NRA Convention, Day 3…

Quick hits from the morning ‘stroll’ through the floor… Talking with the folks at Shaw Barrels, they indicated they are 3-4 months behind on barrels, 4-5 months behind on rebarreling customer rifles, and 14 months behind on their MK-7 rifles! … Continue reading

NRA Convention, Day 2, Part 2…

As I said, some of the ‘fun’ things seen walking around… Somewhere between $3-400,000 worth of Rifles Cavalry Colt- $175,000 estimated sale price Remington-Rand 1911A1, Serial Number 1! The Thompson/Auto Ordnance Display (note the signature above the pic of the … Continue reading

NRA Convention, Day 2…

The crowds were heavy yesterday, and today was even MORE crowded…  And people were just as polite today as they were yesterday…  An interesting note from the Press Room, the ‘suits’ studiously ignored all of us peon bloggers, to the … Continue reading

Oh my aching…

Well, it’s official, Jay G is a blogging fool…  I think he put up either four or five posts already today at the convention!We met up with Ian Harrison on the way down, and had a good chat with him, … Continue reading

Let the blogging begin!!!

Well, Jay G is off and running… As usual 🙂 We haven’t been here 15 minutes, and I think he’s already put up three posts! I’ll be sucking hind tit but we’re heading to the floor now. Kudos to the … Continue reading

We’re Heerrrreeee…

Look out St. Louis… Thanks to Jay G for ‘organizing’ the first get together at the NRA-AM 🙂 Tomorrow we descend on the Convention Center and the drooling begins! More later… … Continue reading

The Military doesn’t teach anything useful…

Other than how to kill people…That was the opening statement today when a few of us that flew together back in the 80’s got together for lunch.We all kinda looked at the guy that made the statement, since he is … Continue reading

Implicit Associations Test…

If you’re truly bored…  The Implicit Associations Test (there are a number of them), are done by Harvard. Link HEREI took the weapons one just for S&Gs during lunch and here were my results…I believe my results are a function … Continue reading

Reaping the Lost…

MQ-9 Reaper The 29th Attack Squadron Airmen at Holloman AFB, NM used an MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft launched from there to help locate missing kayakers in the Gila National Forest near the base. This was the first time that an … Continue reading

Playing games…

Once again, the administration is playing ‘games’ with our military retirement… The INTENDED consequences were that I and all other retired and active duty military personnel in all branches of military service would be taxed on thirteen months of pay … Continue reading