Project parts AR should move to a new stage

All my goodies will or should arrive this week. The new stage will be....assembly. I even have a receiver block set coming to do it right. I'd say I'm doing an el-cheapo build, but I did spring for a chrome-lined barrel-DPMS, so el-cheapo still applies. At least the specs in the DPMS catalog say it's chrome lined 4150. 11.5 w/pinned flash hider- yes, I'm weird. It went out of stock after I bought it- hopefully I don't get an email saying I don't get it. Saved at Midway using codes found on AR15.com. Might have shopped elsewhere if they didn't have them....hint, hint Midway.....

I'm getting an Aero Precision lower in my first internet transfer. I could have saved a little on the lower if I hadn't been in a mall ninja mood at the last gun show, but I thought I had a Spikes lower found. Live and learn. Between taxes/ transfer fee it works out closely. And I paid a little more for some parts locally (charging handle and LPK) but I like my LGS and give them as much business as possible. Just need a rear BUIS, but the carry handle will swap over from the other just fine. It isn't like I can shoot them both at the same time, after all, I'm not a lead farmer.... The locals have sights, I'll just get one there when I get the lower.

Interesting

And by interesting, I mean pathetic. I need to read more to really opine, but it sounds like he should have raised the black flag a little sooner.

Another cool tool I don't have...

And can't afford. The Benjamin Rogue 357 air rifle. Now with hunting video. Not for the squeamish.

Yeah, I'm spending the day lurking the GD on ARF. So sue me.....It's raining and cold and my wife has decided on a Star Wars marathon. I need something to do when Jar Jar Stinks is on screen....I could spend all day on wookiepedia or tvtropes, either of those will suck me in for days.

AR 15 kaboom

One way to explain it. Over at ARF. Some kind of Bushmaster Carbon 15 shooting Hornaday Superperformance blew its wad all over hell. The P-mag survived, with cracked windows.

Stuff that bugs me....

I arrived home tonight in time to watch the final laps of the NASCAR race; the 'Toyota' beat the 'Chevrolet' blah blah. Left the TV on Fox's broadcast until the news came on and I caught the race credits or some kind of promo. It included an animated wireframe(ish) V8 engine. Well, the pistons, rods and crank moved, but not the valves. So whatever uncanny valley instinct I have kicked in and I have a feeling I missed one other minor detail.....it was a 4 valve engine, if I'm not mistaken. LOL. Now I have spent the last 30 minutes trying to find the video online and can't... Guess I'll check again next week.
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Old target is old....

We were looking over the video camera files for stuff to delete when I ran across this:

This was at 50 yards from an 18" 870 with an antique Tasco Pro-point2. With a nasty saddle mount, and Walmarts finest bulk 2 3/4" slugs. If you can get the target to hold still, it prints fairly decent groups from the bench, and minute of deer off hand.

First Blogoversary

Okay, so it was April 7th. I know I blog in spurts, and for awhile there it was once a month. That was for a reason. I was undergoing some kind of federal background check at work (Nothing glamorous, but I am cleared to walk railroad tracks) and my wife outed me on Facebook within 25 seconds of me starting the blog. And it wasn't going well, so I decided to STFU. It turned out my denials were based on my holiday birthday, and that I had the same last name as another guy. Talk about stupid ass reasons to be denied. Here I was thinking it was all the NICS hits within a one month period last year combined with a couple of f^cktarded jabs at the 'Bamster. Silly rabbit, bureaucracy is far more petty than that.....


I have a "why I blog"/"why I carry" post brewing somewhere, but I need to generalize a lot to avoid too much attention from the parties involved. As it is, two minutes (or less) of goog-fu would get you their names. One of those, 'don't want the eye of Mordor focused on you' things. This was nothing these people did to me, nor I to them.

It is like we have a cat.

At work today a rabbit died right at the front gate. Others arriving before me noticed it was still moving. So it is up to me to dispose of it. Think I will make sure it is dead before I bin it, just in case it's rabid or worse. Don't want any dumpster divers getting bitten by a zombie rabbit.
O/T I don't know if it is my phone or browser, but I get double taps when commenting. At least WV catches them so I don't look like complete moron on some blogs.
Added:

This little bugger just ain't right. It weighed less than nothing, and had nasty looking parasites/growths on its ears. The other side was worse. The guys that left at midnight said it just sat by their cars twitching, so it made it about 15 feet in 7 hours. I'm not nasty enough to take an after picture.

I guess when all you have is sheep....

They all look like they need sheered. Or is that sheparded?
So if the NATO summit and the illuminatti meeting,er G(x) meeting (that was moved) attract so much interest in the protest class, why not hold the meeting somewhere with clear lines of sight for miles and less flammable stuff(like Chicago). Like the camps they are supposedly setting up for the people they want to evacuate?

I do agree with some of the complaints against the G(x) groups. But the class of protestors they attract seem to be the burn it all types. Maybe that is what is hoped for, so crackdowns can be made on other protests.

And either at the above linked article or another recent article, the S Service has met with the protest group leaders. So.....did they just walk down the hall to the campaign office or stumble into a brothel at the same time....

No word on Skittles and Iced Tea or Hoodies here...

Looks like a woman shot an 18 year old "'teen'" (double scare quotes)who was trying to break and enter (Occupy?) her home at the bright and sunshine filled hour of 2:20 PM. She even warned them before she fired that she had a gun. Guess someteen watches movies where people who have a gun don't shoot. I think the curricula at the punk-ass training schools needs to be updated to include that more people who have guns will use them, as their minions in the gun control movement are failing to protect them by disarmament.

Maybe I should join a hate* group...

Like the Brady bunch or similar. That way I could write fake whiney letters to the editor about how the Pro murder (self defense is not murder EMFDYSI) anti self help crowd doesn't really represent me even though I am a member.

H/T to Weerd.

*Against an established civil right (see Heller, etc)=hate group. Also hypocrites, since so many speaking out against guns and bearing them have carry permits themselves. Should not their rainbows and light be good enough for their own defense too?

As I sit waiting for work to start...

I see traffic backed up for 3 to 4 miles on 2 different highways. Supposedly someone hit a deer then several people hit that person. Hopefully they had stayed in the car....

Friday, 35 north out of Ankeny was stopped dead. We saw the head of the stoppage while going south- no accident there, just two morons playing in traffic. Wacky stuff.