Good news from the House. Let’s hope the Senate can get this through and put it on President Obama’s desk where he’ll quite likely sign it.
Archive for May, 2010
Repeal of DADT Passes House
May 28th, 2010Hey, look! Primers!
May 27th, 2010Stopped into the local Gander Mountain last Friday to see if they had any Remington 209 primers. I wasn’t very hopeful going in because I hadn’t seen that primer shelf look “stocked” in about a year. Friday was different. They had everything. Oh glorious day!
I think I got a little misty eyed, honestly.
Couldn’t find a price on the box for the Remington 209 primers I wanted so I snagged three boxes of them to get me through the next couple of months*. I’ve got plenty of Federal primers but I only use those in my 1 1/8oz loads and my Winchester primers are only useful to me in my 7/8 and 1oz loads but only in Winchester hulls. I don’t have reliable light load data for those primers unless it’s for a Winchester hull and I’m tired of reloading those. They’re shit. Even the AA hulls. They crumple way too easily on the final crimp for me. I’m going to shoot through the Winchester shotshell crap I have and never buy it again. I’ve seen the same sentiment handed out by old sages on gun boards for years and they’re right. Winchester/OLIN went to shit a ways back with their shotgun hulls. I’m done with them. Hellloooo Remington! (Thankfully I have a few hundred Remington Gun Club and STS hulls handed to me by a good shooting buddy)
So, that’s why I was looking for Rem 209 primers. So I could do 7/8oz and 1oz loads in Remington hulls. Which is what I was loading up tonight because my 10 year old nephew is coming into town this weekend and I’d like to take him trap shooting. Yes, I have 20 gauge shotguns for him but they’re very light and actually recoil much harder than a 12 gauge with light loads.
*: Price at checkout was $3.99 a box which isn’t bad. For 1000 primers that’s probably no more than $6 over the price I’d pay from the local guy that runs a grain elevator and sells shotgun reloading components for what I swear must be no more than 5% over his cost. The guy sells 25# bags of #8 shot for $25 bucks. He ain’t making money on it. He just loves shooting. A lot. Possibly more than I do.
Overheard in the office
May 21st, 2010Co-worker: That’s it. I can’t take any more surprises for today!
Me: I’m pregnant.
Co-worker: That I can handle. That’s funny.
Rand Paul wins KY Primary
May 18th, 2010NRA Blogger Meetup Pics
May 18th, 2010Here. I have got to go to this next year.
S&W’s new SD line
May 18th, 2010Caleb got a look at the new S&W SD9 and SD40 at the NRA annual meeting this year. Street price of about $400, polymer frame, striker fired, tritium front sight post, and a trigger that doesn’t suck as hard as the Sigma’s did. This might have legs.
About that Right-Wing Terrorism thing…
May 10th, 2010Bouncing around the web lately I’m getting the feeling that there’s a significant portion of those loyal to the Democratic Party that think there’s some violence ready to erupt in this country. I gather that they look at the TEA Party gathering as some formidable force or something.
What you really need to watch out for is a 3rd party (Libertarian would be my guess) getting serious votes in a national election. That would indicate people are actually unhappy with how the country is being run. But that’s not going to happen any time soon either. The people you think are ready to start pulling triggers aren’t even willing to pull a different lever in an election booth in total secrecy. At least not in any significant numbers.
So, chill.
This post somewhat inspired by Roberta X’s post on why she didn’t vote in the Republican primary. If a small government minded person gets hounded for not voting in the Republican primary we’re a LONG way from any sort of revolution at the ballot box; let alone the cartridge box.
This might change what I carry
May 9th, 2010One of the things I did for my wife on Mother’s Day was cement in a mount for an umbrella style clothes line that we bought a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, not the best Mother’s Day gift but it was sunny out and rain isn’t forecasted so I wanted to get it done. Previous weekends were too rainy to do it.
Now, I’ve worked with concrete before but never in such small batches. I remember early on in my childhood concrete being mixed in a wheel barrow with a shovel to turn it over. Well, I didn’t have a wheel barrow today.
So I dumped the 60lb bag into a 5 gallon bucket, tossed in half a gallon of water, and used an old skinny long paint roller (sans roller of course) to start mixing it. That worked until I got about halfway down where the water hadn’t penetrated.
So, I just stuck my hand in there and started digging around. Slopped some of it out of the bucket by hand, mixed more with my hand, added water, and got through it. Wife came out around the end of the project and said I should have just chucked the paint roller into a drill to mix it. Wish she had been there 10 minutes ago because that’s a dandy idea.
And then I went to wash up.
At this point I should mention that the water was REALLY cold and my hand went numb while in the bucket.
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Yeah, I tore a bit of skin off doing that. Ouch. Now my fingers are all bandaged up.
