Posted: 12/10/2003 8:26:55 AM EDT
| Well just a couple more days and it is off to Anchorage for a few weeks. It is always a good thing when you can leave Barrow. I know that it is winter but if anyone wants to get together for a shoot or food let me know. |
| Well here I am in the big town of Anchorage. Ak_Mike it is only about 27 degrees above zero today. You now know why the Air Force sent people that screwed up to the DEW line sites. It is nice again to see the sun come up. It will be the first time in five years that I see the sun for Christmas. I have all ready been to three gun shops today. I hear there will even be a gun show on the 20/21st. Shodowblade maybe we can meet on the 20th someplace at the gun show, any thoghts on that? let me know. You all stay safe and stay warm up there in Barrow. |
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Sun up at Christmas? I can only dream, brother. Heck, growing up in Fairbanks, I still remember trick-or-treating during halloween at -30F. The little plastic costumes the store sold would shatter and you had to hop back in a car from time to time to warm up. Had to wait till you got home to eat the chocolate, you know how hard it gets at -30F. We are still in a big storm blow right now, it's just not quitting. Warm, but blowy. Tell Shadowblade I said "Hi", I'll try to meet up with him when I get to town myself. P.S. The only people who work in a permanent fashion at Dew Line/Alaska Radar System sites are freaks and criminals. If you aren't one when you get here, you will be when you leave. Society is safer cause they don't let me mingle with the general population. I have machineguns, don't hunt, and like animals better than people. That makes some people nervous, and my bosses not nervous enough.  Enjoy yourself, we'll keep the cold on and the sun down till you get back... |
| Mmmmm. Gwennies - one of my personal faves - good ole fashion Alaskan portioned home style cooking. Yummy, fills the tummy. When in town on company business, my company usually puts it's employees up at Executive Suites across the street, so the walk across to Gwennies is quite familiar, as well as the waddle back. |
| I just tried to go "down town" to get out and eat or perhaps visit the library or something. No go, all snowed in, we are in a nasty blow. I'm going to go make myself a peach snapps milkshake and find a good book to read until I pass out. Blew off about $600 in fireworks a few days ago, that was milding interesting. Can't wait for the new years village display, it was really nice last year. |
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AK_Mike you just have to much time on your hands!! All I am doing now is setting around and waiting for the baby to come. She is already several days late. I did find a like new Dillon press today and brought it home with me. Enjoy the borough's fire works and I will have a couple beers for ya. |
| I'm glad we ordered our own fireworks. It was -20 when we blew them off, slight wind. However, it warmed up to +15 to +20, no wind, awesome night for the village fireworks. Radio said that due to security reasons, they could not get the fireworks up to Barrow. I believe the second story that is circulating - the jackasses who were in charge of ordering the fireworks waited until it was too late. There was no display. I am used to disappointment though, so no big deal. A few new firearms accessories arrived in the mail though, that cheered me up somewhat. |
| It has been nice being someplace to be able to go through some gun shops. I am looking for a Remington 870. I have found several but still looking for the right one and price. I have also been looking for a foregrip for the ar-15 but have not found one. What kind of new firearms accessories did you get? I just ordered several new M-14 magazines for a great price. Other than some ammo I have not bought anything new. The guys that ordered the fireworks proberly took off with the money and had a drunken #$%^ for a few days. Stay safe and if you need anything let me know |
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About the fireworks. Ours were nice, but then I looked at wholesale prices and saw that Gorilla Fireworks, like others, were selling them at 400% to 1200% over cost but of course they absorb shipping and get bulk prices. I sent off for a couple of fireworks license forms so that if I was still in Barrow next year, I could order direct with some friends. I don't like paying $4 for .50 items, or $120 for $40 items, as we had to with Gorilla. ATFE sent me the wrong forms. Sigh. What kind of forearm are you talking about? Are you talking about regular handguards like M4 double shielded, or a rail interface system with picatinney rails? If you are talking about the second type, did you want free floating or non freefloating? Metal or polymer/carbon fiber? There are MANY choices. I like KAC's FF types, have a cheap non-FF Fobus on the rifle I build that I showed you, others like the SIR system, and I am having one built with a Daniel Defense FF forearm. There are many others. Or are you talking about verticle grips? I just got some Tango Down grips, have the KAC, and then there are many, many other makers out there. You must be more specific and we can help you out better. What kind of 870 you looking for? I still need to add the marine version to my collection. And I like the tricked out 870's by Scattergun Tech (which I think Wilson or Les Baer bought out, can't recall). I also really like the Vang Comp system applied to shotguns, makes them much more accurate. I hope you weren't planning on buying many more accessories, now that you have a new baby, it's going to make a healthy dent in your mad money. |
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Hey The fireworks that were supposed to go to Barrow came to Fairbanks. They waited to long to order the fireworks for the Fairbanks show and then the Feds blocked all transportation of explosives into the US. Couldn't get them out of Canada. So... Long story short, Barrow's fireworks were setting in Fairbanks and the fireworks guys lit them off here. They had a big thing on the news and in the paper. The guy seemed kind of proud that he had found a way to save the Fairbanks Fireworks display. Chris |
| uafgrad, thank's for that information. I had heard two stories. 1 - that security restrictions prevented the fireworks from being delivered to Barrow and 2 - they just waited too long to order them. Now I see both stories were true. Everyone else here just ordered from Gorilla and got their fireworks. Oddly enough, as good as last year's village display was, the smaller personal displays going on during the event were more attractive. The bigger village fireworks just went higher and blew wider, but the personal mortars and cakes had more dazzling and differing effects. Regardless, last year's display was better than any I saw in Fairbanks. The last fireworks show I saw in Fairbanks was helf near the UAF. Is was dismal. Very slow in getting started, then one shot after another, veeeeery slowly, boooooring, then a good display suddenly erupted, people cheered and we all though "finally, they got it going". Sadly, it was then over and we found later that the majority of the fireworks were accidentally set off all together instead of getting spaced out. Morons. Boring. Disappointing. The best fireworks show I ever witnessed was when I was driving back home to Las Vegas (when I used to live there) with my girlfriend at night coming from Washington. There was a fireworks display above the city, with the glow of the city below, and darkness elsewhere all around. It made for a spectacular contrast as we could see the show sideways without the distraction of the city lights as we drove through the desert that night. Glorious. Then I heard, for the millenium show, when rooms were all sold out and going for $800-$1600 minimum towards the end for Y2K night, the fireworks were cancelled. Unbelievable let down for those that shelled out the bucks to get a millenium room in LV. Of course, there was still massive partying, but then again, that what the strip is all year round. When I lived there, you could openly consume alcohol in vehicles, only the driver was not legally allowed to consume while driving. Public open liquor law still good to go though. I must admit one better lightshow I once saw, in Las Vegas again, but it was with a girl and we had dropped some acid and walked around looking at the lights on the strip. Good timing. I thought if I was ever going to try it, that was the place to get a good show. Before I even thought about trying it again, an idiot friend of mine made a bet ($200) against a dare to drop 10 hits of acid at once. He wandered around in the desert for some time after swallowing the hits. When he finally came around to reality, he was only wearing his shorts (at least he still had those) and nothing else, including his wallet with the $200, which he never found again. When I moved to LV, I was living in a house with a stripper and her husband (good people from Alaska actually). She had two sisters, both also strippers, one of whom I moved in with for a while. One time I got to see all the sisters up on stage dancing together. Interesting days indeed, but I digress. I used to have an interesting life once, but now I am here in BARROW. |
| LOL! Actually, that was the cheapest one I could find but I got it cause it looked really lightweight. Barring any manufacturing/fit issues, I would go with the Tango Down grip IMO. I just got in several, but I haven't gotten to mount them yet, I won't get to go home until the 24th for a little while... |