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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 53 April 2011

Welcome to the Fifty Third Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Thoughts For the Week.
People Control

First I must apologise for the typing error in the last edition, “Scrapped Long Arms Registration, as has already occurred in Canada and NSW”, Should have read ” Canada and New Zealand“. Still with two members of the Shooters and Fishers Party installed in the NSW upper house having a part of the balance of power against the Labour and Greens a deal should be cut to remove ‘Long Arm Registration’ chains from around our necks. It is always possible. Apathetic bondage should never be tolerated.
On March 21st 2011 the Inspector in Charge, Weapons Licencing for Queensland, informed the meeting of the Queensland Firearm Dealers Association, that his department had caught up with all the back log of Permits to Acquire and they were processing them as they come in. When challenged by the floor about this he admitted that there may be a few lost in the system and that shooters who had been waiting since November should contact them and re-apply. Of course we know that this is incorrect as licenced shooters who have been waiting for months for their Permits to Acquire are phoning up and being told by the Inspectors ‘staff’ that they are still trying to catch up with December, “So just keep waiting”.
On the same day our local MP. David Gibson received answers from the Police Minister on this same issue. Part of the answers was a direct lie, as he stated,
“The Queensland Police Service advised various industry groups including dealers and gun clubs the Weapons Licensing Branch would be experiencing delays to service as a result of the implementation of the new Weapons Licensing Management System.” That never happened.
The Police Minister accepts:- Weapons Regulations
Section 56 Waiting period for decision on application for permit to acquire
(3) However, if—
(a) the applicant already holds a firearm under a licence; or
(b) an authorised officer is satisfied there are exceptional circumstances; the period is the remainder of the day on which the applicant lodges the application for the permit.
Then relies on
The Weapons Act Section 42 Authorised officer decides application
(1) An authorised officer must decide an application for a permit to acquire a weapon as soon as practicable after the end of any period that may be prescribed for this section under a regulation.

He  imposes that “as soon as practicable” really means, “in definitely” the Permit to Acquire is only current for three months and we have had customers waiting for six months. Is Six months “as soon as practicable“? They make us pay dearly for a system that won’t work, that imposes a sentence on the innocent, and serves no useful function. They make us pay dearly for the chains that they bind us with.
A Change for the Better or a Change of Tyrants
With the not surprising victory of the Libs in NSW, and the change of leadership in Queensland, the Lib Nats in Queensland can smell the ministerial leather on the government benches. They know that Captain Bligh is sinking under a ‘no win’ economic mess. A political change is in the wind. Some shooting organisations have been having meetings with the Shadow Minister of Police. The ‘heir apparent’, of the State Police, so reminiscent of the Gestapo and KGB is making promises and seeking allegiances. It seems that when in power the Lib Nats will not make it any worse for the Firearms Owners of Queensland. I could give a list of broken promises, from political parties that span the 36 years, I have been opposing useless firearm legislation, but that would be negative. I could give a list of the deals done by shooters organisations with political parties, but again that would, at present not be productive. I could give a list of reasons why the all this legislation was imposed on us, none of which is public safety, or a list of reasons of why political party with the largest membership in any state was reduced to 20 % within a few years of the introduction of these Gun laws. This issue split the National Party asunder and they have been in the political wilderness for fourteen years. They lost their foundation, the people who had worked for an ideal were disillusioned, they walked away in droves.
It did not matter that many of those pensioners who handed out how to vote cards on polling days were not firearm owners, it was the loss of the symbol of difference. Why work, or financially contribute to an organization that was no different to the Labour Party or the Greens, that had no difference of ideals? The National Party instead of protecting the individual had changed into a party bent on following the Socialist principles of the big Policemen, the bureaucratic nightmare that infects all of our lives from local government, health, taxation, swimming pool legislation, dog legislation, firearm legislation. All burdens on the backs of the people. All to save no lives, solve no crimes, just to fill data banks with your information over and over again, creating government jobs.
Leadership
Now, we need some one to show some inspirational leadership, some force that will reverse these impositions. Not just say they ‘won’t make it any worse’. Who is going to accept that. Who is going to put themselves out for that. Last year we had the Police wanting to impose hundreds of pages of further restrictions, increasing their numbers and ‘jobs for the boys’, so they have more responsibility and a greater pay scale. Only by the work of 1200 submissions did we escape that. No one did it for us, no other political party went to bat for us and promised that they would turn it around. No public statements in our support. With the Permit to Acquire problem, yes we have had a little support from a few MPs like David Gibson and the Independents. I believe it is the time to “Keep the Powder Dry”, but be ready to remind those standing for election that the ‘Registration of Long Arms’ has to go. That has to be the first of many impositions that has to be walked back before any assistance is given. Thirty dollars and an indefinite waiting time is treating us like the peons of USSR.
Our Benevolent Dictatorship.

Do we have to have a revolution for freedom? Do we have to break down the Berlin Wall? At least they can own firearms now. Think about it, do those people protesting in the streets of the Middle East have more freedoms than you? Do they have to wait 12 months for a building permit? Do they have to wait six months and pay for the right to work? Can they cut a tree down in their back garden? Do they have to wait a year for a licence for an Air pistol? We may get more food but we get less freedom.
“Is your life worth protecting?
If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? …
How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours,
when you will assume no responsibility yourself?”
Jeffrey R. Snyder

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Letter From America.

From: NewsMax.com Feb 18,2001 ” Firearms in America: The Facts”.

Martin L. Fackler, MD

I must confess to being a member of a very dangerous group. I am a physician: We cause more than 100,000 deaths per year in the USA by mistakes and various degrees of carelessness in treating our patients. Why does society tolerate us?
Because we save far more patients than we kill. Firearms are entirely analogous. Although used in far fewer deaths* – they are used to prevent about 75 crimes for each death. Firearms, like physicians, prevent far more deaths than they cause. (Gary Kleck, “Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America,” Hawthorne, N.Y., Aldine de Gruyter Publisher, 1991)
Consider the implications of the fact that firearms save many more lives than they take. That means decreasing the number of firearms would actually cause an increase in violent crime and deaths from firearms.
This inverse relationship between the number of firearms in the hands of the public and the amount of violent crime has, in fact, been proven beyond any reasonable doubt. (John R. Lott Jr., “More Guns Less Crime,” University of Chicago Press, 1998)
History supports the inverse firearm-crime relationship. In “Firearms Control -A Study of Armed Crime and Firearms Control” in England and Wales (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972, p. 243), Chief Inspector Colin Greenwood found that:
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort. . Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this class of weapons in crime than ever before.
In Tasmania, Australia, on 28 April 1996, a lone gunman killed 35 and wounded 21 at the Port Arthur Historic Site. The Australian legislature reacted by outlawing self-loading rifles and pump as well as self-loading shotguns. One year after the massive confiscation of guns the effects of this action became clear. Every category of violent crime had increased; the most striking was a 300 percent increase in assaults against the elderly.
Those demented persons who have expressed their frustration by a shooting spree have apparently retained enough good sense to choose places where those shot would almost certainly be unarmed: a schoolyard in Stockton, Calif., the Columbine High School, a Jewish day care center in Los Angeles, a Long Island Rail Road car (due to the highly restrictive ban on handgun carry permits in New York).
The emotional reaction to these incidents, attempting to make certain places “gun free” zones, for example, revealed a striking lack of rational thought. Apparently those pushing for “gun free” zones failed to recognize that the perpetrators of these incidents chose their sites specifically because they were already essentially “gun free” areas – practically guaranteeing no armed resistance to foil their plans.
Such gun-restrictive proposals are a certain recipe for making the situation worse. Lott’s studies have shown that such mass shootings essentially disappear in states that pass laws allowing qualified citizens to carry concealed handguns (The American Enterprise, July- August, 1998).
Consider the steadily decreasing rate of violent crime over the past eight years. An article in USA Today (K Johnson, 9 Oct 00, 3A) reported “Gun injuries in crimes fall 40% in 5 years.” This stark decline has occurred concomitantly with a constant rise in the number of firearms in the hands of the American public.
This strongly supports the “more guns less crime” relationship verified by Kleck, Lott, history, and common sense. This steady decrease has brought the current percentage of gun violence in the USA to its lowest rate in the past three to four decades. One would expect the anti-gun groups to be pleased and to moderate their goals.
Instead, apparently rankled by the facts proving their theories dead wrong, they are promoting increasingly prohibitive gun laws with ever-increasing zeal. Could it be that the media attention bestowed upon their cause has become addictive? Certainly, legislators have found the free TV time given to their anti-gun tirades something they cannot live without.
I suggest that a reason for the decreasing crime rate, caused in part by the increasing number of guns, lies, perversely and ironically, in the counter productive exaggerations and incessant repetitions, by the TV media, of each and every bloody shooting they can find.
This has frightened and misled the public into believing the threat from guns is ever increasing, rather than decreasing sharply, and has whetted their appetites for firearms to defend themselves. Thus the public has bought more firearms -which has further decreased the violence from firearms.
There is a perception among gun owners that they are being treated irrationally as legislators pander to the misinformed majority who are being swayed by emotional appeals that fly in the face of the studies cited above, history, and basic common sense. They feel that legislators should be obliged to soberly consider the facts and not have their votes dictated by blind, unthinking, and most often counter productive, emotion.
Consider firearm registration: being increasingly promoted by nearly all anti-gun groups – and politicians. These promoters neglect to explain why or how they expect firearm registration to prevent future violence; especially since, historically, such restrictive laws have always proven ineffective or counter productive – most often causing a marked increase in violent crime, as shown in the examples given above. We already know how honest, formerly law-abiding, citizens will react to irrational laws requiring them to register their firearms.
California has taught us. After Purdy’s shooting spree on the Stockton schoolyard in 1989, the Californian legislature passed a law requiring the registration of all “assault rifles.” In the emotional frenzy following that shooting incident, everybody expected legislators to pass such a restrictive law.
What happened? The price of “assault rifles” tripled in California. Many tens of thousands of these rifles poured into California before the law went into effect. Then came the time for registration. Very few “assault rifle” owners chose to obey the law.
It is uncertain how many criminals were created by this irrational law, but most estimate that fewer than 10 percent of the “assault rifles” in California were registered. If an estimated several hundred thousand “assault rifle” owners in California chose to become criminals rather than obey an irrational law, how many gun owners nationwide can we expect to do the same if required to register their guns?
Most of the facts explained above are unknown to the majority of the American public. The pro-gun political activists spend so much time harping on the Second Amendment that they tend to overlook the factual proof that decreasing the number of guns increases violence, and vice-versa.
Additionally, I believe that most Americans consider their right to protect themselves and their families a far more fundamental right than the Second Amendment.
Many honest gun owners are now frightened. They have every reason to be. Few of the facts outlined above have been revealed by a media that, instead, gives full play to the emotionally based appeals and flagrant exaggerations of the anti-gun groups.
These gun owners fear that they will be forced into a difficult moral decision: Do they obey a law requiring them to register their firearms, when they are fully aware of the irrationality and counterproductive nature of such a law? Or are they morally obligated to disobey such an unjust law -and thus become a criminal? Our forefathers faced a similar moral dilemma. Had most of them chosen to obey, we would still be a colony of England.
We must separate, dispassionately, the clearly established facts about firearms in the USA from emotionally based opinions, exaggerations, and falsehoods. No rational approach to any problem is possible until this is done.
I worry that irrational restrictive measures, such as mandated gun registration, will result in a massive backlash of civil disobedience – not by drug-dazed teenagers, but by sober, honest, and mature adults who are well-armed and proficient in the use of their weapons. That could tear this country apart.
*Footnote. When anti-gun activists list the number of deaths per year from firearms, they neglect to mention that 60 percent of the 30,000 figure they often use are suicides. They also fail to mention that at least three-quarters of the 12,000 homicides are criminals killing other criminals in disputes over illicit drugs, or police shooting criminals engaged in felonies. Subtracting those, we are left with no more than 3,000 deaths that I think most would consider truly lamentable.
Dr. Martin Fackler is America’s most foremost forensic expert on ballistic injuries.

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Mossberg Maverick Centrefire Bolt Action Package Deal $480.

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For generations, Mossberg has built reliable, quality firearms at an unparalleled value. This American-made bolt action rifle is the first they have introduced in over 20 years. Blink and it’s a Savage or a Stevens and very similar to the Marlin. Just better priced.
$480.

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Alliant Powder $25. per pound tin.

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Shotgun & Pistol Powder $25.00 per pound for Alliant Powders, Blue Dot, 2400, Steel, 410, Red Dot,Green Dot, Unique, American Select. Sorry but we have no dispatch facilities for powder. Australia  Post will not deliver not will any common carrier. If you cannot collect, ask a passing friend who has a shooters licence to purchuse for you. We are right near the corner of the Bruce Highway. This product is high quality,  gived the best results and meters well through all powder measures.
$25.00

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700 Remington ™ SPS™ Stainless (Special Purpose Synthetic) offers everything you love about the legendary Model 700™, all at an extremely affordable price.
Built to carry on the tradition of the Model 700™ BDL™ Stainless Synthetic, the Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless is leading the way for the next generation of hard-hitting, fully featured, affordable priced rifles. From the rock-solid receiver design to the famous “three rings of steel,” the Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless offers the unrivaled out-of-the-box accuracy and high-end performance you’ve come to expect from America’s most popular bolt-action centerfire rifle.
The Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless features an improved, ergonomically designed synthetic stock for better handling and enhanced overall functionality. The bead blasted 416 stainless steel barreled action comes clean without sights and is drilled and tapped for scope mounts. For added corrosion resistance the internal fire control components are plated. Standard amenities include a hinged floor plate magazine, and swivel studs.

$995 including mounts while stock lasts

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The Gun Digest Book Of Exploded Gun Drawings: 975 Isometric Views over 1000 pages is a visual reference book especially for collectors, gunsmiths and hobbyists. Featuring detailed, black-and-white diagrams of the many complex pieces in a gun, which labels each piece and shows how each piece fits with the others, The Gun Digest Book Of Exploded Gun Drawings reveals at a glance how hundreds of different handguns, shotguns, and rifles are put together. Very little text is present in The Gun Digest Book Of Exploded Gun Drawings, a massive volume devoted almost entirely to the diagrams themselves, with a complete directory of firearms trade resources and a selected shooting sports bibliography. A fascinating and highly practical resource for serious firearm enthusiasts. This is a Christmas Present from us at this price.

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Another Example is our Best Seller as it is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind. If you like the small articles included with this Bulletin, Accurate Firearm Design and Understanding Cartridge Reloading and want to read an encyclopedia on shooting by the same author buy The Range Officer Handbook.
The Range Officer Handbook
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As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo    0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
•  90   pages of Information for Range Officers,
•  239 pages on Coaching to Win,
•  110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
•  33   pages on hitting Clay Targets,
•  34   pages on Reloading Ammunition,
•    6   page of Contents,
•  18   pages of Index,
•  38   pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
•  23   pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
•  Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
•  Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback.,
Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.

$75  Signed by the author (state who you would like it dedicated to) plus $10 postage Australia wide.
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Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truely a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste.
$775.  Silver Reciver $799.

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Mossberg Model 464 Leaver Action 30–30, $595.

Ask the average man on the street to describe a “deer rifle” and chances are it’ll be a lever action .30-30, the kind immortalized in countless novels and western movies for more than half a century. Ammunition, ballistics improvements and the ability to mount a telescopic rifle sight, have helped drive a newfound respect towards an old friend, and given the fact that traditional lever action rifles continue to serve a well recognized niche within the hunting community, Mossberg felt strongly enough to enter and redefine a time-tested category. With a new design centered around improved accuracy, safety and value, the 464 Lever Action Rifle maintains the classic lines of a deer hunter’s best friend. The American made 464 Lever Action Rifle, with its hardwood stock and blued receiver and barrel transcend you to days-gone-by. The balance point is precisely at the juncture of the forend and receiver. The combination of weight, balance, and a smooth yet robust action makes the 464 Lever Action Rifle tremendously fast handling, maneuverable and astoundingly accurate – qualities a traditional lever action and Mossberg are known for. $595.

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Thompson/Center introduces the New T/C Venture, the most value-packed bolt action rifle available on the market today. Designed to deliver top end quality and accuracy at an entry level price, the Thompson/Center Venture offers a  5 R  rifled match grade barrel and match grade crown, adjustable precision trigger and a classic style composite stock that puts it in a class all its own. A rugged, reliable tool for the outdoorsman, the T/C Venture features T/C’s renowned innovation, craftsmanship and cutting edge barrel technology. Guaranteed to deliver Minute of angle accuracy… 1 inch groups at 100 yards.
T/C Venture features a classic sporter style stock in rugged composite material with traction grip panels, the T/C Venture has a sophisticated appearance with the durability and accuracy to back it up. Thompson/Center’s Venture… made in the USA and backed by the famous Thompson/Center Lifetime Warranty… It delivers the finest in accuracy, reliability and quality craftsmanship in an attractive, affordable package. .270 win up to 300 win mag,

$950.
plus freight.

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Remington Genesis 1000 fps.
Idea for Dad and Son, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage.

(Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air rifle feature ultra Hi ergonomics in its soft, synthetic pistol style grip and sculptured cheek piece, 28 pounds of cocking force gets up to 1000 fps. Other features include aTwo stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.
$400. With 3–9×40 Variable Centrepoint Air Rifle Scope and Mounts. $300 without. plus frieght

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The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.

The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.
This is the (Jain Way) JW Model 105, Sometimes called Norinco. These rifles are made in the same factory that manufactures the now famous JW 15 .22 rifle (the Brno Mod One Copy) if you have had a JW15 or know of anyone who had one, you will know that they shoot sometimes better than the rifle they imitiated. These JW105 s are in .223 Remington calibre and have a five shot detachable magazine. They also come with Weaver style mount bases and Quick Detachable studs for QD sling swivels  If you look carefully at the close up photograph you will notice a shiny silver colour, at the breech face,the camera has picked up the chrome plating from inside the chamber. The Chinese are the only non-military manufactures that can afford the chrome process of plating the Barrels and Chambers. They have also chromed the forward section of the Bolt. Chrome plating gives the best protection against erosion and corrosion than anything else besides regualr cleaning. The JW 105 is a copy of the Geveram and Krico that was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, they were very good quality but I believe that Gevarm had to stop making them as the were too expensive to produce.
These are the best value .223 remington centre-fire, repeating rifle on the market.

Brand New $460. 

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Accurate Firearm Design
Self loading Breech Actions

During World War Two as the major powers began fielding reliable gas-operated semi-autos like the American  Garand, the USSR Tokarev SVT 38/40 and German Gewehr 41/43, Sweden a semi -neutral country that had huge borders with both warring powers, USSR and Germany, the Swedish military realized their fine Mausers were nice, but quickly becoming obsolete. Their response was the AG-42, widely referred to as the “Ljungman.”
The AG-42 was designed by Erik Eklund, an engineer working at the C.J. Ljungman Pump Company in Malmo, Sweden. It was officially adopted as the “Halvautomatisket Gevaer 42″ in caliber 6.5×55 by the Swedish army in 1942 and remained in service until Sweden adopted and manufactured under license the HK G3A3 rifle (AK4) in the mid-1960s.
The AG-42B is a large rifle, nearly four feet long and weighing unloaded, 10.4 pounds. It shares the long, rifle profile has similar looks to the Soviet SVT 38/40 or German Gewehr 41. Due to the weight and its integral muzzle brake, the AG-42B is distinctive by its lack of recoil firing the powerful 6.5×55 cartridge.
Eklund was a very gifted designer. He designed the 10-shot, gas-operated, semi-automatic AG-42 and saw it officially adopted and placed into production within a period of 12 months. Rejecting the then common gas operated design using a piston and operating rod, Eklund adopted a direct impingement gas system the most simple, trouble free, gas system ever devised and seen today on millions of AR-15s and M16s.
The gas is tapped off through a port 9 1/2inches from the muzzle, directed down a gas tube on top of the barrel, and fed directly into a blind hole in the bolt carrier. The resulting blow to the bolt carrier forces the carrier to the rear, unlocks the AG-42′s tilting bolt, extracting the case. As the bolt carrier and bolt continue rearward, the case is ejected, the hammer cocked and the mainspring compressed. The mainspring then forces the bolt carrier and bolt back into battery, stripping off and chambering a fresh round in the process. This did away with the gas pistons. The Swedish AG-42B and its descendants, the Egyptian Hakim and the Rasheed, constitute a fascinating family of uniquely designs firearms that led to the AR-15/M16 and the AR-10 family of rifles. These gas powered operating system were patented by Eugene Stoner in the 1950s. Not a lot of credit was given to Erik Eklund and the Ljungman as is often the case in firearm invention. The AR 15, AR 10, M16 the same way gas operating system works by passing high pressure propellant gasses tapped from the barrel down a tube and into the carrier group within the upper receiver. The gas expands within a donut shaped gas cylinder within the carrier. The carrier is driven to the rear by the expanding gasses and thus converts the energy of the gas to movement of the rifle’s parts. The only major difference between the Ljungman and the Stoner system is that the Stoner bolt rotates to unlock instead of tilts to unlock.
Advantages and Disadvantages:
The Ljungman /Stoner system allows a very symmetric design that allows straight line movement of the operating components. This allows recoil forces to drive straight to the rear. Instead of connecting or other mechanical parts driving the system, high pressure gas performs this function, reducing the weight of moving parts.
In Piston systems, the path of the operating force is mechanically shifted around the action, resulting in a considerable mass of moving parts moving outside the centerline of the firearm.
There is a common belief that the piston operated systems are less accurate than the Stoner system because the operating parts start moving while the bullet is still in the bore. This is not true, US. Army Ordnance tests conducted in the 1960s revealed that the bullet is 25 feet out of the bore of the M1 and 15 feet out of the bore of the M14 before any operating part begins to move. It is more likely that the imbalances of the piston, operating rod, cylinder, and other parts hanging on the barrel produce disruptive vibrations as the bullet exits the bore.
Although movement of the operating parts while the bullet is in the bore isn’t apparently a culprit in reducing the accuracy of Piston systems, the inherent accuracy of the Stoner system has been consistently confirmed in competitive shooting. In all competitive events that allow use of any mechanism the shooter wishes, the Stoner system is prevailing. Few competitive shooters use the Garand or Kalashnikov systems, and even fewer  FAL system. In American Service Rifle and NRA competition, the piston operated rifles are considered a disadvantage.
There is a debate about which system remains cleanest. The Stoner /Ljungman system tends to leave propellant residue in the receivers, while the Piston systems keep the residue outside the action in the cylinder. Piston driven systems, however, tend to allow more external dirt into the action because of the openings required for various connecting members (operating rod, bolt lugs, etc).
Next Edition :More information on Self Loading Breech Actions.

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Tasco 6 X40 Varibale  World Class Riflescope $117.

Tasco has been a leading name in the optical industry for eons, Tasco’s World Class Scope has been an industry standard since the 1980s it is the scope that many others are judged against and found lacking. The World Class due to its World Class forever Guarantee is rarely used we have sold thousands of them and I have been dealing with Tasco since 1975. The vision is quality, the adjustments are precision and the cross hairs are the right sized for target or hunting.  They were selling there for $190. Now Only $117.00
Special $117.00
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Chrony Chronogrphs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

You have now should all have the free Ballistic Calculator if you haven’t got it already there is a link further up this page. Without a Chornograph to give you a known velocity, shooting is all just guess work. There are only two known facts available to a shooter, the hole it makes in the target and its speed. (Pressure guns are not available to us mere mortals) You cannot test, your rifle and ammunition by how much noise it makes or how hard it kick’s you. Get a chronograph, they have never been any cheaper for this quality and if you don’t do it now they will be dearer when you want one next. Then you will be kicking yourself harder than a .600 Nitro Express. They fold up really compact to take to the range, open them up shoot throught the wires and the light meters will give you a print out on the little screen. They fit onto nearly every camera tripod.  One of our customers fired through the  clear screen, brought it back for warrentry, as it didn’t work. Please do not do this, as they are not supposed to be bullet proof.
$198. plus post.

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION
Bullets
John Nosler, (not ‘Nosier’, must be that my spell checker believes that Nosler is an incorrect spelling for a pointed nosy bullet) also produced another controlled expansion bullet design called “Zipedo.” It is a further invention of many earlier attempts to make a solid base bullet. “Solid” in this context meaning a jacket base of unusually thick section tapering abruptly to a standard-thickness jacket wall. In addition to the very thick base, the Zipedo is of only bore diameter over the solid portion of the jacket. This portion has rings rolled into it which raise fins to nominal groove diameter. Consequently, barrel friction and engraving pressure is substantially reduced. Then, the rear portion of the ogive (nose cone)  and the very front portion of the bearing surface is of conventional diameter, i.e., barrel groove diameter. Again, the very thick and heavy base of the jacket resists deformation under high-velocity impact and insures that a substantial portion of the bullet will remain to penetrate deeply, even though the forward portion be completely destroyed.
Many developments have occurred since WW II, which are intended to increase the versatility of hunting bullets. One often talked about involves bonding the lead core to the jacket material. Where in conventional bullets core and jacket are simply held together by shape and close contact generated by high swaging pressure, true “bonded-core” design involves actual soldering of the core to the jacket. The obvious advantage to this is at terminal ballistics, as expansion begins, the jacket clings very tightly to the core and resists core deformation. Where bonding is not present, the jacket splits or tears as expansion begins and thus no longe’r offers any great amount of support to the core. It is not uncommon for core and jacket to become separated under high velocity impact, whereas bonding prevents this occurrence.
Where as the Americans who have the largest market in the world for sporting or hunting bullets see the future for game bullets combining core-bonding, or Nosler Partition or Zipedo jackets, or solid copper projectiles, in Australia where we have very few thick skinned game animals except for Samba deer and Buffalo the conventional open-cup bullet design will certainly be with us a good long time yet. In Australia there will always be a great need for bullets with a softer jacket material and pure lead core such as in the Taipan bullets, due to our thin skinned bipod game animals which do not have to penetrate a few feet of meat.
In spite of being nearly a century old, it is probably the most economical and practical solution to the hunting bullet problem we are likely to encounter for some time. It has the particular advantage that by careful balancing of jacket thickness and strength, core hardness, and core exposure at the nose, it can be adapted to almost any velocity range and/or shooting need. Its performance covers the range of bullets that produce explosive expansion at handgun velocities as low as 1000 fps, up to bullets that will produce deep penetration into heavy game at velocities approaching 4000 fps and they still work. In my opinion, that’s good enough.
Next Edition More on Handgun Bullets

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Lee  Breech Lock Challenger Reloading Kit

Includes Sold Cast ‘O’ Frame Press, Scales, Powder Measure, Case Trimmers, Case Lube, Auto Primer and Powder Funnel. All you need is Dies and shell holders for your calibres.
The Breech Lock Challenger Kit, A Reloading Kit Gift at $199.
An Extra benefit it includes a Lee Auto Primer all for $199. plus frieght.

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BAIT THROWERS
Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 52 March 2011

Welcome to the Fifty Second Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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The best value package deal since 1988, A Remington (Brand new) Model 770, with their famous front Double locking lugs, detachable magazine, synthetic stock, weaver style mounts, 3–9×40 variable scope, All for $480. .243, 308. .270 , .3006 Springfield.

$480.

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Top quality Elite Bushnell Scopes best prices for 4200 and 3200 scopes.

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CZ ZKM 452 American Classic.This is a very special price phone before they all go. This is a once a year opportunity for a best price.of

$525.

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P 4 EDI-T Head Hunter Shooting Torch,Mount is $47.00  and Trophy 4×32 scope is $42.00 plus post.

$79.

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Slimline Electronic Ear Muffs

Hear and Protect Hear normally up to 85 db Electronically reduces & protects hearing  Protects hearing above 85 db Able to hear normal conversations and sounds to 85 decibels.  Over 200 hours of battery life. Auto-adjust headband. Solid state circuit. Rotary on-off volume knob.
HOW THE ELECTRONIC EAR MUFFS WORK

These electronic ear muffs are a high standard ear muff in design, they are made to feel light and comfortable for all day use. They can be used as standard ear muff when the electronic component is not turned on and will passively reduce noise like any normal ear muff. They have a standard noise reduction rating of 29 decibel and are a Class 5.
Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
At the range or anywhere ear protection is constantly required, but you also need to hear instructions from others or you wish to be more aware of the ambient sound around you, these electronic ear muffs are what you need.

$75.50

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Sabatti .223 Walnut Stock, Detachable Magazine, adjustable Trigger, large claw extractor.Sabatti have been producing firearms for hundreds of years in the Gardonne region of Italy. The company split from its pistol manufacturing operation Tanfoglio several years ago. The action is a Mauser type with dual opposed locking lugs with a claw extractor. Ideal for the traditionalist who appreciates Walnut stocks.

$995.00

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Remington Genesis 1000 fps. Idea for Dad and Son, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage. (Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air rifle feature ultra Hi ergonomics in its soft, synthetic pistol style grip and sculptured cheek piece, 28 pounds of cocking force gets up to 1000 fps. Other features include aTwo stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.
$400. With 3–9×40 Variable Centrepoint Air Rifle Scope and Mounts. $300 without. plus freight.

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Accurate Firearm Design

Gas Operated Actions. In this type of self-loading rifle the expanding force of the powder gas is utilized in a different manner from any of the foregoing to operate the mechanism. A small hole is drilled through the lower wall of the barrel into the bore, and as the bullet passes this hole a portion of the gas rushes into the hole and down into a gas piston below the barrel. The rod of this piston pushes back an operating rod which is connected with the breech bolt and a counter recoil spring. The operating rod first operates a cam to rotate the bolt or tip the bolt which unlock its locking lugs by which it was tightly locked to the barrel, and then pushes the bolt back to its stop, extracting and ejecting the fired case, compressing the mainspring, and cocking the firing pin. The counter recoil spring then pulls or mainly pushes the bolt, and  operating rod, and gas piston forward. As the bolt moves forward it pushes the topmost cartridge from the magazine into the chamber, and firmly locks itself to the barrel ready to fire again.
If the gas port in the barrel is to close to the chamber, the gas at that point will still be at  peak pressure, and will drive the piston violently to the rear, giving a more severe reaction and which tends to tear the extractor through the rim of the case, or tear the head off the case. With the Garand rifle this gas port is located only about an inch in rear of the muzzle, at which point the gas pressure is very much less, the piston blow and movement is not so violent, the action is smoother, and yet there is sufficient power to extract a fired case, even if it is dry it does not to be lubricated.  Of course they can be nearer to the chamber than that but either there is an adjustable mechanism as on the FN Fal, Enfield SLR or the hole is small as in the AK series of rifles. Either way the bullet has surely left the muzzle before the piston starts to the rear and before the bolt starts to unlock, the push to the rear being continued by the residual pressure. Locating the gas port and piston close to the muzzle, however, necessitates a long forearm of military type to encase the piston and the long operating rod.
The mechanism of the new Winchester short piston throw action (as in.30  M1 Carbine, Ruger Mini 14) is slightly different. The gas port is only slightly forward of the chamber, and the piston rod moves to the rear only about 1/10 inch when the gas enters the cylinder. The operating rod, held against the piston rod by the counter recoil spring, receives a quick, severe blow from the piston rod, and under the impetus of this blow moves to the rear and operates the mechanism as above. The action is like that seen in the lawn game of croquet where the two balls are placed touching each other. The foot is pressed hard on one ball (the piston rod) and that ball is struck a blow by the mallet (the gas). That ball does not move, or moves only a very slight amount, but the other ball (the operating rod) flies across the lawn. This style of mechanism is used in the Winchester (Carbine Williams) .30 M1 Carbine. With this rifle, it is not necessary to use a long forearm to house the piston and operating rod, and this lends itself to the design of a neater and lighter handier type of firearm.
In the early days of the gas operated mechanism, which were also the days of the chlorate primer, considerable trouble was experienced from the rusting and carbon (fouling) of the gas port and piston. Lately, however, with the introduction of the non-corrosive primer, and of powders giving less fouling, most of this trouble has disappeared, and due to the relaxation of the clearing regimes this caused a massive defect during the early Vietnam  M16 period as they all need cleaning.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, Soldiers who do not clean, see God sooner rather than later.
Cleaning must still be done. Any armourer who has just cleaned the gas cylinder piston and piston plug of the rifles used in combat will assure you that the second coming has not arrived yet, and there is more black carbon in those pistons than the fires of hell.  Both gas port and piston should receive some small lubrication at the same time as when the bore of the rifle is cleaned with solvent and lubricated with an oiled patch. These two systems of gas operation appear to be much better adapted for military and sporting shoulder rifles than any of the other mechanisms described to date.
Next Edition Gas operated piped instead of pistons such as the AG 42 b Ljungman and AR 15 actions.

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HORNADY CARTRIDGE CASE CLEANER

Give the wife a break stop cleaning your cartridge cases in the dish washer, or the washing machine, no more hassle drying them in the oven. Get the Vibratory Case Cleaner from Hornady.

$150

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Gun Books Make Great Presents, Easy To Post and with years of use and enjoyment. We have over a 1000 Gun Books in stock.
Looking for Gun Books We now have a list of some of our many Gun and Firearm books on the website at www.owenguns.com/gympie-shop/gun-book-list
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Another good example is Gunsmithing Rifles by Patrick Sweeney

353 pages soft back. Patrick Sweeney shows rifle shooters the ins and outs of do-it-yourself repair and provides tips on improving accuracy and reducing recoil for hunters and target shooters.Plenty of photos clearly illustrate each step of every project as Sweeney’s latest book gives rifle owners everything they need to finish gunsmithing projects while avoiding the pitfalls. From wood refinishing to smoothing a rough trigger pull, Sweeney guides readers every step of the way. There is no better book for the hobbyist who enjoys working on rifles.

$40.00 plus $10 postage Australia wide.

The Range Officer Handbook

Another Example is our Best Seller as it is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind. If you like the small articles included with this Bulletin, Accurate Firearm Design and Understanding Cartridge Reloading and want to read an encyclopedia on shooting by the same author buy The Range Officer Handbook.
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As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo    0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
•  90   pages of Information for Range Officers,
•  239 pages on Coaching to Win,
•  110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
•  33   pages on hitting Clay Targets,
•  34   pages on Reloading Ammunition,
•    6   page of Contents,
•  18   pages of Index,
•  38   pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
•  23   pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
•  Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
•  Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback., Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.

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Signed by the author (state who you would like it dedicated to) plus $10 postage Australia wide.
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Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, and a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated. It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

$369. each $700 for two.

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Dillon Precision Reloading Scales.

Manufactured by Ohaus for Dillon. When you find out that all those electronic scales suffer from interference from power poles, tin roof, electronic door opening devices, and as all scales varied by the air movements, such as draughts, you may be looking for the basic and in the long run the best mechanical scales.

$95.

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

Bullets
Early endeavours in the realm  of balancing core hardness with jacket thickness and strength in bullets created a new ballistic science. They wanted the nose of the bullet to yield, to produce reasonably good expansion at reduced velocities; yet, wanted the body of the bullet strong enough to resist break-up under high-velocity short range impact. With additional hype and a few refinements, this basic design is with us still today, probably more bullets adhere to these factors than any other. The refinements consist generally of tapered bullet jackets (thin at the point, thick over the body); longitudinal serrations or grooves (inside or outside) and notches or scallops around the jacket mouth; thin, soft metal protective caps over the otherwise-exposed lead at the nose, like Winchester Silver tips. All major manufacturers produce superb bullets embodying one or more  features that will hold together reasonably well for those under-100-yard shots and still produce adequate expansion out to 300 yards in all but the lightest game animals.
Bullet expansion is promoted two ways, and encouraged by several others. Most common is the simple soft point with the jacket cut away at the point to expose a portion of soft core. Second consists of punching a hole into the point of the bullet along its center line, allowing the jacket to come right up to the mouth of the cavity, the hollow point. Generally, the lower the bullet’s velocity, the greater core exposure or cavity size required to insure expansion. At very high velocities even the tiniest exposure or hole can produce violent expansion.
In an attempt to secure uniform and concentric expansion, jacket mouths are sometimes scalloped, cut part way through, cut through, or weakened in various ways as shown in the manufacturers brochure. All are supposed to be unique, like Solomon said, There is nothing new under the Sun.
Various forms of protection have been applied to the bullet point, both to streamline it for better velocity retention, and to prevent handling, feeding, recoil, and firing damage to exposed lead. Probably the best known design is the Winchester-Western “Silvertip.” This consists of a thin, soft-alloy cap inserted in the mouth of the jacket to cover the core. Another is the Remington “Bronze Point” which consists of a separate, sharp conical point seated in the core. Upon impact, it acts as a wedge to promote expansion.
Both the above methods have been employed in a modified form by various foreign manufacturers with apparently equal success.
However, in the period between the two world wars, European makers attempted to achieve better control over bullet expansion by various means. One was the DWM “Strong-Jacket” which utilized a very thick and heavy section near the jacket base. In its rear third, the jacket was so thick as to reduce core diameter by over one-half. The intention, and reasonably successful, was to insure that the jacket could not roll back completely to the base and that roughly the rear half of the bullet would always remain intact to insure penetration, even though the forward portion of the bullet might be torn off entirely. RWS took an entirely different approach with its “H-Mantel” which utilized a two-part core and a folded jacket. The rear portion of the core was of quite hard lead, the front portion soft. At a point just below the top of the hard core, the jacket was turned in upon itself and folded under pressure to form in effect a partial partition. It was intended that the rear portion of the bullet from the partition rearward would always retain essentially its original shape and insure penetration regardless of what happened to the other part. This, too, was reasonably successful. In the U.S.A., numerous designs to achieve the same ends were proposed, most popular of which was probably the Remington “inner-belted” whose jacket contained a thickened portion near the middle. This thick “belt” was accomplished by first drawing the jacket in the usual fashion, then swaging an additional ring of jacket material on the outside, so that when the bullet was brought to proper exterior dimensions, a thick ring was formed. To a degree, this accomplished the same end as the RWS H-Mantel. Many other designs were attempted, but none achieved any truly great acceptance other than the Winchester “Silvertip” which utilized a very soft and thin protective cap over the lead point projecting from the jacket. Charles Newton designed a “wire-point” bullet which used a thin but strong piece of steel wire inserted in the center of the point to reinforce it against close-range expansion.
However, it was not until the 1950′s that a truly multiple-range bullet design was developed to the point of commercial success and acceptance. The brainchild of John Nosler, it is called the “Nosier Partition Bullet” and in original form contained a completely solid partition located midway in the bullet jacket. This was accomplished by actually machining the jacket from solid copper rod, a most uneconomical method of manufacture. The forward portion of the jacket was relatively thin and filled with a soft lead core; the rear quite thick and with a hard core. In this form, the front portion would expand at any reasonable velocity, while the rear portion then assumed the characteristics of a full-jacketed wadcutter and remained intact under even the most severe impacts to insure deep penetration. Nosier Partition Bullets are currently made from lengths of copper tubing which are impact extruded to form the partition. As a practical manufacturing matter, the partition cannot be made completely solid without significantly increasing production costs. It provides all-range performance at a level of consistency and reliability that cannot be obtained with conventional design. Granted, in spite of advanced production techniques and shortcuts, the partition bullet still costs nearly twice as much to make as the conventional type.  In the last ten years a lot of hunters who feel they need better have chosen Barnes or Nosler type bullets which are a superb bullet but due to the high expense they are never likely to ever displace what are called the “open-cup” designs. Shooters who feel that their type of hunting and game justifies the increased cost of Barnes or Nosier bullets are quite willingly pay it.
Next Edition. ‘More on Bullets.’

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Bushnell Yardage Pro Range Finder

$362

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

$ 40

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 51 Febraury 2011

Welcome to the Fifty First Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Thompson TC Venture, Guaranteed 1 minute of angle, Bolt Action Rifles.

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Thompson/Center introduces the New T/C Venture, the most value-packed bolt action rifle available on the market today. Designed to deliver top end quality and accuracy at an entry level price, the Thompson/Centre Venture offers a  5 R  rifled match grade barrel and match grade crown, adjustable precision trigger and a classic style composite stock that puts it in a class all its own. A rugged, reliable tool for the outdoorsman. the T/C Venture features T/C’s renowned innovation, craftsmanship and cutting edge barrel technology. Guaranteed to deliver Minute of angle accuracy… 1 inch groups at 100 yards.
T/C Venture features a classic sporter style stock in rugged composite material with traction grip panels, the T/C Venture has a sophisticated appearance with the durability and accuracy to back it up. Thompson/Centre Venture… made in the USA and backed by the famous Thompson Centre Lifetime Warranty… It delivers the finest in accuracy, reliability and quality craftsmanship in an attractive, affordable package. .270 win up to 300 win mag,

$950. plus freight.

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The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.

The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.
This is the (Jain Way) JW Model 105, Sometimes called Norinco. These rifles are made in the same factory that manufactures the now famous JW 15 .22 rifle (the Brno Mod One Copy) if you have had a JW15 or know of anyone who had one, you will know that they shoot sometimes better than the rifle they imitiated. These JW105 s are in .223 Remington calibre and have a five shot detachable magazine. They also come with Weaver style mount bases and Quick Detachable studs for QD sling swivels  If you look carefully at the close up photograph you will notice a shiny silver colour, at the breech face,the camera has picked up the chrome plating from inside the chamber. The Chinese are the only non-military manufactures that can afford the chrome process of plating the Barrels and Chambers. They have also chromed the forward section of the Bolt. Chrome plating gives the best protection against erosion and corrosion than anything else besides regualr cleaning. The JW 105 is a copy of the Geveram and Krico that was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, they were very good quality but I believe that Gevarm had to stop making them as the were too expensive to produce.
These are the best value .223 Remington centre-fire, repeating rifle on the market.

Brand New $460.

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700 Remington ™ SPS™ Stainless (Special Purpose Synthetic) offers everything you love about the legendary Model 700™, all at an extremely affordable price.

Built to carry on the tradition of the Model 700™ BDL™ Stainless Synthetic, the Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless is leading the way for the next generation of hard-hitting, fully featured, affordable priced rifles. From the rock-solid receiver design to the famous “three rings of steel,” the Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless offers the unrivaled out-of-the-box accuracy and high-end performance you’ve come to expect from America’s most popular bolt-action centerfire rifle.
The Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless features an improved, ergonomically designed synthetic stock for better handling and enhanced overall functionality. The bead blasted 416 stainless steel barreled action comes clean without sights and is drilled and tapped for scope mounts. For added corrosion resistance the internal fire control components are plated. Standard amenities include a hinged floor plate magazine, and swivel studs.

$995 including mounts while stock lasts

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Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangeable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truly a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste. 28 and 30 inch barrels at present.

$775.

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ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN

Long recoil operation

Long recoil automatically operated breech actions, in the 21st Century are usually found in shotguns. (except for Australia as there ownership in prevented by extremely restrictive licensing conditions which is almost an outright ban,) Most long recoil semi-auto shotguns are ones based on John M. Browning’s Auto-5 action.   In a long recoil action, the barrel and bolt recoil all the way back as a unit. Once its rearward movement is absorbed by its recoil spring, the barrel is forced forward by the spring, where it unlocks from the bolt and returns to battery. The bolt, after compressing its own recoil spring, is held in the rearmost position until the barrel returns to battery. At this point, the fired shell has been extracted and ejected, and a new shell has been lifted from the magazine. The bolt is released by the return of the barrel, and is forced closed by its own recoil spring. Long recoil operated firearms have a distinct “double recoil” feel to them, the “first recoil” being the halting of the rearward motion of the bolt and barrel, and the “second recoil” being the heavy barrel returning to battery. This in fact seems to slow the recoil speed, distributing the recoil over a longer time period giving the shooter a less noticeable sharp knock. These properties for shooters with a shoulder disability give decided advantages in pain management, assisting to keep the shooter in the sport for many years after he, or she would have to retire.
The A5 design was patented in 1900 by John Moses Browning, the long recoil action is now over 110 years old, and has dominated the automatic shotgun market for nearly a than century, before it was supplanted by new gas operated designs. While Browning halted production of the Auto-5 design in 1999, Franchi still makes a long recoil operated shotgun line, the AL-48, which shares both the original Browning action design, and the “humpbacked” appearance of the original Auto-5. Other firearms based on the long recoil system invented by John Browning were the Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle (1906), the Frommer line of pistols (1907) and the Chauchat machine gun of World War One. Although the Long Recoil Auto action has one of the best reputations for reliability in the world due to the genius of Browning, the Chauchat light machine gun was a sometimes working gun, as the French made light machine gun had the worst reputation for reliability in the firearm world, which still may not be surpassed. With all the Long-Recoil Operated Actions the barrel and bolt recoil all the way, solidly locked together. As they do so, they compress their respective return springs. When recoil is completed, the bolt is caught by a catch. As the barrel begins to move forward, it is unlocked from the bolt, which remains held to the rear and which in turn holds the empty case. In this type of firearm, extraction takes place as the chamber is “pulled off the case,” rather than as the case is “pulled out of the chamber ” When the barrel is almost fully forward, it trips the catch, releasing the bolt. In the shotgun, the carrier mechanism serves as part of the catch.
Next Edition The Gas Operated Breech Actions

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MARLIN X S 7

This new Marlin has taken the best designs from all the best bolt action design features from Savage Accu trigger,barrel Lock system, Winchester Mod 70, Push feed extractor bolt release catch, Remington 700 profile bolt handle, and safety catch. Mauser internal magazine system. Includes a one piece weaver style mount base. Only in .243 & .308w sized actions at present.

$699. plus post.

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Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, and a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated.
It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

$369. each $700 for two.

plus registered post and appropriate licences.

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Thoughts for the Week

In 2008, Canada had a total of 611 killings. 200 shooting homicides, almost all gang related with black market guns. 14000 hits (of checks) on the nationwide gun registry (according to Canadian Police) and not 1 data base hit (check) saved a life.
200 stabbing homicides, almost all gang related with knives.
Zero hits on a non-existent knife nationwide registry.
200 beatings, strangulations, burnings, almost all gang related.
Zero hits on a non-existent beatings, strangulations, burnings nationwide registry.
Conclusion:
14000 hits on the gun registry nationwide (according to Canadian Police) and not 1 data base hit saved a life at a cost of 2.4 BILLION DOLLARS.

With those kind of statistics it’s no wonder legitimate sportsman no longer support the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs and the Canadian Police Association. Consider that prior to draconian gun control laws and registration of long guns, support from sportsman for the police was extremely high. Since the Canadian Police supported the NDP, the Liberals and Wendy Koo-Koo’s Coalition for Gun control, it’s plainly obvious the Police associations are not concerned about the police support from 7 million legitimate sportsman in Canada.
Why would hunters and target shooters support the police who have made legitimate sportsman the scapegoat for crimes committed by street gangs involved in the lucrative trade of illegal drugs. This all could be said about Australia where the Police and legislators refer to firearm owners and dealers in the same terminology as drug users and dealers.
Support for the police?…not bloody likely!
If it saves even one life, it’s worth it, right? We have all heard that old furphy, and we have all heard the old lie,
“The long gun registry makes sense because we register cars, don’t we?
It peculiar these sort of lies all end with a question. I believe it because the liars that use them know they are a lie.
If anyone uses that lie, they should receive a hard finger pointing in the chest and should be told, If your cars were registered in the same way as firearms, you would have:
All classic sports cars, subcompact cars or cars capable of operating in excess of 120 km/h would be totally prohibited. Cars that look like they are capable of exceeding 120 km/h but are not would also be prohibited by adding them to the list of prohibited vehicles. Persons owning such cars prior to the enactment of the every changing  “Traffic Act” would have to hand them in for the latest destruction program.
Buy back money would be promised but due to the treachery and corruption of the staff running the program you will miss out.
Some special people could keep theirs for assisting in a disability or special need. They  would require a “special authority to drive” to take them to a provincially certified track to drive. The government, by virtue of a legislative screw-up, would never be permitted to grant the special authority, due to another unrelated Act.
Replica’s of those cars capable of 120Km/h even though they have no engine or wheels that turn are also placed in the same category and have to be handed in or held on a very restricted special licence, which includes extra security provisions. 
All two-door sports cars, by virtue of being two doors, would be banned from driving on roads and would be restricted to use of provincially regulated tracks. To take your two-door car to the track would require an authorization to transport to the track. You would have to take a designated route to the track. If you deviate from the route, you could face serious criminal charges. This would also include all the replicas or anything that looks like a sports car.  
If you own a car, any car, you would have to store it in a locked garage. If you do not own a locked garage, you would have to drain the fuel tank after arriving home, and lock the doors. You would have to store the petrol separately from the car, and in a safe manner. You would also have to follow this regimen if you parked at the mall or at work. Failure to adhere to this could result in serious criminal charges. The same would apply to Golf buggies and Ride on mowers with an engine greater than a horsepower.   
Failing to get a registration sticker every year on time would result in serious criminal charges (instead of a fine or a suspended ticket).  
Any infraction of the Highway Traffic Act would be a serious criminal offence.  
To get your license you would, in addition to passing a safe-driving course and exams, provide three references who would vouch for your ability to drive. You would have to get approval from all your sexual partners who have stayed in your home, as well as any former employers.  
Upon receiving your license, you will be allowed to purchase a car, but not on a Saturday afternoons or Sundays, and sales between individuals could never occur.  
If you do not receive your license renewal on time, police will show up at your door to demand that you turn over your car for destruction. You could also face serious criminal charges. You would be surprised with on the spot inspections of your cars security, at anytime of the day and night. Of course any lack of security precautions and your car will be destroyed and you will be charged and prosecuted. 
If you argue with your wife, or are going through a divorce, and your wife or partner makes any claim of criminal action, police will seize your car and destroy it.  
If you are convicted of any criminal offence, swearing on the phone, or an illegal gambling night to raise money for your favourite e charity your car would be seized and destroyed.
If you violate any regulations under the Traffic Act or commit any criminal offence, you would have all your cars seized and destroyed, and you would be prohibited from owning a car for 5 years.  
Every time there is a serious accident or a hit and run, grandstanding and shamelessly uninformed politicians would demonize car owners as dangerous, wife-abusing rednecks who cannot be trusted, and call for a total ban on all cars. If it saves even one life, it’s worth it, right?
Hope no one thinks this is funny, as we smile, in South Australia the Police Minister who are steadfastly working to give everyone the benefit of National Gun Laws are introducing a set of changes which will alter the category your firearms are in, as soon as its legislated in South Australia in past experience we can expect it imposed on the shooter of all States. If you do not want to lose your guns or fight to stop the categories being changed on your licence find contact the Shooters Union, www.shootersunion.com.au and complain to the Police Ministers who are going to legislate it, raise yourselves up on your back legs and scream the house down. Another good site is this one.

http://www.2ndamendmenttv.com/videos/attacks-on-our-rights/australia-protests-gun-ban.html

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Center-Point Air Rifle Scope and Mount Package, 3-9×40 with objective focus.

$160.

plus post.

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Gun Books Make Great Presents,

Easy To Post and with years of use and enjoyment. We have over a 1000 Gun Books in stock.
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and http://www.owenguns.com/gun-book/
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Just One Example is The ABC of Reloading

by Bill Chevalier, hundreds of how to do it photographs

$35 . plus $10 post anywhere in Australia.

If you need any more details about the other titles we have in our list just phone 07 54825070 or 07 54 824099 or Fax 07 54824718 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

Another Example is our Best Seller as it is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind. If you like the small articles included with this Bulletin, Accurate Firearm Design and Understanding Cartridge Reloading and want to read an encyclopedia on shooting by the same author buy The Range Officer Handbook.

The Range Officer Handbook

The Range Officers Handbook pay by Pay Pal see Bulletin Special Announcement Page CLICK HERE
As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo    0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
•  90   pages of Information for Range Officers,
•  239 pages on Coaching to Win,
•  110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
•  33   pages on hitting Clay Targets,
•  34   pages on Reloading Ammunition,
•    6   page of Contents,
•  18   pages of Index,
•  38   pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
•  23   pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
•  Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
•  Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback., Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.

$75 .

Signed by the author (state who you would like it dedicated to) plus $10 postage Australia wide.
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Electronic Ear Muffs

Slimline Electoronic Ear Muffs, Hear and Protect
Hear normally up to 85 db Electronically reduces & protects hearing, Protects hearing above 85 db
Able to hear normal conversations and sounds to 85 decibels, Over 200 hours of battery life, Auto-adjust headband
Solid state circuit. Rotary on-off volume knob
HOW THE ELECTRONIC EAR MUFFS WORK
These electronic ear muffs are a high standard ear muff in design, they are made to feel light and comfortable for all day use. They can be used as standard ear muff when the electronic component is not turned on and will passively reduce noise like any normal ear muff. They have a standard noise reduction rating of 29 decibel and are a Class 5.
Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
At the range or anywhere ear protection is constantly required, but you also need to hear instructions from others or you wish to be more aware of the ambient sound around you, these electronic ear muffs are what you need.

$75.50 plus post.

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Understanding Cartridge Reloading

Bullets  (carried on from Edition 50)
Prior to World War Two in European countries, (definitely not the part of Europe some people confuse with Great Britain), gilding metal (a copper alloy, comprising 95% copper and 5% zinc. Technically, it is a brass) came into common use, but as in wartime and under any British blockade copper and zinc was hard to obtain) steel was explored in much more detail. Steel bullet jackets were brought to a high degree of development, and during WW II, most German small arms ammunition utilized steel jackets. Generally, such jackets were drawn from a very soft steel and then simply plated or given some other protective coating to prevent corrosion.
At the same time, methods for applying a thin coating of copper or gilding metal were developed. While electro-plating was successful to a degree, best results were obtained when a billet of steel was sandwiched, or laminated between sheets of the coating metal and then rolled to the thickness required for jacket-drawing. The tremendous pressure and heat involved bonded the coating metal securely to the steel, where it remained in place throughout all further manufacturing operations. Thus, protection from corrosion was achieved as well as a reduction in bore/bullet friction. Today, many European bullets use this “sandwich” jacket material and achieve performance characteristics fully equal to those of gilding metal. Also during WW II, the U.S.A. encountered copper shortage problems and developed similar methods of coating steel for military bullet jackets. Both copper-plating and laminated-type construction were used. In the 1980s and 1990s millions of rounds of 7.62 x 39 ammunition were imported into Australia from China, they were a full metal jacket, and the more modern ones had laminated steel cases and laminated steel bullets, the were a chocolate colour and were referred to many times as “Chocolate Drops”.  They were reliable, uniform and accurate and killed well when placed in a vital area. They did not of course, expand as quickly as sporting ammunition but as they had a light alloy insert in the point of the bullet and a harder section below, very often the point would fold over when it hit the target, destabilising the bullet in its terminal stage, the bullet would then form a wedge and penetrate on a much broader front causing a much greater sized wound channel.
This style of bullet was developed in the early part of the 20th Century as at that time Germany had complained and won a decision in the Conventions of War at the Hague to prevent Britain from using its Dum Dum bullets. (Named after the Indian arsenal that developed them, they were not just bullets that had been tampered with)
As the Conventions prevented civilised nations from using bullets designed to rapidly expand, with reduced jacket material at their points the Germans quickly designed their bullets to upset, destabilise, fold, topple and plough through flesh and bone. That was quite lawful and civilised. Within ten years, most or civilised nations of the world had followed suit and copied the design and effect. The only countries in the world where this design was not taken on board was the British Commonwealth countries who after being brought to task were keen not to be accused of war crimes a second time. It is hard to moralise on these subjects as during the two world wars Britain and its Commonwealth forces were criticised for using bullets that wounded, more than they killed, so causing more suffering to the wounded, where the German designed toppling bullet made more severe wounds that killed more reliable. The finger was pointed at the British for wanting to cause more wounded as it caused more logistic nightmares for the opposing army to evacuate the wounded. Yet the wounded have at least a chance of survival, if even it’s painful chance.
Keeping in mind that copper always becomes in short supply during wartime, most nations have highly developed methods for producing steel-jacketed bullets, well-tested and ready to put to use. Many military ammunition specifications contain alternate provisions for the use of steel for this reason. It is interesting to note that virtually all small arms ammunition produced in the Soviet Union for the past many years utilizes steel-jacketed bullets.
It is only reasonable to assume that we may expect ever-increasing use of steel in bullet jackets in the future. As manufacturing methods become more refined, the much higher price of copper will make steel more attractive to manufacturers.
The first expanding jacketed bullets were simple soft-points with a great deal of lead exposed at the nose. Of rather blunt form and driven at relatively low velocities, they expanded well and penetrated deeply, even on the largest game. However, as sharp-pointed designs became necessary for velocity retention, and as velocities climbed, this type became less effective. A blunt soft-point bullet that performed well at 2000-2200 fps will break up badly when driven at 2800-3000 fps. Lead exposure was reduced and cores were hardened to achieve better high-velocity performance, but serious problems developed in that a bullet designed to withstand impact at high velocities at short range would not expand well at, say, 300 yards where velocity had reduced substantially. As velocities and flatness of trajectory increased hunters took longer shots and the problem grew much worse.
Next Edition Balancing Bullets.

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Chrony Chronographs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

You have now should all have the free Ballistic Calculator if you haven’t got it already there is a link further down this page. Without a Chornograph to give you a known velocity, shooting is all just guess work. There are only two known facts available to a shooter, the hole it makes in the target and its speed. (Pressure guns are not available to us mere mortals) You cannot test, your rifle and ammunition by how much noise it makes or how hard it kick’s you. Get a chronograph, they have never been any cheaper for this quality and if you don’t do it now they will be dearer when you want one next. Then you will be kicking yourself harder than a .600 Nitro Express. They fold up really compact to take to the range, open them up shoot throught the wires and the light meters will give you a print out on the little screen. They fit onto nearly every camera tripod.  One of our customers fired through the  clear screen, brought it back for warrentry, as it didn’t work. Please do not do this, as they are not supposed to be bullet proof.

$198. plus post.

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankock. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 50 January 2011

Welcome to the Fiftieth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Classified Guns for Sale – ADVERTISE YOUR GUNs HERE. New Site Just Opened, but selling guns so fast than we cannot photograph them and get them up there quick enough. We need yours to sell on  Electronic Classifieds!

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The Staff of Owen Guns sincerely hope the people impacted by the recent Flood disasters recover as quicly as possible and have a safe and prosperous future. Through sad experience we have found that the most deserving will get the least compensation, if any. Hopefully this tradgedy will bring change and stop these government (not natural) disasters from happening again.

Model 336SS

The flagship of our Model 336 family, and one of the most popular hunting rifles in North America. Offered in 30-30 Win, it embodies our dedication to dependability, pinpoint accuracy and good looks. A 20″ barrel with Micro-Groove® rifling makes it exceptionally handy in the brush and deadly accurate. The American black walnut stock and fore-end are enhanced with fine-cut checkering and our tough Mar-Shield® finish. Its solid-top receiver is drilled and tapped for scope mounts. It also features adjustable sights. The Model 336SS is constructed primarily of stainless steel for awesome corrosion resistance and long-term durability.

$1180. plus post

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Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truly a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste.

$775.  Silver Receiver $799.

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HORNADY CARTRIDGE CASE CLEANER

Give the wife a break stop cleaning your cartridge cases in the dish washer, or the washing machine, no more hassle drying them in the oven. Get the Vibratory Case Cleaner from Hornady.

$150 plus post

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Remington Genesis 1000 fps.

Idea for Dad and Son, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage.

(Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air rifle feature ultra Hi ergonomics in its soft, synthetic pistol style grip and sculptured cheek piece, 28 pounds of cocking force gets up to 1000 fps. Other features include aTwo stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.

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ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN.

Short Recoil Operated Action.
Short recoil operation differs from long recoil operation in that the barrel and bolt recoil only a short distance before they unlock and separate. The barrel stops quickly, and the bolt continues rearwards, compressing the recoil spring and performing the other actions of cycling. During the last portion of its forward travel, the bolt locks into the barrel and pushes the barrel back into battery
With the Short Recoil Operated Action system of operating a semi automatic or an automatic function of a breech action the breech block or bolt is locked tightly to the barrel, solidly supporting the head of the cartridge at the beginning of the operation. There are slightly different systems but all work on the same principles with most the barrel and bolt are arranged to slide backward together on firing, through a tube which encircles the barrel and a grooved well in the receiver, or along a track on the forearm and through a well in the receiver. Thus when the rifle is fired the barrel and bolt slide straight to the rear actuated by the recoil, during which movement the counter recoil spring is compressed. When the barrel has completed a certain short travel to the rear, and the bullet has left the muzzle, the barrel is stopped and at this point the breech bolt is unlocked from the barrel by cams in the receiver. In some designs a counter recoil spring is provided for the barrel and this spring then pushes it forward again to its normal position. Then momentum and residual pressure continue to carry the bolt further back to the end of its travel in the receiver until it reaches the stop or buffer. The compressed counter recoil spring then moves the bolt forward, carrying the top cartridge from the magazine into the chamber, and the bolt locks itself to the barrel, ready to fire again. Examples of this mechanism are the .45 calibre Colt 1911 A1 automatic pistol which was a Browning invention, the Johnson rifles and there  Light Machine Guns and the Luger, the P-38 Walther, and Mauser pistols. The Johnson semi-automatic rifle, designed by Captain Melvin M. Johnson, Jr. is probably the most efficient utilization of this system to date when it is to handle high power rifle cartridges.
The Johnson has a short recoil system, a rotary bolt locking with eight lugs (a feature which inspired Eugene Stoner in his Armalite Ar15 M16 development) and unlocking by the rearward movement of the sliding barrel. The bolt turns twenty degrees to unlock while the barrel is recoiling 3/8-inch. Unlocking is accomplished by cams on the bolt working in a cam chamber and channel in top of the receiver. It has a rotary feed magazine holding ten cartridges in addition to another cartridge in the chamber. The magazine can be loaded with two standard Springfield type five-cartridge clips, or with loose cartridges, and can also be loaded whether the breech is open or closed. The rifle is 45 ½ inches long and weighs 9 quarter pounds. Some models of the Johnson light machine gun can be set to fire from either an open or from a closed bolt. In many technical areas such as reloading they were superior to the M1 Garand but many Marines that were issued them ditched them in favour of a Garand maybe the rotary magazines were delicate.
In the mechanism of the .45 Colt automatic pistol the slide is the breech block, and the barrel and slide remain locked together and move back together in recoil about 1/8 inch. Then the link pulls the barrel down at its rear end and disengages ribs on it from the slots in the slide by which the two are held together. The barrel stops, but the slide continues to the rear, being driven by its momentum and residual pressure. The counter recoil spring then pushes the slide forward again, and shoves the top cartridge out of the magazine into the chamber. This is the most reliable mechanism for an automatic pistol that has yet been invented but this locking system is not strong enough to stand the pressure of high power rifle cartridges.
The chief objections to the recoiling system are the sliding barrel and the excessive number of parts. The barrel requires a tube or slide around it within which it recoils, and the tube retains heat excessively. The sights cannot well be fitted to the barrel, but must be secured to the tube and receiver. The barrel cannot be a perfect fit in its tube and slide, for if it were it would not operate in the presence of any amount of normal dust, and this necessary looseness, plus any that develops from friction, will cause variations in the line of aim. Two recoil springs are necessary, one for the barrel and one for the bolt. Usually a long and bulky receiver is necessary. It is a difficult firearm on which to fix a bayonet.
The recoiling action is timed by regulating the weights of the barrel and breechblock, and by the strength of their springs. If the barrel is too heavy it will have too much inertia, its recoiling speed will be slow, and ejection efficiency may be reduced. On the other hand a heavy breechblock tends towards better ejection, because it loses its momentum less than a light one after it has separated from the barrel.The exact method of locking and unlocking the barrel is the primary differentiating factor in the wide array of short recoil designs. Perhaps the most unusual is the 1890 toggle bolt design of Hugo Borchardt, most famous for its use in the German Luger pistol. Most common are the John Browning tilting barrel designs, based either on the rotating link as used in the M1911 pistol, or the linkless cam design used in the Hi Power. The other common design is the Walther P38 locking block design, found in the modern Beretta 92 derived designs.
The Luger pistol has a toggle-joint breech, which, unlike that of the Pedersen, is positively locked. Barrel and toggle recoil together with the breechblock held firmly against the base of the cartridge until a portion of the toggle strikes ramps on the frame. This pushes the toggle open, retracting the breechblock. A heavy spring in the rear of the grip then pulls the toggle closed and returns the moving parts to firing position.
The Walther and Mauser pistols are also positively locked. Both have separate locking blocks, that of the Walther being located between lugs on the bottom of the barrel and engaging grooves in the slide. The block of the Mauser rides in a slot in the barrel extension and engages grooves in the bolt.
The objections to this type of shoulder arm are that the receiver must be bulky and heavy, and it and the arrangement for the sliding barrel detract from the handiness and neat appearance of the weapon, and add to its weight. Also, with a rifle, both sights should be on the barrel, or else the barrel, particularly with wear, will not continue to line up absolutely with the line of aim It has proven highly successful for pistols, however.
While the short recoil design is most common in pistols, the very first short recoil operated firearm was also the first machine gun, the Maxim gun. It used a toggle bolt similar to the one Borchardt later adapted to pistols, which was followed by Luger. Browning also used the short recoil action in larger guns, including the M2 machine gun, which has seen service for over 80 years as a heavy machine gun with all branches of the United States military. The German MG-34 and MG-42 dual-purpose machine-guns were also operated by short recoil the MG 42 utilising the first of the roller block mechanisms.Some short-recoil operated firearms, such as the German MG-42 machine gun, use a mechanism at the muzzle to extract some energy from the escaping powder gases to push the barrel backwards, in addition to the recoil energy. This ‘boost’ provides higher rates of fire and/or more reliable operation. This type of mechanism is also found in some suppressors used on short recoil firearms, under the name gas assist or Nielsen device, where it is used to compensate for the extra mass the suppressor adds to the recoiling parts both by providing a boost and decoupling some of the suppressor’s mass from the firearm’s recoiling parts.
Next Edition  Long Recoil Automatically Operated Breech Actions.

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Sabatti .223 Walnut Stock, Detachable Magazine, adjustable Trigger, large claw extractor.

Sabatti have been producing firearms for hundreds of years in the Gardonne region of Italy. The company split from its pistol manufacturing operation Tanfoglio several years ago. The action is a Mauser type with dual opposed locking lugs with a claw extractor. Ideal for the traditionalist who appreciates Walnut stocks.

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Thirty years ago John Olsens Mauser Book was the reference book that all Mauser collectors had to have, now this book fairly wears the Crown, It has over a 1000 pages of information, mostly all colour photos of the rifles and markings. This latest Edition has 200 more colour photos than the last edition.Every Mauser story for 1871 to 1945. Mauser’s from 200 different Countries. Ideal for Firearm collector who need to know everything about Mauser’s. Hard Backed, A4 Full format, with semi gloss pages.

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The Range Officer Handbook

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As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo    0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
•  90   pages of Information for Range Officers,
•  239 pages on Coaching to Win,
•  110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
•  33   pages on hitting Clay Targets,
•  34   pages on Reloading Ammunition,
•    6   page of Contents,
•  18   pages of Index,
•  38   pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
•  23   pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
•  Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
•  Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback.,
Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.
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Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, and a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated.

It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

$369. each $700 for two.

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Thoughts for the Week

It goes without saying that all intelligent human beings deplore the cowardly act of the killer in Tucson Arizona and our sincere sympathy and sorrow goes to the victims of this crime, and to their families, who have been in our thoughts. This was a despicable act of cowardice, by a nut case I believe the full force of law should be used against the individual responsible. All human victims are just as important no matter if they are a Congress women or a federal court judge, but no time is lost on sympathy by the anti gun lobby within minutes of the tragedy they are using every inch of shock to carry their cause.
When will these people stop dancing in the blood of crime victims in an attempt to resuscitate their relevance?  On the 10th January 2011 Mr D Shoebridge MLC of the Greens Party put a press release out, Time to Ban Semi- Auto pistols in NSW, no logical reasons just being a parasite on the Tucson tragedy. No criticism of present governments attitude to mental health policy, giving the ex inmates the keys and making us wear our the bars to our cells just exploitation of this hideous event in an effort to further its own political agenda.
This was also being carried out in the USA and I sent these thoughts to an old friend of mine in Colorado.

Dear Bill
Politicians do not realize that the danger is not in the material its in the human mind. Once a person makes his mind up to kill another. The availability of the tool he chooses is only convenience. Lincoln was wounded with a black powder single shot percussion pistol, thousand in Iraq die by the explosions in storm water pipes. Most politicians have died by poisoning or suffocated with a pillow. It should be put to today’s statesmen that they either spend a little more on mental health or humour the people a little more.
As once people find that in some areas one of the major parties could put up a salivating, mad, baboon as a candidate and he would still be elected, they realize the only way of getting shut of them is to kill them. Well then they lose their sense of humour and begin to plan the deed. No one, no how much security is put into place is safe. Some are even murdered by their own security guards or family members. So what is the point of banning a firearm. They might as well ban gasoline or hair bleach, hydrogen peroxide.
Ron.
It was well received and Bill sent it around on his ‘GunIssues’ network.

We in Queensland have not just got to put up with disasters like the floods we also have the Queensland Police Service that is usually four a five weeks behind with its Permits to Acquire which due to some supposed change on the 1st of November 2010 is now getting to be 3 months behind and the wait is increasing.  Before Christmas we received a letter from them stating that we should not encourage shooters to phone them and enquire the whereabout of there Permit to Acquire that they are very busy and the phone calls just slow them down. So instead we have encouraged the shooter waiting to collect their firearms to contact write if possible or phone and ask the staff to phone the Police Minister and ask them where there PTA is. Page 45 of the current Weapons Regulations state that if you have a firearm on a licence the waiting period is the same day that you apply.
Weapons Regulation 1996
56 Waiting period for decision on application for permit to acquire
(1) This section prescribes the period for section 42 of the Act.
(2) The period is 28 days after the day the applicant lodges the application for the permit to acquire the weapon.
(3) However, if—
(a) the applicant already holds a firearm under a licence; or
(b) an authorised officer is satisfied there are exceptional circumstances;
the period is the remainder of the day on which the applicant lodges the application for the permit.

So after filling in all of those meaningless forms and paying your $30 to the Queensland Police Service why do you have to wait two to three months. The government has no excuse they have within the past six months increased the Fees and Charges under the Weapons Act 126 %.
On page 70 of the Weapons Act 1990
Division 4 Firearms register
49 Commissioner to maintain firearms register
(1) The commissioner must establish and maintain a record (the
firearms register) of all firearms in Queensland.

That plainly cannot be happening as Dealer are required to send copies of all transaction forms ‘Form 10′ every week to Weapons licencing, as in many cases these are not processed for many weeks by the staff the register is incomplete and obviously by the huge delays we can say it is not being maintained.  If the Police cannot maintain this register than there inability to comply with the Weapons Act should not be used to punish Queensland firearm owners to an even greater extent. If they cannot make it work as the law required it should be scrapped as it has been in New Zealand , Canada and was once scrapped in Victoria.
Registration solves no crimes, prevents no criminal from using a Weapon, and due to the inability to maintain and use this information cannot be used to trace a firearm or even owns it as half of Queensland firearms would not be on the register in the first instance. It is now time to for all shooters licensed or unlicensed to contact your local members of parliament ask them to represent you their constituent and scrap the Weapons Register and rescind the legislation that makes firearm registration compulsory.

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The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.

The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.
This is the (Jain Way) JW Model 105, Sometimes called Norinco. These rifles are made in the same factory that manufactures the now famous JW 15 .22 rifle (the Brno Mod One Copy) if you have had a JW15 or know of anyone who had one, you will know that they shoot sometimes better than the rifle they imitiated. These JW105 s are in .223 Remington calibre and have a five shot detachable magazine. They also come with Weaver style mount bases and Quick Detachable studs for QD sling swivels  If you look carefully at the close up photograph you will notice a shiny silver colour, at the breech face,the camera has picked up the chrome plating from inside the chamber. The Chinese are the only non-military manufactures that can afford the chrome process of plating the Barrels and Chambers. They have also chromed the forward section of the Bolt. Chrome plating gives the best protection against erosion and corrosion than anything else besides regualr cleaning. The JW 105 is a copy of the Geveram and Krico that was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, they were very good quality but I believe that Gevarm had to stop making them as the were too expensive to produce.
These are the best value .223 Remington centre-fire, repeating rifle on the market.

Brand New $460.

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Tasco 4x 32 Silver Antler Rifle Scope
Thirty years ago we would have paid a $1000. for the same quality of vision and precision, a guaranteed leading optical manufacturer who warranties their products all over the World. They have a light gathering clarity that would have made those old dark Pecar’s appear like looking through a knot hole in fathers wooden leg. What’s more they are Waterproof. In 1970 during a storm in the Victorian mountains I can remember emptying my Pecar like a jug. It had a steel tube but it leaked like a sive.I was so disappointed I hunted Samba for years with open sites as I wanted reliability. I took the low priced option then and will always follow that example, at this price I could afford to buy a spare one.

$50. plus post

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Understanding Cartridge Reloading

Bullets
Oddly enough, the Minie Ball, (bullet) the most effective of the muzzle-loading bullet development had a very short life. By the time it had actually gotten into wide-spread use, the self-contained metallic cartridge was already gaining poularity. By the late 1860′s, most nations were at least in the process of re-arming with breech loading rifles. In some instances, the new cartridges retained the hollow-base feature of the Minie to insure
that even undersize bullets would always get a good grip on the rifling.
Throughout  the American Civil War, sporting shooters and frontiersmen continued to use the cloth-patched round ball for all but the most meticulous target shooting. In order to achieve greater uniformity and accuracy than could be delivered by the round ball, long conical bullets were employed, substituting carefully-wrapped paper patches for cloth. Patches were applied in a number of ways, one layer or two, applied wet or dry, lubricated or not, but generally required the use of a false muzzle to prevent damage during loading. Obviously, such a system wasn’t practical for use in the field nor for military purposes. However, it produced the finest accuracy to be had with muzzle-loading rifles. Because of the great amount of force required to seat tight-fitting, paper patched bullets, the nose of a soft or pure lead bullet was likely to be deformed. To avoid this, the best riflemen of the day used compound swaged bullets. Such bullets were made in two parts, a body or bearing area of the softest lead which could be easily engraved by the rifling, assembled to a hardened lead-alloy nose which would resist deformation during ramming. The two parts of the bullet might be cast or swaged, but were normally assembled by swaging under heavy pressure. The two parts were locked tightly together by a mortise and tenon joint.
During the same time period, some riflemen also attempted to improve upon the round ball with a type of bullet known variously as “picket” ball or “sugar-loaf.” This was simply a more or less conical bullet, often with a rounded base, which did not have any parallel-sided portion to engage the rifling and to insure correct alignment in the bore. This type of bullet was used both patched and without. Even though some very fine shooting was reported on occasion with this type of bullet, the effort and tools required to insure that it be properly aligned in the bore made it of little practical value in the field. Even when properly loaded, the picket ball had such a short bearing surface that it might not well retain its alignment during initial acceleration down the barrel, resulting in its being tipped in the rifling and thus describing a spiral rather than true parabolic trajectory.
With the coming of the metallic cartridge, thus freeing the bullet from the torture of being loaded at the muzzle and rammed the length of the barrel, various attempts were made to improve its performance and accuracy. Grooved, lubricated lead bullets then became the most common, and were divided into two categories — those with the lubricant applied to the surface of the bullet outside of the cartridge case; called “outside lubricated,” and those whose lubricated portion was seated inside the case and called “inside lubricated.” Naturally, the latter was much to be preferred since it avoided collection of dirt and grit by the soft sticky lubricant and also avoided having the lubricant rub off in normal handling. Where maximum accuracy was desired, especially in long-range target and hunting rifles, the paper-patch bullet continued in use. Unfortunately, the paper patch could not withstand the forces applied when the cartridges were cycled through repeating gun mechanisms. Consequently, such bullets were reserved for use in top-quality, single-shot rifles. The patch was . relatively fragile and easily distorted or torn loose from the bullet. Even the act of seating the bullet in the case could damage the patch seriously.
Recognizing that the soft lead base of the bullet was easily damaged, some makers applied a “metal base” which was, in reality, what we now call a gas check. It was simply a cup stamped from thin sheet copper and swaged on the base of the bullet. It did not extend upward along the bullet sides to protect the bearing surface. Even in the larger calibers, this cup extended no more than a quarter inch forward of the base.
So long as black powder remained the principal small arms ammunition propellant, uncovered lead remained the most practical bullet material. Black powder simply would not drive bullets fast enough that any other material was required. In addition, there were many who felt that use of a harder bullet metal was either impossible or impractical. One contemporary writer describes it as “mechanical cruelty” to attempt to force a steel or similar hard-jacketed bullet through a rifled barrel. And considering the relatively soft barrel steels of the day, a hard bullet would probably have greatly reduced barrel life.
Only Sir Joseph Whitworth  in his Whitworth Rifle (and large field guns) with his mechanically fitting steel .45 cal bullets would be successful in the black powder era.
The advent of practical smokeless powder, working at much higher pressures and temperatures and producing vastly increased velocities, required the concurrent development of bullets that would withstand the strain. This brought about the basic development of the jacketed bullet as we know it today. It consisted of a lead core to give weight and density, surrounded at the base and over the bearing surfaces by a thin cup of a copper/nickel alloy called then “cupro-nickel.”A typical mix is 75% copper, 25% nickel, and a trace amount of manganese Many other materials were tried, of course, including steel, iron, and plain soft copper.
In Europe during World War 1, where wartime copper shortages caused serious problems, the use of steel was more or less perfected to the point where it could be used economically in bullet jackets and would produce satisfactory performance.
Cupro-nickel remained the standard material for military jacketed bullets in the western world through World War I into the 1920s.  Cupronickel’s particular disadvantage was that it had a tendency to occasionally foul bores rather badly. Particles of jacket material would be torn off and stick to the inside of the barrel, subsequently bullets fired would leave more and more as the surface became rough and irregular. This might substantially decrease the diameter of the bore and deform subsequent bullets to the point where accuracy was virtually destroyed.  Removal of such fouling presented serious problems since it adhered very tightly to the surface of the bore.

To solve this problem, ammunition makers developed new bullet-jacket alloys, and eventually settled on what we call “gilding metal” today. Gilding metal is a copper alloy, comprising 95% copper and 5% zinc. Technically, it is a brass. The copper zinc alloy has the characteristic colour of bright copper. It is soft and ductile, easily worked, self-lubricating to a degree, and is not prone to fouling if bores are reasonably smooth. The formula varies from 95-5 to 90-10. Eventually trade names were applied to variations of the basic alloy, such as Winchester-Western’s “Lubaloy.” Today, gilding metal remains the standard material for bullet jackets with the exception that plain copper is used in many instances for low-velocity projectiles.

Next edition further information on Bullets.

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Chrony Chronographs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

You have now should all have the free Ballistic Calculator if you haven’t got it already there is a link further down this page. Without a Chornograph to give you a known velocity, shooting is all just guess work. There are only two known facts available to a shooter, the hole it makes in the target and its speed. (Pressure guns are not available to us mere mortals) You cannot test, your rifle and ammunition by how much noise it makes or how hard it kick’s you. Get a chronograph, they have never been any cheaper for this quality and if you don’t do it now they will be dearer when you want one next. Then you will be kicking yourself harder than a .600 Nitro Express. They fold up really compact to take to the range, open them up shoot throught the wires and the light meters will give you a print out on the little screen. They fit onto nearly every camera tripod.  One of our customers fired through the  clear screen, brought it back for warrentry, as it didn’t work. Please do not do this, as they are not supposed to be bullet proof.

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 49 January 2011

Welcome to the Forty Ninth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Yet Again its that time of the year and The Staff of Owen Guns takes this opportunity to wish all our Customers a Very Happy New Year for 2011. Travel Safe and Happy Hunting.

A no-frills hunting machine, the Model 336W is chambered for 30-30 Win. and features a 20″ Micro-Groove® (12 grooves). barrel with adjustable rear and ramp with hood front sights. Plus, its receiver is drilled and tapped for scope mounts. The walnut-finished hardwood stock and fore-end have cut checkering and come with a padded nylon sling included.Capacity 6-shot tubular magazine Lever action; side ejection; solid top receiver; deeply blued metal surfaces; gold-plated steel trigger; hammer block safety. Stock Walnut finished cut-checkered hardwood with pistol grip; tough Mar-Shield® finish; blued steel barrel band with integral swivel; padded nylon sling; hard rubber butt plate.Twist Rate 1:10″ r.h. Sights Adjustable semi-buckhorn folding rear; ramp front sight with brass bead and Wide-Scan® hood. offset hammer spur (right or left hand) for scope use.
Overall Length 38.25″ Weight 7 lbs

$835.

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Tasco Pro point Red Dot Scope

 

Red dot sights use refractive or reflective optics to generate a collimated image of a luminous or reflective reticle.
This collimated image appears to be projected out to a point at infinity, which makes the image of the reticle appear to the user to be projected onto the target. Due to the fact that
the reticle image is collimated, magnifying the image of the target is impractical, as it would make the sight too hard to hold steady. The RED DOT sights are very useful for fast moving shooting in poor light conditions. No need to get your eye on the middle of the cross hair, point and shoot when the RED DOT lines up with the target. The collimated image does have its advantages,
however, as the scope can be placed at any distance from the eye without distorting the image of the target or reticle. This makes red dot sights suitable for use on pistols, rifles, or shotguns.
Other information Built-on dovetail rail to fit standard centre-fire weaver-style bases . Finish Black Matte Weight (grams) 6.7 oz. Length (inches) 3.75in
Eye Relief (mm) Unlimited Optical Coating Rubicon .multi- layered, fully coated Focus Type fixed, Parallax Setting 50 yards.

$98. plus post.

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Victory Knives

E. Goddard Limited have a proud heritage stretching from 1927 until today.Edward Goddard, a master cutler from Sheffield, England, emigrated to New Zealand and began designing and manufacturing knives in 1927. The company has grown steadily during it’s history. E. Goddard was a major supplier of combat knives for the U.S. Army in World War II, while for many years the meat industry in both New Zealand and Australia has preferred Goddard products.E. Goddard continues to thrive today by maintaining the highest standards in manufacture and materials, building it’s reputation for unsurpassed quality. Whether for sports, industry or in the home, Goddard knives are superbly designed for the job and, with a little care, can last a lifetime.All major meat and fish processing companies in New Zealand and Australia use Victory Knives.
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ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN.

 

The Retarded Blowback Action.
All of the simple blowback actions are really retarded blowback, retarded to some degree by inertia, friction, spring pressure and weight. This term retarded blowback is usually reserved for those mechanisms where the breech bolt or block is retarded by a mechanical means. The same effect is desired in either actions, that the breech must not open until the bullet has moved a sufficient distance: usually until it has left the muzzle. Examples of this are the Luger Pistol, the Thompson rifle and submachine gun and the H. & R. Reising.
The Luger employs a breechblock in the form of a toggle like the elbow in your arm. When the Lugers two arms of the toggle are almost straight, and but very slightly off dead centre, a very considerable pressure is required to start the arms to rise in the centre, and thereby shorten the distance between the two ends. As the centre rises more and more it becomes easier for the two distant ends to be forced towards each other. The front end is the face of the breech block, and the rear end is the stop. Thus when the breech pressure is at its peak the toggle is offering much resistance, and its face is moving back very slowly, giving ample time for the bullet to leave the muzzle. Afterwards, the two arms having risen materially in the centre to the easier operated position, the residual pressure and the momentum of the toggle arms completes the opening. Extracting and ejecting the empty cartridge case The return spring completes the cycle, by stripping the next round off the magazine and fully chambering when the bolt is in the locked position.
The rotary bolt of the Thompson .30-06 semi automatic rifle has locking lugs with surfaces ground on a slight slope like the threads of a screw. When high pressure is applied on the bolt face the lugs rotate or unscrew slowly, the timing being such that when the higher pressures have dropped the lugs will be fully rotated and unlocked. The residual pressure then carries the bolt back to the full extent of its travel. This is the so called “Blish” principle of retardation. These mechanisms work well with cartridges of considerably greater pressure and with longer cases than will the simple blow-back, but long cartridges of high pressure have to be lubricated, that is the body of the case must be greased so that the case will slide back easier through the chamber. If the case and chamber are dry the cases stick so tightly to the chamber walls that they prevent the extraction of the case and the bolt does not return, it is jammed. As a lubricated cartridge would be very unsatisfactory for military use, this type of rifle mechanism has not found much favour in armies. The Schwarzlose machine gun had an automatic oil pump. The .30-06 caliber Thompson automatic rifle and Thompson .45 sub machine gun had felt oiled pads either in the breech or in the sides of the magazine to lubricate the cartridges, but these often accumulated dust and sand which increased friction in the chamber. Extraction is one of the principle problems with all automatic arms, particularly those employing the heavier cartridges. It gives the least trouble with short, straight cartridges like the .45 Colt Automatic and the 9mm Para which needs no lubrication.
The retarded blowback action must complete its unlocking movement in time to utilize the residual gas pressure in the chamber for retracting the breech block, ejecting the fired case, and compressing the counter recoil spring. That is, there must be enough of the residual pressure left to accomplish these functions after it has primarily extracted the case. It will be clear, therefore, that the mechanism must be timed for some one particular cartridge, as it may not operate with a cartridge of much lighter or heavier pressure, and an entire re-design of the action would be necessary to adapt it to some other cartridges.
The pressure generated internally in the chamber by the .308 win or 7.62 Nato cartridge, 52,000 foot pounds has dropped to about 12,000 pounds by the time the bullet leaves the muzzle, while the residual pressure when the bullet is several feet beyond the muzzle is about 5,000 pounds. The action should therefore be timed to complete its unlocking after the bullet has left the muzzle and yet in time to utilize the residual pressure (in addition to a certain amount of momentum) to complete the functioning of the action.
With the use of cartridges similar to the above long bottle necked cartridges, either the toggle or the Blish principle of retarded unlocking the bolt begins to move very slightly to the rear before the pressure has decreased materially. The case is still pressed tightly against the chamber walls. Unless the cartridge is lubricated, so it can slide back instead of sticking, it may just cease up or split, separate, swell at the brass cartridge head, or the primer may blow out. The result is similar to that caused by excessive headspace in a tightly locked breech action. As a rule, most brass cases under heavy pressures cannot stand more than about ten or fifteen thousandths of an inch stretch without rupturing. With conventional high power military cartridges no retarded blowback system can, in all likelihood, be designed without using lubricated cartridges unless like the Hecklar & Kock G3 and SIG SG 510-01 rifles which use a roller-delayed blowback system which in effect hardly delays at all and really relies on the chamber which has longitudinal grooves which assist in reduce the chamber seal, floating the case out with a small amount of residual gas pressure.
The retarded toggle or Blish system are limited to the 45 Colt automatic cartridge and the 9mm Luger cartridges, both of which are short, do not stick tightly in the chamber, and require no lubrication except in the early model Thompson. World Was Two production models made them work without oil pads, probably due to greater wartime dimension tolerances.
The H. & R. Reising has an interesting delay mechanism. The bolt tips so that the rear of the bolt enters a locking recess, bearing against an inclined locking surface. When the gun is fired, the rear of the bolt must ride down this locking surface before the bolt can blow back. Again and adaption of the Blish system and only suitable for straight lined pistol calibres.
Next edition the Short Recoil-Operated Action.

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700 Remington ™ SPS™ Stainless (Special Purpose Synthetic) offers everything you love about the legendary Model 700™, all at an extremely affordable price.Built to carry on the tradition of the Model 700™ BDL™ Stainless Synthetic, the Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless is leading the way for the next generation of hard-hitting, fully featured, affordable priced rifles. From the rock-solid receiver design to the famous “three rings of steel,” the Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless offers the unrivaled out-of-the-box accuracy and high-end performance you’ve come to expect from America’s most popular bolt-action centrefire rifle. The Model 700™ SPS™ Stainless features an improved, ergonomically designed synthetic stock for better handling and enhanced overall functionality. The bead blasted 416 stainless steel barreled action comes clean without sights and is drilled and tapped for scope mounts. For added corrosion resistance the internal fire control components are plated. Standard amenities include a hinged floor plate magazine, and swivel studs.

$995.

 

including mounts while stock lasts.

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Bushnell Range Finder, Yardage Pro.

 

$362. plus post

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Gun Books Make Great Presents, Easy To Post and with years of use and enjoyment. We have over a 1000 Gun Books in stock. Looking for Gun Books We now have a list of some of our many Gun and Firearm books on the website at www.owenguns.com/gympie-shop/gun-book-list and http://www.owenguns.com/gun-book/ and http://www.owenguns.com/used-guns/books/

 

For Example Nick Harvey’s Practical Reloading Manual

 

Nick Harvey’s Practical Reloading Manual, one of the very few books to have the latest Australian Powders and Australian cartridges for Australian conditions. Its on its ninth edition, full to the brim this specific information make it almost a must for the Australian reloading shooter.

$49. plus $10 all over Australia and even overseas to Tasmania.

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Another Example is our Best Seller as it is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind. If you like the small articles included with this Bulletin, Accurate Firearm Design and Understanding Cartridge Reloading and want to read an encyclopedia on shooting by the same author buy The Range Officer Handbook.

The Range Officer Handbook

The Range Officers Handbook pay by Pay Pal see Bulletin Special Announcement Page CLICK HERE
As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo 0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
• 90 pages of Information for Range Officers,
• 239 pages on Coaching to Win,
• 110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
• 33 pages on hitting Clay Targets,
• 34 pages on Reloading Ammunition,
• 6 page of Contents,
• 18 pages of Index,
• 38 pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
• 23 pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
• Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
• Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback.,
Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.
$75 Signed by the author (state who you would like it dedicated to) plus $10 postage Australia wide.
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Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

 

 The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, and a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated.

It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

$369. each $700 for two.

 

plus registered post and appropriate licences.

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Thoughts for the Week

Welcome to 2011, funny that fireworks are banned for us simple folk but governments can explode millions of tax payers dollars, at the end of the year and because of that we are supposed to vote them back into power, so they can oppress us to further degrees of tyranny. Government never seem to realise that each one of those millions of exploding shells has to be discharged from a tube, such as a mortar tube or barrel. If not, they could have no directional control. They sate the expectation of the people, so the people never think. They can do all this shooting, right in the middle of the cities, tons of burning embers falling from high buildings, yes a lot end up in the river, but everything that goes up, comes down, its gravity. No shooters licence for each Mortar Tube. No Permits to acquire each one, at $30 . The government does not have to supply a good reason for use and letters of permission from farmers. Nor wait for 28 days to shoot an explosive shell 300 metres into the sky. Some of them weigh a kilogram or more. The government will spend ten million on Sydney harbour fireworks and maybe double that figure for what the Commonwealth burns up just on New Years Eve.
That would be great if we were making a profit and this money was a part of the bounty from the governments efforts, but its not, every government in Australia makes a huge loss, the debt burden of interest increases each year. They threaten us with bankruptcy, extortion, worse than the Mafia, to get the efforts of our achievements, our earnings, to pay the interest to the banks for the loans that pay their wages. I’m sure our taxes only pay part of the interest and never touch the principle, they just borrow more. Borrow more for fireworks to keep the masses sedated, in the same way the Roman Emperor’s gave the people gladiator games and free bread and cakes just to sedate the masses. Why do the banks finance the government and give preferential interest rates to politicians, judges, lawyers and real estate agents? Why do the banks donate to every major political party prior to every election? The answer is simple, it protects the huge privilege that the government gives to banks, which is the gift of manufacturing the money, that allows them to control the economy. They can buy or bust any company they please, they can sell shares in News Corporation, so the price decreases from $48. To 48 cents. None of the big companies, or political parties can afford to upset them. They can however afford to upset us, the taxpaying /voter as we have very little concerted power.
Government Is Power and needs to be bound by the Chains of the Constitution?
A recent demonstration has brought a disaster to Queensland besides the floods and shooter not being able to travel out west and trim the pig population. We were told that on November the 1st 2010 the Queensland Police Weapons Branch turned off the computer program that was struggling to keep up with the growing registrations of Long arms in Queensland, which sometimes left shooters waiting for 17 weeks to receive their Permit To Acquire. That’s a ‘Service’ (as a Bull to a Cow) that should happen straight way after the thirty dollars is paid, some police staff misinform the waiting shooter that there is a 28 days cooling off period where the Weapons Act make it plain that the 28 day cooling off period only applies from the application date of the Licence not the application date of the Permit to Acquire, that should be processed immediately. Apparently this new computer program was going to make it so much quicker, (reminiscent of the Dept of Health programme ‘Payroll’, but they do not have to pay for their own wagers yet). As the story was told to us The genius in charge of this operation expected to turn one program off and ‘Whalla’ like the magician the new program would take over and even though at that time they were only four weeks behind processing there PTA applications, they would quickly catch up. Wrong it did not work, no one trained the staff with the new program, they did not know how to work it, so nothing happened the PTA applications just kept piling up while they sent all the staff for a course on running the new computer. December occurred shooters who had sent application in October were coming into the gunshop every day, saying to please hold on to their purchases as they were still waiting for there PTAs. When they phoned up the girls on the switchboard were telling them not to phone back as it just slowed them down further. Then an email came from Weapons Licencing branch to each Gun Shop from a lady named Joanna who was asking the Licensed gun shops to ask the customers to stop phoning up about there PTAs as that was slowing them down. At that point we made a poster up and placed it in the shop advising customers inquiring about PTAs to contact their local members of parliament as they are the ones who should be made aware of this huge delay and should be responsible for phoning up the Minister of Police and asking why their constituents had not received the permit as per the Act and as they had paid for it. Don’t forget we have just had a 126 % increase in licensing fees. I hope some of the 80 or so customers of Owen Guns who still are waiting phoned their local member of parliament. In the month of December only five succeeded in getting their PTAs and they had waited for months. No other industry, no other group of sportsmen, no other group relying on tools to save their crops and livelihoods would be so abused by the government that they vote for, to them we are just those weird shooters. A growing number of 200,000 licensed shooters in Queensland, we are the largest Army probably over a million in Australia lets hope in 2011 that we ask at least one question, Why register Long arms when the government cannot manage it, or prove that its necessary? Lets change Australia into a better place with more freedom for a free people. Or are we slaves? well we know the answer to that don’t we.

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The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.

The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.

This is the (Jain Way) JW Model 105, Sometimes called Norinco. These rifles are made in the same factory that manufactures the now famous JW 15 .22 rifle (the Brno Mod One Copy) if you have had a JW15 or know of anyone who had one, you will know that they shoot sometimes better than the rifle they imitiated. These JW105 s are in .223 Remington calibre and have a five shot detachable magazine. They also come with Weaver style mount bases and Quick Detachable studs for QD sling swivels If you look carefully at the close up photograph you will notice a shiny silver colour, at the breech face,the camera has picked up the chrome plating from inside the chamber. The Chinese are the only non-military manufactures that can afford the chrome process of plating the Barrels and Chambers. They have also chromed the forward section of the Bolt. Chrome plating gives the best protection against erosion and corrosion than anything else besides regualr cleaning. The JW 105 is a copy of the Geveram and Krico that was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, they were very good quality but I believe that Gevarm had to stop making them as the were too expensive to produce.These are the best value .223 remington centre-fire, repeating rifle on the market.

Brand New $460.

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Tasco 4x 32 Silver Antler Rifle Scope

Thirty years ago we would have paid a $1000. for the same quality of vision and precision, a guaranteed leading optical manufacturer who warranties their products all over the World. They have a light gathering clarity that would have made those old dark Pecar’s appear like looking through a knot hole in fathers wooden leg. What’s more they are Waterproof. In 1970 during a storm in the Victorian mountains I can remember emptying my Pecar like a jug. It had a steel tube but it leaked like a sive.I was so disappointed I hunted Samba for years with open sites as I wanted reliability. I took the low priced option then and will always follow that example, at this price I could afford to buy a spare one.

$50. plus post

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Understanding Cartridge Reloading

Bullets
The part of the cartridge that achieves the whole objective of the shot is the bullet, it is the item that does the desired work. It is the bullet that pierces the target, that put the food on the table or disposes of your countries enemies. All other components of the cartridge are mere incidentals; supporting items with nothing more than the duty of launching the bullet on its way. In truth, exactly the same may be said of the firearm itself. The only thing the firearm contributes, is to provide a platform and mechanism which will launch the bullet along a given path. Both cartridge and firearm are simply developments of man’s first projectile -launching devices, his arms, and serve only to increase the accuracy, power, and velocity of the missile. Obviously, if we could physically hurl a projectile as rapidly and as accurately as the firearm and cartridge combination can launch it, we wouldn’t have any need for today’s sophisticated arms and ammunition at all. Human invention, made up for our human physical human weaknesses,
From the beginning of firearms history, lead has been the predominate material of bullets. In ancient biblical times slingers had found that the unusually high density of lead made it the best choice for thrown missiles. A lead pellet, being far smaller for its equal weight than stone or iron, it could be thrown faster and flatter, and concentrated its impact in a much smaller area. Consequently, round lead balls were preferred for the earliest firearms, though iron, stone, and even wood or other materials were used in varying degrees. Since the earliest arms were hand cannon with large diameter, smooth-bored barrels and used very inefficient black powder, their effect was far more psychological than physical. Common soldiers attributed a great deal more effectiveness to early cannon and match locks than they really possessed, and many a regiments charge was put to flight by the mere flash, smoke, and sound of enemy firearms, even though not a single ball might take effect. Bullets weren’t really very important in the beginning.
However, as firearms developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, lead became the standard material for small arms projectiles. Artillery, on the other hand, standardized on iron, though handhewn stone balls continued to see service, sometimes sewn into leather coverings.
So long as gun barrels remained smooth-bore, the spherical lead ball remained the standard projectile. There was hardly any need for any further bullet development as the barrels in use could not stabilize it nor could they promise any predictable degree of accuracy.
Though rifling had been known for many years in several forms, it did not become widely used until the middle-late eighteenth century. The round lead ball still remained the most practical form of bullet, improved by the addition of a patch of cloth or leather which served not only to simplify ramming the tight-fitting balls down the bore, but aided in enabling the rifling to spin and stabilize the bullet. Contrary to popular belief, the patched round ball for rifles did not originate in the American Colonies. It had been known and somewhat indifferently used in Europe for a good many years before it came to prominence in the so-called “Kentucky” and “Pennsylvania” rifles of the frontiersmen. As early as the 1600′s, the Swiss and Danish riflemen used patched balls.
The round lead ball remained supreme until the development in France of the “Minie” bullet by Capt. Claude Etienne Minie of the Chasseurs d’Orleans. Representing the ultimate development of the muzzle-loading bullet, the Minie marked the end of a long struggle to develop a projectile that could be loaded as easily in a rifled barrel as the typical undersize ball could in a smooth-bore combination. The latter remained the world’s military standard simply because it permitted rapid and easy reloading in battle. And it must also be considered that infantry tactics of the day did not require any great degree of accuracy. Among dozens of attempts, only the Devilgne system had achieved any degree of success prior to the Minie bullet. Devilgne placed a post centrally in the base of the breech plug and the round undersize ball was dropped in the barrel to come to rest on this post. It was then hammered with the ramrod, against the post as an anvil, upsetting it radially to fill the rifling grooves. The ball, being of soft lead, was easily upset to accomplish this, but the several ramrod strokes required still slowed loading considerably. The system did not achieve wide use, and fell out of favour almost immediately with the development of the more convenient Minie bullet which was almost universally adopted within a very short time.
Captain Minie’s development was deceptively simple one of those things about which people might well have said, “Why didn’t I think of that?” It utilized a cylindral-conoidal bullet containing a deep a conical cavity in its base. The bullet was substantially smaller in diameter than the bore diameter of the barrel and could thus be easily rammed down upon the powder charge, even when the bore was considerably fouled from previous firing. On this subject, you might keep in mind that the black powder of a century or more ago produced a great deal more fouling than the modern products offered to today’s muzzle-loading afficionados. Grease on the Minie bullet, usually combined with the remnants of a paper cartridge and the fouling in the bore served to hold the bullet in position against the powder. Upon firing, Captain Minie’s genius came into play. Powder gases expended against the base of a conical clay or wood plug fitted into the bullet cavity. The wedging action of this plug expanded the base of the bullet to fill the rifling grooves. Consequently, the bullet was properly spun and stabilized by the rifling and the goal of rapid and convenient loading combined with rifle-barrel accuracy and power had been achieved at one fell swoop. In very short order it was discovered that the plug in the base of the bullet was not necessary and that equal functioning was obtained in its absence. Consequently, in its most common form the Minie bullet contained simply an open conical cavity in its base.

 

Though used extensively in other parts of the world during its short life, the Minie ball probably achieved its greatest execution in the Crimean and American War between the States. There, tactics remained the same- as they had been with smooth-bore muskets. Opposing formations closed in tightly packed masses to within a few yards of each other before opening fire, and the high degree of accuracy and greater penetration of the new system simply decimated formations. In, that war, the victors sometimes lost a third of their troops in such deadly close-range engagements.
Next edition further information on Bullets

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 48 December 2010

Welcome to the Forty Eighth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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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 2011. Travel Safe and Happy Hunting.

Tasco Pro Point Plus, gives a huge 42 mm wide angle, ideal for aerial targets, (NOT EAGLES) adjustable for everything, size of dot, intensity, windage and elevation. include Weaver Style mounts, designed for rifles, shotguns, and pistols. where ever you need to locate the target and shoot quickly. Suits all light conditions even when its nearly dark. if you can see the target you can shoot it.

$285. plus post

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Any Inquiries on any products phone 07 54824099  or  07 54825070 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

Electronic Ear Muffs

Slimline Electoronic Ear Muffs
Hear and Protect
Hear normally up to 85 db Electronically reduces & protects hearing 
Protects hearing above 85 db
Able to hear normal conversations and sounds to 85 decibels
Over 200 hours of battery life
Auto-adjust headband
Solid state circuit
Rotary on-off volume knob
HOW THE ELECTRONIC EAR MUFFS WORK
These electronic ear muffs are a high standard ear muff in design, they are made to feel light and comfortable for all day use. They can be used as standard ear muff when the electronic component is not turned on and will passively reduce noise like any normal ear muff. They have a standard noise reduction rating of 29 decibel and are a Class 5.
Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
At the range or anywhere ear protection is constantly required, but you also need to hear instructions from others or you wish to be more aware of the ambient sound around you, these electronic ear muffs are what you need.

$75.50 plus post.

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Gun Books Make Great Presents, Easy To Post and with years of use and enjoyment. We have over a 1000 Gun Books in stock.

Looking for Gun Books We now have a list of some of our many Gun and Firearm books on the website at

www.owenguns.com/gympie-shop/gun-book-list
and http://www.owenguns.com/gun-book/
http://www.owenguns.com/used-guns/books/

Just One Example is The Gun Digest Book Of Exploded Gun Drawings

The Gun Digest Book Of Exploded Gun Drawings: 975 Isometric Views over 1000 pages is a visual reference book especially for collectors, gunsmiths and hobbyists. Featuring detailed, black-and-white diagrams of the many complex pieces in a gun, which labels each piece and shows how each piece fits with the others, The Gun Digest Book Of Exploded Gun Drawings reveals at a glance how hundreds of different handguns, shotguns, and rifles are put together. Very little text is present in The Gun Digest Book Of Exploded Gun Drawings, a massive volume devoted almost entirely to the diagrams themselves, with a complete directory of firearms trade resources and a selected shooting sports bibliography. A fascinating and highly practical resource for serious firearm enthusiasts. This is a Christmas Present from us at this price.

$45.00

plus $10 post anywhere in Australia.

If you need any more details about the other titles we have in our list just phone 07 54825070 or 07 54 824099 or Fax 07 54824718 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

Another Example is our Best Seller as it is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind. If you like the small articles included with this Bulletin, Accurate Firearm Design and Understanding Cartridge Reloading and want to read an encyclopedia on shooting by the same author buy The Range Officer Handbook.
The Range Officer Handbook The Range Officers Handbook pay by Pay Pal see Bulletin Special Announcement Page
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As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo    0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
•  90   pages of Information for Range Officers,
•  239 pages on Coaching to Win,
•  110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
•  33   pages on hitting Clay Targets,
•  34   pages on Reloading Ammunition,
•    6   page of Contents,
•  18   pages of Index,
•  38   pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
•  23   pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
•  Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
•  Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback.,
Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.

$75  Signed by the author (state who you would like it dedicated to) plus $10 postage Australia wide.
The Range Officers Handbook pay by Pay Pal see Bulletin Special Announcement Page

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Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truly a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste.

$775.  Silver Receiver $799.

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Bad weather, rough handling. Heavy, repeated recoil. It’s all part of hunting, so your Leupold Rifleman is built to take it. You also get a bright, clear sight picture for precise targeting each and every time, even in low light conditions. Mount a Rifleman on your favourite rifle and hunt with confidence.

• All Leupold Golden Ring optics are covered by our Full Lifetime Guarantee

• For more information on construction or use of your Leupold Rifleman riflescope, email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

• Incredibly rugged – the Riflemans  Prime maintube aircraft-grade aluminum to withstand heavy, repeated recoil.

• 100% waterproof; filled with bone-dry nitrogen and sealed for waterproof integrity.

• The Wide Duplex reticle is designed for a variety of hunting and shooting applications.

• Ample eye relief protects your eye from heavy recoil.

• Outstanding repeatable accuracy.

• Elevation and windage adjustment dials marked in ½ MOA increments.

• Fully coated lenses transmit a bright sight picture, even in low light conditions.
Leupold Rifle Scopes 3–9×40  $295. Best Prices in Australia

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Thompson TC Venture, Guaranteed 1 minute of ange, Bolt Action Rifles.

ACCURACY AND CRAFTSMANSHIP
Thompson/Center introduces the New T/C Venture, the most value-packed bolt action rifle available on the market today. Designed to deliver top end quality and accuracy at an entry level price, the Thompson/Center Venture offers a  5 R  rifled match grade barrel and match grade crown, adjustable precision trigger and a classic style composite stock that puts it in a class all its own. A rugged, reliable tool for the outdoorsman, the T/C Venture features T/C’s renowned innovation, craftsmanship and cutting edge barrel technology. Guaranteed to deliver Minute of angle accuracy… 1 inch groups at 100 yards.T/C Venture features a classic sporter style stock in rugged composite material with traction grip panels, the T/C Venture has a sophisticated appearance with the durability and accuracy to back it up. Thompson/Center’s Venture… made in the USA and backed by the famous Thompson/Center Lifetime Warranty… It delivers the finest in accuracy, reliability and quality craftsmanship in an attractive, affordable package. .270 win up to 300 win mag,

$950.

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Remington Genesis 1000 fps.

Idea for Dad and Son, For Christmas, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage.

(Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air rifle feature ultra Hi ergonomics in its soft, synthetic pistol style grip and sculptured cheek piece, 28 pounds of cocking force gets up to 1000 fps. Other features include aTwo stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.

$400. With 3–9×40 Variable Centrepoint Air Rifle Scope and Mounts. $300 without. plus post.

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The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.

The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.
This is the (Jain Way) JW Model 105, Sometimes called Norinco. These rifles are made in the same factory that manufactures the now famous JW 15 .22 rifle (the Brno Mod One Copy) if you have had a JW15 or know of anyone who had one, you will know that they shoot sometimes better than the rifle they imitiated. These JW105 s are in .223 Remington calibre and have a five shot detachable magazine. They also come with Weaver style mount bases and Quick Detachable studs for QD sling swivels  If you look carefully at the close up photograph you will notice a shiny silver colour, at the breech face,the camera has picked up the chrome plating from inside the chamber. The Chinese are the only non-military manufactures that can afford the chrome process of plating the Barrels and Chambers. They have also chromed the forward section of the Bolt. Chrome plating gives the best protection against erosion and corrosion than anything else besides regualr cleaning. The JW 105 is a copy of the Gevaram and Krico that was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, they were very good quality but I believe that Gevarm had to stop making them as the were too expensive to produce.
These are the best value .223 remington centre-fire, repeating rifle on the market.

Brand New $460.

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The Free External Ballistics Calculator NEW VERSION for all Components not Brand Specific.

Click This Link to read the Instruction Sheet.

Email : OwenGuns@spiderweb.com.au and the External Ballistics Calculator program will be sent to you in EXCELL Format free of charge.

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MARLIN XS7

This new Marlin has taken the best designs from all the best bolt action design features from Savage Accu trigger,barrel Lock system, Winchester Mod 70, Push feed extractor bolt release catch, Remington 700 profile bolt handle, and safety catch. Mauser internal magazine system. Includes a one piece weaver style mount base. Only in .243 & .270,.308w  300w sized actions at present.

$699. in Camo stock $620 in Black Synthetic, plus post.

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Accurate Firearm Design

The Blowback Breech  Action.

The most basic form of automatic mechanism is known as the “blowback.” It is also often correctly called the ‘direct recoil action’ . Most if not all, are not pure “blowback’ or ‘recoil’ actions as they are all delayed ‘blowback’ actions to some degree.  The common feature is that it has a sliding breech block without any locking means, but of a rather heavy weight, and held against the head of the cartridge by a strong spring known these days known as Recoil Spring, but is properly described as a Counter Recoil Spring.
Deliberate for a moment the pressure in the barrel when the cartridge is fired. At the start, when the bullet has just left the case, or when it is about an inch or two up the bore, the pressure is at its peak or highest point. As the bullet passes up the barrel the space in the bore in which the gas can expand increases progressively, and the pressure likewise decreases, so that when the bullet is just about to leave the muzzle the pressure throughout the bore and in the now empty case, and pressing against the interior of the head of the case, is roughly only about one-fourth of the peak or maximum pressure. When the bullet leaves the muzzle the pressure drops rapidly to zero, but for a very brief interval some pressure remains in the chamber, and is enough to surely push the bolt back and eject the fired case. The firearm designer calls this the ‘residual pressure’.
When a simple blowback weapon is fired the bullet moves first because it weighs so much less than the breech block. The sliding breech block also moves to the rear, but it starts and moves much more slowly because the inertia due to its weight and the pressure of the counter recoil spring has to be overcome. Thus by the time the bullet has reached the muzzle the breech block and the case in the chamber have moved to the rear only a short distance, in some guns perhaps 1/8th to 1/4 of an inch. During this small movement the high pressure within the case is pressing the mouth of the case, and the thinner portion of its forward walls against the walls of the chamber, and preventing the gas, while at high pressure, from coming past the case and out of the breech into the mechanism. Then the bullet leaves the muzzle, and the rearward momentum which the sliding breech block has acquired, plus the impetus of the residual pressure, continues to force the block to the rear, compressing the counter recoil spring, until the block comes to rest at the stop or buffer at the back end of the receiver. As the block thus moves to the rear it extracts and ejects the fired case. When the bolt is all the way to the rear it has uncovered the top cartridge in the magazine, and this cartridge then rises slightly from the pressure of the magazine spring until it is stopped by the lips of the magazine. Also while the block is moving to the rear it cocks the hammer if the weapon in question is hammer-fired. Now the strongly compressed counter recoil spring moves the block forward again, and as it moves forward its forward lower edge comes up against the head of the top cartridge in the magazine, held in just the right position by the magazine lips, and forces this cartridge forward, out of the magazine into the chamber. The action is now closed, the cartridge is in the chamber, and the hammer is cocked, and everything is ready to fire again as soon as the trigger is pressed. This type of mechanism is “timed” so that all these movements occur at the proper pressure times, and so that the block will move only slightly to the rear while the pressure remains high and the bullet remains in the bore, by regulating the weight of the breech block and the strength of the counter recoil spring although the last is relatively unimportant.
There are several limiting and important details with a simple blowback action such as this. The breech pressure of the cartridge should not be too high; in fact it should be relatively low for this type of mechanism is correct. For many years the  example that the .30-06 cartridge, which  has a very high breech pressure, but to provide sufficient inertia and timing for its pressure it was calculated that the breech block of the simple blowback would have to weigh about 27 pounds. In the last ten years that theory has been shattered as lightweight bolts have been tried without any locking lugs and the large bottle neck cases stay firmly sealed or  fixed in the chamber, extraction being the problem not the speed and power of the recoil return due to friction and the bottle necked case. This problem as in the Heckler and Kock was then addressed by grooving the chambers to allow the gases to extract the empty case.
The case, if loaded to high pressure, it would assist if it was almost straight in its outside form, hardly tapered and not bottle necked, so it will continue to form a gas dam as it moves to the rear, although some bottle-necked pistol cartridges (notably the 7.65 mm Parabellum, the 7.63 mm Mauser, and the 6 5 mm Bergmann) have been successfully used in blowback weapons. With large cartridges the case must be short and tough and thick at the head to slide easily back through the chamber while the pressure is still high, and to withstand the high pressure while not entirely supported by the block and the rear of the chamber walls as most blow backs get ignition from the fixed firing pin slightly prior to being fully chambered. So far as known the heaviest c rifle cartridge that has been commercially successfully used in such a mechanism is the .401 Winchester automatic cartridge, which is a short, stubby one with a straight case, and firing a 200 grain bullet at M.V. 2,140 f.s. As might be supposed this rifle has a chunky, breech-heavy feel because of the heavy weight of the breechblock, the weight being added in the form of a heavy bar of steel inside the forearm.
This mechanism has been particularly successful with the .22 Long Rifle rim fire lubricated cartridge, the pressure of which is relatively very low. (Ten Tons per sq inch instead of 19 for centre fire calibres) The .22 case is not strong, but the lubrication prevents its sticking in the chamber. That is why only lubricated .22 cartridges are recommended for use in semi- automatic firearm a fact forgotten mainly in Australia as licences for them are very difficult to get. Many pistol shooter who use .22 semi -autos have problems with different brands of .22 ammunition due to the lack of lubrication or the fact that they rarely clean them and have a massive build up of lubrication in the breech which prevents the bolt closing correctly.
Simple blowback actions are timed by regulating the weight of the breech block and the strength of the counter recoil spring, and this must be done within rather close limits for the cartridge to be used. When regulated or timed for a certain cartridge, if a lighter loading of that cartridge be used, or a reduced load, the action may fail to eject the fired case, and the breech block may have to be retracted by hand. Too much pressure, on the other hand, may expand the case so it clings so tightly to the chamber walls that there is a failure to extract. Generally speaking, fast burning powders are better in blowback actions than slow burning or progressive powders.
The simple blowback has proved to be a very suitable system for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge. We have a number of very reliable self loading .22 ‘s with this type of action, and they seldom give any trouble when kept clean and used only with cartridges having lubricated bullets. Some of them can be used equally well with either regular or high speed cartridges, and others are timed only for the high speed cartridge. The latter will also usually function perfectly with the regular velocity cartridge except perhaps in very cold weather. When there is any trouble with these .22 automatics it is likely to be with the magazine feed, particularly with detachable box magazines.
One precaution should be exercised in using a .22 self-loading rifle. Do not fire it so fast or so continuously that the barrel gets very hot, for the barrel is then liable to lead and perhaps one or more bullets may eventually stick in the bore, which is almost certain to ruin the barrel. (No playing machine guns)  Also, cleaning a leaded bore is a difficult and tedious operation. So, treat the little .22 automatic as a rifle and not as a bullet sprayer many are very accurate.
Next Edition the Retarded Blow Back Action.

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Tasco 3–9 x 40 Variable  World Class Riflescope $117.
Yes, I know this is a photograph of the 6×40 World Class but Im at home doing this and the scopes and camera are at Owen Guns, the difference is that the variables have the adjustment ring as in the photograph on the box. Tasco has been a leading name in the optical industry for eons, Tasco’s World Class Scope has been an industry standard since the 1980s it is the scope that many others are judged against and found lacking. The World Class due to its World Class forever Guarantee is rarely used we have sold thousands of them and I have been dealing with Tasco since 1975. The vision is quality, the adjustments are precision and the cross hairs are the rights sized for target or hunting.  They were selling there for $190. Now Only $117.00

Special $117.00

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Thoughts for the Week.

Holy Christmas before the Holy War.

It seems hypocritical to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, even though I genuinely believe in that sentiment. As  for only a fortnight the Christmas spirit inspires many people to try a little harder for others rather than themselves.  I have Christmas Carols playing in the back ground and our beautiful Christmas tree is lit up in lounge, we have been feasting already at many functions from organisations that we are associated with. Good Will to all Men Throughout the World. Yet the Men on both sides of the earth are planning to exterminate the other half. The world is hurtling at an ever step-up speed into its next world war cataclysm.
History tell us this one will affect or kill proportionally 3 to 4 times more people than World War Two. The only remedy that our world leaders can offer for addressing the economic melt down is ‘War’. 
There is no real Peace.
It is an Enigma within an Enigma when the media start shouting, “We have to decide to all live in peace together, or we decide to all die in war together”, as is in past history and the situation in the world today, when a religious group decides to die in war together, the balance of the population who we presume have decided to live in peace together have to kill all the religious group who wish to die in war together. So the peacemakers have to exterminate to gain peace. The war becomes the publicity war to win the moral high ground, so both sides can claim to there own people that the other ogre started it and they are only finishing it so we can all live in peace.The American and allies will pull out of Afghanistan due to the Peace movement in the West, the Middle East and North Korea will view this as a sign of weakness and beat the War Drum. ‘Thesis’ verses ‘Anti Thesis’ leads to ‘Synthesis’ which is the result that those who pay both sides will capitalise on. We will be the meat in the sandwich.
“Chief among the spoils of victory is the privilege of writing the history.” Mark Alexander All the above media games can be contained and minimalised until the powers that control both sides decide that the world needs a revision and the economic growth of war. They orchestrate the casting of the net and boom the world economies and then brake them to bits then capitalise on the government attempts at recovery, then when that runs thin and the publicity swings against them they go to stage three and provoke the big war which will cause massive investment in every country, destroy huge resources that will have to be re-built even their investments in insurance will be saved as all the shipping sinking and infrastructure losses will not be paid out as the exemption for acts of war will come into effect.
“War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.” Randolph Bourne
The macabre dance began over two years ago, the little wars and Wiki leaks  are only to practice and test equipment and idea’s for the big wars. Science, technology and production capacity will decide the winners, the sand has been thrown into the air and no one human, at this point can predict which countries will end up on, on which side. History has again shown us that the countries who stay out of it and get involved at the later stages are the ones that benefit the most from the victory. The winner that fight it from beginning to the end are still losers as they are worn out and have expended their best of there generations and wealth. So enjoy the festive season and only at some future date, remember this paragraph when you watch the world falling apart on the six o clock news. At that time a lot of the issues that we are all so concerned about now, will seem so inconsequential and meaningless. Only the big principles, the huge moral dilemma’s like where is our next meal coming from will matter, at lease we will be able to remember the good times, So lets all make the best of it, visit our families, take the time, spend that time with people that are important to us, eat drink and be merry for none of us know ‘for whom the bell tolls’.

The above warnings are not new and  quotes on the subject are prolific its just the timing, as unfortunately history repeats and repeats again. Here are some samples of quotes that are tools that can be put to good use as they may encourage others to think.  
“Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fever pitch height and the blood is boiling and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn’t need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, caught by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gaius Julius Cäesar“.

“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty… and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. They ought to be designated as laws not preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree.”Cesare Beccaria
Finally for those that have been intimidated by some Australian shooting Associations that beg their members not include personal security as a reason for owning firearms in their letter to their members of parliament. Sort of inhibiting the freedom of speech by the people paid to help them.  This quote is the one that says it all and should provoke the most thought about this whole subject.

“Is your life worth protecting?
If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? …
How can you rightfully ask another human being
to risk his life to protect yours,
when you will assume no responsibility yourself?“
Jeffrey R. Snyder
Think of that when your loved ones lie dying and your waiting for a public servant to come to protect your family.
As a present at Christmas time, sent in by a subscriber, here is a link to a marvellous website of similar freedom quotes.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/

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Dillon Precision Reloading Scales.

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Manufactured by Ohaus for Dillon. When you find out that all those electronic scales suffer from interference from power poles, tin roof, electronic door opening devices, and as all scales varied by the air movements, such as draughts, you may be looking for the basic and in the long run the best mechanical scales.

$95.

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Chrony Chronographs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

You have now should all have the free Ballistic Calculator if you haven’t got it already there is a link further down this page. Without a Chornograph to give you a known velocity, shooting is all just guess work. There are only two known facts available to a shooter, the hole it makes in the target and its speed. (Pressure guns are not available to us mere mortals) You cannot test, your rifle and ammunition by how much noise it makes or how hard it kick’s you. Get a chronograph, they have never been any cheaper for this quality and if you don’t do it now they will be dearer when you want one next. Then you will be kicking yourself harder than a .600 Nitro Express. They fold up really compact to take to the range, open them up shoot throught the wires and the light meters will give you a print out on the little screen. They fit onto nearly every camera tripod.  One of our customers fired through the  clear screen, brought it back for warrentry, as it didn’t work. Please do not do this, as they are not supposed to be bullet proof.

$198. plus post.

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

Continued form Edition 47    BALL POWDER
Ball powder, developed before WWII by Winchester-Western, is a relative newcomer to the field. It was used in vast quantities during WWII, the Korean War and Viet Nam. It is a the standard powder for loading 7.62mm and 5.56mm. (.223) military ball ammunition, as well as Winchester’s large range of commercial ammunition.
In appearance, ball powder greatly resembles fine shot. It is in the form of tiny solid spheres which are not highly uniform in diameter. It will also be encountered in the form of spheres which have been passed between rollers to flatten them to varying degrees. For the last fifty years  Olin /Winchester have marketed  rifle, pistol and shotshell powders making them available to the hand loader. All are produced by Winchester-Western which is, incidentally, the sole United States manufacturer of this type of powder. Other Ball powders are produced in many other countries, such as China and Korea which follow the same process and results and I would presume that Olin has had some share in setting up the plants and of course sharing the profits.
The chief advantage of ball powder is that it can normally be processed from start to finish in less than forty hours. Quite a difference from the fifteen days of other types. Test lots have been completed in as little as twelve to eighteen hours, but such high-speed production has not yet been made entirely satisfactory. Ball powder also has the advantage of metering and flowing very uniformly through loading machines. This feature is especially useful for the hand loader as his powder measure has nowhere near the power of the commercial loaders machinery which has no difficulties in shearing the tubular or log type powders without losing uniformity of the load. Many hand loaders powder measures hesitate as they shear a tubular log powder and this hesitation reduces accuracy of the charge.
Manufacture of ball powder begins with the nitrocellulose in the already discussed slurry stage where additional water is introduced. Purification (recovery of residual nitric and sulphuric acids) is speeded up and accomplished in less than eight hours. At this point the thin slurry is mixed with emyl acetate and introduced to a larger distillation unit. If a double base powder is desired, nitroglycerine can be added, or a straight single base propellant can be produced just as easily. Normally some nitro is added.
Nitrocellulose in the slurry combines with the emyl acetate (solvent) to form a lacquer. Since it is not soluble in water, and is also lighter than water, it rises to the surface of the water in the still. The mixture is then agitated by paddles at a predetermined rate. This action breaks the lacquer into an emulsion. Stirring speed controls the size of the lacquer bubbles produced. Agitation stops when the mix is in the proper state and a colloid is added to form a film over the lacquer globules and prevent them from rejoining to form a liquid.
Hardening, the globules settle to the bottom of the still where they are impregnated (still under water) with the desired amount of nitroglycerine. The wet powder is then pulled from the still and fed on a continuous belt through infra-red drying ovens. It is dry in an hour. The now dry spherical powder is coated with deterrent and graphite in the usual manner, then screened to eliminate those balls grossly over or undersize. The rejected screenings are easily salvaged by combining them with solvent, to be put through the process again.
After testing and blending the screened powder, it is ready for packing, to be shipped to the loading plants. Quite a difference from the long, drawn-out process of producing grained and tubular powders.
As can be seen from the foregoing pages, the manufacture of smokeless powder is no small task. It requires millions of dollars worth of tools, facilities and real estate. Even when done under the most rigidly controlled conditions, accidents and fires are not uncommon. In view of this it is not hard to imagine what would happen if an individual tried to do it in his basement shop with aid of one of those formulas sold through magazine advertisements. Before you ask the question, I’ll answer it from the perspective of a person who has spent time in the special burns ward of a famous hospital, as a patient. “Don’t”, under any circumstances, try to make propellent powder. If any of this information has kindled an interest in manufacture, go to a local University and do a degree in Chemical Engineering and you should find no problem finding employment in the legitimate Explosive industry.
This is the last article on Powder, next edition we will be discussing Bullets.

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Lee  Breech Lock Challenger Reloading Kit

Includes Sold Cast ‘O’ Frame Press, Scales, Powder Measure, Case Trimmers, Case Lube, Auto Primer and Powder Funnel. All you need is Dies and shell holders for your calibres.
The Breech Lock Challenger Kit, A Reloading Kit Gift at $199.

An Extra benefit includes a Lee Auto Primer all for $199. plus post.

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 47 November 2010

Welcome to the Forty Seventh Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Accurate Firearm Design

What is a Semi-Automatic Firearm?
We must now concern ourselves with what makes a semi-automatic action function, that is, what makes it reload itself automatically without our having to operate a lever, bolt, or sliding forearm, or pull the trigger or cock the hammer of a revolver.
There are many types of automatic arms. First let us dispose of the machine gun or fully automatic weapon. With such weapons, as long as the trigger is held back, the mechanism continues to load and fire the cartridges as long as any remain in the feed system, and the bullets leave the muzzle at a rate of from about 300 to 2800 per minute, depending upon the design of the mechanism. However, most of these mechanisms, except as applied to lightweight ‘Assault rifles, or sub- machine guns sometimes known as Machine Carbines would be obviously impractical to be held by the average shooter at the shoulder or in the hand, because of the effect of recoil often and quickly repeated.
Forget what you have seen in the movies with the hero running about firing his Vickers or M60 from the hip. Only one authenticated event of a soldier using a Browning machine gun in his hands during World War Two, he did receive a medal and a lot of burns, but the Japs were getting close. Usually if held in the hand the muzzle will recoil upward at every shot, and the shooter cannot recover from the recoil of one shot before another is fired. Thus with every shot the muzzle will rise more and more until the firearm is firing almost vertical, and finally it can tear itself loose from the shooter’s hands. So of the machine guns class only a Bren and the BAR Browning are classed for shoulder or hand use, proper machine guns are used on a mount.
The only types of automatic mechanisms which we will discuss here are those known as the semi-automatic, auto-loading, or self-loading, where the mechanism automatically extracts and ejects the fired case, and loads another cartridge from the magazine into the chamber, making the weapon instantly ready to fire another cartridge practically as soon as the preceding cartridge has been discharged, but does not fire it. To fire, the trigger must be released, then pulled and squeezed for each and every shot. Repeated shots may be fired as fast as the trigger can be pulled, possibly five times a second, but here too recoil would have its effect, and in practice the shooter has to recover from the disturbing effect of recoil and regain his aim before he can again fire an effective shot. So the rapidity of effective fire is limited to about one round every two seconds, of course to the extent of the capacity of the magazine. The magazines of existing semi-automatic small arms usually contain from two to forty rounds, depending on the design. For long sustained rapid fire the speed with which the magazine can be recharged is also of vital importance from the military viewpoint.
The power to operate an automatic breech action must obviously be self contained within the firearm, and comes from either the push of the recoil or the expansion of the powder gases.
Finally, before we proceed to consider the various types of self loading mechanisms we must state one principle which applies with all automatic arms which use powder as the propellant. As we have seen with manually operated arms in the preceding chapter, the breech block or bolt must be tightly locked on the head of the cartridge before the firearm is fired. This manifestly does not apply with automatic firearms. Instead we must apply the principle: The breech bolt or block must never open beyond a point determined by the mechanism design until the chamber pressure from the load just fired has dropped to a safe limit. Otherwise powder gas would rush back into the mechanism or into the shooter’s face with disastrous results.
Next Edition the Blow Back Action.

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Air Rifle Target Traps

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P 4 EDI-T Head Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

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Thoughts for the Week

MR CHRIS FOLEY MP INDEPENDENT  STATE MEMBER FOR MARYBOROUGH, Received These Answers Recently From the Police Minister.  
“The following question was tabled at Queensland Parliament by Chris Foley MP, State Member for Maryborough, on Thursday, 7 October 2010. In accordance with the Sessional Orders, an answer was provided by the Minister for Police, Corrective Services and Emergency Services on Tuesday 9 November 2010. QUESTION ON NOTICE
No 2024 MR FOLEY ASKED THE MINISTER FOR POLICE, CORRECTIVE SERVICES AND EMERGENCY  SERVICES (MR ROBERTS)—
With reference to handguns and knives used in crimes in Queensland for the last financial year—
(1) How many handguns were found to be owned by identifiable, registered gun owners?
(2) How many knives were used in crimes during the same period?”
ANSWER: By Police Minister Roberts
The Bligh Government supports the national legislative framework for weapons regulation and continues to ensure that Queensland legislation balances the safety and expectations of the community, the enforcement requirements of the Queensland Police Service, and, of course, the rights of lawful weapons industry stakeholders. In 2007, this Government commenced a wide-ranging review of the Weapons Act 1990 with a view to maintaining this balance. This review is ongoing and has to date included frequent consultation with peak industry representatives and an invitation to the general public to provide feedback on the draft Bill. It is anticipated a Bill will be introduced to Parliament next year. With specific reference to part (1) of the member’s question, I am advised it is not possible for the Queensland Police Service to provide all the information requested due to the limitations of the Service’s current computer Weapons Licensing System (WLS). This system resides on the Queensland Police Service mainframe which is due to be decommissioned in March 2011. The Queensland Police Service is investing in the development and introduction of a new contemporary Weapons Licensing Management system (WLMS) which is expected to be fully implemented during 2011. The integrated system will include the Queensland Police Records and Information Management Exchange system (QPRIME), customer relations management and electronic document records management systems. It will streamline processes and provide efficiency of service to licence holders, firearm dealers and shooting clubs, including the ability to complete some transactions on-line. The system will also enable an improved recording and reporting of weapons related information.
I am advised that during the calendar years 2009 and 2010 (to date) 38 concealable firearm licence holders have had their concealable firearm licences revoked due to behaviour or circumstances. These include convictions for weapons and other criminal offences, acts of domestic violence and for the breach of licence conditions. Searches of police systems have revealed that for the 2008/09 financial year there were 317 reported offences involving a handgun and 4,008 reported offences involving a knife as the most serious weapon type. For the period 1 July 2009 to 31 March 2010, there were 317 reported offences involving a handgun and 3,197 reported offences involving a knife. The final 2009/10 statistics are currently unavailable as they are being collated for publication in the Annual Statistical Review due for release in November 2010.
The following table shows the numbers of reported offences involving a handgun and knife in Queensland in 2008/09.
Reported Broad Offence Categories by most serious Weapon Type, Queensland, 2008/09

Offence 2008/09                       Handgun                    Knife
Offences Against the Person           149                       1,699
Offences Against Property                39                         389
Other Offences                                   129                       1,920

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Which should provoke the shooters of Queensland to respond again to Parliament and tell them what you think.Please write and email, use the power of the computer to send your personal letter to the politicians, use the links below to send to as many Queensland politicians as possible.Make sure you always include your name and address. That way you will be taken seriously.
QLD  Gov Ministers: Click here to e-mail all Gov Ministers

QLD Shadow Gov Ministers: Click here to e-mail all Shadow Gov Ministers

Draft of the Weapons Bill 2010 ( 879 KB) and the Draft Weapons Regulation 2010 ( 891 KB)

It does not affect the Police and it does not affect the Crims, only You the Firearm Owner will be the VICTIMS.

I responded with the following.
To David Smith Chief of Staff,  Office of the Minister for Police

police@ministerial.qld.gov.au From Mr Owen , 24 Mc Mahon Rd, Gympie, Queensland 4570.
Dear Mr Smith,

Why Punish without Crime?

Could you please explain your line, “ensure that Queensland legislation balances the safety and expectations of the community,” Surely if it was, you would be able to easily show why your past punishment of the most responsible citizens in our community, licensed shooters has resulted in Queensland being a safer place.
You should be easily able to show that your governments weapons control, licensing system, registration system, compulsory inspections, compulsory attendance, pay through the nose for permits, wait for 17 weeks for a permit, import/export restrictions, boot in the door, search without warrant, are making our communities secure and safer.

You cannot do that, in fact reality is the reverse, all you have achieved is an ever growing increase in crime, you are leaving the people defenceless, being burnt like a candle from both ends, police on one side crims on the other almost working in concert. We the people are your prey, we pay the police at the front door with out taxes and pay at the backdoor for our licences and permits. While the Police sit on the peoples computers, checking the registrations instead of being on foot in our streets we are being preyed on by the criminals, who have the free reign to strike with impunity. Crime increases and then instead of curing the problem you spend millions on producing even more impositions on the harmless. Punishing the innocent an giving free reign to the Criminals.
You will say, that this is not true.
However, on the 9th of November 2010 your Minister for Police provided an answer to Question on Notice, from Chris Foley MP where he states all the rubbish about community safety, ignoring the dismal record of his department in firearm safety, Police shootings, Police losing their hand guns, Police selling their hand guns, Police guns that go missing off the register and having to have a permanent Commission costing the taxpayer millions a year, exposing Police Crime and Corruption. He ignores the Crime of the Police, those he sets to punish and force the most respectable and responsible citizens in our community, those with the best unblemished records.
Your Minister also ignored the question he was supposedly answering.
“With reference to handguns and knives used in crimes in Queensland for the last financial year-
Your Minister answer was “ I am advised that it is not possible for the Queensland Police Service to provide all the information requested due to the limitations of the Services current computer.” In fact he has no answer at all for the first part of the question.
He seems to have no comprehension of the difference between offences, namely, criminal offences and regulatory offences. As the question specifically used the word Crime we would expect an answer in the same vain but his statement covers regulation.
Regulations which will affect the 38 concealable licensed holders who would had their licenses revoked due to changed circumstance, such as moving and having either no club or no safe security, or not been able to keep up with the compulsory Range attendance, due to closure by the State, or health and economic reasons. Not convictions of a crime just a letter to say hand in your property and you now don’t comply with our orders. As to answering how many Crimes by identifiable registered gun owners, he does not answer the question, so we can safely presume that there has not been one conviction. That would be an answer he did not want to give so he avoids it.

Now that is known, could you please ask the Minister, Why continue with an exercise in futility, why spend all those millions of dollars, millions of Police man hours, millions of hours of the publics endeavour, why punish without crime? As they punish the good people and ignore the real crime. If his goal was truly Public Safety he would be more justified in registering table knifes. Now that is apparent to all, the Minister has to be asked.
Why Punish Competitive Target Shooters Even Further With His Draft Legislation.
Why spend more millions on computers instead of putting more police on the beat, on foot protecting our lives and homes.
Is it because the police would rather spend there days sitting behind a computer than filling the role they were originally intended to carry out?
Please do not just answer with another blurb, send some facts to justify your actions against us, or go away and leave us alone, we would be safer without you.
Yours Sincerely
Ron Owen J.P. (Qual)

(If they really wanted to stop knife robberies they could easily allow shop keepers with a Licence to carry a handgun and to use it. Once a few robbers got shot there would be an immediate reduction in the Knife Robberies statistics.)

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

Powder Manufacture, Double Based Powder  Continued From Edition 47.

Coming from the dehydration press, blocks of nitrocellulose go directly to a “block breaker” house where they are torn apart. Blocks are placed in a copper barrel fitted with myriad teeth on its inner surfaces. Operators retreat to a barricade when the machine is started. The barrel rotates and the block tumbles over the teeth, which tear in into small pieces. The pieces fall through openings in the barrel into a fibre container below. Nitrocellulose is dangerous material, and fires are not uncommon during this process.
When sufficient shredded nitrocelluluose is accumulated, it is transferred to a weighing station and weighed out into proper premix charges. The charges are then moved to the premix area. There the additional dry ingredients are waiting in precise, prepared amounts to fit one premix charge.
Next comes the nitroglycerine. It is delivered only on call from a special storage area located a safe distance from other operations. Special, carefully levelled, elevated wood walkways are built to facilitate nitro movement. The heavy planks are fastened with copper and non-sparking nails and hardware. Nitro is delivered to premix in an “Angel Buggy.” a rubber tired wooden hand cart fitted with four small compartments. Each compartment carries 25 lbs. of nitroglycerine mixed with approximately 18 lbs. of acetone, which as mentioned early, desensitizes the nitro. The ‘gentleman’ pushing this cart several hundred yards over the elevated walk needn’t worry about hospital bills (or even funeral expenses) if he makes a mistake. I’m sure he would be gentle.  One bump, and his worries are over, permanently. I hope these blokes are well paid. Some foot traffic also moves on the walks, but when confronted with a man and his Angel Buggy, both glaring white, everyone steps off, mud and rain be damned.
Why four compartments in the buggy? First, they reduce the nitro slopping about, certainly desirable, then, each compartment contains the nitro charge for one premix bowl.
The nitrocellulose and dry ingredients are first placed in the mixer. Because of its shape, it is called a “figure-eight bowl.” They are generally oval in shape, constricted in the centre. Each half contains a Sigma blade and the two rotate in opposite directions, feeding the powder mix continuously from one bowl to the other and back in a figure-eight pattern.
The charge is mixed dry for a few minutes, then the nitroglycerine-acetone solvent is fed in slowly while the blades are turning. Gradual feed of the nitro mix is necessary to prevent lumping of the complete mix, just as you must add liquid slowly to flour if you want a smooth mixture. Premix continues for a flexible period of five to ten minutes after solvent addition. The operator must judge when incorporation of dry ingredients and solvent has progressed to the proper degree. No matter how carefully the mixing is done, some small lumps may form. They are undesirable and result in waste, but since they will be screened out later they do not constitute a serious problem.
The premixer is unloaded by means of wood shovels into fibre containers which are then trucked to the ingredients house near the final mix area. In winter the mix must be kept warm. Nitroglycerine is not sensitive while frozen, but once frozen and thawed becomes hypersensitive and will blow up with no more excuse than an ill-tempered wife.
Several premix charges are combined to form a final mix charge. Depending on the powder to be produced, additional ingredients may be added at this point. The charge is placed in the mixer and leveled. At this point a specified amount of alcohol is measured into the charge. Since the acetone will have evaporated from the mix since its addition at premix, the mixer operator must judge when more is needed and add it as required. Only experience qualifies a man for these dangerous jobs.
The mixer is closed and sealed, the cover being fitted with breakaway devise to release pressure in the event of a flash fire. The mixer is then run for about two hours in what is known as “warm mix.” Mix temperature builds up to about 115° and the powder will be soft and gummy. To allow uniform graining later, it must now be cooled, so refrigerant is pumped into the mixer jacket. Mixing continues under refrigeration until the temperature drops to the mid-eighties. Mixing must also continue until the consistency of the powder is correct. Again this is another operator judgement.
Upon completion of mixing, the powder is removed from the mixer and is ready for blocking, a very dangerous process. The mix is placed in the same type vertical press described earlier, then operators retire behind barricades. Pressure is built up gradually to over 3,000 psi and held there very briefly. This converts the rubbery powder to a solid, compact block ready for graining. Note that there is no pre-blocking or macaroni press operation as with single base powders.
Graining of double base powders is carried on in practically the same manner as for single base types. Dies and presses are the same, but the cylinder contains a constriction to prevent the powder heel from being withdrawn when the ram is raised for recharging. Since the heel remains in the cylinder, it is covered with acetone when the press is not operating. Cutting of the strands into individual kernels proceeds as outlined earlier. Drying is much the same, but the water dry process is eliminated. Coating, graphiting, blending and packaging remain the same.
With so many lengthy operations involved in powder production, the question of total manufacturing time arises. Processes are continuous and interlocking and the output of any one stage is regulated to meet the demands of subsequent ones. During accelerated wartime production, single base small arms powder, progresses from the linter delivery to final packing in as little as fifteen days. This may seem like a long time, but represents a vast reduction from the peace time process when time is not such an issue. The bulk of this time is consumed in purifying and drying the green powder.
So far we’ve concerned ourselves only with the traditional extruded-grain (kernel) powder. This type has been standard since the earliest days of smokeless powder. Many European powder mills produce essentially the same formula powders in flake form. To achieve the typical square or diamond flake, the powder is not grained as outlined here, but rolled into thin sheets. These sheets are then sliced into flakes of desired size and shape by sophisticated automatic cutting machines. Thickness and size of the flakes govern burning speed in the same manner as do kernel and perforation size in grained powders. Manufacturing time for flake powders does not vary significantly from the process above.
Continued in Edition 48

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Not I pods but Bipods by Remington

Bi-pods that telescope and fold under your rifles forearm, (made famous by Harris,’Patents ran out’) fit to QD (Quick Detachable) Swivel Stud. Ten years ago they retailed for over $150 now while stocks last half Price

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 46 November 2010

Welcome to the Forty Sixth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Any Inquiries on any products phone 07 54824099  or  07 54825070 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

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 2011. Travel Safe and Happy Hunting.

Gun Books Make Great Presents, Easy To Post and with years of use and enjoyment. We have over a 1000 Gun Books in stock.
Looking for Gun Books We now have a list of some of our many Gun and Firearm books on the website at www.owenguns.com/gympie-shop/gun-book-list
and http://www.owenguns.com/gun-book/
http://www.owenguns.com/used-guns/books/

For Example when I was just a youth my parents bought me a 1963 Guns Digest edited by John Amber, I still have it, I read the print off it in 1962 before the dawning of the New Year of 1963. I have many of the intervening yearly annuals, they are packed full of sound knowledge and are an item of value to keep for a lifetime. This coming year is the 65th Edition.

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This years annual is edited by Dan Shideler and has colour 600 pages

$40. plus $10 post Australia wide.

If you need any more details about the other titles we have in our list just phone 07 54825070 or 07 54 824099 or Fax 07 54824718 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au

Another Example is our Best Seller as it is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind. If you like the small articles included with this Bulletin, Accurate Firearm Design and Understanding Cartridge Reloading and want to read an encyclopedia on shooting by the same author buy The Range Officer Handbook.

The Range Officer Handbook

The Range Officers Handbook pay by Pay Pal see Bulletin Special Announcement Page

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As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category. It explains how to teach shooters to hit all types of  targets, game, steel, paper, clay consistently.

“It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards”
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo    0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
•  90   pages of Information for Range Officers,
•  239 pages on Coaching to Win,
•  110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
•  33   pages on hitting Clay Targets,
•  34   pages on Reloading Ammunition,
•    6   page of Contents,
•  18   pages of Index,
•  38   pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
•  23   pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
•  Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
•  Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback.,
Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.

$75 Signed by the author (state who you would like it dedicated to) plus $10 postage Australia wide.

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The Free External Ballistics Calculator NEW VERSION for all Components not Brand Specific.

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Email : OwenGuns@spiderweb.com.au and the External Ballistics Calculator program will be sent to you in EXCELL Format free of charge.
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Chrony Chronographs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

You have now should all have the free Ballistic Calculator if you haven’t got it already there is a link further down this page. Without a Chornograph to give you a known velocity, shooting is all just guess work. There are only two known facts available to a shooter, the hole it makes in the target and its speed. (Pressure guns are not available to us mere mortals) You cannot test, your rifle and ammunition by how much noise it makes or how hard it kick’s you. Get a chronograph, they have never been any cheaper for this quality and if you don’t do it now they will be dearer when you want one next. Then you will be kicking yourself harder than a .600 Nitro Express. They fold up really compact to take to the range, open them up shoot throught the wires and the light meters will give you a print out on the little screen. They fit onto nearly every camera tripod.  One of our customers fired through the  clear screen, brought it back for warrentry, as it didn’t work. Please do not do this, as they are not supposed to be bullet proof.

$198. plus post.

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P 4 EDI-T Head Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

Mount is $47.00  and Trophy 4×32 scope is $49.00 plus post.

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Thompson TC Venture, Guaranteed 1 minute of angle, Bolt Action Rifles.

ACCURACY AND CRAFTSMANSHIP
Thompson/Center introduces the New T/C Venture, the most value-packed bolt action rifle available on the market today. Designed to deliver top end quality and accuracy at an entry level price, the Thompson/Center Venture offers a  5 R  rifled match grade barrel and match grade crown, adjustable precision trigger and a classic style composite stock that puts it in a class all its own. A rugged, reliable tool for the outdoorsman, the T/C Venture features T/C’s renowned innovation, craftsmanship and cutting edge barrel technology. Guaranteed to deliver Minute of angle accuracy… 1 inch groups at 100 yards.T/C Venture features a classic sporter style stock in rugged composite material with traction grip panels, the T/C Venture has a sophisticated appearance with the durability and accuracy to back it up. Thompson/Center’s Venture… made in the USA and backed by the famous Thompson/Center Lifetime Warranty… It delivers the finest in accuracy, reliability and quality craftsmanship in an attractive, affordable package..223, .243, .270 win .308win, 30-06 Sprg up to 300 win mag,

$950. plus freight.

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Bushnell Compact Spotting Scope  12–36 x 50

$205 plus post.

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Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truely a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste. Silver Receiver Model $795.

$775.

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Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, and a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated.It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

$295 each.

plus registered post and appropriate licences.

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Accurate Firearm Design

The Williams Carbine short-stroke gas piston design.
About 1939 the design section of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company developed a semi-automatic rifle action based on an extremely short throw of gas piston system designed by ex-convict, reformed boot legger, David Williams.  The extremely short but vigorous throw of the piston gives impetus to the operating rod which completes the unlocking and retraction of the bolt. Shortly thereafter the Military services of the United States Army expressed a wish for a light, semi-automatic carbine which would weigh only about five pounds, would shoot a light and small caliber .30 cal cartridge with a 100 grain bullet at M.V. 2,000 f.s., effective to 300 yards. It was the specifications for a light weight assault rifle, which was years before its time. It was proposed to arm all men not equipped with the Infantry rifle (Garand) with this carbine, and to almost obsolete the pistol for military service. The Winchester design was selected by competition among many inventors, and because the Winchester gas cylinder design combined with a breech mechanism similar in design (although not in size) to that of the Garand proved to be the best, at that time it became known as the U.S. Carbine, Caliber .30, M1. They say that 6 million were made before the end of World War Two and commercial manufactures made millions after the War for the commercial sporting market. Ironically, they were made in Germany and Japan after the war.

The four outstanding automatic pistol actions that have been developed are the Browning/ Colt Model 1911, the Walther HP (P-38), the German Luger, and the German Military 1896 Mauser. Another type of pistol action, at present adapted only to the .22 caliber rim fire cartridge, examples of which are the Colt Woodsman and the Hi-Standard, Ruger Mk1, Browning Buck Mark has been very successful, and will probably have a long life for civilian target use.
The above, are  just a few of the really famous outstanding semi-automatics.
Next edition, How Semi Auto’s work?

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Marlin Model 925 Synthetic, 7shot .22 Long Rifle

$345.  Includes Trophy 4x 32 scope and Mounts, 

$295 without scope and mounts and then we will fit your combination of your choice.

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Tasco Pro Point Plus, Red Dot Scope

Include Weaver style scope mount base, ideal for pistols, shotguns and rifles.

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Thoughts for the Week

A little Victory for Free Speech
On the 18th Oct 2010 Justice Douglas of the Supreme Court handed down his decision on my appeal against the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal decision, which had ordered me to pay $12,500 plus cost to a Lesbian Group who had made a complaint against me in 2005. Justice Douglas found for me and set aside the decision of the Tribunal and referred the constitutional questions via QCAT to the Court of Appeal.  see http://archive.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2010/QSC10-387.pdf for a copy of the judgement.
It was good news. (Years of Work) Now at last for a short time we may be free to state an opinion, such as “that Sodomist’s (as defined in Criminal Code) are not happy, they have a reduced life expectancy and their health issues are a huge burden on the community. They should not be allowed to annoy people in Public toilets, Bus stops, Council swimming pools, or other Council facilities, or adopt children”. That’s what started it, and so I have just said it again. Let’s see what happens.  We either have the right to political free speech or we don’t.

Queensland Gun Laws
Apparently, there were 1200 submissions received disagreeing with the draft Weapons Act and Regulations, the Police Minister has asked the police to supply them all to his office instead of just supplying a precis of them and he has set up another panel to vet the Draft legislation in view of those submissions. So those of you who are part of the 200,000 shooters in Queensland, who did nothing,  need to thank the 1200 that made an effort to suggest modifications. It is not too late to phone up your local Member of Parliament and let him know or his staff that you will not vote for him, if he votes for any further inhibitions to your shooting. Don’t worry that you might not vote for him any way as that is why we have a secret vote.

War Is HELL
“The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defence. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.” – John Steinbeck
My Grandad spent 35 years in the British Army 1890 to 1925, he had been to wars in the Soudan, South Africa, Afghanistan, four years in France, Russia and Ireland. He sometimes said, ‘We need a good war, sort out this younger generation’. When I was about 13year young, I asked him what the difference was between a good War and a bad War. Quick as a flash, he said, A good war is one you have in someone else’s country.

In February 1920, the Australian Chief of General Staff  General Chauvel had echoed the views of my granddad, when he wrote:
“The advantages, moral and material, of fighting in the enemy’s country are so enormous that it is folly to await the enemy’s attack on our own soil … The AIF had an opportunity to fight abroad and defend Australia so effectively that Australia hardly realised that it was defence and not offence, her troops had undertaken … The community must, therefore make up its mind, however unwillingly, that all preparations for the defence of Australia, thorough and complete as they may be, may break down absolutely, if, at a final and decisive moment, the weapon of defence cannot be transferred beyond our territorial waters.”

The message is loud and clear, you have to do your fighting in some one else’s country Wars are messy and the laws of War, the law of Chivalry is all a fantasy, a Don Quixote dream. Its kill or be killed. Kill enough of them to keep them in check until we have to come back again and kill some more, to keep them from storming all over our back yards. The Romans did it, Pax Roma was peace after they had killed everyone in the country they invaded. They crossed the Rhine on an annual basis to kill the latest crop of Germans, they only left bones behind them. The Zulu’s did the same.  At Magdeburg, in Germany, during the 30 Year War, the Catholic forces laid siege, it lasted from November 1630 until 20 May 1631.
On the latter date, Imperial Field Marshal Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, and Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, attacked Magdeburg for its rich stores of goods. After the city fell the Imperial soldiers went out of control and started to massacre the inhabitants and set fire to the city. Of the 30,000 citizens, only 5,000 survived. For fourteen days, charred bodies were carried to the Elbe River to be dumped in to prevent disease.
He called it Divine Justice.
In a letter, Pappenheim wrote of the Sack:
“I consider it cost the city more than 20,000 souls, and most certainly no greater horrors and divine justice have been seen since the Destruction of Jerusalem. All our soldiers have become rich men.”
At the time of the Peace of Westphalia ending the war in 1648, the city’s population had further dropped so that only 450 people were still living in the city.
The devastation was so great that “magdeburgization” became an oft-used term signifying total destruction, rape and pillaging for decades. The terms “Magdeburg justice”, “Magdeburg mercy” and “Magdeburg quarter” also arose as a result of the Sack, used originally by Protestants when executing Catholics who begged for quarter. It became a familiar cry like, Remember the Alamo, or Remember Pearl Harbour.

Where ever you have Soldiers Killing Soldiers, Civilians Die at the Rate of  Five To One.
In WW2 when Germany invaded Russia civilian deaths were 19 million, When Japan invaded China civilian deaths were 9 million, when Germany invaded Yugoslavia a small country of 17 million people 1.3 million civilians were killed, when Germany was invaded it had 2 million civilians killed.  60 million civilians died in World War Two in 50 countries. (Australia had over 300 civilians killed from Japanese Air and submarine shelling)
Estimates of between 19,890 and French civilians were killed during and after the D-Day landings, in just a few day. In the Nato bombing of  Belgrade in 1999  5000 civilians died, in the war on Irak 109,032 civilians have died. War is Hell.
When you have enemies that are quite capable of bringing the war to your backyard, who are raising money, buying arms, cutting off aid workers heads with a pocket knife and filming the process, it does not matter if they fly a few civilian planes into building, blow up London buses, or an occasional night club in Bali. The few thousand deaths by those methods are tragic but in comparison with having warring armies on your territory, tiny.  The name of the game is the same as the Romans, take the war to there back yard and fight them there. All this stupidity about making them into democratic countries is rubbish, they don’t want it, they want to be Muslim countries with Sharia Laws. They want to go to Allah with 72 virgins.
We pay our soldiers, they are all volunteers, to help send the bad guys to Allah before they can travel to Australia to bring Hell here. If we do not fight them in their own countries they will be sending our families and friends and even worse, ourselves to our deaths. We would be fortunate if any one buries us, as more than likely we would not win and Australians could not depend on any mercy from those who are so handy with a pocket knife . It could be your head they are cutting off and showing it on the six o clock news. We in Australia have a large coastline and are for many reasons un- defence able.

Three Australian Soldiers charged with Manslaughter.
Now three Australian soldiers are facing serious charges in relation to a late-night raid on a compound in Afghanistan that Uruzgan province that was believed to harbor Taliban insurgents. Six Afghans were killed five of them children. (are they the under 18s and over 10s who wield AKM 74 and grenades) Instead of giving our soldiers a raise or a fortnights holiday at Cronella Beach they have charged three soldiers with manslaughter, and dangerous  conduct. Maybe our idiots don’t realise that you train your soldiers to slaughter, that is what they are paid for and war is dangerous conduct. You put your men on the ground in their backyard the enemy will try to kill them. Your soldiers will try to kill the enemy before they get killed themselves. If anyone in the world wants to put someone on trial as the precedents have shown, it should be our fearless leaders who send them to that country to do, soldiers work. They put on trial at the Hague, the Serbian politicians or the African Tyrants, they hanged about 20 Germans at Nuernberg after World War Two and hanged a few Japanese leaders, for the deaths of 60 million civilians. They did not put on trial the officers who piloted the Lancasters and Flying fortress and burnt 60,000 in Dresden in one night . Neither did they charge Paul Tibbets  the pilot who on the 6th  August 1945  flew the Enola Gay to drop an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, that one act killed 70,000 and another 70,000 died later of radiation burns. As it and its sequel finished the war in the Pacific they were handed medals.
The Morals
As Shakespeare put it in Henry V on the night before Agincourt,
WILLIAMS, “ But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all ‘We died at such a place;’ some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection.”
Aye that is the rub, Who led them to it? Not that women  Brigadier Lyn McDade calling her a soldier is an insult to the profession, of any side, at any time in history. No, the only blame is on those who employ women to do a mans job and who select a country to send soldiers to. As we call ourselves a democracy the blame is on all of us. I don’t hate Muslims or any particular nation, as an ex soldier I know its just a job;
Wars are inevitable as night and day,
there is no spring without winter,
there is no life without death,
there is no courage without fear,
there is no peace without war.
War is a human predicament.

East is East and West is West and the two will never twain, there are good man on all sides, says Kipling and I believe him. Remember, the civilian  casualty figures above, when it starts you have to win it, and you have to fight it, in other countries. Its just a choice of which countries. We will only be given one chance, if Australia loses once, we and all its people in it, will not exist, no one will show us any mercy. We are a white nation at the other end of the earth. No one will care about our few 20 million here. So as General Chauvel said “The community must, therefore make up its mind, however unwillingly, that all preparations for the defence of Australia, thorough and complete as they may be, may break down absolutely, if, at a final and decisive moment, the weapon of defence cannot be transferred beyond our territorial waters.” Send those poor soldier back to doing their job, give them a pay rise, we don’t pay them enough, Pay the politicians less. Never forget what my Grandad identified as a ‘good war’. ‘One in somebody else’s country’.  Ron Owen.

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Electronic Ear Muffs

Slimline Electronic Ear Muffs
Hear and Protect, Hear normally up to 85 db Electronically reduces & protects hearing 
Protects hearing above 85 db,  Able to hear normal conversations and sounds to 85 decibels
Over 200 hours of battery life , Auto-adjust headband , Solid state circuit, Rotary on-off volume knob.
HOW THE ELECTRONIC EAR MUFFS WORK
These electronic ear muffs are a high standard ear muff in design, they are made to feel light and comfortable for all day use. They can be used as standard ear muff when the electronic component is not turned on and will passively reduce noise like any normal ear muff. They have a standard noise reduction rating of 29 decibel and are a Class 5.
Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
At the range or anywhere ear protection is constantly required, but you also need to hear instructions from others or you wish to be more aware of the ambient sound around you, these electronic ear muffs are what you need.

$75.50 plus post.

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Remington Genesis 1000 fps.

Idea for Dad and Son, For Christmas, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage.

(Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air rifle feature ultra Hi ergonomics in its soft, synthetic pistol style grip and sculptured cheek piece, 28 pounds of cocking force gets up to 1000 fps. Other features include aTwo stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.

$400. With 3–9×40 Variable Centrepoint Air Rifle Scope and Mounts. $300 without. plus frieght.

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The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.

The Norinco JW 105. in .223 Remington.
This is the (Jain Way) JW Model 105, Sometimes called Norinco. These rifles are made in the same factory that manufactures the now famous JW 15 .22 rifle (the Brno Mod One Copy) if you have had a JW15 or know of anyone who had one, you will know that they shoot sometimes better than the rifle they imitiated. These JW105 s are in .223 Remington calibre and have a five shot detachable magazine. They also come with Weaver style mount bases and Quick Detachable studs for QD sling swivels  If you look carefully at the close up photograph you will notice a shiny silver colour, at the breech face,the camera has picked up the chrome plating from inside the chamber. The Chinese are the only non-military manufactures that can afford the chrome process of plating the Barrels and Chambers. They have also chromed the forward section of the Bolt. Chrome plating gives the best protection against erosion and corrosion than anything else besides regualr cleaning. The JW 105 is a copy of the Geveram that was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, they were very good quality but I believe that Gevarm had to stop making them as the were too expensive to produce.
These are the best value .223 remington centre-fire, repeating rifle on the market.

Brand New $460.

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION
Powder Manufacture

DOUBLE BASE POWDER
Nitroglycerine is a major ingredient in double base powders, as mentioned earlier. Double base powders do have slightly higher energy content, which means they can be used in smaller quantities, than single base types. The major producer of double base powders for the reloader was the Hercules Powder Company which is now called Alliant Powder.
Nitrocellulose constitutes from 65 to 82 per cent of the weight of double base powders. A common military powder formula contains 75.50 per cent nitrocellulose, 20.00 per cent nitroglycerine, 1.00 per cent potassium nitrate, 1.50 per cent barium nitrate, 0.75 per cent diphenylamine, 1.00 per cent DNT (the deterrent), and 0.25 per cent graphite. This formula is nearly identical to that of the old discontinued Hercules Hi-Vel #2. Some special purpose military powders contain as much as 45 per cent nitroglycerine. The nitrocellulose used is identical to that described earlier in single base powders. Nitrocellulose may be diverted to either single or double base powder lines (both of which often are operating simultaneously at the same mill) at any point before final blending of the high and low grades. You’ll recall a 13.15 per cent blend is prepared for single base use, 13.45 per cent for double base.
The latter is insoluble in ether-alcohol solvent used in single base manufacture, but readily dissolves in the acetone-nitroglycerine double base solvent. Acetone not only serves as a solvent when mixed with nitroglycerine, but somewhat desensitizes the latter to make for safer handling.
Naturally, the process of manufacturing nitrocellulose remains the same, clear through the dehydration stage where water is displaced by alcohol and mix is compressed into a cake.
Nitroglycerine must, of course, be manufactured and supplied to the powder mill. Since nitro is especially dangerous to produce and extremely hazardous to transport, it is normally manufactured in a separate plant immediately adjacent to the powder mill. Nitro plant output is regulated to meet the needs of the powder mill to avoid storage problems.
Essentially, heated (115°-120°F) glycerine is combined with highly concentrated nitric and sulphuric acids and agitated. Eventually, the nitroglycerine and spent acids are separated, the latter being recovered for re concentration and further use.
The nitroglycerine is washed and purified to remove acid traces, then stabilized and neutralized, and stored under water. All that remains is to incorporate it in powder, before it blows up. The manufacturing process is certainly far from as simple as the foregoing might indicate. It is not, however, the purpose of this volume to be a text on nitroglycerine manufacture, and the foregoing is sufficient for an understanding of the manufacture of double base powder.
Continued in Edition 47

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Lee  Breech Lock Challenger Reloading Kit

Includes Sold Cast ‘O’ Frame Press, Scales, Powder Measure, Case Trimmers, Case Lube, Auto Primer and Powder Funnel. All you need is Dies and shell holders for your calibres.
The Breech Lock Challenger Kit, A Reloading Kit Gift at $199.

An Extra benefit includes a Lee Auto Primer all for $199. plus frieght.

Any Inquiries on any products phone 07 54824099  or  07 54825070 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au
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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 45 October 2010

Welcome to the Forty Fifth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangeable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truly a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste.

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Accurate Firearm Design

When I began to write my book the “Range Officers Handbook”, I envisaged it would be a short book concerning the Range Officers duties and of course coaching in all of the disciplines of shooting, of course it grew with the realisation that to explain internal, external and terminal ballistics, when you have to have the expectation that the reader know’s nothing about the subject. Even more difficult was to describe to the reader how to train the mind to shoot, thank goodness we don’t have to repeat this in this instance but again I originally, started out to produce a book on small arms ballistics that would be understandable be  of practical use to the average shooter. Again the same principles applied, I could hardly expect the reader to understand ballistics unless they had some prior knowledge of the material with which to work, so chose ‘design ‘ as an angle of explaining it. So if anyone who desires to gain a knowledge of ballistics as applied to semi-automatic weapons they must have some knowledge of their design, manner of operation, and limitations. Unfortunately, with current legislation in Australia the subject material is only found in Museums, most not even on public display. So I have to provide more information before the reader can ascertain the subject we are discussing.

The first outstandingly successful semi-automatic rifle action produced were the simple blow-back as seen in the Winchester Models of 1903, 1905, 1907, most designed by John Moses Browning. This type is decidedly limited in the breech pressure it will handle, and fairly straight cartridge cases are required. With a tubular magazine in the butt-stock it has been very successful with the .22 caliber rim fire cartridges, and for such ammunition this type will probably remain in demand for many years in countries free enough to allow their citizens to own them. This system has become practically obsolete for centrefire cartridges because the limiting factors of permissible breech pressure and case design have prevented until recently the use of modern high velocity cartridges.
The second outstanding semi-automatic action developed was the recoil operated, action as seen in the Browning and Remington automatic shotguns. It was the most popular for many years and after the patent expired in the 1940s, it was made by hundreds of other manufacturers all over the world from Australia to the Philippines, France and South America, perhaps because they have been unable to find another design which was quite so good. This action is so reliable for shotgun shells that it will probably remain in demand and be manufactures in free countries for many years to come. In the last 30 year designers such as Benelli have been able to produce a self loading shotgun action that is not so bulky and heavy as the Browning but still as reliable. We are really still at the beginning of design potential with shotguns as the difficulty has been the rimmed case, the variable plastic dimensions and the weight of the lead shot.
While the design of a reliable and successful semi-automatic action for rim fire cartridges and shotgun shells was solved rather early in America, this was not true of a similar action to use high velocity, high pressure rifle cartridges. Here the problem proved much more difficult. When those cartridges are fired, the cases grip the chamber walls much tighter than do low pressure loads, and this tight gripping increases very materially as the barrel and chamber become heated from rapid firing. A very powerful primary extraction is required. The fired case has to be “torn” loose from the chamber with a powerful back motion of the bolt, combined with an effective and sure extractor claw. This violent rear motion of the breech bolt continues after primary extraction has been accomplished, and at the rear end of the bolt throw it must be cushioned or stopped by some form of buffer. The operation is thus quite violent. A semi-automatic action for high power cartridges is usually designed with the thought of possible military use, and other details become important such as operation in all positions and temperatures, and in the presence of dust, dirt, sand, and mud. Also the various parts should be interchangeable, be diss assembled by hand, and readily replaceable.
With the introduction of semi-automatic arms the Armies of the world had to concede one thing to the inventor. They concede that the soldier will be fairly well instructed in the use, care, and maintenance of his weapon, and adequately supplied with proper cleaning and lubricating materials. In other words it is conceded that the user of such a weapon is operating a gas engine. He must understand it and care for it. If he does this fairly well the mechanism will prove reliable and dependable.

Between the World Wars of the 20th Century the major powers researched and reviewed hundreds of designs for a new semi automatic battle rifle, the first one that was adopted was the M1 Garand in 30-06, the main reason for its choice was that the Army had millions of stock blank left over from World War One so the one they chose could utilise them in a slightly different configuration.  Although the inventor, Mr. John C. Garand, was’ assisted by the extremely skilled personnel at Springfield Armoury, where he was an ordnance engineer, it took him from 1918 to 1930 to develop and perfect his rifle, which is indicative of the difficulty of the problem. It was finally adapted as the standard Infantry rifle in 1939, and manufacture was started at Springfield Armoury and by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. It remained the U. S. Army standard issue rifle until 1958 on the introduction of a major modification the M14 in .308 nato.
The Garand is gas operated, the gas port being about an inch in rear of the muzzle, so that practically speaking the bullet has departed from the muzzle, during which time the breech is solidly locked, before the gas piston starts to operate. The bolt is symmetrically locked by two lugs at its front end, in basically the same manner as seen in the Mauser 1898 mechanism. The double column box magazine within the receiver is charged with a clip of eight rounds of .30-06 cartridges, the entire clip being inserted in one motion. Upon firing the eighth round the empty clip is ejected automatically, and the breech remains open for the insertion of a new clip. The mechanism is such as to provide a very excellent trigger pull, and the rifle is completely dis-mountable by hand and with the aid of a cartridge. An expert shot can fire from twenty-four to thirty-two well aimed and squeezed shots per minute.
Continued in edition 46.

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RE: Victorinox Multitool, There is a Strong rumour that these and thousands of other folding Knives are about to be added to the Customs Prhibitied Imports list. Why?? But if you want one for sure phone now.

Thought I might give a quick review of the above multi tool as I have had one for five years now.  First thing I observed was that the locking mechanism leaves ALL the others for dead and is easily manipulated. The range of tools is well thought out and I have found uses for everything from the two knife blades (straight and serrated) as well as the screwdriver and the pliers which I have used to cut 3mm high tensile wire after watching another brand which cost twice the price of mine snap through the head of the  pliers.  Even down to the saw which whilst small is extremely efficient with its twin rows of teeth.   My tool lives on my belt and some function on it is used daily, from one of the blades to screwdrivers to bottle and can openers. When I am in the bush my tool is there and I reckon that it is more of a survival knife than any of the so called “survival” knives and I should know, as the bush to me is the edge of the Great Sandy Desert!  I have lived here now for three years and the same tool has been on my belt all that time and still looks pretty much brand new despite its daily use! Yes the leather pouch is a little weather worn but after three years out here –so am I!  I have observed SOG’s and Leatherman tools break and snap and fail to do many jobs out here but give the Swiss tool a go and it has NEVER LET ME down – Not once! In one of the harshest climates in the world this tool has been tested and not found wanting like many others. In my opinion if you want the best buy a Victorinox Multitool – Three years here is like a life time of normal use.
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Editors Note. Andrew Norris lives in Newman, at the edge of the Little Sandy Desert. He manages the Ranger and Emergency Services for the local shire Council. IT is the largest shire in the world, as it goes from the WA coast and the start of the eighty mile beach to the NT border covering over 370,000square kilometres. He regularly ventures into the Great Sandy desert to deal with Aboriginal communities there on a number of levels. He has tested his knife from Telfer, Cotton Creek, Kiwikurra, Punmu, Kunawaritji, Jigalong, and all points in between and states that it has never let him down.

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Thoughts For the Week.

The Draft Weapons Act for Queensland, proposing to introduce another round of impositions, eventually on all Australian citizens, as if they succeed in one State they will quickly adopt them in the other Australian States on the old lie of Uniform Gun Laws. They have never been uniform only un informed.
Before we allow our lives and property to be removed, and put our necks on the block of “In Government we Trust”, we should realise that these new laws written by the Police enforcers, give the Police far more power over the home owner, (remember your Home is your Castle) and far more decisions making power over your rights and property.
When your M,Ps, your representatives, ‘give you up’,(the law abiding citizen) and put you in the hands of known Criminal associations ( Australia’s Police Forces) how can you rate the care factor of those whom they vote for. Minus, or smaller than a Knats nose.
To clarify my assertion that the Police are known Criminal associations, I must first say that I have personal friends, that were good policemen of 35 years standing who I believe are uncorruptable and had morals of the highest standards, so on that basis my assertion does not personally include every policeman. On the other hand I have well know policemen on the other extreme who would make Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin look like gentleman. I have made complaints about Police to the CJC and the CMC, I and my family have been offered Witness protection by the CJC, but as I do not trust the integrity of the protectors, declined the invitation. In response to my whistle blowing, I received 2000 or so charges 350 indictable, after eight years of court appearances two jury trials, all were either dismissed, or I was found ‘Not Guilty’. Being the subject of countless threats, futile searches and the frustration that there is no one out there that can help, no umbrella of justice and truth where you can seek protection, I am qualified to make these observations of 150 years of Police Corruption in Australia.

Police Power Will be Used Against the Good to Protect the Evil.

It is proportionate, the more they get, the more they will abuse the innocent. Police corruption is an international problem but Australia could be the worst example as we now have full time investigative commissions such as the CMC and ACC and it still has not improved.
Original policing of Australia inevitably began as early as the First Fleet itself. Many in both the Magistracy and police were notoriously dishonest and ineffective. A significant factor in policing of that time was the relationship between police and criminals with the active involvement of police in the very crimes they were supposed to suppress. In August 1838 the son of the founder of Melbourne Henry Batman, then Chief Constable of the Melbourne City Police, was dismissed for bribery. The history of Australian policing is just a list of hundreds of Royal Commissions, Inquiries, and Commissions to investigate the corruptions even within the Investigating Commissions. Thousands of official reports and hundreds of thousands of complaints of Police Corruption.
The Select Committee on Police in 1852 was told that ‘there has been, in the case of several detective officers, a most suspicious suddenness in getting rich’. Frequenting brothels and drunkenness were endemic amongst police. So much so, that in 1854 a prison was built in Richmond Victoria to hold police who broke the law. The Royal Commission into the Ned Kelly hunt (the Longmore Commission) found widespread corruption it shattered a number of police careers in addition to that of Chief Commissioner Standish. Winch and Larner, were involved in prostitution, gambling and borrowing from hotelkeepers, whilst being protected by Standish. It found  ”inimical to the public interest’, a ‘nursery of crime’ and a department whose ‘system of working (was) so iniquitous that it may be regarded as little less than a standing menace to the community’.
The most infamous was Chief Commissioner Sir Thomas Blamey of the Victorian Police exposed in a Royal Commission into the Brophey shooting which found that the  Chief Commissioner’s was involved with prostitutes in the car where Brophey was shot. Jury rigging, with the police involved on both sides they  found that the Criminal Squizzy Taylor was a paid police informer/organiser of the Jury rigging.  The Beach Report found “..the existence of a ‘brotherhood syndrome’ whereby police at all levels would do whatever was required to protect workmates He also found that police would conspire and commit perjury as necessary, either in court hearings or when appearing before him.”
Corruptions is especially epidemic where police have been expected to enforce laws which many citizens have regarded as petty infringements of their liberties.
There has also always been a close connection between illegal gambling, drink/drug prostitution and police corruption. This kind of pattern arises because although governments can readily make something unlawful, they can’t make it unpopular.
History has demonstrated that corrupt police are adept at using ‘the system’ to their advantage. They are able to build alliances within and outside the Force to exert political and other pressure to circumvent accountability and evade justice. Since the 1960s, Royal Commissions and Boards of Inquiry in Australia have reported on entrenched and systemic corruption with local police forces. Despite jurisdictional differences, there are obvious similarities both in the nature of the corrupt behaviour. In particular, the Commissions of the Moffitt, New South Wales (1973–1974), Woodward, New South Wales (1977–1979), Williams, Canberra (1977–1979) and Costigan, Canberra (1980–1984) Royal Commissions and the Connor Board of Inquiry into Casinos, Victoria (1982–1983) were searchlights revealing what hitherto had been a formidable but shadowy force in Australia. Each inquiry identified various levels of corruption affecting police and other public officials.
The work of Lusher, New South Wales (1979–1981), Wood, New South Wales (1997), Fitzgerald, Queensland (1989), and Kennedy, Western Australia (2002) concentrated on problems of long-standing corruption in the police forces in their respective states. Beach Inquiry (1975), the riskof corruption is ever-present, as the Ombudsman’s Reports on the Ceja Task Force (Drug Related Corruption, 2003 and 2004).
In a recent newspaper articles concerning the Victorian Police quote, Ombudsman George Brouwer  warned confiscated drugs were not being stored securely at the Victorian Police Forensic Services Centre, paving the way for corruption. The Ombudsman’s report, tabled in Parliament, outlined “significant issues regarding the security and storage of drug” exhibits at the MacLeod centre which stores some 18,000 drug items. In the report, Mr Brouwer admitted he did “not have confidence that all drug exhibits have been accounted for until a full external audit has been undertaken” and warned electronic records of drug exhibits were inaccurate. Forensic drug and alcohol branch head Cate Quinn was yesterday suspended. In March, the Ombudsman found police abused recording procedures to improve crime clearance rates.Last month, Victoria Police was under the microscope with a scathing Ombudsman report about a series of costly blunders and dodgy contracts that left the force’s IT budget $39 million in the red.

Chief Police Commissioner Caught with Magazine and Ammunition At the Airport.

Documents obtained by ‘The Australian’ using Freedom of Information legislation show that within hours of Mr Overland being stopped with the nine semi-automatic handgun bullets in his hand luggage before boarding his return flight to Melbourne, the AFP and Victoria Police had agreed a strategy to issue a statement omitting anything that could identify him – unless the incident leaked. The OPI said today that after the magazine clip containing the bullets was found in Mr Overland’s carry-on luggage during a routine boarding scan in Canberra, AFP officers attended the scene,

Separate Laws For the Police.

“Mr Overland emphasised that he did not seek preferential treatment and wished to be treated in the same way as other citizens.”
At the time the incident was made public in March, Victoria’s police union head Greg Davies said: “If it was a constable or member of the public, you would be hung, drawn and quartered . . . you and I would still be in handcuffs and remanded in custody. I am not sure which end of the scale it should be but you can’t carry a set of nail clippers on to a plane.”
Victorian Police also have trouble with records not guns?? The first statewide audit of firearms in 20 years has found nearly 200 weapons can’t be located, which senior police insist is down to accounting errors and not actual cases of missing guns.”186 unaccounted weapons, including three revolvers, one long-arm and others used for training and ballistics testing,”"I think it’s poor record-keeping. Let’s be honest about that,” Deputy Commissioner Kieran Walshe told reporters on Tuesday. With their record how could we believe they are honest. With their record how can they put them in charge of the ‘Candy Jar’, the Firearm Registry?

Guns in Roof St Kilda Police Station

“..investigators found marijuana seeds hidden under the bottom of a drawer. Looking around more closely, they saw dislodged ceiling tiles covered with ‘dirty paw marks’. A search of the ceiling located a sawn-off shotgun, a revolver, two imitation pistols and illegal knives….$200 cash, car number plates, a metal baton, drugs (including amphetamines) and credit cards. Several bottles of whisky, beer and wine were also found. Numerous contemporary media outlets reported the search.
Concealment of the items seemed to have been comparatively recent. The most obvious inference was that they were illegally obtained and
may have been intended to plant on suspects. This was not the first time that illicit items had  been hidden in a false ceiling at the St Kilda Police Station. In 1988, a cache of nine handguns was found in the ceiling space of the then Armed Robbery Squad and the former Major Crime Squad offices at the St Kilda Road police complex. Despite a nineteen month
investigation, none of the items located could be linked to any member at the station.”

Can you imagine Police finding those in your ceiling ‘twice’ and not charging anyone.

They information for this article came from “Victoria Police and the problem of corruption and serious misconduct”, and was put before the Victorian parliament in February 2007. This is not just a Victorian problem the same if not worse has occurred in NSW with the 1200 missing Glocks from there Police Force and in an article in the Canberra Times by Fia Cummings in 2001 the Defence Forces admitted losing 5000 firearms 1800 from Moorebank NSW. In Queensland, the Police liberated thousands of firearms and millions of dollars for their own use during the Buy Back. Sometimes the same Police handgun has been lost, recovered from Criminals and then after it being established as Court evidence has been found again in the hands of Criminals. Maybe the Queensland Police just hire them out to their mates.
Yet, the politicians ignore any real investigation into the Police and put our information on ‘Crimtrac’ and make the Police our jailors. They write the laws to chain us down and then exploit us, they taunt us and use us as fair sport for their entertainment at our expense. While they can carry on with their criminal enterprise as they please. Of course, they want the general public useless and defenceless. If you feel you would like to oppose this latest form of slavery, contact your local politician before you allow them to fix heavier chains to your arms.

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Understanding Reloading Ammunition

Continued from previous editions on Powder Manufacture.

Powder Coatings.
The moist powder is bagged (normally 50 lbs. each) and transported to the coating building. Here Dinitrotolulene (DNT) will be applied in the form of a thin external coating to control burning rate. This relates to its suitability for different cartridges and it is given a separate designation on the containers. This is why you must never mix powders or load cartridges with powder that you do not know it burning rate or the identifying designation on the container does not match the loading information you are using.
This coating which controls the burning rate is applied while the powder is still moist from water drying. Even so, coating is still a dangerous process.
The coating building is barricaded. Large copper barrels shaped like a flattened ball are used to apply the coating by tumbling powder, DNT and water together. The barrel is charged with (for one example) half a ton of powder, 96 lbs. water and 65 lbs. DNT. The drum is sealed and operators move out of the barricaded area. The drum rotates at about 20 rpm for approximately one hour.
At the end of the tumbling, the DNT will have uniformly coated each kernel. Only the outside of the kernel is coated. Though the DNT may have built up over the perforations of some kernels, sealing them, it burns off quickly and does not affect the general burning characteristics of the powder. The powder is then transferred to a wash house where it is hosed down with water and screened to remove lumps and kernels stuck together. It is then air dried. Warm air is circulated through it in tanks. Several hours may be required for this process.
Once dry, the powder requires only “glazing” or coating with graphite. This coating has no effect upon the powder’s performance.  It could be used without it. However, the graphite prevents build up of static electricity which could fire the powder. It also makes the powder flow freely in packing and loading machines. The distinctive gray/black colour of canister powders does not appear until the graphite is applied. Prior to that point the kernels are relatively light in colour.
The powder is placed in a drum similar to those used for coating and tumbled with a very small amount of graphite. As an example, 1,1/2 lbs. of graphite will treat 5,000 lbs. of powder. After about an hour of tumbling, the charge is dumped and placed in 50 lb. bags for movement to the blending machine. There, bags from different batches of powder are emptied into a barrel to make up a “pre-blend” charge. Rotation of the drum thoroughly blends the powder together and it is again bagged. A second blending takes place in the same way, only this time, bags from different pre-blend batches are mixed.
Upon completion of the final blending, the powder is packaged with the assurance that ballistic qualities will vary very little from lot to lot. At this point, perhaps you’ll wonder just what constitutes a “lot” of powder. Lots generally consist of a quantity that can be easily and conveniently handled. During the wars, lots consisted of 50-55,000 lbs. simply because that was the capacity of the railroad cars available for shipment. Thus each carload was a separate lot and there were no portions of lots left over after loading. In peace time, powders for the handloading trade are produced in smaller lots. For example, if the estimated market requirements for a given period is 10,000 (or 20,000) lbs. of a particular powder, then a production order for that amount of powder will be issued. The powder will be then produced, packaged as a single lot and placed in the magazine for filling future orders. If, on the other hand, cartridge loading factories are producing  .223 rem 5.6 x45 or 7.62mm cartridges at a high rate, requiring continuous deliveries of powder, it will be shipped in the traditional individual carload lots.
It goes without saying that continuous testing takes place throughout the production processes. Once the powder is completed and blended and a lot number assigned, samples are fired extensively for pressure and velocity to insure that it meets the proper specifications. Powders for the reloader must be very uniform from lot to lot. Powders for commercial or military purposes can vary without causing trouble, since the users can adjust loading data to produce standard velocities and pressures. For example, each lot received at a loading plant is tested and charge weights are calculated and proven by actual firing before that lot is used.
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Owen Guns Bulletin Edtion 43 August 2010

Welcome to the Forty Third Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.

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Norinco Model 213 ‘Tokargypt’ 9 shot Semi Auto

The Model 213 original basis was designed by John Moses Browning, the world famous firearm designer. In the late 1920s the Colt /Browning mechanism was redesigned by Russian, Feoder Tokerev, simplified for mass production and chambered in the powerful 7.62×25. It used the Mod 1911 swinging link, short recoil system.
To enable easy maintenance the hammer and lock mechanism can be removed as a single assemble. To improve the Browning feed system the ammunition feed lips are machined into the frame rather than relying on pressed tin. Which on a battlefield where magazines lips do not get the best attention is a great advantage in reliability and makes the magazines cheaper to produce. It was an extremely tough, reliable and powerful pistol and was later modified by Hungary for export to Egypt this was known as the Tokagypt. The pistol differs from the Tokarev in being chambered for the 9mm Parabellum, and a fitted safety catch (WHICH SHOULD NEVER BE RELIED UPON) as well as the half cock safety.

As can be seen by the inset photo the barrels and chambers are all chrome plated.It has a plastic wrap around grip stock, instead of the Tokerev ‘bakelite’ and a finger piece type floor plate on the magazine, which improves your chances of quickly getting it out and getting another one in after someone has rammed one in covered in mud. The M 213 Chinese version of this also has a chrome plated barrel shown in the above photograph. These are brand new unfired but have the usual scratch marks and rough corners as shown in the photographs. As standard the barrels are a millimetre short for club licences so are fitted with a slightly longer barrel. The steel is excellent and once a few surfaces, such as slides, are polished they are a slick an easy pointing pistol. Eight rounds in the magazine.

$295 each.

plus Registered Post and Licences.

 

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Bushnell Compact Spotting Scope  12–36 x 50

$205 plus post.

 

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Armed Under & Over 12 gauge $775.

Armed 12 g Under & Over shotgun, single trigger, ejectors, five interchangable choke tubes the best value in a, new over and under on the market today. Truely a Turkish gun made with from Italian designs, a Turkish Delight with Italian good taste.

$775.

 

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Electronic Ear Muffs

Slimline Electoronic Ear Muffs
Hear and Protect
Hear normally up to 85 db Electronically reduces & protects hearing 
Protects hearing above 85 db
Able to hear normal conversations and sounds to 85 decibels
Over 200 hours of battery life
Auto-adjust headband
Solid state circuit
Rotary on-off volume knob
HOW THE ELECTRONIC EAR MUFFS WORK
These electronic ear muffs are a high standard ear muff in design, they are made to feel light and comfortable for all day use. They can be used as standard ear muff when the electronic component is not turned on and will passively reduce noise like any normal ear muff. They have a standard noise reduction rating of 29 decibel and are a Class 5.
Once turned on the microphone, located at the top of the ear muff, will pick up and amplify ambient noise. If some one standing next to you talks, their voice will be amplified through the speakers in both ear muffs. Should there be a loud noise, such as a firearm, the electronic ear muffs will automatically cut out and block the loud noise. The electronic ear muffs are designed to attenuate noise about 85 decibels, meaning that they will block out instantly, once the noise reaches a certain level. The electronic ear muffs allow you to control the volume level of ambient noise around you. On the shooting range with constant loud reports, the electronic ear muffs will block this noise. For range instructions or to communicate with another person, you can instantly hear them speak.
At the range or anywhere ear protection is constantly required, but you also need to hear instructions from others or you wish to be more aware of the ambient sound around you, these electronic ear muffs are what you need.

$75.50 plus post.

 

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The Australian International Arms M10 Rifles.

Ten shot .308 Win/ 7.62 Nato 10 shot power house. For Military Rifle Competition or flattening Pigs.
M10-B1 (7.62×51mm NATO)
560mm barrel, medium weight, sporter configuration, 10-rd, magazine. Adjustable foresight for elevation, windage, dual rear aperture for 200 & 400 metres. Picatinny steel rail to mount telescope.
M10-B2 ex-M42-B2 (7.62×51mm NATO)
640mm heavy barrel a la L42A1.Steel blue-black finish, teak hardwood stock with chamfered edges, hand oiled. Adjustable foresight, elevation & windage. 10-rd. box magazine like US M14. ‘L’ aperture for 200 & 400 metres. Comes with Picatinny steel rail for ’scope sight.Military butt & cheek rest like L42.
Three different models presently in stock, basically the heavier the barrel, the more expensive

from $1300 to $1490. phone for more details phone 07 54 825070.

 

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Tasco 8 x 21 Compact Binoculars,

Very Special Once Only Price

$20. plus post

 

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Remington Genesis 1000 fps.

Idea for Dad and Son, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage.

(Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air rifle feature ultra Hi ergonomics in its soft, synthetic pistol style grip and sculptured cheek piece, 28 pounds of cocking force gets up to 1000 fps. Other features include aTwo stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.

$400. With 3–9×40 Variable Centrepoint Air Rifle Scope and Mounts. $300 without. plus freight.

 

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Accurate Firearm Design

Custom Built Rifle Actions.

The building of an action for a new or special design for one’s own use or for another purpose is a very tedious and expensive undertaking because every part has to be machined separately from steel and they all have to fit together, much more than that all the parts have to function together and work as a unit. You are creating a repeating single piston engine it converts dry fuel into energy and that energy drives the piston the projectile. Only a skilled machinist or a tool maker can successfully undertake such a job even after the design has been laid down on the drawing board, and he must have access to a fully equipped machine shop including facilities for heat treatment. Similarly the manufacture of a few such actions for sale has to be undertaken in a similar manner and is usually too costly. Breech action manufacture commercially is really out of the question except in large quantities to off set the tooling and set up costs. The fabrication of a single breech action by hand may run into months and cost millions of dollars.
This is why shooters who wish to have special arms made for their own use have had to use existing breech actions which have been manufactured in quantity and can be had at moderate cost. To one of these they can then fit a special barrel, stock, and sights, and can even adapt the arm to a special cartridge for which the breech action is suitable. Thousands of such arms are being built in Australia annually, whereas the building of a breech action of special and new design is of rare occurrence.

Before contemplating altering or building a firearm action, some thought must be applied to the purpose that the completed firearm will be applied to. As the weight of the completed firearm would be governed by the weight and design of the action that was designed for its purpose.
The desired weight of the completed arm should be taken into consideration. in designing a new breech action. Our present thought is that the weight of the complete arm, but not including telescope sight, sling, or cartridges loaded into the magazine should be approximately as follows:
For a young boy’s first firearm  4 ½  to 5 pounds.
For 10 to 14* years old boys rifles and shotguns—about 6 pounds. (* Depends on the 14 years old as some at that age are 6ft 4 in and built like Cassias Clay, then they carry your rifle)
For mountain rifles and light waterfowl shotguns 6 ½  to 7 pounds.
For heavy (For the swamp, duck shotguns 7 ½  to 8 ½  pounds.
For general hunting rifles 7 ½  to 8 ½  pounds.
For Infantry rifles 9 to 9 ½  pounds.
For long range game rifles, varmint rifles, and sniper rifles,  l0 to 11 ½  pounds.
For match rifles for highly competitive rifle shooting, 11 to 13 pounds.
For hand guns for target and military use 2 to 3 pounds.
The balance of the firearm should also be taken into consideration, although this is dependent rather upon barrel and stock than on breech action. However, the choice of a breech action design may make the completed firearm either too light or too heavy so think about it, as it better to make modifications to the action design at the design stage and not attempt to to reduce weight at the completion of the job. Very often this means that parts are reduced in thickness and strength which can cause severe problems at test firing time.
Continued in Edition 44.

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P 11 EDI-T  Hunter Shooting Torch, $79.plus post.

Mount is $47.00  and Trophy 4×32 scope is $42.00 plus post.

 

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THOUGHT s FOR THE WEEK .
Elections Are Just Their Entertainment.

For those who feel cheerful or inspired by the results of the 2010 election, remember this time, remember where you were, when you felt good last. As unfortunately, if anyone is out there that still believes that anything good, in the cause of freedom can come from an election in the 21st Century, then last night, it was proved again, that elections are only part of the chains that bind us. The whole process of elections is dependent on an educated electorate, once that process is subverted and controlled we are its slaves.
The Greens achieved their balance of power in the Senate, with 9 seats, they even have a seat in the house of Representatives. If Tony Abbot or Julia Gizzard is Prime Minister it means nought, all legislation to be passed must suit the Greens or it does not happen. Legislation proposed by Labour or Liberal will be Tit for Tat with the Greens or it won’t happen, Liberals will have to sit around and think of legislation that suits the Greens, (sacrificial lambs) so that they can get there own wages bills through the Senate. Guess who will be the lambs?  Lee RHIANNON of the Anti Gun Coalition was elected as member of the Senate, for the Greens of course. The media ‘Push Poll’ with contrived questions and answers changing their allegiance from Labour to Green, building Profiles and attacking any independence.
There are 14 million Australians registered to vote on the roles. Yesterday 10 million bothered to vote, even though voting is compulsory and they face a fine for not voting. Can you imagine fining 4 million people, they make an excuse , it gets lost in the mail, or they pay the fine. With 77 % of the vote counted 618,429 voted for one of the largest parties, INFORMAL, so nearly 5 million eligible to vote refused, or had other things to do. More than likely there is another million or so who ensure that they are not on the register to vote so that they do not get a fine.   9 ½ million people voted for the four major parties. Of course the ones that did nothing, were the largest majority of all.
All the dedicated, sweat, tears and money donated by the brave few who tried to change things with independents and minor parties achieved nothing, but an expensive education, with a few single figure percentages.
Of course apathy Won the day, these days it seems everyday. In our area we are told by the Queensland police that there are 15,000 licensed shooters, in our Council area. That is the highest percent per population in Queensland and maybe Australia. Even in the rest of Australia, when we include their families, it should be the largest and best voting group in the country, they should be the king makers. Yet, they are told by politicians and the media that they are a minority and so believe they are a minority. All the customers that come in the shop, see the posters and talk politics, at that point they all detest the major parties and that sick looking homosexual Brown who is green on the outside and red on the inside.  When I went to the local church hall to vote, two of my farmer customers were handing out ‘how to vote’ cards for the LNP. They approached me sheepishly, I asked them what they were doing there, supporting a party that had sold them into economic slavery and taken their guns of them. They had answers, such as “it’s the better of two evils”. So they worked for their own destruction, the media had done its job. Our education system, combined with tight media control has them in the grip of its only party, party  A and party B, Tweedldum and Tweedldee. Shooters are still voting the same way, they believe that will make a difference.
In the 1960s and 1970s the socialists, had a concerted campaign to fill university with lecturers and professors of their political persuasion, so they supply the schools with teachers, the courts with judges, the TV stations, newspapers with journalists all from their Green on the outside red on the inside perspective, and it worked. We have payed for an educations system that destroys us. Our people think that freedom is choosing which TV channel they watch.  
We keep our kids at school until they are 18 and then they can vote. I have interviewed many of them, many of them that matriculated to university. I ask them questions, What’ is the largest island in the world, what the second highest mountain, what’s the longest river, who wrote ‘Great Expectations’, Who painted the ‘Morna Lisa’. What is 13 x 12, What is the capital of France, Who invented the light bulb, What did Beethoven write? If I get one correct answer I put the flag up, but in the main because most do not have any answers, I use it as a gauge as to what they know of the world around them. Most do not know what a ‘capital’ is, some think its just big letters. We have paid dearly for an education system that might teach them to use a mobile phone but gives them no idea or incentive to make one. I left school while I was still 14 and joined the Regular Army on my 15 th birthday, a limited education with poor grammar and spelling but I knew all of the answers to the above questions and a lots more. I can only conclude that there has been a campaign, ‘Stage one’  to Dumb Down the public over the last fifty years. Once that ‘dumbing’ has been achieved it makes ‘Stage two’ the power of the media, to have much greater affect as it lessens any chance of the people being able to think for themselves. They galvanise the public into believing that there are only two options, which really are the same option. There are many examples of the media making the people into ‘Lemmings’ (they are those little four legged animals that every few years, follow one another and jump into the sea,) like the rats in the Pied Pipier of Hamlyn following him into the river, then when not being paid, the Piper returns and pipes the children into the river. One of those very real examples of the media inciting a National destruction is when the Japanese media outlets informed the simple civilian peasants of Okinawa, (350 miles from Japan)  that they would suffer rape, torture and murder at the hands of the Americans, the Okinawans believed them and fought to the death, the American troops were at times confronted with battalions of women armed with pointed sticks who fought to the death. Massed suicides of the civilian population with the people throwing themselves off cliffs. 142,000 civilians died, even though the Americans dropped surrender pamphlets like snow, the people would not believe, that the Americans only wanted to give them money so they could buy Hersey Bars, Cocoa Cola and Chewing Gum. The Japanese had ‘dumbed down’ the population and indoctrinated them into believing that the Americans would do awful things to them and so they led the people into mass suicide, over the cliffs. Well the Pied Piper has played the tune in the western world our next generations have been well and truly piped up and are now formed up in controlled rows ready to go over the cliffs, to their doom. What do we do, join in the throng? Move to another country? Or do we try to educate and inform? Whatever, it has to be something different as elections only work to further enslave the people.

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Tasco 4x 32 Silver Antler Rifle Scope

Thirty years ago we would have paid a $1000. for the same quality of vision and precision, a guaranteed leading optical manufacturer who warranties their products all over the World. They have a light gathering clarity that would have made those old dark Pecar’s appear like looking through a knot hole in fathers wooden leg. What’s more they are Waterproof. In 1970 during a storm in the Victorian mountains I can remember emptying my Pecar like a jug. It had a steel tube but it leaked like a sieve.I was so disappointed I hunted Samba for years with open sites as I wanted reliability. I took the low priced option then and will always follow that example, at this price I could afford to buy a spare one.

$50. plus post

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For Example Hunting Australia’s Deer by Dave Drangsholt, 294 pages on the How, Where, and What of Deer hunting in Australia.

As well as this book By Dave Drangsholt we also have in stock his “A Deer Cullers Tale”,

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As already purchased by members of all Shooting Organisations.Some have even bought two copies one for home and one to take to the club. See Book Reviews by Nick Harvey in Sporting Shooters and Guns Australia in our new Gun Book Category.

It’s a week since I received a copy of “Range Officers Hand Book” and since that time I am nearly at the half way mark. I’m amazed at the at the number of subjects you have covered making it one of the most informative books to be added to my collection. It must have taken you a considerable amount of time and experience to publish the book with information not available in other popular Gunsmith manuals. I would recommend the book to “Range Officers” and anyone interested in the sport of target shooting and hunting.
Regards
Gene M Cornford P.O.Box 288, Kaeo    0448 N.Z. Firearms Gunsmith, Dip M.G.S +Member of American Gunsmithing Assoc.

The Range Officers Handbook is an encyclopedia or omnibus of firearms and ammunition and the use of them, it has:-
•  90   pages of Information for Range Officers,
•  239 pages on Coaching to Win,
•  110 pages on Air Rifle History &Training,
•  33   pages on hitting Clay Targets,
•  34   pages on Reloading Ammunition,
•    6   page of Contents,
•  18   pages of Index,
•  38   pages of Old into New, ( Chronological History of Firearms)
•  23   pages of Glossary of Terminology on Firearms and Optics
•  Over 1000 drawings and photographs.
•  Over 530 pages in a A4 stitched colour hardback.,
Some, hopefully will read it cover to cover, others will pick a heading out of the Contents pages and read a chapter or two, but no matter how much you know about shooting, reference material is always needed, as even people who rate as genius cannot retain everything. The real ability is being able to find out quickly and easily. You can check that you have the correct terminology, in the Glossary, check the Index and go straight to the right page. This book can be used as an information tool for a lifetime of shooting.

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Chrony Chronographs measure the velocity of your ammunition.

You have now should all have the free Ballistic Calculator if you haven’t got it already there is a link further down this page. Without a Chornograph to give you a known velocity, shooting is all just guess work. There are only two known facts available to a shooter, the hole it makes in the target and its speed. (Pressure guns are not available to us mere mortals) You cannot test, your rifle and ammunition by how much noise it makes or how hard it kick’s you. Get a chronograph, they have never been any cheaper for this quality and if you don’t do it now they will be dearer when you want one next. Then you will be kicking yourself harder than a .600 Nitro Express. They fold up really compact to take to the range, open them up shoot throught the wires and the light meters will give you a print out on the little screen. They fit onto nearly every camera tripod.  One of our customers fired through the  clear screen, brought it back for warrentry, as it didn’t work. Please do not do this, as they are not supposed to be bullet proof.

$198. plus post.

 

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Bad weather, rough handling. Heavy, repeated recoil. It’s all part of hunting, so your Leupold Rifleman is built to take it. You also get a bright, clear sight picture for precise targeting each and every time, even in low light conditions. Mount a Rifleman on your favourite rifle and hunt with confidence.

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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION

MAKING POWDER.

Continued on from Edtion 42

Deterrents.
If you have been reading this series of articles and continue to do so, you will be one of the tiny points of a percentage of people in Australia who have any understanding of the methods and materials used in manufacturing smokeless powder. ( Well nearly smokeless) Knowing what goes into these processes, understanding why, and how gives you more confidence in making decisions in your overall reloading procedure. Even if you cannot remember in future months all the details you know where the information is, where it is stored on the Owengun.com page so you can find it or direct others to read this series of articles.  
If for artillery use, then DPB might be added for the same purpose. Artillery powders would also require addition of a deterrent at this point to slow down burning. Dinitrotolulene (DNT) is normally used for this purpose. It is highly hygroscopic so must be broken up and screened just prior to addition to the mix.
Once all secondary ingredients have been added, the mixer is closed and started. The operator leaves the building or enters a barricaded safety area while the mixer is running. Mixing is done by two counter-rotating Sigma blades, two-blade paddles resembling the letter S, rotating in a horizontal plane.
After a short time, the operator shuts down the mixer and uses a non-sparking tool to break loose any mix that has gathered where the blades could not reach it. Solvent mix is also added at this time if it appears necessary to the operator. Experience is invaluable in determining whether the mixture is too dry.
Mixing then proceeds to completion which is determined to a degree by elapsed time, but also by the operator’s experience. Considerable quantities of alcohol-ether vapours are generated by mixing and must be drawn off into the recovery system.
Flash fires were once fairly common in this operation, but in recent years they have become rare. Experience and sophisticated safety measures, plus the use of highly responsible personnel, paid off in safer operations.
It is worthwhile to mention here that scrap powder generated in the various processes is reworked by either using it (plus solvent) to charge the mixer, or by adding it to the nitro-cellulose charge. The scrap consists generally of broken powder strings, defective grains, “heels” from the various processes. Nothing is wasted, as is clearly shown by the vast and expensive recovery systems.
Coming from the mixer, the powder is ivory to yellow in colour, depending on the mix, and looks somewhat like damp brown sugar. It is partially colloided and the process must be continued in a machine called a macerator.
The powder is transferred directly to the macerator where gear-like blades and teeth knead the mixture under tremendous pressure. The blades are closely meshed and rotate in opposite directions. Solvent content of the powder is very important at this stage, neither too wet nor too dry. No more solvent can be added during maceration, yet the powder will ignite if it becomes too dry while the machine is running. Considerable heat is generated by the kneading process, so the macerator is fitted with a cooling jacket through which refrigerated
alcohol is circulated. By this means, powder temperature is held at about 68°-72°F.
The macerator continues the colloiding operation, converting the powder to a rubbery mass that can be pulled apart by the fingers. It is removed in irregular chunks and transferred immediately to the preliminary blocking (pre-block) stage.
In pre-block, the rubbery chunks are charged into the cylinder of a large vertical press. With the press closed, ram pressure is applied very slowly to force excessive solvent from individual chunks. Pressure is slowly increased to compact the colloided powder into a solid block. If pressure is applied too fast, an attendant temperature increase may cause the powder to flash and burn, that would not conducive to the press operator’s peace of mind. When the compressed cake is fully formed, it is ejected from the press cylinder and immediately transferred to the “macaroni” press in the next barricaded compartment.
The macaroni press performs two functions; that of extruding the powder into thin strands (thus its name), then re-compressing them into a solid block.
The pre-block is placed in the chamber of the macaroni press. The ram applies force to the top of the block, forcing the plastic powder to flow through a number of individual dies set in a plate in the bottom of the cylinder. It emerges as long, round strands which fall directly into the cylinder of a floor-level blocking press with its ram retracted.
This extrusion continues the colloiding action begun by the mixer and carried on by the macerator. Screens placed between the powder blocks and the die plate, catch and hold un-colloided lumps of nitrocellulose or other free ingredients that still exist. Great pressure is required to accomplish the extrusion, being built up slowly to just over 5,000 psi.
When extrusion of a cake is complete, the macaroni press is stopped and the powder strands broken off and dropped into the blocking press. This press is then capped and its ram rises to compact the mass into a twelve inch diameter cake fifteen to eighteen inches long. The cake or “block” is then ready for the graining presses. Continued in the Next Edition.
Continued in Next Edition

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Lee  Breech Lock Challenger Reloading Kit

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An Extra benefit includes a Lee Auto Primer.

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BAIT THROWERS

Sling Shots as seen in use on the Streets of Bankok. If you cannot get a firearm seems as though these are the next best thing to take on the M16 opposition. Even though they lost the battle for the streets they won points for bravery. These have an internal magazine for quick loading, Extra effective using round lead musket balls for ammo.

Catapults, Slingshots, Bait Casters all names for the above.

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