#sfar

[ernestinee]

C'était une journée parfaite, aujourd'hui. Du temps le matin, pas de pression pour le repas de midi, et un tour à Bruxelles en fin d'aprem. L'ado n'a pas voulu nous accompagner du coup on était juste à deux, on a mangé des rouleaux de printemps excellents à Sainte Catherine, la façade de l'église de St Catherine est enfin rénovée, ça fait une éternité que des échafaudages la recouvraient, j'ai fait une photo pour l'envoyer à la bff pcq c'est un quartier qu'elle adore et je crois que ça lui manque un peu depuis qu'elle vit à Marseille. On a fait un tour en ville, j'ai fait 5 photos, il en reste deux à faire dans le film, on se disait qu'il faudrait vraiment qu'on fasse régulièrement des photos parce qu'à ce rythme là notre créativité fond à vue d'oeil.

On a repris le métro jusqu'à l'entrée ouest de la ville où était garée la voiture, on est passés par le McDo pcq l'ado voulait qu'on lui ramène des nuggets.

Et là je viens de finir le tome 2 de Donjon Zénith : Le roi de la bagarre. Et c'est le 11eme bouquin de l'année. Ça va vite la bd, c'est un peu frustrant d'ailleurs.

Donc l'histoire se déroule dans un donjon. Herbert le canard a gagné sa place comme "monstre" du donjon parce qu'il a réussi une première mission dans le tome précédent mais il n'a rien d'un monstre, et il perd systématiquement tous les trésors qui lui sont confiés. Du coup il est convoqué chez le maître du donjon et il doit suivre un entraînement.

Et le tome 2 raconte cet entraînement, et renforce par la même occasion les liens entre Herbert et Marvin, son pote dragon qui le coach un peu (et plein de rebondissements mais je ne veux pas spoil)

On va finir sur ces belles paroles de Marvin "Chacun de nous est mû par une chimère. Quand tu sauras reconnaître la tienne, tu seras un guerrier"

Une photo de Marvin, grand philosophe :

(hop, ça file dans le billet épinglé)

[christiangrest]

Ruger SFAR .308 16”… Maybe It’s Now Good to Go?

I’ve had this rifle for well over a year now at this point. Picked it up from Brownells during the summer of 2023. If you look online it’ll take you no time to find the issues this rifle has had since being introduced. Many people including myself have had issues with the gas regulator system and accuracy. Ruger has continued to evolve and upgrade some of the components of this rifle as needed. I’ve personally had to deal with the folks at Ruger on a number of occasions. The first time was due to a defective ejector and the gas regulator. They quickly sent new parts out to me. Then I was fighting mostly accuracy issues. A trip back to Ruger with a replacement barrel and that seemed to help with the accuracy issues. I had bore scoped the original barrel and there seemed to be machining issues around the throat area that the new barrel did not have.

Since receiving the rifle back from Ruger with the replacement barrel, updated gas regulator and replacement ejector, the rifle’s function appeared to be corrected, so I started to focus more on dialing in a good hunting load to use this rifle for deer hunting as well as elk hunting. After a few range trips, I then started once again to have many function issues that appeared to be mostly related to the gas system and the regulator. The gas adjustment actually started to stick and get really stiff which makes me believe that it’s a good idea to add a little bit of high temp anti-seize to the regulator valve. I put out a video showing how ejected cases were getting stuck backwards in the chamber while feeding the next round. This was happening fairly regularly despite the gas setting. The project manager for the SFAR actually reached out to me after watching my video and gave me some suggestions. One of those was to jump up to an H3 buffer to slow the action down. I mentioned to him that I was going to install a Riflespeed adjustable gas block to allow more adjustment of the gas system in which he concurred that would be a good upgrade.

Once I installed the Riflespeed gas regulator, I had it out to the range and quickly determined that I needed a different sized pin, .937 vs .917 from Riflespeed. I also noticed that the set screws loosened up. So after replacing the regulator pin and pinning the gas block, I had a chance just recently to get back to the range to dial the Riflespeed gas block in using a variety of ammo both suppressed and un-suppressed. The Ruger SFAR now seems to be running 100%. Having been back and forth, I’m going to hold my joy until I can manage a bit more range time, but suffice to say the Riflespeed gas block seems to be the ticket to make the Ruger SFAR function as it should.

Some final thoughts. I sure hope all of the experiences I’ve had can help others with their SFAR rifle. I love the platform and hope Ruger continues to improve upon it. I believe the gas system needs an update to make it a better rifle overall and I hope Ruger can maybe implement a better gas system sometime in the future. I do appreciate the folks over at Ruger and the help they’ve offered me during the problems I’ve encountered. If you’re interested in any of the SFAR line of rifles or the Riflespeed gas system, these are readily available over at Brownells.

[brieucgwalder]

The Rabbi's cat is dead

“Le petit chat est mort.” (The little kitten has died), Agnés says in Molière’s “L’école des femmes”, (“The school for wives.”) Molière wrote this play in 1662. 361 years ago. Amongst many other things Molière wrote about the condition of women then. The condition of women is a fundamental part of Western civilisation. On this Friday, October 13, a man was killed in France. Stabbed. As a rule, I…

[djackenew]

Brumath Annonce Concert Schaad et Nebbiu le 2 Juin 2023

[pooptoucher4000]

I feel so bad I don't draw star trek stuff as much anymore I just really like the fucking triangle so much !!!!!

[northwest-by-a-train]

One of my most deeply-held beliefs on culture is that somewhere out there there is a 27yo with a crinkled non-binary flag in the corner of their room, more mugs and dirty plates in their sink than bricks in the tower of Babel, less than 70 of god's own dollars in their bank account to finish the month and five dying plants on the windowsill, crusty stuff in the corner of their eyes, who has crafted a world of aching beauty Tolkien and Homer could only ever dream of, a vision that honours all that is noble and raw in the heart of Man, a vindication of existence and a balm to suffering, all for the benefit of a half-dozen harem pants wearers on a server named "Bingus' Grotto"

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

[littleduke]

[entre-image-blog]

Le Copieur, Joann Sfar, petit supplémént broché à Petrus Barbygère avec image sérigraphiée sur la couverture, édité par la librairie Super héros en 1997, 32 pages de croquis, Format: 14.5*21 cm, Tirage Limité à 15 exemplaires (14/15) et signé, de plus le fascicule a été dédicacé!

Rarissime, surtout avec la dédicace, double signature!

[zuleecomics]

#PequeñoVampiro vive en una #casaencantada llena de monstruos y donde no hay que irse a la cama pronto y donde no hay reglas que seguir. Pero Pequeño Vampiro está triste porque quiere ir al cole. Quiere conocer a otros niños de su edad.nPero hay un problema: los niños van a clase por el día y él sólo puede asistir por las noches. Con ayuda de los #monstruos de su casa ponen solución a esto y Pequeño Vampiro puede cumplir su sueño. #imprescindible #entrañable y #superdivertido #joannsfar una vez más ha conseguido hacer que te encariñes hasta lo indecible con sus personajes #PequeñoVampiro de su perro #Fantomate e incluso #Michel. Mi nueva recomendación segura para los lectores más jóvenes que vengan en busca de nuevos horizontes del #comic #yoleocomics #ireadcomics #instabook #instacomics #pequeñovampirovaalaescuela #petitvampirevaàlécole #petitvampire #libaries #liburutegia #liburutegiak #bibliotecas #librarianmaterial #materialdelabiblio

[christiangrest]

Ruger SFAR Ammo Selection…Hunting Season?

Over a year ago I picked up a new rifle from Brownells to gear up for hunting deer and possibly elk. The Ruger SFAR or “small framed autoloading rifle” is basically a .308 caliber rifle in a smaller size and weight that’s similar to the standard AR-15. When it comes to hunting, of course you want to shed weight wherever you can and your selected firearm is one of those possibilities. This particular rifle has been let’s say a challenge to prove to me it’s reliability and effectiveness in any situation much less a hunting scenario. But after multiple serv ice tickets opened with the folks over at Ruger, I think it’s finally worthy of a hunting season in my arsenal.

Once the functionality issues were ironed out I started to explore the accuracy issues with this rifle. I quickly found out that it suffered from some accuracy issues. This rifle was truly struggling to perform even remotely close to some of the worst rifles I had ever shot. Some people stated it could be related to the suppressor being used, but even without a can attaches, it struggled to get anything close to 2 MOA at 100 yards. I had tried all sorts of different ammo brands, bullet style and grain weight. It liked pretty much nothing. Now is 2 MOA acceptable enough to take large game? Let’s not kid ourselves, but yes it will do it. However, starting out with such poor accuracy doesn’t give much confidence in a hunting situation. Nothing worse than missing a shot and suspecting your chosen gear to be the biggest contributing factor. After many range sessions I decided to inspect the barrel and found some machining issues that I thought could be affecting the lack of accuracy that I was experiencing. Ruger ended up swapping the barrel for me with about a 2 week turn around.

Once I received the rifle back from Ruger I started to experience the accuracy I knew this rifle was capable of which is 1-1.5 MOA. Ruger did send a test target with sub 1 MOA 5 shot groups, but this was using match ammunition and my main focus was to be on hunting loads. I chose a variety of heavier loads dedicated for hunting and started additional testing. This rifle really seemed to prefer the 175 and 178 gr loads from Federal. To be specific their Ascent 175gr and 178gr ELD-X. With both of these ammo choices I’ve been able to get right around 1-1.5 MOA consistently. I recently grabbed some more of these 2 loads from Brownells to do just a small bit of dialing in using these loads. I believe that either of these loads will do the job on either whitetail deer or elk and out to distances past 200 yards without any drama. This entire ordeal has been quite an ordeal on both my patience as well as my wallet. Looking back at this rifle, it’s truly hard to recommend it except for the most patient of individuals. Hopefully I’ll be able to get a shot on big game this hunting season using this rifle and one of my 2 selected loads.

[lostingham]

Rough scketch of one of my favourite french comics caracter !

[djackenew]

Brumath Interview de l'artiste Alain Sfar pour son inauguration

[billlaotian]