Out and proud?

I quietly send Illinois Rifle Association info/alerts to my in-laws living near Mordor Chicago. While they are out of one closet, I don't know if they are out of the gun owner closet to their liberal friends. So I keep the Facebook messages to them on the down low, so to speak.

Finished that book fast

Just finished Monster Hunter Legion. Guess I need to branch out to Correia's other books.

Protip- I read books to the exclusion of most other things. Plus following the Zimmerman debacle takes up the rest of my time.

Speaking of recent progressive stupidity, my apparently sheltered wife has never seen Blazing Saddles. I thought the fact that she had never seen The Blues Brothers was odd, considering what a fan of SNL she is. But the way she loves The Producers and Spaceballs, I'd assumed she had seen most of Brooks catalog. I see CNN will be having a special on The N Word next week. Wonder if they invited Soledad O'Brien back to pontificate?

Funshop time

Bought most of the 300 AAC Blackout from the local gun shop. He has lowers in stock at almost pre-Newtown prices. Still very little .223 ammo.

I've got to stop looking at Ruger SR1911s. I need another 1911 like I need a hole in the head, but I still want one. 45ACP (social) is as hard to get as 22lr. It would piss me off to have one and not be able to shoot it enough to trust it. Yes, that is one caliber I didn't stock up on. The SR1911 has been perpetually on my #5 to buy spot due to availability and/or pricing. Maybe I can sneak off to the funshow this weekend and trade a G22 for one.

Can you believe that an actual sporting goods store has a crap selection of tennis racquet bags? Tennis really has fallen off in popularity. Of course, I was looking because they happen to be the right shape to fit an AR pistol. The MMA branded section was larger than the tennis section.

I wanted to like this

The Redfield Counterstrike. Played with one at the gunstore. Nearly the same price as a Vortex Strikefire, one piece base/unit set up for an AR. Red/green dot, sure. CR123 battery- okay, my lights use those, have a big old box of them. Integrated laser- WTF? Your hand will block the beam! Not to mention a backup sight or a front sight post. If I ever wanted to use it for hunting, I'd be screwed- no lasers on hunting weapons in Iowa. (global warming or poaching or FUDD! or all three) Push button controls- up in the air if I like them or not. The Strikefire seemed too small, the Redfield seemed merely okay. Battery might be a bitch to change mounted with a rear BUIS. Of course, why have one if you can't run a front sight?

I know, buy an Aimpoint PRO and get it over with.

Big Bird Laid off

They told me if I voted for Romney, Sesame Street would go broke, and they were right!

Actually, on air talent is not affected. Apparently, Sesame Street is running $24 million in the hole this year. Guess the Count finally had a crack at the finances, and decided layoffs were the best bet.

Progressives love death taxes

Unless gay people have to pay them. That is my takeaway on the Windsor/DOMA decision. Too bad they couldn't declare death taxes unconstitutional.

Prop 8? Roberts is a real statist. His dissent in Windsor was because "Congress passed a law."*   His opinion on Prop 8- "I can't hear you, people who voted for Prop 8. We have people for that, and because it passed, you aren't them." Didn't Republicans in Congress have to pony up for DOMA lawyers themselves, since Obama and Holder were too busy spying on us to defend laws in court?




*Funny, sounds familiar. At least he didn't declare gay marriage a tax. Although calling it a "mandate" would have been punny.

Range Pr0n

You know when someone posts about a range trip without target pictures, well, they had a bad day. Nah, just learning to shoot something new.

Finally found a barrel to my liking- 8.5" Rainier Arms Match 300 AAC Blackout, 1-8" twist. Aero upper and lower, AR Stoner nickel boron bolt carrier with a Windham C158 bolt. Ace pistol stock. Right now, I am using the Midwest Industries G2 2 piece free float rail and am topping it off with a Troy Claymore.

Robbed the TruGlo off of one 6.8 for now. Quick impression; it sucks on a pistol. Needs to be bigger.

150 rounds today. Mostly reloads. Even ran factory Hornady subsonic fine. Hornady supersonic was harsh, but locked back okay. More on that below.

 

Protip- do not run an extended charging handle on an AR pistol. Luckily, my nose is big and has plenty of crush space.

Why no SBR? State of Iowa is an Only Ones State for NFA weapons.

Lancer 20 rounders, Troy 30 and Pmag 30 ran my reloads fine, even the 30-30 bullet reloads. It hated with a passion the 30-30 reloads from a Gen 3 PMag 20 rounder. Same rounds fed like a top in a 30 round Pmag. 

The factory Hornady 110 grain in the QD hole is the one that got my nose. Those fookers are loaded hot. I'm running a carbine buffer, not an H2 buffer. The latter might help with taming it some, it landed near 6 o'clock. Subs landed 3 o'clock, and my other reloads landed 4-5 o'clock.

Parts inbound

All parts but one are here for my latest build. Oh, yeah, three if you include back up sights. Okay, four or five if you include the optic. Crap. I'm not near as finished as I thought.....

Um, okay

Noted criminal and supposed journalist David Gregory wants other journalists arrested.  So, we know where he stands on Eric Holder's warrants to investigate journalists.

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Too bad Snowden seems to be a big mouth POS. It is good to know the extent the government has been spying on us. Bad news is, the dumbass doesn't seem to know when to shut the hell up about foreign intelligence gathering.

Supermoon

Probably not a good idea to read Monster Hunter Alpha right before a supermoon.

Meh, I've always been a risk taker.

Brb, gotta check out that strange howling. Must be coyotes......

New interwebs

Fiber optic dsl is fast. Latency seems to be down over the tin can and string dsl I was using. Actual download speed only went from 3 to 4 mbps (459 KBps, should hit 512. I hate megabit vs KB.)

MAIG loves terrorists

Why else would they claim one of the Boston Marathon bombers was a victim of gun violence? Were they deliberately trying to provoke people? Oh, wait, they were. And some guy got arrested. Sounds like a decent guy, with two sons in Afghanistan, from what I read here and there. Wonder if his arrest came before or after the MAIG declaration of love for murdering terrorists.

I didn't see any Big Gulps in the video. I thought those were required at any MAIG counter protest.