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  1. Vashper

    Politics

    I have the impression that a peace agreement will not be reached now, since many Trump supporters, as well as all Democrats, are in favor of continuing and intensifying the war, hoping for a military defeat of Russia. Trump cannot ignore this. Putin cannot stop without achieving his declared...
  2. Vashper

    Mauser 98 vs Blaser R8

    I've never driven a car in the greater Washington, D.C. area, however, I once drove an American photographer in and around Moscow, and he kept moaning and grabbing at me, I don't know why. I have a purely platonic interest, since I'm not going to upgrade to R8, just curious. In the past, I've...
  3. Vashper

    Mauser 98 vs Blaser R8

    How difficult is it to change the turning bolt skill to a straight action skill? I have heard of extreme cases where very strong hunters have broken the handle, although this may be a story.
  4. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    If the box had been a little bigger, you could have played Go in it. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/FloorGoban.JPG/300px-FloorGoban.JPG
  5. Vashper

    A Question for Farmers in the US / Canada / Anywhere cold

    Bury the pipes, replace the ball valve with an ordinary one and place it in a box with sawdust. --10C with difficulty, but it will hold, it is better to open it slightly so that the water flows constantly. The wisdom of the ages.
  6. Vashper

    Politics

    Perhaps Vince believes that the so-called "populist" parties in Europe are Trump's allies, and he does not want these parties to be prevented from coming to power. This is especially true for the "Alternative for Germany".
  7. Vashper

    A Question for Farmers in the US / Canada / Anywhere cold

    Do you have cows on leashes (individual drinkers) or in groups?
  8. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    The northern peoples say more mildly: "only the first dog in a team admires the landscape."
  9. Vashper

    How did you get your handle or user name?

    Many years ago, I had to choose the name of my mailbox. My last name was already taken. I was trying to find a word that wasn't very popular, but it was easy for me to remember it myself. In one popular and beloved science fiction novel, the authors used Hungarian names for aliens. And the...
  10. Vashper

    Cartridges you just hate

    I'm sorry, there was an interesting letter here against the 375 caliber, but I lost the link. Maybe someone remembers?
  11. Vashper

    Politics

    This is not a new technique. Often, different branches of government protect historical names from the silly demands of other branches of government. In Smolensk, the city authorities renamed the central Lenin Street to... Lenin Street. In honor of the local hero of the defense of the city from...
  12. Vashper

    Well boys, what's your temperature like now?

    It's funny, but my sister's late husband was, in your opinion, a liberal, and he was bitten very badly by mosquitoes. He was covered in blisters when he was outdoors.
  13. Vashper

    Well boys, what's your temperature like now?

    Oh, I just came from there, I was showing the pyramids to my grandchildren. There's a drought there too, but it's a little warmer. I looked longingly to the south, so I want to visit the real, Black Africa.
  14. Vashper

    Well boys, what's your temperature like now?

    It's not snow on the trees, it's frost. There is no wind, -5 degrees.Celsius. The anticyclone over Eastern Europe is not going anywhere, the pressure is abnormally high. According to the forecast, this will be the case until the end of February. It looks like a drought, I've never seen anything...
  15. Vashper

    8x57 African big game load

    I read somewhere that the 8x60 caliber appeared even before Versailles, and that the Germans simply developed a whole range of calibers with one bullet, but with different sleeve lengths, in 3 mm increments. Not only for 8 mm, but also for 9 (9,3). But I can't say for sure, I haven't held it in...
  16. Vashper

    Cartridges you just hate

    Here's an interesting cartridge to hate. The bullet is in the caliber of a 7.92 Mauser. It is a pity that it was not used as a hunting weapon.
  17. Vashper

    Politics

    We often discussed US policy (young people do this less). Some strange things, such as the financing of Satanists who danced in our main temple, were explained through geopolitics - they say, "the ruling circles of the United States were fighting against the last major empire, this is...
  18. Vashper

    Cartridges you just hate

    So, Creedmoor 6.5, Bud Light, what else?
  19. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    Moreover, there is a 13th zodiac constellation, the Ophiuchus constellation, which is currently not involved.
  20. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    It's me after I spelled with my granddauther: I like apple I can crunch! I like discuits I can munch! I like orange juice that I can swish, swish,swish! I like food,I love is! I eat it every day; Hot or cold, Wet or dry, I eat it any way!
  21. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    And the more men, the better
  22. Vashper

    Cartridges you just hate

    American hunters consider those who go after a bear with 308 to be fatalists. I read this about 30 years ago in a magazine. The bear does a hundred-meter run in 8 seconds, and it's good if the distance goes away from you, not towards you.
  23. Vashper

    Cartridges you just hate

    The 7.62 x 54R cartridge is in a sense a double of the Army 30-06. It was produced in the USA for the Russian army, and it has the same bullet weight, the same gunpowder weight, and even the same gunpowder, some kind of Dupont. Army cartridges from the time of the First World War are good for...
  24. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    At one time, we had several popular websites about guns and hunting. And on one of them, the moderator and active participant was "Dr. Watson", and on the other, just "Doc". And then one day one guy let out a "cry of the soul": "this is not one person, but different people! And I, the fool...
  25. Vashper

    Cartridges you just hate

    I am dubious about belt cartridges. And aesthetically, and I'm not sure about smooth feeding. But I like rant cartridges. 7.62x54R. Just like the usual ones. 8x57. It is a pity that it was not possible to resuscitate the "Russian Berdan" 10.75x58 R.
  26. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    The audience is lost in guesses
  27. Vashper

    Cartridges you just hate

    "I don't like this ship. I don't like this team. And at all.. What? Yes! That is, no! I don't like anything at all, sir! (c) Smollett, "Treasure Island"
  28. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    Therefore, you can change the nickname to "Dr. Rain"
  29. Vashper

    Politics

    the author George Ingram ... Center for Sustainable Development :)
  30. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    Previously, alcohol-based aniline dye (brilliant green) was used. It's not as caustic as the iodine solution, but it dirties everything. For some reason, it was used for chickenpox.
  31. Vashper

    The most dangerous of hunts? The most dangerous game?

    Considering the statistics, the most dangerous game is other hunters. Fortunately, pheasant shot is painful (alas, I know this), but not as dangerous as bullets. We have leopards in our country, they live at the junction of the borders with China and Korea, and there is no proper hunting for...
  32. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    Well, lefties have advantages. In fencing, for example. During the civil war between the Jews and the Benjaminites, the latter sent a select group of lefties into battle. It didn't help them, but they tried.
  33. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    Is it possible to use, say, a spent cartridge case as a plug? Between the spring and the cap?
  34. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    I found the original source. Taken not far from me. And today we walked on the green grass in the park, for the first time in our lives at this time of the year. However, make no mistake - last year, the February snowfalls crushed the greenhouses of my neighbors and me, and the May frosts...
  35. Vashper

    Show us some Fiberglass!

    You often hear that "fiberglass is cold." In fact, its thermal conductivity coefficient is not much different from wood. Coniferous woods are "warmer", but not much, and heavy deciduous woods, from which buttocks are made, are almost equivalent to fiberglass.
  36. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    This is not a Browning Auto, but a "type". The gun is called "MC21-12", it has a movable barrel 75 cm long and a fairly powerful spring. I had one, but I changed it to a gas operated. Yes, there are no special problems for a trip to Africa, except for one major one :). The main thing is, before...
  37. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    We had two guys at the club, cousins. One of them had a five-charge, like a Browning Auto. It was an object of envy, few people had anything other than a double-barrelled shotgun. He was the "soul of the company" himself, telling a lot of funny stories, for which, by the way, he himself was...
  38. Vashper

    Well boys, what's your temperature like now?

    Yesterday the local gamekeepper asked me to take pic as "a camouflage champion". About zero in January - we sometimes have it, but without snow - this was never happened.
  39. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    I ran it through a translator (I often do this, it's faster than translating it myself), it turned out something like this: "I think Jobs should steal higher if you have a man's knee or Mr. angrier"
  40. Vashper

    Who's Hog Crazy? Show us those Pigs!

    Yeah, but I'll just be boring, okay? There were two rifles in the real world, a Mosin and a Nagant. They participated in the competition, and the Russian Ministry of War purchased both rifles. The Nagant rifle remained only in museums, it was not produced due to the complex design of the bolt (2...
  41. Vashper

    Politics

    As far as I remember, for Onan (Genesis 38:9) this behavior ended badly.
  42. Pig Hunting

    Pig Hunting

  43. Vashper

    Who's Hog Crazy? Show us those Pigs!

    Small, but tasty. 20 gauge slug
  44. Vashper

    Well boys, what's your temperature like now?

    Why not? The Japanese are heated by charcoal braziers, without any stove. But it's better to be careful about coal if the furnace is not suitable for it, but woodcoal is safe. When I visit my dacha in winter (and the house there is about the same as the American one in terms of thermal...
  45. Vashper

    Well boys, what's your temperature like now?

    F..., why is this happening? Is it because cows in Iowa are farting more intensely this year than last year? And the bolt on the chimney needs to be made. Of course, this will create inconvenience for Santa Claus, but it is necessary to keep the heat in the house, not just for safety...
  46. Vashper

    Well boys, what's your temperature like now?

    It's warm in Eastern Europe right now, around 0C. Journalists cackle about global warming. And last year, at the same time, the oaks were bursting from frost. A friend sent me a photo from last year, we were in a truck, and I froze my nose off.
  47. Vashper

    on a lighter note...

    There should also be a drawbridge
 
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