Friday Music – Car Radio’s Used to Work Great!

Found this on the web – Any of you folks remember driving along at night listening to your AM car radio and hearing some really good stations? KAAY / Little Rock – KOMA / Oklahoma City – KLEO / Wichita – KOA / Denver – WSM / Nashville – any of these ring a bell?? And of course WLS / Chicago – Well we are gong to take a trip back through WLS RADIO 89’s HIT PARADE for the week of June 9th, 1969. The neatest part?? – All the “Top 5” or “Top 10” or the “weekly” survey lists were call in request driven – That’s right folks – radio stations used to have request lines and you could call in and make requests – and – real people – usually the DJ – answered the phone and took your request – Life Was Good . . .

And in no particular order – Enjoy!

And I will end this Friday Music with a good-bye from Mary Hopkin . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

Now That Is Quite a Trigger Pull : The Firing Mechanism for the 16in Guns

The first thing I thought was – What’s the pull weight on those triggers? – then I thought a flinch wouldn’t matter now – would it? – LOL! – When the “trigger system” was combined with radar that could accurately tell you where the shells were splashing down as well as give you accurate target acquisition – Oh My . . .

The Iowa class could drop nine 16 inch shells in a 90 foot circle every 30 seconds at 20 plus miles – there just ain’t a lot of room to hide a ship in a 90 foot circle – day time? night time? sea state? NO difference. The biggest change was all of a sudden the Japanese navy were no longer the sole proprietors of the night surface action . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

Sig P232 vs CZ Rami 2075

I was not going to do this since the Rami is out of production ( as is the Sig P232 / LOL! ) – however I ran across this video . . .

When CZ stopped production on the 2075 there were rumors on several blogs that CZ had “some” frames and slides left and CZ would put them together and dribble out one last bit of them.

I have not dove deep into hunting for them – way too much going on – but apparently a few distributors have a few in stock – so I guess CZ finally got them put together and dropped them.

The 2075 comes in two flavors – thumb safety / hammer cocked / SA trigger pull – cocked and locked – like a 1911 – and a “2075 D” the D denoting a decocker – just like the Sig P232 – start with a D/A pull then you have a S/A pull after that first shot.

The Sig and the 2075 both have the same footprint . . .

The 2075 hiding under the Sig . . .

The Sig hiding under the 2075 . . .

The CZ Rami is just a tad wider and heavier than the Sig . . .

Are you folks starting to realize why the Sig P232 went away – I’m sure by now most of you have . . .

Sig / 6 plus one of .380 – Rami / 10 plus one of 9mm with the flush mag – and comes with a 15 round sleeved mag in the case – or just use a CZ75 17 or 18 round mag for a reload – almost the same recoil impulse as the Sig ( subjective alert ) – the Sig “feels” a little harsher than the Rami – the Rami shoots more like a big or full size gun than it does a smaller gun – really sweet shooters . . .

As for looks – nothing comes close to the Sig P232 . . .

I had the 2075 D (decocker) and read that CZ had stopped production – dropped what I was doing at the moment and went and bought the only one in stock – the thumb safety model – the 2075’s are few and far between on Gunbroker – and NOT a cheap date . . . If you can find one they are worth buying – but at $1100 average for used I would have to be real sure that I really had to have one . . .

Tried to do a “natural” light thing with these pics – and I had some real expert help in staging the pistols. Curtis the Killer Puppy came crashing through several times as he was subduing the evil miniature tennis ball – finally rolled the tennis ball into the other room and grabbed a pic of both of the CZs and the Sig. I tried to edit a pic and and he had drug the Sig halfway across the house. Does any body know if it’s legal for a dog or cat to carry a handgun?? Asking for a friend . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

Volunteers??

Found these looking for something else entirely – sorta like -“What’s in this box?” – it was heavy for it’s size so I was hoping for ammo – my hopes were realized – 10 boxes of 9mm and these . . .

And I sure don’t remember stashing the 9mm or these in the box – or stashing the box – everybody says the second thing to go is your memory and I can’t remember what the first is – oh well . . .

Bought these with the thought in mind of maybe whacking Bambi or his dad with the Ruger Blackhawk – and forgot I had them . . .

These are slower @ 1200 fps than the PPU 158 grain – but the bullets are 22 grains heavier – I can’t find anyone that wants to shoot these out of the Taurus .357 5 shot snubby – I wonder why?? – LMAO!

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

Red Dot on a Pistol?

The Holosun brand was highly praised and recommended by the guys at the range – I’m like sure, why not??

Here’s all five of the red dot videos from Colion Noir – they will pretty much give you a good idea of red dots on a pistol . . .

After a 100 or so rounds to get to a zero point – it’s counter intuitive – I can see an advantage to this style of sights – now I will have to do some re-wiring in my head to get all the pieces in a – right place / right time /right order – thing going on.

If I get a chance – I will post on getting to a zero point – there are several videos on doing that on the tube – you have to move the impact of the shot to the dot – the dot never moves – that is as simple as I can make it . . .

A thousand rounds or so will probably go quite a long ways towards getting “it” to feel natural – a whole lot of iron sights water has gone under the bridge . . .

Old dog / New tricks thing going on . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

Sidearms of the U.S.A.F.

Nice bit of research done here – and he keeps it interesting throughout the video. When you think of sidearms you think Army / Marines and to a lesser extent the Navy – but the Air Force had quite a bit of variety in sidearms through the years. What I found interesting was just how long the S&W Model 15 continued to serve the Air Force – Enjoy!

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!

Current Events Bonus Music for YOUR Enjoyment!

I have trended away from politics for the most part – I figure you get enough of that elsewhere – but – I do have a little humor for you along with this post – but first a little Frank Zappa – Enjoy!

I promised a little humor for you – little? – This is simply one of the best jokes I have ever heard in my life – Ready?

What’s the difference between a politician and a pedophile?

To Mr. Wood Chipper there is no difference . . .

That’s funny shit right there – don’t care who you are . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are cheap!!

Well That was Easey Peasey . . . And a Teaser Alert!

I went through 75 rounds (or more) of ammo settling on the 3rd largest back strap panel for the Arex Gen 1 Delta – The Gen 2 only came with the largest back strap panel – and I really did not care for it – got the FDE frame kit today – grabbed my roll punches and my hammer and 3 minutes later I had the panel switched out . . .

Here’s what I started with – the FDE frame not only looked strange color wise – but felt pretty strange shooting it for function testing . . .

The black #3 panel is the one on the Gen 1 pistol – so I swapped out the large grip panel for the #3 on the FDE frame . . .

And now they both have the same grip panels and both feel “right” to me – can’t hardly wait to get to the range and run them side by side to see which one actually “feels” better when shooting, and yes, I know that is for the most part a subjective thing . . .

But grip angle / thickness / length from back of grip to trigger and other things can and does make a difference in how a given pistol “fits” you – or me – and how that impacts your ability to shoot it . . .

Major Tease Alert!

The next Sig P232 vs installment is going to give you a look at two real sweet little pistols – a pair of CZ 2075’s . . .

Have Fun! – Run the Gun! – and remember – Fish Heads are Cheap!!