Semi-Education vs. Auto-Propaganda

h/t  ENDO

Real experts transfer REAL knowledge. Need to explain the diff between semi-auto and full-auto?
Show the embedded vid.
Vid would be valuable for the education of our leaders, self-professed expert elites, useful idiots.



However, seems to me, that the pols pushing for American disarmament really prefer misinformation.
Like some guy said awhile back ... Ignorance is Strength

Scope mounting tutorial

I ♥ my innernetzwebtube!
Excellent primer on mounting your rifle scope properly. Thanks to the NSSF.




Lotsa good vids uploaded at the link.

Mailbox mystery ...

Dropped into the mail this morn ...
A solicitation to enroll in a Utah CCW class.

No big deal. Get these all the time.
So whats the mystery?
The sender was my local Harley Davidson dealer.
Not a gun shop. Not a gun rights organization.
A motorcycle dealer.

Interesting, eh?
Winning?

That there is some mighty testicular marketing.

h/t Hornady.

In preparation for F-Class matches, I've dusted off the reloading bench. Let's see, I've got some of these old Hornady VMax, moly coated, 55 grain, .223 pills to load up. Got some load data. They've been sweet at the 100 yard range. Now, how much will that load drop on it's trip to the 300 yard bullseye? Well, Hodgdon has a nifty ballistics calculator online. But, Cheese, now I need the ballistic coefficient of that there boolit!

Used to be, ya better have a shelf of reloading manuals. Then came the internetwebtubes.
Now by surfing through a handful of manufacturers sites, perhaps a shooting forum or two, there's very few obscure, arcane bits of info that can't be dug up.

http://www.youtube.com/hornadymanufacturing

 So, in the pursuit of external ballistics, I stumble across the youtube video above. They feature some vids of hunting. With a heavy metal soundtrack. Not the stalk. Not the sitting in a stand. More of the "where the critter meets the lead" variety. Terminal Ballistics.

Not for the squeamish, terminal ballistics video is ... ummm ... graphic. Flying gophers, somersaulting coyotes. Even a damn charging elephant. That's some big money safari hunting there.

http://www.youtube.com/hornadymanufacturing

Gotta say, the elephant hunting clip, reminded me of this old, under-rated Clint Eastwood movie more than anything else.

White Hunter Black Heart

All I wanna do is nail the X-ring.

FCC disclaimer; Author received no compensation for the fawning product placement. Not that I wouldn't be pleased if a case of bullets appeared on the front porch. Just sayin'.

Take a quick inventory ...

Dropped into my email yesterday ... a heads up.

Now, I understand that this is a note from a retailer, looking to boost sales.
But I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is right on the mark regarding upcoming shortages.

Happiness is a belt-fed ...

Another stunning sale item at OOW

Save over $2400!

Gee ... I don't have any belt fed arms in the armoire

Sellin' like Hotcakes. $3,600 Hotcakes.

Ohio Ordnance Works has a 40 day sales promotion going on. Each day something different.
Today's special was received in my email before 5:30 a.m.

As of 13:50 CST, they were sold out. Now granted, quantities were limited. Email said only 15 available. Graphic said 10. Whichevah! Either way, considering the price point, that's brisk.

Want ... Not need

h/t The Firearm Blog

Chiappa Arms 1887 T-series 12 gauge

Handy. Deadly. Terminator-y
Had a pistol grip on my Mossberg 590 for a short while. It's all good til it comes to the shootin' part. Mebbe my wrists are just too girly-like and sensitive ... but 3" 12 gauge rounds are a bit punishing with a pistol grip. Aiming? Ummm ... nevermind. Beyond contact range? Doesn't appear to even have a bead on the tube.

Much mo' practical model

If'n I just had to have an antiquated action 12 gauge, I'd take the full stock version. Appears to even have  a bead for sighting!

Cowboy Biker Mounted Shooting Association

Besides ... the pistol grip version is incomplete without the Harley Davidson Fat Boy.

Avarice List

Just posted to the list ...
Sub-head; "Nice to have"

Ohio Ordnance Works, Inc.

OOW M240 SLR

 

American Rifleman article planted the seed.
Took a quick surf to the manufacturers site. Lo and Behold!
Why in the world settle for one $13,500 rifle when a $3,000 dual mount is offered?

This setup? $30,000 out the door.

 I mean, ya might as well double down, right?

Oh, oh, oh ... I'll need one of these too!

OOW 1918 A3; MSRP $4,000

Tune in ... Turn on ... Drop out.

The title was a mantra of the hippies. Where have all the hippies gone?

Finally tuned into Mr. Codrea's new "radio" show. Hooked up to the link for Monday Show (heart you internetz!). Lead in sounded excellent. The show has high production values. Yay. Nothin' worse than trying to listen to something that sounds like it's being broadcast from the bottom of a garbage can. No ... this sounds good.

Dave starts with introductions of the topics at hand, and it all sounds good.
I'm a lissenin' ... thinking this is gonna be soooo cool.

Dave gets to the end of his first segment. His final tease is; "Coming up later in the show, Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers, is going to tell us why disobeying orders can be the patriotic thing to do." This is The War on Guns, notes from the resistance, join the resistance..."

As God is my witness ... The very first commercial, after the musical bumper of Johnny Cash singing "No, I won't back down ..."

No ... HE won't back down

"Attention Parents ... if your son is 11 to 17 years old, and exhibits oppositional or defiant behavior patterns,  we will offer you our best selling child behavior program, "The Total Transformation" for free! As part of a national market research project. By sending in your results, you'll get our $300 program for free! Call Now! Repeat 800 number 3x for effect!

Total Transformation ... Totalitarian ... In a good way!

My subconcious, it tripped. I mean there it was just chugging along, then one foot tangled with t'other, and BLAM! Face-plant on the cee-ment.

I had to stop the feed and rewind (heart you internetz!).
The juxtaposition! It's delicious!

My subconcious makes excuses for it's clumsiness. How can programming thoroughly espousing resistance, carry advertizing for "programs" freely promoting  to wipe resistance out in your progeny?!

I dunno. Mebbe, like the "age of consent" 11-17 years olds haven't reached the legal age of bellicosity.

Still like the show.
Subconcious last seen stumblin' around the ratsnest, somewhere around here.

How'd YOU become a Gunnie?

Well, Jennifer, thanks for asking.
Not sure. Partly just by being born American I s'pose.

Dad had a 12 gauge. He went pheasant hunting a couple times a season. I got to tramp along at his side.
His pistols were "never touch" little pocket semi's. Never did shoot those.

In the early 60's, especially before the GCA of '68, guns weren't demonized.
Aisles of Toys r Us looked like plasticized gun shops.

Dolls for boys!?

TV had a plethora of Westerns, Bonanza, Have Gun Will Travel (Paladin), Death Valley Days, The Rifleman (my fave!), Rawhide, Wanted Dead or Alive.
Oddly enough, despite all this cultural ingraining, I've never owned a traditional SA Cowboy gun.
Uncle Terry somehow sent me a LAWS rocket tube from 'Nam.

I ruled the block when it was time to play army.

First gun: Crosman BB rifle, modeled after a M1 Carbine.

Best Christmas Gift  EVAH!

 I was about 12. Santa left it under the tree for Christmas morning. Not sure I even opened any other presents.
First subscription of my own at 13 years old; Outdoor Life.
Jack O'Conner, sparked an interest in rifles. Years of exposure in popular culture, reading years of "outdoors" magazines built up a powerful, unfulfilled hoplomania. Living in the 'burbs of Chicago, left little room for my disease to progress.

Enter Army. Shoot an honest-to-God M16 in basic. Think over the course of several days training, we got to shoot maybe, maybe 100 rounds max. Only qualified as "marksman". Earned "sharpshooter" with grenade tossing though!
Somewhere in there, got my F.O.I.D., Illinois's solution to keeping guns out of the wrong hands.

Discharge pay from Army was $400 and change. In '79, that was just enough to purchase a brand new 4" Colt Python.

 Sold to me by a high school buddy working the counter at Chucks Guns Shop.

Anyways, thats how it started. We don't have time now to talk about the years of American Handgunner subscriptions, or traveling across state lines in the family mini-van, rear seats removed to hold guns 'n gear, to try and put half-inch holes in paper from far, far away.
My name is Art. I am a shooter