A funny…

This is the truth if I ever saw it… Sigh…

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And obviously THIS guy didn’t learn anything the first time around…

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Long day, still recovering from the shoot yesterday, ice cream is slush… Sorry…

Kid’s Shoot AAR…

I never did get a good head count, but I’d say there were at least thirty folks there…

Bloggers, commenters, strays, family, a whole bunch of folks showed up.

There was a range in a ‘sooper sekret location’

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Of course a ‘little’ trimming had to take place BEFORE we could actually start, so everybody pitched in early am to get everything set up and targets build/set.

This was the pistol table, ‘mostly’ .22s…

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I’m just not saying how ‘old’ some of the kids were…

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And ‘some’ folks say he missed, but I don’t know for sure one way or the other! Smile

And there were some larger toys too!

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It’s obvious Wandering Neurons (a commenter) has WAY too much time on his hands!  This is actually a ‘kit car’ built on a Suburban Chassis!!!

That I can think of JayG, Nancy (and family), Shorter Half, A Girl TSM and their family; and commenters .45ACP and his wife, Bubblehead Les, Wandering Neurons, Larry and son, Dr. Mike, Igli (And these are the ones I ‘know’..

Many $$ worth of .22 and assorted calibers were turned into noise, and standing room only at the line.  Along with lots of, “Hey, ya want to shoot ‘this’ one?”

A couple of more pictures including one Appleseed Instructor firing a copy of a Flintlock from the Revolutionary War (and hitting, gee NO surprise there at all)!

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And his wife shot it too (and hit too)!

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And there was FOOD!!!  BBQ, burgers, dogs, and all the fixin’s. And dessert and birthday cards; and laughter, stories, multiple conversations going on, and fun was had by all!

Thanks for the invite Lady, I truly enjoyed it!

Kid’s shoot 2013, there was fun…

And guns, and toys, and cake…

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This was just the rifle table, and other than TWO smoke poles, they’re ALL .22s

Happy “29th” Nancy Smile

More later…

Emily Miller hits it out of the park…

Emily Miller at the Washington Times calls a spade a spade!!!

The New York Times has turned into a docile tool of anti-gun organizations. The newspaper hates firearms so much that it published a front page story with no news, but only decade-old testimony, in an attempt to blame gun manufacturers for recent mass shootings.

On Tuesday, the above-the-fold headline in the paper blared: “Gun Makers Saw No Role in Curbing Improper Sales.” The story was on the top right side, next to a large photo of a young mother holding her young son at her veteran husband’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery.

Not subtle.

Read the full article HERE.

Ms. Miller continues to publish excellent reports on the media and the games being played concerning guns and the gun culture.  She’s also done, to this point, a three parter on the Gregory fiasco… HERE, HERE, and HERE.

This lady is doing a hellva job on not only DC but the rest of the antis out there!!!

Obummercare reality check…

My daughters are still in Kalifornia, and I’m doing EVERYTHING I can to get them to move…

And Paramedic (pregnant) daughter went to her check up yesterday and there was a sign on the office door of the clinic (which is on the hospital complex)-

Attention patients with COMMERCIAL INSURANCE:

If you have commercial insurance then your visit today will be billed as an OUTPATIENT PROCEDURE of the hospital.

The cost of the visit will be applied to your deductible.

When she asked, she was told, “Oh, if you have Medi-Cal or Medicaid, it’s not charged to you…

In digging around I found this article in Forbes…

“Last week, the state of California claimed that its version of Obamacare’s health insurance exchange would actually reduce premiums. “These rates are way below the worst-case gloom-and-doom scenarios we have heard,” boasted Peter Lee, executive director of the California exchange. But the data that Lee released tells a different story: Obamacare, in fact, will increase individual-market premiums in California by as much as 146 percent.”

Full article HERE.

When she went on line and looked at the insurance costs vs. what she and her hubby have now, even the BASIC coverage will go up by almost 100% FOR EACH OF THEM!

Look at your hole card folks, 2014 is gonna get UGLY… dammit…

Range report…

Well, unlike Keads, I can’t afford new ones/get good buys like he does…

“I” have to wait for the scratch and dent sale…

Picked this one up to add to the training stable, but to be honest I’m NOT happy with it.

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Takedown/cleaning is fairly simple, typical of a S&W with the breakdown lever, except you can’t (or shouldn’t) take it all the way out, nor should you go over 90degrees with it…

DSC00025I cleaned/lubed the gun up pretty well, and finally got the guide rod back in the right way.  And that little recoil rod will ONLY go in one way…  

At the range, it was not even close to being on, I was actually hitting 8-10 inches high and about the same left of the target at 15 yards.  Apparently this is NOT a new problem, and a number of others on the S&W forum have had the same issue (HERE).

I also had to screw the rear all the way down, and then move it damn near off the gun to the right to at least get the pistol to hit the 10 ring at 10 yards.  Didn’t even bother to try it at 15 yards again…

Also, about every other mag, it would NOT eject the first round out of the mag, for unknown reasons.  I’d cycle the action and it seemed to work okay for the rest of the mag. Called S&W on Tues, basically got told I should have cleaned and lubed it prior to shooting… Thanks a whole effing bunch for the help there folks… Hung up on them, I’ve got better things to do.

In summary-  Quality seems to be lacking, and it seems they are being slapped together with minimal attention to the ‘little’ things like actually aligning the sights.

I’d say put this on the do not buy list.

And I did pay my own $$ for the gun, so pound sand FCC… 

Maybe I’ll use it for malfunction drills this weekend, it seems to be good for that!

 

Another one for the WTF file…

Lunch at the mall today, standing in line behind a couple of folks and overheard, “Yeah, I’m going low key these days…”

Says the dude dressed in canary yellow pants, green floral print Hawaiian shirt, Mohawk (half green, half red), and those ear piercings that elongate/put BIG holes in the earlobe.

His buddies’ response, “Yep you are.”

If ‘that’ is low key, what was he wearing before???

Never mind, I don’t EVEN want to know…

And they live, breathe and breed… Sigh…

What if???

What if the janitor in your building, or school, or office was a war hero and you didn’t know it?

What if that janitor had the MOH???

Far fetched???

Yeah, right…  Pull the other one…

Read on below the break

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YGTBSM!!!

If this one doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what to say…

According to a survey of George Washington University professors, some 30 percent generally endorse the eventual addition of President Barack Obama’s face to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

The survey, conducted and reported by The College Fix, is hampered by an extremely limited sample size. Nonetheless, the results are fascinating. Of the 10 history and political science profs queried, three suggested that Obama may eventually be added to the huge sculpture of four enormous presidential heads carved into the granite face of a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Professor Paul Wahlbeck, who chairs the political science department at GW, apparently believes that Obama could become some sort of affirmative-action addition to the monument.

Full article HERE.

If there was EVER any doubt about the leanings of most college profs, it’s gone now…

Back in the Day…

An interesting little video about a plane crash from WWII that was filmed, but the pilot NEVER saw the film until the grandson of the Dr. that filmed it showed up at the pilot’s house last year (60+ years later).  Quite a bit different from today isn’t it…

It’s about 14 minutes long, but worth the time.

Interestingly this was EARLY in the P-38 program, note the reference to the F-5 and the turbosupercharger problems.

Flying unarmed over Germany and orbiting to get pictures?  These guys clanked when they walked though…