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I concur actually. I'm just saying if the Army actually completes the adoption of 6.8x51, and it won't, they will have been better served by something like 6mm Arc. A humble Midwest Industries QD mount which has given me good service so far. Trigger is tge excellent LaRue MBT 2 stage. I did...

And here it is, the Spyderco Manix 2 "CruCarta" Cruwear steel blade with canvas micarta scales and a ball bearing lock- Cruwear can be thought of as super D2, a semi-stainless steel that has high toughness and edge retention but is superior to D2 is all respects. I have never used a knife with...

The weight is only something like 10% more, if we can get a 25 round magazine that is the same size as a 30 round 5.56 I'd say we were in business. Ideally we'd take this cartridge and narrow and lengthen for better packaging but since we are married to the small frame AR form factor it is what...

Do you suppose it will become an established cartridge? It's parent 6.5 Grendel never seemed to have moved beyond a niche cartridge. Then again apparently some as yet unnamed SOCOM unit is doing a field trial with Geisele 6mm ARC uppers as sort of a new SPR program. That Geisele GFR is...

If I were a wealthy man, or had the discipline to stack money aside for a year, I'd get one of the new Geissele precision rifles in 6mm ARC. Here, this guy: https://geissele.com/18-6arc-gfr-maritime-recce-rifleddc.html

My "Blade Remediation" project has given me an itch for a new blade. Working 6 days/ 65 hours a week has given me the freedom to scratch it. I won't fully disclose what I got just yet other than to say a "CruCarta" is inbound soon.

I find G10 and Carbon Fiber to be resistant to wear and tear, particularly the former. Titanium is impervious to anything other than scratches. The aluminum scales of my 940 Osborne have taken a hellacious beating from bouncing around all tossed together with my other knives however. I...

Oh, yeah that is the new Magpul TMag. Apparently they suck. I wish I had seen about that before I bought 4 of em. I guess I'll need to test them to see if they are problematic. They look cool at least.

Or as I prefer these days the General Purpose Rifle- I had to do a little Bubba engineering to get clearance on that one rail cover. I know it looks ugly, I'll clean it up with a file later. This wasn't a completely frivolous exercise in aesthetics either. I like the new Magpul stocks and the...

We ARE being invaded by foreign nationals and its our own leadership that is facilitating it. Any illegal should be shot at the border, all illegals in the country now should be rounded up and shot. All politicians and bureaucrats that enable illegal immigration should be arrested, tried and...

All I personally need from the government is to look the other way while I handle my business.

The reclamation project continues- Today I cleaned and touched up the unloved ZT 566. Seemingly hated for its status as a budget Hinderer XM18 clone it is nevertheless a good knife. Heavy though as that is not titanium but Stainless Steel but its sits fine in a jeans pocket nonetheless. It...

SharpMaker is simple, easy and effective. A common criticism is that it is only really good for touch ups but if you also get the diamond tri-stones for it you can resurrect and re-profile a butter knife edge too.

"No Kings" huh? Today? Yeah, little Gally deployed- This trucker is NOT getting Reginald Denny'd today

You like "hanging out and talking with like minded people"? Oh fuck off, you are as big as misanthrope as I am . If you are like me anytime you are among a crowd running through your mind on a non-stop loop is...

What are gunshows like these days? I gave up on years ago. Seems like whatever you can snag at a gunshow you can get on an auction site at a better prices and sans all the bullshit.

If there is one thing that irritates me about the Trump administration it is the surface level approach it takes. It's well documented now that at these riots pallets of brick and stone mysteriously appear on the streets. We all know that communist organizations are planning and funding these...

Rosemary Steak is on the menu boys! How much do you use? Per steak that is

I have dried rosemary, where would I get it fresh. I live in rural PA, we don't have fancified stores around here

That makes sense. The seasoning on my skillet is now as smooth and hard as glass, NOTHING sticks to it.

Is it harder to seaon stainless steel than cast iron?

Rosemary huh? I just use butter but that sounds good, I will try that next time.

It occurs to me I should have been doing before and after pics. Oh well. Most of em were just dusty, It's the Osborne thats in the worst shape. Anyway earlier this afternoon I rehabed the unique Sliverax- It's a pretty large knife yet its is pretty light at around 3.4oz. It's main claim to...

I've heard criticisms that its only good for touch ups but that Sage's edge was pretty dull and I still only need the medium and finishing stones to get a keen working edge

Spyderco SharpMaker. And an old leather belt for a strop.

I cook a really great steak in a skillet

Next up I will have to address the dismal state my 940 Osborne is in, the aluminum scales have gotten gouged and scratched all to hell and tge action feels like there is glue in the pivot. I'll disassemble and remediate and order new aftermarket scales for it, concurrent to that I'll hit up my...

I have a modest yet nice collection of pocket knives, as some of you may remember my knife buying spree of years ago before inflation had pauperized me, but the bulk of this collection had been left forgotten and unloved in a pocket of my seat back organizer for years now. My current gig of the...

Did you or anyone honestly expect otherwise? Allowing ourselves to be lulled into complacency just because the "right guy" won an election is absurd. Voting for Trump was never about making everything magically better, it was about mitigating the catastrophe that would have been a camela...

I think any such regulation is stupid and contrary to individual liberty, just publish the data and let people decide for themselves. That said there is no non-stick coating that works as well as a properly seasoned iron skillet. My skillet is so well seasoned that even burned cheese slids...

Imagine a Ruger PCC in my .30 TSW cartridge. You'd be obliteratIng woodchucks and rabbits at 100 yards.

I think IPSC robbed the shooting world of a fine cartridge with their arbitrary rule change. Then again had the 356 TSW seen large scale adoption we might have found 50,000 psi is a wee bit too hot for a general use pistol cartridge, who knows? Outside of some Glock conversion kits were there...

No, 356 TSW runs 50,000psi. Necking down to .30 would generate way, way more power, penetration and range than the old 7.65x21 @ 28,000 psi could manage. The closest thing would be the rather bonkers 7.5 FK which generates as much muzzle energy as a hot .41 Magnum load. I think that is probably...

The 9x21 IMI merely duplicates 9x19 as it operates at the same pressure and existed solely for use in jurisdictions that prohibit civilian use of so-called military calibers. 356 TSW is essentially 9mm Super with stronger brass that is thicker particularly in the case web area. It operates at...

Help me think of a better name for it- 7.62x21. Basically a 356 TSW case necked down to .30. When the 7.5 FK cartridge was released I thought it was an interesting round but probably not practical for general use. Probably too punchy for military uses in sidearms or subguns/PDWs. I thought...

Also I miss our forner forum jester who pronounced "USP" as "Uhsp". He was funny. Also apparently up to no good on here hence his banishment.

I'd its a shits and giggles gun, or even a serious gun for any use outside of a CCW role the full size USP in .45 has the "it" factor for me. Especially in NY with a 10 round limit. 10 rounds of .45 Super is serious firepower and a lot of spectacle creating fun on the range. On the other...

Name brand under which Turkish clones of various pistol designs are sold.

I myself have a USP on the list. Girsan........eh, I don't do Turkish stuff. However on the USP- that pistol is a large, heavy and beefy design that is total overkill for 9mm. It's wat to l big and heavy compared to mainline 9mm options for no improvement in performance or capability. I think...

You need to put your purse down first.

I mostly abused the silhouettes at the 300yd line

Something similar happened to me once too. I was set up for perch and other pan fish but hooked a monster Pike. No net, didn't have my long nose pliers or any such thing. And just like here everytime I got it to the bank it flopped around like hell. In my case it spit the hook before I could...

Oh he won't actually go to jail. As if there were any justice in this Nation.

Do they have any idea what happens if Trump gets assassinated? Do they realize that people wouldn't take that lying down? The country would immediately descend into violent chaos.

There is a distinction between ineffectual and dysfunctional.

@kev74 You DO NOT fuck around in central PA. People can and have disappeared and nobody knows nurhin' about it even the cops. In Nevada they have holes in the desert. Round here there's the woods with coyotes and bears on clean up detail

Meanwhile in my area of PA a guy mag dumps an AR into a drunk that wandered onto his front yard. No charges filed.