Gun Day
Took faithful reader CorvetteCadillacMinivanJohn to his first gun show!He looked like he had fun.Marv got the stuff to reload 5.56. One of the vendors kept trying to press him into buying a powder...
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Every time you see "X" lives matter, prefix it with "Only" and you have the true meaning of the statement.
View ArticleDissonance
The splits are starting at one of the local cop shops.There's starting to be two camps and it's looking to get ugly.One side is "Blue Lives Matter, OUR safety is paramount to all other...
View ArticleInner Struggle
Yes, I totally understand what you're talking about and where it happened.I was there before you were.Almost 13 years before, but there none the less.Nope, I don't wanna go back either.
View ArticleFine Then
I identify as a lesbian who found herself trapped in a woman's body and has successfully completed gender transition to male.It wasn't me that made being "merely" a man untenable, so this is what you...
View ArticleMutable Prediction
Now that the Gadsen Flag is a symbol of racism I predict that any symbol used to spread the ideas of liberty will likewise be "discovered" to be racist or its weaker cousin sexist.If we're to be...
View ArticleGeek Slog
Still cranking away at converting the GURPS: Traveller character templates over to GURPS 4th Edition.It's just tedious.Lots of advantages, disadvantages and skills have been renamed. Some even...
View ArticleI Know I Am
Are you thankful there's a 22nd Amendment?Of note, Massachusetts is one of only two states to reject this amendment, Oklahoma being the other.
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Equivalence Testing
Willard has a 1948 made Winchester Model 70. He also has a ??? made Winchester Model 670A.The 670 is the cheapened down version of the post-64 Model 70, which was itself so cheapened down that the...
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Revolver Mode
Took Willard's Browning BDSM out to the range to see if it works. 75 rounds later, we think that it does.The safety works backwards. The safety works backwards. The safety works backwards. The...
View Article(Nothing But) Flowers
There was a rack of MosinsNow there are AR's and Savages.You got it, you got it.There's not a single Mosin-Nagant of any stripe on a rack in a gun or pawn shop for a 15 mile radius of McThag...
View ArticleWar On Poodles
I think some folks need to accept that 5.56x45mm isn't going anywhere.It's been around for more than 50 years and it's been thoroughly vetted by real fighting.The flaws and virtues have been...
View ArticleBubba Math
A Savage 10/110 XP Trophy Hunter Package is $619.99 plus tax ($43.40 in FL) and and background ($5) from Bass Pro. That gets you a scoped rifle with a match trigger and detachable magazine for $668.39...
View ArticleGURPS It's Always GURPS
With the Mosin conversion we get...7.62x54mmR. 7d pi damage, 5+3 Acc, 1,000/4,200 range and either 5(2i) or 10+1(3) shots.With the savage package we get....243 Win. 7d-1 pi damage, 6+3 Acc, 840/4,300...
View ArticleIt's Only Fair
If Christian bakers have to make wedding cakes for homosexuals, then Muslim flight attendants have to serve alcohol to passengers.Otherwise it's not equal treatment.Related, hey Ms Special Snowflake,...
View ArticleHey I Know That Gun
When you start collecting a certain niche, you start seeing the same guns offered for sale over and over.I'm something of a Finn Mosin collector, and I've not got a Kiv/27. I keep seeing the same...
View ArticleModernity
It has me a little gobstopped that .44 Magnum from a Ruger carbine is nearly the same in ballistics as a much longer Trapdoor rifle firing .45-70-300.
View ArticleCraftiness Of The Willard
By not stopping by early in the morning, he's saved himself from having to make the hour long drive down to Bass Pro to look at Savage Package rifles.We'd never get there and back in time to unlock the...
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