Seventy
I'll wait until 27 Nisan for Yom HaShoah, thanks. People like the UN and EU are why it happened in the first place so I'll be damned if I will commemorate the event on the day they've selected.
View ArticlePay It Forward
One of the local pawn shops Willard and I frequent has a 91/30 with a trigger flopping in the wind. With the trigger like that, you couldn't get the bolt out. With the bolt in, you can't really get...
View ArticleWoah!
Did you know that you can use cable ties to tie cables?Zip ties are so useful for so many things that for some reason I've never used one to actually contain a cable. Until today.Mind.Blown.
View ArticleRight Thing
Something just clicked with me about the anti-gun side.Thanks to Weer'd's post of one of their ads.They don't care about what means leads to their end and that end justifies any means they can manage...
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Willards Bearing Gifts
Hex receiver Mosin-Nagant M-1891/30.The stock is missing some laquer, the bore is counterbored, but it's not bad overall. No rust under the stock from when I had it apart to fix the trigger pin.How...
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Low Bar
Dear smart gun manufacturers.You have to at least be as accurate...Six shots, five yards.and as reliable as...... a Jennings J-22. A pistol famed for being unreliable, and this example fired fifty...
View ArticleBTR-152 Drill
Take three head sized targets.Place them about 4 yards away and about two feet apart.With one hand holding the table or lane divider, fire at each target in turn (order doesn't matter, but L to R is...
View ArticleModule Swap Timeline
Say you wanna swap one module for another in one of your cutters in your Broadsword Mercenary Cruiser.If the module and cutter are on the same side...Exit the well. Five minutes.Drop the module on the...
View ArticleTroubled Service Rifle
Much has been recently written about the M14 and it's troubles.The timing of the trouble and the availability of the, recently adopted by the USAF, M16 caused Robert SPIT MacNamara to put his shoulder...
View ArticleOld Movie And Its Remake
Sabrina.Do I go with the original Bogart or the remake's Ford?Both versions have their charms, I can't really say which is actually better.I like Bogart's Linus Larrabee better than Ford's; but I like...
View ArticleI Need To Rethink My Day
It turns out that killing everyone in an ever expanding spiral of destruction is not only immoral, but illegal.Glad I checked.Before someone thinks that raping and pillaging are OK... I checked those...
View ArticleBut I Don't Think That's What You Meant
Found a little gun shop near another I go to about twice a year.The woman working the counter is, um, healthy.And dressed for warmer weather.Such a sales person should not greet customers with, "Can I...
View ArticleWhy?
Why are so many things the way they are?Why do the anti-immunization people get even a moment of consideration?Because they grew up and have lived their whole lives living where those diseases, which...
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Star Bonifacio Echeverria SA Pistola Modelo B
1945 Made Star Model B in 9x19mm P.08.Clearly inspired by the M1911A1, but very different in many ways under the surface. The lockwork is entirely dissimilar and the mainspring housing is fixed to the...
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Found It
My 1957 vintage Ruger Standard had an oddity when I got it.The magazine would forcefully eject when you rotated the heel-catch.It's not supposed to.I found the reason for this to be the sear spring...
View ArticleLeast Evil
But still evil...I think the best (attainable) composition for our triumvirate gubmint is for there to be a strong Republican majority in both houses of Congress and a Democrat president.A Dem Prez...
View ArticleNot Near So Bad As Feared
The dead Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) sensor on The Precious is a mere $20 for a local speed shop to do an RnR with my $40 part.Considering the local non-specialty shops want at least $60 for...
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Adventure!
The replacement stocks for the Star B are, as I mentioned, dry as a bone.I went to Home Depot and bought a quart of boiled linseed oil.Before applying any oil.A light base coat applied and doing the...
View ArticleTime To Write To ATF Again
Three methods of contact are listed here.I used email.Put a hurry on it since they've only given until the 15th of March for comments. Remember when they had to give 90 days?State your opposition to...
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