Rifle case mod

The included image shows a AR-15 in a M4 configuration, the so called M-4gery. You will also notice a pistol and several pistol mags. I am thinking of sewing in some elastic pockets to hold those items in place. Possibly add storage capacity in the same fashion above the hand guard and barrel for more rifle mags.

The rifle is a tight fit in the case so doesn't move around much. This seems like a good solution for carrying a complete rig in one case.

Project will have to wait until after the move.

Noch and Post vs Aperture sights

To Ride, Shoot Strait, and Speak the Truth, Jeff Cooper, "Principles of Pistol Sighting"

Non-telescopic rifle sights may be set far enough apart so that front and rear lie at significantly different distances from the eye. The farther they lie apart - the greater the "sight radius" - the more precise may be the alignment they afford. However, the greather the sight radius the less it becomes possible to focus on both sights at once. Therefore the aperture rifle sight is better than the open rifle sight since the latter requires a short radius, with the notch set well forward on the barrel, while the former allows the ring to be set close to the eye, to be looked through rather then at. With a well-designed aperture rifle sight - large diameter, thin rim - you may disregard the rear sight as long as you are looking through it.

Easy solution

Found on Obama's website (don't ask).

I just take a shower when my BO starts bothering me.

Indiana Jones

I started watching the new Indiana Jones movie, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It probably would have been OK to have finished, but I have other things to do.
It starts out some Russians are forcing Indy to find an item in a warehouse. He claims that the item is magnetic. He then starts talking about needing gun powder. They pour some out of a grenade. He throws it in the air and it goes floating through the air in the direction of the box. The get close and he claims to need shotgun shells. A Russian solider racks the action on his shotgun a couple times neatly landing several cartridges into a hat. The metal base of the shells are removed with a pliers, and shot comes out. He then throws the shot and it is attracted to the box.
1. Don’t grenades use high explosive?
2. There is no way that gun powder responds to magnetism.
3. Even if gun powder did respond to magnetism, it would not move towards the source of the magnetism all the way across a huge warehouse.
4. Since when is the shot in the back of the shotgun shell?
5. How did they break the brass away from the plastic so cleanly?
6. When did lead become magnetic? Or when did the Russians start using steel shot?


I used to love these movies as a kid. Now I am disappointed, this movie reached back and destroyed part of my childhood.

New High Road

Dear xxx

Welcome to the new home of The High Road(tm) forum.

My name is Oleg Volk, and I am the owner of The High Road(tm). When I started the forum in 2002, my vision was to create a place where people from around the world could engage in cordial discussion of RKBA related matters. Since then, you have helped make The High Road(tm) one of the best places on the web for learning about firearms, for educating new shooters and for supporting effective advocacy of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Due to pending legal issues, I am moving the forum to a new home at TheHighRoad.us. This is the one and only official site at this time, owned by me. The same high standards of civility apply. In the near future, we will provide more than just a forum. The High Road(tm) is becoming an information and activism center for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

With the help of GeoVario, our new host, The High Road(tm) is now online in its new home. The new location of The High Road(tm) -- http://www.thehighroad.us -- will serve our members while the conversion of the .org domain name by THR's former sysadmin is being challenged in court (Copy of the complaint available: http://www.geovario.com/legal/Complaint1.pdf ).

Feel free to mirror this announcement on your blog (here is a link to mine with details of this matter and how you can help. http://olegvolk.livejournal.com/474369.html ). If you link to THR, please update the link to point to thehighroad.us Eventually, both .us and .org addresses will point to the same site again.

Thank you all
- Oleg Volk, Owner
The High Road(tm)

First Paint Job

I took a normal scary black AR-15 and decided to give it the ability to hide from scary liberals that what to kidnap it. I ordered a set of ACU camo paint stencils (~$20) from one of the paint ball guys that does camo. From Fleet Farm I picked up some Krylon Camo (tan, brown, green) about $15. This is a very flat finish paint.

I should note here that this is the first thing I have ever painted.

First I found a shady spot that was sheltered from the wind. Found a hanger to hang the rifle from. Then gave it a base coat of the tan, applied some stencils, green paint, more stencils then brown paint.

Some things that I would have done differently:
1. Make sure the stencils are secured to the rifle firmly before I paint that section. They tended to peel back on the edges, and you can see several spots where they paint came around the edges.
2. Take more time. I had other things that I needed to get to today and rushed more then I should have. For one thing the layers of paint got a bit heavy, and there is a bit of running. That wasn't too bad. The thing that really sucked was not waiting long enough before grabbing the rifle. The paint would come off in my hand. That sucked.
3. Not enough of the light color is showing through. More stencils at the beginning.
4. Next time, for these colors and the pattern that I envisioned, applying the paint {tan, brown, green} would have produced a better result.
5. Use all of the stencils on the rifle. Then reuse them on the mags.

I am going to go back over it with some of the reverse stencils to fill in some more tan.