Leopard got a monkey!

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Oleg Volk

 

 

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What would be the cost of gold standard?

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Oleg Volk

If gold standard was reintroduced, how much of the currently available metal would have to be devoted to making currency instead of industrial or decorative uses? What would it do to the price of the metal? How would fractional payments we set up, in copper and silver or fiat coinage made of something less costly?

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Freedom of association

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Oleg Volk

Pretty much everyone agrees that a private person be able to pick friends free from interference. I see a lively argument going about the right to give or refuse business free of interference as well. Let me postulate these hypothetical situations:

A person runs a business — retail or consulting or some other, doesn’t really matter — and feels that a particular customer is unwelcome. Should they be forced to serve that customer? The reluctance could be based on credit history, political disagreement, just a hunch that the customer will cause trouble. Yes or no?

If you say yes, the person should be forced to do business with everyone, would you still hold the same view if the customer is Lon Horiuchi? The Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan? Someone else that you and the proprietor both hold reprehensible?

Businesses already legally discriminate by age, even though that’s a characteristic over which people have no control. If discrimination by sex, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, plain personal dislike are all to be illegal, why should discrimination by age or citizenship or any other factor remain legal?

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Body Armor Musings: new on AllOutdoor

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Oleg Volk

Why do some US politicians hate freedom even more than Chinese commies do?

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Please recommend simple 3D program

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Oleg Volk

I need a simple, inexpensive or free 3D modeling program (Windows 8) to perform the simplest tasks: lathing, extrusion, sweeps and the like. Don’t need high quality rendering or more complicated modeling. Suggestions?

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Does anyone know what kind of coin this is?

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Oleg Volk

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Bank suggestions needed for a friend

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Oleg Volk

“Well, we had our online store almost ready to go live in a few days and we got an email from our ecommerce host that by selling firearms and munitions that we are violating their gateway payment policy of their bank. Now we’re stuck. Any ideas? This was with Shopify. What is everyone else using?”

Any advice for my friend?

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A rifle for grizzly?

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Oleg Volk

Since a single shot rifle with .22 Long cartridge was enough to drop a record-size grizzly, does this mean thirty rounds of  22WMR would suffice for a whole herd of dinosaurs?

 

 

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A Long Time Until Now: book review

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Oleg Volk

I just finished reading Mike’s newest book, A Long Time Until now.  It’s a typical MZW in terms of pacing: a slow first chapter followed by rapidly accelerating pace of story-telling all the way up to the last sentence. It’s not a typical time travel book, though the details of historic and future-historic living are superbly written. It’s more of a drama detailing how different societies and cultures deal with sudden disruptions, and how the challenges of heterogeneity become strengths under fire.

I would recommend getting the pre-release digital version and not waiting for the paper edition. This book kept me awake for a few nights, so why should you get any more sleep than I have!

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While taking senior pictures for friends…

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Oleg Volk

…ran into this Western girl with a Henry rifle.

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A smiling Texan

Posted on March 15, 2015 by Oleg Volk

Our Renaissance man, Mike.

 

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Hast Holster

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Oleg Volk

Saw a very nice holster and speedloader pouch set. Upon inquiry, I found it to be yet another Michael Hast design. The pictures don’t really do it justice.

The leather is worthy of the gun it encases, S&W M27.

 

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Henry “American Beauty” .22 lever action

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Oleg Volk

Functional jewelry.

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Kel-Tec CL42 flashlight: new on AllOutdoor

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Oleg Volk

It does one thing — very well.

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American Beauty

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Oleg Volk

…and the other one is an engraved Henry carbine.

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A gift of Pure Estrogen?

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Oleg Volk

I mentioned this carbine before. You don’t have to wait until the next Valentine’s Day, either.

 

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Dan Wesson ECO review: new on AllOutdoor

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Oleg Volk

A review written by my friend Michelle, with my photos.

(Scroll down on the linked page for additional images.)

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Vintage Gremlin

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Oleg Volk

 

Interesting just how much the color of his fur changes depending on the light.

November 2011.

 

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OATH Tango expanding ammunition: new on AllOutdoor

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Oleg Volk

Making the best of 380ACP limited ballistics.

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TAC range in Knoxville is under new ownership

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Oleg Volk

The range time is reasonably priced, the facility is clean and well-ventilated, and they offer courses for improving proficiency. This time of year (and during the hottest summer), I’d rather shoot indoors. And they rent submachine guns (Uzi, Sterling, Sten, MP40, S&W M76, Mac10 and some others, I think). And the staff are friendly and competent. A gunsmith shop is conveniently adjacent to the range building.

 

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