Gun trivia
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 4:00 pm
Gun trivia in the news:
Wall Street Journal (I assume http://247wallst.com/ is the WSJ) researched versatile game cartridges to determine the 15 best all round big to small game cartridges, seems one of their constraints was using factory loads. #15 was the .450 Bushmaster, odd choice to me. My first guess on the most versatile was a toss-up between 270 and 30-06 (2 peas in the same pod). Their #2 was 270 and #1 was 30-06.
Since no one has commented yet, I will addition, in the middle of the recommendations was 45/70. I was carrying my 45/70 around hunting pigs and would not think of shooting armadillos or other small critters with it. 50 or 60 grains of powder and a 300 grain slug makes my arm hurt thinking about it. When I see a pig the thought of recoil does not even cross my mind. Squirrels and other small critters, yeah, I will think about it and flinch. My dad's plinker load in' 06 was a hundred grain bullet with 20 grains of Unique, like shooting a 22 rimfire.
I think I heard Mr. Biden say this morning that he wants Congress to ban all semi auto sales. Not just those evil assault weapons but all semi autos? I will probably see it on the news again and figure out exactly what he said. Then Beto O can come get my 10/22 Ruger, I guess. That will make the world a safer place. If that does not fix things next it will be kitchen knives (think Moscow, Idaho). In Boy Scouts they told us that a dull knife was a dangerous one, some of these guys definitely are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Quote "The idea that we can buy semi-automatic weapons is sick"
Funny that when mentioning weapons of war these people never mention Krags, Springfields, and Enfields which really are/were weapons of war. I had a friend over helping me with a phone situation and he was up on a ladder next to the electronics and asked about that rifle. I told him it was a Krag a real "military weapon". The very best the USA had in the late 1890s.
Wall Street Journal (I assume http://247wallst.com/ is the WSJ) researched versatile game cartridges to determine the 15 best all round big to small game cartridges, seems one of their constraints was using factory loads. #15 was the .450 Bushmaster, odd choice to me. My first guess on the most versatile was a toss-up between 270 and 30-06 (2 peas in the same pod). Their #2 was 270 and #1 was 30-06.
Since no one has commented yet, I will addition, in the middle of the recommendations was 45/70. I was carrying my 45/70 around hunting pigs and would not think of shooting armadillos or other small critters with it. 50 or 60 grains of powder and a 300 grain slug makes my arm hurt thinking about it. When I see a pig the thought of recoil does not even cross my mind. Squirrels and other small critters, yeah, I will think about it and flinch. My dad's plinker load in' 06 was a hundred grain bullet with 20 grains of Unique, like shooting a 22 rimfire.
I think I heard Mr. Biden say this morning that he wants Congress to ban all semi auto sales. Not just those evil assault weapons but all semi autos? I will probably see it on the news again and figure out exactly what he said. Then Beto O can come get my 10/22 Ruger, I guess. That will make the world a safer place. If that does not fix things next it will be kitchen knives (think Moscow, Idaho). In Boy Scouts they told us that a dull knife was a dangerous one, some of these guys definitely are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Quote "The idea that we can buy semi-automatic weapons is sick"
Funny that when mentioning weapons of war these people never mention Krags, Springfields, and Enfields which really are/were weapons of war. I had a friend over helping me with a phone situation and he was up on a ladder next to the electronics and asked about that rifle. I told him it was a Krag a real "military weapon". The very best the USA had in the late 1890s.