I’ve got my alarm set for noon so that I can head off to Wally World and buy my ammo.
The reasons for all this Wal-Mart talk are right here, btw.
But what I really want to know is if me buying one of these is equal to me buy a minimum of 100 rounds,
The new 120mm M1028 cartridge will be fired from the M1A1/M1A2 Abrams main battle tank M256 smoothbore cannon. Representing the opposite end of the engagement spectrum from armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot rounds designed for long range antitank combat, the M1028 canister round contains approximately 1,100 tungsten balls designed for muzzle action against a vastly different target set. “It’s essentially a large shotgun shell,� observed Lt. Col. Ken Tarcza, product manager, Large Caliber Ammunition, in the Office of Project Manager, Maneuver Ammunition System (PM MAS).
I don’t even care that I don’t have an Abrams. I’d figure out something cool to do with a 120mm shotshell. I just know I would.
Found at Murdoc’s
And even though I really don’t need to remind anyone, Gullyborg has this week’s installment of the Carnival of Cordite up with the good, the bad and the very ugly contained within.
In a startling development, Mr. Completely has a new rifle so that he can compete in future Rifle e-Postal Matches with a rifle. There will also be news on the matches p on Monday.
I’m debating on range time with pool cue chalks today or tomorrow. It will depend on how intact I make it out of the madness that is my local Wal-Mart. When you go to a WM in say, Montana, they are clean with wide aisles and not very crowded. Not so the one near where I live. They open at 0700 and after about 0800 the place could double for an old INS office with screaming children and merchandise strewn about. Even just the parking lot is a combat zone.
I swear, how I make it out of there without pistol whipping a half a dozen people, I don’t know.