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There was an article in WSJ on March 29th about Russia doubling imports of nitrocellulose for their war effort: https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-doubled-imports-of-an-explosives-ingredientwith-western-help-fd8d18bc This is old news but it was new to me and I thank you for this thread and the...

hso said: You had one of those cardboard tanks too?! I've never known anyone else who had one.... I rather liked mine. Watched TV (mostly John Wayne movies) through the cardboard periscope, and felt safe in my armored vehicle.

Very interested to read your opinions after you mount it and shoot the rifle with it for a while. I have and old Leupold 4X M8 on one rifle and it is perfect in my opinion, for my uses. Always looking for simple fixed 4X scopes and always frustrated they are out of fashion. If you like the...

Here is the "shoestring machine gun" story from 2010. In the story, it was not the rifle the ATF wanted to call a machine gun, it was the string. A "fair use" tidbit; the story title is "In September 2004 the ATF decided that a 14 inch long shoestring was considered a machine gun" In 2007 they...

Wrt Post #3 - you are right, but actually the Crucible Steel book is at http://www.crucibleservice.com/eSelector.htm and there are a couple other relevant links from there - the 2010 Knifemaker PDF is at http://www.crucibleservice.com/PDFs/Knifemaker%20REV%20June%202010.pdf and a knife steel...

Coming out of lurkdom briefly to say, this is a valuable point of view. In 1993 President Clinton convinced me I needed an AR-15. I read on the Internet that if one shot a rifle match and sent the match bulletin to CMP, one could buy an M1 Garand from them. Long story short, I went to a local...

I did not write that line about "in the home", it was in paragraph of the court's ruling.that I quoted.

Johnm1 - full disclosure, someone pointed me to that ruling, I didn't find it on my own. I just think that the unanimity of the opinion, along with explicit references to the Second Amendment and to Heller and so forth, suggests that the court is not simply looking to have the County re-write...

I think you answered your own question. The POI when slung up tight shifts away from the POI with the forearm simply supported on a sandbag. Varying sling tension might open up the shifted group, degrading "accuracy" - but only because of the added variable.

The ruling is at https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/09/94/11626108/cookcounty_gun_taxes_il_supreme_10-21-21.pdf On page 8 they say: "We agree that the ordinances impose a burden on the exercise of a fundamental right protected by the second amendment. At its core, the second amendment...

Units trip me up - tsp vs tbs and grains versus grams... but the original post about citric acid brass cleaner on the cast boolits forum https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?83572-Citric-acid-brass-cleaner spells it out -he says "2 teaspoons per quart of water".

Exactly. Iron-sights, reach over the top and trip the bolt release with your right hand (that just inserted the fresh mag). Scoped AR Service Rifle, many people BAD lever or Troy, but sometimes the added mass keeps the bolt from locking back. Creedmoor sells this -...

Now you've sent me scurrying to read the 2021 rule book. And I don't even have a dog in this fight, I have the old flip-down and not building another SR.

One reason to use the original-style "flip-down" trigger guard is that it is the only configuration allowed for NRA or CMP "Service Rifle" competition.

Excellent story, thanks for sharing it. Old true-say: "What goes around comes around." One sign of a "good deal" is when both parties come away thinking they got a good deal.