Weight And Six Point Eight
Dottie tares in at 7.4 lb. without a magazine.Truth be told half a pound of that is the mount for the Trilux.So taking off that mount and going with just the irons and 25 rounds she's just 8.2 lb....
View ArticleI Am Not Alone
Larry agrees that being accused of being brainwashed is an insult.Seems I was just the first to notice.
View ArticleSiege Dwarfare
Siege has an excellent little bit on the overabundance of "official" stats for Dwarves in GURPS 4e and stats for his own setting.After he mentioned it, I found two more official templates.That brings...
View ArticleMinMax Monday
You so often see a character with a bow in post-apocalypse games.At first blush it seems like a good alternative to a gun because you can recover the arrows.In practice, if you miss, that arrow is...
View ArticleExplaining The Slight
I asked around a lot about Oleg's brainwashing thing.The replies were interesting.One group of replies bears mention.The insult was NOT equivocating slavery with conscription; so carefully explaining...
View ArticleMister Glock And I
I've owned several Glocks over the years.I still own a Glock 21. I've owned it since 1992, longer than I've owned any other gun.My first was a G17, bought in 1989 when the Army had a SNAFU. They took...
View ArticleFunniest Thing I've Read Today
"Guns with grip safeties invariably have poor triggers." in reference to the new Remington R-51 using one.Really?Here I was thinking that the 1911 had a grip safety. I was also under the impression...
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Zen
It was 33˚ F outside in sunny Florida today. Nothing compared to the midwest, but it does make for some interesting cloud formations!
View ArticleDottie Weight Clarification
Weight and Six Eight might have been a tad confusing...Bare rifle: 6.9 lb.5 round magazine (loaded): 0.5 lb.15 round magazine (loaded): 0.8 lb.25 round magazine (loaded): 1.3 lb.30 round magazine...
View ArticleMagazine Mystery
My Hi Power came with a brand-new Mec Gar 13 rounder. A friend gave me an old parkerized 13 rounder he had laying around.The old magazine would often not accept more than 12 rounds and would not feed...
View ArticleUPS
I can now operate my desktop for half an hour without power!It takes two 1,500 VA battery back-ups to do it.Mac Pro is a power hog as are the two Dell 2408WFP 24" monitors.UPS A with the monitors,...
View ArticleHas It Been That Long
Fifty years ago today, LBJ signed us up for the War on Poverty.Fifty. 50. Five Zero. L.I seem to recall certain folks comparing the war on Tarrah Terror to WW2.We entered World War 2 on Dec 8, 1941...
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Pocket Carry And GURPS
I'm going to limit this to guns I own, have owned or might own...A .25 ACP such as a Colt Vest Pocket does a whopping 1d pi-. That translates to 1-3 points of damage on the torso, with an average of...
View ArticleSimplify
Reading at Tam's (you DO know how to get there without a link, right?)She links to a fisking of the Metcalf interview.I've a new to me way to rephrase the 2nd Amendment.The people have a right to arms,...
View ArticleMisdiagnosis
Turns out I am not depressed.I am just bored.The life of a housewife is not very time consuming; there are vast tracts of time where everything is as clean as it's going to get and the next task will...
View ArticleThings That Almost Happened
When GURPS 4th edition first came out, there was some debate about if I'd change over from 3e.At the time I was considering Old West for a campaign, in fact you can find my pre-High Tech 4e conversion...
View ArticlePlacekeeper
Just to remind me why I stopped buying, or refuse to buy products from certain makers.HS Precision. Have they even said they were sorry about hiring Lon yet?Troy Industries. Hired Lon's partner!Buh...
View ArticleLone Survivor
Despite The Lovely Harvey's co-worker's assessment that it wasn't a very good movie...Despite her assessment that "all these movies are the same"...I went and saw it.I'd read the book.I know how it...
View ArticleJust Noticed Something
I was reading about how a talk show's copy of a screener DVD had been leaked to the torrents.Every once and a while such films have a caption, "This viewing copy is provided for awards consideration...
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