Jay’s Note to the Reader; When I originally wrote this post my impression of “How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety” was taken at face value. The cover of the book was good for at least one laugh, which it got from this gun toting, feline loving, bearded guy. However a reader informed me that the contents of the book is far less innocent. Having not read the book myself, I cannot endorse it, nor can I endorse it’s contents. As I have researched it further, I believe the Author intended this to be a satirical commentary on Alt-Right issues, and this is reinforced when examining The American Association of Patriots website. Either way, whether is satire or not, it is not wholly consistent with the theme of this website. I have made the decision to remove the Amazon link to the product and have added this commentary. Take the cover at face value, it’s good for at least one smile….after all that was my original intent.
Good Cyber Monday! I’ve been busy over the last week and do have some updates that went live. Before we get into it, here’s something that is bound to make you smile.
We are working on getting affiliate programs set up for this website, and some of the other websites we’ve been working on. Amazon is probably the most well known affiliate program and easiest to set up as they do not have a minimum traffic requirement. We tried to apply for the Brownell’s affiliate program but were turned down due to limited traffic. Obviously we’d like to support the industry when ever we can, so we’ll continue to work on the website and reapply after we have grown a bit.
We looked at doing a Patreon, but I could not justify doing it. I am not set up to do exclusive content. We do not particularly like website banners, flashing advertisements, or popup windows. Instead will look at providing links to some of the items we like or we use in projects or around in our reloading room. We will see how this works, hopefully we will raise a little money for our next rifle build.
We have also updated the Burn Rate Chart to include two additional powders that somehow we missed. N555, and Sport Pistol. N555 is a slower burning double based rifle powder marketed by Vihtavuori. It is most suitable for 6.5 Creedmoor, or similar cartridges. Sport Pistol is an Alliant powder, with a burn speed similar to that of Bullseye, depending on the load it is either a very similar burn speed or a little slower. Remember a burn rate chart indicates relative burn speed, and should not be the primary source for developing loads.
In other project news, we’ve received the final parts for the drone and are working out a few of the final bugs before the test flight. I hope to have that initial flight this week weather pending. We’ve already seen the limitations of the current design, namely it’s a bit small to fit everything we wanted in it. I’ve already finished the initial redesign of the airframe, which we have dubbed Spear XL.
We’d like to thank the folks over at reddit, the website really blew up this week as the link to the VZ-58 build was shared there. There are a few loose ends we need to tie up to completely finish that project. We are hoping to finish that up in the next few months. It’s been a popular project, and we are looking forward to tackling our next rifle build.
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Have you read the book “How to talk to your cat about …………….” ? I can’t imagine you’re supporting some of the things purported in this book.
I should have added to my last post that if you have not read the Cat book and would like to discuss some of it’s content (rather than buy a copy) then please call me. My sister in law sent us a copy as a joke. I’ll read you some of it’s “views” and “facts”.
Thanks, Jeff Houck.
*Edited the comment to remove phone number, did not want you to be subject to spam calls 🙂
I have not read the book, but I did read a few of the reviews and it mentioned there was some “Alt-Right” Content. I am always leery of what people call alt-right because you do not know where there political needle falls. To some center right views are considered “Alt-Right”. Given the title, I figure the reviewers who were reviewing the content might be trolls or might be someone who thinks 2nd Amendment content as a whole is “Alt-Right”. Having not read the book myself, I really cannot comment beyond the title and picture.
I thought the title was pretty funny, and good for a smile. (At least, this firearm toting feline loving bearded guy got a brief chuckle.)
It’s Skin Head Neo Nazi crap. It starts out funny and then gets progrssevily worse. I went looking for our copy of it but apparently SuperWife has thrown it out. It’s from a small private publisher that’s ultra uber neo nazi far right. Get a copy and you’ll see that you probably don’t want to be associated with such amoral stuff. I’d at least strike it from your website until you read it and decide for yourself.
Jeff
Thanks for the heads up Jeff, we do not want to be associated with anyone who perpetuates Nazi Ideology, new or old. I thought it looked like a fun read, but not having read it myself, or having done much more research into the book besides the appealing cover, I can see where I made the mistake. I’ll amend the post. In the future I’ll be a bit more careful about what I recommend.
Thanks again for the heads up,
Jay