As we’ve seen previously with the dismal MMC AR-15, the biggest problem with buying crappy ARs and AR parts is that you spend about the same money for a useless, out of spec piece of trash when you could have gotten a real rifle instead. But as Erin Palette unhappily discovered with the scam artists [...]
SayUncle Says: May 7th, 2013 at 9:28 pm Well, MS paint your own damn memes! :) Kind regards to Imgflip.
So last week my desultory biweekly check of the sadly dusty Walmart ammo counter turned up a few boxes of .30-30. Remembering that I had a Winchester 1894 that I’d never shot, I grabbed two boxes (Don’t bogart the ammo, gunbros) and took Great-Grandpa’s gun down to PHA with me that Friday along with my [...]
I’ve always been skeptical of gun-specific lubricants. They all seem to be some combination of handwaving, overpriced hucksterism or inadequate improvement over mundane lubricants like motor oil or lithium bearing grease. I’ve been using the same bottle of Walmart brand 10W30 and can of lithium bearing grease for years, but was badgered into trying something [...]
So the combination of a break in the weather and some friends and family wanting to hit the range resulted in almost a solid month of regular range visits. My new ARs got a good workout, as everyone wants to shoot the semi-automatic hip-spraying bullet hose. I gladly traded (slowly) depleting my stash of steel [...]
It feels weird being down to a mere two scatterguns in the house after The Great Rationalization of 2012, but I think I kept a couple of good ones. As much as I’ve been enjoying my new ARs, my Winchester 1300 is still Plan A for unexpected unpleasantness around the house, because everybody speaks gauge. [...]
Here’s a better look at my great-grandfather’s 1894s:
Do you know why nobody panic-buys .30-06? Because the man with a .30-06 doesn’t panic.
I recently polished off a couple of books and I think you ought to check them out too: Terms Of Enlistment by Marko Kloos. 282pp, $2.99 Amazon epub. Internet blogbro Marko finally gets his name in lights with a highly entertaining dystopian military scifi tale. I’m not a fan of first person present tense narration, [...]
My cousin recently succumbed to the 2013 Fever and bought an AR-15, against my advice, at the peak of the frenzy. Thinking that “An AR is an AR”, he brought home a Moores Machine Company AR-15 from the Sillman Cartridge company, fully dressed in UTG and Chinese accessories. This rifle cost him about $1300 out [...]
