[Penn Live] Leroy Stolzfus, 22, of Gordonville, crossed the finish line of the Harrisburg Marathon Nov. 8 in three hours, 5 minutes and 45 seconds.
That's a pretty impressive time for anyone, less than a minute away from a Boston Marathon qualifying time for a man his age. But Stolzfus ran the whole 26.2 miles in slacks, a long-sleeve button down shirt and suspenders, as he is Amish.
It's not his clothing he cites for "not running faster." Stolzfus said he believes he could have run closer to a three-hour marathon had he not gone out too fast in the race.
"I was feeling good, but I kind of almost crashed at mile 15," he said. He credited the cheering crowds for keeping him going, and said he was "amazed" by his finishing time.
Crossing the finish line, "I had no pain whatsoever. It was more mental anguish than in my legs. You have to train yourself not to think about it. It will just slow you down. I was once told by someone that it's 20 percent training and 80 percent mental. I do believe that," he said.
I made a return trip to Canton Lake last weekend to see if I can remedy my problem with bullet drop at the 200 yard band. The thread about the last time I went to Canton lake is here.
At that time, I suspected that lifting the sighting leaf on the AK-74 another 100 meters (to 300 meters) would help, and it did, albeit with the shots landing about four inches above bulls eye. Adjusting my aim lower, the shots hit at the center. I did not take my time, and my attention was mainly forcused on getting the shots to hit at the right elevation. I guessed, but without actually measuring (I had no scale or tape measure), that the bullet drop for the Silver Bear 5.45x39mm 60 Gr. was between 12 and 18 inches. The Russian standard issue 5.45x39mm 53 grain round at that range is only supposed to be 4.5 inches (114mm). I plan to go shooting again next month at Canton Lake to further refine my aim at that range, and this time get some kind of idea of just how much the bullet drop is.
The goal is to set the rifle where I can engage any target out to 400 meters without adjusting the sights.
While there I met (but I did not get their names) two young men, who were apparently local. One had a 7mm Remington Magnum bolt action rifle and the other had an AR. The bolt action was loud because it had no barrel attachment, and probably also because of the round, which I have heard is very loud. Going from memory, I would say it is as loud as a 7.62x51 NATO round.
The two gentlemen did not know that Canton Lake had the only 200 yard range in the state. They just went there because it was close and free. (It requires only a hunting license.)
The shooting conditions were nearly perfect. 41 F, clear, calm winds and dry as can be. The only element to make it better would be 31 F. I love to shoot in the cold.
Loads
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mostly steady while prices for rifle ammunition were mixed.
Prices for used pistols and used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
California: 9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) $200
Virginia: Winchester Model 54 $250
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, RNL, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Blok Tactical, Store Brand, TMJ, Reloads, .25 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, Unchanged (6 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Sportsman's Outdoor Superstore, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 250 rounds: Ammo Mart, Legendary Ammo, FMJ, Brass, Reloads; .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .17 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Clearance, Leadhead brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2015))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (2Q, 2015)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Surplus Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .30 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: BigHat Tactical, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .38 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, Steel Cased, FMJ, .36 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2015))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q 2015))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, International Raptor, RNL .09 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds (1 Box Limit): Cabela's, Remington, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
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My WWII rifle collection on display during Veteran's Day. One rifle from each WWII manufacturer. Yours truly in the Jungle Fatigues.
Below is my father on the tail of a Stuka, with his trusty M1 Carbine, in Eastern Germany 1945. He went in with the 30th Infantry Division D-Day +5 and fought from the Hedgerows to the Battle of the Bulge and through Germany to the Czechoslovakian boarder where they met up with the Russians.
Dad was in the Malmedy area during the Battle of the Bulge and witnessed the aftermath of the Malmedy massacre at five points.
This picture was probably taken in June 45 after the German surrender. Dad is wearing his Combat Infantryman Badge. He rotated back to the States in July 45 and passed through Paris in time for Bastille Day.
Width reset to 500, because at 800 it was breaking the Burg.
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Have 15 boxes of 100 for $10.99 each here at the store ;)
We have a listing of established customers who want certain calibers, .22 for example, who we know will make a purchase. It allows us to increase our purchase, which makes us more attractive to our distributor, which allows us to estimate our purchases, allowing distributor to (I hope) make better purchases.
I'm not sure where you tried, if you can find a Mom and Pop who run a good ship, it will be beneficial to establish that relationship. Buy the magazine for a dollar extra, BS chat, it can pay off. Or, as the city people the other week, "See fellows, this is why I stop in small town stores, when was the last time you saw any of this?"
/shameless Mom and Pop plug
Rome (CNN) -- Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.
Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.
The original group of 105 people left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. Sometime during the trip north across the Mediterranean Sea, the alleged assailants -- Muslims from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal -- threw the 12 overboard, police said.
Other people on the voyage told police that they themselves were spared "because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain," Palermo police said.
The boat was intercepted by an Italian navy vessel, which transferred the passengers to a Panamanian-flagged ship. That ship docked in Palermo on Wednesday, after which the arrests were made, police said.
[Rudaw] Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani announced Thursday the launch of the Rashava- Deralook electricity station in the town of Amedi near Duhok.
The power plant will be instrumental in restoring energy to the shattered town of Shingal, which was recently retaken by the Peshmerga after a year and a half in the hands of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), KRG officials said.
The cost of the project is $168 million, and 37 megawatts of electricity will be produced by the station, said Salahadin Babaker, the Kurdistan region's minister of electricity.
"It is the first time (the KRG) is launching a hydro power project," Babaker said.
Barzani used the announcement as a platform to rally the people of the Kurdistan region.
"Kurdish people will continue to survive at the most difficult times, and the enemy cannot stop life in Kurdistan."
During the announcement of the plant, Barzani appealed to the Iraqi government and international groups to help restore the liberated city.
"I ask the International organizations to have an effective role in renovating Shingal, and it is the Iraqi government's duty to participate in renovating the town," the prime minister said.
The electricity station project will be supervised by the Japanese company JICA, officials said.
On Monday, Barzani received Japan's new ambassador to Iraq, Fumio Iwai, and his accompanying delegation. Iwai congratulated the KRG on the liberation of Shingal, saying that Japan respects and values of the Kurdistan region and its success in preserving stability in the region.
[PJ Media] White privilege. It's everywhere, I tell you. You can't escape its smothering influence -- even at one of the finest (and most expensive) schools in the land.
Take the case of this poor, wilting flower. Nissy Aya is now in her fifth year of undergraduate study at Columbia University. She was supposed to graduate last year with the rest of her class, but finds herself -- totally not her fault -- on track to graduate next year.
Ms. Aya says that she has experienced much angst and anguish while taking Columbia's Core courses, studying the greatest, the most powerful, the most tolerant civilization in the history of the human race -- Western civilization. It seems that Ms. Aya has feelings of inadequacy when reading all these books by dead white males.
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No one forces you to attend Columbia or any other university in America.
Notice the success of the Asians. They too notice success in life and history and are keen to exploit it. Up till around 1700 China had been "the" power and civilization in the world. Then these upstart European states showed up on the globe far away from home. The problem for the Chinese was a cyclic history of dynasties that rose and collapse as each spent its time trying to maintain its status quo. The Euros lived in a dynamic world of conflict and chaos that sparked social, economic, and technological change and advance. When they showed up on the Asians shores, the Chinese, accustomed to being the power in the world, thought their problem was not following the strictures of old and efficiently maintain that status quo. The Japanese figure it was the technology and organization and embraced it. They got so good at it, they too were able to join in on the conflict and chaos. The Koreans would follow suit. The Chinese would not wake up will the 80s and have been on a run since then. Their success demonstrates they know something you obviously don't or refuse to recognize as many others wrapped up with their self centered egos.
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Nissy Aya is now in her fifth year of undergraduate study at Columbia University.
Five years of college... down the drain!
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Totally not her fault, yup, that's her generation. She is the smartest, never lost a soccer game and has the trophies to prove it, tolerant super woman. Go to another college if they don't teach to your liking...
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Well things are tough all over. If you haven't got anything out of the place in 5 years, then you better give the path a rethink, using all the logic you have acquired in all those years of higher edumication.
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Let's play: "Guess her Major"?
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Maybe you [Americans] should translate all textbooks to Ebonics?
We could write a computer program to do that. But it would be racist because the computer was invented by The White Man.
It's not hard to see why the gal feels bad. Pretty much everything that makes the modern world modern was created or invented by The White Man. If you define your identity as being Not-White, there is not a whole lot left to be proud of. Besides peanut butter.
But not to worry, The White Man is a big tent. Anyone can join up. Because it is not about skin color or gender, it's about culture. Dr. Ben Carson, born a black ghetto baby in Detroit, is a White Man. Condoleezza Rice, White Man. Same with Mia Love and Clarence Thomas. Or Asians, in general.
And unlike overweight black women ragging on gay men for appropriating their speech patterns and mannerisms, The White Man doesn't care about "cultural appropriation". Feel the urge to design a microchip, cure a disease, invent a dessert, drive a race car, sing Broadway show tunes? Have at it! The more, the merrier. The White Man is a big, big tent.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Rome (CNN) -- Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.
