Bullets and Barbecue

Do I need an intervention? Be honest. As long as you tell me what I already want to hear. Yesterday, I was fooling around in the workshop, and I found a thousand rounds of AK-47 ammo. It had been there for three years. I had no idea I had it.

When a thousand rounds of ammunition mean so little to you, you forget where they are, is it, maybe, time to ask yourself if you buy too much gun stuff?

NO! NO! IT ISN’T! I’M NOT THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM! YOU’RE THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM!

I guess I shouldn’t be afraid to take some target practice with the AK. I now have so much AK ammo, I need a handtruck to move it.

In related news, I visited the nearest long-range shooting range today. It’s down around Leesburg. Their website says they go out to 900 yards, but the lady who talked to me at the range said it was 850. Okay, whatever. It’s far enough to help me learn how to shoot.

To qualify to use the 850-yard range, I have to shoot at 400 and let them grade me. That means I have to get the Ruger Precision Rifle working. My plan is to shoot it this weekend and then go to the range when it reopens on Wednesday. Should be fun. I’m not sure why there is cow manure all over the parking lot, but you take what you can get.

The range reminds me of the pickle leftists are in if they seriously try to start an internal war. While I was there, I saw the other customers. They are not leftists, and they were happily plugging away at targets off in the distance. Ignorant urban terrorists who hold their guns sideways would do very poorly against them.

There is a hilarious Youtube channel called Tactical Rifleman, and the host is a guy named Karl Erickson. He’s a retired Green Beret. Wonderful channel. He says something really funny about pistols. He says that when you’re in a gunfight, you should bring “an adult gun.” He makes a very convincing case for semiauto rifles in home defense, which is good, because that’s my conclusion, too. Anyway, there are tens of millions of conservative men who already know how to use adult guns, and they’ll be fighting “men” who haven’t figured out how to pull their pants up.

When I got home, I went and got me a haircut at the Chamber of Excessive Testosterone, better known as the barber shop. I barely had time to get into my book on long-range marksmanship before it was my turn. When I entered, I had my Biden face diaper in place, not knowing what the current mask policy was. I saw that no one else was wearing one, so I took it off. There was a big discussion of everyone’s hatred of face diapers.

I don’t quite get the conservative hatred of masks. I hate them. Sure. But I hate them mostly because they’re uncomfortable and because people think they do things they don’t really do. I’m not that agitated about the political aspect.

Many conservatives get really mad when they have to wear them, and it seems to be because they think it’s part of a big conspiracy. There is definitely a conspiracy to exaggerate the danger of coronavirus and the effectiveness of face diapers, and it’s true that Satan is using masks to train people to serve the Antichrist, but I think my mask gives other people a small amount of protection (assuming I have the bug and don’t know it), so I am willing to wear it.

My understanding is that it does virtually nothing to protect me. If I go into a place where people aren’t wearing masks, I’m going to get their germs regardless of what I wear, but I can reduce the germs they get from me by wearing the diaper. That’s according to the last expert advice I read, which may be totally obsolete this week.

Anyway, I love the barber shop. It’s full of fishing tackle and dive paraphernalia, and the magazines are about guns and fishing. I haven’t seen a hipster beard or a fruity millennial hairstyle there yet.

I got something else done today. I have been thinking of building a steak cooker from a propane weed torch. The idea is to project an incredible amount of heat down onto the meat, giving it a somewhat blackened surface. I tried it today, holding the weed torch in my hand.

I prepared an inch-thick rib eye. It took very little time to go from raw to medium-rare. It was also nice and hot inside, in spite of not being overcooked. It had a good burnt flavor, as a steak should, and it was a little different from a fried steak’s flavor.

Still, fried steak is better. No doubt about it. I’m thinking I may continue to fry steaks while using a hand-held torch to add flavor.

I’m contemplating getting an electric smoker. I built one years ago, and it was great, but I threw it out when I left Miami. My friend Mike just got a Masterbuilt, and he sent pictures of the meat. It looked wonderful. It wasn’t black, so the smoke wasn’t full of creosote, but he said there was a deep smoke ring, so it wasn’t just roasted.

I don’t have much interest in pigging out or getting back into cooking in a serious way, but it would be nice to be able to get some decent barbecue. Yes, the barbecue around here is very good by restaurant standards, but I can beat it easily without leaving the house or putting on a face diaper. I can pretty well founder myself for 10 bucks.

I stopped typing and wandered off, but I’m back. I have a smoker on the way. I went for a nice stainless job. It’s electric. I read that electric smokers don’t give you a smoke ring, but people who judge contests claim the flavor is exactly the same, so good enough.

When it arrives, I’ll toss some ribs in it. Maybe I’ll low-carb for a blissful week. That would be nice.

Why the Terror Kids Won’t go Home

In a recent blog post, I wrote about the encouragement I felt upon unearthing and watching videos by black conservatives. It was nice to be reminded that not everyone has gone nuts and that there are still plenty of black people who don’t have it in for whites.

I came across a lady who had had 9 joint replacements. I started adding up the joints I knew I could be replaced, and I only came up with 6. Shoulders, hips, and knees. She must be in a bad way if she has gone past that.

She seemed like a nice, gentle person, and she said things I agreed with. She seemed like a mild-mannered mother and wife who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Today, however, I found a video in which she appears to blame Jews for the media brainwashing of blacks, as well as Hollywood pedophilia. Youtube banned the video, so she put it on Bitchute, a service I don’t know much about.

After saying she has just had a joint surgery which rendered her right hand temporarily useless, she calls Jews “the 2%.” She posts a quote attributed to Mel Gibson. It says Hollywood runs on “baby blood.” It calls baby blood “a currency of its own.”

If you can find any evidence that Mel Gibson actually said this, on a reputable website, you’re a better Googler than I am.

People familiar with history know that Jews have been accused of using the blood of gentile babies to make matzohs. Many anti-Semites really believe this. Human flesh isn’t kosher, and the Jewish law forbids the consumption of blood, and more importantly, Jews are not completely insane.

The myth about the blood of babies is known as the blood libel. This lady could not have picked a better subject to highlight her delusions, hostility, and bias.

She had seemed like such a nice lady. I had wondered why a person like that would be afflicted with bad joints. Today, I thought about this, from Psalm 137: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.” The word also says envy rots the bones.

The conspiracy theory she is pushing is just like critical race theory, the genocidal, hate-excusing claptrap pushed by phony leftist scholars. Instead of endorsing self-examination, accountability, and correction, it promotes cruel action against a class which is supposedly privileged.

Hitler was a critical race theorist.

It’s disappointing to see a black conservative push this poison, and it’s worse to see people endorse it in Youtube comments.

Yes, the Jews are privileged. They have privilege conferred by the blessings given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They’re the most intelligent, most talented people on earth; there is no point in pretending it’s not true. God helps them to succeed. He prevents them from being wiped out. He gives their tiny nation consistent victory over a billion-plus murderous bigots with many times the population, land, and resources.

The Jews will continue to do well no matter what kooks do to bring them down. When you fight the existence of Jacob, you fight God.

One of the pitfalls of becoming too involved with conservatism is that you may find yourself linked to the small percentage of conservatives who are anti-Semitic. It’s probably worse when you involved yourself with black and Latin conservatives, because anti-Semitism has run unchecked among blacks and Latins.

I’m conservative, but the reason is that people who know the Holy Spirit become conservative with time. I’m not primarily interested in politics. Conservatism is a symptom of closeness with God. Conservatives who reject the Holy Spirit are not much better off than Wiccan Antifa nuts.

If I reach out to other conservatives socially, or I check out their Internet project, it’s not really because they’re conservative. It’s because I expect to encounter people who know God. It doesn’t always work, obviously.

Of course, on the left, smoldering anti-Semitism is mainstream.

The spirit of murder, also known as the red horseman of the apocalypse, is building up steam all over the world. We are seeing bizarre, demonic fits all over the place. If you get caught up in identity politics, even as a conservative, the spirit of murder may come into your heart and set up housekeeping. He’s entitled to do that if you give him permission.

Most Americans don’t understand how crazy the spirit’s pawns have become. The rage fits the definition of insanity. It is extreme.

Yesterday I saw a video of a Massachusetts man taunting a group of Antifers. They were doing something or other in a public place. The police formed a line between them and the general public. The man was filming them, and as he did, he humiliated them with stinging insults. He was enjoying himself. The police couldn’t help laughing.

There were three young men (likely white college students) screaming at him. They were standing in a line, closer to him than the others. They looked like lunatics. They were wearing black from head to toe. It was like a comedy sketch. When he said things to them, they practically jumped up and down. They screeched curses in high-pitched voices. It was obvious they wanted to kill him. There was nothing they could do, because they were small and weak, he was big and strong, and the police were between them. But for cowardice and the knowledge that they would lose, they would have beaten him at the very least.

This is completely normal for BLMtifa. That’s the amazing thing about it. These deranged, dangerous kids are not exceptional. They’re farther out than many of their fellow terrorists, but they have lots of company.

Here’s something God showed me: when human behavior makes no sense at all, look for a supernatural cause. These kids are controlled by demons. Their derangement and anger go far beyond anything that has a rational explanation.

It’s not normal to scream so hard your feet nearly leave the ground, just because someone calls you a communist. If you find your wife in bed with another man, sure. If you catch a pedophile with your daughter, again, it’s understandable. Abandoning all semblance of reason and masculinity over a mild verbal disagreement is different. A sane person should not be capable of that.

People do not understand how insane leftists have become. They’re angrier than Nazis. I know. I’ve seen sites frequented by both. Anyone who wants to understand leftist sociopathy should read about the Russian Revolution. Read things written by leftists in the first half of the last century. The coldness and hate are inhuman. They dealt with human beings as though they were bugs in an ant farm.

I found a forum where leftists were discussing Michael Reinoehl, who was unquestionably a murderer. I’ll post some things I read.

Our antifa shooter is dead, acting in self defense of his comrades and himself, this army veteran and father of two was f______ slaughtered by the pigs clearly working with and integrated with right wing militas, he was butchered and shot to death, god I sure hope hes in heaven, these f______ pigs these f______ sh_ts killing off so many comrades, his sister also made a statement calling him a martyr and that his death will bring about what the left and movement needs… Rest In Power a comrade turned into a martyr I hope he has found his peace up there and these sick pigs and militas get what’s coming to them

also agreed we need more brave people like him willing to put there toe off the line, even if it risky, I do think he acted in self defense but even if he didnt he was brave to do what no one would and rightly killed that f____r

makes me sad a good dad with an alright job life, good socialist ideals and a man clearly trying to protect others (and as he states specifically minoritiy protestors) had to die

just finished the interview, he said “I felt like the shot was the beginning of a civil war”, Reinoehl knew soon as that f_____g fashtard convoy came in the man knew what trouble they were bringing, ready to put his own life on the line, what a guy, seems like he was real good, very confident of his actions and justifying them, that takes some courage, even doing an interview while there is a manhunt and he even cleared the media’s lies and said “they knew why the shooting happen, they knew it was me, they lied”, watch the interview guys

He was an antifacist who shot a fascist. Do you know just quite how many people who took part in the Russian Revolution were vets? It was integral to the whole thing. STFU.

Other than it being a show of solidarity the man is a lefty chad who went out like a boss. Killed a rightard and evaded capture long enough to have a f_____g interview with vice and never capitulated on his morals. He deserves a sticky for a day or so.

people are still slaves to the system, people try read theory much as they can and the only people writing theory rn is academics, but this is a few socialists and communists in America, due to the falls of the ussr the left in the west has been set back a few good decades, this is a start for our first martyr, no? this is some form of progress comrade, even if its little

Reinoehl’s sister turned him in. Here’s what a workers’ hero said about her:

So this is what I suggest. Firstly,
Use VPN and VOIP or a $10 burner phone and phone card.
When you call her don’t threaten her life or just i agreee. That’s far less psychologically damaging than pointing out a few key facts:
1) He was defending police brutality protesters from right wing death squads.
2) He’s a hero for that, and it’s very clear from the footage he acted in self-defense. He was maced by a guy with a gun.
3) She introduced her brother to right wing death squads.
4) Now his daughters have no father, and it’s due to her pointing death squads to her brother.
5) Her statements she’s glad it happened reek of Qanon brainwashing, and she’s been brainwashed into being glad she pointed death squads to kill her brother. Emphasize that she’s allowing election rhetoric and orange clown world to skew the moral weight of having her brother killed. Try to break through that Fox News shielding.
6) Keep emphasizing she killed her brother and deprived her nieces of a father.
7) Call her parents, and defend Michael to them. Don’t denigrate the daughter, but make sure that weight is heavy.

If she’s not a sociopath, in about 2 years she’ll fall apart at the seams. Remind Michael’s daughters that their aunt had her brother killed.

We are taught that evil spirits have a hierarchy. Big spirits have little spirits they order around. It’s obvious the spirit of murder has abundant troops, and these spirits are pumping people up until they’re ready to explode.

My friend Mike has a son who is a professional musician. He married a black girl who was raised in a white area by white parents. She was so sheltered from blacks, the first time she found herself living among them, she complained that they scared her. Now she lectures Mike, who gives her financial support. She tells him what an awful person he is for not endorsing BLM on social media. These kids tell him they’re not sure they want their future children around a person like him. His son said his wife lived in terror that the police would do her great harm.

This is not exaggeration. I’ve seen some of the communications.

Almost no black person has a legitimate reason for living in fear that the cops will do her in, let alone a law-abiding young woman who doesn’t interact with the police regularly. Her fear is insane, and somehow, it has been transmitted to her husband.

Obviously, she is in no danger. Do I have to say that?

She’s not a criminal on parole. He’s not a drug dealer or pimp. They’re just ordinary people. That’s what’s so disturbing. I can understand why career criminals resent the police, but they are targets of hatred from people have never had a parking ticket.

There is a demon-fed mass insanity just below the surface in many, many Americans. Right now, the riots aren’t everywhere, but that doesn’t mean the situation isn’t critical. Demons have heated people up to the point where they’re like dry twigs. They are much, much closer to the flash point than people usually are. It won’t take much to start a conflagration that burns off the veneer of civilization and plunges us into a murder pandemic.

That’s what’s going to happen. The Revelation says a spirit of murder will be released, and as a result, people all over the world will do each other violence and kill each other. It’s not merely a possible outcome. It’s going to happen.

When things go optimally, the Holy Spirit reigns in everyone, and they get along. Failing that, God restrains people and spirits so the world is preserved. Now God is removing restraint. People who know the Holy Spirit can be set apart from the battle. The rest are just demon puppets.

One of the symptoms of demonic insanity is the equation of expression with violence.

There is a fundamental underpinning of criminal law which has been with us for centuries. Here it is: words are not violence. No matter what you say to another person, and I include liberal use of the N-word by people not licensed to use it, that person is not allowed to so much as touch you in response.

There are exceptions. If you have the means to do someone present harm, and you threaten to do it, you commit assault. If you pull a knife and say you’re going to cut someone who is close by, the threat is considered violence under the law, and the victim is allowed to shoot you. Apart from situations like that, words cannot justify violence.

The left now says words are violence. In fact, it’s worse than that. They say white silence is violence. The obvious intention: to justify actual violence against people who disagree with them, and to characterize law-abiding people as violent assailants.

Look around, and you will find video of terrorists surrounding people at restaurants, demanding they say and do certain things to indicate they support the terror. They chant, “White silence is violence.” It’s a threat. It means, “Say what we tell you to say, or be hurt physically.”

They say white silence is violence, but they believe performing assault and battery is expression.

“Your failure to speak is violence, but my fist in your face is just expression.”

It’s a fascinating thing. Yesterday, I realized what’s going on. Satan is trying to turn America black, Jewish, and Latin.

In mainstream culture, you can believe and say what you like, within broad limits. You can vote for anyone you like. You can say what you like. It’s not like that for blacks, Jews, and Latins. They are told what to say and think.

If you’re black, and you come out as a conservative, you risk being beaten or killed. If you’re Mexican or Puerto Rican, you may have similar problems. If you’re Jewish, you risk losing your livelihood, your family, and your social connections.

The terrorists are trying to spread minority-style thought control to the entire country. This is why you’re likely to be beaten if you wear a red hat in a major city. White people have had freedom of thought, expression, and affiliation too long to suit the terrorists. The terrorists want to put us on the plantation with the other slaves. That’s a good way to characterize it.

“White” is the wrong term, because Asians from the successful Asian cultures (Japanese, Korean, and Chinese) are lumped in with us.

I’ve thought about getting a red hat. I haven’t involved myself with politics for years, and that’s why I don’t have one. It’s dangerous to see a politician as a messiah, and it’s also dangerous to think America is what keeps me safe and prosperous. But yesterday I asked myself how I felt about getting a hat. I live in an extraordinary conservative stronghold. Still, something inside me said I was asking for trouble. Not everyone here is a mature adult.

I think that if I decide to make politics more important to myself, I should get a hat and a shirt. I should do it simply to avoid being a coward. I should do it to support other conservatives. The risk that something bad will happen is negligible, and even if it does happen, sometimes assuming risk is the correct thing to do.

For a few years, I’ve had a no-bumper-sticker policy. Why? Because it’s extremely easy to damage a vehicle, it’s very hard to catch a person who does it, it’s hard to make them pay if caught, and repairs are usually done badly. It’s very sad that leftists can cover their cars with stickers in complete safety, while the rest of us have to accept vandalism as a near-certainty. It has happened to me.

Wearing a red hat when you carry a 10mm pistol is a little different from wearing one while disarmed, though. A gun provides the possibility of escalation. From a purely selfish standpoint, sometimes it’s better to take a few kicks and punches, and even to visit the hospital, than to kill a mindless savage and face prosecution.

It’s remarkable that Americans live in a time when we have to think about things like this. Analysts say there are millions of silent Trump voters out there, and it’s unquestionably true, because for several years, people have known that speaking up for Trump invites violence, vandalism, theft, and firings. What a coercive atmosphere we suddenly live in. And there is no left-wing equivalent. Biden hats, if they exist, are safe to wear everywhere.

Tormenting people who wear MAGA hats and stealing campaign signs should be felonies carrying minimum jail time. Why? Because the right to make political choices is one of the most important rights we have. If you knock a Lakers hat off someone’s head, it’s bad, but at least you’re not sabotaging democracy and threatening one of the foundations of our country. When you make people afraid to endorse candidates, you suppress the vote.

I would like to stand up and be counted, but somehow, wearing political stuff seems like putting God in the back of the bus. I don’t go around wearing shirts with “JESUS” on them. In view of that, should I wear a Trump shirt? Who is more important?

Anyway, welcome to ghetto life. Welcome to the plantation. You don’t get to speak, work, or exist unless you support the Antichrist. It’s bad, and it will eventually get worse. That’s my prediction. I hope I’m wrong, but all the evidence says I’m right.

Not Everyone is Crazy

In the book of Revelation, Jesus tells the church in Philadelphia he will spare them the season of temptation that is to come upon the world. Did that happen to the people who belonged to that church at that time? No, because the hour of temptation didn’t come. It’s the tribulation, and the tribulation still isn’t here.

He must have been talking about future Christians who pleased him enough to be taken in the rapture.

It’s an interesting promise, because it appears to show that there is a difference between being saved and being chosen for the rapture. Jesus criticized the other churches, but he didn’t say only the Philadelphians would go to heaven.

It’s also interesting because if it’s about the rapture, it proves there will be a pre-tribulation rapture. There is no way to spare people the season of temptation if they are still here.

I think about things like this a lot. Human culture seems to be disintegrating. People have become disgusting and discouraging. It’s hard to imagine a prolonged future in which Jesus permits the world to exist in such corruption. Of course, the corruption’s spread is accelerating, so such a future would be considerably worse than the time we live in now. Eeew.

Sometimes I have the feeling that certain groups of Americans have given up on themselves. It’s a feeling, not a belief. Sometimes I feel that the overwhelming majority of black Americans have abandoned the truth so utterly that they can’t be reached. Rumors have tremendous power among black Americans.

Last night, I caught a Youtube video created by a black conservative. He inserted another video in his video. The inserted video was made on a cell phone, by a black woman. She and her brother caught a black man beating and robbing an elderly white man, and they became enraged. They were on the road, and her brother drove off the road, subdued the criminal, and held him for the police while he and his sister shamed him.

They could not have been nicer to the victim, who refused to have the mugger arrested. They called the victim “sir” and kept asking him if he was okay. He offered to reward them, and they refused money. She went on a rant about black people blaming others and rioting and ignoring the high rate of crime among blacks. She was furious.

It was a great thing to watch. It felt good to be reminded that there are people who resist the cultural coercion and lies. Not everyone hates us. Not everyone swallows the propaganda, and many black people and other minority members are angry at the people who spread it. Black support for Trump is now measured at somewhere between 20% and 24%. Shockingly high, either way.

It occurred to me that it wasn’t that big a story, because all over the country, black people save the lives of old white people every night. Blacks–especially women–have a big presence in medical staffing. It’s too bad they don’t have body cameras so we can see all the kind things they do for non-blacks.

I decided to see if I could find other content that would serve to counteract the poison coming from the left, and I subscribed to a bunch of black channels. Some were popular. Some were obscure.

Today I came across a doozy. A makeup artist calling herself Jasmyne Contours is part of the Walk Away movement, and she has a channel. She has videos in which she calls out the Wormtongues who push the white privilege lie. She brings up facts that show that other classes such as minorities and homosexuals have great privilege. She lays things out in a calm, organized, rational way. It’s something to see. Much more impressive than well-known black conservatives.

My focus is supernatural, not political, but political aberrations are manifestations of supernatural failure, so political information has some importance to me. Rabid, irrational BLM and Antifa terrorists are controlled by dark spirits because they don’t know the Spirit of God. I don’t think Jasmyne Contours is providing the best answers, because in order for a person to truly thrive, his supernatural root has to be replaced. Still, it’s inspiring to listen to her. It’s great to see someone you would expect to be repeating Satanic nonsense objecting to it and debunking it.

I’ll embed one of her videos. I’m not suggesting she’s someone you should go to for counsel, because she doesn’t have much to say about God, but you may enjoy listening to a very, very bright individual who thinks for herself.

I haven’t seen all of her material. For all I know, she goes off on tangents and advocates bombing malls.

As for the rabid and the deluded, Michael Reinoehl is dead. This is the man who murdered Aaron Danielson, AKA Jay Bishop, the Patriot Prayer activist who was shot in Portland. The feds and the cops approached him in a group, and he produced a firearm and began shooting. So far, stories say he missed them completely, but he was shot multiple times and could not be saved.

In a bad move that may be remembered for a long time, the cable network VICE posted an interview with Reinoehl on the same night he was killed. It’s one of the most disgusting videos you will ever see. Reinoehl was in hiding, and he allowed himself to be interviewed. “Interviewed” is too nice a word. The VICE interviewer let him make a propaganda speech. He lied repeatedly, and the “journalist” never questioned him. There is no evidence that the interviewer had seen video of Reinhold murdering Danielson or that he had done any research at all.

Try and imagine Kyle Rittenhouse getting a break like that. He can’t even have a Gofundme page because he has already been found guilty by the leftist establishment. And he’s completely innocent. There is clear video of a mob trying to kill him.

Incidentally, a video has emerged, appearing to show Rittenhouse punching a young woman several times in July. Disappointing. On the surface, it looks like he should be charged with a crime. Still, what he did with his last three shots in Kenosha was straight-up self defense, and the facts alleged by the prosecution suggest the same is true of the first shooting.

Reinoehl claims there were Trump-supporter vehicles all over the place, and that he shot in order to keep a black person from being killed. Watch the video. There was no traffic, very few vehicles are present, and Reinoehl walks up to Danielson and shoots him. VICE’s ace reporter let it slide.

Another reporter speaks in the video. She obsesses on weapons possessed by conservatives and uses terms like “far-right” with abandon and inaccuracy. She has nothing to say about the dozens of people–victims of leftists–who have died as a result of the riots. She makes it sound like conservatives are sending droves of armed killers to confront harmless leftist smurfs who dance in circles and plant daisies.

She has no excuse. She has traveled with activists. She knows better. Anyone who has a computer knows better.

Leftists now live in an alternate reality.

I feel very sad for the world. People have chosen to become impervious to the truth. When that happens, they become impossible to save, and God no longer has any motivation to subject his children to their presence.

I don’t want to be in this place any longer. I would like to accomplish something for God, but I don’t want to spend another 30 years in a psychotic absurdist left-wing fascist state.

Am I overreacting? I could be. I have seen a lot of distressing news lately. It draws attention from my own surroundings, which are extremely peaceful. But consider this: this morning I thought about a carbuncle; a big, deep, pus-filled sore with multiple heads on the skin’s surface. What if what we’re seeing in terrorist-plagued leftist cities are the heads of a huge carbuncle that underlies the entire world?

When you turn against God, your enemies start to multiply without your knowledge. They prepare and undermine in secret. Then they jump out suddenly, taking you by surprise.

You can see this in the story of Belshazzar’s feast. Belshazzar was the son of Nebuchadnezzar. He took the sacred gold items from God’s temple and used them at a drunken feast. He thought he was invincible. Unbeknownst to him, his enemies had already tunneled under Babylon’s walls. A hand appeared and wrote words meaning, “God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to a end. You have been weighed and found wanting,” on the wall where he was feasting. Then his enemies emerged, and he was killed.

That’s how things work when you’re an enemy of God. Your own enemies work like termites. A swarm of termites will eat a wooden item from inside, leaving the paint alone. Then one day you lean on it, and your hand goes through it, because paint is all there is. Americans love to think America is stable and permanent; too big to fail. Our empire is tiny compared to England’s, and look what happened to the British.

Anyone can be conquered. Only God keeps people and nations on top.

I don’t want to be a 90-year-old Christian conservative on Kamala Harris’s Earth, in a chaotic, defeated America, and I definitely don’t want to see the tribulation.

Yesterday I spent hours in prayer and study, and I noticed something interesting. People are claiming the coronavirus vaccine and RF chips are the mark of the Beast. The Bible says the mark will not come until after the Beast’s prophet creates an image of the Beast and makes it speak. I think people can stop worrying about the vaccine. The Beast hasn’t even emerged from the wings yet.

The mark of the Beast pops up a long way into the process. We shouldn’t be saying this or that, which we have already seen, is the mark.

There is time before the Beast emerges. The rapture…maybe not so much.

Carnal Christians and conservatives need to wake up and knock it off. Anyone who thinks shooting and bombing other people will put things right is working for the Beast. If what’s happening around us makes you angry sometimes, you’re normal, but if you’re enraged to the point where you think it’s time to put a plate carrier on and send the left a message, you might as well pray to Satan and ask him to pay your bills, because you work for him. The Bible doesn’t say we will run around shooting unbelievers. It says we will make a strategic withdrawal and God will handle the rest.

We’re not talking enough about love. Love is literally the reason the universe was created. We talk too much about fear and order. We talk a lot about the rules people break. We should be praying God gets through to anyone who can be reached.

I did pray for Reinoehl. I make a point of praying for enemies of God who make the news. There is no point in praying for him now.He’s almost certainly in hell, in agony that will never stop. Wherever he is, he is finally being forced to acknowledge the truth. Rachel Maddow and Don Lemon aren’t there to help him. He can’t run and hide in a friend’s house. VICE isn’t there to film his propaganda speeches.

He would give a wonderful speech now, if we could hear it. It would be very different from what he said all summer. But as the story of Lazarus the beggar shows, very few people who need to hear it would listen.

I’m going to keep trying to improve. This seems like a particularly bad time to get comfortable or backslide. I wish I were better. I don’t want to wonder what will become of me as the rapture starts, and I don’t want to stand before God afterward, explain why I did so little, and accept my participation prize.

Elizabeth Warren Would Love it

I love my Savage 93R for two reasons. First, it shoots sub-MOA for very little money, with nearly no recoil. Second, it has a little Indian chief head on it. Savage got rid of this classic logo a while ago, for obvious reasons. By “obvious reasons,” I mean they chickened out. Maybe they should put a chicken on their rifles.

The other day I cut a piece out of the trigger spring, and then I tested the gun. I posted a picture of the target here. It shows the gun is probably a consistent sub-MOA shooter when you do things right. I don’t always do things right, so I can’t swear to it.

It’s too rainy to shoot, so I have been working on the gun.

Today I cut half a coil out of the trigger spring. I plan to keep going until I like the pull or the gun quits working. I also milled some plastic out of the stock.

Rifle people say a gun’s barrel should be “free-floated” in order to make it accurate. That means nothing touches the barrel forward of the receiver. A free-floated receiver has a very rigid connection to the stock down by the receiver, and past that point, you can slide a piece of paper between the barrel and stock and run it up and down the barrel without hindrance.

My gun probably cost $275, and it has a plastic stock not much fancier than a molded toilet seat, but the barrel was free-floated from the factory, and the stock is rigid, so it doesn’t touch the barrel when you rest the gun on the forward part of the stock. It works, it’s not like some floppy horror stocks Savage has made. I think they make a few disposable stocks because they expect people to replace them.

I was fooling with the gun, and I noticed it was not free-floating all the way to the receiver. The barrel has a fat section adjoining the receiver, and it was touching the stock. The fat part is around 4 inches long. Toward the back, a knob sort of thing projects downward and butts up against a recess in the plastic, so you can’t free-float it where the knob is located, but I had maybe three inches of barrel-to-stock contact I could get rid of.

I tried using a Dremel tool, but it was sloppy work, so I stuck the stock in my mill vise.

I would say I took about 40 thousandths off the inside of the stock on each side. Now I can run a piece of paper all the way up to the knob or lug or whatever that hangs off the barrel.

Does it matter? Will it make the gun more accurate? I don’t know. It can’t make it LESS accurate, so I figured I should try it.

I could just drop $150 on an aftermarket stock, but why? It looks like there is no reason to do it. The current stock is light, comfortable, and functional, and it’s impervious to water. I feel like I should take it as far as it will go.

Maybe the sun will come out tomorrow. I look forward to seeing what the trigger work, stock reduction, and recent practice will do for me.

Chicken Breasts Fry While American Burns

Has the shooting war started?

A couple of days back, volunteer medic and guard Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself from a murderous armed mob and shot a rapist who was trying to take his rifle, a criminal who was approaching him with a pistol in his hand, and a rioter and documented repeat offender who attacked him with a skateboard. The left says he’s a murderer, he has been charged with first-degree murder, and the man who charged him with a pistol (and who says he regrets not emptying a magazine into him) has not even been detained.

Last night, Trump supporters drove through Portland to show their support for the president. Of course, this is their legal right. They were attacked many times. After things quieted down, a white terrorist walked up to a Trump supporter, shot him twice, and left. There is no indication that the Trump supporter did anything wrong. The shooting is on video. There was no struggle. So far, it looks like an execution.

Leftists in Portland and across America claimed a Trump supporter had murdered someone. Then the truth started leaking out, and they celebrated because a Trump supporter had been killed.

So what happens now?

It may be that a few fringe conservatives will become aggressive, but it’s very unlikely that the right will start emulating the unprovoked, wanton violence of the left to any significant degree. If we were that kind of people, we would be BLMtifa rioters.

Based on my knowledge of human nature, I think the left, not the right, will become significantly more aggressive. I think that when conservative violence becomes widespread, it will be defensive violence. If we hang back and refuse to take the bait, leftists will bring the bait to us. They’re not looking for change or peace. Their goal is to hurt, kill, and steal, and if we don’t engage, they will come to us and force the issue. They are already rioting in residential neighborhoods. Sooner or later, non-leftists will have to react with violence just to keep insane home invaders out of their living rooms. Bodies won’t pile up in public squares and city streets. They’ll pile up in the yards of whites, Asians, and Jews.

You’ve got my prediction.

Maybe people will say it was aggressive for Trump supporters to drive to Portland. Of course, that’s idiocy. I have the right to drive through any city in America, and no one has the right to block my car, throw things at me, or attack me personally. Anyone who blames non-leftists for “provocative” actions like driving through cities or guarding properties ought to be slapped. It’s gaslighting.

I feel very sad. There is a very ominous, serious feeling in the air, like the feeling I had during my dream of the rapture. It really looks like the end is here. You can say it’s not that big a deal because only a relatively small number of people are participating in the violence, but that’s wrong. They have huge popular support. There are tens of millions of leftists who are behind them completely, and they would be rioting, too, if it were convenient for them.

There is a limit to what God expects us to endure here. The Bible calls him the Lord of hosts, and a host is an army. He is the Lord of armies. Like any supreme commander, he will withdraw his forces when continued fighting becomes pointless. The left’s love of lies makes them impervious to correction and help, so our ability to bring them into the fold is dropping off quickly.

Last night I saw a police interview. A sergeant from the Portland PD answered questions. He was in one of the government buildings that was attacked. He said they hid from view in hopes of avoiding escalation. The leftists tore down plywood in order to restore contact. He said they threw bottles, rocks, and other things. He said they said terrible things to the female officers. They called them whores and said they provided sexual services for all the cops. One of them said he was going to take an officer’s baton and shove it up her vagina. Don’t think he didn’t mean it. Things like that have happened in wars.

The sergeant said he had never witnessed such hate.

God sees these things happen, and he makes decisions. He decides whether it’s still worth it to keep a presence on earth to try to help people.

I am ready to go. I wish I could do something for God before I leave, but my history is what it is, and the apocalypse can’t be postponed just so I can earn some more credits.

It looks more and more like Trump will win the election. People are afraid to support him in public, but they’ll show their true colors in voting booths. Leftist terror is having an effect on public opinion, and we have two Democrat candidates who insist terrorists are protestors. Harris actually said they have to keep it up. Biden issued a weak statement about violence, but that’s it. He is gutless and utterly without principle. He is hoping to stay under cover and avoid alienating anyone until November 3rd.

It’s bizarre that terrorists don’t understand that terror makes people look for help. There are three choices: join the terror, appease the terrorists, or resist. The terrorists are operating under the assumption that they can scare the entire country into voting for Biden and bending the knee (literally). They don’t seem to understand that people are free to vote for a man who will use force to restrain them.

I feel a little anger, but mostly I feel dread and sadness. I’m watching America steam toward an iceberg, and no one will listen.

The only answers are prayer and repentance, but almost no one is calling for these things. When Nineveh was threatened, the king forced the entire city to fast for 40 days, and God spared it. That can’t happen in America. Leftists hate Christianity, and most of the rest of us are just barely Christians. We don’t really believe God is powerful or responds to our actions. We have much more faith in politicians and ourselves.

I truly do not want to be here after the elect leave the earth. I don’t like being stuck here with terrorists right now. I can’t imagine what it will be like when all the good people are gone and the curses on the earth are unrestrained.

I hope Trump wins, but I think that if he does, we will live in atmosphere of hate and violence in spite of his efforts to combat terror. The USA will look like Israel or El Salvador. We’ll have to deal with the constant threat of shootings, bombings, kidnappings, rape, and arson. We’ll be fighting on our own soil, and our enemies will be cowardly guerrillas who live on our blocks and in our apartment buildings. They’ll never go away. That’s my best guess.

If Biden wins, these things will still be true, but the executive branch will be against us.

Leftists have no idea what they’re stepping into. They are much more likely to start violence, but we are much, much better at killing. If they want to compete, they’ll have to come up with new methods. Maybe chemical and biological weapons. Making WWI-style gas is not hard, and it would work great on civilian gatherings.

The left isn’t offering a solution. They’re not trying to get us to do something, with the intention of leaving us alone if we comply. They hate us for existing. Something we can’t stop doing. We’re like Jews in Nazi Germany. If we breathe, it’s violence against the left.

It’s interesting, if you think about it. In a way, we share a goal. They want us gone. God will eventually want us gone, because he will take us. Many of us want to be gone.

In other news, I fried chicken again today. I can’t stop. I bought whole chicken breasts because I realized drumsticks and wings were overrated. I cut the bones out and turned the breasts into smaller pieces. I saved the skin because without it, fried chicken is useless. I can’t buy boneless breasts with skin. Wish I could.

I still need more seasoning. I increased it a lot today, and it wasn’t enough. I’m going to jack up the white pepper, and I’m going to use a lot more ginger. I’m also going to throw in some sage.

It seems like 325 is the best frying temperature. Anything higher, and you get black marks on your breading.

I figure I’ll fry again on Tuesday. I’ll make smaller pieces, and I’ll increase the seasoning. I have high hopes.

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Forgot to add this. I have not been happy with the time it takes biscuits to brown, so today I tried 475°, and it worked very well. After 12 minutes (not the usual 14), the biscuits were unusually tall, and they browned well. They really blew up.

I have to explore the insides of a couple to make sure, but it looks like high heat is the way to go. Women are usually the ones who make biscuits, and women are afraid to use high heat, so maybe I should not be surprised if most people are using the wrong temperature.

Cheap Gun + Determination + Prayer = Sub-MOA

I shot the Savage 93R today, after cutting down the trigger spring to reduce the pull. Things went very well. Eventually. Here is the first target.

As always, I started with the 7 o’clock target and went clockwise. I used 17-grain V-Max cartridges.

As you can see, the first 10 rounds were all over the place. I shot 5 rounds to the left of center, adjusted the windage, and shot 5 more to the right. This would be fine shooting for nailing a groundhog, but it was not inspiring as target shooting goes.

As I moved through the bullseyes, I tried to get it together, and it paid off. The second bulleye was better, and the third and fourth were not much worse than a gun in a vise would shoot, except for a flyer. The fifth group was aimed at the black cross in the center of the target. It’s not as good as the previous two, but it’s better than the first two.

I let the bipod legs out a little at some point, and I think it gave me a more natural position behind the gun. Unfortunately, one leg retracted all by itself. I don’t know if it affected my targets. I fixed it when I saw what had happened.

On the second target, I used 20-grain hollowpoints. I only had 20 with me, and that was fine, because concentration is tiring. The first three groups came out great. Then a weed stood up between me and the impact point on the 4th target. I couldn’t see where every bullet landed. I could see my aim point, however, so I kept shooting.

My worst group was maybe a little over 1 MOA, and the rest were sub-MOA. The point of impact is consistently higher and farther to the right than it was for the lighter bullets.

This gun is wonderful. Clearly, it will shoot sub-MOA almost all the time. It may be that it will do it 100% of the time. I can’t really tell without a vise. It’s so accurate, I can be sure ugly targets are my fault, and I can get information from them and improve.

Man, this is neat. What other caliber will let you shoot that many rounds, that accurately, at that distance, for under eleven dollars?

The trigger is still too heavy. I’m going to keep cutting the spring until it does what I want or fails to function. Triggers always seem light when you test them in your gun room. When you load your gun and shoot it, the pull increases by a factor of 5. It’s imaginary, but it happens.

The scope is too far forward. I’m going to have to knock it back maybe a quarter inch and zero the scope again.

I’m where I wanted to be when I bought this rifle over a decade ago, and there are still things I can adjust to bring improvement. Beautiful.

I feel like throwing my AR-15 in a ditch. Maybe there is still hope for it, though.

Oh; I almost forgot: stay out of my yard.

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Here’s something you need to know before you read anything else. Reader Monty James posted a comment in which he mentioned a website where people can donate to Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund. It’s legitimate. The attorney who represented Nick Sandmann has agreed to represent Kyle, and he is behind the site. Here is a link so you can donate: LINK. I just hope what I’ve read is true and that the attorneys won’t be accepting fees. Even without fees, expenses will add up, and Kyle may have financial problems related to his actions.

Things look worse and worse for the prosecutor and the rioter/terrorists. Surviving assailant Gaige Grosskreutz looks particularly bad today. More video keeps popping up, and a Twitter post from a person claiming to be Grosskreutz’s friend contains a damning statement purportedly from Grosskreutz.

If you want to see a good chronology of what happened–and I can’t believe I’m recommending this–The New York Times has one. A Times employee named Christiaan Triebert, who may be fired shortly for his honesty, posted a series of tweets detailing what happened on the night of the shootings. One remarkable point: an unknown gunman fired a shot before Kyle did. Kyle was being chased by rioter/terrorists, and someone fired a shot. It was immediately after this that Kyle started shooting, killing rioter/terrorist/sex offender Jo Jo Rosenbaum. After shooting, Kyle tried to escape to safety as a large mob of angry rioter/terrorists pursued him.

You can also look at the Twitter account of journalist and terrorist victim Andy Ngo, who has posted a number of interesting items. One is a photo of a social media posting purportedly from one Jacob Marshall, who claims to be a friend of assailant Gaige Grosskreutz. The relevant part says, “so the kid shot gaige as he drew his weapon and gaige retreated with his gun in his hand. I just talked to GaigeGrosskreutz toohis only regret was not killing the kid and hesitating to pull the gun and emptying the entire mag into him. Coward.” Another photo under the name Jacob Marshall shows a man identified as Grosskreutz in a hospital gown, and there is a photo of his treated wound.

Oddly, the pistol does not appear in the photo.

I don’t know what to say about this. The post says Grosskreutz approached a downed man with a pistol and tried to draw it to execute him while the downed man was being attacked by multiple terrorists, and Marshall says Kyle is the coward?

How can anyone be insane enough to think that?

I don’t know whether Grosskreutz’s remark will be admissible at Kyle’s trial, since it’s hearsay, but it will definitely be admissible under a hearsay exception at his own trial. It will also be admissible if Grosskreutz sues Kyle. Of course, in order for a Grosskreutz trial to happen, Democrat prosecutor Michael Graveley would have to be an honest man, and so far, there is no evidence of that.

Grosskreutz’s remark is definitely admissible here. This is a blog, not a courtroom.

Again, to save time, let me reiterate that there is no proof that Jacob Marshall is a friend of Grosskreutz or that the photos or posts are real. We may be in the Matrix, and all of this stuff may be virtual fantasy created by the Wachowski brothers. Sisters. Whatever. Alleged, alleged, alleged.

There is also a new photo showing Grosskreutz (or a remarkable computer-generated fake, or an alien, or a body snatcher…alleged, alleged, alleged) together with Kyle. Grosskreutz has his hands up, and there is no gun in the photo. People are saying he approached Kyle with his hands up, pretending to offer medical assistance, so he could execute him at point-blank range.

Uh oh. Any comments, Mr. Graveley?

Think of the stories we would be reading had Kyle not been the capable warrior he is. “Protester Saves Peaceful Crowd from Armed Vigilante.” A semiauto pistol can hold 18 rounds, and it sounds like Grosskreutz would have been happy to fire that many into Kyle Rittenhouse.

The prosecutor has filed a criminal complaint or indictment. I’m not sure what they call these documents in Wisconsin. There are 6 counts. Carrying the gun, three shootings, and some punitive nonsense piled on top. Still waiting for the charges against the two people who attacked Kyle, not to mention the hundreds who committed arson, battery, theft, false imprisonment, and so on.

It’s astonishing how dishonest leftists have become. Leftist journalists are publishing things that aren’t even close to true. Is it just their usual dishonesty, or is it supernatural deception they can’t, and don’t want to, resist?

It was always hard for non-leftists to get fair coverage, but now it’s completely impossible. That’s new.

The words says that before the tribulation, four horsemen will be released. The first, a crowned horseman on a white horse, is Jesus. He goes out to conquer hearts and minds in order to save and bring people into his kingdom of love. The others are disease, violence, and lack. It looks like they’re here.

If what we’re seeing is the work of the red horseman of violence, then the tribulation is about to begin. If he’s behind this, we’re seeing fanfare preceding his full-blown arrival. If that’s true, there is no hope things will improve. The deception will continue, and when the tribulation begins in earnest, the vast majority of people on earth will be so deluded, they will be completely insane.

Sometimes telling the truth is helpful, but it’s useless when a spirit who has God’s backing is your enemy. The only one who can open eyes and ears is the Holy Spirit. Blogging won’t help. Marching won’t help. Fox News won’t help. If the red horse is at work, the storm surge of deception will keep rising.

The big problem with that is that it will end God’s patience with the world.

Most people think hell is for mean individuals who do unpleasant things. That’s completely wrong. Heaven is full of people who were once like that. Heaven is a refuge for sinners. Hell is for people who refuse to listen. Once deception gets so bad God can’t get through to people, he will step back, the tribulation will start, and billions will die and go to hell.

God will harvest the useful, ripe grain in the rapture, and then he’ll use fire and suffering to expose the few people who can still be saved. A lot of tares will be burned, and the whole time, they’ll say God isn’t real, or that God is evil, or that their gods are better. God will send them to hell and bind the spirits they serve so God’s children can take over the earth and live in peace. No rioters. No terrorists. No screeching and looting. No political correctness. It will be a lot like living in an area where there are no leftists.

God is going to send those who hate the truth to hell to shut them up once and for all.

People who don’t know anything about the supernatural don’t understand the cancel culture. It’s really a genocide culture. They don’t want people who disagree with them to exist on the earth. There is always symmetry in the supernatural. God intends to purify the earth of obnoxious, arrogant, hateful people who detest the truth, and Satan wants to purify the earth of decent people who spread God’s love. It’s a race war, plain and simple. God and Satan want to erase each other’s children. It’s a repetitive theme in the Bible.

Liberals used to talk and write. They used to register voters. They used to work through elections. It’s not like that now. They don’t just communicate and vote. They work to make it impossible for others to communicate and vote. They shout us down. They ban conservative and Christian speakers from universities, which is like banning Stormy Daniels from a pornography festival, to put it in terms leftists can understand. They block roads and hoard tickets to prevent us from rallying. They insist we be fired from jobs, without providing any guidance as to how we’re supposed to support ourselves afterward. They’re going around residential neighborhoods now, telling people to give their “stolen” houses to blacks.

I’m pretty sure whites didn’t steal North America from Africans, but then I was educated by leftists.

If you’re a black leftist, and you own a house on what was once on Indian land, aren’t you living in a stolen house?

It’s not enough for us to lose. That’s not what our enemies are after. We have to stop existing. They want us off the planet, just as their Nazi spiritual predecessors wanted the Jews off the planet. They want us silenced, just as their spiritual predecessors in Cuba and the rest of the communist world silenced people they disagreed with through executions, exile, and political prisons.

They’re going around forcing people to say they support them, whether they do or not. That’s a negation of their victims’ existence. If you burn my house or steal my car, I still have my identity and my voice. If you force me to make black power salutes and kneel for George Floyd, you destroy my free will and make me a slave.

No one is talking about this. No one understands it. The supernatural race war–God’s children against Satan’s–is the fundamental conflict that explains human history, and even respected preachers and people who prophesy have no idea it exists.

You can see the genocidal negation movement at work in anti-Semitism. The Jews in Israel, who are always politically suicidal, want to exist and to be fair, and they project their desires onto the Muslims. They give Muslims land, because a reasonable person would be content with land, and such a person would put down his weapons. The Jews can’t make themselves understand that Muslims aren’t interested in land. Their talk about land is a pretext. They really want the Jews to cease to exist. They want Israel gone, period. When they Jews give them land, they just encourage them and give them acreage that can be used to make military conquest easier.

Our enemy is the spirit of antichrist, and it’s the same spirit that drives anti-Semitism. That’s why the people who are against Christians in America act so much like anti-Semites. They corral us with laws that get increasingly offensive and intolerable. They drive us out of commerce. They’re claiming our land. They censor us. They call our words of disagreement “violence” so they can claim violence is the correct response.

They would literally gas us if they could. Look how they act while there are still some legal barriers. They wander around neighborhoods burning whatever they like, and they do great physical harm to anyone who objects. It’s Kristallnacht, every night in America, and the press calls the perpetrators civil rights protestors. What do you think they’ll do when restraint breaks down? It would be like the rape of Nanking, every day.

Something like a third of the country is solidly behind the terrorists, and the people in the middle might as well be on their side, because their thick-headed passivity enables them. In order to be on God’s side, you have to take affirmative steps. You can’t abstain. If you try to sit things out, you serve Satan. As Jesus said, anyone who is not for us is against us. It’s easy to look at the anti-terrorist majority and think Satan is losing, but you have to add the benchwarmers to their numbers.

People need to pray and repent. It’s true that non-leftists have more guns, more land, and so on, but carnal solutions won’t fix America. Even if non-leftists prevent leftists from taking over and tyrannizing us, America will still be a mess. The problems that led to the chaos will still be here.

We can’t fix America, but every one of us can get to know God and get his help. Every one of us can prepare for the rapture or for death, and we can prepare to live for God while we’re here. This is your answer. Buy guns and dried food if you want. Move to Wyoming if you like. You still need God’s correction and protection. If you think things are bad now, you’re fooling yourself. If you miss the rapture, the tribulation will be pure agony.

I’m waiting to see the next step in escalation. Will leftists start shooting at riots, as a matter of policy, claiming Kyle Rittenhouse proves the need? Will there be a terrible, violent, Waco-style event involving cops who do great harm to a large number of rioters? Will carnal non-leftist volunteers go overboard and start shooting up groups of terrorists?

If we’re seeing the red horse at work, there will have to be events that fan the flames. It’s a given. This is one reason why I think Trump will win again. It’s hard to think of anything that would be a greater incentive for terrorists. Leftists are much, much crazier than the rest of us, so my guess is that the truly catastrophic violence will start with them.

It’s incredible how the things I’ve foreseen have come to pass. I underestimated the staying power of coronavirus, but that’s about it. Things are unfolding pretty much as I thought they would. The truly horrific things I’ve predicted will probably take place, too.

My advice is to get close to God and avoid letting the tide of bile poison you. Forgive and ask him to keep his love flowing through you. You don’t want to be pulled down among the people who are drowning.

I decided to try frying chicken again. After the dubious results I got a couple of days back, I had to do it for my honor’s sake.

Today I bought a new thermometer so I could keep the fat at the right temperature, and I found a small chicken at Walmart. It was a 4-pounder, and I paid $3.03. Not sure how they can afford to sell them.

I got good results, except that the smaller parts of the chicken were a little too juicy. I brined it in orange juice and salt for about 45 minutes, and it looks like the chicken was already so juicy it didn’t need it.

It looks like 325 is the right temperature for chicken. I fried the first three pieces at 330-370 on one side, and the breading was too dark. I think the people all over the web who recommend 350 are just plain wrong. I kept the temperature between 305 and 330 later on, and the breading looked much better.

I don’t know how my grandmother did this over and over for years and never got it wrong. I don’t think she owned a frying thermometer.

I found other small chickens at a local Publix. Publix is the big Florida supermarket chain. In the future, I’ll use Publix chickens. A lot of Walmart products are great, but others are iffy.

I’m learning more about heroic high school senior and armed volunteer Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three rioter/terrorists in Kenosha. Okay, he shot two dead terrorists and one man who is alive and appears, to me, to be a terrorist.

I’ve been watching Tim Pool a lot. He’s a Youtube commentator. He’s very big in the reaction business. If you can’t produce your own content, you can put up a video of yourself reacting to someone else’s copyrighted material. The idea is that you can invoke the fair use exception to the copyright laws. I don’t know how sound the theory is, but reaction videos are huge now. I’m thinking of putting up reaction videos where I react to my own videos. That might be a little mean, however.

Pool keeps saying he’s a moderate leftist. He’s fantasizing. He’s a conservative who can’t accept what he is. He’s horrified by the wave of leftist terror, and he promotes Trump as hard as he can. Anyway, Pool says someone alerted him to a Wisconsin law that allows minors to carry long guns. The law was probably passed in order to protect hunters.

This could be very bad news for the pro-crucifixion leftists. Rittenhouse is unquestionably innocent with regard to the second and third shootings, and he will probably turn out to be innocent in connection with the first. The man he killed was an extraordinary idiot. There is no other word for it. He was a tiny, angry man with a long rap sheet and his own page on the Wisconsin sexual predator site, which says he was not in compliance when he died. He called the armed volunteers in Kenosha “niggers” and commanded them to shoot him.

We don’t know what happened right before this man was shot because there is no good video. The deceased wrapped his shirt around his head and scampered as fast as he could toward Rittenhouse, who was far from those filming the scene.

Selling him to a jury as an innocent victim will not be easy, especially if witnesses say he was trying to harm Rittenhouse when he was shot. This will probably turn out to be the case. Rittenhouse had no reason to shoot someone who was minding his own business, and when Rittenhouse began shooting the second time, on camera, he chose his targets perfectly and only fired as many rounds as needed. He was impressive. If he were a leftist, someone would already be creating a video game based on him.

Barring the empaneling of a BLM jury which uses crack and PCP during deliberations, Rittenhouse only has one shooting charge to be concerned with, and it will probably collapse in court or even earlier. That leaves leftists with the gun charge. If that goes poof, Rittenhouse goes home and gets his AR-15 back.

Felony murder has been mentioned as a complication. Felony murder is a charge enhancement. If you’re committing a dangerous felony, and someone dies in the process, you may be charged with murder even though you didn’t personally hurt anyone. Example: you and your BLMtifa buddies start looting a building, and the 80-year old owner comes in and objects, and your pal Marquise Love smashes his skull with a two-by-four. You may go up for murder even though you didn’t kill anyone.

The theory with regard to Rittenhouse is that he was committing a crime by carrying a rifle, so the deaths of his terrorist assailants, though the result of self-defense, would be felony murders.

Wikipedia and I are here to save the day. Wikipedia says Wisconsin’s felony murder statute lists a limited number of qualifying crimes:

* Battery, including that to an unborn child
* Sexual assault of the first degree, or second degree if it is by use or threat of force or violence
* False imprisonment
* Kidnapping
* Arson of buildings or damage of property by explosives (heads up, rioters)
* Burglary with a dangerous weapon, explosives, or burglary of any inhabited dwelling
* Carjacking
* Robbery with a dangerous weapon, or even with an object that leads someone to believe there is a dangerous weapon

As you can see, carrying a firearm illegally is not on the list.

Here’s another wrinkle: in at least some jurisdictions, you lose the right to defend yourself if you’re committing a serious crime while you kill. Example: terrorist and known criminal Anthony Huber tries to bludgeon an innocent young man with a skateboard. The young man points an AR-15 at him, so Huber takes a lucky swing and fractures his skull, killing him. The law does not recognize Huber’s action as self-defense.

Problem with this theory: Rittenhouse was not committing a violent crime when he chose to defend himself. He was trying to get to the police to turn himself in. He was carrying a weapon, but he was not trying to harm anyone with it.

Maybe there is a legitimate legal theory that can put Rittenhouse on death row, but I don’t know what it is. I’m not a criminal attorney, and I don’t know a lot about Wisconsin. I know nobody has produced a sound theory as of this afternoon.

Here’s a great question: why hasn’t Gaige Grosskreutz been charged? This is the man who was shot in the arm. There are photos of him carrying a pistol openly at the riot. Why hasn’t the black man who stomped on Rittenhouse been charged or even named?

These are questions for Democrat prosecutor Michael Graveley. My bet: they will never be addressed. I think Graveley is completely in the tank for BLMtifa and has no intention of prosecuting these two criminals.

I’m still wondering about Rittenhouse’s ethnicity. I thought he was Hispanic when I saw him for the first time, and I still think we may get interesting news about his ancestry. Rittenhouse isn’t a Spanish name, but then neither is Zimmerman. Rittenhouse has black hair and what looks like olive skin. If I were identifying him to the cops, I would tell them to look for a Hispanic.

I ordered more magazines today. I hope that if the rapture comes and Christians who missed it need shelter and weapons, they’ll find what I left and keep themselves alive until they can square things with God. I can’t foresee using any of this stuff myself, except to have fun in the pasture with my targets. Maybe a black family will move in. That would be be a real poke in the eye to tribulation leftists still pushing the race canard.

If I find a way to send money to Kyle Rittenhouse, I’ll definitely pitch in. I hope conservatives make him rich.

The Railroading Begins

The Kyle Rittenhouse story seems to be fleshing out, and things don’t look good for his accusers. It’s funny how news stories almost invariably look worse and worse for leftists as investigations proceed.

I’ll run down the list of my conclusions.

1. Fatal shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum, the bald rioter/terrorist who chased Rittenhouse down and became the first casualty: insufficient evidence to make a determination. Rosenbaum, a registered sex offender, was seen trying to get at armed citizens at a gas station they were trying to protect. He had to be restrained by other rioter/terrorists. At least twice, he told the armed citizens to shoot him, calling one of them “nigger” in the process. Moments later, he ran to Rittenhouse, who was a long way off, and he was shot. We don’t know what happened. If he wrestled with Rittenhouse or grabbed the gun, or if he threw dangerous things at Rittenhouse, then the shooting was justified. No two ways about it. If he merely continued ranting, Rittenhouse is guilty of second-degree murder or manslaughter.

2. Fatal shooting of Anthony Huber, the rioter/terrorist/habitual violent criminal who ran up to Rittenhouse and attacked him with a skateboard: Rittenhouse is innocent. Rittenhouse was on the ground, after falling while running to escape the mob and turn himself into nearby police, and Huber put his skateboard in contact with Rittenhouse’s head. It’s not clear whether he was trying to hit him with it, because Huber dropped it in the process, but skateboards are commonly used as weapons in riots, and it’s not reasonable to expect a person being attacked by a mob to make a decision the rest of us can’t make with the benefit of replayable video and hindsight. Pressing a skateboard onto a person’s head is a crime. It’s not okay. Also, if habitual criminal Huber had succeeded in restraining him, the other assailants might have killed him. It was reasonable for Rittenhouse to think he was in danger of serious harm or death, so the shooting was justified.

3. Nonfatal shooting of Gaige Grosskreutz, the seeming rioter/terrorist who was shot in the arm: 100% innocent. No conceivable justification for prosecution. Grosskreutz was carrying a pistol openly at the scene, and he ran up to Rittenhouse, who was already fending off multiple attackers, with no legal justification. Got what he deserved.

4. Carrying a weapon openly while below the minimum legal age. Guilty. No way to dispute it. Rittenhouse is 17, and the minimum legal age in Wisconsin, according to admittedly shaky Internet sources, is 18. The only way Rittenhouse can beat this rap is to prove he’s over 18 or that the age requirement is 17 or lower. Ordinarily, for a minor with no other arrests, this would be pleaded down to a misdemeanor, and adjudication would likely be withheld in order to give him a chance to reform.

That’s my scorecard. Two innocents, a much less significant guilty, and a likely-innocent. It’s very unlikely that Rittenhouse shot Rosenbaum without justification, and Rosenbaum was clearly the less mature and responsible of the two.

I have to say that it’s disappointing, but not surprising, that our pro-terror press chose to release the name of an accused minor.

People on the web are claiming Rosenbaum threw a Molotov cocktail at Rittenhouse. Others are merely saying he threw bottles. If he threw bottles at Rittenhouse, then Rittenhouse is innocent. A strike from a thrown bottle can do very serious harm. You don’t have to let people throw bottles at you just because the alternative is to shoot.

One of the sad aspects to this story is that a 17-year-old was out on the streets, offering his life and liberty to protect others, while grown men were notably absent. Most notably: the National Guard and federal officers. Who is to blame? Wisconsin governor Tony Evers. As has happened in other jurisdictions, President Trump asked to be allowed to help, and his offer was rejected. Something for former business owners who now own heaps of ashes to think about in November.

The men of Kenosha are also accountable. In other towns, large numbers of better men have mustered themselves and discouraged terrorists. The men of Kenosha generally stayed home. The population of the city is 100,000. They could have done a lot better.

Kyle Rittenhouse is going to be the new George Zimmerman. He may as well move to Wyoming or Tennessee if he’s acquitted. He will only be safe in a solid-red state. His family is also likely to have to move.

For what it’s worth, he’s a bad guy to mess with. If he isn’t convicted, terrorists should abandon their hopes of lynching him. He shot three assailants in a very short time while under physical attack. He shot two from the ground after receiving a full-weight kick to the upper body and a skateboard blow to the head. He kept his cool, did only what was necessary, and stopped. He proved he can deliver in a crisis. If he can do it once at the tender age of 17, he can do it again as a grown man.

It’s strange that no one in the leftist pro-terrorist press is talking about the shots that were fired by other people. Well, it’s not strange. It’s to be expected.

Another thing they’re not mentioning: Jacob Blake had a knife in his car, close to the door he was reaching into when he was shot. And he was the reason for the police call. He was trespassing at an ex-girlfriend’s house, and they called the police to make him leave. Also, he’s a criminal with a history of gun crime, and he had at least one felony warrant when the police arrived.

Shooting him appears to have been the correct thing to do. The only question is whether it was necessary to shoot at him 7 times. Given the officer’s poor marksmanship (only a few rounds hit Blake), it looks like he did what he had to do. He shot until Blake was incapacitated, and then he stopped. A better shot would have killed him with one or two rounds, so maybe Blake should be glad things went as well as they did.

I thought the officer had shot Blake 7 times, because that was what I had read. Now we’re being told he was only hit 4 times. That’s not excessive under the circumstances. When someone is about to turn around and cut you with a knife, you don’t shoot once, wait for results, shoot again, and so on. You don’t have time. You shoot until the threat is gone.

As for shooting him in the back, well, Blake was facing away from the officer while he reached for a knife to cut him up. That was Blake’s choice. If Blake had chosen to face him, he would have been shot in the front, and I suppose somehow that would be better.

One paralyzed criminal with a permanent colostomy is a better outcome than one or more innocent cops carved up while trying to defend a family from a violent criminal. And we don’t know that Blake would have stopped with the police. He was clearly not happy with his ex-girlfriend.

Of course, the facts don’t matter. Only the party line matters, and the party line says Jacob Blake was a peaceful unarmed dad who showed up at the scene of a quarrel to make peace, like a therapist/superhero, and was shot in the back for opening a car door.

They’re talking about “unsurvivable” storm surge in the wake of Hurricane Laura. They should be talking about the unsurvivable storm surge of delusion which is inundating America. People can’t perceive the truth, and they don’t care about it. They just want to hurt whites, men, heterosexuals, Christians, Asians, Jews, the police, and successful people. The terrorism is about hate and sadism, injustice.

If justice matters to you, you don’t attack innocent people or burn their vehicles and businesses. The terrorists are harming many innocent people, and many of the innocent are liberals.

It’s astounding that we’re tolerating this. Look at the contrast between different areas. Democrat cities burn unrestrained, as though rioting and terrorism were normal, acceptable events, like block parties. In places where people have a backbone, protests are peaceful and brief, because terrorists know they face consequences. None of the prolonged riots have been unavoidable. Democrats chose to let them continue. In what significant way does this differ from psychosis? It’s as though these cities were neurotic girls who decided to start cutting themselves.

There is still no nationwide call for prayer and repentance. God is conspicuously absent from the news. He’s our only hope. His anger is the reason for the chaos. It’s the reason for coronavirus, too. Yet we’re ignoring him. If we turned to him, things would clear up. Doesn’t look like it will happen.

I wonder what will happen where I live. The nearest city is three times the size of Kenosha, so it could support riots. Of course, the police here would react very differently, as would the governor, as would the citizens. Extending terror to rural areas is one of BLMtifa’s priorities now. Is the highway by my house already on a list?

I’ve been thinking about buying more rifle magazines. I don’t expect to use them, though. I just feel I should have them. I asked God why I should get them, and the feeling I have is that they’re not for me. They’re for people who will take over this house after the rapture. They will need them.

I bought an AR-15 for target shooting and hunting, and I put a 14x scope on it. This scope is inappropriate for self-defense. Suddenly I’m considering picking up a red dot, just in case.

Maybe I should leave notes for people who miss the rapture. “These cartridges are for this gun.” “Here is a list of the best self-defense cartridges I have.” “There are hundreds of ear plugs in the workshop.” Maybe I should buy cases of canned tuna and hundreds of pounds of rice. My hope is that I’ll be at the wedding of Christ, dining somewhat better.

Obviously, I should leave Bibles.

I really pity people who live in cities. I pity people who live in the areas that are the most affected. Life must be extremely unpleasant, and watching a big percentage of Americans support politicians who back the terrorists has to be very discouraging and frightening.

What happened to George Zimmerman is happening to huge swaths of the country. People are being turned on by the authorities they rely on to protect them.

Maybe an explosion of riots, affecting places like Bel Air and the Upper East Side, is what America needs. Maybe fake hobby leftists would be knocked off their seemingly safe perches and driven to vote for what they really believe in.

I don’t know why I even mention politics. Turning to God is the only solution.

Little Brown Rifleman Attacked by Privileged Gun-Toting White BLM Rioter?

The fake news surrounding the Kenosha shootings is starting to disperse.

Reader Monty James sent me a link to a Gab post containing a photo of one of the shooting victims. The liberal press has not said anything about armed BLMtifers, of course, but the photo shows a young man who appears to be white, holding a semiautomatic pistol. Much of the skin on his right bicep is gone, and there is an area of raw, bloody flesh the size of a pack of cigarettes. He is still able to hold his gun in his right hand, however.

I’ll try to work it out so the photo doesn’t appear in its full glory unless you click something.

Here’s some more bad news for the pundits. By random chance, I came across a Youtube video of a person who appears to be the Kenosha shooter. I suppose I should say “ONE of the shooters” or “the VICTORIOUS shooter,” since the man who was shot in the arm had a pistol in his hand. The young man in the video is holding an AR-15 or similar weapon, and guess what? He’s not white. He appears to be Hispanic. He has dark skin and black hair.

Here’s a Fox photo of the shooter being kicked and attacked with a skateboard.

Here’s a Youtube capture of a person who appears to be the same guy.

What can the press do with that? The party line is that people who resist the terrorists are white racists. Of course it’s a lie, but I’m sure many Americans believe it.

Now leftists journalists have to sit down, scratch their heads, and figure out how to spin the story. It sure looks like a Hispanic volunteer shot an armed BLMtifa white male who was under attack from at least three men trying to do the volunteer great harm. Very bad for the propagandists. It will be even worse if he turns out to be a Democrat. Maybe he was protecting a family business built by immigrants. That would be a nightmare for CNN.

Some are saying he’s a Boogaloo Boi. The Boogaloo Bois are said to be racists pushing for civil war, but then I got that information from the same press that said Nick Sandmann was a racist punk who accosted peaceful, polite activists. For all I know, the Boogaloo Bois are Franciscan monks.

It doesn’t matter whether he’s a Boogaloo Boi, a BLM nut, a Nazi, or an Amway salesman. The law is what matters. If he was attacked without justification, he needs to be sent home with a police escort.

Can you honestly say that if you were attacked by three or more men, one of whom was armed with a skateboard and another of whom was holding a pistol, you wouldn’t shoot? I can’t say that. The self-preservation instinct is very hard to suppress.

I think this encounter demonstrates what I’ve been saying about non-leftists versus leftists. At least three attackers. At least two armed. At least one had a pistol. One defender with a rifle. Result: two attackers dead, the pistol-carrying attacker seriously wounded, incapacitated, and demoralized, and no reports of serious injuries to the non-leftist. If leftists continue escalating things, we will probably see similar outcomes from now on.

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I should have mentioned this earlier. Reader Stephen McAteer provided a link to a Twitter video of the entire Kenosha shooting incident. I can’t repost it, but I’ll post this link.

It shows the victim running from terrorists. He falls down, and people begin attacking him. One kicks him, as shown in the photo above. Another hits him in the head with a skateboard. A third runs and stands over him. This person appears to be the one who was shot in the arm.

In a remarkably competent performance, the victim shoots the man who kicked him, the skateboarder, and the man with the arm wound, in that order. Then he stands up and moves toward the police for safety.

More shots are fired in the video, but it doesn’t appear they came from the victim. They sound like handgun shots. The rifle shots have a different sound.

It appears he only shot each attacker once, and he shot while they were attacking, not later in retaliation. When he approached the police, he raised his hands to indicate he was not going to give them any problems, and the police did not take him into custody or order him to lie on the ground or put his gun down. They didn’t appear to be concerned about his rifle, so maybe they knew him as a neighborhood defender.

I should add that it’s not completely certain the man shot in the arm had a pistol. The photo showing the black object in his hand is not utterly conclusive, but the appearance of the object is completely consistent with the appearance of a pistol, and it’s not consistent with the appearance of anything else a person might be expected to hold at such a time. For example, it’s too thick to be a phone.

My wild-guess prediction: no conviction for the victim. I don’t know whether he’ll be charged. It probably depends on whether the prosecutor is a Democrat.

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Man, this story is moving fast. The shooter has been identified and charged. His name is Kyle Rittenhouse, he’s 17, he’s not from Wisconsin, and the police know him and consider him an ally.

Here’s a link to an MSN story.

Another story says the police had been seen giving water to Rittenhouse and his companions and telling them they appreciated them. How about that?

I said he wasn’t white, based on his appearance, but his last name is Rittenhouse, which has kind of a WASPy sound to it. Names don’t always line up with ethnicity, though.

The District Attorney is one Michael Graveley, Democrat. Given the exculpatory evidence contained in the video, Graveley’s political beliefs may explain why Kyle Rittenhouse was charged. The story says he was charged with premeditated murder, which is a bit ridiculous considering he was attacked three times, while sitting on the ground, during the 5 seconds preceding the firing of the first shot.

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Well, I have to apologize. It turns out there is more video, shot before the Twitter video mentioned above.

Rittenhouse and his friends were protecting a business, and rioters were challenging them. A small bald man in a maroon shirt pushed forward and tried to provoke the volunteers. At least twice, he told them to shoot him. Shortly thereafter, a bare-chested man with a maroon head covering ran a good distance at high speed and entered the space between two parked cars. Shots were fired. After that, the video shows the bald man on the ground with people trying to help him. They say he has a head wound. The bald man appears conscious. The wound is shown, and it appears to be a graze on the right side of his head. There is no blood visible beneath him.

After that, the events shown in the other video take place. It looks like someone took the long version and edited it for Twitter. Not good practice.

The impression I get from the long video is that the bald guy was determined to cause a physical altercation. You can see the other rioters restraining him at times. It looks like he was the aggressor. He appears to have chased Rittenhouse down.

Still looks like self-defense.

What if the rioters who attacked Rittenhouse after the initial wounding were trying to hold him for the cops? That theory would be garbage. First, he was walking to the police when they attacked. Second, you’re not allowed to beat people you believe have committed crimes. If they’re not threatening you, you’re supposed to call the police or, if necessary, restrain them using measured force. You can’t stomp on them, hit them in the head with skateboards, or stand over them waving pistols.

It will be interesting to see if the bald guy is okay. I’ll bet he is. My guess is that Rittenhouse killed two of the men who attacked him while he was on the ground.

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Another video shows the man with the damaged arm, clearly holding a pistol after being shot. Self-defense does not get any clearer than that.

Even assuming Rittenhouse was a madman who was spraying people with lead randomly, you can’t chase someone down after a violent crime and shoot them. That’s first-degree murder. Rittenhouse was obviously walking to the police, the rioter knew it, and he had no business sticking a gun in his face while he was being beaten.

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One of the dead rioters is named Anthony Huber, and he was 25. He’s the man who attacked Rittenhouse with a skateboard. He was shot while in the act. Completely justified.

Bottles of Urine no Match for Rifles

Yesterday it suddenly occurred to me that the town my cousin lives in might be close to Kenosha. I texted her to find out. She says the closest part of Kenosha is 15 minutes away. Her son’s girlfriend lives in Kenosha.

I asked how things were going. She told me over 600 cars from Minnesota had arrived. Terrorists or protestors? It appears that the answer to that question, in many cases, depends on the local response. If the police and citizens show up in a display of force, visitors protest relatively peacefully and then leave. If not, terrorist rioting is likely. Her bedroom community has a population of around 20,000, so the arrival of several thousand potential rioters is a serious threat.

Illinois is in bad shape. It’s way off to the left. It’s so bad, the state imposes an unconstitutional requirement on firearms owners. They have to be cleared before they can own, and they have to have Firearms Owners [sic] Identification cards, or “FOID’s.” Imagine having to pay for a card and a background check in order to exercise your other civil rights. If Florida went that route, would have to have a card in order to blog, vote, or go to church.

I wonder how many people in my cousin’s town have gone through the aggravation of getting a card and preparing for the worst.

As for Kenosha, it’s starting to look like the BLMtifa terrorist movement is turning into a shooting war. Last night, a man with a rifle shot several people, killing two. I saw a video showing a young man with a grotesque arm injury. In the movies, when a person gets shot in the arm, he wraps a handkerchief around it, and everything is fine. In the real world, guns can tear large chunks out of limbs, and sometimes they tear limbs completely off.

There is video of the shooter. He is sitting on the ground, and a witness says his rifle was being jerked around. These facts suggest he was attacked, and if so, he very likely had a reasonable fear of death or serious harm. Witnesses claim the police saw him walking around with a rifle and did nothing. It’s impossible to say right now, but it looks like he was a local resident trying to protect life and/or property. He’s getting unfavorable, biased coverage, so it seems the liberal press is betting he’s conservative.

If you’re carrying a gun legally in order to prevent arson, aggravated battery, murder, and so on, and a group of rioters grab it and try to take it, you’re entitled to shoot to kill. End of story. No room for debate. It’s different if you were carrying illegally or if you performed a violent act to provoke the aggression. Depending on the facts and the party the local prosecutor jumps for, there is a very good chance the shooter will not be charged. That would go over great with leftists who think self-defense is a crime.

If he’s not with the rioters, there is zero likelihood the left will excuse him. Journalists certainly won’t. These are the people who still call Nick Sandmann things like “snot nose entitled kid” for being illegally accosted and menaced by rude leftists protestors.

Should the shooter have been where he was? Impossible to say. It’s generally legal to be present and defend people and property in a riot, and the use of guns is legal in many situations. It appears it was legal for him to be where he was, because witnesses say the police were not interested in him at first, and because other armed individuals are roaming Kenosha without consequences.

The story doesn’t fit a mass-shooter narrative. Mass shooters show up and shoot for no reason, and they empty their magazines. The video suggests this man shot a few times and then stopped, and the witness account about the rifle being jerked around suggests it was a response to a lethal threat. It looks like a measured response to grave danger.

It’s legal to carry openly in Kenosha. It’s not legal to riot or grab a person’s firearm. That’s what lawyers call strongarm robbery and battery. If the shooter was minding his own business, and terrorists tried to disarm him, they are probably guilty of felonies.

What’s in store for the next couple of weeks? Will we see opposing factions shooting at each other from cover, in scenes reminiscent of post-apocalyptic movies? It would be catastrophic for violent BLMtifers.

Leftists generally don’t own rifles, and many don’t even have handguns. The type of leftist who is most likely to engage in shootouts in riots is a street criminal armed with a semiautomatic pistol he doesn’t know how to use properly, along with poorly chosen ammunition. It doesn’t take much skill to stick up unarmed pedestrians or shoot out of car windows during drive-bys. It doesn’t take good equipment. Conservatives, on the other hand, are much more likely to own military-style rifles with large magazines and optics made for short-range battles. Conservatives are more likely to know which types of pistol and rifle ammunition work best. They are much more likely to shoot well. They are more likely to own protective equipment. If leftists try to turn the current wave of terror into a shooting war, in all likelihood, the leftist body count will be at least several times higher than the conservative and centrist count. It will be the mother of all mistakes.

Does that mean they won’t try? Well, have they made any intelligent choices yet?

Right now, many leftist terrorists are probably texting and Zooming about the need to buy guns and teach the rest of us a lesson. Others–white female hobby terrorists, for example–are probably feeling red-pilled and trying to discourage the use of guns. Who will prevail?

It seems safe to say that non-leftists will come out on top, by a wide margin, in a nationwide conflict. What happens after that, though? If leftists are enraged and eager to commit violence now, what will they be like after they’ve buried hundreds of dead terrorists and been forced back to their own communities? It won’t be a boon to race and class relations, and even if non-leftists shut the terrorism down, we will still have to live alongside the people we defeated. They will never admit their dead and wounded brought it on themselves.

Ammunition for popular calibers is extremely expensive now. I don’t like it, because I hate gouging, but maybe it’s a good thing. Non-leftists had large stockpiles before the gouging started, and violent leftists have no business with ammunition. Before the rioting started, it was easy to get 9mm ammunition–the most popular large pistol caliber–for 10 dollars a box. Earlier this year, I paid $7.35. Now, garbage FMJ is running $35. Jobless terrorists will have a hard time paying that much. Meanwhile, non-leftists have safes full of expanding rifle and pistol ammo, and many of us can make ammunition from scratch. All over the country, there are enthusiasts who make bullets from scrap lead.

What advantages do leftists have? Let’s see. They control cities, right? I’m not so sure. There are a lot of poor terrorists living in and around cities, and they cause a lot of problems, but the people with real power are affluent fake leftists who are likely to turn on the terrorists when push comes to shove. Leftists control the Internet. That’s true, but tech companies have stockholders, and again, many of the people in charge are affluent fake leftists who will change uniforms the first time someone spray-paints their Bentleys. Leftists run our banks, and they have a lot of money. Again, though…fake leftists abound, and greed often outweighs principle.

If fake leftists with money start coming around, we could end up with more of a class war than a race war. If that happens, the lower classes will be crushed. They’re just not very capable.

Non-leftists control the farmland and the natural resources. We control the oil-producing areas. We control much of the coasts, the border with Mexico, and the border with Canada. We have disproportionate numbers among the military and police. Many of us are spread out in rural areas where leftists don’t stand a chance in a conflict; it would be like Napoleon invading Russia.

Things look better for non-leftists than leftists, unless you consider the supernatural. The terrorists and their supporters are insane because of supernatural influences. They don’t know the Holy Spirit, and he’s the only source of good guidance. They’re under the influence of fallen angels and demons, so they are able to believe anything, no matter how preposterous. Right now, the insanity only affects maybe a third of Americans. Without the Holy Spirit, who’s to say that figure won’t double or triple?

The big divide isn’t left/everyone else. It’s children of the Antichrist/children of God. Most people are children of the Antichrist. They don’t have the Holy Spirit to correct them, so other spirits dominate their thinking and feelings.

Sooner or later, the Antichrist has to win. Prophecy makes that clear. Maybe it will happen when Trump is reelected, leftists go completely crazy, and non-leftists sink to their level on a national scale. The fact that you’re not a Marxist doesn’t mean you’re on God’s side. Carnal conservatives serve Satan, just like BLMtifers. If half of the nation starts acting like the Proud Boys, Satan will have his army regardless of what uniforms people wear.

I don’t want to be here for the civil war. I want to be in heaven at the marriage of Christ. I don’t want people coming to my house telling me it’s my duty to shoot terrorists. I certainly don’t want terrorists coming to my house. I hope my sense that the rapture is imminent is correct. I am ready to go.

If you want to get closer to God so you can prepare, get baptized with the Holy Spirit, repent, speak in tongues every day, fast, seek internal improvement, and try to serve God. Start speaking powerful things into existence. Here’s a strange thing that has turned out to be very powerful for me: start proclaiming holiness. Say, “Jesus is holy.” “I am holy.” “My body is holy.” “Everything I own is holy.” “Holy” means “belonging to God.” Proclaiming holiness releases supernatural power. If you look at the Bible, you’ll see that heavenly beings say God is holy, over and over. There’s a reason for that. It’s not pointless toadying. The Psalms say we should bless God with our words all the time.

Man, I hope I get to go when the horn blows. This place is getting too filthy to stand.

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Fox has published two photos of the Kenosha shooter. In both, he is sitting on the pavement. For some inexplicable reason, Fox does not identify him as the shooter in the second photo.

In the first photo, he is holding a rifle that looks a lot like an AR-15, and a nearby rioter is supposedly reacting to being shot, although the rifle is pointed away from him. In the second, a man is in the air above the shooter, with a foot about to come down on the shooter’s upper chest or face. If he was attacked like that before he shot, then there is little hope he will be convicted of anything.

I think the second photo was taken before the first, because we know the shooter got away. If he had been attacked successfully before firing, he would have been disarmed and beaten.

If he wasn’t doing anything illegal, and he was attacked by morons willing to go up against a rifleman, then his attackers got what they asked for, and I’m glad he’s okay. We don’t know much now, though, so it’s impossible to say who broke the law and who didn’t.

Today’s Group Therapy Session

I think I finally had a day of .17 HMR shooting with no malfunctions.

A while back, I bought an Athlon Argos 6-24x scope, which I have often misidentified as an Athlon Ares. It’s a $400 scope, so a person has to have realistic expectations, but it seems very, very nice. I made the mistake of mounting it on my Savage 93R rifle with a 20-MOA base, which was totally pointless for .17 HMR. I tried to zero it at 100 yards, and I ended up several inches above my point of aim. I had to order a 0-MOA base for it. That base arrived last week, and I installed it. Today I had to zero the rifle all over again.

I shot factory ammunition, because there is no other kind. I started out with Hornady 17-grain V-Max, and after zeroing, this is what I got:

I started on the 7 o’clock bullseye and worked my way around to the 5 o’clock bullseye, shooting 5 rounds per bullseye.

I didn’t do too bad. The second group looks very good apart from a flyer, and the same can be said of the third. The first one was not great, but it was okay. The fourth one opened up so much, I checked the gun to see if any screws had come loose.

I don’t know what happened. My guess is that it just shows a need for practice in order to develop consistency.

Here is the second target. I shot Hornady 20-grain XTP hollowpoints.

I like these groups a whole lot better. I particularly like the third group. Five rounds and only two holes. I was afraid a screw had backed out and I had missed the target entirely, but that’s not the case.

Other people have gotten better results with XTP’s than with V-Max, and maybe I’m in the same boat. Maybe my gun likes XTP’s. Or maybe I just shoot badly until I get going.

My understanding is that V-Max rounds are good for disintegrating annoying animals you don’t intend to eat. They do a great deal of damage right after they enter. XTP rounds are for bigger animals, and they penetrate deeper.

I bought a lot of both types of rounds. I thought XTP’s might be best for practice, and even if the V-Maxes never shoot as well, they certainly shoot well enough to kill varmints. No problems there.

It’s very nice to have this gun working the way it should. Now that I have a .17 HMR rifle I can trust, I can assume most of the error in my groups is caused by my mistakes, and that means I should be able to figure out what I’m doing wrong, fix it, and shoot better.

Now that the rifle is zeroed and has completed its shakedown period, I can think about shooting, not gunsmithing. I can shoot it a couple of times a week. I don’t like to shoot a lot of rounds in a given session, because my concentration drops off. Maybe I’ll plan on shooting 50 rounds per outing.

If I didn’t have .17 HMR, I suppose I’d have to rely on .204 Ruger. It’s the second-cheapest accurate caliber I own. I have .22 rifles, but if there is a 1-MOA .22 on the planet, shooting ammo that doesn’t cost 20 cents per round, I have not heard of it.

It looks like 20-grain rounds shoot an inch higher than 17-grain rounds. So which do I use to zero the scope? I guess I should use whatever is most accurate. I want to use the most accurate ammo for practice, and my guess is that zeroing for my practice ammo makes the most sense. I don’t really care if my zero is off when I’m trying to shoot a raccoon 30 yards away, but it would be annoying at the range.

I have mil-dots all over my reticle, so I suppose none of this matters. Regardless of which ammo I use to zero the scope, I can use the reticle to compensate when I use the other ammo. This is what real shooters do, and I would like to be a real shooter.

Now that I’m shooting well, I have a dilemma. Do I or do I not clean the rifle? Different calibers behave differently. The guy who taught my long-range class said he never cleaned his 6.5 Creedmoor barrels until groups started opening up. I’ve read that .17 HMR does not like clean barrels. I suppose the best thing is to keep shooting and see what happens.

If it’s true that I have two accurate guns, then it must be about time for me to visit a long range facility and move out to longer distances. I should be able to function at 300 yards with .17 HMR and 400 yards with .204 Ruger. It seems to me that it would be best to practice with cheap calibers before spraying half the county with expensive 6.5 Creedmoor.

I can start thinking about using my Kestrel, and I’ll have to get a spotting scope. I can see bullet holes through my rifle scopes at 100 yards, but that will not work farther out.

It’s nice to not be inept. I hope things continue to improve.

If You’re Going to Collect, Collect Something Useful

I have been trying to put my ammunition in order.

For a long time, I’ve bought ammunition in bulk. It’s generally not easy to get good deals unless you buy over the Internet, and you have to buy a lot in order to avoid killing the bargains with shipping costs. It’s not unusual to pay the same price for shipping 50 or 3,000 rounds. Say you pay $10, which is not unusual. That adds 20 cents to the cost of each round in a 50-round box, but it only adds a third of a cent to the cost of each round in a three-thousand-round crate. You have to be pretty slow to miss the obvious.

My reasoning goes like this: if I know I will continue shooting a certain caliber until I croak, I might as well buy enough ammunition to get me as far into the future as possible. It won’t rot. It doesn’t have to be refrigerated. You can buy it today and use it 50 years from now, if you’re still here. If you wait, you’ll end up paying much more in the long run. Also, the Democrats are gradually destroying our rights, so who knows if you’ll be able to buy anything a couple of years from now?

If you buy now, you’ll be able to shoot until they come to your house to take your ammunition, and you will also have an investment which is guaranteed to increase in value.

I wish I had the guts to spend $50,000 on guns and ammunition. I know I would never regret it. I would have plenty to shoot, I’d be in a position to make money if I changed my mind, and I could also leave it to people I cared about if I died.

As it is, I’ve done pretty well. There are a few things I still want to buy, but I feel pretty comfortable about the next two years. If the rapture doesn’t come, I should be safe from deprivation for quite some time. I used to think I was rich if I had two boxes of ammo. A person who still thinks like that would be shocked to see what I have right now.

When I think about my policy, I think about all the stupid news stories I’ve read. “Police raid gunman’s house; find home arsenal.” I’ve written about this before.

Gun people get upset when they see the word “arsenal.” I believe this is because an arsenal is understood to be a facility maintained by a government or institution, not an individual. I kind of like “weapons cache.”

If I were ever suspected of committing a violent crime, and the police got a warrant to search my house, I know exactly what would happen. I’d become the latest “home arsenal” guy. I own more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, and that sounds like an insane amount to a person who knows nothing about guns and a lot about things like whaling moratoriums and plastic straw bans.

I don’t know why it’s so important for cops and journalists to count people’s guns and cartridges after a shooting. Even mass murderers generally don’t use more than 50 rounds to commit a crime. I don’t know if anyone has ever used 1,000. If I ran a pedestrian down intentionally, would they come to my house and count my vehicles? The number of guns you have isn’t at all relevant to the danger you pose to society. My grandfather probably owned 30 guns, and he was a circuit judge.

I took a two-day shooting course recently, and I was advised to bring 300 rounds of ammo. That’s almost a third of a home arsenal! I had it in my car for 300 miles! I shared the road with cars kids were riding in! Possibly disabled kids! Disabled transgender kids, even! When will the insanity stop?

“Trump-Loving Nutjob Roams Countryside With Military-Grade Rifle and Mini-Arsenal”! That’s how they would put it in a Huffto headline. It wasn’t a lot of ammunition for two days of classes, but you could never explain that to the guy with the flannel pajamas and hot cocoa in the famous Obamacare ad, any more than you could make him understand that testosterone serves a purpose.

It’s not hard at all to shoot 200 rounds in one day of serious shooting, and if you’re just banging away for fun, you can do it in two hours. A “home arsenal” will only get you through 5 to 10 shooting sessions. It’s not a lot of ammunition. It only seems like a lot to a person who thinks roach spray is murder.

As I have said before, my plan is to accumulate an ammo savings account. I’ll store up useful calibers and set the ammo aside. Then when I want to shoot, I’ll buy more and try to leave the stored stuff alone. I’m not preparing for the day when I can rent a hotel room overlooking the site of an Antifa rally so I can cleanse America of annoying vandals.

I wonder how many rounds of ammunition there are within a one-mile radius of me, outside of my property. I’ll bet the number is over 100,000. Buying in bulk is not an original idea that started with me. I’m a late adopter. I think my intentions may be nicer than many other people who stock up. Civil war is on many people’s minds. Whatever the truth is, I’m part of a huge demographic. We’ve been having ammo shortages off and on since Obama’s regressive reign, and many, many people have been buying in bulk. Bulk-buyers actually caused the shortages. They moved the supply from store and warehouse shelves to their homes. There must be an ungodly amount of ammo in private hands right now.

Attention, soy commandos who may be reading this blog. I didn’t buy it for you. I just enjoy shooting. Please do not bother me. And if you decide to bother my neighbors, have the courtesy to bring your own body bags. It’s a really bad idea. There is no shame in negotiation or in abiding by the results of lawful elections. It’s better than feeding the turkey buzzards.

Just in case I’m still on earth when the tofu brigade starts visiting rural properties, I’m thinking of getting some laser safety goggles. I keep researching the usefulness of lasers as weapons, and the news is very bad. For $200, you can get a laser which, in terms of its ability to cause suffering, makes an AR-15 look like a nerf gun. You can’t burn a hole through a Proud Boy with a handheld laser, but you can blind a whole bunch of Proud Boys in a few minutes. You don’t need training or ammunition, and you won’t have to wear earplugs. Just point and hit the switch. We may be heading into an era when every intelligent American takes laser safety goggles with him every time he goes outdoors.

I’m starting to think lasers are far superior to firearms as weapons. Lasers are very small and light. They run a long time on one battery. They render people helpless instantaneously, and their effects can be permanent if you use them correctly. Bullet wounds may seem impressive, but most are nonfatal and fail to incapacitate. When you’re blind, you’re all done, even if you’re still armed to the teeth. A 250-pound Navy SEAL who can’t see is a plaything for a scrawny vegetarian who can.

If lasers become really popular as weapons, things will get really ugly in America. I would hate to see it. I think it would be smart to buy some goggles. You never know when you might run across the wrong people in 2020 America. You could turn down the wrong street and find yourself in a bad situation.

Goggles may not be enough to keep you safe. I’ve read they reduce the effective power of a laser by something like 99%. Rioters commonly use 5mW lasers. It’s just as easy to get 500mW lasers, so it looks like goggles only protect you from people who use cheap weapons.

Pilots already wear laser safety goggles. Maybe they’re the canaries in the coal mine. Vicious people shine lasers at airplane windows all the time.

It’s strange that conservatives are lagging in their appreciation of lasers. I guess lasers don’t seem manly. Blinding a rioter with something that looks like a flashlight probably seems unsportsmanlike to many conservatives, like pulling hair and kicking other men in the groin. Lasers work, though. That’s why armies aren’t allowed to use them against human beings. If they didn’t work, they wouldn’t be banned.

Should I get a strong laser to protect myself? Great question. It’s the kind of question that makes me wish Jesus would come for us tonight.

I guess I should get some real shelves and get my ammo sorted and off the floor. I should probably quit thinking about disgusting new methods of guerrilla warfare. Maybe God will spare me involvement when things truly go haywire.

Protect Yourself From my Blog’s Radiation

If you are lucky enough to see this post, you may not know my website was blacklisted recently. Users, including me, have been getting a terse “IP BLACKLISTED” message on their way in. It has been an on-and-off thing.

My blog is not my life. I don’t make money from it, and no one depends on it for anything important. I started getting the blacklisting message a few days back, but I didn’t try to do anything about it until today. I contacted my host, and they said a perma-something-or-other code in my site’s software was incorrect. They say they’ve fixed it and that the site should work now.

While I was Googling, trying to figure out whether a site could be blacklisted by an ISP, I read a lot about conservatives who have been banned from social media. It’s such a trend, President Trump is trying to get the giants (great, appropriate Biblical term) held accountable for editing their sites, just as I could be held accountable for editing the posts I write. If a platform merely publishes content provided by others, it can’t get in much trouble, but if it starts banning some content and keeping the rest, based on caprice, it ceases being a mere publisher and moves into the realm of content creation.

The tech who fixed my site for me didn’t explain why my site’s code was messed up. Can a thing like that happen randomly? We know it can happen when someone tampers with it deliberately, because the tech was able to tamper with it in order to get the site working again. If it can be repaired by a well-meaning tech, it can be vandalized by an angry, biased tech with a lot of body modifications and gender questions.

I don’t know what happened, any more than I know why the Department of Defense banned this blog from its computers as a hate site. In our new virtual world, accountability is nearly nonexistent. I’ve written about this before. In my state, they block people from becoming massage therapists if they have old arrests on their records, but Satan himself can open and run a hosting company. If an angry tech kid decides to block your site, rummage through your emails, or steal your files, you will never know who did it or why, and you will not be able to do anything about it.

One of the things the founders of this nation hated was prosecution without the right to confront accusers. The right to confront accusers is so important, it’s in the Constitution, and we have used it to put terrified children in courtrooms with the men who raped them. It’s not a trivial or disposable right. The Constitution also recognizes the right to due process prior to deprivation of property. In the online world, it’s different. People will ban or shadow-ban you behind your back, and you may never know who did it or why. You may lose a blog or Twitter audience worth a lot of money to you. A social media audience may be worth millions.

It’s no different from losing a customer list, which is legally recognized as a type of property. In the realm of honorable commerce, customer lists are bought and sold. Their value is protected. It ain’t necessarily so on the Internet. You can lose your list instantly and irretrievably, with no compensation or explanation, based on the whims of hipsters who are still mired in their acne-prone years.

Luckily for me, my readers are worth nothing at all to me.

Don’t take it the wrong way.

I don’t know if I was blocked deliberately or not, but I know I would be safer if I ran a site full of sadistic porn. Tech people lean way left, and leftists adore porn. They think it’s the reason the First Amendment was written. It’s practically sacred to them. Promoting Christianity and criticizing sin are not forms of speech they want to protect. People like me are tolerated, at best.

Speaking of toleration, it’s getting much harder to coexist with leftists. The things they’re doing are astounding. I’ll give you an example, which you may know about already. Leftist rioters use laser pointers to blind law enforcement officers and people who disagree with them.

You can go to Amazon or Ebay right now and buy a laser strong enough to blind people. They’re cheap. Under a hundred dollars. Then you can take it to a rally and aim it at the eyes of a person wearing a Fred Perry shirt. In a fraction of a second, you can injure him badly enough to take him out of the fray, and if you do a good job, you can blind him permanently. In the name of love and inclusion.

It’s not a rare thing. Rioters are lighting up the night. In Portland, they’re using shields with holes for laser pointers. Three federal officers have been injured.

Leftists are not calling for laser control, and that’s an astounding bit of hypocrisy. Lasers do harm comparable to the harm done by firearms. It’s true that it’s hard to kill someone with a laser, but most gunshot injuries aren’t fatal, either. Blinding someone is a big deal. If a person aimed a laser at my face, I would be legally entitled to shoot him. That’s how serious it is. But you can buy lasers all day over the web. You can have a thousand shipped to your house next week, even in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, or Hawaii. No background check. No licensing.

A laser is a great weapon. You can hurt a thousand people on one battery charge, and then you can switch batteries, which weigh a couple of ounces each. Try that with a gun. You can hit people accurately with no training. You don’t have to worry about recoil. Your beam can’t be traced by ballisticians after the fact. You won’t get gunshot residue on your hands or clothing. Lasers are silent. They don’t give off smoke, either. Used skillfully, they incapacitate instantaneously and sometimes permanently.

It makes me wonder why I carry a heavy pistol which is hard to use and legally barred from many locations. My state has very harsh penalties for people who exhibit their guns in order to avoid violence, but you can hold a laser in your hand all day get away with it.

Maybe I should invest in a powerful Ebay laser and blind anyone who attacks me.

Anyway, the sadism of angry leftists, which seems to know no limits, makes me wonder if America is headed toward a Wild West future in which the gunslingers carry lasers and a third of the population is blind.

It’s a real equalizer for rioters and looters. Leftists are generally hopeless when it comes to guns, but lasers can level the playing field very quickly. This is why the UN has banned their use against soldiers. Leftists are using a tool that falls into the same category as mustard gas.

If you’re interested, you can buy glasses that protect you from lasers. Amazon is full of them. If you think you may have to defend your property, you might want to buy pairs for yourself and your loved ones. You might want to buy lasers, too.

I cite the laser phenomenon as an example of the way the world is becoming an unbearable place to live. Life is moving in a very unpleasant direction, very quickly. How bad will things have to get before God removes his children because he’s unwilling to let us remain in a world that resembles hell?

He pulled Enoch out. He pulled Noah out. He pulled Lot out. He pulled the Jews out of Egypt. He pulled Elijah and Jesus out. Eventually, he withdraws his children from torment. It’s a repetitive pattern, and the rapture is just another withdrawal in a long sequence of withdrawals.

I wish there were a door in this room I could walk through right now, to take my place at the wedding of Christ. At the same time, I wish I could do something to help people to be saved.

Killing Christian access to the web, along with depriving us of the right to buy and sell, will surely advance the rapture, if it hasn’t taken place by the time these things happen. God has to have a return on his investment, and he’s not going to leave his most precious capital here forever after it ceases to produce an acceptable profit.

I won’t worry about being lasered. The word says I will see the reward of the wicked with my eyes, plural. Not in my imagination. With my eyes.

We should have known the end was near when liberals started throwing feces.

I Almost Know What I’m Doing

Today I got back to handloading, although I should not have. I was supposed to wait for a new Glock barrel.

I’ve been trying to develop a load for 9mm semiwadcutters. I could not find a recipe for the bullets I bought, so I looked for something close, dropped the charge down something like 8%, adjusted the overall length (OAL) for longer bullets, and made test rounds. I got up to 5.5 grains of BE-86, which is the flash-suppressed version of Power Pistol.

The recipe I started with came from Alliant, the manufacturer of BE-86. It was for 125-grain lead round nose bullets. They got 1179 fps at 5.7 grains, and for 9mm, that’s a nice speed. It’s supersonic at the muzzle. They recommended an OAL of 1.120″. They didn’t say how long their bullets were. I used a Laser Cast 124-grain bullet as a stand-in, and it measured 0.06″ shorter than my semiwadcutters. I figured that meant I needed 0.06″ more length to get a similar case volume, but I didn’t want long bullets hanging out of my cases, so I tried 0.04″.

When I shot these things with 5.2 grains, I got an average of 1082. That was not too bad, but it wasn’t 1179. I knew Alliant had probably tested its rounds with a longer barrel, so I didn’t expect to equal their speed, but I figured I ought to be able to hit 1125. This was a wild guess. My barrel is 3.43″ long. I figured it was probably 50 fps slower than a full-size Glock barrel, which comes in at about 4.5″. This is sort of consistent with wildly varying figures from the web.

When I moved up to 5.3 grains, I got a very small increase in speed. I got 1088. The velocity spread dropped, however, going from 65 to 14. I thought that was nice. Then I moved up to 5.5 grains, and I got 1078 fps and a spread of 51. I had actually gone backward.

I sought advice and read up. Some people say that when you plateau with a given powder, it’s time to quit adding weight.

I thought maybe I should give up and try Accurate No.7. I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to find a use for my BE-86, and although it will sound silly, I could swear BE-86 feels better when I shoot it. It seems to feel friendlier and less snappy. I noticed this while working on 10mm rounds, and today BE-86 felt good while I shot 9mm.

Then I read up on barrel leading.

Glock barrels are polygonal, which means the bores are shaped like hex nuts with rounded corners. Ordinary barrels have grooves. The raised parts between the grooves are called lands. Polygonal barrels are not optimal for lead ammunition. Lead can accumulate in them, and if it gets bad enough, it can cause obstructions and explosions.

I had been under the impression that hard lead alloys were okay for Glocks. That was what past research had told me. While I was working on this latest load, I read that many people disagreed. I read that an amount of lead which seemed very insignificant could slow bullets down and cause case overpressure.

Okay.

Now I had some decisions to make. Should I buy coated bullets and throw out my lead bullets? That would take a while, given the ammunition panic. Should I buy a new Glock barrel made for lead? Should I go ahead and shoot lead and not worry?

I finally decided to spring for a Storm Lake barrel made for lead. I’m waiting for it to arrive.

Today, I forgot about that, and I decided to make several rounds of ammo with shortened cartridges. I knocked 0.020″ off.

I had been wanting to shorten the cartridges anyway because they have lube grooves with wax in them. A lube groove is a slot that goes around a bullet near the base. It’s okay to have lube grooves exposed. It won’t affect how the ammo works. It is ugly and messy, however. I wanted to reduce the amount of exposed wax, but shortening a cartridge too much can cause overpressure.

What the heck. You only live once. On Earth. Not including the Messianic Age. I decided to try it.

I cranked out a few rounds, and I tried them. I got an average of 1112 fps with a spread of 24. This was much better. I looked at all the cases I could recover. The primers looked okay. I could see tiny bulges near the rims. I tried shoving spent casings into a cartridge gage to see how bad the bulges were. It was possible to jam them in, and after running a spent casing through a sizing die, it dropped it without a problem. I figured I was safe.

Now I’m almost supersonic at the muzzle. Should I try to do better? I don’t know.

If I get, say, 1150 fps, I’ll only be around 35 fps above the speed of sound, and I assume that would drop off to subsonic a short distance out. Does that mean anything with pistol rounds? Will it have a noticeable effect on accuracy? Probably not. If it did, I’m sure it would be the talk of the forums. Everyone who shoots accurately would want to stay above or below the speed of sound.

I am tempted to shorten the cartridges to the point where the lube is covered. It might give me better speed with no ill effects. I think I’m pretty cautious. The web is full of people pushing 1300 fps from bullets this heavy, and I would be excited if I could do 1175.

I’m anxious to settle on a recipe. I need to get this 9mm lead loaded so I can move on to other things.