YGTBSM!!

Posted on by November 2, 2016

By the way, I voted… Have you? WILL you?

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Wow… Just… Wow…

‘It’s not about emails; it’s about public communication by a woman’

I am mad. I am mad because I am scared. And if you are a woman, you should be, too. Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us.

You can read the entire unbelievable article HERE, at time.com

I’ll be interested to hear your comments, especially after you do a quick search on the author of the article…

There were 18 folks in line in our little town when I voted. The little old lady in front of me presented her LTC rather than her license, and it didn’t even turn a hair on the poll taker’s head… 🙂

Gotta love small town Texas.

The other interesting note is the lack of signs. I’ve probably seen a total of 10 signs if I count the local races… Only ONE Hillary sign in town, seven Trump signs. The other two were a local race. I find this quite refreshing compared to the last election I went through in NOVA… There were literally HUNDREDS of signs on the 4 mile route I took to work.

Of course this dearth of signs means I’m gonna actually have to BUY target backers next year… sigh…

TBT…

Posted on by November 2, 2016

Another visit to the classic brochures…

And the ‘classic’ Corvette…

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This last one was a billboard a couple of years ago in Southern California… Sigh…vette-bb

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Boosting the signal…

Posted on by November 2, 2016

DaddyBear has a deal for you, HERE!

The Minivandians is going to be FREE through Sunday! It’s a well written, funny romp through life as seen through the eyes of a warrior caught sadly out of his element…

I was one of the alpha readers, and thoroughly enjoy Tom’s first effort. He’s now getting ready to release three short books over the next months that continue the story.

 

Angeleyes…

Posted on by November 1, 2016

Michael Z. Williamson is a prolific and very popular author, and one that I’ve read since his first book, Freehold.

Mike’s latest book, ‘Angeleyes‘, also set in the Freehold universe, is published today.

The blurb reads:

Angie Kaneshiro never planned to be a spy. She was a veteran of the Freehold Forces of Grainne, and was now a tramp freighter crew-woman who hadn’t set foot on the dirt of a world in ten years. Angie was free, and that was the way she liked it.

Then the war with Earth started. One thing Angie knew was human space. She knew where the UN troops garrisoned, the methods they used to scan and chip their own to control them. Even better, she had a mental map of the access conduits, the dive bars, and the make-out cubbies people used to get around restrictions.

The UN forces may hold most of the stations, the docks, and the jump points, but now the Freehold of Grainne has its own lethal weapon. The Intelligence branch sends a freighter crewed with Blazers, special forces troops. All Angie has to do is lead them through the holes. Responsibility for the explosions and wreckage will be theirs. But war is complicated, and even the most unwilling of heroes can be forged in its crucible.

You won’t go wrong with Mike’s books. Great characters, deeply researched, believable. What more do you need?

Edumacation…

Posted on by November 1, 2016

Seems like a lot of folks are now dipping a toe into the reloading world…

You can flat drive yourself nuts if you haven’t done it before, or have a good guide…

This is an example of the difference in burn rates. Which is for rifles, and which is for pistols???

If you said pistol on the left and rifle on the right, you’d be correct…

Wideners provided the video above, and has a good primer of the various smokeless powders HERE.

And the next step is reloading manuals… Lots of choices out there, but THIS blog link to AmmoLand gives their opinion of the top five manuals.

You can go any number of places for brass, primers, your choice of bullets or cast your own (YMMV, and it CAN be dangerous playing with molten lead).

And then there is the cost of a good reloading bench… Dillon, Lyman and the list goes on. According to folks I know that reload (a lot), the ‘break even’ on paying for everything, plus brass, bullets, primers and powder is around 5000 rounds. This is regardless of the caliber one reloads.

Two side notes- Yes, you can reload shotgun shells and no, you can’t reload .22 (or any other rimfire shells. Apparently you CAN now reload .22s.  Didn’t know that. Thanks to Jeremy for pointing out the capability, HERE.

When in doubt, ask someone who is experienced. Cast Boolits is one online reference for people who cast bullets and reload.

YMMV, I got nothin’ from nobody for this post… So there! 😛

Interesting…

Posted on by October 30, 2016

It appears the Dems are now desperate enough to resort to ‘Congress’ to pile on to Comey…

FBI Director James Comey may have violated federal law when he told lawmakers that his office was pursuing new evidence related to Hillary Clinton‘s use of a private email server, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is charging.

“Your actions in recent months have demonstrated a disturbing double standard for the treatment of sensitive information, with what appears to be a clear intent to aid one political party over another.”

Full article HERE from The Hill.com

But it’s very interesting that in 1992, the Friday before the election, George Bush was accused of prior knowledge of the Iran-Contra affair…

Whispers of “payback” are being directed at Hillary Clinton after she decried as “unprecedented” the surprise FBI revival of its probe of her email scandal.

That’s because 24 years ago, as former President George H.W. Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new charges against Bush in the Iran-Contra probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a “culture of corruption.”

The full article is HERE, from the Washington Examiner.

That charge, in all probability, allowed Bill Clinton to win the election, considering he was losing at the time…

Depending on whom you listen to, it appears the metadata from the Weiner computer spit out somewhere between 300 and 650,000 ‘hits’ for state.gov and various clinton’s emails and server. Note- This is NOT the number of emails, contrary to what some of the media are reporting… You can get 8-10 or more ‘hits’ from one email, if it’s a string of emails embedded.

 

Aviation Art…

Posted on by October 29, 2016

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The Channel Dash (officially known as Operation Cerberus) was one of three operations during the Second World War for which the Fairey Swordfish was to become the most famous. Heavily outgunned in the Straits of Dover on this day, February 11, 1942 by the German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen, with their accompanying flotilla of destroyers and motor torpedo boats, and with top cover provided by deadly fighter aircraft of the Luftwaffe, all six Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish were shot down. Only five of the eighteen aircrew survived.

Here we see the Swordfish flown by Sub. Lt. Kingsmill and Sub. Lt. Samples with PO Bunce in the rear, fighting for their lives with his machine gun.The bravery of the Fairey Swordfish aircrew in this and all other operations is a matter of history and must never be forgotten.

Old School…

Posted on by October 28, 2016

Well, at least for the rifles…

1942 as issued Remington 03 on the left, 1940 Model 70 on the right, also in 30.06…

An old 2X7 Redfield up top, original Pachmayr recoil pad (I still have the steel butt plate), 1907 slings on both of them. The sling on the 03 is the original one!

I only needed one round to check zero on the Model 70, as it’s going to be used next month for a deer hunt.

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Now the funny thing is, everybody’s ‘eye’ is slightly different when it comes to scopes…

Lawdog and Thing 1 were both at the range, and they each put a round through it. They stacked rounds 1 in low and 1 in right of my shot (2.1 in high dead center so good zero for 200 yards).

On the pistol side, ran 150 rounds through the G19, still getting used to it. Everything went in a centered 4 inch circle at 10 yards, so I’ll take that.

Thing 1 wore the Muppet holster today, but not in front of the Sheriff (yet)…

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And it fits that Glock 19 perfectly 🙂

SCOTUS…

Posted on by October 27, 2016

If you’re a supporter of the 2nd Amendment, the Supreme Court is really what this election is all about…

The 60-second spot explains that the late justice, Antonin Scalia, was the deciding vote in affirming that the Second Amendment protects the right of an individual to keep a firearm in their home.  Scalia authored the majority decision in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008.

Hillary Clinton has twice said she disagrees with the Heller ruling. At the third presidential debate, she said she, “disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in that case.” Earlier in her campaign, Clinton was recorded at a private event saying, “The Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment, and I am going to make that case every chance I get.”

Whoever wins the presidency on Nov. 8 will appoint at least one Supreme Court justice, and possibly as many as three or more additional justices. Americans cannot afford to elect a president who will stack the court with justices hostile to the Second Amendment.

“This election will determine the fate of the Second Amendment in America for the next 40 years. Law-abiding gun owners cannot afford to put someone in office who will eliminate their rights.” Chris Cox- NRA-ILA

h/t NRA Media

TBT…

Posted on by October 26, 2016

And we’re back to the car ads…

This one is pretty interesting, in that there were TWO versions of the Plymouth GTX advertising…

The first one was the ‘generic’ one

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This one, however, was the one that was in all the car magazines… 🙂67-gtx

I’d call that pretty damn smart marketing!!!

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