HEADDESK
From reading Book of Faces...There are people who think that the ammo makers are the chief beneficiaries of a ban on M855.Really?So having a huge mound of bullets they cannot sell is a benefit to...
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Flax Juice
Still wet from the second coat for the Star. I decided that the Ruger needed some TLC too.Coat three for the Star and coat two for the Ruger. The Star stocks are getting noticeably darker.
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Ammo Ban
While we're writing comments in a vain hope to head off the ATF...Have our comments ever changed what they've planned on doing even once?All of this goes away if we could get a different, smaller,...
View ArticleAlternative States
Since we're probably going to have a panic run on 5.56x45mm ammo here, what's the state of the alternate AR calibers?6.8x43mm SPC: 15 loadings listed from 6 makers. 7 available from 4.6.5 Grendel: 5...
View ArticleDescendant
Do you think your Colt Mustang or SIG P238 are tiny M1911s?While playing around I noticed that the have a lot more in common with Star than they do with Colt.Pivoting trigger, no grip safety, manual...
View ArticleOriginality
Colt's Patent Firearms...Have they had a completely original in-house design since Sam Colt passed on?It doesn't seem like it when you see they shopped Browning heavily, hit both Star and Astra up...
View ArticleThat Can't Be Good
Went to have the tires on The Precious balanced since they were messing around with the tire pressure sensors and had the wheels off anyway.The left front went on the dynamic balancing machine...AND...
View ArticleMinding Our P's and Q's
I lost the link, but...I read a nice article about wondering if it was our business to fix things in the middle east anyway.It also indicated that are several parties who want us to rearrange things to...
View ArticleOut Of The Thirty Aught Six Business
I decided that I wanted tires for The Precious more than I wanted a Garand.Turns out that Willard wanted a Garand more than he wanted an unspecified here sum of cash.Rational self interest on the part...
View ArticleM855 Letter
First, M855 and other SS109 variants aren't armor piercing ammunition by bullet construction under 18 U.S.C. §§ 921(a)(17) (B) (i) because the bullet core is not constructed entirely of steel. It is...
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Look What I Just Bought!
Found an ad online, sent them the money and they shipped it right out!Of course, it's not entirely complete...I got two of them, I am thinking of trimming them down a bunch and making a key-fob out of...
View ArticleQuote Of The Day
Just like we can't drill our way to lower energy prices and energy independence, we can't kill our way to victory. I guess next it will be we cannot eat our way to obesity.-- The DiploMad
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UPS Truck Is A DeLorean
The oddities of the international date line and time zones make real time tracking give strange results sometimes.
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ARts And Crafts
Took my shattered remnants of the M16A1 lower receivers and made a key fob.The 9,xxx,xxx serials supposedly indicate they were destined to be military assistance. These rifles probably were never...
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Opportunity Cost
I deeply regret my decision to buy tires for The Precious instead of...
View ArticleMaybe It Was Better
I remember a show called "Civil War Diaries" where famous actors read letters and journal entries from selected Civil War soldiers. They were presented with just enough history lecture to give the...
View ArticleI Think Your Bias Is Showing
I'm watching a show where a lead character was just revealed to be gay.The plot of the series is a little convoluted so I was trying to see if something that was mentioned earlier tied into that...
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Inside A Star
Star B that is...The B is often referred to as a 1911 derivative, but there's not much similarity under the skin except for the way the barrel locks and how to field strip it.They use different styles...
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