Martial skills aren’t very good without the underlying ethics. Teach the “why” along with the “how”. Project Appleseed does a good job, but the bulk of the task falls to the parents.
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How and Why.
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Jard J68: new in Dillon Blue Press
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A Magazine That’s a Clip, Too: new on AllOutdoor
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Flapper with a Remington #6 rolling block rifle
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Quiet contemplation
vz58 Classic, the newer version with 16″ threaded Lothar Walther barrel.
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Updating a suppressed .22 rifle.
My AAC Cloak with 4x Leupold received functional and cosmetic upgrades. Boyd’s At-One stock and matching Cerakote by Fighting Sheepdog.
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A stable position for firing Henry AR7
One of several ways to stabilize this rifle.
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Keystone 722 Youth
Since so many of my friends and models are petite, I have a special fondness for youth guns. And having them on hand, I have an excuse to shoot them myself. This model 722 rimfire carbine is one of my favorites. Great present for a teen or an adult.
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Henry Long Ranger
Lever action in .243Win (also .223 and .308). Feeds from 4-round box magazines. I saw no point in duplicating numerous .223s I already have, and .243 kicks a lot less than the other option.
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A funny coincidence
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vz58 shortie
A compact customization of vz58 carbine.
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More factual arguments for RDB-S carbine
It’s lightweight and can be controlled with one hand.
Collapsed, it can be comfortably fired by a 5 foot tall shooter.
The strong hand grip is right around the boreline, so it’s easy to point accurately.
It’s about the same length as MP5K PDW submachine gun, while much more powerful, accurate and slightly lighter. It’s also completely ambidextrous. Recoil impulse is similar to the 9mm MP5.
A user who might prefer a pistol grip configuration can swap furniture in a minute, it’s all cross compatible. The main down sides are also functions of the design:
- Checking of the chamber status is slower than on a conventional rifle.
- Downward ejection can be a problem if shooting sitting in shorts or prone with short sleeves. A clip-on brass catcher fixes that.
The pluses are more numerous:
- Empty casings don’t end up in the faces of people next to the shooter, or bounce off barricade or wall into the shooter’s face or arms.
- Five pounds is easier to carry or hold up than six to seven pounds typical of competing designs. You can have an RDB-S with a red dot, a sound suppressor and a full magazine for what a bare-bones Sig 556 weighs.
- Felt recoil is more like 22WMR than 5.56.
- Gas system can be tuned to work with any load, and also for sound suppressors. Minimal gas blowback.
- Very slim form, especially with a flush-fitting 10-round magazine.
- 16.1″ barrel compared to 8″ of a similar length AR15.
- Variable length of pull with adjustable stock, uncommon for bullpups.
- Folding iron sights of good quality.
- Very high grip keeps the rifle from rolling even if a relatively heavy optic is mounted. Also keeps muzzle from flipping up on firing.
- Simple, easy to maintain design. If you look at the parts diagram in the instruction manual, you will see that most of the parts by numbers are screws and nuts, while the actual mechanism is very simple.
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Keltec RDB-S: new on AllOutdoor
What that rifle is, really.
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Two articles in March ’18 Blue Press
My reviews of M+M 10x and Keltec RDB-S are up in Dillon Blue Press.
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Articles old and new
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The ethical imperative for small arms in private hands: new on GAT Daily
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M1903 with a 20-round magazine.
A small female martial artist might reach five feet with a kick. With proper tools, five hundred yard reach is not out of question.
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The dreaded .55 caliber rifle
Despite the nomenclature, 56-50 rimfire cartridge actually fires a 0.55″ diameter bullet. It was pretty potent for a rimfire, on the order of 350gr and 1200fps, about on par with 44 Magnum from a long-barreled revolver. Tubular magazine in the stock holds 7 rounds, the lever only loads cartridges and extracts casings — the hammer must be cocked separately for each shot. The sights are marked — most optimistically, for 800 yards, at which point velocity was down to 600fps and the bullet drops more than 40 yards. In the photo, her sights are set to 300. For 1860, Spencer rifle was quite an impressive device. Modern centerfire reproductions are available.
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