Comments for Time for a Whatziss!

Time for a Whatziss!

2007-04-19T13:57:36Z

It's Patriot Day - let's see who knows their firearms parts...

This is reader-submitted by a young deployed Marine who hangs at the Castle when the bandwidth allows. The focus isn't the best, but doesn't really detract that much. Give the guy a break - he's deployed!

Comment from Maggie on 2007-04-21

2007-04-21T15:13:22Z

I had to think about the cranky part.....but I guess you're ok.

Comment from AFSister on 2007-04-20

2007-04-21T01:57:51Z

LOLOLOLOLOL.... nice, Blackhawk... verrrr nice. oh, and Bill darlin'.... I'm sure we could find plenty for you. durn that KtLW..!

Comment from Blackhawk on 2007-04-20

2007-04-21T00:56:23Z

Hmmm...how to address Maggie... What have I lurned in the year or so I've lurked here: Maggie is a Princess. Maggie has sumtin to do with Boston. Maggie is crabby. And I believe she has sumtin to do with the moat. Hawks fly over moats....but is that moat AAA capable? So... Quick trip to Wal Mart (sorry, only thing open on short notice). Gather flowers, chocolates, card with sweet nuthins...and mace. Durn background checks... Don body armor. Mount trusty steed. Approach cautiously. (Clear throat)...”Let everyone in the world halt, unless the entire world acknowledges that nowhere on earth is there a damsel more beautiful than the Empress of La Moata, she who has no equal, Princesa Malhumorada, Maggie”. Howl at the moon... Drop drawers... Pop flowers and chocos like chaff... Escape and evade, escape and evade, escape and evade...man this armor chafes.

Comment from Maggie on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T23:06:24Z

Just don't *get* it as much

. God!!! I hope I never *get* that old!

Comment from BillT on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T22:47:02Z

I knew you'd have it... Yeah, still *got* it after all these years. Just don't *get* it as much. In *any* interpretation...

Comment from AFSister on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T18:42:45Z

Yep! That's the picture, Bill! I knew you'd have it... hehe

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T16:05:32Z

Snerk. Watch your back, 'Hawk.

Comment from Maggie on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T15:42:55Z

I will not involve myself with this undignified discussion regarding age. I will not say what I was doing the year Sandman was born. OldLoader - The spell check thing was aimed at Ry. But it's good to fear me anyway. I am a fan of Machiavelli. Blackhawk - You suck the fun out of everything. You could have let us run with it for a bit.

Comment from MajMike on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T13:05:26Z

i certainly hope it isn't a carrier group from the People's Kollective of Manchu. that would be the last thing we need: blue water naval action from those inscrutable bastages!

Comment from Oldloadr on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T11:54:14Z

Heh, I was a SSgt (E-5) with a year in grade when Sandman was born, of course that is nothing compared to BillT. (LOL)

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T11:43:23Z

Sandman, in *this* crowd, yer young. I'd been wearing a uniform for 4 years when you were born, Dusty about the same. Since Bill is well-known to have given God the recipe for mud, if we accept Bishop Ussher's dating of the world, Bill had been in uniform circa 6 millennia (give or a take a century or two for breaks between enlistments) when you were born. Bill is *auld*. Oddly enough, of the three, he was the first to join and last to retire, too.

Comment from sandman6actual on 2007-04-20

2007-04-20T05:03:06Z

"Oooooh, ooooooh, Mistuh Kottuh, Mistuh Kottuh, I knows dis one!!!" (*end really bad John Travolta impersonation*) But I'm ineligible, as I'm the "young" (*28*) Marine referred to.

Comment from BillT on 2007-04-19

2007-04-20T03:56:34Z

For the newbies, AFSis is referring to the Third Squad, First Platoon, Delta Company, Third Battalion of the Sugar Buttons Brigade. Not particularly work safe, especially if you work with -- or for -- GFWs.

Comment from Richard on 2007-04-19

2007-04-20T03:40:31Z

I'll take a shot(sic), Feed bolt for lets say...30mm anti-aircraft...(crystal ball) Russkie type 1950" Just too much machining to be anything but cold-war red. Not bad for a friggin corpsman? but then again.... Best richard

Comment from AFSister on 2007-04-19

2007-04-20T02:10:12Z

damn. and here I thought it meant this (insert picture of topless gorgeous gun-toting wimmins that i can't find right now, but i'm sure Bill and John are VERY familiar with).

Comment from Blackhawk on 2007-04-19

2007-04-20T01:11:04Z

AF Sis: 'field stripped' usually refers to disassembling a weapon in the field. Just thought I'd clear that up. Is this off of a recoilless rifle? Just a swag... Or it could be a random war-trophy from Akmed's Souvenirs.

Comment from Sigivald on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T22:58:06Z

All I can tell is that it's definitely a bolt-lookin' thing and thus the rest is presumably a carrier. Not something I've ever field-stripped, but that's not saying anything.

Comment from Biggame223 on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T21:02:49Z

PKM carrier group

Comment from Oldloadr on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T18:55:01Z

nomenclature - in a hurry should have used spell-check... sorry Maggie :(

Comment from MajMike on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T18:54:47Z

if it's from a M2, then i would need to turn out the lights and drop it on my foot to get a positive ID.

Comment from Oldloadr on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T18:49:54Z

OK, I don't know the nimenclature on this, but I think it's the part of the M-2 just forward of the butterfly trigger...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T18:20:53Z

Pogue - Nope.

Comment from Pogue on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T16:28:26Z

It looks maddeningly familiar - an operating rod/bolt assembly with kind of a warsaw pac flavor - lot's of milling. That's not from an RPD, is it?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T15:16:49Z

Heh. 10,000 stand-ups out of work and youse guys are auditioning!

Comment from MajMike on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T15:14:55Z

tough to tell w/o a pink quilt behind it for scale, but i would say it appears to be a board from a tree that was at least 26 years old when it was cut down. tight grain pattern in the bolus at upper right quadrant indicates a couple of relatively dry seasons.

Comment from Were-Kitty on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T15:00:01Z

As the old Wendy's commercial used to say about other restaurants' chicken nuggets... "parts is parts, right?" Using that logic, I'd say it's a whoozywhatzis scopamatic.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T14:57:13Z

Um, I'm guessing wrong post, Mike - but, Happy Anniversary(*)!

Comment from Mike Lehnherr on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T14:29:03Z

Today is my 27th wedding anniversary (okay - with an asterisk). We've become accustomed to having our anniversary week surrounded by the horrific acts of cowards - OKC bombing, Columbine, and now this. One can't help but wonder what's going on in the "heavenlies". "Happy" Anniversary. ML

Comment from BillT on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T14:17:32Z

The carrying handle-cum-soap dispenser for BCR's Death Ray.