Greybeards Gripes

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This was the second time I’d fired the Griffon.
The magazines were fired from a kneeling postition, arms resting on a tall stool.
The range was 21 ft, slow deliberate fire.
Two points of aim, the head, for the Glock, the chest for the Griffon.
The ammo was staggered in each magazine, 0ne PMC hardball, One Wolf hardball, One PMC, etc, etc.

I have no compliants about the Griffon so far, it has a better trigger than my Glock and is a little longer,
and therefor a bit easier to shoot. As stated earlier, it’s heavier, and not as smooth (to draw) as the Glock, but definately a
very servicable carry gun. I’ll feel quite comfortable handing it over to my son.

The second part of the test, was a full mag. fired fairly quickly from a standing position at 30 ft.
The target was a standard steel silouhette PIG. (about 15×18 ?) The PIG rang 6 times for the Glock and 7 for the Grif. (no misses)
(and this time I was able to get the Grif apart for cleaning, and back together, without shooting the recoil
spring across the room. )

GB

You can click on the “shootist” catagory at the bottom of this page, to see all the previous parts of
“Glock VS Griffon” in one place.

Yep, starting a 3:30 pm yesterday, I’m currently going through my most unpatriotic 24 hours of the year. I visited my taxman yesterday!
After dutifly sending off over a quarter of my paycheck, every payday to Uncle Sam, paying thousands a year in property taxes and sales taxes, I’m now told I have to dig up another 3700 bucks for good old Uncle Sam. This is LUDICROUS, HIGHWAY ROBBERY, AND TOTALLY MISALIGNED WITH OUR CONSTITUTION! If our forefathers, reacted with the Boston Tea Party, over a little tax on TEA, what would they have done when the government demanded at 40 to 50 percent TAX on EVERY PENNY THEY EARNED.
I am retired (but fortunatley working a new job) and my TAX bill this year, handily exceeded my retirement pension!

A VERY UNPATRIOTIC DAY!

Hopefully I won’t feel this UNPATRIOTIC again, until April 14th, when I actually have to send off that check.
:-[

“Moussaoui had expressed an interest in holy war and believed Muslims were within their rights to kill infidels, according to court testimony”

After repeatedly hearing phrases like the one above.

“Muslims have a duty to kill infidels”
“Killing an infidel is the path to heaven”

Can someone please explain to this heavily armed and trained infidel, why ANY U.S. POLITITION WOULD STOOP SO LOW AS TO OFFER LEGISLATION THAT WOULD DISARM THE AMERICAN (read infidel) PEOPLE??????

LONG LIVE FREEDOM!

Ok, check out stevespages
At the first page, take a little time to look around, all the cool stuff is a few pages into the website. Tons of gun owners manuals, parts lists, and reloading data. Thanks Steve!!

The Grif’s slide arrived yesterday in the US mail, with new PT Nightsights installed. All it took was 11 biz days, including shipping time both ways and cost 42 bucks. Can’t complain about that.
The workmanship was fine, the only way I can tell they’ve been swapped is, now they glow again.
I’m still undecided about my decision to go orange on the rear dots and green on the front. I acutally think I like the sights on my Glock better, (all three dots are green). The green dots are considerably brighter than the organge. Not an issue in very dim area’s, but with my older eyes, the brighter (green) dots show up a lot better in lighting that’s just starting to dim down. Hopefully it won’t be an issue for younger eyes.
Anyway, it’s all re-assembled, and I only shot the recoil spring across the room once getting it back together.
I’ve got a real busy weekend going, so it will likely be sometime next week before I get started on that Glock/Griffin range test comparison test. (Still waiting on the spare mag and Andrews Holster.)

Happy St. Patty’s Day, go easy on the Guiness. Sl�inte!

GreyBeard

It was a nice day Saturday and after all the work was done, there were still a couple of hours of daylight left to burn.
Out came the S&W K-22, and the Ruger Single Six!!
The “better half” and I burned a quick couple hundred rounds of Federal’s relatively new .22 game load.
No paper, we worked all the rounds on ringing the gongs.
Three steel plate targets, a 4×4 square at 7 yards, a standard iron chicken at 35 yards, and the standard boar, at 50 yards.
Belive it or not, the chicken takes the most concentration.

We did competitions where she had the pig and I had the chicken.
Starting with our guns at our side, one of us yelled go, and the first to hit their target was the winner. (I think I came out a couple, just a couple, of hits ahead of her).
We also played follow the leader, she would ring one, then I would ring it as quickly as possible after her, in the mean time she would be ring a different one.
Bang-clang, bang-clang, BBang-CClang, etc, etc.. Great Fun!

The Ruger with it’s 7 inch barrel and fixed sights, is a great “pointer”, but the K-12 with the oversized grips and adj. sites, is the one for presion work. I’m still working her on the double action of the K-22, she likes to thumb back the hammer, (even on her carry gun, a CA .44 Special Police BullDog). I like to bust of a cylinder double action on the pig and try to get the third or fourth bang, ahead of the second or third clang. (I wish I could do that with -my- carry gun, -Glock 36-!!

Oh well, I can’t wait for the Griffon’s slide to come back, I hope the warmer weather holds for a range test.

Hangin’ in there,
GreyBeard