Recent content by akrifleman

Doesn't matter what their intentions are. Quantity is a major quality all it's own. When you can purchase and ship in such a mass, you can use your own fleet. The small store can't even stock it at a price the big box is profitable.

You mean the way everyone abandoned US brands and flocked to Walmart for Chinese brands? Or no wait, the way everyone finds the lowest price on the internet? US customers have nearly zero brand loyalty. Everyone wanted cheap over well made and well supported. We proved it over and over.

Same bullet, same speed, same terminal velocity. Yep, clearly the Swede is mythical. Case closed. It's like a pipsqueek mouse and a pipsqueek vole arguing over who is gonna fight the fox. Guess one is mighty mouse, eh?

I'd already DM'd you. I never never said AH wasn't legit. It is *still* an "influencer", as negative as that word has become in the TikTok world. Media isn't always a dirty word. One of the reasons I love it is the beauty of experience and aggregation of sample size. And probably because...

People are absolutely swayed by media. So, I see what you're driving at. But, the guys that write articles generate content for all industries. That is definitely manipulation, but they are not the gun, clothing, dogs, tents, axes, chainsaw industries. They exist because we want to chase...

I'm rebuilding my IH 350 torque amplifier currently. I think my carrier was from "Walts". I forgot who they said remanufactured it. I think the kit either was Yesterday's Tractors or Steiners. Already rebuilt the engine and converted the oil filter from canister to cartridge, and updated...

LOL Or some gun writer waxes poetically about a nearly forgotten cartridge, and we all buy them. Wasn't the 404J the latest? If enough of us wants it, that demand will be met. We are our own worst enemy.

I've spent a lot of time calling all over the Midwest looking for NOS and junkyards for most agricultural equipment, including tractors. Paint, decals, pistons, rings, yes. But, many of those parts you have to find years after they stopped making them, or fab. Just like firearms stuff. It's...

We covered the SAMMI spec part of 6.5x55 and 6.5 Creed earlier. They may hunt the same, but the Creed was built for, and entirely for, competition. Period. People tried the Swede and the 6.5x284, and many others. The Creed won hands down. Then manufacturers realized it fits a short action...

Any rifle can be rebuilt like any cane juicer or vintage truck. It doesn't happen by magic. Search high and low for New Old Stock, or fabricate.

I mean... Ya ain't wrong. Not all ideas are good ones. Most industry has more misses than hits.

They also sold the orginal Model T, International Farmall, and John Deere 95, single bottom plows, and horse pulled checked corn planters, and refrigerators with metal compressors. No industry can guarantee their product is relevant, or make parts forever. If you compare it to any other...

I'm also not sure it is being lost. It has been a very very long hard slog... but things like the NFA tax was repealed, and more and more states are asserting carry laws. Respectfully, that is the opposite of apathetic. We are outnumbered and still slowly winning hearts and minds through...

Then it is an conjunction fallacy (assumption that an outcome simultaneously satisfying multiple conditions is more probable than an outcome satisfying a single one of them) and a reductive argument (oversimplified into fallacy). The law will not change, it is unrealistic. The only probable...