This song sticks in my head

 

Maybe if I didn't suck at some of the levels it appears in, I wouldn't find it to be such an earworm.

Ejection

Ran 60 rounds through the pistol. Most were 150 grain Hornady fmj boat tails over 16.5/16.6 grains of H110 and Remington 6 1/2 primers. Fun load to shoot, might be warm in the pistol but they also work in the rifle. Switching to the non magnum primer seems to help, at the risk of slam fires, unfortunately. Maybe the cci 400s would be a better choice.

The ejection pattern was different than the 130 grain load. Closer to 3:30 vs the 4:30 position of the lighter bullets. Consistent though.

Since the load works well, I turned into that guy. Bought out Bass Pro Shops bullet stock. Now I have 800 bullets to play with. And I scored 22lr, too! Mostly to restore what we shot last weekend 

Kangaroo court

Now the persecutors want to charge Zimmerman with child abuse for hurting Trayvon's fists while he was beating Zimmerman. Are the persecutors actually online trolls, too?

300 thru this 300

Between Saturday and today, the 300 BLK pistol has roughly 300 rounds through it. I'd say the rifle has around 500 through it. Target below is from sighting in a new optic at 25 yards, then, um, rapid magazine unloading via the barrel. Still the 30-30 bullet load, runs like a sewing machine. I even tried a Gen3 PMag loaded to 30 rounds. I need to try the 20 rounders again, now that it has the H2 buffer. Maybe they will feed better with the slightly slower bolt speed.

  

My wife ate this thing up Saturday. Even with all the pistol oddities, she liked it better than the rifle. She did prefer the subsonic loads, though. 

I think it may need a Magpul K2 grip or a BCM mod1 or similar.

9 lives

Found our (formerly) male cat, Oz, sitting on the table yesterday. Kept shooing him off, he would return. I didn't put too much into it. Made breakfast, and went to throw something away. Out pops Ruby, the other cat. She had jumped into the open trash container cabinet and it closed on her. Guess Oz is no Lassie.

Welcome to America, subjects of the land of Lincoln

Now, let's work on nationwide reciprocity. Since citizens of other states have their rights abridged by stepping over an arbitrary line.

Top Gear

Just about the only good thing about (formerly) Great Britain these days. Even old reruns are worth watching. This season, I learned about the Morgan 3 Wheeler, for example.



The fact that it does donuts is just icing on the cake. Not that I can afford one.  Jeremy Clarkson must hate it, because normally they make a point of shoving him into the smallest cars. I was hoping that he would, because he has a similar build to me, so I can tell immediately if I would fit or not.

Video from the range trip

First, the pictures. So you can see what I was shooting at. All we thought to bring was the iPhone. Yes, my pump form sucks ass. I'm not impressed with the extraction/ejection of this 870 and the crappy tin base shells. Ran great with Rio buck and Remington slugs.

I did tag the Angry Bird with my 1911 a few times, and some buck tagged it,too.

Doh! Take off the safety first. More ejecting problems, same crappy shells.

At least the slugs work right.

That made a huge difference

Finally got some AA1680. (Thanks to my wife, no less) That stuff rules for subsonic 300 BLK. Even with the heavy buffer, it locked back at 11.2 grains, magnum or regular primers. Carbine or pistol. The 150 grain loads worked in either pistol or rifle with H110 loaded to 16.6 to 16.8 grains and regular primers.

Illinois new carry permit application

After the amenditory veto by Illinois Governor Quinn, I think I found a copy of the new application for a carry permit.

Reads about right to me, even written by Democrats in the past.

2x Range notes

Why 2x? I went twice today. Duh.

A load that the 16" runs fine popped a primer in the 8.5" 300 BLK. Ejector marks on that case, ruined it. Other primers looked flat. Reduced the load, runs fine in the 8.5 other than slightly flattening the primers. But, in the 16" gun the reduced load doesn't lock back. Damn you, timing and gas tube lengths. Tried an H2 buffer* and it seemed to tame the pistol on supersonic factory loads.

Also broke out a Mosin today. That is all, no problems with it, hits the target even without the bayonet attached (Sacrilege! I know)

Found an H3 locally, took it down and made an H1 and H2 buffer from another spare.

S.E.G.

300 BLK subsonic from a pistol at 7 yards is just too damn much fun.

 Now if I could just get the right powder to make my own- H110 is not right for subs, AA1680 is supposed to be the best, but I can't find any right now. Of the test rounds I loaded with different powder charges, all of them ejected and locked back on the bolt carrier, but not the bolt itself. Some of the Hornady factory stuff did that today, depending on the mag.

Also scored like 60 .223 cases from the brass bucket.

All in all, a good day at the range.