Monthly Archives: September 2025

Government, Military

Warmaster Hegseth

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Warmaster Hegseth: “You guys are Fat. Get in Shape, or Get Out.”

Last week we learned about Warmaster Hegseth calling for a Meeting of all the Top Brass. We didn’t know what the Warmaster was going to bring out for this Big Meeting. Some were very afraid he was going to lay out plans for War on three fronts. I had guessed it was going to be Administrative in nature. And I was right. But it was more than I expected!

A Snapline back to Standards? Sure… sure… But calling out his Generals and Admirals too? DANG! I did NOT expect that!

I listened to the entire message the Warmaster delivered, and found it to be most impressive. Looking at the potential conflicts ahead of us… This was NEEDED. And I don’t disagree with anything he said. The DEI agenda has severely weakened our Armed Forces. And the Politicians running things instead of the Actual Military… This was a change we witnessed starting back with Obama, during the whole 13 Hours event. Let me remind folks…

The US Marines have within their Charter, the Mission to React and Respond to Threats against our Embassies. No orders have to be given or waited for… The Marines GO. The General Order was given ages ago. Supporting Assets automatically move to assist and support the Marines in that Mission. When the Call for help went out, the Marines and the Navy started to spool up. Ships changed course. Helicopter Rotor Blades started turning. Jet Engines started warming up. The Machine that is the US Military was reacting.

And then another call came in. STAND DOWN.

A Decision had been made and an order given to STOP. Military Leaders who didn’t were immediately relieved of duty. Cuss words were uttered. Fists hit desks and tables. And turbine engines were shut off. To save the Embassador, nothing had to be said. To let the Ambassador die, many orders had to be given and repeated. And Americans DIED.

After that event… things changed. There was a PURGE of Patriotic Military Leaders who took their Oaths seriously. Instead of Patriots, we had Political Loyalists installed into key positions… and it all went downhill… Until Warmaster Hegseth was raised up into his new role.

What do you guys think? How do you feel about this change back to proper standards?

Weapons

What about walther?

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I was asked my opinion on Walthers. I don’t own a Walther at the moment, but that doesn’t mean I’ve got anything against them. Far from. It just means my Gun Budget is too low.

Walther’s PDP has quietly and not so quietly become the Gun Guy’s If you know, you know gun. My Mom even has one. Lots of my friends have one, and those that don’t, many are saying they too want one. The PDP is now coming in a number of different variants, and each one is an outstanding pistol. Universally, they come with stellar ergonomics, great sights, and what is considered to be one of the very best triggers in the market – if not the best trigger on the market. The accuracy is right up there, and the reliability has proven to be exceptional.

The PDP is an evolution of the Walther P99, a gun that Walther put all its chips into and it paid off. BIG TIME. Before the P99, Walther was in serious trouble. I even said at the time that they were “Struggling to find relevance.” They had no presence in the US Market except for their skinny Importation deal with S&W, which gave S&W permission to make their own version of the P99 for a while.

Then Walther got SERIOUS. There was a PDQ pistol and some effort was made there… and then they finally developed the PDP and they really hit on something. The PDP has been developed with more focused engineering than almost any other pistol on the market… and it shows. Do this… Go to your Local Gun Store – your LGS – and examine a PDP first hand. Hold it. Ask to dry fire it just once… and while you do that… Watch those sights very carefully as the trigger breaks. Notice how the sights don’t even twitch? Not even slightly? That’s what I look for in a handgun – right there. HK, CZ, Echelon, and few others can match.

What’s the downside to the Walther PDP? Well, being out of the Market’s Mainstream means you’re going to have a lot fewer options for Holsters. Most LGSs won’t even have a holster for the PDP in stock, and if they do, it probably won’t be a good one. Pricing has the PDP at the more expensive end of factory production duty guns… right next to HK, if not more, depending on the version of PDP you’re looking at. And that’s another happy little problem… Picking which version of the PDP. And that’s a personal question nobody else can help you with. The last Downside to the PDP, is that if you take it to the range… Everyone there is going to want to try it. Whatever you do… don’t rent one at the Range and actually shoot one. Because if you do, you will end up buying one. It becomes fate to do so… and admittedly, I am destined to do so myself.

Uncategorized

Righteous Anger is righteous.

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Righteous Anger is righteous. The want for Justice is righteous. The call for Revenge and Reprisals however, is not. Sit on your hands and bite your tongue until you are rational again. Today is September 11th. Much to Remember today. Much to contemplate. My goal is to spend more time thinking than speaking.

Weapons

For the Love of 30-30

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It all started back in 1895 with Winchester releasing the first commercially available factory loaded cartridge using smokeless powder. It was, for the time period, a wicked fast and very accurate cartridge. It took the American Shooting World by storm! It has been used to hunt literally everything in North America and has been used to hunt most everything else, everywhere else. The gun industry has developed a whole lot of other cartridges, but the .30-30 Winchester kept trucking along. The only question is whether it is still a viable cartridge in 2025 and onward.

In most commercial loadings, the .30-30 Win (also called the .30 WCF originally) has moderate velocities compared to most modern calibers. Kind of like how 55 Miles per hour was blistering in the 30’s but in 2025 you had best not be in the far left lane doing that speed!
Just between you and I, the far left lane is for blatant crime. .308 is typically around 2700 Feet Per Second, and the .30-30 is 2400. So it’s no longer the Speed King. The .30-30 is also hampered with high-drag, flat nosed projectiles. Hornady has given us soft nosed pointy boys that won’t chain-fire in a magazine tube, and that’s done very well to help things out, but it can only help so much.

A lot of Gun Guys have pontificated that the .30-30 is only good for White Tail Deer out to 100 yards at the Max. I’ve personally dropped a Cow Elk at 200 yards, and it fell like it was pole-axed. That range was verified by a Nikon laser rangefinder and the load was the Hornady LeveRevolution 160 grain load. It performed as advertised and delivered an ethically clean snuffing. If there is a downside to Hornady’s FTX projectile, it’s going to be that it was reluctant to feed smoothly out of the Marlin 336 I used to own.
Though, to be fair, it does feed better out of my Mossy 464.

Hornady isn’t just a One Trick Pony when it comes to .30-30. They have some other great loads, including a 175 grain subsonic load that I’d love to test out if I had a .30-30 with a suppressor. If you’ve tried it out all Hushed and Quiet like – Let me know how you find it.

The longest range shot I’ve made with a .30-30 was 500 yards onto a steel plate. And it wasn’t the most precise of a shot. Then again, Lever Actions are not the most precise of a rifle. My 336 spent a lot of time with gunsmiths to get it tweaked to be 1 MOA. That involved barrel work, crowning, trigger, and firing pin modifications that cost me about triple what the rifle cost me. I do wish I still had that rifle. But the new owner did report back that he had harvested some fine big game animals with it in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming.

The cartridge and the rifles are no longer getting Magazine Covers, and Online Discussions had almost dropped completely off the radar… But it’s getting more attention lately thanks to the “Tactical Lever Action” Trend that is happening. Modern Lever Actions from Marlin and Henry are coming out with Rails, Giant Loops, Optic Mounts, and Threaded muzzles for the easy installation of the Gun Muffler of your choice. Pretty much every company that loads Rifle Ammunition is still rolling loads for this old Classic. But my favorite are the monolithic solid hollowpoints. They deliver excellent terminal performance, even at the moderate velocities the cartridge lives with. The .30-30 remains alive and well within the American Gun Culture.