Month: February 2025

Ammo Carriers

The Gun Thing

When I were a lad, whenever I went out into the bush to do a little impromptu shooting, my method of carrying ammo in the field was simple:  the carriers were called “trouser pockets”, and I would just fill them up with loose rounds of ammo (whether .177 pellets or .22 cartridges).

But le temps se marche, if you’ll pardon my French, and now I need to carry my plinking ammo in some kind of carrier.

Of course, if I’m carrying a gun that shoots from a magazine, carrying spare ammo is not an issue:  just MOAR magazines.  And indeed that’s what I do, in that I have multiple spare magazines for all my semi-auto guns.

But what, I ask myself, do I do when I’m carrying a single-action revolver or a tube-fed rifle?

Sure, I could just keep the boolets in the box they came in, or jam ’em loose in my pocket as in times gone by.

But that means fumbling around, and getting them to line up to be reloaded and all that.

Then I read this article, and it made all sorts of sense to me:

A convenient solution I have found is the magazine for an M1911-style .22 Long Rifle pistol. The slim magazine can be conveniently carried in a pouch or pocket, with the rounds protected, and individual cartridges can be thumbed into a single-shot chamber, the magazine tube of a rifle or the loading gate of a single-action rimfire revolver.

I’m not sure about a 1911-style mag, because those tend to be spendy.  But any old cheap .22 pistol mag will do, surely?  Like this one:

That’s under $15 per mag, it holds 15 rounds, which means that four such mags would mean… [carry the 4]  ten reloads for a Single Six revolver, or… [carry the three]  five or so reloads for the Model 63.  All in a handy little package, so to speak.

Definitely worth thinking about.

New Same As Old

Military, The Gun Thing

I see that the U.S. Army’s new rifle is having some problems.

Okay, the XM7 per se  isn’t having problems, but its bells-‘n-whistles sighting system is.

The fiscal 2024 report on the Army’s Next-Generation Squad Weapon program from the Pentagon’s Director, Operational Test and Evaluation published last week indicates that the XM157 Fire Control smart scope that’s intended to augment the program’s XM7 Next Generation Rifle and XM250 Next Generation Automatic Rifle received negative ratings from soldiers during testing last year.
“The XM7 with mounted XM157 demonstrated a low probability of completing one 72-hour wartime mission without incurring a critical failure.”

On the positive side, the XM7 rifle itself, and its new ammo (6.8x51mm) was very much liked.  That’s good.  But a rifle without sights is useless (except at very close range).  But why isn’t the “Fire Control” system working?  I mean:

A 1-8×30 variable magnification direct view optic built by Vortex Optics subsidiary Sheltered Wings, the XM157 incorporates advanced technologies such as a laser rangefinder, aiming lasers, environmental sensors, ballistic solver, compass and a digital display overlay, all of which are designed to “increase the probability of hit and decrease the time to engage”.
The XM157 also features wireless connectivity that will purportedly allow it to integrate with heads-up displays like the Army’s current Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular, or ENVG-B, and future Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS, do-it-all goggles, allowing soldiers to survey the battlefield from cover using a live video feed from their weapon optic.

I’m just amazed there isn’t a coffee-making capability included.

Ah yes, the old “advanced technologies” bugaboo.  The more technologies involved, the greater the number of potential failure points.

Now I’m not suggesting that we go back to iron aperture sights (as good as they are), and by the way, I see that the XM7 has no provision for any kind of backup sights (which pleaseth me not).

I’m all for giving our boys the best gear possible to kill assholes I mean our country’s enemies.  But the shit’s gotta work, FFS.

So what’s the Army doing about it?

Despite the documented issues detailed in the DOT&E report, the Army is still plowing ahead with the system’s development. Indeed, the service released a sources sought notice in late January for “novel technologies or ongoing research that would be beneficial for the XM157 system as a module and/or software that provides enhanced capability.” 

Yeah, so instead of scaling back the complexity until we get something that works perfectly, and building it back up from that base, let’s make the system still more complicated than the (non-working) thing already is.  That’s a proven recipe for success, of course.

We were always drilled that there are three ways to do things:  the right way, the wrong way, and the Army way.

I’ll leave it to you to decide what’s happening here.

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

Feminazis

It appears that liberal harpies are more likely to be unhappy with their lives than their more feminine counterparts:

According to the 2024 American Family Survey, only 12% of liberal women surveyed said they were “completely satisfied” with their lives, compared to 37% of conservative women and 28% of moderate women between the ages of 18-40. 

An analysis of the results showed that liberal women are “two to three times more likely” to indicate they are “not satisfied” with their lives when compared to women who identify as conservative. 

Color me unsurprised.  I have known many such harridans in my lifetime, and to a (wo)man they are sour, perpetually indignant and… miserable.  This is only exacerbated if they are vegans or wiccans [some overlap], and if they have a university degree in a topic with “Studies” in the title, then look out.

By and large, they see themselves as victims — buying into the current Marxist trope that there are two classes in society (victimizers and victims) — and of course eeeevil men are the former group, which means by default they are the latter.

The fact that by and large they are middle-class White women (in number) who can afford to indulge themselves in such nonsense gives the lie to their hysteria and self-inflicted unhappiness.

Conservative women, in contrast, are too busy for this foolishness because they are involved in raising happy families and doing good works (like church-y stuff) rather than wailing about (mostly-imagined) injustices, and feeling put-upon.

You may disagree with me on this point, but you’d be wrong;  and it would appear that I have the facts on my side withal.

News Roundup

Bad News

And speaking of squealing butt-bandits:


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...ooooh do those naughty Porsche buyers still not want to buy those overpriced Duracell cars, then?  And still on the same course-change:


...all that “renewable” bullshit still nothing like good old-fashioned oil, huh?


...considering that most of his victims were Muslim immigrants — oh wait, you didn’t know that?


...haven’t eaten there since they downgraded the menu, so I’m indifferent.


...unmentioned:  he probably had a better patient-survival rate than 50% of actual NHS doctors.


...perhaps he could have made his point a lot more effectively by just ramming his speculum up the tranny’s urethra.

Introducing our newest department:


...ehhhh leave them for the Asian Murder Hornets to handle.

In the Dept. of Education:


...seems to me that SHE was the one with “special” needs.  Keyword:  Colorado.


...keyword: Australia.

And in our best-ever 

   

...at least it was only for an ad, and not for OnlyFans.


...no man should.

 

 

Ugh.  She’s bad enough, but then you’d have to be exposed to the rest of the coven…

Exemplar

Good Stuff, Writing

I love Yiddish, because so many of their terms are just wonderful to use as a pithy description of despicable behavior.

Today, we focus on the word chutzpah, which means “effrontery”, “cheek”, “impudence”, “gall” and so much more in the same vein.

For those still unclear on the concept, here’s a wonderful example:

California Gov Gavin Newsom (D) recently traveled to Washington to seek federal aid for addressing the impact of the recent fires.

How is this chutzpah?  Consider the context.

California, which failed to prevent the spread of wildfires in Los Angeles last month and is struggling to repair the damage, is set to spend nearly $10 billion on health care for illegal aliens.

…and even better:

Newsom recently signed $50 million in new spending to fight President Donald Trump’s policies.

I know what I would have said to him, were I the POTUS.

“Esn drek aun shtarbn, mamzer.”

For my non-Tribe Readers, that’s “Eat shit and die, you bastard.”