Couple of things found thanks to Uncle:
"We don't care if the law is actually enforced, we just want it there to threaten people with."
Stupid in Tennessee. For public safety and money. Probably mostly the latter.
And it gets even interestinger in New York:
Sheriff Lorey volunteered his county to participate in the state's already stumbling permit recertification program. As a result, some Fulton County handgun owners will receive "invitations" to go online and renew their permits under the new system—a process that's supposed to occur ever five years.
"I'm asking everyone that gets those invitations to throw them in the garbage because that is where they belong," says Lorey in the video below. "They go in the garbage because, for 100 years or more, ever since the inception of pistol permits, nobody has ever been required to renew them."
But what's to be gained by volunteering the county and then urging people to toss the applications?
"Let's have everybody's permit expire the same day and let 'em see what they're going to do with it."
A AR lower that will fit both AR-15 and AR-10 uppers.
More on the terrorists in France and the weapons involved. Including this surprises-nobody-here bit:
In 2010, police in Belgium stated: "Counter to what you may have heard, it's not easy to get hold of a Kalashnikov." To prove them wrong, a reporter for Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure managed to do so in less than six hours.
Someone tell Howard Dean, maybe he'll start screaming again.
From the third-world shithole that is New Jersey.
And to anyone stupid enough to want to vote for Christie for President: stop breathing.
Those elongated skulls found in Peru? Some DNA analysis has been done:
It had mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far. But a few fragments I was able to
sequence from this sample indicate that if these mutations will hold we
are dealing with a new human-like creature, very distant from Homo
sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans.
This should get interesting.
And in more "The science is NOT settled" news,
The ‘Petralona man’, or Archanthropus of Petralona, as it has since been
called, was found to be 700,000 years old, making it the oldest human europeoid (presenting European traits) of that age ever discovered in Europe. Dr Poulianos’ research showed that the Petralona man evolved
separately in Europe and was not an ancestor of a species that came out
of Africa.
Dr. Spencer is unhappy with the current state of climate science. And doesn't think much of most journalists, either.
What changed is the politics. And not just among the politicians. At AMS or AGU scientific conferences, political correctness and advocacy are now just as pervasive as as they have become in journalism school. Many (mostly older) scientists no longer participate and many have even resigned in protest.
Science as a methodology for getting closer to the truth has been all but abandoned. It is now just one more tool to achieve political ends.
Reports that 2014 was the “hottest” year on record feed the insatiable appetite the public has for definitive, alarming headlines. It doesn’t matter that even in the thermometer record, 2014 wasn’t the warmest within the margin of error. Who wants to bother with “margin of error”? Journalists went into journalism so they wouldn’t have to deal with such technical mumbo-jumbo. I said this six weeks ago, as did others, but no one cares unless a mainstream news source stumbles upon it and is objective enough to report it.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Personally, I lean toward "He doesn't give a damn,
and no longer worries about showing it."
For that matter, considering his past with Rev. Wright, he might not like the idea of seeming to stand on the side of Jews.
That's it for now, folks. I'm sick to death of the news(Yemen completely fallen yet?), and need to load some ammo. See you later.
For that matter, considering his past with Rev. Wright, he might not like the idea of seeming to stand on the side of Jews.
That's it for now, folks. I'm sick to death of the news(Yemen completely fallen yet?), and need to load some ammo. See you later.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Being of tired mind and stuffed-up head,
with enough body aches to discourage further inquiry, I shall now collapse in a chair for a few minutes to organize the information for the evening
Tam likes to commemorate today with
"It was all those evil Republicans and their capitalist friends!"
Well, sure, if you're lying your ass off.
And neglecting to mention the parts of, say, Waitress-Sandwich Dodd and Porky Frank. And all their crooked friends.
And neglecting to mention the parts of, say, Waitress-Sandwich Dodd and Porky Frank. And all their crooked friends.
Yeah, the SJWs love this
One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to
essence, runs like this: “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are
guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…} confirms that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…}.” I’ve been
presented with enough instances of this recently that I’ve decided that
it needs a name. I call this general style of argument “kafkatrapping”,
and the above the Model A kafkatrap. In this essay, I will show that
the kafkatrap is a form of argument that is so fallacious and
manipulative that those subjected to it are entitled to reject it based
entirely on the form of the argument, without reference to whatever
particular sin or thoughtcrime is being alleged. I will also attempt to
show that kafkatrapping is so self-destructive to the causes that
employ it that change activists should root it out of their own speech
and thoughts.
Chances of them rooting it out? Just about zero.
Chances of them rooting it out? Just about zero.
Much like the 'Free speech is properly policed and controlled speech' piece,
you really want this to be satire or trolling, but. Very short version: "Equal treatment sucks, we need BETTER treatment! Otherwise patriarchy wins!"
Women who are being annoyed and oppressed by men are being the first to initiate physical confrontations often kicking and punching their male abusers, but a worrying trend is that men are fighting back or as some misogynist say ‘defending themselves’
Men who practice feminism have started to treat women with equality when it comes to fights and although there are many laws that punish a man for doing it they are still doing it.
But what worries feminist the most is the reaction on the internet, videos of women attacking men and then getting knocked out or ‘ass handed to them’ when the men fight back is being applauded and praised by a very large majority of internet users. One person whose attention this has caught is Catherine Cockburn the Toronto Womyns officer.
“It is just one of the by-products of living in a post-feminist society, if you are a woman and want to hit a man, make sure he is not a feminist because than he is more likely to treat you like an equal which will result in you being hit back.”
I can't decide whether to laugh my ass off at a fine demonstration of Unintended Consequences, or horrified at the level of stupid in this.
Jessica Valenti American blogger and feminist writer, known for having founded the feminist blog Feministing in 2004 claimed that the patriarchy is using equality to oppress women.
“Now we need a new wave of feminism to be more equal than men, I mean recently I saw this video on YouTube with over one million views and a way more likes than dislikes, at first I thought it was no big deal as the man was hiding in a store and defending himself from what I presumed from an aggressive man that was hitting him but then I saw it was a woman that was hitting him and I was terrified at how he violently abused her and literally threw her into a glass window shattering it or ‘defended himself’ as a rape apologist would put it as”
Got that? Now equality is supposed to mean "We can be violent to you, but you can't dare be violent back! That's oppression and patriarchy and bad stuff! We're supposed to be treated BETTER than you, THAT'S equality!"
Last piece I want to quote:
The African-American community since being liberated by women’s suffrage has had a serious case of fatherless families or matriarchy this has resulted in black men not being educated by a fatherly figure in chivalry and feminist ideals have had to fill in the gap.
Roll the many flavors of irony in this around, savor the idiocy involved. They insisted fathers aren't important, they're disposable, but they're supposed to somehow 'educate the boys in chivalry'. A concept these feminists have displayed nothing but contempt for and rage at, but now they're unhappy because it's not there.
Of course, they ignore the fact that chivalry was a two-way street, a part for men AND women, because that doesn't fit their desires. But now, as a one-way "Women can do anything without consequence" idea, they want it taught. By the males they still insist really don't matter, except when they do, and that's only when and how we desire...
Women who are being annoyed and oppressed by men are being the first to initiate physical confrontations often kicking and punching their male abusers, but a worrying trend is that men are fighting back or as some misogynist say ‘defending themselves’
Men who practice feminism have started to treat women with equality when it comes to fights and although there are many laws that punish a man for doing it they are still doing it.
But what worries feminist the most is the reaction on the internet, videos of women attacking men and then getting knocked out or ‘ass handed to them’ when the men fight back is being applauded and praised by a very large majority of internet users. One person whose attention this has caught is Catherine Cockburn the Toronto Womyns officer.
“It is just one of the by-products of living in a post-feminist society, if you are a woman and want to hit a man, make sure he is not a feminist because than he is more likely to treat you like an equal which will result in you being hit back.”
I can't decide whether to laugh my ass off at a fine demonstration of Unintended Consequences, or horrified at the level of stupid in this.
Jessica Valenti American blogger and feminist writer, known for having founded the feminist blog Feministing in 2004 claimed that the patriarchy is using equality to oppress women.
“Now we need a new wave of feminism to be more equal than men, I mean recently I saw this video on YouTube with over one million views and a way more likes than dislikes, at first I thought it was no big deal as the man was hiding in a store and defending himself from what I presumed from an aggressive man that was hitting him but then I saw it was a woman that was hitting him and I was terrified at how he violently abused her and literally threw her into a glass window shattering it or ‘defended himself’ as a rape apologist would put it as”
Got that? Now equality is supposed to mean "We can be violent to you, but you can't dare be violent back! That's oppression and patriarchy and bad stuff! We're supposed to be treated BETTER than you, THAT'S equality!"
Last piece I want to quote:
The African-American community since being liberated by women’s suffrage has had a serious case of fatherless families or matriarchy this has resulted in black men not being educated by a fatherly figure in chivalry and feminist ideals have had to fill in the gap.
Roll the many flavors of irony in this around, savor the idiocy involved. They insisted fathers aren't important, they're disposable, but they're supposed to somehow 'educate the boys in chivalry'. A concept these feminists have displayed nothing but contempt for and rage at, but now they're unhappy because it's not there.
Of course, they ignore the fact that chivalry was a two-way street, a part for men AND women, because that doesn't fit their desires. But now, as a one-way "Women can do anything without consequence" idea, they want it taught. By the males they still insist really don't matter, except when they do, and that's only when and how we desire...
So why did Dick Gregory get away with a openly-committed crime in DC?
Blatant, and the kind that's put other people in jail?
The short version is that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department warned NBC News that it could not possess an actual high-capacity magazine, but NBC News went ahead and did it anyway. The MPD recommended a warrant for Gregory’s arrest, but that request was nixed by the D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan because — my paraphrase — Gregory was just too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent.
If I were someone jailed for possession of the same kind of mag, I'd be seeing if I could find a lawyer who wanted to go after the AG for this kind of selective prosecution. "So, AG Nathan, you refused to issue a warrant for Mr. Gregory because he's too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent, but had no problem prosecuting my client, a nice guy/woman with (fill in exemplary background here)?"
Frigging disgusting, but what do we expect from people like Nathan in a shithole like DC?
The short version is that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department warned NBC News that it could not possess an actual high-capacity magazine, but NBC News went ahead and did it anyway. The MPD recommended a warrant for Gregory’s arrest, but that request was nixed by the D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan because — my paraphrase — Gregory was just too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent.
If I were someone jailed for possession of the same kind of mag, I'd be seeing if I could find a lawyer who wanted to go after the AG for this kind of selective prosecution. "So, AG Nathan, you refused to issue a warrant for Mr. Gregory because he's too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent, but had no problem prosecuting my client, a nice guy/woman with (fill in exemplary background here)?"
Frigging disgusting, but what do we expect from people like Nathan in a shithole like DC?
The difference between our two camps
is that rape-culture skeptics are
actually happy to see proof that violent crime of all kinds, including
rape, is diminishing, while rape culturists are happiest when they see “proof” that the risk for rape is going up. Moral panic is oxygen to the
rape-culture movement, a movement that seeks to demonize all men and
victimize all women. And it is certainly easy to maintain an environment
of moral panic when media, academics and high-level politicians succumb
to the rape-culture myth.
Considering the past, anybody surprised?
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the "Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.
You're looking at either turning a blind eye in order to stay in with a rich asshole, or being a participant; one's disgusting, the other's worse.
Considering the past, anybody surprised?
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the "Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.
You're looking at either turning a blind eye in order to stay in with a rich asshole, or being a participant; one's disgusting, the other's worse.
They caught the slimeball who SWATed the man in Sentinel
and damn near got people killed.
“Holly confessed that he used Horton’s name and called in the bomb threats to 911 because he was angry with Horton,” the affidavit claims. “Holly told OSBI agents that he used two separate non functioning phones so that the phones could not be traced back to him.”
I don't know what the charges will be but I hope as heavy as possible.
“Holly confessed that he used Horton’s name and called in the bomb threats to 911 because he was angry with Horton,” the affidavit claims. “Holly told OSBI agents that he used two separate non functioning phones so that the phones could not be traced back to him.”
I don't know what the charges will be but I hope as heavy as possible.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Yeah, we really need another Holder
in the AG office. Such ethical people Obama wants in there.
Would you trust ANY school with this kind of oversight and control over your kids lives?
SIG has a statement on the latest BATF bullshit.
Damn. I think I'm with Correia, I want one. For reasons. Just have to find some gold or win a lottery first.
Well, of course they hate him. He had more balls than they, actually cared about this country, and didn't make the proper PC noises.
Please note that lots of people who kiss Bill Clintons' ass are whining about someone possibly lying about something.
Would you trust ANY school with this kind of oversight and control over your kids lives?
SIG has a statement on the latest BATF bullshit.
Damn. I think I'm with Correia, I want one. For reasons. Just have to find some gold or win a lottery first.
Well, of course they hate him. He had more balls than they, actually cared about this country, and didn't make the proper PC noises.
Please note that lots of people who kiss Bill Clintons' ass are whining about someone possibly lying about something.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
I have a confession to make
Last year, I became one of them; I wound up with a AR-15.
Specifically,
a Olympic Arms in 7.62x39.
Stop groaning; I'd heard the stories too, but a lot of digging was done beforehand(different story) that convinced me they'd fixed their problems. As to why that cartridge?
I did NOT want to add another cartridge to the mix I already have.
7.62x39 is legal for deer.
I just didn't want a .223.
So there.
So, I started learning the cleaning drill(following Anarchangels' advice), and manual of arms, and finding some sights. And stuff(Lord, all the STUFF you can stick on one...). So I thought I'd go over some of the things I've learned the past while. First, on the rifle itself.
Cleaning
I'd always heard the 'craps where it eats' stuff about how dirty they get from the direct impingement system, and how unreliable they are, etc. Also, when going through stuff at Arfcom, the opinions on how much to lube go to... extremes.* This is where Chris' post came in; simple and straightforward. Sent it to son in Army to see what he thought, who pronounced "That's a LOT better than most of the crap you hear(partial blame on him for my getting this, he convinced me this might be a good rifle to have)."
Using both factory ammo and handloads, I've found it to be not very dirty at all. As in "What's all the bitching about?" Chris' advice has worked nicely, it's been both fast and easy to clean.
The exception has been steel-case ammo(yes, I tried some Wolf); that leaves a LOT more fouling in the action, thus taking more time and effort to clean, but not a lot; mostly more CLP on more cloth to get it all out.
Why try it at all? I just wanted to know if it would fire reliably, and how dirty it would be in comparison.
Accuracy
I don't think there's much argument that a good AR can be quite accurate. In this cartridge, with good ammo, I've gotten 1" groups at 100 yards, and I'm looking forward to a chance to try it at longer distances. That 1" is with all factory ammo I've tried and the handloads I've tried(Hornady softpoints and FMJ, some ZMAX, and H4198 for powder); seems remarkably unpicky about ammo, long as it functions it shoots pretty tight).
The exception was the Wolf: it all went bang, and ejected and fed, but accuracy was nowhere near that of the other stuff. Something for emergency use only, your results may vary. This stuff has always been minute-of-clay-pigeon from a SKS, I'll note.
Reliability
The only problem I've had was due to magazines, not the rifle; the platform itself has just kept working(I'll cover the magazine problem below) with one exception: my hammer pin broke. Unusual; as son put it "That hardly EVER happens!" So a pair was ordered, both the hammer and trigger pins replaced, and the remaining one kept as a spare. Yes, I'll be getting another when can; I like the idea of spares.
Ergonomics
My only gripe there was the standard grip wasn't comfortable. A horrible problem solved by putting on a Hogue. No, I did not lose any springs or plungers in the process. Not quite as easy to manipulate the safety with the bigger grip, but I like it anyway.
Everything else is good. Yes the AR-10 receiver I saw with a bolt release on both sides was nice, but that's not an essential.
I paid a few dollars extra for the factory trigger job, and it's worth it: no creep and breaks clean. You could lighten it further, but for a general-use rifle this is fine.
Yes, that heavy barrel definitely adds weight, and just for the hell of it I can see building an upper with a lightweight barrel, but since this is primarily a target/hunting rifle, not really a problem.
Sights
The possibilities are mind-boggling: irons, dots, scopes, mounts. I wanted a red dot, and a set of irons for backup. Choices, choices... and yes, money was a factor.** This having a flat-top gas block, I'd need a front and rear for irons.
For the dot, I wound up using a Bushnell TRS-25. Son had one he'd been using for a couple of years with no problems, and it overall has good reviews. No, it's not a Aimpoint; but it can be had for less than a hundred bucks. I stuck it on a UTG riser to get it high enough, and it's worked very well. The sight's never shifted zero, and is still on the original battery. The riser, I couldn't ask more of. It's solid, fits well, and I've taken the unit off and put it back on numerous times and it's always stayed zeroed. It's a decent sight setup for a little under a hundred.
On iron sights
For the front I didn't want to risk melting a MagPul front sight, so looked around, and decided to try using a set of UTG irons(shut up, see 'money' and 'factor' above). No, not as precise as MagPul or something similar, but as backup sights they work. They've never shifted, and the front post doesn't wobble. I'm not as accurate with them as with the Bushnell, but that could well be my eyes.
Later on, I wanted to try out a scope. And yes, some people are going to scream when they read this: I'd picked up a spotting scope of the Hunter brand a couple of years back, and it's worked quite well. So when I found a 1-4x in that brand, I decided to give it a try. It's been on and off a few times, it's had a few hundred rounds fired under it, and no problems. Run it from 1x to 4x, no shift in POI, and it's held zero. No, the optics aren't as good as, say, a Trijicon Accupoint, but they're sharp and clear at a price I could afford. So far, so good.
And, to compound my sin, I used a set of off-brand extra-tall rings. They work. And, interestingly, I could take the scope off and put it back on without zero shifting. Inexpensive, but good.
Add-ons
As noted above, you can hang so much crap off an AR that it weighs more than a Thompson SMG with a hundred-round drum. Loaded.
I didn't want that, but I have done three things:
Primary Arms had the BAD levers on sale a while back, and I got one. I like it.
Brownells had a sale on a couple of months back on stocks. This rifle came with a A2 rifle-length stock, which I like. And then this sale showed up, and I thought about it, and got the SOPMOD set: carbine extension tube, spring, buffer and stock. I'd picked up a armorors wrench, and changing them out didn't take much.
Why? Partly because "I want it!", partly because, if I get a chance to be terminally rude to Bambi in the future, sometimes it gets damn cold in the woods in November, and being able to adjust the stock length for coat and such seems like a good thing.
The small thing: I drilled and tapped the forend at the front for a sling swivel stud.
Magazines
Couple of companies make AR mags with followers and- with standard-capacity mags- body curve designed for the more-tapered 7.62x39 cartridge. I'd heard that you could load up to five rounds in a standard 5.56 mag and it'd work; it does(In a five-round 5.56 mag you can only fit three 7.62 cartridges unless you modify the spring, in case you're wondering).
Speaking of, just to try it I picked up a couple of GI mags and cut them down to make a five and a ten-round magazine. Getting it right to hold the floorplate in was a pain, but they worked.
Here's the big thing:
Yes, when I wrote about the loads developed with the X-Treme plated bullets I was writing about my rifle. With them I'd occasionally have one of those flat noses hang up on the front of the magazine and not feed. No big deal for practice ammo, but on occasion something else happened: a round would hang up with the case mouth caught on that same spot. And that happened with ball as well as the practice stuff. Not good. Little digging led to this video; apparently this is not an uncommon thing, probably because of the greater taper of the case causing the cartridges to move forward at a slightly different angle. So I tried their fix: disassembled a magazine, use a dremel to cut that front lip down ~3/16", shaped a bevel on the inside, then used a flapsander wheel to smooth and polish it all. It worked.
So I did the same mod to half the magazines I had, then loaded five rounds of the practice stuff in each and took them to the range next visit. Why five? I'd found if there was going to be a problem it would be in that first five, and if it'd work with the plated stuff, it'd work with ball or softpoints.
With breaks every couple of mags to keep the heat down I went through all of them without a single FTF. I think that's problem solved. Yes, it's a pain having to do it, at least it's not a almost-unfixable-type problem.
End result
After having the thing for most of a year, I've become fond of it. It's accurate, reliable, easy to clean and easy to use, and if you've got the money and desire it's a friggin' Lego gun so far as modifying it.
As an aside, part of the reason for the AR-10 project idea was I had a chance to fire one in .308 one day. I was impressed with how the design tamed-down the recoil of that cartridge. Which brings me back to the upper I picked up with the idea of a build; putting together a lower is pretty standard, but for the cartridge... what to do, what to do...
*As in "Clean and lube, put it muzzle-down on newspaper overnight, if there are not oil stains on the paper in the morning you didn't use enough" on the wet side. No. I refuse to even consider this level of crap.
**Fact: any optic not of a name brand- preferably a higher-end- is a crapshoot.
Fact: lots of people, picking up a ACOG or Leupold or such isn't really an option. At least if they want to be able to buy ammo.
Fact: same for iron sights. A GOOD name-brand set is wonderful; if you're getting a set as backup in case your optic breaks, and you're a door-kicker in hostile places, you buy the best you can find, or if you're just willing to scrape to pay for the quality, you do; if you're not(or can't), and just want a way to aim if your optic craps out, you're going to look at lower-cost.
Yes, I'm aware that tomorrow the scope might start wandering like that Pentax red-dot I tried years ago. If it does, I'll have to deal with it.
Specifically,
Stop groaning; I'd heard the stories too, but a lot of digging was done beforehand(different story) that convinced me they'd fixed their problems. As to why that cartridge?
I did NOT want to add another cartridge to the mix I already have.
7.62x39 is legal for deer.
I just didn't want a .223.
So there.
So, I started learning the cleaning drill(following Anarchangels' advice), and manual of arms, and finding some sights. And stuff(Lord, all the STUFF you can stick on one...). So I thought I'd go over some of the things I've learned the past while. First, on the rifle itself.
Cleaning
I'd always heard the 'craps where it eats' stuff about how dirty they get from the direct impingement system, and how unreliable they are, etc. Also, when going through stuff at Arfcom, the opinions on how much to lube go to... extremes.* This is where Chris' post came in; simple and straightforward. Sent it to son in Army to see what he thought, who pronounced "That's a LOT better than most of the crap you hear(partial blame on him for my getting this, he convinced me this might be a good rifle to have)."
Using both factory ammo and handloads, I've found it to be not very dirty at all. As in "What's all the bitching about?" Chris' advice has worked nicely, it's been both fast and easy to clean.
The exception has been steel-case ammo(yes, I tried some Wolf); that leaves a LOT more fouling in the action, thus taking more time and effort to clean, but not a lot; mostly more CLP on more cloth to get it all out.
Why try it at all? I just wanted to know if it would fire reliably, and how dirty it would be in comparison.
Accuracy
I don't think there's much argument that a good AR can be quite accurate. In this cartridge, with good ammo, I've gotten 1" groups at 100 yards, and I'm looking forward to a chance to try it at longer distances. That 1" is with all factory ammo I've tried and the handloads I've tried(Hornady softpoints and FMJ, some ZMAX, and H4198 for powder); seems remarkably unpicky about ammo, long as it functions it shoots pretty tight).
The exception was the Wolf: it all went bang, and ejected and fed, but accuracy was nowhere near that of the other stuff. Something for emergency use only, your results may vary. This stuff has always been minute-of-clay-pigeon from a SKS, I'll note.
Reliability
The only problem I've had was due to magazines, not the rifle; the platform itself has just kept working(I'll cover the magazine problem below) with one exception: my hammer pin broke. Unusual; as son put it "That hardly EVER happens!" So a pair was ordered, both the hammer and trigger pins replaced, and the remaining one kept as a spare. Yes, I'll be getting another when can; I like the idea of spares.
Ergonomics
My only gripe there was the standard grip wasn't comfortable. A horrible problem solved by putting on a Hogue. No, I did not lose any springs or plungers in the process. Not quite as easy to manipulate the safety with the bigger grip, but I like it anyway.
Everything else is good. Yes the AR-10 receiver I saw with a bolt release on both sides was nice, but that's not an essential.
I paid a few dollars extra for the factory trigger job, and it's worth it: no creep and breaks clean. You could lighten it further, but for a general-use rifle this is fine.
Yes, that heavy barrel definitely adds weight, and just for the hell of it I can see building an upper with a lightweight barrel, but since this is primarily a target/hunting rifle, not really a problem.
Sights
The possibilities are mind-boggling: irons, dots, scopes, mounts. I wanted a red dot, and a set of irons for backup. Choices, choices... and yes, money was a factor.** This having a flat-top gas block, I'd need a front and rear for irons.
For the dot, I wound up using a Bushnell TRS-25. Son had one he'd been using for a couple of years with no problems, and it overall has good reviews. No, it's not a Aimpoint; but it can be had for less than a hundred bucks. I stuck it on a UTG riser to get it high enough, and it's worked very well. The sight's never shifted zero, and is still on the original battery. The riser, I couldn't ask more of. It's solid, fits well, and I've taken the unit off and put it back on numerous times and it's always stayed zeroed. It's a decent sight setup for a little under a hundred.
On iron sights
For the front I didn't want to risk melting a MagPul front sight, so looked around, and decided to try using a set of UTG irons(shut up, see 'money' and 'factor' above). No, not as precise as MagPul or something similar, but as backup sights they work. They've never shifted, and the front post doesn't wobble. I'm not as accurate with them as with the Bushnell, but that could well be my eyes.
Later on, I wanted to try out a scope. And yes, some people are going to scream when they read this: I'd picked up a spotting scope of the Hunter brand a couple of years back, and it's worked quite well. So when I found a 1-4x in that brand, I decided to give it a try. It's been on and off a few times, it's had a few hundred rounds fired under it, and no problems. Run it from 1x to 4x, no shift in POI, and it's held zero. No, the optics aren't as good as, say, a Trijicon Accupoint, but they're sharp and clear at a price I could afford. So far, so good.
And, to compound my sin, I used a set of off-brand extra-tall rings. They work. And, interestingly, I could take the scope off and put it back on without zero shifting. Inexpensive, but good.
Add-ons
As noted above, you can hang so much crap off an AR that it weighs more than a Thompson SMG with a hundred-round drum. Loaded.
I didn't want that, but I have done three things:
Primary Arms had the BAD levers on sale a while back, and I got one. I like it.
Brownells had a sale on a couple of months back on stocks. This rifle came with a A2 rifle-length stock, which I like. And then this sale showed up, and I thought about it, and got the SOPMOD set: carbine extension tube, spring, buffer and stock. I'd picked up a armorors wrench, and changing them out didn't take much.
Why? Partly because "I want it!", partly because, if I get a chance to be terminally rude to Bambi in the future, sometimes it gets damn cold in the woods in November, and being able to adjust the stock length for coat and such seems like a good thing.
The small thing: I drilled and tapped the forend at the front for a sling swivel stud.
Magazines
Couple of companies make AR mags with followers and- with standard-capacity mags- body curve designed for the more-tapered 7.62x39 cartridge. I'd heard that you could load up to five rounds in a standard 5.56 mag and it'd work; it does(In a five-round 5.56 mag you can only fit three 7.62 cartridges unless you modify the spring, in case you're wondering).
Speaking of, just to try it I picked up a couple of GI mags and cut them down to make a five and a ten-round magazine. Getting it right to hold the floorplate in was a pain, but they worked.
Here's the big thing:
Yes, when I wrote about the loads developed with the X-Treme plated bullets I was writing about my rifle. With them I'd occasionally have one of those flat noses hang up on the front of the magazine and not feed. No big deal for practice ammo, but on occasion something else happened: a round would hang up with the case mouth caught on that same spot. And that happened with ball as well as the practice stuff. Not good. Little digging led to this video; apparently this is not an uncommon thing, probably because of the greater taper of the case causing the cartridges to move forward at a slightly different angle. So I tried their fix: disassembled a magazine, use a dremel to cut that front lip down ~3/16", shaped a bevel on the inside, then used a flapsander wheel to smooth and polish it all. It worked.
So I did the same mod to half the magazines I had, then loaded five rounds of the practice stuff in each and took them to the range next visit. Why five? I'd found if there was going to be a problem it would be in that first five, and if it'd work with the plated stuff, it'd work with ball or softpoints.
With breaks every couple of mags to keep the heat down I went through all of them without a single FTF. I think that's problem solved. Yes, it's a pain having to do it, at least it's not a almost-unfixable-type problem.
End result
After having the thing for most of a year, I've become fond of it. It's accurate, reliable, easy to clean and easy to use, and if you've got the money and desire it's a friggin' Lego gun so far as modifying it.
As an aside, part of the reason for the AR-10 project idea was I had a chance to fire one in .308 one day. I was impressed with how the design tamed-down the recoil of that cartridge. Which brings me back to the upper I picked up with the idea of a build; putting together a lower is pretty standard, but for the cartridge... what to do, what to do...
*As in "Clean and lube, put it muzzle-down on newspaper overnight, if there are not oil stains on the paper in the morning you didn't use enough" on the wet side. No. I refuse to even consider this level of crap.
**Fact: any optic not of a name brand- preferably a higher-end- is a crapshoot.
Fact: lots of people, picking up a ACOG or Leupold or such isn't really an option. At least if they want to be able to buy ammo.
Fact: same for iron sights. A GOOD name-brand set is wonderful; if you're getting a set as backup in case your optic breaks, and you're a door-kicker in hostile places, you buy the best you can find, or if you're just willing to scrape to pay for the quality, you do; if you're not(or can't), and just want a way to aim if your optic craps out, you're going to look at lower-cost.
Yes, I'm aware that tomorrow the scope might start wandering like that Pentax red-dot I tried years ago. If it does, I'll have to deal with it.
Some more plated bullet test results
Under the heading of "Why hadn't I already done this?" was a comment that asked "How do these work in .303?" Well, now I have an idea
X-Treme 7.62 plated bullet, 123 grains, over 15.0 of 2400 powder, fired from a #4Mk1. This is definitely a 'Make some more for when can get to the outdoor range', so can try them at 50 and 100 yards from a solid rest.
First was low. WAAAY low; using the large 300-yard aperture it hit below the bottom of the outer ring, so flipped up the ladder and cranked it to 500. Which will probably, if past experience is any guide, put these pretty much on at 100.
And, in another test
.30-30 with same bullet over 9.0 grains Unique, bullet seated to an OAL of 2.58". These hit low too, but in this case didn't want to screw with the sight, that'll wait till later.
When I can try them at the other range, I'll try to get chrono readings, too.
X-Treme 7.62 plated bullet, 123 grains, over 15.0 of 2400 powder, fired from a #4Mk1. This is definitely a 'Make some more for when can get to the outdoor range', so can try them at 50 and 100 yards from a solid rest.
First was low. WAAAY low; using the large 300-yard aperture it hit below the bottom of the outer ring, so flipped up the ladder and cranked it to 500. Which will probably, if past experience is any guide, put these pretty much on at 100.
And, in another test
When I can try them at the other range, I'll try to get chrono readings, too.
"CSGV APPROVES ASSAULTING OLDER BLACK MEN!"
would be the headline if the media treated this the same way they treat other things.
Take due note of how many of these 'peace-loving' morons think the proper response to someone legally carrying a firearm is violent attack.
But we're unstable, dangerous people. Right.
Take due note of how many of these 'peace-loving' morons think the proper response to someone legally carrying a firearm is violent attack.
But we're unstable, dangerous people. Right.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
So the excuse for using flash-bangs in 85% of raids
is a large service of warrants without gunfire; problem is, how much gunfire did you see before that when all you were getting is minor drug paraphernalia?
Real translation: "We've got these, and we like using them, so piss off."
Wonder just how many injuries, from hearing loss on up, they've caused with this crap?
On Holder cutting back on asset forfeiture, more on the holes in the announcement. And an interesting bit of information:
...numerous news reports have found that drug cops patrolling the highways are more likely to pull over suspected drug couriers as they’re leaving major metropolitan areas than as they’re entering them. The reason is simple: As they enter, they’re more likely to be carrying drugs. As they’re leaving, they’re more likely to be carrying cash. Forfeiture provides an incentive for the police to wait until the drugs have been sold.
Real serving and protecting, huh?
Be it noted: Michael Moore is a lying, corrupt, hypocritical chickenshit who wants to slime people and then pretend he didn't.
And either his knowledge of history is crap, or he's pulling this out of his ass; Jesse James was shot by a sniper? Really, asshole?
I think I first read the phrase "Jews are the canaries in the coal mine" from Joe Huffman; if I were a Jew in Europe right now, I'd be thinking real hard about getting out. Israel or here, with here having a preference because unless you end up in one of the People's Republics it's easy to own arms.
And I'd want them.
Well, of course Democrats and media are crapping on her; she's not a Democrat or a leftist, so she barely counts as human, let alone female.
Hey, that retired general whacking on the M-16 family? Seems there's a bit of interesting history on the guy; go take a look.
That's about all I'm going to mess with for now, as the health situation has moved to dry coughing, headache and other connected unpleasantness.
Real translation: "We've got these, and we like using them, so piss off."
Wonder just how many injuries, from hearing loss on up, they've caused with this crap?
On Holder cutting back on asset forfeiture, more on the holes in the announcement. And an interesting bit of information:
...numerous news reports have found that drug cops patrolling the highways are more likely to pull over suspected drug couriers as they’re leaving major metropolitan areas than as they’re entering them. The reason is simple: As they enter, they’re more likely to be carrying drugs. As they’re leaving, they’re more likely to be carrying cash. Forfeiture provides an incentive for the police to wait until the drugs have been sold.
Real serving and protecting, huh?
Be it noted: Michael Moore is a lying, corrupt, hypocritical chickenshit who wants to slime people and then pretend he didn't.
And either his knowledge of history is crap, or he's pulling this out of his ass; Jesse James was shot by a sniper? Really, asshole?
I think I first read the phrase "Jews are the canaries in the coal mine" from Joe Huffman; if I were a Jew in Europe right now, I'd be thinking real hard about getting out. Israel or here, with here having a preference because unless you end up in one of the People's Republics it's easy to own arms.
And I'd want them.
Well, of course Democrats and media are crapping on her; she's not a Democrat or a leftist, so she barely counts as human, let alone female.
Hey, that retired general whacking on the M-16 family? Seems there's a bit of interesting history on the guy; go take a look.
That's about all I'm going to mess with for now, as the health situation has moved to dry coughing, headache and other connected unpleasantness.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Never believe ANYTHING from the CSGV & Co.
Unless they say they're lying; THEN you can believe them.
OSBI says they have gone through phones at the home where they thought the bomb threat originated and found the phone calls did not come from that location.OSBI says the man who shot a Sentinel police chief will not be arrested at this time. Agents interviewed the man and believe he was unaware it was officers entering his home.
Not exactly 'Racist gun nut shoots black officer and gets away with it!', is it?
In the ER, expensive tattoos abound. Piercing is ubiquitous. Almost every adult and child has a smartphone, it seems. All too many spend the duration of their ER visit glaring at the screen of said phone; barely looking up at the physician who is attempting to engage them in meaningful conversation about the reason they came for care.
Cigarettes populate purses and drug screens are notoriously positive for at least chronic narcotic pain medications, but often other substances, among them marijuana and amphetamines.
Dental care? It is regularly ignored because, in the words of my patients, “I don’t have dental insurance.” Guess what. Neither do I, and I pay a lot for insurance. Dental care has typically been a cash business. That’s why dentists, crafty guys and gals that they are, spend their time mucking around the human mouth. Floss and toothpaste? Seems a bit excessive compared to a nice new tattoo.
OSBI says they have gone through phones at the home where they thought the bomb threat originated and found the phone calls did not come from that location.OSBI says the man who shot a Sentinel police chief will not be arrested at this time. Agents interviewed the man and believe he was unaware it was officers entering his home.
Not exactly 'Racist gun nut shoots black officer and gets away with it!', is it?
In the ER, expensive tattoos abound. Piercing is ubiquitous. Almost every adult and child has a smartphone, it seems. All too many spend the duration of their ER visit glaring at the screen of said phone; barely looking up at the physician who is attempting to engage them in meaningful conversation about the reason they came for care.
Cigarettes populate purses and drug screens are notoriously positive for at least chronic narcotic pain medications, but often other substances, among them marijuana and amphetamines.
Dental care? It is regularly ignored because, in the words of my patients, “I don’t have dental insurance.” Guess what. Neither do I, and I pay a lot for insurance. Dental care has typically been a cash business. That’s why dentists, crafty guys and gals that they are, spend their time mucking around the human mouth. Floss and toothpaste? Seems a bit excessive compared to a nice new tattoo.
There is a problem with this
“I don’t see any justice in just sentencing someone to die…To me, the
justice is in someone living with what they have done to you, your
family, and having to live with that for the rest of their life knowing
they will never walk out those bars.”
The piece of shit this was referring to was this man, who raped and murdered an 11-month-old child. And the problem is that someone capable of that is very unlikely to have trouble 'living with what they've done to you'; more likely he'd spend his years in prison gaming parole boards to try to get out, using smuggled-in drugs, and raping new inmates.
Personally, I'm not going to lose any sleep over his assuming ambient temperature.
The piece of shit this was referring to was this man, who raped and murdered an 11-month-old child. And the problem is that someone capable of that is very unlikely to have trouble 'living with what they've done to you'; more likely he'd spend his years in prison gaming parole boards to try to get out, using smuggled-in drugs, and raping new inmates.
Personally, I'm not going to lose any sleep over his assuming ambient temperature.
Apparently the Air Force really wants to dump the A-10
...USAF officers were being told by Post, "If anyone accuses me of this,
I will deny it... Anyone who is passing information to Congress about A-10 capabilities is committing treason."
That kind of threat, coming from a general officer... I think someone needs to have words with him.
'No boots on the ground(that we'll admit to).'
Unofficially a growing number of American troops in Iraq are fighting, either as part of SOCOM (Special Operations Command) actions or a growing number of air controller teams that are officially not in action (except occasionally with the Kurds) with Iraqi troops but increasingly are. The American government is obsessed with there being no American casualties in Iraq, especially in ground combat. Commanders are warned that their careers are on the line with this. In other words, commanders can put their troops in harm’s way, but if any of them are hurt there will be career consequences.
Sounds just like these bastards, doesn't it? "You must use your troops, but if any of them get hurt it's YOUR fault! WE have no responsibility for it."
Speaking of assholes, it appears they're in full screech mode about American Sniper; they flat hate anything that makes our troops look like the human beings they are instead of horrible murdering racists and such. Including this kind of bullshit:
One member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the governing body that awards the Oscars, said Kyle “seems like he may be a sociopath.” That voter admitted he hadn’t seen the movie, only read an article in The New Republic about it.
I have got to see this once I can sit through it without coughing fits.
That kind of threat, coming from a general officer... I think someone needs to have words with him.
'No boots on the ground(that we'll admit to).'
Unofficially a growing number of American troops in Iraq are fighting, either as part of SOCOM (Special Operations Command) actions or a growing number of air controller teams that are officially not in action (except occasionally with the Kurds) with Iraqi troops but increasingly are. The American government is obsessed with there being no American casualties in Iraq, especially in ground combat. Commanders are warned that their careers are on the line with this. In other words, commanders can put their troops in harm’s way, but if any of them are hurt there will be career consequences.
Sounds just like these bastards, doesn't it? "You must use your troops, but if any of them get hurt it's YOUR fault! WE have no responsibility for it."
Speaking of assholes, it appears they're in full screech mode about American Sniper; they flat hate anything that makes our troops look like the human beings they are instead of horrible murdering racists and such. Including this kind of bullshit:
One member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the governing body that awards the Oscars, said Kyle “seems like he may be a sociopath.” That voter admitted he hadn’t seen the movie, only read an article in The New Republic about it.
I have got to see this once I can sit through it without coughing fits.
"Nobody wants to take your guns, you wingnut!"
My ass, they don't.
An advisory panel charged with looking at public safety in the wake of the deadly Newtown school shooting agreed Friday to include in its final report a recommendation to ban the sale and possession of any gun that can fire more than 10 rounds without reloading.
Let's see, just how many rifles, shotguns and handguns does that cover? Don't forget that wording 'that CAN fire'; that means anything that ever in any way could be able to fire ten or more. So if your shotgun can take an extension tube, say goodbye. ANYTHING capable of holding a detachable magazine is gone. Hell, there are antique revolvers that could be banned.
But the ignorant and the liars will keep insisting that 'Nobody wants to do that!'
Reminds me of someone here a few years back that had a column in a weekly paper who started a column with "Look, this is not about taking your guns, so stop worrying about that" and the second paragraph was "Except the assault weapons, THOSE have got to go!"
An advisory panel charged with looking at public safety in the wake of the deadly Newtown school shooting agreed Friday to include in its final report a recommendation to ban the sale and possession of any gun that can fire more than 10 rounds without reloading.
Let's see, just how many rifles, shotguns and handguns does that cover? Don't forget that wording 'that CAN fire'; that means anything that ever in any way could be able to fire ten or more. So if your shotgun can take an extension tube, say goodbye. ANYTHING capable of holding a detachable magazine is gone. Hell, there are antique revolvers that could be banned.
But the ignorant and the liars will keep insisting that 'Nobody wants to do that!'
Reminds me of someone here a few years back that had a column in a weekly paper who started a column with "Look, this is not about taking your guns, so stop worrying about that" and the second paragraph was "Except the assault weapons, THOSE have got to go!"
Covers the 'anti-muslim backlash' bullcrap pretty well
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want an anti-Muslim backlash, but in all of
this talk of Islamophobia, it seems the most acute and relevant phobia is the fear our elites have of their own people. The rabble can’t be
trusted to keep things in perspective. While the story was still
unfolding in Paris, Steven Erlanger, the New York Times’s London bureau chief, was invited on Shep Smith’s show for a “phoner.” Erlanger couldn’t resist starting the interview
by warning Fox about how “careful” it needs to be covering the story.
The Eloi must be ever vigilant not to arouse the Morlocks, don’t you
know. It was this sentiment that no doubt motivated the Times to edit its own reporting on the attack, removing any reference to the fact that one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers spared a woman’s life — and advised her she needed to convert to Islam.
You can almost hear the editors saying, “Look, if we leave that in, the
little people might get the impression this had something to do with
Islam. We know it does, but we can handle that truth. The flyover people
might miss the nuances.”
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Yes, the BATFEIEIO is full of shit
Yes, they do this crap because they know with Holder and Obama around, almost no way they'll be held to account.*
Find an actual conservative/libertarian type being elected to the top office, you'll probably see a bunch of these clowns retiring or 'accepting an offer' from somewhere; the won't want to be around when a serious investigation starts.
You can get into some serious argument on the idea of not using the sights in a defensive situation, which I find troubling for precisely this reason:
So, that brings us to the 800# gorilla in the room: most people won’t focus on their sights under stress. It’s something we all know (often from personal experience simply doing stressful practice drills) but many “serious” shooters want to ignore. We’ve all been taught “front sight, trigger press” as a mantra and it’s essentially a sin to do otherwise.
Reality, however, is different. Many folks simply don’t want to accept it.
Dad spent a long time in a LE agency, and for a looong time part of their qualification was pretty much based on the Bill Jordan method: Up close, hipshoot; as distance increases, get it out in front so you can see it for better accuracy. He did the real close stuff one-handed, the agency Dad worked for stressed using both hands unless there's some reason you can't, like being REAL close. It worked.
Real reason the CDC hasn't been willing to start more 'public-safety gun research': there are people in Congress who, when whined to that "We need more money!", will ask why they spent 'X' amount playing SJW on firearms when they were supposedly short on money for work on actual diseases? And they don't have real good answers.
The mayor of DC is a slimy bastard; you expect anything more?
*Also, the leadership of the Stupid Party doesn't have the balls or will to seriously go after them, still. And most of the Evil Party leadership likes them doing it.
Find an actual conservative/libertarian type being elected to the top office, you'll probably see a bunch of these clowns retiring or 'accepting an offer' from somewhere; the won't want to be around when a serious investigation starts.
You can get into some serious argument on the idea of not using the sights in a defensive situation, which I find troubling for precisely this reason:
So, that brings us to the 800# gorilla in the room: most people won’t focus on their sights under stress. It’s something we all know (often from personal experience simply doing stressful practice drills) but many “serious” shooters want to ignore. We’ve all been taught “front sight, trigger press” as a mantra and it’s essentially a sin to do otherwise.
Reality, however, is different. Many folks simply don’t want to accept it.
Dad spent a long time in a LE agency, and for a looong time part of their qualification was pretty much based on the Bill Jordan method: Up close, hipshoot; as distance increases, get it out in front so you can see it for better accuracy. He did the real close stuff one-handed, the agency Dad worked for stressed using both hands unless there's some reason you can't, like being REAL close. It worked.
Real reason the CDC hasn't been willing to start more 'public-safety gun research': there are people in Congress who, when whined to that "We need more money!", will ask why they spent 'X' amount playing SJW on firearms when they were supposedly short on money for work on actual diseases? And they don't have real good answers.
The mayor of DC is a slimy bastard; you expect anything more?
*Also, the leadership of the Stupid Party doesn't have the balls or will to seriously go after them, still. And most of the Evil Party leadership likes them doing it.
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