Sorry for the thin blogging as of late. We’ve lost two computers in a week and trying to recover. The laptop lost it’s hard drive and the old workstation had a power supply failure (we think). Meanwhile, watch this short video of Damsel having fun at the range.
She’s a real gun lover . . .
We’re still in the break-in of Damsel’s Para Ordinance Warthog .45 ACP pistol, so we don’t quite have the final report as of yet. The pistol seems to be taking a bit longer to get used to, since it has been finicky about feeding rounds into the chamber. There is also more lubrication and wiping off the excess involved.
Damsel considers the chore to be like polishing up her jewelry. Click on the image for a closer look.
No, it’s not about the popular milblog Blackfive. It’s our five black guns lined up for a group photo. Top to bottom, left to right, (ignoring the magazines) they are: Remington 870 Express Synthetic 12 gauge 6+1 shotgun, Glock 30 .45ACP 10+1 pistol, Smith & Wesson 442 .38 special 5-shot revolver, Smith & Wesson 908 9mm 8+1 pistol and Glock 26 9mm 10+1 pistol.
One of our comrades-in-arms, The Wandering Minstrel, has started his own blog to address (mostly) second amendment topics. We have added a link on our second-amendment blogroll.
We wanted to report on Damsel’s Para Ordinance Warthog, but she’s still breaking it in. We will post something next week for sure.
Today, however, I would like to report on my new Glock 30. The picture at the right shows the pistol in a Bianchi holster. Two ten-round magazines are supplied with the pistol and are shown loaded with .45ACP ammo.
I really like this gun. As is the case with my Glock 26 9mm pistol, it’s accurate, smooth and easily stripped for cleaning. I’ve had it out to the range three times now and have had no problems.
Out of the box, it just started performing like an already-broken-in semi-automatic pistol. No jams, no feeding problems and the only complaint I have is with my own ability to hand-load the last of the 10 rounds into the magazine. I eventually get it done, but it takes considerable force. (I am NOT a wimp!) Eventually, the springs will relax and it will be easier to load.
The Glock 30 is an affordable .45 ACP carry gun. It offers a compromise between size and capacity coupled with the stopping power of the venerable .45 ACP.
Photo courtesy of Damsel – Click on the image to see a life-sized picture.
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We’re preparing a report on Damsel’s new Para Ordinance Warthog; it should be done in a day or two. We just seem to run out of evenings and weekends before getting everything done.
Since I wanted some backup graphics for the report, I took a couple of short videos as we fired the .45s. This is a still frame from a video I was taking when Damsel fired the Warthog; it nicely shows the plume that is visible as the pistol discharges the bullet toward the target. For a petite gun, it sure exhibits a full-blown plume and report. “Baby Boomer” seemed to be an appropriate designation for this little gun.
A little over a year ago, we got a pair of Smith & Wesson 908 9mm pistols: a 908s for Damsel and a black 908 for me. I took a photo at that time similar to this one that Damsel took today after cleaning the guns.
The interesting thing about this picture (to me) is that the apparently smaller of the two is a .45 caliber compact Para Ordinance Warthog with a 10-round magazine capacity, while the 908 is a 9mm, 8-round magazine capacity pistol. When Para claims this is the “most compact 1911,” I tend to believe them.
A wadcutter is a bullet specially designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and with significantly subsonic velocities under 800 ft/s (244 m/s) such as are found in handgun and airgun competitions. A wadcutter has a flat or nearly flat front, which acts to cut a very clean hole through the target, making it easier to score and ideally reducing errors in scoring to the favor of the shooter. Because the flat nosed bullet is not well suited for feeding out of a firearm’s magazine, wadcutters are normally used in revolvers or specially designed semi-automatic pistols. Wadcutters are also sometimes known as the Devil’s Suppository.
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