Nom de plume: Rivrdog

A coat turns

Liberty Safe co. Read about it here.

A very good course to take

Day before yesterday, I took a course to qualify for Idaho's "Enhanced Concealed Weapons" permit.

Idaho is Constitutional Carry now, has been for years, but that's good only for Idaho Citizens who carry in Idaho. I am an Idaho citizen new, have been for 3 years. By getting the Enhanced card, I can now be treated, for concealed carry purposes, in almost every other State which issues permits to their citizens, 39 or 40 of them.

Idaho is very protective of the R2KBA. We are considered the best and most protective State for this purpose of all 50. Blue States hate Idaho for this reason, because it isn't all empty talk. Folks who come to Idaho for anti-R2KBA reason gun-grabs, for example, can and wiill be ARRESTED, since there is a CRIMINAL charge for those who act or conspire against the rights of Idaho citizens. Here's an example, here's another example, in the cases of an Idaho citizen using deadly force in  Idaho. Those are slides from GemState's course, and it's from the part of the course which was presented by a Kootenai County Deputy District Attorney. Note that the citizen is PRESUMED to have acted lawfully!

Idaho has both Stand Your Ground laws and No Duty to Retreat laws.

I saved what should have been first for my killer finish, though. Idaho's very definition of the R2KBA. Note that "infringed" as stated in the Federal 2A is changed to "abridged". Guess why? Commies all over the US of A have been suing for 30-40 years to ESTABLISH INFRINGEMENTS against the Federal R2KBA. That can't happen here, thanks to the use of "abridged", the common meaning of which is "made smaller".

JPFO strikes out on gun control

It's Thursday, and a usual ally in the gun-control fight just tripped on their Richard, and since you HAVE and WILL hear this wrongful message elsewhere, I present it now.

In this article, JPFO fails by falling into a gun-controller's trap, even while trying to beat down that trap. BTW, Jews for Protection of Firearms Ownership is a FAR better advocate for the freedom to K&BA than the NRA. Let's look at their FUBAR, though.

Sorry JPFO, in YOUR dreams, it might be enough to say gun control of AR-15s fails because it doesn't accurately describe "assault rifles", and you are TECHNICALLY correct, but that doesn't get it in this fight, does it? It's a sound-bite fight, isn't it, JPFO?

 

Want to knock out the "assault rifle" canard with one punch, JPFO?

 

Simply point out that "bearing arms" was meant by the Founders as a general statement. In that day, "bearing arms" meant bringing the same weapons to the fight as the enemy did.

 

The "enemy" in the Founders' day wasn't street punks on dope, it was GOVERNMENT, which could and did buy all the latest MILITARY weapons, just as they do today. Smarter thinkers than you, JPFO, have suggested that if there was ANY limit on "arms" in "bearing arms", it would be that the arms mentioned were INFANTRY weapons.

 

Yes, Infantry Weapons of today include select-fire (full-auto capable) rifles, mortars, belt-fed full-auto machine guns and grenades, so the NFA-34 is un-Constitutional on it's face, as I'm sure was pointed out back when FDR rammed it through Congress, dancing in the blood of the victims of tommy-gun armed gangsters such as John Dillinger and Ma Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd and Al Capone.

 

Yes, blood-dancing for Gun Control isn't a new tactic, either.

 

On average, JPFO, you do a good job, but getting sucked into the Kamel-Toe's gun-hate belies that. Get smarter on this issue, unless you want to be the NRA, and God help you if you DO want that, Jehovah won't help you.

Long Time, no blog...UPDATED!

But I'm BAAAACK!

Item one on #FrightfulFriday: Facebook Jail. Yep, I dared to piss off some real, by-God, Canadian Loons, and they snitched me off for writing a lampoonish comment about their Loon-in-chief, Justin Trudeau, whom I called "Junior Trudeau" (true, that: look it up, his father is still alive!). I referred negatively to Junior's "Letting the Muzzies in" immigration policy, in those words. I'm suspended, under THREAT of permanent banning, but those ASSWIPES at Facebook won't even tell me what behavior it is I have to change to stay on the FacePlace, other than I commited "hate speech", which is so vague a charge it could NEVER be used in any court to convict ANYONE. Just like a meglo, isn't that? "I'm God and YOU can't question me." You don't suppose that reference to WASPs (White Anglo Saxon Protestants) would be Hate Speech now, do you? I was called a WASP damn near every day in high school, and that School is considered one of the most PeeCee in the country, and has been for 100 years. Here's news FacePlace can use: I have contacted a civil rights attorney in Kali, and am inquiring about sending the Zuckerbooger a Cease and Desist letter, maybe even a Tort Claim.

Item Two: I waited, and now it's here, TAAAH-DAAAH! Savage's Model 110 Tactical rifle. I'm interested in Stock Number 57007, the .308 with 24" barrel. With this barrel length, heavier bullets can be loaded with slower-burning powders which are calculated to burn completely in the longer barrel, accelerating the bullet to a better velocity, almost as good as 300 WIN Magnum. The MSRP is $784 (Streets @ $606.99 at Grab-a-gun.com), very nice for a rifle of this capability, likely a half-MOA or better. Looks like I might be able to put together the rifle, the good glass and whatever else I need, maybe even a can for around $2500. Some 168-gr match and the tables look good at out past 500 yards. Yowza. One shot, one (nevermind).

So, I'm back on here, and on Twitter (@straightcase) and on MeWe (George Schneider) or the email attached to this blog.

See ya around!

S.O.S.D.D.*

Military acronym = Same Old Shit Different Day

Bullet format seems appropriate, heh.

• Don't call him a sniper. Peckerhead Pollock wasn't a sniper. Sniper means one shot, one kill. Pollock delivered area-denial fires to a crowd which didn't know they were being denied...
• Gun manufacturers: quit derping all your products for us. Were not stupid. We're not paying S1,400 for a pistol-grip shotgun because you sell apple-crapple to wanna-be "operators". I don't want a precision rifle with anything on it but a sling and good glass, maybe a bipod. I don't need a fancy handguard, I don't need to attach any other crap to my rifle, I am just looking for a rifle that shoots sub-MOA, because on a good day, I can shoot that well myself.
• Gun industry inventors: quit trying to be the one to outfox the NFA. Wanna dump the NFA? Good idea, work on getting the kitty together that's bigger than the Left can accumulate to keep it. Can't raise that much money? Then S.T.F.U.
• Leftards: You aren't going to carry off a National ban on AR-15s. Quit trying. Every time you Blood Dance, you lose some people from your flock. Are you ALL idiots?
• Hey, NFL commish Goodell: If we watch your League's play, we do it to see the best football players play the game. We DON'T watch to see the Thug Culture extolled. Enjoy the demise of your brand, Goodell: American Values will always come before football, no matter how well played your game is.
• To President Trump and Secretary of State Tillerson: If the Only Fat Punk in North Korea is actually talking to you, just cut to the chase and ask him how many boatloads of wheat he wants for the three Americans he has hostage. Of course, that assumes that you pols are willing to pay an asshole like him some ransom...and if you do, that we won't remember it next Election...
• Hey, President Trump (yes, I am, in fact, picking on you), your selection of Tom Price was a bad choice for HHS. How is it possible that you overlooked the fact that the man had ZERO personal discipline when it came to following a book of work rules?
• Finally, if you have blacksmith arms like the gun writer in the picture, by all means buy a Coonan MOT-10 10mm 1911 pistol. It WILL kill what you can hit with it. If you don't have the Hulk's arm-strength, you might consider just getting a decent 9mm and practicing double-taps...

AR-15 - my white flag now

If you've followed this blog for any length of time, you will know that I was never a fan of the AR-15 carbine (I still don't call it a RIFLE). Not that I haven't had the chance, I was issued one for a while in the Deputy Dawg Days. It was a junker narco-seizure, but I worked it up and it made a fine Patrol Rifle. I carried it on my boat in the Sheriff's River Patrol, to which I was assigned then. It replaced my personal Ithaca M37 Deerstalker, a 12-ga with rifle sights. I was ok to 75 yards with that S/G, grouped under a foot, but stretching the range to 100 and more gave me higher probabilities of a miss, so when the chance came for the AR, I took it. It had no optics, and I usually grouped 5-7" with it at 100 yards, the range we qualified Patrol Rifle sturmtruppen at then. Don't even remember what brand it was.

I have a fine selection of older battle rifles and carbines. My go-to SHTF rifle is a nice CETME Modelo-B (s/a H&K 91) with original German military Zeiss glass. I also have SKS carbines & Brit 303, Brit 7.62 NATO Enfield/Ishapore bolties. Presently, I have nada shooting the "PoodleShooter" round (5.56x45 NATO).

Today, two things happened. I was researching for a blog article about a Ukrainian outfit, Stilletto Systems, which is making a new sniper rifle (out of old Mosin-Nagant actions - there are millions of Mosin rifles in armories in that war zone). The more important news is that they also took a fairly standard US hunting cartridge, the 300 Winchester Short Magnum, and made an OUTSTANDING battle-rifle cartridge out of it. RTWT on that PDF. Now, I might not want another old Mosin, no matter how fancy a "sniper-stock" is on it, but then it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, someone had made an AR-10 (AR-15 with a real battle cartridge) that would shoot this new battle ammo.

BINGO! There ARE AR-10s in 300WSM! Olympic Arms makes them, but puts an under-performing 20" barrel on them. To get the most from this hot anti-armor (penetrates 1/2" armor plate of 500 Brinell at 750 meters) cartridge, you need a barrel of at least 26". That article didn't deal with the loss of cartridge pressure you get with a semi-auto over a boltie, so those calculations might have to be done again or fudged for that slight loss of pressure.

The US military deals with the need for semi-auto, anti-armor fires by using the Barrett M82A1 in 50BMG, or by using a Ma Deuce in the same caliber. This AR-10 would be half the weight, and Soldier Systems in Fort Devens, Natick MA, is ALL about weight for the soldier these days. They are on paper as having a firm goal of getting the entire soldier's battle-ensemble INCLUDING weapon down to 45# (22KG). Now the AR-10 is going to out-weigh the M4 by at least 4# when SSCC is looking at ounces to reduce, so maybe that 22KG goal would have to be adjusted for this battle rifle.

The second reason I now am interested in an AR is price-point. ALL the gun manufacturers bet heavily on a Hillary-as-POTUS scenario and seriously overbuilt inventory, expecting a massive gun-rush after the election last year. We got Trump, and a nominally-GOP Congress, so no Gun Control at the federal level for a while. The bottom has dropped out of the AR market. The S&W MP-15 used to sell at list for around $800-$1,000, and here's one for $489! Ammo is cheaper, too. 5.56 used to sell at about 50 cents a round for the better stuff, sometimes more. You can get cheapo 5.56 for half of that now, and I have reloaded it for pals for 14 cents in their hulls. This S&W pricing means I can put together an AR with reflex sight for around One Large.

Now I need to do a side-by-side field and range comparison between the AR and my CETME. The AR-10 battle rifle is a nice pipe dream at this point, but at least it's out there.

Wednesday Words

Some hashtags of the week:

#IgnoreNoKoFats

#DitchMitch

A good primer for new revolver shooters.

Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down.

Working up to Qual Day - LEOSA04 Qualification

As an Honorably Retired peace officer, I have a National Carry privilege. Okay, all you Constitutional Carry peeps, got the hate out of your system? If not, click elsewhere. I protected my community as a Patrol Deputy for 25 years, so I deserve this. Want some of it? Kick your CongressCritter in  the buttski and tell that DeepState weasel to bring forward the Reciprocity Act.

Enough politicking. This post is about working up skills, long rusty. Why rusty, you say? I'm going Retro*. Turning back the calendar to 1986, the last time I carried a revolver on duty. Yep, I'm going to leave the europellet** flingers, the Glocks, the Remington R51 and the Ruger LCS-9-Pro in the safe and pull out my Ruger Service-Six 38, a stainless 4"-bbl service revolver with fixed sights. Original wooden grips, only "custom" on it is a dab of VERY bright orange nail polish on the front sight blade. It rides, along with a 2X-Speedloader unit, on a 2" pants belt in an Uncle Mike's #2 nylon holster with top-strap. Retention Level-0 equipment. Yes, I do, in fact, carry revolvers concealed. My favorite is my Charter Arms pair, a 44-Special Bulldog and a 40 S&W Pitbull. Speedloaders for the Service-Six are HKS #10. Additional equipment for training are two sets of 6 rounds each Pachmayr dummy loads in 38/357. Lots of dry-firing involved in my work-up routine.

My "Training Range" is the second-floor hallway in Schloss Schneiden. The hallway is 25 feet long, and by using part of the master bedroom, I have 15 yards to work with. The K-5 section of a standard #28 Silhouette target is tacked to the linen-closet door at the far end of the hallway. Lighting is about the same as range lighting.

Here is the Police Qualification Course for Off-Duty weapons in Oregon (DPSST standard). I have to meet this standard. Score = 100% hits on the K-5, within the time limits for each stage:

Practical Qualification Course (PQC) I

• 25 Rounds
• Scoring: 100% hits within the 5 zone

1. 10-Yard Line - 3 Rounds
Two hand strong hand fire only
The student starts at the 15-yard line, one step right or left of the fire lane.  On the signal, the student conducts an "L" movement to the cover barrel at 10-yards, draws and fires from cover one round strong side, and round over the top and one round support side.
Time Limit: 15 seconds

2. 7-Yard Line - 6 Rounds
On the signal, the student draws and fires 2 rounds
Time Limit: 4 seconds
Repeat for a total of 6 rounds

3. 5-Yard Line - 8 Rounds
On the signal, the student draws and fires 2 rounds.
The student takes one step right or left and reloads firing 6 additional rounds.  The student then steps back where they started and conducts a tactical reload.
Time Limit: 15 seconds (to fire the 8 rounds, not counting final step and tactical reload.)

4. 3-Yard Line - 6 Rounds
Student draws and fires 3 rounds strong hand only.
The student then takes one step right or left, transfers the weapon to the support hand and fires 3 rounds with support hand only.
Time Limit:  10 seconds

5. 2-Yard Line - 2 Rounds
Student draws while taking 1 step back and fires 2 rounds.  The student then takes 1 step right or left to get out of the line of attack.
Student starts with hand encumbered.
Time Limit:  3 seconds

I have shot this course a number of times with a semi-auto pistol. It was designed for cops shooting quick-reloading pistols. It is easier to shoot with a pistol, probably half-again as hard with a revolver. Unless you are Jerry Miculek, reloading speed with a revo is WAY slower than with a pistol UNLESS you spend hours working with the gun and dummy rounds.

 

I set up my timer and started in on Stage One. I was three seconds over on my first try. I found that I was performing the "L-approach" to the barricade wrong, and when I started on the proper foot, planted the proper foot to drop behind the barricade, I worked up to 12 seconds for the three shooting positions, and repeated that 4 times. Best time was 10.5 seconds. That will work.

 

Stage two is easy. It is draw quickly, raise to a two-handed stance and double-tap. No problems, mostly in the 2.5 second range from the git-go.

 

Stage three is the most difficult of the lot. This is a lead-pipe cinch with a Glock: double-tap, drop-free mag change, drop the slide and hammer, then six more downrange, easy to do in 8 to 10 seconds. With a revo, the draw and double-tap takes 2.5 seconds, THEN you have to do a two-handed cylinder-clear, THEN grab a speedloader out of your pouch, guide it to the the open cylinder face, insert the rounds, activate the speedloader latch, drop the rounds into the cylinder with that tricky little shake-move, then close the cylinder, bring up the gun to two-handed grip and dump the six rounds into that target. First three of my attmpts were over the time limit by 2-3 seconds. I practiced the speedloader work separately for about 10 evolutions and tried again. Dead even with the timer. Tried five more times, eventually settling on a 1.5 to 2 second time UNDER the timer's beep. I need to work that down to a 3-second pad.

 

Stage four is a piece of cake. Never took more than seven seconds for this stage.

 

Stage five is easy, it's a 2-second evolution for me. I remember doing this stage when I wore the Star. The hard-ass Rangemaster demanded that we actually used an interview stance (which doesn't line your gun up well with the target), and flip our police notebook in the FACE of the silhouette before killing the silhouette with the fast-draw and double-tap. This course of fire doesn't require for the notebook-throw, but I still practice it that way. One may also throw up the off-hand in the perp's face, scream your Death-Word in his face, then draw and fire while doing the step-back. Also effective, but some risk of shooting your hand as you pull it back from the distraction-move.

 

Practice today was 90 minutes after my afternoon nap. More practice tomorrow and Monday, then Qual Day on Tuesday with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office range crew.

 

Pew-Pew days at the range, expending 340 rounds, already in the logbook. This form-of-stages practice is the more important, though.

 

 

Another day, another Gun-Free Zone attack

Germany has had two different gun-free zone attacks in three days, one on a train by edged-weapons attack, one in a big shopping mall by shooter(s). France had one a week ago, by vehicle attack.

We're next. Why, you ask?

The perpetrators are ALL recent Muslim immigrants, brought in by either an incompetent Government or a conniving one, you choose. WE have such a government, and we have many recent Muslim immigrants, brought in and shuffled around the country in secret, so State and Local policing agencies have no clue where they are.

All the GFZ attacks have occurred in essentially "gun-free countries", where armed resistance to the attacks is unlikely ("when seconds count, police are only minutes away"). Parts of our Nation allows armed citizens, parts of it doesn't. Point in our favor? Probably not. Refer: San Bernardino (GFZ), Dallas (not GFZ) Baton Rouge (not GFZ). Note that not all these attacks were by Muslims. Some were by Marxists.

So, considering that we face two, maybe three types of threat here, what DOES a citizen do?

• If you live in an area of the Nation which respects the Second Amendment, qualify yourself and get armed. Try to carry something with which you can defeat an armed individual at 50 meters distance. Practice at those longer ranges. The old FBI stat of gun encounters occurring at under seven yards are valid, but only for the purely criminal sort of attack one might face when one has the bad luck to be in close proximity to a gun assault against an adjoining target, or a robbery in progress when you are at or near the cashier in a store.
• These "M&M" (Muslim & Marxist) attacks all seem to involve either areal firing by the attacker or ambush firing, and areal firing is almost always with a rifle on targets of opportunity (whoever crosses the attacker's front sight). Defense involves cover (not just concealment), and the ability to put effective and immediate return fire on the attacking rifleman.
• Vehicle attacks are best met by moving laterally out of the path of the vehicle, at the last moment, so corrective steering by the driver is not possible, and firing a lot of shots through the windshield and driver-side window.
• Political action: through your local politicians, fight with all means to convince the pols that gun-free zones bring more attacks, and rather than reducing the number of armed citizens, the number of gun-free zones should be reduced.

Range practice.

Short-range handguns are less appropriate. They are better than NO handgun at all, but not much better. "Service" handguns are the best choice if you can't carry a rifle, which is the SUPERIOR choice. Few places allow open carry of rifles, but most anywhere you can carry at all, you can carry a handgun concealed. Practice involves something similar to "Shoot-village" training, where you walk through a built-up range area, and as threats appear, you analyze them and engage as appropriate, using the cover of buildings, walls, vehicles, etc. near the threat. Few of us have such practice opportunities, but if your gun club has a "Dynamic Range", you can set up multiple targets and have a rangemaster call out the threat target which you then fire upon. My club has such a range. You may have to find some empty land out in the boondocks for practice.

Choice of arms.

In pistols, any high-capacity, full-size gun. 2 extra magazines for the pistol. 1911s, Glocks in the big versions, .357 Magnum or bigger revolvers with at least a 4" barrel (for more muzzle velocity). You look at the ballistics charts to see how your chosen Service weapon performs at some distance. A guideline might be a minimum of 300 foot-pounds of energy at the maximum range you can engage at. Note: if you choose a 9mm Luger gun, you have to be very careful as to ammo, only a few loadings will give 300 foot-pounds at 75 to 100 meters. The NATO 124-gr round or equivalent is about the weakest you would want to carry, and it is +P rated. Loadings by Buffalo Bore or Cor-Bon give you the edge with 9mm. Same with 40 S&W and 45ACP, they are marginal, but the hot loadings will make the grade. make sure the pistol will handle +P or +P+ loads. In revolvers, any .357 Magnum except "reduced recoil" loads will work. 44 Special, no, unless it's an "Elmer Keith" load. 44 Magnum, anything will do. 45 Long Colt (for the "Judges") will work in the hotter loadings, the cowboy loads don't make it. The 410SG rounds for the Judges do not make the grade, so if you carry a Judge, you MUST carry a speedloader of hot 45 Long Colt for it.

We are at war, my friends. Carry and practice like we are at war. 

Bullet Casting

....is something I have the basic equipment for, but haven't done yet. The main reason is that lead bullets ("boolits") have to be speed controlled unless you crimp on a copper Gas Check, or else the hot powder burns lead onto the bore, and this can happen in just a few rounds. This limits lead bullet usefulness to practice and target shooting, for the most part. Generally, you don't want your lead bullets going over 1,000 fps. Most boolit people have some Sooper Secrit lube that they they somehow get to stick to the lead boolit (soaking it on, baking it on, squishing it on under pressure), and various claims are made that (whatever) lube cuts down barrel leading or even prevents it entirely. I am SOOOO skeptical, sorry, and I have the barrel-scrubbing calluses to prove it.

Leading is a factor of lead alloy hardness (Brinell), heat of the powder flame and speed of the bullet after ignition of the primer and powder. Leading occurs by flame-cutting of the base of the lead boolit by the powder burning, or by smearing of the sides of the lead boolit in the bore as it travels from the chamber to the muzzle, or a combo of both types (the usual case). The general solution is to go to bullets with copper skins, either plating or actual copper jackets which the lead cores are swaged (pressed) into. Those are expensive, running 1/2 again as much to 2 1/2 times as much as a cast lead boolit bought outright, or four times as much as one cast at home. Even more expensive is the all-copper bullet.

Along comes a new anti-leading process entirely. Not a lube of any kind. POWDER COATING!

Read this and think on it.

Bears looking into, doesn't it?