Or your FIRST Amendment rights!

So violent, these anti-gunners.  And so opposed to ALL your inalienable rights.  At least THIS one appears to be old and close to shuffling off this mortal coil.  Before he goes he wants to road haul some people to death. 

Sickening.

Bias

Lookey at the screwed up graphics:

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Stupid Ganett trying to move opinion rather than report it.

Especially the bar graphs on the right.  There is an increase in the polling preferences of people that want to ban not-automatic rifles of 1%.

Well within the sloppy +/- 4% margin of error methodology, btw.  Horrible statistical practice.  They should get a large enough sample to make it 2% or less.  They probably DID, but those numbers didn't work out to their favor...

Anyway.  1% more favorable to ban.  But the bar graph is, say, a whole 'centimeter' bigger.  On the ones against a ban, there is a 2% move.  But the graph is only two 'millimeters' shorter.  So at least their bias in this horrible infographic is only FOR a ban.  Using a consistent bias would make that second bar graph 2 'centimeters' shorter.  They did the graphic right for the Against Ban, but biased up the For Ban.   They are trying to stress support of the removal of inalienable rights where it doesn't really exist.

Boo, USAToday.  Cheaters.  Just not cricket.

I bet they are sputtering anyway.  Despite the full court press of propaganda from all Prog outlets they still haven't moved the needle to a majority supporting their tyrannical proposals.  This may very well be scaring politicians.  The ones on board for a ban always worry that they will pay a price for their folly at the polls but thought maybe this time it would work in their favor.  They look to have guessed wrong.

Audrey

Smoking doesn't kill.  Zombie Audrey Hepburn kills.

Legislation

So, what legislation on whatever gun ban the liberals are thinking of won't be vehemently opposed by the pro-rights crowd?

'Assault' weapon ban with no sunset clause?

Regular magazine capacity ban?  20 rounds?   30 rounds?

How angry will our side get if one of these passes?  Angry?  Or ANGRY angry?

In the US Senate:

“In the coming days and weeks, we’ll engage in a meaningful conversation and thoughtful debate about how to change laws in a culture that allows this violence to continue to grow,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “We have no greater responsibility than keeping our most vulnerable and most precious resource — our children — safe.” Reid added: “Every idea should be on the table as we discuss how best to do just that.”

Nationwide Constitutional Carry.  That's an idea that would go toward stopping this violence.  Do It for the Children, Senator.

(update:  I obviously compsed this one earlier in the week...  post overcome by events.)

Ban them all!

Ban guns!  It will work as well as banning drugs did.  We'll call it a War on Guns and see the same kind of success as the War on Drugs.

It worked for alcohol prohibition so well.  Hey, the gov't can sabotage ammo so bullets explode in the chamber.  The same way gov't poisoned alcohol and killed thousand of Americans lookin' to get likkered up. 

And hey, if movies can ban the showing of people smoking and blame anti-islamic videos for murderous violence by the Religion of Peace...  Naw...  that would be a violation of Hollywood's 1st Amendment rights.  And if they show mass violence in movies, that isn't in fact influencing the watchers the way seeing insults to various religious types or seeing people enjoying the smooth smooth taste of tobacco products influences folks down those paths.  Or the way commercials influences people to purchase Audi's, Honey Nut Cheerios, Duncan Hines cake mix, or Irish Spring deodorant soap.  How can you get people to change their behavior in a 30 second TV spot?

Here's a thought... Keep closer tabs of the mentally troubled and stop forcing victims to be helpless in various places.  Let people be responsible for themselves and help out people that are incapable of being so, before you have to imprison them because they haven't figured it out, or are incapable of figuring it out.  Personal responsibility.  What a concept.  And it's cheaper, too, without violating their human rights.

Hey...

We here about proposed gun ban legislative details in the works from Liberals...  Where are the details of the pro-freedom legistlators? 

Something like a law with National CCW reciprocity, elminations of disarmed victim zones, and tweaks to the mental health laws?

Which members of Congress should we be writing to get that out there?

Gun Shop

My primary gunshop is moving from it's current convenient location.  Sad.

One of the things I loved about the old store was that it shared space with a model train store upstairs.  Plus it was on the way home, so I passed it and thought about it every time I did.  Now it is moving to the quasi industrial section of Rockville.  It's near the local range, but that range is not very shooter friendly, and costs twice as much as others, and I don't go there unless it is free.   Not shooter friendly?  What do I mean?  They don't turn on the store lights.  I think the employees would rather not be bothered with customers so why bother making the place look open or inviting?  If you think they are closed you might go away and leave them alone.

I've decided I do need to get four more items.  Spare carry pistols, snub and commander, in the same config that I have now.  And a stripped AR. lower.  Something that will all 3 fit in an .50 cal ammo can.  Just cuz.

But... meh.  It's madness out there now. 

Enough

At least when they come to tell us to turn in our guns we can cite the David Gregory rule.

CNN sez...

Or THIS guy at CNN sez...

George Soros should buy the Freedom Group when Cerberus sell it off.  Then he could run it as an ETHICAL gun manufacturer.

Hmph.  People actually let this MacIntosh character out of the house.  He doesn't seem bright enough to not walk in front of speeding cars.

After Soros does so, the company could " Voluntarily waives its rights to support the NRA and other lobbying groups."

But it was BOUGHT by a lobbying group.

They could, "Create a fund to compensate those who, despite its best efforts, are killed or wounded by its weapons." 

So I guess the company will be broken up again when the contingency civil-case trial lawyers jump on it in about 4 seconds.

The company could, "micro-stamping weapons for easy tracking"

Ha!  'Easy' tracking.

Sheesh.  They'll print any ol thing at CNN.  Even the stuff written in crayon.

Some of you

Some of you are confident that a Federal Gun Control abomination is laughably unlikely.

Perhaps.

Some of you don't live in Maryland.  A law comtemplated here is a doozy.  No 'possession'.  I suppose I'd have to get all my so-called 'assault weapons' out of the state.  My M1A, my AR, my 10/22...

I am writing my State Delegate.  Maybe I should get Archie to write my State Delegate...

Update:  When are you pro-gunners going to move to anti-gun states to help contribute to the solution?  Gunnies shouldn't be movinng, they should be moving in and voting.  If you change Maryland you move the ball.  Or you can sit there in your state and say "I got MINE" and pretend it'll never happen to YOU...

the Day After

DiFi

At least Senator Feinstein isn't talking confiscation like Gov. Cuomo is,  She is talking buy back.

I'd be happy to sell her my AR lower for $150.  But first let me manufacture my own lower in my basement.  I need to start gathering links and resources on rolling my own in my basement.  It's be nice to have on without a serial number.  Who am I kidding?  I'd put a serial number on it.  NJT00001.  Perfectly legal, too.

Anyone ever done it and can point to informational resources they liked?

Double

Shotties.

I want a double.  A coach gun with external hammers.  With sling swivel mounts. I'd use it for hunting deer.  Light.  20" is fine for deer and duck.  Handy.  Plenty of capacity for what I want it for.  It could double as a backup self defense weapon.

The problem?  The price goes from $800 and up for a decent eastern European one (ouch), and there are also $250 ones from China that look and feel cheap.  Or maybe they aren't.  I haven't seen enough to check really close.  Things like Century Arms and Norinco.

Is there middle of the road side by side with hammers out there that I just haven't stumbled upon?

If someone could tell me that, "heck, those Chinese shotguns are every bit as good as a Sears for 1960, T-bolt,"  I'd get one.

Hmph... just occurred.  My real want list is a 1911, a double barrel, a revolver....  All old style designs... And another stripped AR lower to keep as a commodity. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

From Hell's heart I wish thee a Merry Christmas.  For Noel's sake, I split my last sugar cookie with thee.

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Miss this

I miss this.  The illustrations that were the style of major publications before mass reproduction of color photography became cheap enough to become prevalent. 

Merry Christmas.

Ultra Violence

When you ban guns, an otherwise crime free nation descend to into violent barbarism.  Going from almost nothing to FIVE times the rate of violence visited on Americans, per capita.

Ever see Clockwork Orange?  Looks like THAT would be a refreshing peaceful world compared to the reality of the Old Country.

My GOD, you are safer trying heroine for the first time hoping not to get addicted.

The USA isn't even in the top 10 of this group,  as we are at 466 per 100,000.  Look at these barbaric backwater nations.  Don't plan to take vacation in these countries:

Hunting Question Follow Up

A big reason I asked is because MBtGE is partly color blind.  He is TERRIBLE at tracking red blood trails, and freely admits it.  I think the reason he likes to drag me along is that he wants my eyes to help him out if a deer works up a head of steam running off. 

But he also has hunted and harvested dozens upon dozens of deer, and they mostly fall down where they were standing, for him.

True Storie: Founders

Now do Framers....

Political Calculus

Politicians. 

You will lose none of your supporting voters if you try and fail to enact gun control.  I think past history is plenty demonstrative of that. 

There is also ample examples of losing supporters and gaining more motivated opposition when you succeed in enacting gun control laws. You pay a price. 

Something to think about.

It's War

Culture War.

As a matter of policy, we are presently at an impasse. The Left simply can’t persuade gun owners they’re safer with more restrictions, nor can the Left paint a picture of a gun-free world that the gun-owner wants to inhabit [or is possible -NJT]. As much as the Right argues that arming teachers and administrators would protect kids, enough teachers and administrators are appalled by the idea that it’s simply not going to happen outside the most culturally conservative regions.  

In other words, the gun-control argument is more about cultural values than it is about charts, graphs, and numbers. And those values are shaped less by public policy (or CNN or MSNBC talk show hosts) than by peers, parents, and personal experience. Welcome back to the culture wars.            - David French

Lies and Slander

How many lies does this Leftist claim without support?  I'd like him to show his work.

In the immortal words of Iowahawk:  "We will never solve [problem] until we enact commonsense [me telling you what to do]. "

Typical lefty.

My Rep...

Chris Van Hollen.  #2 man.  Or #1, really, as Pelosi is no man.  Tweets.

#NRA's LaPierre took no Qs at his press conference b/c even he can't explain why anyone would ever need a high-capacity assault weapon. 

Chris?  Need has nothing to do with it.  This is why our two sides can't communicate.  You can't grok this concept.  And constantly the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire.

QOTD

Via Joe Huffman.

"How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No-Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You cannot stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims."  -- Alan Gottlieb

It's the victim zones, stupid.  We don't need to emplace a permanent 'TSA for Tots.'

Obama is a Genius

Without passing a law or writing a regulation... He's made it impossible to buy an 'assault weapon' or ammunition for same.

Heather MacDonald

Of the metrocon fortnightly, says:

"But if the pro-gun lobby argues the rarity of such mass shootings as one reason (among others) against further gun regulation, it cannot then use that same rare mass shooting as an argument for wider gun carrying."

She doesn't say why, and her reasoning eludes me.  So I can only justify having a gun by the number of times I use it to shoot bad guys? Is that what she means?  And I don't think us pro-gun lobby types ARE arguing that.  I don't carry to be a hero, a Walter Mitty.  I carry to defend myself and any people I am responsible for.  If I happen to help another innocent out helping myself then that is just gravy.

Hey

Wake up!  It's not just Senator Feinstein and Shumer and liberals in the US Congress that are considering gun control!

My state is considering stuff that would make DiFi go, "well, that's a bit TOO far."

Writer to your congress-critter.  But write to your state reps as well.  I have 5 envelopes in the mail, only one going to the Federal level.  That equals ALL the letters I have written in the past 5 years.  Do it.  Write a letter.  Send an email. Here is a start for your format. 

Don't let your state go down the drain and you end up saying, "I wish I lived in the more permissive state of Massachusetts."

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THIS is encouraging.  I am still mailing the letters.

NPR

Listening to some guy called Diaz of the VPC talk about gun control with Terry Gross on the radio.  He goes on and on with nebulous references to the sources of NRA money.  Never alluding to 4 million dues paying members.   He claims its the HUGE billionaires in the gun industry and rich ideologues.  Hmmm.

Terry never thinks to ask him where VPC gets the money to pay him...  Mayor Bloomberg?  Goerge Soros? 

Hope

A friend of mine is anti-gun.  But he is not a moron.  He has spouted buzzwords about gun banning in the past. "What do you need a magazine that holds more than 10 rounds?"  That sort of thing.

On Facebook in the last few days a friend of his, posted one of those chain things.  Sign This Petition:

"I've committed to getting 10 friends to sign this petition. Every day, 34 more Americans will be murdered with guns – until our leaders take action to keep illegal guns out of dangerous hands. Join me and Demand A Plan to end gun violence in America."

The usual gun ban Democrat boilerplate.  My anti-gun buddy said this...

Sorry J___, but I won't sign a petition unless I know what I am asking for. I am not sure what the solution is, and I have not seen anyone smarter them me come up with a suggestion that would work.

And that is what gives me hope.  A man that, 10 years ago, I am pretty sure, would have reflexively agreed to sign onto any gun control scheme.  Now he is thinking with his head, examining past policies and found them wanting, and unwilling to agree to do something probably inneffective just for the sake of doing something.  It's not much, but it is progress.

I don't think he'd ever become a pro-gun type.   But for an anti-gunner this is a big deal.

Hunting Question

For you experienced hunters out there.

How many times have you need to take a second shot at the same sporting critter?

Why?  Tough critter?  Shot wasn't placed right or you missed?

Of all the sporting critters you've shot what proportion were needed a second shot?  1 out of 100?  1 out of 10?

By sporting critters, I mean something like trophy animals or meat animals  White tail deer being the most common.  I am not counting things like prairie dogs or wild pigs.  Varmint critters.  With varmint critters a crippling shot that gets away is less of a concern.

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I ask because usually I hear from folks more experiences than me that they don't even have to track shot game.  It most commonly drops where it stood, with not tracking of blood trail necessary.

Gallup

Hmmm... apparently only leftist idealogues and the press seem to jump to the gun ban conclusion.  And the American people haven't fallen for the screeching just yet.  Normal citizens have a more moderate approach. 

Nobody

NOBODY knows what they are talking about.  If you are on a journalistic payroll, even the gun experts get assault rifle (invented 1944) and assault weapon (invented by Josh Sugarmann) confused.  The journalist messes up, many commenters mess up...

Facts

I've been doing this a while and some truisms have emerged in the self defense culture.  Now I need to cite the plethora of examples, but I wanted to get this down with just the few I have at my fingertips.  Examples take research and work, but the skeleton is easy.


Fact:  Madmen go on killing sprees.  And have been doing so for ages.  Means of destruction can vary

Fact:  Madmen gravitate to easy victims.  This happens so often it can't be ignored.  Crowds of unsuspecting victims.  Seemingly to maximize their internal rage by expanding the suffering.

Fact:  When confronted in midst of their spree with resistance, the wind often goes out of the sails or the rampage.   The spree generally concludes soon after.

Fact:  The only other way a spree ends is generally by suicide, either to themselves or suicide by cop.  A gun tends to stop the killing.



Like I said, I can think of plenty of supporting evidence.  Can anyone think of counter examples to the above 4?


You can't stop the first two.  Look at China on that dark day (and many other days...  seems to be a trend to knife school kids in China right now), look at the Bath Michigan Bomber, look at the spike in crime in Great Britain post gun ban.

Maximizing the chances of second two occurring as early in the spree as possible should be policy.  You don't get rid of bad guys by hamstringing good guys.  A police officer in every school like Geraldo Rivera said?  Expensive.  How bout letting other good guys you don't have to pay possibly be on school grounds?

Also, the unspoken 5th fact.  If you want fewer madmen going on killing sprees, have fewer madmen.

We need Crazy Control.  Gun Control doesn't curb violence and it's a violation of our sacred and protected constitutional rights.  Beltway Sniper, Virginia Tech, Columbine,  Aurora,  Arizona, Newtown.  ALL done by folks crazier than an outhouse rat!

Semi

Leftists constantly conflate semi-automatic and automatic.  It's been their policy for 20 years (see Josh Sugarmann).

So, maybe we should change the name.

Your semi-automatic is now a not-automatic pistol.  A not-automatic 1911, a not-automatic Glock, a not-automatic Sig.  That should help the confusion the gun-controllers are trying to sow.

If you get a Glock 18 someday, you can call that an automatic Glock.


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Oh, also we should ban the term Assault Weapon.  If you put those two words together, that should be a crime.  What?  It's not like you have a right to say 'assault weapon' out loud.  The gov't just has to pass a law...

Won't end well

Or at least it wouldn't if anyone actually listened to Ed Schultz and his calls for widespread firearm confiscation.

How does he think that will work?  Not the "once we've confiscated them all, then..." the actual 'go out and confiscate them' bit?  This isn't England.  People won't turn them in.  Not like they did there.  Ed is guilty of Stage One thinking.  Most prominent lefties are.

Mockingbird

I've seen this movie a passel of times, but never before I took a greater interest in firearms.  So now I notice it's a Krag...


Shortened up a bit, it looks, too.

A good guy, in popular culture, using a firearm to help the community.

Be prepared for...

Someone to come out with: "I've been pro-Second Amendment all my life.  NRA lifetime member.  Been duck hunting most every year.  I was all for everyone in the country dealing with them the same way Vermont does.  But now my opinion has changed and I think the Feds should go house to house confiscating all of them."

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Don't forget!

Gun control has always been racist.  When some white leftists says we need some gun control measure, ask they why they hate black people.  They are only paying attention new because a white suburban school was shot up.  They don't care when the same thing happens in Chicago every month for years.  Those Chicago victims are black.

Magazine Capacity.

So, in the civil war, the 'mag' capacity of a rifle was one and more American soldiers were kill than all our other wars put together.

In WWI the capacity was from 5 bullets on a stripper clip.  6 total in the bandoleer.  Horrible war.  Look at the casualty list for the Somme.  But the US didn't lose so many in that war, but only because we were a bit late to the party.

In WWII and Korea the US infantry used a rifle with an 8 round capacity.  A few hundred thousand deaths,

Viet Nam, 20 round mags, 50,000 deaths.

War on Terror, 30 round mags, a coupla thousand deaths...

See the more rounds in a rifle, the less soldiers get kilt.

So, if we issue 100 round mags in the next war we might not lose a man in battle.  I wonder why that is? It's not that they are overwhelming the enemy with capacity, as in each case the 'other side' has comparables.

altoid kits in video form

When I started this blog I stumbled across, and was fascinated by, a survival kit that was designed to fit in an Altoids mint tin.

Well, now there is practically a whole YouTube channel devoted to it.  Neat.

But the thing that may be most useful... How to open a can without a can opener.

Metrocons

David Frum was the original Metrocon.  The Platonic ideal.  If you looked up Metrocon in the dictionary you'd see a picture of Frum there.  The conservative intellectual from an urban area that is for gun-control because of their upbringing.  Only cops and robbers in 'his' world have and use firearms.  And since he is neither of those...

Except now Frum is not so conservative and hasn't been for years.

He's been a bit of a nobody, which is probably why he tweets such outrage.  To draw attention to himself.  And here I am obliging him.  So it must be working.

THIS is why

I don't care how much you pay, a job like this would be tedious.


Better than starving.  Which is why hungry people in China now do it.  Make jack in the boxes.

Americans will do any job.  MBtGE discuss that.  Would you do that porta pot vacuuming job in the summer?  No, not for what they are getting paid.  But there is a salary level where I would take that job.  Where I would leave my current job, even, so go tend fiberglass portable outhouses.

That's not to say I'd LOVE doing it. 

But when someone tells you that such and such an illegal alien group are doing job that Americans won't do, call that person a liar.  The immigrants are doing jobs Americans won't do at that pay grade.  If the illegal immigrants weren't there then that might actually PAY at that level.  Or go undone.  Whichever.

World Gone Mad

I don't care if the whole world went mad yesterday.  I did not.  So you have no call to come after me and mine.

I am not mad, nor a threat to others.  Quite the contrary.

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And YOU, sir, are despicable.  Dancing in the blood of the innocents.   Look at yourself.  All of you.  For shame.  In fact, their argument that YOU caused this is strong.

Clip

I was reading up on the aborted OICW rifle the army was looking at (and throwing buzzwords at) in the 90s.

Forgotten Weapons sent me there.

I noticed this:

I think that's an army document.  They have labelled the two magazines, 'clips.'   Do that today and everyone blows a gasket.  So here I am, blowing a gasket.  Well, there is leakage around my gasket, I'm too mellow to go all catastrophic failure over this. 

Some pencil pushing egghead did that labeling?  Some PR Army guy with a head full of Synergy and somehow was sick the day they went to the range at Basic where a drill instructor would have set him straight permanent?  They just didn't get wrapped around the axle over it all of 15 years ago?  Who knows...  I just thought it interesting.

If they had only gotten that part right they would have deployed that weapon...

KIDDING!

Speed Strip Holster

Crap!  I saw this on a revolver blog somewhere but didn't retain the originating source.  Dangit.

Anyway, I want to check these out.  Not that I've noticed much tell tale printing with my speed strip, I just think a pouch would protect them more.  Here is a pic from that site of the double:

But I'd go with the single.

I wonder how easy they are to 'deploy' from.

Knife

Meme time.

Take the knife out of your pocket and take a picture of it.  Post it on your blog.

Did this before...

Here is mine, today:

From here.  Did I blog about this already?

I guess you recognize that wood scales?  I chose the walnut.  It feels really good in the hand.  It came unfinished so I added my own boiled linseed to it, rather than wait for my sweat and grime to do the job for me. 

Immortal Word

In the immortal words of Joe Biden.  Yes this IS a Big Deal...

Illinois?  Whoda thunk it.

Hunting part deux

Shooting a deer is the easy part.  Cleaning and quartering and butchering is the hard part.

So, I have been asked, "if dad or grandpa never taught me these post shooting hunting skills, how do I learn how?"

Good question.  Many options.

Do what I did.  Pair up with an experienced mentor like I did with MBtGE.  I have now, thanks to him, been in on the preparation of 4 smallish bucks (he got 3 of em... what is he doing right that I am doing wrong...?).  He commented this time as I fumbled my way through my part of the quartering, "hey, you are WAY ahead of me when I started.  I can't tell you how many carcasses I munged up when I first started out."  I'm a slow learner.   I might be able to do one solo now, but it'd have to be NOW, while I have these two fresh in my mind.  But if I did go solo anytime, I am ahead of the game, I hope.

Another option, just learn the field cleaning part.  Take your tagged deer to a butcher that does this sort of thing.  You don't even have to skin it.  They call you and you come back and pick up your shrink wrapped meat, prepared as you requested.

Another option... the Internet.  Lots of videos on youtube about how to do this.

Prep ahead of time.  Think ahead through the process before you go out to hunt.  And be ready to do it when the brown goes down.  A place to hang it, rope to hang it, sharp knives, both big and strong to cut through the ribs and thing to get into tight spaces.  You need something like a hatchet, maybe, to crack bones, though the strong knife can often work between joints.  Gloves and a cooler and ziplock freezer bags.  A hose is nice.  Don't hang it in the foyer if the missus cares about the broadloom. 

Hmmmm.

Color me intrigued about a pistol caliber carbine concept.

It is my weakness.  Luckily, I haven't spent any money on any yet.  There is always some problem for me.  The only one I've bought is a 1894C, and I sure don't regret THAT.

KRISS?  Klunky and expensive, wrong magazine type.  Would buy a full auto version, but that isn't going to ever be possible.

Camp Carbine?  Saw my first one in the wild last fun show.  Resisted.  Too expensive for what it is (a 10/22 in .45ACP, really) and there are rumors it's too dirty.

 Beretta CX4?  Not for me. 

See why it is easy for me to resist?  But VAPORWARE (so far)?  That gets the juices flowin'.

He's got a System!

Can't fail!  Happy birthday Melvil Dewey.

Went Hunting

Well, it was more like "went 'sitting briefly'" followed by "went butchering".

MBtGE did all the shooting.

Thing is, when I stood up to go to his stand and start the process, I spooked a deer that had been heading my way.  15 more minutes...

I kept the pic small of me getting this fellow's coat off, because it might be gross to some readers.  Click to embiggenate, I think.  The pants were on sale, is why I have them. 

Great day for it.

After quartering and getting ready to head home we went back to the gut piles to see if the vultures found them yet.  The gut piles were GONE.  Maybe some bit of intestine, left.  Amazing. 

Done with meat in the freezer by 1PM.  Time for beer at that point.  Now I need to think on tenderloin prep

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Christmas

What caliber for reindeer?

You hunt deer with rifles, often.  Flying critters with shotguns.  What is appropo for flying reindeer?  Just the 00 buck?

Spam 2: Boobs

Hmmm.  Based on cursory observations...  If you want to attract the attention of Chinese spambots you should use specific words.  Like felt and feelings and boobs.  Especially in the subject line.

"Those boobs and yahoos won't hurt my feelings if they tear the felt.  That billiard table is a rental, and fully insured."

I may have to instigate some spam filtering again, sadly. 

Liberal Superhero, NPR celebrity...

Spoken word demi-god... And his ignorance of firearms... in the beginning part of this. Glock 7?




Some of it IS funny, too.

Look!

It's the school Tam goes to for her dental work.  Try to guess which one is her.

I TOLD you!

The Zombacalypse.  You shoulda listened to me.

Even the Prime Minister of Australia is warning the world.  And Australians oughta know about the end of the world.  They made all those documentaries about it.  Usually with autogyros and crossbow wielding motorcycle gangs with colanders.

Fallacious

North Central Idaho quotes this Mauser guy with his slip of admitting to the world that his way of thinking is all about Collectivism.

Notice that victims or relatives of victims of mass shootings, you invariably have one of them making a career out of it?  This guy from Columbine, that kid from VT, that congress critter from the Long Island Express Train shooting 20 years ago.  Sarah Brady.  Being a victim is a racket or something.

Anyway, Mauser pulls a lotta factually challenged boners in that Atlantic article.

For instance, he is proud that because of Columbine he was able to get a gun-show 'loophole' bill passed in Colorado.  Because the underage shooters used an adult to buy their guns at a gun show.   If only the law had been in place years before the outrage.  Because then... the underage shooters could have used the same adult to buy their guns at a gun show...

He laments:  “I heard the same kinds of statements from some people after Columbine: ‘Well, you know, they had bombs, too.’ The fact is that the deaths were from guns.”  Actually, the deaths were from killers.

Mauser does some amatuer psychology, with the country on the couch being too infantile, next.  He wants us to be more like mature Euro countries where the violent crime rate is on the rise (he doesn't note this rise, and I think assumes the opposite.  I think he thinks 'there are fewer guns there, it MUST be better in Euro-land...').  Unlike here in America, where the guns are and crime rates are going down.  Plus, if we were more Euro-y, he thinks, it would be easier to do the whole confiscation thing.  This segues into the collectivism quote.

Then he says that then: “The people themselves would understand that having guns around puts them in more danger.”  Do you have any evidence at all that this is true?  Because there is plenty of evidence that it is not true, and there is correlation that it may be the opposite.

Read the whole thing.  It's amazing that apart from the one interview subject that is only a small part of the whole article that the MSM Atlantic actually gets this close to 'our' side on the issue.

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Gunsmith Fantasy

We were playing around with this idea at work, me and some of the other gunnies there.  Coffee break, you know how it is.

If you could devote 10000 hours of your life to learning how to be a first class gunsmith, what would you specialize in?

I'm not talking being able to finely assemble the parts for a 1911, frame slide barrel and guts, and make an extraordinary pistol, fine tuned and well ballanced a joy to shoot.  Beyond that.  You have the training and the basement shop to forge the receiver, machine the slide from a bar, and bore and rifle the barrel... THEN assemble those parts to make that extraordinary pistol.  And you are familiar enough with the all the details you could make a well functioning quarter sized 1911 that shot .22 BB caps. 

That's one route.  Super 1911 smith.  Or what 10000 hours of excellent training would yield if you had the talent and gumption.

Another is to go Colonial Williamsburg Gunsmith.  Make truly fine flintlock rifles.

Another that appealed to me is to make M14s from the ground up.  Total control of the parts, and producing an exceptionally accurate semi-auto rifle, lock stock and barrel. 

Of course just being able to assemble and fit from parts all the necessary to make a top shelf custom 1911, alone, is a win.

Leave that dang Constitution OUT of this!

The metrocon fortnightly noted this little gem from MSNBC.  They want to leave that pesky foundation document out of the whole gun rights debate.  And they strawmen gun enthusiasts, ascribing us to positions none of the non-crank among us hold.

Won't some person of authority SWAT up the MSNBC offices and jail everyone there without cause or habeus corpus for the good of the rest of the country already.  They don't need any lawyers either.  Jail any of those that show up, too.  MSNBC is a menace.  We need to be rid of them for the good of the children.  Won't ANYONE think of the CHILDREN.  /sarcasm

I'm just taking their cues... 

House Blog

I like my house.  Bought it in 1999.  It was built in 1951.  It had a lot of the original appliances and whatnot.

Well, 60 years is a long time...  I've had the hot water heater, stove (pity), and air conditioner replaced.  The washer and drier is still going strong.

What ISN'T going strong is the fluorescent lights in the basement.  So this weekend was about swapping out the one that just didn't work anymore.

MAN is the sheet metal thick and heavy!  And the ballast is 4 times the size of modern ones.  And yup, it was the ballast/transformer, as they have burst and oozed black stuff all over the inside of the fixture.

Well, now I can see what I am doing better with my new cleaning station for rifles and whatnot.  And yikes, I could probably do with hauling 3 contractor bags of junk out the door.

When wiring household current, I like to at least turn the switch off to the fixture.  Hitting the breaker is a good idea too.   But my Dad?  He like to play it fast and loose.  He has wired things with the juice on.  On multiple occasions.  I've seen him do it.

My ex Father in Law did that once with 220 service for his drier.  Once.  I was helping him.  When the lights went out after the loud pop there was a pause.  "The good news is... I can still pick my nose.  The bad news is, we need a new drier."

Costas

Who let Bob Costas on TV?  That man has no right to speak and be broadcast for others to see.  He should be forbidden from writing his opinion down and getting that opinion published in ANY venue.  If he stand on a street corner and starts talking for others to hear he should arrested, gagged and thrown in the klink.

Where does he get off?  What gives him the right to spout these odious opinions?  They should pass a law silencing him forever.

It's not like there is a rule or something written down that allows that kind of thing.  Stop Bob Costas before he opines again!

Obama Executive Order

Use NFA regs to make semi-auto firearms verboten.

No skin off my nose.  I got my revolver and my duck gun, and they'd never ban those.  Uncle isn't worried, I'm not worried.

Never heard of John Snyder before now.

Doomsday Preppers

Horrible show.  A train wreck.  And bad for 'our side', this Doomsday Prepper show.  (Bob Owens is unimpressed with the show, too.)

TV shows need to sell soap to make money.  So they need ratings.  To get rating they need colorful entertaining characters to showcase.  So they show preppers that seem a bit... off.  Showing a regular everyday Joe and his family doing some disaster prepping is boring.  Super-preppers know their OPSEC and are too paranoid to agree to be filmed, and rightly so.  So the only ones left to show are clueless weirdos.  Might as well be subject on Hoarders, these folks.

So now, most people are getting their introduction to Survival Prepping by watching fools and crazies do it on the TV.  "Prepping?  That what them dunderheads on A&E do? HAW!  Yeah, I'm not crazy so I don't do that kind of nonsense."  So now we have a negative.  And at a time when other circumstances are normalizing the utility of prepping and are a net positive.  Which is probably what prompted this show in the first place, prepping was getting mainstreamed by other events. 


So, Liberals already thought it was a Conservative 'thing' and won't prepare.  And this show will dissuade some low information and uncommitted votes that preparing for bad events is a fools errand.  In the event of the unthinkable these groups will be part of the problem.  Say what you will about politics, I'd rather there be a few 'problems' as possible in the event of a disaster.

Zombie Fiction

Check out the story.

It's not mine, obviously, but I like it. Well, except for some rough parts.  Check it out.  Judge for yourself.