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Down Range Cafe / Re: Classic joke thread...
« Last post by Jim Kennedy-ar154me on March 26, 2024, 08:42:41 AM »


Two tall trees, a birch, and a beech, are growing in the woods. A small
tree begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch,
'Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?
The birch says he cannot tell, but just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling.
The birch says, 'Woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?'
The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree and replies, 'It is
neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch.
It is, however, the best little piece of ash I have ever poked my pecker into.'
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And after the people of that area will raise hell on why they no longer have access to those resources!!!!~
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Cooking & Recipes / Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Last post by Big Frank on March 26, 2024, 05:29:10 AM »
Boneless Dings (not Zings this time) chicken breast chunks. Just like Wing Dings and Wing Zings, there are Boneless Dings and Boneless Zings. I bought a 5 pound bag months ago so I could spice them however I wanted to. I ate some earlier with the last of my Nando's Hot Peri-Peri hot sauce on them. I put some water in the bottle, warmed in up in the microwave, and shook it while the chicken was in the microwave. I wanted to get all the Peri-Peri goodness I could out of it. This time I mixed ketchup with Hot Pineapple, Ginger & Rum BBQ sauce so it's not so hot. Mixed about 50/50, it still tastes the same but doesn't burn like before. Now that I've tried it, I like it a lot better mixed.
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Building America's Rifle / Re: I did some work on my AR-15s a couple days ago.
« Last post by Big Frank on March 26, 2024, 04:33:22 AM »
I'm done painting my barrel. This looks SO MUCH better than when I sprayed it with 99 cent gloss black paint before. Even if no one ever sees it again, at least I think it looks good. And that's what really counts. And as long as the barrel doesn't get over 1,200 degrees the paint shouldn't burn off. I think the gas tube would fail like it should and save my paint job before that happened.

Rust-Oleum High Heat BBQ Black enamel is also called BBQ & Stove paint. I think that's the new name for it. Home Depot has it under the old name for $6.98. A 12 ounce can will probably do a complete AR-15 from flash-hider to butt-plate with plenty leftover. You could probably paint all the metal on 2 ARs with one can. They also make Automotive High Heat paint that's good up to 2,000 degrees, but I think I'll drop my gun on the ground before it hits 1,200, so this paint should work well enough. ;)
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Building America's Rifle / Re: I did some work on my AR-15s a couple days ago.
« Last post by Big Frank on March 26, 2024, 03:41:53 AM »
I temporarily put each 16" barrel back on its upper, the stainless steel carbine barrel on the Colt upper it's been on for many years, and 12.7 Brownells barrel back on it's upper, which is a NDS forging. Am I the only one who thinks NoDak Spud sounds like the name of a cheap potato cannon, and not a real gun? "I just bought a NoDak Spud gun on TEMU. I like it better than the old Zamak Spud gun" ;)  These barrels will be swapping uppers very soon, so the Colt lower with a carbine stock will be dedicated to the 12.7 barrel, and eventually the Dead Foot Arms Modified Cycle System (MCS) with GEN 2 Folding Adaptor. I bought the Right Side Folding adaptor so I can sling the rifle close to my chest with the stock folded, and flip it out at will. The 16" carbine barrel, 20" rifle barrel, and Can Cannon uppers will all interchange without an adaptor pin on the DPMS lower with an A2 stock. It's been awhile since I had the 16' barrel and full-length stock together, but that's what I used for years before I bought another lower with an M4 carbine stock.

I put a 1/4" bolt through the lugs on both lowers to line them up and looked at the muzzles. Despite what it looks like in the picture, the 12.7" barrel is shorter than the 16" barrel by less than the thickness of one cent. I figured that out when I held them together and stood them on their muzzles. They aren't exactly the same length, but nearly identical. Good enough for government work, and good enough for me.

I used to have an M2037 Flare Gun that looked like an M203 Grenade Launcher mounted on the 16" barrel. I had a regular M203 mounting bracket for 20" rifles, but didn't have the fiberglass insulator/spacers to go with it. So I wrapped some foil-backed sound deadener I got at work around the barrel. It's like butyl rubber or something gummy and sticky. It's self-adhesive and comes in sheets. I put it on 1 or 2 layers thick, then I folded over the end of the mounting yoke to shorten it about 1/4" and slipped it over the sound deadener. When I took the flare gun off it left behind a sticky mess that I scraped off and painted over with cheap spray paint. I just used Goo Gone and a brass brush to scrub the remainder of the mess off, and sanded off the gloss black paint with old 120 grit sandpaper. When a sheet of sandpaper on my 1/4 sheet sander is worn out and has holes in it, It still has life left for hand sanding stuff like this.

I pegged the handguard cap upside down with a scrap of wood so I wouldn't blow paint into the gas tube hole in the front sight assembly. And I taped the slip ring back out of the way so I could prep the barrel for painting. I put about 5 coats of Rust-Oleum high heat BBQ black enamel on, letting it dry just a minute between coats while I shook the can. In a little while, I'll tape the slip ring to the front sight to keep it out of my way, swab the rear of the barrel with denatured alcohol again, and finish painting the rest of the barrel. Then I might mask off the barrel and paint the slip rig. I scratched it up pretty badly putting the Magpul MOE SL hand guard on the first couple of times. After it dies for 24 hours, it will be ready to go on its new upper. I could blacken the aluminum slip ring but flat black paint will look better than the glossy black finish it has.

BTW, NoDak Spud makes AR-180 type lowers that use AR-15 parts. It has imitation spot welds at the rear that make it look more like an authentic sheet steel lower.
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Down Range Cafe / Re: In need of music suggestions
« Last post by Big Frank on March 25, 2024, 03:58:03 AM »
On American Pie, a guy named  Mike Mainieri plays the marimba and vibraphone. If you want to know the difference between the two instruments, this guy will show you. A lithophone is similar except it has stones you hit to make music. There's a cave somewhere that's rigged up with solenoids like doorbell chimes to play on stalactites music too. I can't remember where, but I may have posted it before. That's the biggest musical instrument I know of, it's a giant lithophone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNZ1ENr5nZU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t58DXfDiJTI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trTDTCixA_c

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Down Range Cafe / Re: In need of music suggestions
« Last post by Big Frank on March 25, 2024, 03:47:43 AM »
Hours earlier I lit a Candle-lite Company Jar Candle in the bathroom. The scent is called Moonlit Starry Night, and as soon as I read that, in my mind's ear I heard Don McLean singing, "Starry, starry night. Paint your palette blue and grey..." So here's his song Vincent, about Vincent Van Gogh. And some more songs from American Pie you probably haven't heard if you you don't have the album. These are half of the songs on the album. The rest are also worth listening to.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciLNMesqPh0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cjBUeHHgU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqW3cTh5Ts


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE-hE-2xh8o


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDjvPFg9B7Q
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Down Range Cafe / Re: Ammo Can
« Last post by Big Frank on March 24, 2024, 10:57:51 PM »
I pulled the heavy-duty plastic bag of .45 ammo out of the ammo can and there were a few loose rounds in the bottom of the can. The bag was splitting at the seam and more ammo was squeezing out, so I flipped it over and pulled the seam open from one side all the way to  the other. I have regular cardboard boxes of ammo with plastic trays that make it easy to count out 50 rounds. So I took 4 boxes of Blazer "Flying Ashtray" 200gr. JHPs out of my footlocker, took the ammo out of the trays and put it back in the boxes. I put a piece of Scotch tape on each end of each box and put them back. I was still a box short, but had a box of Aguila ball ammo in a milk crate and took the tray out of it. I cut it in half with a Stanley knife so I can fit all  5 boxes, 4 high, in the ammo can. I put the ammo back in the box, taped the ends, and put it back in the milk crate. It will be there the next time I go camping and set up my tent. I use 2 milk crates stacked up with a piece of plywood on top for a nightstand in my tent. All 5 boxes of ammo were bought in 2006. There were 3 little squares of cardboard in the bag of ammo, and 3 free bonus rounds.

After they quit loading Speer ammo like Lawman with the Flying Ashtray, they still loaded it in Blazer aluminum-case ammo, for several years I think, before they quit selling them altogether. I always told people this bullet had a 1/4" hole surrounded by 1/10" of lead. But I just held a fired .30-30 Winchester case up to the end of one. And the edge of the jacket is roughly the same size as the outside of the .30-30 case. Wikipedia says that's a neck diameter of .330". So, it's a gaping hole in about a .33 caliber nose of a .45 bullet. No matter how you measure it, that's one big hollow point. At the edge of the jacket, it's almost as big as a 9mm bullet. About 8mm. :o
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Down Range Cafe / More Government Incompentence, Failure, and Crime in NYC
« Last post by Big Frank on March 24, 2024, 08:33:50 PM »
It Begins… Entire NYC Mall Closes Over Theft. I'm  sure this surprises no one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRiHBs62jfE
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Down Range Cafe / Re: Oh Lord Give Me Strength
« Last post by Big Frank on March 24, 2024, 07:17:36 PM »
I was still a teenager when that one was built. It's older than my first car.
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