Ulric

Bank Gothic is everywhere these days, holy shit.

Solothurn Si 100.

 

Everything that can be made from a milling, is.

Everything made from a stamping is done so under the greatest of protest and with great reluctance.

 

Everything else is made from leather, wood or spring steel.

As a result the things are fantastically well made, and heavy.

 

 

I should have clarified, simple to manufacture (and mass produce) as well as having a simple design. So, stampings, injection molding, things like that.

Even the design that I am working on isn't terribly simple. It has a fair number of complications (mostly just parts that require special fixturing to machine, or is inefficient to machine because of wasted material) as well as injection molded parts (very high entry cost, so must be done in high volume to be economical), but it should be fairly simple and robust in terms of operation, as well as being user friendly.

I wish I had a PTRD that could be triggered... although if I ever get one, I might end up saying that every time someone else shoots it.

Although, there might be some kind of perverse reverse correlation between complexity and usability (ergonomics, controlability, etc) when it comes to SMG design. Sure, you can have very complex SMGs that are terrible to shoot, but are there any incredibly simple SMGs that are also easy and or comfortable to shoot?

Look, just because Ulric has issues with hair growth doesn't make him a mythical primate.

Maybe you missed my forum title. Also, the excessive growth isn't limited to just my hair...

Although, speaking of hair growth, it wouldn't take long to get those wicked side burns filled out.

That's what I'm missing, I need a beret, black leather jacket, and sunglasses when I carry. How could I have been such a fool for so long!!!!

I was going to write some long winded dissertation about all the things that I have learned from the past 6 years of openly carrying a pistol, but that ended up getting a little jumbled, so I'll finish it later. However, I will say this. When I carry, I want to come across as someone who either should be carrying a gun, or is responsible enough to carry a gun. This is shown through your body language, your behavior, and your appearances. I keep my appearances neat and professional, I walk places with a purpose, I look people in the eyes when I talk to them, things like that. The trick is, to act like someone who is responsible enough to carry, you just have to be responsible enough to carry. Especially when you open carry, you need to have a good sense of discretion. Walking around like its casual Friday with an AK is not discretion, it's mental retardation.

Probably the only way to reasonably get an FR F1. That would be a very nice conversion.

I do not currently fix weapons, I would need to re-establish a shop. If I can get the cash flow to do so, that might not be a bad idea. I take it that there is a substantial market for repairing French guns. Sadly, fixing that 49/56 was a rather intense job, and If I had to do it again, I would charge a lot more.

I am re-barreling that Type 38 for 7mm Mauser. It was the closest thing I could find to match the OAL and case head of the 6.5 Arisaka that is still common. That and it's just a classic cartridge. I've toyed with the idea of building an M76 in it.

The other factor going against rear locking is that you need to have a larger portion of your action bearing the stress of firing, and therefore your action will be heavier. It's not a problem on traditional bolt actions, but for autoloaders it starts to be an issue. Tilt lockers also have some fun issues, like tenancies to vertically string shots. If I am remembering this correctly, that is one of the reasons the soviets where not keen on the SVT, in addition to other larger logistical problems of needing to manufacture millions of rifles, and the SVT requiring more resources to make than 91/30s.

You should post the bolt of the Type 38 anyway.  I really need to have very good high resolution photographs of a typical Ariska as well as a typical Enfield for a book I am doing.

 

The primary advantage I believe of the Mauser bolt is locking strength - with the lock occurring near the stress point there is less micro-setback during the travel phase when the bullet is leaving the barrel.  For a hunter with a heavy cartridge locking strength is everything.  In WW1 though the French discovered that for both autoloaders and bolt action rifles' front lugs were a major problem because of how they pushed mud into the chamber of the weapons equipped with them.  French weapons would drop front lugs because of this and move to rear lugs.  Bolt action rifles had their lugs based in part on how the Enfield locked.  The autoloaders based their locking on the Rossingol and its tilting bolt, removing rotary lugs all together.

Sadly, the Type 38 is a rescue rifle. Someone else attempted to turn down the bolt handle and drill it for a scope base. I've got my work cut out for me. I do have a 1944 Type 99 that has a more of less intact action, and intact chrysanthemum, but the barrel and stock where "sporterized".

Locking strength was also important back then because ammunition pressures where not terribly consistent, so you wanted your rifles to be able to handle the occasional over pressure round. That is less of a problem today because of improved quality control during manufacture, but there are plenty of other factors that can lead to an over pressure situation. It addition to locking strength, front locking bolts have a longer service life. It is a relatively common problem for rear locking action to go out of headspace much faster than front locking. From my understanding, this is why SMLEs have 4 different lengths of bolt heads, and why FALs have different sized locking shoulders that can be inserted into the receiver. I imagine that these where primarily designed in such a manner for easing mass production, but these rifles are both notorious for having their headspace open up and rates that would be completely unacceptable by today's standards.

As far as that 49/56 that I fixed it involved a completely new barrel turned from a blank. They still wanted it in .308 for ammunition reasons, though. I didn't copy the grenade launcher features into the barrel at the request of the owner, so that made my life easier. I had to get a new gas tube and a new forearm as well. After I got done that rifle ran rather well, especially considering that it was a caliber conversion using original magazines. I saved the old barrel as an example of century arms. They had put about an inch of "free bore" after the chamber. (quotes because it wasn't truly free, the rifling was very very faint, but still there) It looking like it had been done with a drill bit.

 

Everyone else has a Garand - imagine how many women will come running to your side when you pull this bad boy out and line up a few grenades.

 

+1 on the Ariska Bolt, its only weakness is front locking lugs.

 

I was just about to post the bolt from my Type 38 that I am rebuilding.

I would disagree with you about the front locking lugs being a weakness. Yes, it makes the bolt stroke longer and puts more geometry in the feed path, but you have less bolt deformation occurring during firing. And also, Mauser style extractor for the win.

I did have to re-barrel a MAS 49/56 that Century Arms gooned up when they tried to convert it to .308, but failed horribly. It was a rather fun and challenging project, and I learned quite a bit about those rifles in the process. They have earned a place in my list of rifles to own someday soon.

That is part of the overall playbook for those kinds of people: You are on the righteous side of a clearly black and white argument, anyone who disagrees with you is subhuman scum, the lizard brains or knuckle draggers, if you will. They do not know, because they cannot know. It is beyond their psychological capabilities.

We have seen this kind of behavior before, and it usually has been the instigator (or at least enabler) of genocide.

Where would you find a good source for further reading regarding fleet yaw?

Also, watched that video basically first thing this morning, made my day. Now I want to take my 74 back to the range.

The F-404 Revenant prototype 4. It will be undergoing testing for suitability in the KSP multi-role fighter contest.

Also, why is the E 50 M such an impossibly fake bullshit over-buffed tank?

Having had hundreds - if not thousands - of these games where I do incredible amounts of damage and spot the entire enemy team, while your team crumbles about you, the reason you're getting such a great score isn't because you are necessarily the best player ever (although you are good Ulric) it's just that there's no one else on the team to compete with you in farming damage. If you kill 8, 9, 10 enemies in the match its because the rest of your team is terrible and unable to put a cursor on a red tank, wait for the circle to get small and press the mouse button. 

 

Having watched replays that guys post on General Discussion, a lot of times (not all) the guys who are doing great damage are the ones who lost the game because they camped to begin the match, aren't supporting a team's push, aren't using their tank's armor and hit points to absorb damage, are off on the wrong part of the map or whatever. 

 

With all that, I've come to the conclusion having played 98-99 percent of my games solo-pub, you are guaranteed to lose at least 1/3 of your matches. It's kind of like baseball. The issue is, one doesn't know which 1/3 of those matches they will lose so you have to play them all the same.

Well, that is the easiest way to farm damage and WN8, but ultimately that gets you nothing. I'm sure casual observers would accuse me of doing the same thing, because I tend to play rather reserved. But, there is a difference between playing reserved, and waiting for your team to die off so you can farm. The longer you survive, the more chances you have to win. So you have to find a good balance and understanding of when to be bold and punch peoples faces in, and when to shoot n' scoot.

Your last statement is why I stopped looking at XVM stats in matches. I didn't want some kind of stat prediction subconsciously effecting my gameplay. I wanted to make sure that I was playing every match to win, and not throwing a match away because the predicted win chance was too low.

There is only one word for this: pubbies.

True, it is slung up in a slightly more appropriate manner.

Then why does he have what appear to be aluminum GI mags in that pouch on his back?

Also, I am deeply saddened by the makeshift weapons that the Seattle protesters had. Our ancestors where able to do so much more with sticks and rocks. Oh how humanity has fallen.

Drilling in progress, however, this image was too graphic to be shown uncensored

And so begins the planetary rape. This marvel of industrial might is a true tour de force by kerbal science. Combining fuel cells, ore mining drills, and an ore processing module, this unit consumes roughly .12 units of fuel (for the fuel cells to produce electricity to power the drills and converter) to produce .9 units of fuel at a rate of about 1 ton of ore to 2 tons of fuel.

Drogue chutes are magical. Also, deployed parachutes do not absorb heat, so you can deploy them as high as you want.

MKB-42 in, well not combat, but getting ready for combat. Late war sometime.

Because we were talking about it on TS, behold, new ways to waste your money on old/obscure firearms.

Finally got it flying nicely.