Weer'd World

So in my last post a few people were talking about the dynamic of gun rights in America.

Now given that I’m in my early 30s, I was born into a world of rising popularity, and frankly just about everybody alive today has a similar view, just a question of how high they saw the rise.

But I think we’ll all note that this nation is in its early TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTIES, and our lifetimes are just a small chunk of that. What appears to be a ground-swell of support is actually just a tiny experiment being played out over the course of about 70 years. And as we can see, the experiment failed.

The anti-gun movement was one of lies and deceit, it took a while for the light to be shown on the fact that the laws they propose don’t do what they suggest they will, and the claims they make are untrue. And with that light the tide is turning, as its only natural for people to support human rights, and refute lies.

I’ll end this post with a quote:

Assault weapons’ menacing looks, coupled with the public’s confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons –anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun– can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

That’s Josh Sugarmann executive director and founder of the Violence Policy Center.

So a post by a famous troll on a less famous troll’s puss-filled weblog (No link, screw them!) This was stated as a course of action:

1. Deny gunloons what they most desire. Guns? Nope. Acceptance. What gunloons really want more than anything is an acceptance of their gunloonery as ‘normal’ or mainstream.

I see this tactic as more anti-gun projection. Generally we see it in the case that anti-rights people tend to have poor judgment, quick tempers, and are often violent.

This is something a little more sad. So Trolly wants to take away the mainstream acceptance of guns, self defense, and the second amendment. A tall order given our recent court victories, and the massive increase in gun sales, as well as the huge growth of female shooters as a demographic.

Meanwhile we have a handful of anti-rights bloggers (in this case its one troll using another’s blog as a soapbox!) and even less in the professonal side

Heck look at these pictures. In Picture one you have about a dozen anti-rights protesters (Breda added for scale) Now put this in prospective: I went behind the protesters and took a picture a dozen anti-rights people being watched like animals in a zoo by about 100 NRA members. There were overall over 70,000 people in that exact area for the NRA convention.

Even more so, except in isolated pockets of the country, our gun culture has been more-or-less uninterrupted since this nation was born (resisting among other things, gun control from the British Crown).

Tam has a great post over at the Arms Room:

Also, these pistols are tangible artifacts of a very different era. They are from a time when, through most of the Western world, there was nothing terrifically unusual about a gentleman owning a small pistol which he could slip into a coat pocket, should he feel the need for a little insurance.

Yep the whole idea of needing a pistol permit or some sort of training to carry a gun for personal protection was a bit of an absurdity not long ago…those times are again returning

I would point out that the anti-rights side is a small and shrinking lot full of people, many of whom are mentally ill who are terrified and hide from the truth and many are violent…and they talk about taking acceptance away from US?

More projection, as they are imagining what they would be like if they had acceptance.

They don’t, and frankly because of all their problems, they likely never will….

Thanks to Wally (How’d I know you’d offer the winning clue) I went to the manufactuer’s website:

When loading for these bullets, you need to use data that will attain 800 fps as a minimum. Most of the data for this bullet weight was created using a dead soft lead projectile with velocities under the 800 fps and will not work for a this bullet at those lower velocities.

According to my manual, The load I was using was clocking around 750 FPS. That’s pleasantly in the danger zone. Now for REALLY good news there is a Blue Dot load that boasts 810FPS, and a titegroup load that starts around there and maxes out at just over 900.

So I might play around with the blue dot load, but give titegroup the old college try when I get around to getting some of it!

Thanks Wally!

One more question before I go. People talk about seating wadcutters flush with the case mouth, does that make much of a difference with a revolver load? I’ve been loading mine with just a few mm of bullet sticking up above the case mouth, should I be seating them lower?

So here’s my dilemma. I came across a good deal on 1,000 148gr 0.357″ Wadcutter bullets. I already had powder and data for a VERY light .38 Special load using Lead bullets. Turns out these bullets are copper-coated. Doing some quick reading, and noting that the copper totally covers the lead I assumed they were plated, and just used a slightly warmer load for the lead data.

Needless to say I’ve had a BUNCH of squibs on this load. at first I thought I might be getting light charges, but you can hear the powder in the shells, and even screened shells would eventually squib. I suspect what I have are total metal jacket bullets. That’s not a problem as I like jacketed ammo for shooting better than lead as they make less of a mess, still I need a load that can overcome copper-fouling and not squib on me.

Was talking with Zercool about it this morning when complaining about my recent powder-screw-up. I found that hodgdon has data for Jacketed 146 gr FMJ bullets and the Tight-Group data for that looks promising. But Zercool mentioned that wadcutters, being flying soup-cans have a LOT more baring surface than a traditionally shaped bullet, so am I going to get myself into more trouble by adapting this load?

I found this forum thread that appears to be my same problem, but some of the loads they list aren’t in any of my manuals so I don’t know if I can trust those either.

Anybody able to point me in the right direction, or give me a rule of thumb how to adapt the FMJ bullet data to a JWC bullet load?

Thanks!

Spent Sunday Afternoon with family in Maine, and had lot of fun. On the way home I decided to stop by The Kittery Trading Post I wanted to pick up a pistol disassembly manual and some powder for a .38 Special load I want to work up, also I found some primers, so I cleaned them out.

They need to bring the powder up from someplace, so I did what I was going to do anyway, and browse the showroom. Of course I got to LOATHING Massachusetts as they had a used Kahr PM45 for $520. Wanted it SOO bad, but there is no legal way for me to buy it, so there it sits.

Finally I went to the check out, and I saw my powder sitting behind the register. I pointed it out to the kid behind the register, and started checking out. He put my stuff in a bag and stapled it shut….this is to prevent theft.

Then I drove home, and when I opened the bag there was the WRONG POWDER!

BOOOOO

Well now I have an excuse to go back to Kittery next weekend….still kinda rubs me the wrong way.