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I have a dissenting opinion on AR’s in .223/5.56 with boring black plastic stocks.  For their intended purpose I think they’re ideal.  Never modded one, never scoped one.  They’re not a sporting rifle, they are for something else.  They do have a rather sinister vibe though and those people who make a hobby (fetish) of them tend to be a worrisome crowd.  I take one for a range workout just once in about every two years but shoot black powder revolvers at least once a week.  BP is my own particular fetish and serves real well as a sublimation, too

The irony is, it's one of my closest friend's favorite close-range (brushy where he hunts) deer rifle, but I prefer his FAL more than any of his hundred-plus guns.

Back to the 9mm in a wheel gun, I subscribed deeply to the 80's era Massaad (sic) Ayoob hatred of a 9mm, then when (ironically the one mentioned above) my friend turned my wife onto a 9mm, for EDC versus the .40 she had, or the .45ACP/10mm I wanted her to move too,  did deep dives into ballistic charts. It's a pretty solid round, these days. And would make for a fun little plinker,  reckon.

 still think it's wrong, on a morally correct basis, lol.

I posted here.
Since it's been too quiet.

Also? Lost one of my matching fountain pens.

That is all.

   hot rod guns / hot rod cars .  .  .  always was . . . always will be  !! 
Mike just so you understand I appreciate those type of guns and cars. For years my daily driver was a 1967 Shelby GT 500 that I installed a Nascar 427 Tunnel Port. I still own another 1967 GT350 with the small block 289. Guess I'm getting a little older.

A friend of mine had a Pantera with an AC Cobra 427 (SOHC?) in it. Mill was tuned to 500 NA; the nitrous shot pushed it to a dyno-proven 750 at the tire. (Jeff never filled the bottles.) A Pantera tuner outside or near Denver was contracted to build a "200 mph all day long Pantera". The 427 would keep it there; it took the gas to get it there; the local Cobra club let Jeff run with them because of the 427 Pedigree. My only tie to the car was a concourse detail on it, which earned me the soft top for my 4-door Bronco.

I've treated this like the bible for a while; it's close... https://poconoshooting.com/blackpowderballistics.html

(calculator in green ish, poconos in brown ish)

Great concept and mostly good pictures. 

The chairman of the English Department, at a pretty good school I once attended, told the class that to become a decent writer one has to be prepared to throw away 90% of what they write.

Photography is more your forte. You’re good at that.

And on that note?
www.stolensoulphotography.com is my website.
and the Rule of Thumb with photography is you shit can your first 10,000 clicks. That annoyed me at first when I heard it, but now that I have 250k in? (or whatever the number is, there are gigs... and gigs lost...) I get it. The publisher may return with a synopsis similar to yours, and I'll accept that. (ties into the first 10k clicks thought process) But... as I read the book he gave me tonight that he JUST published on Idaho-specific ghost towns, while your critiquing is valuable, the writing I did at face value is higher than his other published authors.

So I guess we'll see.

Quote from: Clydesdale4x4 on February 11, 2024, 02:45:10 PM

Not to detract from Rocky's passing, but I printed it today. Gonna see my Publisher (the one who tasked me with this project three years ago) Either Monday or Tuesday. (if Office Depot is accurate with their projected time, Tuesday).

I read the rest of it, and it was interesting all the way through. Made me want to read more. Maybe add a summation of your findings to finish it off.

The idea was that this was a "writing sample" to sell the publisher on my re-writing the whole thing. Dropped it off today, and now we wait...

Not to detract from Rocky's passing, but I printed it today. Gonna see my Publisher (the one that tasked me with this project three years ago) Either Monday or Tuesday. (if Office Depot is accurate with their projected time, Tuesday).