All quiet on the Zero front. Interestingly, I think I’m running a bit light on 9mm ammo these days. After that class I need to replace about 1,500 rounds. The Remington yellowbox of 250 seems like the best deal in name-brand, reloadable, factory ammo these days. Its what I shot at the class and it seemed to work just fine.
By the by, what does the Zero carry in his everyday Glock mags? 115 FMJ actually. Mostly because I have so much of it. The nightstand gun is loaded with old style Black Talons.
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Had some pleasant experience ‘pouch cooking’ a few weeks ago. The principle is simple: put food ingredients in a pouch of aluminum foil and put pouch on/in heat source (fire, barbecue, oven, etc). The sealed pouch keeps in steam and moisture, food cooks, you then eat from the pouch and when done simply discard the ball of foil. No cookware or servingware to have to deal with. Certain foods lend themselves to this method more than others…some peppers, onions, garlic, stock, couscous, spices, and thinly sliced pork came out quite nicely. I’ll have pics up in a few days.Works great tossing ’em on the ol’ Volcano stove.
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I need to get a Lone Wolf Distributing catalog. I want to change out the sights on my Glock to something a little less ‘coarse’ and a bit more precise. Also, I’d like to get a sight adjustment tool as well as a few other goodies. (Like more colored basepads.)
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In other news, and this is somewhat interesting, a visitor to the website actually used the ‘Donation’ button and gave the Zero a few bucks for his ‘Im gonna make it through this apocalypse’ fund. Darn nice of them. Almost pays for a months bandwidth.
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I was supposed to go on the July 4 field exercise with the LMI but its not looking like thats going to happen. My civillian life has taken way too much time off recently and I need to stick around to try and make money. Maybe later in the year I’ll be able to run off for a three day weekend or something, but not now. Too bad, Id get to try my new Eureka combat tent.
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One of the LMI stopped by this afternoon. We got to talking and I mentioned that I stillhad about half a case of Kerlix bandages and asked if he wanted some since I had more than enough and was distributing them amongst the LMI. Needless to say, he replied with an enthusiastic affirmative and I gave him a bag of 20 bandage rolls. Still leaves me with plenty of extras.
If those 250 round bargain packs are available they are indeed the best deal running. If you have an Academy Sporting Goods near you, they carry those packs at stupid low prices. Like .07/round prices. Like you just can’t reload at those prices prices. The UMC is the softest shooting factory 115gr bullet I’ve ever found that is still consistent. PMC is softer, but I’ve also found it to be inconsistent. (Sometimes scarily inconsistent.) The competitors I know who don’t reload usually shoot Remington UMC.
Are you looking for night sights for your Glock, or non? Currently I’m really liking a Dawson Precision front fiber optic with a Heine Slant Pro rear. (The Dawson front is the skinnier of the two they offer.) I think if I wanted something more night sightish I would go with their Slant Pro straight 8 setup…
I want it all: more precise than the blocky factory sights but still retaining the relatively fast pick up. The fiberoptic sights seem too coarse to me for most shooting.
I have the Bo-Mar BMGLs on my Glock. They’re definitely precise, but not something that I’d want to put on a carry gun. Most folks seem to like the Heinie sights for carry and competition purposes.
Fiber-optic sights are popular in competition, but there is a bit of a movement now among folks with a lot more experience than I have that are going back to a standard black front sight, claiming that it allows for more accuracy.
You made couscous? I figured that The Commander would be too macho for couscous. Seriously, that sounds tasty. I’m going on a field expedition (i.e. camping trip) next week. I might make up some of those packets ahead of time and store them in a ziploc in an ice chest.
Fiber optic front with the narrow post has been amazingly precise for me. If memory serves my front sight is on the order of 0.09x wide. You might also consider the Race Cut Heines from Custom Glock Racing. I haven’t tried them yet, but many are gushing about how fast pickup is with them…
I went with the narrow dawson precision adjustable fiber optic sights, the rear is too flimsy for a tactical gun, I’d go with bomar, but the front sight is divine for practical work.
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The Bomar for the Glock hangs off the rear of the gun and would very likely get snagged on something if carried concealed. As such, it isn’t very tactical.
my bad, I haven’t shot them personally.
I need to dehorn my dawson, when I walk around with a holstered piece, occationally I brush my forearm on the rear sight, it scrapes…
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Holy Cow! $0.07/round… like $17.50 for a 250 round pack or $3.50/50 round pack? I don’t know what sales tax is for you in VA, but here in Michigan we pay 6% so that would be $3.71/50 rounds… the best I can do is $5.03/50 rounds shipped to my door for CCI Blazer *aluminum* cases in bulk from Natchez. Looks like we may have to make a road trip because I can’t get UMC for anywhere near those prices around here.
Heh, well you’re gonna have to road trip to either Little Rock, AK, or someplace in Louisiana, because those are the only places I’ve seen an Academy. I can’t get that kind of pricing locally, so I end up having to do the ordering from Natchez, same as you. (Note that I stopped doing that and just kept reloading…)
Well, actually, it is funny you mention AK, because and I are going to Alaska at the beginning of July… but, I am guessing you meant, Little Rock Arkansas? 🙁 Probably just as well, because I can’t check in that much ammo on the plane with me anyway and shipping would be expensive. I will have to keep my eyes open for that UMC pack though…
Doh, yes, I always do that. AR, not AK. :-/
Must be from preffering the .223 over the 7.62×39
Pouch cooking
Commander Zero, you might want to give salmon with lemon & dill a try using the pouch cooking method, i’ve tried it with chicken breasts with lemon & dill and i’ve been quite satisfied with the results
Re: Pouch cooking
Coolness. Will give it a shot this week..esp. since I have dill growing in my yard. Also some lemon grass or lemon mint (i forget) maybe give that a shot too.