Will work for ammo!!!

Spent most of the day helping a friend inventory/appraise his father’s pistols…

Not a lot of fun, but necessary…

If anyone is interested in a Ruger SR1911 (stainless) there are 2 in 98% condition (maybe 2-3 mags through each), an H&K P30 90% condition, a S&W M&P 45 in 95% condition (didn’t feel like it had the Apex trigger mod), a Sig P200 ST .45 in  95% condition, and a Taurus Judge in polished stainless in 98% condition.  If you’re interested, email me and I can put you in touch with him.  Prices are reasonable.

I did come home with one pistol though…

Colt Woodsman 2nd Series, manufactured sometime between 1947 and 1950.  Grips aren’t in real good shape, but overall the gun is pretty good shape AND there are four mags for it.

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I did a low pass by the gun show late in the afternoon and I finally tracked down the guy with the bayonets that I’d stumbled across before…

DSC00749Springfield Armory M1905 bayonet made in 1907, not perfect, but all there; and in a correct M1917 sheath (WWII issued)

And yes, I did get ‘paid’ in ammo…

AmmoThis is ‘old’ ammo, but it still shoots!!! 🙂

 

 

Who is the face of GI Joe???

A bit of a trivia question…

Anybody have any idea???

Here’s a hint…

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Trifecta…

Idjits…

They live, breathe and worst of all, BREED…

Idjit 1- The asshole in the Mercedes that almost hit me yesterday, because he didn’t understand simple physics!  Ice on street = NO grip, even if you ARE in a Mercedes. You cannot run up to the light at full speed and think you’re gonna stop and when you realize you aren’t, aiming at ME on the sidewalk is NOT the way to make friends…  And it’s a good thing you didn’t get out of your car after my coffee went all over your windshield and hood after I had to jump out of your @$#%@ way, because I’ll guarantee I was NOT in good mood at that point…

Idjit 2-  Maybe your little lowered rice rocket with the fart muffler is fast, but you SHOULD have known better than to try to bulldoze that snow (frozen over) just so you could get in the parking space… And yes, I laughed when you crumpled/splintered all that aero package you ‘had’ tacked on the front of your car…

The least you could have done was haul that junk off rather than leave it laying in the parking space/snowbank…

Idjit 3- The woman in the ballet style shoes that tried to cut across the snow rather than walking 15 feet to the cleared sidewalk…

We gave you a 1.0 for execution, a 2.1 for the landing cause you sure as hell DIDN’T stick it (unless you count landing flat on your ass in the puddle), but we gave you an 8.0 for invective… At least three languages, and words even all three of us retired sailors didn’t know…

And a bonus idjit…  At the grocery store, I’m standing in line for my BP meds, and I see a lady leave her cart to walk down the aisle to look for something… Bonus idjit decides to ‘surf’ through the lady’s cart, and takes out a package of meat.  Lets just say it was a GOOD thing a store manager came around the end of the aisle about the time the 1st lady got back to her cart…

As far as the ‘weather’??? Well I agree with the ‘Blue Bird of Happiness’…

Bluebird of happiness

I got nuthin…

So you get a gratuitous kid pic…

PP sent me this one of Jace yesterday…

He’s giving it hell, bouncing his little butt off!!! 🙂

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But apparently he DOES NOT like castor oil in ‘any’ way shape form or fashion…

Meh…

We got snow, everybody went bat nuts…

But all the main roads were cleaned up by noon…  Funniest thing seen was flipping through the channels this morning at a red Corvette and a red Porsche 911 stuck on 495, with a AAA truck just sitting behind them…

Idjits…

Best thing I saw?  Kids and pieces of cardboard having a ball on a little hill in a park by the apartment…  And what looked like a Husky puppy having a ball playing in the 9-12 inches of snow! 🙂

A second round came through overnight, but this morning the plows are out heavy, and hi-ho it’s off to work I go… sigh…

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Oh Noes…

If you’re a Corvette aficionado, you’ve GOT to be crying in your beer today…

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The National Corvette Museum at Bowling Green, KY had a sinkhole open under on of the exhibit structures…  Thankfully no one was hurt or fell in the hole…

From the press release-

It is with heavy hearts that we report that eight Corvettes were affected by this incident.  Those cars include:

  • 1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors
  • 2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” on loan from General Motors

The other six vehicles were owned by the National Corvette Museum including:

  • 1962 Black Corvette
  • 1984 PPG Pace Car
  • 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette
  • 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette
  • 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
  • 2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette

Having visited the place a few times, as as a former (and someday again) Corvette owner, I can only say I’m heartbroken for them; as these ‘are’ special cars in the Corvette world…

Thankfully none of the privately owned loaner cars were involved and hopefully they can recover and repair the cars that are in the hole…

The full press release is HERE, and the article from Fox is HERE.

Corvette folks are a lot like gunnies, in that there are collectors, and drivers…  And 95% of them are genuinely good folks that would help you out any way they could!  Just like we go, “Ya wanna shoot this?” They’ll go, “Ya wanna drive mine?”

One of my fondest memories is a car show we did at Bowling Green back in the late 90’s and I took the kids with me. We got a private tour of the assembly plant and museum, and they got to start two brand new Corvettes on the assembly line. I and a few others got to drive the then brand new C5s that had been brought in for the press to drive; and I remember bombing down a Kentucky back road at well over the legal limit and turning to the GM rep in the right seat and asking what kind of insurance they had on the cars…

When he told me none, I babied that sucker all the way back, much to his amusement…

NRA Annual Meeting…

For those planning to attend the NRA AM…

MEDIA ADVISORY

NRA’s Annual Meetings & Exhibits 2014:
A Celebration of American Values
Indianapolis, Indiana Hosts Several Acres of Guns, Gear & Outfitters

Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meetings and Exhibits will be held at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana from April 25-27, 2014.

For more information, including event tickets, please visit www.nraam.org.

Members of the news media who wish to cover this year’s event will need press credentials. For press credentials, please email your name, media affiliation, phone number, and email address to[email protected]. Credentials will be available for pick-up in the press office starting at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 24. Television crews and still photographers should bring necessary equipment and lenses (sports lenses) to cover events from platforms at distances from 150-200 feet from the stage. (Please note: requests from U.S. media outlets will be given priority over foreign media requests. Consequently, foreign media should be prepared in the event they do not have access to the show floor.)

Approximately 70,000 attendees are expected at this year’s Annual Meetings and Exhibits. Leading firearm manufacturers will display the firearm industry’s latest products. Guides and outfitters, various hunting and shooting accessories, and an extensive private collection displayed by NRA-affiliated gun collector clubs will fill acres of convention space.

The National NRA Foundation Banquet will take place on Thursday, April 24, at the Lucas Oil Stadium. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. This event is closed to the press.

The NRA-ILA Leadership Forum will take place on Friday, April 25. This year’s speakers include Senator Daniel Coats of Indiana, Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, conservative talk radio host Mark Levin, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, and Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri.

NRACountry, a partnership between NRA and country music’s brightest stars, is pleased to present NRACountry Jam IV at the Crane Bay Event Center on Friday, April 25, featuring Joe Nichols and Jerrod Niemann. Doors will open at7:00 p.m. This is a ticketed event.

NRA’s Stand and Fight Rally will take place Saturday, April 26, at 7:00 p.m. Guests will be treated to performances by legendary country super group Alabama and multi-time Female Vocalist of the Year award winner Sara Evans.

NRA’s Annual Meetings and Exhibits provide a safe and fun atmosphere the whole family can enjoy. The air gun range is a top attraction – both for participants and observers. NRA offers diverse seminars throughout the three-day convention, including methods of concealed carry; hunting; Firearms Law; the Grassroots Workshop; and Refuse to Be a Victim®.

Folks, they’ve been really good to us bloggers, but I’d recommend you get your request in early!  They usually have wireless in the press room, and give out some good press packets too!

The Grey Man, update…

It’s real!!!

TGM Book front

All up 393 pages, 380+ pages of actual story…

I’m sitting here with mixed emotions right now; relief that the editing process is done, happiness that I have a real book (at least a proof copy), and fear (or terror) of the reception of the book…

I owe a large number of people debts of thanks too…

All of you blog readers for your support…

For the Alpha and Beta readers…  Your patience was amazing, and thank you for ALL the constructive criticism, and correcting my lousy punctuation…

For the fact checkers (and no I STILL don’t know how the other 2 disappeared from the ballistics calculation; and yes I corrected for the altitude)…

For the published authors I talked to that gave good advice, especially about editing and constructive and destructive criticism…

To my editor, whom I purposely chose as a woman located in Chicago; figuring she would catch all the problems with understanding the tech jargon, and questions about location.  Only to find out via one of her comments back, SHE GREW UP IN TEXAS…  Sigh

And my illustrator…  A blog reader and graphics wizard, who’s patience, was amazing… Along with her artwork and knowledge of what had to be done to make the cover ‘fit’…

And most of all to the naysayers…

Having come up through the ranks in the military, pretty much NOTHING sets my teeth on edge and makes me MORE determined to do something than being told I can’t, or it’s not good enough…

You know who you are, and please accept my humble thanks…

This is the last step, reviewing the proof, and making any final corrections that we catch, so I’m hoping to go ‘live’ with it either in late February, or early March.  I’m planning a Kindle version, a Nook version (via B&N), and a print version.

Well, well, well…

We go from THIS

The Defense Department is discussing a $1 billion cut over the next three years to the commissary’s budget in a move that could lead to a widespread closure of stores, Pentagon and industry officials said.

To this…

According to Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there are no plans to close military commissaries. The chairman first addressed this issue during his Facebook town hall meeting last month (a transcript of the recent town hall meeting with General Dempsey is available on DoD Live). Although the DoD officials are not planning to close commissaries, they did ask the Defense Commissary Agency for a range of options, including how the system would operate with reduced or no taxpayer subsidies. 

Link is HERE.

And apparently the Congresscritters are getting a LOT of pressure to fulfill their promise to reinstate the military retirees cola pay from retirement until age 62… I heard today the Senate is scrambling around trying to find something else to cut and get rid of the pay cut…

Oopsie…

Gotta love it when things go boom at exactly the wrong (or right) time…

 Militants accidentally set off their own car bomb Monday at a training camp in the countryside north of Baghdad, leaving 21 dead and resulting in two dozen arrests, Iraqi officials said.

Read the whole article HERE at foxnews.com.

h/t Les

Far as I’m concerned, it’s time to play Angry Birds over there…

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