Author Archives: wizardpc

Gun Porn: “Finished” 700 Edition

By | March 25, 2014

When I made my initial post about the ARFCOM Hometown shoot, I realized that I hadn’t posted any updates about what I did to the Remington 700 AAC-SD I bought in January, despite having taken several rounds of pictures. Bad blogger. No cookie! So here goes: The first thing I did was get an EGW… Read More »

Dear Al Gore

By | March 25, 2014

Please take shit with you when you leave to go back to one of your 6 houses that aren’t in Nashville. Seriously, it’s freaking late March and it’s snowing like it’s January.

I am so sunburned…

By | March 24, 2014

but this was totally worth it. AAR with pictures and a couple of videos to come later this week. Spoiler: My most recent purchase did not do so well. Kinda embarrassing, actually. Me? Oh I was fine hittin 8″ steel plates at 650yds. With someone else’s .308.

This will be one to watch

By | March 16, 2014

This morning I saw a headline that said “Teen shot and killed near school.” I remember it because 1) it apparently happened on a Saturday and 2) it said near school, not at school. Since we seem to have a functional Illegal Moms Against Gun Ownership (or whatever they call themselves now) chapter, I expected… Read More »

Raising the comb on a 10/22 takedown

By | February 24, 2014

So a while back, I was watching this video of Ryan Cleckner setting up a scope on a Remington 700: I thought that was a neat trick with the wood cheek riser. It stuck with me. When I threw together the “assassins kit in pretty much every action movie in the 80s” as commenter Michael… Read More »

Bleg: Workshop Edition

By | February 22, 2014

This is the workshop that came with the house we bought last year. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t put plywood over the insulation on the ceiling and replace the hanging 8ft fluorescent fixtures with ceiling mounted 4ft ones?

Dust Collection for a Dewalt Miter Saw

By | February 19, 2014

I picked up a Dewalt DW715 12-Inch Compound Miter saw during a Black Friday sale. I’ve been doing some furniture building and figured it would come in handy. See that little bag on the back? That’s ostensibly for dust collection. I may have been expecting too much out of it, but after my first dozen… Read More »