Weer'd World

Long, but I think worth your time.

I would say the best description of the piece is “Balanced”. It starts out with Knob Creek, and doing a good job at showing the good-natured, family-oriented, and lawful nature of the Shooting culture, as well as gun show people. Also they were smart to add in the cost and paperwork discussion of owning Full-auto weaponry. Also while there was a bunch bullshit about .50 BMG rounds, which was shameful, It was nice that they didn’t track down the one guy at the show who sells WWII Vintage uniforms…and then skip over the French, Italian, American, and Portuguese uniforms, and focus on the Swastika Armbands and flags of the German surplus, or zoom in on the guy who sells sundry books from, detail stripping the 1911, making canned food, history of the Mauser Bolt action, and focus on the Anarchist cookbook, or the silly “convert your gun to full-auto” rags.

They then go to Camden New Jersey and follow the US Marshals doing hot-entry arrests. Looks like a fairly solid team to my untrained eyes. Because its a gun show the host keeps wanting to talk about guns, but they really just talk about gangs and drugs. Perfectly fair.

He then speaks to some “Community Activists”, and while one person appears to have been drinking the anti-gun kool-aid, but even they admit that the drugs and gangs are the big problem.

They go to a Philly Gunshop to talk about the problems in New Jersey, and that’s handled pretty well, tho if any part smelled slanted, it was this. Of course this guy’s shop is CONSTANTLY under attack by the anti-gun groups despite him doing nothing wrong besides running a long-time family business in what has become a high-crime gang-area.

They also talked to a trauma surgeon which was overall straight-forward. I was glad to hear that he made sure to include “Hunting rifle” in descriptions of guns that have high-speed projectiles.

Next was the evidence locker of the Camden New Jersey Police where he spends a lot of time waving around Cheap AK clones, and AR-15s, and being a total asshole in equating them to modern military weapons. Still there was an ample number of “Fud Guns” from double-barrel shotguns, .30-06 rifles, and I saw a Remington Nylon, so despite this segment looking like an early-1990s “Assault Weapon” hit-piece, the gangs are simply using anything they can get their hands on.

Last, and totally least was an interview with Joyce Foundation shill Byron Miller. He does nothing but spew unchallenged and untrue propaganda. Hard to add or subtract to that much, you just put the now Unemployed Bryan Miller on your documentary, there’s only one way it can go.

Then in closing was a flare for the dramatic, which was more cheese than gold.

Still while there was some bias towards gun control, they lead with Knob Creek, setting the stage for the show with lawful and reasonable use of some of the most restricted, and “Scary” guns out there, and young kids, and old men all having the time of their life.

Worth a watch, if anything.

Grahhh! I haven’t handloaded any ammo in ages. Now I remember why. While the Lee Anniversary single stage press is one of the best values in the handloading business and what I recommend to anybody looking to load precision target and hunting ammo. For high-volume shooting a single-stage is far too time consuming to get large volumes of ammo for extensive range time or practical shooting competition a progressive press is a MUST.

I have a Lee Pro 1000 for my progressive press. The price was very hard to beat. Saddly while the $100 Challenger kit that comes with damn near everything you need to start with (the only additions you need are calipers, and a bullet puller IMHO) the $150 progressive press is hoping a bit much for a bargain.

Its cheap. Needs adjustment far too much, has some mechanical problems that can totally throw off your rhythm, and general cheap construction make this press a joy when it works well, unfortunately it constantly breaks down.

This session I loaded a whopping 50 rounds in an hour. Including my near-anal-retentive weighing of charges (I do about every 10 charges) I can load about 100 cartridges an hour. This was cut in half in a huge part by a spent primer that got lodged in the ram. A few primers that failed to properly seat, one primer that was fed sideways….and something that isn’t the fault of Lee, the fact that unbeknownst to me, Speer Lawman, and Blazer Brass .45 ACP use small pistol primers!

I don’t tumble my brass, I originally thought it was because I was cheap, and didn’t care how grungy my handloads looked. NO! Its so the once-fired brass that I have picked up from the range buckets stand out like a sore thumb, and I can inspect the headstamp for the “Speer” and nickle primer, or “Blazer” headstamp!

I really should save my pennies to buy a Dillion 650 like Mr. Completely recommends. They really are a vastly better press, and you’ll save money in the long run!

Caleb has an interesting post up on the Glock 36, which is the only single-stack Glock makes. Its essentially a slimmer version of the Glock 30 double-stack subcompact .45 ACP. Caleb wishes Glock made a 9mm Single-Stack.

Well Glock doesn’t, but Walther Does, in both 9mm and .40 S&W, as Does Kahr Arms in a full range of sizes and calibers, and there’s the Kel-Tec PF-9…the SIG P290 is a good bit smaller than the Glock, and the Ruger LC9 is about right, but has loads of extraneous “Safety” features.

Still that’s a pretty big selection, all without wondering if Glock might screw it up like they apparently have for their 4th Generation pistols. I’m just sayin’