Just provided some kid a year of clean drinking water by purchasing a 3 pack of life straws.. been reading up on these for the past few hours. Decided they are a good thing to have. Anyone have any experience with them?

I remember when they were designed and featured in popular science. Haven't heard anything bad about them

Does anyone have experience in the AR platform while being cross eye dominant? I’m right handed all the way but left eye dominant. I’ve grown up shooting right handed weapons with my left hand no problem. I got my first AR about 8 years ago but I’ve only ever done the basic target shooting but I would like to take some carbine courses and get my skills up. I’m looking for suggestions on ambi controls and techniques on running right handed ARs as a lefty in a tactical sense. I need to get better all around but particularly in speeding up my manipulation of the weapon and transitioning between targets.

I'm right handed and left eye dominant. I just run a red dot or a scope and put the dot/ crosshair on the target with both eyes open and it works fine

It really doesn't affect anything, just train through it and make sure your bullets go where you want

Right on, I’ve always felt strange/slightly uncomfortable with both eyes open through a scope. I have switched to a red dot recently and I’m getting comfortable with both eyes open left handed. I guess I may need to just work it right handed and get used to it that way

I’d rather not run lefty if I can avoid it, although it should help me when going off handed

@Artemis how tf do you do that

I'm cross dominate too, but I can't do that, I have to have one eye squinted to get it to focus on my right eye

I'm gonna practice both handed, but wish I could switch eyes lol

Dots are good for people with eye dominance issues. With both eyes open, even if you see 4 dots, just put them on the target. They'll always be on target even if your eyes are lying to you.

If it's irons, I just focus on the front sight post and it turns into one. If it's my holosight, they're both on the same plane so it doesn't matter, and scopes I just focus on the reticle and it turns into one

You just have to focus on the sight hard, then stick it on the fuzzy blob that is your target, and your rounds will go there every time. With red dots you're able to focus on the target which is kinda nice, though it has its drawbacks as its easier for the brain to process putting a sight in the center of a fuzzy blob. We're actually incredibly good at finding the center of things.
An exercise that will help you is called the Brock String

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Brock_String.jpg
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1UEGTaQ9E3KVjSZFGq6A19XXag.jpg?width=800&height=800&hash=1600

doesn't really matter what order the colors are, as long as they're different colors

you should be able to snap between beads almost instantly

https://youtu.be/tbXOFkmKyiY

Spare parts bastard.

Ammo for ma berfday.

Weighing a few options, I've found out about Howa. Supposedly built more solidly than Tikka but both are good. What caught my eye is that you can buy Howa barreled actions, and as I'm planning on dropping the action into an LSS gen 2 stock, it seems like it may be the better choice as I'd be saving around $400 by not having a spare Tikka stock

Seems smart, I had looked at doing that at one point

seems the only minor issue is that with howa, since it's a flat bottom action, only MDT polymer magazines will work with the chassis, unlike all the others which use AICS magazines

>.> why is it that after wwii, Japan started making all the stuff that Americans like, but better than most? Whisky, blue jeans, bolt actions?

They didn't want to see the sun up close a third time.

land of the rising sun

but the sun is a mushroom cloud

even fucking steak lol, among the best in the world

I visited japan once, it was interesting. The public technology was a bit more advanced in some places, though practically iron age in more rural areas. Their culture is similar to ours, 70 years ago. Very nationalist, a bit racist and sexist, strong family values, heavy focus on tradition, except more collective minded than individualistic.

Japanese quality owes itself to national pride

Imo

I'd agree there. There's probably a few other factors, but pride is the biggest one

though this also puts tremendous pressure on people and may be the reason why they have one of the highest suicide rates

actually I haven't researched this before. Just looked it up and the statistics are kinda shocking

japan is under the US by a small margin

Russia has double what the US does, and sits at the top of the chart

Ok so my needs are many but id like some advice. Top 3 pistols. I know, revolvers are dependable as fuck. Dont care. Also, just to keep it fun, under 400 and prefer 9mm or 45acp
And Top 3 rifles. Again, gotta challenge you so under 800. I have my ideas but am looking to see if there is any overlap with "professional" advice

Glock

Aero precision

I don’t think revolvers are anything but range toys.

Cant beat the $300 police trade in glocks.

And for $800 you can build a great rifle, buying? I doubt you can get one new for that price.