Wow Gun Stuff
There's some amazing numbers associated with firearms.5.56x45mm M193 ball, fired from an M16A1 has a muzzle velocity of 3,200 feet per second.It's rifling twist is 1 turn every 12 inches. Conveniently...
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One of the dangers of taking a well established setting, such as Traveller, and making fixes is the cascade of repair.Fix that one thing and it changes two others, likely breaking them.So you fix...
View ArticleBitches Please!
MMORPG.Those last three letters are supposed to mean "role playing game".Not any more than your chess pieces are people.Sadly it's a case of if I need to explain, you will not understand. If you...
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Sequester: where the Bureau of Land Management will not issue permits for recreational use because they don't have the money to pay anyone to process the applications yet has plenty of money to pay...
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The internet is a funny place.I posted a picture of Kaylee on Arfcom.Some random guy there asks who made my C7 upper. I tell him and he laments that there aren't any in stock anywhere.I reply that I'd...
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This is Kaylee.
Kaylee is my first AR-15. She started life as an attempt to make a clone of an XM177E2. Unfortunately, I didn't know much about XM177E2's when I started; in fact I thought CAR-15 was the proper...
View ArticleNoticed This
How many companies with their own designs are making a 1911 and/or an AR?Remington, Ruger, S&W and SIG-Sauer make both.It's fascinating because I keep reading about how shitty both those designs...
View ArticleWell Dammit!
The light in the tunnel.That's a train.The fridge died!On the up side, it died BEFORE we bought groceries this week.On the down side, its replacement pretty much devoured the money I was getting from...
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A lot is being written about how an amazing percentage of spree killers were on SSRI medicines.Or were taking them erratically.I would say that they were onto something, except there are thousands and...
View ArticleOn Racism
Are you a person? Or not?If so, are you an American? Or not?If you are not a person, then you ARE property. Like a hamster, cat or dog.If you are an American as well; "The rights of the people..."...
View ArticleSim Madness
Featuring that song from the strip club you can't ask anyone about because you'd have to admit that you were in a strip club. (Seltzer on the busboys. Gatorade!)You know... if you... um......
View ArticleCosplay
I've taken a bit of crap about the Brony thing.I stumbled across these vids.THESE are my people. They are me, I am them.I don't have a costume or the money to go to cons, but I would!I've never seen a...
View ArticleSPROING!
One of the springs that assist the garage door snapped last night.New springs and cables installed, but this is why I never seem to get ahead. It's one little thing after another.The stuff adds up!I...
View ArticleFusion
This is double-talk, but it's grounded in half decent science.Fusion power plants for space vessels...What to use for fuel?The standard GURPS fusion plant comes with a self-contained fuel supply that...
View ArticlePurple Stock Update
Called Cav Manufacturing today.The set either shipped yesterday or it will ship today!We're getting there!
View ArticleEven A Bad Day At The Range Is Still A Pretty Damn Good Day
And I did not have a bad day at the range.Took Kaylee and Sabrina to the range to zero.Sabrina was zeroed for 55gr ammo and that's not a good plan for an 11.5" barrel if you want it to have its best...
View ArticlePity
That the inventor of the subwoofer died peacefully in bed is the surest sign there is neither divinity nor justice.
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Ever notice that when the DNC decides that something is important, all of the Democrats vote party line?Even congress critters who seemed to be on our side even days ago?Figure out why?Because they...
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