The US people, who are currently buying firearms like crazy for Fear their new Pres (Obama) will take them away once he is inaugurated, have every right to be fearful.

From Google's cache of www.change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy (because it has vanished from the website overnight) comes this...

Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

The Tiahrt Amendment prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone Other than a law enforcement agency conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. Imagine antis getting their hands on such info? In lawsuit USA, I can just picture firearm manufacturers getting sued willy nilly for crimes committed with their brand of firearm. Or even gun shop owners getting sued.

Respect the 2nd amendment - people's right to bear arms shall not be infringed upon - but only inasmuch as keeping them away from children and criminals? Hmm... logical extension... if you have children you aren't allowed a firearm in the home. I hate "For The Children" excuses.

Who decides what Common Sense Measures are? Not the same people that use "For The Children" hypocrisy?

How do you Childproof firearms? Lock them in a safe with a trigger lock? Thus negating any self defense aspects? We have this in Australia.

Gun Show Loophole? Seems a firearm seller is Supposed to do a Police Check on a person before selling them a firearm. Obviously, no such checks can be done on a person buying from a gun show.l Antis claim crims get their guns from such shows. But stats show only .7% of crims get guns from such sources. So 99.3 get their guns from elsewhere. Hmmm. Close gun shows?

Making the weapons ban permanent. And here the wording is reminiscent of that used in Aust. In Oz the Media kept talking about machine guns and semi autos in the same sentence. As in... a ban on machine guns and semi autos. BUT, fully auto firearms were already banned. No need to ban them. BUT, using them in the same sentence constantly joins them in people's minds.

Step one, call semi autos Assault Weapons. Mention battlefield. And the link is drawn without coming out and stating it - as stating it would be false. And then leave it for people's minds to join the two. Tricky.

Ban one, then add to the list. No more semi autos for the yanks. After all, it's all in the definition of an Assault Weapon. Semi auto? No more semi auto shotguns. Anything with a magazine above 10? Slippery slop indeed. Welcome to Oz-Style firearm control America.

80 million firearm owners had a chance to vote the other way. They didn't. Now they wear it.

It will be Interesting to see how Obama tries to put his disarm America policy into action. Me thinks a LOT more gun sales will take place before he is able to do anything. Wait and see.

Stock is wooden. And while I do like a synthetic stock, there is something about wood in a stock. Be it the heft, the tactile feel of it, the look, or a combination of all of them. Photos just don't do wooden stocks justice. Because what you Get out of holding a wooden stock cannot be conveyed via photo. Like in the movie Star Trek First Contact when Capt Picard was touching the Phoenix and Lieutenant Commander Data the android couldn't understand what Picard was Getting out of the Touch.

Anyway. Mounted on top is a Crosman Mil-Dot Scope... 3 - 9 x 40 10=>infinity parallax. As well as the dayglow open sights for if I ever get tired of using a scope.

The barrel breaks open with ease and cocking it just as easy. Of course, I am a guy who does a Physical job - but - my wife is able to cock it so great upper body strength is not needed to crack it open, fully cock it, load it, close her up and fire at least once.

Weight wise... I found no great effort required to hold it while shooting from a standing position, nor did my wife. And figure the brief time spent in such a postion while hunting would be negligible.

For testing purposes I used a variety of pellets. Because different pellets perform differently in different guns. They were...

Match-Kugeln Flat/Wadcutter
Beeman H&N Match
Rocket (Gamo)
EXP Pointed
Winchester Round Nose - made in NZ

ProPell Round Nose
Crosman pointed-ish
Beeman RamJet

Pro Magnum (pointed-ish) by Gamo
JSB Exacts
Beeman Crow magnum
Beeman Silver Bear

Here they are pictured in the order mentioned above - going from left to right... Match Kugeln, Beeman Match, Rocket, etc. (All three rows are the same row taken from different angles)

Haven't used the Rockets before so was Interested to see how they'd go. Would they be usable or just a gimmick, as I suspected, despite the overzealous reviews of them online? I was intrigued to find out. Because you just never know for certain until you give it a try. After all, the product description is "By utilizing a design compressing a round BB into a hollow-point pellet, the Rocket delivers maximum shock to the target, making it ideal for hunting." Of course, missing from that description is the word Accuracy - don't matter if they hit hard, if they can't hit where you aim, right? (Of course, with the box having attached Belt Clips, the box itself could come in handy for other things even if the pellets are crap - such as a small field first aid box with some cotton balls, band aids and disinfectant wipes; or a small fire kit with some BBQ fire lighters/starters and a box of matches or small cigarette lighter.)

Onward.

To sight in I used a Huge X target available from Bob Friesenhahn's site at http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/airguns/targets/index.html. Aimed at the middle and shot a group, to make sure I could group. Then, made windage adjustments only, to bring it to center windage-wise. Then concentrated on Height Adjustment only to bring it to center of aim height-wise. Distance sighted in at was 10 metres. Conditions were Very Windy - 20 kmph. Seated at a bench but front supported by hand about a foot above the low bench.

Once sighted in I shot five three-pellet groups of each pellet at a 25 target sheet also from Bob Friesenhahn's site - 180 pellets in total at 10 metres. All pellets, unwashed, unweighed and unsorted, just used as they came out of the tin. Conditions were windy - the frame the target sat on was wobbling side to side as well as back to front at times. And first two rows were shot without a bench rest, just supported in my hand. The results are below...







As can be seen, the pellets which gave the best grouping under these conditions were...

JSB Exact
Beeman H&N Match
Crosman
Crow Magnum
Silver Bear

The worst by far were the Pro Pells. They were so bad, compared to what I'd already shot, I wondered if it was me. After all, I'd had to move shooting location for the second target sheet and was now shooting slightly downhill. But the Crosman groupings which followed proved it was the Pro Pell pellet which was pathetic. Having such a wide and high grouping as to prevent any use of the row of targets under the aim point. The ProPells are thus no good for target or hunting use... only being useful to plink aluminum cans and other similar fun stuff.

The RamJets did ok. As did the Pro Magnums with some wadcutter-like holes. And surprisingly, the Gamo Rockets. Although, the Rockets were the most inconsistent to load. Some slid in, some were tight. Whereas, all Winchester pellets slid in easily. And their groupings aren't that bad either.

Yes, there are other brands of Pellet on the market. But these 12 brands are the most readily available to me and easiest to obtain, at the moment. But additional pellets will be sourced and tested further along the track. For now, for the Review of the firearm, these pellets will suffice.

The recoil was quite manageable. After 180+ rounds my shoulder was none the worse for wear. And cocking the airarm was also easy in the seated position - with butt on leg near groin, my left hand easily pulled the barrel into the open position.

The safety engages automatically when cocking it. But it is easily pushed forward into the Ready To Fire position with your thumb. The trigger was consitent. Not too lose or light, nor too heavy. Somewhere in the middle. The doverails easily accommodate the once piece mount and hold it close to the barrel and in line with the barrel - no flat spot on the barrel for the Stop Screw to sit in, but movement shouldn't really happen, as after 180 shots there was no noticeable shift in the scope's position. There was no real noticeable barrel droop either as it was shooting high at 10 metres straight out of the box with the scope on. And there is a rubber recoil pad which is also not to hard nor too soft but somewhere in the middle.

I don't own a Chrony. And couldn't be bothered hiring the range Chrony. I was just there to get groupings for the pellets. Velocity can wait for another day at the range. But next time, I'll just use the five best performers as mentioned already.

Overall, the airarm has a solid feel, and one of Quality. I'm am pleased with its purchase and would buy it again if it were damaged beyond repair due to natural disaster.

Any long-time reader of my stuff will know of my Disdain for the Commonly Accepted and Unquestioned idea that HIV causes AIDS. And I Cringe everytime there is a news item referring to HIV/AIDS.

There is Ample evidence to suggest AIDS is NOT caused by HIV. But it is not needed. All that is needed is this one little Fact - NOT all people with AIDS have HIV. That alone should seal the fate of the unproven idea that HIV causes AIDS. But, the medical profession have too much of a vested interest to accept that HIV dies not cause AIDS. Their research grants would suddenly dry up.

For Years I have been saying that AIDS - an Immune system Deficiency - is due to chemicals and other environmental toxins which, over time, put such a strain on the immune system it can no longer function correctly. For some reason, this simple and obvious idea is Ignored in favor of the idiotic notion that something we are immune to can make us ill and kill us and we can get this same illness and death even when we don't have the thing we are immune to.

Further more, there are MANY scientists who have been saying for years - almost as soon as HIV was deemed the cause of AIDS, that the idea of an AIDS Virus was a myth and the greatest HOAX pulled on the people.

Anyway. As the medical profession likes to Lump things together and have Single Causes for Single Effects, the question can be asked... if HIV doesn't cause AIDS, is there one specific thing which Could cause it?

There is a Substance which is quite harmful to our health and which is in widespread use. It has been Known as a Toxic substance with Severe Harmful Effects for well over 100 years. Yet little is written about it in the Main Stream Media (MSM), or talked about by Politicians who are always trying to Force things upon us for our own good. Its Effects can be attributed to Many New World Diseases - such as Chronic Fatigue. And its effects read like a Who's Who of diseases with effects as...

» Prolonged fever
» Fatigue
» Rash
» Cough/flu-like symptoms
» Intestinal disorders
» Lymphadenopathy
» Pneumonias
» Neuropathy
» Scleroderma
» Hepatitis
» Diarrhea
» Thrush/candida infection
» Sweats
» Wasting
» T-cell abnormalities
» Retinitis
» Cutaneous skin lesions
» Fibrosis
» Inflammation
» Insomnia
» Headaches
» CD4/CD8 inverted ratio
» Internal lesions
» Nerve degeneration
» Dementia/memory loss
» Myalgia
» Secondary Infections

As you can see, this list of Effects is quite extensive and people with AIDS and Chronic Fatigue exhibit just about all of them. And yet this same single substance can also cause all of these effects in our bodies.

That being the case, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to Figure that maybe this particular substance is the thing making people have AIDS and the more mild Chronic Fatigue. At the very least this substance should be earmarked as Extremely Toxic to our health and treated as such. And certainly not Added to food items.

What is this Toxic Substance?

Benzene!!!

It belongs to a family of chemicals known as Aromatic Hydrocarbons and whose other members include Naphthalene, Aniline, Hydroquinone, Phenol, Xylene and Toulene. All accumulate in bone marrow and suppress the immune system. And derivatives include benzoic acid which is sometimes known as sodium benzoate, methylparaben and propylparaben.

Interestingly, Condom Lubricants have Benzene in them (gays use such lubricants). AIDS was blamed on people coming from Haiti - such people were given Clioquinol (which contains a Benzene derivative) to supposedly kill parasite infections, and which is marketed Heavily in countries like Zaire and Angola - countries rife with AIDS.

Besides Prescription drugs, drugs like cocaine, heroin, and crystal methamphetamine are manufactured with coal tar derivatives like kerosene which contain high amounts of benzene. And other drugs are made with Acetone - another Toxic Substance which causes changes in carbohydrate metabolism, nasal effects, conjunctiva irritation, nausea, vomiting, muscle weakness, kidney damage, and various metabolic and biochemical changes.

In 1906 (over 100 years ago) Dr Harvey Wiley, the founder of the FDA, conducted experiments to determine the Health Risks of these products. The test subjects - who gave their permission to be subjects - all suffered night sweats, fever, muscle loss, anorexia, lymph swelling, etc. The same symtoms of AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, illicit drug use, and other benzene-induced conditions.

He testified before congress that the use of benzoic acid, boric acid, salicylates, and cinnamic aldehyde would be disastrous if added to products consumed by people. He was successful for a while but was eventually expelled from the FDA, the very body he founded! And in a book he wrote he predicted serious epidemics in the future would result from the use of these benzene chemicals.

There is Much which can be said of the Harmful effects of Benzene and Benzoic Acid (sodium benzoate, benzoate of soda, methylparaben, propylparaben, or paraben). And people think I am an Oddball when I refuse to rub petro-chemical substances on my skin, or spray derived Fragrances in the air, or live in a house with formaldehyde (the simplest aldehyde) fumes coming off Carpet. But I have NOT been ill since 1992, so there's more than a good chance I know a thing or two, don't you think?

Anyway. If you want to do some of your own reading, I suggest the article by Stephen C. Byrnes PhD, called Benzene, Lubricants and AIDS which can be found on the VirusMyth website at http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/sblubejob.htm as well as the Health Report website at http://www.health-report.co.uk/benzene-lubricants-condoms.htm.

If benzene is so bad, and its harmful effects are so well known, why has this information not been made public and pursued?

One word...

LIABILITY!

Imagine the Liability the makers of lubricants would face if it was accepted that all AIDS deaths in the homosexual community were caused by the very lubricants sold to them? The Massive Class Action lawsuits from Chronic Fatigue sufferers against all makers of decafe coffee and other Lite foods and the like.

Sorry folks... but Money Talks. There is Way Too Much To Lose to accept such a liability. So it is ignored, covered over, or rebutted with Acceptable Limits and Use Warnings on labels.

If you want to stay as healthy as you can, you need to Naturalize your life as much as possible. Eat FRESH food - nothing processed in any way - and drink purified water which you purify yourself. The less Human Intereference in the product, the better.

Case of not doing the above and suffering the results: Woman I used to do some work for. Each and every power point in her home had a plug-in air freshener - a small container of scented oil which gradually Boils off. And in one corner she had a plug-in mosquito repellent.

Any time I was in her home my throat became quite aggitated within minutes. And it got worse when I was closer to the mosquito Oil thing. I noticed she Always was blowing her nose and carrying a tissue around - a sign her mucus linings were aggitated. I suggested the scented plug-in air fresheners were causing it as it aggitated my throat. She dismissed it.

A few months later she moved to a larger home with more plugs and put in more plug in air fresheners. It was so bad now I had to take several deep breaths outside until I felt light-headed with oxygen before entering and doing work in some of the rooms. I can only imagine the Damage being done living in that Toxic place all the time. Six months later she was dead from respiratory ailments - after a gradual decline of health due to "unknown reasons".