The Blog of Stan Ware

Gun Control

Stan Ware — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:35:00 GMT

Chicago...... Well it looks as if Mayor Richard Daley is at it again. In light of the new Supreme Court decision that the second amendment is a individual freedom for all didn't set good with the Mayor. He promised not to "Roll over" and came up with some new measures...... among them are NO gun shops within city Limits, outlawing residents with a handgun from stepping outside their homes onto their porches or in the garage. Now that law really makes sense.... must of taken them most of the night to come up with such B.S. It also limits the number of handguns one can purchase per month and the list goes on and on. What they are trying to do is make it so costly and hard to own a rifle or handgun that the average person doesn't want to go through the hassle. I also have learned that a lawsuit was filed by citizens and the Illinois Assn. of Firearms Retailers claiming that the new restrictions put on by the Chicago Council violate there constitutional right. In my opinion a individual right is no right at all if you cannot use it or restrict it and that is exactly what the Chicago Council is trying to do to us. The Mayor should explain to us that they already have the strictest laws on the books and most crime per capita.

New York.... Don't think that your gun rights are the only thing that is in jeopardy.... Looks like Knife rights are struggling too. It seems that the New York district attorney has a problem with so called "gravity knives". They are the knives that can be operated with one hand and or are assisted in opening. This would include about 80% of all knives made. What's next ??? Your fishing pole ?

New York..... Firearms micro stamping seems to have lost its appeal. Not only is it flawed in many ways but studies have proven that it does not help police a lot and is very costly. The bill has had no action for quite some time.

News and Opinions

Stan Ware — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:54:00 GMT

After watching the 24 hour news cycle I can see the networks are just as hard up for news as I am... but here is some that may give you heartburn or faith.

As many of you know that the military brass has long been used by the American consumer market. They use the once fired rounds. For example Black Hills buys the stuff from the military and cleans it up reloads it and re-sells it and it puts many people to work. It has become a large business. It seems now the Govt. is thinking about selling the brass themselves and thus cutting out the American reloading market. Could this be just another attempt to put a halt to and control of guns..... Using these once fired rounds and putting out some low priced ammo for the average person is important. This administration knows that and I am sure that is what the have in mind is to slowly make it harder and harder for you and me to enjoy the sport.

Dept of Homeland Security.... well sort of. Here is a article that appeared in the SSR news.

A recent report of an audit by the Dept. of homeland Security inspector general has shown the during the time period 2007 -2008 , nearly 300 firearms belonging to DHS agents were lost... yup Lost misplaced or stolen. In a number of cases, the lost firearms we later found int the hands of the criminals. The reason for lost weapons was because they were not properly secured. President of the Federal Law enforcement Assn. called the findings unacceptable.... Ya think. All I can say is sleep well... your DOHS is sleeping too.

Ohio... Judge says Buy a gun. Hard to believe but in Ashtabula County which is the largest in Ohio is having problems making ends meet and have went from 112 deputy's to 49 in the county. The Judge went on record to arm yourself and be vigilant. Good advice... They should also organize and have watch groups....if nothing else take some firearms training courses.... learn how to protect yourself and family.

Keep you eye on the Arizona immigration law.... should be interesting. I happen to know a gentleman who just recently retired from the border patrol... he now lives in North Dakota and happened by the shop not long ago to have some work done. We got to talking about the border and the long and short of it is the Govt. just doesn't want to do anything because on one side the party wants cheep labor and on the other side they want the votes to stay in power..... anyway I asked him how he ended up in North Dakota. Here is his answer.... He said when I left Arizona I stuck a burrito on my antenna and headed north and when I stopped for gas the gentleman asked me what the heck that was..... at that point I knew I was far enough North and thats how He ended up in North Dakota. I will leave you with that. We also welcome your opinion and feel free to respond.

SGR

What's new for 2010

Stan Ware — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:11:00 GMT

I have heard thru the vine that Remington Arms is going to start making Pistols.... yes, I said pistols. In fact they will be announcing a new hand gun division and will be made in the United States which is always good news. Whats next... well, I would think a custom shop would be in order. In looking thru the Brownells cataloge there is definately a market for custom work as they have donated quite a few pages for custom handgun goodies. The 1911 seems to be a popular one ..... could Remington have Kimber in its sights?... who knows.

IMR powders form Hodgen has introduced a new powder called IMR 8208 XBR which should work well in the .223's and 22/250's , 308's etc. It is short grained extruded with unheard of consistency from -40 degrees to 165 degrees F.

On another front its great to see that according to the latest polls across the country more people are pro gun than ever.This may be a good thing because as you may know.... when the current administration is done jamming health care down our throats that the the gun control subject is going to come up, but more on this later.

SGR

Boron Nitride (BN) or more specifically Hexagonal Boron Nitride (HBN) use by Shooters

Ryan Ware — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:35:00 GMT

To Joe and Others that have asked,

In the past few days there has been a thread running on Benchrest Central about the uses of Boron Nitride (BN) or more specifically Hexagonal Boron Nitride (HBN) by us shooters. A few guys have contacted Francis (Dad) and I and have asked for a separate posting with all the info we have gathered so I will try to get it all in and not miss anything.

First let me go back a number of years to the late Nineties. Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2 or moly) was new on the scene in BR again. It had been tried in the fifties, I have records of it, and it didn't work well then. I have no records of its use between the fifties and the nineties, but that doesn't mean it wasn't tried. Anyway, Dad and I were competing in both group (NBRSA) and Score with (IBS) in the late nineties and we were question many times on weather we thought we would try moly. We both considered it and decided not to mess with it. There were cleaning issues that were different than our regular regimen of bore cleaning. We clean our bores after every relay; the use of moly would allow us to shoot all day without cleaning and having copper fouling. What about removing carbon fouling from the burned powder? What about fouling from the moly that would take time after the day was over to remove? We considered moly and decided against it.

In the meantime a number of shooters were cleaning their bores and then treating them with "Lock-Ease" to pre-lube the barrel after cleaning but before the first shot. Stan Buctel was selling a mixture of Colloidal Graphite in an alcohol suspension that was acquired from Acheson Colloids. Another product available was Penephite which was a mixture of colloidal graphite in an oil suspension available from Kano Labs, the makers of Kroil. We used the Penephite to prelube our barrels and it works quite well. Our experience has been that after thoroughly cleaning your bore, you can run a patch or two of Penephite down your barrel to prelube then when you go to the line you have to shoot fewer fouling shots before one can be trusted as the true impact. Our experience has been about the third shot can be trusted with this application.

About the same time Danzac or Tungsten Disulfide (WS2) was being used and campaigned by Kinkaid and a few others about as successfully as moly. The WS2 required one less step to coat bullets, it did not require the application of carnauba wax. You would simply clean and dry the bullets then tumble them in WS2, then lightly shake them in a towel to remove excess. The WS2 would stick to the bullets without carnauba wax. Also WS2 would clean out of a barrel much easier than the moly and it didn't require JB bore paste to get it out of the barrel. After a year of watching WS2 being used we decided to give it a try. It worked well and in our PPC barrels we noticed that we needed less effort to clean the copper fouling out, or that there was less copper fouling in the bore. In the .30 BR barrels we noticed the same thing and that we were able to keep our barrels in great shooting condition for 2 to 3 relays before cleaning was required. We cleaned every relay though, because you only now if it's going to spray a shot when you're at the line. In our thought process, it was better to clean too often, than to find out at the line that you weren't cleaning enough.

So for a number of years we would continue to use Penephite after our cleaning and preparation process and use WS2 for coating our bullets. I was on the phone with Randy Robinett one day, well a couple of hours of one day anyway, I was ordering bullets and discussing our uses with WS2 with him and he mentioned that his good friend and ours too, Mike Bigelow was using HBN to coat bullets and that he had just tried it that past year with some good success. As Randy had described it, Mike is still beating all of us as he had before, but he is doing it in a cleaner more healthy way. HBN as Randy described to me is used also in the cosmetic industry and has fewer health warnings when compared to moly or WS2. HBN as I have seen it, is described as a minor irritant from airborne dust particles. So I called Mike and the scoop directly from him. Mike had been coating his bullets with HBN the same way we had with WS2, just clean them in acetone (well vented area), let them dry, tumble them in #4 steel shot for about 25 minutes, and then sift them, and shake them through a towel to remove excess powder. A half a tip of a medium flat screwdriver holds enough powder to coat 100 .30 cal bullets. The other thing that mike mentioned is that he would rub some HBN on his leather bags to allow the rifle to slide smoothly. He claimed that there is no substitute that he has found for how well the rifle slid in the bags (sorry Dave D). I use Dave Dohrmans bags and have not needed to try the HBN for that but I trust Mike's word his equipment is top notch and he is tough to beat. From Mike Bigelow I got information on getting HBN from Momentive Performance Materials. In looking at their website I found the HCPL Grade that Mike had mentioned. I called Jon Leist at Momentive, we had a nice talk about our uses, and soon thereafter a pound of HBN HCPL grade was on the way.

We coated our bullets the exact way Mike had described, which was how we had been coating with WS2. Now our bullets have a slightly white sheen to them with kind of like a pearl coat. They are so slippery it takes a little practice to pick them up and not drop them on the trailer floor. What have we notice down range? Nothing different from WS2 other than the black ring on your target around the bullet hole is now white or nonexistent. Our barrels clean just as clean as with WS2. Your hands aren't black at the end of the day of shooting and that might be the most important part. I'm a Union Ironworker by trade and I work in some of the dirtiest places that Mike Rowe would ever be caught in for one day, I do it for a career. Steel mills, Slag pits, Coal bunkers, Coal Furnaces, etc. what I have found is that no matter how much protection you wear, if you work with it you will breath it. HBN HCPL according to the MSDS is not as harmful to your respiration system as WS2 or moly. We have used HBN HCPL for 2 years now and are happy with it.

Let's not get anything wrong here, we are taking absolutely no credit for any of the above mentioned uses for Moly, HBN, WS2, Penephite, or Lock-Ease. I am simply listing our experiences and uses with such items.

Last summer while cleaning and pre-lubricating one of my rifles this thought hit me. I'm cleaning my barrel to the best of my ability and removing carbon fouling and very little copper out of my barrel. How I judge that the carbon and copper has been removed is the blackish streaks on the patches that pass through the bore. Then when my barrel is as clean as I consider it needs to be, I add two patches soaked with Penephite (black) back into the barrel. HBN is very slippery, I mentioned dropping bullets? Why not replace the Penephite with HBN and in turn add less (black or bad) indications into our rifle barrels. HBN also has been the absolute most slippery substance we have used for anything. If Penephite was used because it was slippery wouldn't HBN be better? When we got home from that shoot we called Jon Leist again, and talked to him about mixing HBN and 90% alcohol for a suspension agent to pre-lube our barrels. He though it sounded great but that the AC6111 Grade HBN would be better for this use. It would stand up in the alcohol suspension and cling to the barrel when passed through on a patch. I have not seen AC6111 in Momentive's website, but it is available from John. We got some from Jonn and mixed it in alcohol 90%. We use about one teaspoon in 16 ounces of alcohol. It has to be shaken each time you use it because the HBN does settle.

We started using it this fall and what we have noticed is that now that first shot fired out of a clean and pre-lubed barrel can be trusted as the true impact point. We use tuners so now I got to the line, fire two shots judge my group for vertical, adjust the tuner as needed or not, and after tune has been achieved go to my record targets. This use has saved us in time at the bench and bullets in the backstop.

I hope all my recollections have been correct and I hope I have given credit where credit was due. But mostly I hope you enjoyed this post.

Paul Becigneul (Pbike)

Below are a few reference links

Momentive website… http://www.momentive.com/Internet/

Jon Leist contact info… Jon.Leist@momentive.com

MSDS for HBN grade HCPL… http://www.momentive.com/momentiveInternetDoc/Internet/Static%20Files/Documents/MSDS/MSDS%20200%20-%20BN%20Powders%20&%20Shapes.pdf

MSDS for WS2…http://www.lowerfriction.com/pdf/4.pdf/

MSDS for MoS2… http://www.rosemill.com/html/msds/bemol_mos2_msds.pdf

Article provided by Paul Becigneul (Pbike)

News that may interest you

Stan Ware — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:29:00 GMT

I see that the doo-Gooders are at it again.... a bill coming out of Illinois by Representative Bobby Rush (D) known as the "Blair Holt's Firearm licensing and record sale act of 2009" would make it a illegal to own or possess a handgun or semi-auto firearm that uses a magazine without a federal license. Parts of the bill which will give the average citizen heart burn include a photo id,address, all previous aliases..... previous aliases, hmm I didn't keep a record of all of them. Also, thumb print, completion of written firearm test, release of mental health issues and last but not least a fee.You cannot transfer ownership unless the other person has a license also. You must also report a stolen firearm withing 72 hours or you are not in compliance and it is illegal. All this comes out of Illinois where they have some of the strictest laws in the nation and the most crime.

Now if this isn't the biggest invasion on the second Amendment I don't know what is. I always said I would not get into politics on the blogs but I cannot in good faith sit here and take it any longer. This administration is the worst in my lifetime that I have seen. Being they have control of both houses they seem to think that they can do anything they want anytime. Even if it means take your and my rights away. I also see the Masai is going to stop pilots from carrying a gun in the cock pit of the air plane.... What on earth is the guy thinking of ? Rome is burning and he wants to take away the pistols on planes. We have many and big problems with the economy. I am sure it has affected some of our shooters. If you lost your job your not going to be doing allot of traveling....your going to be looking for another job and keeping payments on the house or car and putting food on the table.Well, lets not sit on our duffs and do nothing while we still have some rights. Please call your senator and or Rep and let him know your thoughts... I did and it makes me feel good that you can talk to them idiots by email or phone because all they are interested in is getting re-elected. One thing they do is check the wind daily. DON'T wait until its too Late. Is anyone else out there got some choice words for these people.... Lets hear it.

SGR