Rsquared

What can I say? It's DC in the summertime. Hot as balls and sticky to boot. I hate this fukin place.

I knew that somebody would be in my camp on this matter. Modified that one for you brother. Now you know that I don't SELL any guns.

Welcome aboard from the peoples republic of Maryland, just outside of DC.

Sweet! But will you hit it with a no-bounce hammer like we have with the MRAD?

That thing looks pretty nice Doc. Patience can be tough in this hobby sometimes.

The bastards. I was wondering where that damn thing got off to.

It certainly wouldn't break my heart if the paperwork process was easier. I'd rather it be gone completely, but a simple notification instead of asking daddy government if I can move about the country with my own personal property, is a better step than nothing.

Another angle.

Thanks Doc. I've got a lot of catching up to do. Still sorting things out from my pop passing. Financial wise that is.

I get it.

Just as a follow up. This is my daily bag that I have for work. It goes everywhere with me for most of the time throughout the day. I have a similar setup on a separate bag that gets thrown in the truck for personal time. As I said before, being in a commie leaning state, nothing goes bang. It makes the comrades over in Annapolis very sad that we're even "allowed" to still own things that go bang.

Yes. An old friend of mine used to work for the Smithsonian restoring aircraft. He got me and some other buddies into the old Garber facility over a weekend one time. We were able to just wonder around at out own pace and actually crawl around inside a bunch of their old warbirds. We even got to go through their environmentally controlled vault storing the old Apollo space suits. He said that they called that room the morgue cause the way it looked with the suits laid out on slabs. A very cool day.

Being in the peoples republic of Marylandstan, plus working in DC a lot, nothing on me goes bang at all. Nothing in the ride goes bang. Now that being said. On me, I always have a cold steel folder, multiple flashlights, water bottle, an oversized version of an IFAK packed into one of those velcro tear away style BDS Tactical first-aid pouches attached to the backpack. Then the standard electronics that just about everybody (except Tom) carries. Phone, laptop and such. I figure, worst case (if you've ever seen some of the armed guards in federal buildings), I can spin one of them around and use them as a human shield while pulling their service weapon as I drag them backwards until I find better cover and re-assess. But I never put any thought into it. (grin)

Cooler than cool. That is, still today, a very impressive aircraft.

Outstanding.

40's and 50's all week. Rained all day yesterday and a good portion of this morning.

That's great to hear. We love a happy ending around here.

Yep. Aviation being in it's infancy is pretty interesting in general. But yeah, you're flying machine could easily turn into a flying roman candle. Between the cloth and the dope that they used to seal it. FLAME ON!

Started this week in the high 30's. Right now @ around 1700 it's still showing 74. Some goofy weather for sure. It's supposed to be back in the 40's on Monday. Which that'll work for me since I've got to work on some rooftop air-cooled chillers that day. So the pressure to get them online and running won't be there. As you were ladies.

Looks like a great time was had. I'm looking forward to the fall shoot this year.

AP rail is in. Now I've got to dig through the gun boxes and find the receiver set to use. Then to decide on a barrel to use. I was looking at this Noveske barrel since a good number of the rifles that I've built have used their barrels (18"). But, of course, that's gonna be another 750. So that's not happening anytime soon. I've still got other obligations that take a higher priority at the time. But some time later this year probably. Maybe mid to late summer. Probably not in time for the fall shoot though. After all, I've gotta hump that other AR-10 SASS back out to Tom's place to get the tiger stripe paint job put on it now that the coast is clear. https://noveske.com/products/stainless-lo-pro-ddf-barrel-5-56/

So for another rotation around this giant rock. A BIG ol salute to the original Captain of the USS Enterprise. William Shatner.....slinging dick throughout the galaxy for 94 years today. All ahead full Sir! Steady as she goes.

I was thinking the same thing.

We're all over the map here in the DC region. We go anywhere from the high 20's to low 70's. All you can do is layer up in the AM and slowly peel it off throughout the day.