The Abode of McThag

A Marlin Camp Carbine in 9x19mm uses the same magazines as a S&W 59 series pistol. 10 (ick), 15, 17 and 20 round magazines are available...

Is it possible that the reason that Illinois' map is gerrymandered so that every representative can have an office in Chicago and has no...

There's so many creative people I've stopped watching since 2016...  November 2016 come to think of it. Europeans really don't g...

The Firearms Policy Coalition has posted this list to their Facebook account. FPC LEGAL ALERT The ATF has posted summaries of the new regul...

When the Death Star collapsed in Marv's back seat, we had thought we'd gotten it all in the back for Adam. Marv, however, found a st...

Tennessee did a solid for the law-abiding and passed a bill making it legal to defend property with deadly force. While it might only be st...

For some reason I'm better with the Gen 1 Classic than the P80 Classic. Two mags at 7 yards. The factory Glock sights still suck for me ...

Lots of gunwriters extol the virtues of pistol retention and gush about holsters that will help with the task. But I appear to be the only p...

Facebook is far more likely to suggest someone I know in meatspace from long ago under my blog name than it is under my real name. That'...

There was a story that went around the gun sphere a while ago where someone asked a Glock rep at a convention, "Who has to die to get a...

I keep telling this story and then losing where I put it so I can't link to it when I say, "I've told this story before!" ...

Most of my service with tanks, I carried an M1911A1, not a Glock 17. When we got back from the Czech border, we finally got our M9's to ...

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 ...

Blogger keeps breaking the post picture by URL feature and I have now idea what could be the cause. It's not because the URL is broken, ...

How I toted on the Czech-West German border. If I had not disregarded the future collectors, this picture would be impossible for lack...

While entrapment is illegal, arresting people for breaking the law in response to someone else being arrested is not. If we had a properly f...

The Father In Law's tailgate refused to open today. Troubleshooting was complicated by a tonneau cover. We could tell that the passenger...

I keep Shadow and Beeper separated because Beeper is VERY aggressive towards Shadow and Shadow is very meek. Today they showed no signs of w...

The mouth breathing morons were standing in rapt attention watching the National Felon League select their newest players this evening. That...

The Boy has a stuffed animal, Mr Sloth . Mr Sloth is his constant companion and he helps keep The Boy calm. The special needs kids group ...

The P80 Classic did not fill the void. So I've kept hunting for either a real steal on an actual Gen1 or a decent deal on a Gen 1 Classi...

In my locale, there is no worse shipper than FedEx. Especially if it's gun stuff. Even DHL is better around here. Read that again. I...

The road from high-trust to low-trust societies follows a predictable path. One of the first steps is the entities that have been entrusted ...

We've been watching hockey via one of the secondary broadcast channels on the back porch. Which is fine as long as the weather cooperate...

Remember a couple days back when I talked about replacing the Amazon Basics UPS with a unit I'd put a new battery in? Yesterday the cloc...

Today is pot culture day.  Toke 'em if you got 'em. Hitler's brain, in a jar in the Nazi moonbase on the far side of the Moon, i...

Crispy  decided that having a functioning 'G' key was too much today. If there wasn't a 'g' in the password to unlock th...

Study finds that cannabis ineffective in the treatment of PTSD. I think these kind of studies are looking to see if they cure the disease or...

"Boston Herald" - Todd Peterson BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Massachusetts.  A National Guard t...

Got my results, by mail, of my 24 hour heart monitor. "Unremarkable." Excellent news. I remain suspiciously healthy for a man of m...

A standard, everyday, FAL is 10.9 lb. loaded.  No optics, no lasers, no suppressor. With a 100 round basic load it's 17.3 lb. The, stran...

The Aimpoint M4 aka M68 Close Combat Optic is a Collimating Sight (HT p. 156).  It gives a +1 to Guns/TL skill out to 300 yards and cancels...

The USMC has declined to participate in the M7 and XM8 programs.  They stuck to their M27 IAR. I just found out that the 27 comes from the f...

Watch this: If you're skeptical, remember that the plastics industry is the result of finding a use for the crud left over from refining...

Yesterday, doing the test loop that has all the speeds I needed to check for vibration, I had a moment at a stop light. The sun was just in ...

Or is it cut then measure? At any rate, I keep cutting and it's still too short. GRIN Just to be paranoid, I checked the torque of the l...

I am not saying I would be good at it. I don't think I would do a good job at all.  What I am saying I would be better at it than the pe...

Ian has long had the manual and some of the story about the 5.56 version of the TRW LMR on his site. He recently posted about the 5.6x44mm f...

The hub-centric rings arrived today! I learned two things. First, my hubs are definitely 66.9mm. Second, my rims have a 66.9mm center bore. ...

In July, 2024 I replaced the factory lug nuts with fancy chrome ones. A trip to Daytona in August that year convinced me there was somethi...