Isn't this where we came in?

So, back in the early Aughties, banks were handing mortgages out to anybody who could hold a pen and fog a mirror. The "NINJA" (No Income, No Job or Assets) loan became a thing. Lenders were chasing winos down alleyways and forcing them into $350k McMansions telling them they could "flip" the house for half a mil next week. I actually overheard a couple of night stock clerks at a Kroger back in Knoxville talking about the houses they were flipping, back in early '07.

It got so out of whack that it eventually replaced the Dutch tulip mania as an example of stuff that got out of whack in econ textbooks.

Predictably, the economy collapsed. Barack Obama got elected at least partly as a backlash to the collapsed housing bubble that took down Wall Street.

Which makes this headline delicious, at least if you find irony tasty:

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

WARNING!

There is apparently a new and horrible virus that crosses all platforms: Windows and iOS and Android, Edge and Firefox and Chrome and Facebook apps. It only happens when you're signed in as me, though, so don't worry. It's apparently not actually on the machines, rather it's somehow contained in my login information no matter which machine I try.

That's right: My name is a killing word.
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A complete breakfast...

Salmon Caught Near Seattle Are Full Of Cocaine And Antidepressants

"We were just outside of Barstow when the lox kicked in..."

They're missing out by not charging extra for this stuff. People in a hurry could grab a salmon & cream cheese on a toasted onion bagel in the morning and get their daily dose at the same time.

To learn if the salmon in your 'fridge or freezer is from the affected area, lick it and see if your tongue goes numb or if you feel happier.
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Monday morning...

Well, we're all out of rum and the lash is broken. This narrows our options considerably...

— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) April 4, 2016

Canik TP9v2 teardown and wrap-up.

The front sight came out of the box like this: Slightly chewed-up looking and with the dot off-center to the right.

Front frame rails after 2,000 rounds. There was still something like lube on them, despite it being applied two+ months ago.

Locking block area and takedown catch.

Underside of slide. That ragged area at the bottom of the feed ramp is odd...

Feed ramp. You can kinda see the ragged nature of what I presume is a relief cut at the bottom of the ramp. This is where the snouts of the P9HST2 bullets ran aground.

Breechface and extractor. Dirty, but everything looks normal here.

Muzzle crown.

The total round count was two thousand, of which one thousand was American Eagle 115gr FMJ generously provided by Lucky Gunner, so y'all go buy stuff from them so they're happy.

Malfunctions:

1000 rounds of Federal American Eagle 115gr FMJ: 1 malfunction (1 failure to eject.)
160 rounds of CCI Blazer Brass 115gr FMJ: 21 malfunctions (11 failures to eject, 9 failures to feed, 1 failure to lock the slide back.)
50 rounds of Federal HST 147gr JHP: 2 malfunctions (2 failures to feed.)
50 rounds of Fiocchi 124gr FMJ: 1 malfunction (1 failure to fire.)
10 rounds of CCI Blazer Brass 124gr FMJ: 1 malfunction (1 failure to eject.)

Other ammo fired, including 150 rounds of Federal 115gr +P+ JHP, 50 Sig Sauer Elite Performance 115gr FMJ, 50 rounds of Winchester "NATO" 124gr FMJ Q4318, and several hundred Fiocchi 115gr FMJ, experienced no malfunctions.

There is the data. I leave it to you to draw the conclusion as to whether you want to spend your own dosh on this gun like I did. I personally would not carry this sample unless I absolutely had to, and then I'd fill it with Federal 9BPLE, since that seems to function the gun with satisfactory vigor.
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Overheard in the Office...

The TV is playing in Bobbi's room down the hall.

Plastic Surgeon TV Commercial: "Are people always asking if you're tired or angry?"

Me: "Yes! Because I am always tired and angry."

RX: "Well, you know what to do..."

Me: "Yawn and hit people?"

...and...

Plumbing Commercial: "Have a leaky faucet, clogged drain, or do you just need a plumber?"

Me: "How does that work? *ding-dong* 'Hi, do you have a leaky faucet or a clogged drain?' 'No, I just need a plumber.'"

RX: "Well, I think we've all seen movies that start like that..."

Me: "Bow-chicka-wow-wow."

RX: "...I just didn't know they could advertise it on TV."

Mm-mmm good!

Sauteed morels and Bobbi's oxtail stew for supper last night. (Recipe, more or less, at the link.)
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Tiny Colt

Some blogging at the other blog.
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So...

...about that CCI Blazer Brass 115gr FMJ that kept choking the Canik TP9v2?

Put another hundred rounds of it through my Gen4 Glock 35 (with the Lone Wolf 9mm barrel and 9mm extractor and RSA.)

There were no malfunctions of any type, just like all the other hundreds of rounds of this stuff I've shot through this Glock and my other 9mm Glocks.
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A Very SoBro Sunday...

Left the house with Bobbi this morning to walk down to Good Morning Mama's. I had a craving for one of their delicious breakfast burritos and Bobbi wanted to nosh on some corned beef hash. This little fella was on the roof peak of Roseholme Cottage, right over the front door. He was so still, I feared he might be dead, until I noticed the Cooper's hawk circling overhead...

We got to Mama's, where this 2016 Camaro SS Indy Pace Car edition was parked, and the joint was jumpin'. They told me to expect a forty-minute wait. Bobbi strolled down the block to Bent Rail Brewery, and called me to tell me that they were open for brunch. I told the nice people at Mama's to take our names off the wait list, and headed down to Bent Rail myself.

No wait for tables at Bent Rail. Of course, they're a pretty new addition to the brunch scene in SoBro.

I had the Korean breakfast bowl. House made ginger pork sausage, sliced cabbage, kimchi, and two poached eggs over some sticky rice. The sausage was a little dry, but the flavor was great, and you could just smoosh it through the eggs and kimchi to get it all juicy...

We walked toward home via the Monon Trail. Bobbi wanted to swing by The Dancing Donut, but they had already sold out and closed up for the day. We stopped in at Locally Grown Gardens instead.

Lovely produce, all manner of gourmet cooking ingredients, and...

...what's that back there in the cooler? Is that...? Could it be...?

It is! Morels! Oh, we are going to feast at Roseholme tonight!
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Automotif CXXII...

1962 Chevrolet Corvette spotted in the parking lot at Indy Arms Co.
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Finished.

I took the Canik TP9v2 to Indy Arms Co. on Friday morning and purchased two hundred rounds of Fiocchi 115gr FMJ and rented a place to stand.

After putting 186 rounds through the lower A-zone at seven yards, I ran the target out to ten yards and fired the last four rounds of the test at the upper A-zone.

There were no malfunctions of any kind to report.

The Canik TP9v2 has now fired 2000 rounds without cleaning or lubing and experienced nine failures to eject and nine failures to feed in the initial fifty, as well as one failure to fire (#221), one failure to lock the slide back (#350), four more failures to eject (#323, #379, #997, #1220), and two more failures to feed (#1312, #1325).

Look for a detailed wrap-up post this weekend, and then it's on to the Steyr C9-A1...
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No Blood For Oil!

So, some months back, Andrew Tuohy at Vuurwapen Blog posted that, while he didn't believe the Internet assertion that "zomg FireClean gun lube is Crisco!", IR spectroscopy sure made it look like it was canola oil.

Depressingly predictably, the end result of all the ensuing internet butthurt and hair-pulling is FireClean acting like they've never heard of the Streisand Effect and filing a lawsuit (a nuisance lawsuit, in my layperson's opinion) that basically asserts "Nuh-Uh! FireClean is not either Crisco! It's vegetable oil! Also, the internet is full of poopieheads!"

If you would like to contribute to a defense fund to help Andrew defray his legal fees in this mess, there is a GoFundMe here.
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snark.wav

Q: "What kind of jerky program demands screen space or ir won't run?"
A: donaldtrump.exe

You're welcome, @dustbury. ;)

— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) April 1, 2016

Nearing the finish line.

Back to Indy Arms yesterday morning with the Canik TP9v2 and the last fifty rounds of Lucky Gunner's American Eagle 115gr FMJ. I also brought a fifty round box of Federal 115gr +P+ 9BPLE jacketed hollow points and bought two boxes of Fiocchi 115gr FMJ at the counter when I got there.

There was a brief time where I was out on the range by myself and I might have exceeded the 1rd/sec speed limit by...well, a little. Which is how that one body shot went egregiously high and right.

There were no malfunctions of any type to report.

The Canik TP9v2 has now fired 1810 rounds without cleaning or lubing and experienced nine failures to eject and nine failures to feed in the initial fifty, as well as one failure to fire (#221), one failure to lock the slide back (#350), four more failures to eject (#323, #379, #997, #1220), and two more failures to feed (#1312, #1325). 190 rounds to go.
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Rebuttal

Drive-by rebuttal... pic.twitter.com/XGAdh2DiER

— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) April 1, 2016

Rah Rah Rah!

Watching "sportsball"-scorning nerds experiencing the rapture of their first mob cheering experience is the best part of Trump '16 so far.

— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) March 31, 2016

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."

So, thus far, the Canik has fired 1,610 rounds with 26 malfunctions. That's one malfunction every 61.92 rounds. But we know it didn't like the CCI Blazer Brass 115gr, at least that particular lot, and so what would the numbers look like if we discounted the 160 rounds of that stuff and the malfunctions it induced?

Without the Blazer Brass 115gr, the numbers are five malfunctions in 1,450 rounds, or one in 290. There were ten rounds of Blazer Brass 124gr fired for the chrono. Perhaps unsurprisingly, one of them bobbled the extraction, so if we remove all Blazer Brass numbers, the totals are 1,440 rounds with four malfunctions: 1-in-360.

Then there was that 147gr Federal HST Tactical, whose combination of long cartridge overall length (COAL) and blunt nose caused two failure-to-feeds in fifty rounds. Pull that out, too, and you're left with 1,390 rounds fired with two malfunctions. One of those two was a questionable light strike on a Fiocchi primer, and the other was a failure to eject with the also-weak-but-not-quite-as-weak-as-Blazer-Brass American Eagle 115gr.

In other words, it's entirely possible that I could have come into this test with a case-and-a-half of warm Fiocchi or Remington ammo and a few hundred rounds of 115gr and 124gr JHP, and the gun would have fired 2,000 rounds with maybe one or two malfunctions and I'd be telling you this thing was the best deal since before Springfield started marketing the Croatian Sensation and it still cost $200 from some little importer in Knoxville.

Which brings us around to the big question: What does the difference in price between a TP9v2 and a Gen 3 Glock 19 get you?

This:

Glock 19 went 2,000 rounds with one light primer strike on a round of Brown Bear, plus one bad cartridge from Sumbro that didn't count against the gun.

Seriously...

...they just sent me over from central casting to play "Woman in Seat 5A" in the movie of your life, honey. Oh, I didn't mind your carry-on bag in my teeth at all. No, no! Don't let me get in your way! The director needs a good shot of you coming up the jetway.

.@HarryFreeK Dude, it's like the inside of every Embraer and Bombardier is a fifty- to eighty-attendee solipsist's convention.

— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) March 30, 2016

Canik Attack

Took the Canik TP9v2 and another two hundred rounds of Lucky Gunner's Federal American Eagle 115gr FMJ to Indy Arms Co. this morning.

That little guy? I wouldn't worry about that little guy.

There were no malfunctions of any type to report.

The Canik TP9v2 has now fired 1610 rounds without cleaning or lubing and experienced nine failures to eject and nine failures to feed in the initial fifty, as well as one failure to fire (#221), one failure to lock the slide back (#350), four more failures to eject (#323, #379, #997, #1220), and two more failures to feed (#1312, #1325). 390 rounds to go.
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