Osprey's doing a book. Sweet.
It's available for pre-order at Amazon too:
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Waiting for the food
Place mat doodle.
Blaming the earlier post for my scribblings... and the blogger app doesn't listen to the rotating command.
ETA: fixed orientation.
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Walking Dead
Bah. Almost forgot this one (thanks to Uncle for reminding me.)
Looks like AMC's doing a TV version of my very favorite zombie-based comic book series
"Walking Dead."
The books are fantastic, and if you haven't read them yet, go
buy
them
. (I need to catch up myself, I forget if I got through vol. 5
or 6
...)(yes, I linked
the
crap
out of
it
, I'm really saying you should buy it.)
The books follow a group of survivors doing the survival thing, and revolves around the group dynamics for the meat of the story. Love affairs, offing bad group members, dealing with really young kids in the apocalypse, other not-so-friendly groups of survivors, etc... And since it's not limited to a 90 minute run-time (well, the books anyway...) the writer really digs into the characters. It's possibly the most realistic zombie book out there from a psychological standpoint.
If you like the zombie genre (and I'm sure 90+% off my reader demographic does...) you will love this series, even if you're not a huge comic nerd.
As for the show, like all things based on books I like, I hope it doesn't suck, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. (The teaser looks pretty promising though.)
Looks like AMC's doing a TV version of my very favorite zombie-based comic book series
"Walking Dead."The books are fantastic, and if you haven't read them yet, go
buy them. (I need to catch up myself, I forget if I got through vol. 5 or 6...)(yes, I linked the crap out of it, I'm really saying you should buy it.)The books follow a group of survivors doing the survival thing, and revolves around the group dynamics for the meat of the story. Love affairs, offing bad group members, dealing with really young kids in the apocalypse, other not-so-friendly groups of survivors, etc... And since it's not limited to a 90 minute run-time (well, the books anyway...) the writer really digs into the characters. It's possibly the most realistic zombie book out there from a psychological standpoint.
If you like the zombie genre (and I'm sure 90+% off my reader demographic does...) you will love this series, even if you're not a huge comic nerd.
As for the show, like all things based on books I like, I hope it doesn't suck, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. (The teaser looks pretty promising though.)
M&P15-22 MkII
They rebuilt him, they had the technology...
As mentioned, I got my gun back the other day (in case you missed, it blew up.) I've been pretty busy (work and school started again today, so full credit load plus 20+ hours of work a week!) Today I got the chance to pull it apart and see what they did to it.
After putting all my accessories back on-
Externally; not really much to see, but if you look close you can see a little nub that keeps the Extractor Spring Retainer from rotating. Supposedly (at least from what a couple hours of scrounging the interwebs has found me,) this helps reduce the chances of an OOB det with sensitive ammo. There's also an Extractor again.
As soon as you field strip it, you notice that the main recoil spring is the new style aptly named "blue" spring:
I can't feel any noticeable difference in the strength of the spring, but I guess they're supposedly a pound or two heavier to make sure the bolt gets home to prevent an OOB det.
There's also a new "blue" hammer spring:
Same thing, supposedly lighter to ease in cocking and reduce the likely hood of the rifle doubling. It also reduces the trigger pull weight and smooths it out a little, which is nothing to complain about!
The sneaky one was the mag though. I thought it was the same one I sent in with the gun, since my markings were still on the baseplate. However I realized the one I had put on the body was gone and there was the telltale "25 ROUND" under the "22 LR" mark.
Seems they swapped out at least the body, and possibly the spring (follower and baseplate are from my old one though.) I gather the newer style may have some improvements to smooth feeding, but they may just have the markings to denote they're not 10 rounders.
If anybody has more concrete evidence of why the changes are what they are, that would be fantastic.
Hopefully I'll get out to the range tomorrow or Saturday and see if it doesn't blow up or go full auto or something on me.
As mentioned, I got my gun back the other day (in case you missed, it blew up.) I've been pretty busy (work and school started again today, so full credit load plus 20+ hours of work a week!) Today I got the chance to pull it apart and see what they did to it.
After putting all my accessories back on-
Externally; not really much to see, but if you look close you can see a little nub that keeps the Extractor Spring Retainer from rotating. Supposedly (at least from what a couple hours of scrounging the interwebs has found me,) this helps reduce the chances of an OOB det with sensitive ammo. There's also an Extractor again.
As soon as you field strip it, you notice that the main recoil spring is the new style aptly named "blue" spring:
I can't feel any noticeable difference in the strength of the spring, but I guess they're supposedly a pound or two heavier to make sure the bolt gets home to prevent an OOB det.
There's also a new "blue" hammer spring:
Same thing, supposedly lighter to ease in cocking and reduce the likely hood of the rifle doubling. It also reduces the trigger pull weight and smooths it out a little, which is nothing to complain about!
The sneaky one was the mag though. I thought it was the same one I sent in with the gun, since my markings were still on the baseplate. However I realized the one I had put on the body was gone and there was the telltale "25 ROUND" under the "22 LR" mark.
Seems they swapped out at least the body, and possibly the spring (follower and baseplate are from my old one though.) I gather the newer style may have some improvements to smooth feeding, but they may just have the markings to denote they're not 10 rounders.
If anybody has more concrete evidence of why the changes are what they are, that would be fantastic.
Hopefully I'll get out to the range tomorrow or Saturday and see if it doesn't blow up or go full auto or something on me.
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