Cats, Guns, and more. What’s not to love?
What to do, what to do?
Why, go to the Range, of course! (Word of explanation – due to family schedules, we celebrated Christmas a week ago. We are all done, even the wrapping paper clean-up.) And Santa did bring that new guide rod and spring. So:
Fresh powder! 25 degrees! Looming gray skies!
Good day for UpLula loading!
Yup, she works. 80 rounds of LRN and FMJ with nary a failure. Firmly into battery each time and no schmutz in the striker pin channel.
Life is good. And Merry Christmas to all!
But now I’m just playing.
Light primer strikes in a Glock 21? Not possible. Except the inner tubes say, “Yes!”.
Most likely cause? Dirty striker channel. Ok, let’s take a look:
Remove, clean, blow out channel.
Yes, swabbing out the channel with a q tip resulted in lots of “schmutz”, black gunk with some metal particles. Clearly enough to cause friction and slow up the striker.
I guess I’ll just have to head back to the range.
Range day, of course. Yes, it was 27 degrees, an inch of snow and gusting from the northwest.
But, “When the going gets tough,
”The tough go shopping!”
So, I went to the range.
230 g. ball and 200 g. lead semi wadcutters. They rang steel.
However, the ball ammo I had reloaded in 2016 and I noticed some dimpled primers. Light strikes that I had put back.
Not to worry. The 1911 chewed up whatever the G21 choked on.
Got some cold soaked brass to clean now.
But hot .45 ACP brass is pretty easy to retrieve from the melted snow around it.
No, not short arms inspection.
Caliber .45 Automatic Colt Pistol! I hauled out an ammo box of ten 100-rounds plastic boxes and it felt a little light. After full inventory, I discovered a shortage of 200 grain Semi-Wad-Cutters.
Had to switch out the bullet seater to flat nose.
Then, make sure they pass the “plonk” test.
Maybe test it tomorrow?
KatNap Fever! 