Tinselgrad Beclowns Itself

A nasty little man who committed the indefensible - drugging, rape and buggery, and then ran away to live in luxury - is being defended by shiny-brow'd slack-jawed cretins and drooling idiots in hair&makeup.  Their knee-jerk reflexivity is Pavlovian and comes straight from the lizard-brain.

South Korean M1 Garands and M1 Carbines Coming Home

H/T Fatwhiteman

South Korea planning sale of 86,000 Garand rifles to US citizens

"South Korea's defence ministry has announced plans to sell up to 86,000 M1 Garand rifles to gun enthusiasts and collectors in the United States. Along with a reported 22,000 M1 carbine rifles, the total value of firearms for sale exceeds $100 million."

86,000 + 22,00 = 108,000 - Yippie!  But will that include ammo, please?

Job: Astro-Minister: "Spokespeople who can wear Clerical Uniforms."

Health Care for America Now (HCAN), backed by a coalition of Labor Unions and liberal groups includin radical left-wing activist group ACORN and George Soros' own MoveOn.org, has organized protests to target EEVIL Insurance Companies and has drafted a plan of attack.  The demonstrations are described as part of its, "insurance enemies project."  Enemies, quite - how... Nixonian of them.

HCAN designed the demonstrations set for Tuesday to "help shape new national narrative around the national health care debate" by vilifying insurance companies, according to the field plan.  

It's the Narrative - still with them, always Teh Narrative - and Big Anybody is Evil - like with hand-puppets (or sockpuppets), so the audience can tell...

Another tactic described in the document is "vigils featuring faith leaders [or] clergy" who visits insurance company office with the demand. For props, it suggest using "spokespeople who can wear clerical uniforms." 

"Lookin' good there Pastroturf  Johnson!  Nice Collar there, Moveonsignior!  Hows things at The Little Acorn Bible School?  Got many kids working the streets then?"

The document, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, details specific talking points, tactics, props and strategies to stage the protests. It lists goals that include action that "mobilizes our base by animating existing anger about private insurers."

Git 'em FIRED up!  Hallaluja It's a REVIVAL!!  Bring your plastic pitchforks to the astroturf bonfire!

It directs the protesters to "escalate by increasing the involvement of congregations to take small actions; hosting more vigils that invite the insurance companies to repent."  

Congregations of Activists, we demand you REPENT!!

Is this a religious movement or what?  Will any outspoken Liberal Atheists object to the use of Religion in this way?  Anybody?

~ crickets ~

Shiny Happy Chamber

Cleans up nice.

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I'd like to thank the Gunblogger Academy...

This year's Gunblogger's Rendezvous was particularly enhanced by some high-profile sponsors and attendees including Heller-Hero Alan Gura, the lovely and talented Rachel Parsons from the NRA, The NSSF's own Bill Brassard , Super-'Splodey Major Chuck Ziegenfuss of Valor IT, Quick Cal from CowboyFastDrawAssociation, the Cheaper Than Dirt blog also known as The Shooter’s Log blogger (hit that link multiple times, please), and Brian from Lucky Gunner ammo who helped out in the Soldier's Angels Pay-Pal Crisis, the super folks at Crimson Trace  who donated a set of laser-grips (and I got a hat!), Springfield Armory, and the fabulous folks at Para USA  for delicious GUNS!!  Yay!
Also a special thanks to Mr. Completely for all his hard work, herding cats like us.  Yowr!

UPDATE: H/T to Reasonablenut - Kudos and Thanks also go to the Western Nevada Pistol League a practical pistol shooting club, who provided the steel for the pistol match that was so much fun!

Ammo Ban and Gun Show Ban - Contact Arnold

On Friday, September 11, the California Assembly passed Assembly Bill 962 . AB962 now joins Senate Bill 585 on the desk of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) where they await his consideration.

AB962 requires individuals purchasing ammunition to:

    Be fingerprinted and registered at the time of sale
    Dealers keep permanent records of ammo sales
    Make them available for inspection by the Ca. DOJ
    Mail order ammunition sales are prohibited
    Ammo retailers will have to store ammo away from purchasers

SB585 would ban gun and ammo sales at the Cow Palace in Daly City, just outside of Frisco. This is clearly a first step in banning gun shows on all publicly-owned property in the state.

Please contact Governor Schwarzenegger today and respectfully urge him to veto AB962 and SB585. The Governor can be reached by phone at 916-445-2841 or via fax at 916-558-3160. To email Governor Schwarzenegger, please visit http://gov.ca.gov/interact

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I sent an email to the Governator yesterday. Feel free to copy and use it. Make sure you click the "Con" button before you click "Send".

Governor Schwarzenegger,

I urge you to veto Assembly Bill 962 and Senate Bill 585 which respectively are an ammunition ban and a ban on gun shows at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca.

Please follow through on your warnings to the Assembly and Senate that you wiil veto all bills that do not address California's real and serious problems, such as the state budget, energy, water supplies.  Ammunition sales are already illegal for felons and the right to free assembly is protected by the 1st Amendment. 

Both of these bills are frivolous and expensive. One creates a gigantic burden on the Justice Department and the other will bring about expensive litigation that the State will lose - and neither do anything to address the substantive, pressing needs of Californians - they should both be vetoed.

Thank you for your time,

****  **********
*********, CA

Life long resident of California since 195*.

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H/T - NRA:ILA

Major Chuck and the Magic Laptop

Chuck and a Project Valour IT netbook.  With a headphone mic and voice-control software (Dragon Naturally Speaking) it allows The Wounded to maintain connection with the rest of the world during healing - there's no isolation downtime or Facebook lapse.  Also Wii whole-body game systems create a motivated, physical recovery as The Wounded retain their competitive edge playing against each other in games that last longer and don't seem like physical therapy.  Finally GPS helps The Wounded (often with traumatic brain injury) to locate themselves and find a destination without the unfamiliarity and trouble that short-term memory loss can induce.  It's a win-win for confidence and independence when The Wounded can find their way across town to a doctor's appointment by themselves.

I believe the GunBloggerRendezvous raised over $5,000 UPDATE $6,000

UPDATE-UPDATE: $8243.80

which will help purchase a goodly number of laptops.

wOOT!

Steel Challenge

Derek got a nice picture of a spent case ejecting during the first Stage of the Mini Steel Challenge. My best time there was 7:04 (worst was 12:57). I believe I should not be leaning back like that, bad form, all the cool guys and girls lean into it.  I had practiced on Friday (with about 100 rounds) feeling where the trigger link-reset was when I held the trigger back, but in the excitement it was hard to keep that in mind.
The next stage had bigger plates and I went a bit faster scoring a 5:11 (while throwing-out a 10:56). That was when I surprised myself by remembering to do the link-reset-bang!, and I hit the second plate so quickly I almost stopped to admire my handiwork! Oops, keep going!!  I decided (was advised by Uncle) to use (and keep) the Galco holster (left) with the plastic tuck-in thing and pass on the Gould & Goodrich (right) - maybe I'll offer it up to a needy Blogger, it fits a P226 (I think, as indicated on the back with the stamping "226".)
They're both used, from someone else's Box-O'-Holsters, so no big deal.

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Nevada Shoothouse

I anticipated rattlesnakes but saw none - or at least nobody said anything if they did.
We didn't run the shoothouse, it was dark and a bit scary inside - like an old abduction van, and held together by a construction technique I had not seen before: wire wrapping and big staples. After a quick look I stepped back into the sunlight. They do things different in the Wild West.

What I learned at GBR-IV - Double-Trouble

Pulling both triggers on the thumb-cocker 12-guage coach-gun simultaneously while only wearing a t-shirt because of the hot weather can lead to a physical and visual reminder. It's not something I did myself, but I came pretty close with the K-31's steel butt-plate. Actually I do have a pretty good blue-spot now, but that one's Uncle's.

Normally I wear a Creedmoor shooting coat that provides a secure shoulder rest and the stiff Cordura Nylon fabric adds a fair amount of structure - but I didn't bring it this time.
So I snuggled up close and tried to pull the rifle into my shoulder tightly, padding the forearm with my shooting glove on the block of wood, and with a sweatshirt between my bench-elbow and the concrete top so it wouldn't bounce hard.
Still I got a good thump in return, much greater than if I had been wearing my shooting coat, and I took my time shooting. After a couple cease-fires, and a box of GP-11 and some loose-loads I had laying around, I switched to the Sig.

UPDATE: The thumping wasn't too bad, it was just in the wrong place and I wasn't set-up well on the bench.

Bullet Blight and the Dirty Chamber

The Sig started to graunch-up in the last string and upon closer examination of what was going up through the dirty feed-ramp the pestilence of Bullet-Blight was noticed. The Winchester white-box from Wal-Mart had failed me, so I did a quick selection of what better self-launchers I could paw through and thumb into a magazine and got me a do-over that was the throw-out time of 22.55 seconds - since the malfing continued.
Not being much of a pistolero there's another thing that I get now, it's the same reason some people buy a tub of Liquid Drench into which they dunk the dirty feelthy gun - despite the chrome chamber and bore this thing is a skunk after 250-plus rounds! Just to illustrate the differences are before and after pics: Also my buddy Mike who owns and carries one of these and shoots it suggests that a little lube on the frame rails might help. I did have some WWII Lubriplate along for the ride but my big Bottle-O'-Hoppes was missing from the range bag (sorry Sebastian!). In the end our day at the facility was over and I was happy to get off my best run of 2.96 on the final stage, which was a straightforward five-shots as fast as you could go from shooter-ready at a single-plate. Practicing finding the trigger Link-and-Reset on Friday really helped, that is when when I could remember to do it.


UPDATE: I've never shot so many rounds through the pistol before, so I can't say whether the un-clean condition was simply from a whole lotta rounds, or the Winchester White Box, because 50 of the 250+ rounds total were Blazer from the day before and I didn't pay attention to the state of cleanliness.

GBR-IV

After 200-some rounds my Sig is freakin' filthy. I was not the slowest at Steel, which is real fun to shoot and easy to miss, but real fun to shoot - until you get some ammo that maybe survived Katrina and is growing some brass-eating fungus ALIVE thing that crunches in the chamber like granola. So you practice malfunction drills while the timer ticks down...
More later.

What to Bring?

The Gunblogger's Rendezvous is in a few days and I don't know what to bring to Show-and-Tell, and to shoot later. It's not like I've got a lot of selection anyhow, but why duplicate last year's efforts?
Stuff I haven't brought before are the '44 Swiss K-31 for which a few boxes of GP-11 remain.
The '44 Match Garand but I'd need to load-up some ammo.
The nowadays Match AR - which haz ammo.
There's Grandpa's '54 Browning A5 Light-Twelve - and a big box of 7-1/2 oz. 3-dram sport loads - that might be fun.
Plenty of .45 acp and the Sig P220.
I dunno...

Scoville and Risdon and More

I have two perfect-working WWII USGI magazines for the '43 Colt 1911A1 - a Scoville and Colt-Risdon, and a couple with which I'm less certain about, a good Kimber (Chip McCormick?), and a fake two-tone stovepipe goober.
The uncertain ones have the markings, "Colt .45 Auto" but are otherwise of unknown origin. Some sources suggested, "Vietnam, man!" while others said "Whatever, man."
Now that I've been on the shopping spree for the Sig I'm considering doubling up on the Colt too. I'd like to get more WWII stuff but the prices are as collectibles now starting around $50 - way more expensive a Wilson or a MecGar or a cut-from-billet Les Baer...and I don't know which ones to get. I'm thinking 7-rounders and no plastic base-pad, because Lew said so in a column.

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For a more incisive post on magazines and huge trophy-wall of collective participating opinions and comments, Tam has a post, "How Many Magazines is Enough?" that adds more value than I possibly could.

Klang! Klang! Klang! Goes the Trolly...

...Vroom! Vroom! Vroom! goes the bus.

Thump! Thump! Thump! goes the Commie,

After another goon bites the dust.

See ya, Van...

That Big-Tent of the Administration's sure has become an even bigger bus. But it might indicate the pathway for getting rid of all these Czars, Tsars, Ceasars and Kaisers that the fecund politics of Obamalot has produced.

Seven of Eight

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Seven sticks of eight ball, baked in a Sig - makes 56 at hand. Four and a half dozen-something.

Czar, Tsar, Kaiser, Caesar...

It's the same word. Obama has 33 little tin-helmet marching Kaisers. He has his Caesars and his Tsars - an Energy Tsar, a Kaiser for Cars, an Afghan Caesar, and a Border Kaiser (sounds like a dog). A Kalifonrischen Wasserkaiser, a Central Region Caesar, and a Health Kaiser (isn't that backwards?). There's a Terror Tsar, a Sudan Caesar, a Science Czar, and a nutty Green Jobs Caesar (sounds like a salad).
That's way too many for coincidence alone, such a padding of the royal menagerie. It's almost like California with all its paid Committees and Studies, populated by friends and relatives of the Study-maker and Committee-chair.
Sad really, make-work jobs for some Americans.

Obamacare Dental Implants?

Would they just give you ice-cream (and ibuprofen?), and tell you to move along now? Would they host a panel to decide whether you really need that costly bicuspid, after all you already have one - two is a luxury! Would the co-op insurance cover the meds?
Taking care of the post-surgical Patient means counting the minutes of the icepack, warming and testing the chicken broth, tracking the antibiotic administration, and preparing salt-water flushes to cleanse the mouth of blood and guck. Loads of fun, but what else do I have to do?

Go Navy!

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A couple weekends ago we were up in Alameda for an overnight and stayed at this pretty Marina. The island-town is a bit lost since they shut down the Naval Air Station and all the jobs went away. It's still scenic in areas, with trendy and spendy dining spots - and hippies, and a lot of neat old Victorian houses. And in some parts an equal or greater number of ramshackle dilapidated ones.
What remains as a tourist attraction besides the quaint downtown is the U.S.S. Hornet anchored off the Navy pier, and so we went to check it out. It reminded me of a trip forty years ago when I was eleven and we went aboard the U.S.S. Ranger - which was quite a bit bigger and impressive simply because of that, but also because we steamed out of the Golden Gate and the sailors and marines showed-off by launching and landing lots of planes, and conducting strafing runs and bomb runs with live ordnance to impress the Family Day attendees. Going up and down in the massive elevator was a stomach-in-the-throat blast! Woot!!
This time I was impressed by the scale of things differently in the sense of, "Oh Lord Thy Ocean is so Vast and my Boat is so Small." How Jimmy Doolittle launched B-24 Mitchell's off this thing (actually the earlier thing but the same size) in rainy, heavy seas is un-freaking believable. Still it was big enough to pick up the Apollo astronauts and park them in an Airstream trailer on the hanger deck for a few days so the Moon-cooties would diminish.
One thing I did notice from the Bridge was the sight-picture.
Using a theodolite-like thing for tracking their geographical position they have a nice 360° view of the Bay Area, starting with the Campanile at Berkeley and moving right around. I looked down at the flight-deck's 5-inch shore gun battery and thought, "Whoa, if you can see it you can hit it!"
No wonder the Hippies are trying to keep the U.S.S. Iowa cloaked in mothballs up in Suisun Bay, instead of as a live, hippie-threatening museum down in Vallejo. Its bridge deck has got to be taller and with a better view of Berkeley - and no wonder the Bolsheviks though that to have the battleship Potemkin was a crucial asset.
Navy guns have a commanding shore presence.
I also noticed a couple of these hanging from a ship berthed nearby and thought wow, that's kinda like what Capt. Philips shared with the Somali pirates whom the SEALS took care of...