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No Hassles, Just Fun

Gun/Ammo Tests, The Gun Thing

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.

News Summary

Bad News


...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?

Screaming Down Abuse From Valhalla

Pussification Parade, Wokism

So the Norwegian World Cup football team did a little publicity thing, posing as Vikings as a nod to their fierce, manly heritage:

Personally, I thought it was excellent stuff, well worth hearkening back to their storied heritage and national pride.

But you know what happened next, don’t you?  Predictably, this:

The response to their creative send-off has split opinion in Norway, with woke critics arguing against the aesthetic due to the Vikings’ large-scale raiding, colonizing, pillaging and raping throughout their dominant era. 

The images were ‘chauvinistic and exclusionary’, according to journalist Markus Slettholm of the newspaper Morgenbladet. 

And he went even further in an interview with NRK, saying it is ‘reminiscent of what neo-Nazis were concerned about ten years ago’.

Jane Haug Skjoldli, a researcher and Norwegian academic recently argued that the Norway kits for the World Cup could be seen as ‘hyper-masculine and right-wing extremist’.

The shirts have rune-like writing on the back and Skjoldli said elements of it are ‘unfortunate and typical of neo-Nazi and fascist symbolic language’.

Of course, how triggering for the fainting goats on the Left.  The fact that all these Bad Things happened, sheesh, over a thousand years ago has no effect on the tender sensibilities of today’s hyper-weenies.

Here’s one for the Norwegian team:  guys, when you’re done with the World Cup, sail a longboat or two back into Oslo, do a little Viking pillaging and fire at the Morgenblatt  building, and feel free to assuage yer base Viking instincts on Wossname Scolding or whatever her name is.  (I don’t know what the Viking term is for “pulling the train”, but whatever.)

And if she’s ugly — I’m taking no bets, here — just do it for spite.

That noise you hear will be cheering and laughter from your ancestors in Valhalla.

Vox Populi

Riotous Assemblies

I see that the Micks have the temerity to be angry about yet the latest crime committed by an “immigrant” — one of the many thousands dumped in Northern Oirland by the various British governments of recent times.

Of course, being Irish, they are expressing their displeasure in the traditional manner:

Violent scenes were witnessed in Northern Ireland again on Wednesday as tensions remain high in the wake of an apparent attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast, allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese asylum seeker.

Hordes of black balaclava masked men clashed with riot officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on Wednesday in areas such as the Belfast suburb of Newtownabbey, where a lorry truck was set on fire by agitators. The truck is believed to have been a municipal “gully emptier” used to clean street drainage systems.

A car was also set on fire on Antrim Road in the area, while fires were also lit at the Sandyknowes roundabout, the Belfast Telegraph reported.

Nearby, police were forced to deploy a water cannon to push back a large crowd attempting to break into a Newtownabbey hotel, likely over at least rumours of migrants being housed inside.

Next will be the bombs, I’m guessing.  I’m pretty sure that the IRA Provos still have a few hidden somewhere since The Troubles subsided.

Needless to say, the BritGov is responding in its traditional way, by labeling the protesters as “extreme Rightwing”, suppressing all online mention of the protests as well as going with the water cannons (in stark contrast to their treatment of the BLM-inspired riots a couple years back).

The response from the British government has seemingly attempted to shift the blame for the violence to those commenting on social media, rather than the horrific stabbing attack, footage of which was widely seen and reports indicating that the UK government had granted the suspect asylum after entering into the country illegally.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed to “crack down on anyone who is fuelling this division,” adding that “there is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.”

Tell that to the Beheaders, old cock, and maybe then we can believe you.

When all the smoke has cleared, I’ll just be curious to see what’s left.  Of everything.  Over There.  In the meantime…

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

From, of all places, Southern California:

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said a home intruder armed with a shotgun died Friday night after being shot during an exchange of gunfire with a San Jacinto, California, homeowner.

Here’s the interesting part:

During the confrontation, the suspect fired multiple rounds at the homeowner. The homeowner returned fire, striking the suspect.  The homeowner was not wounded in the shootout but the alleged intruder was pronounced dead at the scene.

Well, so much for that “shotgun is better than a handgun” trope.  (I’m assuming that Our Hero was using a handgun because as usual, the press report is sadly lacking in important details.)  If my assumption is correct, then it drives home what I’ve been saying for years:  aimed, accurate fire beats spray ‘n pray, nine times out of ten.

Which reminds me:  it’s been weeks since I practiced with my bedside gun, so it’s time I remedied that situation.

So if you’ll excuse me…