Well, I’ve been digging through the ammunition I’ve accumulated and I found an interesting find. That’s a few packs of Hornady .17 Mach 2 ammo. Looks like I was looking to purchase a gun with that caliber. It’s not a popular caliber from what I can see. Hornady and CCI are the only ammo makers that stock it. Here’s the particulars on the .17Mach 2:
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And as comparison the .22 Win Mag:
The Win Mag in Federal is quite a bit slower, but has considerably better stopping power. So it works well with larger game. Whereas the .17 Mach 2 would probably work best with Prarie Dog sized game. And from what I can remember about the .17 Mach 2, the trajectory is a lot flatter, partly due to the higher velocity.
Savage is the only brand to make guns in that caliber. Here’s one sample website that carries Savage:
Not a bad price. Though, since leaving New Mexico, I haven’t gone Prairie Dog hunting. Don’t even know if there’s prairie dogs in Nevada. And would probably need a scope for these little buggers. I can feel a purchase going on. Maybe pay a visit to that rancher Iknow in New Mexico. Road trip!
Edit: Did some research, and deciding between the A17 and the Mark II FV. If the Mark II had 10 round capability, it would be a shoe-in.
Getting the itch to go out and shoot off some rounds. The problem is is that the public shooting range around here isn’t that great and it’s 22 miles away, a 45-60 minute drive. A pain if you’re going to be finished shooting in less than an hour. And a big negative is the obnoxious clientele the place attracts. Rude, uncouth rednecks and their hopped-up, small dick, raised pickups. And lots of .50 caliber Barrett’s. So lots of noise, even with ear protection. And the place, even though it’s relatively new, has lousy upkeep, and poorly maintained and marked lanes.
I might instead go take some handguns down to the gun ranges near the Strip, it’s a half hour jaunt and not too expensive. Here’s info on the two I frequented in the past:
I think both places will allow smaller caliber rifles, no Barretts. Although I’m pretty sure that Range 702 rents out machine guns, if you’re into that. Problem with these places is the targets are closer than what’s available at the range above, where you can do targets at 100 yards, maybe more.
I have a few muti-tools and a swiss army knive that I use almost daily. The swiss army I carry constantly and I also misplace them regularly, so, over 60 years or so or carrying them, I ‘ve owned about 10. I dunno which model it is, it’s the one with the tweezers and toothpick. I only gripe I have with the toothpick is that I wish it was made of a sturdier material, as I use it as a tiny pry bar.
The two multi-tools I’ll cover are the Leatherman Rev and the Perwin PMT01SR-15, both of which I bought on Amazon.
The Leatherman I’ve had for at least 10 years, I think. The Rev has 13 or 14 tools depending on who’s counting. The site https://activegearreview.com says 13 and those are: needle nose pliers, regular pliers, hard-wire cutters, wire cutters, a 2.6” stainless steel knife, package opener, 1.5-inch ruler, can opener, bottle opener, metal/wood file, Phillips screwdriver, flathead screwdriver, and small screwdriver. I concur with the tools available. The locking mechanisms for the tools aren’t the greatest, but if you’re careful about putting pressure on the tools, it’s serviceable. The pliers aren’t spring loaded, as I wish they were as sometimes various fingers get pinched because you have to manually open and close them, a minor annoyance. It also has a clip to attach to your belt, but I always pocket it. Overall, the tool is small and light enough to be the tool I carry almost as much as the swiss army knife.
Heftier and more full featured is the Perwin multi-tool. No clip, but it’s got a case. For the feature list, I’ll show the brief manual instead:
Oh well, that mostly unreadable, so here goes: needlenose pliers, regular pliers, heavy duty wire cutters, philips screwdriver, threading needle, saw, scissors, knife, file, 2 slotted screwdrivers (medium and small), ruler, wire stripper, can opener, separate bottle opener and rope (or string ) cutter. the scissors come handy a lot more frequently than you might expect, just like the ones in the swiss army knife. I use the rope cutter like the package opener on the Leatherman and just use the scissors to cut string or light rope.
The locking mechanisms are much studier on the Perwin and the pliers have a spring opening. The wire cutters are clamped on the tool and appear to be made of a different metal. They cut easier than the Leatherman’s does. The file is much more serviceable than the Leatherman’s and the saw has proved to be useful, if small. The ruler is actually useful, not the joke that the Leatherman has.
If you get the felling that the Perwin, that I just bought recently is a better deal, then congratulations. As of May 2026, the Perwin is priced at $24.95 and the Leatherman Rev is priced at $44.95. Go for the name brand or go for the cheaper, better tool, your choice.
Is it time to find a place in the Las Vegas outskirts to do some plinking? I ‘m kinda getting the itch to take some of my .22s out for exercise. Got enough ammo in the .22LR (5,000 + rounds) and .22WMR (1,500 rounds) sizes that I can afford to spend some. I’ll get bored after shooting off around 200 rounds. Mostly want to make sure they (the Ruger .22s pistol and rifle and the Henry .22WMR) are shooting accurately.
It’s been a while, eh. The gun range I used to go to has been commandeered by a bunch of redneck assholes, so I haven’t been practicing anymore. And ammo, in my financial situation is, to say the least, pricey to unobtainable. And the hunting opportunities are almost nonexistent. So I haven’t almost nothing to talk about except I found the long lost Ruger 22 pistol. Yes, it’s the target pistol featured in my July, 2020 post. Yeah, it’s been missing for a while. It was mixed in with a bunch of electronic gear, little single board computers and other assorted tools like heat guns, soldering irons of various types, and junk like that.
On the topic of ammo prices, my neighbor’s son is also feeling the pinch. He’s going to a store that’s having an ammo sale , but all he’s buying is .22LR shit. I almost volunteered to sell him some of my stash, but thought better of it. And I think if things weren’t so dire, he’d have bought ammo for his long guns used for hunting.
Well, I have a few gun safes to store my long guns and my handguns. I lost the key to my long gun safe, but luckily I had a spare safely stored where I remembered it was. Not so with the handgun safes. I put in the wrong combination too many times and now I can’t get into the safes. One’s a Sentry safe, so all I need to do is go on their website and order a new key. But the other safes are no-name brands which don’t seem to have a web presence. Bummer.
Usually, on this site, I stick to guns and gun related topics, but this time I need to talk on a different topic, the 2020 election.
Both major party candidates are anti-gun statists. Biden and Harris are both right wing Democrats and Trump is in a demented world of his own. He never gives you a clear vision of his outlook on the 2nd Amendment, bending to whatever stand will increase his poll numbers. Fox News is also only concerned with viewership, but usually whipping up the rabble with provable falsehoods. And the NRA is a foreign-influenced favorite of all Nazis.
It’s time to support a real 2nd Amendment supporter, the Libertarians. The Libertarian Party is the party of strict adherence to the Constitution. No exceptions. And supporting the top of the ticket so that we can get 5% of the vote will make it possible to run candidates without constantly having to recertify for each election. And of course, it would be advantageous to be able to compete in the Presidential debates, but the R/D duopoly has a lock on that too. You have to have unreasonable polling numbers from polls which don’t even count anybody but Ds and Rs.
To show how the establishment represses alternate views, this post took me over twenty minutes to type, because Apple and WordPress wouldn’t let me type what I wanted to type. Constantly having the words I typed changed to more accepted alternatives. AmeriKKKa is a corporate oligarchy and a fascist state.
Well, after debating it for a while, I decided to spring for a Ruger 10/22 Carbine Scoped Black Semi Automatic Rifle – 22 Long Rifle. It was purchased off the Sportmans Warehouse web site, boy did shipping take a while, and worse than that, the pickup procedure was awful. First I had to wait in line 45 minutes before filling out the background check form. Then I was told that they’d contact me after they got approval. That took 8 days. Then I stood in line for 3 hours to pick up the firearm. When I finally got waited on, I asked the clerk why the long wait, he said they were short workers. The only good point of the whole process was that I was able to make additional purchases without standing in yet another long line.
Anyways, on to the gun. I haven’t had a chance to take it to the range to test it out. I bought the gun, with a scope mounted and boresighted, to supplement a S&W M&P 15-22 with a red dot sight. This gun isn’t as accurate as I’d like it to be, and no amount of fiddling has made it more accurate. It may be user error, but well, I’d actually like to be able to hit the varmints I’m trying to dispatch. Time will tell if my purchase was worth the hassle. I could hope more for the scope, a Viridian Eon according to the scope. It’s a 3-9×40 scope that costs $89 on Amazon. But I guess it’s a good deal since I got the rifle, scope and inexpensive case for $320.
Used to own a 22 pistol, time to get another one. Good for plinking. GrabAGun had two models nearly the same look, the other has more stainless and is about $25 more. Like this look better. http://bit.ly/2IRieRx
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