I see that Lewis Hamilton won the Spanish F1 Grand Prix in his Ferrari yesterday, this after coming in second place a week ago in Monaco. Also, he’s been bonking Kim Kardashian recently.
I’m sure the two events (improved GP results and bonking Kimmy) aren’t related, unless the entire Kardashian coven has been casting spells on his behalf (which wouldn’t surprise me).
Following on from Saturday’s post about my revolver range session, I went off to the local Merchants Of Death Collective (Mesquite Gun Show) to see if I could rectify two problems identified at that session: getting some decent (fuller) wooden grips for the Model 10, and replenishing my depleted .38 Special ammo supply. I thought that the first might be difficult, the second easy. Au contraire, mes amis.
The grips took me about 15 minutes to find (among about 700 tables):
Old:
New:
Much better, innit? Can’t wait to get back to the range now, except that I don’t have any cheap ammo to shoot. So I looked around for ammo vendors.
And here’s where the problems began.
Five big ammo dealers were at the show, so one would think…. but no. If you were looking for 5.56 Poodleshooter or 7.62 Commie, you’d have had no problem. Good grief: it looked like the Army was having a clearance sale. Ditto 9mm Europellet and all manner of similar teeny handgun ammo (e.g. .380, .327 etc.) were proudly displayed in bulk.
.38 Special? Hardly any. (And what was there wasn’t what I was looking for anyway.) As I mentioned, I have plenty of defensive loads in .38 Spec and .38 +P — the goblin antidote — but I’m out of range ammo. What I’m looking for, in fact, is something like this:
The cowboy stuff is what’s known as a “bunny-fart” load, and it’s both inexpensive (~ 45c/round) and pleasant to shoot because of the lighter bullets. (Yeah, it’s lead flat nose and not copper-clad, but I clean my guns quite frequently so not a problem.) The Winchester is ubiquitous, and a little cheaper.
And both are readily available online, except that shipping (for only 200 rounds) adds about $50 to the total, making it… [errr carry the three] 82c/round (?????!!!!). The hell with that.
SGA Ammo sells the Winchester for a decent price, but you have to buy the jillion-round box to get free shipping. Philosophically, I don’t have a problem with a bulk purchase (because duh), but financially… ugh.
Let’s see what they sell for locally.
One final note: it seems as though revolvers are heading for a shrinking market (that would be Olde Pharttes like me)
…because all the new shooters seem to be enthralled by the gangsta/operator Glocks and SIGs and what have you, and not by wheelguns. And so once-ubiquitous calibers like .45 Colt and .38 Spec are, it seems, being pushed to the sidelines and rapidly becoming unavailable. Which means that we members of the Ancient Revolver Shooting Club need to buy MOAR .38 Spec.
Duly noted.
And a word from our Classics Department:
On with the show, which today is mostly of a political nature:
“What’s a Killdozer, Kim?”
And speaking of Red America:
So if you are going outside, my ginger lady friends, it’s best to cover up:
Italian name, played a Greek woman in The Guns Of Navarone… all very exotic except that Gia was actually born in Liverpool, to a Sicilian father and Irish mother, with the family name of Scoglio. But nobody really cares what she was called, because:
And in the Navarone movie, where she’s exposed [sic] as a traitor:
Speaking of exposure:
It didn’t end well for our girl; she was a victim of Teh Booze And Drogges, and she died of an overdose thereof at age 38.
What a waste.
Yesterday, I decided that my range time was going to be of the “no fiddling, no hassles” sort — i.e. no adjusting sights, fiddling with scopes, etc., and definitely no malfunctions of the misfeed / bad ejection genre.
You know what that means, right?
Yup… that would be S&W Time, and only .357 Mag and .38 Special ammo needed for the trip, thank you.
And yes, I had an awful lot of fun and yes, it turned out to be a very long session. In fact, I had so much fun that I actually blew through every last round of my .38 Special practice ammo — I mean, there’s none left in Ye Olde Ammoe Locquere at all. (Ten guesses where I’ll be over the weekend…)
(I know, it’s not as cheap as buying online but then again, there aren’t any horrible $$$$hipping charges either. And I need a couple of odds and sods of a gunny nature anyway, so…)
Things learned while having fun:
1) I need to put some beefier grips on the little Model 10. When I tried some one-handed single-action drills, I damn nearly dropped the gun it turned so much in my hand. I’m looking for something in wood, like these:
2) I’m done shooting .357 Mag out of a 4″ barrel. Maybe it’s age, or maybe I’m just sick of being beaten up by a damn boolet, or both. So all the .357 Mag ammo has been banished to the back of the Locquere until I get a lever rifle thus chambered, or else a revolver with a 6″ or even 8″ barrel. Even the bedside gun (the shiny one) has been loaded with .38+P.
3) I really need to practice more with my revolvers. I’ve been spending so much time with rifles recently that I felt like a frigging amateur when at last I put a revolver in my hand: don’t even ask me how badly I shot the double-action drills. In fact, I ended up shooting more accurately and more consistently towards the end of the session, when I did the single-hand (left- and right) drills — because by then I’d re-familiarized myself with the trigger pulls of each gun. I was embarrassed b my performance; in fact, as I told Mr. Free Market, my target looked like somebody had been having blunderbuss practice.
So: gun show over the weekend, followed by MOAR RANGE TIME next week.
It could be worse; I could be living in Southern California or New York.
...I’m pretty sure Cardinal Richelieu would like a word...
Feds cancel ‘partnerships’ with groups that oppose
Trump administration’s policies
...and it’s taken you how long to do this?
...like they don’t already have that. But what does J-Lo have to do with Teh Gheyz?
...aaahhh, now all is explained.
And in other Freak Show News:
Trans Pedophile Who Made Sadistic
Porn with His Daughter, 7, Demands
Freedom to Conduct Nude Occult
Rituals in His Women’s Prison
...ummm what was that middle bit, again?
As Kenny posted:
And in Sports News:
Also: “chaos in Mexico”? Who’d a thunk?