While opinions may vary, I’ve always thought that undercover operations should stop short of committing acts of war.
David Hardy
May 5, 2011
Project Gunwalker getting bigger
[I love understated humor.—Joe]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Sleep is good
I haven’t posted much recently. Boomershoot is pretty much all consuming for me. Last night was the first opportunity to get a full nights sleep since last Wednesday. I slept almost 12 hours. I feel much better now.
There will be more regular blog posts in the near future.
Quote of the day—Clint Smith
You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work, but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language.
Clint Smith
Director of Thunder Ranch
[This is very similar to something Greg Hamilton said. I agree with both. If you need to stop an attack the one method that works more reliably than any other is a gun pointed at the attacker.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Ted Nugent
You need to talk guns all the time. You need to talk hunting all the time. The gun community should be all about public relations. We haven’t turned up the heat enough yet.
Ted Nugent
May 1, 2011
We must turn up the heat against ‘America hating’ Obama and the gun control lobby, says Ted Nugent
[Yup.—Joe]
Most awesome Boomershoot fireball ever
Ry topped his last whooper of a fireball which was in 2007. This was the most awesome one yet. There was 7.5 gallons of gasoline, 12 pounds of Boomerite, 16 road flares, many feet of PVC pipe and one bullet involved. Click on the pictures below to get higher resolution versions.
Lyle@UltiMak and Ry ignited the flares. Then Lyle shot the explosives.
Ry speculated the PVC pipe would survive to be used again next year.
Ry took a bow to all the cheers and applause. 
Ry was wrong about the PVC pipe.
Update: Ry has comments and this video:
Update2: Nice picture and automated .GIF here (along with a general Boomershoot 2011 report from some of my staff that put in the most hours). And more video:
Quote of the day—Erica@ATF
I want to take a nap just from listening to you talk.
Erica@ATF
May 2, 2011
[Erica@ATF showed up at my house at 8:44 this morning. That was 16 minutes early and I wasn’t quite ready for her but it worked out okay. We went out to the Boomershoot site and she did her measurements of steel thicknesses and distances to houses and roads. The only deficiency she asked me to correct was the insect screen on a vent (which I told her about before we got to the magazine and the unpainted steel bolts poking into the “Meadow One” (original at the tree line). The repair of the insect screen will take about five minutes to fix and I told her I would just remove the old magazine since we don’t really use it anyway.
As to the nap comment above at first I thought she was saying I was boring but then she said something about all the things I had been doing for Boomershoot and still had to get done before I could drive back to the Seattle area this evening.
Yes. Boomershoot sucks up a lot of time. The last several days I would wake at 4:00 AM get then finally give up on going back to sleep at 6:00 AM and work until roughly 5:00 PM. Then socialize with the staff and Boomershooters until late. I would finally get to bed about 11:00 PM to start all over again.
It was worth it. I’ll link to some of the blog posts others have been making in a day or three. Making people happy and Brady Campaign creatures unhappy makes me happy.—Joe]