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Department Of Redundancy Department

July 17, 2014, 12:41 pm
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SIG makes ammo now.


Perfect for The Lovely Harvey's carry gun...


This was/is her first gun.  FuzzyGeff's .40 Sigma fit her hand so well she went on a quest to find one of her own.  There wasn't a single one around in 9mm or .40 any place we looked.  We'd given up on the gun show and were on our way out the door when she spied a vendor with several.

But not in 9mm per se.  I'd never heard of .357 SIG at the time.  The price was a bargain basement $260!  When MSRP was about $400...  Wow, that dates the purchase somewhat, doesn't it?
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Scientific Term

July 17, 2014, 5:00 pm
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I borrowed "Friendly Local Gun Shop" from the SJGames phrase "Friendly Local Game Shop".

I've used it for a while and today realized that there's also a surly local gun shop or two around here as well.  Hostile local gun shop and paranoid local gun shops exist as well.

If you happen to be in Clearwater or surrounds, give Deer Hunter on FL60 aka Gulf to Bay a visit.
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Favorite Line

July 17, 2014, 7:54 pm
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...from a campy but still fun movie.

"No, for the Comte de la Fère it is too little; for Athos, too much."
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Sanctions

July 18, 2014, 9:39 am
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There may soon be sanctions on Russian made 7.62x54mmR, 7.62x39mm and 5.45x39mm.

I kind of hope that makes the hoarders stop buying .22 so the rest of us can get some.
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Facel Vega HK500

July 18, 2014, 11:30 am
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Photo by Brian Snelson
That thing got a Hemi™ in it?

Actually, it might!  Facel Vega used Chrysler for the powertrain.
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I Know What I Want To See

July 18, 2014, 2:15 pm
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From news web sites anyway...

Either give me a video or give me text.

Scratch that.  Just give me text.  I'm sick of the auto-play videos.
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Deconflicting

July 18, 2014, 2:24 pm
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I can't help but pin at least some of the blame for the Malaysian Airlines shoot down on everyone who routed a commercial flight over a war zone where there was an active air-defense network that has been shooting down enemy aircraft.

This is c'est la guerre folks.  I know we're all living in happy shiny funland where things like this don't happen to innocent bystanders; but being an innocent bystander to a war is nearly as dangerous as minding your own business at 0230.

Walking (or flying) through an active disagreement has a high likelihood of involving you regardless of your desires or intent.

It's obvious in foresight and I am fucking flabbergasted that civil air traffic was not routed around the war zone.

Addendum:

What should our military response be?

Nada, zip, zilch.

Not a US flag carrier.

Didn't happen in the US.

Not our military problem at all.
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The Glock 17 FN Hi-Power GURPS And You

July 18, 2014, 3:10 pm
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There are all sorts of things that are different about these guns that matter not one whit in GURPS terms.  Mostly because pi = 3 in GURPS.

In character terms, they do the same damage and have the same range.  They both can accept a lanyard.  They have the same Acc number, but the Glock gets the bonus for Improved-Visiblity Sights (High-Tech, p. 156).

The Glock is lighter at 2 lb. and carries four more shots.  Spare magazines tare at 0.6 lb.

While the FN is heavier (2.4 lb.) the 0.5 lb. spare magazines can pay off quickly depending on how many your character lugs around.

The "typical" gun and two spare mags comes to 3.2 lb. for the Glock and 3.4 lb. for the FN.  The Glock is packing 12 more shots at the end of that so we'd have to be 3.9 lb. to get near parity with the FN.  Any world where you can own the Glock, you can get the MecGar 15 rounders for the FN, which don't even weigh any more than the 13 rounders once the rounding is done.

A two big things that the game allows for on the Glock the FN doesn't have is being hammerless (Pulp Guns, Vol. 1, p. 8) and Very Reliable (B407).

GURPS does not generally mention things like safeties, but in my worlds I account for the magazine disconnect; the FN has one and the Glock doesn't.
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Doppelglock und GURPS

July 18, 2014, 4:43 pm
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This comparison is a bit less cut and dried.

The 21 is far heavier and carries fewer shots (the same number as the FN, in fact).  2.4 lb. with 0.8 lb. magazines.

The damage is a bit hard to suss out because 2d+2 pi and 2d pi+ don't compare directly well.

The range of damage for the 17 is 4-14 with an average of 9.  The 21 does 2-12, average 7; but the pi+ multiplies the damage done by 1.5; giving 3-18 with an average of 10.

That extra point, on average, doesn't make up for the loss of 12 shots in the "standard" loadout or the extra 0.8 lb. (4 lb. vs 3.2 lb.).
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Nearly Two Inches

July 18, 2014, 9:46 pm
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Clockwise from 12...

Colt Junior (1968, Spain)
N Pieper Model 1907 (1913, Belgium)
FIE Titan (Who knows, it says "Made In Italy")
Beretta 950BS (1992, USA)
Browning "Baby" (1968, Belgium)
FN Model 1905 (1922, Belgium)
Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket (1919, USA)

Enough to arm a pimp army!

Amazingly they all shoot pretty well considering the miserable sights and tiny grips.

My collection is getting to the point where I'm looking at cheap and/or obscure guns.

Things like a Raven for cheap and Mauser 1910 for obscure (not to Tam, but we all know how she is!).
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With A Sturdy Plastic Case To Prevent Fall Apart

July 18, 2014, 11:50 pm
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I have completely taken apart a Glock 17 now.


Just the frame tonight, but I've had the entire slide apart before.

And yes, alcohol was involved.

What started this was wondering what weight connector this gun has.  It's the unmarked 5 lb. nominal.  That gives a 6.5 lb. pull.

The Glock 21 with an unmarked connector has a much lighter pull, 3.75 lb.  Since the 21 is from 1991 before the NYC "draw the gun with the trigger" technique had been discovered, I think it's the equivalent to a (-) marked one today (3.5 lb. nominal).

Both guns have the standard trigger spring.

Something I learned today is there are three connectors: minus, unmarked and plus.  Those give nominal trigger pulls of 3.5, 5 and 8 lb. respectively.

If you use the standard trigger spring.

There are two different New York trigger springs.  They are used with the unmarked connector.  The olive/silver version increases the pull from 5 to 8.  The orange/black version increases it from 5 to TWELVE!!

Yes, you can hang a loaded Garand from the trigger of a NYPD Glock and expect it to not fire.

HEAD-DESK
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All Apart

July 19, 2014, 10:48 am
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Upon The Threat Of Legal Action...

July 20, 2014, 12:17 am
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I am hereby ordered to show the entire two inches of .25 ACP present.


N Pieper Model 1907 (1913, Belgium)
Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket (1919, USA)
FN Model 1905 (1922, Belgium)
Browning "Baby" (1968, Belgium)
Colt Junior (1968, Spain)
FIE Titan (pre-1968, Italy)
Röhm Gesellschaft (RG) Industries, Miami RG42 (1968-1986, USA)
Beretta 950BS (1992, USA)

In the center is a vintage box of ammo; "25 Patronen für Automatische Pistolen Kal. 6.35mm (.25)" "Dynamit Nobel AG Werk Durlach; Karlsruhe - Durlach" marked on one end.  "Quecksliberfrei - Rostfrei""SINOXID""Oeldicht" on the opposite.  Geco logo and "Ganzmantel Geshoss; Rauchloses Pulver" on the face between.  No mercury or corrosive primers!

I've discovered that Tanfoglio made FIE guns are marked "Made In Italy", US assembled guns are marked "Made In The USA".
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Rumplestiltskin

July 20, 2014, 12:08 pm
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Charming fairy tale where a mother is unfairly expected to give up her firstborn child?

OR

The story of a woman who unjustly breaches a binding agreement because she later discovers that she'd just rather not abide by the terms of the contract?

The hero of this story is Rumplestiltskin.  He saved her bacon by spinning the straw into gold, then offered her a way out of the contract (remember, he'd fulfilled his part of the agreement) and when she successfully guessed his name; he abided by the terms of the new agreement!
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Arrowhead

July 20, 2014, 12:40 pm
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When an invention is universal and cross cultural...  It's almost never something that doesn't work.

Mythbusters had a segment on how an unadorned sharpened arrow shaft was just as good as a flint arrowhead.  Not just that, but that the labor put into making the point was not worth it.

Willard brought this to my attention.

Allow me someone else to retort!




The take-away I get from digging around in my gaming notes...

Mr Heineman needs to practice his knapping technique; it would speed up his manufacturing time.

Technique is something Mr Savage unknowingly added to his making of the sharpened shafts.  He's the product of our culture and inserted that knowledge of how to get a concentric tip onto his shaft.

That concentricity matters.  What a stone arrow head gives, if nothing else, is a symmetric shape on the front of the missile.  What it also does, which matters for the flight and not terminal performance, is shifts the balance point of the projectile.  Fin stabilization with a nose heavy bias flies better.

Despite the extra time spent making the head, they were universally used by every stone age culture.  Things that don't work just don't get that kind of widespread adoption and the universality of the use precludes cultural bias being the reason for the adoption.

Mythbusters can be very entertaining, but it is entertainment first with a veneer of science slapped over it.
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GURPS: Traveller Sulieman

July 20, 2014, 11:51 pm
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I revisted the Type-S deck plans again...

This has the drives the correct volume and has the crew spaces arranged better.  There's a common in a gallery above the crew deck with the cargo bay and air-raft forward of the staterooms.

Because of the odd shape I decided to break conventional canon and make it a tail-dragger!  The two main gear legs go forward and the rear is supported by a reinforced point on the tail.

The rearranging of the machinery also let me ditch the little blisters.

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Howa

July 21, 2014, 4:53 pm
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If you should find yourself in possession of a Howa Type 64 and a cache of Japanese ammunition in a GURPS world...


Using NATO ammo bumps up the range, damage and recoil; but also wears the gun out faster.  I'd give it a malf of 16 to represent this abuse.
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History Doesn't Repeat

July 22, 2014, 7:39 am
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...but it rhymes.

"As regards disarming the Sioux, however desirable it may appear, I consider it neither advisable, nor practicable. I fear it will result as the theoretical enforcement of prohibition in Kansas, Iowa and Dakota; you will succeed in disarming and keeping disarmed the friendly Indians because you can, and you will not succeed with the mob element because you cannot." Valentine McGillycuddy in 1891.
Almost as if the law abiding will abide by the law and the lawless won't is a universal truth or something.
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Critical Success

July 22, 2014, 11:29 am
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Got the final touch-up done to the dice.



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Nostalgia Sucks

July 22, 2014, 2:30 pm
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I find myself looking at Beretta M9's of late.

I was issued one once...

I don't think it fits my paws at all.

Yet...

Plus with their recent decision to bail on Maryland, I kinda wanna support them.

Good thing I don't have money for one!  I'd regret the purchase nearly instantly.
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