I purchased a couple Ruger MPR 556 rifles when they were on sale a couple months ago. A close friend was having a birthday and I decided to gift them one of these rifles as an upgrade to their current M4gery. So, I open the box and go to grab the rifle so I can do a quick confirmation of the serial number and….

The Magpul pistol grip comes off in ( Read more... )

I’ve mentioned a few times that I dabble in ‘the market’. A bunch of those investments spat out some dividends Friday and about half of that amount gets funneled into the Land Purchase fund, and the rest gets reinvested. So, as a result, I’ve got a little bit more money to put towards getting a chunk of nowhere.

Unfortunately, this late in the year ( Read more... )

You guys may remember a few months back the ‘commercial’ for the Flux Raider that I posted. I enjoyed the whole goes-up-to11 level of ubernationalism. And its always fun to portray the British as foppish sissies. A much shorter, but just as tongue-in-cheek commercial dropped for Black Rifle Coffee.

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I genuinely cannot think of any nation that ( Read more... )

I home canned some beef a year or two ago and its been sitting in my kitchen cabinets since. Its good for stews and soups, but theres gotta be more to it than that, right? I mix it with rice and and onions from time to time, but what else can we do?

I went out to breakfast the other day and had a ‘breakfast skillet’ of cubed potatoes, peppers, ( Read more... )

Here’s a pet peeve of mine. I was up at CostCo and beheld this:
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I was cruising around the internet and saw a meme that said “You didnt save their life….you just delayed their death.” Technically true. If you save someone’s life it is functionally and literally equivalent to delaying their death.

This got me ruminating about the recent election…Harris’ defeat / Trumps victory didn’t save us from the upcoming bad ( Read more... )

Self-interest is the dominant trait in humans. It kind of has to be or else we’d have died out generations ago. Intellectually we may think we are putting our self-interest aside when we act ‘for the greater good’ but when it’s time to bail out of the plane and theres only one parachute between you and a total stranger…well…that self-interest thing ( Read more... )

From Nov 9 2016:

“Dude…I voted for him and even I don’t believe it.”

No boogaloo today. Boogaloo tomorrow. Always boogaloo tomorrow.

“If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for … but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, ( Read more... )

Whenever I go hunting or otherwise tromping through the boonies, one of the things I take with me is an Esbit stove and a bunch of fuel tabs. This is so that I can boil up some water to use to make meal out of some freeze drieds while I’m out hunting. I don’t drink coffee or tea, so my need for super hot water in the field is usually just limited ( Read more... )