Greetings and Salutations!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh BIG sigh of relief.
Everyone made it home safe from their travels and travails.
I picked up Gretchen last night, hence my absence there and got Sapper back this afternoon. Both traveled via Airbus 320s, which made me feel better about the whole commercial air travel thing so to speak.
That and I understand that the pilots were all men.
Good thing that Aye?
Yep.
Some folks have been letting it now slip that in the unit, she was known as a ball-busters ball buster… i.e. ain’t no man going to tell her nothin’ no how no way. Got a hunch that the Spec4 Mafia felt it was safe to speak out now that the New Fuckin’ Yawk Slimes blew the whistle.
Thank God I got out of the service before the split tails were allowed to become so empowered. I’d have probably been freeze-dried and buried under Leavenworth for Equal Opportunity violations. Hell… even back in 1994 my roommate Tucker (RIP Bro…) got hemmed up by some female LT who claimed he was ‘ogling her’ on the rifle range…
Which was utterly stupid.
He was in the back of a deuce driving past the range she was on, and was on bench, at the rear, and as he said “I wasn’t staring at any bitch! I was just you know zoned out ‘cos it’d been a long day man… bitches be crazy!” This beeeatcha tried to claim my dude was ‘ogling’ her as they drove by…. How fucked is that?
Even so knowing it was a retarded witch hunt, they (the Battalion) had to do a BIG investigation and man, it was a shit show… I mean my man had to get a fucking JAG Defense Lawyer!!! In the end he got cleared but the lesson taken VERY seriously by ALL of us grunts. That made the rule crystal clear:
Do not interact nor even look at the
Fucking Splits while ON duty.
Off duty?
Welllll that was a whole different thing
I mean a guy needs to get laid right?
That being said, anytime a female, especially an officer-type female came around or tried to interact with me? I shut down and went into extreme full-on military courtesy…
Robot mode.
Speak when spoken to.
Contribute nothing to any conversation.
And look to get the fuck out of whatever area of operations they were inhabiting. E&E the fuck out, and get back into the bush to my safe, ugly All-Male Infantry Review so to speak.
Alas however, it seems even the splits have invaded that fucking space (the Infantry Branch) and let me tell you… it’s going to end beyond poorly. I say this as a ten year grunt who got broken in the process… Bitches can not be Infantrymen.
I mean are there outliers?
Abso-fucking-lutely.
I knew an E-5 MP who had bigger biceps than me and could have bench pressed my ass. Repeatedly. Without breaking a sweat. This chick had a higher body count than me even… and I’m not meaning sexually. She stacked Hajjis like a bricklayer building a wall I swear. Lived to swim in the blood of her enemies… Drank like a fish too. Even said she’d prefer to be a Grunt/Infantry as she purely hated being around the other broads in her unit as “Them whores are only lookin’ to cause drama!”
And yeah. MAD gay.
Had a cute ‘wife’ waiting back home supposedly…
Never bothered me but hey… to each their own.
So yeah…
OF COURSE the crash was caused by a broad ignoring a dude.
‘Cos “men = bad” Mmmnnk?
Killing 70+ in the process…
FFS.
In other news:
I found out the Ex-Demon-in-Law cashed in at the end of March. I happened on the news while sneaking a FB peek at the former fam webpages. I like to keep abreast of stuff like this.
And for definition? The XDIL? That’d be the ex-mother-in-law.
Ex-FIL died right after he got Clot-Shot #2? 3?
Back in January of 2021.
Died of a massive amount of micro-strokes due to clotting.
That started in his pancreas of all things…
Patterns anyone?
In the case of XDIL?
My understanding was it was Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer.
Seems there’s a lot of that going around after oh so many clotshots it seems…
I feel badly for my Ex to a point, as well as my Spawn.
I know they were close, so I’ll leave it alone.
Then…
Well of course I can’t leave well enough alone. I got a Lee Enfield Barrel for a Mk3 (SMLE) with great rifling.
I debated on getting the barrel swapped off of the first Brit rifle I did as that poor thing keyholes damned near all the shots. It groups nicely, but it’ll never be a sniper rifle per se.
It also has some pretty bad surface scaling and some deep rust points:
I might have to break out my TIG welder and fill those holes.
Leastways I -think- it’s a TIG welder.
I got the welder as part of a trade back when I was building ARs for the DotMil Guard and Reservists when I was working as the state Armorer. And no I never used ANY pieces parts from my stocks… they kept a pretty damned close eyeball on me and the other Armorers to insure that there wasn’t any ‘spillage’ so to speak. A guy couldn’t afford the cash upfront for an AR build, so he traded me the welder and some really nice and top end cleaning kits as well as some Surefires that ‘fell off the back of the deuce’ apparently.
I came out ahead, but never learn’t how to use the thing… I might have to hit Dio up for some advice/guidance. He’s a Metalbender by trade. I’ve seen a fill done with a welder, but never actually attempted it myself. Guess I’ll figure it out shortly.
So back to the basics. The problem that I have/had is that I didn’t have a proper barrel wrench for a Lee Enfield.
Mind you had being the key operative terminology.
I looked up local gunsmiths to see if they have the right equipment, and came up dry. So I bit the bullet and dropped the $180 for the vice and wrench. The LE requires a very specific set of tooling to remove/install a barrel without fucking up either the receiver or the barrel. So since this seems to be becoming a serious fixation, as opposed to a hobby, I figured that I may as well add this to the tool collection that I already possess, and in the same view, become the local Lee Enfield go-to guy for barrel fixes.
Add on that the rear sight on this thing is almost pristine:
And yeah, that ‘hooded’ rear sight blade is an Aussie affectation. The slider works quite well right now as it is, so no major restoration is needed, other than the usual deep cleaning and polishing/painting/bluing as needed.
So since I now find myself becoming “The Man” regarding doing what I describe as “Depot Level Restorations”, I found a receiver for $100 for a SMLE. It’s an Ishapore/RFI receiver, so I’m at a loss as to how to define it…
Ishastralian?
Aussipore?
You tell me.
Dammit.
Add on that considering how many extra fiddly bits and pieces/parts I’ve accrued doing all of these restorations? Plus one of you thugs in the comments pointed out that J&G has DP ‘donor rifles’ available for $99?
Good Lord I’m screwed so to speak
<Vigorously taps vein>
“I need mah fix dammit!”
So keep your eyes on the page. The next LE is up on deck.
So that’s me for tonight.
After I do a ‘printing’ of the current 2A1, I’ll post the pics of how it shot at 50 then 100 yards, and do the raffle from there. I’m thinking $25 per entry, and every $100 gets an extra entry for 5 in total. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
And Remember
Every dollar spent goes towards rescuing and restoring another lonely and abandoned World War One or Two Veteran Rifle…
Every day, poor lost and lonely rifles like these are found… abandoned, unloved…
They eventually end up in Police Buybacks, to suffer an ignominious fate after all their brave service, being destroyed at the whims of lunatic anti-gun leftists.
Please, think of them if you want to enter the raffle.
Won’t you please help?
So More Later
Big Country
BCE, weren’t your Ex In-Laws kinda dicks to you and were up to their necks in the whole divorce thing ?
Well at least now in the hereafter they have to answer for what they did.
In other news, Google pictures of the Port of Seattle and other US ports.
THEY ARE FRIGGING EMPTY and are usually jam packed with ships and containers.
I’m not one to yell “the sky is falling the sky is falling” but folks we are going to have a massive country wide supply shortage within 90 days once stocks in the US run out.
Besides stocking up on anything you need, how do you think people will react ?
How will the 2Gs react ? Strange isn’t it that Trump signed an Executive Order that in 90 days the military can help the police ?
I’m convinced there is much more going on here than the tariff thing.
Is this the bankruptcy finally happening where countries are now refusing our worthless dollars backed by nothing ? I dunno but things are going to get bumpy real soon — I strongly urge everyone to top off their preps.
Was it Error or Suicide? She was on a fast track to bigger things until Trump derailed her career.
John Connor and I are proof that the first time can result in a legend.
I have heard that after years of effort, stupid money, and preferential treatment, the Australian army managed to get a platoon of female infantry.
All grouped in one platoon for ease of management, mostly because they’re all broken. None have lasted long enough to become an NCO either. Yay for smashing the patriarchy or something….
I hope shipping containers soon sell for $100 each. I could buy a few. I needed a cart for use around the yard. Tractor Supply had one brand new one and a few out rusting in the parking lot. If you need some screwdrivers better get them now. Anybody know anything about the big power outage in Europe? Wait until all the printer ink cartridges get bought up, nobody will know what to do then.
Ding Dong: Thanks for the tip. I am ordering more printer toner cartridges right now. Darn things cost a fortune. Come to think of it, I gotta get more of our clients to accept e-mailed receipts. There’s no reason we should be handing out reams of paper every weeks.
They went full retard for “clean” energy and ah e interconnected all the grids to try and make that work.
It doesn’t take much for a system like that to wig out and shut down like TX did during that ice storm a couple of years ago.
At least TX was smart enough to fix it.
Send me a pic of whacha got, and I let ya know what you can expect. If its TIG, you’re gonna need a bottle of gas (Straight Argon, not mix or tri-mix) to fill those holes.
Totally do-able though if ya got the right stuff.
I’d be wondering about the heat effected are compromising the barrel
I posted this elsewhere concerning the whole helicopter crash thing:
“It’s almost like diversity and ass kissing isn’t a strength.
On another note, you’re flying as the Second in Command (SIC) and you see the Pilot in Command (PIC) is doing something that IS SHORTLY going to bend metal/kill people. What as a competent SIC do you do? Answer – you take over control of the aircraft and avert the situation yourself, brutally if needed. In other words, the co-pilot was at fault as well.”
You DON’T EVER let things go past your ability to recover the aircraft.
Matt
After posting the above, I stumbled on this:
https://x.com/BowTiedDaddy/status/1916865442162860531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1916865442162860531%7Ctwgr%5E73004057a46923de42e9995669071b30c7e6254c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanpartisan.org%2F2025%2F04%2Fregarding-lobach-the-american-airlines-crash-and-why-dei-was-100-at-fault%2F
One hundred percent spot on.
Matt
I’m in for the raffle. Do I need another rifle? No. Can I pass on a chance for that beauty? Also no.
I’m so glad that Gretchen is well; Cancer sucks-period. Maybe you guys can get on track, cuz God knows that DB won’t be anything but a pain in the butt, and the G-parents will only become more needy. I am in awe of the rifle work that you have done. It is also a mind saver for you-so keep at it.
Keep topping off those preps, as I see some short term pain coming. Probably 2-4 months until China, et al, realize that they DO need those worthless Yankee Dollars. Don’t forget your pets and livestock.
I hate flying and would never board any plane when a woman is in the hot-seat. No, no, and no!!
Stupid question: why isn’t Trump demanding that shop classes come back to the high schoolers? I mean honest-to-God welding, CAD drawing, the proverbial wood table, etc??? I think that shop classes work an area of the brain that kick starts reason, comprehension, and cognitive skills into working.
Stealth Spaniel: No question about it. Having to think and plan spatially in 3D, as well as grasp and manipulate real, solid materials and cut, hammer and connect things with one’s own brain and two hands (and, if needed, a foot, or a knee, or even one’s cranium) spurs essential mental and neuro-muscular development. Even if you screw up a project, you’ll learn something.
Shop classes went away because of one very big reason: Insurance costs! Leslie (gender neutral name) does not listen to SAFETY lessons and losses a minor or major body part and school gets sued by parents for allowing their precious to be near any thing more dangerous than a crayon. Along with all the others kids parental units for the trauma and ptsd for seeing said injury by their spawn. Same reason playground equipment is tame and gym class is mostly devoid of things like dodge ball. Lawyers ruin everything.
Sorry for the tip on J&G(not). Just for s***s and giggles, when you get tired of working on Lee Enfields, and want to expand your problems, I could send my P-14 that was being converted to 7.62X54 Rus. Guy working on it tore it apart and after he died I got it back – minus most of the trigger parts. . . If he wasn’t already dead . . . Keep havin’ fun down there. SOF Week is coming.
if you felt bad enough about it you wouldn’t have mentioned it at all, you absolute reprobate of a human being. fuck yourself.
What’s incredibly pathetic is that you my Son, requested that we go “No Contact” three years ago as I was such a shitty human, and from that request I respected it. I ceased any and all contact with you. Hell I haven’t spoken a word to your mother in 9 years.
After a 27 year relationshit.
YOU on the other hand, can’t leave me alone.
You stalk my blog, leaving fucked up and shitty comments (which I delete as I didn’t want to air our shit)
My commenting on that individual’s death is MY opinion and -I- have every fucking right to say what the fuck I want on MY fucking blog.
Much like you and your ‘theoretically humorous’ blog which drags me in the worst way possible?
If after 3 years of no contact, and you STILL come here to be an ungrateful shit?
And you call me the reprobate?
If after 9 years after the divorce I still enrage you to that level and am still living rent free in your head, I’d say look in the mirror ‘cos the problem isn’t with me.
I’d say you need professional help
this nigga big country really thinks any comment critical of his behavior is his own son, as if your blog isn’t the laughing stock of our multiple discords. you are the equivalent of schizophrenic semi-daily sunday funnies.
your legacy will be that of financial irresponsibility, irrational emotional outbursts, and general fucking stupidity. fuckfarts contains more objective truths in two posts than your entire website has ever posted over the last decade.
And your point?
By your supposed claim that this is a ‘we’ and mentioning of “our multiple discords” indicates that this written either by someone attempting to deflect or someone who’s never met me in person. Either way, you do not matter, nor will you ever.
My life is my own, and I’m at peace with things.
I have a new life.
I have a wonderful new partner
I even have Grandchildren.
The mentally ill individual/s who think they know me, and continually harass me for whatever sick pleasure they gain is utterly childish, and shows emotional stunting and lack of maturity. That the continual attempts to deny this reality is not on me, but on you my Son. It’s a shame that you lack the true courage to come face to face and genuinely confront the issues at hand.
The brainwashing and hatred is real.
Who paid for your upbringing via all those painful years I spent overseas?
Not your Grandparents, nor your Uncle.
Who made sure you had a home?
Your mom never worked a day until she needed to when I could no longer contract anymore.
Huh
Who attempted to reconcile my horrible actions and ask for forgiveness, while trying to be a better person while dealing with my mental health issues?
Who stayed away and left everyone alone despite some VERY dangerous and primitive urges?
You are genuinely stupid if you continue down this road.
I have no Son.
shut up nigger, you are a failure of a father. if you felt bad enough about it you wouldn’t have mentioned it at all. stop pretending to care about someone you didn’t give a fuck about. now go back to posting your slampig’s fat tits, daddy needs to crank his hog.
Huh
Good. You just reinforced that since I’m a failure as a father, then YOU are the fail.
At least you admit it.
I’ve been following your blog for a little while, and it’s been increasingly clear over time that you are a sad man that is a failure at being a good man to his children. A good man wouldn’t gaslight his children and treat them like shit over trivial matters and/or pass blame off to his children when he’s in the wrong. As a father of 3, I’ve been worried about making sure my children grow up to be strong and healthy adults, but this reply just confirms that I’m doing just fine compared to you at this rate my “good man.” I look forward to seeing just how deep you’ll continue to dig this hole. Keep it up!
What are you talking about?
For one, I hardly every mention (except in passing) my Ex Fam. My daughter who is trans has literally not spoken a word to me in 9 years. I also have not spoken ONE Word in 9 years to the Ex Wife. I’ve had hardly ANY interaction with my son during the same time period, so as they say “you’re talking thru your hat” (i.e. has no idea what you’re talking about). DC is Gretchen’s daughter and theoretically my step-daughter, however she’s a poster child for bad and selfish decisions.
How I ‘gaslight’ anyone by your description is beyond me and the only blame I have is for myself.
You literally know nothing of me nor the dynamics here. I was requested to no longer contact them, so I don’t, but for some reason, THEY choose to come HERE to MY fucking house, metaphorically shit on the floor, upset me and remind me of what I lost, and take pleasure in it? And this time, I’m done. I’m calling out the ingratitude, the lack of appreciation for ALL I did having taken the hard road to support them, and in the end, my faults got the better of me, and I was discarded like last weeks trash. If after 9 years, they still have issues, well then that’s their fucking problem and THEY need to get help.
There was NEVER any physical abuse
NO ONE EVER wanted for anything.
The financial issue that -I- get blamed for?
Funny thing that…. Every. Single. Penny I earned for 11 years was sent home to the Ex who had a BLANKET POWER OF ATTORNEY
I couldn’t access ANY of them funds if I wanted to, and yet -I- somehow was responsible for the 750K being missing?
Was I a cold and emotionally unavailable father? Probably. Lots of issues that I unfortunately used alcohol to numb. Lots of PTSD from 14 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
All I can say is I tried.
So since you feel the need to come here and talk about what an awesome human you are, well, if it floats your boat to look down and gain some form of schadenfreude by my losses, well go ahead and have fun. However, don’t ever expect to have any say here again as, like I said This’s MY fucking house.
Parental alienation is a real fucking thing and it happened to BCE and it happened to ME !
My ex cheated on me with a SOB who was living in a single wide, Ex kicked me out during the divorce and SOB moved into my house that I paid for. They then lived it up on all of the money they STOLE from me including half of my 401k ! Next step was my Ex began intense brainwashing where the kids would get the belt if they mentioned me and were to call Step SOB Daddy.
What do you think happened ? Two of my 3 kids call me a no good rotten SOB even though I never missed a penny of child support, paid for all of their extra curricular activities and never missed a visitation. When asked why I’m no good they say I was a deadbeat dad and never paid a dime. I have showed them all of the receipts where my child support came out of my check automatically and I never saw that money, also was I ever called into court — nope. Oh and here are all of the cancelled checks for all of your sports, cheerleading, trips that I paid for, etc.
They look and say nothing and due to brainwashing I’m still a no good SOB.
Dude, my youngest daughter I was always the closest too and due to her mother’s influence cut off all contact. I was told point blank I wasn’t invited to her wedding last year and if I showed up I’d be arrested for tresspassing.
So don’t run your mouth about things you don’t know about. I guarantee BCE’s Ex was brainwashing his kids big time and she uses them as her catspaw to hurt him.
It’s a shitty situation that I sadly am all too aware of in my own case. I feel bad for BCE AND his kids who due to brainwashing lost their relationship with their father AND are committing mortal sins dishonoring and cursing him.
Those pitts can be filled with lead, the area needs to be absolutely cleaned of rust first. Since lead melts at low temps it might work better than TIG.
Regards the helicopter crash, I believe the pilot giving the flight check has finally say over the safe operation of the aircraft. He is supposed to be validating the ability of pilot taking the check ride to handle the aircraft safely. For whatever reason. he may have been unwilling tor unable to forcefully correct the senior officer.
Just can’t help yourself, can you? Well I guess there are worse addictions. I definitely don’t need another rifle so count me in for the raffle.
An addiction to pulling these useless pieces of wood & metal from the trash heap of firearms history… and those weapons coming up smelling like those legendary roses they talk about, with just a “little bit” of elbow grease on BC’s part… well, I feel we ALL must feed that kinda addiction.
About 14 minutes in the guy is welding on the BAR magazine.
https://youtu.be/wKzmaPkZkcI?si=DkBseafAPoVaxfEu
Thanks for all you post. Have fun, stay safe.
Catfish Brody
Ishaporn: when an SMLE has been fucked with so much that it brings along its own black leather casting couch. 🙂
She just wants you to treat her like an Australian because she thinks you’ll still respect her in the morning.
So if the barrel’s a bit worn out, does that make it a .304 caliber?
Someone should get @hoe_math in on your raffle. 🙂