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January 15, 2015 | |
"Jayne, Your Mouth Is Talking. You Might Wanna Look To That."Saffron: Are you gonna kill me? With that in mind, what's the last thing you do before you hand a firearm to someone? Make sure it's unloaded. What's the very first thing you do when someone hands you a firearm? Make sure it's unloaded. And yes, even though you just watched the person handing it to you make sure it was unloaded. What two ubiquitous gun safety rules are applicable here? The gun is always loaded, and never point the gun at anything you don't want to put a hole in. Or in this particular case, shoot off. Although this does raise an interesting point. Let's say the customer in this case wasn't a LEO with years on the job, lots of experience handling a firearm and presumably several firearm courses under his belt. Let's say it was a 65 year old widower whose husband just passed away and absolutely no experience handling a firearm. In the latter case, wouldn't we point the finger (hee hee) at the merchant and say they bore partial responsibility to provide a safe risk-free experience, and that leaving a display firearm loaded -- especially since the clerk didn't clear it -- was negligence? If so, why would we exempt the merchant from that responsibility in this case, simply because his customer should have known better? One important design criterion for many antennas is the antenna's directionality, expressed by its radiation pattern and gain. This is often not a design goal however. An antenna much smaller than a wavelength in all its dimensions cannot have much directionality, so at lower frequencies a directional antenna generally becomes impractically large. Antennas for use in portable or mobile equipment cannot be conveniently pointed in the direction of the other station, so directionality is undesired in these applications. So I'd like to read what these 109 tips are for. Can you help a brotha out?
So here's a funny thing Mike. The answer to your question will first completely blow your mind, and then as you think about it, make complete sense. At least that's what it did to me because like you I was under the false (surprise!) impression that storing a magazine loaded will weaken the springs. In fact if you recall, this misconception indirectly contributed to me ventilating my kitchen wall, back in early 2006. Turns out the loaded magazine myth is completely untrue; what causes spring fatigue is the compress/decompression cycling. Now that's not to say you can store them completely loaded for say... 30 fucking years... and expect them to function like new... but 3, 5, 10 years? No spring fatigue. Well, not appreciably, anyway. The biggest thing you have to worry about are the feed lips bending from the strain of a full mag, so most of mine are two rounds short of full capacity for that reason. Now, for long term storage -- you know, like 30 fucking years -- it's probably best to disassemble the magazines, allowing the spring to expand to its natural length. If I were to make some humble suggestions regarding your feed problem it'd be to clean and lube the gun thoroughly. Then clean and lube the gun thoroughly, again. Then clean and lube the magazine itself (do you have one or two, and if two does the problem?) Then if you're still having trouble I'd suggest trying a few different types of ammunition. Of the six different brands of .380 ammo I have, my Bersas simply WILL NOT feed those flat nosed Winchesters on the far right. I have lubed, I have buffed, I have polished. I have cursed, I have beggedm and I have swore. But try as I might, neither gun will reliably feed them. So if you've only tried one brand/style, don't be afraid to try some others -- there's a ton of diffreent .380 ammo to try -- including some stuff which wasn't around 30 years ago, including steel/aluminum cases and various styles of jacketed hollow points. And if that doesn't work, I'd break down the magazine and manhandle the spring a little bit because spare parts are hard to find and at that point, what do you have to lose? And seriously. What kind of s shitty beach resort actually chains their beach chairs down? |
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