Firearms

The Gray Wolf

Last weekend, we bought some new Russian-made Wolf .45ACP ammunition, primarily to shoot with my Para Warthog. The gun is a little finicky when shooting the reloads we buy at the range. On Sunday, all but one of the rounds fired with no misfeeds – the one that did not feed was toward the bottom of the magazine that I suspect might have a weak spring. We’re going to get all the Warthog magazines re-sprung one of these days.

The rest of this post is dedicated to the artistic aspects of this fine-looking ammo.

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Why We Take Lots of Targets to the Range

“As long as it’s still movin’ I’m still shootin’!” That’s Damsel’s description of her target practice technique when shooting at silhouette targets with her shotgun. To that I say “As long as she likes doing that, I’ll keep the targets coming.”

Our Day at the Gun Show

lootThis morning we took off for the gun show. We haven’t been for almost six months, and had a list of things we needed to get. Well, we scored everything on the list and then some. At the left is a montage of three items that we brought home with us today.

The first panel is a close-up of some .38 special factory reloads that we got – 500 rounds at a reasonable price. They didn’t have any 158 grain .357 reloads, so we settled for the .38 rounds – they’re only going to be used for target practice anyway.

In the next panel, something not on the list – a nice T-shirt with a warm and fuzzy message. Damsel really needed that, so we got it. They had a lot of funny and interesting T-shirts, including one that had a picture of a Harley Davidson Motorcycle and a caption that said “You never see a motorcycle parked outside of a psychiatrist’s office.” If I were still riding, I might have picked that one up.

On the bottom is sort of an experiment. Damsel’s Para Warthog is a bit finicky sometimes about the ammo we use – it likes new ammo better than reloads. So, we bought 500 rounds of Wolf, which is Russian-made .45 ACP ammo. I guess we’ll see how well a Canadian Pistol works with Russian cartridges. My Glock 30 doesn’t seem to care, so we bought 500 rounds of reloaded .45 ACP ammo for it.

One gentleman standing next to us at the ammo concession bought 500 rounds of .38 special wadcutters – he was complaining about how his home town had an ordinance that restricts purchases of ammo to a mere 50 rounds per month. He is from – none other than – San Francisco. Poor guy has to come 400 miles to purchase wadcutters – mostly ineffective as anything other than target rounds. The asswipes that run ‘Frisco have no clues, I guess.

It was lots of fun going to the show today. We’re looking forward to the next one in August.

Yesterday’s Shoot

Yesterday, I put up a picture of the dirty guns all broken down for cleaning. One of the regulars on this blog dropped us a line in the comments about how much fun we must have had and also observed that our patio gun cleaning might unnerve our neighbors – well, we did have fun, but since the patio area isn’t visible to neighbors of normal height, we can’t comment on any jumpy nerves. Nobody in the area seems to react to the snick-snick noises our shotguns make when we’re cycling the fore-end to distribute the dry lube.

Our reader friend, Glenn B, blogs at “Ballseye’s Boomers,” a really neat blog. After reading his comments, I realized that I went to put him on the blogroll a while back but for whatever reason (senior moment?) it didn’t get done. That has been corrected now. Go to Glenn’s site and read about how he got the name for the blog – you will enjoy learning about that.

So, that brings us to the video here which has little to do with anything other than to relate to the post yesterday. I took some video of Damsel shooting her 20 gauge Remington 870 followed by a video of the broken down guns in the tranquility of our patio (listen to the songbirds and babbling water feature) followed by a before and after cleaning shot of the muzzle on Damsel’s Warthog.

Look at All These Filthy Gun Parts!

All these dirty firearms parts look daunting, but seldom take more than a few minutes per firearm to get them into ready-for-service condition. We like to sit on the patio where we can listen to music and the tranquil babbling of a water feature while we calmly bring order to this chaotic array of filthy gun parts.

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Long Target Practice

ammo-boxesWe missed target practice a couple of weeks ago. So, to make up for it, we took some extra ammo and brought seven firearms:

  1. Smith & Wesson 442 .38 spl +P
  2. Smith & Wesson 908s 9mm
  3. Glock 26 9mm
  4. Glock 30 .45 ACP
  5. Para Warthog .45 ACP
  6. Remington 870 20 ga
  7. Remington 870 12 ga 6+1

I took this picture of the recycle bin after we broke down the ammo boxes. To be fair, this bunch includes the ammo boxes we used to reload the magazines for the pistols after cleaning them today.      Click to zoomography.

I wonder what the dumpster divers think when peeking in our recycle bins on trash day.

GunPedia

GunPediaI knew it would be just a matter of time until somebody would do this.

Gunpedia is a wiki that was created in January 2006. A wiki is a website that anyone can edit and improve, sort of like Wikipedia, only this is more specific – it’s for the documentation of just about anything about guns. Right now, you can edit 347 different articles about this subject, and can create many, many more.

On the front page there is a section for:

  • Monthly Featured Article
  • Monthly Featured Image
  • User of the Month
  • Newest Pages

Also featured is an alphanumeric index to specific firearms pages. If you don’t see your favorite weapon there, you can add it yourself! I looked at the index, and it appears that there will be a lot of work to do.

There are many special-interest wikis in cyberspace, not the least of which is the IMFDB or Internet Movie Firearms Database, another very interesting wiki.