Documentation
If I'd known that I'd need to prove I was doing what I did 25 years ago I'd have demanded some sort of documents.Alas.Until recently the only thing affected was my pride. My pride is OK with people...
View ArticleBad Thought
I would be inordinately amused if little Ahmed's "invention" turns into a real bomb before meeting President Obama.Is it illegal for me to say that? I lost track.
View ArticleAgain Where Did The Time Go
The 23rd of this month marks my 18th year of living in Florida.Holy Hanna.I really aren't from Iowa any more. I am from Florida now.
View ArticleBoehner Stuns Congress
Thrills voters!He's stepping down!I need some champagne!Of course he'll be replaced by someone equally milquetoast. But I get to be happy for a couple hours.
View ArticleTough Shit
"SGT" Bowe Bergdahl too fragile for jail time?How many cliches are there for this bullshit?I guess, "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime," is most apt.OK, Bowe, you can't handle prison, I've a...
View ArticleMy Comment On Banning Domestic Trade In Ivory
Banning the sale of existing ivory in the US is not going to have one iota of an effect on living elephants in Africa.To be blunt, the horse is not only already out of the barn, it's past being put out...
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Reality Testing
One of the things that drew me to GURPS was that it used real units for most everything.That meant that you didn't need to convert those real-world units into the game's units.Where I start to lose my...
View ArticleBefore The War On Terror
Did you know that there were veterans before the war on terror?And before the Gulf War?A local photographer doing a rather neat art project didn't.Someday the Cold War is going to be called "The...
View ArticleBecause It Took Me This Long To Calm Down
I really, REALLY, hate guilt by association.I've ranted about NFATCA before. Several times.On Facebook, on Tam's feed, I had a chance to confront the president of NFATCA about their role in getting...
View ArticleAnother Example
Considered by many as the best of the period military Mausers, the Brazilian model 1908 was made by DWM (actually this specimen is part of a subcontract let to Mauser by DWM - hence the Oberndorf...
View ArticleLyrics
Hey, I hear the voice of a preacher from the back roomCalling my name and I follow just to find youI trace the faith to a broken down television and put on the weatherAnd I've trained myself to give up...
View ArticleWell Hello There!
[WAVES]I got an email from a Brandon at Ammunition To Go!It's kind of cool to be noticed by someone with a gun business here on the shallow end of the gun-blog pool. Even nicer that he appears to have...
View ArticleWhy Not Soldier
I am starting to really detest the term "warfighter".It just tastes wrong.It feels like something that a marketing firm came up with to assuage the feelings of someone whose panties binded up for being...
View ArticleUnfair Comparison
And it's one I've fallen prey to from time to time as well.This article on the new KC-46A.They say that a KC-135A in 1957 cost $57.9 million in 2015 dollars.This compares to the $188.2 million price...
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The Ammos
For what twist does to a given bullet weight in 5.56.It really wouldn't be an issue except, like he says, small changes in mass make large changes in length on a 0.224" diameter bullet.Pic taken from...
View ArticleWho Was It?
I posted the disclaimer on that Brazilian Mauser and suddenly someone bought it!I've been watching that gun get relisted for about a year now...So it must have been one of my readers.<shakes fist>
View ArticleUneducated
I would say ignorant, but that carries some baggage.I learned a long time ago that I didn't know everything.I'm coming to grips, in some cases, that what I do know is either incorrect or obsolete.Never...
View ArticleAds And Comments Policy
You want to advertise here you have two choices.Email me and ask. This has worked for everyone who's tried it so far!Be Google and incorporate it into the Blogger interface.Slipping links into the...
View ArticleNot So Obsolete
My insistence on possessing at copy of my media isn't as obsolete as some people made it out to be.I was told that I didn't need to own a copy of something because I could always stream it from...
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