National Anthems For Sale

You got a good native-country song? Something that really resonates?
One that makes you proud of your history? One that was written by a famous figure in the past? A glorious song of wars fought-hard, and battles won, battles that were paid-for in blood? All the hardship and suffering that stirs you, and embodies the noble soul and essence of your native land?? Something that maybe people lately have gotten lax and condescending about, but still raises their spirits and national ardor*?

How about We re-write your old-country song to our own words and language, change a few things - sing it in English?

It will still sound like the old anthem-thing, but that was old and we need to change it so it addresses our modern-day needs and wants. That would be bitchin' kewl (and so postmodern), right?

Somebody should look into the music-rights. Could make a bundle on it. Like Michael Jackson owning the Beatles.

~Janna ganna manna, dum maro dum...~

Yeh right, I thought so.

*Trick question -- does anybody know what ardor means?

Ye olde Crustaceous Cosmolinicus.

Good Lord! This thing is wonderful crunchy!

That means it's been sitting still for a long time. I can do the wood-cleaning, that's fun. They say you can't polish a turd, but this is nothing of the sort, it's gonna look great when I'm done. But right now it's all crusty.
A 3-43 Underwood Barrel with a flaming bomb, bright inside with nice grooves.

A early milled type-II rear sight with a H in a shield, a Trimble-Nurseryland stock that shows evidence of the Ogden Arsenal re-work, all covered in wonderful crusty stuff - it's early I-cut, with an Underwood diagonal-diamond buttplate.

it's obviously been re-arsenaled but it doesn't look used much since - just crusty. Maybe I have a name for her, Crusty The Carbine.
At least for now.
There's more to be discovered, as I take it apart and clean off the years of gunk.
I love the smell of cosmoline in the morning.

UPDATE: Good-grief, I hate the smell of penetrating oil in the morning. The recoil-plate screw is in rigor-mortis and soaking in Liquid Wrench - which seems to do nothing. The head is slowly being eroded by my screwdriver... Argh!

Watching brass stretch...

Ok so this can be like watching paint dry...it's not runway models after all.

These gleaming copper-clad little beauties are 168-grain Nosler Custom Competitions wrapped in a runway sheath of Lake City '66 brass under which I'm gonna light a fire with 46.5 grains of slinky-chopped H4895 using a bold Remington Number 9‎½ Large Rifle primer. Oh-La-La!
A little research lead me to this load, it's supposed to accurate.

Americans for Better Immigration

From Kasey we get an important pointer that directs us and questions: Want to know how your congressional representatives have voted on various immigration bills?
(I kinda figure I already DO know, because they always shuffle along like such a bunch of useless brain-dead Zombific Leftwing lock-step knee-kerk Collectivists... FrANKenFf-f-feinstein and BoxofRocks)
Americans for Better Immigration are keeping an immigration report card for each member of Congress. Better yet, they have a list of all senators, members of the House of Representatives and governors who are up for re-election this year.

Click Here to see Immigration Report Cards


Click Here to See Candidates


I encourage my small band of hearty readers in the Gringosphere to spread the word about the above website and place these banners and links on their own. The code-stuff for using them can be easily found at: http://numbersusa.com/bannerkit.html

Happy Birthday, Dear!

Screw the hippies and their hijacked earth-day, it's my wife's birthday, dammit!

Match results: April

Not too poorly, for me anyhow - but I need to shoot better to score as a Sharpshooter (80% to 89%/400 thru 449) so the last match-listing was a temporary clerical error in my favor.

The offhand kinda sucked, except for the X and three eights in the lower quadrant there - but hey, it's practically a group! 73-1X


The rapids went well. Rapid Sitting with this string of 9's marching across the top and everything grouped a bit high was way-cool! It's starting to look like groups instead of random strikes. 85


Rapid Prone with the concentration in and across the black was also a good sign. 85-1X


Slow Prone saw me toss away too many outside the 7-ring... 152-1X
Total 395 3-X - I believe the handloads are working to do their part.

Carnival 55 -- it's like Brazil 66, only cooler!

Gullyborg delivers the news. Ithaca's Back!   Ithaca's Back!   And
Baboon Pirates does good with the K-31.
Lots of good stuff!
Oh yeh, join up.   Like one guys says, they do a lot more good than the ACLU.   I'm the NRA.   My Grandfather was a Life Member.   His legacy was my inheritance, and that became my destiny.

BAG-Day

Hoping to forstall another rain-out, I'm playing this photo-card to usher in clear conditions. In the center it is green from the rains of March and April, and on the edges it's the dry-brown of May. The bright blue springtime sky will linger a while before it turns into the hazy, steel-plate sky of Summer.
It rained anyhow, but left enough gaps for us to shoot.

And even with the rain I shot really good - for me anyhow. A 395 with a couple X's, one even offhand when it ws raining! I hurried and tried to shoot between the drops. Heh. Damn if I hadn't dropped that one miss, the five extra would have made 400 - my goal.

So we get to the BAG-day purchase.

A '43 National Postal Meter.


Aaron has a Frappr-mapper thing if you want to join in.

Happy Easter!

To all my peeps, Scharffen Berger!

Yeh yeh, I know it's early - and the Peeps aren't armed like they should be.

Here's my Buy-A-Gun-Day hint:

Bear Flag League - It's Miller Time, it's Roundup time!

A lot of Bloggers around the U.S. are not particularly fond of California, particularly since they believe "we" have foisted upon them the likes of such un-hinged trollettes as Feinstein, Boxer, and Pelosi - Macbeth's own demonically posessed three-witches of politics. (To be fair, Boxer moved out here from Brooklyn.)
However there's more to it than that, as Miller's Time presents a huge roundup of alternative, outside-the-box thinking, far from the mind-numbing platitudes of conventional Liberal pseudo-wisdom and just plain Liberal drivel.
It's a big undertaking.

I am currently enjoying my first Spring Break as a teacher, and since the weather here sucks I decided to torture myself with a roundup of the Bear Flag League. There are currently 116 active members in the League and 36 members who have either shut down their site or have not posted in a long time.

There are some interesting people in the League, including Tammy Bruce and The Jawa Report, so go check it out.

Late for the Carnival!

Damn they got some cool stuff on at #54! While I've been waffling on BAG, the World of Cordite has not been idle...

Tiki - Quasi Ethnography in Ceramics

During the previous rainy weekends I finally finished putting up some shelves. The wooden carving among the mugs is reportedly Maori from New Zealand. The eyes are inset mother-of-pearl.


There are three more shelves, with more mugs and the occasional carving. We also hung some framed pictures, old menus from the S.S. Matsonia and the S.S. Luraline that plied the Pacific route, between San Francisco and Honolulu in 1959.

We got all this stuff at junk-shops, and some of the mugs off eBay. The frames cost as much as the old menus.

Gun-show blues

Didn't get much traction at the show, at least not enough to unclench the fist I had wrapped around my money - but at the door I met some NRA guys with a recruiting table and re-upped my membership, thus gaining free entry to the show and saving $8 - call me a tightwad if you must.
I was somewhat surprised at the absence of beef-jerky vendors, painted Russian stacking-dolls, and other non-gun enterprises - but there were some jewelry Ladies - I guess the organizers can't properly say "No" to a lady.
There were only a few M1-Carbines to see scattered around the hall, a Winchester with a pricetag of $1,300 in one corner, an Inland at $950 in another, and lying there like a dead fish on a plank was a commercial Plainfield (or something) with no price and a horrible shiny yellowish-brown stock. I just can't get worked up over the commercial ones, except maybe for one of these Auto-Ordnance replicas. In the end there were no National Postal Meter carbines that might have threatened the death-grip on my cash.
Among the smelly old web-belt militaria and $32 M8 bayonet sheaths I saw a fairly nice little Colt 1903 for $450, and off to one side there was a guy with a bunch of gorgeous 1911A1s under glass - including a US&S! He had his collector's business cards (which I didn't take) and inside the case was a notice of his interest in buying - I didn't see any pricetags on the pistols so I assumed it was a not-for-sale display of his collection, and I didn't have any leads for him to follow so I cruised on by.
Among the civilian rifles and shotguns I spied a beautiful old 16-gauge Model 12 for $600 with truly gorgeous bluing and a very nice stock - but I have a hard time convincing myself to buy a(nother) shotgun, when I haven't even taken Grandpa's old A-5 Light Twelve out for exercise. Oh well.


There were some black-rifle uppers in carbine form, and some fine double-guns with pricetags beyond my reach, and here and there some Winchester Model 1890's showing a lot of age in .22-short and other .22-calibers - one with a beautiful curly-maple stock.
I left empty-handed but without regrets.

Hey - where's my manners?! I just noticed that I left-off Kirk, at Fun Turns to Tragedy!!! from my blogroll?? Let's fix that right now.


UPDATE: Hey again, I left-off Josh at South Park Pundit - what's up with this blog, dammit!?

Buy A Gun Day

Aaron reminds us that it's time to make a decision...

...only I'm having a hard time. I keep going to Simpsons here and looking at M1-Carbines, and then I think I want a Colt 1903, or a CA-legal AR... Damn.

Buy A Gun for America. Do it in honor and memoriam of the poor benighted citizens of San Francisco who in a spastic fit of delusion voted 58-to-42 percent for Proposition-H which says "guns are bad" and should therefore be outlawed - the ban taking effect on April 1st of 2006.
Do it for the San Francisco city supervisors who voted unanimously on 03/14/06 to "approve penalties for sales, manufacturing, distribution and possession of handguns within the city limits and to place the ordinance in the police code.
The penalties were proposed by Mayor Gavin Newsom. It was the first reading of the proposed measure.
With the board's approval, the sale, distribution, transfer, manufacture or possession of a handgun within city limits will count as a misdemeanor and the penalties for violating the ordinance will be a fine of up to $1,000 and up to six months in county jail, or both."
This from a City Leadership that also voted to be utterly non-compliant with Federal law regarding Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, and follows the lead of Communist and Workers World Party bozo-Bolshevik front-organization, "A.N.S.W.E.R." - they need our prayers.

Maybe the one constructive thing I bought recently is a(nother) CA DOJ-certified safe, thus making room for more future purchases.



UPDATE: Holy-moly, there's a Gun Show in town! This weekend! (For all you guys who have gun-shows every weekend or in neighboring states easily accessable, that sure as hell aint the case around here.) This may be a solution to my B.A.G.-Day shopping-problems...

It's still raining...

Welcome to April - I re-did some of Blogrolling in my sidebar, welcome to some GunBloggers that I had missed, yet read nearly daily, Alphecca and The Beagle Express, and the great Xavier Thoughts, Nurse with a Gun. Update: Hey why not this Fugger Nutter guy too?

Question #2 is; Why aren't the Media talking about another El Niño year (or La Niña)? Because they're busy ramping-up the Global Warming hysteria and PowerPoint slide-show. As far as I can tell, the supposed "consensus" of scientific thought that the Media seeks to publically project is just another leg in the attack that allows them to redirect their piecemeal, focus-of-FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) following Katrina, onto the Administration.
Oh well, as the sun sinks in the soggy West, so do the last vestiges of hope for what was once known as Journalism.

Palma Match Kings

On a dreary gray and cold day with little else to recommend it, I set to loading 49.5 grains of H4895 in my prepped-and-primed brass, topping it with a 155-grain Sierra Palma Match.

I don't know that the Palma Match aura will especially help me at only 200 yards - Palma shooters begin at 800 yards.

The first stage is two sighting shots and 15 shots for record per shooter at 800 yards. The second stage is two sighters and 15 shots for record at 900 yards per shooter. The third stage is two sighters and 15 shots for record at 1000 yards per shooter.

Because of the extreme distance, Palma shooters aim at a six-foot square target with a 20 inch 10-Ring that is surrounded by an "aiming black" circle of 44 inches and includes the 9 and 8 ring. "A possible score of 150 points can be achieved by each team member in each stage of fire." They use some wicked-weird rifles that must be pretty special and accurate for their intended purpose. Warner's awesome #2 sights are $495.
Kewl!
The 155-grain Palma Match bullets were on sale for slightly less than the 150-grain Match-Kings and so I wanted to see how they work. When I run out I'll go to the Nosler Custom Competition Factory 2nds 168-grain boat-tail hollowpoints. They supposedly have cosmetic imperfections - but having looked closely there's nothing that it seems would affect the flight-path. Maybe they're trying to cut-into sales, they're perhaps best on-line bullet bargain in the bunch. I see they now have 155 grain bullets - 100 for $11.95 - if these Sierra 155-grainers shoot well I'll have to try the Nosler seconds also.

Carnival of Cordite #53

Gullyborg has once again done an outstanding job of collecting the most cordtiefully delightful selection of gunblogs to grace the web. Go check it out!