Shooters Led By The Nose?

Todays sick joke: 

One in every hundred U K Police officers face charges for criminal offences this year .. 

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..by the Nose? - not really as there is NO LEADERSHIP of lawful shooters. - We just get blown around by the power-seeking Marketing Psychologists who constantly manipulate & influence the nations opinions - while hiding reality.

Did you ever wonder why the "Right Wing" party uses BLUE for it's rosettes and the 'Lefties' use RED?

What do you reckon would result if the two party campaign managers got together down the pub over a nice double Malt and decided to swap their colours? - How many voters would follow their team colours and change their party loyalty? - bear in mind that EXACTLY HALF of our citizens are of below average IQ and susceptible to influence.

MARKETING ..

Blue reminds us of the ocean and sea. It can make you feel calm and confident ..  blue makes it feel like a secure, trustworthy place: .. It is normal and right for our leaders to be priviliged, rich and powerful - Just look at those beautiful diamonds - and doesn't he speak nicely.

Red suggests energy, passion, power, determination & immediacy. - These guys will shake 'em up and sort it all out for us .. 

What a sick joke how all this 'democracy' is generously offered to voters every few years - when the alternative would be actual on-going direct democracy as works great in one nation presently. That might be no good 'cos voters would have to think about issues .. We need a CITIZENS ASSEMBLY of jurers to put the country first in debates.          https://quuu.co/blog/marketing-psychology/

Meanwhile - NZ residents in FLOOD STRICKEN areas say they are having to arm themselves against looters and are sitting in vehicles overnight to protect their property - while Police spokespersons state there is no increase in crime activity. - - Standby for armed police to confiscate any legally owned arms from these rural folk "for safety reasons" and to refuse their Firearms Licences because 'SELF DEFENCE' is not a legitimate reason to have a firearm according to New Zealand Police. 

Perhaps they should teach civics, neuromarketing and public relations at secondary school eh. - Then those of us at the bottom might better appreciate that 'LEFT' & 'RIGHT' don't really matter - we should just stop giving all our public money to those privateers at the Top, who are disarming the decent while robbing us blind by diverting public tax revenue into their personal accounts.

Marty K.

A to B. - Apathy to 'Burnout' In Shooting Sports:

- Is there a reason NZ supermarket net profit margins are around 5% here while the worldwide average runs at 1-2% ?

Consider that in 1992 The National Government promised New Zealand families cheaper, more efficient electricity supplies by corporatising the national Generation & Supply Grid & selling it off to their mates. The result of this "efficiency" is that electric power now costs us 104% more than it used to at that time.

- Is there any reason - other than voter apathy?

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How much ACTION have we seen in recent years to resist repeated legislative attacks on lawful firearms users?

I don't mean e-mails to politicians - I don't mean "Press Release Statements" to media - I don't mean futile 'Polls' or Questionaires .. 'Submissions' or 'Petitions' presented to Parliament.

In 2020 The KIWI PARTY Inc. attempted but lost an appeal in the Court of Appeal over anti-Gun legislation. - I know of no other action by any shooters organization.

NZ .. Nothing Zilch

- How about a prosecution of the Commissioner of Police for the Improper use of Police funding to re-establish a Firearms Register when it has already been determined by the Police themselves - in 1983, that such a register serves no useful purpose?

Further - that creating a known to be insecure police register - unlawfully misdirects essential funding away from crime fighting for Political Purposes and therefore amounts to Misapropriation of police funds.

COLFO? .. SSANZ? .. NZDA? .. Pistol NZ?

Marty K.

P.S. - If  'funding' is seen as an excuse for inaction by our organizations - I am sure many members would be happy to contribute to a joint emergency legal account to ensure some ACTION.

Many UK Police Unsuitable For Service:

My Firearms License will soon need to be renewed by a police employee who will, I expect, have little experience or knowledge of firearms. 

A regular range mate - the President of my Pistol Club is a retired Commanding Officer in the British Brigade of Gurkhas and a past 'Queens Messenger' Diplomatic Courier - and who similarly will be baulking at having his fitness to own firearms questioned by junior police staff. 

The latest news from the "Mother Country" UK is that HM Inspector Of Constabulary Matt Parr reports that one tenth of Police recruits employed are unsuitable for public service.

Parr said his team had looked at a random sample of officers and found that one in 10 should never had made it through vetting. - That “adds up to hundreds of people who have joined the police in the last three years that we don’t think should have”, - he said.

Parr said public trust in the police, and particularly the Metropolitan police, was “at a low ebb” after violent crimes committed against women by serving officers such as Wayne Couzens and David Carrick, who last month admitted 49 criminal charges including 24 counts of rape.

- Sir Mark Rowley Commissioner Of  The Metropolitan Police said "We haven't applied the same sense of ruthlessness to guarding our own integrity that we routinely apply to confronting" - The Police Chief has revealed that the London force is currently investigating 1,000 sexual abuse & domestic violence claims involving about 800 of its officers.

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Here in New Zealand, - I cannot understand how NZ police officers who are expected to use MSSAs (with unregistered dangerous, high capacity magazines), and 'auto' pistols, in public - are not required to be vetted for or to qualify as Fit & Proper for a standard NZ FIREARMS LICENCE.

Normal target pistol shooters must currently be accepted as approved association members and attend range activities 12 times per year to maintain their costly renewable ENDORSED Firearms License.

- How can the New Zealand public accept that the officers of our civilian Police Organisation are exempted from the SAFETY REGULATIONS required of everyone else?

Unless something has changed recently - members of our police are controlled by exactly the same laws as are all NZ residents.

Perhaps our current Police heirarchy believe that they are above the law. - That would be an outrageous path to madness.

Regarding police carrying arms .. They really tie themselves in knots claiming to be traditionally an Unarmed Police Force - as right from 1841 they carried pistols.

- The Constabulary Act 1846, and The Armed Constabulary Act 1847 eventually led to The Police Forces Act 1886. - There is little room to argue against historic fact.

Registration of firearms in NZ was abandoned by Police in 1983 because police records were inaccurate, out of date & completely USELESS - serving no purpose.

Registration provides a SHOPPING LIST for criminal gangs.

Now we are about to waste tens of millions of dollars starting the whole futile pointless process again .. diverting hundreds of police employees away from essential crime prevention.

Marty K.

Handguns And Police In New Zealand:

I have lost some of my nine lives (had I been a cat) - at least three times ..                    1/- 🐈 Was when a surgeon poked my heart with a catheter instead of just using it to squirt some dye, and around five minutes after the lights went-out - I came back with four red burn marks on my chest.

2/- 😺Was when I spent about five odd hours "on the slab" while multiple surgeons and nursing staff turned-me-off  & cut me open for by-pass surgery with my sticky fluids being recirculated by ancient mechanical pumps and refrigeration devices ..

3/- 😹Was when I enjoyed  'Mallory Weiss Tears' in my esophagus and just about filled a bucket with blood three times .. before, during - and after the repeated emergency surgery.

I can report that despite these multiple death experiences, purely for education - there were no angels or long departed relatives calling me to cross over - and most surprisingly to all concerned .. my brain seems to have not deteriorated noticeably - and my mental health wasn't injured when my by-pass neighbour in the Dunedin ICU received open heart massage next to me before being transferred to the cold store.

In 60 years of driving both here in NZ & elsewhere I have also had several life threatening crashes that might count as subtracting from my allocation of Nine 🐈editions .. (and naturally there were also the original 'heart attacks' that I self medicated with high dosage aspirin - do they count?)

None of my red 'departure cards' resulted from my prolonged & close associations with military styled semi-auto arms, shotguns, pistols and 'dangerous' high capacity magazines.

'Time Flies when You're Having Fun'.

Wow - it's 33 years since that author was brave enough to examine our NZ police relationship with firearms.

- Back at the begining in 1841 there were only 57 sworn Policemen in New Zealand - each carrying flintlock pistols shoved down their trousers waistband ..

.66" caliber 'New Land Service' Pistol - Single 9 inch Barrel.

Technology has advanced some since those days & I finally managed to introduce Glocks through an obstructive "Chief Inspector Taffy" - who in the '90s planned to buy some Indian made copies of the WW II High-Power s/a because there was "no way my police force is going to buy plastic guns". 

Even back then, biased opinion was offered as a trumpcard to defeat fact.

It took repeated letters to the then NZ Police Minister (and the UK 'Met') to winkle my banned sample Glock out of isolation in a locked cabinet at Upper Hutt to be included in the police trials - which naturally it won.

Who can guess what might replace the 9mm Glocks one day when they themselves become outdated?

- You'd be brave to guess eh .. but right now I'd be imagining a move towards a high capacity smaller caliber - higher velocity 'auto' round .. perhaps something in a 5.7mm or 8mm "bottle-neck" cartridge for dependable feeding into a non tilting rotating barrel ??

Plastic cased? Electically Ignited? Integral Optics? Dunno.

What I do know is that currently our politicians and police management are colluding to label civilian gun owners as dangerous violent armed undesireables.

- How can it be - that the single most checked, interviewed, compliant, law-abiding - referenced & endorsed sector of New Zealand Citizenry - that is Licensed as FIT & PROPER to own firearms ..

 are simultaneously undesireable Pariahs to be shunned, controlled, and penalised as a threat to the nation?

Licenced Firearms Owners are more checked and approved than the Police themselves are, - certainly our record for stability and lawful behaviour is superior to that of some of our country's politicians.

Time is long overdue for the repeated punitive attacks on law-abiding sporting gun users to be ended and wound back to a system that works at least as well as it used to ..

HOW CAN THE BEST CALIBER PEOPLE - WHO COULD BE THE STRONGEST ALLIES OF POLICE - BE TREATED AS THE WORST?

Marty K.

Oh my ... The Minister Of Police office holder is once again Stuart Nash of the Labour Party.

 He has held the position since 1 February 2023.

Englands Hottest (Military-Nuclear) Tourist Destinations:

 The control and mastery of FIRE is critical to the advance of we humans from base primitive survival to 'civilisation' - and 'Phlogiston Theory' was a fleeting attempt (now discredited), to explain how fire works and might be created.

 - The invention of 'Gods' was similarly an early mental exercise attempting to explain 'Creation' and the existance of all our Universe .. Much like the 'Steady State Theory' - it too will pass.

Do you like String? - Can any of my family or friends disagree with M-Theory ? - Can your brain cope with Branes ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CsY5B3BoI

You are getting warm - So see it before it's gone ..

Maybe you will feel wiser if you watch it twice ...

Capenhurst - near scenic CHESTER Cheshire - is the location of some 90 Tonnes of British URANIUM stored for 'safe' reprocessing

The local council website warns people to "remain calm and go indoors" if they hear the siren or "smell unusually strong, irritating fumes"

- There would be more Uranium & Plutonium in UK storage - but they distributed 8,083 kg of Uranium and 24.4kg Plutonium around Maralinga in Southern Australia while bomb testing in 1957.

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Sellafield,  Cumbria is the main dump 'THORP' store for UKs' 140 Tonnes of PLUTONIUM. 

THORP. Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant ... 

Radioactivity has been discharged from the Sellafield site into the sea since the 1950s.

SELLAFIELD Shore Patrol Searches For Radioactive Solids With RADIATION Detector: A Grand Beach For Paddling & Sand Castles With The Family.

A terrorist attack on Sellafield could render the north of England uninhabitable and release 100 times the radioactivity produced by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, the House of Commons defence committee was told in 2002

Cumbria - bordering Scotland to the North is home to Sticky Toffee Pudding & Beatrix Potter, 

also contains the beautiful but rugged 'Lake District' - 

Change came to the Irish Sea coastal village of 

SEASCALE following the 1879 Furness Railway arriving ..

There were various attempts to 'develop' the area leading-up to the founding of 

ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORY SELLAFIELD in 1939 - which became the 

WINDSCALE PILES in 1947  then 

CALDER HALL plutonium production plant opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956.

WINDSCALE in 1957 suffered a MAJOR RADIATION FIRE EMERGENCY in  the TWO PILE 

NUCLEAR FACILITY with MASSIVE RADIATION LEAKAGE shrouded in SECRECY.

OCTOBER 9  1957.

WINDSCALE was renamed 

SELLAFIELD in 1981 in an attempt to change history.

Sounds like great places to live in and visit.

In The British Nuclear Police - The Girls Get Government Guns ..

- PLUTONIUM has a "HALF-LIFE" exceeding 20,000 years.

- URANIUM 'Half-Life'  ranges between 159,200 years and 4.5 billion years.

A commonly cited quote by Ralph Nader states that a pound of plutonium dust spread into the atmosphere would be enough to kill 8 billion people.^[145] This was disputed by Bernard Cohen, an opponent of the generally accepted linear no-threshold model of radiation toxicity. Cohen estimated that one pound of plutonium could kill no more than 2 million people by inhalation, so that the toxicity of plutonium is roughly equivalent with that of nerve gas.

 - Which VX Nerve Agent England invented & produces at PORTON DOWN Ministry of Defence Defence Science & Technology Laboratory - and The UK Health Security Agency, both located at Porton Down Wiltshire near Salisbury. - A 'Must Visit' for all tourists intent on absorbing Englands ancient history & Royal Heritage.

 Porton Down

Marty K.

Bore Butter - Grease - 'Lube'.

I recently watched some Joker showing-off his new 35 Million Dollar waterside mansion in Florida - all glossy polished marble - petrified wood etc - while 65% of Americans are just surviving from one paycheck to the next .. Hey-Ho.

 Gun lubrication is special .. We all want the best for our "Target Pistols".

You can spend big dollars on small cans of fancy gun oils at your nearest friendly gunshop where it will promise to make your bullets fly further and make your gun look the shiniest it has ever been ..

Americas favorites might be BALLISTOL or HOPPES No.97/8 while 'BREAK-FREE' CLP has miltech to impress anyone on the spectrum. (I've got some somewhere).

You would need your reading glasses to study the small print and still ignore the instructions on how to achieve the miracle results promised .. but warnings are hard to find (- THIS OIL MAY CONTAIN OIL. - OIL may be Oily).

I suggest that stuff claiming to remove copper or lead fouling should be given to your local MP as HEMORROID CREAM - to be used before important meetings - Certainly NEVER let your mates be tempted to smear it onto any gun - as it will dissolve that $2,000 rebluing job from the barrel and melt your steering-wheel faster than 'DIMP' insect repellant used to back when it worked on West Coast SANDFLIES (Technically elsewhere called 'Blackflies'). 

- Rumour has it that something called "Deet"  N,N-Diethyl-3-methylbenzamide might have been in there to slap all over - but that diesel, (Winter Formula) blended with lemon peel might have worked just as well, Great for nits too eh.

Returning 'on topic' .. Guess what police and customs search dogs are trained to sniff-out in gang fortresses, apart from mind altering substances & currency .. *GUN OIL*

Personally I have been using CANOLA OIL (Rape Seed Oil) from my kitchen cupboard - the cheap stuff - to wipe down my guns for years now - ever since I learned that it was actually Rape Seed Oil which was the main machinery lubricant for steam engines right up till the end of WWII and the last steam locos - and it gives you lovely soft hands that your significant other will appreciate.

PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

NOW  - if you ever get into shooting BLACK-POWDER  firearms you will come across mention of something called Bore Butter 

This is a magic potion that will grease your palms - put squirrels in the pot - enhance your ballistic accuracy - and make your sixgun as slick as a pork butchers' smallest sausage ..

They use Turmeric or some synthetic to colour it yellow - but my DIY version is from cow/sheep Tallow mixed warm 1:1:1 with Beeswax and Canola oil (or Olive oil) - some NZ lanolin, plus maybe a few drops of Wintergreen to mask the tallow stench. -  If you leave out the Wintergreen - you could spread this thick on your toast every day peppered with blackpowder until your pimples pop or your first heart attack.

I understand that some U S makers threaten to use 'Mink Oil' scraped from raw fur skins in their salve - and guarantee that it will re-grow hair on a bald mountain top.

Note 1: My mixture is much the same stuff as traditional 'Dubbin'(g).

Note 2: TALLOW. - From the point of view of lubrication of blackpowder firearms - Tallow is much the same stuff whether it is sourced from cow, sheep, or pig. This is 'rendered' ANIMAL FAT. - Rendering means heating to melt the raw fat and straining-out any solids. It may start as 'Beef Suet' - 'Lard' - 'Trimmings' or 'Dripping' - it might have gone "Moo, Hoink, or Baah" ... either way if you eat a lot of it - it WILL clog your arteries (ARTHEROSCLOROSIS) & cause heart attacks, - but it won't harm you when used for shooting unless you stand in front of the muzzle.

- My home-brewed greasilube is good stuff that you can happily also use on leatherware and wooden surfaces as a conditioner and sealant.

I know I'm being a little flippant there - but black powder fouling does stiffen revolver actions and clogs bores to impede loading while altering the impact point. - But once again I suggest - try not to use modern petroleum based oils on your front-stuffer - as when burnt with charcoal they go all hard and crusty.

Gun Powder works brilliantly to send lead balls onto target - but it is dirty corrosive stuff to shoot as only 43% of it turns to gas when it goes OOMPHA .. the other 57% hangs about as gritty sulferous solids trying to be friendly.

Sam Colt used to tell his customers not to grease their balls .. but nowadays the word is to use lube either 'straight' or as pre-lubed wads - for a couple of reasons:

'Lube' reduces bore friction to maximise velocity.

'Lube' of the right stuff helps soften bore FOULING and eases the wiping chore.

'Lube' slathered onto your revolver BASE PIN or "cylinder arbor" reduces how much gritty fouling can blow-back into the cylinder gumming-up its rotation - and helps the gun to keep firing.

'Lube' pushed into every loaded chamber mouth is reputed to prevent CHAIN FIRES by sealing the front of the chamber/powder from the flash & flame. - Link to a useful demonstration ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzkGsQWh4Gw

INERT FILLERS

Seeing as how I like shooting wimpy light loads - rather than KABOOMS  - 'Inert Fillers' - are used to position balls at the front of the cylinder without an air gap .. The classic material is "corn grits" -  but also-rans are semolina, coffee grounds, Polenta, Oatmeal, Bran, saw-dust, Rice? grass-seed, tissue paper, wool, - I guess just about anything lightweight & granular might be used that is genuinely inert and that won't explode or start forest fires. - I'm using medium/dark Prima Qualida Bean ground from the coffee I have drunk strong & sweet with a splash of soy.

GROUNDED - Waste not -Want not.

P.S: According to some U S Civil War histories - The Remington 1858 New Model Army revolver was both much stronger & prefered over the Colts revolvers -  but the original Remingtons in the day seem to have been considered inferior quality to Colts by combatants. - It is likely that the modern replicas are better made than the civil war units were.

Marty K.

UBERTI/Remington '1858' New Model Army .44"

 This used repro front-stuffer revolver was advertised at a good price because it had been shot for the last 30 years and was looking its age - but "had never let me down". 

My new Italian Jobbie is actually in sound condition with a decent unpitted bore and sharp lands to the rifling grooves - but small dings and some rust pitting & scratches on the outside - it might clean-up OK with some work and a little 'cold blue'.

UBERTI-Remington 1858 - above image from the on-line PNZ For Sale Advert.

If you look at this pic you will see that for my first job I have opened up the clearance slots at each cap nipple from the original tight square slit to a wider rounded access so that I can use my 'Snail Capper' to load the percussion caps onto the cones ..

- Trying to use my fingers to push those wee caps securely into that original tight "letter box" was a real faff for my old pinkies with my degenerated eyesight 😮

I have also started to polish-out the parting-line inside the brass trigger-guard for a smoother access and better finish and it is looking tanfastic already .. BUT of course I would never customize any original antique shooter .. that would be rude. - But a good scrub & polish works well on us old timers now and then.

- On the first Sunday of this new year three of us entertained 30-some mixed Kiwi-Aussie Venture Scouts and their leaders to around 5 hours pistol shooting 'two-twos' in the sun - and I did manage to fire off a first '1858' cylinder load of lead balls with beeswax tallow grease onto a steel plate. Very FUN. - Light loads of your actual gun powder, only 24 grains, dropped into each chamber behind HORNADY .454" lead balls to test for function and point of impact.

Life is GOOD despite the nuisance of political-legislative nonsense. - but I ended the day cleaning the stripped sixgun at home in hot soapy water with a sun burned head - Yeah where was my hat!

We mostly used Glock G44 rim-fire semi-autos with hundreds of rounds going down range from hot barrels but mine decided it didn't like cycling the Remington bulk pack ammo .. fortunately there was other stuff (CCI) available at the range.

A. Uberti is now a part of the Italian Beretta-Benelli organisation (as is Pietta) .. the interested will watch this linked video tour of the beautiful BERETTA factory complex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWXGbgB2UWM

Stay Happy,

Marty K.

I asked Rod about finish repairs using cold blue ..

Cold blue solutions are not wonderful when used with modern synthetic gun oils.  There are a couple of tricks to ensure cold blues work better. The first is getting a totally clean surface (no oils including fingers) using a good degreaser like acetone, followed by enough boiling water to rinse and heat the part so it dries quickly. Wearing cotton gloves, apply the cold blue evenly with a clean cotton patch to the still hot part. Allow to dry fully before carding off with the finest grade steel wool while wearing the gloves. Rinse with cold water to check colour. Repeat the whole process to darken it. Artist's oil (refined linseed) can be purchased cheaply at any art supplies shop and is perfect to apply to the blued part. It dries to durable film in a few hours in a warm place. The oil is also perfect for gunstocks. Note that warm parts take the blue much better. Canola oil will have a similar effect to the artist's oil but will not achieve the same durable film. Plant based oils are not suitable for any parts that require lubrication to assist normal function (bolts, trigger mechanisms, etc.).

Cheers

Rod