Rare as hen's teeth

A conversation between me and my dad. I lamented the fact that I was having so much trouble finding duck hunting loads for my 16 gauge last week,  and he apparently found some...

How To Tell You Are From Louisiana

When you and your son are eating leftover gumbo for breakfast, and your son is not wearing a shirt...

Cop Humor

Yesterday's Dennis The Menace...

Beer Glasses

When I was living in Florida, a package mysteriously appeared at my door one day. When I opened them, there were 6 Sam Adams beer glasses in the package, and a note from my brother, simply reading: "Happy Birthday"

Miraculously,  i have only managed to break one in the intervening 3 moves, and they are still a gift that i love using, and use regularly.

Prosit!

Thanks, Matt.

And this is what it looks like when it's done.

Ryan, next time you're in my town on a weekend, give me a heads up, and I will pass on a right handed IWB holster for your new heater.

This is what leather working on a Sunday looks like...

Just a lot of measuring, cutting, and poking holes.

Ammo-unts

The Other Ryan did a post about ammo ammounts at totalsurvivalist.com in which he discussed the ammounts of ammo he thought was sufficient for each gun he had. My thoughts follow for MINIMUM ammo. Of course, more is always better.

Shotguns- 100 hunting rounds and 200 trap rounds for each hunting/ general use shotgun. If it is a dedicated defense shotgun, 150 rounds mixed buck and slugs. 100 rounds always on hand for training, and 50 on hand for fighting purposes.  I firmly believe for a defensive shotgun ( for all defensive guns really) you should shoot what you carry to practice with.

Rifle- for defensive rifles, 500 rounds. 250 ball, and 250 defensive ammo. Ball for most training, but 50 rounds of the same type you will fight with, so you understand how it functions in your gun. For a hunting rifle, about 200 rounds. All of the ammo should be what you hunt with.

Pistol- 500 rounds per pistol. If it is defensive, split this like you would for a rifle. If it is for range fun, it can all be ball, except for 100 rounds of defensive ammo, in case it needs to be pressed into service as a defensive gun at some point. While i don't have a strong opinion on fighting rifle magazines, i feel that you need a MINIMUM 3 mags for a fighting pistol, but more is always better.

.22cal- for all your various 22 weapons, i like to keep 500 on hand. Truthfully, 1000 would make me happier, but i have never had more than 700 on hand, and have never noticed a lack.

These numbers are just what I'm comfortable with, and are working numbers from personal use. Right now, i am flush on my rifle ammo stores, general use shotgun stores, and .22 Cal stores. I am short a bit on defensive pistol and shotgun stores. The pistol stores are short because i shoot as much as i reload, and the defensive shotgun stores are short because i have only had defensive shotgun for about 2 months, and am slowly working on building those stores.

Just my 2 cents on the subject.

Ammo

Tula Ammo costs $215.00 for 1000 rounds of FMJ 9mm. That's 21.5 cents per round of poor quality range ammo.

Wheel weights can be had around here for 25 cents per pound (I figure about 30 cents after you have processed it). 7000 grains in a pound, so getting a 124 grain bullet from it costs about .5 cents.

Powder cost me $28.00 for HS-6. I use 6 grains, and there, again, is 7000 grains in the pound of powder on my reloading bench. That comes to approximately 2.4 cents.

Primers run about $30.00 for 1000. That's 3 cents.

That's about 5.9 cents per round for the 200 I loaded yesterday.

21.5 - 5.9 = 15.6. That's 15.6 cents saved per round. Total savings of $31.20 on those 200 rounds. I have less than 5 hours total time invested in those 200 bullets. If my time investment is worth less than the difference between my cost per round, and the cost per round of cheap range ammo, my time investment was worth about $6.24, or a dollar less than minimum wage.

Being as how if you make minimum wage, you can't take home $6.24 after taxes, and being as I work a salary job, so I can't work extra to cover my ammo costs, I think I did good.

If I wasn't reloading ammo, I would have just spent those 5 hours goofing off anyway.

Reloading is a great way to shoot a lot more, for less dollars per round.

True story

So today, on the way home from school, riding with my son in the truck, we hear one of those 'seat belts save lives' ad campaigns. Boy-o looks at me and says

" sometimes, when I'm riding with Pawpaw, we will have been driving for 10 seconds, and I will say 'Pawpaw, you should put on your seatbelt, because it can save your life'."

I asked "What does Pawpaw say to thay?"

"Pawpaw says 'Yep, slick, you're right'."

If you knew my dad, you'd realize just how funny that is, because that is EXACTLY what he would say.

Kicked over my giggle box!

Gun Pron

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