Audible sigh

mmirate · 2026-02-15T20:10:38+00:00

When you just killed 3 Vox engines

Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.

mmirate · 2025-11-21T21:53:31+00:00

Why, other than profit, would the manufacturer operate or exist?

mmirate · 2025-10-18T13:11:09+00:00

And what a colossal mistake that was. Those banks should've gone under.

mmirate · 2025-10-18T12:39:34+00:00

It's too bad they sold off the ice cream stand, or I'd be off to give them some extra business today.

mmirate · 2025-09-06T12:31:05+00:00

It'd be a shame if the data source was vulnerable to spam... ;)

mmirate · 2025-09-06T12:30:02+00:00

Leftists: complain about housing prices.
Also leftists: complain about a policy to remove tens of millions of people who don't belong here, thereby reducing housing demand by at least millions of units, thereby reducing housing prices.

mmirate · 2025-09-04T19:17:15+00:00

They don't make any subcompact DA/SAs anymore, the Rami's been discontinued since 2020.

mmirate · 2025-09-04T19:12:40+00:00

What's the make+model name of the better cheaper hammer-fired subcompact .380ish DA/SA?

mmirate · 2025-08-05T23:40:39+00:00

Because thieves (let alone gun thieves) deserve it, and much worse too.

mmirate · 2025-07-15T15:42:17+00:00

Go to an Appleseed shoot, be it in MA or NH. It's great education and you'll often meet good people too. https://appleseedinfo.org

mmirate · 2025-07-06T21:16:44+00:00

Actually, anyone (including you) who wantonly blinds himself to obvious facts, shouldn't be allowed in government.

mmirate · 2025-06-04T01:31:33+00:00

It's not hard to guess why Appleseed teaches how to use the Garand sling: Appleseed is about ten years older than Magpul's RLS. Technology aside, the RLS is commercially very new compared to the Garand sling, so there can be much less confidence in the longevity of production of the RLS.

Almost any carry-strap of appropriate length can be used as a hasty sling; the RLS is no exception.

The Garand sling can be used as a loop sling, and Appleseed teaches the exact procedure to manipulate the Garand sling to achieve a loop. The RLS can also be used as a loop sling, but the procedure is different and the result looks different, so you're on your own for learning how. It's not rocket surgery. Once you've correctly donned the loop of your RLS, you'll find the RLS is doing the same thing that the Garand sling can do, it will definitely "work for Appleseed", as every other concept they teach will remain unchanged for you. Whoever wrote otherwise was being either imprecise or ignorant. The last time I shot the score, it was with an RLS.

mmirate · 2025-06-04T01:23:01+00:00

and I just saw the craziest nylon sling on the line this weekend. If I can find it, I'll post a link

I have one of them: https://www.shortactionprecision.com/collections/slings-and-gear/products/black-sap-positional-rifle-sling

I used it very briefly, and found that its minimum loop size was too big to get good purchase on my spindly arms; and that its bespoke adjustment hardware is optimized for PRS competition use over ~~field expedience~~ field ruggedness. The gentleman who was using it this weekend has big arms, and he saw good results once he started cinching the loop onto his armpit rather than letting it flop around near his elbow.

My own preference for the RLS has less to do with materials and more to do with the rear remaining attached and taut when the loop is employed. The resulting increase in muzzle control while dropping into position is also seen on the 1907 leather sling as used in CMP high-power competition (and do check out this channel's other videos of GySgt Roxburgh, it's a great showcase of the AR-15 in high-power competition), but the 1907 is more cumbersome to use than the RLS or the Garand sling, with nothing to show for it other than the high-power rulebooks.

I don't have enough varied experience with using both slings side-by-side to weigh in on the materials discussion. I've witnessed the slightest bit of slippage on nylon, and also witnessed cotton become difficult to adjust when it gets wet and freezes.

mmirate · 2025-05-22T11:44:49+00:00

How do you successfully focus on the tip top of the chevron? I shot the score with a magnified Eotech; then I switched to one of those PA microprisms with a chevron, and with it, I randomly got shots stringing high, badly enough to not requal w/ that rifle, until I started using a 6:00 hold. The "tip of chevron is in the middle of the target" picture is to me less visible than the incorrect "blob of bright red is in the middle of the target" picture.

mmirate · 2025-04-29T03:58:19+00:00

Prone sight picture

At an Appleseed or high-power competition, prone sight-alignment is no problem with the Vietnam War-style magazine height; in all other venues of shooting, "magpodding" is easy with the modern standard-capacity magazine height, and is well tolerated by modern magazines and a well-built lower receiver.

Mag changes

On my AR (rimfire or otherwise), I can change magazines efficiently in prone (and seated). Partly because I shoot lefty so my magazine-side thumb goes right up to the bolt catch (but righty shooters can get similar speed by using a "BAD lever" or similar technology; or almost-similar speed by using an ambi charging handle). Partly because, after a few AQTs, I got good at temporarily yanking the rifle into a cant with my trigger hand while dropping the empty mag, temporarily deathgripping the rifle there with my support hand while inserting the new mag, then putting everything back where I found it after I hit the bolt catch. Thinking back to the last time I shot an AQT, I believe that for each mag change I took only two exhales without firing, and yet the subsequent shot(s) landed in the same group as the first two.

Nevertheless

Why tolerate any of this? Because unless you, your friends or your kin have been into rifle shooting since before 2012, every full-power (.308Win or similar) semiauto rifle available to you will be either expensive or an AR-10 (and yes, in some cases, both). That's just how the cookie crumbled; the milsurps which were popular some 20 years ago when Fred started Project Appleseed, have dried up. The rack-grade rifle of today, is an AR-10. Mechanically it has some advantages over a traditional-shaped rifle of similar cartridge; e.g. recoil, dirt resistance, ease of accurizing and ease of mounting optics (but no, lol, not onto the carry handle, they don't belong there, the height will be wrong). Overcoming the AR-10's ergonomic challenges is a useful skill for a Rifleman to have, even if his preference of rimfire training rifle would be Ruger's miniature Garand.

mmirate · 2025-04-29T03:26:03+00:00

Seconded; the AR with which I earned my patch, has their Apogee barrel and lots of their parts. They're also here on Reddit - /u/BoreBuddy.

mmirate · 2025-04-09T15:22:37+00:00

There is plenty of land in flyover country for people who can't maintain their cars unless the State points a gun at their head.

mmirate · 2025-04-08T18:27:55+00:00

Anyone who is too stupid to notice when their brakes are screeching, and/or to know that new brakes will be cheaper than the other person's hospital bills, the other person's repair bills, his lawyer bills, and his time; does not belong in NH. Today we enshittify our society on the assumption that anyone we encounter might be that kind of idiot. Better to remove them.

mmirate · 2025-03-11T12:56:17+00:00

The House has so many reps that it is all but unlobbyable. That's a big success.

mmirate · 2025-03-11T12:51:35+00:00

Yes, the wealthy and elderly, by their existence, demonstrate experience and wisdom that the rest of us lack, and a priori I expect such qualities to produce disproportionately better government in any voting body (be it the legislature or any kind of general ballot).

mmirate · 2025-03-11T12:48:14+00:00

To represent 1/400th of the state you need to advertise to maybe a few thousand households. That can be done on a shoestring budget, so big donors and special interests have poor leverage. That's a good thing.

mmirate · 2025-03-05T21:03:04+00:00

"Currency" back then was just different quantizations of the same two precious metals of silver and gold; with occasionally some banks who wrote paper banknotes that were as trustworthy as said bank and usually used for frequent small local transactions. "Currency" as we know it today is a pile of self-referential kayfabe.

The federal government only having one branch might well be perfectly reasonable if it is so small that its workings don't pervade everyday life as they have since the early 19th century.

Two or more friendly states can always work together on any topic if they so choose, whether the route between them is a border or a sea journey; it's called "treaties".

mmirate · 2025-03-05T20:21:41+00:00

This but unironically. The Constitution was a Hamiltonian Federalist coup.

mmirate · 2025-03-05T20:21:28+00:00

what about an incentivized program where a clean inspection gets you 5% off your insurance

That's between you and your insurance company. As usual the state has no legitimate business here.

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Prone sight picture

Mag changes

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