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Well this weekend has been busy. I went out and watched Star Trek again. Absolutely amazing movie. It had some incredible writing, and the acting was superb. Carl Urban as Dr McCoy was my favorite. If you haven’t gone to watch it, do it. Even if you aren’t a Trekkie.

In terms of geek stuff I’ve been doing this weekend. Let’s see:

• Rebuilding my file server here at home finally after 6 yrs. Got some parts and will upgrade her to 750GB of total storage on a RAID5 array under Ubuntu 9.04.
• Going to an open carry litter pick up tomorrow at the Concord State House.
• Dealt with some problems at work already this weekend!

Fun times… but anyhow, check out this trailer:
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Many of us take this word for granted, but it’s something we can never forget. Freedom is fragile. The freedom to speak our mind, the freedom to own and carry guns, and the freedom to be free in our own home are just a few, but these freedoms are slipping away. There was an instance in CA where a home owner dressed a mannequin up as Sarah Palin and hung it from a tree. People were shocked and dismayed, and the authorities did nothing.

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A new mod for my Mosin Nagant finally arrived. I got the replacement for the rear sight that installs a standard rail. While I was at it, I also got a new scope for her too. I’ll post some pictures of the finished projected once the final parts I ordered have come in. What are the final parts you ask? I’ll just save those for my todo section of this post.

Issues that I ran into:

It’s going to be different for every rifle, but mine being from 1943 meant those pins holding the sight in there for 63 yrs haven’t budged and might they might even have rusted a little. I spoke to a gun smith about this and he suggested that I just soak the sight in good penetrating oil, get a good set of push pins, and proceed to beat it with a hammer. So I removed the barrel and put it under a 2×4 I got from the Home Depot and soaked the pins/sight in WD40 for about 20 hrs.

Well last night I took another stab at it (the first night not going so well), and voila… each of the pins came out with some force. I packaged and sealed the old parts for the sight so I can return this rifle to mint condition later if I choose. I really didn’t want to tap the wood to put this rail/scope on. Also, before screwing in the rail, I made sure to use a good thread locking compound to help with vibration as recommended by the manufacturer. Everything is nice and snug and I’m optimistic it should hold.

Thoughts on the finished rifle:

I might get a higher power scope for this, but I haven’t decided and won’t know until I get her to the range Fri night. I’ve got the docs and stuff I need to sight her in and I’m going to give it a shot (pun intended) before making a decision. I have to admit though, the old girl looks pretty sexy!

Things remaining to be done for this rifle:

I’m waiting for them to arrive, but I ordered a bipod for end of this, and (your going to laugh), a laser mount as well. *shifty eyes* I know, I’m a geek, but when I’m done I plan on making all those guys with tricked out AR-15s jealous with my 63 yr old cougar of a rifle!

Well… I went on Sun to an open carry litter pickup outside the NH statehouse on Sun. This was my first open carry experience ever. I was kind of nervous at first until I met everyone else. It was cool so I wore my jacket, but I had my 1911 out in the open. We walked around for a few hours and picked up trash. People honked and gave us thumbs up. There were no negative responses that I saw. Afterwards the organizer, another couple, and myself went out to lunch. Again still open carrying. No police or swat showed up. I ordered some tacos and chips and we sat a table and just talked about current events and stuff that was going on.

Does this mean I will open carry more? I might when I’m with a group of people, but probably not if I’m alone. I think that to some degree surprise can be a weapon in of itself. I am watching sites like opencarry.org and northeastshooters.com for any more events in my area. I will be going to more for sure. It’s great to meet nice people and realize that I’m not alone!

The Concord Monitor was there. Jason, the organizer got interviewed and was asked some great questions. We made front page, but got one picture and about 3 sentences about what happened. To say I am disappointed is an understatement.

For many people, when the New Year comes around, you see the normal resolutions for change:

• Quit Smoking
• Exercise more
• Kick a liberal each day!

While all of these are fine and grand and ones that I have taken up, I have also decided to kick Drupal to the curb and go with Wordpress for a website. I like it’s clean interface and editors better.

I will be working on migrating my content from the old site over and then will get my Gallery back up. Keep checking back for more updates!