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MANSFIELD, OH - Early investigation shows three men from the Columbus area went to Pine Bridge Apartments, 135 E. Cook Road, looking for a 25-year-old Mansfield man.
Chief Jason Bamman said Sylas Daequan Miller, 25, of Mansfield, allegedly shot Marcus Napoleon Wilson, 22, of Reynoldsburg, in an apparent act of self-defense Sunday.
Wilson was taken to OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was driven there by Correll Amsbaugh, 21, and Kendrell Moxley, 20, both from the Columbus area.
During an argument between Hodges and the truck’s driver, later identified as Keyon Jamel Tate, 39, Hodges walked to the trunk of his vehicle, retrieved a machete and approached the truck’s occupants while waving the weapon, officials said.
Tate then fired multiple shots, striking Hodges, and fled the scene.
Investigators interviewed several witnesses in the area who corroborated the events captured on surveillance video, according to the release.
Witnesses also said that this incident stemmed from an ongoing dispute between Tate and Hodges, including a prior argument roughly two weeks earlier in which Tate was reportedly injured by Hodges with the same machete.
It’s almost like all freedoms are interconnected or something, and that an unrestrained government powerful enough to control guns is powerful enough to do whatever it wants. [More] They’ve fouled their nests. Now they’ve come to foul yours.
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I would not raise an American flag at my house because I wouldn’t…I wasn’t even born here. [More] But she can rule here. Who let her in, and how did that help “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”? How do such people take the required oath? To be admitted and to … Continue reading "The New ‘American’"
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Yes, They Want Trump Dead. They Also Want You Dead. [More] You don’t say. [Via bondmen] Tangentially-Related UPDATE Luke Skywalker does, too: A lot of Democrats liked and reposted it. And now it looks like someone is trying to make it disappear. Textbook…
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This means that of the three percent of U.S. homicides carried out with rifles, a portion might have been carried out with lever actions, another portion might have been carried out with bolt actions, another portion with pump actions, another with semiautomatics, and yet another with AR-15s, etc. [More] Don’t worry. The grabbers want to … Continue reading "You Gotta Start Somewhere…"
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SICK: Democrat Congressman Suggests that War Secretary Pete Hegseth Should Be EXECUTED [More] Another “war hero” along the lines of one who came before… If being a Marine was all it took, we’d have no better pal. I’m more concerned that he wants enforcers empowered to kill me if I don’t comply with his edicts’ … Continue reading "A Commiesense Gun Safety Advocate"
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Lt.-Col. [Marc] Kieley said [a bloc of new trainees] was plagued by allegations of racism and infighting between cultural groups within the unit, such as [African] people from Cameroon “against those from Côte d’Ivoire.” [More] Me, I’m looking forward to Hutu and Tutsi brigades. Hey, somebody’s gotta do the gun confiscations… [Via bondmen]
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Man arrested, charged in Odessa apartment explosion wanted to make ‘big firework’ [More] Adds new meaning to “Dumber than a Box…” [Via Steve T]
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New pro-gun group challenging extreme gun control of U.S. Virgin Islands [More] Jeez, Giffords was already freaking out, and now this…
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[A]n elderly man in California was killed when an anti-Israel protester hit him in the head with a megaphone… The protester who was charged with the man’s death was just allowed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter in exchange for a ridiculous plea deal that includes a sentence of one year in prison followed by … Continue reading "Another Senseless Assault Megaphone Death"
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Nick Fuentes Joins the DEMOCRATS — Triggering a Hasan Piker Nightmare for Liberals! [More] I never understood what this obvious punk’s attraction was to gain followers and command media attention. And he belongs with the Democrats. All National Socialists do. [Via Michael G]
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ATF’s New Era of Reform… Easing the NFA Transport Burden – In a sea of nothing burgers, here’s half a step in the right direction. [More] Look, I don’t mean to just sound negative and admit this is a hell of a lot better than anything the government has backed off on so far, and … Continue reading "And Another Step"
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Top DOJ official predicts Supreme Court will declare AR-15 rifles legal everywhere in America [More] Great, as it should be. I don’t mean to be the party pooper, but heeding Mr. Wolf (NSFW) for a second, two concerns remain: Assuming we can get it to stick, how does the administration sound on ending NFA and … Continue reading "A Good First Step"
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Tate Adamiak to receive 50 days of ‘Diesel Therapy’ punishment – He will be kept completely out of touch in the back of a DOC van. [More] As long as we’re in a new paradigm of text, history, and tradition, what’s the Founding Era parallel where they would have kept an inmate captive in a … Continue reading "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"
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Homeowner shoots, kills man reportedly breaking into their home in Spring … That altercation proceeded outside into the streets …… The homeowner decided he followed the suspect out … It will be up to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office to determine whether any charges will be filed. [Watch] It’s rarely in one’s legal interests … Continue reading "Ay, There’s the Rub"
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"All that money pouring in, those TV ads ... did bring people to the primary polls in record numbers, but that record still amounts to a 14.9% turnout instead of the usual single digits. Just over eighty-five percent of registered voters are, apparently, okay with whoever the rest of us pick."One state senate primary contest that had millions of out-of-state dark money advertising dollars spent on it is likely to come down to three votes.
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- Roberts: "Hey, you can't Dred a Scott without Plessying a few Fergusons."
- Second tallest megatsunami ever recorded happened in Alaska last year.
- Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on the Plow v2.0
On May 7, 1697, Stockholm’s medieval royal castle was destroyed by fire. The Codex Gigas (pictured) — the world’s largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript) — survived by being thrown out a window. — May 7, 1867: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patented dynamite in England. This was the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive. — We are running a two-week-long sale in all of our percussion revolvers at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday, May 18th, 2026. Please note that there are cartridge conversion cylinders available for many of these guns …
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On a January evening earlier this year, I walked around the corner from our kitchen towards the bathroom and smelled smoke. My wife had just returned home from a meeting and I had spent most of the afternoon juicing frozen plums saved from last fall. I ask my wife if there was a wood smoke smell outside when she came in expecting her to confirm that a neighbor either had a fire pit going or that there was a brush pile burning nearby. When she said that she had not noticed smoke while walking into the house, I stepped out …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, more about AI and the anti-AI backlash. Iran War: Global Fertilizer Shortages Looming Reader A.T. send this BBC news piece: Billions of meals at risk due to Iran …
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“Taxing is much like plucking a goose. It is the art of getting the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.” – Republican Presidential candidate Robert Dole, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal, 16 December, 1983.
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There is this town called Mandeville on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana Mandeville sits at the north end of the Pontchartrain causeway on the lake leading to New Orleans.
So, this dumb SOB in a stolen truck decides to hijack another car from a gas station near the north end of the causeway. For some reason, the hijacking goes wrong and our dumb SOB gets back in the stolen truck and heads south on the causeway. But, his stolen truck runs out of gas at mile 10.
Hilarity ensues. Our dumb SOB decides that the only rational action is to leave he causeway and jump into the lake. After being told that he can either get in the boat or drown, he decides to get in the boat.
If you walk into an emergency room (ER) in 10 years, you’ll encounter a new type of caregiver: an artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to get you a diagnosis faster and help your care team make more informed decisions. While you sit in the waiting room, you’ll be hooked up to a blood pressure cuff that’s constantly and autonomously monitored. All the while, an AI agent will be listening in while you and your doctor talk about your symptoms, ready to flag any mistakes your physician makes or suggest next steps.
This vision of AI-assisted emergency health care may soon be reality. In a new study, researchers show that a type of AI known as a large language model (LLM) often outperformed physicians at diagnosing complex and potentially life-threatening conditions, including decreased blood flow to the heart, even in the fast-moving stages of real ER care when information is limited, they report today in Science. In early ER cases, the model identified the correct or a very close diagnosis in about 67% of cases, compared with roughly 50% to 55% for physicians. And the technology is only getting better.
“Evaluating AI in medicine demands both depth and breadth across different clinical tasks and settings,” and these authors were able to incorporate both in this study, says Shreya Johri, a computer scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who was uninvolved with the new research. Still, she notes, wide adoption of these AI systems in health care will hinge on knowing the contexts in which they’re most reliable.
Fine with me as long as the LLMs are not filled with antiracism crap which denies that there are genuine physiological differences, at least at the means between races.
Faster, no exhausted ER doctors at the end of a long shift, less fear of lawsuits. For some specialty medical care, shorter wait times and larger supply.
This is also an earlier version of OpenAI. Everything is getting better and faster.
FBI Raids Virginia Senator’s Office as Part of a Corruption, Cannabis Probe [More] Figures… [Via Michael G]
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Ted Turner dies aged 87: Billionaire founded CNN and was married to Jane Fonda [More] That ain’t the craziest thing he did: [S]ome, like CNN founder Ted Turner, see an increase in military suicides as “good” because, as he told Piers Morgan (naturally), that will somehow pave the way for a more enlightened United Nations … Continue reading "Ozymandias"
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Murders by Weapon Type: 2026 Statistics [More] Now do Murders by Person Type.
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said Monday the city will not bend the knee to a legal threat from the U.S. Department of Justice over the city’s longstanding assault weapons ban. [More] That’s some industrial-strength gaslighting right there. Anybody else getting an Iran vibe out of the administration offering a deal and having it rejected out … Continue reading "Bending the Truth"
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Texas father shoots carjacker attempting to steal car [Watch] But…but…but that’s not what “Only Ones” and gun-grabbers advise… [Via Jess]
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THE ASA IS TAKING BACK SUPPRESSOR RIGHTS ONE STATE AT A TIME Over the past several years, suppressor ownership has skyrocketed. They’ve become commonplace for law enforcement, hunters, competitors, and recreational shooters alike. Silencers help protect both the shooter and those around them from dangerous noise levels while allowing for effective communication. Founded more than a decade ago in 2011,... moreNRA Foundation Files Opposition Motion in Reply to NRA’s Request for Summary Judgment [More] What a rabbit hole. In terms of whose side I’m on, these people made themselves irrelevant to what’s important to me a long time ago when I decided finding my own way instead of group efforts run by compromisers was what … Continue reading "Shaky Foundation"
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The family of eight was unaware of what was happening, and what was about to happen.
Video shows the carjacker in the peach shirt, confronting the father in the white shirt.
The father struggles as the carjacker is trying to drive off with the family’s car with family members still inside. After nearly a minute of struggle, the carjacker, who’s in the driver’s seat, is shot by the father while he stands outside the car and near the passenger side door.
A teen who tried to rob a victim during a watch sale in Miami Gardens wound up hospitalized after he was shot by the victim, police said.
The incident happened around 6:20 p.m. Sunday when the victim met with the 17-year-old in the area of Northwest 187th Street and Northwest 44th Avenue to sell a watch, Miami Gardens Police officials said.
During the transaction, the teen pulled out a gun and tried to take the watch, but the victim pushed the teen and opened fire, hitting the teen in the hand, police said.
On May 6, 1837, US blacksmith John Deere made the first steel plough, in Grand Detour, Illinois. — May 6, 1851: Linus Yale Jr. patented the Yale cylinder lock. — You may already own a SIEGE Stove or a SIEGE Belt from SIEGE Survival. (One of our loyal advertisers.) I just heard that they’ve added the excellent American-made Fire-Fast firestarters to their product line. (At the SIEGE website, click on “Ferro Rod Fire Steels”.) You can see one of these being tested after four days of submersion, in a YouTube video. Tom Christianson will soon be reviewing one of the jumbo-size …
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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) For now, the best thing to do for many is to “Get Out” escaping blue hives and get on productive land. I have been advocating that people move to lightly populated food producing rural areas in conservative states. I live in one and I am trying to increase the number of freedom loving people over here. There is safety in numbers. I realize how difficult it is to accomplish all of this. Whenever I talk with people who would like to live on a farm, the number one reason I hear is …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. This week: Some good news and bad news, on gun legislation. — Some great news: House Appropriations 2027 Funding Bill Ends Suppressor, Short Barrel Rifle Registration. JWR’s Comment: Be sure to contact both your U.S. congressman and your state’s two U.S. Senators, to insist on their support for this important legislation! Please phone …
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“Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.” – Frank Herbert
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This shows just how easy it is to rack the slide on the Security-380 by hooking the rear sight on your pants pocket.
It is an article of faith that the enormous loss of Indian life after the Spanish arrived was because the Indians had no immunities to measles, smallpox, and a bunch of other diseases that had been killing people in the Old World long enough that our gene pool had selected the weak ones out. One of the student papers referenced a CDC article that I found fascinating:
Abstract
The native population collapse in 16th century Mexico was a demographic catastrophe with one of the highest death rates in history. Recently developed tree-ring evidence has allowed the levels of precipitation to be reconstructed for north central Mexico, adding to the growing body of epidemiologic evidence and indicating that the 1545 and 1576 epidemics of cocoliztli (Nahuatl for "pest”) were indigenous hemorrhagic fevers transmitted by rodent hosts and aggravated by extreme drought conditions.
Now, this was not entirely without Spanish involvement:
These infections appear to have been aggravated by the extreme climatic conditions of the time and by the poor living conditions and harsh treatment of the native people under the encomienda system of New Spain. The Mexican natives in the encomienda system were treated as virtual slaves, were poorly fed and clothed, and were greatly overworked as farm and mine laborers. This harsh treatment appears to have left them particularly vulnerable to epidemic disease.
I'm going to take a few weeks off to start editing the new book which is written, but in rough draft, I've just been putting it off. Thanks for those of you still sticking around after all these years - Brigid
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Keep time, be ready for anything, and look great doing it. Marathon Watches are built for it all.
Via Chris Lynch, this is a very interesting post:
You’ve probably heard of the PayPal Mafia. When eBay bought PayPal in 2002 its founders took the money, scattered, and built the next generation of digital monopolies.
Peter Thiel founded Palantir and seeded Facebook. Reid Hoffman set up LinkedIn. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen started YouTube. Max Levchin founded Affirm.
Elon Musk—who had merged X.com into PayPal two years earlier—went a different direction. He took his payout and leased a small warehouse in the El Segundo area of LA.
He bolted a sign on the front that read “Space Exploration Technologies Corp.”
We all know where that's gone.
Most people still think SpaceX is “just” a rocket company. But it’s actually a machine for producing world-class talent. A talented engineer takes a job at SpaceX, learns the Elon Musk “way” of solving impossible problems, then graduates as a force of nature ready to transform other industries.
After meeting dozens of SpaceX graduates in warehouses across LA, I’m convinced:
The SpaceX Mafia will create more wealth than the PayPal Mafia—possibly more than all of Silicon Valley combined.
If you can track only one alumni group in business today, this is the one. SpaceX is the new Harvard.
A hedge fund buddy of mine told me: “I’d pay real money for a database of ex-SpaceX employees.”
The article then goes on to list four companies founded by SpaceX alums - the "SpaceX Mafia" who are already solving really hard (and expensive) problems. Only two are space companies.
Highly, highly recommended.
I’ve attended Tac-Con, the RangeMaster Tactical Conference, almost every year since 2009. It provides a smorgasbord of more than 40 subject matter experts in areas of self-defense ranging from emergency medicine through hand to hand fighting to live-fire handgun and shotgun. More courses are offered than any one person can sign up for over the […]
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The Supreme Court of Maryland has ruled in favor of Maryland Shall Issue on several issues in a case challenging a Montgomery County ordinance. The lawsuit was commenced in 2021. On April 28, 2026, on x.com, Maryland Shall Issue posted this:
The Supreme Court of Maryland issued its decision today in our challenge to the Montgomery County ordinance that basically banned carry by permit holders through out the County. On that issue we completely prevailed and the County lost.
In 2021, Montgomery County, Maryland, the State's most populous county, enacted an ordinance which severely infringed on rights protected by the Second Amendment. Maryland has a significant set of preemption statutes to prevent local governments from interfering with state law concerning firearms.
Maryland Shall Issue instituted two lawsuits challenging the ordinance in different ways, one in federal court, the other in state court. In December of 2023, the Circuit Court for Montgomery County granted Summary Judgement in favor of the Shall Issue lawsuit in state court. The County appealed the ruling to the Appellate Court of Maryland. On January 24, 2025, the Appellate Court ruled the Circuit Court had erred and remanded the case back to the Circuit Court. The case, now named Montgomery County v. Engage Armament, was appealed by Maryland Shall Issue to the Maryland Supreme Court.
The X.com post by Maryland Shall Issue on 28 April, 2026, explaining the ruling at the Maryland Supreme Court, quotes the Maryland Supreme Court about the County ordinance. The Supreme Court wrote this:
"is not a local law because of its application to holders of State-issued wear-and-carry permits traveling on public highways who cross within 100 yards of a place of public assembly."
Because such part of the law is not a local law, it is prohibited by the Maryland preemption statutes.
The "local ordinance" banning concealed carry within 100 yards of a "place of public assembly" essentially banned concealed carry.
Most major roads and highways transited through areas withing 100 yards of the multitude of places the County ordinance designated as places of public assembly.
Maryland shall Issue also posted that the Maryland Supreme Court ruled Montgomery County's ban on "ghost guns" was preempted by Maryland law "to the extent it includes firearms that have been serialized in compliance with federal and State law." Therefore owners of "ghost guns" can transport unserialized personally made frames and receivers to Federal Firearms License holders (FFL), and the FFL holders can serialize them as required by Maryland State Law.
The Maryland Supreme Court was reported to have ruled a section of the County's ordinance was preempted, as the County attempted to ban a:
"broad swath of otherwise lawful (and constitutionally protected) conduct by adults merely because it occurs in the presence of a minor, without any apparent connection to whether that activity might result in minors gaining unsupervised access to those firearms."
Exactly what parts of the Montgomery County ordinance remain in effect after the Maryland Supreme Court ruling is not clear at this time.
In the federal case challenging the ordinance, the case was set for oral arguments on January 23, 2024. On December 5, 2023, the January 23 date was continued. No future date appears to have been set in the more than two years following.
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She was transported to a local hospital and is in stable condition.
An investigation found the homeowner had called 911 to report a woman trying to enter the home, but another man who knew the homeowner had shot her as she was trying to enter through a window.
Investigators say the suspect had been harassing and threatening the business owner and employees for weeks, with incidents dating back to March.
Police say the man showed up Sunday, threw a box of fertilizer at the front of the business, then returned armed with a knife. He allegedly slashed a tire and began damaging more property.
That’s when the owner came outside and, fearing for safety, fired a shot that struck the suspect in the leg.
Philadelphia Police Department Inspector D F Pace said the woman was trying to break through the back window of a home occupied by two people and a dog.
Pace said one of the people inside, who police believe is licensed to carry, warned the woman to stop, but she refused. That's when the homeowner shot the woman, Pace said.
On May 5,1865, the first US train robbery occured at North Bend, Ohio. — May 5, 1893: The Panic of 1893 caused a large crash on the New York Stock Exchange. — This is also the birthday of Pat Frank (1908-1964). This was the pen name of newspaper journalist Harry Hart Frank. His 1959 novel Alas, Babylon is a survivalist classic. His personal life was marred by alcoholism, but his writing is admired and still surprisingly popular. (Alas, Babylon is still in print, after 67 years!) As an homage to Pat Frank, one of the settings in my novel Expatriates …
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Author’s Introductory Note: Please help to spread this message by e-mailing links to this article including to people who are not regular SurvivalBlog readers. With more migration of conservatives to red states, you could help to turn the tide and restore our country to its greatness. Some article titles tell you immediately what you need to know and this is one of them. Even if you now live in the safest, most conservative area there are lessons contained within this article because you are very connected to every rotting liberal area in the country. You may think to yourself: “I …
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This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. American Redoubt Links Idaho is facing a lawsuit regarding new bathroom law, HB 752. Summer wildfire outlook indicates high risk across Northwest. Over at Expedition Rove vlog, a brief recap of their progress at their North Idaho home: Why Did He Leave Everything Behind? 1980s House Transformation Full Walkaround (Ep. 23). It is grand to see how well they’ve taken on their challenges, what great friends that have made, …
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“Requirements for an ID are not voter suppression – they are just commonsense steps to ensure people don’t vote if they are ineligible, don’t vote using false identities and don’t vote more than once.” – The Late Charlie Kirk
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The club got together tonight to load ammo for Louisiana State. 6000 rounds of CFDA wax bullet ammo in 4 hours. Of course, we ate. Belle cooked beef tips with rice, lima beans with tasso, yeast rolls, and two small cakes for dessert.
The ammunition is now ready. All that needs to be done is all that other stuff. This will be my 10th Louisiana State.
I also shot my Cowboy Pimp Gun, AKA my Ruger Single Six Vaquero in .32 H&R Magnum today. The last time I shot it I didn’t do a full cleaning, just an external wipedown. After I got home today I wanted to do a full cleaning, but when I went to pull the base pin it was stuck. Unless I removed the ejector rod housing I would not be able to get pliers on it.
I squirted some Ballistol in at the front and back of the cylinder and let it soak for about a half hour in the hopes that it would loosen things up. Luckily I was finally able to pull it out.
This leads me to believe there was a buildup of crud on the pin.
Unfortunately, single actions with transfer bars like the Ruger New Models don't allow you to push the cylinder pin from the back, because the transfer bar is in the way. Brownells sells a base pin removal tool (part number 080000367) but it's $45. So, the moral of the story is if you shoot a single action, pull and wipe off the base pin even if you’re not going to do a full cleaning.