Day and Range

So after a leisurly breakfast of bacon and bagels. From what is arguably the best bagel place in the city. I did some organizing and had the carpets cleaned.

Very thorough, very detailed, very prompt, and efficient service. So if you live in the Indy area, I recommend Carpet Medix

After that I hit the range and tested my hand-cast lead bullets. Accuracy was very good. Had one failure to feed due to not enough crimp on the case mouth. The rest fed and fired fine.

I've still got half of my cast bullets to go and will try with a more aggressive crimp on my Lee Factory Crimp Die.

I also fired some jacketed brass and had no malfunctions. All the cartridges had a marked improvement in accuracy. Though that is partially due to the LaserLyte training target too.

But if I can get cast bullets to work reliably then that will save quite a bit per round.

Edit: Also after counting for the rounds I had shot off, I managed to increase my brass supply by 73 rounds of 45acp. So there's that too.

The Sweet Sweet Tears of the Antis.

And as an added bonus it's Canadian Statists that are crying.

Good start Canada, now get to working on actually be able to use your guns for self defense.

<+KJ> Thank God for old school Army videography

That'd be tonight's quote of the day, when he presented the following vid in GBC

And say hello to Ivy Mike.



I love that old style speaking cadence. Wonderful.

And scale.

As a meal that doesn't look half bad.

Maybe not half good, but this Russian RP-SPN Special Forces Food Ration looks a lot better than I thought it would.

From MicroBalrog a site that has a lot of neat historical and current Russian military stuff.

Via C-90 on GBC

More Reloading.

Well got my factory crimp die and Lee Auto Disk Upgrade.

If you use a fine powder, go for the Auto Disk Pro. It has an improved spout that leaks far less than the baseline model. Something you'll want.


I found the Factory Crimp Die was nice but did not do much with factory bullets. Where it's resizing (it comes after the bullet seating die and takes the place of that die's crimp) seems to be with cast lead bullets.

So loaded up half of my cast stock and will take it to the range when available. I already found one test feed problem where if the mouth of the case has a spur it can cause feed issues. Something to check.

No photos today. May try to get some more, but my still camera's pretty balky and my video camera exports horrid stills. Maybe something to get a replacement.

The Ratchet Effect in Action.

So our Constitutional Law Lecturer of a President has decreed a new metric of Constitutionality.

According to him, the Supreme Court should not strike down a law if it is sufficiently popular and was passed by a high enough margin. To do so would thwart the will of the people.

And what law was he talking about? Why Obamacare which passed by a mere 7 votes in the House, 21 in the Senate, both on pure party votes, and is still underwater in public polling with a majority of the nation thinking it will be repealed and at least a plurality thinking it's unconstitutional.

That, is what Obama thinks was "passed by strong majority of a democratically elected Congress" and would be "an unprecedented, extraordinary step" if overturned.

Pardon me for being a lay person, but I thought that popularity and number of votes wasn't a factor in the Constitutionality of a law?

It doesn't matter how the law is pushed across the finish line does it? Once it's over it's sacrosanct and the ratchet tightens one more kink.

It's not like there's been a steady erosion of separation of powers at work here. Standing on the shoulder of giants here.

Though we're starting to see blowback. From the GOP and judges: Court of Appeals Demands Obama's Lawyer Answer Whether Courts Have Power To Strike Down Federal Law Or Not.

Interesting times.

And to cheer you up, PJTV's Trifecta has the video of Obama's comments and some hilarious commentary on it.

Today's reloading adventure.

Welp casted some bullets today, then weighted and measured htem, now have the first lot lubed and curing overnight.

Was my first time using a lead melter. Some things I learned was that you need to make sure the molten lead is at the right temperature and your mold is properly cleaned and set.

Though once everything is balanced you can punch out bullets at a pretty good clip.

And here's where a quick digital scale comes in real handy so you can test each round.