Intermittent Problems Are Best Problems
Twice now The Precious has spit up a message on the driver's information center, "SERVICE ACTIVE HANDLING". Then lit the active handling disabled light.The first time, shutting off the car to read the...
View ArticleRelief
Ever get told off by someone then find out the reason they were talking to you in the first place was a very very narrow overlap of your Venn diagrams?Ever been happy when they just leave?Happened to...
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Wrong
If the gun-grabbers were correct, someone just got murdered in a parking lot.But they aren't.How can I tell?Because in possession of both a carry permit and a firearm I did not shoot the driver of a...
View ArticleIf It Seems Too Good To Be True
One of the local shops has a Single Action Army clone for a very reasonable $325.It's an EMF New Dakota with a 4-3/4" barrel in .45 Colt.It's made by Armi San Marcos based on the markings. You know...
View ArticleService Active Handling Code
JT brought his whiz-bang scan-tool to talk to The Precious...He pulled out code C0161, which is the brake pedal position sensor.A whopping $15 part lays low a $55,000 car.It's essentially the switch...
View ArticlePhuck
On 21DEC16 the very last mission with the F-4 in US service will occur.Granted it'll be a QF-4E, but still.The Phantom was a warhorse, sad to see her go.
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Firearm Friday
Reservations not withstanding...An EMF S.A. imported, Armi San Marco made, Colt Peacemaker with a 4-3/4" barrel in .45 Colt.With it's bigger brother, also in .45 Colt.According to the proof marks it...
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Just One Number Off
Upper is a S&W Model 909. Lower is a S&W Model 910. They sure look similar, don't they?Could you tell I switched which one was on top?From the back it's really obvious what the difference...
View ArticlePlead The Fifth
What I want to see, by law or amendment, whichever is required...If you hold an elected or appointed position and you plead the fifth, you're also resigning and forever barred from holding an elected...
View ArticleFour Clicks
The EMF New Dakota makes four clicks when you cock it.Click one is just barely taking the firing pin off the primer. The trigger comes forward too.Click two retracts the bolt (cylinder stop) for...
View ArticleBecause It Came Up
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's sidearm.Well at The Battle of the Greasy Grass anyway, he had numerous sidearms.I vote for SAA because the Army was on a standardization kick at the time. At least...
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It Shoots!
The New Dakota shoots.24 rounds of Winchester Cowboy Action Loads (USA45CB) 250gr Lead Flat Nose at 750 fps.20 rounds of Winchester Super-X (X45CP2) 255gr Lead Round Nose at 860 fps.Not perfect groups,...
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Commonality
It just hit me. They're both .45's. They're both Colt .45's. Neither is actually a Colt.
View ArticleEscape Plan
Do you think that the refusal to indict Hillary, then a couple months gap and then reopening the case is about the right amount of time for James Comey to insure he's not suicidal.
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Who's A Good Gun Dog?
Watching The Great War series on YouTube.He had this photo in his narrative.Picture from: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/8e/94/048e94eedd0dcfdc091dde5b6914fbe5.jpgRelated.Picture from...
View ArticleRemember When...
Remember when 56.6 was considered super fast and it took hours to download a song from Napster?Well, NASA just spent 15 months downloading the data from New Horizons.Imagine coming to work and seeing...
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Idle Hands
Who had "Less than 48 hours" in the "How long before McThag takes apart the Peacemaker clone?'31 hours, 36 minutes is the time.I did not remove the loading gate because I don't have that screwdriver...
View ArticleOn Ejecting Friends
About a year ago I did something to a friend that had only been done to me.I stopped talking to him. Not about him, mind you.I don't make friends easily or readily, so they're so very precious that...
View ArticleSomething Else I Tried
Steve Jackson Games official fantasy setting from 2e on has been a myth-parallel of Earth called Yrth.GURPS: Fantasy for 2e and 3e; GURPS: Banestorm for 4e.One possibility for the players has been to...
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