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     Aesquire |
All Cretans are liars? Leftist Lie. It's in their Book. The argument that X killed more is a fallacy. If you count every human that has perished since Adam Smith wrote his book? How do you assign cause of death? It's simple for Che, Castro, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. They were in charge and murdered. Ordered the murders. It's even easy with the mass starvation in China when Mao ordered the Rice production of entire provinces sent to the Soviets in exchange for tanks to build his forces, and show the Russians his brand of Communism was Superior. "See, we grow so much food I can send it to you!" There's no doubt it was deliberate mass murder as Mao ordered the Army to kill anyone trying to escape the famine zones. As far as the Chinese Communist Party was concerned, it was a win-win. They got tanks, fewer mouths to feed, hammered home their ruthlessness with potential rebels, etc. See also Covid-19, same lack of downside. All you need is utter contempt for human life, and a Will To Power. https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM I'm not downplaying the Native American massacres, death marches, and treaty violations. All Bad, and mostly before my time. Ditto Colonial Exploitation, etc. There is, however, ZERO DOUBT that more people have been murdered by the marxist Cults than lived on the planet a century ago. You can argue that cases like the millions dead from Malaria because DDT was banned, while pushed by Cult factions, isn't entirely the fault of Socialism/Greenie/Fascism. Ditto Colonial Exploitation. Belgium has a horrific record. How you define that between "capitalism" and "Royal Ego" is a discussion all it's own. And it's possible in an alternate universe, that lands exploited and enlightened by the European Colonial Powers might have become "civilized" by more peaceful and Liberal Enlightenment paths. Feel free to write the novels. | ||
| Aesquire |
And back to guns... possibly the most ridiculous, although quite useful, ships ever made were troop support bombardment Monitors. Designed to use battleship turrets & guns in a shallow draft ship so you could get closer to shore, they developed huge torpedo bulges to protect against torpedo boat attack. Possibly the silliest... ( and with a Very ironic name ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Marshal_Ney  | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Rick_a |
There's a lot of people calling guns like the 1911 and Browning HiPower antiquated and obsolete. I think that's a bit silly. The AR-15 that all the weirdos think is too advanced for common folk is a 1950's design. The "Block" that many love and tout as ultra modern is a 1983 design with a barrel design going back to the 1970's. The Beretta that has by now been fazed out is a 1970's design that has roots in the 1930's. The 1911 is one of the oldest designs in common use, but we're still using the M2 .50 caliber machine gun and many of his lever gun and shotgun designs are still in use today. Everything people think is ultra modern is based on ideas that have been around for some time. The BHP has been discontinued but at least one clone is still being made and there's still some in service today. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Oh. no, supporting the Constitution! https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2021/07/28 /nation-depressing-see-black-white-americans-unite -against-gun-control/ | ||
| Rick_a |
My fancy synthetic stock I've been using on the Mossberg just wasn't working out. I found a very inexpensive used wood 500 youth stock on Numrich. It ended up being far nicer than expected, though through age the butt pad is hard as a rock. In order to improve balance and to reduce recoil with buck and slugs, I put the cut off portion of my Colt HBar barrel in there along with a rubber dampener and a polyurethane dampened steel turn signal spacer to hold it in place securely. All the random hardware items I refuse to throw away always find a use. I liek it, and don't have to use any goofy drop spacers for a proper cheek weld and sight picture.  20210731_095738 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr  20210731_175222 by Slick_Rick77, on Flickr | ||
| Aesquire |
Nice, I assume the hole in the target is from the wad?  All it needs really is a fresh paint job. Hello Kitty is so overused, how about Gunsmith cats? ( look it up ) | ||
| Rick_a |
Gunsmith Cats, huh? I have watched Gunslinger Girl. Unexpectedly melancholy and a bit tragic, but pretty good. Someone is currently doing my 1911 frame in OD green. That's as far as I go on cosmetics. I like the look and it should stop it from rusting under the grips. My last handguns are polymer, alloy, and steel framed; striker, double action, and single action, respectively. That's a pretty good mix. Someone was telling me yesterday that they have to stick with striker fired guns so as to not get confused with all the complicated controls  . Yes, that single safety lever or safety/decocker can really be a doozie.  | ||
| Aesquire |
I'm fine with 1911 controls. Or revolvers. Or... I've driven right side control postal trucks in the morning, left side control postal collection trucks in the afternoon, then gone home on my Buell. Other than waving my hand past shift levers that are in different places, which I do when I own different brands anyway, ( this is reaching for park/drive/reverse while stopped but watching traffic and mirrors ) I don't have issues adapting to very different size & control layout vehicles. Don't hit curbs because I think I'm in a narrower truck, etc. I don't know if I'd always sweep my thumb past the Left rear of a Glock frame to try to disengage the nonexistent safety, ( which I have done occasionally in competition ) but as long as that only happens when I'm pointed in the right direction And have made the decision to shoot, I'm good with losing a few hundredths of a second. If I miss a shot because my skills are weak I can train to fix that. If I miss because I pull the trigger before I'm aiming, that's unacceptable. Back to the range and slow kata conditioning programming, and ill concealed self anger. Reminds me, I need a new Pell to keep the coordination programs fresh. https://www.federandpell.com/clubpell Ditto aircraft controls. Yoke or stick or weight shift or toggles. Side stick, center stick, left or right hand. No problem. I did have issues with overhead pivot stick because of wrist angle feedback, and had to go home and clamp my joystick ( go ahead, laugh, joystick and cockpit are sex jokes ) under the desk and drill with a flight sim. I suppose it's like the current joke, you buy a stick shift car so the young car thieves can't drive it. If you never learned to shoot... Which most criminals don't in any formal way, you also never got the safety lessons, and I can only hope a mugger either fails to disengage a safety or shoots himself. | ||
| Rick_a |
I think it's funny that the guns most marketed as safe and reliable are extremely prone to limp wrist malfunctions and are very dangerous to manipulate loaded outside of a holster, with a short, light trigger pull. If you're training to the lowest denominator it kinda makes sense, as it's easy to fire that critical first round, though they are extremely unforgiving for safe handling and in proper shooting form. They all have their pros and cons. I respect the 1911 because it was a perfected design when fielded. To this day the only changes have been very minor in manufacturing, ergonomics and sights. There are some tricks used to make for very short barrels, but they all leave something to be desired. It was one of the first centerfire pistols I fired and I think the first one kind of imprints on you. To me, with a high rise beavertail, long trigger, and flat mainspring housing it is perfection. I respect Glock for making a very simple gun that survives with minimal changes to the basic design. Mostly I'm impressed with the marketing that sells them as a perfect gun for everyone...while I'd consider such a design an expert's gun for well trained and disciplined individuals. I've never liked them ergonomically, but Polymer80 makes it a thing for me. The Beretta 92 I cast off for some years, though I have found it to be one of my favorites. Being issued the gun as a newb to centerfire pistols, I found the double action difficult to master, although practice with revolvers has resolved that and I still managed to qualify expert with it. It's a relatively bulky gun, but doable for carry use. It's a gun with deep roots that had improvements all the way up to the general military issue. I've always found them to be accurate, reliable, and a durable, mechanically sound design. As far as vehicle controls, I have been known on occassion to forget to use the clutch to get in reverse after driving one of the girlfriend's cars. As far as my handguns go, they're all so different it's easy to know which one is in hand...and I've had ample experience with all of them. The latest and greatest M17 and M18 military pistols I'm not entirely sold on. My shooting with the Sig P320 tends to be average, the bore center is unnecessarily high for a striker fired gun (the frame and slide are still inexplicably based on the hammer fired P250 grip frame and slide), and I just find them awkward and unremarkable in general. They require a little more care and cleaning than their Glock competitor. H&K I like for how accurate and soft they shoot regardless of model or caliber. They're also extremely reliable. I just don't like how unnecessarily complex they are in the trigger and safety mechanisms and they are extremely difficult to detail strip. That's another thing I don't really like about CZ. Great guns, but the fact that they're very difficult to detail strip or service is annoying, though it may never be completely necessary. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby0802221.p hp3 The Klan Party has long demanded that the oppressed be disarmed to keep them oppressed. That the oppression is based on lies, racism, and greed of the Klan Party Leaders just informs you they are going to lie to you, call you racist, and steal from you. | ||
| Rick_a |
As long as it is okay to re-write history for the furtherance of the Agenda, we'll continue to see such garbage excused as actual history, facts, and knowledge...and the rest of us labeled as ignorant racists. It's a crazy world. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://babylonbee.com/news/op-ed-i-tried-firing-a n-ar-15-yesterday-and-i-still-havent-stopped-soili ng-myself A parody. Barely. The real so called journo was scarcely less fake traumatized. Or he's less a man than my buddy's 11 year old daughter. Actually a LOT of so called men are less in many ways to the 11 year old who loves to run a skid steer. | ||
| Patches |
McKenzie - 11yo Girl at Shooting Range https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDlodGEp_9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZE-EDGw2vo | ||
| Rick_a |
These days I see a lot of women at the range who's men know little to nothing about firearms and shooting. Today I became a certified Glock armorer. Due to assembling an 80% Glock from the frame up I was already more intimately acquainted with Glock internals than I wanted to be  A lot of people are adept at taking an inherently reliable firearm and improving it to the point that it doesn't work  | ||
| Aesquire |
Congrats! Now you need to take the nonexistent course to reassemble a double action Para Ordanance 1911 LDA. I always wanted one, but never had the spare pile of change & a used one for sale at the same time, except that one time I regret not going for it.  The trigger mechanism was NUSPI. You have to be an armorer for a vanished brand to be told the Mysteries, as the company didn't want idiots like me shipping pistols back to be reassembled and the missing springs replaced. Wish that was a joke. Well, it is, but not deliberately. | ||
| Rick_a |
I don't know. Usually somebody out there will have a good technique to do it.  The S&W and Glock courses have a different feel to them. S&W essentially wants to avoid all the pistols that generally have nothing wrong with them but the owners. Glock wants to make sure nobody gets killed and that their "perfect" pistol isn't being defiled by Neanderthals. I will say that Glock is probably the simplest and best thought out striker fired pistol internally. Despite their assertion that their grip angle is right, I sure wish they'd make replaceable backstraps like everyone else. I really don't like that grip hump. | ||
| Rick_a |
I let my favorite material possession...my 1911...frame...go to a coworker who said he would coat it in OD green as a favor. He works for a local ceracote shop that does good work...so I figured it would be safe. It looked like total trash. So...it's out to our real gunsmith for ceracote. In the meantime, I realized that all my pistols but one are going to be in two tone olive drab...so I ordered an OD Hogue wrap around for the Beretta 92. | ||
| Aesquire |
I just heard about one of the most terrifying things you can be in a small metal box with... A 90mm tank gun with a rotary mag feed, 33 rounds per minute max rate of fire. So you have this drum-o-razors full of high explosive spinning while the breach is kicking back a few feet every 2 seconds. Had to be like an angry demigod was beating on the tank, from your own fire. Otoh, you really didn't want to be downrange of that kind of crazy. There is that. Still, outside of science fiction, ( Bun-Bun from the Ringo Aldenata series! ) my favorite tank has to be one so insane only the Marines would want it.   Six 106mm recoiless rifles... There's some footage of it being used in Vietnam, to reduce resistance from an occupied fortress... As a collector item, it fits in a decent sized garage, and is reasonably cheap to run. My poor neighbors.... | ||
| Aesquire |
The mobile equivalent of the Nock gun. | ||
| Ducbsa |
From Wikipedia, "Henry Nock and others managed to sell a number of guns in the sporting market" Close range Cape buffalo hunting? | ||
| Rick_a |
I wouldn't mind one of these. Ammo is getting expensive these days.    | ||
| Aesquire |
https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bee-guide- to-choosing-a-gun-thats-right-for-you They skip over a few that I really want, like the H&K P7 family and the Bofors 40mm. I'd only use the 40 for home defense, not concealed carry. | ||
| Rick_a |
I've always felt the P7 series to be over rated. They're compact, but the squeeze cocking is awkward, the recoil impulse is relatively stiff, and they're rather heavy. The Walther CCP is far more practical, shoots nicer, is less awkward, and is quite a bit lighter, if you've got to have a delayed blowback. On the Bofors, that's just too expensive to feed. Anzio Ironworks makes a 20mm that's a bit more practical for everyday use. For wreckin' stuff at close range a shotgun works just fine for me. | ||
| Aesquire |
But the Black Helicopters?  | ||
| Rick_a |
I have a lone C130 buzz the house at the latest of hours on occassion. I wonder what that's all about? Helicopters are fragile honeycombs of aluminium. I'm not worried about those. | ||
| Rick_a |
I heard it's them drones you've gotta watch out for...or according to politicians...F-15's | ||
| Ducbsa |
"I have a lone C130 buzz the house at the latest of hours on occasion. I wonder what that's all about?" Did it have a pipe-looking thing sticking out the side?  | ||
| Tootal |
I've always felt the P7 series to be over rated. They're compact, but the squeeze cocking is awkward, the recoil impulse is relatively stiff, and they're rather heavy. I've had a P7M13 since the 80's. You're correct, it is heavy. I also notice if you're trying to be quiet yet moving the pistol from a firing position to a safe position you can hear the rounds in the magazine bouncing back and forth. However the squeeze cocker becomes natural with use and I love the whole premise of it. It's been extremely accurate and having the slide stay open after the last round with a great ejection of the empty magazine and quick reload and best of all having the cocker slam it shut while cocking the weapon makes it so fast to reload and fire. It's an amazing pistol and I'd never sell it. I would love a lighter modern version of it though, it's not perfect. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Regarding that six gun vehicle above, it looks like it is manually loaded like a conventional gun. The loader is exposed, but these things probably are pretty mobile. The loader must ride in the ammo hauler. |
