@MilitiaJim @wallsofthecity @JClaireBurke You love need guns I get it, God didn’t bless you enough in the trousers.
Nelson ⚒@NeLoNe79
Tweeted on November 30, 2015
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!
Via a tweet from Linoge.—Joe]
Steel challenge match results
The forecast was for 100% chance of precipitation for every hour of the match at Renton today. Although the sun did break out for about 45 minutes of the hour from 12:00 to 1:00 the forecast was technically correct. They had canopies over the shooting areas, I wore a good hat, rain pants, and a waterproof coat so I stayed dry. But I didn’t wear warm enough clothes and I got rather chilled. And once I spent a few minutes in the car to warm up. Next time I’ll bring more clothing options.
I hadn’t practiced all this week and the first few stages I shot (my stage shooting order was 2, 3, 4, 1) demonstrated this.
Still, I had fun.
The Leprechaun
| Final | Name | SCSA | Class | Division | Time | String 1 | String 2 | String 3 | String 4 | String 5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | ||||||
| 8 | Huffman, Joe | 29386 | U | RFPI | 13.53 | 5.01 | 3.93 | 3.36 | 3.24 | 3.00 | |||||
| 15 | Huffman, Joseph | U | ISP | 18.99 | 7.08 | 3.94 | 3.55 | 4.71 | 6.00 | 4.42 | |||||
Lucky Charms
| Final | Name | SCSA | Class | Division | Time | String 1 | String 2 | String 3 | String 4 | String 5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | ||||||
| 13 | Huffman, Joe | 29386 | U | RFPI | 13.69 | 3.56 | 3.60 | 3.57 | 2.96 | 3.87 | 3.00 | ||||
| 29 | Huffman, Joseph | U | ISP | 22.49 | 4.57 | 7.24 | 6.08 | 6.84 | 5.00 | ||||||
Renton Plate Rack
| Final | Name | SCSA | Class | Division | Time | String 1 | String 2 | String 3 | String 4 | String 5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | ||||||
| 12 | Huffman, Joe | 29386 | U | RFPI | 17.65 | 5.07 | 3.64 | 4.41 | 4.90 | 4.70 | |||||
| 18 | Huffman, Joseph | U | ISP | 24.35 | 8.05 | 5.46 | 6.85 | 6.34 | 5.70 | ||||||
Saving Ammo
| Final | Name | SCSA | Class | Division | Time | String 1 | String 2 | String 3 | String 4 | String 5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | Raw | P | ||||||
| 17 | Huffman, Joe | 29386 | U | RFPI | 19.60 | 3.77 | 2.95 | 6.00 | 3.75 | 13.53 | 3.13 | ||||
| 25 | Huffman, Joseph | U | ISP | 25.58 | 4.83 | 9.00 | 7.53 | 6.15 | 5.09 | 6.81 | |||||
My guns worked well except for one failure to properly strip a round out of the magazine with my .22.
The complete results are here, but the divisions in which I participated are below.
| Rim Fire Pistol Iron (RFPI) | |||||||||
| Final | Name | SCSA | Class | Division | Time | Stage 1 The Leprechaun | Stage 2 Lucky Charms | Stage 3 Renton Plate Rack | Stage 4 Saving Ammo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sailer, Christian | A86982 | U | RFPI | 36.48 | 10.81 | 8.35 | 9.41 | 7.91 |
| 2 | Larson, Addison | U | RFPI | 51.08 | 11.58 | 12.51 | 14.47 | 12.52 | |
| 3 | White, Alex | U | RFPI | 58.12 | 24.61 | 10.49 | 12.09 | 10.93 | |
| 4 | Huffman, Joe | 29386 | U | RFPI | 64.47 | 13.53 | 13.69 | 17.65 | 19.60 |
| 5 | Meboe, Joey | U | RFPI | 79.71 | 27.53 | 13.48 | 22.91 | 15.79 | |
| 6 | Jackson, Duane | U | RFPI | 92.22 | 21.49 | 18.36 | 35.97 | 16.40 | |
| 7 | Gile, Conner | U | RFPI | 94.04 | 23.72 | 16.64 | 25.50 | 28.18 | |
| 8 | Kenny, Dan | A23624 | U | RFPI | 99.40 | 17.49 | 16.67 | 33.26 | 31.98 |
| Iron Sighted Pistol (ISP) | |||||||||
| Final | Name | SCSA | Class | Division | Time | Stage 1 The Leprechaun | Stage 2 Lucky Charms | Stage 3 Renton Plate Rack | Stage 4 Saving Ammo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dougan, Brian | U | ISP | 85.79 | 22.56 | 20.07 | 24.71 | 18.45 | |
| 2 | Komatsu, Jeff | U | ISP | 89.62 | 20.04 | 22.42 | 24.73 | 22.43 | |
| 3 | Huffman, Joseph | U | ISP | 91.41 | 18.99 | 22.49 | 24.35 | 25.58 | |
All’s well that ends well
A bad start to a day that ends the way it should – the attacker stopped by a concealed carry customer in the shop. Way to go, Mr. “regular customer.”
Quote of the day—Glenn Reynolds
When you have a society that can’t do things that need to be done because every change threatens somebody’s rice bowl or offers insufficient opportunities for graft, you’ve got a society that is due for a reset, not for incremental change.
The thing is, resets are often kind of ugly.
Glenn Reynolds
March 11, 2016
UNEXPECTEDLY: Walmart’s customers are too broke to shop. Fundamentally transformed!
Quote of the day—Hognose
The guy or girl who holsters a .45, or a Beretta, or a Glock, or an M&P, or a Chief’s Special five-shot revolver, for that matter, and closes the book on pistol selection can get on to the more serious business of pistol training and practice. The principle resource that satisficing can buy you is time, which is the one resource you can’t buy or produce more of, and the one resource that is ever in short supply.
Hognose
January 25, 2016
Pistols & Optimizing vs. Satisficing
[H/T to Tamara.
Greg Hamilton has insight on a closely related topic which is relevant here as well:
If during the time you were reading the latest “stopping power” article you were instead practicing to save your life you would be far, far ahead.
You should spend far more of your time and money budgets on training and practice than on your equipment. I know this is difficult and it’s easy to run down the equipment rabbit hole but try to avoid it.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Will Franken
I am still one of the most oppressed minorities living in the West today.
I am an individual.
Will Franken
March 7, 2016
What Life As A Transgender Woman Taught Me About Progressives
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Robert Rotberg
We’re not taking anything away. We’re strengthening the rights of Lexingtonians to be secure in their private houses and less fearful of people spraying bullets at them.
Robert Rotberg
Founding director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and Town Meeting member
March 8, 2016
Lexington debates proposal to ban semi-automatic weapons
[What this guy wants:
the proposal seeks to ban any semi-automatic rifle or handgun that has a removable magazine capable of holding 10 or more rounds. It also seeks to ban any magazine that holds 10 or more rounds.
And he claims, “We’re not taking anything away. We’re strengthening the rights of Lexingtonians…”?
Gun banners lie because it’s the only way they can win.
And don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Alan Gottlieb
This is a big win. Not just for gun rights but for the freedom movement in the battle against billionaire elitist gun prohibitionists like Michael Bloomberg. West Virginia just told him he can’t buy away our Second Amendment rights.
Alan Gottlieb
March 7, 2016
Gun control group ‘livid’ about permitless carry override veto
[While there is a certain amount of truth to this, 10s of millions, or more, of dollars can buy more repression of our rights than we care to tolerate.
Probably the best we can do is make the cost, in time, money, and public opinion, as high as practical such that the return on Bloomberg’s investment is as low as possible. In the case of West Virginia, gun rights supporters caused him to do the equivalent of setting a very large pile of $100 bills on fire. Bloomberg has an distressingly large number of $100 bills he is willing to throw on the fire but getting nothing except reports of his failures in return for spending large amounts of money will be discouraging to both him and the people he is funding. It also demonstrates that the claim that “the greedy gun manufactures with lots of money” and the NRA get legislative votes by outbidding the virtuous anti-gun activists is false. With this key assumption falsified it demoralizes them and makes it more difficult for them to recruit additional people and raise money in general.—Joe]
Quote of the day—surfinbird512 @surfinbird512
some big fat piece of shit behind an AR 15! he can’t even see his dick.
surfinbird512 @surfinbird512
Tweeted on November 25, 2015
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via a tweet from Linoge.
Just remember, we have SCOTUS decisions, they have childish insults.—Joe]
Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel expansion test
I recently hand loaded some 180 grain “Gold Dot® Short Barrel®” rounds in .40 S&W. Yesterday I did the promised “chronograph and water jug testing”. Here are the results:
Powder: 3.9 grains of Bullseye
Primer: WSP
OAL: 1.13210 shots over the chronograph from 10 feet away.
Minimum velocity: 814 fps
Maximum velocity: 864 fps
Mean velocity: 838.1 fps
Standard deviation: 15.5 fps
Power Factor: 150.86
The water filled milk jug test was to determine if the bullets would expand at this relatively low velocity. The 0.401 bullet expanded to just under 0.6 and retained nearly 99% of it’s mass:
This is very good.
Brother Doug was a little worried that with the lower velocity perhaps a non-expanding bullet would be better for self defense because of the better penetration. Would it penetrate deep enough to “do the job”? I didn’t have any ordinance gelatin but my guess is that it penetrates just fine. They fully traversed three one gallon milk jugs filled with water. This is just under 18 inches of water.
I didn’t expect it would penetrate that far and for my first shot I only used two jugs for depth and put one on each side of the rear jug in case the bullet didn’t go straight after hitting the first jug:
It fully penetrated the two jugs and I was unable to find the bullet in the berm.
The second time I changed the configuration to just three jugs lined up in a row:
Again the bullet penetrated all the jugs but I found the bullet just sitting on the ground behind the jugs.
That was interesting
Barb and I were out running errands this morning and we stopped at Walmart to pick up what I think is the last remaining components for Boomershoot targets (we should have also picked up some rubber bands but I’ll get those sometime this week during lunch). As we were approaching the checkout counter I told Barb, “This is sure a strange combination of stuff. I wonder if they will notice and say something.”
People noticed. They said things:
Clerk : What are you going to use all that <baking component> for?
I hesitated and thought about it for a second or two. He was still ringing stuff up and I hadn’t paid for it yet. If I told him the truth it could delay our departure. Before I could decide what to do he continued:
Clerk (with a smirk on his face): Are you going to use it with the anti-freeze?
Guy in line behind me: With all that anti-freeze, you could make quite the <dessert component>.
Joe (addressing the clerk with a big smile): Actually, I am going to use them together. I make explosives with them.
Clerk: Excuse me?
Joe: I use them to make explosives.
The clerk’s hand froze in midair over the keypad and the smile on the face of guy in line behind me disappeared into blank, ashen colored, stare.
I continued:
Joe: I have a license to make high explosives. I put on a shooting event each year with exploding targets. People come from all over the country to shoot at them.
Clerk: Where do you do this at?
Joe: Idaho.
GILBM: You come all the way over to Washington buy this?
Joe: I live over here but put the event on in Idaho because I need a lot of land and tolerant neighbors. I have the property and the right neighbors over there.
Clerk (hands moving again): Oh. I was thinking maybe Mount Index.
Joe: Nope.
I finished paying for the components then Barb and I quickly loaded up the car and left before the cops could get there.
Quote of the day—Wayne LaPierre
Mrs. Clinton, if you want to come after the NRA, if you want a fight over the God-given rights of America’s 100 million gun owners, if you want to turn this election into a bare-knuckled brawl for the survival of our constitutional freedom, bring it on. We aren’t going anywhere – and we aren’t hard to find.
Wayne LaPierre
March 3, 2016
NRA chief tells Hillary Clinton to ‘bring it on’ in gun control fight
[I think that sums it up fairly well.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Black Bullets International
We Stand behind our products – Because it would be really stupid to stand in front of them.
Black Bullets International
2013
Motto
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Quote of the day—bruce lancaster
When you come for my guns, you will need to bring yours. If you are successful prying my gun from my cold, dead hand, take care. The barrel will be quite hot. … Understand the consequences you beg for: I will fight you to my last bullet. I will fight you until my knife is worn to the hilt. I will fight you until my knuckles are shattered, my nails torn free and my teeth broken at the roots. … When you have tended your wounded and mourned your dead, good luck mustering the courage to face my neighbors, my grocer, my barber, the lady at the gas station cash register, my pastor, my sons, my daughters… They will offer you the same resistance I did. You will reap the whirlwind. If you’re successful killing me or someone like me, you will be hunted. You will be run to ground. You will be smoked out. You will be hung from the nearest tree. Your villages will be plundered, your livestock slaughtered, and your homes burned to ash. There will be no quarter. Each and every disgusting one of you traitorous evil freedom haters will die.
I welcome you to come whenever you think you’re ready. Say When.
bruce lancaster
March 1, 2016
Comment to How to Pass Gun Control in the Sixth-Most-Gun-Owning State in America
[H/T to Sebastian for the link to the main article.—Joe]
Homicides versus guns in developed countries
Via Ry’s tweet we have source code and data to test various hypothesizes regarding firearm ownership and homicide:
Fit linear regression weighted by number of homicides. Homicides are rare, therefore variance of homicide rate estimates is primarily driven by number of homicides rather than by population. There is no circular reasoning here – we’re predicting homicide rate rather than absolute number of homicides.
Exclude countries with gross domestic product (at purchasing power parity) per capita lower than the median because we are primarily interested in developed countries.
Firearms are statistically significant and have negative coefficient in the regression.
Conclusion: in developed countries, more firearms means less homicide.
Quote of the day—MNsoda55401
We need to remove all guns from our society other than those used by police and other authorized government agents.
The time for the wild wild west has long ago left us. We need to allow our Constitution to be adapted to prohibit gun ownership by all private citizens. Only then will our streets again be safe for our children.
MNsoda55401
March 1, 2016
Comment to Gun safety groups plan caucus push to promote background checks
[At least they recognize the Second Amendment is blocking their goal and they need to change it before proceeding.
Just don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
A great idea
Via Glenn Reynolds we have West Virginia lawmakers eliminate permits for concealed carry guns. But what I really latched onto was this:
…the proposed law includes a $50 tax credit for residents trained to carry a deadly weapon.
In Washington State the pro-gun people proposed a bill which eliminated sales tax (near 10%) on gun safes. The anti-gun people were put in a tough spot. If they opposed the bill they were against “gun safety”. But if they agreed they were lowering the cost of gun ownership. The bill was passed and gun safes became less expensive in Washington.
Why don’t the pro-gun people propose tax credits on all “gun (safety)” classes? And how about removing sales tax on “public carry holsters” which resist guns being taken away or accidently dropped? And removing taxes on “practice ammo” for guns which people who carry in public?
These proposed laws would put the anti-gun people in a difficult position when trying to oppose them. And, if passed, it would lower the cost of gun ownership, increase gun ownership and use, which would make it easier to change our culture to be more accepting of gun owners.
Quote of the day—Gary Doner
So you don’t think there should be any limitations whatsoever on what type of arms should be allowed? Right now you can’t go out and buy a machine gun, for example, due to a 1937 federal law. A nuke is an “arm”. Would you allow someone to have one in his backyard?
Gary Doner
March 1, 2016
Comment to Local gun control
[You know he is ignorant and/or careless with the facts just by his errors regarding machine guns. That alone is almost enough to tell him to go away and come back when he knows what he is talking about. But Doner goes on to invoke Knox’s Law because he doesn’t have a plausible response to the plain and simple facts. And those are that the guns he wants to ban, “assault weapons”, are protected by the Second Amendment and are seldom used in criminal activity. Hence he needs to, in essence, change the subject.
You should never let them get away with this. Keep them on point and demand they acknowledge they were wrong with their original assertion. Their absurd argument need not be answered. Tell them, “We can get back to that when you find a nuke available for sale at Wal-Mart.”—Joe]
Quote of the day—Lyle
We must never allow ourselves to entertain their insanity. They should be dismissed out of hand. Anyone who claims to care, if they’re being honest, would already have figured out that a disarmed population is nothing but an invitation for predators to sweep in and take over. It then becomes obvious that the anti gun rights movement is inspired, funded, directed and maintained by predators.
Lyle
February 28, 2016
Comment to Quote of the day—Citizen1787
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Rounds in the last month
I didn’t load quite as many rounds as I expected I would this month. I have about 400 practice rounds left over from the class I took and enough match ammo such that I’m not feeling any pressure.
I loaded a total of just 700 rounds this month. 301 of those were the self-defense ammo for my student. I plan to do some chronograph and water jug testing with them this weekend.
I’m just under 70,000 rounds for my lifetime total:
223.log: 2027 rounds.
3006.log: 467 rounds.
300WIN.log: 1351 rounds.
40SW.log: 44250 rounds.
9MM.log: 21636 rounds.
Total: 69790 rounds.