The Abode of McThag

If you're in the market for a bolt carrier, don't get the AR Stoner offering from Midway. It's improperly finished and rough. ...

Terri's condition has not changed!

The Boy is on Medicaid because of his total disability. Yes, we're part of the Free Shit Army (with the exception that we have someone...

Not my video; but it's still so very cool.

If you talk to yourself you've got to think about what you're thinking or you'll be muttering it to yourself as your internal mo...

Wandering the library on the hard drive... I am once again struck by the variety. This harkens back to the "jeebus, high school is ...

I intend to get a Glock 17 sometime in the next year. I used to have a 1st Gen, so that's got some appeal. I can't find one for ...

I have a 5.11 Bail-Out Bag. It was originally going to be my range bag, but I rediscovered the Tumbuk2 bag that Aunt Bat gave me, and it...

The battery compartment on the EOTech 552 might be the worst I've ever encountered. The bridge that connects the two batteries in the ...

Took one of the spare bolts and borrowed a bolt carrier from another gun to zero Tabitha.  This is my 10-shot confirmation group. I thi...

A friend has an idea. They have $100 a month. They want an AR. So we're going to (pending spousal approval which he might not get)...

For years I was an "deposited in the bank on Friday, spent on Saturday" type. Despite my mothers impassioned entreaties, I never...

The progression from M16 (early R604) to M16A1 (late R603) to M16A2 (R645)... How many differences can you spot?

Got the barrel today.  Tabitha now looks like what she'll be.  This is officially a BAG day preview. Next $100 goes for a bolt carr...

With my discovery that I actually like the MIAD in its thinest configuration, there's just no reason at all to buy a $35 pistol grip. ...

In my flight sim... It is December 1956. I am a pilot in the Royal Air Force flying a Hunter F.5. I have four 30mm cannon with 150 rou...

I think we need a change to the 5th that makes it so appointees and employees of the government are barred from further employment with the ...

Numerous hat-tips; but I found it here . Never say never! And I am not really sure if this is supposed to be a list of guns that I'd...

Got the M12 rack! Kaylee's Aimpoint has to be removed to fit it.  Olga might fit without the bipod, but doesn't need to.  Cheye...

Valentine is zeroed.  Reetta and Tatyana were shot too.  All shots were hasty sling at 25 yards. Top Left is initial zeroing of Valenti...

I often label myself an autodidactic polymath; but my first formal higher education was in mechanical drafting, which is engineering lite.  ...

It's spring , sir!

Dimensioning a part is a perishable skill. I am knocking the rust off now. Luckily, the parts for the silencer are actually very simple....

I just had a moment of clarity. If this topic pisses me off so much, why keep writing raging screeds on it? CLUNK as the mental transmis...

Broke 200,000 page views, that is. And it's a ho-hum moment. I get about 200-250 a day so it eventually adds up and I'm flattere...

One of the big problems with term limits is the fuckweasil knows that they will not have to face the voters again. That lets them get up t...

Got some better dimensions of the HEL E4A so I modified my drawing accordingly. I'll be breaking the parts out (they're on differe...

A Fudd rifle... I want a scoped bolt action. Not because I need one or have any use I'd put one to that I'd actually do. I jus...

Every so often I check to see how healthy the alternate calibers market is for the AR based on variety and availability from Midway... 6.8...

Patton called it the finest battle implement ever devised. It's the weapon used to kill the shark at the end of Jaws.  You've prep...

I parroted that Hugo Schmisser might have had a hand in the development of the AK. I was roundly informed that Soviet Records indicated th...

I've bumped against a wall in learning physical skills more than once. I am definitely doing something wrong, I cannot identify exactl...

I'm a brony, I admit it. Sadly, the latest season is really not very good. It's had good episodes, but it's fallen into the ...

The proliferation of all things AR (not to mention Mosin) has caused the gun safe to swell. I've put a bid down on an M12 rifle rack. ...

The line between professional and amateur is whether or not you are paid. It does not always carry any indication of expertise. Of cours...

There's a problem with being a single issue voter. The fuckweasils we elect aren't single issue fuckweasils. They have a panoply...

One of the places that sells repop 20" pencil barrels has sent out their email saying that tonight is the night they have them in stock...

On top is a Century Arms Vz-2008, a commercial adaptation of the Czechoslovakian Vz.58.  On the bottom is a Zastava AK clone. Both are ...

The Army is shrinking. I am not entirely sure that it's completely bad. We've definitely got our noses in a lot of things that a...

I am copy-pasting my LiveJournal entries over to here. The export feature might work, but Blogger's import just sits there for hours a...