Zombie Squad

The Patriot Act expires at the end of the month and the legislation re-authorizing it is getting held up, so I expect a 'major terrorist incident' sometime in the next 3 weeks.

I used to go barefoot a lot. Then I moved to Texas and discovered fire ants (the hard way). Fire ants love me (so do mosquitoes) and even though there would not be any mounds anywhere in sight, I couldn't walk 20 feet across the lawn without getting bit multiple times, so I learned pretty quickly no...

I could see this being a problem for folks who buy a bit of land in the backend of nowhere as a vacation home/BOL, especially if they don't spend a lot of time there. And if it some of the locals squatting there, it might be a lot tougher to get the local legal system to act promptly or even act at ...

So I wonder if a rocket-stove type configuration would work better? There are designs that use a large can/coffee can and a couple of smaller cans for the burn chamber and chimney. A bit more work build and improvising the insulator might be tough (maybe attic fiberglass insulation?)

Over at the Officer Down Memorial Page , for so far in 2015, they list 3 deaths by gunfire (one of those was accidental, shot by another officer), 13 automobile related, 28 total. It seems like cars are a bigger threat to officer safety than guns. A lot of those deaths are the result of single vehic...

I liked the episode, but I had to wonder about the Hollywood Handgrenade. Strong enough to impale Aiden on shelving, give Tara a traumatic brain injury but leave the others unscathed. They get those Hollywood hand grenades at the same store where they get the Hollywood silencers that barely make a ...

I'm sure there is a Tv Tropes for this, but the somewhat cliched story line here would be Deanna would next try to separate Rick from the rest of the group by engineering a conflict where Rick, as town constable, would have to order someone exiled - most likely Daryl, since they've already establish...

Given that pretty much any .223/5.56 round is capable of defeating soft armor when fired from an AR pistol, their rational seems disingenuous at best.

Any folks looking to stock up on AR mags and willing to play a little Botach roulette, they have 6 packs of L5AWMs for $55.

Nifty little time-travel plot twist in the most recent episode. The writing on this has been pretty good, probably my only compliant is that some of the foreshadowing & resolution could be a bit more nuanced. Minor nit (and this applies to some other post apocalyptic shows like Falling Skies). Civil...

I'd say I'm okay with season 2 so far. While it has all the usual plot device that lazy script writers resort to, it hasn't featured as much of the CDC doctor whose character I find so annoying - although every time he repeats the 'you must leave, you're in danger but I can't tell you why' I want to...

"An interior Alaska man who attempted to walk 50 miles between two villages at 35 below zero was found in good shape by searchers 4 miles from his goal." Interior Alaska Man takes 46 mile stroll in -35F temperatures I have 3 takeaways from this story: 46 miles in 15 hours straight; 3 mph in winter g...

It could be worse. If it was on CBS, we probably get 'The Walking Dead:LA'.

Maybe it's just me, but if we're going to get a spin off, I'd like to see it set outside of the US.

A GEMTECH Urban Machine Gun SAW in 300BLK.

So far, so good. The few (too few) PAW scenes felt suitably apocalyptic. The time travel bits were okay. And I admit to having a weakness for any story that references the 'Plague of Justinian'.

They're back...

zombieapocalypsegame wrote:Now - I had heard some scuttlebutt that someone was considering selling a flashcard Q&A set for the various licenses. Who's selling? Because I'm buying!

I don't know about selling, but icom has free online flash cards, practice tests, etc., at https://hamstudy.org/tech2014

Chromed vs non-chromed firing pins, does it matter?

That was a pretty good episode. I'm starting to like what they're doing with Murphy and I was surprised they killed a major character like that.

I read it somewhere, they had a rational for the fast vs slow zombies -- the longer they've been turned, the slower they are.

I was a little disappointed in the z'nado, I guess I wanted more scenes of it hovering up zeds and spitting them out over the countryside. I also didn't get the scenes with Addy and Murphy, but I guess they're actually trying to develop a story.

This show just keeps getting better.

Ugh, after looking at a 300 blackout upper and seeing how awesome it would be to use for hunting, i want an SBR. Time to get a form 1 going for my lower. Is the wait still over 6 months? There are reports of people doing an eform form-1 and getting their stamp back in 30 days or less. nfa tracker c...

Okay, that is the headline in the paper: Seattle Times but they note "The flare is considered extreme on forecasters' scale, but just barely. Flares like this cause geomagnetic storms which can knock some power grids offline temporarily. They also can damage satellites and disrupt radio transmission...

And then there is this: "Boeing and the US Army have demonstrated the capabilities of the truck-mounted High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) under maritime conditions (i.e., wind and fog), successfully targeting a variety of aerial targets at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The demonstrat...