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The Most Dangerous Countries in the World... and what to do there?
Except for improving pub quiz trivia, why read about the most dangerous countries in the world? Beyond their negative reputations, many of the world’s most dangerous countries hide wonders that would normally have us flocking to adventure there.
While the dangers cannot, and should not, be ignored, nor should the landscapes, history and unique offerings of many of these unknown adventure destinations. Don't judge a book by its cover!
The list below will tour you through the world’s most dangerous countries, along with some other intriguing categories that reveal countries might not have been high on your adventure bucket list– until now.
Let’s go and discover an adventurer’s world less trodden.
A note of caution: If you do choose to visit one of the places, please heed the information and advice of authorities at home and at your destination to ensure you do all you can to stay safe while you’re visiting.
What is the World's Most Dangerous country?
According to the Global Peace Index, Syria is the world’s most dangerous country.
Measuring factors that include displaced people, violent crime and internal conflicts being fought, the Global Peace Index attempts to rank 163 countries in order of their peaceful or dangerous natures. Syria comes bottom of the list, scoring top marks (that’s bad) in more than half of the risk factors.
A civil war that has raged in the wider region since mid-2011 has become an ubiquitous sight on our news bulletins. It is a complex chess game involving not only President Assad, Islamic State militants and other ‘rebel’ opposition forces, but also many of the world’s biggest powers. So far, the war has seen an estimated 60% of the population displaced and casualties reaching an estimated 470,000 civilians alone.
The direction of travel from Syria is entirely one-way at the moment, with refugees fleeing the war-torn nation for whatever future they may be able to find elsewhere. But only a few years ago, Syria was a popular destination for adventurers and one of the safest countries in the Middle East.
The ancient city of Damascus showed how Christians and Muslims could share the skyline with church spires and minarets rising from bustling markets, coffee shops and hammams. Another ancient city (both are thought to be among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world) was Aleppo, though now little of what made this place so wonderful remains intact.
Beyond its mainly coastal cities, Syria is largely a desert. Dotted through this landscape are historic sites stretching back thousands of years such as Palmyra. Unfortunately, how many of these will still be standing after the war remains to be seen, with sections of ancient Palmyra already having been destroyed.
World’s Next Most Dangerous Countries.
Next on the list of the world’s most dangerous countries are South Sudan and Iraq, though Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria also rank high when it comes to high levels of terrorist incidents.
Displacement and internal conflicts have ravaged South Sudan, a nation that is barely six-years-old. In 2011, the country voted to break away from Sudan, but descended into civil war by the end of 2013. Fighting broke out over the control of oil resources but is reported to have also included ‘ethnic cleansing’ of groups including the Nuer people during the fighting.
At the time of writing, the world’s first declared famine in six years was also gripping South Sudan, with over 100,000 people facing starvation and a million others at risk.
Iraq has gone from one conflict to another throughout the last half century. From the removal of the British-installed monarchy and the decade-long war with Iran to the two US-led invasions and the current civil war involving Islamic State militants, Iraq has been at war almost continuously since the 1960s.
The tragedy of Iraq’s conflicts for adventurers is how they have closed off access to what was once Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation. Across four main regions, Iraq’s landscape offers desert, lush plains, rolling uplands and mountainous highlands that eventually connect with the Himalayas. There is even an area of coral reef in the waters of the Persian Gulf which lap Iraq’s coast.
The main draw of South Sudan for adventures is the White Nile, the river that dissects the country. It is surrounded by grassland, swamps and tropical forests. The Sudd is considered to be one of the world’s largest swamplands, extending over 130,00 sq km (50,193 sq miles) during the wet season.
However, in the south-east of South Sudan there are also peaks worth climbing, the highest of which is Mount Kinyeti (3,187 m/ 10,456 ft). The Imatong Mountains are actually all part of one massif, which extends into Uganda to the south.
Which country has the highest murder rate in the world?
Honduras has by far and away the world’s highest murder rate. The rate peaked in 2012 when close to one in every thousand people in the country were murdered.
Organised narcotics crime, government corruption, repressive policies and widespread poverty all contribute to the high murder rate. There is also a particularly high level of violence against women and LGBT people through the dominant Machista culture, which contributes to the potential dangers to visitors.
More recent statistics have shown a marked fall in murder rates in Honduras to 74.6 per 100,000. However, Honduras still leads El Salvador (ranked second) and Venezuela (third) by more than 10 points on the murder scale. In contrast, the US ranks 109th on the list of homicides with a murder rate of 3.9.
Despite this, Honduras has so much to offer an adventurous visitor. Beyond the more dangerous cities, the small nation has a dozen national parks and superb diving around the Bay Islands. It’s also very cheap to visit, so a little will go a long way towards memorable adventures here.
Wildlife abounds in the varied wildernesses of Honduras, with populations of rare mammals living in the forests and islands. These include the cloud forests of one of the world’s last undeveloped wildernesses, La Moskitia, and Celaque National Park, which has four mountains just waiting to be climbed.
Which country is Most Dangerous for Women Visitors?
This one may well come as a surprise. The world’s most dangerous country for a woman traveller, especially alone, is India.
With an average of 93 rapes reported a day, such brutal attacks are now at “epidemic levels for women tourists”. Many countries advise against non-essential travel to this colourful nation, with the major cities coming in as the most dangerous places to go.
But it’s not just the visitors who are at risk. India ranks fourth on the list of most dangerous places to be a woman, with trafficking, forced marriages and femicide all-too-common.
Rishikesh is the only region deemed safe enough for a woman to visit alone, with a regular flow of tourists into the state for its well-known yoga ashrams.
The wonders of India are very well-known. From the Ganges river, the Taj Mahal and the ancient city of Varanasi in the north to the tropical paradises of Goa and the state of Kerala in the south, India has so much to offer any traveller.
For those looking to head skywards up mountain paths, the northern states of the country offer mountains that are arguably only bettered by neighbouring Nepal.
The highest peak in India is Kangchenjunga (8,586 m/ 28,169 ft), the world’s thirds highest peak. The states of Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Jammu/Kashmir contain various extensions of the Himalayas, along with the Karakoram range, the Indian high point of which is Saltoro Kangri (7,742 m/ 25,400 ft), otherwise known as K10.
Which are the World’s Most Unknowable Nations?
For this one, we’ve used the ranking of press freedoms to define countries whose everyday realities are the hardest to know. After all, if there is no way of getting reliable news from the country, how can we know what to expect when we arrive?
Coming bottom of the list of press freedoms in Eritrea, closely followed by North Korea. As an aside, Syria is now the fourth worst.
Under a dictatorship for over 20 years, the small African nation of Eritrea has ranked bottom of press freedoms in each of the last eight years. It has a ban on press freedom, with the national media being a mouthpiece for President Afeworki.
North Korea’s closed door policy may well be more familiar to many of us. After all, ironically, this policy makes our own news feeds whenever foreign press are granted rare visiting rights to the totalitarian regime.
Eritrea may be secretive, but its landscape has plenty to entice and there are few other reasons not to organise a visit. It is much safer than many countries in the region, ranking 116th on the Global Peace Index. With soaring escarpments, sandy beaches and numerous mountain peaks, there is much to satisfy an adventurer in this African nation.
The highest mountain in Eritrea is Emba Soira (3,018 m/ 9,902 ft). It is part of the Eritrean highlands that peak on the northern side of the Great Rift Valley as it opens to meet the Red Sea. The country also features a number of volcanoes, the highest being the Nabro Volcano (2,218 m/ 7,277 ft), which last erupted in 2011.
Near the border with South Korea, the mountainous region of Kumgangsan in North Korea includes the eponymous Diamond Mountain, whose peaks reach in excess of 1,600 m (5,250 ft). Waterfalls, pristine lakes, deep lagoons and forested peaks all make this a hiking eden, though one which is incredibly hard, and potentially dangerous, to access.
What Visas are the hardest to get?
There are many countries whose main challenge seems to be simply getting across the border. While this doesn’t necessary foretell of dangers within those nations, it does up the potential risk of an unsuccessful trip.
To visit Iran you’ll need to wait on a slow visa process, only accessible via an official travel agency in Tehran. While one official website says the process only takes around a fortnight, accounts show delays in excess of three months are pretty normal.
The wait may well prove to be worth it though as Iran has much to offer an adventurer. Huge mountain ranges that include the highest mountain in the Middle East, Mount Damavand (5,610 m/ 18,438 ft) pose challenges for any experience of mountaineer.
There are also two huge deserts in Iran, with the Lut Desert featuring curious rock formations called kaluts, a sort of middle-eastern Utah. To the north-east, the Turkmen Plains, or Torkaman Sahra, are an endless sequence of rolling hills. Virtually untouched by modern development, this area reveals secrets like the 11th-Century tower, Gonbad-e Qabus.
Another hard country to gain the stamp of approval for is Turkmenistan. Again, use a local agency to get the letter of invitation required to begin the process and count on a wait of more than six weeks. Oh, and you’ll need to list everywhere you plan to go when you apply. A condition of any visitor visa is that you are accompanied by a local guide throughout your trip, and further permits are required to access national parks, so don’t expect to feel liberated during your visit!
Once you’re in, hiking in Turkmenistan is an experience of the semi-nomadic culture normal in the Karakum, the ‘Black Sand’ desert. Highlights include the ancient city of Nisa, which was an important trading point between east and west and once marked the edge of the former Roman Empire. In the south are the Kopet Dagi Mountains that connect with the northern mountains of Iran.
What is the World’s Most Isolated Nation?
Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, literally, is the tiny island nation of Kiribati. And as realistic destinations to visit (excluding more isolated but uninhabited islands like Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean), Kiribati is just about as isolated as you can get.
Pronounced ‘Kiribas’, there are only two international flights a week, one from Honolulu and one from Fiji, to the country ranked the fourth least visited in the world. The easternmost islands also have the most advanced time on Earth at UTC+14hours. But while living in the future, be sure not to miss your flight home– the next one doesn’t leave for a week!
Kiribati has four groups of islands that offer everything from world-class fishing to unique cultural experiences and various World War II relics, including those from the Battle of Tarawa. It also has three curiously named settlements to visit, named Paris, London and Poland.
Which countries will you never visit?
If you find yourself on the tiny island nation of Nauru, or the equally minuscule Manus Island near Papua New Guinea, there’s a chance are you’ve been sent there by the Australian government. These tiny specks of land have been used in recent years as offshore detention centres, and is where the government sends unwanted asylum seekers who arrive to Australia by boat.
A stay on this 21 sq km island can (officially) last up to five years, during which time the case for asylum is supposed to be processed. However, last year’s Nauru Files shone a light on the brutal conditions that exist in the camps. For a tiny nation once one of the richest per capita in the world, now stripped of its valuable resources, this existence as a ‘client’ nation to Australia brings little more than a bleak survival.
Why visit Nauru? With the landscape stripped bare of the lucrative phosphate, unfortunately there are few reasons a tourist would visit Nauru. One is that you can run around the entire nation in a couple of hours, another that it is the boast that this is the least visited country in the world (200 tourists in 2011).
What is the World's Deadliest Mountain?
We couldn't go through a list without mentioning at least one mountain! Of all the world’s ascents, Annapurna (8,091 m/ 256,545 ft) is the world’s deadliest peak, with a death rate that has been as high as 41%. That means, for every five people who reach the summit, around two people will die trying.
What makes Nepal’s Annapurna so dangerous? There’s Annapurna’s ‘black wind’ that causes almost instant frost bite, massively variable weather conditions, avalanches and a summit that is ranked the 10th highest in the world.
But it is also the high point of one of the most spectacular mountain landscapes in the world, with the Annapurna massif also containing the distinctive fish-tail mountain (Machapuchare, 6,993m/22,943 ft), one of the world’s deepest gorges (Kali Gandalf Gorge) and the world’s highest mountain pass (Thorong La Pass, 5,416 m/ 17,769 ft).
One way to enjoy Annapurna with only a fraction of the risk is to walk around out on the 220 km (137-mile) Annapurna Circuit. This trail takes in much of what the landscape has to offer but without needing to attempt the deadly slopes of Annapurna itself. Just be careful on Thorong La Pass: in 2014 a sudden snowstorm killed 43 hikers there.
Where are the World’s Scariest Hikes?
And lastly here’s one we prepared earlier!
Check out our list of death-defying, nerve-jangling, pant-wetting hikes from around the world. If makeshift planks nailed thousands of feet up sheer cliffs is your idea of fun, consider this your hiking bucket list!
Now then, after all these cautionary tales, why not visit our Destinations page and choose your next adventure travel spot?


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The Fender Vibrolux Reverb is one of Fender's most classic circuits, and the reissue is a mere shadow of the original...until you install a the Fromel Supreme kit!
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All winners and highly commended students will be invited to exhibit their work at the Royal Opera House on Thursday 28 March in the Linbury Foyer. Following a VIP hour at 1:30PM, the exhibition will be open to the public for a week until 4 April.
On 28 March the winners will also watch a matinee performance of Romeo and Juliet, take a backstage tour and spend some time in a production department to get a real insight into the the day-to-day working life of our production design and marketing teams.
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text: Six strangers stuck in a world that had left them behind. That’s how you could describe the beginning of Frantic Romantic. Until very recently, the different members of this ensemble cast were working separately, settling with projects only half-fulfilling the addiction that they all shared. It was only when their lives started overlapping did they realize they would eventually come together to handcraft a sonic, melodic miasma of songs spanning over two full length albums. At the heart of Frantic Romantic is a love for a 90’s culture that’s been swept away with yesteryear. It’s that unknown band you hear in a rundown back alley venue. It’s that album you pick up at the record store and spin on the car ride home—uninterrupted. That’s the culture Frantic Romantic longs for and the community they breathe life back into.


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Its strange to look into your head as it apears in the past. Writing is a good way to do this. I think i was aspiring to be a pulp science fiction writer, or maybe I was just detoxing Austin Texas.
Motivation ? Evolution has taken them to a point of exhaustion in their ability to raise consciousness, they haven’t the tools to go further, a missing element. They are like hungry ghosts, so addicted to the energy emitted during the Phase of this process. One such method is called novelty introduction. The ecstatic expression that fallows a new experience. In some mythologies this activity is identified as vampirism. In others it is a method used in primitive cultures for social healing and “spiritual” direction. Socrates’ daemon was more than likely one of these entities.
But one must be careful in attempting to identify this transaction as coming from any one particular source. Some believe these entities to be responsible for the technology involved in the synthetic production of psychoactive pharmaceuticals. Persons on Prozac like meat in the freezer, keep them on ice so they don’t blow their cosmic load to soon. The capitalists would appreciate the occasional drone or two. In exchange for the occasional quelling of a group consciousness expanding beyond the “spiritual spectrum “ most appetizing to our guests. Timorese ; one of the last groups on earth to have a spoken tradition in the process of spiritual autonomy, well you need your lips to pass a spoken tradition, that easy enough unless some Indonesian soldier isn’t taking them off with a U.S. issue bayonet and then turning around to sell them for breakfast sausage in Japan. Hey better than Kobe. Military action is most effective in this quelling of the knowledge fire. Nothing like a little napalm to disrupt your morning meditation . China invades Nepal, evolution takes the fall.
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Westwood Recordings recently released a juicy remix album of Stickybuds’ Take a Stand EP. This compilation is a whirlwind of sounds and styles, reworking Stickybuds’ 9-track EP into 16 distinctively awesome singles that feature glitch hop, trap, drum and bass, funk, and house just to name a few. Though the original style of these tracks has been altered, Stickybuds’ message still remains, drawing awareness to the ubiquitous plague of political corruption.
Some remix highlights include legendary mixmaster A.Skillz’s remix of “The Firestarter”, Ed Solo’s liquid DnB rendering of “Heavyload”, and the deep bass half time rework of “Take a Stand” by Skope. But seriously, the whole album is amazing. Dive into these remixes and let each groove and invaluable message move your mind and soul.


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This was the most challenging and rewarding class I have ever taken. For each project we were tasked with visually explaining a topic which we knew nothing about. This took an immense amount of research and quick learning to take large amounts of information and simplify it. I learned how truly frustrating and rewarding design could be. I learned the importance of color, scale, chunking, and so much more.
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We are going to sell two of the cows. It's such a tough decision, but we need to free up some capital to purchase more registered stock. So two of the cows will be leaving the farm in late March. I don't feel too badly about the decision as they are going to the fellow who bought our wee heifer in the fall. The good news is that the heifer will now be reunited with her mum. I suppose that in itself makes me feel better.
The other incredibly good news is that now I get to go cow shopping again, and there is nothing more delightful than viewing their fuzzy faces and determining if that one is going to be mine.
See what I mean? Delightful. I do think I would like to add more colour to the herd, so I am considering white and dun coloured calves.
We are also toying with the idea of doing a calf, or cow/calf operation for Angus or Hereford. We certainly have the pasture for it, and it wouldn't be that much work. Well, that's what I keep telling my dear sweet fireman anyway. Besides, he has to have something to do when he's not working right?


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Over the past few weeks, stories surrounding technology services, software and security have taken up much of the supply chain news bandwidth. This week’s TIP List includes a few of these buzzy tech trends, such as the release of the Uber Freight app, the recent WannaCry ransomware attack and the impact of real-time load tracking for carriers. We’re serving up the latest in our high-tech list!
We are extremely excited for our 15th annual Shipper Symposium kicking off next week! It’s no coincidence this week’s TIP List features many of the timely transportation and supply chain topics that will be highlighted at our event. From recent news on NAFTA, to the future of TMS technology within supply chains, this week’s list is a great preview of what we’ll be covering at Shipper Symposium next week!

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Food, Wine, Recipes, Chocolate, etc.
August 8, 2011 June 7, 2017 by pearlsandpantsuitsLeave a Comment on About our Smokin’ Sunday!
My husband is the KING of what we in Texas call “Aggie Engineering”. In other words, he loves to remake and redo things in order to save money. (Sometimes that’s actually a good thing). His latest project involved remaking an old, unused, little electric smoker that had been sitting out in our shed for probably 10 years or so. He was about to put it out at the curb, so he could purchase a new fancy-schmancy wood fired smoker, when his brain lit up, and that little, cheap lightbulb went off! Ding ding ding!!! He decided to retro fit that little old smoker himself. No fancy- schmancy needed here! No sirree! He found some directions online, (which I have since searched for and can’t find) and was able to make a perfectly fine, perfectly sized, little smoker, just fit for two! I have to say. It’s been AWESOME! No need to heat up my kitchen in this Texas heat! Yay! This Sunday, he smoked a brisket, and I just have to share his rub recipe.
Then on Sunday, out to the smoker it went. Daisy supervised. She’s good like that.
He placed it on our little bitty smoker.
He had been soaking some apple wood chips for hours, and that’s what he placed onto the already hot fire, to create the smoke. He just checked on the smoker periodically, placing new chips onto the fire. That smoke is the key to great barbecue!
Can you smell that smoke? That is pure deliciousness. I wish you had smell-o-vision.
Here’s that beautiful brisket, after hanging out in the smoker for about 5 hours.
Sliced up and ready to devour. It was so tender and juicy and ridiculously good. I swear. It just made me Texas barbecue proud! Yum-yum!
I served it with a “semi-homemade” pasta salad. I just made a boxed pasta salad mix, and whisked in one generous tablespoon of prepared Basil Pesto to the dressing. I added the last of my fresh Roma tomatoes (sigh) and some mozzarella cheese, black olives, thinly sliced red olives and fresh basil. I let that hang out in the fridge all day, and it was ready to enjoy by supper time.
If you’ve ever worked in retail, you know how hard it is. Feet hurt. Back hurts. Cranky customers make you want to run from the store screaming. So last weekend I decided to reward my coworkers at Chico’s with some beautiful, homemade cinnamon rolls. I found the recipe at allrecipes.com, (which I highly recommend). Here is the link to the fabulous and easy recipe: Clone of a Cinnabon.
So, here’s my photos, step by step. I started out, as the recipe recommended, by using the dough cycle on my bread machine. Hooray for bread machines! I also use mine at Christmas, when I make dozens of loaves of bread to give away as gifts. It’s a time saver and works great!
After the dough cycle has completed, dump it out onto a floured surface, and roll into a rectangle-ish shape.
Make the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
Spread your rectangle with butter. Lots of smooth, creamy butter! Real Butter please! Then sprinkle the rectangle liberally with your cinnamon sugar mixture. I used my flour sifter.
Roll the rectangle into this shape. Don’t worry if it’s not perfect. You can cut those ugly ends off, and bake them for your samples. I mean, you have to sample it right? You don’t care if it’s ugly, as long as it tastes good, right?
Here’s my hint for slicing the rolls. Use Dental Floss!! Works like a charm, go under, criss-cross and pull. Makes for smooth clean cuts every time, and is better than sawing away with your knife.
Place your beautiful rolls into a BUTTERED pan. Yep, more butter. At this point, you can rise and bake as the recipe recommends, or cover tightly with plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight. That way you can bake them in the morning! Just remove the wrap in the morning, and place into a cool oven, set the temperature to 350, and bake for about 25-30 minutes. Your kitchen will smell like heaven!
Ice the rolls while they are still warm from the oven. The cream cheese icing recipe is fabulous! I’d even use it on cakes. It’s really yummy! Seriously, how gorgeous are these rolls? They tasted even better than they look! After making these, you’ll never want to open a Pillsbury can again!

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Avni says to Raj that it is all rubbish that love is wonderful. In real life love is what happens to Akshit and Arpita. She tells him what Suket says about them. Raj says that love is a beautiful emotion but she says love only gives tears and sadness. He says love can solve all the problems. She says she has no place for love in her life. He says I have in my life and I love you. She shouts she doesn’t; there is no place for love in her home and heart. She cries while going inside. Raj is heart-broken.
a call and stands up in shock. He cell phone drops from her hand. She comes running to the hospital. The receptionist asks is she sure he is in the same hospital, she tells her to go to room 346. Avni comes to the room; a lady was there and tells her they took him to operation. The lady says he is my husband. Jiji comes inside, and tells her the lady’s husband is also Raj and is sharing rooms with them. Avni sees Raj in injured condition. Jiji tells her Raj has not been attended yet. The nurse tells them that the duty doctor is in a meeting with a foreign delegation.
Akshit sees a newspaper with his interview and recalls how Suket and Bauji were proud of him. He takes a picture of Suket and Bhawna from wall and says sorry dad for letting you down. Arpita comes to the room and listens to it. She says that parents can’t be angry with the children for long, they will soon forgive us. He says he won’t be able to forgive himself, he made dad ashamed. She says he didn’t do anything wrong. He says he has let him away from himself, his name and his family. Arpita says he couldn’t separate himself from him. Arpita thinks I am your problem because I remind you of it all. She takes her pillow and goes from the room.
Avni goes running to the conference room, the peon doesn’t let her inside. She shouts hysterically and goes inside. The doctor says that there is a meeting going on but she argues shouting that they must first look after the patient. The delegate doctor observes her and says he will see him himself. The goes to see Raj.
Bhawna comes to Bauji and asks him to eat something. She says she is leaving milk here; she sees Avni didn’t give him injection today. He says she must have forgotten. Bauji says we had lot of troubles in life, but Avni is young we never told her in tales that what responsibility bindings are. Bhawna says she isn’t that young not to know what fulfilling responsibilities is. Bhawna goes calling Avni’s name but doesn’t find her in her room. She looks for her in the whole house but can’t find her. She goes to Suket and tells him Avni is nowhere in the house. Abhaas comes there asking what happened. He suggests to ask Akshit and Arpita and Bauji but Suket says there is no need to tell them. Bhawna was worried. Abhaas tells them she isn’t with Devika as he has called. Suket says don’t worry we will find Avni.
In the hospital Jiji and Avni stand outside OT worried. Jiji cries while Avni tries to console her saying Raj will be alright. Jiji thanks her for getting the doctor. Jija comes there and says due to bad weather doctors might not be able to reach there from Mumbai. The nurse comes out and says there are two operations going so they must be patient.
Avni sees the other lady and comes to her as she was crying. She tells her to trust God, they will both be alright.
Bhawna and Suket asks guards who tell them Avni went outside worried sometime ago. Suket shouts at him why didn’t he tell him then.
Jiji asks Gods in temple that her brother always helped everyone. Please help her. Avni tells Jiji to take her to café as she hasn’t eaten anything. Avni asks the lady that they married recently. She says her husband is the best man in the world. Avni says her Raj is the best person. She asks ‘her Raj’. Avni explains he is her friend. The lady asks this much care for just a friend. Avni says he always made me happy, I get sad when he is sad but today I am so helpless.
Bhawna, Suket and Abhaas ask people if they had seen Avni.
The nurse tells them that there are some complications with Raj’s case, he had an internal bleeding and go in coma. She and the lady asks together which Raj but the nurse goes away.
PRECAP: Jiji comes to Avni and says he went to you to ask for the answer but got punished because he loved you. Avni cries making Raj move and shouts he cant leave her.
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The early sighs of love-bombing can just look like a blossoming relationship.
If you have just met somebody who is saying that you are "soul mates" and declaring their undying love for you after a few weeks, you might have just become the victim of something called "love bombing."
According to Dale Archer, a psychiatrist and author, love bombing is where you are showered with affection, gifts, and promises for the future, making you believe you may have discovered love at first sight. Someone is loving, caring, affectionate, and seems to just "get" you. Things progress really quickly, and you start to wonder whether this is what you've been missing all along.
However, it doesn't last, and as soon as you show a hint of caring about anything other than your new partner, they will get furious with you and label you as "selfish." Their mask slips, and you see someone mean, belittling, and unreasonable underneath. They can't comprehend that you have anything else going on in your life, and they completely turn on you.
It's a form of conditioning, Archer writes in a blog post on Psychology Today. It's a tactic manipulative people use, and is in fact a form of abuse. If you are dating someone with dark triad personality traits — narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy — then it is probably a way they were grooming you.
It's a bit like training an animal. Love bombing is the reinforcement, where the abuser showers you with love if you act how they want you to. If you don't, then the devaluation stage happens, where they withdraw all their kindness and instead punish you with whatever they feel is appropriate — shouting at you, giving you the silent treatment, or even physically abusing you.
It's difficult to pinpoint love bombing in the short term, because all new relationships are exciting. There is promise, and potential, and getting to know someone you like gives you butterflies. The emotional highs and feelings of giddiness are normal, and not necessarily cause for alarm.
What isn't normal, however, is how quickly you to fall into a serious relationship. What isn't normal is the amount of time this new person is demanding from you. Social media, texting, emails, and instant messaging make it incredibly easy to be in constant contact with someone if you want to, and an abuser who wants to love bomb you will easily take advantage of that.
You may have gone into the relationship with the intention of taking things slow, or keeping things casual, but somehow you found yourself forced into a corner to do the exact opposite. You're talking to them so much you start to believe you were made for each other.
Before you know it, they might have declared you "the one," be making plans to marry you, or have even already moved in with you.
There's nothing wrong with taking a relationship slow.
However, sometimes people go for the same type of abusive relationships over and over again, because of their own issues they haven't worked through. Deborah Ward, author of the book "Overcoming Low Self-Esteem with Mindfulness," explains in a different blog post that there is a psychological theory that we are attracted to people who remind us of our parents.
If we experienced trauma in the past, whether that's with parents or with past relationships, we may try and fill the void with dating people who are similar. This is because we might subconsciously think we can fix the past by repeating it with a different person. The damaging, toxic relationship you build may feel comfortable because it is the type you are used to.
Going through trauma doesn't necessarily make someone weak, though. According to Perpetua Neo, a therapist and specialist of dark triad personality types, these past experiences make victims of love bombing very kind and empathetic. Abusers can merely take advantage of this because they know they are with someone who will explain away their negative traits.
"People think often if you are attracted to a narcissist, you tend to be someone quite weak and very passive in your life... but they tend to be very high achieving women," Neo told Business Insider. "A very common trait I see in my clients is they're over-empathetic... but you stop empathising with yourself, because you explain everything away for other people."
When the love bombing turns into devaluation, it can be very traumatizing and heart-breaking for the victim. Everything they do from that moment on will be to try to bring back the wonderful person they thought they had. In reality, this person never actually existed. It was a mask all along.
All the gifts and affection were "transactional," Neo says, because narcissistic abusers are always thinking about what they can get out of a situation. Every move and every choice is calculated. In return, you end up feeling used and a shell of your former self.
"They love bomb and then they devalue you, so you're always on high alert, and you never want to do anything wrong," Neo said. "Because of that your standards are lowering, your boundaries are getting pinched upon, and you lose your sense of self."
If you do manage to break out of the abusive relationship, this will — hopefully — all become clear over time. The fog may eventually clear, and all the love bombing words and actions may suddenly be apparent for what they were: empty promises.
In reality, there is nothing wrong with taking a relationship slow, and anyone worth being with will respect that. Archer says in his blog post that the best thing you can do is to slow down, take a step back, and remind yourself of your boundaries. If you feel like you're being pressured in any way, you may well be the target of a love bomber. So try to avoid getting wrapped up in the moment, and remember to protect yourself.
After all, as the old saying goes: "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is."

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Combine 1½ tablespoons chili powder, salt and cumin in a large bowl. Add bison and toss to coat.
Add onion to the pot and cook, stirring, until starting to soften, 3 to 5 minutes. Add chiles and garlic; cook, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes more. Add the remaining 1½ tablespoons chili powder and stir until the vegetables are well coated. Add tequila (or water), scrape up any browned bits, and simmer until most of the liquid is evaporated. Stir in hominy, tomatoes, broth, orange juice, lime juice and the reserved bison. Return to a simmer, reduce heat, cover and cook until the bison is easily pierced with a fork, 1½ to 2 hours.
Stir in squash and cook until just tender, 8 to 15 minutes, depending on the type of squash. Season with pepper. Serve the stew with lime wedges, cilantro, cabbage and red onion on the side, if desired.
Make Ahead Tip: Prepare through Step 3; let cool, cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days. Skim any fat from the top, reheat and finish with Step 4.
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A year earlier, one of Maria’s ex-boyfriends, Harri Immonen, a bird watcher, died in a fall on the steep cliffs of the island. The island’s owner, Anne Merivaara, asks Maria to reopen the case. Was it really an accident or is this a case of murder?
On the anniversary of Harri’s death, Juha Merivaara loses his life on the same rocks. It can’t be a coincidence. Who would want to get rid of the CEO of a company that makes ecological paint products? His wife, Anne, his animal rights activist son, or his daughter, who is dating an opera singer her father’s age? Or is the culprit world-circumnavigating sailor Mikke Sjöberg, who Maria finds altogether too interesting?
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CCI’s new COPPER-22 advertises that it sends a 21 grain lead-free projectile down range at 1,850 fps. Actually meeting that figure would make it the fastest .22 LR on the market — perhaps ever — by about a 100 fps margin.
Designed for plinking as well as for small game and varmint hunting, the non-lead projectiles make the COPPER-22 legal for hunting in California and some other areas that restrict the use of lead ammo.
The bullet itself is made of copper dust and polymer, apparently compressed into shape. It isn’t frangible in the traditional sense, turning into dust only upon contact with a hard target such as a steel plate, while retaining its shape on soft targets like fruit, veggies, ballistics gel, and most small critters. As near as I can tell after 100 rounds, it doesn’t foul a barrel or suppressor like most traditional frangible ammo seems to — and it doesn’t shed particles.
It is, however, safer than lead and jacketed lead bullets in that it’s much less prone to ricochet.
But it’s the velocity, right? We’re all here for that claimed velocity figure. I brought my CZ 455 Varmint Tacticool Suppressor-Ready rifle and CZ SP-01 with Kadet Adapter out to the woods with me — chronograph, too — to see if CCI’s engineering could keep up with its marketing.
Okay, wow. It beat the advertised velocity, and not by a small amount! The average of those five shots was 1,926.4 feet per second. Standard deviation is 17.88 fps (much tighter — 8.14 — without that 5th shot slowpoke).
Average velocity was 1,529 fps, and standard deviation 32.86 fps.
It’s fair to say that these velocities are practically two times the speed of a standard .22 LR round, and the bullet weighs about half as much as standard. At this point, I’m wondering if it shoots straight. Whatever bullet weight and velocity these firearms were designed around, it ain’t this. Not even close.
But it groups just fine after all. ~1.2″, 5-shot groups at 50 yards is typical of what I consider “plinking” or “bulk” .22 LR. Of course, most of the options from CCI in 50-round boxes fall into more of a niche, premium product that I’d expect tighter groups from, but this is certainly minute of squirrel or 12 oz can. Likewise, accuracy from the pistol was average.
I’ll have to post a follow-up to this review in a couple of weeks, as I’ve heard this ammo loses stability quite drastically beyond 75 yards. As in, no surprises at 75, but 12″+ groups at 100. I’ve picked up another 50 rounds of COPPER-22, so will slap my SIG TANGO6 3-18x on the 455 and head out to the woods for some 100+ yard testing soon.
It’s fast. Really, really fast. If you check out the video, you’ll see its effect on limes, onions, cans of soda, and Level IIIA body armor as compared to the 1,000 fps American Eagle Suppressor ammo. Needless to say, the difference is drastic. I haven’t shot any critters with it, but wouldn’t be surprised at all if it separated a squirrel into a front half and a back half.
Its approximately average accuracy — at least inside of 75 yards — is sufficient for all of these uses, but nothing to write home about. Quality is what you’d expect from a CCI premium product — clean burning with reliable primers. I had no stoppages of any sort in either gun.
MSRP is $10.95 per 50-round box.
100% function across the board. It also burns fairly cleanly and doesn’t foul up the bore like a lot of frangible ammo can.
Devastating on soft targets. Speed kills.
It’s the fastest .22 LR ever, and even faster than advertised. Lead-free, too, which should please the environmentalists immensely. Maybe not PETA so much.
It’s average in my testing so far. Once I stretch it out to 100 yards and beyond, this may change.
CCI set out to make the fastest .22 LR on the market and they’ve done it. It’s legal for hunting in CA and other lead-restricted locales, and hunt it will. It’s also reduced-ricochet, yet doesn’t shed crap in your barrel and suppressor like many frangible projectiles will. Despite average accuracy, it excels so strongly in other areas that I’m still giving it five stars. However, if it truly won’t group beyond 75 yards I may come back and ding the COPPER-22 a star.
It warms my heart when a product actually SURPASSES the marketing.
Usually all the bullets are made primarily of lead, so weight is a proxy for length.
It’s the longest bullet that needs more spin, not the heaviest one.
But if this one was traveling significantly faster out of the same barrel, it was spinning significantly faster, assuming it engaged the rifling fully.
I wouldn’t suggest that it’s one or the other. There are many factors that contribute to an “ideal” twist rate for a given projectile. Mass, density, diameter, length, ballistic coefficient, velocity, polar moment of inertia, center of balance (nose/tail weighting), and probably more. If the goal of the rifling is simply achieving a certain RPM that stabilizes a given projectile profile nicely, then a heavy bullet is a slower bullet and it won’t spin as fast so it’s going to require a tighter twist rate to hit that RPM than a light bullet, which travels faster and therefore spins faster, as you mentioned. It isn’t the weight itself, it’s the resultant speed. Within a given caliber — forget determining twist rates for different bullet shapes of different calibers, if for no other reason than we were specifically talking .22 LR here in response to previous comments — it’s fair to say that a tighter twist is better for heavy projectiles and a more gradual twist is better for light projectiles (even if, in reality, it’s the resultant velocity that’s the largest determining factor). FWIW, I also believe these COPPER-22 projectiles are pretty darn standard in length.
I’d be interested in decibel difference.
Suppressed and unsupressed w/ ear pro on, it sounded like normal, supersonic .22 to me.
Wow. I just blew about 1,000 rounds of .22lr over the last week. I guess I know what I’ll be replacing at least some of that with.
The lowest price I’ve seen is on Sportsman’s Guide at $8.54 / 50 (member price). I figure $.17 a round isn’t too bad for such a unique and powerful lead-free round, and I love CCI. I bought 15 boxes before writing this comment, by the way. Good luck!
I wonder what kind of velocity you might get with a longer 24-26″ barrel. Might it break the 2000fps barrier? Pretty cool.
You guys seeing much .22 ammo these days? It still seems fairly rare where I live.
I’d love to see some gel tests for this round – both out of a pistol and out of a rifle.
With .22lr, all of the powder is burnt up within 18-20 inches which is why you rarely see .22s with a barrel longer than 20 inches. Velocity doesn’t imediately drop off, but acceleration is virtualy nil at that point.
That is normally the case, but I wonder if it might be different with a round like this.
Take for example your general bulk pack higher velocity .22 rounds. They do something like 1240 fps. This round is about 50% faster. Therefore it exits the barrel in about 1/3 less time than is required for the 1240 fps round.
Assuming that the volume of the powder is the same, and the burn rate is the same, the higher velocity (and shorter length of time in the same barrel length) suggests that this particular round actually would benefit from a longer barrel.
I’d bet that you could easily break 2000fps with a long barrel.
I’m certainly not saying that it’s not possible. I’m sure not smart enough to tell you. Too many factors involved for my basic understanding of physics to determine.
Art, I picked up a couple of boxes of this load today at a local store, and I plan on running it over my chronograph using several longer-barreled .22s, as I am also curious about how they will perform in long tubes. I have a 20″, and a CZ with a semi-ridiculous 28″ barrel; I’m going to try and borrow a 24-inch rifle from a friend to get a full “set” of velocities.
When I get it done, I’ll post the results here.
Unless Jeremy can find similar rifles and update his test (whistles innocently…).
Haha well I only have one .22 rifle with a different barrel length from this one and I think it’s in the 22″ to 24″ range. I’ll test with that guy the weekend following this one, but can’t get data on anything longer than that.
Well, I did MOST of the testing today. While I remembered to bring the long-barreled CZ, I left the bolt for it in the safe (facepalm), so I’ll have to get that one on another day. Maybe this weekend?
CCI “Copper-22″ ammo, 21 grain copper/polymer bullet.
Fired one 10-shot string through each gun.
I note that my 16.25″ barreled Ruger wasn’t NEARLY as fast as Jeremy’s 16.5″ CZ, and although the 20-inch barreled 10/22 was faster, it still barely beat Jeremy’s numbers for his short CZ. The 24″ Marlin was slower than my 20″ Ruger, but I got to thinking about the Micro-Groove rifling, and I wonder if that isn’t messing with the results. If someone else (Jeremy?) can test a conventionally-rifled 22″-24” rifle, I’d be interested in seeing how it compares to the Marlin.
This. Would the higher velocities make this round a legit defensive option?
Still no. I expect it will dump energy really fast and probably have very poor penetration in targets bigger than small rodents. The very light bullet will have trouble with dense bones and leave a poor wound channel.
Some varmints stand on two leggs, and according to fBI stats, 22 and 25 calibers kill quite efficiently.
When I shoot it again in a week or so, I’ll test it out of another rifle I have that has a 22″ barrel. I wouldn’t be surprised though if it didn’t pick up much. BTW I chronographed another 5 from the CZ455 and one did break 2000 fps.
22Plinkster shoots some of these into gel on his channel. Video from Sept 1.
Plinkster shoots a block of ballistic gelatin, and it penetrates a very uniform roughly 12 inches, and the slugs stay in one piece.
Yes, that would be a major concern for me were I to consider it for self-defense purposes. It is a frangible bullet if it impacts something hard. Bone would turn it into dust. Heck, a metal zipper, zipper pull, phone, necklace, or whatever else may well do that, too.
At least we’re I’m at .22lr is readily available at gun shops. Big box stores rarely have it in stock, but the gun shops have enough, that they all I have been to recently removed the purchase restrictions.
I can neccessarily find a specific type of .22lr any given day, but I Usually see a selection.
“…wouldn’t be surprised at all if it separated a squirrel into a front half and a back half.” What I was thinking. Could be wonderful for pest control, but might ruin quite a bit of meat.
If I can find some in the wild I’ll add it to the toolbox, as I live in CA.
Opening day of quail season we’ll be out with air rifles.
Jeremy – If you feel the need to shoot cans of Mt.Dew, could you at least have the decency to blow up cans of Diet Mt.Dew?
Seeing that liquid gold sugar and caffeine perfection draining into the ground without passing through someone’s kidneys first made me cry (a little).
Oh yeah, the ammo. Looks interesting.
I wonder if there is concern about a solid copper version being an “evil round” that might penetrate soft body armor.
The light projectile weight explains much of the velocity. Solid copper would be too heavy in a normal bullet shape & length. Plus frangible is nice, especially at these velocities in a caliber that people aren’t always super careful with.
What self-respecting POTG *allows* ‘Sugar water nirvana’ to even get close to the expiration date? That’s like a beer lover tossing cans of beer in the trash!
Dew always looked like carbonated antifreeze to me, and reading the label (not that I always care, just so I know exactly how badly I’m abusing myself) the whole thought of drinking brominated vegetable oil is a bit disconcerting.
That said, there are times when it’s damn good.
Which is why I’ve switched to shooting cans seltzer water. Still the same fun pressurized carbonated fizzy target. . . no sticky sugar (or high fructose corn syrup) that gets you sticky during clean up. You guys do clean up the range when you’re done, right?
Anyways, I’m experimenting with potatoes as targets now: They are more fun when they explode compared to cans of soda AND they are biodegradable and require no clean-up. 🙂 Only problem is it can be tough to distinguish between potatoes and rocks. Last time at the shooting pit there were a lot of left over potatoes my friend and I didn’t notice.
Are those baked ‘taters, or boiled or just plain outta the ground ‘taters? What do you have against yams then, they deserve a chance on the shelf.
That is interesting info, and I appreciate you posting it. Thanks!
Solid copper or solid lead (like most .22 LR bullets) bullets can be made in a similar fashion. Snip bullet length pieces off a gigantic coil of wire, then a press smushes them into shape.
Of course, the nice thing about copper powder is that it’s basically (or literally) scrap. And the polymer component is even cheaper.
I do think the biggest initial motivation in this case, though, was making a really lightweight bullet in order to achieve a velocity goal.
OOoo. I need me some of that! Hell, .22 mag might be interesting.
.22 mag would be bitchen!
Even still, I’m going to get a thousand rounds or so to use on next springs rat shoot. Hardly used my .22lr at all due to the distances.
ARX? I got some of the Polycase ammo for my P3at and it destroys watermelons. I know watermelons arn’t people, anyway it instilled more confidence in my summer carry mouse gun. This might bring the .22 up a notch on the defensive round table for pistols and the popular AR styled rifles.
I bought some Ruger labeled ARX ( at a buck cheaper) in 380 and 45. Until I see results from an actual hominid shooting I will use it for an anti-animal round. The biggest portion of the wound track appears to be at the front end which is a through and through on a coyote sized animal.
Delighted to hear about at least AVERAGE short – mid range accuracy. Just ordered 500 rds from Midway, that should let me trim the ground squirrel population for 1/4 the cost of 223 Rem. Thanks for the pistol/rifle combo review, as well!
So it should have about twice the muzzle energy for the same recoil. Nice!
Well, the lightweight bullet isn’t going to hold its velocity as well, so any increase in energy is only going to hold true for short distances. Heck, at 50 yards it may carry LESS energy than a regular HV load or an old-school hyper-velocity load like CCI’s Stinger.
I wonder how accurate it would be if you had a slower twist barrel. The problems with longer distance accuracy could be because the barrel is over stabilizing it.
It’s the supersonic / transonic / subsonic transition. This thing has a G7 ballistic coefficient similar to a cotton ball. Some bullets do alright through the transition, while some become catastrophically destabilized. .22 Plinkster is reporting 10-12 MOA at 100 yards for this load, and he’s the best rimfire shooter I know of.
Agreed. And this is related to the comment by NineShooter three up as well. I also think it starts hitting those transitions at some point beyond 75 yards and is destabilized badly by it. It’s also simply dropping a ton of velocity in short order, and I doubt normal .22 LR velocities jive well with the extremely high RPM it gets by leaving a barrel at almost twice the speed of a normal .22 LR.
Overstabilization is not a problem that you should care about until we’re starting to talk sub-1/2 MOA or so.
Love this stuff. A good competitor for Winchester’s Tin 22. That stuff was fast, but even out of a 22″ bolt action it didn’t expand when shot into water.
I searched the review for the word “price” and came up empty.
Tell us what it sells for. .22LR ammo needs to be one thing – cheap.
By the way, I love me some statistics as well as the next guy, but calculating a standard deviation from a data set containing only five measurements is, at best, a waste of time.
Its not cheap I believe Im paying $79 a brick. Sure do miss even Thunderbolts at $6.99 a brick.
MSRP is $10.95 for a box of 50, or about 22 cents per round.
Thanks STB. And apologies, I couldn’t confirm the msrp and am traveling, but wanted to get this up instead of delaying it a week until I’m back. I paid $9.95 per box.
Sportsman’s Guide has a member price of $8.54 / 50. Not sure how much longer it’ll be in stock, though.
MSRP is $10.95 per 50. That means it will sell out everywhere by tomorrow, and will only be found on Armslist or gun show tables hawked by the vultures at $20 a box.
On a bright note, this may finally take some attention off Stingers, so that supply may increase.
Oh well, they’re opening an Academy in my hood soon, they should have some “grand opening” allotment.
I ordered a brick on Sunday from Midway. I guess we will see. I did buy it based on velocity alone.
The faster the bullet the better my little Berretta 21 likes it. It does very well with the Hi Velocity Segmented rounds and Stingers. It needs to be whipped down every 50 rounds or so. It gets really dirty fast and jams otherwise. Will see how it works in my other 22s. A Ruger Mark II slabside and a Model 41. My 10/22 also likes faster bullets. Being only 20gr. Who knows what I can hit at 100 yards. If I can still pepper 410 shells I wont complain.
Don’t shoot it in your S&W 41. They are only rated for standard velocity ammo. There have been instances of people getting cracked frames from using too much high velocity. Some won’t damage it but repeated use of high velocity ammo (this includes the 1200 fps stuff) can do damage.
Appreciate the warning. It was my Uncles gun. A 7.5 inch with compensator. Built in 1965. Bad enough I put a scratch on it. Wouldn’t want to blow it up.
Ive only fired standard stuff that wont cycle my little Berretta 21a or 10-22 well.
Okay so weekend after this coming one my COPPER-22 follow-up to do list is: 100 yard+ accuracy test from two rifles, velocity from the long barrel one (pre-’64 WesternField), velocity from NAA Mini revolver. Will post follow up-up results that following week.
Liberals ban lead to end hunting and put a dent in ammo sales and CCI out foxes them.
Yep. CA is the largest gun market in the US. The company’s can’t afford to let this market go so they have to step up.
When I first started hunting with steel shot in my smoothbores non lead ammo was a lot higher than it’s leaded counterpoint. Now, they’re comparable.
Not really, they are right on track making ammunition unaffordable for more and more shooters and hunters.
You’re gonna need to come with another word to use as an insult than “liberal.” I’m one and so are many other people who like to shoot. See if you can use that brilliant brain of yours to come up with an alternative.
At the same cost of 22 WMR, this would have to offer some advantages and it doesnt, unless you consider frangibility a positive. This ammo costs as much as 9MM for crying out loud. If this is the direction things are going its not good. Thanks EPA!
Yeah Fred that’s mighty pricey. I’m much more interested in a 22mag as the velocity is already there (and I don’t plink or hunt-yet).
Non-lead bullets are mandatory in Comifornia in a few years so there goes hunting. Imagine what .308 or 30-06 will cost per round. All part of the anti-hunting, anti-gun. and PETA plan. They are winning.
They aren’t. We can still practice with lead. Copper rifle rounds in the calibers you stated are roughly 2 dollars a round. Same as my .243. A 20 round box of hunting loads can last me several seasons and beyond. During a hunt it’s rare to fire more than 2 rounds at a given animal.
40 bucks for a box of shells sounds high. But it’s not plinking ammo and when compared to the overal cost of a hunt, it’s a drop in the bucket. I spent 40 bucks sunday on gas just going to and from a dove hunt.
If you’re dropping out of hunting because of the cost of ammo you were already leaving the sport for a number of reasons.
The advantage is that it shoots out of the .22 rifle you already have, and is lead free for hunting purposes.
The price is basically the same as CCI’s other “high end” .22 varmint ammo, CCI Stinger. It’s just lead free for certain locales.
I normally try to only shoot subsonic .22 out of my Winchester Model 1906 (which was made in 1911), but this new CCI makes me wonder….. would I be asking too much of the old rifle with these hot rounds? FWIW, I gave it a new barrel sleeve not too long ago, along with a new extractor and springs all around.
Given the price of Copper these days, a key criterion TTAG missed was cost per round. I’ll bet it’s at least what 9mm or .40SW costs.
There’s probably less copper in this than in a jacketed 9mm round.
Or just shoot .17 HMR. Faster, more accurate, about the same price, and ammo actually available.
Well the big reasons would be that .17 HMR doesn’t fit in the .22 LR guns I already own, there’s no such thing as cheap .17 HMR plinking ammo, and options for semi-auto .17 HMRs are quite limited. I think in nearly every case it’s also meaningfully more expensive than this stuff, too. Heck, I can shoot cheap .223 for the price of .17 HMR and 5.45×39 for even less, so forget .17 HMR, right?
Cool ammo!! I’ll be buying some.
I’ll stick with my 40 grain Aguila Intercepters. They travel at 1470 FPS which equals right at 200 FPE. That 20 grain won’t put the snack down as hard.
I finally came across some of this in a store. I picked up two boxes. I hope my 10/22 or my Contender pistol shoot well with this ammo. It would be nice if my son’s 10/22 or CZ Scout work with it too since we live in California. Hopefully I have found my lead free 22 hunting ammo. That way I’ll have this for 50 yards and under, my 17 HMR out to about 150 yards and then some lead free handloads in my AR for way out there.
I tired out for the first time today in my ruger mark iii 22/45. It wouldn’t feed from the three different mags I tried. It would stop at the bottom of the ramp. I switched to CCI mini-mag with copper plated round nose, and fired 100 with no problem! Anybody else have feeding problems with the copper composite bullet?? I have 700 rounds that i can’t shot in my Ruger.
These shell’s lack penetration to kill larger animal’s that I hunt. I have shot Racoon’s with them over hounds with what I will call mixed and very disappointing results. Some that I have hit in the chest the bullet only penitrated 1 1/2″. The old CCI shells with lead in them are much better and more reliable when taking larger small game.


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This one of my favorite during cold weather. A Hot cocoa, that comes from the land of Philippines. You heard me right! I asked my mother to buy me some and just shipped it here. I had plenty of this in the refrigerator since last year.
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If you have hooded eyelids or thin eyelids, you’re going to want to read up on these fabulous beauty tips for monolids! These 8 striking beauty tips will help you to create gorgeous eye makeup looks that are tailored to those who have a monolids minus the eyelid tape and sugery! It can be frustrating to see so many makeup tutorials for ladies with double lids when there are just as many with monolids! Remember that just because monolids require different makeup application techniques doesn’t mean we can’t have fun with makeup!
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One of the top beauty tips for monolids that can totally transform your eyes is to augment those lashes! Long and full lashes can make even the smallest eyes look big and bold! False lashes do a really great job at opening up eyes but if you’re not good at applying lashes (like me) or you just don’t like them, you can always try extensions or layering mascara primers and lengthening mascara. If you’re new to all of these options, try a few of them out to see what you like best!
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This last makeup tip for ladies with monolids might be the most important of all-curl those lashes! Curling your eyelashes can instantly make you look more awake and make your eyes your look large and in charge! If you have a hard time keeping the curl in your lashes after your use your eyelash curler, try using waterproof mascara. Waterproof mascara can be a pain to remove but many ladies will agree that it’s the best formula to keep lashes curled longer.
There you have some key beauty tips for monolids that can help take your eye makeup look to a whole other level! Using false lashes and finding a way to line your eyes just right might take some time to master, but makeup is all about experimenting and having fun so don’t give up! If you have monolids do you have any beauty tips you’d like to share? Do you have any words of beauty advice for beginners?