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Monday, March 18, 2024

FN at the Range

 Fired a few full mags of 40 through the FN before setting up a paper target at 25 yards. I wanted to check for point of impact change when switching barrels from 40 to 9mm. I used a 2 hand hold with my strong hand forearm resting on a sand bag.

Shot a 5 shot, 3 inch group with the 40 and then changed to the 9mm barrel. With 9mm I was all over the place with nothing hitting the 20 yard small pistol target. 

I then changed back to the 40 barrel and couldn't hit the paper with it either. It was all over the place.

In both cases using reloads of coated cast bullets. The 9mm is 120Gr that shoots well in my old FEG Hi-Power. The 40 was 200 Gr. The 40 may be loaded a little hot. I'll try again with both after reducing the charge a little.


Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Been a While

 As I said last time, the prostate MRI was mostly clean but 2 slides were a little hard to tell, thanks to the 2 artificial hip joints. My GP suggested seeing a urologist, just in case. There are several in my area, but mostly booked up. The soonest I could get in to one is May.

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The closing closet thing the Boss started at her church has been keeping her very busy. And by extension me too. Then folks from another church got me to volunteer to help them once a month hauling a trailer full of free food stuff to a needy area in a nearby town. Seems nobody there had a truck rated to haul a trailer that heavy.

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Made it to the range a few times since last posting. Shot mostly handguns, FEG HiPower 9mm, FN HiPower 40 S&W and a Kimber 45acp. The FN is relatively new to me. Used to be my brother-in-laws. Been having some trouble with the FN in that I tend to be left of target at 25 yards.

Been shooting 180 grain bullets at about 1,000 f/s in the FN, as compared to 200 grains in the 45 at about the same velocity. Some say it's the best of both the 9mm and the 45. I'm beginning to think it's the worse of both. It has the snap of the 9mm and the heavier recoil of the 45.

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In the November election, Trump will likely lose unless he manages to get a major majority of the votes. If it's at all close, Biden will come away with a victory thanks to all the dirty tricks the Dems play in most all states. 

I recently read a book titled RIGGED. It details the many tricks the Dems pulled, some legal some not, in the last several elections.


Saturday, February 3, 2024

Evil/incompetent Fed

 As usual our wonderful government is late and weak in responding to anything. England was the same way and  contributed to the start of WWII by trying to appease Nazi Germany. And since we no longer have a national border, illegals are treated better than citizens and about half the country wants communism (by another name) we aren't far from a violent civil war. Right now there's minimal violence, but we are at war internally. This makes us ripe to be overtaken by a foreign nation, since the invaders are within our borders now.

Relating to the above, my non-gunny son is shopping for a home defense shotgun. Told him I'm fond of my CZ 712 Utility.

On a personal note. 

My PSA number has been increasing for several years. It was 9.7 last test. Statistically that puts me at the top end of the 30% chance of prostate cancer. The MRI last week was clean in some frames and inconclusive in another. My GP is confident no cancer, but is sending me to an urologist as a precaution.

Saturday, January 6, 2024

New Upper?

 A while back I received 3 firearms from my brother-in-laws collection after he passed away. Among the 3 is an AR-15 configured like the original M16. Since I have a custom AR in 5.56, I am considering a different upper in a different cartridge. Right now, the top of the list is the 6.5 Grendel, only because I load 6.5mm bullets for a Mauser.

Any suggestions as to cartridge and brand of upper assembly?

Sunday, December 31, 2023

New Sights

The smith did a good job of modifying the FN. Have now put about 200 rounds of 9mm and 40 through it with no issues. Even the new fiber optic sights were right on at 25 and 50 yards. Naturally there was an elevation adjustment at 50 yards with both ammo.

So I took the slide of my 45 Kimber to him for fiber optic installation and got the same results. 

I now have a new gunsmith for a couple larger projects in the future.

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The Bosses eyes are very good now by comparison. She only needs glasses to read. So we now have several magnifying glasses around around the house. As a kid I remember old ladies with glasses hung by chains around the neck. When I suggested this to her I got one of those looks.

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Her Eyes & The Border

 She's now had cataract surgery on both eyes. Her distant vision is good, intermediate fair, and magnified readers required. This is certainly a vast improvement from before. It will take another week or two before her vision will settle. So far so good.

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Our border, drug and illegal immigration issue can be fixed quite easily. We should model our borders after that of the Koreans. Let's create a DMZ with manned overlapping zones of fire, and armed drones. Those that enter the area will be fired upon.

Monday, November 20, 2023

Boss's Eye

 The Boss had her first of 2 cataract eye surgeries 5 days ago. The day after she was 20/25 out of an eye that was 20/45 with corrective glasses. For some reason she can't see worth a crap at this time. It doesn't matter if she's wearing her glasses without one lens or no glasses at all.  It's like her brain is having trouble with the sudden improvement of just one eye. In a couple of weeks the Doc will work on the other eye.  Until then, she can't see well enough to drive.