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I didn’t know this was a “myth” to be busted.

Ammoland.

For the 2021 legislative session, Representative Bobby Cox (R-19) introduced House Bill 3094 to allow citizens who hold a concealed weapons permit to carry a handgun in the manner they choose. Currently, South Carolina is one of just five states that do not explicitly allow open carry, among them Illinois, New York, and California. Self-defense situations are difficult to predict and everyone has different circumstances. It is unreasonable for the law to impose a one-size-fits-all method of carrying a handgun for self-defense.

Yet another chance.  This has been on the agenda of some patriots for a long time in South Carolina, but alas, they have to fight three lobbies: (1) Columbia, S.C., (2) Greenville, S.C., and (3) Lower State (esp. Charleston, S.C.).

What will happen this time?  Here’s a prediction.  The cowards in South Carolina won’t even let it get to the floor for a vote.  If it does, the progressives have to self identify, and we couldn’t have that, could we?

Shooting Illustrated has an article up on a new Bushnell red dot sight, but I like the newest Burris red dot sight, the FastFire 4.  Thank goodness we don’t have to witness James Reeves in his sickening girly shorts he seems to want to wear for the camera.  He’s sitting behind a table.

Being new, I don’t think the market is exactly saturated with these products at the moment.  This is a Shot Show installment in lieu of the real Shot Show, so I suspect this is the introduction of the release.

He likes it, and claims he knows a number of active duty folks who do too.

For me, this scope seems expensive compared to some other ones that can be had for less cost (like the Arken Optics models now).  Also, while I’m sure this scope is worthy, I find myself more interested in their 5X prism optic.  Readers can weigh in on the prism optic if you have any experience with it.

I have a problem with his conclusions because of the large difference in sample sizes between persons shot with the .357 magnum and .44 magnum.

I would assume that the correct answer to this question is, “You can thread pipes by hand (I’ve done that). You shouldn’t do that with barrels.”

Rifles, from Field & Stream.

Observations: There are some oddball cartridges like 6.5 PRC and .280 Ackley Improved, but pretty much everything is being made in 30-06 and 6.5 Creedmoor.  A lot of manufacturers are protecting barrels with Cerakote or lightening up the load with a carbon wrapper.  But reducing the weight takes money.  You pay big for reduction in weight.  It would be nice to have that Savage 110 Ultralight.

Shotguns, from Outdoor Life.

Observations: There are still break action guns and over-unders, some with very nice engraving.  In spite of what’s shown here though, manufacturers have finally gotten the touch on their gas systems, and most of the market seems to be dominated by auto-loaders.

He quickly deals with the issue of height-over-bore for close range shooting (as in CQB), and then discusses why he mounts his scopes high.  A very interesting discussion.

I think he doesn’t understand that he’s misusing the terms “energy” and potential energy.”  However, his point remains true, and I would have thought the point intuitive.  The energy needs to be applied to the right location, and putting components into a vise as a cantilever isn’t the right way to approach the problem.  Keep everything along main axes if possible to minimize the torque (force × moment arm) applied to the component itself.  Things can break.  But I’ve seen situations where this wasn’t entirely possible.