17 hours ago, Scott Ruggels said:

 

I wanted one of the later Matebas since College, and the Chiapa Rhino with the 3in. barrel is also an object of lust.  Anything to drop the barrel axis downwars, closer to the line of the index finger is good for controlability, and rapid follow up.

I would be more intrigued if they made it in a 45 Colt. Yes I am odd

On 9/29/2018 at 8:27 AM, Scott Ruggels said:

  30mmm is up there with the .58 caliber  black powder projectiles.  Thopugh even a four gauge  "elephant gun" from the black powder era would need a shoulder stock. 30mm Recoil, without significant recoil mitigation (weight, hydraulic recuperators, significan padding and bracing structures),  would be nearly as detrimental to the user as the target. Remember Muzzle energy goes both ways.

Usually the 30 mm in reference to the bore diameter so that would be a 1.2 inch diameter bullet. A conventional pistol would require somebody to have growth I would say to be able to hold it if the magazine was in the grip

On 10/13/2018 at 10:40 AM, DusterBoy said:

 Jerry Miculek is something else again. That's phenomenal shooting.

I humorously sometimes wonder if he's actually fully human.

On 3/13/2018 at 3:19 PM, RDU Neil said:

 

 

 

I totally understand that some would be better at it than others. Training and practice will make someone more accurate, likely to hit with more rounds/miss less, fire more, reload faster, etc. It is just that I feel that guns, semi-automatics and select-fire automatics on burst, should be able to "pull the trigger" more than once every combat action... by default.

 

Again, limited knowledge and experience, but say a shotgun, with the recoil and pump action, is probably once per round and it would take an actual skill/training to fire twice or more. A revolver, I could see two, maybe three shots max due to kick and slower cycling to the next round. Semi-automatic pistol, five shots easy, though accuracy drops rapidly the more rounds you fire.  3 round burst fire, two pulls (two bursts) easily, maybe three.

 

Yes, this makes guns much more dangerous than other weapons... but that is reality, which i want to simulate more often.

 

Serious question, Surrealone... based on our experience... do you train single shots for combat firing, or multiple shots (again with a semi-automatic)? More shots are better than one, up to a point, where you are just firing wild... that middle ground of rapid, but controlled fire. What do you think?

 

I used to be a pretty good shot, in competition.   Set, brace, reach out 200 to 600 yards.  

A couple years ago i was trying out a hottish loaded 45-70.  Not even trying for a small target, at 270 lbs, it took me around 3 seconds to get a second shot off.   Avtually there is no way i am speed 4, more like 2, so...

Well it's at least a Justified Wag the Dog moment or appears to be so based on the media coverage

On 4/10/2018 at 5:59 AM, RDU Neil said:

 

and in follow up, he goes full fascist... equating himself with the country...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/09/michael-cohen-raid-trump-lawyer-fbi-mueller-documents?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=270836&subid=24646434&CMP=GT_US_collection

He's just agreeing with a King of France and Robert Mugabe.

On 4/9/2018 at 2:26 AM, Badger said:

If he is a danger to himself, it quite likely they are unhinged enough to be a danger to anybody hapless enough to wander into that situation.  Best not to predict crazy.

 

In any case, the last fatal shooting in my area.  Some guy was breaking into a house, shot at the homeowner (who both called 911 and returned fire) and when the police arrived the suspect was in the process of leaving and started firing on the police.  SO, while I do try to take these things on a case by case basis, I will unapologetically lean towards the side of the police until convincingly proven guilty.  

Suicidal behavior is homicidal Behavior by default is what I was told in a training

On 3/25/2018 at 6:01 AM, Cygnia said:

Virus fished from pond cures man’s deadly antibiotic-resistant infection

Phages?

On 3/12/2018 at 6:28 PM, Lord Liaden said:

Ironically, China's current system sounds a lot like fascism. Consider this definition of fascism from Merriam Webster: "a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition ."

I always felt there was a lot of similarity between the governments that claimed to be communist what they actually were not and the fascists at least in tactics and such

On 2/7/2018 at 6:30 PM, Michael Hopcroft said:

The problem with that is that these three species are dependent upon another species -- Man -- for their survival. Domestic chickens and pigs would become literally extinct in a few decades if we as a species would decide to totally stop eating them or using their related products like eggs and leather.

I am going to disagree with you there. I suspect chickens would adapt and survive whether in huge numbers or not is another question. Pigs would probably be just fine. Look at the rampant spread of feral pigs around the United States. They are not in my area because there's just not enough food and it gets too cold I suspect.

On 2/6/2018 at 5:11 PM, Ragitsu said:

Here, we occasionally get coyotes roaming through the streets at night. I kid you not.

Working night shift security I remember following the coyote all over the campus I worked on. This area till even be right inside town including also moose, cougars and very rarely bear end up inside Spokane

On 2/6/2018 at 4:30 PM, Ternaugh said:

 

Up in the canyons around here, we have chipmunks*.

 

 

 

 

*Some of which carry Bubonic Plague.

We have them too, as well as ground squirrels. But marmots are the closest thing we have to groundhog

On 2/2/2018 at 11:19 AM, Cancer said:

Meh, groundhog-o-mancy is just another manifestation of East Coast bias.  If you live east or north of the boundary between Arkansas and Texas, you have groundhogs.  The rest of the country doesn't.

My part of the world we have marmots

On 2/1/2018 at 10:06 AM, Christopher said:

Wasn't there a thread about "what if hte aliens reaching us are re-migrating Neaderthals?" a year or so ago? "But they look so similar" or something?

 That sounds interesting

On 12/26/2017 at 4:11 PM, Surrealone said:

Today I bring you the latest F*ck You to the BATFE from FightLite Industries: the FightLite RAIDER. 

 

Practically useless in every defensive scenario I can think of, this little 7.5" barreled blaster comes in either 5.56 NATO or .300 BLK, with the latter being the obvious choice given the short barrel length.  Screw on a suppressor, slap in a 20 round magazine of .300 BLK, attach a sling to the QD port on the end of the grip (so it can be easily hung/concealed under a duster, trenchcoat, or the like), and your mooks will be the silent but deadly life of your heroic opposition's party.

In some states like Washington with a concealed weapons permit you can carry a loaded handgun in a vehicle but not a rifle or shotgun. In my opinion that is exactly the role that weapons like this or the Kel-Tec PLR-16 fill.  and I agree that the blackout is the better choice for such weapons

Rest in Peace, good sir.    

On 12/16/2017 at 4:25 AM, Lord Liaden said:

 

I suspect that a lot of people who were thinking, "I won't vote for a lesser of two evils" before Trump's election, have reconsidered.

Until that election I didn't know we could run a presidential candidate that I would consider a greater evil than her.

I looked at the Kimber micro 9 with the laser grip yesterday. Boy did that feel sweet, the review I read did not give particularly good accuracy. More than good enough for the role it's designed for though. I wonder if it would be better served with a high velocity 90 grain bullet instead of standard weight bullets though? Maybe the 80 or 90 grain Barnes Tac XP design for the 380 originally?

It is wonderful to be back at work, but because I phuqued up our taxes, we are not eligible for subsidy on the exchanges.  I can't afford to spend 1/3 of our income to insure my wife and I...

I have generally caucused with the Republicans so to speak, but now the only point of congruence is opposition to gun control.  I Intend to always vote against anyone who votes for the current tax overhaul, and lean towards writing in Teddy Roosevelt for everything, If I cannot find an actual candidate for whom I can not stand to hold my nose and vote.   I would never have believed that I would vote for Hillary, but compared to the opposition...    Any day and twice on Sunday.  

Not sure this is going to be a "good" gun, but it is interesting.   VERY slim, .45 acp, semiauto.   Apparently a form of blowback, but delayed???

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/12/11/heizer-defense-pko-45-semi-automatic-pistol-now-shipping/

On 11/26/2017 at 7:30 PM, Badger said:

 

Agreed, I lost all respect for Polanski after I heard about the incident.

I also lost pretty much all respect for the people who say that he's a genius so we should still glorify his movies.

On 11/25/2017 at 12:34 PM, Tech priest support said:

The point of this tread is "do we have to condemn old movies that had things  we'd hate today" and essentially seal them away in vaults dropped in the mariannas trench IR can we accept them good and bad?

 

If a movie was made by someone with a terrible side that was not widely know outside the insular Hollywood community, and KT was good, do we have to condemn it after his dark little secret comes out?  Now if I know someone has something intolerable about  them it doesn't matter if he makes something good, I won't watch it. Like Stephen Collins . I won't burn my star trek the motion picture DVD because of him but I would bit watch a new movie with him in it.

 

Also after they made ”valley of the wolves" I would not watch a movie with billy Zane or Gary busey in it but I still like "predator 2".

 

 

Never saw Valley of the wolf but I have no intention of ever watching anything involving Roman Polanski again. He should have been in prison rotting for the last 40 years or so

On 11/21/2017 at 2:10 AM, Badger said:

 

Well, being someone who watches a lot of old Westerns (I grew up on John Wayne movies) I may not be the best to decide.

 

But, I have to agree it is a product of the times, for the most part.  Although, some things they should have known better.  I am slightly more forgiving with Japanese portrayals in WW2, extremely uncomfortable with it, but we were in the middle of a pretty brutal, cutthroat war with them, you cant forget that before you do pass judgement. 

 

THe nation and the Western world, for that matter, seem to be in a mode of wanting to hide history, to fear history, rather to confront and learn from it.  I worry that will ruin us all someday.

 

If I gather more thoughts, I'll try to re-reply

 

Last night I watched a couple Mash episodes. Imagine all the sexual harassment allegations that would be coming out in the modern world. The whole show was what 50% sexual harassment?

7 hours ago, Cancer said:

Truth is: if they'd ever let him out, he would not have lived a week.

That is often said but it doesn't necessarily work out that way.