Free In Idaho!

At Appleseed last month I had a 10/22 mag freeze up on me at the end of the day.  It’s been sitting in my bag since then, just annoying me quietly.  I finally found time to work on it, in anticipation of getting out to the desert later this week for some long arms practice.  Handloads all done, targets all ordered, rifles all clean… Ruger’s cube was all that was left.

Now I’m by no means a greatly mechanical person.  Yes, I’ve worked on trucks.  Yes, I’ve built a number of Harleys.  Yeah, I’ve built furniture, cabinets, and worked on plumbing and all of that.  Even done a little soldering and such on some circuit board type projects.  But  I do not work on my own firearms.  Someday that might change, but the time is not now.

So, you can see the story already can’t you… I decided, what the heck, how hard can fixing this magazine be?  The silly thing is what, maybe six parts total, right?  And yeah, I know there is a spring-thingie inside it, but I can handle it.  So I get the hex wrench out and unscrew the thing, pull it all apart.  Yup, pretty simple.  Cleaned it all up, and got all the desert powderdust out of it.  Oughta work like a champ now.  Just need to put it back together…

After messing with the silly thing awhile, I figured there HAD to be a simple trick to getting it back together with the right tension on that spring.  Google.  Ah.  Here we go…

Disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling a Ruger 10/22 Rotary mag

My thanks to the Arizona Rifleman for his help.  Mag is back together, good as new, and ready for the desert again.

Concerning Idaho Congressman Bill Sali’s sponsorship of a “get US out of the UN” bill, Adam Graham hit it right on the button

 I tend to think most mainstream Republicans don’t kneel by their beds at night and thank God that the UN is there to waste money, take bribes and kickbacks from Saddam Hussein at the expense of poor children in Iraq, and be a haven for anti-semitism and one-sided attacks on the state of Israel.

I agree Adam.  The current jaw-jacking by Idaho’s Democrats about this being another extreme position taken by Mr Sali simply highlights again who is and who isn’t representative of everyday Idahoans (and my guess is a surprising number of other states’ citizens as well).  Mr Sali is more representative than the Democrats who are bitching about him.  The UN has proven itself time and again to be another feel good idea that doesn’t work in real life.  Humans being what they are, the idea of some kind of perfect coalition of world government representatives being able to come together and add up to more than they are seperately, kind of a World Justice League made up of tinhats, wackadoodles, pantywaists, crooks, and dictators is one of the colossal jokes foisted on the American people.  The sooner America tears up its membership card and tosses the whole sorry lot back across the Atlantic, the better it will be for America.

By the way, a large number of Idahoans feel my WJL description is also an apt description of our current (and God help us, future) Congress… tinhats, wackadoodles, pantywaists, crooks, and dictators.  Not to mention windbags, liars, posers, and thieves.  And I say that in the spirit of bi-partisanship.

But then, I’m just an ordinary guy, not a Republican, so my vote is a waste.