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[wuxiaphoenix]

Cranky PSA: Children and Hardware Are Unmixy

I never thought I’d have to say this, but apparently some people really haven’t clued in. Hardware stores are not grocery stores. They are not child-safe. They’re barely adult-safe. Do not let your toddlers out of grabbing range.

Ace, Home Depot, Lowe’s, wherever - hardware stores are full of things that even adults have to treat with caution. Kids are ignorant. Kids that can’t read “Danger - Flammable” are in even more trouble.

Start with the hardware. These places are full of shiny things. Nuts, bolts, nails, magnets, bits of railing, you name it. Kids are like ravens, drawn to shiny; and young kids are further drawn to putting everything in their mouths. Picture the large, very large, section of nuts and bolts. Picture them vanishing down a kid’s gullet. It’s happened. Or, and more likely, picture them upending entire drawers to create the ultimate trip hazard. Very possibly yanking them down on their own heads.

Move to the cleaning supplies, many of which are meant for cleaning businesses, and so industrial-strength. As in strong enough and nasty enough stuff you don’t want to handle it without gloves, eye protection, and possibly hazmat clothes. Think muriatic acid. Think pool chlorine tabs. Think ammonia-based cleaners that all say “use with adequate ventilation” at the very least. Think.

Look outside to the plants. Many of them are toxic. Fertilizers can be toxic, or at least harmful to skin and eyes. Herbicides and pesticides are definitely toxic. And they’re all there on the shelves in easy grabbing range.

Let’s not even get into the paints, oils, kerosene, gasoline, and so many sharp objects throughout the entire building. All of which are packaged to be safe to handle... if you don’t drop it. Or puncture it. Or climb on it. Or sling it at someone. What do kids do? Right.

Last but not least, think about the business of the store itself. There is a lot of stock. Much of it is heavy items. All of it has to be stored, and then accessed when customers want it. Which means heavy equipment. Forklifts. Other lifts. Things where the users have to be strapped in, because it’s dangerous to have any part of your body outside. The whole store is outside, and while employees try to set up barriers, they try to keep customers out of hazard zones....

Well. You’ve never seen a toddler scuttle so fast as when they’re scampering right under a safety gate, heading straight for the big black-striped yellow machine with all the blinking lights that can squash them like a watermelon dropped from a hundred feet.

Fortunately she slowed down when I yelled. Fortunately, she listened to her father when he called her to come back out. Absent those two pieces of luck, she was heading right toward a lift that - if something went wrong - could have easily dropped something heavy enough to kill her. And the safety employee wouldn’t have seen her because he was watching for idiot adults trying to come through or around the gates into the working aisle. Not a pink blur at ground level.

These are hardware employees. They’re doing their best, but they’re busy, they’re overworked, and they are not trained to look after children.

If you take your kids into a hardware store, keeping them safe is your job. Think it through. Please.

[smileygoth]

Til I Hear It From You - Part Four (Stranger Things / Empire Records

Read Part One here! Read Part Two here! Read Part Three here!

A little long but I really wanted to get this all out in one. Hope you like it, and I hope I've captured the Empire team spirit!

CW: Spoilers for Stranger Things season 4, fluff alert, you may need tissues.

Word count: 3,485 words

Image found on Pinterest.

Week 3 (ctd.)

The motel Eddie was staying in was located right on the edge of the beach. Each room in the single-storey building had a rear door that led out onto a small concrete courtyard with an ugly metal railing separating it from the sand dunes. Eddie led Debra through a tiny one-room space with a bathroom smaller than a closet and nothing to sit on except the bed. His clothes were still spilling out of an open suitcase on the floor, the flimsy-looking bureau apparently untouched. The only personal touch he’d made was to hang a black and red Warlock guitar from a picture hook above the bureau. Debra spotted the framed picture he’d taken down to make space for it left leaning beside the bureau, picture side to the wall.

Eddie pulled a couple of cans of beer from a tiny, rattling fridge under a narrow counter and handed one to her, then beckoned for her to follow him out of the rear door to the courtyard. He’d put a single folding chair out here, the kind you could buy cheap in any hardware store. He waved his hand at it, inviting her to sit, then leaned against the railing, popped his beer and stared out across the beach.

Debra opened her own can and opted to join him at the railing. “Well, the room’s not much,” she said, “But you’ve got a great view.”

Eddie nodded. “Yeah. I like it here. I like the sea. There’s nothing like this where I’m from.” He closed his eyes and smiled. “It’s … fresh. Peaceful.”

“Where you’re from,” Debra said carefully. “Indiana.”

Eddie stiffened. “Yeah.”

“Where something … bad happened to you.”

Eddie nodded and took a long drink of his beer. When he was finished he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and twisted to face Debra. “You sure you want to hear this story?” he asked. His skin looked pale and there were dark shadows under his eyes. He looked like he’d aged twenty years in the last five minutes.

“Oh my God, yes,” Debra said with a soft laugh. “And you look like you need to tell it. Seriously, Eddie, you look like you’ve been … sucking on diesel fumes or something. It’s poisoning you.”

Eddie paused, taking this in. “Okay,” he replied. “But I really think you’re gonna want to sit down.”

Rolling her eyes, Debra crossed to the chair and sat. “Now will you tell me?”

Putting his back to the sea, Eddie hunkered down on his haunches, leaning back against the low concrete lip at the base of the railing. He took a deep breath, sliding down until his butt reached the floor. Then he raised his eyes to the night sky, opened his mouth … and started talking.

He talked for a long time, and Debra listened in silence, partly because she was afraid that if she interrupted him he’d stop, but mostly because his story was as unbelievable as he’d warned her it would be. At one point he noticed Debra starting to shiver in the cold night air, and broke off long enough to go inside and come back out with the quilt from the bed. He wrapped it around her shoulders and then went back to his spot on the floor. Debra left the chair and squatted down next to him so they could share the quilt. Then he carried on with his story.

When he was finished there was a long silence between them. Eddie freed his hands from the quilt and fumbled out his cigarettes, offering one to Debra. She hesitated, then took one. He lit hers first, then his, the lighter’s flame dancing in his trembling fingers. Debra breathed in the harsh smoke and held it in her chest, then let it out slowly. Somehow it seemed to clear away the shock numbness in her mind.

“So …” she said softly as Eddie took a long drag of his cigarette. “You … died?”

Eddie shrugged. “I thought I was dying,” he replied, “But I guess I’m tougher than I thought. I woke up … I don’t know how long I was out for. But when I woke up everything was crazy. I was back in the ‘real world’ -” He lifted his hands and hooked his fingers into quotation signs. “But the park was trashed … there were these big splits in the ground like there’d been an earthquake, but there was this red stuff inside them. It looked like lava, but it was cold. When I got closer I saw that the splits were actually big gates to the other place, like the one we’d all gone through. That was when I decided to get out of there. I grabbed a few things, got in my truck and bailed. On my way out I saw that a lot of Hawkins was gone too … Buildings collapsed, houses boarded up. It looked like a ghost town, man.” He twisted the cigarette in his fingers, glumly examining its glowing red ember. “Which I guess means we failed.”

Debra thought back to what he’d told her. “You didn’t stop Vecna,” she clarified.

He shook his head and took another drag of his cigarette. “Guess not.”

“And … what happened in the bar? What was that?”

Eddie shrugged. “It happens now and then,” he replied. “I get this … feeling, like pins and needles up my spine … like something’s watching me. And then all my scars just start burning and burning, and they open and bleed, and it’s … a big ol’ mess.” He gave her a weak smile. “Only thing I can figure is that it’s Vecna, looking for me.”

“Why would he be looking for you?” Debra asked. “You didn’t even see him, did you?”

“Nope.” Eddie shook his head. “Never laid eyes on the dude. But what else could it be?”

Debra didn’t have an answer to that. She fell silent, thinking.

“One time,” Eddie went on in a quiet voice, “Not long after … everything, it happened while I was in New York. I thought I could get lost there. But then I woke up at 2am with this scratching noise at my apartment window, just like when …” He stopped and shuddered, finished his cigarette and jabbed it out on the floor. “In the morning I looked out the window and there was this big bat thing on the windowsill, just kind of … falling apart in the sun. I left New York the same day. After that, whenever I get that creepy-crawly feeling, I run.”

Debra looked at him. “Are you going to run this time?”

Eddie sighed. “Look, Deb, I know you don’t believe any of this, but if Vecna is sending these things after me-”

“At what point did I say I didn’t believe you?” Debra interrupted.

Eddie stopped. “Wh- I mean … You can’t possibly …” he stammered. “… Do you?”

Debra took a deep breath. “I will admit, it’s a lot,” she replied. “It’s a pretty crazy story. But the world is pretty crazy. And I believe that you believe it, and I’ve got no reason to think you’d make it all up, so …” She smiled. “I’ll consider it the truth until proven otherwise.”

Eddie eyed her uncertainly. “Really? That easy?”

“Yep,” Debra replied. “And I still think you should stay.”

“But those creatures -”

“Are dangerous, I get it,” Debra cut him off, smiling. “But you’ve got friends here. And you’ll be much worse off if they catch you alone.”

Eddie sighed. “Deb, I can’t put you at risk like that.”

“You won’t have to,” Debra replied. “I’m perfectly capable of putting myself at risk. Besides, I’m not just talking about me.” She got to her feet. “My ass is going to sleep, so I’m gonna head home. But first I want you to promise me. Stay tonight. Come to work tomorrow. Think about staying longer.”

Eddie frowned. “Deb, I don’t know …”

She sighed. “Fine. Then I’ll sleep here. Make sure you don’t go anywhere.” She raised her eyebrows, daring him to complain. “But you’ve got one bed and no couch, and I’m not sleeping on the floor, so …”

Eddie hesitated. “Actually … I’d like that.” His cheeks flushed red, and he raised his hands. “Don’t worry, I’ll be a perfect gentleman.”

“Sure you will,” Debra replied with a smirk. “You’re sleeping on the floor.”

True to his word, Eddie was a perfect gentleman; though Debra didn’t make him sleep on the floor in the end, he laid on top of the covers with his back to her, and they both remained fully clothed. But when Debra woke up at 6am, her internal alarm clock insisting it was time to get up for work, she found that he had rolled to face her and his arm was wrapped around her waist. Peering over her shoulder, she saw that he was still fast asleep with a peaceful expression on his face. Her words of indignation died behind her lips, and she laud her head back down with a small smile.

Then Eddie’s (very external) alarm clock started blaring, and he jolted awake with a small yelp. He twisted round and slammed his palm down on the button, cutting the noise off mid-peal. Then he looked around at Debra, blinking owlishly, his hair mussed up on one side. “Oh … Hey,” he said awkwardly, rubbing the drool from the corner of his mouth with the heel of his hand.

“Hey,” Debra replied. “Sleep well?”

“Actually, yeah,” Eddie replied, running his hand through his curls. “I, um … Was I …”

“Hugging me? Yeah.”

Eddie’s face fell, his cheeks burning. “Sorry.”

“It’s okay, I’ll let you forget it eventually,” Debra teased. She sat up and threw the quilt aside to swing her legs off the side of the bed. “Ready for another day in paradise?”

Eddie ran his hands over his face and yawned. “Sure. I just gotta shave and stuff.”

When they got to work, Lucas was there opening the store. As Eddie went ahead to the staff room, Debra grabbed Lucas and held him back. “I need a favour,” she half-whispered. “When the other guys get here later, I need to talk to everyone while Eddie covers the floor. It’s important.”

Lucas frowned. “Shouldn’t be hard,” he replied. “What’s so important?”

“Eddie’s in trouble,” Debra replied. “I’ll explain more later.”

Lucas smiled. “Not like Joe to hire someone who’s in trouble,” he said, winking. “You think we can help?”

Debra shrugged. “I hope so.”

That afternoon, Debra stood in front of the whole team – minus Eddie – in the staff room, much like Eddie had done just a few days previously. Even Joe was there, listening from the doorway of his office. Debra took a deep breath. “Eddie needs our help,” she started.

Pizza Eddie raised his hand. “No I don’t,” he said.

Debra rolled her eyes. “Obviously I’m not talking about you,” she snapped. Ignoring his wounded expression, she went on. “Metal Eddie needs our help. He’s in some seriously weird trouble, and I know how this is going to sound, but hear me out, okay?”

Everyone nodded.

“He … He thinks someone is after him. And that they’re sending these … monsters to attack him.” Debra watched the raising eyebrows and widening eyes with dismay. “Look, I don’t know if it’s true, but Eddie believes it, and he’s scared.”

“Did these monsters make those gnarly scars he has?” Mark asked. Debra nodded, and he took a deep breath. “Woah. That’s crazy, man.”

“You really think it might be true?” Joe asked, frowning.

Debra turned on him. “You think he made those scars himself? You saw them, Joe.”

Joe subsided, nodding thoughtfully.

“How do we help?” Lucas asked, his gaze fixed firmly on Debra.

She smiled at him gratefully. “Eddie needs to feel safe, and he needs to feel like we believe him. So I have an idea, but I’m going to need all your help, and Joe, I really need you to say yes to this, okay?”

Joe groaned. “Oh man, I don’t like the sound of that.”

****

The next morning Eddie showed up late for his shift. His eyes looked dark and bleary, there was stubble on his cheeks, and his hair was a mess. He’d had another series of convulsions in the middle of the night, and once he’d stopped the bleeding he had seriously considered throwing his stuff in the van and getting out of there, but he’d promised Debra he wouldn’t leave without saying goodbye. One more shift, he told himself as he walked into work, eyes darting left and right, looking for the bat creatures. Then I’m gone.

When he got to work the doors were open, and to his surprise everyone seemed to be working. He made his way to the staff room, waving at Gina and Berko and Pizza Eddie and Mark. Was there an event on or something? It didn’t seem likely, for first thing on a Tuesday morning. He shouldered his way through the doors into the staff room … and then stopped cold.

Overnight, the back of Empire Records had undergone a transformation. The small windows, including the windows in Joe’s office, had been covered over with plywood. The door to the roof had been reinforced with sheets of metal that looked like they’d been lifted from a scrapyard. Lamps had been placed everywhere and switched on, eliminating nearly all the shadows. Stuffed into every available corner were baseball bats, lengths of pipe, crowbars, even a couple of fire axes. Eddie looked behind him and saw brackets had been screwed in on either side of the staff room doors, and leaning against the wall nearby were three heavy planks of wood, ready to rest on the brackets and bar the doors closed. The windows on those doors were boarded up too, something he’d managed not to notice as he’d come in. Standing around the table at the back of the room were Lucas and Debra, busy fastening handles onto more sheets of metal, so that they could be used as shields. The electric drill they were using screeched horribly.

“Err … what’s going on?” Eddie asked, when there was a break in the noise.

Debra and Lucas looked up and smiled. “Eddie!” Lucas greeted him. “Deb told us you’ve been having a bit of trouble with unwanted visitors. So we wanted to make sure you had somewhere you could feel safe.”

Eddie turned to Debra, frowning. “You told them?”

“Don’t be mad,” Debra replied. “I couldn’t have done this on my own. And this way, if those things come after you again, they’ll have to take on all of us.”

“That’s right, man,” Berko piped up from behind Eddie. Eddie turned to see that everyone working on the floor was now gathered at the open staff room doors. “We got your back.”

“You’re part of the gang now, metalhead,” Gina added affectionately.

Eddie’s jaw dropped. “You guys can’t be serious?”

“Yes we can,” Lucas replied. “We look out for each other here.”

Debra put the drill down and folded her arms. “There’s also a stash of gasoline on the roof,” she said, “And some torches made from sticks and rags. Joe wouldn’t let us keep those in here. He said he’d rather we didn’t burn the whole place down.”

“Joe has seen all this?” Eddie exclaimed.

“Unfortunately, yes,” Joe said, appearing at the office door, his face grim. “Who do you think paid for all this stuff?” At Eddie’s disbelieving stare, his expression softened. “It’s like Lucas said. We look out for each other. Every single one of these kids came in with some kind of trouble following them, and every single one of them had the rest of the team backing them up. It’s no different for you.”

Eddie closed his mouth and swallowed hard. Suddenly his eyes were stinging with tears. “I … I don’t know what …” he choked out. “You … believe me?”

“It’s … a hard story to swallow,” Lucas admitted gently. “But we’re keeping our minds open. And we’re not taking any chances.”

Mark giggled. “Any little bat monsters show up,” he said, “We’re gonna take them out, dude.”

“Oh my God,” Gina mumbled. “Warren is going to lose his mind when he sees all this.”

“We’ll just set Warren on them,” Berko added. “He’ll take them out all on his own.”

Eddie reached up to rub the back of his neck. He could feel it: he was going to cry. Full-on ugly cry; he wasn’t going to be able to stop it. “Um – I-I just need a m-minute,” he muttered, gesturing to the bathroom.

Debra straightened up. “Oh no you don’t,” she said, jumping over the couch to reach him. “Come here, Cunningham.”

That seemed to be the cue. Suddenly the entire team was swarming him, wrapping him up in a huge group hug, while Joe yelled about there being nobody watching the floor while trying not to smile. Crushed in by them all, Eddie hung his head so that his hair would cover his face and let the tears come. Overwhelmed and intensely grateful, he sobbed so hard his knees buckled, but they held him up. This gang of weird kids, all of them younger than him, held him up.

Gradually, as his tears stopped, one by one they let him go, peeling away to get back to their jobs. Soon it was as if nothing had happened – except that Debra was still there, hugging him fiercely. Gently he took her arms and pulled her away. “I’m okay now,” he told her.

She nodded and pulled a tissue from her pocket. “So, you going to stay?” she asked as she handed it to him.

He pretended to think as he wiped his face and blew his nose. “I’ll give it a week,” he replied.

Debra nodded again. “And after that?”

“After that … maybe another week.”

“Okay.” Debra smiled. “Sounds like a plan.”

Three Weeks Later

There had been a couple more convulsions, but no bat-creatures, and though the behind-the-scenes fortifications remained, everyone – even Eddie - had started to relax. Eddie had finished his shift and was slumped on the staff room couch with his feet on the table when Debra plopped down next to him.

“Now, don’t ask me how I did it because it will be really technical,” she said, “But I got onto the computer at the library and I managed to find out a bit about your home town. More specifically, about some of the people you mentioned.”

Eddie sat up straight. “What do you mean?”

Debra pulled a crumpled piece of paper from her pocket. “First of all, your uncle’s alive,” she said. “He moved – I managed to find an address.” She passed the piece of paper to him, and he took it and held it carefully in both hands, as if it might blow away.

“Shit,” he said in a hushed voice. “You trying to make me cry again, Deb?”

“One more thing,” Debra went on. “I did find out a little about the friends you mentioned. I actually got in contact with one … he was very insistent about talking to you. So I guess he can tell you the rest.”

“What?” Eddie exclaimed, staring at her. “What do you – Tell me what? Who will?”

Debra pointed in the direction of the shop floor. “Why don’t you go see?”

Shooting to his feet, Eddie vaulted the table in front of the couch and yanked open the staff room doors. The store was quiet – it was late afternoon on a Thursday – but there were two people standing at the front counter, looking around. Even with the sunlight pouring through the windows behind them, even with how much they had changed over the years, there was no mistaking that hair. On either of them.

“Henderson?!” Eddie cried in disbelief. “Wheeler??”

Dustin and Steve turned to face him, disbelief and joy written across their faces. Eddie darted down the aisle toward them, boots slipping on the tiled floor, and threw his arms around them both.

“Munson, you asshole,” Steve laughed, hugging him tightly. “Where the hell have you been?”

“We all thought you died,” Dustin croaked, and then burst into tears.

Eddie hung onto them both as if they might somehow slip away. “I don’t even know where to start,” he replied, tears running freely down his cheeks too. “God, it’s so fucking good to see you two!”

Back at the staff room doors, Lucas joined Debra as she leaned against the door frame, arms folded and a small smile on her face. “What do you think?” he asked her. “A perfect ending?”

Debra shook her head. “It’s not an ending,” she replied.

[ladybugmeat]

4.

OLD KENT ROAD:

MONOPOLY'S DUD SQUARE

Old Kent Road : Monopoly's dud square. The cheapest and only property south of the river. At Bricklayer’s Arms, I alight with the crowd and pause in the shadow of the orbital. Here, pavement breeds new pavement. Slabs of grey-green asphalt spill out like wet turbot skins - complete with chewing-gum tubercles. Like a noose, the elevated motorway pushes people out. Tesco bags blow against the perimeter. A sour blue-raspberry condom licks my heel.

10:27

I plan my zigzagged passage across the pedestrian islands. If you are to inhabit the city, you learn to perfect your dance with death. I make it to Island B before the black Honda turns left. I fast-walk to Island C. I pull down my hood and reply to a text. By an inch, I miss the side view mirror of an articulated lorry. I breathe out: Ellipsis. Michel de Certeau would read these maneuvers as a prosody poem. Under the traffic’s imposing rhyme scheme, I intercept and interrupt. ‘Asyndeton cuts out: it undoes continuity and undercuts its plausibility.’ My walk is constituted of  footstepped stutters - Deletions. I dart between cars - Slash. I mount the pavement- Hyphen. I write a text of ‘enlarged singularities and separate islands.’ My rhetoric is hinged on spatial elements, street furniture, and their references. I weave between bollards and cat’s eyes. I scamper between the lights of the cars - two streams, red and gold.

10:29

A pair of Nike Jordans straggle from a power line. I interpret this as a hanging - a gibbeting. Walking is forbidden here. I use the adverb ‘here’ because how else does one condense this terrain? This junction of stifled oxygen. This junction of cars that hurl as if launched from the barrel of a gun. Between traffic, I hear the electricity hum through the power lines and across the white sky. Whilst there isn’t the soil to grow a weed, red roses repeatedly appear at the railings. A photograph of a young boy. A note: ‘Jimmy, we miss you. I should have held your hand.’

10:31

My feet sidle at the entrance. Somewhere in the depths of the corridor, a man sits like a large toad. His craned shoulders are framed by a ravine of dismembered circuit boards, computer carcasses, and hard drives. The narrow inlet is thick with the warm olfactory of plastic and solder. He looks up from his work and calls out to me.

‘If you want to take my picture, you can leave.’ His eyes hang through thick rimmed glasses.

I push my phone down into the side of my leg and come clean.

‘I did want to take a photo but you wouldn’t need to be in it …’

He sighs, puts the laptop down, and begins to inch through the clutter.

‘What is it about this place that you people like? I’m not a celebrity.’ He smiles and kicks a small satellite dish from the doorway. It spins and cracks on the last step.

I collect the pieces and hand them to him.

‘I have two Ebay accounts. One sells hardware, the other sells the stuff I can’t fix.’ He drops the shards of fibre-glass into a cardboard box and steps out into the rain.

[thetruearchmagos]

Hello, hello! You mentioned something about military hardware in your answer to my last ask, and I’d definitely love to hear more about how it relates to the 12 Worlds!

Thanks, once again, for the questions! Military hardware, to say the least, plays a rather big role in The 12 Worlds, so as a warning, expect another rather long post!

In my writing, I'd say that Military hardware plays at least 2 roles. One, of course, is just being so damn cool to think about! I mean, the sheer technical marvels there are, all the damage they can cause, I love it! However, I often enjoy taking a deeper look into just what exactly it means when I give the UC Military this or that fancy new toy. What are its ramifications, on strategic plans, on "the status quo" of the Institution of the Military and the UC, how does it fit into the vastness of the Big Picture. After all, these designs don't pop out of nowhere! People made them, and designed them, and asked for them to be designed, and argued over whether they should even exist, and Institutions an Organizations played host to competing aims, wills, an intentions, all before a deign even hits the Prototype phase! Civilian Government, the Armed Services, the UC's vaunted "Defence Industrial Corporations", Regulators, foreign governments, these competing blocs offer a wide canvas for some deep thinking for myself, which I'm definitely looking forward to!

As you know, I do enjoy thinking of the UC and the 12 Worlds through its Institutions, and military hardware is just another perspective to do that from! Equipment (and note that it's not just weapons!) grants new capabilities and opportunities, it comes with costs and benefits, changes to the way things are done, and what can be done. All this has the potential to really shake up the Military "establishment" with all these new discoveries and technologies, and play a part in the ever changing field of warfare in the 12 Worlds. New things open some doors, and close others. Tactics, and even high level strategy, are forced to adapt to the new way things work.

One specific example of a piece of Military hardware whose invention left a deep impact in the broader picture of the 12 Worlds, is the Claude Condor series of aircraft. Even the concept behind the aircraft's existence was the result of a small revolution in the UC Army's "Establishment". For decades, ever since the discovery of fixed wing aviation, the UC Army Air Service, an Arm of the UC Army, would be emroilied in an institutional turf war with the rest if he Army, as it struggled for the status as an independent Armed Service. Eventually, this institutional struggle would be won by the Air Officers, with the formation of the UCAF, Air Staff, and it's own set of bureaucracies and organisations.

In this, the Condor would take center stage, not just as a weapon, of war in and of itself, but as the embodiment of the idea of the Air Force, the idea of the new "World of War", and the dawn of a new get of military conflict. You see, within USAAC, there was a group of officers derogatively referred to as the "Strategic Supers". These individuals were some of the most die-hard Air Force supporters in uniform, and to rationalize their cause, they came up with the concept of "Strategic Strike Theory". I've been tinkering with a quote to help get across what it means. This quote was made by one senior, and currently "unnamed", Air officer, and let's just say it caused quite the controversy:

We have come upon the dawn of a new age of war, and it is vital that the United Commonwealth has the tools, and the will, to fight in it. Gone are the days of pitched battles, and sieges, and the keeping of war as somehow an honourable act. In this day, the electric plants that power an enemy nation's cities and homes, will also power radar systems and foundries of war. The rail lines that cross and bind the continents, provide ample infrastructure for legions to muster and march across Worlds, on the warpath. This is the new age we have created, where the factory worker making bullets, motor vehicles, and armtracks, is every bit as lethal against our people as the soldier in the trench with a rifle. War knows no boundaries now, no borders, no limits, and if the Commonwealth, if freedom and liberty itself, are all to be protected in this new world, we must learn to fight in it. To fogt a war with no borders, or limits, nothing to hold us back against autocrats and tyrants who shan't do so either. It means we must be ready to bomb a city or a factory with every bit as much willingness and certainty as we would a column of troops in uniform, and strike ports and harbours with as much vengeance as the ships of war that may shelter within them.

Basically, one of the most attractive prospects that Air Power offered, at least in the minds of many senior individuals in the UC, and outside it, was the ability to directly target all the crucial "infrastructure" that modern society needed to run itself, and wage war. Of course, since one can interpret the quote above to suggest that the UC should take on the policy of "bombing cities full of Civilians", this really only added further fuel to the raging inferno that almost over came the Army at that time.

(The maker of that statement was actually one of the foremost Air Officers in the Army, and in the plans for the new Air Force might have even been chosen to head it, but this statement quickly saw his reputation plummet. In fact, this statement was probably responsible for the actual eventual first Chief of the Air Staff achieving his positions, having been seen as a moderating influence on such an organizatio.)

Now, how does Military hardware play into all this intrigue? Basically, the officers had all these plans and concepts, but they had no tools to achieve them. So, the Condir was going to be the one that did. Factions go to war with what they have, not what they plan out, and UC Aviation's status as subordinate to either the Army or the Navy led to it developing it's institutional knowledge, and actual infrastructure and forces, in the way that would best support those higher services. In the case of "strategic" applications of aviation, that role was to be filled at most by fleets of Fleet Air Carriers, with Fleet Air Arm aircraft, being sent out in advance to bomb the foe into burning rubble. As a result, USAAC aircraft development was, in the case of range, endurance, and payload size, quite literally stunted.

USAAC got the vehicles it needed to do the job it was told to do. Since "the job it was told to do" was "whatever the Army said", it developed accordingly. The UC had the finest fleet of "Air Mobility" craft in the 12 Worlds, built on massive Aeroships and Transport Airplanes each capable of lifting tens of Tons of cargo across continental distances, and it had some of the best "Ground Forces Support" assets in the form of the highly advanced "SF. 1 Boxer Barrow" series of Strike Fighters and other aircraft, but it had these capabilities because that's what the Army needed them to. What USAAC did not have, was a single aircraft that was capable of carrying a payload, flying long distances, unleashing its payload into enemy territory, and going back again. The only, only aircraft in the UC Military that had anywhere near enough endurance for those ranges were transports, which, obviously, didn't carry a lot of bombs.

Enter Claude General Defence! The parent company, Claude Industrial, had actually made most of its fortune in the Civilian aviation market, where it became well known for rugged, long range airliners that carried holiday makers across the 12 Worlds to every destination under the stars of their respective World. But, they'd also made a killing in the defence industry, via their subsidiary CGD, where they used their experience in long range air travel to specialize in those aforementioned Transport Airplanes, which flew alongside the aircraft, and mainly Aeroships, of their main defence related competitor, Boxer Aeroworks. Claude's corporate leadership had heard that the UC might possibly be looking into the potential procurement of a brand new, modern fleet of aircraft, under the title of the "Deep Strike Aircraft-Experimental", or DSA-X, Program. They had an inkling that this would be those infamous "Strike Bombers" that the members of the Strategic Supers had conceived as the main method of fulfilling their touted objectives.

Hence, CGD cooked up a design, and eventually won the competition for the DSA-X contract over Boxer. The aircraft in question would eventually become the Claude Condor, the aircraft of USAAC's, and eventually UCAF's, dreams. It could carry in its Ordnance Bay over 30 tons of weaponry, from dozens of gravity bombs to level grid squares, to the vaunted "Longshots", the guided missiles that, once launched from their mother aircraft, could descend in waves upon enemy territory, impacting with pinpoint precision on targets ranging from power plants to rail stations, crippling the enemy.

However, the aircraft was, in a sense, both a failure and a wild success. It was brutally effective, having served over 30 years in combat duty, and its myriad other specialized variants, and its name was assured a place in the history books as a war winning weapon. However, what it did not do was fight the war it was expected to fight. Yes, eventually those in favour of an independent Air Force would win out, and UCAF would achieve its autonomy as a separate Armed Service. But, it would still maintain many of its own roots. The specifics of UCAF's activities and missions is another story, but as far as military hardware is concerned, it's a sort of cyclical exchange, with new missions spawning new hardware, and new developments in turn creating possibilities for new missions and concepts.

Ultimately, the tale of the SB.1 Condor is a tale of an aircraft, the organisations and institutions that conceived, designed, built, procured, and used it, the ideas and concepts surrounding its use, and the very morality of its existence and purpose, of the technological feats that were achieved to creat it, and of the principles, ideas, doctrines, and strategies of the world in hch it would be thrown into as, finally, a tool of warfare.

And, really, that's the sort of way I'd like to approach military hardware in general. From the moving metal mountains of the Armtracks, to the vast, crushingly powerful Deep Warp Battleships, to the Boxer Barrow and Claude Condor, and the endless roster of weapons and vehicles and equipment I'll think up, the tools of the trade of war. Tools of politics, internal, and Geostrategic. Of organisations within themselves, as the brain children of people with ideas and concepts and convictions in them, and put them into reality. Of the ever changing landscape that is the 12 Worlds, which these tools reflect, in their use, their design, the way they're talked about in the history books, and seen by politicians, commanders, and finally the users, all together, playing into the great tapestry of this project of mine.

Conclusion

Woof, that was a doozy! Basically, Military Hardware, once just a Rule of Cool concept to give the troops toys tomplay with, have morphed into tools of the bigger picture in my mind. And, I think,that only makes me thinking them up all the more beautiful.

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daytripping: Tacoma

I had no plans for the day so I wanted to go to some thrifts I haven’t visited lately. Deseret Industries, my usual Friday haunt, had to wait this week.

First stop, the Goodwill Outlet. Today was a remarkably slow day there, though there was a large crowd waiting for new bins to come out after they’d swarmed all over the clothing bins and picked them clean like starving vultures. Today’s haul included a DVI cable, half a rail of staples (it was a no-name brand of stapler), a rubberstamp of a smiley face with a clown nose, two screwdrivers and a pair of needlenose pliers, three clipboards for work [you’re welcome, Wade] and two items we’ll get to in a minute.

Second stop, the St. Vincent de Paul. I didn’t buy anything but did take a few pictures, so in the near future you will see the four foot tall portrait of Hillary Clinton and a century-old stereo image viewer that was less than ten bucks!

Third stop, Rainbow at the Lakewood Discount World. I miss when they were in a derelect minimart on Steilacoom Boulevard a decade ago, honestly. Anyhow, plenty of excellent things and the signs are great as usual (on the bin of makeup they got from estate sales and storage lockers: “Do Not Use”), but nothing I had to have, though I will be sharing a “live, love, laugh” sign that was in a league of its own.

Fourth stop, Thrift Center. Usually this place is my go-to for frames, but I don’t recall seeing any. And several hole punches but no staplers. This place was the last Bargain World in the chain at one time, and the prices are great and they have multiple colors of percent-off tags and several discount days, but after they became the second store of another local thrift I hardly ever see anything anymore worth the effort.

And home. It was raining so no yardsales, unlike last weekend when I didn’t realize there were yardsales to invade so I stayed inside on the computer.

So the two things I found at the Outlet that are worth talking about:

Four unused stamped envelopes -- seriously, I recooped a third of what I paid today by finding Forever postage just sitting in the bin -- and a 48-page sales circular from 1996 from Home Depot. I’ll be comparing prices at the hardware store I work at to this and crying since Covid-driven inflation has caused a lot of products’ prices to rise, even double, in the last two years.

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Picture Hanging Solution

An approach or collection of equipment for safely and tastefully hanging a picture frame on a wall is known as a Picture Hanging Solution . It includes the hardware (hooks, anchors, wires, etc.) that you select as well as the general strategy for displaying your photo level and safely.

There are more options for hanging pictures than just one. Picture rails are an easy way to organize and rearrange many photographs to create a gallery wall.

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MediaTek Dimensity 6100+ powers the Samsung Galaxy F15 5G

MediaTek Dimensity 6100+

For common 5G devices, MediaTek provide the MediaTek Dimensity 6100+. The Dimensity 6100+ offers outstanding power efficiency, vibrant displays, amazing gaming experiences, AI-powered camera technologies, quick and dependable 5G connection, and more. It is designed to make sophisticated connectivity more accessible while improving important elements.

5G is ideal for long distance trips

The 5G modem in the MediaTek Dimensity 6100+ can detect these scenarios and modify its operation to give up to 20% higher effective downlink speeds than other chips if you often utilize high-speed rail, subways, lengthy road tunnels, or subterranean locations where you reside.

5G future proof

Putting it ahead of competition chips in its class, the MediaTek Dimensity 6100+ supports the most recent 5G capabilities (dual, low-band ENDC and 8-layer DL MIMO), which are currently mandated by several major global cellular carriers.

Quicker download times for common cellphones

The Dimensity 6100+ can achieve 3.3Gbps connection rates, whereas the majority of conventional 5G smartphones can only reach 2.7Gbps. This is because it can handle 40% more cellular capacity. Furthermore, customers in 5G connection zones may benefit from increased coverage and reach thanks to the ability of 2CC carrier aggregation to blend low and mid bands.

Displays with a billion colors

With its complete HDR chip-to-display pipeline, the smartphone manufacturers can create devices with up to a billion hues, making HDR-shot movies and TV programs seem as they were intended to be seen and photographs and videos more realistic and natural.

A 108-megapixel AI camera

Use premium-sized camera sensors to take very detailed pictures. With the help of noise reduction technology and a sophisticated image processor, the MediaTek Dimensity 6100+ guarantees that nighttime and low light photos are always crisp and clear. The addition of background blur to portrait images is accomplished quickly thanks to hardware-accelerated depth sensing. Meanwhile, AI-color and other camera upgrades for smartphones may be used by smartphone designers to provide people a fresh perspective and sense of style in their images.

HyperEngine ready for gaming

For those who want a little gaming action, the MediaTek Dimensity 6100+ is fantastic. Your favorite games will run smoothly on the smartphone thanks to its dual-core GPU, MediaTek HyperEngine 3.0 light gaming technology, and two powerful octa-core CPU cores that can reach speeds of up to 2.2 GHz. The networking improvements made by HyperEngine guarantee that you will always be connected during the game with quicker network response times and more dependable connection.

MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0+

Together with MediaTek’s proprietary optimizations, MediaTek 5G UltraSave 3.0+ offers the whole range of R16 power-saving improvements, translating into 13–30% more power efficiency than competing options in typical 5G sub-6GHz connection settings.

With dual 5G SIM support, higher download speeds of up to 3.3Gbps, and increased connection reach via carrier aggregation, the MediaTek Dimensity 6100+, the smartphone’s power source, offers consumers future-proof 5G. The device is a great option for gamers due to its octa-core CPU that can reach 2.2GHz and MediaTek HyperEngine. The photography enthusiasts can take advantage of its support for advanced camera sensors and noise-reduction technologies, hardware-accelerated depth perception for portrait shots with bokeh, and the possibility of AI-camera enhancements that will give users a new sense of fun and style to share.

MediaTek Dimensity 6100+ Specs

CategorySpecificationCPUCPU Type2x Arm Cortex-A76 up to 2.2 GHz, 6x Arm Cortex-A55 up to 2.0 GHzCores8Threads8Manufacturing Technology6 nmMemory and StorageMemory TypeLPDDR4xMax Memory Frequency2133MHzGraphicsGPU TypeArm Mali-G57 MC2CameraMax Camera ISPUp to 108MP (or 16MP + 16MP)DisplayMax Display Resolution2520 x 1080Max Refresh RateUp to 120HzConnectivityCellular Technologies2G / 3G / 4G / 5G Multi-Mode, Carrier Aggregation (CA)Wi-FiWi-Fi 5BluetoothBluetooth 5.2

Samsung Galaxy F15 5G

Modern-looking Samsung Galaxy F15 5G is the only smartphone in its class to provide 5G. India now has it! MediaTek’s Dimensity 6100+’s speed boost, high-end sAMOLED display’s Full HD+ resolution and 90Hz refresh rate, five years of security updates, and four generations of Android updates will certainly convince users to upgrade.

On March 4, 2024, the Samsung Galaxy F15 5G, a cost-effective smartphone, was introduced in India. Here’s a brief rundown of its attributes:

Display:Images are smooth on a 6.5-inch FHD+ sAMOLED screen with 90Hz refresh rate.

CPU: The MediaTek Dimensity 6100+ CPU should handle most everyday tasks.

RAM and Storage: 4GB and 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. Choose one that suits you.

Camera: A 50-megapixel main sensor, 5-megapixel ultrawide sensor, and 2-megapixel depth sensor make up its triple rear camera. Front camera is 13 MP.

Battery: Large 6000mAh battery may last a day or two between charges.

Program: Samsung’s One UI 6 overlaying Android 14.

Price: The 4GB RAM model in India starts at ₹12,999 (about $155).

Users may eliminate charging anxiety with a smartphone from the Samsung that lasts up to two days. Furthermore, the widely acclaimed Samsung One UI is included, along with distinctive features like Voice Focus and Quick Share.

Samsung Galaxy F15 5G Specs

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Top Architectural Railing Hardware

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Complete your Glass Railing masterpiece with our Cap Rails & Accessories. These finishing touches add a polished look and ensure safety and longevity. Choose from various styles to complement your architectural preferences, creating a cohesive and visually stunning result.

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Transform your Glass Railing into a breathtaking display with our LED Lights. Seamlessly integrated into the system, these lights enhance safety and add a touch of modernity and sophistication. Elevate your space with the perfect balance of functionality and aesthetics.

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Who Else Desires To Know The Mystery Behind Van Alarm System?

In case your car sits idle, you might be squandering its value. Whale sharks are filter-feeding fish, they usually learned to eat from scoops before traveling to the Aquarium. With the intention to feed all these fish, the Aquarium uses a gantry crane, which runs on rails over all the width of the tank. With animals and water inside, the whale shark tank weighed 54,000 pounds, and the whale tank weighed 26,000 pounds. Aquarium specialists have access to the tanks to feed the animals, but the massive Ocean Voyager tank presents special challenges. So long as they're correctly fed, even the most predatory species won't sometimes feed on smaller fish. The concept is for unusual homeowners to supply obtainable room and lodging to travelers searching for accommodations which are cheaper and never as formal as resort set-ups. Along with transportation jfk , telecommuters probably do not use as most of the free perks that companies offer in-home. Telecommuting may provide workers a sense of better management over their work lives than in an office atmosphere. Taking away the distractions could make people more productive, however holding employees more accountable for his or her productivity can also have an impact.

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In particular, the FTC cautions that the manufacturing facility reset, if available, might not wipe the car quite as clear as you'd anticipate. An worker may also do that with exercising. Flexibility in work schedule can allow an employee to hone in on the most effective work time for him and his purchasers. The worker likes working for his current employer, but for family causes should transfer to the brand new location. Even on a smaller scale, individual parts of residence computer systems have gone by cycles of disruption, such because the evolution of the assorted sorts of storage media (think floppy drives to CDs to flash drives), and the transfer from desktop computer systems to extra portable laptops to even smaller mobile gadgets. Whenever you sit down in the restaurant to take pleasure in Asian-impressed cuisine, a server enters your drink and meals decisions into a small cell computer. You can even purchase infrared (IR) gadgets that work with cellular device apps so to management your Television and other hardware that usually requires an IR distant. But what about your car, the brand new boat you simply purchased and even Fido?

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Ruger 10/22 Custom Chassis vs Stocks: What's the difference and advantages to use?

When moving into the world of precision rifle, there's a ton of information to acquire. Even a single topic, like a barrel, could be dissected down to the molecular stage to discern the differences. We'll depart these parts to their respective specialists and deal with those we know finest; the inventory and the chassis. Let's take a look at the differences when choosing between a stock and a chassis. CONSTRUCTION When purchased from a local gun shop or retailer, the barreled motion is usually held using a wooden or plastic inventory. Other supplies are additionally obtainable, including fiberglass, rubber over-molded, and composites depending on the manufacturer. These completely different materials have different advantages and drawbacks. For example, wooden could additionally be less expensive and weigh lower than a customized fiberglass inventory however may be more susceptible to temperature changes and less influence resistant. With many manufacturing facility plastic shares, there might be more flex when firing caused by recoil. ADJUSTMENT Many cheap (i.e. factory) shares are built "one size suits all." They don't normally provide any adjustment and are made of a plastic composite or wood. More expensive stocks provide adjustment to the comb top and size of pull. This is essential for fit to your physique to manage recoil and get a faster sight image. Custom-built stocks can take your measurements for these and are built into the design however do not regulate. Having adjustability means other customers (your kids) can shoot these, and they will be better for resale. Most stocks additionally supply some type of mounting hardware for bipods and slings. Traditionally, this has been and nonetheless is finished utilizing a "sling swivel stud" on the bottom of the forend and buttstock. M-LOK slots underneath the forend are a extra moderen possibility to offer more selection in relation to mounting bipods, tripods, slings, and ARCA rails. PERFORMANCE The biggest difference within the really feel of stocks vs. chassis regarding efficiency is how recoil is felt. A factory rifle inventory without any adjustability won't be able to mitigate felt recoil, as properly as a custom-fitted or adjustable inventory. The shape and the fabric of the inventory will affect how recoil feels because it travels from the muzzle to your shoulder. Finally, many stocks from the manufacturing unit don't accept detachable magazines. If you wish to use a box magazine, you're required to buy an extra bottom steel and presumably take it to a gunsmith for some machining. RIFLE CHASSIS SYSTEMS Rifle chassis techniques are machined from stable pieces of aluminum. Because this physique is steel, it would not suffer the identical drawbacks as different supplies that can flex underneath the recoil of a heavy round. Chassis are more and more utilized in competition, looking, tactical employment by military and regulation enforcement, and for common shooters eager to follow their long-range abilities. best 10-22 chassis With a chassis, you can take Ruger 1022, and bolt it into a chassis while not having modifications from a gunsmith. ADJUSTMENT Many chassis are designed with the power to regulate multiple aspects of the platform. Buttstocks can be adjusted for length and height to get your face behind your scope in the proper spot every time. Grips can be modified out to suit a shooter's hand, and the system as an entire is designed to create a perfect match between the shooter and the rifle. This results in a extra stable platform with more recoil control for quicker follow-on pictures. PERFORMANCE A chassis like the GUNGNER is going to feel different when you shoot it. Because of the one-piece aluminum design, the recoil is going to journey in a extra linear course, straight again, into your shoulder. The capability to adjust the chassis to go properly with your body exactly retains your body in alignment if you expertise recoil. You'll be able to spot your impacts better and adjust for follow-on photographs if essential. The GUNGNER chassis, like others, additionally converts a manufacturing unit rifle to use AICS magazines. This means extra rounds in your rifle and sooner changes between magazines.

CONCLUSION A chassis is a superb improve in case you are out there for a brand new inventory. The GUNGNER Chassis have different kind elements however will enhance accuracy, consolation, and modularity. A chassis is a more inflexible and secure platform. They work great for competition-style capturing and have been utilized by many people to win at top-level precision rifle competitions like NRL Hunter matches. They're nice for individuals who want a goal rifle for capturing or still hunting. The Field Stock carries many of the identical advantages of being adjustable and having a solid bedding block. Either means, your rifle will feel and carry out a lot better with all the advantages you get from upgrading either platform.

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Ruger 10/22 Custom Chassis vs Stocks: What's the distinction and advantages to use?

When getting into the world of precision rifle, there's a ton of information to accumulate. Even a single subject, like a barrel, could be dissected down to the molecular level to discern the variations. We'll depart these elements to their respective consultants and deal with those we know greatest; the inventory and the chassis. Let's look at the differences when selecting between a stock and a chassis. CONSTRUCTION When bought from a neighborhood gun shop or retailer, the barreled motion is often held utilizing a wood or plastic inventory. Other materials are additionally obtainable, including fiberglass, rubber over-molded, and composites depending on the producer. These completely different supplies have totally different advantages and disadvantages. For example, wooden could additionally be less expensive and weigh lower than a customized fiberglass stock however could also be more vulnerable to temperature adjustments and fewer impact resistant. With many manufacturing facility plastic stocks, there shall be more flex when firing caused by recoil. ADJUSTMENT Many cheap (i.e. factory) stocks are built "one dimension suits all." They do not normally offer any adjustment and are made from a plastic composite or wood. More expensive shares supply adjustment to the comb height and length of pull. This is important for match to your physique to manage recoil and get a sooner sight picture. Custom-built shares can take your measurements for these and are constructed into the design however don't modify. Having adjustability means different users (your kids) can shoot these, and they are going to be better for resale. Most stocks also offer some type of mounting hardware for bipods and slings. Traditionally, this has been and nonetheless is done utilizing a "sling swivel stud" on the underside of the forend and buttstock. M-LOK slots underneath the forend are a more recent option to supply extra choice in relation to mounting bipods, tripods, slings, and ARCA rails. PERFORMANCE

The largest difference within the really feel of shares vs. chassis relating to performance is how recoil is felt. A manufacturing facility rifle inventory with none adjustability won't be ready to mitigate felt recoil, as well as a custom-fitted or adjustable stock. The form and the fabric of the inventory will have an result on how recoil feels because it travels from the muzzle to your shoulder. Finally, many stocks from the manufacturing unit do not accept removable magazines. If you want to use a box magazine, you're required to purchase an extra backside metal and possibly take it to a gunsmith for some machining. RIFLE CHASSIS SYSTEMS Rifle chassis systems are machined from stable items of aluminum. Because this body is steel, it would not suffer the same drawbacks as other materials that may flex beneath the recoil of a heavy spherical. Chassis are increasingly used in competitors, searching, tactical employment by military and regulation enforcement, and for common shooters desirous to practice their long-range skills. With a chassis, you can take Ruger 1022, and bolt it into a chassis without having modifications from a gunsmith. ADJUSTMENT Many chassis are designed with the power to regulate multiple aspects of the platform. Buttstocks can be adjusted for length and peak to get your face behind your scope in the right spot every time. Grips may be changed out to fit a shooter's hand, and the system as a whole is designed to create an ideal match between the shooter and the rifle. This results in a more stable platform with extra recoil management for quicker follow-on photographs. PERFORMANCE A chassis just like the GUNGNER is going to really feel different when you shoot it. Because of the one-piece aluminum design, the recoil is going to journey in a extra linear course, straight again, into your shoulder. The ability to adjust the chassis to swimsuit your physique precisely retains your physique in alignment whenever you expertise recoil. You'll be in a position to spot your impacts better and modify for follow-on shots if needed. The GUNGNER chassis, like others, additionally converts a manufacturing unit rifle to make use of AICS magazines. This means more rounds in your rifle and sooner modifications between magazines. ruger 10/22 competition chassis CONCLUSION A chassis is a wonderful improve if you're available in the market for a new stock. The GUNGNER Chassis have totally different form factors however will enhance accuracy, comfort, and modularity. A chassis is a more inflexible and stable platform. They work nice for competition-style taking pictures and have been utilized by many individuals to win at top-level precision rifle competitions like NRL Hunter matches. They're nice for people who want a goal rifle for taking pictures or still hunting. The Field Stock carries many of the similar advantages of being adjustable and having a stable bedding block. Either means, your rifle will really feel and perform a lot better with all the advantages you get from upgrading either platform.

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Ruger 10/22 Custom Chassis vs Stocks: What's the difference and advantages to use?

When moving into the world of precision rifle, there's a ton of information to accumulate. Even a single topic, like a barrel, could be dissected right down to the molecular degree to discern the differences. We'll leave these elements to their respective experts and tackle those we know greatest; the stock and the chassis. Let's look at the variations when selecting between a stock and a chassis. CONSTRUCTION When bought from an area gun shop or retailer, the barreled action is usually held using a wooden or plastic stock. Other materials are also obtainable, together with fiberglass, rubber over-molded, and composites relying on the manufacturer. These different supplies have totally different advantages and drawbacks. For instance, wooden could additionally be less expensive and weigh lower than a custom fiberglass stock but may be more prone to temperature adjustments and fewer impact resistant. With many manufacturing unit plastic stocks, there shall be more flex when firing attributable to recoil. ADJUSTMENT Many inexpensive (i.e. factory) shares are built "one measurement matches all." They don't usually supply any adjustment and are made from a plastic composite or wooden. More expensive stocks supply adjustment to the comb top and size of pull. This is essential for fit to your physique to manage recoil and get a quicker sight picture. Custom-built stocks can take your measurements for these and are constructed into the design however do not adjust. Having adjustability means other users (your kids) can shoot these, and they are going to be better for resale. Most shares additionally supply some form of mounting hardware for bipods and slings. Traditionally, this has been and still is completed utilizing a "sling swivel stud" on the bottom of the forend and buttstock. M-LOK slots beneath the forend are a newer possibility to supply extra choice in relation to mounting bipods, tripods, slings, and ARCA rails. PERFORMANCE The biggest distinction in the really feel of shares vs. chassis regarding performance is how recoil is felt. A factory rifle stock without any adjustability won't have the ability to mitigate felt recoil, as well as a custom-fitted or adjustable inventory. The shape and the fabric of the stock will have an result on how recoil feels because it travels from the muzzle to your shoulder. Finally, many stocks from the manufacturing unit don't accept removable magazines. If you want to use a box journal, you're required to buy an additional bottom metal and probably take it to a gunsmith for some machining. RIFLE CHASSIS SYSTEMS Rifle chassis systems are machined from strong items of aluminum. Because this physique is steel, it would not endure the same drawbacks as other supplies that will flex under the recoil of a heavy round. ruger 10/22 accessories Chassis are increasingly utilized in competitors, hunting, tactical employment by military and legislation enforcement, and for average shooters desirous to practice their long-range abilities. With a chassis, you can take Ruger 1022, and bolt it into a chassis without having modifications from a gunsmith.

ADJUSTMENT Many chassis are designed with the ability to regulate a number of aspects of the platform. Buttstocks could be adjusted for length and peak to get your face behind your scope in the proper spot every time. Grips may be changed out to fit a shooter's hand, and the system as an entire is designed to create an ideal match between the shooter and the rifle. This results in a more stable platform with extra recoil management for faster follow-on shots. PERFORMANCE A chassis like the GUNGNER goes to really feel completely different if you shoot it. Because of the one-piece aluminum design, the recoil is going to travel in a more linear path, straight again, into your shoulder. The ability to regulate the chassis to suit your physique exactly keeps your physique in alignment when you experience recoil. You'll be succesful of spot your impacts better and modify for follow-on pictures if necessary. The GUNGNER chassis, like others, also converts a manufacturing facility rifle to use AICS magazines. This means extra rounds in your rifle and sooner adjustments between magazines. CONCLUSION A chassis is an excellent improve if you're out there for a model new stock. The GUNGNER Chassis have different form factors however will improve accuracy, comfort, and modularity. A chassis is a extra rigid and steady platform. They work great for competition-style capturing and have been utilized by many individuals to win at top-level precision rifle competitions like NRL Hunter matches. They're great for individuals who need a goal rifle for taking pictures or nonetheless hunting. The Field Stock carries most of the same benefits of being adjustable and having a solid bedding block. Either method, your rifle will really feel and carry out a lot better with all the benefits you get from upgrading either platform.

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Ruger 10/22 Custom Chassis vs Stocks: What's the distinction and advantages to use?

When moving into the world of precision rifle, there is a ton of information to accumulate. Even a single subject, like a barrel, may be dissected right down to the molecular level to discern the variations. We'll leave these components to their respective experts and deal with the ones we know best; the stock and the chassis. Let's take a look at the differences when choosing between a inventory and a chassis. CONSTRUCTION When purchased from an area gun shop or retailer, the barreled motion is typically held utilizing a wooden or plastic stock. Other materials are additionally obtainable, including fiberglass, rubber over-molded, and composites depending on the manufacturer. These totally different supplies have totally different advantages and downsides. For instance, wooden could additionally be cheaper and weigh less than a custom fiberglass inventory but may be extra susceptible to temperature modifications and fewer impression resistant. With many manufacturing unit plastic shares, there might be extra flex when firing caused by recoil. ADJUSTMENT Many inexpensive (i.e. factory) stocks are constructed "one measurement suits all." They do not normally supply any adjustment and are manufactured from a plastic composite or wood. More expensive stocks offer adjustment to the comb peak and size of pull. This is important for match to your physique to manage recoil and get a faster sight picture. Custom-built shares can take your measurements for these and are constructed into the design however do not modify. Having adjustability means different users (your kids) can shoot these, and they will be higher for resale. Most shares additionally offer some form of mounting hardware for bipods and slings. Traditionally, this has been and nonetheless is completed utilizing a "sling swivel stud" on the bottom of the forend and buttstock. M-LOK slots underneath the forend are a newer option to offer extra choice in relation to mounting bipods, tripods, slings, and ARCA rails. PERFORMANCE The greatest distinction in the feel of shares vs. chassis relating to performance is how recoil is felt. A manufacturing facility rifle inventory with none adjustability will not be ready to mitigate felt recoil, as nicely as a custom-fitted or adjustable stock. The shape and the fabric of the stock will affect how recoil feels because it travels from the muzzle to your shoulder. Finally, many stocks from the manufacturing facility don't accept removable magazines. If you wish to use a field journal, you are required to buy an extra backside metal and possibly take it to a gunsmith for some machining. RIFLE CHASSIS SYSTEMS Rifle chassis methods are machined from stable items of aluminum. Because this physique is metal, it doesn't suffer the identical drawbacks as other materials that may flex under the recoil of a heavy spherical. Chassis are increasingly used in competition, looking, tactical employment by military and law enforcement, and for average shooters wanting to apply their long-range abilities. With a chassis, you'll find a way to take Ruger 1022, and bolt it into a chassis while not having modifications from a gunsmith. ADJUSTMENT Many chassis are designed with the power to regulate a number of aspects of the platform. Buttstocks can be adjusted for length and height to get your face behind your scope in the proper spot every time. Grips could be modified out to fit a shooter's hand, and the system as an entire is designed to create an ideal match between the shooter and the rifle. This results in a extra stable platform with more recoil management for faster follow-on pictures.

PERFORMANCE A chassis just like the GUNGNER goes to feel totally different if you shoot it. Because of the one-piece aluminum design, the recoil goes to journey in a more linear course, straight back, into your shoulder. best 10-22 chassis The capacity to adjust the chassis to swimsuit your body exactly keeps your physique in alignment if you experience recoil. You'll be able to spot your impacts higher and modify for follow-on pictures if necessary. The GUNGNER chassis, like others, additionally converts a manufacturing unit rifle to make use of AICS magazines. This means extra rounds in your rifle and quicker adjustments between magazines. CONCLUSION A chassis is a wonderful upgrade if you're in the market for a new stock. The GUNGNER Chassis have totally different type elements but will improve accuracy, comfort, and modularity. A chassis is a more rigid and steady platform. They work great for competition-style capturing and have been used by many people to win at top-level precision rifle competitions like NRL Hunter matches. They're great for individuals who desire a target rifle for taking pictures or nonetheless searching. The Field Stock carries most of the similar benefits of being adjustable and having a strong bedding block. Either method, your rifle will feel and perform a lot better with all the advantages you get from upgrading either platform.

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Ruger 10/22 Custom Chassis vs Stocks: What's the difference and advantages to use?

When moving into the world of precision rifle, there is a ton of knowledge to acquire. Even a single topic, like a barrel, can be dissected all the method down to the molecular level to discern the variations. We'll depart these elements to their respective experts and tackle the ones we all know best; the stock and the chassis. Let's take a glance at the variations when selecting between a inventory and a chassis. CONSTRUCTION When purchased from an area gun store or retailer, the barreled action is usually held using a wood or plastic stock. Other materials are additionally available, together with fiberglass, rubber over-molded, and composites depending on the producer. These completely different materials have totally different advantages and disadvantages. For instance, wooden may be less expensive and weigh lower than a custom fiberglass inventory but could also be extra prone to temperature modifications and fewer impression resistant. With many manufacturing facility plastic shares, there shall be extra flex when firing brought on by recoil. ADJUSTMENT Many cheap (i.e. factory) shares are built "one dimension fits all." They do not often supply any adjustment and are made from a plastic composite or wood. More expensive shares offer adjustment to the comb top and size of pull. This is necessary for match to your physique to handle recoil and get a faster sight picture. Custom-built stocks can take your measurements for these and are built into the design however don't regulate. Having adjustability means other users (your kids) can shoot these, and they will be better for resale. Most stocks also offer some form of mounting hardware for bipods and slings. Traditionally, this has been and still is completed utilizing a "sling swivel stud" on the bottom of the forend and buttstock. M-LOK slots beneath the forend are a extra recent possibility to supply extra choice in relation to mounting bipods, tripods, slings, and ARCA rails. PERFORMANCE The greatest distinction in the feel of shares vs. chassis relating to efficiency is how recoil is felt. A manufacturing facility rifle inventory with none adjustability won't have the flexibility to mitigate felt recoil, as well as a custom-fitted or adjustable stock. The form and the material of the inventory will have an effect on how recoil feels because it travels from the muzzle to your shoulder. Finally, many stocks from the factory don't accept detachable magazines. If you need to use a box magazine, you are required to purchase a further bottom metal and probably take it to a gunsmith for some machining. RIFLE CHASSIS SYSTEMS Rifle chassis techniques are machined from solid items of aluminum. Because this physique is metallic, it doesn't endure the same drawbacks as different supplies that will flex beneath the recoil of a heavy spherical. Chassis are more and more used in competition, hunting, tactical employment by navy and legislation enforcement, and for average shooters wanting to follow their long-range skills. With a chassis, you presumably can take Ruger 1022, and bolt it right into a chassis while not having modifications from a gunsmith. ADJUSTMENT Many chassis are designed with the ability to regulate a number of elements of the platform. 10-22 stock Buttstocks may be adjusted for size and height to get your face behind your scope in the right spot each time. Grips may be modified out to suit a shooter's hand, and the system as a whole is designed to create an ideal match between the shooter and the rifle. This leads to a extra secure platform with extra recoil control for quicker follow-on pictures. PERFORMANCE

A chassis like the GUNGNER goes to feel different if you shoot it. Because of the one-piece aluminum design, the recoil goes to travel in a extra linear direction, straight again, into your shoulder. The capability to adjust the chassis to go well with your body precisely retains your body in alignment when you expertise recoil. You'll be capable of spot your impacts higher and adjust for follow-on pictures if needed. The GUNGNER chassis, like others, additionally converts a factory rifle to use AICS magazines. This means more rounds in your rifle and faster adjustments between magazines. CONCLUSION A chassis is a wonderful upgrade in case you are in the market for a new stock. The GUNGNER Chassis have totally different kind components however will increase accuracy, comfort, and modularity. A chassis is a extra rigid and stable platform. They work great for competition-style shooting and have been used by many people to win at top-level precision rifle competitions like NRL Hunter matches. They're nice for people who need a goal rifle for capturing or nonetheless searching. The Field Stock carries many of the same benefits of being adjustable and having a solid bedding block. Either way, your rifle will really feel and perform much better with all the benefits you get from upgrading either platform.

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Ruger 10/22 Custom Chassis vs Stocks: What's the difference and benefits to use?

When getting into the world of precision rifle, there's a ton of knowledge to acquire. Even a single topic, like a barrel, may be dissected all the method down to the molecular degree to discern the differences. We'll leave these elements to their respective specialists and tackle those we all know greatest; the stock and the chassis. Let's take a look at the variations when selecting between a inventory and a chassis. CONSTRUCTION When purchased from a neighborhood gun shop or retailer, the barreled motion is typically held utilizing a wooden or plastic stock. Other supplies are additionally obtainable, together with fiberglass, rubber over-molded, and composites depending on the manufacturer. These different materials have completely different advantages and downsides. For example, wood could also be less expensive and weigh less than a customized fiberglass inventory however may be extra susceptible to temperature changes and less influence resistant. With many manufacturing facility plastic stocks, there shall be extra flex when firing caused by recoil. ADJUSTMENT Many cheap (i.e. factory) shares are built "one size suits all." They do not often offer any adjustment and are manufactured from a plastic composite or wood. More costly shares offer adjustment to the comb height and length of pull. This is necessary for fit to your body to manage recoil and get a sooner sight picture. Custom-built shares can take your measurements for these and are built into the design but don't regulate. Having adjustability means other users (your kids) can shoot these, and they will be better for resale. Most stocks additionally provide some form of mounting hardware for bipods and slings. Traditionally, this has been and still is done utilizing a "sling swivel stud" on the bottom of the forend and buttstock. M-LOK slots beneath the forend are a extra recent choice to offer more choice in relation to mounting bipods, tripods, slings, and ARCA rails. PERFORMANCE The biggest distinction in the feel of stocks vs. chassis relating to performance is how recoil is felt. A manufacturing facility rifle stock without any adjustability will not have the ability to mitigate felt recoil, in addition to a custom-fitted or adjustable stock. 10/22 trigger kit The shape and the fabric of the inventory will have an result on how recoil feels because it travels from the muzzle to your shoulder. Finally, many stocks from the factory don't accept detachable magazines. If you wish to use a field journal, you're required to purchase a further backside steel and probably take it to a gunsmith for some machining. RIFLE CHASSIS SYSTEMS Rifle chassis techniques are machined from solid items of aluminum. Because this physique is steel, it doesn't endure the identical drawbacks as different materials that will flex beneath the recoil of a heavy round. Chassis are increasingly used in competitors, searching, tactical employment by army and regulation enforcement, and for common shooters wanting to apply their long-range expertise. With a chassis, you'll find a way to take Ruger 1022, and bolt it right into a chassis without needing modifications from a gunsmith. ADJUSTMENT Many chassis are designed with the flexibility to adjust a quantity of features of the platform. Buttstocks may be adjusted for length and peak to get your face behind your scope in the best spot each time. Grips may be modified out to fit a shooter's hand, and the system as a whole is designed to create an ideal fit between the shooter and the rifle. This results in a more secure platform with extra recoil control for quicker follow-on photographs. PERFORMANCE A chassis like the GUNGNER is going to really feel totally different whenever you shoot it. Because of the one-piece aluminum design, the recoil is going to travel in a extra linear direction, straight again, into your shoulder. The capacity to regulate the chassis to match your physique exactly keeps your physique in alignment when you expertise recoil. You'll have the flexibility to spot your impacts higher and regulate for follow-on shots if needed. The GUNGNER chassis, like others, additionally converts a manufacturing facility rifle to make use of AICS magazines. This means extra rounds in your rifle and faster adjustments between magazines.

CONCLUSION A chassis is a wonderful improve if you are out there for a new inventory. The GUNGNER Chassis have different type elements but will enhance accuracy, comfort, and modularity. A chassis is a more inflexible and steady platform. They work nice for competition-style capturing and have been used by many individuals to win at top-level precision rifle competitions like NRL Hunter matches. They're nice for individuals who want a target rifle for taking pictures or nonetheless searching. The Field Stock carries many of the similar benefits of being adjustable and having a solid bedding block. Either way, your rifle will really feel and perform much better with all the advantages you get from upgrading both platform.

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Ruger 10/22 Custom Chassis vs Stocks: What's the difference and advantages to use?

When getting into the world of precision rifle, there is a ton of information to accumulate. Even a single topic, like a barrel, may be dissected down to the molecular level to discern the variations. We'll leave these components to their respective specialists and tackle the ones we all know best; the stock and the chassis. Let's look at the differences when selecting between a stock and a chassis. CONSTRUCTION When purchased from an area gun store or retailer, the barreled action is typically held utilizing a wood or plastic inventory. Other supplies are also out there, together with fiberglass, rubber over-molded, and composites relying on the manufacturer. These completely different supplies have different advantages and downsides. For example, wooden may be less expensive and weigh lower than a custom fiberglass stock however could additionally be more susceptible to temperature changes and fewer impact resistant. With many manufacturing unit plastic shares, there shall be extra flex when firing attributable to recoil. ADJUSTMENT Many inexpensive (i.e. factory) stocks are constructed "one measurement matches all." They do not often supply any adjustment and are made from a plastic composite or wood. More costly stocks supply adjustment to the comb peak and length of pull. This is essential for fit to your body to manage recoil and get a faster sight picture. Custom-built shares can take your measurements for these and are constructed into the design however do not regulate. Having adjustability means other users (your kids) can shoot these, and they will be higher for resale. Most stocks also supply some form of mounting hardware for bipods and slings. Traditionally, this has been and nonetheless is finished using a "sling swivel stud" on the bottom of the forend and buttstock. M-LOK slots beneath the forend are a more moderen choice to supply more choice when it comes to mounting bipods, tripods, slings, and ARCA rails. PERFORMANCE The greatest difference within the feel of shares vs. chassis relating to performance is how recoil is felt. A manufacturing facility rifle stock with none adjustability will not be capable of mitigate felt recoil, as well as a custom-fitted or adjustable inventory. The shape and the material of the stock will have an effect on how recoil feels because it travels from the muzzle to your shoulder. Finally, many stocks from the factory do not accept removable magazines. If you wish to use a field journal, you're required to purchase an extra bottom metal and presumably take it to a gunsmith for some machining. RIFLE CHASSIS SYSTEMS Rifle chassis methods are machined from stable items of aluminum. Because this body is metal, it does not undergo the identical drawbacks as different supplies that can flex beneath the recoil of a heavy round. Chassis are more and more used in competitors, looking, tactical employment by military and regulation enforcement, and for common shooters eager to follow their long-range abilities. With a chassis, you probably can take Ruger 1022, and bolt it right into a chassis without having modifications from a gunsmith. ADJUSTMENT Many chassis are designed with the ability to adjust multiple elements of the platform. Buttstocks may be adjusted for size and height to get your face behind your scope in the right spot every time. Grips may be modified out to suit a shooter's hand, and the system as an entire is designed to create a perfect match between the shooter and the rifle. This results in a extra secure platform with more recoil management for sooner follow-on pictures. PERFORMANCE

A chassis just like the GUNGNER goes to really feel totally different if you shoot it. Because of the one-piece aluminum design, the recoil goes to journey in a more linear course, straight back, into your shoulder. The capacity to regulate the chassis to fit your body exactly retains your body in alignment when you expertise recoil. You'll be succesful of spot your impacts better and regulate for follow-on pictures if essential. ruger 1022 chassis The GUNGNER chassis, like others, also converts a manufacturing unit rifle to make use of AICS magazines. This means more rounds in your rifle and quicker modifications between magazines. CONCLUSION A chassis is an excellent improve in case you are in the market for a new inventory. The GUNGNER Chassis have completely different type components however will improve accuracy, comfort, and modularity. A chassis is a extra rigid and steady platform. They work nice for competition-style taking pictures and have been utilized by many people to win at top-level precision rifle competitions like NRL Hunter matches. They're great for people who want a goal rifle for taking pictures or nonetheless hunting. The Field Stock carries most of the same advantages of being adjustable and having a solid bedding block. Either method, your rifle will feel and perform a lot better with all the advantages you get from upgrading either platform.