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HBO did a beginner’s guide to Game of Thrones and got Samuel L. Jackson to narrate it.

Over in Westeros, Lord Eddard Stark, aka Ned, is asked by his friend the King, Robert Baratheon, to be the Hand of the King, aka his right hand man. Ned doesn’t wanna go, but das his boy! So he uproots his family and heads to King’s Landing. Nice family, right? Don’t get attached. I’m just saying.

Does anyone swear as delightfully well as Samuel L. Jackson?

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Game of Thrones for beginners, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson

The problem with mounting optics on most semi-auto pistol is the rapid reciprocation of the slide. The optic has to be small enough to permit cycling, robust enough to withstand the constant acceleration, and yet have sufficient objective size to permit rapid target acquisition.

UM Tactical developed a mount that locks around the dust cover Picatinny rail and encircles the slide. That neatly solved all the problems associated with the slide-mounted red dots: the sight doesn’t go back and forth with every shot, a larger optic may be used without making cycling unreliable, and sight acquisition gets easier with bigger glass. Since optics and pistols vary, UM Tactical also offer a universal holster: the optic mount, rather than the pistol, locks into it. The mount may be moved between pistols, and the holster would fit almost any semi-auto handgun.

The system has limitations of its own. For one, a sturdy dust cover is necessary. CZ SP01 qualifies, some of the flimsier polymer frames might not. Because the universal mount has to provide sufficient slide clearance, it is a little bulky. Compared to slide-mounted optics, sights installed with this mount sit about an inch higher. The higher and more forward placement makes the pistol more top-heavy, but also reduces muzzle flip slightly. Since the mount is best suited for metal-framed pistols, the change in balance isn’t drastic.

The front view shows the locking lever that releases the mount when depressed. The two sides of the mount are brought together by the mount or the rings of the optic, and the outward-directed tension keeps the installation secure.

I am not sure how this mount would fare on a defensive carry gun, given the overall bulk of the solution, but it works extremely well for target shooting and hunting. Since stability and limited iron sight resolution are the two overwhelming influences on handgun accuracy, the UM3 mount is a very helpful addition to handgun hunting. The Picatinny rail strip at the bottom of the mount can be used either for lights and lasers, or for a small bipod. The top rail can hold a red dot or a magnified scope, something that direct slide mounting cannot support. Given the inherent accuracy of top-tier pistols like the SP01 shown here, using UM3 for improving aiming accuracy and stability enables hits to much further ranges that typically expected.

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Antonia Okafor has been told her entire life that as a black woman, she shouldn’t support the Second Amendment, that she shouldn’t want to have the right to protect herself, and that she should fall in line.

But Antonia didn’t listen.

She’s a millennial woman who refuses to be put into any box.

Antonia doesn’t care what names anti-gun bigots call her. She refuses to be a victim. And she’s talking to women just like her every day.

 

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College is expensive. Students are in debt. Why? Wendover Productions analyzes what makes higher education so expensive in this country, and some of the reasons he cites you can assume: professors cost money and new facilities are expensive. But a surprising reason why college costs so damn much is that there are more people attending it than ever before.

You see, having more students go to college means that the federal and state funds used to help schools out are stretched thinner on a per-student level, which then means that it costs more money for each student out of pocket. For example, Wendover Productions says that in 1990, Ohio State was able to pay for 25 percent of its budget with government money. In 2012? Government money could only pay for seven percent of the budget, and a bigger burden was passed on to the students.

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Why Is College So Damn Expensive?

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Learn the basics of using propane safely to start incorporating fire effects into your projects.

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Most propane-based projects only require a basic low-pressure source. You can build one from off-the-shelf parts.

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Beginning in 1904, Edward Curtis travelled around North American for more than 20 years photographing Native Americans. While his collection of over a thousand photos housed at the Library of Congress isn’t a precise record of how American Indians lived at the time (he took some liberties in romanticizing the past), it is nonetheless a valuable record of a people largely marginalized by history. (via open culture)

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Huge collection of photos of Native Americans taken by Edward Curtis

Looking at Fukushima not easy. The place has been evacuated on 2011 after 4 of its nuclear reactors melted down.  Tohuku earthquake raised a 13 tsunami meter wave that was just 3 meters too high for the 10 meter wave gate that the power station had in place. The meltdown reached a level 7 on the International nuclear […]

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Animated photos from Fukushima show how abrupt its evacuation was after nuclear disaster

It’s happened to most of us – some more than others. You’re driving down the highway or a backroad or maybe you roll through a stop sign one too many times, and here they come. The flashing lights, the piercing sound of the siren. It’s nerve-racking, to say the least.

With so much tension surrounding recent officer-involved shootings, I feel a duty to open the discussion on what to do when legal gun owners either open or concealed carrying are pulled over by police.

No matter what state you find yourself in, national firearms expert and trainer Massad Ayoob explains there is a universal way to inform the officer you’re carrying: hand your concealed carry permit over with your drivers license.

A good idea is to have your licenses, as well as proof of registration and insurance if your state requires drivers to show, readily available to hand the officer if requested.

Watch as Ayoob and PDTV host Tom Gresham walk through a typical traffic stop, explaining why every concealed carry permit holder needs to have an action plan in place so they know what to do if and when they’re pulled over.

Do you have an action plan? Is there anything you want to suggest readers add to their action plan? Sound off in the comments.

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