What is this?

What do you call this:

We had a rather energetic debate in my office about this, up to and including raised voices and thinly-veiled insults. I've always called them 'roundabouts' since that is how the locals called them in all the various places I've encountered them (mostly overseas). My opponents here are quite sure the name is "rotary."
What say you?

I won't even tell you how much taxpayer money was spent on this debate...

AR-15 Build Update - West Coast

Similar to James, I am also waiting on my upper to arrive. I spoke to the company 2 weeks ago and they said it would be another week or 2 before it shipped, so any day now I should see a large sum of money debited from my checking account.

Here is where I stand thus far:

* Mega .223 / 5.56 lower receiver
* Rock River Arms lower part kit
* Command Arms SRS Sniper Stock with folding monopod
* Buffer tupe, spring and buffer from Model 1 Sales
* Not pictured - (3) Magpul 30rd PMAGs and (2) 10/30 magazines


10 weeks ago I ordered the Stealth Sniper System LT011 complete upper from Larue Tactical located in the dead center of Texas. Estimated arrival....any day now.

In addition to the above, I recently scored 700 rounds of ammo from Wal-Mart. After reading James' previous post The Hunt for Ammo, I too began stalking every Wal-Mart I came across for a number of weeks before I actually scored. After about 5 weeks of constant browsing, I came a across a Wal-Mart that had 800 rounds in stock so I purchased 700 of them (I would have felt guilty if I purchased them all). Pictured below are 500 of the 700 rounds.




I'm still wanting a red dot sight and some cool laser shit, but that has been put on hold as I am in the middle of purchasing a home. So for now I will just order some regular ol' iron sights from LaRue.

As soon as I get my upper in, I will be sure to post some assembly pictures as well as a few pictures of this beast in action. Stay tuned....

Nunnrey, is there something we should know?

Nunnrey left his pen in my truck the other day.

When in Greece: Olympia Style

This is a picture from the cruise we went on in May. That's JT and me behind a pillar in the ancient town of Olympia, Greece. Yep, everyone else is taking in the magnificent relics from the early Olympic Games...me and JT...grab-assing as usual.

AR-15 Build Progress

Here is where I stand so far:

• DPMS .223/5.56 Lower Receiver & Lower Receiver Parts Kit
• Stock Extension Kit from PK Firearms
• Magpul CTR Carbine Stock
• Not pictured - I've also picked up two Magpul 30 rnd MagLevel PMAGs

Back in February I went ahead and ordered the 2HTL complete upper (left-handed) from Stag Arms. It is on back order and they estimated 25 weeks to deliver so that puts it getting here in the August/September time frame.

Michael, what's the status on your build?

San Marcos Wrapup

While y'all were working on Friday, Nunnrey and I went down to San Marcos to do some cleanup and repairs to our condo since the tenants had moved out. The guy with the tinfoil hat in the unit below is gone. That's good for us trying to rent this place out, but bad that we won't have any more stories about that guy.

I guess the old tenants didn't like smoke detectors.



If you can't tell, the jackass turned the battery around. At least he left that one in there, the battery was just missing from one of the others. We also braved the heat and played a round at Quail Creek Golf Club. Some nice scenery there.

Cleaning Out My Closet

Shey made me clean some crap out of the closet this weekend and I ran across a good memory. This is a little something I inherited when I moved into the Lil' Brown Crack House. Not sure if any additional explanation is necessary, but let's just say this is one of the many old school techniques used prior to widespread clearing of Internet browser cache/history.

And no, this was not one of the items I threw away.