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I had cleaned the 22 conversion kit the night before as well as cleaning the frame of my 1911 and oiling a few parts I felt may have been stiff. I even stripped and cleaned the polymer mag.

I ran my starting drills with 0 failures other than the occasional dead 22 round. Those rounds all had solid primer hits. Every once in a while clearing a misfire I would end up with what appeared to be a double feed like it didn’t fully eject. By the time that started I was past the 220 round mark. At 250 rounds when loading I noticed the slide didn’t go into full battery. I tapped the mag and back of the slide. I fired 2 rounds and then it wouldn’t drop the hammer. Upon inspection the slide was out of battery. I tapped it again and finished off the magazine. I noticed as I racked the slide at this point it was pretty warm. How warm? Manual of arms was fine but it was noticeably hot, leaving my hand on the slide resulted me me yanking my hand away, and with the slide back I could barely tap the barrel.

This was with a mix of Remington brass plated 36 grain HP and Federal American Eagle 38 grain CPHP. At this point I holstered the gun and decided to let it cool down and switched to the XD for the large caliber and reloading drills. I ran those well, forgot to print a dot torture target so I just used some of the 8 inch targets I had. First 50 rounds I walked it from 5 yards to 25 yards drawing putting two on one target reloading and doing two into the other target. I had all 50 in the black all the way out to 25 yards. I then placed the target at 7 yards and preceded to focus on reloading drills. I would alter the pattern for the shots and adjust ammo in the magazines so I would have both tactical and lock reloads.

After finishing up with the XD I pulled the 22 back out. It had cooled all the way down, ran the slide a few times and it was still smooth. I loaded up a mag and started drilling with the 22 again. No issues for another 180 rounds after cooling down.  At which point my box was empty and I was at the end of my reservation time. I will say though one should pay attention to their ammunition while loading looking for things out of place. I grabbed this out of my box of 22 ammo.

That is an American Eagle 38 grain CPHP who’s bullet was seated WAY too far. The top of the bullet is almost flush with the case. Luckily in this case there is no way it would have chambered because it shaved part of the bullet and it was outside of the case altering it’s overall diameter. Still, pay attention, this sport is actually relatively safe but bad things can happen. When you pay attention though you can help stop it before it ever becomes a problem. Squib loads are another example of something dangerous.   The dangerous part of this sport is the fact that when you make a mistake, it is not forgiving.

So, anyone interested keep listening and as I make it to the range I will keep you all updated with how the conversion kit is working out.  I’m running a log book to try and track details to find root cause.

I put 410 through it today with just the problems as noted above. 

Went to the Nez Perce county gun show this morning in an effort to find a replacement part for the piece that went flying across my shop last weekend.  Upon arrival around noon the place was packed.  While waiting for the line to get in to thin down I snapped this picture with the thought it will make Sarah Brady cry.

Such a wonderful sight to see ammunition companies sponsoring the county fair.  To their credit though they are a direct part of the community. 

Once inside I began my hunt for the parts I was looking for.  No luck, I did get some leads to some online companies to try so I’ll be making some phone calls this week.  There was a wonderful Luger Collection by one of the vendors.

Each a different year and slightly different model.  They were all in beautiful condition to boot.  I remained on good behavior and did as the wife said and left with just what I arrived with since I couldn’t find the part I was looking for.  Given the fact we owe our dear frivolous Uncle who couldn’t spend within his means if his life depended on it this year we are putting cash to the side to cover those expenses.  This tightened the petty cash budget.

I did however see some nice belt buckles which I know the wife wouldn’t mind having:

I’m not sure why he tossed the extra E in there, I prefer the straight People Eating Tasty Animals.  I suspect that PETAs lawyers were possibility involved at one point.  The fact it’s on leather just is extra gravy on top.

From there I grabbed a quick lunch and headed down to the range.

Some other observations though from the gun show.  That place was packed.  Moving around was difficult just because of the number of people.  That was the most women I’ve ever seen at a gun show, and they were there buying guns.  The statement that the number of gun owners is decreasing by the Brady Campaign is them still in the first stage of grief.  That was the most people I’d seen at the Lewiston Gun show in the past year that I’ve been there.

Still don’t believe me?  Well here it is from U.S. District court Judge Keith Ellison.

Federal law does not recognize actual innocence as a mechanism to overturn an otherwise valid conviction.

What was the purpose of that statement?  It was his reasoning behind him denying a motion for a new trial.  Think about that long and hard.  Innocence is not a reason to overturn a conviction.  Being innocent does not prevent you from being found guilty and evidence that proves your innocence does not provide a route to overturn a bad verdict.

Translation: “There is no correlation between the law and justice.”

Remember, It takes a good prosecutor to convict a guilty man, it takes a great prosecutor to convict an innocent one.  Couple that with three felonies a day and you’re only allowed to remain free by their good graces.

via Uncle.

In a just universe, that much fail concentrated in one organization would create a small, short-duration microsingularity that would simply erase the entire bureaucracy off the face of the planet, never to be heard from again. In our universe, the people in charge get raises, and we get our junk groped.

Linoge – I think you are going to need a bigger image

[The lack of critical thinking ability of some people astounds me.  It seems that the majority of the populace seem to think that doing  it again but this time harder somehow actually works.  Not only do they want to do it harder, but they want you and they’re skipping the Vaseline.  Just lie back and think of England. –B]