Texas is gun friendly. But it’s not gun rights friendly. The Lone Star State’s plenty damn restrictive. You can’t carry in hospitals (if posted), schools or racetracks. Texas cops can arrest a citizen with a concealed handgun license (CHL) for any amount of alcohol in their system (if considered impaired). That said, the laws are better than they were, and they’re getting better all the time. As always, open carry is the ultimate litmus test for gun rights. Texas ain’t got it (for handguns). Fortunately, there’s plenty of political momentum in the Lone Star State to get it done. Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbot is fer it. Fer now. ‘Cause open carry could become a cause célèbre amongst his opponents. Over at burntorange.com, “Joe the Pleb” fires a warning shot . . .
A gun store owner in Beaumont faces up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted of disorderly conduct after he walked through Parkdale Mall on December 28th with an AR-15 strapped to his back. The man turned himself in after a warrant was issued for his arrest but he maintains that he did nothing “illegal.”
The man named Derek Poe was charged with Disorderly Conduct because police said he carried his weapon, “In a manner calculated to alarm.” Poe disagreed and said that he was just exercising his 2nd Amendment right. He told KBMT “It was clearly obvious I didn’t have criminal intent. I had a drink in one hand and a bag in the other. I didn’t commit a crime. I legally carried a long arm in Texas.”
Such displays of irresponsible gun ownership are likely to draw (no pun intended) push back against “open carry” legislation being pushed by the likes of Greg Abbott.
Or not. Some of that depends how the gun rights community feels about open carry. The signs are . . . mixed.
Charles Cotton, president of the Texas Firearms Coalition and board member of the National Rifle Association, told the Texas Tribune, “If a criminal walks into a location and openly sees a bunch of people carrying a firearm, they are much less likely to commit that crime.” But once multiple non-uniformed individuals draw their weapons how are first responders or even other “responsible gun owners” supposed to know who the original offender is. Also would it make a difference to the injured if the bullet came from a vigilante or a perp, not likely.
Cotton also said he takes issue with open carry groups who use confrontational tactics adding, “I don’t think you win anyone to your side of the issue if they’re afraid of you.” I must agree because I don’t think Poe earned any supporters or customers that day in Parkdale Mall. So if as Abbott contends that, “Anyone wishing to use a firearm as a deterrent and, in the last resort, for self-defense, would prefer to openly display the weapon,” then it begs the question who was Poe deterring while walking through the mall? My best guess would be other shoppers from spending their money and feeling safe.
Should open carry advocates not open carry to advance open carry? Such is gun politics in Texas these days. Watch this space.
That looks like a plasma rifle or other gun you’d find in Fallout 3. 🙂
Does this only apply to guns being sold in the state? If so can’t I just go into pa and buy whatever is nj legal? Or does that make every gun illegal to possess?
Can’t buy handguns across state lines…
If it gets cheaper to 3D print, I’d bet printing small parts and gun accessories (like custom slide cover plates, and sights) will be popular.
By Decree: All 1st Amendment Rights to free speech, assembly and religion, are hereby declared “shall issue” (quote) “we wish the Supreme Court rejected”
States should be allowed to apply reasonable restrictions on such things…..
By God, I miss the days of tar and feathering, and running folks out on a rail….There is no reasoning with these people….
Even if they received smaller handled pistols they would bitch because the guns were different than everyone elses and were discriminated against. I used to hear female MPs complain because they were issued .38’s instead of 1911’s. Let some of them shoot a 1911 and they bitched about the weight and the recoil. Next these English ladies will want pink pistols too.
Amazing story. I’m not much of a hunter, I prefer to shoot my guns at paper and steel. I love to fish and hike though, and your love for the outdoors really came through in your writing. My day was made much better for having read this.
Well, there will be a whole country, Botswana, filled with un-huntable elephant, so no ivory could possibly come from there. :/ They outlawed elephant hunting starting this year so just watch the habitat destruction expand due to overpopulation. Of course, the anti’s will come up with some other excuse for the population reduction and starving elephants. Plus, now the elephants have no value to the locals so they will be even more likely to poach the pachyderms.
“Give me safety or give me death”, cries the liberal.
I see 3D printers being a blessing for anyone that owns or collects any kind of old machinery, cars, tractors, trucks or any “stuff” that the original manufacturer no longer supports with parts, or the manufacturer is long gone. Some examples I can think of, radio knobs for a ’52 Hudson automobile, gas engine parts for 100 year old Maytag washing machines, housings for a 50 year old chainsaw, etc. These printers will help those of us that love AND use old tools and machines to keep them working.
there is nothing wrong with an ugly HiPoint, but i would not like my life to depend on a gun that beat up. (anything from Mikhail Kalashnikov is exempt) i guess a gun beat to a pulp is better than no gun.
“and the guy is a legit badass … an ex-police officer who’s currently a military reservist”
These people have a low standard for “legit badass”.
The way the law is written is no win.
Our own cheeseball ad campaigns will be our ultimate undoing.
That was painful to watch – the only thing it was missing was a woman doing a breathy “Bennneellliii” voice-over.
‘But once multiple non-uniformed individuals draw their weapons how are first responders or even other “responsible gun owners” supposed to know who the original offender is.’
That’s easy, the “responsible gun owners” will be the ones who lay down their weapons when the uniformed police show up and the original offender will be the one shooting at them.
And yes, people should practice open carry, but I don’t think they should do it on their own. They should go out in groups wearing matching t-shirts that say something like “Texas Open Carry” or something so that everyone can plainly see who they are and know what they’re up to.
Even easier ways to find the criminal in an armed crowd of shoppers:
– The one with their hands up
– The one that’s running away as fast as they can, crying for their momma
And still, no reporting on how the people where screwed with high prices, gouging, and other things the industry to the LGS did during this crisis. All we saw as readers was the bashing of CTD, then months later you guys supported them by having links on your gear reviews. But everything else was swept under the rug. How much money did the NRA bring in? How much actually went to protecting our rights? How much did the execs get paid? Come on TTAG, do some in-depth reporting.
Rahm Emmanuel, Barack Obama, and all the Chicago pols are no doubt frothing at the mouth over this latest blow to their statist dreams.
Can we say “Schadenfreude”, boys and girls? YES WE CAN!!
Apparently in the minds of many LE departments and media outlets and common citizens anyone who had more than a handgun and a rifle, maybe a shotgun too, and more than100 rounds for each is some kind of nut job.
And, to that I say, there are plenty of “nuts” out there.
Have any of these nitwits ever taken a look at the huge market there is for enormous gun safes??
The statutory ban on concealed carry in hospitals was repealed years ago. Hospitals individually, as private businesses, may ban firearms, but they must post a state-approved standard notice sign. That’s their individual decision and not a state requirement, though. Exception would be if the hospital were part of a university, but that would be because it’s a school, not because it’s a hospital, per se.
Bans on carrying in schools is just about universal nationwide, with only a couple of exception states for universities. So it’s not fair to slam Texas for what almost nobody else has, either. It isn’t thst Texas being gun friendly is a myth. It’s more that gun owners and anti’s alike have bought into a Hollywood version of Texas. That’s on you, not Texas.
The alcohol standard is that you may not be “intoxicated” while carrying. Intoxication is defined in terms of impairment. Intoxication is presumed at .08, but again, goes by impairment. It’s not “any” alcohol whatsoever, it’s impairment. That’s the same standard for driving or just being in public while intoxicated. Same as everywhere else and not at all peculiar to Texas or concealed carrying.
When you look at actual rankings of states, where methodologies are provided, Texas usually ranks in the third or quarter. Every ranking I’ve seen is skewed, however, because they always weight open carry so heavily. It’s the big Holy Grail, yet as we read in here so often, few oeople would actual do it if it were an option. I get the theoretical, philosophical sense of OC being the bellwether, but since it’s impractical, it seems a rather poor hallmark of firearms freedom.
OC vs CC
.45 vs 9
AR vs AK
Yosemite Sam vs Deputy Dawg
Can’t we all just get along?
Stuck in the middle of the road with this as well, how do you make something commonplace without people seeing it?
Kind of the Catch 22 of Gun Control : “Should open carry advocates not open carry to advance open carry?”
Edit: However, AZ has the right idea, constitutional carry. I think thats probably the best and most secure way to bring firearms back to the norm somewhat.
I hope that this means that Oak Park’s (suburb to the west of Chicago) ban on all firearm sales and transfers is next. They ban all sales and transfers, except to police officers and members of the ‘organized militia’.
I bought a Nova back in November 2012 at Bass Pro. It took them longer to run my credit bureau for the Bass Pro credit card (Save 10% on the purchase if I signed up for the credit card) than to run my background! haha. Now 14 months later I have killed one duck, one goose, 18 doves and Hundreds of clay pigeons with that Nova and not one problems yet. Best $300plus dollars I have ever spent on a gun. If I had the cash I would not hesitate to buy this new Ethos. Between Beretta and Benelli, I love me the Italians.
I’d like to see a legislature pass a bill like this (or similar):
A no-knock warrant shall not be issued against a suspect unless all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The suspect has made a threat against and/or created a plan to injure and/or kill another person (or persons);
(2) The suspect is likely to carry out the threat;
(3) The suspect has acquired materials for the purpose of carrying out the threat.
In short, no-knock warrants would only be justified if a suspect has made a threat to others and is planning on carrying out the threat. Nothing that is simply drug-related would be acceptable.
Aside from the ‘open carrying to normalize guns’ issue, this and other lawsuits seem like an open and shut case. If he’s being charged with displaying a weapon “in a manner calculated to alarm”, it means that he would have had to planned to carry his weapon in such a way that he personally believed that most reasonable persons would be no only intimidated, but alarmed. So they’d have to prove that by slinging an AR over his back and going shopping, he had the deliberate forethought to scare everyone who saw him so bad that they feared for their life and the lives of others. This is obviously not the case.
And if you’re an open carry advocate, and don’t want to get hit with a charge like that, I would suggest you drop the magazine and carry it in a pouch/pocket. You’re still pretty prepared, you’re definitely getting your open-carry point across, and you can show that you’re not there to cause trouble because the gun’s not loaded.
Listen. Right or wrong, stupid or smart, he was trying to advance the cause of liberty in his home State. I am certain that if he had the right to OC a pistol he would have preferred to do that, and cause less alarm. But he cant OC a pistol in his home State – which brings us right back to the entire point.
You can’t get the wheels rolling without pushing the damn cart.
Selling these chambered in 9mm seems silly. When most of the value is wrapped up in the history what’s the point? Otherwise it’s just a cheap handgun. Some of us want our ammo to come out of cans with foreign languages on them.
They also make one in 7.62×25 for those blokes. Pity about the accuracy, though, because I did kind of want one.
Also, it’s a goddamn crime that nobody is making plastic Tokagypt-style aftermarket grips for these. I see custom wooden ones in a lot of places, but I’m not spending $80+ to spruce up a $200 pistol.
I like my old Chinese Tokarev made for export in 9mm. The safety isn’t something I would take seriously, but the grips wrap around the frame and make for a nice hold, and the gun functions reliably. It also shoots some very nice groups. I have a 50 round group shot into a 5 1/2 inch target, all 50 rounds on the target, at 10 yards, standing.
The old Chinese version also has a rotating removable barrel bushing up front, and no captured recoil spring. It’s worst trait is the rudimentary sights, I paint a white outline on the rear notch and that helps a lot. The low recoil has made it a favorite of the wife, more so than even my Glock 19.
….Riiiiiiiight
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/6/gun-sales-2013-break-all-records-due-obamas-gun-co/
Thats a beauty. I’d almost hate to take that out in the field and scratch it up.
Concur on prices…thes a Suprnova Tactical on Gunbroker right now for $405 last bid $499 buy now…
And a hunting gun with Comfort Tech stock also under $500… now thats a value to me.
My M57 is one of my favorite pistols. Simply fun to shoot, especially when I am wearing surplus Czech Army winter headgear. One of my wife’s co-workers is Serbian and he keeps promising me a Serbian cap, but he has failed to deliver so far. Yes, having appropriate headgear enhances the fun in shooting curios and relics. I have no idea why that is true.
Thankfully no, though I load most of my own ammo(store bought stuff is just to replenish my supply of brass, and have fun with), that way I know exactly how much attention was put into loading it right.
Work as an RSO here in Virginia. Have had several over the years with no flash hole. Primer goes off and blows itself into the weapon’s action. Have here on my desk a Federal 230 grain .45 ACP with the bullet in backwards. Came right out of a brand new box.
Ever had days you wish you had a stood in bed?
I got a round out of some WWB 357 Sig where about a quarter of the mouth of the casing was folded in under the bullet. I thought I had checked that box pretty well but I missed it luckily it wouldn’t seat in the chamber so no kaboom when I fired that box.
I bought a bunch of Blazer Brass 9mm a few months back. Went to use it for IDPA first time at a local club and everybody looked at me like i was useless. Looked at the rounds and 17 out of 100 (2 boxes from a 10 box case) had the bullets improperly set in the case so they wouldn’t feed. Haven’t called CCI yet, but I now have 8 more boxes of Blazer Brass that I’ll be inspecting round-by-round before loading into anything.
I recently bought a case of Remington .45 ACP and out of the 5 boxes I opened all of them have had 1 or 2 bullets that look like the second to last picture.
My friend loves reloads, I refuse to use them. One of the reloads he got looked as if the primer had been welded or fused to the case some how. It wasnt very good and there were gaps so that when we removed the bullet from the case you could look through the “primer” and see out where the bullet should go.
Oddly, 15 miles west of this location, lies the village of Dime Box.
On another note, do SWAT teams have/use bullet resistant shields?
On another note, the linked story intimates that Magee was a felon, however TX law allows felons to possess firearms in their homes if it has been 5 years since conviction. I did not know that.
Perhaps a step in the right direction, rather than going for Constitutional Carry outright, would be to do what Oklahoma did last year: allow those with a concealed carry license to carry either concealed or open. That moves the flag toward greater freedom and acceptance of firearms. Meanwhile, it allays fencesitters’ concerns by ensuring the OC population will at most be a subset of existing, proven-responsible concealed carriers.
While you think about that, think about this: laws in OK can have an impact on attitudes and laws in Texas. Aftef all, OK is just across the Red River, an hour or so north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. There are a lot of licenced people there and a lot of them cross the river for the casinos on the other side. Some work in OK, some Oklahomans work in DFW. Lots of Texans have lots of exposure to Oklahoma and Oklahomans.
Here’s the thing: Oklahoma extends this open/concealed choice to anyone with a license. Since OK has universal, unilateral reciprocity, that means everyone. A CHL-holding Texan, therefore, may legally carry in Oklahoma, but not in his own state! How long before we demand to be treated in TX at least as well as we are in OK?
Well, you have to hand it to your instructor for creativity!
Honestly,considering you can buy a Sar B6 or K2 for under $270 or a Witness P for under $260, and quite a few other REALLY nice Turkish pistols for under or around $300, it literally blows
my mind why anyone would actually buy one of these, for any reason other than collecting.
Ive got many Turkish guns, including the B6 and K2 (which ive found as low as $230) and they are comparable to any $500 big name poly gun.
Then theres the Canik55s, the Tisas and other steel and alloy guns from Turkey that rival guns 2-3x their cost.
I mean really, why would anyone buy one of these? Lol
If you are collecting then I guess more power to you, but as a logical “affordable” pistol? No way.
Way too many much much better options
I’ve had cheap bulk 22s that had QC issues. The bullet was loose in the casing, the bullet was cockeyed sideways in the casing, the bullet had a serious cut or dent near the tip, rounds that didn’t seem to have enough omph to cycle the action on my ruger pistol and of course the occasional dud…
The solution seemed to be to spend 7-10 cents per round (CCI) instead of the 3.5 cents per round of the bulk ammo. Nowadays, we takes what we can get and hold back the good stuff for when we really ‘need’ it, when failure is not an option.
We have a small box full of defective factory ammo that we’ve come across during our academy classes over the years. Rifle, shotgun, pistol. Everything. With billions of rounds being cranked out over the years it’s not surprising that a few get by QC. Nothing made by man is 100% perfect 100% of the time. Cars, buildings, bridges, watches, shoes, space shuttles, and yes, ammunition.
I bought my 1953 Romanian Tokarev for $250 on my Antique & Curio license. The importer sent it to me in the mail with no further questions. It looks almost new, and shoots like a dream! It’s as accurate as any pistol I own except for my old S&W 29. The bottleneck 7.62 X 25 cartridge is hot, and the ammo isn’t really that hard to find. The sights are small, but dead on. The safety is on the frame, just above the grip, and is positive and tight. In fact, the only thing I don’t like about it is that the hammer bites the web of my hand if I forget and choke up on it. I would prefer this pistol to almost any 9mm that I know of, and can’t imagine why anybody would try to recreate one in 9mm. Much less a junky one, at that. Order you a surplus Tokarev!
I’ve been reloading my own ammo since 1994. I couldn’t afford to shoot otherwise.
Only one person to blame if something goes wrong but in the 20-30k of ammo I’ve made I’ve had three (3) instances of bad loads, and none of them caused damage to a gun or the shooter.
My stuff is more consistent and trustworthy than their stuff will ever be, less expensive, too.
For my part, I’ve had a couple of dud 9mm rounds over the years – IIRC, one Winchester white-box, one UMC – and a .38 SPL FMJ that was loaded backwards in the case, with a resulting overall length just long enough that it would not fully seat in the chamber.
Which, alas, I didn’t realize until I closed the cylinder on my brand-new S&W 638 Airweight on it and left a nasty scratch on the back of the frame. Drat.
I later shot it successfully out of my .357 Ruger Blackhawk, so at least the round didn’t go to waste…
I’ve posted this advice before: if you’re ever on a defensive shooting situation, ask to be taken to a hospital even if you’ve suffered no obvious injury.
In such a high-stress situation, you may think you’re fine even though you’re about to have a coronary, an asthma attack or who knows what. If you’re going to stroke out, better to do so in the ambulance.
Think it can’t happen? Google “man dies from heart attack after robbery” and see what pops up. It’s more common than you might think.
Meanwhile, if you don’t instantly drop dead, you’ll have time to call your lawyer. Not having a lawyer’s number on your phone is worse than not having ammo in your safe.
Funny that I got the exact same advice in a Utah license class given in CT a couple of years ago.
As for a lawyer …. if you can’t afford the various “insurance ” programs that are out there (cost is roughly 200 – 400 per annun) then at least browse thru your NRA state org newsletters. They usually have ads from attorneys specialising in self defense. Or at the very least watch for news articles where defendant gets off and clip that name and number and put it in your wallet and with someone in your family circle.
Ya know what cops do when they are involved in a shooting incident? They STFU, someone will call the union rep who reminds all to STFU. The union rep will call a lawyer who will remind the union rep to have all involved parties to STFU until the lawyer arrives to intervene.
Anyone involved in a DGU should just tell the first cop you talk to that you are exercising the same right they would if they were involved in a similar incident.
Yup.Regardless of what your state legislature might think, ganja is still illegal.If you acquired a state issued Marijuana card, all you’ve done is give the local Federal prosecutor a slam dunk case.
Have a marijuana card? That’s official evidence you’re an ongoing user of an illegal substance.Which means you get to join the Lautenberged crowd on the No Guns For You List.
Note:MJ laws are another one of the many Federal statutes I disagree with.But that’s the facts of life.
And before anyone asks, yes, there are “FEDERALLY lawful users of medical MJ” ,which is why the language was included in the 4473 presumably.No, it’s not something you or I can participate in.If I recall the info right, it was a Federal medical program for pain management which started in the 70’s and got shut down in the late 80’s or early 90s, so there’s maybe ten people in America who can legally toke up anywhere , using Federally supplied MJ.As long as those folks stay in the program, they can toke up wherever they like without risk of arrest.That being said, those poor souls had REALLY nasty medical conditions which warranted the prescriptions.Stuff like constant muscle pain ,etc.
Great, now it’s only a matter of time before MDA will push for a sweeping ban on Scooby Doo reruns and a 5-day waiting period for Doritos.
The entire glance of your site is wonderful, let smartly as the content!…
How about opening a new gun shop and naming it “pot shots”! Hey wait a minute, I might be onto something here.
Well, so far I have written smith and Wesson, Ruger, Beretta (who makes you create a stupid account) glock.
I will have to call the following companies who don’t have a convenient email option, Springfield armory, Sig Sauer, heckler koch, Kimber, and walther. Those were the big boys I could think of. I pretty much sent the following (ammending product and manufacturer name as applicable
Hello,
I am a gun owner, and a big fan of Ruger products. I actually own a great 10-22 that I purchased new and have been extremely happy with.
It has come to my attention that some towns in Maryland and New Jersey have implemented a policy of requiring all manufacturers who submit bids for supplying their police officers to return a questionnaire that indicates that manufacturers policy on civilian sales of firearms and so called assault weapons.
Please let me be clear. If you bid these contracts and participate in the march to civilian disarmament by answering the questionnaire stating you believe in limiting civilian access to modern sporting rifles, standard capacity magazines, or firearms in general, I will permanently boycott any of your products. This would be a real shame because you make many fine guns I still want to acquire.
I understand your desire to supply our police, but you must understand that you cannot alienate the rest of the country to do it. Stand with me and I shall stand with you.
Best regards,
Name
Well, if you live in Georgia, within reasonable distance of Atlanta, you can feel free to put my number in your phone. I’m always happy to represent fellow 2A supporters. If you want it, send me an email. scbugbee at bugbeelaw dot info
I had the same problem!
My county in NY required a course (NY itself does not) to get my CCW permit [which, is also required to purchase a handgun]. He went off about all of this too.
I agreed with it, but it was neither the time nor the place for it.
Wow… that sounds incredibly unprofessional.
I need to get my TX CHL class knocked out. I hope I can avoid this joker.
Esti Ginsburg…Yaeah!
Sounds like your CCW class needed some inspirational graphics both male and female friendly (fair is fair – gotta keep the ladies happy, too).
SIXTEEN hours of classroom required in Illinois….though a few Obama Care innuendos hoping the ISP website did not crash…the subject was the law and proper technique. BTW, no matter their political persuasion, color or religion, most everyone in Illinois that takes the class are decidedly Conservative LIVING folks. IMHO most Americans are….but save the political opinions for elsewhere.
BTW, the course agenda is mandated by law but there is plenty of opinion from the class allowed by the instructors. ALL OF IT is related to firearms and the law!
BTW, I’m somewhere to the right of Rush Limbaugh…..:)
I read this article with a bit of tongue in cheek. Realizing that you have taken other classes, then yes, the Texas legislation mandated course of a minimum of 4 hours (not more than 6, not including range time) may have seemed a bit over the top for you. But please, hang out on some of the Texas CHL forums on the web or facebook and then laugh and point at the posts where people who have been certified to carry in Texas, still don’t know the laws. Or they were told something by their instructor that is completely untrue.. (can’t carry in a church.. or a hospital.. period!) Or folks who have never seen a 30.06 sign, or know what a legal posting is. The class is designed to teach the laws, you may be surprised at the number of folks that show up that have never shot a handgun before.
We don’t have constitutional carry in Texas, and sometimes, sitting in these classes, that’s a good thing.
Harry Callahan would have done just fine with 6 rounds.
Like in Heller 2, this judge ruled that “Assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines” are most definitely in common use for lawful purposes (and therefore protected). He also said that this law substantially burdens citizens from exercising their rights(and is therefore unconstitutional). The judge also used an interest balancing test on the case and an extremely shitty version of intermediate scrutiny on top of that.(Yes i know, interest balancing was specifically banned from use under Heller and McDonald, but hey, the 2A is different cause guns :D) So then why did these ridiculous laws get upheld in both cases? Well for an equally ridiculous reason of course; judge said that these weapons and magazines are above the bare minimum required for self defense, and since criminals might use them and there’s other options available, the govt can do whatever the fuck they want and we can go die in a fire; for the children. If your wondering “But isn’t that the same logic that DC tried to use on the SCOTUS in Heller that was specifically rejected and ridiculed by the majority?” Yes, yes it was. The lower courts do not care at all either. I think this case will be going to the SCOTUS though personally. God help us if it doesn’t though.
They marketed mags in the first place that hadn’t been tested properly, or they knew they would fail, and put them out anyway. Either way, they don’t deserve my business.
Just wait until the feds start cross referencing the medical marijuana prescription records, thanks to Obamacare’s trampling over your medical right to privacy, with the NICS database. We may yet hear some howling out of the mythical “liberal gun owner”, but hey, that would at least be the most concrete evidence ever of their alleged existence.
A way around this law is buy a ten round mag for when you carry in public , and leave the higher capacity mags at home unregistered , that way you will have them when the 2nd Revolution starts , and yes it is coming sooner than later too many people getting fed up with all matter of screw ups by government and feel the need to get the yoke of the government off their necks ! Be prepared and ready. Keep your powder dry.
I’m much more of a hunter than a target shooter. Been reloading for the ’06 since 1950. Once I get a load inside of one MOA, I’m pretty much satisfied.
Funny how sorta-universal a 1:10 twist can be. My ’06, .243, AR .223 and a Ruger bolt .223 are all 1:10 and all shoot sub-MOA. Barrel lengths of 26″, 19″, 20″ and 22″, respectively.
I certainly would not argue about “ideal” combinations of powder and barrel length, but in that context I figure I must be running 95% of absolute optimum in my loadings and barrel lengths. 🙂
I have much respect for guys like the Houston Warehouse crowd, or the Gale McMillans, but they are far more serious students of ultimate grouping than I.
So each category gets 4 stars but somehow the overall drops to 3 stars? Not to mention your “problems” are things that others (such as Tim over on MAC) love, and I’m thinking Nick just hates the idea of an AK shotgun period and will find any excuse to bash them.