevent primer setback. I use 5.8 gr. Bullseye with 2 wads over powder, about 88 gr. of shot I use #8 because I didn't have #12, 1 wad over shot and either seal with hot glue gun or wax. I make my wads from thin cardboard like the type used in Federal primer packaging, I use my lubrisizer and make up a bunch. This is good for about 10 feet, but make up some and test them as YMMV. I also mark the bases of this brass to keep separate just for this application. You can use 3.5 gr. of Bullseye and substitute uncooked rice for the shot and make bee/hornet loads. They are a hoot!! Yes if there was a rednecks anonymous I would probably be at most meetings!! LOL

Go to https://castboolits.gunloads.com/archive/index.php/t-77286.html and click on the full version of: "Revolver shot loads that work" in the upper left of the page. The thread I linked is eight pages long so you should be able to find something there.

Pasture garden is about half planted. Neighbor brought me 20 tons of composted horse manure! Good deal for $150 and some beers. I'll drink half of them anyways... .... its funny how 'what gets you excited' changes as you age. White stuff is garden lime waiting to be tilled in with the horse####! Got a real pH problem. Mostly beans and squash (what grew last year!) Got corn, cukes, melons, pumpkins and maters in that half. Other half (not shown) has more of the same plus taters, oats, peanuts and cotton. Trying to fill out the un-planted half! Thinking I might try okra this year, except I don't like to eat it! Maybe grow it and give it away. Worst case more corn... squirrels sure seem to appreciate it when I do.

I'm glad for him, truly. But I know you know that it was bad to worse for a lot of others.

Some folks weren't as lucky. Unfortunately, the politics around this thing were probably more toxic than the disease. I am not real concerned about the safety of the vaccine. And, I'm not all that scared of Covid, even though it would probably kill me. The main reason I got vaccinated was so I can use the Kat Timpf quote, "I'm vaccinated, so f#ck off".

GREAT KOOZIE!

Cancer and the common cold don't shut down commerce, or overwhelm the medical system like unchecked COVID threatened to do. The economic motivator was to get this virus to controllable levels where life could get back to normal so businesses could get back to it without restrictions, and tax coffers can start to get their cut as well.

I appreciate the information and sharing your opinion @MacGyver. Education and training such as yours is much needed in the public debate surrounding this issue. I am not a trusting-by-nature type person, polar opposite in fact. There are several issues surrounding these medications (gene therapy, its NOT a vaccine) that I take issue with, the simplest being the blatant coersion. It ties in with my mental wiring of not trusting people. I _really_ don't trust people who try shoving something down my throat. When someone deliberately mis-uses language (its NOT a vaccine) to foster a sense of comfort, that right there is an Orwellian red flag use of Newspeak in my book (otherwise known as propaganda). "Mostly peaceful riots" That stuff gets my radar active. Kinda like when someone looks up and to the right when you ask them a simple question - you know they're about to lie to you? Things like that set off triggers that predispose my attitude towards something/one. If I catch you doing that (looking up/right), everything you say is immediately suspect. Ditto any use of Newspeak - it tells me you're either an idiot who doesn't understand English, or you are trying to manipulate me with language. Either one creates a very short conversation. Stir in all the other factors surrounding Covid, and you have a giant stew of stay-the-####-away-from-me. I understand the public health implications of a percentage of the population being unvaccinated, truly. All of that blather about doing your part falls on deaf ears here, as ones opinion of the severity of this disease outbreak predicates the need for vaccination. If one were to be of the opinion this is 'a bad flu', or some such shade of gray thats short of 'global depopulation event', than the need for mass vaccination doesn't even exist. In that context, suggesting I HAVE to get it throws another red flag for me. (I'm not suggesting @MacGyver is trying to tell me I have to get the jab, merely pointing to the current media message). This is why when the world + dog says "oh won't you think of the children!" I find myself scratching my head and asking why, and who benefits? Useful life skill right there folks.... And once you start down THAT rabbit hole, well, lets just say that its the entire foundation surrounding the current situation I'm just not comfortable with. The whole topic has taken on so much more than a medical debate about thresholds and treatment protocols. I wish that weren't the case, but the world we live in isn't black and white. Had the issue not taken on a political dimension, had the media and fedgov not viciously attacked and tried banning anything not following WHO orthodoxy, had MD's and scientists like yourself not been fired/cancelled/blacklisted/banned for simply suggesting alternative therapys to the jab, I might play along in a few years after more testing and data analysis can take place. On that we most certainly agree: we are about to get a very large pool of data to work with. I do hope my fears are unfounded. If I am wrong, that would be great! If I'm right however... I'll ask a rhetorical question, its a simple test to ask yourself, anyone can do it, but as a scientist (I don't know what your specific field is, but its irrelevant assuming you're not at retirement age or independently wealthy): would you publish a research paper you did on the effectiveness of Hydroxycholoroquine, Ivermectin, and Vitamin D therapies against Covid infections today? Guess how I know you're over the target?

A friend has the same gun, brought it out to my place and we both shot some normal clay loads and it was ok to handle. He then wonder about magnum loads so I grabbed a couple from my stash and he tried them. He said never again. Last we talked about it he had put a full stock on it. Never tried buck or slugs in it as far as I know.

Yeah, 8 or 9 people have us all convinced.

Still cooking I reckon! That IS the best coozie ever! I'm interedted to see where this goes. I was a charcoal man until my wife got tired of waiting and bought a gas grill. I used to be particular about the charcoal, its kind of an art. Be at least 3-4 beers, I mean an hour or so, before the heat was just right for the meat. Can't rush perfection M'Dear! (Twists valve, twists second valve, click, click, WHOMP!) "Beans are almost done, get off your ass, lets go." She's a peach!!!