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ME 2016
My 2nd Amendment right doesn't allow me to hurt anyone,
but your 1st Amendment right allows you to hurt everyone.
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Hoplophobia: an irrational, morbid fear of guns.
Sandy's Christmas Gift 2021
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.223/5.56 twist rate to max bullet weight (http://www.6mmbr.com/223Rem.html)
What Your Favorite Rifle Cartridge
Says About You .223 Remington 6.5 Creedmoor .30-’06 Springfield .30/30 Winchester Centerfire .44 Rem. Mag. What Your AR Caliber Says About You 6.5 Creedmoor 6.8mm Remington SPC 2nd
Amendment Supreme court cases on “the right to keep and bear arms”: United States v. Miller, 1939: District of Columbia v. Heller,
2008: McDonald v. Chicago, 2010: Caetano v.
Massachusetts, No. 14-10078, 577 U.S., 2016: New York State Rifle
& Pistol Association v. Bruen, 2022:
1-in-9 Inches twist rate for .223/5.56
This is the beginning of the road for the shooter wanting to take advantage of
the heavy bullet trend. The 1-in-9 is a great compromise twist rate—not too fast
to cause problems with the 55-grain Bullets, but fast enough to stabilize all
but the heaviest bullets under most circumstances. This twist will stabilize
most traditional bullets up to 75-grains, and monolithics up to 70-grains—but
they do so right at the edge of the envelope so not all rifles will do it. [The
author's]
personal 16-inch Rock
River Arms carbine
with a 1-in-9 twist does fine with ASYM’s Tactical
Match Grade 77-grain OTM load, but has shown signs of instability with handloads
using the 70-grain Barnes TSX—unless the bullet is pushed to maximum velocity.
With longer barrels and the commensurate faster velocities, this twist can be
more forgiving. Info from:
How to Pair Barrel Twist Rates with Bullets
Barrel Twist Rate
1:14"
1:12"
1:9"
1:8"
1:7" or 1:6.5"
Max Bullet Weight
55gr FB
65gr FB
73gr BT
80gr BT
90gr BT VLD
We all have a favorite, regardless of what our intended quarry may be;
that one rifle cartridge that is near and dear to us. Just as our favorite
colors can be indicative of our personalities, our favorite rifle cartridge
can tell an awful lot about us as shooters. Let us begin, shall we, with
tongue planted firmly in cheek.
This is the Banty rooster of the bunch, the case with the Napoleonic
complex; you embrace it believing you can take on the whole world with a
microscopic cartridge, and you may just be right. You have no desire,
whatsoever, to hear of any other centerfire cartridge, because your level of
self confidence when armed with the .223 will send tactical zombie elephants
running for their lives, wetting themselves at the very sight of your AR…
You are considered to be brilliant, charming, and engaging by all who
meet you. In a non-related disclaimer, a Savage 110 Storm LH
chambered in 6.5mm Creedmoor is my new favorite testing toy.
But seriously, you like to go all the way. To the end of the range, that is.
It’s much easier when your bullet is still humming along at supersonic
speeds 1,300 or so yards down range while your buddy’s inferior caliber is
rumbling, tumbling, and bumbling through transonic fight a few hundred yards
sooner.
You’re the first born child, the apple of mommy’s eye. Although you
never made the Dean’s list, mama hung every one of your art projects on the
fridge, proud as a peacock. You did pretty well in life, and although you
may not be the shining star you once were, you’re as loyal as a mutt,
consistent and trustworthy. Modern bullets have given you a new lease on
life, sort of like Viagra or Just For Men gel.
Look at you! Your hair is gray, you’re wrinkled up like an old baseball
mitt, but you’re hanging on like a champ. By all accounts, you should have
been dead decades ago, but like Dick Clark, you never did look your age.
While you won’t run any marathons, you revel in the fact that you can still
challenge the young bucks when it comes to the short game, and you do your
job with an unprecedented finesse, although you do it slower than others. I
like you, snickering in the corner, while the rest of the young punks wish
you’d drop dead. Carry on, old timer, you’ve earned the lifetime achievement
award.
You are a lost soul. You really don’t know where you fit in, being the
offspring of a rifle and pistol. Yes, both sides of your family loves you,
and you feel at home no matter whose house you visit, but you can feel the
skeptical eyes of your pure-bred cousins burning a hole in the back of your
head. Let them ridicule, you take great personal pride sitting in the thick
woods, exercising domain over nature, 300 grains at a time. After all, with
friends like Elmer Keith and ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan, who needs family?
While we can’t cover them all, we’ve picked out some of the more-telling
caliber choices. One more thing, before we get into this, we’d ask you to
only use this information for good. We can’t be responsible if your friends
fling micro-aggressions your way over your caliber choices.
.223 Rem. / 5.56 NATO
While the military keeps changing their mind on what’s the perfect bullet,
the basic idea is still simple: a small, light projectile at high velocity.
While its bite of 1,300 foot-pounds of kinetic energy is nothing to sneeze
at, the bark is bigger. Stated differently, you like making a lot of noise
for your size, kind of like Ryan Seacrest and Tom Cruise. No matter what New
York Daily News Writer Gersh Kuntzman thinks, recoil is perfectly safe, even
for sissies, at just 3.16 foot-pounds when shooting an 8-pound rifle.
Oh, if your rifle has one of those Wylde chambers, which is a cross between
.223 Rem. and 5.56 NATO, you have serious commitment issues. Either make a
decision, or since you can’t seem to take a stand on one or the other, get a
job at the United Nations.
.300 Blackout
Designed to shoot both supersonic and subsonic .30-caliber projectiles, the
Blackout groupies know how cool it is to completely change up ballistic
performance by simply swapping magazines. One minute you’re zinging 110 to
125-grain bullets down range at 2,200 to 2,500 feet per second and the next
you’re thudding 220-grain hunks of lead at a leisurely 1,000 feet per
second. That’s slower than a congressman reaching for the bar tab. Add a
suppressor, and you actually remove ambient noise from the environment. No
seriously, I have that on good authority from Bill Nye the Science Guy.
You crave adventure and the ability to thumb your nose at physics. Your
range won’t know whether you're about to break the sound barrier or just
head fake it. It’s my favorite caliber, so if you choose it too, that makes
you brilliant, suave and bordering on debonair.
You are considered to be brilliant, charming, and engaging by all who
meet you. In a non-related disclaimer, a Savage 110 Storm LH
chambered in 6.5mm Creedmoor is my new favorite testing toy.
But seriously, you like to go all the way. To the end of the range, that is.
It’s much easier when your bullet is still humming along at supersonic
speeds 1,300 or so yards down range while your buddy’s inferior caliber is
rumbling, tumbling, and bumbling through transonic fight a few hundred yards
sooner.
You’re a prepper. Because the 6.8mm Remington SPC uses the same bullets as
the tried-and-true .270, you never have trouble finding projectiles. Even
during the great reloading drought of 20-Obama, you had no trouble finding
bullets to feed your 6.8 SPC. On the other hand, your planning skills needed
some improvement back in the day, because finding brass, back then, was a
whole different matter. At least you had good intentions, and we all know
what those count for.
You’re also a little bit judgmental about folks who shoot those dinky
.223/5.56 rifles. Yours delivers 1,500 or so foot-pounds of energy and 40
lbs-ft/sec of momentum - significantly more than the original pea shooter.
…at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification, “the militia” was
understood to comprise “all males physically capable of acting in concert
for the common defense.” When called into service, “these men were expected
to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use
at the time.”
The court held that “the right to keep and bear arms” means “the
individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.”…And
“in common use of the time.”
The court reasserted that “[s]elf-defense is a basic
right…and…individual self-defense is ´the central component´ of the 2nd
amendment right.”
(per curiam) - The Court ruled that the Second Amendment extends to all
forms of bearable arms: The Court has held that the Second Amendment
extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even
those that were not in existence at the time of the founding, and that this
Second Amendment right is fully applicable to the States.
“The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a
second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the
other Bill of Rights guarantees,’” the Supreme Court emphasized. “We know of
no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after
demonstrating to government officers some special need. That is not how the
First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise
of religion. …And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to
public carry for self-defense.”
