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Post Goals
>Get .270 rifle as comp gun.
>Win handgun comp with Mk.III
>Somehow get an SVD.
>>23272020
>Beat Ace Combat Zero on Ace mode
Fuck you OP, now I want to play this game.
>shoot a perfect NRA Combat score (200/20x)
I've come close a couple times. My best was a 199/17x.
>get good enough at extreme-range shooting to warrant a .338-378wby
Currently my .338RUM outdistances my ability by a large margin.
>shoot a trophy moose
Haven't gone moose hunting yet. Need to do that.
>finish out the North American Grand Slam
Missing the Desert Bighorn. I've put in for the tag drawing for the last 17 years with no luck.
>finish out my Winchester collection
I'm missing an 1886 Deluxe in .40-70. That's it. Unfortunately they only made about 900 of them so they are extremely rare and expensive. After that I will have every variant of Winchester levergun made in every caliber they were offered in.
>shoot a perfect skeet tournament
That's 4x100. My best is 100x100x100x99, and that was years ago. Fucking .410.
>shoot a Chinese water deer
I don't even know if these are legal to hunt, but goddammit I want one on my wall. I have literally every other species of deer in the world on my wall.
>Finish college with some goddamn dignity (last semester)
>18X, yo.
Does /k/ like to fly?
Because I like to fly
I also like landing, sometimes
But I mostly like flying
Is /k/ interested in military strategy and tactics?
In case you are that sort of Anon, I've got something here that might interest you. I've translated Prof. Dr. Herfried Münkler's talk on "Lernen im Krieg - Aus dem Krieg" (Learning during war - learning from [after] war). Herfried Münkler is professor of Political Science at the Humbold University of Berlin and definitely one of the brightest minds in matters of warfare in Germany (which may or may not mean a lot these days - but that's a different topic). What makes Münkler always enlightening is his almost autistic passion for this rather emotional and some might say horrible topic, which he neutrally and unemotionally disects like a natural scientist, without letting his mind get clouded by anti-militarism or militaristic romanticism. He is a scholar with an interest in the process that is warfare and the rules which govern it, but he is no moral judge.
Topic of the talk, as the title might imply is learning in the context of war. It is exemplified in tactics, strategy and politics - mostly focussing on the German side in WW1, since there, due to being on the losing side, a lot of learning happened during war, in order to achieve a victory or at least prevent a defeat. It also discusses why Germany hadn't learned much after war and how it could be connected to having learned much during war.
The talk is aimed at an educated audience; it is not popular science. And it will result in huge walls of texts. In order to make things a bit less dry I'll add a few pictures though, and of course people are free to discuss or comment.
This thread will probably be a huge failure because nobody cares, but I'll just pretend that people are just too interested in the topic at hand to interrupt the flow with their commentary and as long as a single Anon is interested I'll consider it a success.
I'll use a tripcode so the long posts are easier to filter in case (possibly unrelated) discussion arises.
Here it goes...
A question just came up, "Can one learn from wars?"
It is a question I would answer naturally with "Yes". I would of course answer it with "yes". And I would connect it to the observation that learning also happens during war; which is a much more difficult and less evaluative form of learning. I shall exemplify this using the example of the first world war. I might add that I didn't just choose this war because I wrote a book about it and thus am rather familiar with the way it went, but also because it is the "key-war" to understanding the 20th century - without this war, the 20th century would have certainly went differently on an elementary level; neither Mussolini nor Hitler, neither Lenin nor Stalin would have probably gained power - ergo the second world war would have not happened in this form - at least in Europe, how things would have turned out in Asia is another question.
Second, I also think that this war is particularly interesting because it is a contraction of time. In many regards it begins with tactical and strategic models but also supply and equipment resembling the war of 1870-71, and by its end - not only in terms of iconography but also in terms of strategy - the constellation of 1939-40 is reached. Thus this war is an example of learning.
In the following I will distinguish between learning during war and learning from war. During war, one learns under time pressure and for the purpose of optimisation of actions and maximisation of actions. The goal of learning is victory, or rather - prevention of loss. Learning from war on the other hand follows an evaluation of cost and gain, and it provides at least the possibility to take a look at the purpose of war itself.
As you see, I made an analytical difference, akin to the disguised intellectual General von Clausewitz, as he distinguished between goal and purpose. Goal of war is what we want to achieve during war, purpose of war is what we want to achieve through war.
When learning from war, it is possible to estimate the value of a victory, which means to ask the question whether it was possible to convert a military victory into a political success.
This is not a matter of course. Very often the military victor is not the political victor.
In general, the principle applies that one learns from defeat more and better than from victories. The victor, due to his victory, is under the impression that he has done everything right. The political scientist, Karl Deutsch has put it wonderfully into words, saying: "Might is the licence for not having to learn."; of course he also had in mind that this might change at some point and if one has had power long enough but refused to learn, then one is in danger of becoming powerless in the future. The losers on the other hand reach, due to their defeat, the conclusion that they did all kinds of things wrong and have to change those.
The remarkable thing of WW1 - and that is the third reason why one should take a look at it when considering the initial question - is that what I just said does not apply to the German side. It did not consider the general framework of peace and war, at least not in-depth and to a point where it would affect political actions after 1918-19, but it - at least when it came to results - focussed on increasing the active military capabilities, in order to reach the goal it failed to reach in 1918.
This paradox has to be explained. And the explanation I propose is that the German side had learned during war - out of all participants - possibly the fastest and the most effective.
>>23270349
>Lernen im Krieg - Aus dem Krieg
schaus mir mal an, hoff es wird interessant
>Western Europe despite it's superior military training and organization, superior equipment and superior numbers lost every crusade.
>and Western nations are still losing in military conflicts against Arabic nations today
Why is this? The whole reasons why Columbus discovered America in the first place is because the western merchants couldn't get past the Muslim Ottoman empire so they had to find another way into the far east. This shows how much the west has failed in dealing with the Islamic world. But why?
>>23265984
>why are wars lost when a team runs out of money?
>>23265989
You speak as if the crusaders couldn't harvest resources from the local region or anything.
>>23265994
alright back to firefly studios you go
m curious how /k/ would deal with aliums, besides the obvious of shooting them.
What would you do if you saw pic related? What gun would you choose?
Anyone with experience in the subject? I want to track down and kill the xeno menace.
>>23270568
Bumb
>>23270568
why are aliums always nekkid
I'd think if you went to another planet with a potentially hazardous environment you wouldn't step out of your spaceship with your dick swaying in the wind
>>23270634
To fugg biches
I dunno, man. Maybe they dont need clothes?
also, discussion about Dulce base and underground anti alien warfare? Probably complete bullshit, but hey, aliums
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/branton/esp_dulcebook14.htm
Gee, I wonder what came in the mail?
>>23258344
A dildo, that shoots battery acid?
Looks like there's a little glint to it...
>>23258360
I'm guessing a dragon dildo, as well.
Can we get a nig-nog/stupid people/minorities thread going? I'll start
>be atta range with friend
>friend and I newly hasrifles and shooting them for probably the 3rd or 4th time
>have wasr, friend has ~$550 AR
>nearing the end of our day, 2 nogs and white nog show up
>pull out shitty generic .380 or 9mm, and a ruger gp100
>takes them far too long to figure out how to load them
>bang "haha shit mayne dats crazy" bang "haha get a pic bro"
>they see what we're shooting
>"eh man. would it be cool if we try them? is thems full auto like machine guns?"
>we were about to leave, each had like half a mag of ammo left
>friend starts to say "no, they're semi auto"
>i interrupt "..right now. They're set to semi auto right now. But you can do full auto with them. We were about to leave, but it's cool"
>jamal and demarcus rejoice
>Hand rifles over, keeping a close eye on their friend
>once again, no idea how to load or operate weapon
>9-1 already dialed on my cellphone just in case. Hand brushing PPQ on hip
>They pull the triggers with a massive flinch. One round goes off each.
>Look at us
>"What the hell? Hold on, sorry man. It never does this. Must be jammed or something. Let me see it"
>lock bolt back, drop mag, turn safety on and off
>"There, that should be good. Just put the mag in, then press the button to release the bolt....yeah, that button, push that button"
>bolt closes without mag in
>"NO! Not like that! Put the mag in then pull back the charging handle and fire"
>Nog worried.
>Again, one round goes off each
>Looks at us, scared
>"Oh my god. Son of a bitch. *turn safety on and off repeatedly* Dude, I think it's ruined. Come on man, why didn't you listen? God dammit. Let's get out of here"
>nogs freaking the fuck out as my friend and I finish packing and storm off
>no ragrets
>I'm super young, still into guns.
>Mom makes me do charity work for our church.
>Bringing people in the ghetto old used clothes.
>Make friends with 17 year old nig.
>Nigga check this out.
>lifts up shirt revealing an ancient loaded and fully cocked 22.
>Mfw he hasn't shot his dick off yet.
>showed that nig what half cock was.
>He thought I was a firearms genius.
<- every one of these threads.
top /k/ek thread
>>23253845
Someone shoop this with a dragon dildo.
Zed - need a bit of your expertise.
I picked up this JC Higgins Model 103.16 (Marlin Model 80) for $5 at a garage sale.
You'll see why in the picture.
I want to restore it, seems like almost all the parts are here (missing a screw in the bolt assembly, and the trigger safety, might need to replace the rear bolt piece).
Think the metal is too far gone to save?
Also, would you recommend hot blue bath, or the cream bluer that you recommended that one time.
>>23244674
gimmie a sec here...
OK-- I usually don't recommend this stuff, but it's the only way to know what's under that rust.
>>23244717
The bolt housing is the worst area on it, I was just going to use oil and steel wool to clean it.
Looks like I'm making a quick run to Home Depot to pick up some naval jelly rust remover.
I'll update here in under an hour, the Loctite stuff works in 5-10 minutes.
Weapons, Vehicles, Battlefields and all things /k/
>>23235800
I'm trying to keep things varied while I post - if anyone here really wants me to, I can post sets based on set themes instead.
>>23235819
These are Bulgarian aircraft, in case the roundels don't make it obvious enough.
So, what went wrong /k/?
>>23224974
Who cares, look how happy it is.
GET THAT STUPID GRIN OFF YOUR FACE
>>23224974
WHY ARE YOU SMILING AT ME?
DO YOU LIKE ME OR SOMETHING?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYX7KVEtfLo
Why can't your country make a commercial as good as this?
>>23247790
Because my country doesn't constantly lie through their teeth.
>>23247790
>Best commercial
Get smoked, slav scrub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tnJtLBQzQ
What was so special about it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgUOAVolSlo
Czech is my favourite mainland Europe one
>"Anon, I wouldn't trust you to babysit my kids for the evening, but I'd trust you to save them in a dangerous situation"
>/k/ feels thread.
> im worried you might diddle my kids so fuck off until I need your guns.
>if the happening hits I'll rob your house for guns
>anon you have many guns and are paranoid
Attempted break in at neighbors house
>anon I hate guns and would never own one but do you have a Biden-blaster I can borrow? I don't need any shells because I'll just rack it and scare intruders away.
all my feels
ITT operators operating in non-operator gear.
But OP, tracksuits are tactical camo in mother Russia!
and those are underslung grenade launchers on their shotguns, and the guy in the middle has an optic worth over 500 bux.
that's about as operator gear as operator gear gets.
>>23223980
kebab or secret police?
/k/onfession thread?
>i think the SU16 and sub2k are cool
>i used to be a libtard
>i play airsoft just to have fun.
I sexually assaulted my own daughter
>>23229819
I had sex in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation.
>I samefag as a furry to make it seem like all of /k/ is furry
