Link Cleaning…

Posted on by January 12, 2015

morning after 7

As much as I hate to do it, it’s time for the annual blog link clean up. I hate taking folks off the link list, but I know that real life, security and who knows for what other reasons people give up blogging.

I know that I’ve talked to more than a few folks who are ‘lowering’ their public profiles, and honestly I can’t blame them.

If I deleted a blog that you know is still active, please let me know.

For those folks I deleted, I hope you’re well and things are going well for you. If you ever decide to come back to the blog world, let me know and I’ll put your link back up.

Buck, may you RIP sir, you done good.

Husar’s Laws, part 1…

Posted on by January 9, 2015

Since there are a bunch of these, I’m going to run them as a series on Mondays…

  • You can see a lot by observing.
  • Once out of control, problems can be difficult to correct.
  • The seventh month of a pregnancy is a poor time to address family planning.
  • Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
  • Remember – half the people who play tennis lose.
  • Law of Surrealistic Planning: if today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
  • Better to be pissed off than pissed on.
  • Productivity Law: one-tenth of the participants produce over one-third the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
  • Eagles don’t flock – you have to find them one at a time.
  • Law of Good Times: a hungry dog hunts best; a hungrier dog hunts even better.
  • Law of the Law: bulls do not win fights; people do. People do not win fights; lawyers do.
  • Law of Meetings: meetings can never end early.
  • Law of Quality: it costs a lot to build bad products.
  • Law of Executive Reward: there are many highly successful businesses in the US. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to mingle the two.
  • “I was expecting this, but not so soon” – Tombstone, Boot Hill.
  • Law of Mind over Matter: if no one minds, then it doesn’t matter.
  • When all else fails, read the instructions.
  • Never take life seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.
  • Law of Bulls and Bears: if stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
  • Any task can be completed in only one-third more time that is currently estimated (Unless it’s a kitchen or bathroom, then it’s triple the $$ and double the time, if it’s winter, double that).

h/t JP

Booze and Guns…

Posted on by January 9, 2015

Should NEVER be mixed…

But in this case, I’m willing to make an exception…

shot glassesARs and 1911s what’s not to like?

Nice little Christmas present from an old friend… Of course he just HAD to screw with me… Told me he’d gotten me a couple of guns…

Sigh…

 

Done and done…

Posted on by January 9, 2015

Well, the French Police and Military stepped up…

Both hostage ‘incidents’ have been satisfactorily resolved. The ISLAMIC TERRORISTS are dead! Yes, I used those non-PC words…

The lightning-quick strikes ended two tense, hours-long standoffs, one at a printing plant north of the city and the other at a kosher supermarket on Paris’ east side, where four hostages were killed, as many as 15 were freed. A hostage held north of the city by the brothers, who killed 12 in a commando-style attack at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, was reportedly freed. The fast-moving developments, signaled by explosions and gunfire at a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goele, followed by similar sounds at Hypercacher (Hyper Kosher), a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris, brought to a climax a three-day terror ordeal and manhunt involving nearly 90,000 police and military personnel. 

Full report HERE on Fox.

I just hope they used pork dipped bullets…

Now waiting for the inevitable ‘apologists’ to step in and say words to the effect, “Oh this should have been handled ‘this’ way. They weren’t really terrorists, they were just ‘misunderstood’.”

Now the question is, will the next country hit respond as quickly, and in the same manner?  Will countries learn from this???  My guess, especially here, probably not…

Sigh…

U.S. Optics…

Posted on by January 6, 2015

They’re making a move…

U.S. Optics are makers are high end rifle scopes.  I have two of them, and they are some of the best glass I’ve ever used.  Those who’ve seen/shot my M-40A1 clone have seen the MRT and seen how good it is. my ‘backup’ scope is an old SN-9 from the 1990s and it’s as good a target scope as I’ve ever used. Now having said that, they are NOT cheap…

SN-9US Optics SN9

I’ve been to their operation, gotten a tour, and had them build custom turrets for both scopes cut to match the bullets I shoot.  They ARE a quality operation! They also do custom reticles based on the customer’s desires, and they stand behind their products!!!

They’re now looking to expand their reach, getting more into the commercial market and have gone outside the ‘house’ so to speak…

From their press release-

International optics manufacturer U.S. Optics, Inc. has revealed outdoorsman focused marketing firm Contingency X as its official creative agency Brea, California – U.S. Optics Inc., an international rifle optics manufacturer, announced today it has selected Contingency X as its strategic, creative agency of record. Contingency X will oversee brand infusion strategies in key markets along with media and marketing services for U.S. Optics, Inc.

U.S. Optics, Inc. has branched beyond its in-house team to tap its first creative marketing agency. The agency’s initial work for U.S. Optics, Inc. is set to debut in the first quarter of 2015. “Every year, we continue to see growth in our brand from our own efforts. In 2015, it is our goal to reach new audiences and gain a wider market share while offering better support to our clients. We strongly believe that our relationship with Contingency X will allow for these goals to come to fruition,” stated Nick Baroldi CFO.

Over the span of 24 years, U.S. Optics, Inc. has evolved the functionality, resilience and precision of its optics through design innovation and proven engineering principles. Built to satisfy the needs of military and law
enforcement personnel, hunters, and highly trained precision competition shooters, it has developed a commercial off the shelf (COTS) product line with little difference from its custom-built optics. Currently US Optics, Inc. has
approximately 66 domestic dealers and 12 international dealers in such countries as Australia, Canada, France and Russia.

Contingency X has pledged to not only develop new creative campaigns, but to roll up its sleeves to bring diverse solutions and take a more comprehensive approach to its marketing efforts. The agency will take on the development of creative material, social media, website redevelopment, media, strategic marketing and other duties.

ABOUT U.S. OPTICS, INC.
U.S. Optics, Inc. has been building custom rifle optics for more than 24 years. In this span of time, the functionality, durability and clarity of its optics have evolved through research and development efforts, invaluable end user feedback, design innovation and proven engineering principles. A family of core products has emerged from U.S. Optics, Inc. as a result of its dedication and perseverance to build the best rifle optics available for the precision shooter. 

ABOUT CONTINGENCY X
Contingency X is a marketing and media firm that provides noteworthy marketing and media services to the firearms and outdoor industries. With over 20 years of marketing and media services for mainstream companies,
Contingency X has shifted its focus to the outdoorsman markets to provide excellent marketing and media tactics for its clients. For more information, visit http://www.contingencyx.com.

If you want quality, and are willing to pay for it, you won’t go wrong looking at U.S. Optics…

Just sayin…

Nous sommes tous Charlie…

Posted on by January 7, 2015

As one who has always loved both editorial cartoons and ‘regular’ cartoons (I grew up on Pogo and Peanuts, okay) It’s truly sad to hear what happened in Paris yesterday. 

Here are a couple, and some links to more that prove once again a picture IS worth 1000 words.

David Pope 1 8 15

h/t David Pope

Ramirez 1 8 15

h/t Investor’s Business Daily

Chris Muir has one up at Day By Day.

And Buzzfeed has 20+ more HERE.

Once again muslim terrorists have killed defenseless people… I hope the French catch them and put them down like the dogs they are… Preferably with bullets dipped in pork fat…

Life…

Posted on by January 6, 2015

Grumpy old man warning…

Sometimes life just sucks… But that isn’t an excuse to just give up.  Now days the ‘new buzzwords seem to be “Microaggressions”, “Trigger Warnings”, and the New Meaning of “Trauma”, don’t know what those really are, since most of the examples I’ve seen don’t make sense. But it seems like way too many people are using life sucks AS the excuse, and sucking off the government teat for the rest of their lives…

When I look around I see more and more homeless, more ‘out of work’, people living on the dole, etc.  And they are perfectly happy to do that (2 years of ‘free’ money is one comment I overheard).

And now we’ve got an assault on the police through ‘various’ organizations and protest groups that want dead cops. Add in the protesters that are now interrupting people eating, a veterans award ceremony, and ‘claiming’ that a black is killed by a cop/vigilante/??? every 28 hours.

Do you really want the cops gone??? Do you realize what you’re proposing? Can you spell anarchy???  Do you remember the Watts riots???

My question is, what about the black on black violence that kills a black every four hours on the average? What about the black on white violence? Where are the protests for that?

How do these protesters live?  Do THEY have jobs?  I’m betting you and I are paying for them to protest…

I know I’m an old fart, and a bitter clinger, and a Christian but I just don’t get it. I’ve never given up, even when down. I don’t understand the mentality out there today.  Why should ‘I’ pay for them to sit on their asses? I’ve worked since I was 14, and always did my best to ‘earn’ the money I was paid.

I can’t help but wonder if the political divisions in this country have brought us to this point, were there is NO chance of working with the other side. It’s all about emotions now, facts be damned and those “Microaggressions”, “Trigger Warnings”, and “Trauma”.

Who really represents us? Those of us that actually go out and earn a living every day- black, white, hispanic, asians, native americans, other?   Who stands for us?

Who stands for the military, the elderly, the Christians?  I hear a lot of pandering words, but I don’t see actions backing up those words.

It’s a helluva note when the first day back at work in the new year these are the questions that were going around the lunch table. And nobody had any good answers other that retire and go somewhere ‘safe’…

Where is that, pray tell?

Is there enough honor left in the American people to stand up and say enough?  To right the ship of state and get us on a better track? We know the results of the elections last year, but will they prove to be same ol’, same ol’ with a different bunch in “charge”???

misplaced poster

Sigh…  kicking the soapbox back in the corner…

Your thoughts???

What in the hell???

Posted on by January 7, 2015

Gah, PCism has done something I never thought I’d see…

By Bill Randall – – Wednesday, December 31, 2014

FOREST HILL, N.C., Jan. 15, 2013 — The time honored rite of the U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer (CPO) initiation process has been eliminated. Political correctness has won out over more than 100 years of having gotten it right in the Chief’s Mess.

Full article HERE at the Washington Times.

The Navy has already watered down the CPO initiation to a pale imitation of it’s former self, but there were, as the article indicates, REAL REASONS for what is done during the initiation…

This is a truly sad day, and it will mean that the CPO ranks will not have the cohesion, leadership potential, and camaraderie that once existed in the goat locker.

Hopefully this will be overturned… Hopefully…

Edit- Thanks to Davey, HERE is a link to CDR Salamader’s take on it…  Can’t say that I disagree with him…

Range time!!!

Posted on by January 4, 2015

Thanks to Murph, I got a chance to get out to the range and shoot my ‘new’ guns…

Well, new to me anyway… Joe, ya done GOOD!

As always, clicken to embiggen

10-22 and target

After fiddling around with the scope and once AGAIN reminding myself NOT to drink coffee, I finally settled down and put a good group down in the lower left corner.  And the nice thing is the can didn’t alter the zero at all!

And after Murph ohh’ed and ahh’ed over it, he spotted for me and put a few rounds down range with the SP1.

SP1 and target

Not as good as with the scope, and a ‘bit’ of chasing the correct front sight height, but we finally got it there…

And Murph did have a comment after he fired it, “OH, a REAL Colt spring!”  Well yeah, it is… LOL

Last but not least, I drug out the 03A3, dreading trying to get it sighted in. But…

03a3 and target

That sucker was DEAD ON!  That’s a five shot group!!! Done and done, and put that sucker back in the bag… Smile

Oh yeah, and the quickest way to put a smile on one’s face??? Reising Model 50 SMG in .45!!!

Me and Reising

And lastly, Murph letting her run…

Fun was had by all, followed by Five Guys… I could use more days like this!!!