NotActuallyALonghorn

Speaking of wheel guns, here is a SAA clone with a short barrel and birdshead grip in a holster featuring a giant armadillo eating a big rig. Supposedly, the full length Colts were a favorite of the Texas Rangers. They point likely and the extra sight radius is handy, even if they are a bit ungainly. Speaking of ungainly, the full size Colts are downright light compared to the grandaddy of all six shooters.

Since I have Fridays off, I dropped my daughter odd at school and then went and checked out some of the smaller gunshops in town to so if any of them had any black powder supplies. No luck there, but one of the ones had what looked like fightlight pistolgrip lower matched with a 300 BO upper. Something like this.

@Armybrat, nevermind. I reviewed the ATF worksheet, and you are about to have an SBR, regardless of whether or not your new gun is practical to shoulder and fire. I have a Radical Firearms .300 BO pistol that I put the original sig brace on that I think qualifies, so maybe you can go that route. Or you can just wait and hope enforcement of the new rule gets stayed because using the Chevron Doctrine to essentially change laws that have criminal implications is probably not constitutional.

I admittedly haven't kept up with everything, but the ATF put out a worksheet to help determine whether it is a pistol or SBR, and I think you might be OK as long as the brace isn't adjustable for length of pull and you put a red dot on it instead of iron sights. Because apparently only rifles have iron sights, and the presence of iron sights is a strong indicator that you intend to use it as a rifle.

Your left hand must be pissed after it got all prepped for a bunch of new posts only to see there wasn't any pron and just words. Sorry for the interruption, here is a picture of what it looks like when you shoot your flintlock all afternoon trying to work up a load. I really need to polish the pan to make it easy to at least wipe that part clean between shots. And here's a powder horn and hunting pouch I made myself. Now that we've got that out of our way, I don't see the harm in a little discussion of gun policy in this thread as long as we don't get too crazy. Like folks have mentioned upthread, those discussions can't really be had in the CR because folks who are just to dumb to help themselves can't keep from spewing their ignorance everywhere.

I prefer my eggs over medium, with some Cajun spice sprinkled on them. Or maybe Fiesta brand fajita seasoning, depending on the mood I am in.

I mean, they are already using AK-47 variants for their blasters, so... Han Solo's blaster was pretty much a doctored up Mauser C96, which would have been an iconic collector's firearm anyhow. We have a guy running out with an Ice Cream maker in ESB. As mentioned, they basically took a stock AK-47 variant for the current rebels. I don't think we should be too surprised if they are just using run of the mill ski boots for props.

In Ep4, I wonder if there is any symbolism in the door. It reminded me of the smile of a loth cat. Anyhow, these were so well done despite the animation that could have been in a breakout video game ten years ago.

I'm curious how he figures out how to escape. Given his character, that has to be going through his mind. Or will he get rescued somehow or there be some kind of attack on the prison that gives him a chance? Obviously, the guys throwing gang signs at each other from across the tubes are gonna have something to do with it, but I'm ready to see how it all goes down. They've also done a great job of getting me invested the story of the empire and what happens to the inspector guy. I said it before, but this has a completely different feel than anything that has come from Filoni and crew, which is a good thing without knocking on the work he's done. I love the Filoni stuff, but this is a new take on parts of the universe that is just as rewarding.

Somebody needs to release a patch for Command and Conquer Red Alert to reflect just how terrible the Russians really are.

"So I left my phone in the fridge for like 15 minutes and now it's foggy"

Some of greatest leaps in evolution come from near extinction level events, so in a way we are just helping the human race and all the other winners evolve into greater excellence.

Yeah, I'm 37, but I hate watching any type of video on my phone, especially if there are people around. If I'm trying to figure out how to do something, give text and some pictures to go along with it instead of a video. Especially if I need to filter through irrelevant information just to find what I need.

Maybe he was swallowed by the dragon and is waiting to bust out Boba Fett style?

While it was slow most of the the time, the payoff was probably worth it. They've managed to set us up for quite a ride, even if they took their time doing it. I just hope they are able to channel the first few seasons of GOT instead of the last few in what comes next. Binging this would have been better given the slow buildup they went with.

As a side note, the new hunting pouch is I've been working on is pretty much done, and the powder horn to go with it is coming along nicely. The hunting pouch is loosely based on the pouch worn by Stephen F. Austin in this portrait painted during his 1833 trip to Mexico City. His pouch looks to be made from bobcat or possibly Mexican Jaguar (which likely had a much more extensive range during those times). Not having access to those furs in historically based tanning methods, I've made mine out of deer from the first deer I ever killed which I had the presence of mind to tan using a method that was pretty similar to methods available to settlers at the time. The horn is a Southern banded horn style that comes from North Carolina, where some of my ancestors from the Isaacks family who settled in Texas before the revolution hailed from before they came to Texas. If my research is correct, my great some odd grandmother died during the Runaway Scrape. While I can't find evidence of any direct ancestors fighting in the revolution, there were at least two lines of them who made it here and became Mexicans. The hunting pouch was made with materials and methods as close to accurate as possible to those that would have been available to the settlers of early Texas, and while I've cheated and used a modern drill for the powderhorn, it has so far been otherwise been constructed using only hand tools, and I will be using historically accurate methods such as traditional cuttler's resin to finish it out.

Got out yesterday and spent the afternoon trying to develop loads for my muzzleloaders. My .54 Caplock Lyman Great Plains Rifle had a crack through the lock area that I had glued, but not only did the glue not hold, but the crack got worse. I guess a new stock would be a fun project to work on. Shot all afternoon and finally was able to get my .50 flintlock Pedersoli Scout to give a goof enough group for deer out to 100 yards. Turns out it was shooting to the right and I had to drift the front sight to get it on target. I thought I was just flinching bad from not being used to a flintlock, but after my lock got good and dirty and my flints got good and dull, I had enough flashes in the pan and times where the pan failed to ignite to figure out that I wasn't flinching anymore if I ever was. I probably still need to work on follow through, however. A bit dirty. Good enough.

To me, my favorite part of hunting is being out in nature and having the time to take it all in and watch stuff like that. It's better than just straight up hiking because you don't really have to be anywhere or make it to a specific campsite before dark or anything like that. You just take your time slowly stalking through the woods and watching everything that is going on around you. If you get a shot at whatever game you are chasing that is just icing on the cake.

Ah, the Crosman 760. Was the BB gun I cut my teeth on back in the day. I learned to shoot using that little bugger, and I don't recall ever treating it as anything other than a fully functioning firearm. Unfortunately something broke on it, so 13 or so old me decided to take it apart and fix it. I ended up with a bunch of useless parts, but I did gain a bit of knowledge about how it worked. I took a lot of stuff apart after it quit working back in the day and learned how a lot of it worked. Most of it never worked again, but I did learn to salvage parts (especially electric motors) for my own experiments.

Should have left a foreign passport and a couple copies of Sims on the ocean floor.

I have an HEB 27 miles away and one 62 miles away.

The barrel is literally a piece of pipe that I electrochemically machined using jigs that you make with your 3D printer. I'm pretty sure they don't live in the stone age.

Nope. Look up the FGC-9.

No disagreement that they were better. I just enjoyed this one more for whatever reason.