I would have liked to take a picture of a sign I saw today, but I couldn't really just slam on the brakes in the middle of the road, so you'll have to take my word for it.

This was one of those infamous church signs. Sometimes I don't think they really think about what they're saying. This sign stated:



I laughed so hard I nearly ran off the road.

It reminds me of that Lyle Lovett song:  "The preacher said, I now pronounce you 99 to life. Son, she's no lady, she's your wife."

From Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership:

Recently a JPFO supporter sent a letter to the NRA asking about its position on the BATFE. As our readers know, JPFO has made it a mission to abolish that rogue agency and end federal control and regulation of your firearms.

In their response to our supporter, the NRA spokesperson, on behalf of Sandra Froman, president of the NRA, made several statements that are contrary to what JPFO believes gun rights organizations should support.

The complete response from the NRA and JPFO's response to the response can be read here (pdf file).

UPDATE:  I think the "preaching to the choir" comment could have been misconstrued after I read this post at The War On Guns.  The comment being left anonymously was an accident.  I left it myself in reply to the first comment.  Sometimes, for reasons unknown to me, I don't get automatically logged in when I reply to a comment on my own blog, and when this happens, I usually don't notice it.  My clichéd response was unfortunate.  I should have spoken in plain language.  If I had, I would have simply said, "I agree with you already, so you don't have to use your caps lock."

I usually delete these comments that I accidentally post anonymously and repost them under my own name.  This time, since it has already been referenced, I'll leave it as is and I hope this update will suffice to explain things.

As I said in a comment I left at the WOG post linked above, I agree with the JPFO position that the BATF should be eliminated.  Any legitimate and constitutional functions which they perform should be relegated to a new agency or agencies.  Following that, a lot of people involved with their oppressive measures should be prosecuted by all legal and constitutional means.

I apologize if there were any misunderstandings caused by my lack of attention.

I became a gun owner in 1978 at the age of 14.  My dad filled out the paperwork for it, but I bought it with my own money, and it was a Ruger 10/22.

During my freshman year in high school, I was a member of the FFA.  After that one year, I decided to pursue other goals and didn't remain a member.  However, during that year I had a subscription to Future Farmer magazine, and CCI was one of their biggest advertisers.

I didn't read the magazine much, but my favorite thing about it every month was the full-page CCI ad.  They knew their target audience (high school age mostly boys), and they didn't bother advertising all their cartridges, only the .22.  Since the only gun I owned was a .22, I immediately became interested and fascinated by all things related to that cartridge.  (Okay, at that time I also had temporary custody of a .218 Bee, but there wasn't much info floating around for that cartridge).

I also learned that ammo (like Federal, for example) with that gunkily lubed lead bullet didn't feed reliably in my 10/22.  CCI ammo, with its thin brass jacket, was always 100% reliable.  I became a big CCI fan.

One of the ads I remember best from the FFA magazine was the one when Stingers were still new and they had side-by-side pictures of a coke can shot with a regular .22LR and another shot with a Stinger.  I immediately had to get some Stingers, filled a Dr. Pepper can up with water, and shot it.  That exploded can got hung on a nail on my wall, next to my gun rack.  I was already a gun nerd back then.  It was the first of many cans to suffer a similar fate.

At one point, CCI had in their ad that if I sent in a dollar, I'd get this nifty ammunition guide, so I did.  It also came with a CCI sticker which got stuck to the wall right next to the exploded Dr. Pepper can.

For some time I had wondered whatever had become of the old ammo guide.  A few weeks ago when I was looking through some other old gun books, the ammo guide fell out of one of them, having been sandwiched between the pages for several years.

So here is the nearly 30-year-old CCI Ammunition Guide from the late 1970s, scanned and preserved for posterity.  The resolution should be high enough that you can download them and read them in your preferred graphics program.  The double pages are around 250k each.

I scanned the ballistics pages separately so I could set them in landscape and make them easier to read.  They are the most interesting and useful part of the guide, to me.  The cartridge illustrations are in scale with each other.

Click on the thumbnails to download the files.

  
Front and back covers.


Pages 1 and 2:  firearm safety, ammunition care, 22 rimfire history.


Pages 3 and 4:  "treat the 22 with respect," testing from a bench rest, sighting in, velocity loss in autoloaders.


Pages 5 and 6:  causes of misfires, Stinger, Stinger velocity vs. barrel length.


Page 7:  Green Tag competition ammo, CCI rimfire shotshells.


Page 8:  22 ballistics--short, long, long rifle, magnum, and shotshell.  Handwritten notes are mine.  Something about the percentage difference between the standard 40-grain bullet and other bullets used in other cartridges, it seems.  I don't really remember.


Page 9:  ballistics--380 ACP, 9mm Luger, 38 Special and 38 Special +P.


Page 10:  ballistics--38 Special +P (continued), 357 Magnum, 44 Magnum, 45 ACP.


Pages 11 and 12:  CCI Lawman Ammunition, barrel length and velocity comparisons.


Pages 13 and 14:  handgun barrel life with jacketed bullets, bullet lubrication, centerfire shotshells, CCI equipment for the reloader.
I remember when I sent my dollar in, I wrote a note that although I had seen the ads for the shotshells, there weren't any in the stores yet, and I was looking forward to trying some out when they finally became available for purchase where I lived.

As I told in the story about the rats, I did end up using their shotshells quite a lot, but I used them in my dad's old pump action.  This was because the shotshell load isn't heavy enough to fully cycle the action of the 10/22, and they jammed it.  Years later, their shotshells often turned my Single Six into a very effective snake gun.

So there it is.  I hope you find it interesting.