How .22LR Ammo is Made

Lucky Gunner shows us how .22 Long Rifle is made.

Helen Ready Dead

 Media everywhere are reporting that Helen Ready, a singer from the 1970s is dead, at age 78, at her home in Los Angeles.  She was an icon of feminism, 

Honestly, I had to Google her to remember which songs she was noted for.  But, the 70s were a weird time for me, and I didn't pay much attention to music.  I'm sure that the girls who ran in the same circles I ran in were more familiar with her music.

Update.  Mac Davis, singer songwriter, also passed away at his hone in Nashville.  He was 78 years old.

Shotgun Primers

 We use a lot of shotgun primers in CFDA shooting.  Our ammunition uses wax bullets with bras cartridges specifically cut to hold a 209 shotshell primer.  The propellant in the primer is the only propellant available to start the bullet down the barrel.

If you are interested, there is a video on CFDA ammo here.

I'm the storekeeper for our club, responsible for having wax and primers on hand.  And, we use a lot of both.  I normally order primers in lots of 15,000 and that will keep the club shooting for six months.

Across the whole organization, I don't know a single shooter who uses American primers.  The common brands like Winchester, CCI, or Remington don't see to do well in our game.  We use European primers.  Wold, Nobel, Rio, or Fiocchi seem to the the standard.

I've shot them all, and while I have my preference, it's not really important in the current supply crunch.  All of my suppliers were out of primers this morning, so I remembered a place that a good friend had told me about, The Ammunition Store.  Luckily, they had a supply of Wolf 209 primers and I was able to make an order.  If you're looking for ammo or reloading supplies, gie them a look.

Why Are Gun Owners So Annoying?

I do't think we're annoying, Colion, but we sure have been arguing this point since the 1960s.

It's worth arguing.  Again, and again, and agin.  I ust wish that the antos would stop with misleading or woefully ignorant arguments.

Secession

 I'm hearing sour-grapes from the Democrats.  They really are bummed-out that Trump is the president, and they'll likely stay that way for four more years, if my analysis of the current political climate is correct.

Take Lanny Davis, a Clintonista, who is finding himself to be increasingly irrelevant.

Which leads to some interesting questions, purely on an academic level.  Where will the capitol be located?  What type of border controls will be in place?  If, for example, a family from Oregon wants to relocate to Texas, how will that work?  What about the military bases in the new country:  Do you think that the US will give up its bases in San Diego, or Hawaii, or Washington?  Or New London?  No, more likely we'll just keep them, like we kept Guantanamo. 

With tonight's opening of the debate, hopefully, the difference between the candidates will start to become more clearly defined.  Of course, in my mind, they are already clearly defined.  

Browning A5 Friction Ring Setup

Mark talks about how to set up the friction rings on a Browning A5.

The page from Browning is here.

Cool Front

 Awoke this morning to thunder, but got busy anyway, doing some club bookkeeping out in the shop.  When I came in, I decided to look at a weather surface map.

That's a pretty good cold front.  It stretches from the Great Lakes down into Texas.  The weather-weenies are predicting tomorrows low to be in the mid-fifties.  

Tempest In A Teapot

The New York Times, and CNN, and other liberal media (but I repeat myself) and crowing that Prresident Trump paid little or no income tax for the past several years. 

In both the year he won the presidency and his first year in the White House, Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes, the Times reported.

 I once had an income tax professor tell me that if I were never audited, then I was paying way more taxes than I owed.  The IRS doesn't audit you when you are over-paying.  Be that as it may.

From what I understand, President Trump has others watching over his business while he's in the White House, and he takes no salary.  He does have a minor child, but he's living in government housing, so there is that consideration.

If the main ain't making any money, he doesn't have to pay much income tax.  That's a pretty good deal. 

This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot. 

Chicken-Fried Steak

 Belle got hungry for chicken-fried steak, so we set up our assembly line.  She seasons them, flours them, then rolls them into an egg wash.  I take them our of the egg wash, roll them in cracker crumbs, then into the hot oil

We put them in a warm crock pot to keep warm till the crew shows up.

With mashed 'taters, cream gravy, corn, and yeast rolls.  It was a pretty good way to do Sunday dinner.  Now, it's time for a nap.

Prayer March 2020

 It seems that Franklin Graham led a prayer march in Washington DC today, and an estimated 50,000 people showed up.

And, as Insty says, "And, of course, it wasn’t “mostly peaceful,” it was actually peaceful."

If 50,000 liberals had turned out for anything, you'd see it all over the media.  A friend and I were talking last week, and he remarked that there is a vast, peaceful, silent majority that has had a gut-full of liberal nonsense, and we're going to roar on November 3rd.

Texas Reloaded

This is a political ad, and it's a great political ad.

Don't mess with Texas.

RBG's Last Wish

 Evidently, Justice Ginsberg had some sort of last wish about her replacement.  Reportedly, she said, "My fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”

In that case, she should have lived another four years, until 2024, or retired in 2015, while Obama was still president.  Simpy because I doubt a new president will be installed in 2017.  We'll still have Trump.

When i die, my fervent wish is that my fervent wish is that my Belle wins the Powerball and does great and wondrous deeds in my memory.  I give my final wish better odds than having Ginsberg's wish come true.  She hanged on as long as possible, hoping that a Democrat president would get to replace her.  She miscalculated, plain and simple.

That seat is not hers, it belongs to the people, and her miscalculation is no reason for the President to delay filling that seat.  Maybe this time, we'll get a true conservative.

Concealed Carry, Holsters, Philosophy

I was asked to do a discussion on concealed carry, holster choices, and other considerations.  I hope it's worth your time.

The holsters I talk about are two Safariland, and two Craft Holsters, the Lynx, and the Comfortable Nylon.

Florida Figures It Out

Governor DeSantis just dropped a tactical nuke on BLM and Andtifa.

There is a difference between a peaceful protest and a riot.  It's time that people start to learn the difference.  The lie that the media has been telling about "mostly peaceful" protests is a lie.  They are either peaceful, or thy're not.

Rain

 We're being lashed by the remnants of TS Beta.  Not much wind, but the rain is a steady downpour.

I will be ver tomorrow, and we can start to dry out.

Will The B-52 Outlast the B-1?

 Strategy Page takes a look at why the B-52 may last to see a century of service.

It seems that there is still a place for a big bomber tat can carry a lot of weight.

If you are interested in gravity bombs, this is worth the read.

Career Move

 On Monday, we talked about a Pineville police officer who reportedly had been ambushed.  Details were sketchy at the time, but I had no idea how sketchy they would become.

It turns our, he shot himself..

PPD says the officer, identified as John Goulart Jr., shot himself, concealed his weapon, and altered the facts. Goulart Jr. has been charged with one count of criminal mischief and one count of malfeasance in office. He has been booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center and his bond will be set by a Rapides Parish District Judge. He has also been placed on administrative leave.

Yeah, I bet he's on admin leave, only until the local disciplinary board meets.  Then, he'll make a career move.  With all the hurricane damage, I hear that there are job openings in  as a roof apprentice, or a drywall installer,  It's good, honest work. 

Louisiana Legislature Calls For Special Session

 It appears that the Louisiana Legislature has called itself into special session to address several items of vital importance to the State of Louisiana.

The session will address the near-bankruptcy of the state unemployment trust fund, work on Hurricane Laura recovery and try to scale back the governor’s emergency powers in the latest battle over Gov. John Bel Edwards’ coronavirus response.

Scaling back Governor Edward's coronavirus edicts is a simple process.  Under current Louisiana law, it takes a simple majority of either house to end a declared emergency. Petitions have been pending for months to do that very thing, but the legislature could not garner a simple majority of either house to end the emergency.  

It is time to end the coronavirus emergency.  We have to learn to live with this thing.  And, over the past six months, most Louisianans have adjusted their habits to be more corona-conscious.  The damage wreaked on the economy by government edicts has a real and devastating impact on jobs and businesses. The governments job at this point should be education, not mandates.

The fact that the Legislature called itself into session is encouraging.  By calling the session themselves, they took Governor Edwards out of the equation.  They are setting the agenda themselves.  I hope that they are strong enough to take care of the legislative business and end the government over-reach.

Ambushed

 The Pineville, LA police department that an officer was inured during an ambush this weekend.

This is bad juju.  Details are sketchy at this time, but we hope they find the goblin who shot the officer.

Strange Weather

We've had a really early cool front move into the area.  Temps this morning are in the 60s with a northerly breeze, but unlike other fronts, this one one overlaid with cloud cover from Tropical Storm Beta,  It was drizzling at 5:00.

Beta is predicted to make landfall along the Teas coast, then make a hard right and head northeast, coming across us sometime later this week as a remnant low, with the accompanying rain.  For us, it's not much of a wind event.

But, with a northerly breeze and temps in the 60s, it's time to break out the gumbo pot.  I'll make a big chicken and sausage gumbo later this morning.  THe family will gather this afternoon and we'l head to the funeral home for visitation.

Tomorrow's weather is expected to be like today;s, and we'll bury Jerome under cloudy skies.  I hope the rain holds off until the graveside ceremony is over.