A to Z - Part 4

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THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW.

1A. Before I get off the subject of reloading I wanted to tell you about a brief conversation I had regarding a 50 cal. rifle cartridge. It uses approx. 225 grains of powder in each round and if there are 7000 grains in a pound of powder you can only reload 31 cartridges per each pound of powder. Just something for you to think about.

2B. I wanted to also explain the difference between a "C" press and an "O" press. I do believe most companies have stopped using the older "C" press because it is not as strong as the "O" press for rifle calibers, but I have always like the "C" press much better. It is slanted at an angle and the front is open and much more visible. I have never had one problem using my "C" press all these many years. The "O" press is like an O where you lose a great deal of visibility when inserting a case into the die.

3C. I can not urge you in strong enough terms to be very careful when buying used guns. Most of you do not know enough and sooner or later you will feel like a schmuck when you windup with a nitemare. I personally do not buy used guns or knives. If I can not afford NIB (new in box) I just save up until I can buy the top of the line from an internal parts viewpoint. For the past 35 to 40 years I have seen people that deserved to be taken because they them selves were not always playing it straight. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.

4D. Its like buying a used car that is one year old and you make a killing in the price you paid. You must ask yourself why did that person get rid of this nice car that is just a year old and looks mint. Same applies to most everything especially guns.

5E. I personally do like a Beretta 92F. This is one of my favorite handguns and its my gun of choice to protect my property. It is not the most accurate handgun out there because there is no front end bushing as it locks up in the rear. You must keep it clean or you will have a problem especially in the desert areas of the globe. If you use Militec and then wipe it down so that you just leave a dry film of Militec on it, you will be fine.

6F. I also like the Beretta Cougar 8000 as it is super reliable and fits your hand well. I think the Beretta pistols in 380 acp are super reliable but much to big for a 380 acp pistol. I would not own any of the small Beretta pistols like the Tomcat, there are better choices.

7G. As for the line of Sig Sauer pistols I personally think the Sig 239 is the best they offer in a small carry handgun. I do not like the MIM (metal injection parts) that all the Sigs are now using. Being a south paw I have no interest in carrying a Sig Pistol.

8H. I know that most law enforcement people now carry either a Sig, or a Beretta, or an HK USP or a Glock pistol. I am super familiar with each one of them and for carry my choice is either a Glock or the discontinued HK P7 which is not widely accepted by police depts.

9I. This world caters to right handed people which are the majority, and lefties like me struggle to find left handed holsters. I do not mind ordering a left handed holster but when some one BS me its over for them. Its very hard for me to find people that keep their word to me at times. If you want a good holster go to www.lightningarms.com
It is owned by Audrey and Craig and they are super honest and totally reliable. I would buy a Milt Sparks Versa Max II holster.

10J. I am in a position to help people and companies but if I recommend someone you can be sure I have been treated properly and I do not mean free bees like some of the gun writers that prositute themselves because they are free loaders. I buy everything I need using Mr. Franklin. I can not be bought as my integrity means too much to me.

11K. I am looking forward to having springs made out of chrome silicon alloy wire for the SW "J" frame and the NAA GUARDIAN. I hope it will not be much longer so that I can buy some for myself. I like my very old "J" frames from the 1960 era. I have gotten to trust my friend Marc at www.ismi-gunsprings.com He really cares about his product like I care about what do.

12L. For years I have tried to get people interested in my ideas but I have about given up because of my age and declining health. There is not one good ambi thumb safety on the market for the 1911 pistol. No one has an interest because they sell most of the junk anyway so why should they invest in new and better ideas and new tree molds.

13M. I have always believed that improvements in a carry handgun should be internal like a jeweled watch, and after all these years nothing has changed my mind. These cosmetics do not help one bit when it comes to internal functioning. I do like the looks of some things I see but they do not or can not take the place of my Glock 19 or my HK P7 M8. When you are at a gun range try an watch some of these brands of handguns and see which ones constantly jam. Ask the rangemaster what he has seen and you will learn a great deal.

14N. I have always liked a revolver but if I had to buy a "SHOOTER" in this current crop of revolvers that are made today it would have to be a Ruger SP101 or a GP100. NOW TO CARRY A REVOLVER I WOULD BUY A S&W 642 or a NAA MINI REVOLVER. For the person that wants to shoot a few hundred rounds per week your best bet is the Ruger.

15O. If you carry a revolver and get caught up in a social encounter where lead starts flying, its very doubtful that you will ever have time to reload. You will either make it in the first two rounds or you will most likely be sporting a brand new toe tag. I will never forget when I was in the Miami School of Medicine and I was in the morgue area and I stood there and counted 27 autopsy tables.

16P. Many people like and carry a Walther PPK and or a PPK/S. These pistols are known as the Jam-o-matic in my opinion. No one with a big hand should ever own or carry any of these handguns. The slide is going to cut the web of your hand and when you see the blood running down your wrist you will lower your hand and then you will creat a jam. This is not a womens handgun either. The factory recoil spring is 20 lbs and most women can not rack the slide.

17Q. When you buy an aluminum frame semi auto if you are using a steel guide rod and the frame is soft anodized, the guide rod head will eat up the frame in 1000 rounds. I have a light weight Colt Mustang and still retain the plastic guide rod because of all the damage I have seen in this model using a steel guide rod. Same applies to a Para Ordnance P12 as these frames do not have the superior anodizing of a Sig frame that is finished in Germany.

18R. If you own a Para Ordnance "LDA" - I suggest that you never take it completely apart. It is not an easy pistol to re assemble. This handgun was either designed by a "GENIUS" or a "NUT". Would I buy a P.O. "LDA" ??? NO, NEVER...

19S. Many of the older BLUED handguns that people are buying that look very nice externally, have been full of rust after I took them apart. It takes me twice as long to do any work on these type carry guns because I must remove the rust and re blue all the internals with a product that will prevent rust.

20T. When you are legally carrying a handgun there are many ways to do this but the very worst way is to carry your handgun in a MIDDLE OF THE BACK HOLSTER. If you ever fall on concrete and your handgun is in place in the middle of your spine, you could wind up in a wheel chair for the rest of your life. These holster companies are only interested in selling every conceivable product to make a living. Do not get sucked into this kind of holster.

21U. Everyone out there should have at least two good quality tactical knives. I have definite opinions about this and you do not have to spend a fortune to get a good knife. Go to www.crkt.com Columbia River Knife and Tool company make a superb product. Their knives are made in Taiwan and they are first rate and very well made.

22V. I have my personal opinion about the knives that I want to own and carry. I want quality and I am always interested in the steel that the blade is made of. I personall like many knives but after seeing the new line of Cold Steel premiun folders made using SAN MAI steel, it does not get any better than this, the down side is they retail for about $400. You basically get what you pay for and these knives are made in Seki, Japan. The SAN MAI steel blades are laminated with harder steel in the middle layer which is where the cutting edge is.

23W. It has been very difficult to find certain KARAMBIT knives as they are sold almost as fast as the wholesalers can get them. This is not a general purpose knife. It is an Indonesian fighting weapon that can be extremely lethal. This knife is nothing to fool around with and I would like to see many more companies make a very high quality Karambit folder using a frame lock instead of a liner lock.

24X. When you look at CRKT knives, one model that I am very familiar with is their M16 model. This is a liner lock but has a secondary lock to back up the liner lock to prevent the blade from ever closing on your fingers. This is an excellent feature that most liner locks do not have.

25Y. I want to go back to buying used handguns and rifles. It is very difficult to know what you are buying if you are a novice but have illusions that you are smarter than everyone else out there. NOT SO, these people have been getting away with selling junk to unsuspecting people since I was a kid. Use caution and when in doubt ask an expert.

26Z. To show you how intense these people are about selling junk I am going to relay a true story to you. Many years ago I used to set up at major gun shows, and before the gun shows started, some people selling used guns would come to my table asking me to just swap out the good parts in guns they would sell. They wanted to keep the good fitted parts for another sale while installing inferior parts in guns they were going to display for sale. I REUSED TO DO THIS EACH AND EVERY TIME. I knew the game that they were playing and I was not about to be a party to it.

Please let me know if you like this type of commentary. tjacobson@houston.rr.com

BREAKING NEWS
Musical missiles in Iran
Tehran's plot to hide the Shahab-3s


Top level

G2 Headlines
Author: Joseph Farah

© 2005 G2 Bulletin
Publishing date: 19.01.2006 21:30

Iran's Shahab 3 missile Iran is playing a game of musical missiles in preparation for possible air strikes against its Shahb-3 units. Since Tuesday, say sources close to the act, the Revolutionary Guards air force has been moving its mobile missile launchers every 24 hours to keep potential enemies – such as Israel and the U.S. – from targeting them.

Sources say the launchers move only at night, and have been instructed to change their postions "in a radius of 30 to 35 kilometers." Before the new orders, the Shahab-3 units changed position on a weekly basis. Advance Shahab-3 units have been positioned in Kermanshah and Hamadan province, within striking distance of Israel. Reserve mobile launchers have been moved to Esfahan and Fars province.




Pentagon Plans Major Increase in Special Forces

January 24, 2006By Charles AldingerReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters)

The U.S. military plans to add nearly 8,000 troops to its elite Special Operations Forces next year to bolster America's ability to fight terrorists and insurgents worldwide, defense officials said on Tuesday.Photo: Green Berets walk from their MH-47E helicopter upon arriving in the southern Philippines, February 17, 2002.

A new Pentagon review of defense strategy would add thousands of troops skilled in fighting terrorists and insurgents to the ranks of the elite Special Operations Forces, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. (REUTERS/ Charlie Saceda)The plan would swell the ranks of the Special Operations Command, including Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs and the top-secret Delta Force, to about 60,000 troops by the end of 2007, said the officials.

The officials, who asked not to be identified, confirmed a Washington Post report that the plan emerged from the Pentagon's 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review, or QDR, a sweeping assessment of U.S. defense strategy.The Post said that billions of dollars would be added to the Special Operations budget over the next five years, if Congress approves the plan."There is going to be a significant emphasis on 'SOF,' said one defense official familiar with the QDR document, which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will send to the White House and Congress on February 6.President George W. Bush will also send his 2007 defense budget proposal to lawmakers on that day.

U.S. military spending, especially in years beyond 2007, is expected to be heavily influenced by results of the defense review.Congress approved Bush's request for an addition of more than 1,000 troops for the Special Operations Command in the current 2006 budget, including an increase in SEAL platoons.Another defense official told Reuters that under the budget proposal the ranks of elite forces would grow by 15 percent in financial 2007, which starts next October.

The defense officials stressed that the defense review was a broad document and dealt with a wide range of issues from how to deal with the future growth of China as a military power to whether to continue to be able to fight and win two major global conflicts simultaneously.Rumsfeld has emphasized the importance of the U.S. Special Operations Command, based in Tampa, Florida, and since the September 11, 2001 attacks on America has pushed for expanding its autonomy as a fighting force and to increase secret operations worldwide.

The Post reported that one of the largest gains would be in Army Special Forces, or Green Berets, who operate in 12-member "A-teams."The newspaper cited defense officials and analysts as saying that the Army Special Forces would expand from 15 to 20 active-duty battalions, creating about 90 more A-teams to deploy to regions considered vulnerable to terrorist or extremist influences.

Pentagon officials declined to discuss details of the defense review, but Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters this week that the QDR had identified the growing importance of special forces.They are trained in languages, how to operate closely with allied troops and in desert, jungle and other warfare.

Why Iran Can Afford to Be So Bold
Thursday, January 26, 2006

Is Iran crazy, or canny? Before you answer, consider the ace it has up its sleeve.Iran has guts, there’s no doubt about it—what with its pressing forward with nuclear development while threatening to wipe Israel off the map.

But these moves aren’t as careless as some people assume, considering the ace Tehran has up its sleeve.Oil, that is.The equation is simple. The advanced economies of America and Europe rely heavily on a stable supply of oil, much of it from opec member nations. Iran, which produces 4.2 million barrels of oil per day, is the second-largest opec producer and an instrumental contributor to the global supply of oil.

To put it even more plainly: Iran has excess oil; America, Europe and Asia need it. Oil has become the Achilles heel of the world’s greatest, most advanced nations.In the same manner that nutrient-rich sap is the lifeblood of a tree, providing it with the power and energy to grow tall and strong, oil is the sap that provides energy (in many cases, literally) to the largest and most affluent economies on the globe.

Oil is absolutely central to our modern lifestyles. Jeopardize or limit the flow of sap up the trunk, and you stress a tree’s growth and overall health. While it may not die, it will stop growing, and many of its branches will wilt and die. A mere restriction in the volume of sap flowing up the trunk would have dire results on the tree’s health and its ability to produce fruit.Although Iran can’t stop the flow of oil, it can reduce the volume of oil flowing onto the global market.

And any such restriction in oil flow would yield dire results for the economies of America, Europe and Asia—directly affecting transportation, manufacturing, industry, agriculture and the military, with indirect ramifications for every other economic sector. Four million fewer barrels of oil per day on the market would likely create economic chaos, which would precipitate political crisis.

But here is where the analogy breaks down. While a tree wouldn’t respond to a mere threat to reduce its sap flow, with oil it is different. Even the threat of there not being enough oil to meet global demands has an impact, particularly in today’s world where oil supplies are growing increasingly tight.We all experienced this phenomenon last week.

As Europe and America scrambled to rummage up support for UN sanctions against Tehran because it is resuming its nuclear activities, the Iranian oil minister warned that “[o]ne of the consequences [of sanctions] will be the unleashing of a crisis in the oil sector and particularly a price hike” (Agence France Presse, January 19). The news of a potential disruption in the flow of oil from Iran caused oil prices to jump to near four-month highs.

This is quite startling. Iran didn’t actually reduce the amount of oil it contributes to global supply, it just threatened to reduce it—and look what happened.The amount of influence Iran wields in this scenario is ridiculous. The Iranian oil minister makes two or three statements to the Middle Eastern press, and you have to pay more at the gas pump.

The Iranian oil minister is taking more money from your wallet, and there is little you can do to stop him.Why? Because America, as well as Europe and Asia are absolutely reliant on the stable flow of oil. Even though the U.S. doesn’t receive oil directly from Iran, in the event of Tehran squeezing supply those nations that do import Iranian oil would have to hunt elsewhere for it.

In the end, it affects everyone.As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swaggers around the world, endorsing dangerous ideologies, flippantly throwing around offensive remarks that he remains arrogantly unapologetic for, many wonder if this politician isn’t slightly loco—if there aren’t some screws lose in his mind. What else would give him the gall to push around some of the most powerful nations and groups of nations in the world?

We recently wrote about an unseen force influencing this man’s mind.But is he crazy, or canny? The other factor empowering this man is that he knows his nation plays a central role in the global supply of oil.An article from the Guardian in Britain last week amplifies this point: “[Iranian Oil Minister] Danesh-Jafari’s warning added weight to veiled threats by Iran’s president on Saturday.

Iran had a ‘cheap means’ of achieving its nuclear ‘rights,’ Mr. Ahmadinejad said, adding: ‘You [the West] need us more than we need you. All of you today need the Iranian nation’” (January 16, emphasis ours).Iranian oil is part of the sap that fuels and energizes some of the world’s leading nations. Fully cognizant of the resultant massive influence it wields on the world scene, Iran believes it can run the risk of pushing around America and Europe.Sure, UN sanctions would hurt the Iranian economy, and its national income would decrease substantially if it chose to withhold oil from the market.

But Iran knows such measures would hurt America and Europe more. It could potentially devastate their economies. These facts infuse the leaders of Iran with tremendous confidence.The Iranians are failing to consider all the ramifications of their flippant behavior, however. They are blinded by arrogance and over-confidence. They operate under the assumption that they can push Europe and America around without serious implications. Time is going to prove them wrong.

Europe is heavily dependent on outside sources for their energy. Russia and the Middle East are the two main providers of that energy. In recent weeks, mild crises have occurred in both sources of European energy—Russian natural gas and oil to the east, and Iranian oil to the south.The lives and well-being of most Europeans depend heavily on Russian natural gas, and oil supplied by opec. Threatening Europe’s supply of energy is the same as threatening the lives of Europeans!

President Ahmadinejad is foolish for thinking Europe will roll over and acquiesce to Tehran’s wishes. To push at Europe by threatening its energy supply is naive and highly dangerous.Facing Russian instability to the east and Iranian arrogance to the south, Europe is going to have to do something to secure the flow of oil and natural gas into its borders. These crises could easily be catalysts for the unification of Europe!

For more than a decade, our editor in chief has foretold of bullying tactics by Iran that would “push” Europe over the edge—inviting a blitzkrieg attack from the Europeans. This is based on a prophecy in Daniel 11 that shows Europe, a resurrection of the old Roman Empire—an outgrowth of Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon—marching into the Middle East, partially to secure its energy supplies.

Read our free booklet The King of the South for more on this.Europe’s energy issues will play a significant part in bringing Bible prophecy to pass. With the engines of this formidable global power needing fuel, and present sources proving so unpredictable, we can expect that before long Europe will get its act together—and move to secure its energy sources through war.

Teddy