smelly plea

SMELLY PLEA


Oh, crap on a cracker, this is too rich. Goldman Saks, the evil financial Masters Of The Universe, sell off six million shares of BP right before the explosion in the Gulf. I wonder if they were behind the short selling of the airline stocks right before 9/11. These people have no shame whatsoever. Nor any constraint it would seem. A trillion here, a trillion there, it still isn’t enough. Do I actually believe they hired a Halliburton SEAL team to blow it up? I give it a fifty/fifty chance ( or, they were tipped off by Obamma who desperately wants to clear his IOU card before they JFK his ass ). They will snarf up government bail outs, give bonuses in the face of public outcry, interfere with government policy, appoint their stooges to the Treasury, etc. Who is say they won’t manipulate events for fun and profit.

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And yet another rehashed, regurgitated, reintroduced subject matter for my swelling legions of loyal minions who demand the best and who get disappointed. I go in phases, in waves. I’m brilliant and original and darkly seductive for a bit and then all inspiration leaves me for a time and I just coast along. Blow me, Dough Boy. Creativity isn’t at the click of a mouse. Plus, let me save you $3 to $12. Read this, then buy lots of wheat and a water filter, and you don’t have to buy my book The Frugal Survivalist. You’re welcome.

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The M-16 has been in service for almost fifty years. It never deserved to leave the drawing boards. But then, military procurement has been rife with fraud and shoddy goods since the Revolution. In the Army I used the M-16A1, the .45 and the M-60. Only the 45 was worth a crap. The 16 would jam after being religiously cleaned, sometimes after only a few mags. It almost always jammed before we got back to the barracks. Here was our high tech military, fighting the Red Menace with rifles that had jams being cleared with sticks ( place stick on ground against bolt assist and bang away and curse ). The 60 was, if possible, even worse. Almost guaranteed to jam every belt. I won’t even get into the horrid decision to replace the butt simple jeep with the overly complicated Hummer, the waste of money and material going from fatigues to BDU’s ( just dying the OD darker would have had the same effect camo-wise ), the idiocy of hats without visors ( thankfully after my time ) or any other examples. Being stupid with gear is one thing, bribes and Congresscritters being what they are, but to keep the same mistake for a half century is inexcusable. The Lee-Enfield rifle, the British service bolt action for about the same amount of time, had the opposite problem. It should have been kept, if for no other reason that what they are using now is just another full auto .22 machinegun. Not that keeping it would have been a tactical mistake since the Empire doesn’t fight serious wars anymore. And, aside from very expensive choices, few modern arms are close to being as good as the old bolts. Not all the bolts of course. But I would not replace my Enfields with anything other than an HK-91.

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The Russian bolts might be rugged, cheap, and shoot inexpensive ammo, but they lack a gas bleed safety. This info was from a 1970’s American Rifleman ( or similar mag ) article, so it isn’t like the warning hasn’t been around way before the imports began. It has been suggested that a gunsmith might be able to drill one, I don’t know. Perhaps Brother Creekmore would? The Mauser is very accurate, but very prone to jamming. One autobiography from one of those Japs fighting way past the end of WWII wrote on this ( I believe the Jap guns were essentially just Mausers ). The Enfield will not easily jam in the field. It laughs at dirt. Of course, you must sacrifice accuracy then. The Enfield ( the WWII version, the No.4 ) has peep sites where the others don’t. Also, no gunsmithing is required to install a scope on either the No.1 or No.4 Enfield ( the No.1 were from WWI, and had no protruding barrel from the wood stock. They are no where near as good as the No.4’s although their bayonets were way cooler ). All the other bolts are harder to scope. The Enfield carries ten rounds to the others five. The Enfields reload in half the time. They are more comfortable and intuitive, at least in my opinion. They actually have character. The others are impersonal weapons, while the Enfield is something you would call a “her”. Kind of the difference between a handcrafted sail boat and an aluminum canoe. It is kind of hard to describe unless you’ve carried one. You fall in love with them.

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Yes, ammo is harder to find as there is no more surplus ( but that is the same with the 308 ). Yes, the rifles cost almost as much as the SKS. But if you want a battle rifle instead of a carbine, you will love the Enfield. Better design, better feel. Better post-apocalypse.

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