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Retro Shush
That's a section of an HEL M4 noise suppressor. Mounted to an M16A1 it's way overgassed and needs an additional gas vent hole on the bolt carrier. That makes it an integral suppressor because without...
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I carry a 1911...That makes sense.My car has a clutch pedal, eight cylinders and the back wheels spin too.Yet I also embraced smart-phones, sequential electronic fuel injection and traction control.I...
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A 1976 Formula One car put out about 450-500 horsepower.A 2008 Corvette puts out about 430.Of course, that F1 car only weighs 1,325 lb. The Vette is more than double.
View ArticleRecursive
When you write about not writing, you're writing, not not writing...SQUIRREL!
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The AN-PVS-2 has a funny looking rubber eyepiece.It's a light lock!By pressing your eye to the eyepiece it opens a clamshell sort of deal and lets you see the image. That clamshell doesn't open until...
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E4A Shush
Here's my recreation of the HEL E4A. It's preliminary, of course, since some details will change depending on the processes chosen to make the parts.I've even come up with a not-suppressor version for...
View ArticleMemories Really Are That Short
I got an email from the NRA telling me that gun owners are poised to take back the Senate from Harry Reid.I remember the last time Senator Reid was up for re-election that the NRA backed him over the...
View ArticleDaily Life
Role playing gaming centers around people who aren't everyday folks.GURPS: Accounting and GURPS: Fast Food Worker didn't do well in playtesting...Yet, even in the Traveller universe those same people...
View ArticleI Cannot Believe That Happened
Here I am, putting together an AR lower...I forgot how the trigger spring was supposed to go.I've only put together about twenty of these things now, how did I forget that?It's together!I like CMMG's...
View ArticleSunk
Ms Sink's bid to become Florida's 13th Congressional District's representative has failed.I guess I'll never find out what she meant by bipartisan now.Frankly, I am surprised. Pinellas County is on...
View ArticleThag Not Grok
I immediately concede that newer designs such as Glock and the M&P are better designs. Far simpler, easier to manufacture and made more advanced materials.The 1911 is an old design. It's...
View ArticleMilitary Weapons
While doing research on that E4A Noise Suppressor some synapses reconnected.I noticed that for a large part of American history the populace at large actually did out-gun the Army.Then, as now, the...
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Fate!
I've had a couple three Mosin-Nagant M-1891/30's... I've sold or given all of them away for one reason or another. The given-away have come back more than once as well.I thought that I'd managed to...
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Definite
Took Tatyana all the way apart.Definitely an original pre-war Model 1891/31 from Izhevsk Arsenal.
View ArticleLaborious
I am copy-pasting my LiveJournal entries over to here.The export feature might work, but Blogger's import just sits there for hours apparently doing nothing.There are numerous posts that aren't going...
View ArticleSmaller Army
The Army is shrinking.I am not entirely sure that it's completely bad.We've definitely got our noses in a lot of things that aren't our damn business and should butt out. A smaller Army would...
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Don't Be Like Mike
On top is a Century Arms Vz-2008, a commercial adaptation of the Czechoslovakian Vz.58. On the bottom is a Zastava AK clone.Both are 7.62x39mm. Both have 30 round capacities. Both are piston gas...
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Over A Barrel
One of the places that sells repop 20" pencil barrels has sent out their email saying that tonight is the night they have them in stock!Money at the ready.Fingers poised over the keyboard...Just two...
View ArticleSingle Issue
There's a problem with being a single issue voter.The fuckweasils we elect aren't single issue fuckweasils.They have a panoply of things they want to vote on and implement that have nothing whatsoever...
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