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Back to sets of 5′s.

And since I’m out of calibers I give a shit about, I would fuck this girl until she bled. And then I’d buy her at least a couple low end paul chen’s so she could at least pose with something that wasn’t so obviously flea market trash next time. :[

Another hour with 8 palms.

And since it’s the 50th post, it’s time for another favorite round. Can you guess what it is?

John Browning had the idea for this round during World War I in response to a need for an anti-aircraft weapon.[citation needed], based on a scaled-up .30-06 Springfield design, used in a machine gun based on a scaled-up M1919/M1917 design that Browning had initially developed around 1900 (but which was not adopted by the U.S. military until 1917, hence the model designation). Armor-piercing incendiary tracer (APIT) rounds were especially effective against aircraft, and the AP rounds and API rounds were excellent for destroying concrete bunkers, structures, and lighter AFVs. The API and APIT rounds left a flash, report, and smoke on contact, useful in detecting strikes on enemy targets.

Spent an hour just mudwalking with various palms before work. The other 6 palms had been feeling neglected, and I wanted to cheer them up a bit. The whiney little bitches.

The usual.

Again.

We havn’t had a new video since the third… that was *two* weeks ago.

The usual, at dawn.

I was at least half correct. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Hi-Power :

Unlike Browning’s earlier Colt M1911 pistol, the barrel is not moved vertically by a toggling link, but instead by a hardened bar which crosses the frame under the barrel and contacts a slot under the chamber, at the rearmost part of the barrel. The barrel and slide recoil together for a short distance but, as the slot engages the bar, the chamber and the rear of the barrel are drawn downward and stopped. The downward movement of the barrel disengages it from the slide, which continues rearward, extracting the spent case from the chamber and ejecting it. After the slide reaches the limit of its travel, the recoil spring brings it forward again, stripping a new round from the magazine and pushing it into the chamber. This also pushes the chamber and barrel forward. The cam slot and bar move the chamber upward and the locking lugs on the barrel reengage those in the slide.

So, basically, it’s using a metal bar instead of a peculiarly shaped cam to raise/lower the back end of the barrel. I’m not sure how this is relevant to a .460 conversion requiring a compensator or not. If I ever get around to looking more into this I’ll let ya know, but I’m more worried about getting a 1911 at all first before how I might dick around with it. :]

Or like, if someone in the know could drop a comment, that’d be nice. I’ve got a queue of a dozen comments awaiting approval, every one of which is spam. >:[

And yes, this is becoming the guns I have or wish I had blog. Well, fuck you. There just really isn’t much to say about the Bagua… I practice, it’s getting better, and that’s that.

ON THAT NOTE. Another 50rd through my Hi Point (not related to Hi Power). I actually had a FTL (failure to load)! It was only once out of the 50, but it *did* happen. Turns out, I had grabbed a box of 185gr hollowpoints, not the usual 230gr full metal jackets I’d been shooting. Same price, same green Remington box… didn’t notice they were HP’s ’till I started loading, and didn’t notice they were only 185gr’s until it failed (which explains the identical price ).

I figure the poor thing with its blowback operation and heavy as fuck slide was probably barely getting enough pressure to cycle, and a dud round a little under spec just didn’t throw the slide back far enough for it to strip the next round out of the mag and up the ramp on its return. I also suspect this is nothing a polish job on the feed ramp wouldn’t correct, but, frankly, 1 failure in 50rd is unacceptable to me regardless of cause even if I do get around to polishing the ramp. I’ll be sticking to 230gr’s and double checking from now on.

On the other side of the coin though, it was also a moment of triumph for stupidly inexpensive HiPoint. Going from one sort of ammo to basically its complete fucking opposite, on the insanely slim 49 out of 50 chance it *does* work properly, as far as I could tell point of aim and recoil were completely unaffected. The only indication I was firing anything different was the one FTL and the water bottles fucking exploding rather than just getting a couple holes punched though them. Having a fixed barrel really seems to be making up a *lot* for its otherwise cheap construction.

The usual, and my 2nd favorite caliber, .460 Rowland. Never shot one of these, and I don’t like its requiring a compensator on an already 5″ barrel, but it makes my pants tight. A .45 at 40kPsi? FUCK YES. And word is, while 1911 frames are the only base for a .460 conversion that require a compensator *, it also reduces recoil even below that of the stock .45…

I mean, sure, if you want “.44 magnum performance” you could just buy a fucking .44 mag instead, but I don’t know of any that aren’t revolvers. .357 mag (arguably better performance than .45 at stopping 2 legged critters) revolvers at least (usually) have the virtue that they’ll also shoot .38 special… hey, wait. I wonder if revolver conversions for .460 will also fire .45? If anything could convince me to ever buy a wheel gun, that’d be it. We wound up with .45ACP because .38 special was simply failing to stop people in the field. But if I can get a dual load revolver and .45 is *the low end* it fires? ALSO FUCK YES. And I think I’d like that more than modding a 1911 with an extra weight at the end of the barrel.

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* 1911′s use Browning’s barrel link/lug system. I suspect this is why .460 conversions need the compensator, but I could be totally off. If I recall correctly it wasn’t until his Hi-Power design that he worked out how to ditch the link/cam, later Glocks and friends copy this sort of design instead (all semi auto pistols I’m aware of are derived from Browning’s designs…).

5 minutes each stance, 5 minutes mudwalking with each palm, each direction, at dawn, same as every fucking day.

It’s also apparently Valentine’s day. Handily enough, I was planning on being face deep in someone’s pussy today anyway. I bet she thinks I’m romantic.

More importantly it’s my 45th post… everybody’s favorite caliber! And more good news… Apparently Colt stopped being a bunch of fags a while ago and have been actually making the 70′s series 1911′s again O_O. I thought the only options really around were Kimber and their ilk with that damned Schwartz fuckup “safety”, Colt series 80 and its clones with their own retarded but unlike Kimber not *entirely* broken firing pin block, or Springfield with the ILS which while gay, at least is easily removable without breaking shit.

So fuck it, I’mma gonna get the pony gun, sans any safety asshatery. 1911′s are single action only… if you don’t trust the safety Browning designed into it, don’t fucking cock it, or don’t carry it with a round chambered at all… but if you’re seriously worried that you’ll drop the damn thing hard enough to get the firing pin to whack the primer then the safety device between your ears is far too fucking broken and you should probably stick with Airsoft.

5 minutes each stance, 5 minutes mudwalking with each palm, each direction.

The usual, other than getting home from a fucking 12 hour shift to spend another hour moving boxes, ugh. Mudwalked while hauling the shit around, too.