G’mornin’ from Happy Larryville, GN!
Heya, RabBeet!
This bein’ Hump Day, I think our Congress and POSOTUS ought to all go hump themselves. But it’s a given they’ll hump us instead; it’s what they do…it’s who they are.
MADISON, Wisc. -- The doors of a new business set to open today, will remain closed until city concerns have been allayed. So what’s the business? Why the concern? It’s called The Snuggle House and it offers cuddles and hugs from “professional” snugglers.
One wonders if they’re graduates of a particularly silly degree program at teh university. One also wonders if regional restaurant chain Huddle House offers huddles.
“Here’s your patty melt, hon; now go get embraced by those those very large padded men…” (ProTip: Don’t order the sausage.)
However, the Snuggle House’s assistant manager Emily Noon told a local reporter that clients sign contracts and any contract between a client and a snuggler will have enforced boundaries: “Intimate, non-sexual touch,” Noon says. She also explained that their business model is based on a successful snuggery in Rochester, New York. She also claims that cuddling businesses have popped up in California and Colorado.
Mark Levin was going on yesterday about this floor speech. It is quite good.
And good morning!
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Rabbit
10 years ago
Yeah, Fatwa, BW & I saw the news story this morning. They showed a an interview taken on a bare bed mattress & a sot of a bunch of mattresses leaning against a wall. In my day we called ’em whorehouses. Bw said “why aren’t they even pretending to give massages?’
Just got back from Twitchy & found the video “Chinese Food” by the maker of Rebecca Blacks “Friday”.
I love chow mo-mo-mo-mo mein.
Happy Snuggly Hump Day, Gerbil Nation!
Does the Snuggle House offer Bear Hugs? For an extra fee do they offer bare hugs? Does Fatwa’s local Huddle House offer Bubble and Squeak and do you have to sign a waiver?
I got my father’s old 1911A1 back today after having it reworked and reblued.
It started like this. I first fired this 50 years ago and it protected our family several times over the decades.
Now it looks like this.
It is tightened up, modified to feed hollowpoint bullets, reconditioned with new springs, flat mainspring housing, larger fixed sights with white dots, extended safety and new wooden grips. I have a set of Lasergrips for it but I like these grips and will work with them for a while. It feels nice to have this restored to duty. I am looking forward to getting it to the range.
It is an old GI clunker. It had a Colt frame and Remington slide but I traded the Remington slide to a guy who had a Remington frame for his Ithaca slide and some money. He already had a dovetail cut for his front sight so it saved me a bit on changing the sights.
Most new guns are designed to handle hollowpoint ammo but the older guns, especially service autos, were designed to feed ball ammo and most don’t like many hollowpoints. Usually a gunsmith opens the throat a bit and polishes the feed ramp and matches it to the throat. Done right the 1911 will usually handle any reasonable bullet shape. The last government 1911s were made on 1945 or earlier so this gun is older than I am.
The newer designs have a straighter shot of the top round in the magazine into the chamber but the older autos like the 1911 hold the round well below the chamber and the cartridge does rather a dance going in. The bullet moves forward and hits the feed ramp. It bounces up and hits the top of the chamber as it moves forward and bounces down and into the chamber. The base of the case slides up the breech face engaging the extractor claw and the breech goes into battery. If the bullet weight or the nose profile varies much it can throw off the timing and cause the bullet to tip up or nose down and jam, or just bleed off enough energy to cause it to fail to go into battery. With newer designs like the Beretta, Glock, Sig or Kahr, the bullet sits higher and has a straighter feed into the chamber so these are much less sensitive to variations in the bullet weight and profile and they are much more reliable than the older guns but the 1911 has always been a good design and when set up right is very good. It still holds it’s own but is just not as inherently reliable or durable as the new guns. Fifty years of engineering are bound to tell.
The service type Browning HPs were also best used with ball ammo unless throated and polished. I have found that the Federal 9BP round has a good reputation for working in 9mm service guns that do not like other hollowpoints. This was the case for me with both my Browning HP and the Walther P38 I got. The P38 is excellent with ball ammo or the Federal round but will jam regularly with two other hollowpoint rounds I tried. The 9BP is a 115 grain JHP at standard pressure. It rates highly for stopping performance and is popular with police departments. It rated 82% one shot stops in Marshall and Sanow’s book. The Beretta 92 I have has been 100% reliable with every round I have tried in it, as expected. My Taurus Pt908 which is a Sig clone has also been completely reliable with everything I have fed it, as was my Sig 239 in 9mm when I had it. My new one is .40 S&W and has also been excellent.
When I first got the 1911 back from the gunsmith in July I found it worked perfectly with ball and with Winchester 230 grain JHPs but it did not like the Hydro-shoks which are my preferred load in the .45 ACP. I had intended to just use ball in this for plinking but it shot well enough that I decided to have him do his reliability package on it before he sent it to be reblued. I left him three magazines and several boxes of Hydro-shoks for testing. He said it functioned fine and I will test it well when I get to the range. This round is very popular with police and is one of the best rated handgun rounds when fired from a 5″ barrel. It uses a standard weight 230 grain bullet at standard pressures so the feel and point of impact are the same as regular ball ammo and practice with ball is identical to use with the good stuff but much cheaper. My Kimber and my Officers Model worked fine with this load so this gun should as well. It is too expensive, over a dollar a round, to practice with but I always invest enough to be confident it will handle it reliably when testing a new gun, plus I rotate ammo from the gun and spare magazines a couple of times a year and put the old ammo in special boxes for practice and testing when I go to the range. I have been depending on guns in .40 caliber and 9mm so I don’t know if I will use this that way, but it is now ready should I want to.
I understand what you mean about the special attachment.
I have a Springfield Armory 1911 that likes both Hydra-Shoks and Silver-tip, but is picky about other bullet profiles. I also have my father-in-law’s CMP Remington Rand 1911A1 that he only used ball ammo in. One or both may be a candidate for a reliability package at some point.
It does give confidence to know it handles anything well. Do be careful about who does it. A lot of guns are ruined by gunshow commandos with Dremel tools and more enthusiasm than knowledge. It is easy to do more harm than good and once removed the material can not be replaced. Buying a new barrel is bad enough but a frame is a real bugger. There should be plenty of reputable gunsmiths in your area and the job should not cost too much. Mine was $55.00 and I have paid close to $100.00 before. That one would feed empty cases if you got them settled in the magazine.
This guy does nice work and as a result he is very busy with long lead times.
I had planned to retire this gun and get a good basic shooter like your Springfield or one of the new Remingtons but as I no longer depend on a 1911 for home defense or carry I just did not want to spend that much and see the old gun rot, so I decided to fix it up as a shooter. I was happy enough with it I ended up spending more than I had intended but it was still less than a decent gun would have cost and I am happy to have this usable again. The new sights are easy and quick to see and the gun shoots better than I expected. It reminded me why I like 1911s, though I will still rely on newer hardware for carry and home protection.
I would certainly feel fine using this for either purpose though if needed. I have long considered it the finest service pistol and the best combat cartridge ever. It is the only cartridge I feel comfortable with using ball ammo, though of course I prefer HPs. While I am very impressed with the Beretta 92 I would have preferred an updated .45 like the Sig 220 for a service pistol to replace the old 1911.
I hope you will share some feedback. I paid the higher price back in the late 1980s and so I was surprised this guys price was so good. I have not tested it yet but the work looks good and he said it worked. Given his reputation and the work he has done I expect it will work well. I will post something when I have a chance to shoot it.
Cuddle and Hug O grabbin’!
Nevermind. They closed down the “Cuddle & Hug ” shop before it opened.
G’mornin’ from Happy Larryville, GN!
Heya, RabBeet!
This bein’ Hump Day, I think our Congress and POSOTUS ought to all go hump themselves. But it’s a given they’ll hump us instead; it’s what they do…it’s who they are.
I suspect RabBeet was referring to this story:
One wonders if they’re graduates of a particularly silly degree program at teh university. One also wonders if regional restaurant chain Huddle House offers huddles.
“Here’s your patty melt, hon; now go get embraced by those those very large padded men…” (ProTip: Don’t order the sausage.)
M’kay.
Tim McClintock: http://mcclintock.house.gov/2013/10/the-debt-crisis.shtml
Mark Levin was going on yesterday about this floor speech. It is quite good.
And good morning!
Yeah, Fatwa, BW & I saw the news story this morning. They showed a an interview taken on a bare bed mattress & a sot of a bunch of mattresses leaning against a wall. In my day we called ’em whorehouses. Bw said “why aren’t they even pretending to give massages?’
Just got back from Twitchy & found the video “Chinese Food” by the maker of Rebecca Blacks “Friday”.
I love chow mo-mo-mo-mo mein.
Happy Snuggly Hump Day, Gerbil Nation!
Does the Snuggle House offer Bear Hugs? For an extra fee do they offer bare hugs? Does Fatwa’s local Huddle House offer Bubble and Squeak and do you have to sign a waiver?
Hai, Sven and Paddy!
Thanks for not referring to me as “sonny” or “whippersnapper”. 😉
Heh.
Nope…but I’ll bet Jerry’s does (if he haz one). Around these here parts, they offer Bubba & Squeak.
“Ow…quit it!”
For any Gerbs who haven’t seen this: regular poster at Kos gets new California health insurance quotes and is, erm, unpleasantly surprised. Writes post and is hilariously lambasted by other KosKiddies.
Much more “smite teh unbeliever!” at teh link.
My amusement was greatly tempered by the fact many of these “reality-based” morons vote.
Reality bites.
Tarnation…I’ve kilt anither one!
It’s just sleeping, Fatwa.
Glancing at teh news, I see that we are saved. Hip hip hurrah and all that.
I got my father’s old 1911A1 back today after having it reworked and reblued.
It started like this. I first fired this 50 years ago and it protected our family several times over the decades.
Now it looks like this.
It is tightened up, modified to feed hollowpoint bullets, reconditioned with new springs, flat mainspring housing, larger fixed sights with white dots, extended safety and new wooden grips. I have a set of Lasergrips for it but I like these grips and will work with them for a while. It feels nice to have this restored to duty. I am looking forward to getting it to the range.
Very nice! What make?
What do you have to do to allow it to feed hollowpoints?
It is an old GI clunker. It had a Colt frame and Remington slide but I traded the Remington slide to a guy who had a Remington frame for his Ithaca slide and some money. He already had a dovetail cut for his front sight so it saved me a bit on changing the sights.
Most new guns are designed to handle hollowpoint ammo but the older guns, especially service autos, were designed to feed ball ammo and most don’t like many hollowpoints. Usually a gunsmith opens the throat a bit and polishes the feed ramp and matches it to the throat. Done right the 1911 will usually handle any reasonable bullet shape. The last government 1911s were made on 1945 or earlier so this gun is older than I am.
The newer designs have a straighter shot of the top round in the magazine into the chamber but the older autos like the 1911 hold the round well below the chamber and the cartridge does rather a dance going in. The bullet moves forward and hits the feed ramp. It bounces up and hits the top of the chamber as it moves forward and bounces down and into the chamber. The base of the case slides up the breech face engaging the extractor claw and the breech goes into battery. If the bullet weight or the nose profile varies much it can throw off the timing and cause the bullet to tip up or nose down and jam, or just bleed off enough energy to cause it to fail to go into battery. With newer designs like the Beretta, Glock, Sig or Kahr, the bullet sits higher and has a straighter feed into the chamber so these are much less sensitive to variations in the bullet weight and profile and they are much more reliable than the older guns but the 1911 has always been a good design and when set up right is very good. It still holds it’s own but is just not as inherently reliable or durable as the new guns. Fifty years of engineering are bound to tell.
The service type Browning HPs were also best used with ball ammo unless throated and polished. I have found that the Federal 9BP round has a good reputation for working in 9mm service guns that do not like other hollowpoints. This was the case for me with both my Browning HP and the Walther P38 I got. The P38 is excellent with ball ammo or the Federal round but will jam regularly with two other hollowpoint rounds I tried. The 9BP is a 115 grain JHP at standard pressure. It rates highly for stopping performance and is popular with police departments. It rated 82% one shot stops in Marshall and Sanow’s book. The Beretta 92 I have has been 100% reliable with every round I have tried in it, as expected. My Taurus Pt908 which is a Sig clone has also been completely reliable with everything I have fed it, as was my Sig 239 in 9mm when I had it. My new one is .40 S&W and has also been excellent.
When I first got the 1911 back from the gunsmith in July I found it worked perfectly with ball and with Winchester 230 grain JHPs but it did not like the Hydro-shoks which are my preferred load in the .45 ACP. I had intended to just use ball in this for plinking but it shot well enough that I decided to have him do his reliability package on it before he sent it to be reblued. I left him three magazines and several boxes of Hydro-shoks for testing. He said it functioned fine and I will test it well when I get to the range. This round is very popular with police and is one of the best rated handgun rounds when fired from a 5″ barrel. It uses a standard weight 230 grain bullet at standard pressures so the feel and point of impact are the same as regular ball ammo and practice with ball is identical to use with the good stuff but much cheaper. My Kimber and my Officers Model worked fine with this load so this gun should as well. It is too expensive, over a dollar a round, to practice with but I always invest enough to be confident it will handle it reliably when testing a new gun, plus I rotate ammo from the gun and spare magazines a couple of times a year and put the old ammo in special boxes for practice and testing when I go to the range. I have been depending on guns in .40 caliber and 9mm so I don’t know if I will use this that way, but it is now ready should I want to.
In any case it should get a lot of range time as it is fun to shoot and has a special attachment for me.
I understand what you mean about the special attachment.
I have a Springfield Armory 1911 that likes both Hydra-Shoks and Silver-tip, but is picky about other bullet profiles. I also have my father-in-law’s CMP Remington Rand 1911A1 that he only used ball ammo in. One or both may be a candidate for a reliability package at some point.
It does give confidence to know it handles anything well. Do be careful about who does it. A lot of guns are ruined by gunshow commandos with Dremel tools and more enthusiasm than knowledge. It is easy to do more harm than good and once removed the material can not be replaced. Buying a new barrel is bad enough but a frame is a real bugger. There should be plenty of reputable gunsmiths in your area and the job should not cost too much. Mine was $55.00 and I have paid close to $100.00 before. That one would feed empty cases if you got them settled in the magazine.
This guy does nice work and as a result he is very busy with long lead times.
I had planned to retire this gun and get a good basic shooter like your Springfield or one of the new Remingtons but as I no longer depend on a 1911 for home defense or carry I just did not want to spend that much and see the old gun rot, so I decided to fix it up as a shooter. I was happy enough with it I ended up spending more than I had intended but it was still less than a decent gun would have cost and I am happy to have this usable again. The new sights are easy and quick to see and the gun shoots better than I expected. It reminded me why I like 1911s, though I will still rely on newer hardware for carry and home protection.
I would certainly feel fine using this for either purpose though if needed. I have long considered it the finest service pistol and the best combat cartridge ever. It is the only cartridge I feel comfortable with using ball ammo, though of course I prefer HPs. While I am very impressed with the Beretta 92 I would have preferred an updated .45 like the Sig 220 for a service pistol to replace the old 1911.
$55 -- $100?? I would not have expected to pay that little for a craftsman’s time and talents.
I appreciate the info, Mac.
I hope you will share some feedback. I paid the higher price back in the late 1980s and so I was surprised this guys price was so good. I have not tested it yet but the work looks good and he said it worked. Given his reputation and the work he has done I expect it will work well. I will post something when I have a chance to shoot it.