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2004-09-20

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Posted by Fred 2004-09-20 11:24:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2004-09-20 11:28:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 MORE
COMMUNICATION
IMPOSSIBLE

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-20 11:31:11 AM|| 2004-09-20 11:31:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-20 11:40:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-20 1:00:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-20 1:45:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-20 1:45:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Jeebus, machine shop and war gamming, a deadly combination? :)

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-20 1:46:55 PM|| 2004-09-20 1:46:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-20 2:26:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-20 4:15:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-20 6:31:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Im hear SPoD them cheap litter ear phones suck.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-20 7:22:19 PM|| 2004-09-20 7:22:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 DANGER! 1 MILLION OHMS!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-20 8:41:29 PM|| 2004-09-20 8:41:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-20 8:56:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2004-09-20 9:04:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-09-20 9:09:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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