Travel - Nutters & Tritium Awareness:

 Mushrooms are Good:

I was on a grubby train from London to Peterborough .. standing room only - visiting overpacked England because of a "Heads-Up" from my sister that our mum had been ill. - It's a long crowded flight from Christchurch to Auckland New Zealand to England via Los Angeles - so another couple of hours balanced-standing in a smelly overloaded diesel-electric train carriage with hundreds of drably clad stoics wasn't exceptionally pleasing .. One mental eye on my secure tickets, passport, & money - the other trying to not loose sight of my shoulder bag stuffed with a change of clean shorts & tops.

No stress but .. other than this joker with wild eyes and a tattoed neck .. "You're SAS ain't you mate?" "I can tell just by looking at yer .. Just got out of jail in Spain .. Went for the footy and the bastards put me away for eight f*cking months".

- A pre-Covid Nutter enjoying EU freedom-of-travel. (I am not any way 'military' but was tall, sun-tinted and fit(ish).

This guy was so far-out that those near-bye fellow travellers backed away and we gained breathing space. - Well it's not easy to maintain a happy conversation with a crass low-IQ tribal hoodlum - but he eventually went looking for a drinkers top-up carriage just before Peterborough - but judging by the few sympathetic grins from our audience they were happy that I had held his full attention for 60 minutes or so .. You can't choose who you contact on public transport.

Unlike in U S - British armed hoods ride around on mopeds and in hatchback diesels with their banned screwdriver-stilettos and shooters .. but you never can tell.

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I 'research' anything sensible that I can find about the "Caliber Wars" and am noticing a slow shift towards grudging acceptance that smaller bores can work for self-defense carry - I like the tests done by various internet entertainers .. 

'Gun Sam' ..     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ly0jec1Xeg

and by 'The OldFatGoober' .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ly0jec1Xeg

- nothing conclusive but plenty of interesting results.

Mushrooms ARE Good:

While some of the lower orders ridicule rim-fires and the other "mouse guns" it is well to remember that a police sergeant and at least one other have sadly been murdered here in NZ in recent years by nutters using PCP AIRGUNS - Pre Charged Pneumatic air rifles.

Modern 'smokeless' nitro ammo demonstrates the ongoing conflict of 

EXPANSION versus PENETRATION.

to quote Mick Jagger .. YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT.

Musical? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8

If you could patent a system that gives reliable maximum expansion without reducing bullet penetration you'll be made for life .. I'm working on it.

Tritium Night Sights:

 

Tritium gas is a radioactive isotope of Hydrogen - the most common element in the Universe .. that is RADIOLUMINESCENT with a half-life of 12.3 years.

The beta particles given off by Tritium are very weak and not considered a health risk unless a large amount is ingested. The stuff in gun sights & watch faces is safely captive in tiny glass tubes.

I recently bought a new watch that has 13x tritium light tubes in the face & hands and REALLY glows brightly in the dark (the 'LUME') .. but it's not easy for an old drongo like me to get an image to show you.

- US citizens might get Tritium night sights fitted to your carry mouse-guns and tell the punks that you'll irradiate their cojones as well as let all their air out .. That'll work in America eh.

Marty K.