The WalMart got some $60 of my money last week in return for enough Remington .22LR hollow points (550 bulk packs) to bring the inventory to the xx,000- round strategic reserve target.
Ever-conscious of the benefits of financial diversification, I turn my attention to those valu-paks of 12-gauge ammunition which now retail for just under 25 cents a round. I wish they came in shot sizes larger than 7 1/2, but I'll be buying anyway.
I do not predict the end of the world as we know it, but, as my Handbook for Boys advised, that's no reason not to Be Prepared.
You object that they are lead and hence widely illegal for hunting? Pish and phoo. Comes any kind of collapse and the Pelosi forces will find greater perils than a few sick coots.
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Many of you will find this little hobby of mine ridiculous, and perhaps it is. Yet you may want to note in this morning's financial press that Ben and His Obamaness plan to, next Wednesday, announce QE2, and I urge you to slip over to Wikipedia and spend a little time reading the entry on Quantitative Easing.
Besides, if unicornery prevails, we can always shoot the stuff at tin cans and clay birds.
Oct 26, 2010
Oct 25, 2010
Father of the Year
The old man was irked because his son hadn't been home for two days. So, in a display of creative parenting, he aimed his van at the kid's bicycle with the kid aboard the bike.
This may help explain the lad's preference for extended absences from home and hearth.
This may help explain the lad's preference for extended absences from home and hearth.
Oct 24, 2010
Remington Under Fire
My default mode is that anything on television it is either wrong, misleading, overstated, or oversimplified -- any or all accompanied by contrived hyperdrama.
However:
I just caught the "Remington Under Fire" rerun. I followed it with my 1970s M700 (a pretty 6mm tack driver) field stripped on my lap. That Remington is now the cleanest firearm on the block, except, importantly, for the innards of its trigger mechanism.
A Remington error in responding to the CNBC report was its emphasis on proper "maintenance," a very iffy thing on an enclosed trigger mechanism. You can scrub the outside of the trigger group box, brush it, wipe it carefully, blow compressed air through the tiny openings, but short of a bench-strip, you can not inspect or clean the internal parts. That is a design flaw.
The Remington web site purporting to respond to RUF is weak. It relies on sales patter and appeal to its storied history. It attacks trial lawyers and the show's producers. It does not not address the technical question. It does not react to Walker's reservations or those of professional M700 users. Disliking and mistrusting CNBC is not a rebuttal. (I understand its lawyers may be behind the insipid non-response.)
Which is not to say I think the 700 trigger assembly is inherently unsafe. It may be, but I am not competent to judge. Uninformed user tampering, gross maintenance negligence, or the truly freak happenstance can defeat adequate design on anything. There may have been -- probably was, in fact -- poor gun handling involved in some of the unintentional discharges, but he-said, she-said disputes hardly ever reveal technical fact.
I did everything I could to duplicate the reported problems, incessantly working the safety back and forth, trying and failing to get it to rest between the "fire" and "safe" positions, tapping rather hard with a mallet while the rifle was in every possible condition of readiness, bouncing its butt on the carpet. Nothing could induce the old gal to go off by herself.
But that is a long way from definitive proof of anything. For me, the jury is still out. If I decide to take her out again, I may tattoo Rule Two on the back of my right hand.
However:
I just caught the "Remington Under Fire" rerun. I followed it with my 1970s M700 (a pretty 6mm tack driver) field stripped on my lap. That Remington is now the cleanest firearm on the block, except, importantly, for the innards of its trigger mechanism.
A Remington error in responding to the CNBC report was its emphasis on proper "maintenance," a very iffy thing on an enclosed trigger mechanism. You can scrub the outside of the trigger group box, brush it, wipe it carefully, blow compressed air through the tiny openings, but short of a bench-strip, you can not inspect or clean the internal parts. That is a design flaw.
The Remington web site purporting to respond to RUF is weak. It relies on sales patter and appeal to its storied history. It attacks trial lawyers and the show's producers. It does not not address the technical question. It does not react to Walker's reservations or those of professional M700 users. Disliking and mistrusting CNBC is not a rebuttal. (I understand its lawyers may be behind the insipid non-response.)
Which is not to say I think the 700 trigger assembly is inherently unsafe. It may be, but I am not competent to judge. Uninformed user tampering, gross maintenance negligence, or the truly freak happenstance can defeat adequate design on anything. There may have been -- probably was, in fact -- poor gun handling involved in some of the unintentional discharges, but he-said, she-said disputes hardly ever reveal technical fact.
I did everything I could to duplicate the reported problems, incessantly working the safety back and forth, trying and failing to get it to rest between the "fire" and "safe" positions, tapping rather hard with a mallet while the rifle was in every possible condition of readiness, bouncing its butt on the carpet. Nothing could induce the old gal to go off by herself.
But that is a long way from definitive proof of anything. For me, the jury is still out. If I decide to take her out again, I may tattoo Rule Two on the back of my right hand.
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