Saturday, December 07, 2002
(unfinished)
Opens the door and says: "ooh, not the fair maiden I was expecting".
Observing a treatment my mothers friend's boyfriend, who is a real gem. One of those pothead, do nothing, wannabe writer, wannabe know-it-all. Because she owns a boat. He does jack, cant cook for himself. And she does all the work on the boat. Oh, his claim to fame is he designed a few sex toys. So you can just get an idea of where his minds at. He cant even try to act like he has sense.
A self described "closet buddhist" (I begged the question to my mother "and what else are you in the closet about")
"These inscrutible chinese guys, they dont make sense even when they want to" "They make a lot of sense, it makes a lot of sense, more sense than the western stuff".
conversation turns to a book she brings over on qigong. her boyfriend makes a comment like 'is that where you rub your balls'? ..thats one of the male exercises. Says: They translate any of these exercises to "choking the chicken" or "stroking the beaver". My mom says "That would be the american version, for people who are stuck on the 1st chakra..."
"Yah, thats the thats the sexual center..."
Thats lockeroom or chatroom talk. Problem is with these people is its like talking to a clinical paranoid. You agree with them and they become instantly suspitious. they expect people to
Opens the door and says: "ooh, not the fair maiden I was expecting".
Observing a treatment my mothers friend's boyfriend, who is a real gem. One of those pothead, do nothing, wannabe writer, wannabe know-it-all. Because she owns a boat. He does jack, cant cook for himself. And she does all the work on the boat. Oh, his claim to fame is he designed a few sex toys. So you can just get an idea of where his minds at. He cant even try to act like he has sense.
A self described "closet buddhist" (I begged the question to my mother "and what else are you in the closet about")
"These inscrutible chinese guys, they dont make sense even when they want to" "They make a lot of sense, it makes a lot of sense, more sense than the western stuff".
conversation turns to a book she brings over on qigong. her boyfriend makes a comment like 'is that where you rub your balls'? ..thats one of the male exercises. Says: They translate any of these exercises to "choking the chicken" or "stroking the beaver". My mom says "That would be the american version, for people who are stuck on the 1st chakra..."
"Yah, thats the thats the sexual center..."
Thats lockeroom or chatroom talk. Problem is with these people is its like talking to a clinical paranoid. You agree with them and they become instantly suspitious. they expect people to
// posted by Tengri @ 3:06 PM 
Monday, December 02, 2002
I remember years ago seeing a .32 S&W long conversion for the Ruger MkII pistols. I read about it first in one of those gun digest type books. Conversion consisted of a barrel (bored to .32, chamfered and chambered) modification, firing pin modification for centerfire, and weight added to the slide. Also a magazine modification. Used a .32 s&w long bullet with a wadcutter (flush fitting).
But I was thinking the other day looking at the pictures of the Chinese type 67. .32 acp is actually shorter than the .32 S&W long casing empty. The actual specs are. And before I obviously didnt get the point. The .22 LR is rimfire, by definition, it has a rim. .32 is SEMI rimmed. The neck of a .22 casing is obviously not as big as .32 ACP but you must count the RIM in the equasion.
Now I get it. The reason the conversion is possible (.22 to .32) is simple. The .22 magazine is wide enough to take the .32 casing. The modification is to accodate the larger rim on the .32 S&W long. There are two ways around this. Rimless the .32 cartridges.
In a gunsmithing book by (or with) lee jurras. He talks about his .41 super vel wildcat. Its simply a de-rimmed .41 magnum shortened and used in a colt type pistol. 9mm or .45 I forget. Derimming a rimmed casing may be quit easy with a special tool. A hammer punch of somekind. Or, what i'm thinking of is a sharpened tube, like a old style potato gun punch. Goes around the outside of the casing and punches off the rim.
Crude but effective. After all, whats so hard about making custom ammo for a silenced pistol or specialty applications. It appears to me that if you simply measured a .32 casing (S&W long or ACP) and compared it to the diameter of the .22 rim, you'd have a perfect fit.
Someones only job now is to make a barrel/reciever that takes the .32. Figure out the slide spring strength for the extra power of the bullet. And or ad the slide weight (although it does protrude from the back of the gun) and a pre-made firing pin. The firing pin actually looks more like a flat piece of metal. This has to be a no brainer conversion.
I've seen threaded barrels sold by FMJ (cobray) I believe (grey market item) for use with their fake supressor. Its simply a tiny little barrel with threads. On the finished gun you have this tiny barrel to thread on the fake supressor. Imagine the same thing with a bull barrel blank. Or to cut costs, barrel extension.
Someone needs to get on the ball with this conversion kit yesterday. They'd sell a million of them. Wouldnt you much rather have a Ruger type .22 pistol that shoots .32 acp's and maybe .32 S&W long if you chose (moot now with the 60 grain SSS-Subsonic .22 now IMO). On a regular gun thats a lot of extra barrel for giving .32 that extra kick. And the accuracy must be a lot better.
Hammerli makes a .32 acp conversion kit for its Olympic target grade pistols.
But I was thinking the other day looking at the pictures of the Chinese type 67. .32 acp is actually shorter than the .32 S&W long casing empty. The actual specs are. And before I obviously didnt get the point. The .22 LR is rimfire, by definition, it has a rim. .32 is SEMI rimmed. The neck of a .22 casing is obviously not as big as .32 ACP but you must count the RIM in the equasion.
Now I get it. The reason the conversion is possible (.22 to .32) is simple. The .22 magazine is wide enough to take the .32 casing. The modification is to accodate the larger rim on the .32 S&W long. There are two ways around this. Rimless the .32 cartridges.
In a gunsmithing book by (or with) lee jurras. He talks about his .41 super vel wildcat. Its simply a de-rimmed .41 magnum shortened and used in a colt type pistol. 9mm or .45 I forget. Derimming a rimmed casing may be quit easy with a special tool. A hammer punch of somekind. Or, what i'm thinking of is a sharpened tube, like a old style potato gun punch. Goes around the outside of the casing and punches off the rim.
Crude but effective. After all, whats so hard about making custom ammo for a silenced pistol or specialty applications. It appears to me that if you simply measured a .32 casing (S&W long or ACP) and compared it to the diameter of the .22 rim, you'd have a perfect fit.
Someones only job now is to make a barrel/reciever that takes the .32. Figure out the slide spring strength for the extra power of the bullet. And or ad the slide weight (although it does protrude from the back of the gun) and a pre-made firing pin. The firing pin actually looks more like a flat piece of metal. This has to be a no brainer conversion.
I've seen threaded barrels sold by FMJ (cobray) I believe (grey market item) for use with their fake supressor. Its simply a tiny little barrel with threads. On the finished gun you have this tiny barrel to thread on the fake supressor. Imagine the same thing with a bull barrel blank. Or to cut costs, barrel extension.
Someone needs to get on the ball with this conversion kit yesterday. They'd sell a million of them. Wouldnt you much rather have a Ruger type .22 pistol that shoots .32 acp's and maybe .32 S&W long if you chose (moot now with the 60 grain SSS-Subsonic .22 now IMO). On a regular gun thats a lot of extra barrel for giving .32 that extra kick. And the accuracy must be a lot better.
Hammerli makes a .32 acp conversion kit for its Olympic target grade pistols.
// posted by Tengri @ 3:02 PM
