Well I mean, if you’re not jogging behind your target until it is too exhausted to move are you really hunting?
You want punji stakes and the like for Most Dangerous Game anyway.
Edit: Hey, this is the year it entered the public domain!
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No, I usually call that walking my dog. Christ, she could tire a marathon runner out.
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Rifle depends entirely on budget and mission. For anything that has hunting as a possible purpose depending on location you’ll need something 30-caliber or greater.
If you want a true hunting-style thing, a good bolt action is hard to beat. a Rem 70 is cheap, and works. A Rem 700 is classic and there’s lots of options. But if I was looking for something classy I’d look at a CZ bolt gun. The Czechs do a beautiful job.
I’d go for something like a PTR-91 myself, which is what I did some 10 years ago. They’re reasonably priced, semi-auto, there’s some heritage to that design which is hard to beat being the standard arm of Germany for the bulk of the Cold War, and magazines and other components are cheap. It’ll run good on surplus rounds or target/hunting loads with no gas system to worry about. It is a beast of a machine though.
If you’re fine with .223 for hunting, either again some kind of Rem 70 or Rem 700 short action, or basically just get an AR15 with reasonable features. If you want semi-auto but really don’t want a black-rifle assault-weapon look (Or those are banned in your state), the Ares SCR would be my go-to over something retro like the Mini-14. The SCR still uses a lot of AR-15 components, it’s light, handy, and you’ll have a lot of easy options for scopes/sights/etc. But it’s got a traditional rifle layout and seems low-profile and handy. Reminds me of the ol Daisy Pumpmaster BB guns.
I don’t own any handguns (technically I have an old black powder revolver with a bad cylinder) nor did I buy my rifles with any pretense of self-defense. They stay locked in a safe that is locked in a basement office closet; if some scenario were to arise in which I needed to be armed, I would need some time to prepare given my ammunition is all in the original boxes and stored in another cabinet. But I haven’t taken any of them of the safe in probably over a year. If anything I probably should check that they aren’t rusting.
I had considered an AR-15 (I’m in KY, I’ve seen car ads saying they’ll give you a complimentary AR with purchase) and put wood furniture on it.
Or I could rock a Brown Bess and stick a holographic sight on it.
Split the difference, Lee Entfield.
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Martini-Henry with an AFG and a 3x Prism scope and a suppressor.
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What should I do for my 30th birthday?
What are you into?
Not as a suggestion, I mean, need more information. Be a bit shit if, say, you were teetotal, and we suggested a tequila tasting.
I may need to limit my alcohol intake till I can get my kidneys sorted out, but tastings aren’t a terrible idea. I like gun simulators (laser tag, paintball, etc.), gaming (both digital and TT), thrills to a certain extent, touring historic sites, and museums. Any unique experience to make memories is ideal honestly, I’d like to spend time with my small group of friends.
Hm. Well, off the back of that, a few good starting points to investigate or customize at your leisure - A Road Trip, doing a history tour in the day, grabbing some diner, and then doing a ghost tour of the same spot at night, a resturant crawl(Like a pub crawl, but you eat a bit in each place, rather than drink), a Degustation evening(Sort of like a wine tasting, but for food and high culinary art) skydiving is a blast, Maybe some sort of local airsoft day experience, of course a vineyard, brewery, or distillery trip.
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Talking of skydiving, how about indoor skydiving? I’ve been twice, once to have a go myself, and once to watch my girlfriend have a go, and both times it was a blast! Prices start at about €40, and that includes two sessions in the tunnel, plus coaching and prep, so about an hour of activity in total.
I’m not sure how common these are, or if there are any close to where you live. There are three in Berlin though, so I’m guessing not too uncommon.
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Try a 30 year-old port wine?
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Any non recommendations for using Better Help? I have been thinking about talking to someone about some issues as of late and wanted to know if they are a good place to go.
Non-recommendation?
So you want us not to recommend?
No no, I was thinking of using the services wanted to ask if anyone had anything negative to say about them.
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De-commendations?
De-commendation request:
Is folding@home a waste of time and electricity or is it legit?
Depends how you define legit, but it’s definitely producing useful work with the computing power thrown at it, a lot of research has benefited, and a lot of papers have been written.
Edit - In fact, they even have a page that lists all the peer-reviewed papers they’ve helped out with.
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To build off Churba’s comment, it is also worth considering the difference in most home-gaming setups and those used by your typical lab.
Context: I used to work on a team that supported all of a university’s computer systems at a major research university.
Outside of top-of-field-researcher-labs, most of them use pretty dated systems. If they can crowd source high-end GPU processing (or even typical gamer CPUs), that can be a huge benefit in aggregate.
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