ARRRRRRRGH
There is nothing so frustrating as trying out an unfamiliar design system in a game and having your numbers not match the samples.GURPS: Traveller Interstellar Wars I am looking at you!I can't get my...
View ArticleInterstellar Wars Ammunition Notes
The turret missile rack carries 12 missiles and can fire on per (20 minute) turn.The light missile array carries 600 missiles and can fire 24 per turn.The heavy missile array carries 1,200 missiles and...
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Weekend Project
I'm getting a chance to do something I've always wanted to try. Electrolysis rust removal.Got a S&W .38 cheap from a pawn shop:
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Get Your Containers Ready!
Daylight savings begins in the wee hours tomorrow morning.March 8th will be 23 hours long, so stash your hour where it will be safe and you can have it back in November.Gods I wish this idiocy would end.
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Electrolysis
Dunked the S&W.Went to Waffle House, because it's traditional after doing gun stuff. Then drank some beer in the back yard around our fire pit.See how fast Shi Shu can go fetch?The water......
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History of Dottie
Dottie has seen almost as many changes as Kaylee. Dottie's name derives from a line in the movie, "Armageddon". The amateur astronomer who discovers the planet killing asteroid wants to be able to name...
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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...
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Restored To NRA New
NRA New if you read Shotgun News enough in the early '90's anyways.
View ArticlePerspective
It's become quite fashionable to bash things that are now obsolete as crap as if they'd always clearly been crap all along.So crappy that they were obviously obsolete years before they were supplanted...
View ArticleAnimal Abuse
Because we have neighbors who won't take their disease ridden pets to the veterinarian for preventative care (or at all), we end up having to make extra trips to the vet for our dog.Every damn spring...
View ArticleLTV Had A Sense Of Humor
From the F-8D / F-8E NATOPS manual... "Spin recovery may take as long as 12 seconds, a period that may seem longer to the pilot."
View ArticleYou're Welcome!
The potential ban on M855 was abandoned.I attribute it entirely to my ownership of a usable quantity.If I didn't own any, it would have been banned and become extremely valuable.
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Pet Care
Shishu is back from the vet! Looks like a seasonal allergy brought on by mite blooms, gods be damned neighbors who don't take care of their pets forcing us to take over-care of ours!He's had a...
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It Shoots
The S&W Electrolysis Rust-Eject shoots!Here's 7 yards.Six shots! I was doing so good then shifted my grip slightly and got that last round as a flier for my trouble.Just for fun; 25 yards.Everyone...
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Token Picture
The Electrolysmith without the grip spacer. Just for picture purposes because it handles so much better with the spacer on than without.It has me wondering about the history of such things... Dunno...
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There Is No Standard
Reading about New Jovian Thunderbolt's adventures in 1911 gunsmithing really brings something to the fore.There is no such thing as AN 1911.Every single manufacturer has their own thing going...
View ArticleDoing It The Hard Way
I am willing to bet that the accepted gunsmith way of cutting the notch into the ejector isn't the way it was done when making military guns.The gunsmith way is a bunch of careful measuring and...
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