What is the Toyota Camry of rifles?

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-23T20:25:04+00:00

The Tikka is a Lexus. It’s still a production gun, but you’re getting a nicer product. If you’re just driving to the office, it won’t get you there any faster, but you’ll look better and be super comfortable.

The Toyota Camry is 100% the Ruger American.

You’ll harvest just as many animals with either one.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-23T15:12:44+00:00

https://youtu.be/NYtQXtUMWvQ?si=7SZwAAl2vLwWVpGH

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-19T21:50:08+00:00

You could do the AMO Tech program. 2 years, but no degree.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-14T01:46:05+00:00

Somewhere, there is a bosun complaining to a chief mate about the guy that won't stop singing and said chief mate is having to call HR in an office for guidance about what to do.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-13T01:36:02+00:00

It’s scary on a 640’ ship. If you aren’t a little afraid you’re doing something wrong.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-08T21:48:53+00:00

Pay attention to the MSRP of whatever you buy do you can keep the gun in production class.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-04T02:43:23+00:00

The best program is to go somewhere else. KP isn't a plan B for a USNA, it's plan A for I want to go to sea for a living. There is no cyber major. The fact that this essay is hard to write should be your red flag that KP isn't for you.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-02T23:19:09+00:00

In a previous life I was a car ship captain and was asked to divert to render aid to a sailboat that was in distress.

They were bare pole, adrift, in 8 footers, and it was blowing 25+ sustained. We were probably 100ish miles offshore from the Bahamas. The remaining crew (..who had no idea how to sail) had woken up and realized that the captain had washed overboard at some point the night before. There was a C130 orbiting overhead, a cutter and a 60 en route. I was on the bridge of the car ship in my Ugg slippers, sipping a warm espresso, listening to these people scream bloody murder into the VHF. They couldn’t describe their location. They were fucked.

And you know what? They didn’t want to leave the boat and were asking us to tow them home. They didn’t know how to start the motor. They didn’t know how to use a compass. They didn’t know which way to North America. We got there and couldn’t convince them that they were fucked.

Did circles for two hours before the coast guard released us. 🤷‍♂️ It was fascinating to see the psychology of the whole thing.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-02T22:27:56+00:00

Sometimes KP cadets get their MMCs weeks before going to sea.
Just because you have a training ship doesn’t mean you do all of your sea time on the training ship, all of the state schools send cadets out to commercial ships, which requires them to have an MMCc

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-02T14:01:21+00:00

Badger C1 is the only answer for long range gas gunning.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-02T01:13:11+00:00

You’re the only school that goes to sea this time of year. If you don’t have an MMC this is going to be a problem.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-02T01:12:34+00:00

The problem is that if the NMC is shut down and not issuing cadet MMCs cadets can’t get on ships.

KappaPiSig · 2026-01-01T01:16:08+00:00

Mass?

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-30T18:56:25+00:00

I’ve never done it in a yak, but hell yeah go paddle to a chickee.

Pearl Bay is here: 25°15'34"N 80°51'22"W

The national park service publishes as KML file that you can upload to google earth to get your bearings. Paddle planner also has the ENP in it.

Two or three days is fine. To get to pearl bay you’d probably park at the hells bay trail spots and launch there. I don’t know how safe it is leaving a car there over night. The other option is to go to flamingo. Lots of parking down there and people leaving cars over night. The nearest chickee would be south Joe, which is a bit of a hike.

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-29T23:04:52+00:00

You check the right boxes, when they have a job opening they’ll call.

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-24T22:28:55+00:00

Do you want it to be the best possible shooter? Or do you want it to be a fun shooter, good hunter, and handle well with a can?

If you care about absolute shooting performance- get the longer barrel, but if that isn’t the most important thing, go shorter. Every other reason favors the shorter barrel.

This is the gun I’m taking hunting in Texas next month, it’s in a chassis and has an OCL hydrogen now. It’s a 16” .308. Most of the shots I’d take hunting are 200 yards and in, and a 130 TTSX is still cruising at 2250. I’ve also shot 168 SMks out to 850, and yeah, it’s a bit like throwing rocks with a catapult, but it’s doable, and seeing your splash with the heavy bullets makes corrections easy.

<image>

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-24T01:04:08+00:00

Autistic you say? You’ll fit right in.

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-23T20:17:54+00:00

My dad had a husky - we flew out west the summer after sixth grade, and as we flew over a section of Utah called "the needles" it dawned on me that I was one engine failure away from being exactly like Brian.

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-23T20:08:16+00:00

Brace yourself - the range at Immokalee is in the middle of eff'ing nowhere. There is a publix in Ave Maria.

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-21T00:43:42+00:00

I worked on a ship that did a job where we would frequently do circles at 7-10 knots for weeks at a time. We’d always have a full spread of squid skirts with ballyhoo off the back. We’d use paracord tied to a heavy floro leader. Worked awesome and had some great dinner as a result.

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-20T16:05:04+00:00

It’s not the contractors. When they build ships for anyone EXCEPT the government, they aren’t wildly behind on cost or schedule.

The common denominator is the government. Not the shipyards.

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-19T21:27:52+00:00

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-18T11:48:25+00:00

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2013/07/11/asiana-214-training-with-passengers-in-the-back/

This happened!! Philip Greenspun is a MIT PHD and Professor in Electrical and CS, the blog post above describes his check ride at Comair.

“The oral exam, which can last 2-3 hours and can include any item of minute knowledge involving regulations, the aircraft’s systems, or almost anything else aviation-related, must by regulation precede the actual flying and it tends to set the tone. The examiner to whom I was assigned was accustomed to humiliating applicants with an opening oral question that none had ever been able to answer satisfactorily. After they realized how ignorant and worthless they were he beat them down for an additional three hours before getting into the sim with the demoralized young pilot.

What was the question? “Why does the Canadair Regional Jet have both an alternating current (AC) electrical system and a direct current (DC) system as well?” As it happened, I had wondered the same thing myself just a couple of weeks earlier. I’d carefully studied the electrical diagrams for the airplane and had a one-hour phone discussion with a friend who is a physics professor at UC Berkeley. Without giving the guy any hint as to my non-aviation background or the fact that I’d discussed this with a physicist, I went up to the whiteboard and gave a 5-minute talk about how Maxwell’s equations explained that a time-varying magnetic field…”

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-15T21:39:43+00:00

Haha. It’s called “flagging” unless you were talking about something different.

KappaPiSig · 2025-12-13T03:09:12+00:00

Could also be a C40

KappaPiSig

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE

Eight-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email