RIFLEMAN'S JOURNAL - APRIL 2009
Prohibition Fail. Chapter ninety-seven, like. No grasp of history.
Oath Keepers muster on Lexington Green! Looking forward to SaveTubing that. -And they plug Appleseed. Our Kind are connecting and organizing.
Ignorant, incompetent thugs with badges.
Shotgun News fills leftover spaces in their pages with little historical RKBA tidbits, i.e.: "For any lawful purpose - either of business or amusement - the citizen is at perfect liberty to carry his gun. It is the wicked purpose - and the mischievous result - which essentially constitute the crime. He shall not carry about this or any other weapon of death to terrify and alarm, and in such manner as naturally will terrify and alarm, a peaceful people." - North Carolina Supreme Court, 1843, concerning the North Carolina Constitution’s right to keep and bear arms.
Also: "If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878, concerning the Arkansas Constitution’s right to keep and bear arms.
Hey... disturbing thought: With all this badgethuggery and Usurpation going on, how long until they start raiding Appleseeds? That... really would be Lexington and Concord all over again. The thugs probably aren’t (yet) self-destructively conceited enough to raid an event full of armed citizens who are there to prove and improve their marksmanship (often with full-power battle rifles, not the mouseguns the thugs have in their thugmobiles’ trunks), but I can foresee harassment and bigotry on the return trip, surveillance to record license plates, the usual "never-heard-of-the-Fourth-Amendment" stuff. Hmm. Remember, you do not have to give the thug permission to search your car. Get a warrant, thug. Specifically describing exactly where you’re searching and exactly what you expect to find. Evidently, that’s not being taught in the thug academies anymore, only how to go fishing among the peasants' private property and how to rough them up if they object....
Don’t forget the April 1959 issue of Guns magazine.
In the reading stack I have Worlds by Eric Flint... which consists of shorts and excerpts from stuff I've either already read, or series I've no interest in. Resuming Hanson's Carnage and Culture.
'Puter choking again, grump. Downloaded & ran CCleaner, no evident improvement. AVG says I'm clean. Recommendations?
Reader sends:
Hah! Uploaded it this time!
2150 - Thursday, 2 April 2009: I am badly unprepared for this weekend’s matches. I trust the Queen, and my handloads, but I really should have live-practiced to reconfirm my sight settings. At least the weather forecast is improving, that’ll help with the Hawken.
And there’s still no .22LR for Appleseed! I need two bricks of something-that-is-not-Thunderbolt(-or-Golden) and it just! ain’t! available! (-Can’t even find Thunderbolt.)
Hm, my anti-thug rant yesterday reminds me of the precautions listed in Unintended Consequences - lock boxes, combination locks so the thug can’t steal the key from you and then lie about you giving it willingly, etc. -I wonder how often those dashboard cams "accidentally" get erased...?
Via GRE Cleveland, awesome op-ed on CCW.
Mob rule. Our Founders were aware. The words "democracy" or "democratic" do not appear in any of our founding documents. To wit: "There are two enemies of the People: criminals and the government. Let us bind the second with the chains of the Constitution, so that it does not become the legalized version of the first." - Thomas Jefferson
Aaand censorship.
Stupid Aussies. No grasp of history. It’s been tried. It doesn’t work.
-And the hits keep coming.
Today I’m building an order of nine Very Hot Laptops. If I told you exactly what was in them it would give away which company I’m working for but I can say they’re widescreen, with a Very Hot Processor (for a laptop), Nvidia, 4Gb RAM, 160Gb HDD, DVD burner, and a bazillion ports including external HDMI and external SATA. So. Very. Waaaaannnt.
If you have the bandwidth, watch this video. It’s half an hour, and near the end features Susanna Hupp’s testimony to Congress and every time I see that I get so ticked at the sneering contempt shown by Schumer and the like I just- ohh! Ms. Hupp has it precisely right: The 2nd Amendment is to protect all of us down here from all of them up there. And if this goes on, we’ll prove it. All we want is to be left alone.
Finally made 50 rounds for the Queen. The match Saturday calls for 45 including 300y sighters, leaving me five extra (which, with the Queen's rear sight, is enough) to regain my 100y zero. Low on projectiles now; only 405 Hornady #3037 left, and 250 of those are slated for trade to a reader for some Garand-specific bullets, pulled M2s IIRC.
'Puter still slow. Spybot found nothing, neither did Ad-Aware. Dammit! When I re-OSed a few months ago everything was fine! The problem particularly appears when I burn a DVD with Nero v6. Usually it takes 15 minutes; when this happens it takes 90. A coworker said to check Device Manager for the IDE properties, and the DVD burner, secondary channel, second device, shows PIO Mode when it's supposed to be DMA, and it won't let me change it back even though the option is displayed in the drop-down. I can haz halp?
2151 - Friday, 3 April 2009: Tireder....
Yay intarwebz, researching the PIO/DMA thing, looks like there are some tricks or patches. -Coworker also suggests the burner might just be dying, which has a certain amount of logic to it as the forums say Windows downshifts from DMA to PIO because of drive errors. Another coworker says I can replace it for ~$30.
This is wrong. It does not belong in the United States of America.
There is an enormous backlash rising against all levels of authoritah.
Another mass public shooting? In New York of course, where no one is allowed to defend themselves, and SWAT hides behind their vehicles while more people die.... No two reports alike - one shooter, two shooters, dead shooters, shooters in custody, whadda they know. "High-powered rifle" - from people who can’t tell a flintlock musket from a Star Trek phaser? -But so many such incidents, in such a short time, since the election? (I see I’m not the only one eyebrow-cocking at that.) Anyway WoG is on the ball as expected, and meanwhile we all know what to expect.
A coworker pointed out this story about Quebec prohibiting the sale of English-only video games if a French-language version is available. Now, at first glance - and second & third methinks - this is typical statist claptrap mucking with the free market, but... borders language culture, hmm. If a Canadian province can assert their cultural identity, even a little bit, why the hell can't we?
Following web research, I had to uninstall the secondary IDE channel then reboot for auto-reinstall, but the DVD problem appears to be solved and the system's overall performance seems adequate.
2152 - Saturday, 4 April 2009: Znrk. Cold last night and Lots of Fog this morning, I expect there will be a delay at the match, but I still have to get there on time. At least I'm not running the thing.
-The guy who is, is... new to match directing, it seems. Besides that there are concerns about rounds leaving the range, especially at the 300y distance, so there might be some backing-and-forthing before things really get underway.
-Temperature affects ballistics. 40 rounds for score, five for sighters, and five extra. I expect my trajectories to be lower than usual.
-If they have any Lake City M2 there I'll get as much as I can afford, on principle. I have a hundred-odd rounds from previous matches but I want some dependable rounds on-hand for... whatever. -I think I'll clip some up too. I should get one of those nylon reproduction cartridge belts....
-Wearing the Appleseed shirt.
Eyeing the newsletter before departure, looks like the ML match tomorrow will be all at 50 yards, all PRB for my traditionally-styled Hawken.
Off I go! And I forgot to pack the ammunition! >8-O Fortunately I realized this before I got too far. Not much turnout, eight or nine entries - weeelll, the event documentation and such might have been both over- and under-done (a bazillion emails and a newsletter entry which could have been written better...).
I was alarmed by the arrival of a Clark County sheriff's deputy, in uniform, in an "unmarked" but official vehicle. This turned out to be, I guess, a veteran sergeant of a pre-thug generation, invited to spectate by a match-goer, but these days an informed member of Our Kind automatically views any badge with suspicion.
And there was SCIENCE! First, it was cold. And that mattered. To begin we had a longer-than-usual safety and rules briefing - matches here at 300 yards are not common, and this match had some newbs, and 300 yards is kinda far away ya know? So we started by getting on the paper (specifically an SR21) at 100:
My first shot from the Queen since December, with ammunition I made Thursday evening, was at lower left. So, I went up six and right four and my second shot was crowding the X. Warmfuzzy, yah? Then up six clicks - which turned out to be a couple too many - for the estimated drop at 300, since I'm simulating M2 Ball with my own loads - that's the two high. Next, five sighters at 300 on the SR3:
Two in the 8, one at the edge of the paper, two off the paper. Down two clicks, then the slow-prone stage, ten for score:
One 8, one 5, and actually a good group considering 300 yards and four months except way high and right because the Queen had warmed up and the 6 up and 4 right I put on at 100 were now WRONG, which fit with my recollection of where my sights usually are. Temperature! Affects! Performance! Believe it! -The weather turned quite nice by the end of the match, BTW.
So I take all that off and do the rapid-prone:
Uh huh. I flinched one way low and left, off the paper, and then I was too low again but that's easily fixed by going up two clicks for rapid-sitting (haven't fired a shot in that position since my second Appleseed in October):
Nothing wrong with the Queen. All on the paper this time, only one not scoring. At a sixth of a mile. From a position I haven't used in half a year. (I think I'm losing a little gut, a little, now that I'm slinging product daily again. Some of those server chassis are big.) Pretty sure I left the sights alone for the final stage, slow-standing:
Again, all on the paper, only one outside the scoring rings, in what is usually the worst stage of the match. Trending high but that could be me, flinching backward; still fighting that. Lots of dry-firing.
So, 13, 66, 66/1X, 65, 210/1X of a possible 400. As a score for competition, dreadful, but as a training exercise and learning experience - which was how I was viewing it; this has no effect on my CMP or NRA ranks - very useful. And I 'blog it here for y'all.
After, I did get some Hawken practice - started with .010" lubed patch, then tried .015" thinking to improve accuracy with a tighter fit, I dunno, PRB just doesn't get that accurate I guess. Did fire three Miniés at 70gr 777 2F, oof, wouldn't want to shoot that all day but it should tumble a blacktail and, the first two were under 2MOA and the third (which was a popbang hangfire) about 4. So with improved, i.e. adjustable, sights, and Miniés, the Hawken will shoot well enough to humanely hunt with. The rest of the holes are Hornady red-box roundball with .015" lubed patches over 60gr 777 2F with standard CCI caps - as you can see, elevation is great, I don't know what's causing the horizontal stringing. All of this was from a sandbag benchrest at 50 yards.
I'll be using safety overglasses in the match, they've been in a sock in my range bag for a year or three. Stuff goes everywhere, even with the flash cup I picked up during the Road Trip.
Between the match and the practice, the Event Boss for local Appleseeds showed up and we chatted - he reports that the Wilsonville AS last weekend was full and warned that the Patriot's Day Castle Rock event is approaching fullness. There is a link to register and pre-pay online but d00d, I just had to juggle the rent check ya know? Ohcrap, it does say "SOLD OUT". I'm under the impression I might be squeezed in though. But I still don't have enough matching, quality rounds for the LTR for the weekend! While I was on that side of the river I hit Bi-Mart, SW, and Wal-Mart - triple-empty shelves.
What, again? And watch the media go into full demagogue mode.
Quote o' the Day: Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." - John Locke, 1690
All you "freedom of expression" types who voted for Hussein - how's that working out? Never evaluate legislation (or candidates) on the good they might do, but on the harm they would do.
Sink the Island. Dig comments.
Australian reader inquires about reloading, particularly bullet casting. I am tinkering with a casting page to add to the reloading pages but there's no telling when or if it will be ready. While looking for answers to his questions, I found this collection of instructional videos!
Since I'll be at the muzzleloader match tomorrow morning, I likely won't make it to chat or get to hear the show until late.
2153 - Sunday, 5 April 2009: Encore l'Znrk.
Wearing the second Appleseed shirt. It's still a rifle match.
Not taking anything else, like the LTR - I'll get practice with that after the show next weekend, if I can find rounds. (Besides, the club is open to the public on Sundays and I expect it to be crowded.) Bi-Mart guy says to call Tuesday or Thursday mornings. There's a Bi-Mart near work I haven't tried yet.
TEH WIN.
I HAZ IT.
Again, everyone brought a half-stock percussion Hawken, or something I can't tell apart from it, except the one guy who, as before, brought a half-stock flintlock Hawken:
Since muzzleloaders take so very long compared to modern rifles, the match had only two stages and a total of 17 shots for score. As my rifle (and everyone else's) is traditionally styled, I was limited to patched round ball - according to the event copy, modern inlines could have used modern bullets, but there weren't any. The first stage was the precision event: at 50 yards from a sandbag rest, unlimited sighters on an inch grid and seven for score on a sort of poker/dartboard target. Comparing it to, for example, the Queen's usual performance (when I'm not adjusting the sight way the heck away from where I know it's supposed to be), it was kinda sucky, but it turns out that compared to everyone else I totally whupped:
The scoring rings count up to 14 - I got 86 of a possible 98, and my best poker hand turned out to be an ace-high straight, both of which just whupped any other target I observed. Practice pays.
The second stage was on a buffalo shape meant for 100 yards, but placed at 75, more like 72 from the actual firing point downrange of the benches. To give some idea of scale:
The event copy clearly stated fifty, which is what I practiced for. But I think (detailed results coming later) I whupped there too. Despite some popBOOM hangfires I put eight of ten in the buffalo for, the way I count it, 50 of a possible 100:
I have good rifles. And I'm good with them. What happened yesterday morning was, I didn't trust the Queen. If I'd left the windage where it's been for the last two years, and hadn't put on those six unnecessary clicks of elevation which I had doubts about, I'd've had a pretty darn good slow-prone stage despite the distance and the time since the last use of the rifle.
For the best precision score I got a frozen ribeye buffalo steak! For the best poker hand I got a bag of blue chips. Time to update the awards pages.
I think I need some of this stuff.
Via an Elf, The Collaborator's Song. Am I... gonna... hafta watch that film now?
'Blog updates from another Elf.
Disarmament Fail. But grok, as stated: ...that’s not the plan. It never was.
Barack Hussein Obama Hates America. (Yes I stole the clipart.)
Their minds don't work right.
2154 - Monday, 6 April 2009: *&^%$ Monday.
At the ML match I got tips from the regulars. For example, Hoppe’s makes a variant of their most famous product specifically for blackpowder, which acts as both cleaner and patch lube - I’ve seen it on the shelf. One of the shooters was using patches soaked in this, kept in a small period-style tin, explaining that he was cleaning the bore every time he loaded the next round. Not so good for field use though, too wet. Patch thickness matters, as does ball diameter and the combination thereof; I was using .530/.015 pre-lubed, which would be a normal load. .535 ball is available but would be physically more difficult to load; the ball would likely be badly deformed during the loading process and I might therefore lose whatever accuracy I might have gained from the tighter fit. I do however also have .010 and even .005 patches - future Science. The match director, when I asked how accurate PRB is supposed to be, said that each rifle will have a particular favorite load, i.e. 82 grains of powder and a slightly off-center patch - more future Science and likely some Art.
The season is turning, weather improving rapidly, so I’ll be doing more Science. While the ammunition holds out anyway.
I feel I kinda cheated in the second stage yesterday, by using the Hawken’s sling Hasty - no one else had one. But hey, shooting sticks were allowed and no one used any and I asked and the match director said I could use the sling. -Cooper, somewhere, The Art of the Rifle I’m pretty sure, said the Hasty sling, especially in offhand, is of no use, but I disagree. Slings are disallowed for the offhand stage in most matches, and at Appleseed IIRC.
Ow - bruised my chin from the cheek weld from the Minié practice Saturday afternoon. Thoom.
During the 300y match I was reminded that I need to turn down my .30-06 seating die a bit - COAL is hitting the Queen’s bullet guide, slowing full-clip reloads.
It’s beginning to look like I won’t make the Patriot’s Day Appleseed. :( I would have pre-registered but it just wasn’t in the budget. Well hey, there’s one on Independence Day.
It’s very interesting that Appleseeds are selling out - go look at the list. More armed citizens. It ain’t subliterate redneck lapdog-media stereotypes or sideways-Glock gangsters going to these, you know, nor the Cho/Wong/Poplawski type - these are competent, educated, dedicated individuals, as are all true members of the Gun Culture.
Just... stop poking the rattlesnake. All we want is to be left alone.
School vouchers work, when they’re allowed to.
Walter Williams warns us.
Do you have one of these? I do. Always. Leatherman SideClip, in my left front jeans pocket. Had it for years, use it every single day for something or other, feel profoundly nekkid without it.
Vanderboegh analyzes.
So does Workman.
And Victor Davis Hanson.
And Codrea of course.
And Suprynowicz.
Even more analysis of the Great Hussein Arms Rush. -Why such a big run on 9x17mm? x19 is obvious. -Boy am I glad I’m set up to reload. And cast at least some bullets. In fact I’ll be priming some handgun brass in the laundromat’s parking lot this evening.
Death by government, chapter umpty-seven. Laws only affect the law-abiding. How many times must that be repeated?
More from Montana.
Uh oh - the Corolla, which ran fine this morning, is running rough now. I suspect it's the sudden change in ambient temperature - she's been used to starting cold for the last half-year and more, and this afternoon it was 70-something F. Probably time for new fuel and air filters, plugs, etc.
Reader sends, Australia sucks, adding, Sigh, another island to sink and start over.... Except Australia is a continent. -Not to say it shouldn't be sunk, I just want things called by their right names. ;)
2155 - Tuesday, 7 April 2009: Corolla still rough but not as bad as yesterday. She was overheating then too, added coolant, a quart of oil. Stuck valve? Getting new fuel filter this afternoon.
Setting Hanson aside again - I’ll finish it someday - for yet another Anvil/Flint/Baen reissue, RX for Chaos. This volume’s theme is the unintended consequences of new technologies.
But there was something in Carnage and Culture which struck me - I’m still only on the second section, Gaugamela - as roughly analogous to our current situation. Hanson was talking about how Alexander took the Greek/Macedonian tradition of sovereign citizen-soldiers and perverted it into a terrible machine of destruction and plunder, surrounding himself with sycophants and executing any who showed the slightest doubt. He compared Alexander to Hitler, who in fairness was a pretty good general early on, having, like Alexander, a war machine the like of which his world had never before seen. I was just wondering... how long until Hussein reinstates proskynesis? I note on radio news the Usurper made an "unscheduled" stop in Iraq today. He’s like a child with a new toy, flailing it about to break everything until it breaks itself. Thank God for the Oath Keepers - if I didn’t know about them I’d be really depressed.
Is this just more Neville Chamberlain or more like King Canute?
Choosing sides in Montana.
"Religion of peace" my ass. And media bias.
More on the recent TSA thuggery.
On a lighter note, POING!
AUTOMOTIVEEMERGENCY
It looks like the Corolla's head gasket is going, if it hasn't already. I am not going to take public transit all that way across town and back. I might get one more commute out of her, I don't know. Emailing the usual auto help people.
...In return email and a phone call, I'll drive to work tomorrow (I hope) with plenty of extra water aboard to keep the engine as cool as may be, then call Blacksmith from work before leaving, and also look for block sealer - the stores are closed by the time I type this. There's also a Tercel I might end up buying.
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2156 - Wednesday, 8 April 2009: Still rough but not overheating in the (cooler) mornings. Reached work without incident, though there was steam in the exhaust when I started out. This pretty much wrecks the Appleseed plan - not driving to Castle Rock with a sick car, or a borrowed one (and still no one has ammunition - my usual Bi-Mart, when I stopped last night, the counter-dude said he got a few cases and dribbled them onto the shelf throughout the day and they were all gone by noonish) (Big 5 has the Federal 525rnd HP for $19, but they were probably sold out by the time I read the web flyer, and with the sick car and rent and Cricket all transacting at once I can’t afford them ‘til Friday anyway). Ditto Wolverton pins and likely the show too. Hopefully, later, I can get caught up enough to pre-register for the Independence Day Appleseed - by which time I might be driving a Tercel.
Get in shape. I still hate running, but I can still walk a long, long way. With a pack. And yes, as a matter of fact I did wrassle a bunch of large server chassis today.
Islam sucks and Hussein is criminally incompetent.
Cops are useless, even when they’re trying to not be thieving thugs. Why do we even have them?
Win. Except I think the actual "weapon" is an airsoft stylization.
It’s all about the revenue.
In radio news this morning, word of a US-flag vessel being seized by Somali pirates. Now, in a Right and Proper World, the United States Navy would be going all Stephen by-God Decatur on their asses. But in this one? With the Appeaser-in-Chief? Ye... gods. I can imagine what must be going through the minds of Captains and Commanders and the occasional Rear Admiral at this moment - and I bet a lot of it dare not be spoken aloud.
Hitting a NAPA on the way out from work, getting engine block sealant, reading instructions... coolant system must be flushed and all antifreeze removed. Which means I have to nurse it back to the hovel. ...Which I did without significant incident. Wait for engine to cool... flush radiator and reservoir with garden hose... mix 20oz. bottle of goop with 3qts warm water and add to radiator... run engine.
I dunno.
Stop engine when instructed, let cool, top off coolant (looks okay), run engine again (test drive, groceries) - still a little rough, and some slight power loss, but no more steam evident in the exhaust and a vast improvement over the last two days. "Bar's Leaks" brand, BTW. Wow.
Meanwhile I've learned the Tercel, belonging to Mechanic & Woodworker, isn't running anyway, but is being worked on. I'll start diverting funds, in case. The gods are evidently still out to get me, after all.
Shocking is no longer an appropriate word - there's little Hussein could do to surprise me anymore. Sickening, I would say.
2157 - Thursday, 9 April 2009: Corolla still rough, but adequate. Dunno how long it’ll last. Maybe a second treatment if it worsens?
Didn’t I say it? Appeasement Fail. But hey, American Win.
Demagoguery. Like we expect anything else.
Federal taxtheft done with one of the free online options, trying to find one for state.
Return drive - starts easy, no steam in the exhaust, but a definite power loss and a stutter under load. Not getting worse though. It'll have to do. Called Woodworker - Tercel is running again, so I have a backup if necessary. Nice to have income....
2158 - Friday, 10 April 2009: Corolla is holding. When I checked coolant before departure this morning, she spat out several ounces of coolant, huh? But all seems adequate for now.
It’s fascinating (morbidly) to watch the social parasites in action. They’re friendly and outgoing... toward people of influence. They have infirmities which reduce their performance... or they convincingly act like they do. For years I’ve seen this - "I need my special chaaaiiiirrrr", "the fuuumes make me siiick", "I need taaaape for my fiiinnngers", "that’s too heeeaaaavy for my baaack". (I bet they play soccer on weekends.) Then there’s their actual job "performance", a term used very loosely indeed - three or four times slower than should-be-normal, and packed with Fail which has to be reworked by guess who. All the while sneering at the rare few who try to display some professionalism and actually get things done, viewing us as suckers who don't know how to play the system. Alas, firing people for incompetence is completely out of fashion these days. And the useless ones know it! They count on it! ...Just as they also count on their ubiquitous ethnic minority quota status, uh huh. Anyone who dares point out how useless they are is branded a racist. I guess being competent is racist in the age of Hussein. Atlas needs to Shrug.
And you know, the sneerers may have a point. "The only reward for good work is more work." At the shampoo warehouse, I ended up running the shipping computer because I was the one who could read and count. Today I finished my regular project, got handed one that had been waiting all week for parts, then got yanked off that for two new projects - and the impression was clear that I was chosen because I would actually get them done, on time, correctly. Uh huh.
Hey! Congress! Pay attention! Stop poking the rattlesnake!
Codrea smacks Savage. (Yuri mentioned the issue some days ago.) And rightly so sez me. Many times I’ve furrowed by brow over several Savage remarks in blatant contradiction to the Bill of Rights, leave-us-the-hell-alone culture Our Kind desires.
System’s broke. Don’t trust it.
Starting to crest the financial hump (just in time for my car to blow up...), eyeing this stuff while it lasts. Which option for HXP should I get? The .30 cans with clips would make the most tactical sense I suppose, but I think I want a 240 can besides, to practice with (it will likely have a different POI from my own stuff). I can probably afford... one.
...In a few weeks.
...The club is nearly out of LC except for a dwindling hoard maintained by the CMP guy for the loaner rifles for JCG matches.
I would laugh if I weren’t afraid screaming might really be more appropriate. -Linked from there: Oooo, I like it. (I know some of those guys, from my SCA days, heh.)
"Few bad apples" my ass.
Warning from the past. Dig the segment at 7:40 - remind you of anything? And the Other Side wonders why Our Kind are stockpiling anything that goes bang.
Aaand tired. Show tomorrow, yeah I guess, but range after? Rain forecast and I'm pretty much out of everything and if I'm not driving a sick car to Castle Rock I've no great impetus to practice with the LTR and there's still no ammunition available at the stores anyway. And that's a big mean hill on the way to the range anyway.
The question is not going away.
2159 - Saturday, 11 April 2009: Corolla still holding. ("Hear me, baby? Hold together.")
Tortured self as u$ual at $how, bought nothing. Three Garands on one table, two at $750, one at $850, details blur but at least one was probably not CMP-match-legal. Norinco Winchester 1897, $325, next to the original from last month, right outta The Wild Bunch, "Let's go". Luuuuugers still, sigh, wanted the 6" Navy with maybe-not-fake ivory grips ($675).
When I arrived, I set up my laptop with the Cricket, on principle. While I was walking the aisles, Cruffler snuck over and installed Hussein wallpaper. No I'm not going to show you the wallpaper. But I did 'blog it.
Yuri arrived, and after the show we went to the range after all - via cellphone text he said he had a new red-dot to sight in so I packed the LTR. And there were newbs. About whom Yuri should be ranting presently. -You know my kitty rant icon? Yuri needs one. I think I know just the one - have you seen Meet John Doe, Capra/Cooper? Early in the film where the reporter gal wants to get a good photo and it turns out Cooper's character is a baseball player and she tells him to imagine the ump making a bad call and he glares at the camera? I need to get that disc from the library again and get a VLC snapshot and send it to Yuri.
After the range we got burgers and I noticed little icons on the side of the soda cup, indicating levels to which the ice and the soda should be filled - not for the customers, but for the employees. Which reminded me of the time, years ago, I stopped at a McDonald's and got a drink with a huge clod of ice, which the useless one responsible then crammed the plastic lid over, punching a hole in the side of the cup to let what little soda there was dribble out onto the tray. Yuri reminded me of the trend of having the order consoles re-keyed with graphic icons so the employees don't have to read. All of which meshes with my useless-ones rant yesterday and the general decline of competency nationwide. -A couple weeks ago, one of the more useful coworkers asked if I'd been homeschooled, and in hindsight, yeah, I kinda was some. My mother would read books with me - with I say, reading a few pages at a time aloud to each other. I intend to never have children of my own, but if you do, I say the single most important and influential thing you can do for them is make them literate, as my mother did for me. If you can read, all else follows - problem-solving, creative thinking, just-plain-thinking which lemme tell ya is a rare commodity these past many years. Thanks, Mom.
(Yes, grammar and punctuation are oft askew in this-here Journal. It's a style thing, live with it. Go read RAH's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.)
After that, it turned out that Yuri had stockpiled some .22LR (Federal #510 40gr solid in bricks of 500, not the bulk pack (with which he reports misfires)) and I bought two bricks from him, so now I have enough ammunition for one Appleseed and a bunch of practice! Except the next Appleseed is next weekend and sold out, and I haven't practiced with this load and the range is closed for Easter tomorrow, and the car is still sick, hmm. I'll email the event boss - if there is a slot open I'll try to make it.
A modest proposal in response to piracy.
Remember the 29 Palms Combat Arms Survey? Here is New Data. As Neo would say, "Whoa".
You'll have heard about the recent ABC "News" demagoguery. Analysis. And more analysis.
Cops are liars. -Some may nitpick that BATFU ninjaboys should be differentiated from run-of-the-mill blueshirts, but from where I and a bazillion other taxpayers are standing, a badge is a badge.
Booger! CMP e-newsletter says HXP is drying up too! Specifically the 240 cans. And they're limiting purchases of the clipped stuff.
Other email is, of course, backed up again. Exploding cars are distracting and stressful and stuff like that. Need some cookie dough....
I need bigger moulds. Lee 6-cavity. 9mm/124, .38/158, .45/230. Perhaps a .429/240 for barter. Maybe even a .30/150, one reader sent some Science on cast loads for the Queen (yes they were gas-checked).
Quote o' the Day.
Genuine Grade-A LOL.
Hittin' some email.
"Where's your warrant, flatfoot?"
Responding to an Australian reader inquiring about reloading, and eyeing the horribly empty shelves everywhere, I figured someone would have filled this market niche.
Reader, discussing relative merits of different revolvers (and having recently acquired a GP100 much like mine), sends:
When I first bought the GP100 in '96, I looked at the S&W 686. The Ruger was $20 cheaper, and the chamber walls were visibly thicker. That's why I bought it. No regrets.
Saw a 4" 686 at the show today in fact, new-ish, no box, $575. Which is actually a fair price for the brand. Oh, and as a data point, a Colt King Cobra, w/box, 6", $750 IIRC.
Excercise that First Amendment thingie. See also.
More quotes:
The Shores of Tripoli. It's what Marines are for.
Want? List discussion says this may also serve.
VCDL also analyzes ABC's hit-piece.
2160 - Easter Sunday, 12 April 2009: Zzzz. Z.
Chat & show every Sunday 1100PT. (Rerun for Easter.)
Rebellion. Rattle, rattle.
Yet more analysis.
Just noticed something on Wiki about Maersk Alabama, screencapped here before it's edited:
(Here is the WaPo article referenced in "30".) Any bets on how long until it's edited to praise Hussein's "enlightened restraint" and blame eee-vill capitalism for the actions of the misunderstood disadvantaged active-wealth-redistribution community?
OMG I KNEW IT! Just an hour later it's gone!
The One Must Not Be Questioned.
Not unrelated, Quote o' the Day.
Science - reader wonders:
2161 - Monday, 13 April 2009: Blech.
Corolla holding, still. Starting to try to start to build funds.
...And roughening on the return drive. Got another bottle of Bar's Leaks, might re-treat.
Another government report labeling patriots as terrorists. And you know the revenuers will use an NRA decal (or the Gadsden or what-have-you) in your window as an excuse to flex their authoritah.
Even more Orwellian Newspeak.
Channeling Neville Chamberlain.
Making it up as they go along.
JPFO also smacks Savage.
Yet another entry in the Sink the Island files. Reader sender asks: I'm wondering if you'll consider converting to either occultism or Hinduism. The reason I ask is that after reading the enclosed link, you'll agree with me that sinking the island once simply won't do. Clearly, this calls for a plan: do we raise it back from the dead so we can resink it, or do we wait for it to be reborn first?
2162 - Tuesday, 14 April 2009: Corolla still rough, still running. That’s it, I’m giving up on this weekend’s Appleseed. :( Maybe I’ll cast some bullets. More constructively I could seek car help.
State taxtheft done on paper last night, snailmailed this morning.
Every day I visit ICHC, and it reminds me how much I miss Fuji. Not ready for another cat yet, the poor thing would get crushed in a junkslide in the hovel, but today I had a random, comforting thought: Fuji did make at least one confirmed kill, and one probable, which I witnessed. So he is in Kitteh Valhalla. Feasting at Bast’s table. (It’s my Journal, and my cat, I’ll mix myself a mythmash if I damn well please. ...Acatru?)
Austin GRE spells it out.
Charlotte GRE continues the analysis.
Want.
I need a copy of The Wind and the Lion. Connery and Bergen are both on the Other Side, I know, but it’s a good flick. With Marines!
I just noticed that Xtreme has .30/150 plated. FP, not ideal for the Queen, probably meant for the ’94 and 336, but hmm. But Sportsman’s Warehouse never did carry those - freight included, hm....
From the lists, analysis of the pirate thing.
2163 - Wednesday, 15 April 2009: Corolla seemed a little smoother this morning, hm. Coolant level holding - if anything there’s more pressure in the system than ever, and that’s good, right?
What, again? "The USS Bainbridge responded to the Liberty Sun's call for help but the pirates had left by the time it arrived five hours later, Navy Capt. Jack Hanzlik said." "A flotilla of warships from nearly a dozen countries has patrolled the Gulf of Aden and nearby Indian Ocean waters for months. They have halted many attacks but say the area is so vast they can't stop all hijackings." Not to denigrate the US Navy - who, let’s face it, are on the Appeaser-in-Chief’s leash - but haven’t we learned this lesson yet? Arm the ships. Arm the crews. Kill the pirates.
Antis are incapable of reasoned discourse. Which we saw just the other day.
It’s all about the revenue. OTOH this cop looked in the mirror.
More on the Combat Arms Survey.
Declaration of war. All we want is to be left alone. ...Hey, how ‘bout one of those oval car window decals saying "RWE"? I already have "III", haven’t put it on yet.
Outright fabricated propaganda. Our government seems to be very busy proving all us anti-government "extremists" right.
Charlotte GRE spells it out some more.
So does Austin GRE.
How very interesting, Corolla noticeably smoother on the return drive. The goop is still sloshing around in the coolant, which is still straight water otherwise.
Voicemail from Appleseed event boss, not just sold out but "packed" - and my car is still sick anyway. Will try for 13-14 June. How very interesting that Appleseeds are getting such big turnouts.
2164 - Thursday, 16 April 2009: Corolla started rough, cold morning, but ran relatively well after warming.
Radio news - Hussein proposes high-speed train program. ...Where do I begin with this? The nation faces record unemployment, looming inflation, rising piracy and growing nuclear threats from communist North Korea and Islamic-terrorist Iran, runaway illegal immigration with attendant crime, disease and border insecurity, even rumblings of secession and outright shouts of rebellion... and what do we have from the supposed "leader of the free world"? He insults our only even-partly-useful allies with dime-store door prizes and now he wants to steal even more of my money so he can play with trains like a latter-day Marie Antoinette. Not. Qualified.
J-Nap "apologizes". (Why am I having a flashback to the meaning of ‘is’?) And Seattle GRE weighs in.
Codrea smacks WSJ.
Denver GRE illuminates the mental disorder. As does Los Angeles GRE.
Tea Party AARs. Some reports suggest turnouts, nationwide, may be around half a million - some individual Parties broke five figures, and there were hundreds of Parties.
John Lott smacks 20/20.
"Directorate"? "Directorate"!? And they laugh at us when we make comparisons to the Soviet Union.
Via Tucson Tom (upon whom, I haven’t said it for a while, praise and blessings for donating the Queen), Coulter smacks MSM.
2165 - Friday, 17 April 2009: Corolla still holding, maybe even a slight improvement as the goop continues to circulate.
"The only reward for good work is more work." Lately I’ve been given the weird, new, large, complex, off-the-document stuff that no one knows how to build, or even which parts to allocate to. (What am I, Magellan?) (Naturally my coworkers didn’t get the reference....) Presently the supervisor is off seeking an alternate CPU heat sink which will fit the never-seen-it-before chassis’ never-seen-it-before air duct. And hey there ain’t none! So I’m instructed to build without, meaning I’ll have to wrassle the big heavy chassis again when/if the correct parts are acquired. Which offends! My Teutonic sense! Of efficiency!
Even more thugs with badges. Rattle, rattle.
Tamara links useful pistolcraft bits. I’ve seen this sort of thing often at my club - flinching, bucking forward. I try to suggest, to such shooters, the kinds of things described at the links.
Columbia Conservative Examiner smacks J-Nap, et al. As does Boston GRE.
Cleveland GRE smacks AWB2.
Austin GRE illuminates media bigotry.
Via Codrea, Hussein urinates on American sovereignty again.
Via Yuri, Montana casts the die.
That’s it, I’m vegging this weekend. No long twisty drive to Wolverton pins (they’re already dis-expecting me because of Appleseed, and I’m out of handgun race rounds anyway), no range trip - maybe some car fiddling. Maybe some reloading and/or bullet-casting.
Rough return drive after a fair start, overheating. Might try the second bottle of goop.
Reader sends loot! Web gear, and I don't mean HTML. I've been giving more thought to this, especially with the Praxis articles on WRSA and Sipsey St. - "fight light". And finally I get to watch season 2 of Jericho!
Glenn Beck, et al, explains the Tea Parties. At the Alamo.
2166 - Saturday, 18 April 2009: Zzzzzzzz.
Seattle GRE explains the significance of April 19th. And if the gods weren't out to get me I'd be at an Appleseed right now.
Vanderboegh analyzes J-Nap.
I'm not laughing. Nothing against the cartoonist, except I think he doesn't treat the subject seriously enough.
Gun Week online takes a look back.
Hacking through even more backed-up email, reader sends this video, which made me look up these lyrics.
Okay, off to the laundromat with the sick car, let's see what happens... check fluids first - clutch a little low, coolant not really low, topped off both... still rough, power loss, and idles like Sebulba's racing pod, but she runs. Inquiring about the Tercel.
2167 - Sunday, Patriot's Day, 19 April 2009: On this day in 1775, sovereign citizens of what would become the United States of America resisted their government's decrees and oppression, firing the first shots in the American War of Independence.
And we're getting ready to do it again. Patriot's Day articles all over the blogo-sphere.
Chat & show every Sunday 1100PT.
Via chat Elves, more Gadsden stuff. (See also.) But Holy Crap the $hipping WTF! Eighteen bucks shipping for an eight-dollar pin? Ah, this is more reasonable.
Every year, on this date, some form of this circulates.
Examining the borrowed LTR. It's a standard Ruger 10/22, twenty or more years old, original stock and barrel, with these. Close examination shows that the (plastic...) aperture mount, adjustable for windage with the great big knob, rotates around the cross-screw, resulting in a significant change in the sight picture's elevation every time the rifle recoils. Two thicknesses of soda can jammed underneath fix that. I'm not too worried about this; the LTR is only for 25-meter training, so once the sights are adjusted for a particular load one might as well epoxy them in place. These, OTOH, do appear to be of superior construction. I did see at least one rifle so equipped at my last Appleseed.
2168 - Monday, 20 April 2009: Bleah.
Corolla still running. Overheating a bit on the return drive but not as bad as last time. Still considering using the second bottle of sealant goop.
American Thinker blasts MSM, et al.
GREs line up to blast Brady, et al, for dancing in dried blood and/or sticking heads in the sand: Codrea, St. Louis, Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Austin (long three-part).
J-Nap out! And more commentary thereupon. And, huh - everything old is new again.
Arm the effing crews already. Heck, maybe I could take a tour with the Queen - weeks of boredom punctuated by a few minutes of target practice. I wonder what that would pay...? SRSLY, FOLKS, for centuries pirates were recognized by every even-partly-civilized nation as vermin to be exterminated on sight by the captain of any vessel capable of the disposal! Now we give them trials?!
I remember these. SaveTubing. This claims to be all of them.
234 years ago, the call was "The Regulars are out". Now what the hell is this? All we want is to be left alone. But the thugs-with-badges won’t leave us alone. Rattle, rattle.
From the lists, Quote o' the Day: "How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." - Representative Suzanna Gratia Hupp
You'll have heard of Montana telling the federal government to stick it where non-interstate commerce in arms is concerned. Now we have similar movements from Alaska and Texas.
2169 - Tuesday, 21 April 2009: Morning is teh 3vil.
Plates Saturday! And I need to whip up some rounds. Fortunately I stockpiled some .358 Xtreme last year, so I’ve got several matches’ worth ready to assemble, but what about the Autoloader division? I might have barely enough for one match if the Witness feeds the plated SWC I made well over a year ago. Alternatively I could try the 1911 - I have some unplated SWC I picked up at a show, I could whip that up, hm, or I could rush some RN casting. But I’ve used the 1911 so little I don’t know if it’s reliable, and it still needs a taller front sight to match the LPA someone hammered into the dovetail, and at speed I always go for a center-hold sight picture, meaning I’d likely be wasting a lot of rounds high.
Corolla roughening, hm. Maybe the plugs are contaminated? European reader suggests there’s a water-pump problem, but I don’t think so - the morning drive doesn’t overheat despite a large hill to climb, and yesterday afternoon the temperature eventually did go back down. I dunno. Warmer weather yesterday and today, that’s not helping. One thing though, neither steam nor smoke from the exhaust since the goop treatment, hmm.
-Is that cool or what? A guy in Switzerland is helping me diagnose my car.
From Cruffler and the lists, FBI spied on Tea Parties. Is anyone surprised? (Also note the turnout estimate of three-quarter million. RATTLE, RATTLE.) (I think I need to road trip to the Southwest, just so I can get some genuine rattlesnake souvenirs.)
Charlotte GRE analyzes the Hussein Arms Rush. And, Tamara analyzes the ammunition shortage.
Columbia Conservative Examiner analyzes the 9th Circuit Court incorporating the 2nd Amendment, as does Volokh.
Vanderboegh rattles.
Atlanta GRE illuminates a little cause-and-effect problem.
Stopped at Bi-Mart - even the .17HMR is sold out now. Nothing left but shotshells and .345½ Super Remchester.
Mad Mike/THR fundraiser. Damn, just found it linked from Oleg's 'blog and the bidding is already out of my car-sickness-restricted-budget. :(
Tucson Tom sends a photo montage of a watering hole in Texas, evidently captured with a trail camera.
Meanwhile Cruffler sends three thousand words:
Oh, and the hovel had a visitor this evening!
With belly rubs even!
2170 - Wednesday, 22 April 2009: Corolla seemed less rough this morning, I dunno. Got new plugs last night, too pooped to install them. Milder weather today should help control heat. -And it did, no overheating at all on the return drive. But I also had the cabin heat on.
From WSJ (which, yes, we were smacking just the other day), two articles on a SCOTUS case over quota hiring and discrimination against whites.
Congressional immunity... I have already addressed this. -Our Founders, when they were wrangling our Constitution in ’87, were counting on an educated electorate which actually stopped to think once in a while, so they left out a lot of "well duh"s that have to be meticulously spelled out for today’s desensitized, overindulged, overdependent mobs, which don’t know what they don’t know, and for today’s tyrants, who very deliberately misinterpret and ignore the whole system of checks and balances their predecessors created. They did, however, leave us a reset button. Smart guys, those Founders.
And yes, Jericho really did go out standing up.
Hm, looking through the rest, I’m still conflicted about the Electoral College. Which is it, tyrannically overriding the will of the people or a necessary restraint against the dangers of mob rule? Objectively now, not just depending whether the mob chooses your candidate? Seems to me we’ve seen both sides in the last few cycles. Give me your thoughts.
"Where’s your warrant, flatfoot?"
Oath Keepers/Patriot’s Day AARs from The New American, WRSA, Sipsey Street, and the Oath Keepers themselves. Bunches of videos, especially at the latter link.
I don’t shoot .40, though I do have all necessary tooling to load it (and 10x25mm of course) and I do scrounge .40 brass when convenient (and 10mm when there is any). If I did shoot .40, I might be interested in this (which I expect would also work with 10mm). (Seems to work exactly like a Lee bullet sizing die.)
Nobody is leaving brass anymore, BTW. Except a few newbs and Fudds, and that generally gets grabbed while it’s still warm. Nothing but rimfire, steel, and Berdan in the bins at the club.
I think I’ll drop out of Autoloaders for plates this weekend - I can’t feed the Witness, I don’t yet trust the 1911, and the only rounds I have for the P35 are factory which I’m saving for emergencies (and, though the compact upper sis gave me did get the pistol running quite well, it’s just not as accurate as the Witness - few pistols in my experience are).
Tucson Tom sends The Border for Dummies. (Note related sidebar-linked articles.) On a lighter note, he also sends cool-beyond-words Saturn pics.
Via WoG, eyeing this unsurprising episode of Only Oneism, I’m contemplating upgrading my cellphone, which is a bare-bones Tracfone. I like the Tracfone prepaid system so I’ll just get another such, but I want one that takes decent video as well as stills. I’ve been thinking of this for some time - there are times when being able to whip out a cellphone camera, rather than a more obvious Canon A580, would be highly satisfying, and with ever-rising incidents of badgethuggery and usurpation it really could be a life-fortune-and-sacred-honor issue. ...Aaand it’s looking like Tracfone doesn’t offer a video model, or I can’t find one.
I was one of probably several who sent Codrea this recent CCRKBA alert, and in response he sent me this news item and I am enraged beyond the capacity for coherent discourse. Note the last paragraph: "From an officer's safety point of view and a public point of view," [Chief Flynn] said, "we're not going to start with the assumption that someone displaying a handgun is doing it lawfully." I hereby declare that Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn is a bigot, tyrant and traitor, who should at the least be immediately jailed as a proven and confessed menace to human rights.
Looky - I like cats. Really. Including cougars. But ever since the bunny-huggers restricted cougar hunting in various cougar states over the last several years, cougar populations are booming. I've 'blogged on this before. I personally will not hunt cougars for sport, 'cause I'd rather rub their tummies, but I vote against restrictions on hunting large, wide-ranging, rapidly-breeding predators, 'cause I'm not a suicidal moron. ...To which a reader responds: If they could be trained to hang around sources of granola, it would solve two problems at once. Just sayin'... :) -Dude, I think I'd pay to watch that.
2171 - Thursday, 23 April 2009: Corolla hasn’t blown up yet. Still too pooped to change plugs. (Remember I’m typing most of this at work. When I get back, after a full day of product-slinging and a usually-atrocious drive, I sit at my computer and veg.)
Radio news, two anger-making items: A bill to fine drivers $90 for using a cellphone in their cars (I’ve seen cops, revenuers that is, driving down city streets, in uniform, in patrol cars, with grins on their faces and cellphones in their ears - but nooooo, no, they’re the Only Ones professional enough to handle such sophisticated equipment); and current law protecting wolves - if a rancher so much as tries to scare a wolf away, while said wolf is eating said rancher’s valuable livestock, the rancher could be fined up to ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS to satisfy the psychotic whims of the mentally-disconnected bunny-huggers I was smacking over the cougar issue just hours ago. (Something about a bill moving through the legislature to change that though.) This is nanny-state totalitarianism for the sake of outright thievery and the thirst for power.
I suppose this was inevitable. And how long before a bigoted fascist thug like Ed Flynn gets his hands on one to use against us peasants?
Cold fusion again?
For the past month I’ve been getting every other order with the wrong parts, requiring much backing-and-forthing with supervisors and warehousefolk, whose fault it is not.
Seattle GRE weighs in on fascist bigot Flynn.
I repeat, "Where’s your warrant, flatfoot?"
At work I have gumption, at the hovel none. Changed plugs at lunch and vroom, huh. (Yes there was evidence of gunky buildup on the business ends of the plugs, quite likely from leaking coolant before the sealant goop, and/or the goop itself.) Particularly freaky because during the change one of the plug wires separated and I just jammed the terminal back into the rubber cap but it sounds like all four are firing. But now I have to blow $30 or more on wires on principle, sigh.
So I go back into the building and I swipe my employee card at the rent-a-badgethug station and then go to wash my hands, which are of course covered with Corolla, in the restroom right there in the front lobby. And I come out after doing that... and the two-bit wannabe fascists direct me to swipe the card again because of some invisible line on the carpet. Unthinking totalitarian nonsense! Hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool! In more ways than one - you’ve seen them, the kind who couldn’t make it up a flight of stairs under their own power, nor even do so much as intimidate a frisky squirrel, but we’re supposed to feeeaaarr their authoritah. Reeeooowwwwrrrr!!! There’s an alternate, unmanned cardlock entrance and I’m taking it henceforth. A little more walking but I would "walk a mile" to avoid dimwitted authoritarian scum.
([madscience=on] "...Flee, flee before my vengeful army of deadly battle-squirrels...!" [/madscience])
Heinlein was right. But we knew that.
Commentary on... pretty much everything I’ve just ranted about.
...Except the squirrels.
Quote o’ the Day: "To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form." - Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1988
Return drive - VROOM, Wheee. Local auto parts store, replacement wire set $17, encore l'VROOM. Heating issue inconclusive in milder weather, not a problem today. Good product, still have the second bottle. Next step, Sunday maybe, change coolant.
Cruffler sends:
And I recognize the symbol in the middle! Do you?
Late news - due to reports of rounds leaving the range, the club has temporarily disallowed all 300y shooting, and rifle shooting from positions. Reportedly an NRA range tech is on the case. What this means to me is, the May 23rd Garand match is cancelled! :( OTOH I can reschedule my plate match to the usual morning start and won't have to hustle for two matches in one day.
2172 - Friday, 24 April 2009: Vroom. :D
"Reeeooowwwwrrrr".... I am instinctively hostile toward authority, as any true American should be. ("I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience....") As an amateur student of history it is clear to me that rebellion is the very soul of American existence. Our nation was created in one of the greatest acts of insubordination in human experience! Don’t make us prove it.
Related, Quote o' the Day: "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Note AntiCIFTA’s comment, particularly as regards treaties. It made me look it up, and I was worried for a moment but discovered that I had already addressed that too. Unfortunately we’re stuck with the programming bug in the real world.... Yes, Smart Guys Those Founders, nobody’s perfect. -Hey, no responses to my Electoral College question?
ACLU deserter writes book.
Fascist Chief Ed Flynn turns back the clock.
These weak worthless ones - have they no shame? Do they falsify resumés and lie in interviews? Evidently they do just that. Looky, I’m not bashing cripples - remember I worked at a call center where physicality matters a whole lot less and people were doing (or at least trying to do) jobs, using skills. But this job requires some physical ability. Job requirements state one must be able to lift so many pounds! If Project Y is "hot" there is an expectation you will display a sense of urgency, not mosey along at the same unimpressive pace! People should not be given jobs they are not qualified for!
And yes, there we are back at Hussein again.
Whipped up 197 rounds 125gr plated (the last) over 7.0 W231, WSPM, yay Lee Pro 1000 (one is always set for .357, the Load-Master goes from .45ACP to .30-06 in a couple minutes, and the other Pro 1000 is for whatever). Have maybe 600 158gr plated left, and one brick of WSPM and a few trays of various other Small Pistol primers, and a pound of handgun powder goes much further than rifle powder, so I'm okay for .357 for a while - and then I can start casting more wadcutters, at least for racing where terminal ballistics matter less. Several hundred pieces of .45ACP brass primed and ready to load, but nothing to put in them. -Rumor is supply will begin to catch up to demand autumn-like, but who knows.
2173 - Saturday, 25 April 2009: 1st Revolver! Of five. Small turnout this month, not sure why - weather was a bit worse than forecast, and maybe folks are just running out of rounds. In the match finals I beat Goss' rimfire, quite a feat with a revolver, but was knocked out by Breen's CZ variant (SP01).
Brightwater Ventures actually had some UMC M193-equivalent ($13/20) and Winchester white-box M80-equivalent ($20/20), and I think I saw a couple small cases of PMC .223. No primers at all still, little powder. Bi-Mart - no primers at all, near enough to no powder, but I did spend entirely too much on the one and only UMC MegaPack of 9x19mm ($57.89 - I remember when they were introduced, not so long ago, at $37). Sportsman's Warehouse, Even Less than the last time I checked - only a few SA revolvers and high-priced HK pistols on their handgun rack, no primers at all, a few boxes of bulk projectiles but these were for either higher-cost rounds like .44 Magnum or .45 Colt, or obscurities like .38-40 or .38-55.
Conservative webcomicblogthingie.
2174 - Sunday, 26 April 2009: Zzzz.
OAC show, "Military Arms & Accessories" - with the Great Hussein Arms Rush continuing unabated I'm looking more closely for bullet moulds. -Well that was frustrating. No moulds to speak of; many lovely items I would've bought if I weren't trying very hard to control spending. I took no notes but one thing leapt out at me: one tray of recent-production WLP and several of much older CCI550 primers, $6/100. That's too much, even these days.
Chat & show every Sunday 1100PT - rerun of last week.
New bumper sticker:
Via chat Elf Yuri, 100 Days, 100 Mistakes.
Shooting back against pirates! And it worked! WELL DUH!
What the heck is this anyway? The Elves couldn't identify it and I couldn't find it here.
Reader responds, identifying the mystery critter as a coati or coatimundi!
Cruffler sends video of 1:10 scale Saturn V launch!
2175 - Monday, 27 April 2009: Grump. Third Law. At least the Corolla is running well.
Mexican swine flu outbreak. Toldja to close the border. And Hussein... fiddles. Speaking of which, new bumper stickers:
Quote o’ the Day: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." - James Madison -By which he meant the three branches should be separated to act as checks and balances on each other, as opposed to the legislation-by-activist-judges and making-it-up-as-they-go-along we have today. Government must be restrained.
Aaand another. Vegas bookies could give odds.
Whoa-ho! This bears further study!
Jeepers. Bungler-in-Chief. I smell a class-action suit! Emotional trauma! Disturbing the peace on an industrial scale! -Except any settlement would come out of our taxtheft....
Surfed onto this poem. And reached for a tissue.
From the lists:
Speaking of which. -Oooh, just noticed the USURPER sign in the background!
And Cruffler sends Somali Cruise Package. If you had the money, would you pay for that? Of course you would.
And speaking of "threats", the Gadsden pin arrived today! 1"x¾", onto the hat it goes. I R RWE!
2176 - Tuesday, 28 April 2009: Effing commiefornian transplanted drivers, can’t handle a little rain.
Whiskey Tango FOXTROT!? The question is no longer "WTF are you NUTS" but "HOW EFFING NUTS ARE YOU?"! They are trying! To start! A civil war!
I suppose this was inevitable.
Your Tax Dollars at Work! Cops are useless at best. -I bet they still have enough budget for "random" "sobriety" and "seatbelt" checks and routine violations of the 4th Amendment.
Registration always leads to confiscation.
’Toons. Speaking of, great minds think alike.
2177 - Wednesday, 29 April 2009: Morning sucks.
Milwaukee GRE displays insight on the bigot thug police chief.
Vote.
Innnnteresting. System is broke, after all.
Finally finished RX for Chaos, good vintage stuff that ages quite well indeed, and has more than a couple points of relevance to today’s Culture Wars. Back to Hanson’s Carnage and Culture for a while I guess but the latest Weber (Storm from the Shadows, Harrington) should come through at any moment. -Aaand there it is, if I can reach the library in time. (Nope.)
Reader sends:
Cruffler sends very un-PC video.
2178 - Thursday, 30 April 2009: Wait - Sylar is playing Spock? How’s that gonna work?
Hal Colebatch (of, among other things, the Man-Kzin Wars saga) warns us. Encore l’Sink the Island.
Encore l’study.
In the news:
Legislation to keep surplus brass available to us peasants.
Montana clarifies Stand-Your-Ground.
Spend as I say, not as I spend.
Crooked anti-gun cops. But I repeat myself.
Austin GRE illuminates VPC.
Well crap. Some very hard decisions ahead, on both sides of the barricades. Choose a side.
(...No wonder they cancelled Jericho....)
Even more sick perverted we-know-better-than-you-lowly-peasants cops. Note comments. Dueling should never have been outlawed.
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