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Re: The Yeast You Could Do

jimmarch — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:12:19 -0000

YUMMY YUMMY BUG BARF!

Re: Concealed Carry Corner: When Carry Bags Are A Good Option

jimmarch — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:28:47 -0000

My solution is somewhere between offbody and holster. First three minutes here:

https://youtu.be/01uGt2fIdro

Re: This Lady’s Ex Dodged A HUGE Bullet

jimmarch — Fri, 10 May 2024 11:46:55 -0000

Exactly. This is the same "thinking" all the cases of "killing your ex" start with.

But instead of reaching for a Glock she calls lawyers.

That's...actually...an improvement I guess...

Re: Wheelgun Wednesday: Custer Revolver at Rock Island Auction’s Upcoming Sale

jimmarch — Thu, 09 May 2024 01:15:30 -0000

Probably from too much cleaning over the eons. Theb cylinder frame metal was different from the barrel and grip frame.

Re: That Which Slithers Makes Their Courage Wither

jimmarch — Fri, 03 May 2024 11:39:57 -0000

I had to Google it. The Mormons don't seem to have any snake issues. I know the JWs don't, I was raised one, quit when I was 17.

Either you had some off-brand door knockers or it was just her issue.

Re: TFB Review: Meprolight MPO-S Micro Red Dot Sight

jimmarch — Wed, 01 May 2024 15:19:26 -0000

Vortex Defender has a plastic body. This is aluminum. This also has better electronics (more features anyhow).

Re: TFB Review: Meprolight MPO-S Micro Red Dot Sight

jimmarch — Wed, 01 May 2024 15:10:57 -0000

This thing could be legit. For those not aware, Meprolight is Israeli. They may say "made in the Philippines" but it's a good bet at least some of the circuitry and emitter are Chinese. Unless they can get past that problem quickly.

Other than that, this is the first RMSc footprint dot I'm aware of that has both auto brightness and manual controls plus has variable reticles outside of Holosun. This feeds the prices of Holosun by a significant margin and it has the automatic brightness level sensor pointed forwards. With any luck it will bloom the dot some at night if you're pointing a light forward at the target. That's something that needs checking. Right now, as far as I'm aware the only people who have a solution on that is that $700 ultra bling Trijicon that just came out.

Re: These Dad Jokes Are Getting Bananas

jimmarch — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:24:53 -0000

You know about the similarity between church seating and a bad science fiction movie?

PEW PEW, PEW PEW PEW, PEW....

Re: HOT GAT or FUDD CRAP? Pistol Bolt Action 300 Whisper or Please God No More?

jimmarch — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:39:17 -0000

It would be laughably simple to make a threaded adapter that clamps onto that barrel.

If you need a takedown pocket sniper platform, this has potential.

Re: HOT GAT or FUDD CRAP? Green Machine or Hopelessly Obscene?

jimmarch — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:52:44 -0000

Yeah it's ugly, but this particular variant XD actually has a pretty good reputation if you want a small 45. The price is reasonable for one. Not my thing but at least than $400 it'll sell.

Re: Mini-Magnum: New Bond Arms Stinger Fireball Derringer

jimmarch — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 10:27:58 -0000

Sell it with a sleeve holster and a 6" barrel. No, I'm not kidding.

Re: New Apache 1911 from Watchtower Firearms Is In Production

jimmarch — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:09:57 -0000

Optics plate.

Instant fail. What else did they get wrong?

Stealth Arms Platypus lets you pic a direct optic cut. No plates. That's how it's done. Or just pic a direct cut and roll with it, there's good options for all of them. RMR is probably best.

NO GODDAMN PLATES.

Re: HOT GAT or FUDD CRAP? Blue Kryptek or Arctic Train Wreck?

jimmarch — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 10:19:10 -0000

The problem is the price. The paint job is a bit odd but honestly we've all seen waaaaay worse.

Re: He’s Got Beef With The Bacon

jimmarch — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:54:08 -0000

Yep, the whole idea of "being declared unclean" for eating wrong was a form of quarantine.

The shellfish rules make a ton of sense in the Mediterranean or other fairly still waters like the Persian Gulf. Most shellfish are filter feeders and if there's anything nasty in that water, they'll concentrate it.

Some of it was to reduce animal cruelty. Animals killed for meat had to be killed with a sharp knife with no nicks on it. No pulling carts with two very different animals, stuff like that. Not crazy, to be honest.

Re: He’s Got Beef With The Bacon

jimmarch — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:49:13 -0000

If you look at the "Old Testament" of the Bible, the penalty for eating non-kosher food was being declared "unclean" for a short time. They didn't use the term "quarantine" but as a practical matter that's exactly what it was. So eating "wrong" as a Jew wasn't a "sin against God" and in an emergency they absolutely could go "off menu".

Now, I don't know how later evolutions of the Jewish faith deals with this but if you go back to the oldest stuff, it's pretty obvious...

Re: He’s Got Beef With The Bacon

jimmarch — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:44:01 -0000

I once had to tell a Muslim coworker what jelly beans are made of, while he was snacking on some. Poor dude. He checked and confirmed they're a pork product - and thanked me.

Re: It Will Be Kilo-Hours Before He Gets It, Part 3

jimmarch — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 06:37:33 -0000

In case anybody doesn't know why they used base 12, it has to do with a very old one-handed counting system that appears to have originated in Babylon (?) but definitely spread out along their trade and plunder routes including Israel.

Here's how it worked.

You're going to count with the tip of your thumb against your fingers...but instead of counting to a maximum of four, you're going to count three separate parts of each finger. Look at any of your fingers and they each have three sections. The easy way is to count sideways against each of the fingertips to a maximum of four, then drop to the next middle line of sections and count four across, and then drop once more to the bottom row of four sections, one on each finger. You can now count to 12 with one hand.

Now at the other hand you can count each block of 12 from the previous hand. Doing that, you can count to a maximum of 144.

The number 144,000 turns up in some kind of biblical prophecy in the book of Revelations somewhere. That's Babylonian influence.

The American system is to count to 10 with individual digits, or 11 if you're male.

Re: Lawsuit Alert: Palmetto State Armory v. Shield Arms

jimmarch — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:06:13 -0000

How in the hell are either all that different from a Browning Hi-Power mag from 1935? Seriously? They're double stack single feed mags. "We put some plastic in"?

Re: Taurus’ “Ultimate Carry Gun” The 15+1 GX4 Carry

jimmarch — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:48:22 -0000

The g2c and g3c are closer to the Glock 26 and they are to something like a Hellcat or P365. Taurus wasn't trying to push the outer envelope of engineering and actually ended up with reliable guns.

The G4/GX4 family DID try and push harder into what's possible with less metal and the early ones paid the price.

Re: Taurus’ “Ultimate Carry Gun” The 15+1 GX4 Carry

jimmarch — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:45:44 -0000

The G2 and G3 series (including the c compact models) are probably the most reliable guns Taurus makes with the possible exception of the ts9 big boy.

A lot of the reports of early jamming and long break-in periods for the G2 and G3 have to do with Taurus spraying some kind of preservative in the innards to make sure they can't rust even if they don't sell for a few years on the shelf. It's basically something similar to cosmoline. If you clean all that stuff out right away and give it a little bit of normal lubricant they run as reliably out of the box as most Glocks, except that you are admittedly more likely to get a birth defect case with a Taurus.

But if it runs right after that initial clean and lube, they're genuinely good guns.

Re: Racists Aren’t The Brightest Of Cookies

jimmarch — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:36:28 -0000

Unless the cuisine in question is Cherokee or Navajo or something along those lines, it's definitely imported.

Re: Don’t Quesa-tion Me!

jimmarch — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:37:08 -0000

That was a NotOKsedilla.

Re: TFB Review: Viridian RFX 35 Green Dot Sight

jimmarch — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:53:36 -0000

It allows having the glass lower and the body shorter. Easier to get an iron sight co-witness that way, especially if you have a setup that doesn't involve adapter plates.

Re: Concealed Carry Corner: Best To Worst Carry Positions

jimmarch — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:45:48 -0000

Needed all day driving comfort. Built it on the road. Used the frame rails of my semi as the anvil to bang the rivets in.

Re: The Great Resignation, Part 4

jimmarch — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 08:57:51 -0000

There's one restaurant near me that's obviously short staffed. My last waitress was a midget!