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Retro Tacticool
Think you're tactical?Are you half a sock wrapped in duct-tape to make a twin 1911 magazine pouch tactical?File this under, "If it's silly, but it works, it's not silly."Keeps pine needles and other...
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Of Frog Lube And Light Strikes
July of last year I had my Glock 21 all apart and thoroughly degreased and cleaned.I used FrogLube CLP as the LP when I put it back together.A year untouched in the safe and the FrogLube now has the...
View ArticlePosition Shift
Because all of these mass shootings occur at gun-free-victim zones, I am removing my sympathies for the victims.It's been clear for a long time this is where such events happen, and these people still...
View ArticleDancing Monkey Strike
This time it's voice actors.If they never record another voice over for animation or video game...I still have food on the table.The water still flows from the faucet.My car still starts.The range is...
View ArticleDear Wilson Combat
Any part for the AR that requires the removal of the front sight base and barrel nut for installation is not "drop in".A Geissele trigger is drop in.A free float forearm is not.
View ArticleStill Not The Point
Joe posts a quote.For some reason I am reminded of David Brin and his idea of The Jefferson Rifle.Mr Brin seems so close to getting it, but ultimately never crosses the line.Like so many people he's...
View ArticleDefinition
Barometer.A device used to measure the pressure exerted by a wight agains the walls of their barrow.
View ArticleI Ain't No Crackah
I be a carpetbagger.I was born up there in DamnYankeeLand, and moved south to exploit its riches.FFS, get your stereotyping right!
View ArticleLack Of Understanding
Determining what twist is best for what bullet weight.Take the bore diameter, bullet length and velocity and plug them into a calculus equation.Walla! Done!I can't do that. It's been near 20 years...
View ArticleSo Common
It's so common it's got to be hard wired into our brains.I see comment threads over and over where the debate becomes about the meaning of a single word without regard to the context that the word...
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Something that may have just connected...I'm an atheist. (How can you tell someone is an atheist? Just wait, they'll tell you.) I don't think there's a God. Full stop.I could get all haughty and...
View ArticleSchism
No, you idiot, it is not inconsistent of Ted Cruz to condemn something The Pope said while also expressing his Christian beliefs.Senator Cruz isn't Catholic.The Pope is the head of The Catholic...
View ArticleWrong FSA
When I heard that Putin was bombing concentrations of the FSA I was alarmed but happy.How dare he attack America? On the other hand, we need to cull the herds of the Free Shit Army here...Then I...
View ArticleDegree In Rhetoric?
Unless your name is Joshua Chamberlain, people are probably not going to be impressed with your degree in rhetoric.Even if that is your name, it's not his degree people are impressed with.Just sayin'...
View ArticleTraining Downfall
Sitting here on the sidelines and reading about it...Once someone has been to about three big name, reputable classes...Suddenly if you've never been, you might as well just shoot yourself since...
View ArticleGlowy Inna Da Dark
The tritium in the Meprolight sights on my Glock 21 is long dead.The still kinda glow, if you let your eyes adjust to total darkness for a while.I am in a quandary about replacing them.Even with dead...
View ArticleGun Buying Quote
FFL: "OK, just a minute and and we'll have your [NICS] check finished."Me: "A minute? I thought this was supposed to be an instant background check!"FFL: "Instant to government standards."
View ArticleTime To Departure
Weer'd mentioned in comments that his average time from "I'll take it" to darkening the door on the way out is about an hour on buying a gun.Around here it's been about 15 minutes, with most of them...
View ArticleA Difference In Defintion
I can be a very patient person.You tell me a month, I can wait a month.You tell me a year, I can wait a year.You tell me "a couple of days"...I'm going to start agitating at about the one week mark.At...
View ArticleSave The Nauga
Just in case you didn't know... Vinyl is sometimes known as naugahyde.I am known to spin a yarn, from time to time.Occasionally I hook someone who doesn't know enough to tell that the tale is...
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