Recent content by lysanderxiii

Elbow® Grease . . .

In 2017, Johnson County, Wyoming had a sheriff, one lieutenant, one sergeant, and 12 deputies . . . and 15 detention officers with a single Captain. The nearest Reservation is still 3 counties away. It's fiction, ergo, it cannot be "wrong."

The diameter of an HP barrel is 0.500" -.0015" for the first 3/4 inch and 0.500 -.003" for the remainder of the cylindrical section.

Yes. There is no Absaroka County in Wyoming, nor is there a Cheyenne reservation in that State. The average size of a Wyoming county is nearly 4,000 square miles, there is no way only a sheriff and two deputies could cover that much territory from one office. And, the Sheriff's Department...

Believe it, or not, Marine MPs in Shanghai carried their M1911s in Condition 3 . . . . . . . .until they got to their assigned patrol area, Then they unholstered the pistol and placed their left hand on the slide and carried the pistol tucked against their belt buckle, held with both hands...

PASS -or- FAIL

The Army has played with variations on the flash hole, several times in the past, size, shape, off-center, burrs, etc, it really doesn't make any difference. Except Berdan primers, on average, they might be more consistent in terms of pressure and velocity. . . EDIT: Oh, and on a related, but...

Yes and no. The ones with an intact chrysanthemum are worth more, but it does not automatically mean that it was a battlefield pick-up. The systemized defacing of the chrysanthemum was not universal, there were a good number of rifles surrendered before the Japanese got organized enough to...

I think you mean M8 and M8A1 scabbard. The main difference between the M8 and M8A1 was the addition of the wire double hook so it could hang on the belt as well as slip over it. The metal reinforcing tip was a late addition, happening sometime in 1960. (The M8A1 scabbard is a reproduction.)

In 1871, the Army concluded that the era of the bayonet charge was largely over, and a far more useful item for the infantryman would be a shovel. Enter the Rice Trowel Bayonet: 500 trowel bayonets were produced and sent to several western outposts for user trials. Most of the units...

More than 1, less than ∞ . . . .

You have to sign the flag out at range control before you open the range . . . don't you?

This is not the first time FN has sued Ruger over trademark infringements. They did back in March 6, 2020, in the same court, it was over the "Ruger-57" being an infringment. It was dismissed on September 16, 2021 (possibly settled). I guess this is just "round 2".

Chrome-Molybdenum-Vanadium, CMV, 4150CMV, and 41V50 are different names for the same stuff. Carbon - 0.41 - 0.49 Manganese - 0.60 - 0.90 Phosphorus - 0.040 Sulfur - 0.040 Silicon - 0.20 - 0.35 Chromium - 0.80 - 1.15 Molybdenum - 0.30 - 0.40 Vanadium - 0.20 - 0.30 Iron - balance Another common...