Second amendment
3 July 2009Firearms asshatery – or fakery; can’t tell
3 July 2009If you watched any of these individually, you might think they are real; in fact, when I saw the first one, I was pretty sure it was.
Ricochet takes off guy’s hat
However, watching this other video, you begin to wonder if they might be very [un]lucky:
Shot in arm with 270 caliber
The third video, though, is just… well, it could be true, it could not be.
Guy loses bet, stands in front of 30-06
Aggro divinity students
2 July 2009sitting at the beach with the girls; they’re in the water wading. I’m listening to the two most aggro divinity students you can imagine; picture Alex Baldwin’s character from GGR giving the ABC speech. I’m impressed by these two SPU students planning the next five years; the surfer slang combined with hardcore tattoo planning is producing some cognitive dissonance, though.
Dude! Isaiah 5:53 in the original language would be tight!
I’m getting the apostle’s creed on my leg right here, but I’m taking one line out. I’m doing it in Aramic.
I want a letterman’s jacket with “brothers of thunder” in Greek
No, you need that on your back.
Ah, the exuberance of youth.
New record?
1 July 2009“lolvtec” had a form 4 approved in eight days.
Eight days! That’s almost less of an infringement of the second amendment than the multi-year waits of the late 90s, or the (current) six month-one year waits. As pointed out in thread, it’s certainly an abberation, but congratulations regardless.
Different metrics
30 June 2009When you buy barrels for most guns, you care primarily about brand (as a proxy for quality), length, and twist. Perhaps some other features are important, like chamber tightness, metal, or finish. Quality of the threads is usually down the list, if on the list at all. Most muzzle breaks are designed to be open enough to not impede the development of sound (I’m only aware of two that aren’t); many precision rifles have no muzzle device at all.
Talk to people about barrels, and the same makers float to the top; however, among people that shoot suppressed rifles, different names populate the list.
LMT wasted some of my money with a fucked up barrel, so I’d trust ADCO too. I would have thought from reading all of Wes Grant’s posts that they were gold plated miracle sticks, but my barrel thread is so far out I’m afraid to shoot cans on it now. On a .275 bore it apears to lean far enough to nearly be parallel with one of the sides.
It comes down to how perfect your threads are, or how much meat you have left to re-thread. If you’re building an AR15 to suppress, the best bet is to buy a non-threaded barrel and have either a well-known company (ADCO) or your suppressor maker (Gem-Tech) thread it. They know how important it is that the threads are aligned with the bore, not the exterior of the barrel.
Another metric that is supremely important for suppressor owners is ammo quality in terms of run-out; you need to inspect each round you send down the pipe. Period. If you don’t, you could end up with an endcap strike on your brand new suppressor:
If you ignore the light strike, you might end up with this:
That’s a pile of $100 bills thrown on a fire; the ATFE no longer allows you to repair a suppressor tax-free if it involves modifications to the “can” portion.
In the old days, you built suppressors in certain ways (with wipes) because they worked and were cheap. Once the ATFE changed what a wipe was and what was allowed (wipes verboten), the market evolved from loose tolerances and wipes to modern wipeless cans with tight tolerances. If you had a strike, you re-serialized a new can and no additional tax was paid. The ATFE changed those rules; now the trend is toward cans that may be disassembled and repaired without welding. Furthermore, they’ve relaxed the rules on wipes a little. The market continues to react to what the ATFE says is legal today; you should pay attention to the type of can you buy and adjust your metrics for quality appropriately. Threads that work for a flash hider will destroy your suppressor, and ammo that’s fine for blasting (XM anything) will do the same.
A Rand-Fawcett connection?
26 June 2009Looks like Rand wanted Fawcett to play Dagny; as well, Rand was a huge fan of Charlie’s Angels. Who knew?
chopper pilots QUIT IT WITH THE FLARES
24 June 2009It does look really cool at night when someone drops flares and I totally understand that it is just to say hello, but those things are not as reliable as you fancy them and the burn out distance can be much greater than they are rated it. It is horrifying when you drop them on us and they burn out ~20 feet from your fuel point or next to you. It is bad enough already that the Iraqis think buzzing us at unsafe heights to show off is terribly amusing. I did 14 months and about 3 weeks before I was going to leave I almost got hit by a flare. Really, we all know your choppers are cool and what not and we can hear you coming, just quit dropping the fucking flares.
A pilot replied:
They are automated countermeasures…
The crews simply turn the system on or off…
They are not intentionally fired at you…
They save lives…
I Fight Dragons torrent
22 June 2009My sister Leah has been banging the drum for one of her clients, I Fight Dragons. I finally got over the hump, signed up, and downloaded the EP. Shortly thereafter, I got an email saying they had ten other tracks that people could download. I grabbed them both, but the presentation, tbh, kind of sucked. They’re in Mac-specific zip files, some of them are missing basic meta-data, blah blah blah. I sent IFD an email asking if I could set up a torrent; they said yes, so with the band’s permission, here it is. If you ever played Nintendo, SNES, or other early consoles – it’s for you. Really, it’s 81 megs; what have you to lose? If the link to Demonoid doesn’t work, here’s another.
Live sysinternals
22 June 2009If you’re on a windows machine and you need to do some diagnosis, you can:
net use * \\live.sysinternals.com\tools
or
copy \\live.sysinternals.com\tools .
Good times. No website to mess around with, no zip files; just sweet love.
Development history of the new 300 Win Mag round
19 June 2009PDF right here. Went with 220 grain SMK instead of 210 VLD due to consistency. At the end, they show some new bullets being developed with a thick copper base; this base functions as a second penetrator. Neat stuff. Also, if you reload 300 win mag, there’s some once-fired brass on the market.
