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Chiappo Rhino .357 coming out of a Woolstenhulme gun purse. The flip-flops aren’t good for combat, but not everybody dresses around condition yellow.
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Armed response
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Applying make-up (nsfw)
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New on CTD: Arguing Semantics
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Tips on debating anti-gunners are up on CTD blog.
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Leaving Prague.
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Much as I like Prague, it’s time for me to go. Will be posting more travel photos as I get them edited. I got to see many interesting sights, go to a concert, stroll through museums and meet very nice people, like this tango instructor.
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Back from Europe just in time to get into a drone shoot
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After passing through Prague and Bratislava, I flew back on Friday from Budapest. The first weekend proved rather exciting, with Day by Day cast shooting down a drone and me documenting the picturesque wreckage. But that’s not the full story. The full story is presented here:
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Loki PDW with Gemtech Halo
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For upcoming Harris Publications articles.
Without the suppressor, the 10.5″ barrel had quite a spectacular muzzle flash and generated considerable concussion.
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Reading Between the Signs, new on CTD blog
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An overview of anti-gun signs in Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary.
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Details make all the difference
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Only when I looked at this photo on a big screen did I see another sculpture:
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Something neat showed up yesterday.
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Full image shortly, I wanted to scope it first.
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2-D people in Budapest
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I am guessing that this display advertised an apartment building.
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Street light styles
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Camera solutions for travel
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In Prague Old Town. Photo by Tatyana Volk.
On my trip, I took a Canon 5D2 body with vertical grip attached. I couldn’t find the battery door at the last moment, so ended up with the extra weight and bulk. With the grip, the camera doesn’t hand as flat against the body. Bought a better strap in Prague, it proved still inadequate. I plan on converting the camera to work with Magpul sling.
Lenses: 24-70/2.8, 90 tilt-shift and 200/2.8. The 200mm got the most use, but not finding the 72mm polarizer at the last moment proved a real problem in Budapest due to massive haze. Humidity and smog limited visibility. I even held the 77mm filter by hand in a few photos. I wished that I had acquired the 70-200/2.8 IS before the trip despite the greater weight. 90 got a lot of use as well, with 24-70 used almost purely as a snapshot lens for family pictures. 5D2 again proved a technically excellent camera with awkward menu-driven secondary controls. Zooms definitely win for travel use, as long as they are good quality fast zooms.
My mother brought her Panasonic G2 with 20/1.7 and 45/1.8 and that was the ideal travel camera. A longer third lens would have helped, but overall it was the sweet spot for weight/size/capability/noise. The lack of mirror vibration, the articulated screen and the tiny size really helped.
In retrospect, I think that a smaller, more action-oriented body would have been better. Almost all images needed either the full tele capability, or (less often) full wide, or else full rise of the 90mm. I brought four batteries but never used up more than two in a day. Video with a magnified LCD hood but without a tripod proved unusable.
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Same brand, not the same image
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McDonald's interior in Prague New City.
McCafe
If you click to zoom in on the images, you can see comparative prices (19.5 Czech Crown = 1 USD), though local salaries are a bit lower than the US also.
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Flash hider for 10-22
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Rimfire flash hider
Over a decade ago, back in the AWB years, I saw a Levang “linear compensator” and wanted it in lieu of the forbidden birdcage flash hider. At the NRA show, my friend Glenn gave me this cute device. Lacking a bull barrel 10-22, I wonder what rifle should be endowed with it…
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Going through the mail bag…red dot magnifier
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One thing I love about travel is that I usually come back to a whole bunch of new toys in the mail.
Put these together and you get a swing-out magnifier for red dot sights. Could be useful around the house…err, range.
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Glock 17 with Evolution 9 suppressor
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Fathers Day range trip
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Advantage Tactical Sight update
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Installed that barrel on a 12ga 870. It points just about perfectly, just need to verify zero with slugs.
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A petite bolt action rifle
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AAC Micro 7 in 300BLK with Cyclone-K suppressor
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My favorite 308 rifle.
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After 8 months, my new 7.62 suppressor tax stamp finally got approved by ATF. My RFB has been restored to the correct configuration. YHM BUIS, 1-4x illuminated scope and (not shown here) Viridian laser on the quad rail. With 4x maximum magnification, it can do about 1.5MOA, giving useful range up to 500 yards. Very well balanced even with the suppressor, completely ambidextrous. Magazine may be inserted straight up. Very low felt recoil, great trigger. Ejects forward with casings coming out too slowly to cause injury. Fairly quiet thanks to the double-layered receiver and forward ejection.
Down sides I have already mentioned: slow administrative chamber checks, heat retention due to forward ejection. To my mind, the strengths much outweigh the weaknesses.
Bullpups typically do not have usable iron sights, but this one does. Sight radius on it is similar to the M4 carbine.
If you want one, my local gun store has it.
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