I’m a Gun Expert?

I’ve been called a “Gun Expert” many times… Even by guys like Massad Ayoob. I’m no such thing. Guys, no one is a Gun Expert. They might be an Expert on a certain branch or field of the Shooting Culture… but no one is an expert on all of it. I’m not Expert.
I’m an Enthusiast.

Well, at least he was decisive…

16 hours to do decide on if he should have the SEALS go get Bin Laden.

Really, 16 Hours? What was there to think about?  Target Number One, and he had to think about it for 16 hours?  Yeah, I’m glad he made the right choices, but 16 hours tells me he had a lot of conflicting opinions on the operations.      And yet he is milking the credit for it as much as possible.   The jackhole.

 

MHI: The Series

Congratulations to Larry Correia… he just sold the TV rights to MHI.  I think a TV show is likely.   Larry first gave me word of this at SHOT Show while on the way to get some chow… he said that it was in the works, but nothing finalized.  Well, now it’s a done deal.   That’s awesome.

All I gotta say… I want to be in the cast!

 

Shims for a Scope

Sometimes when you mount a scope – something just aint right and you can’t get the scope aligned properly to get it bore-sighted.  Slight errors in the making of the base or rings or something…  Many reasons… but the result is that to get the scope bore-sighted right, you have to shim the scope.   Don’t panic.  And don’t go off and order some expensive Shim Kit.  And don’t use Paper shim.  They compress and get thinner over time.   You don’t need to spend any money… well, maybe 75 Cents at most.  You can make your own Shims.   It’s easy to do, and I do it all the time.  I am a professional, and I’m telling you – you can do this at home.  It’s Ballistic Science, but it’s not Rocket Science. All you have to do is to make some Beer Can Shims.

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Underrated Tactical .22

The SIG 522 is probably the most underrated of the tactical .22’s on the market.  It gets great reviews from a lot of folks… owners love them… NuttinFancy did like a 3 hour Holiday Special on the bloody things, yet I can’t sell the last two we have to save my life.   I have shown them and shown them to guys… and guys always buy the S&W MP15-22 instead.  Always.

Great looking rifle... slick lines, Classic SIG 556 looks...

Don’t get me wrong… the S&W is a great .22 rifle.   But the SIG has a handy little trick that the Smith can’t do.

If you do this with your Smith - it wont be covered under warranty.

No, I’m not supposed to advertise our sales price on these, because it’s below MAP… But we just want to blow these last two guns out.  We’ve not sold one in over 6 months.  I have two left.  If you want one, I’ll hook you up and throw in a couple goodies to go with it.

Progressive

I used to hear about Progressive Rifling in old guns from years gone by.  I don’t hear about them anymore…  Which to me seems odd. With modern precision machining, it should be much easier to produce a good Progressive Rifled barrel.

The advantage of this would be much like a Back Bored barred in a shotgun… Less felt recoil and a higher shot velocity.  Who wouldn’t want this in a rifle?  I guess the modern Polygonal Rifling pretty much does the same thing, and it’s easier to achieve, but not everyone likes the stuff.  I know several guys that have a healthy distrust of any barrel that doesn’t have traditional lands and grooves.

I could especially see an advantage in a progressive barrel in calibers that prefer a long free bore… such as most of the Weatherby calibers.  In a traditional rifled barrel, the bullet is slammed into the rifling a torqued around rather suddenly into the twisted rifling.  This problem increased as the freebore is increased.  This slamming can cause deformity in bullets and inconsistent pressures if the bullet is seated at eve slightly different depths.  Progressive Rifling would slowly turn the bullet into an increasingly accelerating twist until the bullet leaves the barrel at the desired twist rate… and balance the pressure curves, thereby helping to increase accuracy.    With increased velocity and accuracy… that would allow the full potential of any cartridge fired from it.

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