Cheap Ammunition Makes You Pay Dearly

Yesterday I made some .45 ammunition, and as usual, there were little problems. I won’t mention the accident in which the clear plastic cylinder on the powder measure fell off and covered the floor with Unique. We’ll just omit that. There were other difficulties.

I have a Hornady Lock-N-Load AP, built before they decided the ejection wire was a bad idea and got rid of it, making upgrades to existing presses necessary. It is a turret press. There are, I guess, six stations on a little turntable (drive hub plus shell plate), and you pull a handle to turn it, and each station does an operation on a casing. For this to work, each casing has to be lined up pretty well under the tool that alters it, so the turntable has to stop at the right places. When it does this, in response to various mechanical doodads that are supposed to make it line up, it’s called “indexing.”

If your turntable doesn’t index right, you have problems. First, the sizing die will miss the case and possibly deform it. Second, the primer will miss the case and fail to seat, leaving a hole for powder to dribble out of. The powder will eventually find its way into crevices and cause friction, making the indexing problem worse. It’s a nice cascading effect.

If you don’t push the lever pretty hard on the upstroke, your primer may not seat completely. If this happens, the primer may project downward in a way that blocks the table’s movement. Or you may end up with no primer in the pocket, and the primer can also pop out of the press and find its way into various places where it will drive you crazy.

Pushing the lever hard on the upstroke–I am pretty sure–is hard on the left pawl. Pawls are little things on springs that turn the table. Once the pawls are out of position or damaged, everything goes to hell. And I believe the instructions for adjusting the pawls are backward. Until you realize that, you will find yourself making things worse by doing what Hornady tells you to do. I’m looking at a PDF of the manual, and it appears to be right, but I think the printed one I have is wrong. Maybe they changed it, or maybe I misread it. Anyway, I had to write my own notes in the manual to resolve the confusion.

On top of all that, the shaft that turns the table has a lot of friction, so the pawls have to work hard under the best of circumstances. And there is no bearing on the shaft, and while there are grease fittings, they appear to have no relationship to the driveshaft. So grease away; nothing will happen.

I think my problems are worse, because my press is bolted to a somewhat springy bench edge. The Lock-N-Load likes to rock and throw powder around, and bench movement just generally degrades the way the press functions. I am going to reinforce it today.

I got the press working yesterday, and I ran off around 70 rounds, and then the press started balking. I fiddled with the pawls. A pawl allows things to go by in one direction, and it may push them in that direction, but it shouldn’t push things in the other direction. I had a situation where the left pawl was hitting the drive wheel (“index wheel”) in both directions, so the tip of the pawl got eaten off.

I ground it down and replaced it, and it worked for a while, but eventually, things became hopeless. And while I was fooling with the press, I put pressure on the drive hub, a part with which Hornady has had serious problems. There is a little key sort of a thing on the hub that drives the shell plate that holds the casings. It broke off. Now the press is useless, and I have to wait for a new hub and pawls. I ordered two sets of pawls; I can tell this is a problem that is likely to happen more than once.

I’m really irritated with this thing. I don’t understand why they would build a rotating part that takes a lot of effort to turn, and which has no bearing and no means of lubrication or cleaning without disassembling the machine. I can improve it by taking it apart and sanding down the drive shaft so there is less friction. I think. still, I’m out thirty bucks, and I can’t reload, and this should never have happened. I’m sure the folks at Hornady are doing their best, and I understand that they give fantastic service, and the machine has a lifetime warranty (which does not apply to my problems). But this is bad.

Last night I realized how much better life would have been, had I had machine tools. I could have popped the shaft out and machined a couple of thousandths off of it to make it turn easier. I could have done the same with the drive hub. I could have made a new drive hub after it broke. Making pawls would be a piece of cake. If I really got mad, I could change the machine so it would accept bearings. And all this work would have been enjoyable and satisfying. As it is, I have to screw around with sandpaper and a bench grinder.

I have come to a tentative conclusion, and maybe my machinist readers can tell me if I’m right. It seems to me that it’s better to spend a few thousand dollars once, on a lathe and a mill, than it is to spend your entire life buying parts for things and putting up with frustrating things that a machinist could easily fix.

I suspect that my press is just plain defective, and that the defect is tightness in the lower hole the driveshaft goes through. I can’t think of any reason why the shaft would need to be hard to turn. I’m going to have to take it apart, and it’s held together with snap rings. I hope the pliers I have will fit . Otherwise, I’ll have to strip naked, set my hair on fire, and run down the street screaming. And in Coral Gables, that means pulling a permit.

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I want to be sure I don’t across as an angry Hornady customer. I said I suspect this press is defective, but I don’t know that, and if it is defective, the defect is pretty small and easily cured. There are some things about the LNL that could be better, but I don’t claim it’s a bad product. Lots and lots of people use them with great success. And because my problem happened on a Friday night, like all warranty problems and veterinary emergencies, I did not call Hornady for help, so I don’t know what they could or would have done to help me. As I said earlier, they have a great reputation in the area of customer support.

It’s possible that I contributed to the problems I’m having now, back in the weeks when I was basically trying to make the press work by grunting and beating it with a stick. I feel safe in saying the machine has more friction in it than it should; if you could see it in front of you, you’d realize it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. Maybe that wouldn’t matter if I had been more experienced when I bought the machine.

In any case, putting new pawls in is a three-minute job, and once you understand what they do, adjusting them is not a complex task. Neither is replacing the drive hub. Lots of people do these things. So I’m not going to wreck it by putting these parts in, or by smoothing the hub and shaft down a little.

I screwed a block to my workbench to make the press more stable. I think once the new parts are in, everything will be swell.

I am going to have to get electronic ear muffs. Reason: if I have to defend my home, I will need to hear ordinary sounds while I look for the perp, but I don’t want to go deaf if I shoot. And they should have stereo, so I’ll have directional hearing. At the range, my cheapo muffs and plugs are fine, because I don’t need to hear low-level sounds. And muffs don’t give you real protection at the range; you need plugs, too, if you’re shooting a long gun. So even if I got good muffs, I’d still have to wear plugs when shooting anything bigger than a .45. Much of the benefit of the electronics would be lost. The house is different. I’m willing to sacrifice a little protection when faced with a need to defend myself. That means no plugs.

I was considering getting a quality pair, like the better Peltors. I didn’t want something that would fall apart over multiple range sessions. Then it occurred to me: because I wear plugs at the range, I have no reason to take electronic muffs. That means I don’t need the toughest electronic muffs made. Maybe I would be better off getting a cheap pair for home defense. They only have to last long enough to get me through one encounter, and I don’t think cheap muffs are more likely to crap out at a bad time. I would guess that the big differences are durability, comfort, and sound quality.

What do you think? The price difference is gigantic.

Join the Clingers

I just found out Chris Byrne is running a gun forum. I joined and asked some stupid questions about shotguns.

I don’t know why I didn’t know about it sooner. You may want to sign up.

Here is the site.

Cold, Grey, Ugly, Lethal

Is there any ammunition uglier than Wolf? It’s like the Russians had an ugly bullet competition, and the guy who designed this stuff won.

I don’t care. I have never had a problem with it. I’ve used it in a Glock and a PSL, and it seems accurate and reliable. I question the guys who say it won’t shoot straight. When you have a bad day, any excuse looks good.

I just received my order from Midway; a big pile of 7.62x39mm. It is shockingly ugly. I got the hollow points, because I had read that they were probably better at helping perps relax and then die. It’s intended for the range, but it’s good enough for guest control. I don’t know if I’ll even bother getting better stuff. How much better can it be? There’s a ton of difference between cheap FMJ 9mm ammunition and Cor-Bon, but AK stopping power is so much better than a pistol’s, I don’t know if ammunition quality matters much.

Yes, I know the gun I got is not an AK. But it’s AK ammunition.

I’m definitely getting a Saiga 12. That will give me two very good long guns for self-defense. That should cover my needs, regardless of the duration of the soon-to-begin Ob*ma Dark Ages. I truly fear that the next few years will be a bad time to live in a suburb, especially in a town like Miami with big, violent ghettos nearby. Those folks live in tiny apartments and microscopic houses with bone-dry dirt yards where nothing grows. They will have needs and no way to fill them, and the government teat may get downsized considerably. Obama has already fomented an atmosphere of class and race hostility. It will only get worse if a depression hits.

I should go ahead and get a food dehydrator. Why not? I’m going to be producing all sorts of bananas and papayas. I can’t eat them all fresh, and they’re very good dried. Papayas are actually better dried than fresh.

I could also get bulk apples from Costco and dry them. Nothing beats dried apples. You can make pies. You can make apple butter. They rule.

I’m thinking up ideas to save money on food. Beans would be perfect. Buy a fifty-pound sack of pinto beans, a bunch of smoked ham hocks that will keep a long time, and some salt. Rice is good. I should be able to fish for grunts and snapper in the local canals.

If life really goes in the toilet, Coral Gables will have to give up its ridiculous pansy ordinances. People will need chickens and ducks. They’ll need cheap fences and razor wire.

I don’t know what life in Miami was like during the Depression. In Kentucky, drifters wandered up and down the roads looking for odd jobs. Hoboes used to sleep on my grandparents’ porch; it was accepted. They didn’t even have to ask permission. People showed up asking for meals.

My grandmother said the local people didn’t notice the pinch much. That’s because the area was poor before the Depression, and also because the locals were still able to grow their own food and trees. And there were squirrels and rabbits.

Maybe it won’t be so bad here. Maybe it will just be boring. Spend less money, travel less, stop eating out. Keep your old things longer and make them last. That may be tough, with a 2003 Thunderbird.

I wonder what will happen to the car market. Most people don’t own their cars. When unemployment jumps, will the banks repossess, flooding the market with cheap vehicles, or will they renegotiate and take the losses?

It will be strange, seeing bums who actually deserve handouts. I’ve never seen those in America. “Will Work for Food” actually means “Will Take Money Straight to Liquor Store, Drug Dealer, or Crack Whore.” How often do you see “Will Work for Food” over a hundred yards from a place that sells beer? I can’t think of one instance.

I keep meaning to get some fast-food gift certificates to give to bums. That way, if I misjudge someone, no harm done. And if it turns out I’m feeding an addict, that’s okay, because giving them food is not immoral. And if they trade gift certificates for crack, it’s their sin, not mine. When you give them money, you’re not even trying to help. You’re giving to make yourself feel good, and you know what they’re going to do with the money, and you don’t really care if they buy drugs. If you give a food gift certificate, you’re making a credible effort to help.

The market is tanking again today. On top of that, a surprising number of finance-show talking heads are openly excoriating Obama, for whom most of them voted. I am going to be fair and point out that George Bush is getting off easy. He was blamed for many things he didn’t do, or which didn’t even happen, and he didn’t get credit for the great things he did. But in his last months he gave Obama a great head start on his wrongheaded mission of pouring socialist gasoline on our economic conflagation. And people aren’t talking as much as they should about Bush’s dumb 2008 moves. Still, if Bush is measles, Obama is leprosy.

I think I’ll do some research and see what to expect in a depression. I believe God will take care of me, but I don’t want him to have a bigger job than necessary.

Cor-Bon!

I have decided to get some decent ammunition for the .38 Super. My logical basis for this move is that while the .38 Super has a lower capacity than a Glock, it has two characteristics a Glock lacks. 1. It is pimptastic. 2. It is pimptacular. If you’re going to liquefy a burglar’s internal organs, you may well want to do it with style. This is where the .38 Super excels. After all, this is the pistol Texas Ranger Frank Hamer used to send Bonnie and Clyde to their eternal reward. Such as it was.

It’s a confusing proposition. There are a lot of interesting loads out there, but the .38 Super has an issue which makes some types of ammunition scary. Depending on which .38 Super you buy, the casing may not get perfect support, and it’s possible for a high-pressure round to blow up and fire hot gas and shrapnel into your face. Imagine how a burglar would smirk.

The folks at Cor-Bon have told me they do not think their ammunition will injure me. However, they won’t be the ones looking at the rear of the slide as I shoot it. So I am nervous about buying without research.

It looks like the Cor-Bon 125-grain DPX is a great choice. It is highly lethal, but the velocity isn’t all that kooky. My clever guess is that this means the case pressure isn’t too bad. They make other highly regarded designs, but they probably aren’t any more deadly. I figure I’ll buy enough to fill several magazines, with a few left over for testing at the range. It has to cycle.

I could come up with my own solution, creating my own load. But I think I would trust Cor-Bon’s hottest round more than something I cobbled together in the garage. I have no fears about shooting tame target reloads, but that’s about all I’m willing to do in this caliber, knowing as little as I do about reloading.

I never got around to getting nice grips. The truth is, I couldn’t find any I really liked. Maybe I should look again. I think green abalone would be perfect, but not everyone is willing to risk the posthumous disdain of George S. Patton, so there aren’t a lot of choices in abalone and mother-of-pearl.

I researched putting a supported barrel in this gun, but I got discouraged for some reason or other. I need to get back on top of it. The Colt people seem to have confidence in their design, but if I can make it safer, why not?

Apparently .45 ammunition is much easier to choose. I think the round everyone recommends is the 230-grain Federal Hydra-Shock.

I am trying to get rid of my .40 caliber Glock. It’s a very fine defensive weapon, but I now realize I was hoodwinked when I bought into the .40 fantasy. As I understand it, the .40 S&W was a product of affirmative action. The FBI found that female agents pouted and stamped their little feet when they had to shoot the .45, and the 10mm was equally unladylike, so the result was the .40, which is a 10mm without all that upsetting chauvinist stopping power.

Perhaps I am not totally right on the facts, but as usual, I am too lazy to check.

I was told that the .40 was easy to shoot, which isn’t really true. I was told that the .45 was hard to shoot, which is a pure steaming load. I made a mistake. Or maybe I didn’t. Maybe Glock didn’t make a .45 back then.

The .40 kills people just fine, but the .45 is somewhat better. And if I had a Glock in .45, I could quit buying .40-caliber ammunition, and I could shoot the same reloads that I shoot from my 1911. The Laser-Cast people claim their cast .45 bullets are just fine for Glock barrels. Hopefully they know what they’re talking about.

Another .40 down side: the Glock Kaboom. Once in a while, a Glock blows up, because the case in the .40 isn’t supported well. Or something. I believe you can fix this with a new barrel, but again, why struggle to save a gun you could just as easily trade? Glock claims the guns blow up because of hot reloads, I think. But I’m fairly sure they also claim Glocks are pretty, so…

I’d lose two rounds of capacity if I got a .45, but being shot 14 times with a .45 is arguably about as bad as being shot 16 times with a .40. I think the benefits outweigh the loss. After all, as all real he-men know, a .45 round will kill a criminal every time, even if you just throw it at him. Or mention it. And it will take a car door off. And it will pick a mugger up and throw him six feet backward. And…let’s see, what are the other lies they tell?

It’s not as effective as a pump-action shotgun, which will make a criminal’s head explode if he hears you rack it. This is one of my all-time favorite fairy tales. Yes, criminals listen to see what kind of gun you have, and unless it’s a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, they barge right ahead. And as we all know, a semi-auto is TOTALLY SILENT when you rack it, and even if it weren’t, it wouldn’t scare anybody. An AK makes a racket when you chamber a round. So does a .45. I would be afraid to bet fifty cents that I could tell the difference between the sound of an AK and the sound of a pump gun in a dark room. Who seriously believes a criminal with an IQ of 85 knows the difference? Think about it. I mean, most people are so clueless they think a shotgun is the same thing as a rifle.

I always get comments on this. Even though there is no evidence whatosever that the sound of a particular gun’s mechanical bits has ever had a unique affect on any criminal. It’s great arguing about a point so unworthy of discussion no one has ever collected data on it. Gun sounds don’t kill people. Lead kills people. So does running out of shotgun shells during a gunfight. People always say pump guns are great because the cops use them. Of course, cops were using six guns long after everyone else went to high-capacity semi-autos. Cops ride Harleys, for crying out loud. Would you rather cross a desert on a Harley or a Honda? I know what I’d pick.

I should post a clip of a gun racking and ask the pump-gun freaks to identify the weapon.

If pump-action shotguns were that great, you wouldn’t have to load them. You could just buy an MP3 of the sound and play it at the criminal on your Ipod speakers. It would be like saying “it” to the Knights of Ni! Get the mop ready.

CUSTOMER: I need a shotgun.

SHOP OWNER: Here’s a Saiga-12 semi-auto shotgun. It has a 20-round magazine you can change in three seconds, AK-47 reliability, and low recoil, and it fires about as fast as you can pull the trigger.

CUSTOMER: Forget that. I want a five-shot pump that takes a long time to rack, reloads in a minute and a half, and SOUNDS funky!

SHOP OWNER: You seem like the kind of guy who could appreciate this limited edition Mossberg tactical thong, signed by David Caruso.

Anyway, the .45 is pretty much impossible to question with any credibility. It may not be the best, or even as good as the Holy Hand Grenade, but it’s real good.

Maybe not Totally Original

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I’m AK, You’re AK

Mike is coming to town. I hope the pizzerias are ready for the added load.

I hope my new murderous and unbelievably dangerous assault rifle gets here before Mike does. By the way, in case any liberals who hate guns yet know absolutely nothing about them are reading, let me point out that it’s a SEMI-AUTOMATIC. Yes, that’s right. I, a mere civilian long suspected of being several pins short of a strike, will possess a DEADLY SEMI-AUTOMATIC WEAPON.

I love it when people whine about how semi-automatic weapons should be illegal. Ask them what “semi-automatic” means, if you want a laugh. About 98% of them think it means “machine gun.” And I’m sure the con artists at the Brady Center are doing nothing to change that perception. It’s like the forged Dan Rather memo; as long as the angels and the editorial staff of Mother Jones are on your side, Mother Gaia loves it when you lie. Your deceit will make her nipples ooze warm soy milk from organic beans that come from plants fertilized with the bodies of aborted babies.

Let me take a second to educate. A semi-automatic weapon fires once every time you pull the trigger, and it cocks itself after every round.

I love revolvers. Because they’re cool. But they’re obsolete. They work. Sure. But semi-automatics work much better and weigh less. Steam locomotives work great. So do rotary phones. But they’re not state of the art, and when you want the best, they’re not what you buy.

The public needs semi-automatics. When a crackhead invades your home and he is completely willing to kill you to avoid arrest–and this happens many times every day–you may have to shoot fifteen times to put him down. You can’t do it with a revolver or a derringer. You need something that pumps lead until the job is done, without providing your assailant with time to recover between reloads. When it comes to pistols, that means semi-auto, period. And optimally, it means a big ol’ magazine.

I have two .357s. I don’t even keep ammunition for them. One holds six rounds; the other, seven. They have relatively heavy trigger pulls. They can’t compare to a Glock with one clip in the well and another in my pocket. Empty both revolvers and you’ve shot 13 rounds. Empty two Glock clips plus the shell in the pipe, and you’ve shot 31. With greater ease and accuracy and less recoil. The revolvers are toys. I enjoy them at the range. If the Obama Jugend starts collecting our sidearms, these are the guns I’ll hand over as decoys. The semi-automatics are the ones I’ll hide.

I’ll hide them in the last places a liberal personality-cult ninny would look. Under a Bible or a box of soap.

One of the weird things about the gun controversy is that gun haters get upset when anyone is killed with a large number of bullets. But if you go to Liveleak and watch actual shootings, you’ll see why this happens. It’s not overkill. It’s not hate or vengefulness or brutality. It just reflects the fact that people who get shot can remain alive and dangerous long enough to kill you. When you shoot another person, the objective is to render him helpless in a fraction of a second. That may be all the time you have, before he shoots back. Very often, a righteous shooter will empty his magazine before the criminal starts to drop. What are you going to do? Assume the first shot took? Wait to see what happens? A lot of dead people have tried that.

Here’s the way defensive shooting works: in for a penny, in for a pound. Once you pull the trigger, you’ve decided to kill the other person. Therefore the number of shots you fire is irrelevant. If the first one kills him and you fire fourteen more, it just means you shot a dead person 13 times. Big deal. You defaced meat. It happens. It’s why caskets have lids. If the fourteenth one kills him, it just means you were right to keep shooting.

In the liberal version of reality, you try to hug the assailant. When that fails, you ask him about his needs. When that fails, you tell him he is making you very uncomfortable, and that you need your space. When that fails, you blow your rape whistle. When that fails, you command him to depart in the name of Obama. When that fails, if you have a gun, you fire it in the air. When that fails, you shoot him somewhere where it won’t hurt all that much. It’s a system of progressive responses. How appropriate.

In actual non-liberal reality, you shoot to kill. Then you shoot to kill. Then you shoot to kill. Then you shoot to kill. Because you don’t have time to become the criminal’s best friend and find out what you did to provoke him to sodomize your family and steal your silver. Criminals are fast. They can kill in half a second. Appeasement is slow.

Lots of people defend themselves and their families successfully with revolvers and even really low-capacity guns like double-barreled shotguns. And a lot of people cut steak with a butter knife. Here’s a great lesson people should learn early. To do a job right, you need the right tool. And the right tool for self-defense is a semi-automatic weapon.

I know you can also do a lot of damage with 12-gauge that only holds a few rounds. This is a weapon with a very unusual level of per-round stopping power, so maybe the rules are different. But a pistol round isn’t a shotgun shell. You need to deliver them in quantity, if you expect to have any hope of landing one in the right place. Personally, I believe in 12-gauges that hold 20-round magazines. In my opinion, a person who shoots five shotgun shells and then has to reload will probably wish he had gone semi-auto.

There’s a famous video of a cop having a shootout with two white trash losers in a van. The passenger loser gets out and opens fire. The cop opens fire. They shoot round after round, from a distance of something like ten feet. Nobody hits a damned thing. Neither one of these men had the ability to shoot well under pressure. Guess who has the best chance of winning in a situation like that, which is very typical? The guy with the biggest magazine. If you shoot enough bullets, sooner or later you’ll hit the bad guy.

Who, in the multi-century history of firearms and gunfights, has ever wished he had FEWER bullets?

So anyway, I like semi-autos, and I like large magazines. And the Vz 58 should be a wonderful thing to have on hand if I ever find myself in danger. If I can’t save myself with 60 rounds of 7.62x39mm, an extremely reliable rifle, and a very bright laser, I deserve to die, because it proves I am a disgrace to my species.

If Mike arrives after the rifle, we’ll be able to take it to the range. That will be fun. I haven’t been there in a long time. I’ve had various tool tasks to perform, and they have eaten into my range time. I bought some reloading supplies, so it won’t be long before I start making amends. I should really break down and get some more .38 Super brass. I have .45 shells coming out of my ears, but .38 Super is something you just have to pay for.

If you haven’t bought a good rifle and at least a thousand rounds of ammunition yet, get with the program. Obama is watching.

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Here’s a Youtube classic, demonstrating simple martial arts techniques that may be helpful if you are attacked.

LA Ghetto Uprising

Aaron got his SW1911! Finally! Somewhere, Pelosi is feeling sharp groin pains.

Check this out:

That is good shooting, especially from a Schwarzenegger hostage in the PRK!

Hurry

Here is something hard to understand.

Midway USA has Wolf 7.62x39mm ammunition for $235/1000 rounds. It’s not the Military Classic, but I think the difference is just the coating. Anyway, it’s non-corrosive, and it’s fairly cheap, and NOBODY HAS CHEAP AK AMMUNITION RIGHT NOW.

I bought a Vz 58. If Obama wants to repeal the second amendment, he will have to repeal the fourth in order to disarm me.

I hope my laser’s mount will fit the barrel. Once I have this thing working, I should be able to kill burglars just by scaring them to death.

I didn’t go with CZ-USA. I got one of the jobs Czechpoint sells. They’re supposed to be excellent, and they’re cheaper, and they’re actually available.

You can find cheaper ammunition, but as far as I know, it’s all corrosive. And while this isn’t super-premium stuff, and I got it for the gun range, it should be really good for killing people.

Someone asked why I didn’t get an M1 carbine. Good question. I still want one. I think they’re insanely cool. But the Vz 58 strikes me as a bit more lethal, with a high capacity and great reliability. Maybe I’m wrong.

Hillary not a Friend of Israel? Impossible!

Big shock here. The Obamessiah’s disciples are turning out to be Judases. Jesus only had one Judas Iscariot. So far, Obama has two. First, Eric Holder, who is undoing Obama’s promise to leave gun owners alone. Second, Hillary Clinton, who has turned on Israel. She is railing at Israel for not getting enough aid to Gaza.

I don’t recall Obama or Clinton railing at Gazans for electing terrorists and firing rockets at innocent Israelies. Did I miss something?

Conservative Christians knew last year that Obama was bad for Israel. Israeli Jews knew it. American Jews? Not so much. Honestly, someone needs to start selling Kevlar shoes, to keep American Jews from shooting themselves in the feet. How could they not see this coming? Leftists worldwide are becoming increasingly anti-Semitic. Obama’s closest spiritual advisor was openly anti-Semitic. All of America’s Muslim enemies supported Obama. Hello? Anyone in there?

Here’s a sad quotation from the CBS article about the ruckus:

“Hillary had Mrs. Arafat here and she invited Mrs. Arafat for lunch when she was the first lady,” added Babak Chafe of Great Neck. “She is pro-Palestinian 100 percent, really. Of course, we always knew it.”

You always knew it? Like the folks in New Square knew it? Like the 90% or so of American Jews who voted for Obama knew it?

If Mr. Or Ms. Chafe (“Babak”?) knew Hillary Clinton was a problem, how come other Jews didn’t know it? And how come they didn’t have any problems with Obama?

The treif chickens have come home to roost. I’m sorry, but this problem was obvious six months ago. Conservatives have been backing Israel overwhelmingly for years, leftists now own anti-Semitism and Jew-baiting, and you would have to live in a well to fail notice these things. George Bush had major failings as an advocate of Israel (as did the Israeli leaders he worked with), but Obama is going to make Israelis miss him.

Another quotation:

“I feel it’s unfortunate that they don’t continue the policy of the Bush administration, which was much more pro-Israel,” said Akiva Homnick of Jerusalem.

There you have it. As badly as Bush let Israel down, he was better than Obama. McCain would have been better, too.

Here’s another gem:

“The easy way to make a peace agreement is to pressure Israel because you can’t pressure the Arabs,” said Solomon Loewi of Monsey, N.Y.

Duh. I wonder who Mr. Loewi and his family voted for.

Here’s something to wonder about. Now that we have allowed the Iranians to have nuclear weapons, will Obama and Hillary let the Israelis take out the Iranian nuke sites? NO. That’s my prediction. We need nuclear diversity; there aren’t enough little brown people at the nuclear table. It’s paternalistic and Eurocentric to say wacky Muslim states can’t have nukes! Besides, allowing an Israeli raid would take guts, and Obama was born without those.

No, Iran has the bomb, and they’re going to keep it. They have the fissile material, and that’s the only real obstacle to making a bomb. A Bush II with more political capital might have had the courage to prevent it, and McCain probably would have been man enough to fix it, but when push comes to shove, Barack Obama will ask what the UN and Keith Olbermann think, and nothing will happen. Nothing good, anyway.

Buy gold and ammunition, and keep your head down. That’s my advice.

Hey, can anyone recommend a good, cheap accurate type of 7.62 x 39mm ammunition? I suppose I’ll also need some good defensive rounds.

Mommy Obama Wants Our Bad Old Guns

Surprise, surprise. Obama wants to disarm us. Wow, no one saw THAT coming.

His new AG appears to be a monumental buffoon, in addition to being wrong on any issue you can name. The other day he called us a nation of cowards because he thought we were afraid to talk about race. Actually, there is some truth to that; if we were willing to criticize black politicians the way we go after white ones, Barack Obama would still be a state legislator. But that’s probably not the kind of race talk Holder had in mind. He probably meant that whites, Asians and other people who are not members of what liberals define as minorities don’t spend enough time flagellating themselves over nonexistent offenses against the recognized and approved minority groups.

By the way, there are only liberal-recognized three minority groups in America, as far as I can tell. 1. Blacks. 2. American Indians. 3. Non-Cuban Hispanics. And absolutely nobody cares about Indians, because there aren’t enough of them to affect an election, so that leaves two minority groups that matter. The other minorities don’t seem interested in government help, and they appear to be prosperous, so they don’t count. Jews are a minority, and they have been systematically persecuted in the United States. Oddly, they have never received affirmative action, they are not poor, and there has been no talk of reparations. Go figure. The Chinese were brought here as slaves, to work on our railroads. They were kept in camps and underpaid, and they had rotten lives. Where is their minority money? Must gave gotten lost in the mail. It’s in a basement at the post office, in the same big pile as the Japanese, Vietnamese, Arab, and India-Indian minority money.

Maybe Holder meant it was time for big media journalists to start referring to Al Sharpton not as an activist, but as what he is: a Jew-hating idiot who incited a riot and got a man killed. Maybe Holder meant it was time for us all to openly state that Jesse Jackson is a narcissistic shakedown artist who worries more about a photo op in America than all the horrible suffering currently taking place in Africa. Maybe he meant we should honor George Bush as one of the best friends black people have ever had, because of the marvelous things he did to end African misery.

Is that what he meant? Maybe he’s not such a bad guy.

I had hoped that Obama would be too gutless to go after guns, because this is an issue where Democrats consistently lose. It’s a big enough issue to lose elections for them. But I guess his gigantic, edematous ego got the best of him, because he and Holder want to bring back the ridiculous assault weapons ban. Never mind that many of these guns are not really assault weapons. Never mind the shocking rarity of assault-weapon crime. Obama and Holder want them gone. Do criminals care? Of course not. They don’t use these guns. They use crappy .25 automatics and stolen Glocks. And if they want assault weapons, they’ll have them even if they’re illegal, because…they’re CRIMINALS.

People do not buy military-style weapons to commit OFFENSES. They buy them for self-DEFENSE. You don’t need an Uzi to stick up a dentist and run off with his wallet. A rusty .38 will do just fine.

I guess I am going to have to put life on hold while I shop around for self-defense guns. The long guns I have right now are toys. They are not the kinds of guns you defend a house with.

I think the Czech-made Vz58 is the best choice out there. It’s a better gun than a top-grade AK-47, and you can buy a new one without selling a kidney. Another good option: the Saiga 12 semi-automatic shotgun.

One nice thing about gun bans is that they always have grandfather clauses. This keeps fat lazy conservatives who already have guns from rioting in the streets and helping stop the bans. So if I get a couple of nice guns now, the ban won’t apply to me. Eventually we may reach a state where pompous morons like Obama can pass laws requiring us to hand in guns we already possess. But until then, I’ll be able to burgerize anyone who comes onto my property with the intention of harming me.

I should try to get a handle on my anger, but the second amendment does not grant a privilege; it grants a right. The Constitution makes freedom to own and carry guns (“keep” and “bear”) just as sacred as freedom of speech.

America is washed up; in my bones, I am sure of it. I think we’re headed for a permanently depressed lifestyle and greatly reduced global influence. Oddly, many liberals are openly hoping this happens. They say our wonderful lifestyle was “artificial” and “unsustainable,” and that it harmed Mother Gaia by making her nipples sore or something. They literally want America to be poor and weak. Google and see. But a little voice has been telling me we will be able to keep our guns. I hope that turns out to be true, but it’s time to do some shopping, just in case.

Now This is a Church

I gave up trying to write music; I’ll pick it back up tomorrow. Software issues aggravated me for so long, I didn’t really have time to write anything. My computer’s audio circuits must have had corrupted drivers or something; I had to go to Asus’s infuriating site and download things. I think it’s okay now.

I got the birds out and listened to a disk I got in the mail. It came from Wayne Cochran. He and his crew are good about communicating with people who visit their church. They send emails and snail mail.

The thrust of the sermon was that we needed to set aside more time to spend with God. And he also talked about a couple other things that surprised me. He mentioned the book of Enoch, which I’ve been writing about, and which I bought recently. It seems like a lot of Christians are taking an interest in it these days. And–I think this may be the best part–he talked about pork. I am not kidding.

Toward the end of the sermon, he started talking about the kind of food he liked. He said some of the best eating he had ever had was cheap food. He mentioned fatback and biscuits and red eye gravy. You think I’m bad? He said he used to eat fatback and biscuits with Karo syrup. I loved hearing that stuff. My sister is anxious to visit his church again, and she has given up pork, and she wants me to give it up. I guess she has a surprise in store.

He also said he had a .357 by his bed and a Chinese assault rifle. And he has a motorcycle.

I don’t know if Wayne Cochran has the best doctrine, but I know this: as long as he keeps his accent and talks about pork and guns, I’ll be comfortable sitting in his church.

Bitter Clinging Goes High-Tech

My new green laser arrived. It’s a hoot. I’m wandering around looking for new things to shine it on.

These things pose some risk of eye damage. I am going to be careful not to hit anything shiny with it.

I’m thinking it may have been a mistake to go green. Indoors, which is where this thing would be used, there are a considerable number of reflective surfaces. I don’t want to injure my eyes while defending the house, and the additional brightness of a green laser isn’t needed indoors.

Fun to play with, regardless.

I Can’t Believe We’re Even Discussing This

Kim du Toit claims he is all done blogging.

Who believes it?

Color me skeptical.

If he sticks it out, it will be a gigantic loss to the Internet.

I’ve been awaiting his final post all month, and then yesterday, I forgot to check! Unbelievable.

Excuse the cryptic title and subtitle. Obscure reference.

AK Substitute?

I think I may have figured out what to do about my need to 1) get a nice home defense gun and 2) defy and offend Barack Obama and his stooges by buying an imported assault rifle. I am considering a VZ 58.

I wanted an AK-47. But liberal gun-grabbers and the whims of manufacturers have made really nice ones so expensive, it’s disgusting. A thousand dollars for a stamped receiver! Come on. I can do better with an AR15. I mean, MAYBE, if I were positive the prices would stay high. But I’m not. It’s conceivable that the artificial inflation will come to an end, and then these things will sell for $400, and my used one will be worth $250.

While I was looking for an AK, I learned about the VZ 58. It looks like an AK, but it’s totally unrelated. It’s a Czech design, based on a German gun. It’s lighter than an AK. The magazines hold 30 rounds. It’s supposed to be as reliable as an AK, with fewer misfeeds. It’s made better; they’re either made or imported by CZ USA, so there should be no quality issues. The receiver is milled. You can get one with a cute folding stock, which is exactly what I want. And they can be had for around $850, depending on what conformation you like.

The only bad things I’ve heard are that there are fewer accessories, and the barrels heat up faster than AK barrels. However, I’ve already chosen the accessories I want, and I am not sure why I should care about how hot the barrel gets. I can’t see myself shooting so fast, in a self-defense situation, that a hot barrel will become a problem. And if it warms up enough to affect accuracy, so what? The gun is for encounters on a small piece of property. I’m not planning to shoot people in the next county. An inch or two one way or the other would be meaningless. Left ventricle, right ventricle…I am not picky.

I’ve also heard that the folding stock is lame, because it wobbles enough to affect accuracy. Again, it won’t keep me from shooting Floyd the Crackhead Burglar in the face at twenty feet.

Man, will this steam gun-grabbers. Between this and the giant Desert Eagle in hard chrome, I will definitely give them ulcers. Imagine me, parading around the house with my creepy assault rifle, with 30 rounds in the clip and a bright green laser and flashlight lighting my way. FREEZE, GOPHER!

I should get a holster for the Desert Eagle, just to be more of a scary fascist.

It’s really sad that the Desert Eagle is so worthless for self-defense. The odds of a stovepipe are like one in ten, whenever you pull the trigger. And it weighs like five pounds. And getting that second shot on target is a job. And the ballistics are not good. My best self-defense pistol is the lamest, most boring gun I have, and of course, that means Glock.

The VZ 58 is not as offensive-looking as an AK, and of course, that is a problem. But you can’t have everything. The giant green laser will go a long way toward uglying it up.

I slept through the cheap AK years. I slept while Arsenal quit making milled receivers. I slept through the cheap M1 Garand and M1 carbine years. Maybe I can partially redeem myself by jumping on a VZ 58 before Barack and Michelle decide gun shops are only allowed to sell Super Soakers.