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A Matter Of Weight
Changing from the everyday M4 type furniture to MagPul improves the appearance general feel of a carbine.I've noted before, that MagPul carries a mass penalty.A "gov't" profile mid-length carbine goes...
View ArticleI Give Up
I can't figure this one out.Yesterday we thought to look for a couple spare magazines for our M&P 9's.Shooter's World had 10 rounders and 15 rounders, but no 17 rounders. Genuine S&W branded...
View ArticleWell, Pay Them
FIFA fines English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish soccer teams for wearing poppies near Armistice Day.Well, pay the fines.It's worth it.Don't even protest them. Just pay the fine without comment...
View ArticleMan In The High Castle
It's 1962 and the National Socialists WON, why are they still using K.98k and MP.40's instead of the gun that replaces the StG.44?
View ArticleLongevity
Do you realize that Darth Vader has lived to the end of more movies than Han Solo now?
View ArticleThe Box She Is Empty
Ever have a massive surplus of a part, using them freely?Then one day discover that you'd used or given the last one away?Yeah.I need a QD swivel.Maybe two.
View ArticleHappy Winter Solstice!
Well, I'm late.The solstice was at 0544 local.Today there will be a mere 10 hours 21 minutes of daylight here on the 28th parallel.Local noon is 1229.
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Unseasonable Warm In Florida
Inconceivably cold in the Algerian Sahara.Photo by Karim Bouchetata taken from Facebook.Snow in the Sahara desert for the first time in 37 years.It seems so very odd to have such an event during the...
View ArticleA Sincere Thank You To Bubba
I got to wondering what the 1916 made Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III* hanging on my wall was worth.So I hit GunBroker.$500 is the going price for a bubba'd SMLE III*!Hot damn! A numbers matching...
View ArticleReal Vs Fake
When a vendor is actually sending you a package, but the post office hasn't picked it up yet you get:"Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item." "A shipping label has been prepared for your item at...
View ArticlePharewell Old Phriend
The US is out of the F-4 business.Egypt, Greece, Iran, Japan, South Korea and Turkey are hanging in there!
View ArticleMusical Overlap
Are Katrina and the Waves descended from SKA?Blondie sure was, but they're much earlier.
View ArticleObserved?
Looking at the 2017 USPS holidays.They get Friday, November 10 off as Veterans' Day (Observed).But then they have to work as normal on the 11th? The actual day?What kind of happy horseshit is that?...
View ArticleThanks Obama!
Sonja is a friend of the McThag family.She's a recent victim of a near burst aneurysm.Most of her story is at her Go-Fund-Me page.She's also the victim of the Affordable Care Act.She went from having...
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Splash Of Color
Swapped the lowers between Alice and Olga, just so FuzzyGeff could see how Olga looks with some foliage green on her. Pretty fetching, no?I've an abundance of foliage green parts here for color...
View ArticleI Remember
Can you name the only major tactical aircraft platforms to come in on time and under budget?Quick!Hint, both are major revisions to an existing design.Dunno?A-7 Corsair II and F/A-18E/F.That is the...
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Small Details
While I'm chiding Man In The High Castle on obsolete weapons...I have to give them credit for this one:Note the date.
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Magazines
L -> R USGI 30-rounder (1005-00-921-5004) with orange Magpul follower; Magpul PMAG 30 Gen M2 (1005-01-576-5159); Magpul PMAG 30 Gen M3 (1005-01-615-5169).It amuses me they all have NSN's but at...
View ArticleBut The Science Was Settled
Apparently when they told the politicians and the media, they forgot to mind-wipe the scientists.Little Ice Age 19 Begins.I've been saying, for a long time, that it's the sun driving temperatures and...
View ArticleDear "Reader" johnson You're Welcome For My Interesting And Informative Blog
I have some relevant information for YOU!Repeating the same spam to the same two-year-old post on .25's isn't going to get your spam about children's tactical vest posted.It just gets marked as spam...
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