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Year to date

Posted on by Caleb

Total rounds fired in competition and practice: 7,697 (this does not include .22s)

Total malfunctions across all platforms: 43

That means that  I have had 0.55% malfunction rate, year to date.  The biggest culprit for malfs is my Para Tac-5 LDA, which is an absolute princess when it comes to what ammo it will digest, preferring only hot +P loads or NATO loads.  My most reliable centerfire pistol is my S&W 625, which just keeps on ticking, owing to the fact that it’s a revolver, and I keep it clean.  For semi-autos, my Gun Blog 9mm is still king of the roost.

The above number is only centerfire rounds, and doesn’t include about a jillion .22s that have gone down range.  I actually don’t bother to count or log .22s – it would make the spreadsheet too messy to deal with.

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I'm confused

Posted on by Caleb

The Brady Campaign tells me that our gun laws in the United States  make the country an “arms bazaar” for terrorists.  I’m told time and again that people are smuggling automatic weapons from the US into Mexico.  Some diploma-mill doctorate tells me that US gun shows are a hotbed of illegal traffic in firearms.

And yet, with all of that, why is that when we actually enforce the laws on the books, it prevents terrorists from getting automatic weapons?  You have to read well into the story to find that out, so here’s the “cut to the chase” version:

  1. Badguys want to buy automatic weapons to go on shooting spree
  2. They can’t, because automatic weapons are effectively illegal in the US
  3. The don’t go on shooting spree, and instead pick another cockamamie plan which lands them in jail.
  4. The Good Guys Win.

The point here isn’t however to think that this was a “victory for sensible gun laws”, which is what the Brady Campaign will tout it as, but rather this was a victory for effective police work and investigation.  The ban and registry on machine guns has been in place since 1934…well before the Brady Bunch started calling for more gun laws.  What happened here was a textbook example of what pro-gun activists are always calling for, namely good law enforcement and enforcing the laws on our books already.

It’s almost like the Brady Campaign is lying about everything, but that can’t be true because the man on TV told me that GUNS R BAD.

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Snap-Cap question

Posted on by Caleb

Why are snap caps packaged in fives? I could almost understand it for calibers that traditionally in auto-loaders, by why in the name of John Browning are .38 Special snap caps in packages of FIVE?

For the record, I get that it’s probably a money thing. If you want to practice realistic reloads with snap caps and a six shot revolver, you have to buy 2 packs instead of one. Smart decision, but annoying for me.

shooting/sports

Gun Nuts Last Night: Choose your sport

Posted on by Caleb

We had a lot of fun on last night’s Gun Nuts Radio. Breda and I spent some time discussing the Freedom Group IPO, balloon boy, Breda’s crush on Eric Estrada, and of course the shooting sports. Click here for an .mp3 of last night’s show!

During the show, we also brought up which costumed shooting sport you’d like to see come about, which had some really great responses. Among the better ones were a Miami Vice/Cheesy Cop Show Shoot, Firefly Action Shooting, and for the hardcore geeks out there Steampunk Shooting Society. But you don’t have to take my word for it, just click to listen to the show yourself!

As always, we’d like to thank our listeners for tuning in to the show. It’s your support that makes this possible, and the best thing you can do to keep us on the air is to get a friend to listen as well. Right now, we average about 2000 total listeners per show, which is a great number for a niche show on BTR. I personally would like to see that number at 5000 per show – and all you have to do is get one friend to become a regular listener. Remind them that they can download the show on iTunes as well by visiting the iTunes store and searching for Gun Nuts Radio!

ICORE

New ICORE Division!

Posted on by Caleb

Attention ICORE shooters: have I got some good news for you!  One of the things that I had noticed after shooting ICORE at the club level for the last year is that even at that level, 6 shot revolvers that feed from speedloaders are basically non-competitive.  The sport belongs to 6, 7, and 8 shot guns that feed from moonclips.  The greater ammo capacity and ability to reload faster than a speedloader gun sadly put the sport out of reach of many of the “revolver enthusiasts” that had helped the sport grow so much.

That’s why I’m happy to announce the formation of the new “Retro Division” within ICORE, moving the number of sanctioned ICORE divisions from 2 to 3.  The rules for “Retro Division” are pretty straightforward:

8. A Retro Division revolver is a Limited Division revolver that has the following additional requirements:

A. Cylinder with only 6 chambers.
B. Must only use speed loaders to reload. Moon-clips are prohibited.

What that means for shooters is that now there’s a division that’s perfect in ICORE for that new S&W 686SSR, or your six inch Ruger GP100, or basically any six shot revolver. This also means that IDPA shooters classified in Stock Service Revolver division will be able to cross over immediately to ICORE and be competitive from the get-go without worrying about having to purchase new gear and equipment just so they can stay competitive in the new game.

I think this is a great decision on the part of ICORE. The first match I have next year at Atlanta Conservation Club for ICORE is definitely going to be a classifier match so that we can get any new shooters in the Retro division classified ASAP.