Glock G44 AGUILA Rim-FireTactical Test - & .22 For Sausage:

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:

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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

It ain't Rocket science

Cordite Rifle Propellant ......

 - Well actually it is. 😀

It seems that after "Gun Powder"  we moved on to the Nitro 'Smokeless' Powders that were 'Single Base' or 'Double Base' powders .. then we got 'Triple Base' - but the propellant mixes have become more & more complex with additives for this and additives for that - that they really now are all multi-based.

Link:     https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/Smokeless_powder.html

- This next link might be a real 'time waster' as I found vast amounts of new tech stuff to think about .. I started reading it to learn how these nitro compounds were controlled as rocket fuels but NASA dragged me in and held me there for an hour or so ..

https://history.nasa.gov/conghand/propelnt.htm

- But if you are really into the shooting sport and fancy being able to make your own ammo from the four ingredients

- that process is fairly simple if you are not a clumsy bugger who's all thumbs & not allowed in the kitchen near hot surfaces or the knife drawer .. and if that is you well you definitely shouldn't be handling firearms either.

I really find making my own rounds with a die-set on a simple 'single stage' press very satisfying and economic - but don't kid yourself that you'll save money by rolling your own as you'll be shooting MUCH MORE of it for fun and likely you'll try variations such as heavier & lighter loads plus perhaps even DUPLEX loads where legal - these are now of course banned in NZ.

I taught myself  'Hand Loading' by reading books all about it - but it might be better if you have a mate who is re-loading and happy to show you what is involved.

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I hear that the January Shot Show 2021 has been cancelled because of the pandemic .. that is disappointing for the US firearms industry - but let's hope that technology & progress may advance some in that year - perhaps better than before. - Can you name more than one one single new milestone from recent Shot Shows ?

Marty K.

TARRANT Terrorist Royal Commission Report - Progressive Delays:

 So the BRENTON TARRANT ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT is completed and released to the Governor General 26 November .. some twenty months after the massacre and after an intervening General election.

This full Report has also been passed to Minister for Internal Affairs Jan Tinetti 

- who is due to table this report into "The Terrorist Attack" to Parliament on DECEMBER 8 2020.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern:

 Evidence given by ministers and public sector bosses to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attack will be suppressed for 30 years. - An interview with the Australian-born terrorist will never be released out of concern it could inspire and assist further attacks.

Actually there is considerable doubt that PM Jacinda Ardern will allow the public release of the report.

Poto Williams - new NZ Minister Of Police.

So December 8 is the next shaky stepping stone towards Truth, Fact & Accountability.

Marty K.

NZ's Clean & Green Cover Is DIRTIED:

 "Green & Clean New Zealand"? -  I'd say more appropriately .. 'Contaminated - F*cked-Up - Shit Upon & 'Covered-Up'. ......

Are you a Licensed Firearms Owner hoping for Fair & Reasonable treatment & regulation?

Do you remember the phrase "an orchestrated litany of lies" ?

- Remember PIKE RIVER COAL MINE: 29 DEAD

- Remember  CAVE CREEK VIEWING PLATFORM: 14 DEAD

- Remember MOUNT EREBUS FLIGHT TE901: 257 DEAD

- Remember  ARAMOANA DAVID GRAY SHOOTINGS: 14 DEAD

- Remember CHRISTCHURCH 2011 PANCAKED CTV BUILDING: 115 DEAD

- Remember WHITE ISLAND ERUPTION 9 December 2019  22 DEAD

- Never Forget  TARRANT'S CHRISTCHURCH MOSQUE MASSACRES: 51 DEAD

Was justice served in ANY of these tragedies? - Was the cause and responsibility publicly identified? - How much was shoved under the carpet?

Were rules properly enforced in each instance - or were wages paid to people who were living high 'on a pig's back' - Taking the money but NOT doing the job?

WHY TEN YEARS after the Christchurch earthquakes are some 3,000 home owners having to take a Class Action against their Government Owned Insurers SOUTHERN RESPONSE ?

- Why are valued tourists having to shit at the side of our roads?

- Why is Ex-Minister Of Police Nash still being paid to talk crap?

Questions without proper answers,

... NZ Transparency International Joint 2019 Least Corrupt Country ...

The Government has extended the time available for the TARRANT ROYAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, with the report now due on 26 November 2020. - Will the NZ Government release this report to the public?

Marty K.

Girls Can Do Anything .. Hunters From Way Back:

 The PR Machine tells us that men are the hunters and women are gatherers (..with a baby balanced on the hip) - but SCIENCE is now clear that this story is typically bollocks.

This 9,000 year old hunting kit in a leather bag was found carefully placed at the side of it's hunter owner to be used in HER next life in Peru.

The latest scientific tests make it simple to determine binary sex from ancient bones and this particular hunter was found to be a young woman aged between 17 to 19.

The site near Malla Fasari, Puno District in southern PERU confirms that close to half of these early-mid Holocene hunter burial finds are female (not LGBTQIA++ as determined by GLAAD Rainbow persons).

There is actually little reason beyond sexism to think otherwise - as the system of ALLOPARENTING whereby offspring is cared-for by others such as grandparents is widespread and well familiar to New Zealanders.

Link to Academic Report  https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/45/eabd0310.full

There is plenty of interest in wild harvesting - Hunting - by women here in NZ and long may they enjoy the outdoors and the benefits of adding natural meats to their family's diets ... Well for as long as we can still afford the Licence fees and manage the regular renewals by completing the 35 PAGE Application Form FRM23FLA

Right now there are multiple NZ state departments making it harder for the law abiding - police have ever more expensive, onerous & restrictive regulations to apply, - DOC are scattering poison baits over our forests and mountains, - While Forestry restrict hunting on their lands.

The butchering of wild harvested meats as food for third parties is very limited - when have you EVER seen wild rabbit offered as a healthy food in a supermarket here?

Girls ... Enjoy hunting while you can,

- Last week the police person conducting Firearms Licence Reference checks with a mate commented that the applicant was lucky to get in before the new system started now as it made getting a licence impossible ...

From the horse's mouth.

Marty K.

Police F.Lic Policy VINDICTIVE INSANITY:

 I have spent many hours considering this new NZ police policy before commenting - because they have stated that anything said by a shooter may be used as evidence of being unfit to retain their Firearms Licence.

NEW ZEALAND POLICE HAVE INTRODUCED A NEW 35 PAGE FORM (REPLACING ONE PAGE) - FOR LICENCE APPLICATIONS & RENEWAL.

Form FRM23FLA.

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Please think about this carefully ... If you want to JOIN THE POLICE their web-site says .. 

GETTING STARTED IS EASY .. just complete a 1 Page Profile form.

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- Form FRM23FLA requires that you first pay the non-refundable application fee and then proceed ..

The police firearms licence procedure is here. Please look yourself:

https://www.police.govt.nz/advice-services/firearms-and-safety/licences-permits-and-endorsements/apply-new-zealand-firearms

It is clear to me that police senior management have told their anti-gun section to create a new process deliberately designed to discourage all applications and renewals for a Firearms Licence.

If you want - you can skip that first part and go straight to FRM23FLA using this link:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?pc=carousel-about-en#inbox/FMfcgxwKjTWdKgNcNldNntPhcGvgvfMQ?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1.1

Back in the 1980's I thought that my holding a Firearms Licence placed me on the side of the Law as a Fit & Proper Person - willing to assist front line officers where-ever possible.

Such action as this is proof that NZ Police management no longer wishes to serve & protect the NZ people - but are seeking to enforce an unacceptable power-seeking armed police state.

Marty K.

UK Police Caused 96 Hillsborough Deaths .. NZ Al Noor Mosque?

 15 March 2019 will long be remembered as the day Australian BRENTON TARRANT repeatedly pulled the trigger on the innocent worshippers in two Christchurch Mosques.

Recent arrival TARRANT was quickly granted his New Zealand Firearms License by NZ Police authorities without proper checks, diligence or interviews - and they then gave him written permits to buy a huge quantity of rifle ammunition by mail.

Police Licensing procedures had been much altered & curtailed following funding re-allocations - and the well tried Mountain Safety Instructor system had been withdrawn before July 2018.

NZ Police has long boasted it is founded on U K Policing structures & traditions .. and senior Police Management strongly claimed that TARRANT'S killings resulted from there being too many loosely controlled guns in the country. - It is interesting to record that the Police Commissioner together with his Senior Managers from that time - plus the Minister of Police Stuart Nash have all moved-on from the roles they held when Australian killer TARRANT was given his Licence and the Permits that let him commit his awful atrocity.

I hope that one British tradition our NZ Police will not hold close is the U K Police proven habit of shifting blame for their own failings and negligence onto innocent bystanders. The terrible loss of 96 lives & 766 injuries at Liverpool's Hillsborough Football Stadium in 1989 was blamed by them on  "hooliganism & the actions of drunken fans".

 - It took more than 27 years for those British subjects to obtain justice from repeated police cover-up lies accusing the fans of degrading offences ... and for proper charges to be enforced upon UK Police Management.

I am also fairly hopeful that our Government announcement of a Commerce Commission Inquiry into "GROCERY PRICES" in our city supermarkets will not divert voters minds from the release of the ROYAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY report into 'The MOSQUE MASSACRES' - and to what degree were there failings by Police and Government Security Organisations.

Because of TARRANT'S late GUILTY Plea there was no trial or public examination of the events.

There have been several criminal shootings up in Northland in recent weeks that are being blamed on illegal "GUNS & DRUGS" with calls for ever more "gun control". - As far as I know .. the drugs at issue are all ready 'CONTROLLED DRUGS' and NZ Firearms law could not now be more complex, confusing or useless for controlling drug pushers and Gang violence. 

 - Predictably police union leader Cahill is calling for GUN REGISTRATION .. but the new MINISTER FOR POLICE Potu Williams doesn't seem too optimistic. (- What might work would be employment and housing and a decent future life prospect for whanau) .. What a waste of space that Cahill is.

Police need increased funding and resources - while their management must transfer it's attention from licensed FIT & PROPER shooters and start to arrest and imprison criminal parasites.

- If the cells are already full in our part-privatised overcrowded prison system - THEN START BUILDING MORE PRISONS.

- Under current firearms law - Front line NZ Police staff should be required to obtain firearms licences endorsed for 'P'  'E' and 'B' class arms.

Marty K.

"For clarity, the report will not be publicly released by the Royal Commission on 26 November 2020, it is for the Government to decide how and when to release the Royal Commission’s report."