Part 4 ?: ......
Today's Special that absolutely nobody has been asking for - features an 'Expenses Spared' wholly New Zealand speciality .. TACTICAL-BALLISTIC KIWI GRADE K9 Test Roll. - The 3kg Dog Roll/Hound Log is formulated into a 100 mm x 360 mm, - 4 inches dia. 14 inch long ballistic mass that is adapted to assess FBI-FTU Bullet penetration. - That measure correlates to 50 cents per inch per roll.
Fired at 10 feet distance the FBI requirement is for penetration of 14-16 inch.
Our test media is intended to relate to the U S standard ballistic porcine-gelatin & clear synthetic Gel. and was carefully (not) solar controlled to 37 C - & correlated to bush hunted swine muscle tissue . This Tactical-Ballistic tissue is variably blended comprising a low carbon footprint of recycled avian, bovine, & ovine carcasses, inclusive of hair, feather, bone, & raw wool to represent both covering and bone crush, with minimal enzymes, proteins nor digestive content.
Any Residual materials from Testing may be further re-cycled as barbecue feed-stock: _______________
This review is multi-purpose as I want to shoot the rim-fire Glock 44 to confirm it's reliable function without collapse into constituent 'star dust'.
- I had three new untried
Aguila high velocity variants to try ... and with the beautiful bonus that the target media is fully re-usable as dog tucker, cat food or fish bait - my old cat Lulu loved the shot-up dog roll. - The 40 grain
.22 Interceptor worked fine in the
G44, as did the 38 grain
.22 HP Super Extra Hollow Point - however the LIGHTWEIGHT
.22 Supermaximum 30 grain that boasts of 1,700 FPS failed to function 50% in either of two
Glock G44's. .. Sad to report but the 30 grain rounds worked perfectly in a Browning Buckmark (as well as in my Ruger SP 101 revolver) ... Vaguely interesting is that the functioning Buckmark 'bolt' is slightly heavier than the G44 'slide' - 143 gms v 134 gms so the critical difference may be in recoil-spring power?
Both Aguila rounds that functioned in the
G44 shot the 14 inches of swine muscle tissue
substitute '
through & through' completely penetrating the full $7 worth and exiting from the far end. - they also demonstrated true
"knock-down power" such that both rolls crashed to earth after the second shot .. what can I say? .. I had intended to precisely slice open the rolls to examine tracks ... but I was having so much fun making the rolled tissue relocate & splatter with "ineffectual" hits that I by-passed that option.
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FORGOTTEN WEAPONS' Ian McCullum has just released a video detailing the British 1974 purchase & issue of around 3,200 Walther PP .22" pistols for off duty self-defence by members of the Northern Ireland Ulster Defence Regiment. - I'd say this is strong evidence that there is a place for the 'two-two' in effective personal defence outside New Zealand.
- We need to be clear here that The Ulster Defence Regiment was a division of the British Army mostly comprising part time volunteers from the Protestant community - whereas the Ulster Defence Association - The Ulster Freedom Fighters - & the Ulster Volunteer Force were all Proscribed Organisations under the Terrorism Act held responsible for some 400 killings of Catholic 'Republicans'. - There is a viewpoint that these .22" pistols were supplied by British MOD as assassination weapons.
Link to Ian's video:
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/british-l66a1-a-pistol-for-northern-ireland/
Link to a GUNS Magazine story about this Pistol's use in Ireland:
https://gunsmagazine.com/our-experts/surplus-classic/the-british-l66a1/
These Walther PP pistols were issued by the British Government for home use in the North of Ireland part of UK. These wee guns saw much hard use in Northern Ireland and underwent a Ministry of Defence Factory Thorough Repair re-build and re-finish but were then later withdrawn in the 1980's with around half of them being on-sold in U S.
Marty K.
P.S. For some further words of wisdom on this general topic ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6PxB2TqLM&feature=emb_rel_end
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