Sunday, May 22, 2016

The geniuses surrounding Clinton...

An advisor to Hillay Clinton said that Heller was “wrongly decided.” But she has absolutely no idea what the case held.
“Clinton believes Heller was wrongly decided in that cities and states should have the power to craft common sense laws to keep their residents safe, like safe storage laws to prevent toddlers from accessing guns,” Maya Harris, a policy adviser to Clinton, said in an e-mailed statement. “In overturning Washington D.C.’s safe storage law, Clinton worries that Heller may open the door to overturning thoughtful, common sense safety measures in the future.”
The critical, constitutional issue, was whether the District of Columbia could ban the private ownership of handguns. The case in no way affected “safe storage laws.” In fact, the District of Columbia still has safe storage laws in effect.
But she'll respect the rights of hunters(nobody else).  Sure. 


And then there's who President HopeyChangey invites to the White House:
We broke this story on Wednesday, that Charles Wade, a Black Lives Matter and Ferguson ‘activist’, had been arrested on multiple human trafficking and prostitution charges for allegedly pimping out a 17 year old girl in a Howard Johnson’s in Maryland. The 7 counts include serious felonies with up to 25 years and $15,000 fines.


So I guess it's not racist or something when a leftist SJB type says "Those stupid Native Americans just don't understand!"



I have to say that researching into black-powder and smokeless loads for .45/70 is kind of fascinating.  In a time-consuming way.  Everything from lubes, to powder, to which F of black, to what kind of paper for patching...

8 comments:

B said...

The only thing you need worry about when paper patching is the thickness of the paper. 3 wraps and the bullet can't exceed 0.503" (that is the upper limit of what you can size down to .458. generally).

Lubes on paper patching are a whole 'nother rabbit whole////but generally any will work...

You have a whole series of rabbit holes to chase through....

Arthur said...

If you get your lube right do you really need paper patching?

Firehand said...

From what I'm reading, probably not. But he wants to give it a try. And a lot of people seem to swear by it.

I tried it once in .30-30 with a cast bullet. It worked, and you got this pretty spray of confetti when it left the barrel

Arthur said...

"...pretty spray of confetti when it left the barrel"

Which always led me to think '*That* can't be good for accuracy...'

I don't have much experience with sabots, but I would think that a wound paper sabot would be hard to get right.

Firehand said...

Basically, it takes the place of grooves full of lube, allowing you to drive a bullet to pretty good velocities. Paper patches have even been used to 'enlarge' jacketed bullets to properly fit an oversize bore.

So the whole idea is for the patch, once the job is done, to go away as the bullet leaves the muzzle, thus the confetti.

In case you'd like to take a look, here's the forum at Cast Boolits
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/forumdisplay.php?38-Black-Powder-Paper-Patching

and this guys' page: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jessie/PPB/PPB.htm

Arthur said...

Yeah, I understand the principle, it's just that messing with the projectiles weight mid-flight seems wonky to me. Purely on instinct! I limit myself to trying to use regular jacketed or cast bullets in decent steel bores driven by nice clean smokeless.

That and if we're talking black powder, I would think leading would take a distant back seat to the fouling black itself leaves behind.

I'll definitely check the links though.

Honestly the only reason I've any hankering for black powder at all is this Hungarian military historian's channel -
CapandBall

Clover leafs with a 150 year old gun makes me want one.

Arthur said...

Heh, ok and within 30 seconds I found my answer: some bullets don't come with grease grooves! Dur...

I knew about lube cookies, but patching never occurred to me for some reason.

Firehand said...

Clover leafs with a 150 year old gun makes me want one.
Doesn't it, though?