Wow… Just Wow…

Perusing the tables at Wanenmacher’s Gun Show at Tulsa I saw $4000 Colt Pythons and Diamondbacks, $400 sets of grips (wood), $37,000-$43,000 Winchester Rifles, and the piece de resistance, a $169,650 Holland and Holland #1 Grade 577 Nitro Express Double … Continue reading

Applebees lost money…

I met up with friends from Texarkana last night at the hotel in Tulsa, then Jim Garber called, so we decided to meet at Applebees for dinner since they were giving free meals to Veterans. We got there and there … Continue reading

Veterans’ Day…

If you know a veteran, please thank them today for their service. If you don’t, please take a minute and say a prayer for all the veterans who didn’t come home… To all my friends who served, a toast- “Absent … Continue reading

How real IS our military training???

The link HERE is what is currently being done at 29 Palms (better known as 29 Stumps to those in the know). It is a semi-commercial for the company that is providing the training equipment and personnel, but it’s worth … Continue reading

Project Valour- IT

Go read THIS at Wyatt’s and please donate! It IS a worthwhile cause! That is all… … Continue reading

You Can Leave The Military, But It Never Really Leaves You…

A friend sent this to me today, reminding me of the upcoming Veterans Day. Everything in this is true, and goes a long way to explaining some of the wistfulness your significant other might exhibit driving past a military base… … Continue reading

We Remembered…

Yes we did… Now we need to do it one more time in 2012…Nuff said… … Continue reading

I celebrated…

Getting my M-1 back together… 🙂 My gunsmith called me this morning to say he’d completed the reassembly, so I decided to take a couple of hours off to celebrate my ability to actually shoot a gun! (I know what … Continue reading

Twas the Night Before Elections…

An oldie but a goody and pretty damn appropriate again… No idea who wrote this back in 2008, but they were prescient.‘Twas the night before electionsAnd all through the townTempers were flaringEmotions all up and down! I, in my bathrobeWith … Continue reading

I see Range Time in my future…

At least a couple of the new acquisitions made it today… 🙂 FN-45 Tactical (full ‘kit’) so to speak… FN .45 Tactical- The pistol… Winchester Model 70 Featherweight 30-06 with Leupold 3-9X40 up. And no damn time to go to … Continue reading