Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 62 November 2011

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FOR ACTION TO-DAY, TURN BACK GUN LEGISLATION.
Thoughts For the Week.
FIGHT BACK, Firearm Owners Have To Be A FORCE,

This is what we can do next, to remind the politicians of
1. The pain that they have inflicted on firearm owners and,
2. The number of firearm owners and their families and friends who now want to know who really are their friends in parliament .

The political candidates and sitting members of LNP/Labour have to be reminded of why they are going to lose the next election and the winners have to know why they won. So it is important that we carry out this powerful test and get VERY  busy on the Internet facebook email and encourage every one you can, to follow this simple task. Many will not need the instructions once you see the power of it.

1. Open one of your blank email forms.

2. Go to http://www.foaa.com.au/email-mps-candidates-list/easily-contact-mps-and-candidates/ 
click on it and copy all the LNP/LABOUR email addresses in one block and,

3. Paste into the address bar at the top of the email form

4. Go to http://www.foaa.com.au/questionaires-for-politicians/
Scroll down past the photos, Copy the questionnaire letter and,

5. Paste it into the body of your email form.

6. Click on the ‘Send’ button.

7. Forward responses to me on owenguns@spiderweb.com.au
 No matter if they are rude or indifferent they will be posted on the Firearm Owners of Australia website for all to view. We want their Comments.

Please encourage any Queenslander’s interstate that you have email contact with to follow suit. The GOAL is for every Firearm Owner to ask every aspiring Candidate for the Coming Election for his views. You can influence if he, or her takes a seat in the next Parliament.

These questions follow some of the promises & comments that have been received recently by the LNP but they still betrayed their letters, their so called feeling  and voted for the Weapons Bill.

You may also wish to send by repeating the above process to the Six Hero’s and the Katter’s Australia Party Candidates as I know that some of them will give very positive replies to these questions, which will heavily contrast with some of the others.
Any problems sending your email phone 07 54 825070 ask for Ron.

Politicians have to realise that we are a force to be reckoned with, only then will we be able to keep them to a promise.
You Have An Established Right to Ask All Politicians for Their Opinions. This is not Spamming it Gives Them the Opportunity to Inform The People Of Queensland of Their Views.
Have a read of this article below send it to every aspiring politician in Queensland in an instant.
http://www.foaa.com.au/ammunition-to-send-to-politicans/4-3-million-registered-guns-in-australia/
In 1998 75% of the National Party walked into political oblivion, we have to do this again. Its easier now there are more of us and we have the new media of the Internet.

A Day That Will Live In INFAMY , Betrayed Again. Decide NOW Action or Take up Tiddly Winks.
However, I’m very sorry to inform firearm owners that the Weapons Amendment Bill of 2011 was passed by the Queensland Parliament 78 to 6. That day 15th November will be a date remembered in infamy by the 250,000 licensed firearm owners, that it will impact on.
 We mourn the loss of the few remaining human rights our brothers in arms have left.
Surely, we all have no doubt that there end plan is to leave us with nothing, not even a catapult. We either decide now to take a place in this coming conflict or give up now and go fishing.( Sorry they want to end that as well, or go four wheel driving, sorry they want to end that as well)
Fortunately, we have better tools to fight back with then ever before, in past years we used to write lots of letter to the newspapers one in fifty might get printed, we used to write to politicians and spend a $100 in postage to get one or two useless replies.
Now we have the internet, emails, facebook, immediate communication between ourselves and full colour, movies, sound on the Internet. Now we are not just preaching to the converted in the Shooting Magazines we have our place on the Internet which is accessible to the world. We have to use this new tool to mobilise Queensland’s  250,000 licensed firearm owners, plus families and friends, into making a big difference to the future of this state.

 We did not lose, as such. The thousands of submissions received by the members, some of them read out by Mrs Cunningham has told parliament that there is a large force in the electorates that they have to deal with. They know that 250,000 firearm owners, (47,000 recent ones) are going to decide the next election. (Coming Soon). They are already afraid. There worst fear is that these 250,000 votes are not unified, they are not controlled by one organisation, they cannot infiltrate that organisation, they cannot buy off that organisation. Ultimately they will lose for this days betrayal.

The Collaborators
http://www.foaa.com.au/latest-news/6-heros-78-thieves-in-the-night-stole-more-of-your-rights/ 

Again we were betrayed by the Labour Party the party that used to respect freedom, a party that produced Andrew Fisher, King o’ Mally, John Curtain who all helped Arm Australia. We were betrayed, yet again by the National Party, the party that sold us out in 1996. Now amalgamated with the Liberal Party that also betrayed us today as it did with its deceitful leader John Howard in 1996. Howard, who infamously signed letters in 1996 prior to his election stating that he would defend the rights of firearm owners, then betrayed us in an instant after the Port Arthur murders. Again, instead of investigating and prosecuting the perpetrators he prosecuted the innocent. This process has just been an ongoing enslavement of  law abiding Australians. Instead of prosecuting the guilty they fine the innocent, its easier to police. It never works, the real criminal problems thrive, so they prosecute the innocent shooter again.

Defended By Independents and Two KAP members.
http://www.foaa.com.au/latest-news/
The four independents and now the two members of Katters Australia Party voted against the Weapons Bill they have been loyal to their constituents, all the LNP /Labour voted to support the Bill and should suffer the brand of Quislings, Kapos, Vichy, collaborators one and all.
One of the other achievements of the Six heroes was that it caused a ‘Division’ in parliament. If it had been only one of two dissenters, the vote would have been un recorded but this time, as 6 opposed, the 78 collaborators had to be listed.
http://www.foaa.com.au/latest-news/6-heros-78-thieves-in-the-night-stole-more-of-your-rights/ Please find the list of 78 ‘Ayes; on this page and the 6 “Noes”. These lists will be very handy as guides of who to vote for in the coming election.

We must become political activists and insure that all Firearm Owners, shooters , hunters, collectors know who to voter for, and who to vote against. Firearm owners have to write to local papers letters to the editor, write to your clubs, write to other clubs inform them of  this further betrayal.
The above lists are all  published on the Firearm Owners of Association Of Australia, Website. www.foaa.com.au  Membership is Free, please encourage your shooting friends and supporters to go to this address and subscribe. We need email addresses so we can quickly and cheaply contact firearm owners to mobilise them in certain areas and ask them to send emails to local papers, local politics, to broadcast information on talk back radio, face book and utilise every tool which we have at our disposal. For the Quickest UP DATES go to http://www.facebook.com/OwenGuns

 Yet Again its that time of the year, already. The Staff of Owen Guns takes this opportunity to wish all our Customers a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2012. Travel Safe and Happy Hunting.

ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN
Changes in Stock Design that Occurred in the 1920s.(We still use them 90 years later)

Firearm manufactures slowly realised the need to design a stock that could be utilised to a fair degree in any shooting position and accommodate the dual requirements of being able to use open sites as well as a telescopic rifle sight.  It became necessary to considerably modify the older American designed stocks of great drop, and crescent butt-plates as on the Lever Action Winchester’s. They also had to break away from the older British and American Military stocks which had been designed primary to switch from aimed prone rifle shooting positions to being used as a pole to plunge in the Pike/Bayonet. This could not be introduced over night, shooters are very conservative and have an ingrained suspicion of firearms that look different and an in built need to have a rifle that grandad would be proud of.  Even though the old designs were exceedingly uncomfortable and really impossible to use in any of the new firing positions except possibly when shooting in the standing position at targets on about the same level as the shooter and in slow fire. So, new stocks were designed with flat and larger butt-plates, with less drop at comb and heel, of greater weight (thickness), with pistol grips, and with an enlarged forearms, fitted with a rifle sling, designed for use as an aid to steady holding as well as for carrying the rifle.
Civilian Stock Designs Changed First.
Gradually these stock designs were accepted over a 30 year period, even the Military began to add pistol grips to the stock, higher combs and thicker for-ends. These designs, solidified into certain average dimensions, and in most respects have become fairly well fixed, so that we now have a design that has proved itself on a thousand ranges and in the hands of millions of target shooters and hunters. This now appears to be the one best design for marksmen of average stature and also for all beginners who are learning to shoot. This design is well adapted to shooting in all four positions, up and down hill as well as on a level, and in rapid as well as slow fire. The rifle sling which is an important feature is only seen these days as a carrying accessory instead of an important addition to steady the leading arm for greater accuracy.
The first pioneers of this rifle stock transformation was Winchester and Remington who both began modifying the Military rifle they had both made millions of, in World War One, the Enfield Pattern 1917, or M17. They both converted millions into sporting rifles and modified the stock design. Then they both used the tooling acquired for nothing or very cheaply to produce new sporting models. When the tooling was worn and they realised that with more modern machining techniques they could make them cheaper, Winchester went to the Model 70 and Remington went to the Model 700. I believe they used the number 7 as conservative reminder to the Model or Pattern 17 as there were previous models Pattern 13 and Pattern 14 they wanted to show that the heritage was from the M17.
The Winchester Model 70 Standard bolt action rifle has not changed very much over the last 60 years and with the Remington Classic 700 have turned into the standard centre-fire sporting stock. There are minor differences in some model changes, on average the butt-stock on these two rifles has a drop from line of aim, open sights set at 100 yards, of 1, 5/8″  inches at the comb and 2, 5/8″ inches at the heel. The length from middle of trigger to centre of the butt-plate is 13 1/2″ inches. The checkered steel, or rubberised butt-plate is 5 inches long by 1, 9/16″ inches wide at its widest part, and is very slightly dish shaped, almost flat. The front edge of the pistol grip cap on the Model 70 rifle is located horizontally 2 1/2″ inches in rear of the centre of the trigger, and vertically 1, 7/8″ inches below the centre of the trigger. The rear sling swivel is located 2, 1/2″  inches in front of the toe of the stock. The forearm on the Model 70 is 1, 1/2″ inches wide at a point 6 inches in rear of its tip. Over the last 40 years the vagaries of fashion, dictated by the various shooting magazine writers have been followed by the manufactures and shooters rotating from the above Classic style stock which is still very popular to the Weatherby high cheek piece Monte Carlo style stocks. The only other features of change has been a slightly higher comb on rifles not equipped with open sights and the main change being synthetic stocks which will be the subject of a later article. When we discuss material not shape.
Continued in Edition 63. 

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Corrosive decay in Brass Cartridge cases due to being loaded with World War Two or earlier primers have been mentioned in earlier editions. During the early decades of the last century ammunition manufactures determined that the combustion of fulminate of mercury released minute particles of free mercury. (Mercury is not health stuff) This was forced into contact with the entire inner surface of the cartridge case by the detonation of the primer and the burning of the powder. Mercury attacks brass, amalgamating with it to destroy its characteristic strength and malleability. In short, the mercury residue makes the brass so brittle it can often be crushed between thumb and finger, breaking into ragged chunks as though it was made of toffee.
Large diameter straight cases using large charges of black powder were less affected than small bottle-neck types .For this reason, black powder era reloaders didn’t object much. Their cases held up pretty well in spite of the mercury. Maybe, without the shoulder most was blown out of the straight walled cases. Much of the free mercury was absorbed by the solid products of black powder combustion, leaving less to attack the brass. Then, too,
the pressures involved in those early cartridges were quite low, never above 25,000 psi. Higher pressures drive more finely divided mercury into the brass. Consequently, modern bottle-neck cases operating near 50,000 psi speeded up and increased the mercury’s effect on the brass.
Also, it was found that smokeless powders were much harder to ignite than black. Where almost any old warm spark would set off black powder, the new types required a hotter, longer and more violent primer flame. This meant more compound in the primer, consequently, more free mercury driven into the brass case.
The action of mercury is irreversible once the cartridge is fired. It completes its action in a very short time, and no amount of washing or other treatment can prevent its completion. I have fired mercuric-primed .303 ex-military ammunition in the afternoon, and by the next morning the cases would break in the resizing die, usually when the neck was pulled over the expanded plug. So if this occurs stop straight away and you know the reason why.
Short, straight cases of pistol type are much less affected by mercuric primers and can often be reloaded many times before failing. Primarily, this is due to low chamber pressures and the fact that pistol primers contain less mercury than the larger rifle varieties.
The advent of the high-pressure bottle-neck cartridge caused the primer boys to replace the fulminate of mercury with a less vicious compound. Commonly used was a mix of potassium chlorate, antimony sulphide, lead sulfocyanate, and black powder. The latter later being replaced with granular TNT or similar high explosive. Even so, mercuric primers continued in wide use for sporting ammunition well into the 1930’s. Some foreign calibers were loaded with mercuric primers as late as the early 1970’s. Factories in North Korea, China could still be using it but mainly they loaded steel cases and most people do not bother reloading steel cases.
The chlorate primer’s corrosive effect on barrels has already been covered in detail. It is obvious, of course, that shooters the world over objected strenuously. Much effort was devoted to development of a primer that produced no harmful residue. Competition among companies was fierce because, naturally, the first one to offer a “non-corrosive” primer could expect to gain tremendously in sales.
Primers continued in Edition 63.

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