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  1. Meplat
    Many trees in Warthunder get "screwed" in all sorts of ways, because their dev team seems unwilling to crack a book.
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    It at least incorporates features of ones I like... I will say that.
  3. Meplat
    Meh, I found it reasonably entertaining, but I also did not spend a dime on it. The bit with the textbook revision was pretty amusing, having dealt with some lunar troofers before..
  4. Meplat
    Classic midwestern "Deer Rifle". They are a fine little piece.
  5. Meplat
    Probably because it's stuck in a wood stock instead of the proper synthetic one, and it's action has been shucking all over the place.
  6. Meplat
    It might seal fine, my concern would be getting the case durable enough for service without altering case volume.
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    The metal cup on modern shotshells is not really anything other than a semi-durable spacer for headspacing and a control for primer seating. If you cut one in half there is very little actual thickness to them.
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    A good contrast to Top Gun (as to how aviation scenes should be done, the rest of the film was better than top gun, but still rather silly) was the 2005 French flick, "Les Chevalier du ciel". No appreciable CGI hooey, no models on wires.. The aerials were done by an "Eric Magnan", who really seems to have a talent for getting great shots of aircraft. Some examples- https://vimeo.com/109141765 https://vimeo.com/69886629
  9. Meplat
    Yes. In shotshells. For a time you could even find ones with an "all paper" case, and just a disc of metal to form the flange and support the battery cup primer. The concept carried into plastics later on.
  10. Meplat
    Predictions- -explosions. Lots of them. -CGI. Scads of it, looking like a slightly shit flight sim. -static shots at some private airfield, with the odd warbird or classic jet in the background, and some inexplicably placed modern fighter in the foreground. -the obligatory "bar scene".. -a motorcycle, or a sports car being hooned about.
  11. Meplat
    How about AAFES hotdog guy?
  12. Meplat
    "Evergreen" is your friend in that regard. http://www.evergreenscalemodels.com/ Lots of neat structural sections.
  13. Meplat
    Meh, work with what you have. You can make the "rubber band" tracks look decent (or at least better), but what's in that picture looks better than 90% of the tank-shaped plastic blobs I've come across.
  14. Meplat
    Programs actually exist for that. the MCSO had a bunch of M14's for a time. IIRC the cost (at the time) was around $120.00 per rifle.
  15. Meplat
    That's a lot of why I moved to Arizona ~25 years ago.. Though that meant going from one extreme to another..
  16. Meplat
    I was born and grew up in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan, right on the lake. Burrowing out of the house in winter was pretty common. It was cold, but not like I saw in Michigan. You'd get a lot of snow, but it rarely got too far below zero (centigrade). You'd get well below zero (farenheit) where I used to live. It was also a "wetter" kind of cold. Not the mindbendingly dry cold you'd often get once the lakes iced up. Now Korea, that'd get cold. Osan felt like north michigan but without so much snow.
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    I was well north of there, in the Tohoku area, Aomori prefecture.
  18. Meplat
    Personally I'd have no issue with them being issued, but the resultant flash of righteous indignation from many factions in the U.S would be visible from space. A place I worked with tried offering silencers as a sensible attachment to police rifles. Ohh boy was that a fiasco.
  19. Meplat
    I've never left it, I'm still trying to get you to understand why they seem "well reported" and why those figures (and the "news" doing the reporting) should beheld very suspect. The basics of "Why is this "news" being presented, what purpose does it serve, and who is making the most noise?" are questions you should ask in any tidbit of "news" or "official government figures" coming from the U.S.. That aside, Japan (where I lived) was rather nice. Tokyo was weird though.
  20. Meplat
    There are some interesting tales of keeping the '34 functioning into the late 20'th, inside Myrvang's book on the '34 and '42.
  21. Meplat
    It's not hard, it's just that "cop guns" get beat up, and wood furniture for AR's is prone to fragility.
  22. Meplat
    Who is doing the counting. Ask yourself that, and my "obsession" (more of a loathing for their intentional obfuscation or obliteration of facts/evidence) for the breed of social parasite infesting this country will become evident, as well as further helping to illustrate why you cannot trust what you are seeing.
  23. Meplat
    VERY VERY hard sell to a U.S. based department. Almost anything former Soviet block is going to raise eyebrows, for good or bad.
  24. Meplat
    The 5K per may also factor in things like training, the storage/stowage for the rifle, magazines, etc... Anyhow- If they already have shotguns, and are in a mainly urban/suburban environment, they really need to consider carefully the munitions they'll issue with these rifles. Training will also be very important,lest "everything look like a nail" when it comes to using the new toys.
  25. Meplat
    The ones you're thinking of are usually covered in stampings, and/ or would have a visible trip in the bore of that hole (to allow the crosspin selector to function). I'm also looking at the way the rail section of the frame is bent downward.. That suggests it's use in one of the numerous carbine conversions to me. If they just wanted to make it a burp-gun, there are much smaller, easier to whittle backplates that do not project out like that.
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