Do You Recognize This Table?

 

If you recognize this table, do you have the glossary telling us which vendor is which?

The Magpul PMAG M3 is Foxtrot.

I'd love to hear who the others are.  Especially Golf and India.

First It Was Bumpstocks

The ATF is rumored to be changing their rulings (shocking, I know) on pistols based on AKs and ARs.

They will no longer be pistols, they will be reclassified into "any other weapon" or AOW.

Pistols with a brace will be reclassified into "short barrel rifles" or SBR.

That's two of the three NFA work-arounds...  Your "firearm" is probably going to be reclassified into a short barrel shotgun or AOW next.

There might be a bright side to this.

Armor piercing rifle ammo is currently illegal because of the chowderheads who made pistols out of rifles, thus making rifle ammo pistol ammo, thus making it banned.  If a "pistol" made from a rifle is no longer legally a handgun, then the ban on AP rifle ammo cannot be legally sustained.

Warm up your lawyer and sue for 7N6 and M855A1.

What If

What if the Dems hold their breath and stomp their feet and prevent any new legislation by stuffing a poison pill into everything?

What if that causes no new laws to be passed?

What if that ends all federal funding?

We already have enough laws, we really do need fewer.  A stoppage of new law wouldn't be a negative because everyone could solidify how they're dealing with extant law.

Every time they threaten, or manage to accomplish a shut-down of the "non-essential" Feral Gubmint, people start thinking, "if it's non-essential, why do we have it at all?"  While they go about their normal, everyday lives.

Eventually it will hit "essential" government, and people will likely be shocked to discover they don't need that level of government either.

On top of being upset about the recalcitrance of these poison pills that have kept the government they actually want from returning.

This, of course, assumes someone on the Republican side of Congress finds a spine and actually stands up and doesn't cave in.

Nine For Mortal Men Doomed To Die

We welcome Justice Amy Barrett to the United States Supreme Court.

A solid 5-4 court in our favor now instead of the 5-4 against we had with RBG.

Cue The Cricket

The Lovely Harvey has a couple of work acquaintances on Facebook who're strong staunch rabid Biden supporters.

Viciously rabid supporters.

The kind of rabid where they advocate for violence by condoning others committing violence against the Hated Bad Orange Man®™.

Since the Hunter Biden laptop scandal...

It's been cat pictures and video game memes.

They've stopped talking about politics altogether.

I wonder if they've searched for, "can I change my early vote?".

Two For Two

I know what kind of an asshole I can be, so I often seek second opinions when I get accused of being the kind of asshole I can be to make sure I wasn't being that kind of asshole when I wasn't trying to be that kind of asshole.

Intentionally being that way and accidentally being that way are different.

So far I'm running 100% "Thag not asshole this time" on a conversation.

Technically, it's three for three.  The Lovely Harvey is far more critical of me than the other two people whose opinion I solicited and rarely takes my side when I'm on one of my tears.  Her agreeing with me carries a lot of weight.

The Elves Are Not Seamless

I have an app on my phone that lets it communicate with my Canon M50 and do lots of neat things.

But the Magic Elf Box is clunky when it comes to transferring the images off the camera to the phone.

They download to... a folder.  Not to a folder I specify, but to where the app thinks they should go.

Now I have to dig around with the file manager looking around for images so I can stab the "share" button and post them to Flickr for your viewing pleasure here.

 

Ironically, it's easier to pull the card and stuff it in a computer to share the files.

Mail Order 1911

I needed a pistol for my Halloween costume.

It would be a faux pas to tote a real one at the party.

Amazon has Airsoft.

It's exactly the correct size and except for the 9.4 oz. total weight and the orange tip, it's very hard to tell from a real one.

 

The slide racks.

 

The hammer cocks and drops when you pull the trigger.

 

The safety works.

 

The grip safety works.

 

It even has a lanyard ring!

 

The slide stop is decorative and it doesn't disassemble.

I can definitely see how someone could get their dumb ass shot by the cops brandishing this thing.

I need it for one photo for the costume contest and I'll be done with it.

Need A New Music Player

Not a player, per se, but an app to play my mp3's on my phone.

Google Play was willing to let me flick a switch and see only the music I'd placed on the SD card and the interface was intuitive for me.

Google Play has been disabled and supplanted by YouTube Music (YTM).

I don't like the interface and it won't be limited to showing me just the music I've downloaded.

It's primarily a streaming service, not a music player.

Even worse, I've read reports that once you've "transferred" the music on your SD card to YTM that's it you're done adding to the SD card and having YTM see it.  Unless you subscribe for $10 a month, which includes just playing everything via streaming.

Amazon Music appears to work as well as Google Play, so there's that.

VLC gets stuck "parsing" the library on the card at 67%.  It's really crunching away at something too because my phone gets very toasty.

Any other suggestions?

Always Late To The Party

Glock is offering Blue Label pricing for Veterans again!

They did this last year too.  I got my Glock 45 using it.

I am kinda curious about an Austrian based company doing this every year and none of the US based companies are doing it loud enough for me to notice, or anyone else to mention; that is if they are doing it at all.

I Swear I Saw Most Of This At An Antifa Site

Linken Sie.

 

The socialist agitators are so amazingly un-self aware about how they echo Fucking Nazis it's not amusing at all.

Wanna Bet They Get Busted While Hunter Walks?

I read that the sex tapes contained on Hunter Biden's laptop are being released.

Reportedly, he refers to a girl he's having sex with as "Nattie."

The name of his, now, 16 year old niece.

In a video that is approximately two years old, making her 14 at the time of the filming.

Making the video child porn.

I have to wonder how many people have this video on their hard drive right now and don't make the connection to his underage niece and it being possession of child porn.

Yeah Yeah

I really did replace my foliage green furniture with the exact same thing in black.

There's zero functional difference between the colors, this is pure whimsical aesthetics.

Racists Promote Policies Which Help Minorities?

The message to minorities I'm seeing from the Democrats appears to translate to, "Don't vote for Republicans!  They will make you work for a living!"

They don't gel it down to two sentences like I have.

The thing that they're desperate to hide from the minority voter is the pure joy of independence that comes with working for a living.  Pride.

The Democrats fear that their captive minority voters will discover that when they're working, they don't need the Democrats and the hand outs.

That the health of businesses and the jobs that spring from that vigor are more important than a government program that is surely keeping them from any measure of success.

In the past four years, thanks to being hard on China in the main, jobs for minorities have blossomed.

Riding hard on the heels of this, fewer minorities have been incarcerated.

Almost as if having a job removes much of the motive to commit crime.

A hard reality of working as opposed to welfare and crime for Democrats is that even the shittiest job is better than crime.  The street level criminal isn't going to be pulling in much more than a minimum wage job.  Even if the paydays are bigger, they're farther apart and entail a lot more risk.

All we need do to continue this trend is to change the laws to incentivize family structures in the welfare system.  Right now the incentives break up families and discourage stability and the nuclear family model, which is a proven, working, known functional model for success.

It's doable.  We need only find the will to employ it.  A will free of racism and the desire to subjugate minorities by trapping them in a no-escape subculture of government hand-outs and crime.

Upgrade

I decided that one of the 6.8 guns didn't really need an optic (actually that it doesn't need an unmagnified optic) and that FuzzyGeff's middy was desperately lacking in the red-dot department.

Happy Birthday!

I hope that someday you will be allowed to store them where you live.

Your Friday Moment Of Zen

Make sure you have your sound on!

Did You Know?

Were you aware that a substantial amount of time and effort was expended by the US Government in keeping settlers and prospectors out of the Indian treaty territories?

Even going so far as to seize and destroy all of their possessions summarily at the point of apprehension?

Army commanders routinely expressed despair at the task because of a lack of resources to stem the rising ride of white people heading west.

The later Army campaigns to pacify and contain the American Indian are a textbook case in "the law and moral highground are on your side; here's what you do to make that not matter even the slightest," on the part of the tribes.

All they needed to do was to sit back and let the Army handle it, as agreed in the treaties.

Read that again.

They had agreed to let the Army handle the white settler problem.

Taking matters into their own hands when the Army, admittedly, failed to handle the white settler problem was a treaty violation and the original violation in nearly all cases.

And, as many don't seem to know, once one side violates then all bets are off for the other side.

The Indians escalated when the punitive clauses of the treaty were activated against them for taking the white settler problem on their own.

The deeper I get into this the worse everyone looks, but the Indians are not completely innocent and the whites completely at fault.

Where the whites are at fault is individuals not respecting the borders of the treaty territories and grossly underfunding the Army tasked with enforcing those borders.

While, we might add, the absolute corruption of The Bureau of Indian Affairs who took their lavish funding and lined nests which never got closer to an Indian than a wooden cigar display in Philadelphia.

 

Bizarrely, the failings of the US Government to prevent the settlers from violating the Indian's reserved territory don't constitute a treaty violation.

That sounds like it makes us White people more at fault, but the Indians signed the damn thing and agreed to be bound by the terms.

Signed at the end of losing a war they started, I might add.

Everyone forgets that part.

Joe Lies People Dies

Nobody lost healthcare under Obamacare?

Fuck you Joe!

*I* lost healthcare under Obamacare.

Obamacare caused The Lovely Harvey's employer to upend the health insurance offered and when the smoke cleared she was paying more for substantially less coverage and I had no coverage at all.

We both lost healthcare under Obama care. I lost it all, The Lovely Harvey lost a great deal.

By the way, with the gigantic deductible The Lovely Harvey is literally not covered by insurance until we're out of pocket for $3,000. It discourages her from seeking preventative care.

While we watch people who don't work and don't pay taxes (in fact getting back more than they pay every year) get 100% health coverage with zero out of pocket.

WHICH IS THE EXACT SAME HEALTHCARE THEY HAD BEFORE OBAMACARE!!!

Obamacare *IS* an epic fucking of the middle class and I refuse to let you lie about it Joe.

Also, to let you be aware how popular it is, people stayed home to allow someone they absolutely LOATHED be reelected rather than elect Mittens Romney, author of Romneycare.

Traditional

Checked out the new location of an old gun shop with Marv and The Boy.

Easier to get to, more space.

Bought a couple of PMAG's to help keep them in business.

Picked out the windowed ones just for spite.  Same price at this store as the non-windowed.

Still don't know what use the window really has, other than amuse me with its presence and confound the more curmudgeonly among us.

Try Writing Constitutional Laws Chuck

It occurs to me that if Chuck, Dianne, and Nancy would restrict themselves to writing and passing laws which pass Constitutional muster, they'd be far less panicked by the idea that an Originalist judge is a vote he's going to lose away from being confirmed to The Supreme Court.

It's a problem the Democrats have, staying inside The Constitution.

I love their wild eyed terror that the court will be 5-4 in a few days.

I also have a problem with their characterization that the court is 6-3 once she's confirmed.

Roberts is not a conservative.  Damn little that W did was, like his dad.

Speaking Of Porn

I hate to break it to the porn stars of the world, but...

You're not relevant to, well, porn.

The internet nuked you but hard (pun!)

RedTube and Porn Hub are amateur hour.

That production values are good on some of it has more to do with the price of equipment falling and ease of operation rising.

 

Besides, for it to matter at the supreme court level, you'd need to actually have cases where a law is suppressing the production of porn to climb above the state level.

 

It's just not.  Not even in the conservative states where a good sized portion of it is made.

 

FFS, Florida has a Republican governor and majority in the state congress, but the porn makers in Miami-Dade haven't even gotten a warning.

 

I think they're upset that they don't even matter to the viewers any more.

Well That Changes Everything

The dancing monkeys of porn have come down from their mountain of... SHUDDER... to explain to we mere mortals that we should vote for Biden because Amy Barrett will be the death knell to the porn industry.

Wow!

Let me change my vote!  The stars of porn have spoken!

I hate to break it to them, but Judge Barrett will be Justice Barrett regardless of whom wins the election in November.

Besides, if Bruce Springsteen threatening to ruin Australia like he's ruined rock music didn't scare me, what makes you think that your opinion of the situation will sway me.

Also, I don't think their supposition on LGBT rights and porn is correct.  Oh, the article under the headline had a lot more to say about gay rights than the first amendment or porn.

Unless they're talking about the movement to normalize pederasty.  I think that would be stopped by her vote in the court.

I love how they don't appear to actually follow the court or read decisions and dissents.

The conservative wing is not frothing at the bit to eliminate any of the things they're worried about.

Speaking In Code

The local media has a new term for "gang related violence" they've been getting a lot of mileage from.

"There is no reason to believe there is a threat to the community," when there's gunshot or murder victims extant and no suspect at hand or in custody.

 

I am not certain if this is a press term or a law enforcement public affairs term.

Don't Laugh Until It's Happened To You

I have glued a gun to my hand.

 

I repaired a set of bakelite stocks with superglue on a Colt 1903 and some of the glue seeped out of the seam and to my palm.

It did not take a lot of effort to remove the gun, but it was stuck until I did.

It's the kind of thing, though, that makes you wonder what would happen if the cops had knocked on the door that exact moment and I'd accidentally used a lot more glue.

"Drop it!" wouldn't have worked even with the small amount that got me stuck to the grip.

I needed the other hand and some careful persuasion to not take off skin.  That took a couple of minutes of laughing at my predicament.

I Think This Might Backfire

I keep reading about postal workers ditching mail in ballots.

Weren't we just being lectured that Democrats were far more likely to be voting by mail-in than Republicans and that was why the election would take more than a week to decide?

Wouldn't that make it more likely that they're dumping Biden votes than Trump?

So far I haven't read anything about the seals being broken on cast votes, just ballots being found the the trash.

Cue AC/DC

Because Kaylee is back in black!

Snagged a Damage Ind. M4 Carbine w/QD mil-spec stock in black.

It's identical to the foliage green one I had on the other day.

What's interesting is this stock is now genuine USGI issue!  Well, not this stock.  Damage Ind. sources them from P&S (you can tell from the cage-code 4U486) and if you're dot-mil and buy from P&S, you get one with an NSN.

Mutter Mutter Cheap Mutter Mutter

I was thinking about getting a new optic for one of the AR's.

So I checked on Primary Arms and Vortex.

Prices have gone up a tad.

Especially since I insist on quick detach for something with magnification, just in case.

I also stodgily insist on back-up iron sights.  Also, just in case.

So many things to save for...  Damned Gods of the Copybook Headings and opportunity costs!

Is Glock 19

In keeping with our theme of the Czechs not following anyone else's drum...*

The P-01 version of the CZ-75, not actually a Glock 19; but it fits the same niche.

I admit, it feels good in the hand.

2.3 lb. loaded with 14+1 rounds of 9x19mm.  The safety is a decocker only.

On loan from The Chomps Collection.

*The running joke has been about Yuri, the long suffering Warsaw Pact commonality officer assigned to Czechoslovakia during The Cold War.

CZ official (showing Vz.58 rifle): Is AK, see is in M43 cartridge.

Yuri: No it isn't!  It doesn't even work the same!

CZ official: Is same, see it has 30 round magazine?  Like you said it should have.

Yuri (pounding vodka): It's not the same magazine at all!  What did you do to the bayonet?

CZ official (pulling sheet off Vz.59 MG): I suppose you don't want to see our PK then?  We fixed the belt links!

We've told this same basic shtick for the Vz.52 pistol (TT-33) and Vz.52 rifle (SKS).

Long Range Macro

Canon M50, EF75-300 IS-USM, f/5.6, 300mm, 1/25", ISO 12800, 26mm extender.

I took this at a range of about four feet.  I think it's very neat!

Not Quite What It Appears

Remember the Beretta Cougar?  The 8000 series?

 

Rotary locking barreled spawn of the 92 series?

 

Anyone?  Anyone?

 

Beretta stopped trying to sell them in the USA and set up a factory in Turkey for their subsidiary Stoeger to market here.

 

Stoeger Cougar 8040F Inox on loan from The Chomps Collection.

 

 It's got that same horse pistol feel as the 92 series, but shorter framed.

The 8040F has a safety decocker and is chambered in .40 S&W.  2.3 lb. loaded with 11+1 rounds of your favorite load.

"They" say, on the internet so it must be true, that the magazines for Berettas don't work in the Cougar without some modification.  I don't have a .40 Beretta to check with.

Family Lore

The other day I discovered I have something in common with Elizabeth Warren.

My family's lore is inaccurate.

 

I've got no Japanese blood.  Great-grandma Kikiko is really my distant great aunt.

She married into the Oregon branch of the McThags and they moved to Iowa near our branch.  Learning more about the history of the founding of Oregon, I can see why they fled to the relative tolerance of the Midwest.

I'd always been told by grampa that his grampa had fought in the Indian wars.

 

Nope.  The timing is all wrong.

His grampa came straight from England and plunked down in Iowa in 1851 and started farming.  His brothers settled in New Jersey and Oregon.

 

It appears that I'm the only McThag to have ever served.

 

Oh!  How are we McThags when we emigrated from Jolly Ol' not Scotland?

 

We emigrated from Scotland to England first!  This is a murkier part of the history for details, but the broad strokes are there.

 

During one of the wars between Scotland and England my ancestors took the land deal from the English.  By the time everything had settled out, we only had lands in England, near Stafford.  There's even a town bearing the name of the first English McThag.  We were no longer called the McThags after that but the [realnames] consisting of ancestor's nickname and geographic association together.

The pettiest of petty nobility we were.

The three brothers who came to America were the youngest of many children, so no family wealth or titles to keep them.

Reading Not Writing

Sorry I've been spotty about posting lately.

I'm still reading up on the Sioux and trying to manufacture a Neanderthal culture from whole cloth which can make a credible threat to the combined forces of said Sioux and a cavalry expedition.

I've been expending my political vitriol at Facebook because I've two friends there who seem tantalizingly close to taking the red pill.  They're genuinely surprised at some of the stuff I've shared because they've relied on the mainstream media and their liberal friends for information.

They've been disarmed by my telling them to, "look it up!" when they ask me if what I'm posting is true.

Apparently a true zealot would never send them off to do their own research unsupervised.

Similar Holsters

We've got holsters for the Challenger and Sport King.

 

Obviously from a day when open carrying in the field wasn't a big deal.

Also from a time where access to your .22 pistol didn't need to be lightning fast.

They're very similar in design, but from different manufacturers.

 

Hunter for the Colt.

Brauer Brothers Manufacturing for the High Standard.

America

One of the things that made (makes?) America great is it doesn't (didn't) much matter who your parents and ancestors were with regards to how far you could go.

But I notice something about the agitators.

They keep bringing up things about those ancestors and applying them to the descendants.

Someone whose great-grandparents were slaves gets deference as if their own back had felt the whip.

Someone whose family never owned slaves, let alone owned any themselves, are condemned as if they wielded the the whip personally.

We've got people "leading" us whose interpersonal relationships can almost be called incestuous.  Everyone in power is married to a relative of someone else in power and they rotate around.

That's how the fucking nobility we rejected at gunpoint did things, not America.

That we're in a situation where it matters so much who's "leading" in DC and the state capitols says volumes to how far America has degraded from the idealism of the founders.

The government was supposed to be a last resort for most problems not the immediate go-to for everything.

Comparison Study

Colt Challenger (1953), Ruger Standard (1957) and High Standard Sport King (1951).

2.1 lb, 10+1 shots; 2.4 lb, 9+1 shots; 2.3 lb, 10+1 shots.

The High Standard doesn't need any tools and is simple to take apart and put back together.

The Ruger doesn't need tools and is easy to get apart, but fiddly to get back together.

The Colt needs a screwdriver to remove the grips stocks but is simple to take apart and reassemble.

The High Standard fits my hand like it's made for it, but it's just the right hand it fits.

The Colt is next most comfortable and works in either hand.

The Ruger is still comfortable in both hands, but it's simply outshined by the competition.

None of these guns are still in production.

Ruger still makes a descendant, but the Standard, or Mk I, is long supplanted in the line up.

Sport King

This is a High Standard Sport King 4-3/8" barrel on loan from The Chomps Collection.

I know next to nothing about it.

 

Loaded with 10 rounds of .22 LR it's 2 lb. 5.5 oz.  The loaded magazine tips the scales at 3.2 oz. 

 

Very crisp 2 lb. 9 oz. trigger.  Near telepathic!

From a quick sweep of the intertubes it appears to have been made in 1951.

As The Boy gets settled into his new educational routine, I hope to have some time to get it to the range soon.

Trump Says

President Trump said he'd sign national reciprocity if it reaches his desk.

 

That's all well and good, but I really don't think his desk is in any danger of bearing the weight of that bill.

It'd have to get past Congress and thus The House of Representatives, so not until after the election.

I'm not really hearing a groundswell that people are looking to change the make-up of Congress like I'm sensing about keeping Trump over Biden.

I could even see Utah and Florida opposing it because they've got a nice sideline in selling non-resident permits.

Paraquedista

Willard has discussed the Paraquedistas before.

They're still in business, still in Africa, still rocking the G3.

Fear

I am afraid, and that's what they want.

I don't like it.

The Democrats are teaching their fringe that being violent works.

They taught the early lessons with how they deal with Islam's violence.

It would appear that if you murder enough Americans, you can do anything you want as far as Leftist and Democrats are concerned.

I've occasionally wondered if being gentlemanly and law abiding is 180˚ the wrong way to do things.

I mean, where has it gotten us?

Another thing about this gentlemanly behavior is there's such a thing as a RINO.

We have Mavericks and Mittens who vote with the Democrats as much as they vote conservative.

We got two Pauls who, while often taking admirable and principled stands, undermine efforts to thwart Democrat agendas.

Who's are the DINOs?  Who are the people who vote conservative when their vote would cost the Democrats the vote.

The truth is Maverick, Mittens and both Pauls, had they been Democrats, would have been removed at the primary stage the next election after they fucked up a Democrat vote.

Republicans just don't punish their members who buck the party line.

And it costs us.

It gets us milquetoast candidates who don't want to do anything to reverse the damages done.

It gets us congress creatures who are afraid to stand up to the creeping socialism by cutting the purse strings.

It has members who cannot articulate that a smaller increase is not a cut.  That not funding something is not the same as making it illegal.  Those are simple concepts, but they don't even try to fight and explain, they just roll over.

I'm frankly sick of living in this hollow shell of the America I grew up in knowing that the criminal who attacks me will face no charges if there's a Democrat district attorney but I will be run through the ruinous Hell of "due process" for defending myself from them.

I am very sick at watching a handful of very rich people manipulating the system towards their own ends when we're all supposed to be equal in the eyes of the law.

On A Long Lonesome Highway North Of Tampa Bay

Had the cell phone charging on the window mount, so taking a pic was simple.

The weather was perfect to drive with the top off.  The Boy and Mr Sloth enjoyed our outing.