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  2. Talk me out of buying a this Howa Rifle.

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by DrThunder88

    There was one of those on the used rack at a local shop.  I considered it but decided to get a Savage Axis, you know, on the off chance that I "needed" a .308 bolt gun for something in the future.  The price was right, and it appealed to my desire to tinker.  I've shimmed up the trigger, stiffened up the stock, and cooked up an oversize bolt knob all with stuff I already had at hand.

     

    Check that, I had to buy a new trigger spring for less than a dollar.

  3. How Come I Have NOT Won The Lottery Mega Jack Pot?

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

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    Odds are, what, 1 in 175 million?  Once you've gotten your 175 millionth ticket, you'll be statistically due!  If you play one ticket every week for twenty years, you'll be one six millionth of the way there.

     

    There's a way to calculate the expected payout of a single ticket.  Basically, multiply your chances of winning (1.75x10-8) by the expected jackpot and subtract the product of your chances of losing (1-1.75x10-8) by the money you paid ($2).  For each ticket you play on a $100 million jackpot, the expected value of your ticket is a loss of 25 cents.  In order for the ticket to have an expected value of $0, in fact, the jackpot would have to be over $114 million.

  4. AK kit or 80% Lower AR build what should I do?

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    If someone had told me five years ago that ARs would be priced the way they are now, I'd have been highly dubious.  If someone had told me that in early 2013, I might have laughed in his or her face.  AK kits I could see getting more expensive as surplus stuff tends to do that as it dries up, but I did not foresee the flood of AR stuff hitting the market, especially not the proliferation of 80% receivers.  What a time to be alive.

     

    I saw those drilling jigs for 80% lowers that are meant for people without mills.  They looked kind of cheesy, but not totally beyond my cheese-tolerance.

  5. My fiance denied CCW cuz of outdated photo... WTF

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by DrThunder88

    If there's no way of getting a formal hearing, you may have to get an attorney to file for an injunction if it can't just be re-applied for.  I don't know Florida's laws.

     

    I got my CPL renewed while I was on vacation and had grown a beard.  Unfortunately, my workplace hadn't reversed its no-beard policy, so I had to shave it off.  Now my CPL has bearded me on it.

  7. Looks like it's time to Invade Mexico Again

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by DrThunder88

    How the heck was this an "Oopsie!" moment?  The pilot obviously knew what he was doing, unless this is a convoluted scheme to get the US to buy Mexican Army new GPS units.  If this wasn't an act of war precipitated by a joke in the Mexican government that went a little too far, I'd think the pilots need to be extradited to face attempted murder charges, unless the pension system there is so broke a retirement at Club Fed sounds like a reasonable alternative.  Unfortunately, I doubt the Mexican army has enough control over itself to even know who was flying the chopper in question.

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  8. Funny Gun Safety Ad

    in General Discussion - Any topic is welcome here!!!

    Posted · Edited by DrThunder88

    Time will tell if they stick to their apolitical stance, but there is a hint of legislative goals ("smarter acquisition") in the faqs.  Still, their approach has some merit to it.  The problem of gun violence is more central to the debate over gun control that we might care to admit.  Were media-friendly carnage not so readily available for broadcast, the only proponents of gun control would be viewed as doomsday prophets or pro-police statists.  Think of pressure cookers before the Boston Marathon bombing.  If a talking head had clamored for the banning of pressure cooker sales without that incident, they'd be considered a nut.

     

    And if they're a leftist fringe group trying to infiltrate more conservative sectors of society for whatever reason, "Evolve" doesn't strike me as a name they'd choose to try snuggling up with.  "Abort" maybe...

  17. And the Next "Revolutionary" Bullet Design...

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    Energy = mass x velocity. Seems like removing the mass (all those pretty holes) would reduce energy. You would gain a short burst of velocity with the same energy (the powder charge) but it would slow quicker and hit a lot less harder.

     

    Seems like cnc machining bullets is all the rage:

     

    http://blog.rtba.co/3-reasons-dont-need-latest-g2-research-rip-cartridge/

     

     

    Kinetic energy actually is mass times velocity squared (ek=mv2), so while a loss of mass will have a negative effect on the projectile's energy proportional to its magnitude, an increase in velocity will have a positive effect proportional to its magnitude squared.  Your equation is for momentum (p=mv, where "p" is momentum), which is more likely to play a part in determining the bullet's maximum range.

     

    Bullets have been working fine for 100s of years.....when will they learn.

     

    Bullet designs have been advancing for hundreds of years. Not every step has been a step forward, but thanks to the proliferation of precision manufacturing technologies, more innovations can be made. Unfortunately, some new designs, like that bonesaw bullet that made the rounds on the web recently, are obviously not steps in the right direction, and manufacturers with limited budgets still have to try to offset their R&D investment by marketing their mooncalf products using hype-tastic advertising.

     

    This design does look like exactly that kind of nonsense. Actually, the first thing I thought of was an old Simpsons episode:

     

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    Sort of ironic, really.

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  20. Dusted off the ol' aught-six!

    in Other Weapons - RIFLES (non-AK based)

    Posted

    Very nice!  I'm not a milsurp purist, but those shoddy conversions that seem to show up more often than not make me cringe.  Your dad's rifle looks to have been done by a pro, however!  I really like the look of it.  It just exudes a classic vibe.  Given that it was converted so long ago, is it bedded and floated?  I don't know how recent a phenomenon those procedures are.

     

    I know what you mean about the long-range bug.  Sadly, very few places around here have longer than 100 yard ranges, fewer still longer than 200.  I did get a chance to ring some steel at 300 yards at a recent get-together in Sandusky, Ohio, which was great fun.  I would have liked to try the club's 500 yard range, but it was closed.

  24. 7.62 x 39 is back to normal

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    How long ago was that?  I was just going through my old emails and found some 2010 flyers from AIM that listed PMC Bronze .223 55gr at $6.79/20, which I just noticed is only 20 cents cheaper than they're selling it for now.  Though, from what I'm seeing, 7.62x39 could still the most overpriced, adjusting for inflation.  Golden Tiger was $3.99/20 around then too, which translates to $216.20/1000 in today's money—noticeable, but not too far from $234.95 at SG Ammo.  On the other hand, I have an invoice from that period that shows a box price for Wolf HPs of $4.30, which is about $4.66 in 2014 money.  The same stuff goes for $4.59-4.79 at AIM now, depending on the quantity.

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