The Abode of McThag

Something kind of dull about making soldiers for gaming is the uniformity. They all, basically, use the same gear so there's not a lot o...

Making GURPS characters is greatly aided with a spreadsheet. It does the math for you and that means it's super simple to do things like...

I've found about five people I've served with on Facebook. We're mostly Gen-X, so spotty about getting on social media. Some of ...

Ed Iskenderian has passed on at the ripe old age of 104. If you know who he was, then I don't have to explain.

Palmetto State Armory used a screw they epoxy'd into the gas tube hole of the front sight base to hold the handguard cap. Because it int...

MSG Jeff Gurwitch (SF soldier type) did a review of his personal experience with several AR mags. and I'm still trying to figure out wha...

A Florida woman is in trouble because her kid showed up at school with her Lorcin L-25. Her five year old kid. The child doesn't seem t...

I still say that the cops are a bit too quick to employ deadly force. Especially if it turns out that Pretti got shot because the officer th...

Tampa has an annual festival honoring a pirate. I realized that I don't even own a cutlass. Then, thinking of pirates, I realized that ...

Something that comes up again and again when talking about whether a given product works or not is whether the reader's experience is di...

I happen to have all five variations of the 30-round USGI magazine! Wondering if the 'India' magazine could be an EPM, I decided to ...

The magazine makers are labeled A-L. Alpha is 8.45 oz.  Bravo is 3.86 oz.  Charlie is 5.41 oz.  Delta is 8.92 oz.  Echo is 4.45 oz.  Foxtrot...

I noticed that all three plastic magazines (Orlite, PMAG and Thermold) I have around here have a constant curve profile inside the magazine....

I noticed that the Orlite magazine is a constant curve design. This was something of a Holy Grail item for the M16 which didn't end up w...

Got good afternoon light to take the official picture of Dissipator Dottie:  One of the local pawn shops had a Primary Arms 5x36 SLx Gen III...

There's some who're not getting this gun ownership is a right thing about carrying and protesting. It's not owning a gun that...

A while back, I bought a used Orlite magazine for the express purpose of recreating the picture from the Twilight: 2000 Small Arms Guide. ...

CVN-72 and her battle group have gone EmCon. Somehow I don't think it's for practice.

A problem with having a modern gun for carry is the original manufacturer is the sole supplier of magazines for them because the place you n...

The recent, brief, power outage has convinced me that consumer level uninterruptible power sources do not need to beep to inform me that the...

This morning, about 0137, the power went out. Right in the middle of an Anime I was watching too! The text from the power company predicted ...

I'm slipping in my old age. Once again I've noticed that there's a dearth of "assault weapons" in the safe that are in...

Overnight Saturday, more than one model is predicting some kind of snow here on the Suncoast. Up to a 1/4 inch! Which will melt almost as fa...

I keep bumping into this. Every industry that is mostly offshored also appears to have been unionized prior to its departure. That sure make...

40 Years Ago some engineers put on their manager hats and seven Astronauts died. I was in the lunch line at school buying my breakfast. They...

I have a spreadsheet that tells me how many of what kind of magazine we own. That doesn't tell us where we left them. Harvey  complained...

Women conceal carry too! Many of them carry off body because women's clothing lacks pockets and often hugs curves that prevent effective...

There's a meme going around about how the federal minimum wage was $1 an hour in 1960 and how that could be paid with four quarters and ...

Dottie now has repop Brownell's triangle handguards to go with her vintage A1 pistol grip and stock. Brand new Orlite magazine for looks...

The courts, again, have ruled that the police don't have to do the job that the public thinks they should be doing. The police in questi...

It has been a very long time since I've gone to a gun show in Tampa. The Lovely Harvey  expressed an interest and a buddy wanted to go t...

 

Today is the 4th anniversary of me plowing  The Precious  into a tree. I am forbidden to operate vehicles on this day. I am especially forbi...

Neither  FuzzyGeff  nor Marv's characters bought a map. That meant they got the map that came with the T2K game to navigate from. I was ...

Someone at SHOT Show has spoken to the folks at SNT Motiv about when the K2 clones would be hitting the US market. End of 2026 at the soones...

The Orlite magazines I bought a bit ago both have the rib ground off. That was commonly done because of interference with some magwells. So,...

It's apt that we call the hundred years of constant fighting with the American Indian "The Indian Wars." It was just the last ...

European colonists just continued the work done by rebounding waves of humanity that had come over from Aisa over the Bering Land Bridge mil...

Darn. The special commemorative Vietnam editions of the 1911, Vietnam Tribute to Valor and Vietnam War Golden Anniversary Tribute, are no lo...