Fire & Hearing

 For most of my life I expected, at some time, California would drop into the ocean. 

Never thought that it would burn to the ground.

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I knew for a time that I've lost some high frequency hearing. The Boss has wanted me to get my hearing checked for a year or two. I sometimes have trouble understanding what she says, especially when she's not looking at me. This week I went for a hearing test and learned a couple things. My high frequency hearing is absolutely terrible. That means that some words or parts of words I can't hear, so at times comprehension is a problem. 

I'm now wearing hearing aids programmed to amplify high frequency sounds. The amplification will be increased over time, maybe for a year or two, to give my brain time to adjust to the new stimulus. I'm now hearing some minor sounds that I don't remember hearing before.

Swiss K31

 That old Swiss K31 is near the top of my list of favorite old military rifles. I put an aperture rear sight on it years ago, but never shot it much because of aging eyes. Recently I installed a scope base where the rear iron sight was, and then attached an old Tasco 1.25-4X pistol scope. The eye relief of that pistol scope is a bit too long with it mounted centered over the iron sight location. So I bought an extra low cantilever ring set to move the scope towards the muzzle, that will not fit the base in the position I need. Also, outside to outside distance of the rings is too long for the scope. So I need to modify the base, the ring set or buy a different scope. I ordered a different scope with a shorter eye relief, but may still need to modify one or both of the other two.

Will just have to see how it works out.,

Scopes & More

Received the scout mount for the Swiss and the 2x Burris for the 454 revolver. Mounted the Burris on the big revolver and bore sighted it with a laser.

Using the new scout base, mounted the Tasco 1.25-4x pistol scope on the Swiss K31 and bore sighted it with a laser.

When the weather clears, I'll take them to the range for adjusting.

Several years ago I acquired a 30 Cal carbine. That thing has been a lot of fun over the years shooting what ever ammo I could get. Recently I decided to start reloading ammo for that little carbine. When resizing the brass, material was being smeared toward the base. As it turns out the transition up into the die was not smooth. There was a slight ridge that a local gun smith corrected.  I'll be loading some trial ammo for the next range trip.

Islam Extreme?

 Once again the term 'radicalized' or 'extremist' islam is coming from the talking heads. They're either lying or ignorant. If you do a minimal amount of research you'll find there is nothing radical or extreme about those of islam killing the non-believers. A book titled Unveiling Islam, by 2 brothers raised in that religion, explains that their 'prophet' and founder condones and even encourages murder. As I remember he said that if you can not convert them, imprison them, then kill them.

Those that say islam is a peaceful religion have their heads up their collective asses. So let's stop pussy-footing around and tell it like it is.