Thank you. I get it. Everyone in Moore, Oklahoma, is brave and stalwart. Cops and firemen and ambulance drivers and so forth are braver and stalwarter than average. Politicians fighting their way through the rubble, deperately seeking a television camera, are bravest and stalwartest of all.
So it is unnecessary for you to keeping telling me. Shoot me an email when you have milked the last emo goop from the tragedy and developed some perspective on this story's place in the whole wide world of news.
(For instance, Ben Bernanke goes public today with all the reasons he should keep devaluing our currency because President Obama needs lots more Federal Reserve Cartoons to keep the recovery going. Gas at four FRCs and bacon at five is just minor collateral damage which we should ignore.)
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An aside: Gretchen has her thighs covered this morning, so there's no reason to flip to Fox, no matter what they claim to be reporting about.
May 22, 2013
May 21, 2013
The hayseed gun market
No theme ran through the small collection auctioned off in a little Iowa town last night. Just an assortment owned by a fellow who, in a casual way, liked guns. This is what the crowd decided weapons are worth:
--Mossberg 16 ga. bolt action, okay condition .... $110
--Carcano 38 (7.35 cal.) heavily bubbaed .... $110
--Spanish copy of Browning "vest pocket" .25ACP rough, no mag. .... $90
--Rossi .38 Spc. revolver (Pythonish) as NIB -- $200
--First series Colt Match Target .22 (1940 mfg.) VG-Exc but no mag .... $530 (!)*
--Star Elbar, SS Colt Commander copy, VG .... $375
--Spectra HC 9mm semi-auto, as NIB with several hi-cap mags ... $725**
--Winchester 101ish Pigeon Grade XTR (12 ga OU) in presentation case .... $725
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*Only a fool would have left without owning her at that price.
**An assaultish looking pistoloid which I've seen, if ever, only fired sideways in movin' picture shows about ninjas still subject to acne attacks
--Mossberg 16 ga. bolt action, okay condition .... $110
--Carcano 38 (7.35 cal.) heavily bubbaed .... $110
--Spanish copy of Browning "vest pocket" .25ACP rough, no mag. .... $90
--Rossi .38 Spc. revolver (Pythonish) as NIB -- $200
--First series Colt Match Target .22 (1940 mfg.) VG-Exc but no mag .... $530 (!)*
--Star Elbar, SS Colt Commander copy, VG .... $375
--Spectra HC 9mm semi-auto, as NIB with several hi-cap mags ... $725**
--Winchester 101ish Pigeon Grade XTR (12 ga OU) in presentation case .... $725
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*Only a fool would have left without owning her at that price.
**An assaultish looking pistoloid which I've seen, if ever, only fired sideways in movin' picture shows about ninjas still subject to acne attacks
Officer Friendly Gets Your Gun
Clive's Finest found out you don't have to pay even a pittance at gun turn-ins. . A few zippitydoodahs get fuzzy just giving their weapons to the cops. For the children, I would guess.
This one netted 51 "weapons" if you count the BB guns and broken pellet rifles along with assemblies of rusted parts which weren't worth bringing home when new.
However, I imagine gleam in some acquisitive cops' eyes.
After determining if they were stolen, police will send the guns to the state crime lab for testing. Those weapons that are not found to be linked to a crime will be destroyed.
Uh huh. "Chief, I'll just take this here Ruger home and hang it up with the other guns I'm planning to destroy."
The bunk-junk photos reveal a few that we'd all be pleased to own and possibly a classic or two. Give me some slack for working with lower resolution images, but I notice:
A possible Black Hawk with McGiverned trigger guard, splotchy but savable ... A decent Ruger Standard ... A probable Hi-Standard Sentinel ... another HI-Standard-like semi on the order of the HD ... and something that looks at least a little like the Savage experiment with pocket autos.
But never mind. Clive is a safer burb these days. The Only One's press release says so.
This one netted 51 "weapons" if you count the BB guns and broken pellet rifles along with assemblies of rusted parts which weren't worth bringing home when new.
However, I imagine gleam in some acquisitive cops' eyes.
After determining if they were stolen, police will send the guns to the state crime lab for testing. Those weapons that are not found to be linked to a crime will be destroyed.
Uh huh. "Chief, I'll just take this here Ruger home and hang it up with the other guns I'm planning to destroy."
The bunk-junk photos reveal a few that we'd all be pleased to own and possibly a classic or two. Give me some slack for working with lower resolution images, but I notice:
A possible Black Hawk with McGiverned trigger guard, splotchy but savable ... A decent Ruger Standard ... A probable Hi-Standard Sentinel ... another HI-Standard-like semi on the order of the HD ... and something that looks at least a little like the Savage experiment with pocket autos.
But never mind. Clive is a safer burb these days. The Only One's press release says so.
May 19, 2013
Reloading .30-06 military brass
For reasons I hinted at last evening, I've developed an even stronger hunger for .30-06, and a rainy Sunday is devoted to loading some of the case stash, mostly military.
Grrrrrr.
The primer pocket crimp we all curse is only part of the problem. Some of the pockets are just too tight to take a fresh one.
I de-crimp everything with a countersink chucked in a drill, and for some that quick operation is all it takes. My Autoprime loves 1950s cases from Lake City, particularly LC 54.
It hates everything from Denver, especially D 42, and I just toss those.
Winchester and Frankford head stamps are between those extremes, and after crushing too many primers I've decided to set them aside until I get around to creating either a power reamer or a press-mountable swage.
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At the command of the TMR Legal Review Section, I remind newbies that any time you remove brass from a case you weaken it, maybe significantly, maybe not. I reserve anything I've cut into for conservative loads.
Grrrrrr.
The primer pocket crimp we all curse is only part of the problem. Some of the pockets are just too tight to take a fresh one.
I de-crimp everything with a countersink chucked in a drill, and for some that quick operation is all it takes. My Autoprime loves 1950s cases from Lake City, particularly LC 54.
It hates everything from Denver, especially D 42, and I just toss those.
Winchester and Frankford head stamps are between those extremes, and after crushing too many primers I've decided to set them aside until I get around to creating either a power reamer or a press-mountable swage.
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At the command of the TMR Legal Review Section, I remind newbies that any time you remove brass from a case you weaken it, maybe significantly, maybe not. I reserve anything I've cut into for conservative loads.
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