Stay Committed... No To Jabs And Boosters

 

From "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 1978 remake. So very appropriate.. replaced humans.

Yup. Dead.

I'll stay in this group, thanks. I would answer "YES" to all but the last two. The top three are the top three for the obvious reasons.

New Years Day Outing At The Range

Wifey out of town all day, so several hours of fun at my club range. A couple of weeks ago, she cleaned out the pantry and spare refrigerator of some old expired canned goods, perfect to blow apart on the range, so I scavenged it all. I also brought nine refilled 1 gallon jugs for distilled water from Dollar General. These have a plastic carry handle, perfect for hanging on the S hooks that are at the range for the steel plates. For rifles I brought a lever gun in .38 SPL/.357 Mag, and a .22LR bolt gun. For pistol work, my two winter carry guns, a Glock 21 Gen 3 and my S&W 45 Shield.

I started with paper targets for both rifles to check zero, then went to 1 gallon water jugs which were less than impressive with .357 Magnums, and a waste with .38 Spl. It is strange how water jugs react better with certain calibers, and dramatically with others. More on that later. I then moved onto some cans. 2 old 12 ounce Coke cans absolutely exploded when hit with some old Remington Thunderbolt .22's. I guess the extra pressure from carbonated soda and thin skin aluminum cans did the trick. A .22 against an expired 12 ounce V-8 juice can just punched hole, knocked it over and leaked out the juice. Hitting those with the .357 Magnum blew them apart well along with 1 can of Campbell's Tomato soup, an old can of Del Monte green beans, and a large can of diced tomatoes. Those last two were glorious to watch. A fellow club member showed up with several AR platform rifles in different calibers. As usual while shooting, we each offered up guns and ammo to each other. I had never shot 6.5 Creedmoor before, while he enjoyed a mag in the .22, the Glock, and the 45 Shield. He also blasted half of my water jugs. The Creedmoor at 200 yards was the best. It blew the jug in half from top to bottom and turned it inside out. The most interesting was .308 It punched a perfectly sized .308 holes completely through, and popped a small hole in the center of the bottom, simply letting the water drain out. Not once, but twice in the exact same way. We had to go down range to inspect the jugs to see what exactly happened. I then whacked an expired cylinder of C.O. test gas that was fun. I used the .357 Magnum rifle, punched a clean entrance/exit hole 1/3 of the way down, and it took off sideways cartwheeling at high speed across the grass, spewing all the gas instantly in a gray cloud. About this time, one of the older members showed up. He hunts deer with a black powder rifle, was done for the season and needed to unload his rifle. Of course the only way to do that is fire it. He asked if we minded because of the all the smoke. We said absolutely not and cleared the line to let him go undisturbed. He took aim at a water jug at 75 yards but missed. He stuck around a little to look at what we were shooting then left. Here's a short clip of him touching it off. I posted it because he was wearing a mask and his identity is safe.

 

I then turned my attention to my pistols starting with the Glock. I wanted to be sure my accuracy and gun handling skills were still good with it. Yup, 3 mags banged all the steel plates without a single miss at 25 yards. One target is a small silouhette with a smaller circular hinged plate at center mass. I effortlessly hit that center every time. I then switched to a full size paper silouhette target at 7 yards for the 45 Shield. For this, I held at the low ready, and then on a mental go signal, I came up to a Modified Weaver stance and did a "2 to the heart, 1 to the head" as quickly and accurately as I could. Perfect. I taped over the holes and did it 3 more times. I then tried my luck with the 25 yard plates. Last time with the 45 Shield I didn't do so well, this time not a miss. I think last time I was suffering from new gun jitters. Satisfied, I offered up my guns and ammo to the other shooter. For the .45's, I was shooting my target handloads. Speer brass, Winchester large magnum pistol primers, Bullseye powder, and Berry's 200 grain copper plated flat point bullets. The .357 Magnum and .38 Special target round are also my handloads. Both use Federal brass, Winchester small magnum primers, and Berry's 158 grain copper plated flat point bullets. The .38's use Bullseye powder, while the .357 Magnum uses Hogdgon HS-6 powder. 

When we were done shooting and all cleaned up, we hung out for a while longer discussing The 2nd Amendment and the folly of gun control and insanity of gun free death zones. Always good to chat with like-minded folks, and the club members I have spoken to all seem to have a like mindset.

I came home and stowed my gear, and then cleaned and lubed all my weapons. I still have a couple of long guns to clean from a previous outing, and may tackle those tomorrow.

Ah, Shit!

The amazing, talented, and very funny Betty White passed away at age 99.

Rest in Peace my dear, you are with God now and will be greatly missed.

New Years Resolution

They're stupid, but I'll play. Since this blog is less than a year old this will be the first time you will be reading this. Every year I make and then instantly break the same resolution. "How can that be Glypto?" you ask? Like this:

"I hearby resolve to NOT make any New Years resolutions."

Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!

Unless something huge happens that requires my attention and brilliant commentary, this will be my final post of the year. Happy New Year my friends. Have a better 2022 than the clusterfuck that was the past two.

Oh The Irony

Over Christmas, I was excluded from two gatherings (one was family and one was friends) because of my jab-free status. I figured so be it, their loss, I will happily remain a pure blood.

Now I don't love these people any less for being excluded, but I am going to engage in a bit of schadenfreude here. I just found out that our friends, that had family in from out of state and were all fully jabbed are right now self-quarantining. They were all exposed to a family member from another household that has tested positive for the Chi-Com Xi Flu. It was very hard to not just burst out in loud obnoxious laughter at this development, but my wife would have been really pissed at me. This will have to suffice.

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

Our friends have a brand new grandchild, and a big deal was being made about coming to see the baby... until they realized I was jab free. My exclusion was supposed to be to keep the baby safe, but as we all know babies and young children are basically unaffected by Chi-Com Xi Flu but I wasn't going to argue the point. I was more than happy to stay home and stream a movie.

Up until 2019, we threw a big New Year's Eve shindig at our place, anywhere from 12 to 25 people and I made lots of great food, usually a surf-n-turf. Last year only the couple this post was about came, and this year it will be no one. We are back to the pre-1996 era where we didn't bother celebrating New Years. That changed when we had our first full year exchange student from Romania, where New Years was a bigger deal than Christmas. Because of her, we had celebrated every year since. Oh well... maybe more people will be done with this BKT* by January 1st 2023, and we can go back to having our party.

BKT* Bullshit Kabuki Theater