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I took it out to play today and re-zero the scope. Ammo was 1985 Russian light ball. Temp was 92

My buddy is on vacation in NC this week but comes back on saturday. I will go over and ask him on sunday if we can do it at his place.

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Well as yall know, I am more than likely getting layed off thanks to Comerade Obama. He has instated a 6 month moratorium on all offshore drilling in the gulf of mexico. It is going to blow up in his face and collapse the economy of the south and trickle up north. Right now the oil companies are planning on moving the rigs overseas, rather than sit idle for 6 months. When the rigs go overseas, they aren't coming back because it costs too much money to move them. So when they finally open up offshore drilling, there wont be anybody to drill. Please sign the petition to lift the offshore drilling ban, and maybe the Comerade in charge will get the message. http://www.crt.state.la.us/GEST/PetitionList.aspx

I can see if we can shoot on my buddies farm. We occasionally shoot 1000yds there, now that would make it really interesting!!

The gun has transformed quite a bit since the last update, but I still have a bunch of work to do. I need to camo the rings, bolt, and bipod and put a coat of clear on everything. I used my Dad's BDU's from Vietnam as a reference( I know I am a youngin') but I think it came out pretty darn close. My dad has affectionately nicknamed it "the snake eater," so I think I impressed him which is hard to do. There are a bunch of blemishes and goof ups, but for my first attempt at a sporter I think it is starting to look pretty bad a$$.

If my parts come in tomorrow, the MG42 is comin out to play. If not, will have to wait till next time.

I am lucky..... My back yard for up to 100 and for longer range, shoot my buddies pig farm.

ROFLMAO!!!

Mak..... Remember OPSEC!

Welcome from Blairstown. Nice to see a fellow Polock on the forum. Give me a shout if you want to meet up and do some shootin'

Well depending on the operation there are always 3 people on a rov system at any given time. They have a sonar operator, pilot, and winch operator. We rotate all 3 positions when we dive. If they are using one of the T4 arms, there is a pilot which fly's the sub and normally the sonar operator operates the arms. On the regular beefy conan arms, the pilot controls the arms and pilots the sub at the same time. You are only seeing one camera visual, there are literally 20 different monitors to get different angles in the control room. It can get very hectic trying to watch all the monitors and fly at the same time. My sub is technically called millenium 14 according to the company. But we all affectionately call her Big Lucille. It always makes it kinda fun to say when you are going to wash the sub, "goin to douche big lucille", or we tell the oil company rep that we are "getting Big Lucille wet" when we go for a dive.... you can kinda see the fun in that.

I was origininally thinking of that as well but I don't think it would be easy or even possible in a short period of time. If they could get somebody down there to turn a wrench I'd say yes, but using robot submersibles... Probably not without some sort of specialized fitting to be be able to lock onto each nut and generate a huge amount of torque. Seems like it would be a good time to start developing something like that though if they aren't already. It is something we do all the time with the subs. We can put a nut on a bolt just like you can with your arm, if the operator is experienced enough. It appears they are using conan arms mad by schilling robotics which have a large amount of torque they can apply. Depending on how you set up your hydraulics, it is possible to achieve 75ft lbs. If you need greater torque we utilize a tool called a "rotary torque tool" and those are hydraulically driven torque multipliers. You can achieve above 2,000ftlbs of torque using those. The smaller arms they are using sometimes are called a T4 spatially controlled arm. Those are for fine detail work(threading a nut) but really lack some balls. I know with my sub, last year we picked up a piece of debris from the bottom that weighed over 1,000lbs

dont forget the north has the MG-42. Nothing says dont fuck with me like beltfed goodness!

Eh just did it to help defend good 'ol pinky...... nothin more.

I will put any of my surplus guns including a mosin against a run of the mill ar any day. Atleast all of them have something called STOPPING POWER. But atleast if you run out of ammo you can use one as a wiffle bat.

Ray, does the Pope have holy water? Of course I have them, I am just not as passionate about them.

Too bad you insisted on a pea shooter requirement Ray, I would have been intersted in the north squad.

How about another would it be legal weapon question? Would a 'ma deuce .50 be legal? If I don't get layed off thanks to Comerade Obama, I think this would be my goal by the end of the year. The only thing I could think of would be 15rd belts.

. I guess I can say I have a few. Most are collector stuff and don't come out to play too often.

I warned you in the beginning Mak............ Surplus is addicting!

I have bought from him before to add some cool signs to my gun room. He is an excellent seller, and has some unique high quality stuff. Everytime people come over they always ask me where I got some of the signs hanging in the garage. If you are looking for something to add to the gun room I recommend this guy.

Holy crap! A meetup that is on my time off and isn't the day before I go back to work! If all goes well, I should be there....

Imagine what it will cost to heat your house this winter. Remember what happens to gas prices when a hurricane hits the gulf? That is just short term, this is going to be 6 mos. BOHICA!!!!!

We got shut down this afternoon. They aren't even letting us finish the hole we are drilling and we are almost done with it. This is going to kill the economy especially in la. Right now they are saying the people may get layed off and them send the rigs to Africa or brazil, why keep them just sitting there when they could be making money elsewhere. This sounds great for the economy and gas prices!