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Remember those pre-scored silver bars that let you ‘make change’ in 1/4 oz. increments? Turns out there’s also a version that does it in 1/3 oz. as well. My buddy the precious metals pimp got a bunch and brought a few by to show off. While I’d seen the 1/4 ones before the 1/3 were something completely new.
Really, it would seem to me that it makes far more sense to have something like that with gold.
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——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Version for 15×1 HK thread?
From: Commander Zero <zero@commanderzero.com>
Date: Mon, August 13, 2012 9:53 pm
To: “info@battlecomp.com” <info@battlecomp.com>Shot a buddy’s AR with one of your BattleComp devices this weekend. Really impresive! Any chance you make a .308 version for the HK/PTR series of .308 rifles? Or, if not, any chance I can get one of your .308 ones before it gets to the threaded part of the production process and have my guy thread it for me?
Unfortunately, we are completely tied up with current product manufacturing. If we are able to do more custom work in the future we will post it when available. Thank you for your support.JohnJohn M. Stankewicz, Account Manager
Battle Comp Enterprises, LLC
101 Hickey Blvd. Suite A455
South San Francisco, CA 94080
(650) 678-0778 Main
(650) 403-4527 FAX
john@battlecomp.com
www.battlecomp.com
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Well nuts….Life Liberty Etc, the makers of my WWRD shirt, are apparently folding up their tent. Closeout sale but most of the common sizes are already long gone. I mention in case theres any 3XL or XS people out there who want some fun shirts.
I usually wear that one to the local organic hippie mart when the missus and I are shopping for overpriced, organic, free-trade, socially-conscious… actually, you know what, I can’t even type all that without my eyes rolling. Let’s just leave it at “I wear it to piss off hippies”.
So….one is none, two is one. We fade back and go to our backup supplier of annoy-the-left t-shirts – Those Shirts…. the source of my fabulous “excuse me, where did you get that??” Reagan shirt.
Kinda sad about Life Liberty Etc. Fortunately, another outfit that sends a message using cotton also exists: 1791 Apparel. You gotta believe theres one of these and these in my future, size L. Although, I like the selector switch ones too.
Rather silly to be thinking of t-shirts now, though. Today is the first day where it isn’t in the mid-90′s…..fall is still a month and a half away but, as I am reminded, hunting season is only two months away. I should be thinking less about t-shirts and more about wool.
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Got a cool little piece of gear for my birthday…a small ‘marker panel’. I was gifted with one of these “Marker Panel, Individual, LW (MPIL)“ from Battle Systems. Although you might ask yourself, what would a person possibly need with something like this I have exactly the perfect use for it. See, most of my gear is either OD or some form of camo. When I go hunting I wear an orange vest, but I wear a camouflage backpack which covers the orange on my back. This thing will be perfect for affixing to the pack to keep my “don’t shoot me” factor high. Also, if I dump my pack or gear somewhere so I can travel lightly for whatever reason, I can find my way back to it a good deal easier. There’s a review of it over at Jerking The Trigger. I like that theres a section of velcro for attaching a glint patch of some kind…makes things a little easier at night and in the falling light. The whole thing folds up to about the size of a book of matches and weighs less than an ounce. Coverage is enough to easily meet the mandated minimum square inches of orange cover for hunting season.Given the small size and high visibility, I’ll probably stuff this into the little wilderness survival kit I take with me hunting and fishing.
As I was playing with this, it got me thinking of the original marker panels this was based on..the VIS-17 panels. Never seen one before so…ordered a couple to play with. Hey, if small is good then bigger is better, right?
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Had a couple of friends from out-of-town visiting the last week. Always nice to get to spend time with Like-Minded Individuals. One of them brought along his AR which had the most amazing compensator/brake/supressor I’ve ever experienced.
The AR was just your standard carbine in .223….nothing remarkable. But the ‘muzzle device’ from BattleComp was amazing. There was virtually no muzzle rise at all. In fact, I’m tempted to say there was no muzzle rise because I sure didn’t notice any. This thing just gave the rifle a bit of a push straight back and that was it. If I were going to be engaging multiple targets quickly this thing would be just the ticket. If I ever put together a close-quarters carbine this will be the thing that goes on the end of the barrel. It isn’t really a compensator, isn’t really a brake, and isn’t really a flash suppressor…it is apparently a combination of the three. But, whatever, it was awesome.
They apparently make a 7.62 version and I would love to have one on my PTR-91 but apparently they only make ‘em threaded for a few .308′s and mine ain’t one of ‘em. Gotta send ‘em an email and see if I can get something done about that.
In the meantime, these things aren’t cheap but, wow, I was way impressed. Didn’t notice any real increase in noise, although Im sure there must be a tradeoff somewhere…no free lunch and all that. Go check ‘em out.
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I must say, this year’s birthday was a bountiful one. I am exceptionally pleased that I managed to parlay the birthday gifties so that I finally ‘finished’ my Uzi.
Three things I wanted for the Uzi. I mean, other than a third choice on the selector.
For a gun design thats been around fifty years, there is an absolute dearth of Uzi rail systems out there. Oh, you can buy the usual handguards that someone then bolted a section of rail onto…thats easy to find. And, for most situations, that’s really about all you need. But I wanted to run a light and a VFG. So…first things first. Let’s get some rails. I wound up with this: Mako Tactical Rail System for Uzi
So,,,now we’ve got rails. Lets throw a VFG on. I went with the Magpul MOE RVG Grip, Black
So, that left the tactical light..which is where it gets interesting. I tried pulling the old Streamlight M3 off my Glock and putting it on the Uzi. A little snug on the rail, but not bad. Trouble is, its an old model..incandescent/Xenon. I’m trying to switch over to LED lights for the increased durability and battery run-time. So, I pulled the Scout 
Speaking of birthdays, the vast portion of gifties this year wound up being, naturally enough, preparedness-related….so I got plenty of fodder for some product reviews which will be forthcoming over the next couple weeks. Some really cool stuff. Man, I wish birthdays came more than once a year.
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From a link that was sent to me in email. How to make your own Pepper Spray.
I’ve never been sprayed with the stuff directly, although I’ve gotten a face full indirectly a couple times. However, my lovely wife, as part of her training, got a solid blast of it in the face from about three feet away. It does indeed blind you, and it does make breathing a spotty endeavour, but…and this is important…if the bad guy already has a grip on you somewhere he can still continue his melee attack (since he doesnt need to see in order to continue beating on you when he already has a hold of you). If he doesn’t have a grip on you, then he’s going to have a heck of a time finding you what with the blinding and tearing up of the eyes. (Of course, to my way of thining, if the bad guy already has a grip on you then the situation has advanced beyond pepper spray and into things a bit more dangerous.) I like the idea of having a graduated scale of escalating force options and pepper spray gives you that. However, the impression that spraying someone in the face with the stuff will spare you a beating isn’t exactly 100% true.
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Yay silver! A thoughtful gift from my buddy the PM dealer. Survivalist silver…..pre-scored so you can ‘make change’ o those transactions where a full ounce of silver is just too much.
ETA: It occurs to me that I should probably put some sort of link to where you can get some of these if youre so inclined.
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