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  1. Meplat
    I think he'd be out of his element in a universe of his own creation. Cheeps strikes me as the kind of person who'd manage to drown in an inflatable wading pool.
  2. Meplat
    I'd be willing to bet there is a whole universe of stuff that dough-headed slapwit does not understand.
  3. Meplat
    Luigi is back..
  4. Meplat
    Naah, there's lots more.. Crap like soft nerfs on terrain passability, and traverse. The ROF nerfs were merely providing evidence that their BR system was ridiculous. But hey, I mentioned when they were considering the vehicle, that "they'll fuck it up, and nobody will be happy". Them changing their pen mechanics looks nice on the surface as far as "study", til you look at how they introduced half the M4's with radiators on aircooled engines (the M41 still suffers this), or just laughable module locations. I've already mentioned the wacky yaw issues the Corsairs and other low tier U.S. birds had. If you want to like it because it's the "new thing" that's fine. I'm looking at it with a more critical eye, because they are claiming an adherence to historical figures and features they seem incapable of sticking to. (Tiger 1 headlamps, anyone?)
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    Then you get the whole "shits where it eats" crowd, who I can only assume never dealt with a blowback subgun or one of the roller delayed H&K offerings (where one needs to have the skills of a proctologist, or a handy field portable solvent tank, to get really clean).
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    Another huge initial hurdle for the AR-15/M-16 was the hesitance of ordinance to issue sufficient magazines. It was not unusual to be issued one or two magazines, and three or four boxes of ammunition. Boxes, not clipped. Cleaning supplies and instructions were also scarce to non-existent. One of my relatives mentioned how when he was issued an early M-16, there was no cleaning material. He was told "You don't have to clean this rifle" by the issuing armorer. He had my grandfather send him a .22 rifle cleaning kit and some basic cleaning supplies. When I was talking to him about it, he mentioned "The thing worked fine if you took care of it. Ammo was often scarce though, and magazines were issued very sparingly.". The whole story of how that rifle was issued, then maligned by the DOD is a case study in "how to fuck things up as thoroughly as possible".
  7. Meplat
    Wow, those are fabulously bad articles.
  8. Meplat
    If they're hiring chimps, do you think they're buying tooling for said chimps? Either way, the ones they butchered usually had some kind of issue as a result of being improperly assembled. Gave the '49's a bad rep for a time, but luckily made them cheaper for the folks who knew how to work on one (or possessed a modicum of mechanical aptitude).
  9. Meplat
    That is closer to the truth than many want to admit.
  10. Meplat
    They already have "touched" U.S. TD's. Check stats on the M18 for example.. Now.. WoT is unabashedly "a game".. WT is trying to stand on the column of "historical accuracy" while failing to even crack a book to try and get there. So I cut WoT a bit of slack, since it's effectively the virtual equivalent of playing with model tanks on the livingroom carpet. Gaijin on the other hand is trying to proffer itself as being somehow devoted to historical accuracy, while producing such laughable mistakes as ridiculous module location and innumerable stealth nerfs. Now you've never hit an invisi-rock, had some kind of wacky rubberbanding or seen a slew of absurd bounces? Lucky you. Many however have, and a brief Youtube search will turn them up in volume. When a game tries to differentiate itself from the others via claims of historical accuracy, then fails to even come close in many of it's efforts (often by sheer sloth), I'm going to give it a hell of a lot more flak than the one that is selling itself as a simple tank-type game.
  11. Meplat
    Shorting with the '49 can be caused by a lot of things. Remove the trigger housing, and try cycling the bolt. It should be very smooth. If it's not, check the "nozzle" for signs of it dragging on the bolt carrier, and check the stock screw (visible with the bolt/bolt carrier removed) to see if it's dragging. Next check the FCG for drag. It should move smoothly. When reinstalling note if the hammer drags in it's cutout. If there are no obvious mechanical causes, take a can of carburetor cleaner or brake cleaner, and using the straw, discharge the stuff into the gas tube using short gentle bursts of the solvent. Keeping the piece inverted and over a mat of paper towel will minimize the mess, and help the decarb soak the crud out.. You're not trying to blast it out, just keep the inside of the gas tube and it's block soaked with the solvent. You definitely want the forend wood removed for this. If you have shop air, you can try intermittently blasting through the gas tube between soaks to see if anything comes out. As to working on the 49's... They used a lot of specialized tooling and gauges for assembly, that are incredibly scarce. And that is likely why the Century's were so generally jacked up. I doubt they had the gauging to set the gas tube protrusion or alignment, for example.
  12. Meplat
    The whole left hand are pyro launchers.
  13. Meplat
    It damn sure was one of the bigger nails in it's casket, that's for sure.
  14. Meplat
    That's like the people I knew who'd mount a snowplow on their truck, then think it's also a 'dozer. No. It's not. A snowplow does not magically grant your truck with the power of a D9 Cat.. That's why your frame is now bent..
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    Another candidate for "simple bolt" would be the Arisakas. Basically of the same nature as the MAS, except the cap is locked externally rather than internally, and it uses a Mauser type extractor.
  16. Meplat
    Really, REALLY crummy. Basically sand with traces of iron.
  17. Meplat
    Mild overpressure generated by NBC system is my guess.
  18. Meplat
    My bad, I forgot that mechanical aptitude and some sense of how things work no longer matter in this brave new world. That nonsensical mass of laughable idiocy -obviously- is workable, because it's creator took a 1/4 semester of "Sketchup" and once managed to take a cap-gun apart without pinching his fingers.
  19. Meplat
    High on the "why?" factor. I'm going to guess the person making the proposal does not realize the two designs while externally similar are mechanically different..
  20. Meplat
    More fun and "accuracy" from Gaijin- https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/242466-149822-wrong-armor-performance/ Ohh boy.
  21. Meplat
    Not the response I'd expect from a CEO of a manufacturing firm.. "AR-15's? How many would you like?" is the one I'd be giving.
  22. Meplat
    If by that you mean "of the same dimension but not armor" that is what I want. Just durable enough to turn a small tree. Then a small Holmes stinger at the back, couple of strobes, some worklights...
  23. Meplat
    One please, and can I get it dropped off at Drake body for some toolboxes in lieu of the skirt armor?
  24. Meplat
    5 billion, between four banks.. I'm sure they are looking contrite on the camera, while laughing as they sign the campaign checks. They'll just buy themselves some "more honest" politicians next time. All this is going to do is drive up the service fees to their customers. Unless people are put in jail and sanctioned from ever being involved in the business ever again, the banks never lose out in situations like this.
  25. Meplat
    The sling would be free. Assuming it's not dust when I find it... The breaktops are your classic low end pocket revolvers. Not terrible, probably safe to shoot, but not especially valuable outside of niche collector circles. The Velo-Dog clone is probably a Spanish copy. the "Browning" marking was a popular way of lending an air of "quality" to an otherwise cheap piece. I'm going to bet it's in .25 ACP or .32 ACP, instead of the original .22 VeloDog chambering. As to cleaning, I'm still a huge fan of "soak it in solvent, scrub and blow, repeat as needed". If you can drop those pocketguns into a cheap ultrasound cleaner for a few minutes, I'm betting all kinds of crap will float out of them.
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