Questions and Contributions Please! THR Library Update

[jojosdad]

re: slickening

Here is a good way (IMHO) to contact your congresscritters:
http://congress.org/congressorg/home/
Accesses all of them in one place.

 

[BluesBear]

What I would say is to avoid seeing any distortion around the edges.

Are you referring to vignettes or vignetting?

 

[Alexey931]

Are you referring to vignettes or vignetting?

Most probably. At least the effects (crescent shaped shadows) fit very closely the photographic definition.

2. an engraving, drawing, photograph, or the like that is shaded off gradually at the edges so as to leave no definite line at the border. (Random House Dictionary)

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[Alexey931]

IWB, OWB

IWB: Inside the WaistBand
OWB: Outside of the WaistBand

Both terms belong to holsters

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[Alexey931]

birdcage

birdcage: ?

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[HunterGatherer]

To add to "sight vs. site"

I would add cite.

 

[BluesBear]

Birdcage is a type of flash hider such as is used on the M16A2

 

[Alexey931]

Modern pistol trigger guard

What is the forward part of a modern pistol trigger guard fashioned to be a support for the index finger?

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[jsalcedo]

SOB

Small of back

MOB

Middle of back


For sell

It is FOR SALE

 

[Alexey931]

SMLE

SMLE: ?

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[Majic]

SMLE
S= Short
M= Magazine
L= Lee
E= Enfield

The former British battle rifle.

 

[Alexey931]

NRM

NRM: ?

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[Alexey931]

CPR

CPR: ?

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[BluesBear]

CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation

NRM = New Roll Mark. On the original Colt 1991 Series 80 pistols M1991A1 was spelled out in HUGE letters on the left side of the slide. The Mark IV Series 80 pistols were done similarly. Recently Colt started using a more traditional looking roll mark that is much more visually appealing.

 

[Alexey931]

Time intervals associated with the release of a shot

(mechanical) lock time: ?
dwell time: ?
total lock time: ?

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[P95Carry]

Alexey .... let me take a stab at this ..... not definitive perhaps but let's see .....

These terms really originate from back in the M/L days .. flintlocks and match locks .. let's look at these first .......

The mechanical lock time is essentially the time taken from moment of sear release to hammer falling to end of travel.

Dwell time then would have been the time taken for the flint sparks or match to ignite pan contents and that subsequent burn to travel down the primer hole to fire the main charge.

Total ''lock time'' thus would be the sum of both parts. Quite significant with those weapons!!

Now in modern weapons .. we can really all but rule out ''dwell'' time ..... unless there was an old cartridge presenting a ''hang-fire''.

So really, now - lock time is simply the time taken from sear disengagement ... to primer ignition ..... pretty fast. Some maintain that striker firing pins are a tad quicker than hammer driven pins ... but we are talking milliseconds now!!

HTH ... just my 2c.

 

[Alexey931]

Tennifer finish

Tennifer finish: ?

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[P95Carry]

Tennifer

This is Glock's special finish .....

Tennifer finish is actually not a finish at all, but a metallurgical process performed on the metal parts of the Glock pistols and knives. The metal is treated with a cyanide mixture bath to increase hardness and corrosion resistance. This is not a finish but is actually impregnated into the first few microns of the metal. The Tennifer treatment is colorless.

Glock simply powder coats the slides black after the Tennifer process is complete. You can take a piece of sandpaper to your slide and remove all of the powder coat, leaving your slide a dull stainless color (which looks pretty cool) and the Tennifer properties will be left intact.

 

[Alexey931]

PRK

PRK: ?

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[BluesBear]

Peoples Republik of California

 

[Alexey931]

PRK

BluesBear:

Peoples Republik of California

Do you care to make some remarks on the spelling (Republik and Kalifornia)?

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[P95Carry]

Alexey ... Bear may well correct me here but ... the ''k'' is used to emphasize the ''control'' nature ... restrictions ... a sorta reference to things Communistic etc. Some people wishing to emphasize the way freedoms are being lost in U.S. cynically refer to ''Amerika''.!!

 

[BluesBear]

[voice=Ed McMahon]Chris, once again you are correct sir. [/voice]

That spelling is used satirically.



Alexey for the HTML codes to work you need to put the / before the B in the second position.

 

[jthuang]

Dunno if this will help, but here are my articles on (1) how to buy a handgun for protection; and (2) home defense shotguns. I think Oleg used to have a link to #2 on his website but it's not there any more.

1. http://www.members.tripod.com/~jth8260/buy.html

2. http://www.members.tripod.com/~jth8260/shotgun.html

 

[Alexey931]

SAS

SAS: ?

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