Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 35 March 2010
Welcome to the Thirty Fifth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.
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CZ 527 (Brno) Very Special Price $945
The Long serving CZ Brno Mini Mauser Action now chambered in the most popular calibre of our age the .223 Remington.Includes a detachable magazine, QD swivels,synthetic stock.
$945. plus freight.
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 1&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 $315. Best Prices in Australia
Remington Genesis 1000 fps.
Ideal 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 a Two stage Adjustable trigger, Ventilated rubber recoil pad, Precision rifled steel barrel, Crossblock trigger blocking mechanism, Ambidextrous safety, made in the USA.
$300 without mounts and 3-9 x 40 Air gun Scope. $400 with Scope and Mounts
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/
One 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.
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 for a Certified Numbered Book 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
Another good example is the Guns Digest 2010 64th Edition. $50 plus $10 post anywhere in Australia.
By Dan Shideler
Gun Digest 2010 is your No1 source for:Test-fire reports from the field,Illustrated firearms catalogue with current arms & accessories,New product reports and feature articles,Arms trade directory find American suppliers quickly and easily.Gun Digest 2010 brings together into one easy-to-use resource the details found in many manufacturers’ catalogs, product reviews from the top gun writers and authoritative articles from leading industry experts. This is what has made it “the world’s greatest gun book” for 65 years strong.
It’s all here: Rifles, handguns & shotguns,Tactical gear, Engraved & custom guns, Latest Ammunition,Rifle, Hanguns, Air Rifles,Gunsmithing Supplies,Muzzleloaders,Firearms products for All.
$50 plus $10 post anywhere in Australia.
The Marlin Model 925 5 shot Bolt Action Rifle.
The Marlin Model 925 Is a Magazine loading .22 Bolt action rifle which represents the classic American .22 rifle and is still at a reasonable price for great value. It features an all buisness hardwood stock with QD studs for swivels, 22 inch Micro Grooved Barrel and a 7 shot magazine.
All Marlin bolt action rimfire rifles feature the new T-900 Fire Control Trigger System.
$325.
plus freight.
Any Inquiries on any products phone 07 54824099 or 07 54825070 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au
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, 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.
Tasco is 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 for $188. Now Only a very special
$85.
plus postage
ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN
Firing Pin Protrusion
Firing pin protrusion, that is the distance that the firing pin projects out beyond the face of the breech block or bolt should be from .050 inch to .075 inch, tending towards the larger amount for large primers and the smaller dimension for small primers, but this differs slightly with different arms, and according to the tolerances allowable in the arm and cartridge. If the protrusion is too small, misfires will occur, while if it is too large it is liable to puncture primers. In fact, with large primers a protrusion of over .080 inch usually tends towards pierced primers.
The firing pin hole in the face of the bolt or block should be a close but free fit for the pin, but there should be no danger whatever of the pin sticking in the hole. If the firing pin is too large the primer cup may extrude into the hole, between the hole and the firing pin,
FIRING PIN PROTRUSION
A very small and very important detail on most firearms is the methods by which the protrusion of the firing pin is adjusted and controlled. This is most important in the case of the larger centre fire cartridges, where excessive protrusion could cause the firing pin to pierce the primer and let gas back into the action. It is generally controlled by the shape of the shoulder of the striker, at the back of the firing pin, as shown in this Mauser photo.
Protrusion is closely adjusted and then firing pin face carefully polished into a smooth ball shaped point the only kind of a point used for centre fire cartridges.
From diagram A you can see how the firing pin is flared at the back of the point to seal or divert any gas which may be directed through the firing pin hole if a primer bursts for any reason.
With the smaller rim-fire cartridges, protrusion is equally important; the firing pin “reach” must be controlled so that ‘it will not strike or batter down the “anvil” formed by the breech face of the barrel and thus cause faulty ignition.
B and C show the methods by which this is generally attained; in B protrusion is controlled by a shoulder on the firing pin and in C by a slotted arrangement with a retaining pin through breechblock.
D and E show a novel arrangement where the firing pin serves the dual purpose of firing the loaded cartridge and also acting as an ejector to expel the fired case. D illustrates such action in an Ortgies. .32 automatic pistol at instant of firing, here protrusion is “controlled” by the action of the primer taking up the impact, which is possible in the case of such low-pressure cartridges. E illustrates same firing pin action as it ejects the fired case at the end of the recoil.
Continued in Edition 36.
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.
plus postage.
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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 freight.
Understanding Reloading Ammunition
Getting Rid of the Pocket Crimp on Military Brass
In Bulletin Edition 34 Understanding Reloading Ammunition. We discussed once fired military brass cartridge cases and that they nearly all had a crimp surrounding the primer pocket which the military thought was extra safety insurance for firearms that had oversized headspace and sealed the primer from oil and water contamination. This has never really been proved or found necessary in civilian ammunition and it is an extra inconvenience when you want to replace the primer. As those cases cannot be reprimed until the primer crimp is removed. Brass intruding into the pocket mouth can be cut away, or it can be forced back from where it came from. Reamers are made for the first method, shaped and dimensioned so the original mouth radius will be reproduced and so that the primer pocket will not be enlarged. Lyman and CH makes an excellent hand tool of this type. It may also be cut away with a pointed, sharp knife blade, or grind a screw driver head to the correct diameter and let the edge of blade cut the excess brass off. Care must be taken to avoid removing too much metal or the primer will be two loose. Experiment to learn how little of the crimp can be removed and still allow distortion free repriming with normal pressure.
Most authorities recommend swaging rather than cutting out the crimp by forcing a shaped punch into the pocket. There is a question mark on if it is necessarily any better than properly done reaming or cutting, but it can be faster and more convenient if you have the tools. One quick thrust into the primer pocket and the crimp is forced back to duplicate the original pocket mouth.
Pocket swaging setups which hold the case by its rim are not good. The force required to seat the punch often deforms the rim. Best results are found with the type containing a rod over which the case is solidly supported. RCBS makes this type for use in a loading press.
A simpler version consists of a base and a punch which is just driven into the pocket with a hammer. It’s cheap and easy to use, and the results are fine if the punch is carefully handled.
Once the crimp is removed, such cases are just as serviceable as the un-crimped variety. Swaging does work-harden the case head slightly, but not enough to cause any problems.
More Reloading Information in Edition 36.
Swiss Army Tool Kit $135. plus post
The VICTORINOX “Swiss Army Knife” is over 100 Years Old. This useful pocket Multi-Tool was legally registered on June 12, 1897. Over 34,000 of these pocket tools with the distinctive Swiss cross leave the factory in central Switzerland each day. Ninety per cent are for export to over 100 different countries and serve as ambassadors for Switzerland.
Karl Elsener, the company founder, wanted to create work in sparsely industrialized central Switzerland and counter the emigration spawned by unemployment. To go from hand-crafting to industrial production was at the time adventurous and required enormous determination. Today, this family business in Schwyz provides 950 jobs.
After the soldier’s knife, which every recruit receives upon entering the army, Karl Elsener developed a new, elegant and light weight pocket knife, with six practical tools. He called this new model the “Officers and Sports Knife”.
After an unparalleled success story around the world, the VICTORINOX “Swiss Army Knife” is even orbiting the earth as part of the standard equipment of the Space Shuttle Crew. The knife has also been successfully proven on expeditions: in the arctic ice of the North Pole; on the highest peak on earth, Mount Everest; in the tropical rain forests of the Amazon, and elsewhere. Time and again, it has been a life saver in situations of extreme danger and great need. The New York Museum of Modern Art and the State Museum for Applied Art in Munich have selected it for their collection of excellence in design, and, since Lyndon B. Johnson, US presidents present guests with VICTORINOX pocket knives.
Today, the “Officers’ Knife” is available in over 100 different models. Each knife must undergo seamless quality controls before being released for sale
Thoughts for the week.
James Madison, one of the founding fathers of the United States, or one of those colonist traitors who broke away from the protection of George the Third whilst he was suffering a bout of madness, said.
” I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. “
One would think that after the treatment suffered by those colonist/founding fathers the United States would not so quickly forget those silent encroachments of freedom. Of course we in Australia and the United Kingdom never rebelled and never knew what freedom was, we take the encroachments for granted. Still its sad in one way to see the way the media bends the truth to its purpose and encouraging that there in the USA like a candle in a dark room shines a bright message which still can penetrate. This is an article by Larry Pratt
October 6, 2005 which points to miss information and spin that is placed on good news article. I am sure he would not mind us re printing it for the Bulletin readers.
RISKY SHOOTING IN SELF DEFENCE
“This was the bed-wetting headline of the lead editorial in the August 14, 2005 edition of ‘The Commercial Appeal’ in Memphis. The dead assailant certainly found the shooting to be risky, and the survivor who escaped probably believed that the victim posed too great a risk.
But the point of the editorial was, of course, designed to convince us that even though self defence saved a kidnapped man’s life, it is better to do nothing. Makes sense does it not???
No, it does not make sense.
Jacob Evans was robbed at gunpoint by a duo of armed thugs two weeks before he undertook his “risky” behaviour. It seems that ‘The Commercial Appeal’ finds nothing risky for a victim to be held at gunpoint by armed robbers. After all, if we do nothing threatening to the assailant, we will convince him that we mean him no harm, right? That way, the assailant will be nice, right?
Evans went and bought a .357 from a friend the day after the first robbery. Happily, he was not a day late AND a life short. ‘The Commercial Appeal’ complains that the gun had a stuck cylinder, resulting in a very low purchase price. While I would not look for such a deal myself, Evans had an excellent experience with the cylinder’s performance.
The punks abducted Evans at gunpoint (they must have by then decided he was their personal piggy bank). They forced themselves into his car and made him drive them to his bank where they ordered him to draw out $10,000.
Since Evans did not have a withdrawal slip, one of the duo went to get one. That was the moment that Evans chose to pull out his .357 and shoot the other bad guy who was still in the car. Evans did not just shoot him once, he emptied the gun into Leverett Dickson, hitting him with all six rounds. Good for Evans. He made sure that his kidnapper could no longer hurt him.
‘The Commercial Appeal’ was in a dither that the armed robber might have returned fire before he died. Or, that the accomplice might have returned and shot Evans had the accomplice had a gun. Or that the ensuing gunfight might have endangered an innocent bystander.
The anti-self defence crowd does not get it. For the second time in less than a month, Evans was victimized by the same pair. The kidnappers were in the process of looting his bank account. Does the editorial writer really think that Evans was going to be told to drop the kidnappers at their house and be wished a good day?
Whatever were Evans’ risks in the actions he took, they were almost certainly less than the risk he faced of being deposited in the landfill later that day.
Oh, and the now-in-custody accomplice? Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, bad guys — even when they are armed — flee when the victim starts shooting, because at that point the tables have been turned and the element of surprise is working in behalf of the victim. Which is what bad guy number two actually did. He may have even had a gun, but he did not stay around to use it.
As if reading from some gun control talking points playbook, the editorial (in ‘The Commercial Appeal’) raised the problem that a gun might get stolen and be “accidentally discharged by children.” Better that Evans be dead than run the remote risk of some kid stealing his gun. And let’s say it plainly — when the kid steals the gun, he(the kid) is a criminal and certainly does not deserve such sympathy that would paralyse responsible people from defending themselves with guns.
The kid who criminally obtains a gun must be responsible for his own subsequent actions. If the kid is big enough to steal the gun, he is certainly old enough to know that stealing is wrong.
Had ‘The Commercial Appeal’ been living in the real world, the headline should have read something like: Victim Kills Assailant: Taxpayers Saved Millions in Prosecution Costs.
Dr. Gary Kleck of Florida State University has found in his exhaustive research of crime data that one is over twice as likely to be injured when offering no resistance to an assailant as when resisting with a gun. Jacob Evans could say, ‘Works for me!’
By the way, the prosecutor, in an act of great magnanimity, agreed not to prosecute Jacob Evans. Such people give law enforcement a bad name. Rather than menace the victim with a second assault — this time in the criminal “justice” system — the authorities should have had a news conference and celebrated the effective self defence carried out by Jacob Evans. They should have made sure that the criminal element hears that in Memphis, folks have no problem seeing thugs dead in the gutter.”
I think they should have given Evans a medal.
Then to top it off, and to demonstrate how we should be thinking and acting. Even if this has not been done, it shows how are arguments should be presented and turned to the correct way of thinking.
“Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Vermont ’s own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in New England and elsewhere.
Maslack recently proposed a bill to register “non-gun-owners” and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun. Maslack read the “militia” phrase of the Second Amendment as not only the right of the individual citizen to bear arms, but as a clear mandate to do so. He believes that universal gun ownership was advocated by the Framers of the Constitution as an antidote to a “monopoly of force” by the government as well as criminals. Vermont ’s constitution states explicitly that “the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State” and those persons who are “conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms” shall be required to “pay such equivalent..”
Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters have a constitutional obligation to arm themselves, so that they are capable of responding to “any situation that may arise.”
Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a firearm would be required to register their name, address, Social Security Number, and driver’s license number with the state. “There is a legitimate government interest in knowing who is not prepared to defend the state should they be asked to do so,” Maslack says
Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along with the least restrictive laws of any state .. it’s currently the only state that allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. This combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has resulted in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation.
” America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
This makes sense! There is no reason why gun owners should have to pay taxes to support police protection for people not wanting to own guns. Let them contribute their fair share and pay their own way.”
Yes, I know that they have it so good, they don’t appreciate what they have and cannot understand what its like to have the boot on the windpipe, as we get stamped on in Australia, but its not because we are different people, or the country is different, or conditions are different, its just that they think differently so they can express freedom and we have lost it. We are so enslaved we cannot even express what we think to our friends and work mates. Some shooters in Australia, keep it a secret, how can we win anything with a mind set like that?
Bushnell Elite Rifles Scopes 3–9 x 40
These Japanese manufactured rifle scopes made for the big companies in the USA are improving there quality, constantly closing the gaps between them and their European competitors. The only thing that separates most top end scopes these days is the price.
Bushnell Elite Rifles Scopes 3–9 x 40
$299.
plus post.
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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 34 February 2010
Welcome to the Thirty Forth Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.
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To Order Goods From This Site.
Phone 07 54825070 or 0754824099 in shop hours 9 am to 5 pm on weekdays and 9 to 12 on Saturdays, or fax to 07 54824718 with your credit card details.
Details should include Name of card, ie Visa or Mastercard. Name on Card. Number on Card, Expiry Date of Card, 3 secret numbers on the rear of the card.Your home phone or mobile number.
How you want it sent to you, ie mail or road freight. The address you want it sent to. Describe which item you want to purchase.
Visit the website now. We also have shooting articles and important firearm information for the gun enthusiast. Take away free gun photos and free firearm images for your gun gallery collection. New firearm related material is being added every day.
Any Inquiries on any products phone 07 54824099 or 07 54825070 or email owenguns@spiderweb.com.au
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 $1300 to $1500. phone for more details phone 07 54 825070.
Red Gun Shooting Jackets,
Padded in the shoulder, large front pockets for your packs of ammo and a bag at the rear for the empties, strong material and light weight for Australian conditions. Made in Australia by Aussie Sports. L and X L.
$55. plus postage.
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 & .308w sized actions at present.
$699. plus post.
Archery Targets
Its not really sporting to shoot them when they are sitting down, but still, it wont’ ruin the meat on this one.
Will take thousands of hits.
$360. postage could be a problem.
Aussie Sports Gun Bags
This Shotgun Bag has a full length heavy duty zip, a light green canvas exterior and lots of foam padding, it is lined and includes carry handles and a heavy duty sling which could be used on your rifle. It has a zip bag attached to the side which is large enough for two packs of 12 g shotshells. 52 Inch. A bargin at
$25.00 plus post.
Tasco World Class 3-9×40 Iluminated Recticle
For one Month or until we run out
$125. plus postage.
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/
One 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.
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 for a Certified Numbered Book 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 CLICK HERE
Another good example is Gunsmithing Rifles by Patrick Sweeney
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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.
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Remington Genesis 1000 fps.
Idea for Dad and Son, An Adult Air Rifle. Practice Target Shooting in the Garage.
Includes a 3-9×40 Variable Air Rifle Scope and Air Rifle Mounts. $398.00
(Air Rifle Scopes have to be EXTRA shock resistant for High powered Air Rifles) . These single shot spring air Genesis pellet 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.
$395. plus post.
Tasco 4 x 32
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.
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ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN
Indentation of Primers.
The proper indentation of the rim of a rim fire cartridge, or of the primer of a centre-fire cartridge by the firing pin must be assured for certain fire every time, for freedom from accidents, and for accuracy. The weight, energy, and direction of the blow, and the area indented must be fixed that the priming mixture within the case or primer is crushed in a manner as to insure a normal and consistent explosion. Remember consistency is not just the foundation of accuracy the simple fact is that here is no accuracy, at any time without consistency. If you have an erratic firing pin fall, it will create a different type of explosion when it detonates the primer, this in turn will create a different chain reaction as it converts the propellent into a different amount of high pressure gas, which forces your projectile along the barrel. So consider all this before lighting off your hammer spring.
Diagram of INERTIA AND SUPPORTED FIRING PINS
A—Illustrating the “inertia” firing pin method; the Model 1911 Colt Automatic, which is unsupported as it hits the primer.
B—Firing pin of the Winchester Single Shot rifle, which is supported by the hammer when it strikes.
C—The bolt action setup; the Model 1903 Springfield rifle, (very similar to the Mauser Patents)where firing pin is supported by the mainspring.
Primers, including primed rim-fire cases, all are constructed within certain well defined limits of functioning and are all of a very high standard and all Primers must:-
A. Primers must not fire when struck by a firing pin falling with a definite minimum weight or energy. That is, they must not be over sensitive or be to dangerous to handle.
B. With a certain weight or energy of firing pin blow they must explode one hundred percent each time.
C. With a certain weight or energy of firing pin blow the rim of the rim-fire case, or the center fire primer cup must not puncture.
Diagram FIRING PIN POINTS
The mainspring or hammer, and the firing pin of the breech action of a small arm must be constructed so that they operate within the limits B-C above. But this is not quite all. Within these limits B-C will be found a still narrower limit in which a more perfect ignition, insuring better accuracy will occur. This limit may differ slightly with primers of different makes and with different kinds of powder. If we take a rifle with a certain firing mechanism set to limit B and then gradually increase the weight or energy of the firing pin blow while testing for accuracy on a machine rest we may find that D and E show the best forms of point. Note the flat surfaces with very slightly bevelled edges. They crush the primer pellet over a wide area, and the bevelled edge prevents any cutting or shearing of the metal of the primer cup or the rim fire case.
B and G do not crush enough of the primer pellet and sometimes tend to give miss-fires. C and F often shear the sides of the indentation like a punch and give punctured primers. A and H are particularly bad in this respect. H is too much like a nail point and will give many punctures.
as the energy of blow is increased accuracy increases up to a certain point, and then decreases. Or it may increase up to the point C. For each design of firing mechanism the best average energy should be determined in this manner. Variations are made by varying the strength of the mainspring. A quick and light firing pin with short travel will require a stronger mainspring than one with longer travel or more weight.
Indeed there is a great deal more to the manufacturers’ caution “Use our ammunition in our rifles” than the mere salesmanship of the sentence would indicate. A manufacturer who makes both arms and ammunition can be relied on to so adjust the firing mechanism of his guns so that they will give the very best possible ignition with the primers he places in his cartridges, and in other respects also, such as fit, his ammunition is likely to be most ideal for his arms.(editors note: We hope so, as the ball is in their court)
The best shape of extreme point of the firing pin is slightly flattened, but with rounded edges on a radius so that it will crush the priming mixture over a considerable area, ‘and yet not act as a punch to shear or pierce the primer as a flat pointed pin would do if it had sharp edges. See in the above diagram. Many firing pins have hemispherical points, and this is the next best shape. Particularly the point should never be sharp.
The diameter of the firing pin or striker point for those rifles that use cartridges loaded with the large size primers (.211 inch) should be about .085 inch, while for those that use the small primers (.175 inch) it should be about.060 inch in diameter.
Next Edition 35 Firing Pin Protrusion.
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.
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UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION
Berdan Primers instead of Boxer Primers.
As fate would have it, Mr Boxer a Englishman (European) designed the Boxer Primer used by all the American Ammunition manufactures and Mr Berdan and American designed the Berdan Primer used by all the European Ammunition manufactures. This technology came in a continuation of the competition to design the most efficient and successful percussion cap to ignite a firearm cartridge. This began with the Right Reverend Forsyth who invented the fulminate of mercury percussion cap in the early part of the 19th century.
The Berdan primer found in much European ammunition depends for its proper functioning upon a fixed anvil that is an integral part of the bottom of the primer pocket in the cartridge case. The primer is simply an open-mouth cup or cap which is pressed into the primer pocket until flush or only very slightly (.002-.003″ inch) below the face of the case head. When so seated, any firing pin with normal function will crush the priming pellet against the fixed anvil and assure proper ignition. Since the Berdan primer is located from the head, it is quite practical to set primers face up on a smooth steel or glass plate and press or gently drive the case over them until the case head contacts the plate. Since one seldom will have occasion to load much ammunition with this type of primer, the plate method eliminates the need for special tools.
On the left the Cartridge case designed to accept the Berdan Primer and on the right the cartridge case designed to accept the conventional Boxer Primer.
Berdan primers do not come in the same sizes as the Boxer type. The most common size measures approximately .217″ in diameter and is found in most modern bottle neck rifle cases. With care, this size may be seated with the standard large size flat face primer seating punch, that is normally used for conventional Boxer Primers. The smaller size, usually found only in pistol and small-caliber rifle cartridges, measures about .180″ in diameter and may also be seated by careful use of the small, flat-face punch for normal Boxer Primers. Two other sizes will be encountered fairly often, the large British size, measuring .250″ in diameter, and the European 6.45mm size which measures .254″. Attempting to seat these two sizes with even the largest standard punch will generally result only in damage to primers. Fortunately, most makers of loading tools and priming tools can supply on special order the proper size punches to fit both of the extra large primers.
Regardless of whether you are using a hand tool, a loading press, or a bench-type priming tool, always use a primer punch whose contour and diameter match that of the primer. In years gone by, primers were about equally divided among flat-face and round types. Over the past decade, those makers which previously used the rounded face have almost all switched to the flat-face. However, when rounded types were in vogue, loading tool manufacturers supplied punches contoured to fit both types, and many tools are still fitted with the old round-face primer punch. When the round-face punch is used to seat flat-face primers, it exerts pressure only around the perimeter of the primer cup, leaving the centre of the face unsupported. This results in the anvil moving up into the cup as it bottoms into the pocket and often raising a dimple in the face of the primer. Since the priming pellet is quite brittle, this usually results in its being cracked or crumbled — which would not have happened if the primer face were solidly supported so that the pellet did not flex under the thrust of the anvil. Use of a flat-face punch to seat round-face primers produces just the opposite result. The punch contacts only the centre of the primer face and, depending upon the amount of force required to seat the primer properly, will flatten the cup which has the same effect of breaking up the priming pellet. If you’re using only fresh, modern primers and purchased your loading or priming tool in the past few years, doubtless your punch and primers are properly matched. Nevertheless, if you obtained primers of unknown ancestry, or swap for some old, used loading equipment, make certain you check both primers and punch to be sure that they match.
Occasionally in the cheaper loading tools improperly finished primer seating punches will be encountered. Often we see handloads which have a slight depression occupying about 80 per cent of the cup face. This results when the perimeter of the end of the punch is bevelled so much that the face contacting the primer is smaller in diameter than the flat- area in the centre of the cup. Unless the face of the punch is large enough to extend out over the radius of the cup, it will depress the centre of the cup and damage the priming pellet. The reloading of Berdan cartridge cases with Berdan primers has been a rare occurrence in Australia as besides all commercial ammunition and reloading cases supplied in retail shops being Boxer Primed and usually only European or small amounts of military surplus ammunition, or cartridge brass being Berdan primed. The Berdan primer is much more difficult to remove from the fired brass, as instead of a single flash hole, (Flash hole is what ports the ignition flash from the primer to the main powder charge) it has two. So the reloading die with its centre pin to remove the used primer will break once a Berdan primer is encountered as it has no centre flash hole. It has just two offset smaller flash holes. The Berdan priming system is more than likely the most efficient system as it has the duplicate system, 50% less likely to have a blocked flash hole when there are two. It is just much more difficult to reload, most Berdan reloaders use a De-bondee decapper which removes them with a little water pressure, others make an air pressure remover.
A is Berdan type primer and pocket. 1 is foil disc, 2 is priming compound, 3 is cup, 4 is multiple flash holes, 6 is anvil integral with case. B is Boxer type, 1 is foil disc, 2 is priming compound, 3 is anvil, 4 is cup, 5 is single central flash hole.
Nearly all handloaders eventually get around to using military fired cases. Regardless of origin, nearly all military rifle and machine gun cartridges include some form of crimp applied over the primer after it is seated. In U.S. ammunition this is usually a circular crimp encircling the primer, produced by a hollow punch. Much foreign ammunition has instead a 3- or 4-point stab crimp as shown. Some pistol and submachine gun cases are also crimped, but a great deal is not. The crimp is intended to keep primers from backing out when fired in guns with long headspace and assist in waterproofing the internal sensitive powder and priming compounds
Both types impede decapping to some degree because the mouth of the primer pocket is turned slightly over the edge of the primer. The crimp must be forced aside by the primer as it is expelled. Since the cup is thin and soft, a thin or pointed decapping pin may pierce the primer rather rather than force it out. This can be avoided by use of so called “heavy-duty” decapping pins which are flat-tipped and of as large a diameter as the flash hole will accommodate. Such pins will remove 99 per cent of the crimped in Boxer primers you’ll encounter.
All Berdan primers are crimped once the first Berdan primer has been removed and this crimped area is reamed out of the primer pocket hole it is much easier to replace the primers and easier to remove the future primers. All cartridge cases should be inspected prior to reloading to ensure that Berdan is not mixed with Boxer as it will immediately break your decapping pin. This goes for every type of reloading Shotgun, (yes, I have seen Berdan Primers in steel cased and brass cased shotgun ammunition) Pistol and Rifle, large or small. Remember these words or you may find that you will be trying to manufacture a decapping pin.
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Stockman Rifle. 7.62 x 54 Russian
The idea for this rifle came from one of those discussions that are held round the camp fire or after the barbeque. It became known at this discussion that there was a requirement for a rifle that shot well priced military ammunition, powerful enough to shoot, Bulls, Cows Horses, Camels, Donkeys, Deer, Roo’s, Pigs, Dingo’s and knock over a Ram or two at the 500 metallic silhouette range. Of course as it was a knock about rifle for the working man to keep in the truck it had to be very rugged and have the stock designed with a high comb to use a scope to suit off hand shooting. The stock also had to absorb a lot of recoil from a powerful calibre without transferring too much of it to the shooter and also be bulky enough to protect the rifle. (many rifle which have a stock like a knife edge leave the scope and mounts very vulnerable if dropped) It had to be drilled and tapped to take Weaver style bases on top of the receiver. The Barrel had to be heavy, free floating from the stock and be still short and handy. Of course they wanted it to hit a fly on there prize bulls nose without hurting the bull.
Well there was a lot of bull around that night but all were seriously firm that it had to sell for less than $400. So Enfield Arms worked particularly hard and had the MAB barrels fitted to Mosin Nagant receivers, the bolt handles were modified to suit a scope the receivers were drilled and tapped and modified to take the mounts on top of the receiver. Wow, what would Vasily Zaytsev (Enemy at the Gate) have been able to achieve with a top scope mounted Mosin- Nagant action instead of his off set side mounts? Then Enfield Arms made a synthetic stock with a recoil pad made from absorb-athane. A soft dense polymer utherane ( Maybe got the spelling wrong) that has greater properties of absorbing recoil than rubber. They also have a five shot magazine. So except for the reconditioned reblued modified receiver they are a new rifle.
For $395.00
Thoughts for the WEEK !?
In Queensland the Firearm Dealers have been expecting new changes to the Weapons Act 1990. Although, no dealer, or armourer who is not within the small circle of Dealers who supply all wants and needs to the Queensland Police Service has seen a draft of the changes to the Weapons Act. The changes have been rumoured for the last three years, RSL (Returned Services League) and private Museums have been holding off destroying historic firearms from World War Two, on the hope that the draconian requirements for deactivation , “Permanently Inoperable” which requires welding the firing mechanism which the Queensland Police now define as not just the firing pin but the whole mechanism, (anything that moves) into a solid ‘lump’. Turning historic artifacts into something resembling concrete reinforcing or a boat anchor is a criminal act as far as I am concerned. With one change of wording the RSL and Private Museum, who by law all have to have collectors licences and intense security, could have them Temporary Inoperable under the Weapons Act, which means a trigger lock or a firing pin removal, as in other Australian States. We all hope for sanity in legislation but so far in my near fifty years of dealing with it, have found it a complete void, like a black hole in space.
Most Firearm Dealers are oblivious to the small point above unless they are a collector or have contact with RSL s or private non profit Museums that have firearms that have been donated by ‘Diggers’ families and are horrified when they find out what happened to them. Most Dealers are hoping for sanity to prevail in the PTA ‘Permit To Acquire’ section of the Act. As at present after a person has waited weeks to do a safety course, paid the money, bought a steel safe, paid the money, joined a club to get a reason to have a licence, paid the money, and then applied for his licence, paid the money. Then waited four to six weeks, if the paper work is perfect and it does not go back and forwards half a dozen times due to a box not having a tick in it, or in advertently left blank. When the licence finely arrives as the licence card, with photograph are only manufactured a few thousand miles away in Victoria, the now licenced shooter has to present himself at the local police station and pay another $23. To get an application for a permit to acquire, once he has filled in all the relevant details and reasons why he want this firearm, he posts it away to the Queensland Police Service. ‘Service’ that word in that context, is a joke as low as what a bull does to a cow, as when a perfect set of paper work is sent in it can be 17 weeks before it is returned and the licensed shooter can purchase his firearm. We think we live in a free country?? If some poor young innocent makes the mistake of phoning up the Weapons Licencing Section and by a miracle patiently get to the Permit to Acquire section and politely asks when he can expect his PTA as the dingo’s are chewing his cows to bits. He is sometimes told that his application is going to the bottom of the heap, others it happens but they are not told. One Hundred and fifty staff working two shifts a day 7 to 3 and 3 to 11, a million dollar worth of computers eating up forests of paper and tax payers money just to control long arms in the State of Queensland. Prior to long arm registration hand gun registration took a small section of five employees for what?
The Queensland Dealers are hoping for an electronic PTA system and will conform with any new legislation that simplified this process. At present and for the last ten years Owen Guns has one full time employee just doing register work for the Queensland Police ‘Service’ and this does not include auditing or fixing up the Queensland Police enquiries and mistakes that’s extra time from other staff. So we have all the time taken by the Weapons Licencing, and all the time taken by the staff of Queensland Dealers and the man hour time of every Queensland Police Station, as people go for renewing licences and PTA applications and queries as to why they have not got there paperwork yet.
Three Stolen Longarms used in a Crime.
All for What? It has been reported by the Queensland Police that in three years, three private long arms have been stolen and used in a crime. Wow. How many crimes have been committed with stolen bricks or stolen cars, or stolen Iron Bars or Stolen Beer bottles? Sane people ask these questions. How many Crimes have been committed with stolen Police Service Pistols? Of course when as reported recently in headlines.
GLOCK HANDGUN STOLEN; POLICE OFFICER CHARGED.
May 07, 2008 12:00amA GOLD Coast police officer allegedly stole a service pistol and swapped it with a drug trafficker for two surfboards, a court was told yesterday.
The Glock .22 handgun later ended up in NSW in the hands of an alleged illegal arms dealer, Southport Magistrate’s Court was told. Senior Constable Christopher Curtin faced a committal hearing at the court yesterday, charged with stealing with circumstances of aggravation because he was a Queensland Police Service employee. Cross-examined by defence solicitor Chris Nyst, Insp Smith said Kellway was given a wholly suspended sentence for supplying the gun after he agreed to co-operate with Queensland police investigators.He said Kellway pleaded guilty last week to supplying the pistol to another man, Glen Thomson, who in turn allegedly supplied the weapon to accused firearms dealer John Babbington Jr. Babbington allegedly sold the gun to an NSW police officer.
He conceded guns had been stolen from other Queensland police stations.
The case was adjourned until May 29 for mention. Police opposed an application to relax Curtin’s bail which requires him to report weekly to police. Magistrate Michael Hogan said the charge was serious and ordered Curtin, who has been stood down from duty, to continue to report to police.
So besides the fact that the Queensland Police Service are equipped with .40 cal Glock’s which are their service pistols not a .22 we have an admission from the Queensland Police that this was not the only time that Police pistols had been stolen from Police Stations. They would all then been used in a crime as they are disposed of illegally i.e. swapping for stolen goods or drugs or selling to NSW Policeman. Then they trivialise everything and not only not put the ex policeman in jail but give the person, he sold it to, a bail situation where he reports to police. Wow, he is free to do business again with his suppliers.
When the watchers are worse than the watched, and hand guns are traded by the police, the huge questions has to be asked why, and what is the point of penalising the firearm owners of Queensland when the largest criminal problem is within the body chosen by the Queensland parliament to enforce this regime on the good citizens of Queensland. Would they not have the Criminal Justice Commission or the Crime and Misconduct Commission full time investigating the Police if they did not know it was the major organised criminal body in Queensland? It seems if a person wants an un registered hand gun he does the proper thing, as when lost and ask a policeman. Meanwhile when a law abiding citizen wants a .177 Air Gun such as a Daisey he has to bear his head, cap in hand supply pages of information about himself and pay for the upkeep of his jailer, his keeper in the weapons zoo, pay his registration and licence fees, allow the police into his home for inspections, show them that he has his air rifle locked in its steel safe. While the Police steal guns from the Police station.
It is about time that at least, Long Arm registration was taken out of the Queensland Weapons Act, not just a simplification by electronic forms. No one could convince me that hand gun registration does any good either, so on the same basis should be removed. That might take the market away for stolen Police service pistols. Of course whenever the new draft legislation comes to parliament, they will say that it has been through a consultation process with all interested parties. That will be the Queensland police and a few of their favourite dealers, mainly the Glock suppliers and wholesalers. Considering the way the government via the Queensland Police gives ‘Service’ to shooters and the way our parliament legislates to exploit the firearm owners, the anticipation of the new firearm legislation makes me feel very anxious, nervous like a trip to the doctors for a colonoscopy. That reminds me of an appropriate funny article which might help to cheer you up from the gloom above and thinking of where the new Weapons Act will go whenever it comes.
Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humour columnist for the Miami Herald and I hope he does not mind us passing this on to you all to enjoy.
Colonoscopy Journal:
I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a colour diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis.
Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner.I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn’t really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking,
‘HE’S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!‘
I left Andy’s office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called ‘MoviPrep,’ which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America ’s enemies. I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn’t eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavour.
Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-litre plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a litre is about 32 gallons). Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes – and here I am being kind – like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.
The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, ‘a loose, watery bowel movement may result.’
This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground. MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don’t want to be too graphic, here, but, have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.
After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, ‘What if I spurt on Andy?’ How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough. At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked…
Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn’t thought of this, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.
When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point.
Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was ‘Dancing Queen’ by ABBA. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, ‘Dancing Queen’ had to be the least appropriate.
‘You want me to turn it up?’ said Andy, from somewhere behind me.
‘Ha ha,’ I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.
I have no idea. Really.
I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling ‘Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,’ and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood.
Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.
On the subject of Colonoscopies…
Colonoscopies are no joke, but these comments during the exam were quite humorous….. A physician claimed that the following are actual comments made by his patients (predominately male) while he was performing their colonoscopies:
1. ‘Take it easy, Doc. You’re boldly going where no man has gone before!’
2. ‘Find Amelia Earhart yet?’
3. ‘Can you hear me NOW?’
4. ‘Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?’
5. ‘You know, in Arkansas , we’re now legally married.’
6. ‘Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?’
7. ‘You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out…’
8. ‘Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!’
9. ‘If your hand doesn’t fit, you must quit!’
10. ‘Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.’
11. ‘You used to be an executive at Enron, didn’t you?’
12. ‘God, now I know why I am not gay.’
And the best one of all:
13. ‘Could you write a note for my wife saying that my head is not up there?’
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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 33 Janaury 2010
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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. .270 win up to 300 win mag,
$950.
plus freight.
Marlin Mod 917V in 17 HMR Bolt action rifles.
Here’s fast company for small game hunters. The Marlin Model 917V V for Varminter was the blued steel launching platform for the 17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire. Firing a high-performance V-MAX boat-tail jacketed bullet, it generates at least 25% more muzzle velocity than the 22 Win. Mag. The Model 917V features a Heavy Barrel 22″ 17 caliber, 4-shot magazine, and a rugged walnut finished hardwood Monte Carlo stock with sling swivel studs.
All Marlin bolt action rimfire rifles feature the new T-900 Fire Control Trigger System.
$430.
plus freight
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Allen Clay Master Clay Target Thrower
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Shoot Clay Target on your own property.This relatively compact, durable skeet thrower has a solid steel frame for longevity and is secured via a stake or tire mount. It is capable of launching single or double targets, has adjustable arm tension for altering throwing speed and comes with a cushioned pad that helps prevent clay target breakage during the launch. Technical InformationNotes:
Steel frame,Stake mount or tire mount option,Throws singles or doubles,Cushioned pad prevents target breakage in throwing arm
Adjustable tension throwing arm spring.
$95.00
Tasco 6x 40 World Class Riflescopes
Tasco is a leading name in the optical industry for decades, 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 $125. Now for one month Only
Special $85.00
plus postage
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Sabatti S.P.A.
One of Italy’s oldest manufactures , used to be partners with Tangfoglio, made in the Gardone Valley Brescia, they have Beretta and Franchi for neighbours. This part of the world has been famous for firearm manufacture for five hundred years.
Sabatti in .223.
The Sabattis come with open sights, and sling swivels (not shown), they are drilled and tapped to suit Weaver bases and rings (not included). They have a solid steel forged action with front double locking lugs and the .223 has a detachable magazine. They look like the Sako’s of the 1950s before they went to wood to metal fitting with a tenth of an inch gap. For the quality of the wood and finish on the steel work they are a steal at.
$995
plus freight.
Barska 3–12x 50 Rifle Scopes
Barska 3–12x 50 Rifle Scopes $275. plus postage
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One 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.
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 for a Certified Numbered Book Signed by the author (state who you would like it dedicated to) plus $10 postage Australia wide.
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Another good example is ‘Mauser Military Rifles of the World by Robert W.D. Ball.
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.
$70 plus, postage if required $10 Australia wide.
The Marlin Model 925 5 shot Bolt Action Rifle.
The Marlin Model 925. Is a Magazine loading .22 Bolt action rifle which represents the classic American .22 rifle and is still at a reasonable price for great value. It features an all buisness hardwood stock with QD studs for swivels, 22 inch Micro Grooved Barrel and a 7 shot magazine.
All Marlin bolt action rimfire rifles feature the new T-900 Fire Control Trigger System.
$325.
plus freight
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ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN.
There is always a lot of talk around the campfire as to the attributes of different breech loading actions especially with respect to their method of employing force to insert and extract cartridges. The lever actions employ a lever of the first class in which the fulcrum is placed at the bottom of the receiver between the acting (finger lever) and resisting (head of breech block) forces. If the end of the effort arm of this class of lever be placed at the same distance from the fulcrum as the end of the resisting arm, then any pressure or force on the effort end of the lever will result in an equal pressure transmitted to the resisting arm. As the length of the effort arm is increased with respect to the resisting arm, the force transmitted to the effort arm is increased in proportion. In existing lever actions the effort arm is never more than twice as long as the resisting arm, therefore the force is never more than doubled. In other words a down or up pressure of 25 pounds on the finger lever is never translated to more than 50 pounds extraction or insertion pressure on the head of the breech block or cartridge. Mostly less due to friction and that they are never more than twice as long.
Compare this with the Mauser type of bolt action in which the primary extraction and insertion is performed by two cam surfaces operating together, one on the rear of the bolt, and one at the rear of the receiver well. Here we have the mechanical principle of the inclined plane or wedge with power applied by means of a lever (the bolt handle). The force arm (bolt handle) is about two to two and a half inches long with the fulcrum extremely close to the resisting arm (the cams). With a wedge or cam, to find the force required to lift a certain weight, multiply the weight by the greatest thickness of the wedge and divide by its length. The thickness of the cam on the Mauser (or Parker Hale, Brno Mk 10 or Springfield) bolt and receiver, measured from front to rear in the direction of the force, is approximately .500 inch, and its length is approximately .250 inch. Therefore any force applied to the cam is approximately doubled in moving the bolt forward or back, disregarding friction. Force is applied to this cam by the bolt handle lever, with distance from fulcrum to cam of about .350inch, and from fulcrum to bolt knob about 2 inches. Pressure on the bolt handle knob will thus be increased about six times on the cam, where it is doubled. Thus, disregarding friction, 25 pounds pressure applied on the bolt knob will be translated to about 300 pounds on the head of the bolt or case.
Very roughly speaking, therefore, with a given force applied, the Mauser bolt will multiply it about twelve times and the lever action will about double it. If, however, we include friction, which is greater with a bolt than with a lever action, we still have the bolt action at least six or seven times as powerful as the lever action in its insertion and extraction.
This must not be taken, however, as condemning lever and pump actions, except for military purposes. These are purely sporting actions for sporting purposes, and difficulties from mud, defective cartridges, and heat will practically never occur. Reasonable care will eliminate rusting of the chamber. In practice the only difficulties that are liable to occur are from cartridge cases of very soft anneal or from oversized cartridges. Many experienced hunters have stated that it always best to operate all cartridges to be used on a hunting trip through the action, before you go, as they once found a cartridge which could not be operated, they could not force it into the chamber. In nearly all cases the hunters were discussing their lever action rifles. But before you fly off to Katmandu on the hunting trip of a lifetime, with any type of rifle, check everything, even factory ammunition, especially if you are hunting things that hurt.
The fact that over seven million Winchester Model 94 lever action rifles have been sold for sporting purposes , and that probably one million are used every years, is clearly indicative of their entire suitability for sporting purposes.
When force is applied to extract a fired case or loaded cartridge, that force is transmitted from the head of the bolt or block to the rim of the case by means of the extractor hook. This hook, biting on the rim of the case, is approximately .0625 inch wide in -22 caliber rim fire rifles, about .125 inch wide in centre fire rifles of older design, but embraces about one-fourth of the circumference of the rim of the case in the Mauser type of action. See Diagram A to G in Edition 32. If too much force is applied to a narrow extractor claw on a case that sticks obstinately in the chamber, the claw may break off, or it may drag or cut through the rim of the brass case. However the narrow claws of .22 rim fire, and older centre fire actions probably have ample strength and width for any force which may be applied by the mechanics of the particular action. With the Mauser type so much greater force can be applied that the broader extractor hook is clearly the most powerful in a bolt action rifle.
So far we have concerned ourselves only with the primary extraction. After the cartridge or fired case has been primarily extracted about one fourth of an inch it is practically free in the chamber, and it is only necessary to withdraw it sufficiently so that the bullet end of the cartridge or the mouth of the fired case clears the front end of the receiver opening, and then eject it from the receiver. How this is accomplished is readily seen by examining any successful breech action.
In what direction shall the fired case be ejected from the receiver? It is generally conceded that it should not be ejected straight up, for then it might fall down upon the shooter, or even fall back into the action. Most actions which have the breech opening on top of the receiver, such as the Winchester lever actions, eject up and to the right which is very satisfactory except that it precludes the use of a normally constructed telescope sight. It is also conceded that a rifle should not eject directly to the right, or to the right and slightly backward, because ejected cases might strike a soldier occupying a position on the firing line to the shooter’s right, or with a left handed shooter the ejection would be in the shooter’s face. To the right and forward is probably the best direction.
More Information Next Edition.
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, 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.
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.
plus postage.
UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION
So far, we have not yet discussed the different sizes and types of Boxer primers generally available. To begin with we will just consider at this point the difference between rifle and pistol types. Small rifle primers will fit in the pockets of handgun caliber cases made for small pistol primers and vice-versa. The same applies to the large size. Under certain specific conditions, a switch can be made safely. There are two basic differences between rifle and pistol primers. Because of the lower chamber pressures involved and the generally lighter firing pin blows possible, pistol primers are assembled in thinner or softer cups. Autoloading pistols in particular deliver relatively light firing pin blows which simply cannot indent the thicker rifle primer cups sufficiently to produce uniform ignition. Some of the large framed revolvers such as the old Colt New Service and the M-frame Smith and Wessons have a sufficiently heavy hammer and long travel to indent even rifle primers rather well. All the same, most smaller frame revolvers and most auto-loading pistols will not produce consistent ignition with either large or small rifle primers. Their firing pins just don’t hit hard enough especially when fired double-action, during which the hammer travels through a far shorter arc than when thumb cocked. In short, poor ignition or misfires result from rifle primers in handgun ammunition.
Using pistol primers in rifle cartridges can lead to much more serious consequences. The thinner cup simply does not have the strength to withstand the pressures generated in modern high-intensity loads The result of using a large pistol primer in, say, a full-charge 7mm Remington Magnum load is quite likely to be a “blown” primer, dumping hot gas back through the bolt to the shooter’s face. That can be disastrous.
However, where chamber pressures are down in the range of handgun cartridges, pistol primers may be safely used in rifle loads. This applies primarily to black powder loads in obsolete calibers and to lead bullet loads producing velocities less than 2000 fps.
The other difference is in the amount of priming mixture contained in the primer. Large quantities of slow burning powder as found in the larger rifle calibers require considerable primer energy and heat for proper ignition. This means a relatively large amount of priming mix. The extreme of this is represented by so called “magnum” primers intended originally for the largest belted cases and their unusually large powder charges. Pistol primers on the other hand, need ignite only a very small charge of fast burning powder. Much less primer heat and energy is required, so they contain less mix than rifle primers.
Magnum primers just mentioned exist in both rifle and pistol types. Generally speaking, they produce a flame of greater intensity and longer duration and this improves ignition of the harder to ignite and slow-burning powders used ‘in high intensity cartridges. An example of this is found in comparing the .38 Special and .357 Magnum. The .38 operates at less than 15,000 psi with a small charge of easily ignited, fast-burning powder. Standard pistol primers ignite this charge very well. The .357 operates at over 30,000 psi with about three times as much of a much slower burning powder. The .38 Special and most other handgun cartridges are handled very well by the standard primer; but the mass of the large charge of the .357 absorbs much more of the heat and energy of the primer flash during ignition. It’s like the difference between lighting a piece of paper and a stick of wood. The magnum primer furnishes the additional heat and energy to properly ignite the magnum powder charge.
The same relationship exists in standard and magnum rifle primers, a good example being the .30/06 or .308 and the .300 Weatherby Magnum. In fact, the first magnum type primers were produced by Federal for the hot Weatherby calibers.
Incidentally, a standard rifle primer is not a suitable substitute for a magnum pistol primer. Both are designed for different sets of conditions.
Not all primers of magnum characteristics are identified as such. CCI tacks the Magnum label on its primers, but others don’t. Catalogues do identify them by type, so there is no need for confusion.
More in Next Edition.
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Thoughts For the Week
The right hand which does most of this typing is all moving now, still bandaged and white gloved but the fingers can move independently over the keys. Having lost the use of it for the last three weeks, (still got a few places that the feelings has not returned, (due to dead skin) it made me respect people who have permanent loss such as only one arm or worse. Wow, this sort of disability is a huge mental impact besides the pain. Blowing your nose, tying shoe laces, putting on socks, try it for a day, it takes a lot of mental planning and a huge amount of frustration as everything takes longer with one hand. Not just whining, just think that when someone close to you has this sort of thing to put up with, you can put yourself in there shoes and help them instead of just reminding them of how stupid they were to have an accident. Which in my case was a fair cop and I’m going to get better but it was a great reminder to me to appreciate and look out for assisting others who are disabled. Character building. Thank You to the kind people who sent there ‘Best Wishes’ and remedies for burns.
Captain Anna Bligh’s (Queenslands Premier) received the glory for finding (or finding the money for) Australian Hospital Ship Centaur and hopefully it does give some closure to the relatives of the crew, nurses and soldiers that went down with her. Captain Anna Bligh chose not to investigate the cargo holds to find out what she was carrying, which is what caused the grief in the first instance. The seventy year lie that caused the sinking and created the grief to be exposed, is that is was supposed to be a Hospital Ship, not a troop transporter carrying soldiers and guns. As I foretold they have called it a war grave and made it untouchable. As I stated in my last missive. “All the relatives will be told is that this is location, a few seconds televison clips on the six o clock news with reefs and flowers over the side. ‘Truth’ will remain buried. The question of why the Australian High Command sent a ship carrying Guns Ammunition and Soldiers, without a convoy, without an escort of an armed ship, without air cover, only on the flimsy protection of a Hospital ship markings, into waters infested with Japanese Submarines will never be answered by our benevolent or malevolent bureaucrats. The relatives will never be told why the ship was placed in harms way, why those nurses, sailors and soldiers were sent to their deaths. Why there was no convoy, no navel protection, no aircraft protection, when they knew that five previous ships had been sunk in the same area by Japanese Submarines, again I say ‘that the first casualty of war is the truth but that should not mean that the ordinary citizen has to swim with weights on their feet up to the armpits in a sea of lies’. If you would like further information about the AHS Centaur sinking please go to http://www.owenguns.com/owen-gun-book/owen-guns-go-to-sea/
This following press release came from a friend in the USA complaining that this story does not get the given the correct amount of media attention as other anti gun stories in fact this apparently only came out on only one news broadcast Fox News. Newspapers TV, Local and State ignored it.
Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home. It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.
Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father’s room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old’s knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive. It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David O Burien, was not so lucky. He He died from stab wounds to the chest.
Ever wonder why good stories never makes the news……..an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself……against two murderous, illegal immigrants……and she wins, She is still alive.
Now that is Gun Control ! Everyone should be able to defend the Home.
Of course in Australia, Crooks and Killers have to be protected, so that young hero would be prosecuted with a huge range of charges because the world was turned upside down by John Howard in 1996, now we cannot defend ourselves and the rights of the criminals are more important than the lives of property owners.
Abe Lincoln. Rightly said,
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
……..Abraham Lincoln
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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 32 December 2009
Welcome to the Thirty Second Edition of the Owen Guns Bulletin.
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All at Owen Guns Wish all our good customers a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. We all have been busy packing up your Christmas presents and posting them away but there area few posting days to Christmas so hurry up. As its Christmas coming up and then New Year you will not see another Owen Guns News letter until next year about the 11 th January. Ron Owen
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Gun Digest 2010, 64th Edition. $50 plus $10 post anywhere in Australia.
By Dan Shideler
Gun Digest 2010 is your No1 source for:Test-fire reports from the field,Illustrated firearms catalog with current arms & accessories,New product reports and feature articles,Arms trade directory find american suppliers quickly and easily.Gun Digest 2010 brings together into one easy-to-use resource the details found in many manufacturers’ catalogs, product reviews from the top gun writers and authoritative articles from leading industry experts. This is what has made it “the world’s greatest gun book” for 65 years strong.
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Another Example is this years Best Seller, as it is Australian written and produced with the Australian Shooting conditions in mind.
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. http://www.owenguns.com/gun-book/
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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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 in Camo Synthetic stock. Only in .308w sized actions at present.
$699. plus post.
This the KOLPIN SIGHT VICE Model SSV
This Benchrest Stand can be used for sighitng in your rifle, or it can be used for cleaning or for when you need to fit mounts and Scope to your rifle.
$71. plus post
Light Force RM170 Stiker 100 watt Spotlight $160.
Light Force RM170 Striker 100 watt Spotlight.
$160.
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Sabatti S.P.A.
One of Italy’s oldest manufactures , used to be partners with Tangfoglio, made in the Gardone Valley Brescia, they have Beretta and Franchi for neighbours. This part of the world has been famous for firearm manufacture for five hundred years.
The Sabattis come with open sights, and sling swivels (not shown), they are drilled and tapped to suit Weaver bases and rings (not included). They have a solid action with front double locking lugs and have a drop down floor plate magazine similar to Remington BDl and Parker-Hale Delux. For the quality of the wood and finish on the steel work they are a steal at.
$995 plus freight.
Barska 3–12x 50 Rifle Scopes
Barska 3–12x 50 Rifle Scopes $275. plus postage
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Accurate Firearm Design
CARTRIDGE EXTRACTION SYSTEMS
The above diagrams of bolt and breech faces will give an idea of a few of the methods by which the fired case is withdrawn from the chamber, or “extracted,” after which it is kicked out of the action, generally by means of another designed device called the “ejector.”
A—Shows double extractors as seen on some .22 rim fire rifles. B—top extractor, as seen in lever action Winchester rifle. C—extractor on right side of breech block, as in bolt action military rifle. D—extractor on right side, as in semi automatic shotgun where ejection is through port on right side of frame. E—extractor at 45 degrees up and to the right, as on semi automatic pistol. (D and E are standard Continental pistol practice.) F—bolt body of a 20 mm automatic gun, with extractor on bottom of bolt so ejection will be made through a port in bottom of receiver. G—is not a genuine separate extractor but is the simplest of all and also the most certain; this is the T-slot as found in the Browning and Vickers machine gun through which the base of the case slides; the cartridge can’t slip out until forced down to the bottom of the slot.
Note the size and width of the extraction claw in C. Bolt action rifles have exceedingly powerful cam extraction, and a large claw like this will extract cases that stick very tightly in the chamber without danger of the claw cutting through the extraction rim of the case. Next to G this is the most powerful and positive of all extractors. However, the extractor claw shown in B is probably heavy and wide enough to be quite positive in action with the lighter extraction pull that is applied with lever and slide action rifles, which rifles also are more freely chambered to assure easier extraction.
Top of a .303 Vickers showing the mechanism that powers the feeding and extraction.
Considering the matter of the extraction and ejection of the fired cases and loaded cartridges is an important part of firearm design as even when case ammunition is introduced we will still need to unload a cartridge from the chamber. An extraction system is required even for a revolver. There are two phases of this extraction movement.
First the primary extraction in which considerable force may be required to free the fired case from its grip on the walls of the chamber. By reason of a dirty or an oversized cartridge, a cartridge case of soft anneal, or a roughly reamed chamber, primary extraction may be difficult, necessitating considerable pull on the head of the case to start it out of the chamber. This difficulty of primary extraction becomes very great when a rifle is fired so rapidly and continuously as to considerably overheating the chamber. It may then require three to ten times as heavy a pull as normal to extract. As will presently be described, all existing lever, pump, and many automatic actions lack power to extract as compared with some bolt actions, and this is why we see most chambers for such actions cut with larger dimensions than is the practice with bolt actions, so that the cases will not stick so tenaciously when the rifle is fired rapidly. Of course the additional specification to the chamber dimensions create accuracy problems and decrease the useful life of the brass case.
A number of times the author has engaged personally in testing problems which have involved the firing of seventy-five to one hundred service cartridges from sporting rifles with the derived functions of the 98 Mauser actions in the space of a few minutes. These actions have very strong primary extraction. With the first twenty rounds there was no difficulty whatever, the bolt operating easily, but as the rifle became hot it was increasingly difficult to raise the bolt handle to start the fired case out of the chamber. Great effort was required to start the bolt open. After fifty rounds had been fired (in perhaps five to seven minutes) bolt lift became so difficult that no more than two or three shots per minute could be fired. After seventy five rounds or so it was almost impossible to get the bolt open, the operator became rather tired, and rapidity and efficiency of fire fell almost to zero. This is one of the ways in which a good semi-automatic breech action excels all other types. The soldier practically never experiences any extraction difficulties, and is not exhausted by his efforts to function his rifle semi or automatic rifle.
Once the heat expansion prevented the Martini-Henry from extracting the only advantage a British soldier had was his training and a pair of boots.
The Martini-Henry action of Zulu war fame was known for poor extraction and jamming when hot, so when the Lee- Enfield Rifle was introduced they insured this phenomena was never repeated and so designed the best bolt action battle rifle ever, that could fire continuously until it ran out of ammunition. The Military Mauser action rifle would perform better than the sporting model as the chamber dimensions were made larger that the sporting requirements.
Considerable trouble was also experienced with primary extraction in the .303 Ross straight pull rifle with which Canadian troops were first armed in World War I. To correct this, the chambers of many of these rifles were enlarged by running an oversized reamer into the chamber. This particular straight pull action simply did not have sufficient power to insert or extract in the presence of dirt, sand, or when firing rapidly for prolonged periods, and for this reason, and also because it was found desirable to have all troops of the British Commonwealth armed with the same rifle for reasons of supply and maintenance, the Ross rifle was abandoned.
Similar difficulties, when continuously rapid fired would surely occur with all modern day lever or pump actions, except perhaps pump action shotguns, as they were all used for military purposes and are relatively rare items in Australia due to John Howard’s crazy mis informed Gun Laws.
Next Edition More On Extraction and Ejection.
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 imitated. 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 regular cleaning. The JW 105 is a copy of the Geveram and Krico that were 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.
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Understanding Reloading Ammunition
Problems with Primers Seated to Tight.
Another problem that does not occur often but is handy to be always aware of, is if primers are seated too tight against the bottom of the primer pocket, the anvil is then forced too deeply into the primer cup. Maybe the cup is even collapsed to some degree and the priming pellet is fractured or crushed between the anvil and the cup, the latter being supported solidly by the priming punch. This slight compression, without actually igniting the pellet creates fractures between anvil and cup actually increases sensitivity. Not uniform sensitivity. Erratic sensitivity. If the pellet is fractured or crumbled, ignition can be erratic at best, and at worst complete misfires or hangfires will be produced.
One must make certain that the primer is not seated too hard. Generally speaking, if seating pressure is heavy enough to deform or mark the primer cup in any way, you run the risk of damaging the primer pellet. Again, if maximum accuracy and uniformity is your goal, develop the proper hand feel for this job. I suggest to use a Lee Auto Primer Tool.
Some smartie will want to ask, “How can the manufacturers do it uniformly? We know they don’t have time to seat primers by hand.” And its good question. The factories use highspeed automatic priming machines which regulate the depth to which the primer is seated from the face of the case head. All this means is that primers are seated to a uniform distance below the case head. And, of course, I just said that you shouldn’t do that in handloading. That’ right as handloaders will not use new or uniform empty brass all the time. Sometimes they will be made by different manufactures, sometimes some will have been reloaded 21 times and others in the same batch 41 times. It happens even to the most careful. Automatic machines need and rely on consistency of material. Handloader have to rely on feel.
I always presumed that these space rockets would enlarge the primer pocket holes but after ten reloads and re-firing they were still tight enough for another reload. Batch control when pushing limits, to learn more, is very important.
If you were always loading fresh, new, unfired cases, and were making the primers to match those cases, you could get by quite well by seating primers like that. When working with new cases, primers fit quite tight in the pocket and are squeezed in a bit at the bottom, so grip the anvil tightly. In this condition, the anvil does offer sufficient support for acceptably uniform ignition even if not against the pocket floor. However, for two reasons, each subsequent time you re prime that same case, the primer pocket is slightly larger in diameter and thus a looser fit on the primer. Look first inside a freshly decapped once fired case and note the scratches and scrapings caused by the sharp edged mouth of the primer cup. Most likely you’ll see a thin ridge of brass scraped up into a ring at the point where the primer cup mouth came to rest. This is repeated every time you re prime that same case , even through the brass cup is soft, it does have sharp edges, and they will gouge the brass of the case. Second, some increase in primer pocket size is produced by the pressures developed within the primer cup during firing. Even full charge Magnum pistol loads develop pressures high enough to enlarge primer pockets over several firings. In some high intensity rifle cartridges, especially with hand loads that go over the advised limit, a primer pocket may be enlarged to the point of uselessness in only three or four firings.
Testing Testing.
Quite likely you can’t measure the initial amount of pocket diameter increase with the best inside micrometer at your disposal. However, you probably can measure the increase after as little as four or five full charge firings of a load in the 50,000 psi bracket.
If your tools won’t allow you to measure this increase, then try this simple test: Take a single new case and components and tools to the range; load and fire this one case with a full charge load at least eight or ten times; after each decapping, pay very particular attention to the amount of effort required to seat a fresh primer correctly. Invariably, if they are hot loads you will find that after the second or third firing, it becomes progressively easier to seat a fresh primer. Once we have proved to you that it happens remember the remedy. Due to this natural progressive growth in primer pocket diameter, with normal loads the anvil should seat on the bottom of the pocket in order to resist properly the firing pin blow in a uniform manner.
If you keep testing and reloading the case with hot loads, amount of times will depend on the internal gas pressure and quality of the surrounding brass, you will reach the point where hardly any pressure at all will be needed to seat the primer you can even do it with your thumb.
Well before the pocket becomes that loose, a potentially dangerous condition is reached. When the primer is not quite snug in the pocket, gas will begin to leak out around the cup. A slight smudge of soot or powder fouling on the case head is the danger signal. When gas begins to leak around a primer (remember, it may be at over 50,000 psi) it acts on both the case and the cup just like a thin trickle of water starting over an earth dam. That high speed gas jet can in a mere millisecond melt or erode away a passage that becomes progressively larger and allows a substantial burst of gas to rush violently back into the bolt through the firing pin hole and on back into the face and eyes. In some of the more modern guns with completely shrouded bolts and firing pins or closed receivers, no harm will be done but where an open passage exists, that gas can come directly on back into your shooting eye. (More than a few careless handloaders and shooters have lost the sight of an eye in just that fashion. They were careless in two ways—first in permitting the gas to escape at all; and second, not wearing shock resistant, shatterproof shooting glasses.
If you inspect a centrefire rifles bolt face which has had a fair few shots through it you will notice deep pitting around the firing pin hole at a circumference which closely follows the size of the primer this deep pitting in the quality steel bolt face is caused by the hot gases leaking from around the primer pocket and the primer. Burning the steel as does an oxy-acetylene gas cutting tool. Remember that is what you have eight inches or less from your eye to the firing pin hole.
For over twenty years now, I have not fired a single shot without first donning proper protective glasses. I still can remember my last trip to the eye doctor fear, is a great teacher. Several times during these years, the shooting glasses have been marked up by jets of gas and molten brass which would certainly have seriously impaired, if not destroyed my shooting eye at least sent me back to the torture chamber. Where the doctor straps you head into a machine and says this won’t hurt me as much it will hurt you, and starts prodding around in your eye ball with two needles, he tells you that they are only small but by the time they get within a quarter of an inch from your eyeball they are like the size of a Zulu’s Assagai (spear). Don’t ever fall for that old cliche, “It won’t happen to me.” If you shoot long enough, eventually it will happen to you for one reason or another. Never, repeat, never shoot without protective glasses.
Next Edition More on Primers.
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Thoughts for the week
Well besides the hoo ha about the policeman who shot himself in the thigh whist holstering his pistol last week. Which I suppose did expose a few myths built by media at government instigation that the police were the paradigm of firearm safety and so correctly chosen to supervise civilian shooting ranges when the truth is in the reverse of that myth. Of course, over the last half a century as George Orwell of 1984 fame predicted the media power over public thought process has turned into a world industry. Mis information is the chains that they bind the slaves with, in the 21st Century. All we an do is light a small candle to expose the small cracks in the suit of armour of the international media. It is appropriate to discuss this as shooters all over the world have been one of the most subjected to this ‘Newspeak’ lies. It has been refined and now affects everyone of this planet. In fact, it could be the most powerful method of change in today’s world, unfortunately it is built on lies and at best half truths. “What is Truth” asked Pontius Pilate, a good question, relative to the difference in everyone’s perception of the truth, but these days the media turn black into white and night into day and parliaments believe they have the power to change truth itself.
Another Government Betrayal
The second lie for the week is Captain Anna Bligh’s (Queenslands Premier) seeking the glory for the hunt for the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur supposedly to give closure to the relatives of the crew. A lie because either way, if they find it or they don’t, the Australian Governments will never allow the seventy year lie that caused the sinking and created the grief to be exposed. As last time they thought it was found, which we are told was a con trick they banned anyone form looking at it, called it a war grave and made it untouchable. All the relatives will be told is that this is location, a few seconds televison clips on the six o clock news with reefs and flowers over the side. ‘Truth’ will remain buried in the Australian archives and if the Centaur is not in deep water the Government will tow it out into the deepest chasm they can find. The question of why the Australian High Command sent a ship carrying Guns Ammunition and Soldiers, without a convoy, without an escort of an armed ship, without air cover, only on the flimsy protection of a Hospital ship markings, into waters infested with Japanese Submarines will never be answered. The relatives will never know why the ship was placed in harms way, why those nurses, sailors and soldiers were sent to their deaths. In the research for my next book, ‘The Owen Gun Betrayal’ I have discovered a great deal of information that raises more questions concerning the cargo of Owen Guns aboard the ‘Centaur’ which is related in a series of articles that I placed on the web page some months ago on www owenguns.com
They say that the first casualty of war is the truth but that should not mean that the ordinary citizen has to swim with weights on their feet up to the armpits in a sea of lies.
I was out to dinner last night, a rare occasion, and good intelligent people that I cared about, all had differing opinions on Global warming, Pollution, Climate and all agreed that ultimately we would be the ones paying for what they were going to do to us. All smelled the great dead rat under the table of Copenhagen.
Returning home after dinner I watched with amusement the pale black faces of the I PCC, pale because they were scurrying in and out of the buildings in Copenhagan during the worst blizzard in Europe in 80 years, they don’t normally have 8 inches of snow before Christmas. Global Cooling is catching up with them. Science is not a belief system but the media have turned the key in the door and if you utter a word of criticism pertaining to the ‘Holy Word’ of Al Gore you are marked down to be ostracised and considered an ostrich because you thought for yourself.
I can remember, as a child at school in Manchester UK breathing in deeply with Mums clean white handkerchief at my lips, to see how it made a yellow stain on the handkerchief. In the 1950s we thought that was funny. Of course it does not happen there any more. Contrary to media belief the pollution in Western world is not as bad as it was 60 years ago. Yet if we listen to talking puppets on the telly the last 60 years have created the problem. On that basis we should maybe produce more carbon dioxide and it will reverse Global warming, its all nonsense. One volcano could poor more out in a month than the worlds population in a life time.
Delegates at the Global Warming Conferance in Copanhagan, make a snowman each whilst spending your tax dollars.
If the Ice melts the sea levels would go down as the volume be low sea level would be smaller.If we compare pollution in Australia with, pollution in China and India we in Australia do not rate. Asia is worse than the UK was in the 1950s it has pollution so bad no one can see a blue sky at any time. Of course the corruption of there governments would never admit how bad it is in the same way they never really tell the truth concerning population figures. They never like to admit that they may kill many of there own citizens without trial, ship tens of thousands into labour camps whereabouts unknown to the relatives, but that they cannot stop their citizens from spitting on the pavement or having babies and certainly could not stop them from cooking and heating with coal. They may have tighter restrictions than the USA but would have no intention of policing them, except for a show trial when the media were watching. They have plenty of people if millions die from pollution they do not care, its just politics and corruption. When they receive your Carbon Credits it will only disappear into corrupt economies enabling them to compete easier and wipe out all remaining industry in the Western World. Has anyone yet given an example of money extorted from the taxpayers ever being put to good use by any government in any context. International, National, State, and Local Government all consists of forming the word ‘Crime’ as they Punish us all with every move they make, George Washington used words like, “Government is not benevolence is it is raw power and must be bound down by the chains of the Constitution”. These days, anyone who can control the media controls the Government and the minds of the people, they are bound by nothing except the size of their own boundless greed. They can tear up the Constitutions, a countries sovereignty means nothing, the media can make you ashamed of being born Australian, of being from a specific race, a specific religion, you have to apologies for having the good fortune of being able to feed your family. Now they want to enslave us to create world socialism and make us feel like ‘oddballs’ if we don’t believe there bull. I would like to wish all our customers and subscribers a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, but on looking at the world today I do not wish for Peace and Joy for All Mankind and if Santa Claus wants to miss out on a few Continents, Religious Zealots, Climate Changers, Political Thieves, Media Liars and a Partridge in a pair tree, he can, and I will still believe that he a great concept. Giving is great, as long as it is deserved and not stolen first, from the poor taxpayer.
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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 31 December 2009
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Magazine Design
Due to the large diameter and bulk of 12 gauge shotgun shells the tubular magazine is the only one adapted to them without making the outline of the assembled arm bulky and ungainly. Which are requirements for hunting shotguns. Of course pump and automatic shotguns are almost a historic relic due to the inability of our Australian politicians ‘to think’ and the lack of resolution in Australians to protect their “Rights”. Of course the latest design of Military shotguns has followed the principles of the early Evelyn Owen invention of the replaceable rotating drum, but it is definitely not the sort of gun for shooting on the ‘wing’.
Protecta revolving shotgun.
Advantageously, the design of the semi-automatic pistol has naturally supplied a grip which offers such a convenient place in which to locate a single column box magazine of ample cartridge capacity. Of the popular designs only the brilliant 1896 Mauser (Broom Handle pistol omitted its use. Not many designers would be so brave to design, manufacture and market a design that separated the magazine from the handgrip in a semi auto handgun.
In a revolver the cylinder of course is the magazine, and supplementary contains the chambers as well this has many advantages in reliability and safety when confronted with highly dangerous situations. If a round fails to detonate and ignite using a box magazine, instead of the soldier/policeman having to re-cock, remove the magazine, clear the chamber, re-fit the magazine, re-cock and re fire the cartridge, whilst the person that wants to murder them is advancing on them with a meat axe or a bayonet. On the other hand the rotary cylinder magazine each with its own separate chamber on the next pull of the trigger presents another round to be detonated by the firing pin.
Evelyn Owen had a fully automatic revolving magazine for .22 and .38 versions in the 1930s. Nothing new under the Sun and now 70 years later designers are realising the advantages of not having feed lips which damage soft lead projectiles.
Revolver designs are often considered as ‘old hat’, but have great unexplored potential as magazines. Historically it has only been that they have had small capacity mainly 6 shots that has weighed against them.
In designing any magazines the mechanisms which positions the top cartridge so that the bolt will smoothly push it into the chamber, dimensions and shape of parts are very important. A difficult problem may occur if we try to adopt an existing magazine and action to handle a smaller or larger cartridge than the one for which it was designed. It is sometimes possible to do this, but it involves much cut and try methods. If a double column magazine, for example, be a little wide for a certain cartridge, the cartridges will wedge and fail to rise, and the follower also must be of the exact shape. If the upper lips of any box magazine be not correctly shaped so that the topmost cartridge will always rise to exact position so that the bolt will engage sufficient of its head to slide it smoothly out of the lips and forward into the chamber, jams will always occur. Between the forward end of the box magazine and the chamber a ramp must be arranged in the receiver which will guide the point of the bullet straight into the centre of the chamber. Detachable box magazines are made of thin metal, and the lips are always liable to become deformed and cause trouble. This is a frequent cause of malfunctions in detachable .22 caliber box magazines, and with the magazines of automatic pistols, and this is the first place to look for trouble in such magazines. The lips can usually be bent back again into proper form, but this may involve many trials and errors.
In the early days of tubular magazines breech actions were usually so designed that they would handle only cartridges of standard overall length (examples, Winchester Models 1873 and 1876), but most later designs will handle indiscriminately cartridges that differ
materially in overall length. Thus many tubular magazine .22 caliber rifles will now handle without adjustment either the Short, Long, or Long Rifle cartridges, and most lever actions will handle cartridges with bullets seated much deeper in the case than they are in the maximum length cartridge.
Feed Lips on a Luger P08 are always delicate.
The old style Winchester Model 70 (Mauser type) rifle is made for a number of cartridges which have the same head and body diameters, but which differ considerably in overall length, and the same magazine is used for all. But for the shorter cartridges the magazine is blocked at the rear with a piece of sheet metal so that it is just long enough for the maximum overall length of that cartridge, and the bolt stop is so arranged that the bolt retracts only far enough to the rear to just engage the head of that cartridge as it lies in the top of the magazine. If, however, it should become desirable to increase the length of this magazine for a slightly longer cartridge it is an easy matter to remove the piece of sheet metal that blocks the rear of the magazine or move it further to the rear, and the bolt stop can also be cut back slightly. In designing a new manually operated firearm action it is well to construct it so that it will handle a cartridge considerably greater in overall length than what for which it was originally conceived, for no one can foretell what changes may be found worthy in length of bullet and depth of seating as a result of continued experimentation with cartridges, maybe case less ammunition will occur in our lifetime ?
Next edition Extraction and Ejection.
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, 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.
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Understanding Reloading Ammunition
Primers the initiating mechanism of every cartridge.
THE PRIMER is the crucial key to the whole performance — the “sparkplug”. Without it nothing happens. While admittedly none of the components is of much use without the others, the primer’s function is the first in the actions of the cartridge, and it is also the first active function to take place. As with the, “what came first the chicken or the egg”, we could have all sorts of arguments about which comes first and about which is the most important — nevertheless, we must start somewhere with the activity. And, the primer’s action is the first in the chain of events that place a bullet on a target a mile away.
The secrets of how and why a primer works will be covered in other chapters of this ever growing chronicle. Here, we will concern ourselves primarily with the assembly of the primer to the case and the manner in which incorrect assembly or incorrect selection and fit may affect performance of the cartridge.
Generally speaking, Australian reloaders (and increasingly, in other countries) are concerned only with the Boxer-type or to use anther term for the same item, anvil-type primer which contains its own anvil held friction-tight in the mouth of the cup. Berdan-type primers with their separate case-contained anvil are a different matter entirely and will be discussed further in other chapters..
First, the only thing that holds a primer in the case for proper ignition is friction between the primer cup and the walls of the primer pocket in the case head. Consequently, an “interference fit” is required. That is, the primer cup is slightly larger than the hole into which it is pressed.
The assembled primer is a relatively fragile item. The cup is of thin, soft brass, the anvil of quite similar material, while the thin, flat pellet of priming mix is hard and brittle. If the primer fits too tightly in the pocket, then the priming pellet may well be compressed or distorted and fractured or split into fragments. In extreme cases, it may actually crumble. Consequently, there are limits to the amount of interference fit that can be tolerated. We must have enough to hold the primer securely in place, yet not so much that the priming pellet is damaged.
Simple cracking or fracturing of the pellet will not ordinarily produce a misfire, hangfire, or a detectable difference in accuracy except, possibly, in the very best of bench-rest rifles shot by championship marksman. Even so, a single crack will affect to some degree the burning rate and consequent jet of flame and incandescent particles that ignite the propellant charge. Though small, this effect should certainly be avoided.
Few reloaders have measuring instruments of sufficient sophistication to accurately check the inside diameter of primer pockets. It isn’t really necessary anyway, for the best guide to whether primers and pockets are of the correct relationship is the amount of pressure required to seat the primer properly. This is a form of subjective feel that one can acquire only with some experience. Generally speaking, this experience is best acquired by a bit of practice in priming, say, 100 new cases (which have never been primed before) with primers made for them by the same manufacturer. One quickly gets to recognize the feel of this with his own particular loading tool. It should be pointed out that the feel will vary from one make or model of tool to another and is most prominent in the small hand tools designed only for priming. Such as Lee Auto Priming Tools.
Some handloading presses, particularly those utilizing compound linkage, offer such a great mechanical advantage and so much force, that it is almost impossible to accurately feel a primer enter the pocket.
Some handloaders seat primers by slamming the reloading press handle down hard, making no attempt to feel in into its seat. This not only often distorts the cup and fractures the pellet, it can ignite the primer. Believe me, it’s a hell of a shock to have a primer detonate as you sweep down the press handle. The case and shell holder confine the blast so there is little probability of injury, but the sharp crack of tiny bits of metal going through the sound barrier is a little disconcerting. This is a NO NO anyway as ammunition so loaded isn’t likely to be much of an asset on the range or in the field some of it may not go off.
Primer pocket gauges are available even with them it all depends on feel, they can help you if you have a problem and so too could an inside micrometer.
The”A” shows primer properly seated to contact bottom of pocket for precise, uniform ignition. “B” shows primer not resting on bottom of pocket, therefore free to be driven forward by firing pin blow, cushioning impact and impairing ignition.
accompanying drawing shows the general dimensional relationship of primers and pockets as manufactured domestically.
Assuming that the diametrical fit of primer to pocket is correct, the job is still far from finished. Failure to seat the primer deep enough may produce at worst a hangfire, and at best, slightly erratic ignition. The reason for this is really quite simple. The priming mix pellet inside the cup must be crushed against the point of the anvil in order to be detonated. Unless the anvil is resting on the bottom of the primer pocket, against the solid metal of the case web, it may be driven forward by the force of the firing-pin, consequently reducing the sharpness of the firing-pin blow, which in turn will produce less than perfect ignition of the priming pellet. Ignition of the priming pellet is brought about when the firing-pin actually crushes by friction the priming mix against the anvil. Obviously, if the anvil is not strongly supported, the required amount of crushing may not be brought about, even though the firing-pin indents the cup properly. The farther the anvil is free to move under these conditions, the more erratic the ignition of the priming pellet and, consequently, the propellant charge will be. If the anvil is free to move a sufficiently great distance, a complete misfire can be produced. Usually, such a misfired primer will ignite on the second or third firing-pin blow, for by that time the anvil has been driven down against the bottom of the pocket and is resting on or very near the bottom of the primer pocket. The only thing enabling it to resist the firing-pin blow is the modest amount of friction created by its legs friction-tight inside the mouth of the cup. That isn’t enough for proper ignition.
Because of the foregoing, combined with manufacturing tolerances in overall length of the assembled primer, depth of primer pocket, thickness of case rim, all combined with cumulative tolerances in the loading press or priming tool, it is not possible to depend upon a fixed adjustment of the priming tool to seat primers uniformly against the bottom of the pocket. In order to obtain maximum uniformity of ignition, with the anvil resting uniformly on the bottom of the pocket, it is necessary to feel the primer into place. Additional resistance will be felt as the legs of the anvil touch the bottom of the pocket, and the priming stroke can be stopped at that point. With a bit of practice, a remarkably uniform seating can be obtained in this manner.
Next Edition 32 Problems with Primers Seated to Tight.
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Thoughts For the Week.
Returning after my research on the Owen Gun book in the deep south of NSW, which was very successful, the small town of Gympie was in shock. No, not because I had been away or returned, but in the centre of one of Gympie largest shopping complex a 16 years old youth had been stabbed to death. This sort of thing might be an everyday occurrence in Manchester UK or Washington DC, but for the quite country town of Gympie, a Daylight Murder in the streets was un-believable. Of course we all have sympathy for the victim with his three and half hour agonising death, also with the victims family who must be devastated. I have no sympathy at all with the people who jump on the band wagon, making profit out of death and misery. The same goody two shoes, who complain about firearm ownership immediately leap for the headlines and the airwaves from both ends of the political bandwagons. Some are ‘Bible thumping’ banners of everything, others are of the ‘if it feels good do it, New Age’ all unite in the concert for further disarming of the general public. There is no end to there greed and madness.
Apparently, the murderer the 17 year old ‘junkie’ asked his mother for some money to buy some of the drug “Ice” as he felt he deserved a fix. She denied him, so he threatened to go and kill some one, anyone. Just to impress her that he was serious, she still denied him so he went out and killed a person at random with a long knife. He picked out his random victim and chased him from the cinema centre across a busy street a 100yards through a busy car park right to the doors of the shopping centre, all of this time with his large knife in plain view as the victim got to the electronic doors there is a few moments delay. The victim had to stop running. There in plain view the murderer pounced and stabbed his victim a mortal blow. Two shop keepers, wrestled the junkie murderer and disarmed him, one receiving a stab wound himself. Most of the town including me, do not think that the ‘Junkie’ deserves to draw another breath and should suffer a similar demise such as the guillotine, although that might be too quick to be a fair punishment. The bandwagon brigade think that it is a photo opportunity to push their wagon. Gympie made the National news, one academic came on stating, “that the Customs were not controlling the import of knives and there was no policing of Camping shops”. He will probably use that in his next thesis for his Phd. Not one of them said that this was the penalty for disarming the community. That the deceased, was another victim of the disarmed community, which leaves everyone defenceless, at risk, to be the prey from people whom the law of murder means nothing. We have lost the human right to self defence, we cannot even defend a neighbour or a family member. So these cretins who have no right to breath can take a knife and strike with impunity. As the ‘junkie’ is under 18 he will get out in a months with a slap on the wrist and kill again.
Over a 100 years a go when Gympie was a boom Gold Mining town a local bank manager was serving as an escort for a large shipment of gold to Brisbane and was booked on the Cobb and Co stagecoach to Brisbane. Three of the local bush rangers, got to hear of the shipment and planned to accost him as he got on the coach at the staging post at the Northumberland Hotel, they knew he was armed with a revolver so planned to bail him up at a distance and wait until he had fired six shots and then rush him before he could reload. All of this within plain sight of the police station across the road. The bush rangers armed with an assortment of shotguns and rifles commenced the robbery and obviously not concerned at all that they may be committing murder. When they had counted six shots from the foyer of the Northumberland Hotel they bravely leapt into the open and rushed in, only to be shot down, one dead one wounded immobile, one wounded but ran off with a blood trail. The armed communities Hue and Cry quickly captured the escaping robber. The robbers had made a mistake the bank manager had purchased a brace of revolvers so he still had a few rounds left. Blood in the streets, but in those days when the community was armed it was the bad guys that spilt there blood. It also was a massive deterrent, no one has tried a robbery in daylight in Gympie since the 1880s. How long will it now be before the next murder of an innocent in Gympie’s streets?
Last year, a man wearing a pair of shorts, nothing else, who perceived that I as a councillor had made a decision to remove his hot rod tuning business from a residential area, was leaping up and down outside the Owen Guns shop, chopping up our open sign with a machete in each hand, he was high as a kite on drugs or grog. He was, screaming he wanted to kill me and challenging me to a dual, with machete’s of course. The customers coming and going phoned the Police and after about an hour they came and took him away. They had to disarm him at gun point. He received a two months suspended sentence. That time, there was no chopped up victim as the potential victim was surrounded by firearms and ammunition, even though the lunatic was supposedly completely out of his mind he knew and acted on two known thought process. He knew, that as long as he did not come inside into private property I would not walk out and just shoot him down. He knew that I would not want the hassle of going to Court again. He also knew that if he did go into Owen Guns with his two machetes the only way he would be going out again would be in a body bag. That is why he stayed outside leaping up and down waving his machetes around. Guns save lives, maybe we should have a Gun shop in every shopping centre as a dual purpose of being a sanctuary like a medievil church, one place where people can run to for sanity and safety. It appears that western worlds legislation and values are reversed to prey on the innocents and protect the evil ones, but we can truly only blame ourselves, all of us, for being so apathetic in letting our community fall into this legislative cotton wool, fools paradise. We will suffer for generations for ignoring the standards upheld by our grandparents.
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Owen Guns Bulletin Edition 29 November 2009
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CZ 527 (Brno) Very Special Price $945
The Long serving CZ Brno Mini Mauser Action now chambered in the most popular calibre of our age the .223 Remington.Includes a detachable magazine, QD swivels,synthetic stock. $945. plus freight.
Marksman Lazer Hawk Sling Shots $30. plus post
Marksman Lazer Hawk Sling Shots $30. plus post
Tasco 6x 40 World Class Riflescope $115.
Tasco is 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 $188. Now Only
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Tanning Kits $45.plus post
Lee 50th Anniverary Reloading Kit
Victorinox Swiss Army Tool Kit
Swiss Army Tool Kit $135. plus post
The VICTORINOX “Swiss Army Knife” is over 100 Years Old. This useful pocket Multi-Tool was legally registered on June 12, 1897. Over 34,000 of these pocket tools with the distinctive Swiss cross leave the factory in central Switzerland each day. Ninety per cent are for export to over 100 different countries and serve as ambassadors for Switzerland.
Karl Elsener, the company founder, wanted to create work in sparsely industrialized central Switzerland and counter the emigration spawned by unemployment. To go from hand-crafting to industrial production was at the time adventurous and required enormous determination. Today, this family business in Schwyz provides 950 jobs.
After the soldier’s knife, which every recruit receives upon entering the army, Karl Elsener developed a new, elegant and light weight pocket knife, with six practical tools. He called this new model the “Officers and Sports Knife”.
After an unparalleled success story around the world, the VICTORINOX “Swiss Army Knife” is even orbiting the earth as part of the standard equipment of the Space Shuttle Crew. The knife has also been successfully proven on expeditions: in the arctic ice of the North Pole; on the highest peak on earth, Mount Everest; in the tropical rain forests of the Amazon, and elsewhere. Time and again, it has been a life saver in situations of extreme danger and great need. The New York Museum of Modern Art and the State Museum for Applied Art in Munich have selected it for their collection of excellence in design, and, since Lyndon B. Johnson, US presidents present guests with VICTORINOX pocket knives.
Today, the “Officers’ Knife” is available in over 100 different models. Each knife must undergo seamless quality controls before being released for sale.
Stockman Rifle. 7.62 x 54 Russian
The idea for this rifle came from one of those discussions that are held round the camp fire or after the barbeque. It became known at this discussion that there was a requirement for a rifle that shot well priced military ammunition, powerful enough to shoot, Bulls, Cows Horses, Camels, Donkeys, Deer, Roo’s, Pigs, Dingo’s and knock over a Ram or two at the 500 metallic silhouette range. Of course as it was a knock about rifle for the working man to keep in the truck it had to be very rugged and have the stock designed with a high comb to use a scope to suit off hand shooting. The stock also had to absorb a lot of recoil from a powerful calibre without transferring too much of it to the shooter and also be bulky enough to protect the rifle. (many rifle which have a stock like a knife edge leave the scope and mounts very vulnerable if dropped) It had to be drilled and tapped to take Weaver style bases on top of the receiver. The Barrel had to be heavy, free floating from the stock and be still short and handy. Of course they wanted it to hit a fly on there prize bulls nose without hurting the bull.
Well there was a lot of bull around that night but all were seriously firm that it had to sell for less than $400. So Enfield Arms worked particularly hard and had the MAB barrels fitted to Mosin Nagant receivers, the bolt handles were modified to suit a scope the receivers were drilled and tapped and modified to take the mounts on top of the receiver. Wow, what would Vasily Zaytsev (Enemy at the Gate) have been able to achieve with a top scope mounted Mosin- Nagant action instead of his off set side mounts? Then Enfield Arms made a synthetic stock with a recoil pad made from absorb-athane. A soft dense polymer utherane ( Maybe got the spelling wrong) that has greater properties of absorbing recoil than rubber. They also have a five shot magazine. So except for the reconditioned reblued modified receiver they are a new rifle.
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The Buyers guide for the Lee Enfield, by Ian Skennerton.
This is one of the handist books around and they are a bargin at $12.00 for evey shooter.
The owners of these rifles contacted us after the last edition and informed us that the published serial number was not complete in the advertisement and that the real numbers began with UF but without books like Ian Skennerton’s the prospective buyer would not know which questions to ask.
If you had a book like the ‘Buyers Guide’ for the Lee Enfield it would encoarge you do to some reserch before you spent your $4200.
That reserch may lead you to find The manufacture of the No 4 Mk2 commenced at ROF Fazakerley in 1948/49. All No 4 Mk2 serial numbers were prefixed between 1948 and 1954 with PF. A small batch in 1955, the last year of manufacture were prefixed with UF.
The prefix A was assigned to –BSA Shirley 1942–ROF Maltby 1941–ROF Fazakerley 1942.
Serial number A11390 & A11389 as given in the origianl advertisement would indicate manufacture at ROF Maltby c1941. Maltby was issued numerical range 10000-19999 prefixed by the relevant alphabetical prefix. Of course with the Mk2 commencing at Fazekerley with a prefix of PF or UF this could not have happened. If you had this 50 page book it could help a person to make there mind up before they spent $4200. Over the years I have had the displeasure of trying to break it to customers that they had made an uninformed decision. Remember Information is power buy books and choose carefully.
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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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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 Catagory.
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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The Breech Lock Challenger Kit, A Reloading Kit Gift at $199.
An Extra benifitit includes a Lee Auto Primer all for $199. plus frieght.
Bushnell Elite Rifles Scopes 3–9 x 40
These Japanese manufactured rifle scopes made for the big companies in the USA are improving there quality, constantly closing the gaps between them and their Eupropen competitiors. The only thing that seperates most top end scopes these days is the price.
Bushnell Elite Rifles Scopes 3–9 x 40
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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.
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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.
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ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN. UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION.
will not be featued in Edition 29 as I have to prepare for a full day in the Supreme Court on Tuesday the 10th of November 2009. I am representing myself so have to organise a few thousand pages of my affadavits and submissions. If I am still at liberty I will be answering emails again after the 11th Rememberance Day. ACCURATE FIREARM DESIGN UNDERSTANDING RELOADING AMMUNITION will commence again in Edition 30 in a fortnights time.
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Thought For the Week.
I have been busy writing m opening statement for the Supreme Court Appeal, many of you like minded people who beleive that you have a right to speak and think your own mind will be intrested in this case. So I have included it below. In the USA they call them Hate Laws. Obama has just introduced them into the USA and Canda has just recinded theirs. Hopefully this will give people some ideas of what the issues are about once you fall foul of theese people and their Anti Discrimination Act.
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another. Reason or Force.
If we are prohibited from Free speech, Reason is denied to us all.
I believed that, Reason was a means of influencing change, that was open to all Australians.
I have been condemned for using Reason. Reason that is determined by my conscience.
I am Forced to go to court, this legislation is given Force to diminish me and Force payment. When I am unable to pay the diminishment, the Court has the Force to imprison me. I am here because I observed a problem and answered questions, as my Reasoned conscience directed me. The Tribunal member accepts in his decision, that I did not state the complainants names, the name of their group or the name of their sexual preference, but admits he says he ‘thinks’, that was what I meant, but did not say.
So I am here not for what I said, not for what I think, but for something the Tribunal member ‘seems’ to ‘think’ I think.
My Reasoning, my ‘thinking’ may be politically incorrect at present, but if Human Beings are not allowed to express and influence change by the use of Reason,
For instance if the type of people who campaign against me, had been prevented in the last few years from advertising their reasons, which are offensive to people who disagree, then they could not have altered the legislation that criminalized their activities.
The knife edge on which the balance of justice swings cuts both ways.
When its politically incorrect to speak your truth and Reason with those who disagree with you. Without that Freedom of Speech who chooses what is Reason and what is not?
Without the right to communicate our own Reasoning, the democracy held within our Constitutional Monarchy cannot exist.
That is why the High Court of Australia has defended the right of free political speech above the laws of personal defamation.
The Constitutions which limit the powers of the Monarch, the Crown, the governor, the parliaments legislation, limiting the power of the Courts yet giving the power to Courts to strike out legislation which is beyond the power of the Crown.
In all of these Constitutions No where does it give the power to limit the freedom of speech. As without that freedom, the system it creates would be unfeasible.
The Tribunal member has given a decision that the State legislation, the ADA91 over rules all the Commonwealth Constitutional protections, the Rule of Law, the Rules of Evidence, the Rule of Discovery and Particulars.
The Tribunal member has interpreted that the Rules of Evidence Do Not Apply, to mean that when no evidence is supplied by the prosecution, he can take his facts from what he reads in the morning paper, or surmise that a person is guilty until proven innocent. Guilty without a Jury, without a committal, without particulars.
The Governor or the Tribunal member cannot assume powers that are Constitutionally denied to the sovereign crown, as no one can have more power than the sovereign, when the Crowns power is limited, no other Governor in our Commonwealth can take it upon themselves to override those limits as their powers all flow forth, from the sovereign.
Likewise the Supreme Court cannot be restricted by parliament to only consider Questions of Law. The Queensland Constitution and the Commonwealth Constitution requires that it adjudicates on the facts.
All the constitutional statutes and cases are referenced in my submissions before the court. My affidavit has been filed with the court, the information that it contains has not been refuted, so it should stand and be determined.
This court has to choose between Reason and Force, not just in today matter but in future similar matters. For three hundred years Courts have been the Champions of Reason. Now this court has to decide if it is to kill Reason and be only a system of Force.
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