TargetTalk

It may well be all they had in their collection of flags. Thailand has always been a good friend of the US.

I would not attribute to malice, what could better be explained by simple ineptitude (is there a better word for this?).

I know nothing about air rifles, but simple logic would tell me that unless you're using medical grade compressed air (and you're not) then discharging air through your rifle is introducing fine particle contaminants into the barrel (the air was not perfectly filtered going in). Do this enough and ...

+1

A fairly typical bureaucrat's response. Firstly, they confuse crime with safety. Secondly, because bad people hurt others with guns, they try to keep guns out of the hands of the good people.

"By the way the ideal gas equations use degrees kelvin so an increase of 20 degrees C from 10 to 30 is not actually a huge amount as in the formula it goes from 283 to 303deg K.." Yes, both pressures and temperatures are from absolute zero. We can pretty well neglect the pressure differenc...

Be careful with the ball ended wrenches. They have significantly less contact area to get that little bit of an angle. It's entirely too easy to strip the hex out of the screw, especially stainless screws. Especially flat head screws that have a reduced hex. It's common enough that there's a term fo...

If you don't care then I agree with Muffo: Ng 20x33 spotting scope is what you seek They are a nice piece of gear. Packs into a really small case. The 30x scope is better in my view for marginal conditions at 50m.[/quote] They are a nice piece of gear. Packs into a really small case. The 30x scope i...

Try a spray can of "freeze" from an electronics store. Alternatively, a can of "canned air" (which isn't air) held upside down will have the same effect. It is a spray of liquid that rapidly evaporates and will chill whatever it's sprayed on. Spray it on the inside part to shrink...

hundert wrote:yeah, throw them away, the lead oxide is harder than lead and could scratch your bore.

Sorry. Lead oxide is actually softer then lead metal. They most definitely won't scratch your bore.

Is it the case that a full 2700 is a rare thing these days? I'm really just trying to increase my opportunities to compete. If I can do that with a non-.45 then I would, but the 1800s around here seem to throw out the CF portion and keep the .45 portion. Maybe just roll with my revolvers until I fe...

No points for velocity. Only for accuracy.

Hard to beat McMaster Carr.

https://www.mcmaster.com/#cheese-head-screws/=15tqpg8

I'm sure many another industrial supplier will have them as well.

Ace Hardware? Those seals are not typical O-rings. I wish they were, but they are a trapezoidal cross section. The wider bottom face fits into an undercut in the breech itself. Fire the pistol with the breech unlatched and the seals will launch themselves across the range into the dark, dusty corne...

Add to that the costs of a scuba tank at about 225 (maybe) and the yoke adapters at maybe 150, ... A used tank from a local dive shop will likely go for around $150US and come with current inspections (annual) and filled ($10 to $15). Yoke adapters can be had on ebay for anywhere from $20 to $180 f...

David Levene wrote: Do you really expect shooters who have dedicated many years of their lives to reaching the top, having reached a position to achieve their dreams, to just turn their backs on it at the last minute.

If anything, it's the IOC turning their backs on the shooters.

A little reprint: Humanitarian tragedy in the making. Crisis at the Canadian Border - A Prescient Look at the Consequences of a Republican Win in November (we can only hope). The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for in...

Sheesh! Laser pistols? Really?

Do they swim in dry pools and ride hobby horses? Run on treadmills? Maybe fence with foam rubber foils, too.

Maybe synchronized pentathlon. They could wave ribbons behind them. I see that's done in some other of the new age events.

I've seen a couple of variations on homemade ramped barrels for HS. One involved adding a bit of weld in the right place, another was a bit of a screw into a hole drilled in the breechface. Both involved a lot of hand shaping for a minimal ramp. Obviously, some care needed to be taken in placing the...

This was my comment: "The very first event in the very first modern Olympics was a free pistol match. The Queen of Greece fired the first shot to open the modern Olympics. Let's not let that history die!"

Norm

Rover wrote:I thought the Canadian snowbirds would be lining up to get their hands on a submachine gun.

They'll probably have to use big sticks to drive away the Japanese and the Californians.