The Abode of McThag

By-The-Basic-Book and High Tech, a 2-3/4" 12ga 00 Buck round flings 9 round lead balls doing 1d+1 pi each out to 40/800. Looking up a t...

Did some math. Being a long term hot-rodder it bothers me that the rear gear ratio in  The Beast  starts with a 2. 2.92:1 to be exact. I thi...

I have made a serious dent in the cannon list. All the Kwk guns from 3.7cm to 8.8cm for Mr Mustache Man. The 17 pdr, 20 pdr and L11 guns for...

The massive tax cut represented by increasing the homestead exemption will NOT make renting a house more expensive. Cutting taxes on home ow...

Playing with GURPS: Gun Stats has brought one stat to the forefront. Rcl, or recoil. At first glance, this is how hard a gun kicks and you...

I was watching Ron White and he talked about a record sized grizzly bear that a park ranger shot to death with a .357 revolver. I know it wa...

I had to remember how to do "if the number is between two values, then..." with a spreadsheet. Once I remembered, it turns out tha...

The longer I use Gun Stats, the more I'm getting comfortable with the results. It's caused some changes to my "pull it from my ...

I was struggling to find information on 8x50mmR Lebel as it changed over the years. I glanced to my right a moment ago and realized that I h...

Gun Stats gives formula to calculate the ST and Rcl. Rcl = 1 + [(V*PW*Ar*Hl*Mb)/(Ewt+Sgr)] V is muzzle velocity in fps PW is bullet weight i...

Revenues doubled in the past five years, but a 15% cut will eliminate everything they, successfully, funded with half the money previously? ...

Plugging the, surprisingly hard to find, dimensions for  Cartridge, .30 calibre, ball, M1906  and  Cartridge, .30 caliber, ball, M1  into th...

Wind and solar are what you put up with for energy production when you don't have gas, oil and nuclear power. It's not an alternativ...

Even though I'm not an accredited expert in the eyes of Steve Jackson Games, I was once dismissed as a hobbyist, I do know a thing or tw...

I got GURPS: Gun Stats in January, I didn't do much with it except notice that the formulas don't recreate the, already, published s...

Using this inflation calculator to check the picture found here .   The calculator says there was 483.1% inflation, that means a 1975 dolla...

I object to the Universal Metric Cartridge Naming System because there are too many duplicates, not because it uses metric. Using inches wou...

A Glock 17 Gen 1 Classic loaded with 17 rounds of S&B 115gr FMJ weighs 1 lb. 15.9 oz. A Glock 17 Gen 1 Classic loaded with 17 rounds of ...

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 ...

I was not getting the, normal, published, numbers for .30-06's range when plugging in the real-world numbers for bullet length. M2 ball ...