Archive for the 'Guns' Category

Seen at David’s WoG.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), and Jennifer Wexton, (D-Va.) introduced The Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act, H.R. 5764, in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate as S. 3117. The legislation is troublesome because the politicians authoring it pitch it as a means to detect and prevent those who might be planning to commit an atrocity or terror attack.

They don’t really believe they can predict the future.  They just want more control of the average American.  Anyone who is a serious threat to the status quo will know how to control their intel and counterintel.

Not for precision shooting – for hunting.

I think I agree with one of the comments.  His final bullet was probably due to shooting slightly uphill.

He wants to do some custom things to the gun that I would not choose to do.  If I am ever able to purchase this gun, I will leave it as is, except for installation of optics.

Readers seemed to like the gun when I posted previously, so I thought this would be a good update.  I haven’t seen any negative reviews of this gun anywhere.

Also, Shooting Sports USA has a review up.

I keep hearing folks complain about 1911 reliability, and frankly I’m nonplussed every time I hear it.  Out of thousands and thousands of round through two 1911s, I’ve never had a single FTF/FTE.  No malfunctions of any kind, and that’s without extensive cleaning (although I do lubricate them before range trips).  Then again, these are high quality 1911s.

But I do enjoy listening to Ken Hackathorn and Bill Wilson discuss the history and engineering behind Browning’s design.  It was a gun built around the cartridge.  This is fine with me – I like the cartridge.  I always have, and I shoot it better than any other.

I haven’t tried it, but I don’t think I very much like it.  It seems to me that if you intend actually to use it, you’d better practice it a lot.

It’s a very long article with pros and cons on each of the many guns they tested.  The Beretta A400 Xtreme Plus was the winner.

The post title is correct.  That’s good shooting by both of them.

Of course, she’s shooting a very nice 223 rifle (SAKO) with a very long barrel (24″) along with a heavy bullet (80.5 grain Berger).  But still, that’s good shooting and a great job of taking the 223 out that far.