As we speak, the Austrian F1 Grand Prix is only about ten days away. Yup, a starting ceremony dedicated to giving a blowjob to BLM, followed by the usual 95-minute parade lap. I can hardly wait.
That said, I think the Russian GP is going to be even more boring:
Insty puts it best: “People only buy Russian when they can’t afford the good stuff.”
A little while ago we were talking here about deep-woods lever rifles, and somebody expressed a wish for a lever rifle that could be loaded with a pointed boolet (i.e. magazine-fed as opposed to the traditional tube).
How about Henry’s Long Ranger in .308 Win?
For me, this one ticks all the boxes except that it doesn’t appear to be drilled and tapped for scope mounts — not that this is a deal-breaker in a setting which seldom requires a shot further than 200 yards (and usualy, much less).
Also, it looks weird without the tube under the barrel, but that’s just a cosmetic and personal thing — if you’ve got a magazine, no tube necessary, of course.
Collectors has one on sale for just under a grand, so if you’re interested… go there and look at the other pics. And don’t come crying to me if in your perusal, you get sidetracked into the Collectors Matrix.
I have to tell you all: that is a sweet little rifle. I’ve had good experience with Henry rifles in the past; their quality is excellent (hence the premium price), their triggers require no gunsmithing, and their lever actions are a lot smoother than new WinMar rifles.
Want.
I’d seen mention of this place before, but Reader BradC sent me the full scoop on this wondrous creation:
Lockdown has forced many pub lovers out there to source other forms of entertainment. Some have decided to do bar crawls at home, while others have used Zoom calls to have a drink with their buddies. There are also those who have decided to forgo drinking at all and picked up new hobbies. However, the most creative solution came to the Crabs family, who realized they needed to get a pub built in their garden.
After consulting with Amy, who is the mastermind behind Octavia Chic, and her husband, plans to create a garden pub were made. It took around three weeks for Amy and her husband to complete this project and the result took people’s breath away.
I want one of these. I want it badly. If I had a backyard, this would be assembled and running in about a week. And you’d never see me again.
My question is how Longtime Friend Mr. Sorenson (Reader TrueBrit’s hubby) has not had one of these installed yet.
In fact, the only thing wrong with the place (other than not having Wadworth 6X on tap) is that it’s missing a brass foot rail.
And Southern Comfort on an optic… hand me mah smellin’ salts, Martha.
Go there and drool over the pics.
I see that the USAF is replacing the steel M9 Beretta pistols with the Mattel SIG M18.
M9s are larger, heavier, all-metal pistols; whereas M18s are lighter polymer pistols with a more consistent trigger pull and adjustable grips for large and small hands.
Well, isn’t that special. They’re catering to the metrosexuals, even.
It must be a better pistol: 18 is twice as good as 9, right?
I’m just surprised that the Zoomies kept that mega-macho 9mm Parabellum cartridge, instead of going for the lighter-still, gentle-recoil .22 LR option. I mean, with the difference in weight, you can carry 500 rounds of .22 LR compared to just one hundred of the 9mm.
[eyecross]
Oh, dear: it appears that the double-whammy of the Chinkvirus and the BaconLettuceMayo / Pantifa Lootfest Extravaganza Of 2020 is having an [unexpected!] consequence:
Apartment purchases for co-ops and condos in Manhattan fell by 80 percent in May. The high-end market took an even bigger hit – with sales of those valued between $5 million and $10 million down 90 percent.
That article is just in response to the Chinkvirus. It’s going to get worse as the Pantifa Summer gets going.
Let’s hear it for the Big Apple:
That was in response to the lockdown. Now add the Pantifa Factor:
Just wait till NYC government [sic] discovers the lower tax receipts that follow, and the budget shortfall caused by this exodus.
Forgive me for not giving a rat’s ass. Fuck ’em, and the same goes for their poxy Newspaper Of Record.
So I tried on my “neighborhood defense” gear yesterday, and OMG it was heavy. I took a brief walk over to our apartment complex’s mailbox center (without the AK because I don’t want to frighten the rest of Little Mumbai), and I was puffing and panting when I came back — as much for the weight as for the ambient temperature (Texas Early Summer, i.e. +/- 93F).
Gawdnose what it would be like with a webbing mag carrier etc., as shown in yesterday’s post, and a loaded AK.
I need to rethink this. Maybe I’ll forgo the AK and use the old M1 Carbine instead: lighter, the ammo is lighter too, AND it would be slightly more concealable under a dust coat than the AK.
Hey, if it was good enough for our fathers’ generation in WWII Europe against actual Nazis…
My only problem is that I don’t have as much .30 Carbine ammo (hardly any compared to the AK), for starters. However:
I need to think about this whole thing a little more.