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Same Same Same
All .270 Winchester, all 130 grain bullet all loaded to an advertised muzzle velocity of 3,060 feet per second.L -> RPerfecta 130gr soft point.Hornady American Whitetail 130gr InterLock®.Federal...
View ArticleOpen Letter To Midway USA
Dear Midway,How hard is it to have the prices on your web site show up as they will when I check out, BEFORE I check out.Seeing the price jump almost $30 on the order before getting to shipping was and...
View ArticleWith Less Irritation
At Gander Mountain, their reloading section has new made brass cases...Now you can load ammunition without all that irritating and tiring shooting getting in the way!
View ArticleEqual Application
Since we have protected classes and categories of people whom we cannot refuse to do business with......and growing categories of businesses whom it's OK for banks to refuse to business with.It seems...
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Accessorizing
Marv's Savage 93F has a scope and a bipod, plus a politically incorrect extended magazine!A Nikon Prostaff Rimfire II 4-12x40 is a whole lotta scope for a .22 WMR rifle, but as we get old our eyes...
View ArticleRacial Tension
Back in basic we had a moment when on of the instructor cadre grabbed three random soldiers and said they needed to grab the slave cables and do a slave start on one of the tanks.The selected privates...
View ArticleMoral Imperative
I called Savage with the intent of ordering a trigger assembly, as mentioned here.The rather unfriendly person on the phone curtly informed me that such things were gunsmith only parts and required an...
View ArticleMonetization
It's interesting watching YouTube going through the throes of what Hollywood has had several strikes over.The people who make the content being sold not being paid for what they've created.YouTube is...
View ArticleNot Back Up Irons
The Savage 93F (Wal Mart Edition) has iron sights installed, which you can see in the pictures.But they're not back-up iron sights in the traditional sense because the scope bases block them.If your...
View ArticleI Know You're Dying To Know
So you can sleep at night....22 WMR #12 shotshell.Damage is 1d-5(0.2) pi-Range is 6/127RoF is n277 (+8 to hit from the Savage!)Note that damage... You need to roll a 6 to do a point of damage. DR 0...
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Eureka!
Winchester PDX1 Defender .410 2-1/2" shotgun ammo has been a tough nut to crack in GURPS terms.It's not quite buck-and-ball (High Tech p. 173) because it's got those three discs.Then it hit me! The...
View ArticleDear Oppressed Millionaires
I feel your pain. I really do.But a nation where you can make millions telling jokes or playing a children's game is not a nation that's actually oppressing you for being black.Any time you get sick...
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If You Want A Job Done Right...
You have to do it yourself!Agnes' scope which was supposed to be "boresighted" from the factory...Was also canted quite noticeably.All fixed!
View ArticleBlameless
Occasionally I have moments of regret that I am not a consumer of sports so that when we get millionaire children holding their breath until they turn blue, I can stop spending my money and boycott...
View ArticleIdle Speculation
Also known as "what if"?When debating the relative merits of civilian versions of military guns such as the M1A and AR15 we often lose sight of how their military versions were developed and...
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Inconsistent
Almost as if Liberals don't understand the underlying principles of liberty at all.Not that they own the patent on that lack...
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Even A Bad Day At The Range...
... is a good day.Today was a great day at the range!Took Agnes out to zero.She likes Federal Premium Vita-Shok 130gr Trophy Bond about best.That's about right, maybe a little high, for a 100 yard zero...
View ArticleReconciliation
Can the nation state, a proven successful model, be reconciled with globalized borderless free trade?It's a sticky wicket.People are not ready to be world citizens, especially since so much of the...
View ArticleRelated Shooting
Marv has been tinkering with his 93F trigger too.He's braver than I am, generally, with changing things.He clipped the trigger weight spring, polished the contact points between the sear and trigger...
View ArticleGodless But Not Foreign
Despite the protestations of certain parties, .270 Winchester is an American cartridge.For if it were European it would be called 7x65mm...If it were Canadian or English it would be called .277.Only...
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