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Ah, ’tis my birthday. And, as a wise man once opined, you’re only as young as the woman youre feeling. If you’re in a quandary because you didn’t shop early and are now left wondering what you could possibly get me on such short notice, fear not! Simply find a suitable .jpg of an amazingly hot chick holding a gun and email it to me. Clothed, lingerie, naked, whatever….hot chicks with guns.
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So the great Missoula Gun Show came and went. I played it pretty cheaply, all things considered. And while I bought a few small goodies for myself I did manage to keep from buying the really big tickets I wanted. I love going to gun shows and it’s always a pleasure to just wander the aisles..
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Someone sent me this link about some of the new portable woodburner stoves on the market these days. I’d heard about the Solo stove and have been curious to try one….but, this other stove, Firebox, seems like a real gem, other than it’s weight. Usually when Im just out for the day, I take a little Esbit stove. But for being out in the boonies a bit longer it would be nice to be able to just burn the abundant twigs and other burnable detritus that litters the woods. What’s the difference between these and just building a fire on its own? Generally, these things are designed to create drafts that create hotter burning, more efficient fires. Hey, I’m all about less work at less expense. I went ahead and added the Firebox to my Amazon Wish List and at some point I’ll pick one up and put it through its places.
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Rotated some stored gas today. Fuel from, according to the tag, 2010. About two years of storage. The fuel was treated with a generous dose of PRI Fuel Stabilizer
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Birthday tomorrow. Another gift came in the other day and I need to do a write-up on it. Its one of these (Freeplay FreeCharge 12V 
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Well I can cross off the ARMS #22 set of QD rings from my Amazon Wish List. Was wandering around the gun show and found a guy selling a pair for $65. Thats almost 50% off the new price. These babies will get mated up with my IOR M2 scope and mounted on one of my flattop ARs. Eventually, I hope to put together something very similar to the RRA Coyote rifle which will then be the new home for this arrangement.
Saw a few other goodies of interest but Im trying to behave and not spend any money. Although I did pick up a nice Hensley and Gibbs bullet mould for a mere $5…that would have been criminal to pass up.
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I like lowers with non-typical markings…you know, the kinda stuff that instead of saying ‘safe’ and ‘semi’ and ‘full’ say things like ‘safe’, ‘tshtf’ and ‘teotwawki’. Although, from a practicality standpoint, I rather like the lowers with the HK-style pictograms.
Anyway, I wonder if the Chuck Schumer commemorative AR lower can’t be too far behind.
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Yay Mormons! Trip to the cannery went smoothand quick. Got my goodies and was outta there in a lot less time than I anticipated. My thanks to the local LDS members who allowed me to accompany them. (Technically, I could have gone on my own invite but I feel more comfortable going with someone as their guest.)
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Tam, over at View From The Porch, has a lovely piece about someone stepping on his own dick over the proposal being bandied about to ban the internet/mailorder purchase of ammo by lowly civilians. His idea is that if we surrender Poland, maybe the Germans will leave the rest of Europe alone.
At which point, his Facebook exploded.
So, a guy who makes his business selling ammo is supporting restrictions that will force people to come to him for his ammo. Okay, it’s a bit self-serving, but at least I can understand that. But then it gets clouded in the Neville Chamberlain-ing Bill Ruger-ing of ‘maybe if we throw this one guy out of the sled, the wolves will stop chasing us.’
Back-pedalling and ‘what I really meant was…’ has already started. I dunno about you but if the zombie apocalypse was going on and this guy was the last source for 9mm ammo, I’d forget about my Glocks, go all Daryl Dixon on the zombies and lead ‘em straight to this guys shop.
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Well, I’m officially done blegging. That doesn’t mean you can’t donate if you want to, it just means I’m done mentioning it. About two dozen folks were kind enough to fling some greenbacks at me for operating expenses, including one fella who went old-school and simply stuffed cash into an envelope and sent it in. All told, it’s enough to things humming for about the next three years…assuming prices on hosting don’t suddenly skyrocket. My most sincere thanks to those that donated and I hope to make you glad you did.
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Picked up a couple ALICE packs w/ frames the other day. The ALICE packs are pretty dinosaur-y, but they’re usually cheap and make a good secondary or tertiary level of backup. What I really like most about them is their ability to be used with a cargo shelf for hauling things like fuel cans and ammo boxes…anything large and fairly bulky can get strapped to the frame and carried. Someday when a person needs to manhandle five-gallons of water down a trail to a remote rally point, these babies will be just the ticket. Old Grouch has a decent deal on a frame/straps/shelf combo as well as a frame/straps/large bag combo. And if you’re a surplus junkie like me, you’ll really love the ‘used-n-musty’ ten-dollar medium packs…looks like they come with straps, so thats worth ten bucks on its own.
The ALICE packs arent my first choice for running out the door (first choice is my Kifaru bags), but for stashing a loaded pack somewhere ‘just in case’, having packs to hand out to unequipped guests, or hauling jerry cans ….a good choice.
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Gun show at the UM Field House tomorrow. I will be there all three days looking for bargains, catching up with acquaintances, doing a lot of ‘damn I wish I had the money for that’, and possibly..if Crom smiles upon me…buying some small odds-n-ends. Militia of Montana honcho Johnny Trochmann will be there and he always has useful stuff. Since it’s the largest show (and one of the oldest) in Montana it draws in vendors that normally don’t do other Montana shows. I need to keep an eye open for more Uzi mags and parts. Should be interesting to see how the markets are since the Colorado shootings…even without that event in the background, the fact that its an election year is enough to put the buying/selling markets into a state of heightened activity. Nonetheless, it shall be fun and I am greatly looking forward to attending. If youre in the region it’s Friday-Sunday at the University of Montana in Missoula.
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Happy, happy, joy, joy! As the mailman climbed outta his truck to give Nuke his MilkBone bribe I noticed the familiar Amazon box in his hand. (The mailman’s hand, not Nuke’s.)
Could it be? Dare I hope? Birthday gifties! w00t! (My birthday is next Tuesday…I’ll be 45. I should buy myself a Sig 220 or something to commemorate it.)
A very generous soul plucked a few items off my Amazon Wish List and had ‘em sent to yours truly. Well, I don’t know about you but I’m not exactly a ‘Do Not Open Until Xmas’ guy sooooooo……let’s crack this thing open and see what we got!
Ahhhh…..I’ve been very eager to try one of these. I love the notion of getting the advantages of Nalgene and still be able to have backwards compatibility with my older canteen covers and the like. Definitely going to have to check this out and see how it fits with a canteen cup and a few other accessories. Surprisingly, this thing is much more flexible than I was anticipating…I was figuring it would be a hard Lexan-like product like the traditional 32 oz. Nalgene bottle. Not so. It’s about as flexible as a regular GI canteen. (Are they even using those anymore? Seems like its all-CamelBak, All the time.) I have a feeling I’m going to wind up getting a few more of these and retiring the GI canteens down to a tertiary level of redundancy.
Next up, a package of Tuff QuickStrips…I got a couple of these a few weeks ago and still haven’t gotten a chance to go to the range and try them out. I’ve played around with them a bit and they are dead-ringers for the Bianchi strips in .38./.357, just scaled up. I have a very nice 1983-era reintroduction of the S&W M24 that I like to carry from time to time. (What can I say…too much Skeeter Skelton on my reading list when I was a young, impressionable 19-year-old) N-frame speedloaders can be a wee bit bulky, so these strips should be just the ticket for carrying some spare ammo discretely and unobtrusively while still retaining a speed advantage.
And, finally, a copy of TM 5-125 Rigging Techniques, Procedures and Applications. In the last few months I’ve developed an interest in non-powered methods of moving large, heavy objects…which means rope and pulleys. Some day there’s going to be a time when you need to move debris off the road, pull stalled cars out of your way, move heavy obstacles from your path, and lift/lower heavy gear into/outta the back of a vehicle. Can’t rely on electric winches, although theyre darn nice to have, so I figured this would be as good a place as any to start reading about how set up gin poles, windlasses, and that sort of thing. I loves me some TM’s and FM’s.
My sincere thanks to the generous reader who sent these birthday gifts along. I very much appreciate it and I’ll try to review these things and report back on ‘em so we can all get some use out of it. Again, mucho thanks.
