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Fixed Success
Got the fixed stock from Cavalry Manufacturing today. This is really more like it!I substituted an A1 buttplate for the included A2 because I prefer the rounded corners to the square.Better cheek...
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Martta
A SAKO Kiv/39 made in 1942. She's in far more original shape than Reeta, Bubba didn't attempt to refinish Martta's stock!Edit to add: The wood smells like I remember log cabins and log playground...
View ArticleHmmmmmm Beer
Did you know that SAKO's first factory location was in a defunct brewery?And that they were founded to be the sole supplier of rifles to the Soujeluskunta (SKY or Civil Guard)?The Army and Civil Guard...
View ArticleStepping In It
Indiana is poised to allow people to stop selling cake to people who contrive a religious objection for doing so.As I understand it this was because the state was forcing them to sell cake to people...
View ArticleI Volunteer
To be Bowe Bergdahl's defense attorney!Because he deserves the kind of legal defense that I can provide him.
View ArticleMechanical Aptitude For The Win
Someone stepped on the magazine housing for Martta. She wasn't feeding smoothly.Some wedging and bracing, a couple love taps with the hammer straightened the curve.Then some judicious filing to...
View ArticleWell Thank God He Didn't Use A Gun
He might have killed someone...Wait.A carefully vetted pilot has just (apparently) killed more people with an autopilot setting than... pick a mass shooting, any mass shooting.
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Color Matching
I decided that Sabrina needed to be returned to the XM177E2 I set out to make instead of the GAU-5/A I settled for.But finding an suitable A1 upper has been a slog.I finally found an LM marked upper....
View ArticleWhy Does It Always Surprise You?
I am continually astonished to find people who are confused about someone behaving in accordance with their religion.What's so hard to understand here?Likewise I am constantly baffled, as an atheist,...
View ArticleRetro AR
The M16 series evolved over its production (and still is evolving).One of the things I find interesting is how you can date a weapon within at least a year by numerous small features.It becomes like...
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Is This A Joke
Whose rucksack does this most resemble?With that resemblance in mind...It's hilarious if you spot it. It's not if you don't. And if you don't: explaining it doesn't make it hilarious.
View ArticleHouse Rule On Shotguns
GURPS 4e has rules for figuring out all manner of stuff for shotguns.The point blank rule has been broken by High Tech 4e giving rules for smaller than 00 Buckshot.B409 says:A weapon with a RoF...
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Fixed Extension
I got a 1/2" extension pad for the MOE Carbine Fixed Stock.It goes from being way to short to, "hey, that's not bad!" I'm going to leave it on for a while.It's just 1/2" shorter than an A1 and has good...
View ArticleThat Thing
That long walkthrough of shotgun damage reminded me...This is exactly the sort of thing people talk about when they say that GURPS is too complicated.On the whole I tend to agree that GURPS is...
View ArticleDon't Matter
Do you know who's opinion doesn't matter to me about Indiana's new law?Ashton Kutcher and Miley Cyrus.I don't care if they agree or disagree with me.Celebrity endorsement carries no weight with me.
View ArticleORLY
The top 15 candidates for the Republican nomination might own up to 40 guns?Pikers.For me to be enthusiastic about a candidate's gun-cred he (or she) had better own more guns than I do. It takes 15 of...
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Overly Complete 20 Gauge Stats
It should embiggen some if you click it.That's every loading for 20ga that Midway lists. If the column doesn't have anything in it, it's the same as above...Note [4] indicates that the default 20ga...
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