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Mosinday!

July 13, 2014, 6:35 pm
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Willard, Marv, Young Thomas and I went shooting Mosins today.

I don't think we missed many variations.

I had the Type 53, Lei, and Kiv/28-30, Hanna.

Marv had his 91/30.

Willard had his 91/59 and a PU sniper.

Marv had the group of the day with the sniper with about a 1.5" inch group at 50 yards.
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Krag

July 13, 2014, 8:26 pm
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Frederick Benteen

July 13, 2014, 8:30 pm
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Started as Union cavalry in the Civil War.
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Caseless Ammunition

July 13, 2014, 8:51 pm
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Ask anyone who reloads.  A not insignificant percentage of cartridges fired must be caseless as they simply disappear after firing.
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Gay?

July 14, 2014, 5:12 am
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"Did you know these celebs are gay?" in the suggested "from around the web" articles.

No.  I did not know.

Because I don't care.  I do not care if any particular dancing monkey is a homosexual.  Which really has a lot more to do with a disinterest in the off-screen lives of dancing monkeys than disdain for people's rights.  Which raises the question: are celebrities people or just a very human-like great ape?  There are dangers in anthropomorphizing...

I got my degrees in business administration and mechanical design; not primatology.  Someone else can study this.

What I am curious about is why several sites pop that suggestion up for me.  Is it the kilts?
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Making Your Day A Bit More Surreal

July 14, 2014, 12:03 pm
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Low And Left

July 14, 2014, 4:57 pm
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The Glock 17 shoots low and left.

Front sight is (measured at the rear corners of the sight blade):

Side of gun; 0.442"; sight; 0.3935"; side of gun (0.02425" off center to the right).  And it's loose, with 0.0235" of L-R play.  So it's 0.00075" to 0.02425" to the right depending on how the sight ends up.

That should make the gun shoot to the left!  1.14" left at the 25 yards we were shooting at.

The rear sight is:

Side of gun; 0.1125"; rear sight; 0.0685"; side of gun. 0.022" off center to the right canceling the error of one extreme of the loose front...

The rear sight is already drifted to the right a bit.

Dry firing here and now tells me I am avoiding moving my shoulder because 100 rounds Mosin.

When I take a sight picture I notice that where my wrist wants to be and feels right is pulling the barrel left.  When I pull my shoulder up where it's a little sore from the steel butt plate abuse the geometry corrects itself.

Also moving my head against the sore muscles corrects.

Something to keep note of.
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T-Shirt Idea

July 14, 2014, 5:13 pm
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Coal Powered

July 14, 2014, 5:21 pm
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Both of these vehicles are coal powered.  One of them is cool.
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Marv And The Mosin

July 15, 2014, 8:30 am
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His first shots from his '43 Izhevsk M-1891/30.





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Imperial Battle Dress

July 15, 2014, 10:41 am
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At Traveller TL13 Battle Dress is introduced.  GURPS (TL10) calls it Battledress.

It's whiz-bang stuff.

The Imperium is kind of light on the gun control, even if individual worlds might have severe restrictions.

Battledress is something the players are going to want because it's damn handy in a fight with Traveller state-of-the-art weaponry.

How does a GM keep that from happening?

It's clearly not illegal where the CR is low.  Players have many mischievous ways of putting together the funds to purchase it.

Supply is the answer.

The Imperial megacorporations are all owned by a noble, a noble family or a consortium of noble families.  The company that makes the battledress for the Imperial Marines simply doesn't make more than are ordered.  The Marines order 100, 100 are made, they are never sold to another customer.

Not available at any price.

Why doesn't someone else make the stuff?  Patents.  Remember the Imperium is feudally organized, the Emperor can declare certain patents eternal.

Battledress isn't really that destabilizing to not be available for individual purchase, but it's symbolic.  If the troops landing are in battledress; they're Imperial Marines.  It sends a message.  It affects morale.
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Hanging Up Your Guns

July 15, 2014, 11:01 am
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Who To Believe

July 15, 2014, 3:59 pm
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I can't even trust my own lyin' eyes because I don't have any M882 nor do I have a scale that measures fine enough.

According to TM 43-0001-27 (29APR94);

Cartridge, 9mm, Ball, NATO, M882 is a 112gr FMJ projectile propelled at 1,263±5 fps. 15 feet from the muzzle.

Cartridges of the World, 11th Edition (2006);

Under 9mm Luger it says "Military Load, US" is 124gr FMJ at 1,299 fps.  And in the US Military Ammunition section under "Cartridge, Caliber 9mm, Ball, NATO, M882" it says 124gr copper alloy projectile at 1,251±25 fps. 16m from the muzzle.

STANAG 4090 allows for bullet weights from 108 to 128 grains and muzzle energies from 400 to 600 ft-lb. muzzle energy and calling out that chamber pressure not exceed 47,000 psi absolute.

I'd long been under the impression that NATO ammo was 124 grain until very recently.  Now I have no idea!
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Rule 34 Strikes Again

July 15, 2014, 4:16 pm
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Because I am reading SLA Marshall's The Soldier's Load and The Mobility of a Nation I am reminded of a Civil War comic depicting "Johnny" and all the crap he started out lugging around and the steps to where he carried just what he needed.

So I searched Bing Images for "soldier's load"...

Oops.

About half of the images are not what I was looking for at all.  Very creative though.
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Extreme Prevention

July 15, 2014, 10:59 pm
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Castration prevents male pattern baldness if the procedure is done before you begin to lose your hair.
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Working On This One...

July 16, 2014, 8:49 am
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My main drive to desire open carry is comfort not any sort of tactical advantage.

But I keep reading over and over that open carry sacrifices a tactical advantage.

OK.  What advantage is that?

Because I can see where conceal carry will include you in the victim selection process where the criminal doesn't want to deal with an armed person at all.  Open carry would deter this criminal, which I am given to understand is nearly all of them.

I can see where open carry could get you targeted by someone bent on doing a mass shooting, taking you out first so you don't interfere.  Except...  None of these shootings seem to have started with taking out the single uniformed cop that happened to be there or the armed security guard.  I posit that you can't get more open in your carrying than being uniformed too.

Mass shootings, though, are such a rare breed.  One probably shouldn't make assumptions.

This is an area where I've really only just begun to think about, so my opinions are not vetted by debate.  Be gentle in the comments.
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K31 With Rail

July 16, 2014, 11:53 am
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I knew I'd find it ten minutes after the person I wanted to show it to left.

And I was right that it was Oleg who took the picture.

LINK


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Barely Legal

July 16, 2014, 12:10 pm
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That's the minimum length barrel and minimum overall length there!  We did not actually measure it, but "barely legal" sounds great as a title.  And it is a title 1 gun, it was purchased from an FFL on the spot.

Very handy and pointable.


It's interesting to see the differences between the Winchester design and Marlin.
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The Conversion Process Has Begun

July 16, 2014, 11:54 pm
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Marv and I watched the first seven episodes of season 1 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

He was disdainful at first, but I caught him digging it a couple of times.

One of us.

One of us.

One of us.

One of us.

One of us.

One of us.
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Avoid

July 17, 2014, 12:03 pm
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I think it might be a good idea to avoid Malaysia Airlines for travel, especially on one of their remaining Boeing 777's.

Plus, WTF Russia?

Story.
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