Too tired to brain.
I got nuthin’.
Go read the folks on the left.
Maybe later.
Yeah, I’m burnt out
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Gaahh
Spent the days off (weekend) making gasoline powered equipment run (most of it hadn’t run in 7-10 years) in order that it can fetch a decent price at an auction of some old folks property….They are both in nursing homes, so the stuff they will never use again is to be sold at auction to help their finances…
I may NEVER use gasoline powered equipment without adding either Stabil or Pri-G in every tank…At least then my stuff will start when it is time for someone to sell my shit…. God, I hate the smell of old stale gas. But I got all but one piece running. Should be worth about $10K more now….
Spent today playing catch up at work I may well fire someone that work(s)(ed?) for me for being an idiot.
And I was reminded that I had promised to bury some drainage tile at the range tomorrow….which I had planned as a half day off in order that I could sight-in and function test the Non-Ruger 10-22. I’d blow it off but there are 10 other people coming….Shit.,,,,Maybe sometime *next* Sunday I can actually go to the range and shoot……
And I got a huge oak down due to wind in the back yard….. Anyone in NW Indiana need about 6-8 ton of firewood? You cut it, you haul it, I make you good deal. Really really really good deal. Might even help you load it. I already have enough firewood from last year that I won’t use the new stuff before it rots…..
2 July:
About the time you are reading this, the men of the Indianapolis had just been SEEN. Not yet rescued….But seen. Rescue operations are just now getting underway.
Think about that ordeal.
70 years ago…
70 years ago today..
Those poor bastards in the Indianapolis began their ordeal.
Forgotten by their command, they floated for 4 days in the Pacific after being torpedoed on their way from Guam to the Phillipines…No one was looking for ’em….A LOT of people failed the men of the Indianapolis that day and the next…
No one was even looking for them. Found by accident .
4 days.
880 went into the water..
217 came out.
Kinda like this story:
MH 370 washes up on shore.
Seriously, at least a piece of it.
Seems that a piece of what appears to be a 777 (and there is only one missing) wing or flap washed up on the shore of Reunion Island….But how long ago it washed up no one knows.
It is, at least, something to go on.
Maybe, at long last, someone will know, for sure, what happened. Maybe the rest of the wreck can be found.
Maybe…..
It’s alive! Alive I tell you! ALIVE!!!
Well, not really…… But it IS finished.
The Non Ruger 10-22, that is.
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Tactical Innovations receiver (red) (w/Black Bolt).
Whistle Pig blue fluted 18.5″ lightweight Barrel. (You need one of these for your 10-22 as well….)
Kidd 2 stage trigger (12 oz/12/oz.) (You need one of these for your 10-22)……Very pricey. Very. But OMG! so very sweet.
Red/White/Blue because …’Merica! And I felt like it. Colors ain’t gonna make it shoot any better, I know, but since I was building it…….and it didn’t cost more or anything…
The assembly will live, for now at least, in a surplus to needs Hogue stock that I had laying around (until I find a decent adjustable stock). I trimmed the stock to free float the barrel. You can pass a bill all the way to the Vee block.
And it will wear, for now at least, a 4-12 x 50 Tasco that I also had laying around. There will be an upgrade in the future, but I’m gonna have to save my pennies for a while to find the right glass for this rifle. (and there isn’t anything wrong with the Tasco….it is a decent scope that has served me well in the past…..it is likely older than some of my readers)
This assembly was not entirely drop in. There were issues with tolerance stacking, but I have to say that Tactical Innovations went out of their way to help. So did Whistle Pig. (Kidd was just sure that their trigger wasn’t at fault and blamed everyone else…..) I had light strikes on the rims resulting in unreliable ignition, which turned out to be a bit of tolerance stacking. But once that was solved (with help from Tactical Innovations who went out of their way to make things work for me) everything else went smoothly.
The receiver is a well machined piece of metal.
The barrel is a work of art.Very light too. I chose not to get one with a threaded end for a silencer, because that combination of color and flutes and threaded end wasn’t stock….but Whistle Pig did say they would make one for me for a reasonable price….
The trigger is great. Not cheap, Expensive, in fact… but worth the cost…
Total weight is 5.6 lbs…but 2 lbs of that is the Hogue stock.
This weekend is busy, but I should get it to the range soon .
Range report to follow…
Other parts I used:
Kidd Vee block (and screws), Nicely machined piece. Much higher quality than others I have seen.
Kidd polished trigger pins. (these fit perfectly. If you warm them up in your hand, they won’t go in.)
Kidd bolt handle/return spring. (IMO the best on the market).
American National Firearms bolt buffer. These never seem to wear out. I have one in a rifle that has over 23,000 rounds through it and there is zero appreciable wear on either the pin OR the bolt.
Now if I could only find decent aftermarket mags, then I can have an entirely Non Ruger 10-22.
I think I will call it Captain America
(And I paid for everything, so the FTC can go eat a large block of cheese)
Yeah, Kinda like that
Only my attitude is less productive.
never can have too many
Straps, that is. When hauling crates or equipment on a flatbed trailer, you can NEVER have too many straps in your truck….and (up to a point) there is no way to have too many tieing your load down tightly.
Hauled a three point backhoe from Chicago to my home. 3 ratchet straps over the top holding the crate down tightly to the trailer.
One each fore and aft to keep it from sliding back and forth front to back or side to side.
so that was 4 straps.
After about a mile down the road, two to keep the cover from billowing.
When I was strapping the thing down, the guys at the warehouse/freight yard said I was overdoing it.
Then I went from 70 to 10 in about a hundred feet when there was a wreck in front of the guy in front of me.
Glad I had those extra straps. 2000 lbs (not that much unless it breaks loose) would have made my day when it hit me in the back.
True sportsmen foil the efforts of bureaucrats.
So it seems that the South African shooting team and the New Zealand shooting team (coming to shoot at Camp Perry) both had their match competition ammo hijacked stolen confiscated at the point of entry (they should have hand carried it through Mexico and across the border, then no one in our government would have cared or noticed).
So what happens? Shooters here in the US step up and collect components, presses and build loading benches so that these sportsmen can load their flavor of ammo and compete on an even field with the others. Kudos to them, and to the companies that donated.
Class.
Unlike the assholes in Customs and Border Patrol. And their bosses. And ultimately, Barry.
Other databases hacked
Seems that the FedGov Healthcare database was hacked…
And no one heard about it on the MSM.
Odd, that. Very odd.
Or not.
No one really knows the extent of that data breach. Might be big, might not.