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I am a gun enthusiast trapped in the People's Republic of Maryland. My political affiliation is Independent, as the Ruling parties are both full of crap, and long ago stopped representing the common man. If the Libertarians weren't such freaks I would probably be one. I am a member of the Nation of Riflemen and damn proud of it. I once took an oath that I would support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As far as I know I never broke that oath, and will continue to follow it. I am not Politically Correct and will NEVER be Politically Correct. If you need to know more, feel free, Ask.

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Yes I know no one can comment.  I am working on it.  I will update this post when I have it fixed…

UPDATE:  The comments are Fixed!!!  I emailed my provider as the uptime on the system and the problem with the comments not being applied were pretty close in time together.  Next day they emailed me saying that nothing had changed on that server, and the comments miraculously started working again PFM…  As they say in the telecom industry “Cleared While Testing”...

For once I have someone other than Kim du Toit to blame for a new firearm purchase.  Yes, blame for this one goes to Head from over at Head’s Bunker he had a couple of blog entries on the SVT40 which I found appealed to me much more than the SKS (but at 100 bucks I will be getting an SKS soon).  I went to a local gun show and there were three specimens at the show.  Two of them were overpriced and fairly beat up, not something I would have bought.  The third looked absolutely fabulous with the finish being well over 90% intact with the wood also being quite nice. 

It is not a special one like Heads, it has just the normal markings and sling point.  When I brought it home my wife went absolutely ga ga over it. 

It seems that the combination of the venting in the wood and the carry over of the venting into hand guards really turned her on… For a bit there I though I was going to have to go out and buy another one for me.  I still might as she wants to hang this one on the wall to admire at all times.  Ahh I love my girl…

Well upon getting it home I did a full cleaning and found that I had a minor problem in the gas system.  It seems that the gas piston and gas cup had become one.  I was eventually able to separate the two but the fit felt a bit loose once I was done. 

Well range day came and I took the Tokarev out and loaded up a magazine.  The first shot was in the X ring at 100 yards which was excellent.  The problem was that the action did not cycle for that shot or the rest of the magazine.  I then adjusted the gas system down to its most restrictive setting and loaded up the magazine again.  Once again the first shot was in the X ring, this time however the action not only did not cycle but it locked up tight.  So after removing the magazine I tried to get the bolt open.  I ended up having to disassemble the action in order to get the spent casing out.  I even tried a different variety of ammo with the same bolt locking issues. 

I asked around and saw that I should check the chamber for corrosion/cosmoline fowling.  Sure enough there was some brown residue in the chamber.  Out to the range again and on the first shot the action would not cycle and once again disassembly was the only way to get the action open.  On the second shot the action partially cycled (with the gas port closed) and did not need to be disassembled in order to eject the spent casing.  The rest of the magazine had similar results with the action stove piping a couple of times.

I ordered the piston and gas cup but forgot to take them to the range.  When I got home I replaced the old piston and gas cup with the “new” ones.  Now all I need to do is get out to the range and shoot again.  I have high hopes for it being fixed this time… 

Well hopefully I will get some range time in this weekend.

Sigh.  Nothing worse than having your new action for the custom rifle that you are going to build arrive at the gun store, and you being too busy at work to go pick it up…

Maybe I will get enough time to go pick it up this week…  Or worse I will have to wait till Saturday…

Post with pictures coming up…

well several but I have to have enough time to finish the other one that I have just about ready.

My friend Major Smasher got himself a nice “new” rifle.  He had always wanted an Anschutz in .22 and finally got one.  He was nice enough to include some pics of the new acquisitions accuracy. 

As you can see it shoots quite nicely.  Now if you look at the left side of the target you see a good bit of one of the bulls eyes missing.  This was where a horse fly happened to land while he was shooting.  The funny part of all of this is that Smasher is an entomologist.  He sure knows how to collect a specimen, but I think he needs to work on his preservation skills as there was not much left of his latest capture.

Smasher was someone I met through the Ft Meade Rod and Gun club.  I only knew him for a short period of time before he raced off to Ft. Polk to take a command slot.  He is one of the friends that I will work hard to keep even though there is a great distance between us.  Additionally he is taking his command over to sandy land soon so I will only have sporadic contact with him for the next year or so.  Of all my recent friends he is the one I will miss the most, as I could always count on him to get my ass out to the range and other manly activities.  Being as I live in the land of pussified and socialized males (one of which I am not), I find that as a Unibrowed Cro-Magnon I have a hard time making friends and loosing one is always hard.

So when Smasher makes it home we will be going out on a hunting trip for a large animal.  I have to have a rifle capable of killing something like an elk at 3 or 4 hundred yards and I don’t think that a .308 will cut the mustard.  So over the next few weeks / months I will be building a new rifle.  It will be in a sufficiently manly caliber and action, in fact the action will be in my hot little hands sometime early next week.  It will also be something that Kim will approve of, as he gives me a hard time about barney.  I built barney for a reason and the paint job was on purpose it served its purpose nicely, it also shoots better than I do.

Well I got my first comment spam since I changed from MT to Expression Engine.  Some poor chum from the UK actually went through the trouble of manually entering a spam as the Captchas have been very effective at keeping the spam away.  As I get notification of every comment I just went in and deleted it.  It is so nice not getting tons of spam that you have to wade through.  Even though I had MT-Blacklist installed before my blog would always get spammed.  With the Captchas turned on I have no problems with the ever changing spam bots because as of yet they can’t read the captchas in order to enter them in the required field in the comment.  Someday soon I figure some clever spammer will figure out a way around them, but till then I will enjoy the comments being spam free.

Now on the down side is Referrer spam…  I get tons of it and it seems that there is not much that you can do to stop it…  I am going to look into a cure… having a .htaccess file helpsa bit, but I am trying to find a better answer.

I have a problem getting blogs entries out.  I am sure that this really annoys my two loyal readers.  As I don’t blog at work (and will be working insane hours over the next two weeks) I will start to write a bunch of entries over the weekend and postdate them so that I will have one new one a day (I hope).  So if you see entries coming from me during the work day you can be sure that I probably wrote them over the weekend and dated them so that they will publish at predetermined times.  I have a couple entries in the hopper already and a couple that I have to get some pictures taken before I post them.  So stay tuned I will try to up the quantity of my blogging (even if I did it in the past) if not the quality.

rest assured if something really gets me wound up I will post it without postdating it so it will be relevant in the time space continuum…

Alphecca posted on his love of meat and lack of home cooking.  Here at our household we have had the same problem with eating out often.  Our weight has suffered because of our constant eating out.  Around a month ago we decided that we needed to eat healthier and cook more meals at home.  So we began looking for recipes that we could both agree on, and were low in fat.  We try to make meals that have less than 10 grams of fat per serving as our target.  In general we have succeeded in cooking healthy meals for ourselves.

We get most of our favorite recipes from Cooking Light Magazine.  My mother first got us looking at the magazine and we have enjoyed it ever since.

The biggest problem with cooking at home seems to be getting all of the ingredients together without forgetting anything.  It is a big pain to write this list out for each recipe and up till now probably the reason that we never really cooked “in” often. 

Well in todays modern world there had to be a better way than writing these things down by hand.  I searched around a bit and compared a few applications for OS X and finally decided on one called Connoisseur from The Little App Factory (cost: $20).  I liked its recipe importation capabilities, because the last thing I want to do is type each recipe in by hand.  Importing the recipe is fairly easy and there are two easy ways of doing so.  The first being that Connoisseur has a few cooking site that are integrated into it for easy importation.  The second way is you just highlight the recipe in Safari and go to the services menu and select the “Import Recipe into Connoisseur” and it opens the Connoisseur application (if it was not open already) and it creates a new recipe and you just have to save it, and bang you are done.

Connoisseur also has a handy shopping list feature, when you highlight a recipe you can then hit the add to shopping list button and that recipes ingredients are added to the shopping list.  So now we just pick out the meals that we want to have that week and hit the add to shopping list button and we have a complete list of ingredients for the week.  You can either print them out, our transfer them to an iPod if you don’t want to kill a tree.  I have transfered the shopping list to the iPod once, but my wife is still an analog kind of person and likes the paper list as it is kinda hard to cross things off the list on the iPod.

My only gripe with Connoisseur right now is that the print button on the shopping list is not active by default.  In order to have that option available you have to click on a button on the shopping list, once you have clicked on another button the print option is no longer grayed out.  I guess I should submit a bug report.

So modern technology comes to the rescue of cooking at home in our house.  We have lost a bit of weight and have enjoyed a lot of new very tasty dishes courtesy of Cooking Light Magazine. 

I posted about this a week ago, now it seems to be the big hot item on the Internet.  I left out any reference to the person in respect for her and her family.  It seems that last year she understood why her son died fighting for our country…

Now she has turned into a protester.  the rest of her family has taken umbrage with her stance.  It also looks like her husband is seeking a divorce.

I almost feel sorry for her.  When this is all over she will have lost a son, a husband, and done who knows what damage to the rest of her family.  As it is all of her own making I guess that I really don’t feel sorry for her.

Its her right as an American to do as she wishes… 

I hope she enjoys her 15 minutes of fame because it will be awful lonely when the spotlight goes out.

Well we got a nice big delivery on friday and it should make for lots of work at our household over the next couple of weeks.  We would have gotten started on it this weekend but it was just so hot and muggy.  We were soaked through just laying out the preliminary lines, looking and thinking about the final results.  We decided that we would get to work on it this week when it was a bit less hot and muggy.

Yep four pallets of pre formed NavaStone concrete wall systems blocks in a nice mottled pattern.  Money was spent, fun WILL be had.  I will post more pictures as they become available.  It looks like we

Looks like Say Uncle got hacked this weekend…

Looks like it is time for another password changed for myself… 

Seems his PC guard dog was on the job.  Next time put the PC-Incorrect dog on the job.

Should make for an interesting after action report from Uncle on Monday.

Update: Looks like Say Uncle made it home.

May be worse than I thought if he was not able to get the site up quickly…

Those are the questions that the latest war “protester” is trying to ask President Bush.

Now before you all think I am cold and heartless (I am, but lets forget about that for a minute) I do feel for the families of all of the soldiers that have been killed or wounded in combat, they have made the ultimate sacrifice in our continued battle for freedom.

I understand that you are upset and confused as you were educated in the 60s and 70s, it seems that the educational system has turned into a complete failure when it comes to educating the masses as to just what it takes to keep our way of life. 

I think it is sad that you sully the memory of your son in a political statement, but that is your right as a free American.  So enjoy your “Peace” rally in Texas.  Enjoy your time on the “Impeachment Tour” bus, it is your right as an American.

Our troops are the real deal.  It makes me proud to know that we can still create people that are willing to go do the hard work despite the consequences, and in spite of our generally civilized nature as Americans.  If I were younger again I would be proud to be there with them.

After having met some of the troops that have been in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, I do know that they understand why they are there.  I also understand that even once they have been wounded they are anxious to get back and “finish the job”.  They are the ones who walk the line.

Lastly it is a shame that you have to ask what your son died for.  I expect that he knew better than you ever will. 

Your son died defending that wall that keeps the bad people from doing the defenseless harm (and not just Americans).  Your son was one of the “Rough Men” that stands up for this country, so that men and women like you can sleep soundly at night.

Oh as to why the President won’t meet you as he has met and visited with hundreds of other families and wounded soldiers…  I doubt that he has time for a “peace” protester / media hound who just does not get what is at stake in the war on terrorism…