12/12/08

Ok, so everything is conspiring to piss me off these days. I guess I'm just going to have to settle for two ten-round clips for the Space Gun. “But,” I hear you saying, “I thought you had three ten-round clips for that?” Yeah, let me tell y'all a story. I got to the range and signed in. I went to my assigned lane and started getting ready. As I unzipped the bag, one of the fifteen-round magazines fell out onto the ground. It spit all fifteen rounds out onto the floor, along with the follower and spring, and according to Sir Isaac Newton, shot the case out under the wall onto the firing line. I should have walked out right then. I picked up all my ammo and the parts I could get to and set them on the table. I was determined to press on. I inserted the other fifteen-round mag in and racked the action. The first round fired fine but the second stove piped. I just about threw the son of a bitch away right then. But I didn’t, I tried again. I dislodged the jam and racked the action. One fired, the next jammed. Again, I think I might have achieved one two-shot sequence in fifteen rounds. I set the motherfucker aside and moved on to the ten-round clips. The two preloaded ones fed fine, no problem. I'm quite happy with them. The third, not so much. I began loading it and on about the eighth bullet it got stuck. The follower had turned and jammed itself in the bottom of the mag. All the bullets came tumbling out of the top when the spring pressure wasn’t there. I set it aside and reloaded the other two. Again, they worked fine. I put everything away and pulled out the Hebrew Hammer. Oh by the way, I'm going to start calling the Baby Eagle “The Hebrew Hammer” from now on. I slipped the clip full of Hornady TAP ammo in and released the slide. Cha-ching! Damn, I like that gun. I popped off all fifteen TAPs and smiled. I manually unloaded the other clip with all the Federal Hydroshock and TAP ammo then reloaded it with ball ammo. I shot all of that and then reloaded both clips with some more ball ammo. I went through those thirty rounds and reloaded one clip with the TAPs and Hydroshocks and put that gun away. Finally, I loaded the last twenty rounds of ball ammo into the two working ten-round clips for the Space Gun and packed it up. I told Cutie Patootie about the magazine slipping out into the firing line and she went in to retrieve it for me. I thanked her and left. At home later, I discovered that there is a part missing from that clip and that the “lips” at the top don’t seem to be closed enough. Well, I'm just about to toss that some-bitch anyway so no biggie. I pulled the sleeve off of that clip and slid it onto the other fifteen-rounder. I will try it one more time to see if that sleeve makes the “good” hi-cap mag work. If not, well, I might try it a few more times just in case it is a break-in period thing. But if it doesn’t work after the next thirty to forty-five rounds, it is getting tossed with the other and I will swear against Pro-Mag clips from now on! Yeah, I should have known when they were made by the same guys as the junk-assed Zombie Apocalypse drum magazine for the 1911. I just need to settle for twenty rounds of pre-loaded ammo and hope I'm not involved in a fire fight. If the speed loaders for the Judge work, which could go either way with the luck I'm having, I think I'll buy two and keep them full of Werewolf ammo. That way, if it did come down to a fire fight, I'd have fifteen pre-loaded shots in/for the Judge, twenty for the Space Gun, and thirty for the Hebrew Hammer. If I can’t get it done with sixty five rounds, I need to be in a pack of likeminded individuals who can supply me with a person to be my re-loader. Oh, I guess I need to consult one of my Jewish friends and find out just how offensive calling the Baby Eagle the Hebrew Hammer really is. It is not meant to be anti-Semitic in any way. In fact, it is intended as an acknowledgement of the fine work our Israeli brethren did with their copy of a Cold War era Czechoslovakian pistol. Yeah, the original metal-framed Baby Eagle, also known as the Jericho 941 or Uzi Eagle, was a copy of the CZ-75. Well, I found that interesting. Anyhoo, I guess my point is… well, I don’t know what my point was going to be. Ok, let’s talk cars again. I think, though it hasn’t really been discussed, that John and I are going to the shop tomorrow. If so, I think we’ll get cracking on Barbecue Bob’s conversion. That is, conversion from a rotting hulk to a running vehicle. Before we disable it though, we probably ought to take that engine to a car wash and clean it up. Perhaps I need to drive Fifi tomorrow just for that contingency. Sounds like a good plan to me. Well, I'll discuss it with John and let y'all know what we decided when we chat again Monday. I think I’ll call it a rant. Toodles.