One quick thing because it demonstrates how far the EUnuchs have come

 

And one more because I can't remember if had something on this before:

One quick piece of news, bureaucrats and 'cops' who should be fired

and, quite possibly, in jail immediately following.

Attention BATFEIEIO: when the Fed judge has said "This rule is vacated" it means you're supposed to drop it, not keep screwing people around with it.


In the rest of news, personal stuff says "Thou shalt not have time to post right now", so maybe later.

And back over there in that part of the world,

Notice how no one's honking or yelling about the blocked roads. Everyone is just casually standing around, calmly talking. This traffic jam is on purpose. It's meant to slow down and even block IRGC and Bassij terrorists from getting to the pilot. I told you that Iranians in occupied Iran were mobilizing to help our American and Israeli allies rescue the second US pilot.

Why, you'd think those people don't see us as their enemy...

Why were they here?

Because a bunch of State Department asshats, kiss-ass politicians who don't care about this country, and general 'We must let anyone in, especially if they hate the US' activists wanted them to be let in, and let stay here while they attack this country.

Because said douchebags think it's best to let enemies in instead of keeping them out.

And because said enemies, like these two, would rather live here where they can say things and wear clothes that, in their powerful relatives country, would- of they were common citizens- get them raped and murdered.  And the aforementioned State and politicians and 'It's important to let enemies come in!' bastards let them get away with it.

They got the WSO out alive,

there was a bunch of shooting involved, we havc some wounded, and the Basij have a bunch of dead and wounded.

Look for the Usual Suspects trying to make this look as bad as possible, and the real enemy on our soil calling for American dead.

Y'know, I have to wonder if the people in charge in Iran thought any about the probably reaction if they had managed to kill our guy.  Trump is not Biden or most any other President we've had in a while, and it would probably have involved stomping, with big boots.

Something I'll pass along, not just for current circumstances

but for future uses, a trauma kit for a church.

I'm not a trained medical guy, just some stuff picked up over time, overall this looks like a good kit.  With, hugely important, someone having some training.  One thing to have a chest seal, another to have someone who already knows how to put it on, not kneeling there reading directions and thinking "God, I hope this works!"

Not a bad kit for a lot of places.l

And good news from Iran, Added:

F-15 WSO recovered alive. Was escaping and evading. Massive fire fight on tgt. Iranians were actively looking for him in the area.

And there was a report earlier, which I cannot find, Found it that a whole bunch of Iraqi mercenaries allowed in by the Iranian regime- to kill troublemaking subjects- was caught crossing the border and caused to assume ambient temperature.

Good things, both.

Yes, clearing time

So,

And some for mature audience members,

And something stayed the same

Friend wondered if my .300 Blackout might have a tight chamber/bore and that's why those Federal rounds were faster than listed?

Today had a chance to put three out of a Ruger American bolt rifle, over a chronograph.  

Nope, same velocity as the ones before.

Well, I tried something that worked

on that rifle problem.

Little more on this gas block: the Superlative Arms gas block, first you open it up 18 clicks, which gives you a fully open flow through the port and into the action, then you adjust it down as needed to give you the ejection pattern you want, and it does this by venting excess gas out a port in the front of the block.  So it reduces the amount of gas going into the receiver that way instead of just blocking it.  

One thing advertised is that by doing that it's supposed to reduce fouling in the action, which has seemed to work.

You've got 30 clicks of adjustment, so today I took it down to a total of 28 clicks from open port, so it's venting a LOT of gas out the port.  And it worked, no jams or ejection problems.  Reduced it all the way, leaving one click(call it in reserve), and it still worked, full action cycle, locked the bolt on an empty mag.  Which seems kind of amazing, but at least for today it worked fine.

So that's the current status on this.  Total it's  a long path to here, and one of these days I'll write it up.

Note: I fired 17 rounds total today, and when I pulled the bolt carrier group to see about cleaning, it didn't need it.  Apparently all that vented gas took most of the fouling with it.

Added because I forgot it before, the instructions on this block in case you're interested

Ah, Hollywood, demanding more money from other people

because they keep producing crap and demanding we like it.


And since I'm borrowing from Insty,
Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate "experts" as "crazy people".
Especially the 'experts' who ruined God only knows how many lives over the Wuhan virus

They should be terrified,

they've given people damn good reason to drop a dime on them.

A host went on live TV begging ordinary Iranians NOT to leak the hiding locations of regime officials to Israel! He literally cried that if the people expose their coordinates, “it's over” and they will be eliminated.

The Islamic Republic is terrified because they know the ultimate truth: millions of Iranians are acting as the eyes and ears of Israel on the ground.
Which makes me wonder: considering how many people the Iranian regime has murdered just in the last month or two, I wonder how many, not just officials but IRGC thugs, have been whacked due to people seeing a way to get at them?

Bayou Renaissance Man knows of a friend in need

If you can help out, it'd be appreciated.

I would say it's a symptom of 'modern' feminism,

but with any wording, the level of though that can reduce his grief to this...

The PM does indeed look like he's expecting to see

either a rope hanging from a tree or lamppost, or catch the smell of tar.

And he and a bunch of other politicians have truly earned both..

The current forecast:

Tonight

Showers and thunderstorms before 1am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 1am and 4am, then a slight chance of showers after 4am. Low around 64. South wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

And,of course, the local stations are full of 'MAY be SEVERE!'
I swear, they think they won't get paid if they don't use that word.

It's because your government and media is sucking up to their new masters

Why else would you think this is happening?

One more idiot who has no idea about

what the 2nd Amendment actually says and means, but has a great grasp of bad history.

Also from him

My teens, nowhere near that many friends that I can recall.  I think, at best, my 30's were his 20's, my 40's I think so, now... Damn, I need a dog.

Ran across this at Pitsnipe's place, and it reminded me

of those stairs I fell down

As that was one of the things I said while deciding I could get up and gather it all up.

Know how much Conehead, the Mayor of Chicago, taxpayer money he spends on his personal security?

About $30 Million Per Year.  While he lectures everyone about how things are better, and you stupid peasants don't need guns to protect yourselves.  While his guards you can damn well bet are armed.

While he and his clowns make a point of turning violent criminals loose so they can violate the laws again.

Wonderful people.

Look at his picture and you'll see why Second City Cop gave him that name.

Friend picked up something interesting

An old Remington rolling block .22, with a tang sight, folded down

Now raised

About as simple as can get, no adjustments.  I'll be interesting in seeing where it hits for him

From CDR Salamander:

You don't think there's a plan?  Really?

When you artify a pair of revolvers

to the point of "What?"

Lots more pictures and information at TFB

a bit of tab clearing

Yeah, you spend that much time hating men, it's going to be hard to attract one.


“Last year alone, Muslims kiIIled 500,000 Christians in only Nigeria. Why are they only talking about Palestine?"

The lefty Boomers packing these No Kings rallies have been wrong about everything. Literally everything.

Making a Crickett even lighter.  Because everyone needs a project.


Buy your whiskey properly

"X lets people say and read and do things we don't like

without having to ask permission, and it's a massive problem!"

These little Stalin wannabes are just wonderful, aren't they?

Yes, I forget things when I get busy,

including "I've got this all set up to post tomorrow!"

                                Problem being we have a fair amount of villainy to deal with, too

I'll repeat it, what the hell is wrong with people who hate Jews so much?

Because if you actually think they're behind all the world's troubles, you have a problem.


Yes, bad people they are.
It's important to remember that most highly educated elitist Democrats are, in their heart of hearts, extremely bad people

Those people happen to be the same color you are, idiot, so what are you scared of?


Election tampering should get people jailed.


Apparently this Pope is an idiot.

Spain also appears to be run by idiots who cannot or will not remember their history.


This reminded me of something: some years back I'd ordered a Special Deal on .45 bullets("Order this many and you get FREE SHIPPING!!").  About a week later knock at the door, there's a Post Office car in the driveway and the driver says "I've got a box for you, but I can't pick it up."

What the hell is wrong with the people who hate Jews so much

they have to connect them with every-bloody-thing?

For some reason lots of idiot commies are part of it.  

Speaking of idiots,

Same kind of people who think Kimmel is funny

Has the Secret Service given up on firearms training?

I mean, if you're on the 'protect special people' squad, they shouldn't have to worry about you shooting yourself in the butt.

And I wonder what kind of holster he was using?

While back I mentioned some Federal .300 Blackout ammo, the

190-grain Fusion tipped bullet.  Well, since my fancy little chronograph read it as averaging 160fps faster than the 1000fps on the box, I wrote to them and told them it seemed a bit hot.  

They wrote back and asked if I had any of the ammo left, if I did they wanted it to test and would replace it with a new box.  Sounded good, so it was done.  Today I took that new box and tried it out at the indoor range.  Three rounds* made holes just about touching, but the velocity still came out about 1165.  Which, according to the National Weather Service speed of sound calculator, comes out to be about 40fps supersonic there and then.

So it's accurate, but faster than it's supposed to be.  I still haven't found any gel tests on it, so no idea about expansion, though the Federal Fusion bullets have a good reputation.  Probably need to try them in someone else's rifle to make sure mine isn't giving a higher FPS than others.

Not the most scientific of tests, but thought I'd pass it along.  

*I wanted some to shoot at longer ranges so only used three today.  And that's not bad shooting for me, but I plan to do the longer ranges with a better rest.

Interesting new design on quieting things down

from this company.

"I am the real victim!", says who?

Three guesses.
And they've also got their usual suspect to blame.

Another terrorist attack, question is for Iran or because the PRC wanted it?

Yes, the Democrats are still protecting illegal aliens so they can commit the rapes and murders

American citizens aren't committing.  And the Governor of MN is still holding to his "When we have power again we're going to prosecute everyone who defied us!" bullshit.

These people...

A while back I asked about bicycle adjusting knowledge

and  got some answers.  I did call a bicycle shop I know of and asked what they charged for adjusting a bike to you; if it's just general stuff, $150, if it's a problem causing you pain a full 'check EVERYTHING and adjust it' is $300.

Being cheap I decided to start with a new seat, found a good one with much better padding and seemed like a better shape, mounted it and adjusted the height down a bit and changed the angle as they suggested.  And damn, that made a big difference.  I've been able to ride it without back pain, except for one day; that day I used the ice pack and heating pad on it(trading off with using it on my shoulder), that did a lot of good, and no more so far.

So, until I fall somewhere or get run over or something I can do this to make the docs happy.  Yay.

Gee, more approved fraud in MN

HOLY CR*P 🚨 Minnesota Rep Krista Knudsen says they just found out the state TURNED OFF tracking for money being sent overseas

They turned it on for 2 weeks. Saw all the money leaving, and Democrats quickly SHUT OFF TRACKING to allow it to keep happening
Why, you'd think the Governor and AG wanted this...

Alas, there must come a time

when you decide "I need to get rid of some stuff.  Maybe a lot of stuff."

Decisions, decisions... "I haven't used this in years, but-"

If you don't bother to keep the records complete and accurate,

you can't bitch too much about how you need more laws because 'these laws don't work', among other things.

No, they're not protesters, they're on the enemy side,

and loud about it.

Wouldn't you love to see ICE start checking the status of these people?  And see how many aren't even supposed to be here?

One of the dangers of online research is both the piles of data

combined with "Who do you go with/trust?"
"It's the extractor or springs."
"It's the ejector."
"It's the -"  On and on.
Because there are so many things that may have affected this particular rifle, but might well mean nothing to any other.

Which reminds me of a tale told about a week ago, guy had bought  modular trigger for his AR, and it wouldn't operate correctly.  He brought it to the gunsmith and told him about it, and it was tested.  So they started checking and replacing things, on and on, and nothing worked.  They finally decided "We've changed/tested everything except the lower receiver, let's try that" and stuck it in another receiver of the same brand, using the original bolt carrier group, buffer stuff, etc.  And it worked flawlessly.

And yes, they checked everything on that lower, inside and out, and could find nothing to explain this.  Obviously there's something off, but...

A new S&W snubbie in 9mm

that uses moon clips, and can fire without them.

Interesting.

Followup to the rifle post Added to

It has a H3 heavy buffer.
Has a standard +25% buffer spring.
The gas block is a Superlative Arms adjustable.  When you adjust it to lower pressure, it vents the excess out a port in the front of the block.  It's been adjusted to release to the limit it will go before, though next time I shoot this I'm going to take it all the way down and try it again,  Because why not?

Same with various magazines.

I've talked to two good gunsmiths, one looked the rifle over thoroughly and said he didn't know, the other, after various talks, suggested it's cursed.  Yes, I do know they're good.  This one has them baffled.

I've done more reading the past couple of months on this type rifle, and various things people have tried on theirs...

I'm going to think about all this some more before I mess with it again, and go from there.  And I do appreciate all the ideas.  And I'll try to contact that one guy mentioned.

Added:

Magpul and steel magazines, bought different times and places.
Happens with factory and handloads.
And, copied from my comments,
I don't want to go to a heavier buffer, because I found out what that would cost.

Changing barrel because of port size, same.

The Superlative gas block has a total of 48 clicks of adjustment: from closed, open 18 gives you a fully open port, max pressure. With it open an additional 8 clicks it functions perfectly without the can. I've tried it with up to 46 clicks of bleed-off mode with the suppressor. I think I'm going to open it to max, and try it again now that it's all been fired and settled in a bit.

And I'll keep reading.

Something I support whole-heartedly

Whenever you see videos of “protestors” blocking traffic in order to vent their spleens about … whatever … the people trapped in their vehicles are being coerced into listening; when you see videos of “protestors” getting their stupid on in restaurants with loud-speakers and airhorns, those patrons are being constrained to listen.

Usually followed by public officials snivelling, “They have a First Amendment right to protest.”

Be that so, no private citizen has the “right” to force another into … anything. I don’t care how “righteous” or “just” your cause is, nowhere in your First Amendment right does it mention anything about obliging me to listen.

“… the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.”
~Justice Louis D. Brandeis, in his dissent to Olmstead v. United States

Blocking a throughway, causing traffic to back up, resulting in drivers being trapped in their vehicles and having to listen to your bushwa is a violation of the civil right of the drivers to be let the hell alone. And I tire of it.

Intruding into the private space of a restaurant to berate the patrons with bullhorns and shrieking, forcing the patrons to choose between the meal or leaving is a violation of the civil right of the patrons. And I tire of it.

I also support his deas on suitable punishments.

Well, the idiots in the state voted for leftists, so this

is what they get.  And it'll keep screwing them as long as they keep letting these idiots stay in office.

Or until they say to hell with it and leave the state.   In which case lots of them will start voting the same damned way in the state they move to.  Because they're idiots, too.

I have a weird problem with a rifle, (added)

but I've not given up.  It's strange, and I- and two gunsmiths I've shown it to- cannot figure it out.  I'm going to have to find someone who's very good with AR style rifles to talk to and go from there, because I'm fresh out of ideas, and online searches have done nothing.  Not giving up, because there's got to be someone who can figure this out.

I get it figured out you may hear a shriek of 'EUREKA!' on the winds.  Followed by a post on it.


In the meantime, I suggest reading this: "Men only want one thing"

Addition: information added in comments, as some of you have far more experience than I

To Californicated from the idiot who wants desperately to be President

And you can add that to the multi-billion dollar railroad to nowhere, and the energy prices and shortages, and various other control-freak habits he has and wants to force over all of us.

As the Village Affliction also found,

And, on this line, I have to note the words of the idiot running New York, who- much like her predecessor- spent time telling anyone not of 'progressive' mindset to leave because 'You're not a New Yorker', and now she's telling the people who moved to Florida, because they don't want her and her controllers raping them on taxes, to not only move back but to bring others with them, so they can be paying for the 'generous social programs we have'.

Fat chance, dipshit.

Which also reminded me of this on the Cuban government saying 'We want you to invest with us!'

"Screw your life and living, you need to give us your money! "  Again, fat chance.

It getting to be what is, nowdays, late,

I did manage to remember to do that weekly thing I've been working at.  Though soon as this is done, I'm getting to bed.
Have a good night, folks.

And for those interested and who care, more below the break