Hog Gun…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Following Frank James’ recommendations/research and our conversation at Pittsburgh, I decided to ‘upgrade’ to a bigger gun for hog hunting…  After seeing the FN SCAR 17 and talking to folks at NRAAM, I decided to bite the bullet (so to speak) and get one.  


I finally got to the range today, and put the first rounds through it, and I’m impressed!!!

I got the ‘baby’ Trijicon optic for it, the TA-11E which has the chevron and BDC for the 308 round.  The top of the chevron is POA at 200 yards, the bottom is 300 yards, 400 yards, etc.

These are the first rounds out of the gun, using just the iron sights at 100 yards…

The first five rounds are lower left, and I (like a dumbass) started adjusting on the sights before the gun really set up and carboned up good.  I cleaned the bore after the first four AND made an adjustment (stoopid) which promptly got me too far to the right. The rounds did walk up as the gun ‘sealed’  and it finally settled about 2 inches high, which is dead on at 200 yards.  I kept screwing with the windage, and finally put it back to zero and left it at that.

I put the TA-11 on, and started sighting it in, and as you can see, with 2 shot groups this is a sub-MOA gun. Again I set it about 2 inches high to be dead on at 200 yards.  


The felt recoil is SIGNIFICANTLY less than any of my other rifles, even less than the M-24 and M-40 both of which weigh over 14 lbs; and this thing only weighs a little over 8lbs with the ACOG on it!  My shoulder is gonna like this one!

I did finally get to put six rounds on a target at 200 yards, so these were a bit rushed, as they wanted to go get their sighting targets, but I’m pretty happy with those, the one on the far right was a called flyer…


Now I can go hog hunting and not feel like I’m under-gunned… 


If I could just afford a good night optic… sigh…

Ammo Review- Remington 9mm…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

Lucky Gunner provided me a free box of Remington’s new nickel plated case target ammo in 115 gr 9mm for me to review, so here goes…


I shot three guns with the ammo, a Belgian Browning HP, a Glock 17, and my Kahr P-9 carry pistol.  I did a comparison with my match ammo, 5 rounds each vs 5 rounds of the Remington; all shots were offhand at 10 yards.

And no, the Chrony didn’t work… even though I tested it before I left the house and I KNOW the @#&*) batteries were good… sigh…

Left to right are G17, Kahr, and BHP. The flyers are marked, and the best groups were with the BHP, followed by the Glock, but for what ever reason, the Kahr really didn’t ‘like’ the Remington ammo (from the accuracy perspective).


From here, I moved over and did some Mozambique’s, using all three guns and shooting five round groups of Remington Target, followed by five round groups of Speer Gold Dot carry ammo. I had no failures to eject, feed or fire, and it did feel ‘lighter’ in the recoil department than the Gold Dot, which is 1100fps; so I’d estimate the Remington is around 1000-1050fps, even though Remington claims 1135fps.  


I was able to keep all the rounds in the A and head areas of a standard IDPA target at 10 yards with the remainder of the ammo; so I’d give it a ‘qualified’ recommendation for plinking, fun shooting, etc.  Sadly, I can’t recommend it for true “target” practice, when you’re trying to sight in/shoot VERY accurately.  


Thanks to Lucky Gunner for providing the ammo, and sorry it took me so long to actually get to the range and test it.


And if anybody actually gets a Chrony on this stuff, can you let me know what you see???

Communications, or Lack Thereof…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
I ‘know’ I’ve had one of THOSE weeks, and seems like I’m not the only one…

A magazine recently ran a ‘Dilbert Quotes’ contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. These were voted the top ten quotes in corporate America:

‘As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday, and employees will receive their cards in two weeks.’
(This was the winning quote from Fred Dales, Microsoft Corp in Redmond WA)


‘What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might encounter.’ (Lykes Lines Shipping)

‘E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only for company business.’ (Accounting manager, Electric Boat Company)


‘This project is so important we can’t let things that are more important interfere with it.’ (Advertising/ Marketing manager, United Parcel Service)


‘Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule.’ (Plant Manager, Delco Corporation)
‘No one will believe you solved this problem in one day ! We’ve been working on it for months. Now go act busy for a few weeks and I’ll let you know when it’s time to tell them.’ (R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing/ 3M Corp)


Quote from the Boss: ‘Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say.’ (Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)

My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said,’That would be better for me.’ (Shipping executive, FTD Florists)

‘We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees.’ (Switching supervisor, AT&T Long Lines Division)

If you’ve got any good ones that have happened to you, comments are welcome…

If you don’t I hope you at least got a chuckle out of these; and hopefully don’t work for any of these folks…

Dayum…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Gas prices may be coming down, but they STILL suck!!!

Granted I let it go a bit long between fill ups, but still… 


And in other news…

Two men were arrested late Wednesday night and charged with terrorism and firearms related charges. Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, a/k/a Joseph Anthony Davis, 33, of Seattle, and Walli Mujahidh, a/k/a Frederick Domingue, Jr., 32, of Los Angeles were arrested after they allegedly took possession of machine guns that they purchased and planned to use in an attack on the Military Entrance Processing Station (“MEPS”) on Seattle’s East Marginal Way.

Unbeknownst to the defendants, the weapons were rendered inoperable and posed no risk to the public. The defendants initially planned an attack on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, but later changed targets. The defendants intended to carry out their attack with both grenades and machine guns.


Courtesy of the Baltimore Sun, read the entire story HERE.  Interestingly enough, I haven’t seen this in any other MSM outlets… Can’t help but wonder if it’s because they are black and muslim…


That seems to be the don’t touch with a 10 foot pole combination for the MSM.  Much like the “Marine Reservist” that wanted to attack the Pentagon, they don’t mention that he is Ethiopian, naturalized, and a muslim…

Words of "Wisdom"…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Well, after the ‘second’ Monday in a row… I need a bit of humor, so I figured I’d share 🙂


1.. My husband and I divorced over religious differences.

He thought he was God and I didn’t.

2.. I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

3.. I Work Hard Because Millions On Welfare Depend on Me!

4.. Some people are alive only because it’s illegal to kill them.

5.. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. 

6.. Don’t take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.

7.. You’re just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

8.. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

9.. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

10.. I’m not a complete idiot — Some parts are missing. 

11.. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

12. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine.

13.. God must love stupid people; He made so many.

14.. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

15.. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps. 

16.. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

17.. Being “over the hill” is much better than being under it!

18.. Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up.

19.. Procrastinate Now!

20.. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That? 

21.. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

22.. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

23.. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!

24..They call it PMS because MadCow Disease was already taken.

25..He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead. 

26..A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.

27..Ham and eggs. A day’s work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

28.. The trouble with life is there’s no background music.

29.. The original point and click interface was a Smith and Wesson.

30.. I smile! because I don’t know what the hell is going on.

Oh yeah, and Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Gunwalker, DOJ and other tidbits…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
I was going to put up a detailed post, but DannytheMan already has one up HERE, that has plenty of detail; and so does PawPaw HERE.  Another piece of the puzzle that came out today at among others CNN is that acting ATF Dir. Melson is going to be thrown over the wall as the first sacrificial lamb to appease the masses…  But what is truly scary is THIS statement:

“Attorney General Eric Holder will meet Tuesday with Andrew Traver, head of the ATF field office in Chicago, about possibly becoming the agency’s acting director, according to senior federal law enforcement sources, who are familiar with the details of the controversy.”


The scary part is Traver was the Administration’s pick to head the ATF, HERE;  the NRA came out (along with many others) HERE, and it fact the recess appointment was NOT made… 


But now???  Looks like he’s going to be put in as the ‘acting’ director, regardless of what people say.  


Another issue is the attitude of the DOJ people who are still refusing to provide any info, documents, testimony and the fact that both the House and Senate have bills pending that will exempt even MORE people from Confirmation Hearings (e.g. any kind of oversight by Congress)


Here is the GOA alert on it.


As we reported to you on Friday, House Republicans got a royal “drop dead” from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich when he testified before Rep. Darrell Issa’s committee last week.


Weich had earlier written Congress to deny wrongdoing by ATF in connection with allegations that it was intentionally allowing firearms to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. This Justice Department denial by Weich turned out to be false.


Weich had also refused to respond to repeated congressional demands for documents, and documents which he did provide were frequently nothing more than jet-black pieces of paper.


At the committee hearing, Weich told Chairman Darrell Issa and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he would continue to withhold documents from Congress.


He also refused to answer questions from committee members such as Utah‘s Jason Chaffetz and South Carolina‘s Trey Gowdy.


And, incidentally, Weich refused to provide any information to Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, on the sole excuse that Grassley was a mere “Republican.” If Republicans wanted to exercise their constitutional oversight functions, intoned Weich, they would have to go begging to liberal anti-gun Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy.


So imagine our surprise that the Senate is poised to take up S. 679 — “bipartisan” legislation which would exempt Weich, his successors, and 203 other similarly situated federal officials from Senate confirmation.


One would think it’s important that federal officials who are responsible for telling Congressmen what documents they can or can’t review should be first approved with the “advice and consent” of the Senate.


But for Republican Senator Sue Collins, it’s apparently no big deal. After all, she is a sponsor of S. 679, the legislation to exempt hundreds of officials from Senate scrutiny.


Gun owners who have watched Weich cover up ATF’s anti-gun policies — policies which have intentionally flooded Mexican gun cartels with guns and resulted in the murder of federal law enforcement officers — realize why it is important that the Senate should be able to block liars like Weich.


One strategy note: We do not expect to defeat the Cover-up Protection Act in the Senate where, sadly, Republican leader Mitch McConnell is a cosponsor. But if we do “respectably” well — say, we get 20 votes or so against the bill — it will give us the strength we need to ask that the bill be killed in the House.


The Senate could vote on this bill as soon as Tuesday.


ACTION: Click here to contact your two U.S. Senators. Demand that they oppose cloture on the Cover-up Protection Act.


When you start adding all this up (or at least when I do), it looks like  this administration is determined to make all the end runs it can on Congress and everybody else (including us)…


In other news, the Georgia Immigration bill is coming under attack from multiple avenues, much like the Arizona bill, but there isn’t much (if any) pressure on Mississippi which passed a similar bill.  More and more states are looking at jumping on that bandwagon, and as MS/GA proves, it’s not just the border states.  

BBQ and Guns, what’s NOT to like…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Did another one of those decompression weekends, went down to Georgia, as they say…


Spent the weekend with Snigs and family, basically doing NOTHING 🙂


Got an interesting tour of a nearby town, including three generations of plantation homes, starting with a one room cabin built in the 1700’s, a four room house built in the late 1700’s, and a brick plantation house built in 1868-69 (luckily the family had just shipped a ship full of cotton to England and the agent there held the money until after the Civil War). They were all furnished with period furniture, some of which actually belonged to the original family! Originally 3100 acres of cotton, that ended with the boll weevil; sadly the town has lost most of the light industry it had, and on a visit to the local gun store the owner told me he will be surprised if he’s still in business in three years…


We are losing small town America one town at a time due to lack of jobs, and with it a (my opinion) better way of life.  Busy all the time is not necessarily better…


Anyhoo… She had BBQ and an old friend and her hubby over for dinner and the friend’s hubby brought a new pistol, a Ruger SP-101 in .327 Magnum!  

Having never seen one in the ‘flesh’ so to speak, I was interested in how it shot.  Of course Snigs drug her Blackhawk out, along with a little Ruger MkIII (heh… just realized it was a ALL Ruger day)!


We were shooting in the back yard at about 10 yards, and I know I’m not gonna piss ANY of those folks off… That target was deader than a doornail 🙂


Oh yeah, the SP-101… Interesting little carry pistol, and the .327 does pack a punch!  It’s a bit short coupled for me (Ruger knuckle AGAIN); but it’s an accurate little pistol especially on SA. Like all Rugers, DA the trigger is at least 12 lbs though.  It works fine for folks with smaller hands though.  


We got chased inside by the rain, so we didn’t put a lot of rounds down range, but it was fun anyway.


Since we were inside, it was time to EAT!  Good pork BBQ, hash (a Southern tradition), and slaw made for a tasty treat; followed up by lemon meringue pie and all washed down with sweet tea.  Guess I can say I got my Southern food fix for a while 🙂


We called it early (before midnight) as I had to get up and drive back to ATL this morning, way too @#&* early…


Which reminds me, they just need to rename I-285 the Atlanta Speedway!  I was doing 70 in a 55, getting passed like I was standing still! At one point I pulled out and sped up to see how fast the limo that passed me was going, and he was doing 90!!! And he wasn’t the only one…


Finally got back to the airport, and was checking in when I saw something that just made me proud-  A soldier was going downrange on orders, so he was pretty loaded down with his various bags and weapons case.  The porters came over and grabbed his bags (obviously he carried his weapons case), and trooped into the airport. Since he was flying on United, I watched as they carried all his stuff to the counter, and when he tried to pay them, not a single one took a penny, all they wanted was a handshake and I heard EVERY one of them tell him thanks and wished him well.  Say what you will, but the average American IS proud of our folks in uniform and do support them in ways large and small…  


Snigs, et al, thanks for a great weekend of doing nothing! 🙂

Puns… Love em or hate em, they ARE funny…

Posted on by March 6, 2013


Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine .


A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.


Dijon vu – the same mustard as before.


Practice safe eating – always use condiments.


Shotgun wedding – A case of wife or death.


A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.


A hangover is the wrath of grapes.


Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.


Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?


Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.


Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.


When two egotists meet, it’s an I for an I.


A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two tired.


What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead give away.)


Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.


In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.


She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.


A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.


If you don’t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed


With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.


The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.


You feel stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.


Local Area Network in Australia – the LAN down under.


Every calendar’s days are numbered.


A lot of money is tainted – Taint yours and taint mine.


A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.


He had a photographic memory that was never developed.


Once you’ve seen one shopping centre, you’ve seen a mall.

Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.


Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.


Acupuncture is a jab well done.


The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.


I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an opticalAleutian .


She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.


A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.


No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.


A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.


A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.


Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.


A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.


Atheism is a non-prophet organization.


Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: ‘You stay here; I’ll go on a head.’


I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.


A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’


The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.


The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.


A backward poet writes inverse.


In a democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.


When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.


A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, ‘I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.’


Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says ‘Dam!’


Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.


Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, ‘I’ve lost my electron.’ The other says ‘Are you sure?’ The first replies, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’


Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.


There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

Down in Flames…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

Gotta love it when they do something right… 🙂

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Fairfax, Va. – A proposal by Congressmen John Campbell (R-CA) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR) to prohibit necessary and legal practices used to effectively manage wildlife and predator species was overwhelmingly defeated today in the House of Representatives. The amendment to H.R. 2112, the Agriculture appropriations bill, was strongly opposed by the NRA and other pro-hunting organizations. It was pushed by the Humane Society of the United States and other radical anti-hunting groups.


“Wildlife and wildlife predators cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage annually to natural resources, public infrastructures, private property and agriculture,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director for NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action. “We will continue to oppose efforts like the Campbell-DeFazio Amendment that seek to diminish essential wildlife and predator management programs that protect our hunting heritage.”


The amendment would have drastically reduced funding to the Wildlife Service Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Program (WS), which is authorized by Congress to manage a program to decrease human-wildlife conflicts throughout the United States, including damage from predator animals.


Coyotes and other predators have decimated a great deal of the mule deer, moose and elk populations throughout the United States. As it stands, lethal predator control remains the best tool we have for keeping large predators in balance with existing habitat and the prey they require.


“This was yet another defeat for the anti-hunting agenda being pushed by the Humane Society of the United States”, concluded Cox. “The NRA will continue to fight to protect America’s hunting heritage from those who seek to eliminate it.”

Posted in NRA

Hmmm…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

Anybody else see this???


Today, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and several federal, state and local agencies will participate in a scheduled exercise designed to enhance security in the Ohio-West Virginia area. TSA has partnered with local law enforcement to conduct thousands of similar operations from coast to coast. This is a scheduled operation, not related to a specific threat.  


Bold italics are mine…  thousands of similar operations???  WTF! 


This is from the Marietta Times in Ohio, and another look from INFOWARS.


“In addition to using three helicopters for aerial inspection, the exercise made use of the Ohio Highway Patrol’s camera-equipped Cessna Caravan, which is capable of transmitting close-up, detailed real-time images of objects on the ground taken from more than five miles away,” reports the Charleston Gazette.  


And apparently both USCG and National Guard units are participating too!

The exercise seems to be about little more than a show of force by the TSA in light of a massive resistance against their agenda, particularly in Texas where a recent bill that would have banned invasive TSA grope downs almost passed and is set to be up for debate again.
Michael Cleveland, federal security director for TSA operations in West Virginia admitted as much when he said the event was about letting, “people know we’re out here.”


And yet another look from the Charleston Gazette in WV.  


TSA has nothing on their website, and THIS is their description of the VIPR teams.


So what is the real goal?  Protection of infrastructure, or is this the “civilian national security force” that Obama was talking about back during the campaign?  Joe Farah at WND picked up on this a long time ago, but it’s never really gone anywhere, nor have any ‘good’ answers come out of the administration (no surprise there)…


Or is this a not so veiled threat to Texas and any other states that are thinking about fighting back???  If you don’t play by ‘OUR’ rules we’ll shut you down, tie up your airports, interstates, and anything else we want to… 


On a more personal level, I can’t help but wonder how knowledgeable these folks are on CCW laws in all three states, and what, if any, confrontations have occurred…  Since we know out and out groping is occurring at airports, and that is WITH cameras there; what was/is happening on the side of the road with no cameras around and only you and the TSA VIPR team present???

I honestly don’t have a good answer for any of the questions I’ve asked, but the hairs on the back of my neck are standing up…


Maybe I’m over-reacting, but I’d be interested to know if anyone had any confrontations with these folks today, and how they were handled.