Neanderpundit

to the blogroll, and overdue for correction: Caleb, of Gun Nuts media joins the blogroll. I honestly thought he was there but when I went looking for it he wasn’t. Apologies, Caleb, and welcome to the blogroll.

with sometime commenter and serial moper Redbone tonight. He’s flying a Super Decathlon cross country, and stopped in at Lansing airport for an overnight before moving west and north.

As you may have noticed from comments, Redbone is an asshole. A bigger asshole than you can imagine. SO i liked him just fine. Partner and I met him at Shannon’s for some chips and brew, and it didn’t dawn on me until just a moment ago that he might need something to eat beyond that. Sorry, dude. By now I figure you’ve discovered that your hotel is surrounded by good restaurants. . I’m picking him up in the AM and taking him back from the hotel to his plane. Anyway, Partner said “he fits right in. He yells and laughs and holds his own”. Which of course, is true.

Factual data, on the other hand… lets just say he bases his worldview on his feelings about how things should be.

Well, he’s young. Maybe he’ll figure it out. Nice to meet you, Bone. Safe journey and safe home again, and don’t piss off any grizzlies.

Oh, and Bone? Read a bit about Malthus. Overpopulation hysteria is just that. Always has been, always will be. You gotta get away from those morons on the coast. Because populous places have the most problems does not mean they are cauised by them, you need to understand the concept of “post hoc ergo propter hoc”

I have been dealing with Dennis Fossey at Precision Cartridge for some time now. Before that, I dealt with the guy he purchased the business from, Johnny Lamer.

Dennis spent years building his business. He has a whole slew of police departments he has been providing with ammo for years, and quite a few ranges around the area. He also does some of the more unusual loads for Graf like light 45-70 for those old trapdoors.

A lot of local businesses have eschewed his ammo because “my customers won’t shoot reloads, they want the real thing”. As if reloads weren’t the real thing. So over the years Dennis has gotten a lot of grief for being the “used” guy. A lot of people wouldn’t trust his ammo because it might somehow be lesser quality than the commercial stuff.

Well, I’ve shot thousands of rounds of it, with zero trouble. I have had, in as many thousand rounds, two cases which split- which, incidentally, chambered and fired well. Never had a misfire or a squib.

Now that ammo is getting tough to come by, the folks at local ranges are showing up. They still have the attitude that the reloaded ammo is somehow not as good as the factory ammo, so they show up with attitude. ‘I have a range. What’s your best price for x ammo?’ Dennis quotes them the full price. “What? No discount?”

Dennis is amused that the people who wouldn’t piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire when times were good, are now begging to be serviced. He’s not shy about chasing fools out of his facility.

I show up at Dennis’ place with cash. I pay his asking price- which is WAY below the cost of commercial ammo. I know he sometimes don’t have the stuff in stock. So I pay and wait. Today I stopped by for a K of 9, a k of 45, and a k of 223. I’ll have it next week. I paid cash. Had I been able to call and give Dennis some warning, I’d have had it today.