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Wool is great as it still keeps you warm even when soaking wet.
I wear wool shirts when hunting during the winter,especialy for Ohio’s firearms deer season-usually 1st week of Dec. and the Jan. muzzleloader season.
We get lots of misty days,with light rain or drizzle,lots of fog,and sometimes snow.
Being out in the snow when it’s right around freezing usually means you get wet from the snow melting on your clothes.
Wool pants are great too,haven’t been able to find any at an affordable price for years.
Wool is hands down the best material for your hunting clothing,or for any other reasons you will be out in the weather.
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Gunsite Scout Rifle, Pt. 2
Posted: December 19, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedTags: scout rifle,rifles,firearms
The Scout can’t accommodate a conventionally mounted scope and its rear ghost ring at the same time, because the ghost-ring sight screws into the receiver where the rear scope ring sits. This means you have to find somewhere to keep the sight and its mounting screw. I put them someplace where I would never lose them and then could not find them despite months of looking.
When I finally admitted that they were lost I discovered that Brownell’s, which carries everything, does not carry Scout Ghost Rings, and that the manufacturer, XS Sight Systems, doesn’t either. So I swallowed my pride and called Ruger.
If you’d like to use a rear-mounted scope and keep the ghost ring in place, XS makes the Gunsite Scout Rifle Rail, which extends from midway up the barrel to the rear of the receiver, and includes a permanent ghost ring, which can peaceably coexist with a rear-mounted scope. You remove the factory Picatinny rail and install the XS in its place. It’s $90, and, from the comments on the Internet, works perfectly. (xssights.com. You can also get it from Midway. Do I really have to give you Midway’s URL?)
Magazines. The Scout originally came with blued-steel magazines, but these seem to have fallen by the wayside, as they were expensive and would rust on you if you neglected them. They’ve been replaced by glass-filled nylon magazines that are much tougher, much less expensive, and which require no maintenance. These mags come in 3-, 5-, and 10-round versions. For hunting, the 3-round is the best, because it’s legal everywhere and fits almost flush with the bottom of the stock, letting you carry the rifle at the receiver like a Model 94. Five is nice, but what for I’m not quite certain, and 10 is the way to go if you’re tactical. The polymer magazines, by the way, come with a cap, which is a very good idea because it protects the most damage-prone part of the box.
Triggers. Having been the recipient of its share of idiot lawsuits, Ruger solemnly enjoins us not to replace any of its parts with anything not made by them, so be advised, but I have a Timney trigger in my Scout, installed by a gunsmith, and it’s a very worthwhile alteration. If you’re not fussy about triggers, you can get by fine with the factory version. If you are fussy, spend the $125 plus whatever the gunsmith charges.
(My favorite Ruger lawsuit story concerns a woman who caught her husband slippin’ round, as they used to say in the South, and maybe still do, confronted him with a loaded, cocked, single-action Ruger revolver, laid the muzzle against his chest, and proceeded to tell him the Way it Was. Unfortunately, the handgun went off in mid-speech with fatal results. And who did she sue? Sturm, Ruger. This story was told to me by someone who testified at the trial, and I believe I have the details correct, but I can’t swear to them.)
To be continued.
More on the Scout Rifle, Pt. 1
Posted: December 19, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedTags: scout rifle,rifles,firearms,guns
Although the late (and much missed) Jeff Cooper was primarily a handgunner, he devoted a good deal of thought, experimentation, and writing to the development of an all-around rifle which he called the Scout. Not because it was trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent, but because it was highly portable, handy to use under all conditions, accurate to 300 yards and a bit, powerful enough for anything short of dangerous game, and light kicking. He envisioned it as something that a highly mobile Marine or soldier would carry if he had to move a lot, and quickly.
The first company to produce a Scout was Steyr. Their rifle debuted in 1998 and was an odd-looking duck with a synthetic stock and a hefty price tag. I got to shoot one. It was very, very accurate, and more or less everything Lt. Colonel Cooper claimed it was.
By the time he went to that great range where the wind never blows and there is no mirage, the Scout concept was well established. But it was Ruger that really picked up the Scout and ran with it. In 2011 they introduced a version that was developed in conjunction with Gunsite Academy, which Cooper founded.
That Scout took off. It’s essentially a .308 carbine, but with bells and whistles, mostly of a tactical nature. There are now ten variations on it, including left-hand, .223 (which would have given Jeff Cooper a seizure), stainless, synthetic-stocked, flash hider or recoil suppressor, two barrel lengths, and steel or synthetic magazines of 3-, 5-, or 10-round capacity.
What follows are some random observations on the rifle, based on mine, which is one of the early versions, a blue-steel, .308, southpaw gun. Ruger is now advertising the Scout as the one rifle that will do it all, and they are pretty much correct. The .308 is one of the most highly developed and popular cartridges around. There’s a literally endless variety of ammo available for it, and components if you’re a handloader. So:
While the Scout’s short barrels (16.10 and 18.70 inches) are a big convenience in many ways, they cause you to lose velocity. In my rifle, which has the 16.10, I see speeds in the 2,450 fps range with 150- and 165-grain bullets. The real-world velocity of a 150-grain .308 slug in a 24-inch barrel is 2,700 fps, and if you chop 8 inches off the barrel you’ll lose about 25 fps, per inch, or 200 fps.
If this concerns you greatly, you can get a Scout with an 18.7 inch barrel, which will put some speed back, or you can handload. I’m able to get 2,700 fps out of 150-grain Barnes X-Bullets via handloading, and there are no pressure signs at all.
The Scout is a very mild kicker, and I don’t see why people would want a recoil reducer. Maybe it has something to do with the Millennial Generation, which also feels the need for Safe Space, whatever that is. In any event, I much prefer the flash suppressor. In case you feel the urge to remove it and replace it with a cap, don’t. Because of the short barrels, you are bound to get considerable muzzle flash, and even if you’re not using the rifle tactically, that doesn’t help your shooting. Ruger’s flash suppressor works; leave it alone.
Read the rest @ Field & Stream here
What Skills Can You Barter in SHTF or TEOTWAWKI?
Posted: December 18, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedNow is a good time to figure out which skills those in your tribe have,and which need to be learned.
Preppers often think in terms of extra supplies or equipment to survive an extended SHTF situation or even TEOTWAWKI. But at some point, those supplies will run out. And even if you chose the Lone Wolf prepper mode, at some point you are going to have to interact with other people. Very few preppers have the skills and lifelong experience to totally live off the land.
At some point, groups of people will band together. Some will have prior to the event, some after. For long-term sustainability, you better have some skill(s) that you are good at to barter with. And I don’t think stock brokerage would be a useful one. Once the initial chaos settles down, those who survive will need to be useful. So lets look at some of the skills or experience that would be useful to others that you might trade for what you need. I will group…
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‘Run, Hide, And Tell’: The UK Rolls Onto Its Back And Shows Its Piss-Soaked Belly To Islam
Posted: December 18, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedWhat happens when a Muslim grandfather savagely rapes his own two-year-old granddaughter?
Posted: December 18, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
I have to give it to Muslims, that is if you want to be stunned beyond belief, all you have to do is check out some of the crap they pull off. And I don’t want to read some b.s. that Christians and other religions do the same stuff. If you believe that maybe you’ll have to back it up with some … uh … what do they call those things … facts? Anyway, IMHO no one can hold a candle to the sick bastards called Muslims. Yeah I know not all Muslims are sick s.o.b.s but the ones who are do enough sick sh#t to fill the gap. Yeah, you have to get up pretty early in the morning to compete with the insanity perpetrated by Muslims. Here’s a little piece for your reading displeasure …
Many thanks to Bare Naked Islam for exposing the vileness of these sick…
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Obama’s Vendetta With Gun Makers Gets Personal: Smith & Wesson Shares Plunge After Call For SEC Investigation, by Tyler Durden
Posted: December 18, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
Anybody who thinks this is just an above-board investigation by disinterested and politically neutral regulators should not be allowed to vote or drive. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Last Friday, in the aftermath of the most recent mass shooting in San Bernardino and the latest attempt by Obama to impose further gun control measures, ostensibly by executive order, we pointed out the one thing, or rather person, who even the NYT begrudgingly admitted in an article on “What Drives Gun Sales” has been the primary driver of gun sales in the US: US president Barack Obama.
The irony in all this, of course, was that just last Friday the stock price of Smith & Wesson hit an all time high on expectations gun sales are about to hit even greater all time highs in the coming weeks.
Alas, as it turns out, Obama is not a fan of efficient market…
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There are a lot of blogs and pundits talking about the end of America as we know it.
The arguments center around
- The economy is going to go bust and America will go bankrupt
- The US won’t be a superpower anymore if the world goes off the dollar standard
- The 35-50% of people on the government dole will become violent once the economy tanks
- ISIS wants to take over the world
It’s all BS to distract folks from what’s important at best, and to be demoralizing at worst.
I’m working from the assumption that my readers are working hard at accumulating their preps.
Guns and ammo? Check.
Food supplies to last one year? Check.
Advanced medical supplies? Check.
Sources of water to last you forever? Check.
Knowledge? Check.
Training? Check.
If you have the preps taken care of, how will the US Government going bankrupt destroy your life? Impossible. Yes…
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