Another bit of ammo testing, and now that I can add pictures,

this time the venerable .45 Colt, ammo from Fiocchi*

Pretty close to the original on ballistics, with a FMJ bullet for range use.  Test gun was a Ruger Blackhawk with a 7.5" barrel.  First shots at 10 yards from a rest were nice,

even with me pulling the last one.  Same range offhand produced nothing special(that's on me)

Now moved it back to 15 yards offhand, and

which is not bad at all.  One of the nice things is that this barrel length puts the front sight far enough out that I can get it fairly sharp.

For the last of today's groups, I moved it back to 20 yards and fired offhand:

That far up & right was the first shot.  Then I settled in more solidly, and when I ran the target back I was amazed.  I'd have been very happy with that group from a rest, seems I had a good day.  Or fate is setting me up for a future "Why can't I hit anything!?" day.

I saved half the ammo for more testing later, I'd like to shoot it at 25 and 50 yards.  This stuff was consistent, everything ejected easily, and accuracy was all I could expect.  I've fired other Fiocchi ammo with nice results from all of it, and a friend using their .300 Blackout with the 125-grain SST bullet had a clean kill on a deer.  Their .22 LR I've tried has been quite nice in accuracy as well.  This stuff adds to the list.

*Supplied by Widener's

An experiment: Let's say he's upset with the heat, so no donation for them

Nazaroff told the Daily Caller he always strove to support law enforcement in the past, and claimed he donated ammunition to the MTOA for their previous training conferences. That changed, however, when his business was fined by a local police officer during Covid-19 lockdowns for not complying with mask mandates.

“Respect has to go both ways,” Nazaroff told the Caller, later accusing the MTOA of “whole-hog deepthroating Gretchen Whitmer’s high heels two years ago.”

The experiment part is Blogger says 'if you fix the offensive part we'll review the post', but they don't tell you what part offended someone.  So I altered the title a bit; the rest is direct from a news story.  We'll see if this changes anything.

That's some high-level delusional right there

The probable cause statement said the maid asked to see Corrado’s grandmother, so he took her to the bedroom, where there was a blue tarp. Deputies said Corrado removed the tarp and showed the maid his grandmother, who had a bag over her head.

“When [the maid] attempted to remove the bag from [the victim], Corrado told her to stop and that she would get blood everywhere,” the probable cause statement said.

The document alleged that Corrado asked the housekeeper to help him get rid of the body and clean the home before his grandfather got home. When the woman told him to call 911, Corrado said he could not because he would “go back to prison,” according to the statement.

I hope she sues every damned one of them,

preferably for everything they and their networks have.
This guy Richey should be the first one, because he really earned it.

The main antagonist, The Young Turks’ Rashad Richey, blasted the woman’s name and her place of employment onto the web and explicitly called for her firing. He even put the CEO of her hospital on screen and appealed directly to him to dispose of her in his segment, which he titled, “Karen Weaponizes White Tears To Hijack Black Man’s E-Bike.”

Being the cowardly organization that it is, NYC Health + Hospitals suspended its employee before apparently bothering to look into the case at all. White people targeted by online racialized mobs, after all, don’t deserve the benefit of due process.

The issue for the race-baiter is that the entire hoax was fabricated. The physician’s assistant, Sarah Comrie, through her attorney, provided receipts proving she had purchased the bike.
...
Richey’s original defamatory video was quietly scrubbed from the archives a few days after upload — unfortunately for Comrie — after the damage had been done.

Presumably under advisement from his lawyers, Richey recently uploaded an “apology” video to clarify his defamatory statements, and it’s a doozy.
Bastards.

Well, I was going to post some pictures, but effing Google won't let me unless I sign in; except

I'm already signed in.  And it won't let me get to the 'sign in' box, and they says 'The request is malformed, that's all we know'.

Effing Google.

Being home and tired out, ran across this from Sarah Hoyt on lies,

in particular the bullshit that slavery started in the US and only affected black Africans.
I don’t know who thought it was brilliant to tell black people in the US that they were the first people enslaved in history, ever, and that it was all due to racism. I know they were already doing this in the 80s and before, because, after finding out a black friend believed this (and disabusing her) I confronted another friend who was a history teacher and she told me that of course they couldn’t tell black people that slavery had been endemic since pre-history, mostly among groups so homogeneous we can’t tell them apart, or that most black people brought to the US were enslaved by Arab traders. Why couldn’t they tell them that? “It will hurt their self esteem.”

I don’t know about you, but to my mind that is bizarre and exactly opposite. To think my people were the only people so weak as to be treated as chattel by other humans, and/or that every other race hated us would instead reduce me to a gibbering mess, and it probably explains the demand for reparations from people who were never slaves paid by people who never held slaves.

And continues on the women being utterly without agency and unable to own property till sometime in the 20th century stuff.

Lots of distance to cover today,

so maybe something tonight.  If there's time and I'm not dead.

A vaccine for arthritis?

 I really hope this works out.

Another of those wonderful people in Higher Education,

especially, it seems, in the Arts:
Shellyne Rodriguez was sacked by Hunter College just hours after the adjunct professor was caught on camera holding the blade to the veteran reporter’s neck while threatening to “chop” him up outside her Bronx apartment.
This is after another situation in which she cursed at student, and damaged their table display, for daring to be against the holy sacrament of abortion.


Then we have John Effing Kerry, again, lecturing us about changing our eating habits because, as the WEF insists, 
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production is essential to the global fight against climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Wednesday.
He said this during a break in his private jet flights around the world.  Which don't count for fighting Climate Change because he's Important, not some peasant who can wait around for a commercial flight.  And what would it look like to all the other Important people if he didn't show up in his private jet?  The embarrassment!


And last, I have to admit that these are some gun laws I can't really argue with.

Ah, another cultural import to deal with

Ever hear of Santa Muerte?  I'd heard of it, a bit; BRM has a lot more.

I'm sure all the illegals flooding across the border will bring us even more cultural enrichment to deal with.

A 2-bore rifle...

I cannot imagine firing this thing

Andrew Sullivan can be a first-class squirrel- remember his fixation on Sarah Palin's kid?-

but he can do some thinking, and he's got real problems with the current gender dysphoria crap, including
You might imagine that, given this record, the queers would go out of their way to reassure us, to show how tight the safeguarding is, how they screen thoroughly to ensure that gay kids are not swept up in this. But they regard the very question of whether gay kids are at risk as out of bounds. Here’s a queer activist writer, Masha Gessen, saying that one thing “should be off limits” in this debate:
[In the NYT] there’s a [paraphrased] quote from Andrew Sullivan, the conservative gay journalist, who says, Well, maybe these people would’ve been gay—implying they’re really gay and not really transgender. That really clearly veers into the territory of saying ‘These people don’t exist. They’re not who they say they are.’ So that’s why it’s so painful.
No it doesn’t. It’s perfectly possible to believe that transgender people exist, but that children may not know who or what they are before they’ve even gone through puberty. I’ll defend the right of adults to define themselves as they wish and take irreversible medical measures as they please. I’d march in defense of those rights. I’m just saying something that we recognize in every other area: children are different. And children should not be self-diagnosing a medical condition.

In the same interview, Gessen also says that we can’t “distinguish [being homosexual] from being transgender” anymore. To which I have to ask: if we can’t tell the difference among adults, how on earth can we with prepubescent children? And if we can’t, and the treatment is irreversible, the safest option is to let them be until they’re adult enough to decide.

Don't agree with him on all points, but he's damn well right on some.

In the name of Green, we must kill birds

and bats and insects, destroy habitat, destroy archeological sites, and still have unreliable and expensive electricity!  It's for the CHILDREN!!"  Etc.
Over the last few years, this swathe of desert has been steadily carpeted with one of the world’s largest concentrations of solar power plants, forming a sprawling photovoltaic sea. On the ground, the scale is almost incomprehensible. The Riverside East Solar Energy Zone – the ground zero of California’s solar energy boom – stretches for 150,000 acres, making it 10 times the size of Manhattan.
...
But there’s one thing that the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – the agency tasked with facilitating these projects on public land – doesn’t seem to have fully taken into account: the desert isn’t quite as empty as it thought. It might look like a barren wilderness, but this stretch of the Mojave is a rich and fragile habitat for endangered species and home to thousand-year-old carbon-capturing woodlands, ancient Indigenous cultural sites – and hundreds of people’s homes.
...
Kevin Emmerich worked for the National Park Service for over 20 years before setting up Basin & Range Watch in 2008, a non-profit that campaigns to conserve desert life. He says solar plants create myriad environmental problems, including habitat destruction and “lethal death traps” for birds, which dive at the panels, mistaking them for water.

He says one project bulldozed 600 acres of designated critical habitat for the endangered desert tortoise, while populations of Mojave fringe-toed lizards and bighorn sheep have also been afflicted. “We’re trying to solve one environmental problem by creating so many others.”
And on, and on.  But it's all good, because Green Energy!  Unreliable, and damaging, but Green!

I feel like a small bit of clearing

As promised, I did remember

to post at a regular time.

Well, yeah, they figured out fire;

think slow-smoked mammoth brisket, that must've been a treat.

The tumbler is dead,

which is kind of nice because I was tired of messing with it.

Lyman tumbler I bought... at least 25 years ago, best I can figure.  No telling how many cases have been through it.  Then, a few months ago it started making bad rattley noises which I could not figure out why, and the other day it flat died.

So a new tumbler is in order.  Especially since the weather and knees are becoming more amenable to such, which means I'll have brass to clean.

As a side note, the knee done last April is pretty good.  The one from October is still having some trouble,  mainly when the weather is changing, but it has improved a lot.

Now I need to get a couple of things done, and hopefully not forget the 7th evening stuff.

I just realized last night's visual data dump was missed,

so this time it's a morning post

The desire for hate crimes still far exceeds the supply

Woman tries to rent a bike to get home.  Some black guys screw with her.  She gets very upset.  This becomes 'White woman tries to steal bike from black man', with the Usual Suspects doing their usual racist act.

Slight problem.  It was bullshit, and some of them knew it when they started screaming.  And a bunch of Professional Journalists, having learned nothing, jumped right on 'evil white woman weaponizing her tears to harm black men'.

I hope she sues every one of the lying bastards involved for everything they have.

To take some of the bad taste out of the mouth, a bit of ammo testing

A .300 Blackout day, starting with two handloads:

First, the disclaimer:
This did not come out of a manual, and involved some "This works with that bullet, so it should work with this one", so be warned: if you try these, you're on your own.

One was the 200-grain Berry's plated bullet over 8.0 grains of Lil Gun, which at 30 yards off a so-so rest produced this

Not bad, nothing to write home about.  

Second load used 8.2 of the same propellant

Either I settled into the rest better, or it liked that extra .2 grains.  
Unfortunately, no way to run it over the Chrony, that'll have to wait for another day.  Which should also involve longer distances as well.  I think these would be very quieted by a can, too.

The last is courtesy of Widener's, who were nice enough to provide some ammo* to try out.  This is a brand I'd never heard of before, Ammo Incorporated

The box says 1850fps at the muzzle.  How'd it shoot at 30?  Not bad

This will definitely be tried at 50, 100, and 200 if possible.

Further testing on all three will require both time and Ma Nature not threatening to wash me away, so may be a while.  But it will be done.

*There were a couple of others, too.  Get to them as I can.

And once more we have the "We'll fix it!" bullshit from the EffingBI

"As Director Wray has made clear, the errors described in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s opinion are completely unacceptable," a senior FBI official told Fox News Friday. "As a result of the audits that revealed these instances of noncompliance, the FBI changed its querying procedures to make sure these errors do not happen again. These steps have led to significant improvement in the way we conduct queries of lawfully obtained Section 702 information."
Bullshit.  He's said the same kind of shit over and over when his Very Special Agents got caught violating law, regulation, and their damned oath to the Constitution.  

Anybody believe that these bastard excuses for peace officers will pay any price for all the violations?

Not surprising. The USSR was right in the middle of the 'environmental movement'

for a long time, so why not the PRC?  They know a good thing(for them)when they see it.
What was remarkable about this meeting, though, was the surprising presence of an external delegation: joining the CCP apparatchiks on a collection of screens dotted around the room were a number of enthusiastic Britons and other Westerners. According to the official conference report, the “foreign committee members and partners lauded China’s ecological civilisation building and its new and greater contributions to promoting the construction of a clean and beautiful world”.

Who were these people? Strange to tell, they consisted of a veritable Who’s Who of British, European and American climate activists.
Who express their admiration of the PRC and its 'environmental goals'.  Even when they shit all over the activists.  Because either 'There are no enemies on the left!', or straight-up embarrassment.  The former being how they became nicknamed watermelons.

We have one case of the feds actually doing something right,

The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog began a probe last year after U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins attended a Democratic fundraiser last July featuring first lady Jill Biden, despite advice that this would violate ethics guidelines.

“We found Rollins’s conduct described throughout this report violated federal regulations, numerous DOJ policies, her Ethics Agreement, and applicable law, and fell far short of the standards of professionalism and judgment that the Department should expect of any employee, much less a U.S. Attorney,” the DOJ inspector general’s office said in its report.
And she, whether under pressure or because she actually has a sense of shame, is resigning.

And then we have more bullshit
Two agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited the childhood home of a pro-life activist and told the woman’s mother that they wanted to speak with her, according to footage obtained by The Daily Signal.

Elise Ketch is a member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, a group of mostly left-leaning activists who believe that abortion is the murder of a human child. PAAU particularly gained prominence after the group exposed the bodies of five premie-sized aborted babies, known as “The Five,” from the clinic of Washington, D.C., abortionist Cesare Santangelo.
Not her home, not her lawyer, not a phone call to her first.  She thinks this is trying to intimidate her, and my first thought-especially considering the current state of the Sacred Bureau, is that she's right.

Be nice to have a lot more of the first story, wouldn't it?

It's always nice when they say one of the quiet parts out loud,

such as how some leftists admit they want illegal aliens for cheap unskilled labor.

It appears a lot of Democrats still want them some slaves.

I need, not a vacation,

I need to just run away for a while.  Makes having a home and people who depend on you to some extent a problem, because you can't just go away.

Yeah, the state of our world is worrying and wearing.  I'm really sick of finding that people and organizations I trusted cannot be; that those who might not be corrupt themselves(to the extent others are), most of them will carry out their orders: "I need my job/I worked hard to get here", etc.  

Consider the tax collection agency of this country.  When Obama decided on a very guilty tax evader to be his Treasury Secretary, the IRS made the clown a special deal so he could do it.  We're told that the professional auditors and such were horrified and furious, but the agency did it.  And has demonstrated just how corrupt much of the leadership is; they just got rid of the whole team of investigators who'd been doing the Hunter Biden job, at the 'request' of the 'Justice' Department.  The 'J'D being so corrupt at this point that no more need be said.

And on.  And on.

Now let's talk about all those Professional Journalists who have demonstrated they really ARE just Democrat operatives with bylines.  Slanted news, 'Go after those guys and ignore what our guys are doing/have done', and flat-out lies combined with a level of bigotry that's horrifying.

To borrow a line from 'Jaws', it's enough to piss off the Good Humor man.

Throw in the personal stuff(no, I'm not needing another surgery, just family stuff that's been difficult), and that running away idea sounds better and better.

 

Some are speaking about our sold-out Professional Journalists, Link to Texas mall shooting updated

for what good it may do.


We have a choice here: Hiding out or dead?
The US Virgin Islands is unable to subpoena Google co-founder Larry Page over potential ties to Jeffrey Epstein because he cannot be physically located, federal court filings reveal.

A motion filed by the attorney general for the US Virgin Islands said investigators tried to identify a physical address at which Page, 50, could be personally summoned to appear in a court.

After identifying four possible addresses, none of which were 'valid', prosecutors are requesting the federal government allow Page to be summoned via Alphabet, Google's parent company, as he is still a member of its board.


I do wonder if Seattle will manage to claw back a bit, or if they're so far in the toilet there's no escape.
The co-chair of a King County Regional Homelessness Authority committee defended a registered sex offender’s appointment to a committee. But the committee includes one of his alleged victims. When the victim spoke up, she was loudly shouted down. And now the KCRHA is looking to remove the co-chair from her position.

And note this part of the 'defense' of putting this bastard on the committee:
Coulston, however, decided to argue this just made this jackwagon more qualified because sex offenders make up a decent-sized percentage of the homeless.
I will leave you to consider what this says about the 'homeless' and the actions needed thereof.


The "I love guns, but-" witness at that Texas mall shooting turns out to be a liar.  UPDATE: here's another link.


No, it wouldn't surprise me if the number of illegals had something to do with it.


Also thanks to Wirecutter,

There's nothing to replace the power they want to shut off(because Climate Change!),

but they're just certain the Magical Underpants Gnome will show up in the nick of time and save it all.

Or they just want to trash the grid and don't actually care what happens to the country.  Or the world, for that matter.

Just like Robert Byrd, as long as they can keep her in office they will,

because she's a reliable 'vote', and the clowns around her really don't want to lose their position, and the Party can use her.
Multiple sources tell Rolling Stone that in recent years Feinstein’s office had an on-call system — unbeknownst to Feinstein herself — to prevent the senator from ever walking around the Capitol on her own. At any given moment there was a staff member ready to jump up and stroll alongside the senator if she left her office, worried about what she’d say to reporters if left unsupervised. The system has been in place for years.

“They will not let her leave by herself, but she doesn’t even know it,” says Jamarcus Purley, a former staffer.