2/18/15

Well, the Chickenhawk is coming along well.  John is knocking the hell out of fixing and filling dents.  I need to show my appreciation better for all of that work.  I’m trying to convince him that it doesn’t need to be perfect; a “Ten Footer” will be fine with me.  I have relented on the color and we’re going with the original Chickenhawk scheme of yellow over flat black.  I know that works… I am 98.725% sure yellow over purple would work… but it might not so we’re going with the devil we know.  Sort of thing.  We’re also going to go wild with the lighting.  Right now we’re thinking the theme is going to be “Round Things.”  We’re going to put round turn signal/park lights in the grille and will use the roundel center badge.  I think that is going to look “da bomb!”  In the rear we’re going to go with six round taillights which we are going to try to make sequential.  We’re also going really wild with the zorst.  What we’re thinking is that Monza tip is going to point upward from the center of the beaver panel where the trunk key used to live at the same angle as the panel’s facet.  It makes sense to us, don’t worry about it.  With the key latch removed, we’re going to put straps on to hold the trunk closed and relocate the fuel cell forward and to the right.  Of course, as is usually the case with plans at Dimlight Racing, all of this could be moot next time we go to the shop.  I ord… John ordered a voltage regulator for Scooby Two last Saturday.  It should be coming to the shop today.  This is an off weekend so I may or may not do a solo trip to the shop to install it.  We’ll see.  I took the Mosin Nagant to the gun show Sunday to try once again to sell it.  It did not.  I’m going to resign myself to that gun being my “reach out and touch someone” gun.  It makes more sense than what I was going to replace it with anyway.  While a 5.56x45 bolt gun would be cool, especially one which uses STANAG mags, 7.62x54R is a much better long range round.  My only complaint now is that the thing takes up three spots in the gun case.  Oh well, fortunately I wasn’t totally beholden to selling it and did have some cash because I found a Geisele trigger pack for the Tavor!  I bought the hell out of that mother fucker!  Monday, since I was off for President’s Day, I went to the range with it.  It is very nice.  The trigger is still “heavy” enough for a defensive gun, but it is so much lighter than the original.  I tore a ragged hole about the size of a half dollar… maybe a silver dollar, with seventy rounds from seventy five feet.  With my eyes, and 1x magnification, that’s “good enough” in my book.  They were all within one “minute of bad guy” and would have probably all drawn blood as head shots.  On the whole, I’m pleased with the platform.  Well, I think I’ve said enough for today.  I’ll leave you with this…

Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger,

Mushroom, mushroom!