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| 2004-09-20 | |||
There was an underground fire in Baltimore yesterday that cut the power to MCI's cables this morning. We seem to be back up now, and hopefully we'll stay that way. My apologies.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 Yup steel cases don't extract and feed all that great but it's "good enough" and one of the reasons I have one in my gun rack. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-20 9:09:28 PM |
| #14 I haven't done the 100 yard range yet. Just wanted to try it out. I shot 45 rounds, 45 hits, 8 inch dia. at 50 yards pattern start to finish. The gun wasn't bore sighted, so aim was adjusted by sight only. So I was pretty pleased with the rifle. I had problems with the action a time or two but that was likely due to ammo rather than the rifle itself. I could get used to shooting on a regular basis. Studying the weapon, you can see why it is considered one of the most 'soldier proof' weapons around. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-09-20 9:04:42 PM |
| #13 1 million Ωs. How many do you want? Would you like fries with that? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-20 8:56:49 PM |
| #12 DANGER! 1 MILLION OHMS! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-20 8:41:29 PM |
| #11 Im hear SPoD them cheap litter ear phones suck. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-20 7:22:19 PM |
| #10 Badanov the 7.62X54R is a very potent round. While shooting at milk jugs at 100 yards we noticed our ammo was quite frangable. My Nigant is a "winter war" Sako rebuild. Fairly accurate for a infantry rifle. It's nothing like my first "Russian" Nigant which was not smooth in the action of the bolt after firing it 2 or 3 times and was not very accurate. Well to many Ωs cause bad things in cables and wires AP |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-20 6:31:09 PM |
| #9 Cable fires are veddy veddy bod tings. Veddy veddy bod! Fodrrr yuuuu! Veddy tough on Ohm's law. Veddy tough. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-20 4:15:14 PM |
| #8 Jeebus, machine shop and war gamming, a deadly combination? You have NO idea. I just signed up to the VRWC last month, bought a nice inexpensive Moison-Nagant and went to the firing range for the first time in 33 years two weeks ago. So, yeah, wargaming and a machine shop can be a deadly combination, but nothing like a nice WII vintage rifle. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-09-20 2:26:54 PM |
| #7 Jeebus, machine shop and war gamming, a deadly combination? :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-20 1:46:55 PM |
| #6 Correct Deacon man, you gotta have the blue smoke to energize the dark suckers. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-20 1:45:35 PM |
| #5 RKKA is with a hosting company with servers in Baltimore. A similar event happened last year as well and iffin I recall correctly, the fire last year took down Fred's site as well. I am really, really steamed about this, though, trying to learn DNS and mail as fast as I can to move everything over to my home network. I have my wargame club site there now and have been promising to move ftp, dns and mail over there, but I have been snowed under with machine shop work, and other stuff as well. Grrr... |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-09-20 1:45:07 PM |
| #4 Jack! perhaps Sumner Redstone would be interested in some MCI stock. I understand he has ready cash from a recent stock transaction... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-20 1:00:30 PM |
| #3 When I inquired today into buying MCI, they didn't tell me it was a Fire Sale!! |
| Posted by: Jack is Back 2004-09-20 11:40:30 AM |
| #2 MORE COMMUNICATION IMPOSSIBLE |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-20 11:31:11 AM |
| #1 So somebody let the Blue Smoke out. Electrical stuff doesn't work when you let the Blue Smoke out. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-09-20 11:28:28 AM |