In all fairness conventions have always been known as disease breeding grounds even before the Corona panic set in. SHOT, E3, ComicCon, etc. All those big national conventions with tens of thousands of attendees have always been followed up with mass reports of people getting the flu and VD.
The term "con crud" exists for a reason, after all.
Yeah, an oil that'll stay liquid in the cold will do you a lot of favors because it will keep moisture out of the action. Karl and (to a lesser extent) Ian both seem to have a blind spot related to the fact that how you maintain your gun is atleast partially dictated by your local environment. Karl had a recent eyeopener on this with his pistol freezing in Finland because he didn't have any oil in it and the striker channel filled with water and froze.
They're from the Southwest. In a place like that you could leave a gun outside in a shed for years and it might not even rust. Never having to deal with something makes people ignore it until they can't anymore.
If you're not tongue kissing and rawdogging everyone what's even the point of attending?
Anything hot will sink into the snow and you won't find it unless you dig. It's worse on ice since it'll melt itself into the ice and then the water will refreeze around it and lock it in until you either chip it out or the motherfucker melts through the ice and then you're SOL. Lot of ice fishing gear gets lost through similar means. If you're out in the cold and bring your gear into your house one of the first things you do with your gun and anything else that can rust from moisture is you put it on top of your heating vents with the action open so that warm air from the vet gets blasted up the barrel to clear out that condensation as quickly as possible, at least that's what my family does.
Yeah. I've seen firsthand hot things get stuck in ice within a matter of seconds. I was trying to cool down one component of a thermal fit and accidentally dropped it in my icebox. It was almost instantly stuck in the middle of 10lbs of ice.
Did he ever finish discussing the guns used in the original Star Wars trilogy? Content like that could be a good way to space things out.
hehe, space things out.
I think he only did it because people kept bugging him to. however, if he really has run out of forgotten weapons to cover, he's going to have to come up with something.
He claimed to have a large backlog, but when he began digging out the shotgun videos I began to doubt that. He's in for a nasty surprise if he thinks he can keep up with his regular format of bitesize videos.
He'll probably move onto guns with stories tied to them and modern military guns that are unavailable/unkown (AK-12 etc) will likely start to increase the amount of artillery too.
Perhaps a Lawrence of Arabia episode with that SMLE the arab shah? gifted him.
exactly. hope he does more stuff like project lightening with C&R arsenal. that was cool.
I really hate to be that guy but these are imports of 70+ year old rifles from a dirt poor country that got them for peanuts (after they had been well used in WWII) and then used them as active duty military rifles for the next few decades, all the while they were being handled by Africans. These guns had no chance of being good, although the prices RTI wanted for them are insultingly high.
