Some Logic For A Change

 

All the best,

GB

I Miss My Time In The Border Patrol

Nope, not Border Patrol Agents but the thrills were the same.

All the best,
Glenn B

Take Action - Support The RKBA

I just sent in several letters to my elected representatives in both the federal and state governments, in support of our right to keep and bear arms. I would hope you, like me, believe it is our most important right in as much as it allows for us to maintain and protect all the others. It also is a sort of assurance that the people of the United States of America can stand against the formation of an overreaching and tyrannical government should it ever come to such. So, I hope you will take the brief amount of time required to contact your representatives in support of our RKBA. Go to: https://act.nraila.org/actionalerts.aspx. Please note that you do not need to be an NRA member to use their site to take action to contact your representatives nor do you need to make a financial donation.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Before Opening His Mouth - Did He Stop To Think

This is my opinion about the foul mouthed anti-Trump rant, by an over the hill actor, that took place last night. Yes, I am referring to the rant by Robert De Niro.

 

Today, President Trump was in Singapore doing what no other U.S. President has ever done - preparing for a meeting with the leader of North Korea to try to make peace with North Korea and to try to denuclearize that rogue nation. Last night, a leftist, vile, foul, blabbermouth of a pompous ignoramus (my opinion of him) got up in front of his Hollyweird peers and reportedly threw his two fists in the air after screaming F---Trump. He evidently did so in his usual wanna be tough guy manner (yes he apparently likes to believe he is tough like his movie characters but I think he is really a wussy) seemingly to try to impress others of his own leftist political ilk.

 

President Trump has been trying to do something that would be of great importance and great benefit not only to the USA but to the world, and that foul mouthed actor figured he would try to do what - did he hope to upset the president, did he hope to throw him off his game while in negotiations with Kim Jong Un, did he hope that if President Trump fails he can then rant and rage even louder against our president (and yes no matter if you like him or don't like him he is our president). Or was it something else - was it just a crybaby spoiled POS of an actor trying to make himself look and feel big because President Trump intimidates him.

 

Did he think for a minute that the President of The United States of America might actually not need any added stress that his foul mouthed rant may have caused. Did he stop for a moment to think that should the President get distracted by that disgusting tirade he might be put off enough to cause him to fail at his current task and that the end result could be a nuclear war with millions dead??? Before he opened his vile besmirching piehole - DID HE THINK AT ALL of what might be the consequences of his seemingly maniacal monologue? Oh why do I even ask because it is obvious, to me, that if he did think all he thought of was satisfying his own feelings of hatred. In my estimation he is not even worthy of being called a has been actor - he is little more that a disgusting asshole.

 

Anyway, I thank him with all of my heart for having done so because I am sure that when it comes time to vote, Americans will not forget the extremist hateful assholes of the left like him and America will resoundingly vote right. Lest I forget, allow me to also thank all the arsehats in the audience who wildly applauded De Niro's vicious vitriol - they probably put the icing on the cake as far as the right winning the next election goes.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

How Can Anyone Not Wish President Trump Well...

...in his upcoming meeting(s) with North Korean leader Kin Jong Un? He will be the first sitting U.S. president to meet with a leader of North Korea and thus Kim will be the first North Korean leader to meet with a U.S. President. It promises to be one of the most notable meetings ever held between world leaders. The meeting will be about: ending the Korean War, helping to assure world peace, denuclearizing a rogue nation & helping quell the threat of nuclear war overall, and making the lives of North Koreans much better than they are now. In doing so, it is about making the world a better and safer place.

Although I am fairly sure some are hoping, will all their vile hearts and worthless souls, that President Trump fails, I have to ask: How could any American of sound mind and with good intentions not wish him well in that quest! They say positive thoughts help - so mine are with him on this mission, as too should be yours, on the virtual eve of what is certainly one of the most important meetings ever held involving two world leaders. More here.

All the best,
Glenn B

 

Had I Known - I Would Have Bought An AR-15...

...instead of a Ruger Mini 14 Ranch Rifle. It's no wonder my son owns two AR-15s if they make holes like that - after all he is a smart young man.



It is truly said: Abound they, like multitudes innumerable, 
the assholes of the left.

All kidding aside, are leftists loons that out of touch with reality? 

All the best,
Glenn B

Savage Model 101 - The Revolver That Wasn't...

...a revolver at all.

I was just going over the Hessney Auction Comany catalog for their upcoming Rod & Gun auction on June 16th. One of the things that caught my eye was a Savage Model 101 revolver. It was of interest to me because first off, I had no clue that Savage ever made revolvers. Then something else about it caught my eye - it was a single shot. I wondered - how could a revolver be single shot and why on earth would anyone make a single shot revolver? 
Doing so seemed to invalidate the whole reason for it being a revolver, which is to have multiple rounds loaded and ready to fire.

I did some checking and the first thing I came up with was an article from the NRA's American Rifleman magazine (online version). The article was dated may 2010 - so while it is not that old, its first line could lead you to believe that this revolver is of  pretty recent manufacture:

"The latest handgun to appear on the market is the Model 101 Single Action offered by Savage Arms Corp., Chicopee Falls, Mass." (source)

The truth is, at least from what I could find, the Savage 101 was produced between 1960-68 (source - requires online subscription to view). so, in 2010 it was not the latest gun on the market. The American Rifleman article goes on to give a description of the Savage 101 as being a revolver in appearance only. In fact it is a single shot pistol with a faux cylinder and no gap between the cylinder and forcing cone basically because there is no cylinder and no forcing cone. As I said, it is a revolver in name only.

According to that piece: "The barrel and cylinder swing to the right to expose the breech for loading or ejection." They go on to give a bit more info about it and essentially say that it has long trigger pull, a heavy hammer fall and is thus unsuitable for precise shooting but better suited for fun time plinking - or at least that is how it read to me.

To give you a better idea of what it looks like and how it functions I scavenged up this brief but informative video from YouTube:



The way I look at it, this revolver would be little more than a novelty to bring to the range and then let others, whom you want to frustrate, shoot it. Of course, that does not preclude me from placing a bid on it - that is if I can get it for the right price after others who look at it think it is broken because the cylinder does not turn!

All the best,
Glenn B

The Mauser Chileno Modelo 1895 - First Shots

I took my Mauser Chileno Modelo 1895 to the range meet-up for the Long Island Gun Club (LIGC) last night. Even though I only put 15 rounds through it but that was enough to let me know a few things about it. It feeds, it shoots, it extracts, it ejects, it does all that safely and it is inherently accurate. In fact it seems to be a very nice shooter and that regardless of my aging eyes. I am willing to wager, that with better eyes or better sights or both, it would be one hell of a shooter.

My problem is I have to wear glasses to be able to sight it in at all and neither my close-up or distance glasses are perfect for the task. While I can focus somewhat on the front sight while wearing my distance glasses (actually the weakest strength over the counter readers but my eye doc gave them his blessing for distance saying they are almost the exact same as would be a prescription) it is only with some difficulty that I can see the small V notch in the rear sight, and have the front sight aligned properly inside the V, while wearing those glasses. When I tried with my close-up readers - fuhgeddaboudit is all I can say.

This is how my Mauser Chileno Modelo 1895 looked when I got it at auction.
Since then, I have removed and sold the bayonet an removed the sling. When I
remember to dig out the sling from its hiding place, I will put it back on the rifle.

I was only shooting at about 30 yards (local indoor range's furthest distance) and tried first with the close-up readers. My 10 shot group size must have been as big as an 8 to 10 inch circle and all over the place within that circle. When I put on the distance glasses and gave it a shot, actually 5 shots, I got a group that was much smaller at about 1 9/16" across (outside rim of uppermost shot to inside rim of lowest shot) for 4 of those shots with one flyer a few more inches off.

That was not exactly what I would have wanted to see at 30 yards and was a bit of a disappointment but such is how it is when your eyes are no longer what they used to be in your youth or even in middle age. One of the LIGC members was amazed that I was disappointed with that group. While I still shoot pretty well, the thing is I used to shoot much better when I had 20/15 distance, and excellent close-up, vision and that makes for some little bit of disappointment.  
While, I think that group would have been okay at 50 yards or pretty darned good at 100 yards (with those sights), I would have preferred it to have been less than half to 2/3 the size of that group at 30 yards. As I said above, had the rifle had a beefier rear sight notch or if I had better eyes, or both, my guess is I would have improved the group markedly. As it is, despite my eyes, there is no doubt this rifle is still a very good shooter. So, I may look for an after market rear sight that fits on the original sight mount or try to see if there is a way to mount a scope without ruining the collector value of this piece.

By the way, the ammo I was shooting was Prvi Partizan 7mm Mauser, 139 grain brass cased soft points. Who knows, it may shoot better or worse with different ammo; I suspect better as the Prvi Partizan ammo is on the inexpensive side. Then again, this brand always does okay as far as I am concerned. I am looking forward to having some fun with my latest rifle but of course that means I'll have to buy a lot more of this latest caliber of ammo in my collection!

All the best,

Glenn B

 

Bigger Boobs = Bigger Tips - Was An Experiment Really Necessary???

All the best,
Glenn B

Do You Think This Kid Needs A Beating...

...so as to be taught a lesson he will not forget. I think he may need repeated physical punishment when and if (and I would be willing to bet this was not a one time thing) his behavior again gets like this. Of course, he probably also needs some good parenting with lots of love and affection but mind you that does not rule out corporal punishment every now and then. A good arse whooping - when deserved for such behavior - is simply part of good loving parenting.
 

As for the adult, his self-restraint was amazing and only after being struck several times by the seemingly psychotic piece of white trash kid did he take action in self-defense. Sadly, he will probably wind up being arrested after very clearly only having minimally defended himself from an attack.

As for anyone thinking: 'oh gee golly willikers he was only a kid and the adult should never have done that to him' - wake up and think what would have happened had that little piece of shit kid been carrying a knife or a gun or had he been beating a woman like that (and if you doubt he would do such to a woman, just go back and look at how he treats women). In my opinion, the kid got only a smidgen of what he deserved. For all we know he is well on his way to becoming a mass murderer unless a parent or guardian steps in and takes strong corrective measures.

By the way, did you get a load of the title of the video:

"Disrespectful kids gets shoves to the ground start crying and cursing people"

Who is kidding whom with a snowball leftist politically correct title like that? The kid was not only disrespectful - as I see it - he evidently was violent and committing a crime by striking the man repeatedly when the man defended himself. Being disrespectful, I think, was the least of his transgressions.


All the best,
Glenn B

The Forster Field Headspace Gauge For My 7mm Mauser Finally Arrived..

...and I tried it out almost immediately. The bolt on my 1895 Chileno Mauser did not close on the field headspace gauge and that was good. Then again, Forster recommended I first remove the extractor from the bolt before checking the headspace and I had no clue how to do that. So, that time, I did it with the extractor in the bolt. I am a shooter and an instructor as far as shooting goes but have little clue as to gunsmithing except maybe as to Glock Armorer stuff so was at a loss as to how to properly remove the extractor.

The odd thing is that the video from Forster, on YouTube, does not tell you to remove the extractor before checking headspace but their written instructions, accompanying a gauge that you (or at least that I) bought from them, tells you to do exactly that. Here is

Forster's video on how to do it:



And here are the instructions that Forster sends with their Field Headspace Gauges (at least with the gauge they sent to me):

Their own directions differ markedly in as much as the video (which you could view before a purchase from Forster) does not tell you to remove the extractor BUT the written instructions from Forster do tell you to remove the extractor! Forster could have been clearer on that point or at least consistent.

So, I searched for more info and I wound up seeing this video from Midway USA which said to get the job done you first need to remove the bolt and then to remove the extractor from the bolt (in agreement with the paper instructions from Forster):



I was thus somewhat confused as to the right way to do it with those differing instructions but then again I am not totally clueless when it came to maintaining firearms. Thus, I figured that removing the bolt - as the paper instructions from Forster and the video from Midway USA recommended - was the way to go. I then tried it that way. I was quite happy to find it essentially had the same result as doing it with the extractor in the bolt or out of the bolt - the bolt would not close on the Field Headspace Gauge either way. As I said before - that is a good thing.

Now, I am going to admit some additional ignorance here: before I attempted to remove the extractor, I had no idea how to remove an extractor from the bolt of an 1895 Chileno Mauser. While the video from MidwayUSA made it look simple, I knew looks could be deceiving and thus I wanted a bit more info. So, I again turned to YouTube. I found another video that showed how to do it or at least explained it in more detail and it seemed like the guy explaining it was not a knucklehead. That was the below video. Now mind you, I have not watched it all yet, just enough for my initial purposes. I liked what I saw and tried it and it worked well to remove the extractor from the bolt:



All in all, I'm satisfied that I can take the 7mm 1895 Chileno Mauser to the range and not have to be concerned as to whether or not the headspace is correct. My guess is that I will have it at the local range this coming Wednesday at a meet of my local gun club. More about this boomer after the range trip.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Don't Care If It Was Faked...

...as some people seem to suspect (as I have seen on some gun forums) - or if it is for real - either way - there is no way I am about to groin carry. Yep, that means another gun owner has seemingly shot himself in his own package - allegedly this time with a Glock 43 that was seated in an inside the pants holster above his groin. He bent over, gun went bang, he howled with pain but never even doubled over with it. Regardless, I decided long ago to never carry like that. Each time I learn about yet another person shortening his own Willie or ringing his own bells I feel justified in having made that decision. More on the alleged groin holstered Glock 43 discharge at the source.

All the best,
Glenn B

Please Excuse My Mistake

 

All the best,

Glenn B

Damn - Appliances Are Expensive

Just ordered a dishwasher over the last week or so from Costco because the old one is kaput. That set us back about $685.00 including an extended warranty and tax. Then today, the wife tells me the washing machine is all fucked up. Has been for awhile now too I suppose and we had a guy come to do warranty service on it who claimed he reset the computer and all would be well and that there was nothing really wrong with it. Funny how nothing really wrong with it progressed from bad to worse in the last couple of days and wouldn't you know that the damned extended warranty on it expired just 5 days ago!

So there I went today looking at reviews for a new one. I wasted about 4 hours today (yep the laptop is old too and runs like shit under the current version of Windows) looking at reviews and online pricing. Finally decided on a GE model at the low to mid range in price and ordered it from Costco along with an extended warranty. At least I did not click on the complete order icon - had my wife do that to make her feel the guilt of spending just about another $740.00.

Right now every penny I will have made for my last few days of work and the few I will have made for a few upcoming scheduled days may just about pay for the dishwasher let alone the washing machine! Where in Hades the money is coming from for the washing machine - I have no clue! Then again, there is about $200-$300 in my piggy bank, I guess that can go toward it.

I imagine most folks would think that means no new guns for me for a spell. To that I  definitively can say: There will be no new guns for me that I will tell my wife about buying. I may yet go to the next Hessney Rod & Gun Auction and then sneak something into the house but only because right now - my very separate not-so-secret stash of cash for buying guns is in the black. 

All the best,
Glenn B

“karma is a bitch.”

Dinesh D'Souza has received a full pardon from President Donald "The Man" Trump. To get a good belly laugh and to understand the title of this post, read more about it here. Truer words were never uttered and they translate to fuck you Preet Bharara.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Think Maybe I'd Stop Driving...

...if I had the same luck as a Canadian man who, about a decade ago, reportedly had a piece of rebar pierce his car's windshield, then his back seat and then go into his trunk. So, what is so bad about his luck? Well, history has kind of repeated itself but this time it was not a piece of rebar - it was an axe. Evidently an axe came flying through his windshield and struck him in the face causing a number of injuries but he is alive and not that badly injured considering...he could have been killed.

Right now, no one (except maybe the guy who threw it if that is what happened) including the injured man knows what happened or from where the axe came and wound up going through his windshield. It seems that a passerby saw the man's truck on the side of the road - he had somehow managed to pull off of the roadway -  and went to help. When she tapped on the window, Mr. Peddle woke up behind the wheel and saw his blood and the axe but reportedly cannot remember a thing about how it happened. More here and here.

You might think he is pretty luck not to have been injured by the rebar and not to have been killed by the axe but I am a believer in the old adage third time pays for all. Thus, I think it's time for him to give up driving and maybe live up to his namesake and sell his car. After all, the third time could be the clincher.

All the best,
Glenn B

I Feel Old In Oh So Many Ways

All the best,
Glenn B

Gun Control Logic

 

Ain't it the truth!

 

All the best,

Glenn B

I May Have Missed the Royal Wedding...

...but I sure hope I don't miss the Royal Divorce or however it ends!

All the best,
Glenn B

Light Blogging This Week

I am going to be busy this week so blogging is likely going to be on the light side. I will get in what I can for your reading amusement.

Later 4 U,
Glenn B

No Clowning Around

A Little Caesar's Pizza place employee reportedly was closing the shop for the night and after exiting the building allegedly was attacked with a post and then with scissors both wielded by 
someone wearing what has been reported as a clown mask. The employee reportedly was able to draw his firearm and shoot his alleged assailant killing him. No charges have been filed against the pizza place worker (and let's hope that stays the case). More at the link below, including a photo of the so called clown mask and folks let me just say it looked more like a demon than a clown to me, see more at the source.

All the best,
Glenn B

Spent A Little Time At The Range Today...

...since I figured that exercising my liberties relative to our rights under the 2nd Amendment would be a good way to honor those who have fallen protecting those rights & liberties.

You have heard it before, I am The Great Procrastinator  but I did not wait all that long before firing the Glock 21 I got earlier this month. In other words, I finally got around to shooting it for the first time today. Darn it though, I forgot to buy extra mags for it and remembered that only today when loading mags at home prior to getting to the range. Anyway, I ordered two extra mags for it today from GunMagWarehouse.com. Had a good experience with them for some mags I purchased for my Glock 30 couple or so months ago. They had a decent price and shipping was pretty decent to. Wish I could have afforded at least two more but they will be bought sooner or later - especially now that I know the G21 is a shooter and thus a keeper.

As for my range trip, I only shot at the 7, 5 and 3 yard lines but that was enough to convince me that this Glock 21 is inherently more accurate than many folks skill levels, including my own, would be when shooting with it. Besides its accuracy, I basically wanted to see if it functioned properly and it fed, fired, extracted and ejected without a hitch. Granted, I only fired about 150 rounds through it but that was enough for today and sufficient to convince me it's a keeper. The elderly gentleman (yes even elderly compared to me and I am ancient) who sold it to me told me he had fired only 50 rounds through it and I believe him. Besides being very clean when I bought it from him, it had some of the copper colored lube on the slide that Glock pistols come with from the factory; then today, there was the fact that it was very difficult to load that last tenth round (NY mag restriction is 10 rounds) into each of the two mags I have for it and that was when using the Glock loading tool. These two mags obviously have not been loaded many times before today. I am pretty sure though, they will be getting loaded with at least a bit more frequency now that I have reason to like my G21.

My targets at the above mentioned ranges are pictured below.

 

 

Sadly, I don't shoot as good as I once did but my shooting with the G21 was none too shabby.

I also shot the Glock 30 again today. Put about 100 rounds through it and shot much the same with it as I did on my last shoot. I like it a lot and it shoots just fine but I am still getting malfunctions whereby a round does not load properly (usually the last round or next to last one) and had an instance today of the slide locking open with a round still in the mag. The mag was not partially fed, so the slide did not get stuck on the cartridge. Thus, I have no clue how or why the slide locked open. I have to look the gun over once again and also need to mark the mags and pay closer attention to determine if it is happening with one or more mags that may be faulty. The mags are my main culprits but of course, it could be shooter error too. Yet, since this did not happen with the G21 - I am guessing it is due to one or more of the mags. It's happening with much less frequency now but still two malfunctions out of around a hundred rounds fired are too many. and that requires more checking to see what is causing the problem.

All in all though, I had a good time at the range and once again, I am a happy shootist!

All the best,
Glenn B

Young American On Memorial Day

Nope, he does not yet understand about Memorial Day, probably will not for at least a few to several years really understand, but he is learning. His dad had him out and about today carrying  our flag.

 
Of course, he was also having fun.

 

All the best,
GB

Lest We Forget...

...take some time today to think about, to remember, to honor and memorialize America's fallen military personnel who fell in battle for our great nation. After all, the great nation of which I speak is our country and our country is made up of us - it is us and we are it - and without their sacrifice it would be a very different land in which we live.

Allow me to somberly wish you a Happy Memorial Day but give me a moment before you scold me to tell me today is not a day to be happy. Should you wish anyone a Happy Memorial Day today, be solemn in mood, as I am, when you do so. Bear in mind, as do I, that while today is a day to remember and honor those of our military who fell honorably in battle - it is also a day on which we can give them thanks and be truly but respectfully happy that we live in the greatest nation on earth because of them and their sacrifice. Never forget though that it is only through their sacrifice that we are what we are and live as we live today.

All the best,
Glenn B

I've Been Sitting Here...

...at my desk, downloading firearms manuals from the Internet. Been at it for well over two hours now, some download in the wink of an eye but others are taking up to a couple of minutes or longer - thankfully though most don't take that long. My source for them is a list of PDF files that someone got off of Steve's page 7B (his firearms manuals page). At the current time (as I write this blogpost)  - you no longer can access those files by going to Steve's Pages. Luckily someone else downloaded them and linked to them or somehow just linked to them and his links are still active through a backdoor to the files at Steve's Page 7B. The site I am downloading them from is to be found here. Hmm, maybe I should spell out the link just in case:

http://www.biggerhammer.net/manuals/stevespages.com/pdf/.

So far, I have downloaded 128 files and I am only into the Bs - up to the many Browning firearms that are on the list. While there are plenty of files left to download from the link at that page - sadly it only gets you as far as a few J.C. Higgins guns. Now, if you go to that site and click on manuals you (or at least I) cannot download any of the files and he has many more listed there much like on the original Steve's Page 7B. Why they will not download is beyond me but a pop-up appears asking for user name and password and inputting the user name and password they tell you to use does not work (as I said, at least for me). So I am left with potentially being able to download A through some of J and am still at it. Heck, once I quit tonight, I'll probably be at it tomorrow for at least another few to several hours. These files definitely are worth the time and effort to download.

All the best,
Glenn B