He seems to think it’s okay, whereas for me, being unable to shoot anything I want to put in it is a deal-breaker for me.
He also seems to like Colt, whereas I prefer my Dan Wesson and Smith & Wesson 1911s. I’ve never had a single malfunction with either of them, and neither has had a hiccup of any sort regardless of what ammunition I feed it (including and up to 450 SMC).
I don’t do FTF/FTE drills with my 1911s because I’ve never had a failure in many thousands of rounds. But as always, I learn something from Paul (watch his demonstration of the safety feature on the Colt that isn’t there with the RIA, another deal-breaker for me).
It would be an interesting thing to integrate the area under the curve, but with the spikes that would involve use of the trapezoidal rule, or else very small step functions. I just don’t want to invest the time.
But suffice it to say, this is a lot. I assume this also involves use of the NICS, and for states that don’t use it (like N.C. where a CHP suffices in lieu of the NICS), that will underestimate the total number of sales, by not a trivial amount.
The CZ 1012 line of gas-less semi-automatic shotguns is not only new to the company but fairly new to the market at such a reasonable price point, with MSRP on our test CZ 1012 All-Weather set at only $690.
Rather than cycling the action using dirty gases, CZ uses a spring within the bolt assembly to harness energy during the shotgun’s recoil motion, and then essentially re-uses this energy a split second later to both rotate and unlock the twin lugs from the barrel extension. This withdraws the spent shell and feeds the next round.
While the majority of semi-automatic shotguns are cycled with the gases generated through the gas system, the 1012 takes a page brought to popularity by Benelli and their Inertia Drive. Inertia scatterguns have been around for years, but that technology generally comes at a much higher cost.
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If you’re still thinking the system may be too good to be true, especially for the price, the proof is in the pudding—or in this case—in the Guinness Book of World Records. For reference, the new 1012 action was the one used by competitive shooter David Miller and his hand-selection team of four youngsters to break the Guinness world record.
Together, they fired 20,425 Aguila shotguns shells through nine guns over 12 hours. They smashed the previous record by busting 14,167 clays, with one shooter using the same shotgun for the span of the event. The others only switched once.
Watch all of this video (it’s long) or my comments will make no sense at all.
Allow me to weigh in a bit. I’ve never seen or heard of this guy (“Caleb” from Gun Nuts Media – I have no idea if that’s his real name or a nom de guerre). I have visited his site once as you’ll see below, and I’ll never visit again.
He impresses me as a spoiled little boy, a narcissist, a child who was never spanked, a liar, and a drama queen who writes click bait for his web site and soap operas for his YouTube channel. He’s much too emotional for my tastes.
If he was never spanked as a child, he certainly was by Paul in this video. He deserved it. I agree with everything Paul said, but even if I had not, there’s a moral issue at stake here. It comes from Leviticus 19:32. “Caleb,” if you need help with exegesis of that, write me a note.
On the issue of revolvers and “hitting” or slapping the ejector rod, I’ve done that as long as I’ve been shooting revolvers. I’ve never had a problem. The only problem I’ve ever had was with a S&W R8 revolver.
It’s tolerances are tight, and it’s very accurate. I’m sure those are related things. I could have taken the time to ream the cylinder a bit and gotten better performance, but there would still be the issue of the forcing cone being so tight against the cylinder.
Within 50 rounds without fail, shooting high power .357 magnum ammunition which of course runs very hot, the metal would expand and cause either (a) the brass to fail to come out of the cylinder (which necessitated me striking the ejector rod pretty hard), or (b) the cylinder seizing against the forcing cone until the gun cooled down.
I dumped the gun. It was a wonderful gun, but I just wanted to shoot more than it would allow without heating up too much. Every other wheel gun I’ve ever shot only had that problem to a much less degree, this one to a much greater degree.
Basically, it’s 2019, and if you aren’t shooting 9mm as a primary pistol cartridge, you need to re-evaluate your life choices. It’s now an undisptued fact that modern 9mm ammo can give ballistic performance on par with 40 S&W, 45 Auto, and pretty much every other handgun cartridge.
“Re-evaluate your life choices.” Being a bit dramatic, are we? If you shoot anything other than 9mm you need to “re-evaluate your life choices.”
Okay, first of all, it’s simply not true. Oh, it may be close for two-legged threats, but it’s certainly not true for four-legged threats. Moreover, if someone happens to shoot .45 ACP or .40 S&W better than 9mm, or .38 Spl better, they should be allowed to shoot whatever works for them without internet know-it-alls telling them not to. Some rounds push, some rounds snap and cause more pronounced muzzle flip.
Either way, I don’t think there’s a nickel’s worth of difference between someone telling you that you shouldn’t be allowed to have such-and-such gun, and someone telling you that you should shoot such-and-such a gun because I say so. Each is a different form of collectivism. I can’t stand collectivists. Mind your own business.
And “Caleb,” grow up, little boy, and quit being a drama queen. Maybe when you do, you can be like Paul.
1X magnification, of course, obviously meant for a MSR. Decent price point: $365. Auto dot shutdown upon no movement for five minutes, total of 1000 hours on middle setting.
What made me start to wonder was when I started comparing the .270 to the 7mm Remington Magnum that I usually hunt with. As it turns out, I can fling a 140-grain bullet from my .270 just as fast as a 160-grain bullet in my 7 mm. The 7 requires a 2 inch longer barrel, which means more gun weight. It also requires more powder in a bigger case leading to a significant bump in recoil. Are those extra 20 grains worth all that?
Then I started looking at the shiny new toy in town. These days the 6.5 Creedmoor seems to be the man, and I admit, it does pretty well. However, the .270 throws its bullets between 100 and 200 feet per second faster. While bullet weights top out around 140 grains in the 6.5, you can find bullets up to around 160 grains in the .270, which would be a better choice when you are chasing the big stuff. Well, the 6.5 has less recoil, you say? Yep, by about 1.5 foot pounds. You are one sensitive dude if you can notice that difference.
Well then, why not step up to the .30-06 then? After all, you can lob bullets over 200 grains with it. It certainly isn’t a bad choice, but with the heavier bullets, recoil goes up as well and velocity goes down. These days we have a plethora of good bullets to choose from. So while I do believe in heavy-for-caliber bullets, there is no need to overdo it. The .270 deals out bullets that will handle anything we hunt around here. While the good ol’ .30-06 can pretty much keep up with the .270 with comparable bullet weights, the ballistic coefficient of the 30-caliber bullets is pretty poor. That means its trajectory won’t be as good.
I have to say that I like the lower recoil of the 6.5 Creedmoor, having shot both the .270 and the 6.5mm. However, I’ve looked into the ballistics of the .270 versus the 7mm magnum and the 300 WinMag. There isn’t a whole lot of difference, and if I wanted to take large North American game, I’d still choose the .270.
Deputies said the 18-year-old and a 17-year-old male broke a resident’s patio door window. The 53-year-old disabled resident was home alone when the teens broke the window and reached inside and unlocked the door, according to investigators.
The resident fired one shot, killing the teen who was in front, deputies said.
The second suspect, Aren Lacour, as well as 18-year-old Ayanna Harrison, were detained at the scene. Deputies said Harrison was the driver of a nearby getaway vehicle.
Deputies said the getaway vehicle, a white four-door Mercedes-Benz, is linked to other burglaries in the area.
This is news from greater Houston, Texas.
So once again we learn something here. First of all, home invasions aren’t just with single individuals. More often than not these days, there are multiple individuals involved. You have to be prepared with the sort of weaponry necessary to defend your home and hearth against multiple invaders.
Second, we learn (yet again) that someone doesn’t have to be all tacticool and put rounds down range like Jerry Miculek in order to effect self defense.
I’m not disparaging the idea of getting to the range as often as you can, or steeling your mind for the fight. I’m saying that the notion that fear for your life is incapacitating to someone is just not necessarily true. The home invaders were teens. She was a woman. She was 53 years old. She was disabled.
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