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acme
The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote animated shorts as a running gag. The company manufactures outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically at the worst possible times. The name is also used as a generic title in many cartoons, especially those made by Warner Bros. and films, TV series, commercials and comic strips.
The company name in the Road Runner cartoons is ironic, since the word acme is derived from Greek (ακμή, English transliteration: akmē) meaning the peak, zenith or prime, yet products from the fictional Acme Corporation are often generic, failure-prone or explosive.
SOLD. Glass is good. No cosmetic imperfections anywhere on the scope. It's first focal plane. The elevation turret cap is missing and the illuminated reticle isn't working. I'm not sure why. I think ACME will warranty it without any hassle. 34mm tube. 1/4 MOA adjustments. Used very little...
Lately we've discussed casting vs. buying lead bullets in other threads. A week or better ago, I decided to try some Acme cast, coated bullets. I saw them on some gun stuff site or other and they were sold out. Yet when I went to the manufacturer's site, they had what I wanted. They were...