Greybeards Gripes

Everyone questions whether we will see another major terrorist attack here in the US of A.
My considered opinion;
*As long as we have American’s that are willing to sell controlling interests of the USA to foriegn powers,
*As long a large minority of Americans feel the need to trash our Constitution and Bill of Rights,
*As long as American polictics are just a bickerfest between the two major parties
*As long as illegal aliens are free to enter our country at will,
*As long as the powers that be, take the opinion that criminals, terriorists, and spy’s, are protected by our constitution,
*As long as, foriegn nationals are fully protected and given even greater rights than citizens,
*As long as our Government tries to be everything to everyone,
*As long as there are laws against defending ones self and family against agression,
*As long as Terrorism is allow to masquerade as religion,
*As long as our free press, uses their freedom to mask the issues,
*Etc, Etc, I think you get the idea,,,
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Yes, I’m afraid I think it’s just a matter of time.
Keep your family safe, and your defenses strong.

Respectfully Submitted,
GreyBeard

I ran across this by accident this afternoon while browsing my old links.
Attrition.org does guns
There are good articles here on maintenance of the Para-Ordinace 1911, Mossberg 500, Browning Auto Rifle MKII, Beretta 92 Brigadier, Colt Anaconda, Ruger Security Six and Mark II.

Very good information, thanks to Cancer Omega at Attrition.
I would just note, that a 1911 with a solid recoil spring rod, comes apart just a tiny bit differently. (I discuss that in one of my earlier articles on the Griffon 1911)

Respectfully Submitted:
GreyBeard

The “Wonders of Scotland” is a contest in which voters get to read about and choose their favorite “wonder” of Scotland. It’s hosted by http://news.scotsman.com . You’ll likely have to create an account and login to view the pictures, articles and vote, but it’s free.

I’m personally leaning toward a vote for “CUILLIN OF SKYE”.

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The Remington Golden Saber 185 gr +P ammo I ordered came in the other day. All as expected, except, the 5 boxes are not all from the same lot! Maybe I should have requested that, on my order?
Anyway, they came from 3 different lots. To work around that problem, I’ve decided to use the odd box as practice rounds to be sure the Grif is going to feed them, (along with my two boxes of old carry loads, for a total of 75 rds). Then of the 4 remaining boxes, with two different lot numbers, I’ll will give my son, two matching boxes, and keep the remaining two matched boxes for my own carry loads. I would have rather had all rounds from the same lot, but I guess this will work.

For the primary range report, we’ll be shooting the 1. Golden Sabers 2. PMC 220gr hardball, and 3. Wolf 220 gr hardball .
If the Grif feeds them all reliably and accurately, I’ll call it a go.

GB

Still waiting for the Sight repair, spare mag., and holster.
But on the bright side, the weather is looking a lot better for an outdoor shooting session!

The “Anarchangel”
get’s serious about home defense!! Another take on home defense, in response to the Angel, can be found at Doc Russia’s Blog along with the Doc’s take on last night’s Oscar ceremonies. Very insightful Doc!

The (unknown) author suggests that you’d have to be over 40 to understand this article. I’m guessing that there are still a lot of young’uns out there that can relate also.

GB

Another Goody For The Old timers

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same
cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to
get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw
sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a
brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can’t remember getting
ecoli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of
a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a
pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE… and risked permanent injury with a pair of
high top Ked’s (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training
athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I
can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell
us how much safer we are now..

Flunking gym was not an option…even for stupid kids! I guess PE must
be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem,
and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative
attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system
we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was
allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station,
Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah… and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got
that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played ‘king of the hill’ on piles of gravel left on vacant
construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent
bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn’t sting
like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a
$49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the
contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was
such a threat.

We didn’t act up at the neighbor’s house either because if we did, we
got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we
got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks
on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know
that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and
swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run a muck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they
were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We
were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn’t even
notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac! How did we ever
survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN’T- SORRY FOR
WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN’T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING