A Caution Against Simple

I'd like to remind my fellow travelers to not get too excited about the idea of a tax form that you can fit on an index card.

1. How much did you make? ___ 

2. Send that amount in.

Fits on an index card, is simple and readily comprehended and completely tyrannical.

Small World

The Lovely Harvey said to me last night, "Honey, now you can say you know someone who sat across a table from a serial killer."  As part of her work duties, sat in the conference room while the Seminole Heights shooting suspect was being given his "last chance" counseling before termination.  Considering he was found working at a McDonald's you can tell that he didn't take that counsel to heart.

In light of this discovery, I gather that management is reconsidering their gun-free zone policies for their corporate offices.

They terminate four or five people a day from the call center attached to her place of work, the thought that any one of the could be just like Mr Suspect and come back with a gun, or follow them home, has them a bit off kilter.

Farewell Corporal Nabors

Jim Nabors has shuffled off the mortal coil.

He was an honorary US Marine Corporal for his famous portrayal of PFC Gomer Pyle.

I kind of enjoyed his singing for the Indy 500.

My mom owned several of his albums.

Cautiously Optimistic

National CCW Reciprocity might just get a House floor vote.

Whereupon it will die somewhere in the vicinity of The Senate...

But I can always hope that McCain strokes out and the other turncoat RINO's recognize that we're not playing anymore.

But I'm pessimistic more than optimistic.

Tells

Social Entrepreneurship is where your main product is a social justice message wrapped in your secondary product which is the purported actual product.

Intersectionality is bigot for, "my bigotry is sanctioned and you must feel feel guilt because someone of YOUR race/class/gender/sexual orientation is or was as bigoted as I am; but isn't sanctioned to be so."

Every time you hear someone use that word, you are talking to a bigot whose bigotry is backed by the full power of Social Justice.

Bigots come in all shapes and sizes, colors and creeds.

But Is The Beer Any Good?

Black Star Line Brewing Reports Death Threats And Hate Speech

One should not be subjected to death threats and hate speech.

The primary mission of this brewery doesn't appear to be to make beer, but to promote their social message.

“We chose to name the brewery Black Star Line due to our social mission and wanting to connect to the historical narrative of liberation and mobility,”

It's sounding a lot more like they have a social message they wanted to promote, found a place that didn't have many gay or black people in it (brewing) then began promoting the message, and by the way they make beer.

The tone is, sadly, typically SJW and off putting.

Is the beer any good?

What kinds of beer do they brew?

Notice that isn't mentioned?  Not even once!

Another quote:

"Ultimately, what happened with the messages is part of a bigger problem. In local communities, we would invite people to have conversations about intersectionality, social entrepreneurship, healing and liberation. One tangible action folks can take is asking others “How goes it with your soul?” and truly stopping to listen, witness, and hold space for their response."

IS THE FUCKING BEER ANY FUCKING GOOD?!?

It's apparently not their main product.

I wonder if they would have been left alone to brew if they'd not been manufacturing their primary product.

UPDATE:

They're racists.  They're sexists.  They're hetrerophobes.

But since they're not white, not male and not straight; they can't be bigoted.

They're seeing their hate being reflected back and wrapping themselves in the victim mantle.

With so many reports of "racism" and "hate" turning out to be perpetrated by members of the hated group, I would not be shocked to discover that they've threatened themselves with death threats and hate speech just to capture the camera.

Social Justice Warriors don't seem to realize they've their own tells that give them away.

Thank God For Waiting Periods!

Otherwise someone might have gotten killed...

Oh wait...

"Police said [alleged murderer] bought the handgun used in the murders on Oct. 3. He picked it up on Oct. 7 after the required waiting period."
"The first killing happened on Oct. 9."

While he's not convicted, this shows the value of waiting periods to a tee.

It should also be noted he was packing without a permit too.  That's what got the cops to him in the first place.  How do we know he didn't have a permit?  People with permits in Florida get to skip the waiting period!

5,000

This is amazing!  It's still going!

BelOMO is getting to AIMPoint levels of battery life with modern, Western, batteries.

I think that the 400 hour battery life was based on Belorussian alkaline batteries and not Energizer Ultimate Lithium.

We're at 12.5 times the expected life of the battery.

Do not hesitate to purchase a PK-01VS for your AK if you have a side rail to mount it.

It's mounted low enough you don't need cheek risers and it co-witnesses with your irons.

Good kit!

Plus, the battery ain't dead yet!  The test continues!

Update:

It's been on since: 1:50 pm (eastern), May 4, 2017.

5,000 hours is... 6 months, 24 days, 8 hours.

Pedersen Device Surgery

Gunderdome!

C&Rsenal and Forgotten Weapons both did some research, came to different conclusions.

It started with C&Rsenal.



Then it went to Forgotten Weapons.



And Now...



Two video channels enter... one channel leaves!  Two channels show they're class acts, communicate and stay friends?

Where's the raging hate we're accustomed to on the internet?

They're Beautiful

h/t Gun Free Zone

I wonder how many are in that can.  I can see it's at least 10 deep.

Is M1911A1 Cal .45 Pistol, 1005-00-726-5655, Serial # 1164935 among them?

I Got Big Brass...

...cartridge cases.

.300 Savage cases, to be precise!

Thanks to Bob!

Now to get them to our reloader buddy!

Harvey At The Range

The Lovely Harvey took a mental health day today and we used it to hit the range!

Pistol time didn't go so well.

She was on paper at 7 yards, but she was all over it.  I gave pointers and she's getting better, but she naturally grabs the pistol wrongly.

So we changed over to her AR at 25 yards, offhand.

MUCH better, much more relaxed and comfortable.

She commented that the Magpul grip on the AR felt fuller and more comfortable.

So I checked which grip panel was on her M&P 9... SMALL.

When we got home, we swapped in the MEDIUM and now the pistol falls into her hand naturally!  WIN!!!

Of course, we need to get back to the range to confirm, but some dry firing showed her doing much better than with the SMALL panel installed.

The AR shows that she's got the fundamentals down, she just needs to learn her pistol.

If I were to put this in GURPS terms, she's shooting pistol off her Guns/TL8 (Rifle) default.

Two Decades On

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Twilight War's nuclear exchange.

I think I shall go down to Dunedin and have a beer in honor of The Dunedin Militia.

Ho Made Black Powder

Marv has made black powder.

This is 75 parts salt-peter, 15 parts powdered and sifted charcoal (that we made ourselves) and 10 parts unsifted bulk sulfur (from China!).

He's also made a bit of gun cotton.  I think he should try making some cordite.

It Is A Skill After All

"I've never actually tortured anyone.  I don't know how."

"You don't know how?"

"They have specialists."

"Cut off his thumbs!"

Crazy Cat Lady

If you're a crazy cat lady, don't mail explosives to former presidents.

All that fur, that's in everything, you ignore...

Yeah, that's what law enforcement calls "evidence".

Golf clap?

Golf clap!

Not Exactly New News

Male and female human brains are wired differently.

I remember there was research reaching these conclusions back in the 1990's too.

How many more studies have to be done for it to be treated seriously?

This is interesting in that it's bucking the politically correct narrative about how men and women are identical and interchangeable.

It's also not all that shocking, poets have been writing about this difference for centuries in as many languages as you wish to name.

Who Run Zimbabwe?

Mnangagwa
doo doooooo doodoo
Mnangagwa
doo doodoo do
Mnangagwa
doo doooooo doodoo

doo doodoo doodoo

doo doo doodoo doo

Fail

Checkering is presently utterly beyond me.

There's something I am definitely missing about getting the lines to stay parallel with the 20 lpi cutter.

Dunno what it is, and I don't know what I don't know.

The cutting tool is binding a lot more than it should and I don't know why, when it binds, it jumps out of track and messes up the line.

Going to keep pestering at it and the Fugly Bear stock will be covered in aborted attempts.

Donald Hitler

If I didn't rage on you for 8 years for voting for Obama.

You've no fucking cause to rage on me for voting for Trump.

I've never made it a secret I want less Government in my life because less government means more freedom. Obama grew the government, I didn't need to rage about it, I just needed to watch it happen. I confined my comments to "told you so".

I've been quite the gentleman about it too. I got to endure the 8 years of frothing rage over ChimpyBushMcHitler. Where you kept telling me Bush was literally Hitler.

You know I'm a history buff, right? You wouldn't know Hitler if he handed you an engraved ticket to Auschwitz (cattle class).

At a MINIMUM, if you're literally Hitler you have to conquer France.

Could It Be Because We Hardly Ever See Him Golfing?

"President Trump will add twice as many lifetime members to the federal judiciary in the next 12 months (650) as Barack Obama named in eight years (325)."

WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving

They never leave this vid live for long, enjoy it while it lasts!

Dougal MacConner

This guy, now has a mini-fig!

Just For The Record

Og took Thag spear.

Him not carve.  Him thief!

Thag carve.  Thag got tool.

How's That Line Go?

The King is dead, long live The King!?

Mugabe is ousted, long live the...

I gotta work on this.

But will his replacement be any better for Zimbabwe?

History says no, but there's examples that didn't go historical.  They're few and far between, but they do exist.

And There's Nothing You Can Do About It

I bruised the gin, I used garbage ice.

But it's still a tasty gimlet!

It Has A Purpose

To kill one Nazi, and set three on fire.

Targets 6, 3 and 4 were a Mosin Mad Minute.

We hate to admit it, but the M-38's sights were much easier to acquire and use than the Ljungman's.

Navalized M1 Carbine

Willard scored an M1 Carbine that someone had subjected to electroless nickel plating.



The plating didn't hurt its accuracy, I don't think.  Circle 3, 25 at 25!

Ljungmann

These are itty-bitty sights.

Firing is pleasant though.  This heavy a gun just won't have recoil from a wee little 6.5 round.

You can see Willard trying desperately to find the sights before he starts shooting.



Sadly, though I cried real tears, held my breath and stamped my feet, Willard did not just give it to me.  Something about paying real money for it that I don't understand.

Eighteen Month Notice

Haitian refugees from the 2010 earthquake just got their 180 day 18 month notice to unass back to Haiti.

People are losing their minds about how inhospitable we Americans are by telling them to go home.

Just a show of hands, how many years can I sleep on your couch before you expect me to get a job?

How long before you expect me to either move out or start paying my share of the rent?

Is it a lot shorter than seven years?

Let's face it, if Haiti wanted the problem these refugees are avoiding fixed, it would be fixed by now and fixed years ago.  Haiti doesn't want it fixed, and their people are not my problem.  Haitians are a Haitian problem and they can have them.

I am sick of the open borders concept that we have to take everyone who's been screwed over by living someplace shitty.

Tell you what, Haiti.  I have a plan.

You won't like it.

You'll call it racist.

We invade and declare Haiti a US territory then open it up to colonization by Americans.  Put in a territorial governor who's a puppet of the colonists and doesn't give shit one about the native population.

Be brutal to the native population while the Americanization of the place takes hold.  Make reservations for the natives to live on.  After a while, the place will be a prosperous state and part of the America that Haitians so desperately wish to live in.  Except they won't be allowed out of the reservations until they're fully assimilated as Americans.

I know this methodology works.  It was used for pretty much every state west of the Mississippi and east of The Rockies.

And since the world will call me an evil racist for doing anything, it might as well be something that has long term benefits for me.

Shootin'

One of the things I enjoy about hitting the range is sharing.

A fellow regular shared his .500 S&W today.  While not my cup of tea, it's fun to pop a couple of rounds with a muzzle brake that causes an orange curtain of flame.

I almost even hit the target too!  The sights were regulated low for how I was shooting it.

The owner, however, is completely comfortable with it!





Compared to Willard's 629PD (.44 Magnum) this gun isn't that bad!  It's not-bad enough that I think I could learn where to hold it to hit was I was aiming at.

I shared Laverne, my Savage 99EG in .300 Savage.

It shoots!

$2 a round, it'd bloody better shoot... mutter mutter...  Even with the hated buckhorn sights, I did OK.

I zeroed the new peep sight on Connie, the Marlin 30AS.  Forgot to take a picture of the target.  I'm far happier with her now that I can actually use the sights.  So far only my Remington 341 and Savage 99 have buckhorns that put the round where I think it should go.

The Colt Challenger, not-Woodsman, is also a fine shooting thing.

All three of these guns are pawn-shop finds.  Well under $500 invested.  I guess you have to see diamonds in the rough.  Because we like shooting, it's not such an issue to have a gun that's pristine, some honest wear and tear is OK, even a bit of neglect is tolerable if it still shoots.

You Clearly Did Not Read It

Democrat candidate for The US Sentate, Doug Jones says, "he's a second amendment guy," BUT, "he loves to hunt but still believes in “smart” gun laws." Because other amendments have limitations on them or something.

Now that we have digital transcripts of The Constitution, we can search for words.

Hunt does not appear even once. Not a single instance of hunt, hunter or hunting.

He's also ignorant that the primary purpose of The Bill of Rights was to LIMIT the power of the Federal Government, as was the Constitution they amended, and not meant as an impediment to the rights of the citizens.

He's right that every right bears the limitations of responsibilities.

Where he's wrong is that putting prior restraint on rights is an effective means of assigning those responsibilities.

HELLter Skelter

Hope it's toasty for you, Chuck.

Jane You Ignorant Slut

If you truly wanna boycott the NFL and you wanna boycott ESPN, the notion that some guy sitting out there, or gal, and they decide, 'you know what, I'm gonna cut my entire cable package because ESPN gave an award on a made-up show in July because there's no sports, to a woman who used to be a man, so I'm now not gonna have any cable TV at all and I'm gonna sit around at night and read books by candlelight like olden times because of that,' that's not happening. And if you did that, then you're so dumb that I can't even pray for you because you're beyond hope. If that was your reaction to this, was to deny yourself the ability to watch television, I mean that just hasn't happened and didn't happen, so I boycott them. Scott Van Pelt

Go ahead and boycott me, asshole.

See how far that gets you.

You don't pay my bills.

You don't buy my clothes.

You don't purchase my food.

You don't keep a roof over my head.

Guess what I do, or do not, by having a subscription to a cable service?

I pay your bills, buy your clothes, purchase your food, and keep a roof over your head.

In short, you need me and I don't need you.

Boycott away!

Burn Baby Burn

Marv and I made charcoal!









His ultimate goal is home-made black powder.  I admire his ambition.

Sasha Upgrade

Sasha has a new horse!

Lego reworked their anti-Lego horses to be articulated so they can rear.  That included a redesign of the head and ears.

The pack horse is the older version of the horse, but the big news here is I figured out how to mount all of the guns the character is supposed to have on the pack-saddle!  The string is even a genuine Lego part!

1x Mosin-Nagant 91/30 PE.
2x Mosin-Nagant 91/30.
2x Mauser K.98k
1x Rheinmetall MG.42.

Morality Clause

Once I've got this checkering thing down...

I will be sorely tempted to restock my Winchester 54.

While it's the original stock, it's got that gaping hole in it.

Nobody makes an original profile stock, and starting with a 96% inletted, unfinished stock is much cheaper than running down an original in even fair condition.

That might even include the value of the labor.

I rage on Bubba here, so I worry about becoming him by restocking this gun.

In The Intelligence Community We Call This An Indicator

Godspeed Mr Young

I knew it would be coming.

The musicians who played the music when I was young would start dying.

Bracing doesn't mean you're ready.