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Down Range Cafe / Re: The first sign of spring?

« Last post by Big Frank on May 13, 2025, 02:55:15 PM »

I had some Star-of-Bethlehem in my back yard yesterday. I mowed around it this time. It grew since the last time I mowed, a week or so ago. My daffodils never bloomed unless it happened when I wasn't looking. And neither did most of my tulips. I mowed them all down. Nothing left now but roses in 2 weeks, and daylilies. The map at Wikipedia says that Ornithogalum umbellatum, the garden star-of-Bethlehem, doesn't grow in Michigan. I suppose it could be a different kind of Ornithogalum. They're part of the asparagus family, which includes asparagus, yucca, bluebell, lily of the valley, and hosta, and the houseplants include snake plant, corn cane, spider plant, and plumosus fern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithogalum_umbellatum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithogalum

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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

« Last post by Diamondback on May 13, 2025, 02:34:05 PM »

Getting ready to fire up some pulled pork from my favorite BBQ for lunch for us. Have to use a different sauce, though, Her Peevishness has developed a sensitivity to something in the pit's. Thinking KC Masterpiece or Kinder's Carolina-style since she likes the mustard stuff.

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Tactical Rifle & Carbine / Re: This Is My 10/22 Rifle. What Does Yours Look Like?

« Last post by Diamondback on May 13, 2025, 02:00:09 PM »

In case:


Assembled as 10" pistol:

Note 6" pistol and 16" rifle barrels, and QD sling-mount on rear rail. Also note "Lawyer Lettering" on stock, red paint is current since white labeling wouldn't stick.

In rifle setup:

Yeah, it's a weird setup on the Viridian Ion scope, but it was the only way to get the eyebox BACK to my eye.

The whole concept was to put a complete range trip into one briefcase, inspired by the AR7 in From Russia With Love. If a real Q Branch asked me to build a briefcase-gun for Double-O Section I'd tell 'em "just give 'em all ASDW's and get a life!" but this one's about spy-movie fantasy not reality.

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Tactical Rifle & Carbine / Re: This Is My 10/22 Rifle. What Does Yours Look Like?

« Last post by Rastus on May 13, 2025, 01:29:26 PM »

If you did I missed it.  Post it now!!!!

I can't believe I haven't kept up with this thread....

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Tactical Rifle & Carbine / Re: CroMag Industries MagRipper

« Last post by Diamondback on May 13, 2025, 10:24:41 AM »

Thanks for the headsup re Magripper. I'll have to look into those for our His & Hers range kits... (green for her C8, FDE for my M4)

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Tactical Rifle & Carbine / Re: This Is My 10/22 Rifle. What Does Yours Look Like?

« Last post by Diamondback on May 13, 2025, 10:19:36 AM »

Did I ever post my "007's Briefcase" .22 Charger MWS?

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Tactical Rifle & Carbine / Re: Too much concussive blast from an A2 flash hider?

« Last post by Diamondback on May 13, 2025, 10:13:20 AM »

Would you happen to be blue-eyed? Different eye colors seem to be more sensitive to bright light than others. From my limited observation blue eyes are really sensitive, green are aren't quite as bad, and the vast majority of us with brown eyes are "normal", whatever that means. When my migraines hit I like to lay in bed with the lights off and door shut, and the A/C going if it's not winter. Noise and light make it worse, and when my body temperature is even slightly above normal, my head tends to pound even when I don't have a migraine. That's why I can't take the heat down south. I'd rather have cold temps for 3 months than a pounding headache for 9 months of the year. I've had headaches 16,000 days in a row anyway, but there are things that can make them even worse, like getting hot.

Brown, but it seems to be part of the neuropathology I got dealt with Asperger's. One or two miswired senses is normal, I got dealt the royal flush--it's like somehow the rod and cone cells in my eyes wired into the optic nerves backward from normal, so while I'm weaker in depth perception I'm better than normal with peripheral and under low-light conditions. (This led to a fun sucker bet with my cop buddies in college, actually engaging two targets with a pistol in each hand by half-squinting to switch "master eyes" as I went from left-side shot to right and vice versa. Not a true John Woo "gun kata," but pretty much as close as you'll realistically get--and still just a "parlor trick" not to be used For Real Marbles though.)

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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

« Last post by Big Frank on May 13, 2025, 01:07:26 AM »

Fried gizzards and hot sauce are a delicacy where I come from.   I'm eating DiGiorno pizza. This is the last of 5 of them I baked in the toaster oven, and the 5th one that's ovedone. I turned the heat down 30 degrees and took it out 5 minutes early, and it's still way too brown on the bottom. I bought 5 PS pizzas from Kroger the same day and have one left. By the 2nd one I knew how long to bake it, and at what temperature. And some of the DiGiorno pizzas tasted like whack 'n crack biscuits in a tube.   Unless there's a good sale again, I'm done with them. I can think of a half dozen brands I like better, anyway.

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Tactical Rifle & Carbine / Re: Too much concussive blast from an A2 flash hider?

« Last post by Big Frank on May 13, 2025, 12:59:03 AM »

I'm flash sensitive, but I got stuck with eyes that are just light sensitive in general to the point that I frequently have to wear polarized lenses even indoors. As little as 30 minutes can give me a pounding migraine to rival a week in caffeine withdrawal...

Would you happen to be blue-eyed? Different eye colors seem to be more sensitive to bright light than others. From my limited observation blue eyes are really sensitive, green are aren't quite as bad, and the vast majority of us with brown eyes are "normal", whatever that means. When my migraines hit I like to lay in bed with the lights off and door shut, and the A/C going if it's not winter. Noise and light make it worse, and when my body temperature is even slightly above normal, my head tends to pound even when I don't have a migraine. That's why I can't take the heat down south. I'd rather have cold temps for 3 months than a pounding headache for 9 months of the year. I've had headaches 16,000 days in a row anyway, but there are things that can make them even worse, like getting hot.

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Down Range Cafe / Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!

« Last post by Big Frank on May 13, 2025, 12:46:39 AM »

May 09, 2:15 am, Arrived at USPS Regional Facility DETROIT MI DISTRIBUTION CENTER.

May 12, In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late.

Delivery Date Unknown.

The post office is so messed up they could ruin the perfect wet dream. My package from Wisconsin was an hour drive away from here 4 DAYS AGO, and they STILL don't have a &^%$#@! clue when it will be here!