Archive for the 'Guns' Category

TFB.

The first shot taken was just to foul the barrel. The second shot was to be at 1500 yards. It was an impact.

Since 1500 was easy-peasy, Bill decided to just go for it. The rest of the shots were taken at the plate at 1780 yards.

This is a heavy gun, with a heavy rifled barrel.  The entire configuration is a custom job.

It would appear this is a first.

Readers can weigh in on what sight they prefer and why.

This is a pretty good review of the Beretta 1301.  The “plasticky” feel could be helped by use of Aridus Industries parts and a Magpul stock and forend, like Langdon Tactical does when they modify the gun.

News from S.C.

A South Carolina gun store owner faces an involuntary manslaughter charge after police said he shot one of his employees in the face in an attempted prank.

Jon Whitley, who owns Coastal Firearms in the Wando area, was arrested Monday nearly a month after the death of Stefan Mrgan.

Authorities found Mrgan inside the store’s lobby with a gunshot wound to his lower face on Nov. 2, news outlets reported.

A police affidavit states that Whitley placed a replica Glock BB gun among real firearms in the store with the intent of pranking Mrgan. Instead, Whitley mistakenly picked up and fired a real gun at Mrgan, according to an incident report.

Whitley is a retired major in the South Carolina National Guard and former reserve deputy for the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, The Post and Courier reported.

Mrgan, 36, was a former member of the Army Special Forces, according to the newspaper.

Court records show Whitley was granted a $15,000 personal recognizance bond by a judge Monday.

So in addition to the other rules of gun safety, for the idiots among us, we can add “Do not play pranks with guns.”

Actually, I think that’s covered under the first four.

We’ve covered both of these guns in previous posts, and guys really liked the CZ Shadow 2.  According to this review, the performance and specs of both guns are about the same.

Beretta apparently built this gun to compete with the Shadow 2.

I missed this video when it first came out.  Sorry about that.

I’ll take one of each.

American Rifleman.

The subtle fact about Thanksgiving and the arms that were present is that there were lots of arms present. A staggering number of guns, to be exact. Captain John Smith of Jamestown, Va., wrote in 1609 that they had 24 cannons and 300 muskets, way more than the number of men currently on hand to use them. Firearms were perhaps the only commodity that the first colonists had in any abundance.

The types of guns they used to defend their small enclaves were mostly the same types of arms currently in use in Europe at the time. Matchlocks were the first common type of long arm developed in the 16th century. Generally a 10-bore smoothbore that fired a 12-bore round ball, matchlocks were fired by means of a slow match, a burning length of rope and hemp, impregnated with saltpeter to aid in its burning.

A pull of the trigger, or lever, brought the burning match into contact with the exposed powder in the frizzen pan at the breech of the gun, beginning the chain of events that eventually sent the round, lead ball flying down the barrel. A few matchlock actions have been excavated at Jamestown by archeologists, but far more snaphaunce actions have been found. This corresponds to the written inventories of Jamestown (as well as Plymouth beginning in 1620) that showed almost 1,000 snaphaunce muskets vs. only 47 matchlocks on hand.

Well, whatever else one wants to argue, you can’t legitimately argue that our forebearers weren’t well armed.

Any video with Ryan Muckenhirn is worth watching.  I love his podcast videos.

Simple.  I like simple.  G96 + Isopropyl Alcohol.

I’ve always believed that the NRA supported the NFA and GCA not just because they believe in gun control, but also because monied men wanted to protect their investments in what is now NFA items, and make more money on top of that.

It just wouldn’t do for the poors to be able to have the same things as them.

This is a great ten minute talk by Ryan Muckenhirn.  I highly recommend the whole ten minutes to you.

He discusses a number of interesting things, including G96, Barricade Wipes, bluing, SS rust (it’s actually more akin to corrosion, which is a subset of rusting), and Cerakote.  He’s also a big fan of Cerakote, except don’t apply it to bearing parts like bolt lugs.  It changes tolerances.

Here’s an interesting factoid for your consideration.  Just like bluing is intentional rusting for the protection of the metal underneath, rusting is initiated on the inside surface of the piping of Reactor Coolant Systems for the same purpose.  It’s called passivation.