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Being in my forties has been a steep learning curve... in my head I still tend to want to think of myself as the twentysomething hotshot who ditched college classes for a week to crash a party full of retired Strategic Air Command colonels and generals (B-52 fiftieth birthday) and found himself...

Try living in a "gunsmith desert"... :( bloody nuisance Commies have to ruin everything. Sorry, not buying an SA-35 until they come out with an "As Issued" model. Those new Inglises are even worse... try to take the trappings of vintage Inglis while giving none of the specific traits of the...

Or swap on a GI mag catch. That's been the "use unmod GI mags" fix since I was in college 25 years ago... Damn, now ya did it, ya went and made me feel OOOOOOOOLD...

The expensive parts were all on the recovery pallet, and they were meant for only the riskiest targets. Whole bunch cheaper to lose a D-21 against the Chinese nuke test site at Lop Nor than a manned SR... Torick's loss hit Kelly hard, he was quoted as saying "continuing this isn't worth losing...

Ah yes, Wild Bill and his merry band of Ivy League psychopaths... MacArthur thought so ill of them that he ordered any found operating in SWPA to be arrested and shipped back to the States.

I hear y'all... even if I can keep the house all the way through the rest of my mother's life (based on normal medical patterns in her family another 7-10 years), I'm going to have to sell it and move out of Washington as part of the estate process and trying to afford to live - right now I'm...

The only survivor of the two M-21 launchers is here in Seattle. Kelly Johnson personally spiked the program after ray Torick died in the loss of 941.

Long term, the plan is that the 7" slide will be for "show pony" roles and specialized matches like Pin Shoot, we'll have a second 5" slide and top-end in a similar but less polished version of this made for "war horse" duty and more intensive activities like USPSA, IDPA etc. Do remember, I'm...

Consider, my ex was 5'2" and maybe 105-110.

Only thing I could think of would be to put a "resistive" coating as you mention on the "other finish" sections like a mask. As far as I know there's never been any kind of chromer in the PNW... Electroless might be better for the humid SeattHell climate... on the other hand, I'm probably going...

"Pro-2A" AG? WOOHOOOHOOOOHAAAHAAAAAAA! That was GOOD, tell me another one! About the only real friend we have in Diktat of Just Us is Harmeet Dhillon, and she'd never make it past the Senate - and those above are probably keeping her on a choke chain lest she go too far in rearming and...

Always lean into it, shoulders forward - the 1911 is a horse cavalryman's fighting pistol and it's designed to be fought from atop a charging warhorse. Tames the recoil real quick - even my very petite ex got the hang of 5" full-power .45ACP quick with that, though it helped that she was an...

REAL big help there... I'm not saying use AS a mirror is a design goal, the point is just to have that level of gleaming reflective polish. Hey, the Better Half insists that this thing has to be as much artistic as craftsmanship...

I been saying it for a long time, anyone who CAN leave this Commie Hellstate SHOULD. The only thing that saves the Left Coast is a full-on Reconstruction at Federal bayonet-point, Party Like It's 1865 style.

Now that we've seeny 7" Longslide approah firing trials, it's time to start planning the "permanent" finish. The "artistic" spec is something bright an mirror-shine enough that I could shave or my gal do her makeup by the reflection in it, but it still needs to be durable - AND it needs to be...

Even in Hallmark movies Winkler comes off as a thug. Sometimes one with a good heart inside, but still a thug.

I'm old enough to remember when History was actually GOOD - stuff like Engineering an Empire, Wild West Tech, Mail Call...

What? History's giving the UFO Iceroad Pawn garbage a rest and actually doing REAL history again?

I actually do my own recycling - stole this idea from a former neighbor who used to cut the caseheads off her shot-out brass, glue Swarovski crystals into the primer pockets and make earrings, tie tacks etc. out of 'em. This pair were made for my old FFL before WA ran her out of the state with...

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