Jericho, books, Glock, Group buy, reloading

Nice thing about the TiVo is that I can ignore the TV for a week or two and then catch up on everything in one sitting. For example, I missed several episodes of ‘Jericho’ but now that they are being rebroadcast the TiVo kindly collected them for me as they came. So, I got to see some stuff I’d been missing. In case you’ve been under a rock, the show was cancelled and then brought back for a several episode order on the strength of a viewer campaign to bring it back. As I’ve said before, Im amused by this because across the board the preparedness forums almost universally were critical of it for too much drama, not enough gunplay, etc, etc, etc….yet when it gets cancelled theyre up in arms, so to speak, to get it back.
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Im cleaning out a buddy’s house since he’s now in a nursing home and am sifting through his library of books. A lot of historical stuff but a lot of preparedness/gun stuff too. Theres a couple really good books in there and as I come across them I’ll mention them in case you want a copy.

Pretty much all of us have a copy of ‘Where There Is no Doctor’ which is an excellent book. For me, its greatest value is in the back ¼ for the book where the drug information is. If youre out there looting a Walgreens its always good to know which pills are the ones you want.

Anyway, another excellent medical book I came across is ‘Medicine For The Outdoors’ (Auerbach, Lyons Press, #1-55821-723-1) In this case, ‘outodoors’ means ‘where youre not gonna have access to 911, EMS or anything close to a real doctor’ which is the situation we are likely to be in when [insert your particular flavor of TEOTWAWKI] occurs. 500 pages, plenty of illustrations, and good detail on drug names, usage, etc. Not a ‘one book for all occasions’ but it seems to be a worthy addition to the home library.
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The first step is admitting you have a problem. So..(deep breath)..Im a Glockaholic. Sure, it started easy enough..a used police trade-in G19 here, a bargain 2nd gen. G17 there. And then two days ago I …I…went for the hard stuff – brand new 3rd Gen G17.

Okay, enough kidding around…this is the first factory new handgun I’ve bought in probably ten years. I tend to buy used stuff because its cheaper but this one..well, the stars lined up for me to be able to get it.

Anyway, without mentioning specific numbers, this is a redundant Glock but having levels of redundancy is what being prepared is all about. So, this one will get a few hundred rounds through it to make sure it works, get cleaned, and get tucked into the safe ‘just in case’. It’ll be nice to have if I need a loaner for a friend, something happens to one of my other Glock 9mms, or if I need to stash an extra somewhere.

I took this occasion to re-read the big Glock book and reacquaint myself with the Glock disassemblys and whatnot. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, I will say that they are excellent examples of mass-production engineering. Except for the big parts like barrels and whatnot all spare parts are less than five bucks, theres 34 parts versus who knows how many for other pistols, all the parts can be removed..nothing is staked on except the front sight (and even that is removable without special tools), and nothing requires fitting. Drawbacks? Well, they’ve got no soul or personality. Theyre like Bic lighters versus Zippo lighters, one carried more style and history but may not be nearly as convenient, reliable and durable as the other. On the other hand, if it goes bang every single time I pull the trigger that’s really all that matters.

I see the 1911 guys going on about how anything since 1912 is a step down in handgun development. I wonder if they also say that switching from the .45-70 to the .30 calibers was a mistake. After all, that ‘big heavy .45 bullet’ always ‘knocked em down’ whereas those pipsqueak ‘minor caliber’ .30’s required high magazine capacity (5 rounds vs. 1 round) to make up for the lack of stopping power.
I appreciate tradition and ‘classics’ as much as anyone else, but at the same time I’m not going to let that stand in the way of recognizing improvements in design.

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Speaking of guns and ammo…the .40S&W conversion for the big Dillon arrived the other day. I was examining the dies and conversion and discovered that Dillon shipped me a .40 S&W carbide sizer die that was missing the carbide sizer ring. Ooops. A quick call to them got me the customer service theyre famous for. They’d send another die right out…no need to send back the other die. Keep it for spare parts or something. Good outfit to do business with, those Dillon guys.

The Dillon RL1050, by the way, Was. Not. Cheap. However, it does crank out 1000 rounds an hour without much fuss. Since factory ammo is so expensive these days, and reloading a thousand rounds on a single-stage press is a major time sink, this thing does start to pay for itself fairly quickly in terms of time and money saved. (And since this is the ‘super’ 1050 it’ll do .223, .308, .30-06, etc, etc. as well…..good to know since the South African .308 has dried up and gone through the roof when you can find it.)

Speaking of ammo, I saw a link to a news piece about how the military has started reducing its orders for small arms ammo. Read into that what you will. The practical result is that those facilities will have been tooled for producing huge amounts of .223 and they’ll need work. So….possibly expect to see availability increase and prices decrease in the future. Don’t bet on it, but don’t be surprised if it happens.

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Elections are still ahead of us and the prognosis, as far as Im concerned, is not good. I can understand if you take everything I say with a grain of salt since Im basically a faceless stranger to you…I can accept that. But if you decide to not value my opinions on anything else, accept and act upon my opinion that if you do not start stocking up on spare guns and especially magazines very soon you are going to be kicking yourself after the elections. You don’t have to go nuts and sell the jet ski, just get some spare mags for your rifles and pistols. How many? By the dozen. Buy the dozen.

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Still have the C Products AR mags. Not as many as before but still enough to take the edge off the upcoming election. Also have about a dozen of the ChipMcCormick 1911 mags left as well if anyone is interested. (Very nice 1911 mags, by the way.)

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Need a Titan complex? its sorta telling that theres no photos of any of the underground portions of the 57-acre complex. Probably flooded. Who can say? Cough up $10 grand and get a tour.
The eBay auction
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19 thoughts on “Jericho, books, Glock, Group buy, reloading

  1. I need to get either a 17 or 34, but until I get my roof work done, I don’t know when I can afford one. I also have to stock up on ammo components, since major price hikes are coming up next month.

  2. I add in The Mereck manual as it is the best general medical science manuals out there. It’s very advanced and you will need good EMT skills to make full use of it. TEOWAWKI aside it’s vital if your in a rural, wilderness or industrial setting. The BSA said “Be Prepared” this book will help, it works.

  3. A got-to-have book for the preparedness medical reference shelf: Save Lives Save Limbs: Life support for victims of mines, wars, and accidents by Hans Husum, ISBN 983-9747-42-8, published by Hans Husum and Third World Network. This is an excellent book for trauma treatment. Among other info, it also teaches you how to use ketamine (the anesthetic of choice for transporting trauma patients over rough roads for significant distances) as an anesthetic and the proper dosages.

    Another excellent book: War Surgery Field Manual by Hans Husum, Swee Chai Ang, and Erik Fosse, published by Hands Husum and Third World Network. ISBN 983-9747-12-6 Pb or 983-9747-14-2 Hb. It’s a comprehensive guide to field medicine in remote areas, especially in areas where war casualties may occur, though it doesn’t deal exclusively with war injuries. Much more informative and detailed than Where There Is No Doctor. I bought a copy from a company in Malaysia, but I also downloaded one for free off the Internet (sorry, don’t remember the site). If you download it, be aware that it’s 763 pages long, including the index. http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/war-cn.htm. It’s not copywrited so that it can be shared among those who need it.

    Other good medical references:
    The various Lange medical books: http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Boo…&subsection=11 and http://www.mhprofessional.com/category/?cat=4239
    These come out in annual editions and are among my most often used references. The Lange Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment book is a great reference book for the bookshelf. More detailed info than The Merck Manual.

    The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy.

    Wounds and Lacerations: Emergency Care and Closure by Alexander T. Trott, MD. ISBN 0-323-02307-X. Published by Elsevier Mosby. Under field conditions, it’s usually better not to suture, but if you think you’ll ever have to suture, you should know how and should especially know the things you need to take under consideration (for example, do you know how to suture to avoid the sutures ripping out in a high-stress area like the ankle?).

    Fracture Management for Primary Care by Eiff, Hatch, Calmbach. ISBN 0-7216-6394-X. Published by Saunders.

  4. Do you have a copy of the Navy’s Operational Medicine manual? It’s a CD that includes Web links and extensive photograph galleries of dermatological conditions, eye conditions, etc. It’s an awesome collection of material and information that no medic or survivalist should be without. It covers just about anything you can think of.

  5. 45-70

    Being an old person, very set in my ways (and a 30 plus year computer controlled telephone switching manager), I decided to have it both ways. I built a bolt action, 5 round, 45-70 on a Siamese (sp?) Mauser. But I also covet an para FAL.

    I agree that Glock’s have no soul. Owned them, carried them, but never really felt good about it. Went back to the 1911 (designed in 03 so the position should be anything designed after 03, but what about the differing back straps, I digress) and feel good with it on the hip. Takes more training time, and I recommmend Glocks to folks who ask, but, as I said, I’m an old person, set in my ways.

  6. Re: 45-70

    I love the Siamese Mausers in .45-70. Killed my first deer with one. You can load those things pretty hot in those Mausers. My buddy has one for sale right now that Im trying to talk him out of.

  7. Re: 45-70

    I find factory with 300 grain stops eastern dear, with almost no felt recoil in the bolt action stock. I’m not usre what hotter would do for me here. If I was out west any the critters were bigger ad meaner, you bet. Nosler partition
    at close to 458
    velocity.

  8. Re: Glock Spare Parts

    Definitely recoil spring assy. Theyre cheap enough at a coule bucks. I have a half dozen. The problem, such as it is, is that sometimes the plastic rod going through the spring will break or melt and the captive spring is no longer captive. This will not affect the functioning of the gun, just makes disassembly a pain in the ass. Prevent it with an aftermarket metal recoil guide rod or have spares.

    Trigger springs also are a must. Again its a part that if it breaks it wont render the gun inoperable, but you’ll have to manually push the trigger forward to get ready for your next shot.

    Everything else seems fairly reliable. Since parts are so cheap I recommend those parts especially but then get extras of the other springs and pins. You can get plenty of spares, several times over, and still spend less than a hundred bucks.

    Lone Wolf. Dist. tends to be the one-stop Glock shop and you can order online.

    Specifically, I keep:
    Firing pin channel liner
    Firing pin spring cups
    firing pin spring
    firing pin safety spring
    spacer sleeve
    spring loaded bearing
    extractor depressor plunger spring
    firing pin spring cups
    Recoil Spring assy. (several)
    Trigger spring (several)
    magazine catch spring
    locking block pin
    trigger pin
    trigger housing pin
    slide stop lever
    extra sights (front & rear)
    Those are all cheap parts…usually a buck or three each.

    More expensive stuff:
    Barrel
    Extractor

    To be quite honest, used Glocks are cheap enough that in addition to spare parts I usually keep a few spare guns as well.

  9. Re: Glock Spare Parts

    Thanks for the list! I do have plans on purchasing a back up Glock, but I have a few other things I need to procure before then. I am still kicking myself for missing out on the House Mountain group buy.

  10. Re: Glock Spare Parts

    Do you have any cases of the #10 House Mountain Cans? All I see on your ordering page is the Pro Packs.

  11. Re: Glock Spare Parts

    I have a few cases left. This is a slightly outdated list:

    Instant White Rice, $11.94 – 4 cans remaining
    Chili Mac, $16.25 – 2 cans remaining
    Diced Beef, Cooked, $32.77 – 3 cans remaining
    Beef Teriyaki, $19.13 – 3 cans remaining
    Lasagna, $19.88 – 3 cans remaining
    Noodles & Chicken, $19.00 – 4 cans remaining
    Long Grain& Wild Rice Pilaf, $17.57 – 5 cans remaining
    Sweet/Sour Pork w/ Rice, $21.97 – 3 cans remaining
    Turkey Tetrazzini, $21.34 – 4 cans remaining
    Oriental Spicy Chicken, $20.38 – 2 cans remaining
    Diced Chicken, Cooked, $32.77 – 4 cans remaining
    Pork Chops, Raw, $40.00 – 5 cans remaining
    Garden Green Peas, $14.26 – 4 cans remaining
    Corn, $14.19 – 2 cans remaining
    Precooked Eggs w/ Ham, Peppers, $20.57 – 5 cans remaining
    Granola w/ Blueberries, Milk, $22.37 – 1 can remaining
    Blueberry Cheesecake, $15.43 – 5 cans remaining

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