I have never seen so many of them outside of a WWII History Book myself.
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Gotta be in California!
“Please Assist Us In…” Norming the Perverted
This morning, for the first time in over a year, I had an appointment with a specialist at the local hospital in Paradise. I arrived at the hospital and the clinic for specialty services to check in.
The check-in procedure went like this:
“Hello, I’m here for my appointment with Dr. ________.”
Receptionist: “Thank you. Just point to the line that you associate with yourself and we can get started checking you in.”
She slid the following laminated card over the top of her workstation screen and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
And I, ever so slowly, absorbed this new directive.
I looked up and gave her a straight look. She looked down, embarrassed that she was now required to do this to every single person that presented themselves to check in to the clinic, and, I imagine, the hospital itself.
After a few moments in silent mourning for the utter loss of sanity at a previously sane medical establishment, I gestured vaguely at the sheet and she got on with it.
While she was doing so I took out my camera and snapped the above shot of this foaming-at-the-mouth “medical” form. She didn’t like that since she knew that there would be a moment when this new “duty” was subject to the derision it deserved.
I spent a few minutes after my appointment pondering the incident and wondering, not for the first time, how the bull-goose loonies of our oozing bureaucracies have slathered their thick and goozy depravities over the state of California and into ever nook and cranny of our public and now private life.
Once a person’s sexual proclivities were private to that person and those in their life that shared them or those friends one decided to tell. Now one is required to declare their sexual tastes upon showing up at a hospital.
Somewhere there are teams of state-employed perverts who, every day, come to work in their state-furnished offices, hold meetings, create fresh slabs of crap like this, make them “mandatory,” and then just spray them out like a Rooter-Rooter septic truck on steroids.
It is said to be, by these sub-human and un-fireable office holders, because being sensitive to people of all kinds is “who we are as a people.” But it is not that. It may once have been that but no more.
Now, with the arrival of sheets like the one above, we can see the program as it really is: The Norming of the Perverted.
Many folks might say, in reaction, “Well, that’s how you get more Trump,” but that’s false. In the end, this kind of pushing on tradition and normality by the perverted bureaucrats is how you get a violent reaction that those twisted deviants fear most. And with reason.
I hope they return to reason before that point, but nothing I can see tells me they are that reasonable.
Once upon a time, Lenin, upon grabbing the reins of power, sent out a call to purge the left-behinds. This was the infamous “Hanging Letter” which concluded:
Hang (and make sure that the hanging takes place in full view of the people) no fewer than one hundred known landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers. Do it in such a fashion that for hundreds of kilometres around the people might see, tremble, know, shout: “they are strangling, and will strangle to death, the bloodsucking kulaks”. Yours, Lenin. PS Find some truly hard people”
The Left, wherever one encounters it in America, seems to believe that the ratchet of history only moves one way. It doesn’t. And the “truly hard people” of America are not, these days, on the Left.
A Look Back at the Ruger No. 1
by Dave Campbell – Thursday, February 5, 2015
William Batterman Ruger is best known for his innovative mind in the firearm industry. Many say he was the finest firearm designer since John Browning, and few would argue that declaration. Many Ruger gun aficionados may not be aware that in addition to his phenomenal gun-designing skills, Ruger was also a very successful industrial designer whose investment-casting business supplies precision cast parts to the automotive, aerospace and golf industries as well as general manufacturing businesses. Ruger, however, was above all else a true renaissance man.
He was a devotee of classic cars, as well as classic firearms. A gifted mechanical mind, Ruger was largely responsible for the continuing of classic firearm designs well past their original manufacturing lives. His first commercial success, the Standard Automatic Pistol, was a redesign of the famed Japanese Nambu pistol of World War II. Ruger recognized the superior ergonomics of the Nambu and made them the foundation of his first pistol. Its success is legendary, and it—in many forms—is still being manufactured 67 years later.
So in 1966 this renaissance man brought to the sporting market a single-shot rifle like few American shooters and hunters had ever seen. At the time the vast majority of American shooters wanted bolt-action rifles—repeaters—to carry on their hunting adventures. Why in the world would anyone want to handicap themselves with a single-shot rifle? The answer was two-fold: beauty and simplicity. The Ruger No. 1 took off like a wildfire and remains a steady occupant in the long-gun market some 49 years henceforth.
Based on the English Farquharson falling-block rifle of 1872, Ruger’s iteration features the same internal hammer, falling-block action and overall styling of the British rifle. The renowned classic stockmaker, Lenard Brownell, designed the two-piece stock for the No. 1. Ruger wanted to lighten his new single-shot rifle—during its pre-production time it was called the “Victorian”—and make it with a trimmer profile. Ruger engineers Larry Larson and Harry Sefried rose to that task by locating the hammer centrally and moving its spring onto a hanger that projects forward of the receiver and serves as a fastening point for the fore-end and the ejector spring.
Like its English predecessor, the No. 1 is bull strong. Brownell said that during its development he tried several time to blow one up but never succeeded. As such the No. 1 has been chambered in no fewer than 47 chamberings, from the .204 Ruger to the .450/400 Nitro Express. The number of wildcats and custom chamberings must be many times that factory amount.
A tang-mounted sliding safety that blocks both hammer and sear from movement takes care of most safety concerns. It is unobtrusive and operates easily with the shooting-hand thumb. If it has a fault it would be that with some models the front of the safety lever sticks above the flute in the breech block and receiver where the fired case is ejected. Sometimes the case hangs up on this projection, and one must turn the gun over if a quick reload is needed. Fortunately, it is an easy fix with a small cut-off wheel and some cold blue.
With no magazine in the receiver the No. 1 can be made with a longer barrel and still stay within the physical length of traditional bolt-action rifles. That gets a few more feet per second out of the bullet and makes for a very handy rifle to carry on the mountain. Those of us who have hunted with a No. 1 have never found its single-shot status to be an impediment in any hunting situation.
Perhaps the only fly in the No. 1’s ointment is its reputation for inconsistent accuracy. I have never had an issue with any of the three No. 1 rifles I have owned over the years. Each produced acceptable hunting accuracy, including a .22-250 Remington varminter that kept 52-gr. Hornady hollow points in less than ¾” at 100 yards all day. Others have had problems with accuracy in a No. 1. I believe that most of the problems associated with accuracy were due to barrel quality that was a problem issue for Ruger years ago. I have not seen or heard any recent problems with No. 1s.
The No. 1 has been made in several configurations, mostly differing in barrel length, weight and fore-end treatments. It remains a part of the Ruger stable, though it is down to nine model variations chambered from .223 Remington to .450/400 Nitro Express and available exclusively through Lipsey’s, the Baton Rouge, La,, distributor.
What started as a dream of Bill Ruger nearly a half century ago remains one of the most iconic sporting rifles ever made. The Ruger No. 1 is the instrument of the rifle connoisseur. It is for the person to whom the hunt is as much about the tool as the game being hunted. The No. 1 is not for the hunter for which the rifle is nothing more than a tool, like the hammer in a carpenter’s tool box. The man who hunts with a No. 1 probably enjoys hand-rolled Cuban cigars, cognac from France and dry-aged rare steaks.
He was a devotee of classic cars, as well as classic firearms. A gifted mechanical mind, Ruger was largely responsible for the continuing of classic firearm designs well past their original manufacturing lives. His first commercial success, the Standard Automatic Pistol, was a redesign of the famed Japanese Nambu pistol of World War II. Ruger recognized the superior ergonomics of the Nambu and made them the foundation of his first pistol. Its success is legendary, and it—in many forms—is still being manufactured 67 years later.
So in 1966 this renaissance man brought to the sporting market a single-shot rifle like few American shooters and hunters had ever seen. At the time the vast majority of American shooters wanted bolt-action rifles—repeaters—to carry on their hunting adventures. Why in the world would anyone want to handicap themselves with a single-shot rifle? The answer was two-fold: beauty and simplicity. The Ruger No. 1 took off like a wildfire and remains a steady occupant in the long-gun market some 49 years henceforth.
Based on the English Farquharson falling-block rifle of 1872, Ruger’s iteration features the same internal hammer, falling-block action and overall styling of the British rifle. The renowned classic stockmaker, Lenard Brownell, designed the two-piece stock for the No. 1. Ruger wanted to lighten his new single-shot rifle—during its pre-production time it was called the “Victorian”—and make it with a trimmer profile. Ruger engineers Larry Larson and Harry Sefried rose to that task by locating the hammer centrally and moving its spring onto a hanger that projects forward of the receiver and serves as a fastening point for the fore-end and the ejector spring.
Like its English predecessor, the No. 1 is bull strong. Brownell said that during its development he tried several time to blow one up but never succeeded. As such the No. 1 has been chambered in no fewer than 47 chamberings, from the .204 Ruger to the .450/400 Nitro Express. The number of wildcats and custom chamberings must be many times that factory amount.
A tang-mounted sliding safety that blocks both hammer and sear from movement takes care of most safety concerns. It is unobtrusive and operates easily with the shooting-hand thumb. If it has a fault it would be that with some models the front of the safety lever sticks above the flute in the breech block and receiver where the fired case is ejected. Sometimes the case hangs up on this projection, and one must turn the gun over if a quick reload is needed. Fortunately, it is an easy fix with a small cut-off wheel and some cold blue.
With no magazine in the receiver the No. 1 can be made with a longer barrel and still stay within the physical length of traditional bolt-action rifles. That gets a few more feet per second out of the bullet and makes for a very handy rifle to carry on the mountain. Those of us who have hunted with a No. 1 have never found its single-shot status to be an impediment in any hunting situation.
Perhaps the only fly in the No. 1’s ointment is its reputation for inconsistent accuracy. I have never had an issue with any of the three No. 1 rifles I have owned over the years. Each produced acceptable hunting accuracy, including a .22-250 Remington varminter that kept 52-gr. Hornady hollow points in less than ¾” at 100 yards all day. Others have had problems with accuracy in a No. 1. I believe that most of the problems associated with accuracy were due to barrel quality that was a problem issue for Ruger years ago. I have not seen or heard any recent problems with No. 1s.
The No. 1 has been made in several configurations, mostly differing in barrel length, weight and fore-end treatments. It remains a part of the Ruger stable, though it is down to nine model variations chambered from .223 Remington to .450/400 Nitro Express and available exclusively through Lipsey’s, the Baton Rouge, La,, distributor.
What started as a dream of Bill Ruger nearly a half century ago remains one of the most iconic sporting rifles ever made. The Ruger No. 1 is the instrument of the rifle connoisseur. It is for the person to whom the hunt is as much about the tool as the game being hunted. The No. 1 is not for the hunter for which the rifle is nothing more than a tool, like the hammer in a carpenter’s tool box. The man who hunts with a No. 1 probably enjoys hand-rolled Cuban cigars, cognac from France and dry-aged rare steaks.
I just wish that I had bought some of these back in the days when they were cheap & plentiful out here in the People’s Republic of California. But it’s just a case of shoulda, coulda but didn’t! Oh well.
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Types of Guns | Gun Guide
Good luck in finding one! They are as rare as a honest Politician. Plus usually you have to replace the recoil spring. But they are a fun gun to shoot!
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Mauser Model 1914
That’s Gonna Leave A Mark
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Shall we see how long it takes for this to get buried and for her to get off with a slap on the wrist?
Top aide of gun-control advocate Bill de Blasio is arrested on weapon charges after she’s found in a car with a loaded pistol near the scene of a shooting in Queens
An aide of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has been arrested after she was found in a car with a loaded gun near the scene of a shooting.
Police found Reagan Stevens, 42, sitting in the back of a double-parked car in Jamaica, Queens, near where an NYPD ‘ShotSpotter’ device had just detected five gunshots on Saturday night.
The deputy director at the mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon after a nine-mm gun with the serial number scratched off and a shell casing were found in the 2002 Infiniti’s glove compartment, officials said.
Bill de Blasio aide Reagan Stevens, 42, has been arrested for gun charges after being found with a loaded weapon near the scene of a shooting in Queens
Two men she was with, Montel Hughes, 24, and driver Caesar Forbes, 25, are also accused of gun charges as well as of carrying knives at the time of their arrest.
The city’s Office of Criminal Justice told the New York Daily News Reagan has been suspended without pay from her job.
‘We take these allegations very seriously,’ said the statement.
Sources told the New York Post surveillance cameras captured the five shots being fired from the Infiniti. Moreover, the gun found in the car has an eight-round magazine and had three rounds left in it
De Blasio is notoriously pro gun control: Just last month he joined a student walkout in Brooklyn as students demanded stricter gun laws (pictured)
Stevens and her two companions waited to be arraigned on Sunday at Queens Criminal Court, where her mother Deborah Stevens Modica has served as a judge for more than 20 years.
Her stepdad Salvatore Modica is an acting Queens Supreme Court justice.
Stevens’ main job at the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice is implementing a 2007 law that raises the age at which children can be charges as adults for non-violent crimes from 16 to 18.
She earns more than $90,000 a year as director of Youth and Strategic Initiatives at the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.
There is obviously more to this story than is being reported here, I can only hope there is some real muckraking done by someone about exactly what was going on with Ms. Stevens and her, ahem, associates.
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Well I am impressed by it!
I just found this picture of bombed out WWII London & I really like it. As it just goes to show that in spite of everything life will go on.
Or this picture also;
The Bottom Line – These folks really were something special!
I fondly remember picking up my grandfathers old dusty, faded hunting magazines and reading about hunting rifles. Unless you were buying a rifle from Kenny Jarrett, or other custom builders, sub-MOA rifles were nary to be found. Sometime during the late 90’s or early 2000, factory rifles started to appear that could produce MOA results with factory ammunition. These days, companies guarantee MOA accuracy and owners seem to fly into a fit of panic if their new rifle fails to group 1.047 inches at 100 yards.
I recently got to spend some time behind a Mossberg Patriot Predator rifle, chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor, and had no problems hitting a 24-inch plate at 1,800 yards. How times have changed.
SPECS
- Type: Bolt Action Rifle
- Cartridge: 6.5 Creedmoor
- Capacity: 5 rds.
- Barrel Length: 22 in. fluted; threaded 5/8×24 TPI with a 1:10-in. twist
- Features: Spiral Fluted Bolt with Oversized Handle
- Trigger: LBA Adjustable Trigger
- Drop-Box Magazine
- Picatinny Rail
- Flat Dark Earth Synthetic Stock
- Finish: Matte blue
- Length of Pull: 13.75 in.
- Weight: 6.5 lbs.
- Overall Length: 42.25 in.
- MSRP: $441
- Manufacturer: O.F. Mossberg & Sons
Pre-Testing
Before field testing, a dry patch was run down the bore of the rifle to clean any residual oil. I took advantage of the threaded muzzle and attached a SilencerCo Trifecta muzzle brake. I also checked the screws on the scope base and found them to be slightly loose. The scope base was removed, the screws were cleaned, dabbed with Rocksett thread lock and the scope base was re-attached. The trigger on the Predator rifle is adjustable between 2 to 7 pounds. For testing purposes, I left it at the factory setting which measured just shy of 3 pounds. Since the majority of my testing would be done in the prone position, I built up the comb using some foam and athletic tape. Proper comb height mitigates issues related to parallax and, increases fitment and comfort.
Accuracy
Accuracy testing was done at the family ranch, in the prone position. The target, an RE Factor Tactical Hitman Target, was 100 yards away and stapled to an old wooden shed. For testing purposes, I used a Nikko Stirling Diamond 4-14X power rifle scope. During testing, I positioned myself so that wind would be at my back. This was to mitigate horizontal deflection related to aerodynamic jump.
The results of the accuracy testing are represented in the pictures. From the pictures, you can see that the 140 grain Barnes Precision Match and the 127-grain Barnes VOR-TX LR hunting ammunition performed the best, printing .65 and .50 MOA 3-shot groups at 100 yards. Hornady’s offering also performed well. The 140 grain Hornady American Gunner held .75 MOA, while the 147-grain Hornady Match held 1 MOA. Hornady 147 ELD-X Hunter held .75 MOA. The round that performed the worst was the 130-grain OTM Match + round from PRIME. Typical groups from the PRIME ammunition were around at 1.25 MOA. For the long-range portion of testing, I chose to use the Hornady 147-grain Match ammunition, due to performance at 100 yards, and the fact that I had a significant amount available.
Field Testing
For the long-range portion of the test, I wanted to push the Mossberg Patriot Predator out to 1000 yards. I believe that a well-made rifle, regardless of barrel profile, when paired with good glass, and good ammunition should be able to hit an 18-inch target at 1000 yards. For the long-range portion of the test, I set up an 18 and 24-inch steel target. During my field test, I shot the Mossberg Patriot Predator at 100, 200, 450, 800, 1000 and 1800 yards. Field conditions for the test were less than ideal. I had a 1/2 value, 15 – 20 mph wind that alternated from 2 o’clock to 10 o’clock. The wind, combined with the dry air created a dense mirage that periodically obscured the steel targets. With that said, I had first round hits all the way out to 1000 yards, and though I was shooting at a relatively large target, the rounds were at least MOA. Things got interesting when we drove to the 1800 yard line. The mirage combined with the erratic wind would make this shot difficult. Shrugging off the perceived challenges, I took a wind reading with my Kestrel, grabbed D.O.P.E. from the Applied Ballistics mobile application on my phone and cooked off 10 rounds at the 24-inch target. Of the 10 rounds shot, 4 connected. Not bad for a thin barreled, lightweight factory rifle paired with factory ammunition!
I have done a lot of coyote hunting, and I consider the Mossberg Patriot Predator rifle to be damn near perfect for the task. In my opinion, a good coyote rifle should be lightweight, accurate and rugged. The trigger should be crisp and predictable. The straight comb, though not optimal for heavy use in the prone position, is excellent for shooting in a sitting position of a tripod or shooting sticks. Since the Mossberg comes from the factory with a threaded barrel, an end user can attach a muzzle brake or suppressor to mitigate recoil and observe hits, or misses.
The Best Caliber
What is a good caliber for hunting coyotes? I prefer a round with a high ballistic coefficient, flat trajectory and a lot of energy for a quick ethical kill. Of late, I have been moving towards the 6.5 Creedmoor for all of my hunting and competition work. 6.5 Creedmoor is accurate, has a flat trajectory and bucks the wind better than its counterparts. The round itself can ethically kill deer and antelope and would make short work of a coyote. If I wanted to merely kill coyotes, I would opt for the Barnes VOR-TX LR or Hornady ELD-X precision Hunter rounds. If I wanted to harvest coyotes for their fur, I would use a match round and punch a round through the heart and lungs. I have found that MATCH rounds do not damage the pelt as much as a hunting round, but require better-shot placement for an ethical kill. If the 6.5 Creedmoor is not your thing, pick an accurate round with a high ballistic coefficient, mild recoil, and a flat trajectory.
Lasting Impressions
The Mossberg Patriot Predator rifle is a fantastic piece of hardware. It is lightweight, well made and very accurate. As its name implies, the rifle would excel at hunting coyotes, but it would also be perfect for any large game in North America. The Mossberg Patriot predator would make a fantastic “ranch” or back-country rifle. I recommend the 6.5 Creedmoor version of this rifle, due to the inherent accuracy of the round. The rifle I tested was not made for long range shooting, but as demonstrated, you can see that I stretched the range on this particular rifle. The Mossberg Patriot Predator was a joy to shoot, and unlike other rifles I have tested, I did not have to “fight the rifle” during testing. These rifles retail for around $350, which for the performance you get, is a steal.
For more information about the Mossberg Patriot Predator, click here.
For more information about Barnes ammunition, click here.
For more information about Hornady ammo, click here.
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