Adjusting TI-25 magazines for the 10/22
News, Guns ·Saturday February 13, 2010 @ 19:27 EST (link)
My TI-25 magazines arrived from Cheaper Than Dirt this week (25 round .22LR magazines for my Ruger 10/22). I was a bit surprised that they had to be adjusted before use, but I followed the directions and took the barrel out of my rifle as required to adjust them properly. I had finally ordered them after a miserable range session with the Butler Creek magazines (many FTFs); the Tactical Innovations magazines came highly recommended by MSGun and THR participants.
They seem to sit fairly snug now, but I won't be able to finish adjusting until I go to the range; later stages require chambering a round, and while that certainly can be done legally and safely at home, it makes sense to do it at a range with a much safer backdrop. Already, though, they load a lot better than my Butler Creek magazines—with Butler Creek's own speed loader.
Last weekend was almost entirely taken up by a large paper (one of two "state of the research" reports that make up 30% of the grade) for CSEP 504 (which I've dubbed "extremely obvious topics in software development"; although the doctoral student that presented a lecture self-organizing computing, including tile computing, was a rare ray of excellence). I wrote on Complex Event Processing (CEP); the paper was about 8000 words (10-12 pages in ACM format, although other students failed to read and submitted 10 pages double-spaced; length difference between the formats is about 2.5x). We also have to comment on other students' papers, and submit two short (200-400 word) reports on two papers chosen from a list given by the instructor every two weeks.
Books finished: Molon Labe!, Libertarianism.DVDs finished: Every Which Way But Loose, Star Wars Trilogy.
