Pat Riot

We had a yellow tabby tomcat that chewed on everything. We named him “Munch”. He destroyed a pair of my eyeglasses - $460 to replace. He put teeth marks in my pocket knives. He gnawed on the kitchen table legs. We eventually cured this with Bitter Apple spray. Once I was assembling an AR. I had a CMMG Lower Kit. I dropped one of the little colored bags on the floor of the garage and WHOOSH! A furry yellow streak made off with my bag of parts. We looked and looked and couldn’t find them. I figured out what parts were missing a bought them from the store that sold me the lower kit. The guys there got a big kick out of my story. We never really got mad at him. He and his sister were great cats. We miss them. Here he is with his ornery sister. Here he is with a partial box of Kleenex he swiped off the night stand. Oh, that bed they are in is my dog Wilbur’s bed. He learned pretty early not to tangle with those two.

Our neighbor had a morning visitor. She was out on a leisurely stroll.

I took these this morning. The clouds looked like fluffy cylinders all laid out in a single layer.

If my calculations are correct Voyager 1 has only traveled 6.6% of a light year in 47 years. Still, 15 billion miles and still communicating. Impressive, very impressive.

A few years back I met a guy that loved having conversion barrels and parts for his semiauto pistols. He had a Glock 22 in .40 S&W. He bought a 9mm barrel and some magazines so he could shoot both 9mm and .40 S&W from the same gun. He said “With this setup I have two guns.” I said “No, you have one gun that is able to shoot 2 calibers with some minor parts swapping.” He said “No, I technically have two guns.” ”Which barrel is in your Glock 22 now?” ”The 9mm. ”Good, loan me your 9mm to shoot and you can shoot the 40.” ”Uh…Okay, I see your point…” One gun with numerous barrels is still one gun.

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Dang! That sounds bad. I hope he gets help.

Now I see it. It was gone before. Weird.

Sorry for your losses.

Is the photo of my Henry appearing in the post above? It doesn’t appear on my phone.

Scary words when spoken by a female.

In California I met a guy that had 2 FN 57 pistols. One had a Holosun red dot optic. He let me shoot that one. At 10 yards I shot the best 10 shot group of my life. All rounds were in a nickel sized group. That experience sent me on a mad mission to buy my own. The prices were ridiculous on these guns as they were hard to get. I can’t recall if they were on CA’s “approved roster” or not. The ammo was hard to find and not inexpensive. The procedure for hand-loading brought my infatuation to a complete stop. The empty cases cannot be cleaned properly due to a coating that is put on each case during manufacture. The coating keeps the cases from sticking when the cartridge is fired so the extractor can pull the case from the chamber. Even without cleaning and wearing off the coating you can only reload the cases a couple of times as the coating wears off from the friction of extraction. All in all the round is interesting as are the pistols that fire them, but I just can’t see any reason I need one of these guns and the cost is too much for my liking. I am actually trying to reduce the number of calibers I own, not increase them. A while back my wife’s uncle - he’s a few years older than my wife - gave me a Henry Frontier Octagon .22 Magnum for cleaning and restoring 21 long guns and 4 handguns that were exposed to weather and moisture and were covered in mold. It was a nice gesture and very much appreciated as I did not help him out because I wanted anything, but now I have a new mouth to feed. It is a pretty little thing.

It definitely is interesting. If they made this in a more useful caliber (useful to me) I would definitely be interested. It’s a little bit longer than the P17, .22 LR. Image clipped from: https://www.handgunhero.com/compare/kel-tec-p-17-vs-kel-tec-pr57 I wish Handgun Hero also compared the widths of these two. The stripper clip loading is an interesting feature. The ammo price is what fizzles my interest and reloading it is a PITA, from what I have been told.

This might be his website: https://stores.leeshavergunsmithing.com/ Here’s the standard view of the website https://stores.leeshavergunsmithing.com/?fullSite=1 I can’t find an email address.

My wife and I went into a regular mom & pop restaurant in California. They had tablet kiosks on the tables. A girl came over to our table and said “You have to use the tablets to order.” ”You can’t take our order?” ”No, sorry. Use the tablet.” ”You use it or shove it. I don’t care.” With that, we left.

Over the past few years I have saved a lot of money because of kiosks in stores and restaurants. I won’t use them. Follow me for more money saving ideas. By the way, drive throughs don’t use kiosks.

One handle = One knife, regardless of the number of blades. I typically carry 3 knives. 2 are Swiss Army knives, 1 mini and 1 Explorer. I also carry a CRKT M16 with no serrations. Sometimes I carry my CRKT M21 instead of the M16.

Looked for a Bushnell Magnum Phantom scope. None to be found without visiting the GB site, which I refuse to do. I did find a Manurhin 73 for sale for the princely sum of $4,150 on Guns.com It’s a 4” so no bipod mounting. https://www.guns.com/firearms/p/manurhin-mr73?i=329268 Years ago I knew a guy that had a S&W 27 with an 8 3/8” barrel with a scope on it and he had a bipod on it, just like the gun in the video above. He used it at the indoor range I frequented. He was in a wheel chair and in poor health. He shot bullseye matches there. No one complained about his gun or the way he shot it. I thought his set up was pretty darn cool. Not sure if he copied or got the idea from the French but boy ha could shoot through the eye of a needle with that thing. Thanks for that video Joe.

I don’t say “Happy Memorial Day”. I don’t believe I ever have. If someone wishes me a “Happy Memorial Day” and they seem sincere I just smile and say thank you followed by “Remember the fallen”. If the say it because they have to for work I often say “Do you know what Memorial Day is about? Google it”