Regular readers know that TTAG’s been cross-posting (in our own clothes I swear) with marksperson Kirsten Joy Weiss. As the Keystone State shooter ascends the ballistic ladder of fame one shot at a time, she’s paying close attention to your comments and suggestions. One bit of feedback that came through loud and clear: why you shootin’ a $3k Anschutz target rifle, girl? The simple answer: because her $1k Volquartsen target rifle hasn’t worked out. Yet. The more important answer: good question. To assuage critics Ms. Weiss is casting about for a new rifle. I’ve hooked her up with a Marlin man: a gunsmith who is to lever guns what Steinway is to pianos. To be clear: KJW’s .22 will be a heavily breathed-upon Marlin. Why? Here’s a list of major post-Freedom Group suckage from the lever guy, who makes his living putting it right . . .
Loading port too small to accept cartridge
Misaligned sights due to barrel being screwed on too far, or too little
Out of headspace (short or long)
Barrel shims to remedy improperly machined barrel
Ejection port too small to eject spent case
Extractor will not close over .45-70 case rim due to recess in receiver being too small
Cannot eject live round because back of cartridge hits nose of ejector
Mis-feeding caused by too little pressure on face of carrier by the follower
“Often described as the “stand your ground” provision, such laws came under national scrutiny after the Florida trial at which George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was black.”
What does TM race have to do with the GZ SD trial? Where is journalism these days? Everything seems to border on opinion now.
What the heck is wrong with an Anschutz?? Get a Marlin instead? You’ve got to be kidding me!!
It looks like a frankenstein ar/m-16 to me.
I am trying to honor RF’s assignment and discuss why it is good for taking out people & cars – but I do not believe it is. People yeah sure – cars . . . not unless most of us are wrong and that thing is chambered in .308 instead of 5.56.
Nothing in 5.56 is a “fine choice” for obstacle defeating power no matter how long you make the barrel and not matter how much you monkey w/ the twist rate. Heavier and slower (slower than 3,000 fps +) is better for consistent penetration without pitching, yawing, shredding, or ricochet. Decent choice yeah but there are much better choices available.
So RF, do you have some insight into what it is exactly? And you believe it is fine choice because?
It’s the same this as a power head on a speargun (for spear fishing) and it looks awesome. Now I just need a traquilizer that will screw on for harvesting wild cows.
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Nonsense.
Can’t we just use the right tool for the job?
Use the Anschutz for target shooting.
Use a 30-30 Marlin for deer in thick woods.
Use a 45-70 Marlin to shoot dangerous game that is about to eat you.
Use any of them for plinking and giggles, but if you miss, causes are a blend of your skill and the limitations of the hardware. If you miss with the Anschutz, its not so much the hardware.
If you shoot a skittle off a pencil with a 45-70 can you really say that you are skilled? No. You can only say that you are lucky. Now with an Anschutz, or even a Kimber SuperAmerica you are skilled.
Anschutz is expensive, but if that is what floats your boat, save up and get one, be happy.
Looking forward to her shootin vids with any rifle…
I get inspired to try different things. Anybody else tried using a mirror and shooting behind you? How about throwing clay birds and shooting them with a pistol… Have someone behind you toss a coffee can over your head, as soon as you see it, draw and shoot it.
That’s just good clean fun.
RF,
Do your friends & family know about your shiksa crush?
#5) “Obesity kills more than 400,000 people annually. Over 200,000 die from conditions caused by obesity like heart disease and diabetes. About 190,000 die from being physically inactive for (way) too long.”
6 Things That Kill More People Than Guns
http://simplefactsplainarguments.blogspot.com/2013/01/6-things-that-kill-more-people-than-guns.html
America is screwed because too many people are ignoramuses and do not have practical real common-sense priorities.
What does it matter what she does it with? It’s an amazing shot! She is a better shot than most everyone else in the world. I bet if some of you had her rifle and she had a stevens favorite from the 20’s she’d still out shoot you. I know she could out shoot me! Give her a stock 10/22 and give me my Anschutz on my best day and I’d wager she’d clean my clock! If you don’t believe it’s so, think of it like this: challenging Tiger woods to a game of golf and he uses a cheap set of kiddy clubs and you get your best set custom made for you then watch him beat you hands down. Remember, it’s not the arrow folks, it’s the Indian.
WG
Hey, I collect favorites and I have several that will shoot 5 shots into less than a half inch at 50 yards. So if you think about it she might even beat her own score with a good Stevens Favorite. However I feel the best value today in a 22 is a CZ 452, I have three of them because they shoot as good as a Favorite and hold 5 rounds for hunting.
I had one of those Freedom Group Marlins. That was a sad, sad rifle.
I thought the VQ was more like $4000?
Pretty sure a 45-70 is taking out the skittle whether you actually hit it or not.
I don’t think you have to look any further than F class and 100o yd bench rest winners to see what is the accuracy king.
I think that distrust of anyone having any kind of record of gun ownership is so high right now in the gun community that the vast majority either lie about owning a gun, or outright refuse to participate in such polls. Thus I think that there really isn’t any way to know if gun ownership is on the rise, steady or on the decline. Even sales don’t really tell you anything because owning a gun is like eating potato chips…it’s really hard to have just one.
oh, heck yea! more popcorn please….
Wait. Wha…? Did something just change? Suddenly this web site works? Or is it just me?
Feedback question: “why you shootin’ a $3k Anschutz target rifle, girl?”
Because Anschutz is a premium quality, competition platform for a match rifle.
Ah…..because she can?
What would be surprising is a markswoman of her caliber not using an Anschutz.
The same would be true if she was shooting air rifles, it would be a Feinwerkbau.
Is this from some misguided sense of outrage over her using a foreign made rifle?
Or is this over the fact that an Anschutz is far beyond a lot of peoples price range?
If you have a problem with Kirsten Joy Weiss’ choice of rifle, you should envy less.
It has caused you to begrudge another for possessing something that you cannot.
To quote a piece of cinema pop-culture wisdom, “That path leads to the Dark-side.”
Bwaaaahaahahahahaha…..lmao Ok… Ok, too funny! …must stop reading….
Rude or not, these posts have been funny as hell! 🙂
I have noticed than when we have a posting featuring KJW shooting or Nick Leghorn competing the KJW posting draws in a whole lot more comments. Maybe it’s time to put a skirt on Leghorn?
My AR is under about 25 feet of water with the safe and a boat, but it was a stock M&p15 , quad rail hand guard from mako, vortex strikfire, and vertical grip with bipod.
“It only takes one, one “bad guy” that can change your world forever. All the gun control in the world won’t help you. They don’t care. The bad guy is at the door, banging away. The police may be on their way, but you realize you don’t have an option. You have a golf club. You realize that you’re at their mercy. Have you made the right choice?”
That says it all. “Hope it isn’t a criminal” is not a self-defense plan.
WHERE IS THE .22LR? DO THE MATH:
I was listening to Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk yesterday, and heard a comment that goes a long way towards explaining the shortage of .22LR ammo. He said that US manufacture of .22LR is about 10 million rounds a day – most of that from Federal and CCI, with Remington, Winchester, and a few imports adding to it. Figure 360 days a year of active manufacture, and that results in a .22LR supply of 3.6 BILLION rounds a year.
The problem is that there are [guesses vary] 100 million gun owners in America. I would bet that at least 95% of them own a .22 firearm, and even at $5 for 50 rounds, that is still the cheapest ammo you can shoot. The warehouse supply of .22 ammo disappeared in the 2 months following the Newtown school shooting and subsequent push for banning guns, so the available supply is the current level of manufacturing.
Even 3.6 billion rounds per year disappears quickly if 100 million people are buying it. That supply equals a YEARLY TOTAL of 36 rounds per gun owner – 3,600,000,000 rounds divided by 100,000,000 gun owners equals 36 rounds each. Per year. Even if you figure that only 10% of the gun owners are trying to buy .22LR, that still means 3.6 billion rounds/yr divided by 10 million buyers = 360 rounds/year per buyer. That isn’t even a brick, and it is fairly easy to use up a brick of .22 in one day’s plinking. Even if you doubled the output to 7.2 billion rounds/year, you still have [at 10% of the gun owners] 10 million people trying to buy it – that’s a total production of 720 rounds/year for each buyer. A brick and a half.
I think the 10% figure is way low, so the result is a very limited supply of .22LR for that many millions of buyers. Simple supply and demand – the demand has way exceeded the available supply, and it will be very hard for the ammo makers to catch up. Gresham also mentioned that a new .22 rimfire plant would run around $50 million, mostly because the manufacture of rimfire ammo is, essentially, making primers. And primers are an explosive, so the permitting process for a new plant is horrendous.
Do the math, and let me know if this analysis is off somewhere.
Matche upper and lower from place in Arkansas
Daniel defense barrel
PSA moe lpk and BCG
Bcm mod 4 CH
Utg extension and spring and buffer
ALG QMS trigger
Spikes BAR rail
Some sort of gas tube
Magpul buis
Stream light tlr1s
Troy qd end plate
What am I missing?
read this blog and the article. ive been to 2 appleseed weekends. met some good folks who shared a good message. encouraged many to go to local appleseeds. my best guess- this Dan has lots of new york city thinking happening in his head. he isnt anything like the appleseed instructors i met.
How many women a week shoot their husband to run off with another guy?
Ban Starbucks ,Staples and any where else these lamebrains pee
Might want to visit this FB page and give them a like… Also for education for rights as opposed to propaganda… https://www.facebook.com/choosetherightfight
Pretty much the way I saw it. Nice fix.
The woman and kid in that poster appear to be running away. Running away from… nah, too easy.
Armed robbery on the FSU campus in broad daylight. Those punks apparently didn’t know that that is a gun-free zone and that folks can’t legally carry weapons of any kind there.
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Armed-Robbery-Reported-on-FSU-Campus-226755401.html
The pearl clutching news report was the worst thing about this whole situation