Author Archives: Joe

Quote of the day—BruceVoigt

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When some one say’s your a ball of fire, well you really are!

As all cells have a nucleus, we are unable to get to the center of our planet but we can study a water cell. To do this first understand that the nucleus of any cell is made up of orbiting nuclei so small as to not interact with matter as we know it.

You will find at the nucleus what will be to you as air pockets or bubbles and if studing the universe instead of this ice cube you would call these black holes.

Now your really going to want to call these black holes oxygen and hydrogen but when you know the secret way of causing a reaction that has these many particals running into each other then you to can discover the fire in your ice cube.

BruceVoigt
November 21, 2012
Comment to To Make Steam Without Boiling Water, Just Add Sunlight And Nanoparticles
[I stopped reading about half way through, waited a few minutes for my brain to recover, then finished reading it.

The “thought” process reminds me of some anti-gun people.—Joe]

New shooter report

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Last weekend Barb L. and I went to Orofino Idaho for my high school reunion. Friday night I spent a lot of time talking to one of my best buddies in high school, Bruce C. He said he reads my blog and has long been interested in Boomershoot. I told him we could have a private party the next morning if he wanted.

As I reported last Sunday Bruce had a good time. Now it is time to tell you the rest of the story.

Bruce’s wife Cyndi was there with us and even helped fold boxes and weigh chemicals for the Boomerite. When it was time to shoot the reactive targets she and Barb just watched for a while:

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Bruce posed for the camera with his rifle that he had brought with him. He hadn’t fired it in 20 years but he brought it and 200 rounds of ammo to our reunion. I can’t help but wonder if he hoped to get a chance to shoot some reactive targets.

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Bruce shot a few targets and thought it was a real blast:

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It turns out Cyndi had never fired a gun of any type. So, of course, now was the time to take her first shots. I gave her a quick lesson, discovered she was cross-eye dominate and had her shoot left handed. She got her boomer on her first EVER shot. I thought there was a chance the new shooter smile was going to be permanent (photos by Barb L.):

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Bruce shot a bunch more boomers and two of them created “smoke” (mostly water vapor with some dust) rings:

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The second “smoke” ring:

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I shot a few targets, Barb shot the last one, and then we went back to Orofino to continue with the class reunion.

Ammonium nitrate targeted

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Ry told me about this then I got an email from the Firearm Blog Editor about it as well:

(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall develop a list of potential regulatory and legislative proposals to improve the safe and secure storage, handling, and sale of ammonium nitrate and identify ways in which ammonium nitrate safety and security can be enhanced under existing authorities.

AN is the main ingredient in both Boomerite and Tannerite. It seems unlikely that any regulation that does not make mining and construction use of AN, where most explosive grade AN is used, impractical will cause problems for Boomershoot. But it might for Tannerite. For example, if in order to purchase, possess, or store AN you were required to have a permit then it would make the use of Tannerite a big hassle for the individual.

But, as I can almost hear the regulators say, “And your point is?”

I fear that someday the point will have to be made with a 168 grain Sierra Match King.

Quote of the day—James Lovelock

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We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky, egalitarian world where everyone can have their say. It’s all very well, but there are certain circumstances – a war is a typical example – where you can’t do that. You’ve got to have a few people with authority who you trust who are running it.

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But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

James Lovelock
March 2010
James Lovelock: ‘Fudging data is a sin against science’
[A pretty good case can be made that one of the main motivators for the whole global cooling/warming/change fraud is to give more power to governments. That this guy, a global warming fire and brimstone prophet, embraces the government acquisition of power should come as no surprise.

And just who do you think will have the authority? You can be pretty certain he thinks he will have a lot of it. But historically, from China and the USSR, people like him were the first to get a bullet to the back of the head or sent to the gulag.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Hognose

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Nobody good, decent, moral or competent has ever been employed by TSA in any capacity whatsoever. The TSA is the primary citizen-facing face of the DHS, and it’s the face of a retard who wants to be a Nazi.

Hognose
Homeland Security ‘needs’ a $5 Billion Palace Complex
August 12, 2013
[The first sentence is probably a bit of an overstatement but the second sentence is a home run.

And don’t forget that TSA is just A Security Theater.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Rivrdog

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The situation in CA doesn’t qualify as a “slippery slope”, it qualifies as Free Fall.

Rivrdog
August 13, 2013
Comment to Quote of the day—Chuck Michel
[It’s not quite that bad. The courts have slapped them down a couple times and the lawyers are winding up to do a bunch more swatting.

The “silver lining” in all the oppressive laws against gun owners is that it makes it more likely to get favorable rulings in the courts that can be built upon to push things even further back.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Mark Glaze

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The evidence that background checks save lives is overwhelming. In 2010, state and federal background checks blocked more than 150,000 gun sales to prohibited buyers, which suggests as many as 5,000 dangerous people were denied guns in Ohio alone.

Mark Glaze
Director Mayors Against Illegal Guns
August 13, 2013
Gun-control group to Rob Portman: We’ve got some stats, too
[Let’s rewrite this a bit to see this statement from a different viewpoint:

The evidence that background checks save lives is overwhelming. In 2010, state and federal background checks blocked more than 150,000 book sales to prohibited buyers, which suggests as many as 5,000 dangerous people were denied books in Ohio alone.

Just because a bunch of people were denied books (or guns) does not mean there were any lives saved let alone the evidence is “overwhelming”. This scumbag changed the subject from statistics on “saving lives” to statistics on denying sales.

Here is what the CDC said when they did their study:

Overall, evaluations of the effects of acquisition restrictions on violent outcomes have produced inconsistent findings: some studies indicated decreases in violence associated with restrictions, and others indicated increases.

That is NOT “overwhelming evidence” and this scumbag should be taken to task for his lies.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Chuck Michel

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This year’s extremist legislative package proves that the threat of the slippery slope is all too real.

Chuck Michel
Attorney for the California Rifle and Pistol Association
August 10, 2013
Gun-control bills could push California to top of firearm-restriction list
[As if we didn’t have enough proof already of the existence of the slippery slope.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Background N015e

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@acallipo @barronbarnett @smrzle @toddkincannon Why can’t they compensate like sane guys with small dicks & buy a sports car or something?

Background N015e (@backgroundN015e)
Tweeted on February 6, 2013
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!

H/T to Barron.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Bruce C.

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That’s cool!

Bruce C.
August 10, 2013
After detonating his first Boomer (and he stopped laughing).

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[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Pat L.

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I used to think I would die from an angry father. Then I thought it would be from an angry husband. Now I just worry about an angry wife.

Pat L.
August 9, 2013
[This was at our high school reunion last night.

I’m pretty sure there is more to this story and that I know what it is but he wasn’t sharing it so I won’t speculate here.—Joe]

Quote of the day—NightShade09

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Karl Marx hated the USSR and what it did under the claim of his ideas.

Don’t believe me? Look it up.

NightShade09
August 4, 2013
Comment to The Invention of Ideology
[I’m quite suspicious of people who claim they can “channel the spirit” of someone. Defending the claim that it doesn’t happen is trivially easy. Hence I think the only look up required is that Marx died in 1883 and no government could claim the title of USSR until sometime after the revolution in 1917.

But Marxist defenders don’t really need facts. They just have to “understand” the benefits of communism even if they can’t understand the simplest and best tested of economics theories.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Lyle

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If it could save the life of just one child, shouldn’t we all own guns?

Lyle
August 7, 2013
In a comment to Quote of the day—Michelle Schimel.
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

You knew it was coming here

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In California, no surprise, a ban has been proposed on:

…hammers, wrenches, slingshots, shields and presumably anything else with a blunt edge such as garden rakes or sticks.

I’m am surprised they are going after blunt objects first. I would have expected them to ban sharp objects first. But it really doesn’t matter that much to me which they go after first. The answer is the same.

 ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ.

CATs from Amazon

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There have been some concerns that the tourniquets I linked to on Amazon in this post might have been counterfeit. I received the ones I ordered and I am pleased to announce they appear to be the genuine article. Here is a picture:

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The way you can tell the real thing from a counterfeit, at least the ones we saw in class, was by the end. If it is stitched on the end instead of welded then it is counterfeit. See the little dots, slightly darker the rest of the material, in the red end? Those are the welds.

A useful form from the ATF

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It’s rare that I’m going to suggest the ATF is good for something. But this, via an ATF Tweet, is a pretty good idea if you handle it right. It is a Personal Firearms Record. In case one or more of your guns are stolen you have the serial numbers to give the police to aid in identification and return. I don’t see much of a point in the “cost” or “purchase location” columns but you don’t have use them.

I don’t recommend using the ATF form directly, web bugs or the equivalent could cause you to self register as a gun owner. Printing it out while you are disconnected from the Internet should be fine. Or you might want to consider using this version (Mayor Joel emailed me a still different version in .PDF format with a space for pictures) which I created from scratch which has the same format.

And I would treat this document with more security than I did the guns themselves. If the police can find this document and decrypt it then you have just self-registered all your guns. I’m thinking this would be a valid application of encrypting the file, hiding it with steganography, putting it on a CD, removing all fingerprints and DNA, the burying it as a private “geocache” somewhere in the woods.*

Now that the ATF has finally done something useful can we disband them as a “poor return on investment”?

*Ry was referring to himself this morning in a much different context when he proclaimed, “I need to go get fitted for my tin-foil hat.” But he could have been speaking for me in many instances.

Quote of the day—Michelle Schimel

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The New York SAFE ACT represents a tremendous step toward sensible gun control.

Michelle Schimel
Assembly Member, NY State 16th District
August 6, 2013
Exit Wound: Who Will Take on Gun Control?
[The New York SAFE ACT is some of the most repressive, short of a total ban, legislation this nation has ever seen. That she thinks of it as a “step toward sensible gun control” should tell you all you need to know. I can only conclude that in her mind “sensible gun control” is a complete ban on firearms.

What we really need is for “sensible politician control” to be enforced.—Joe]

New York City’s slippery slope

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Via Say Uncle we have this:

The New York City Department of Education is waging a war on words of sorts, and is seeking to have words they deem upsetting removed from standardized tests.

The words that could be banned include, alcohol (beer and liquor), tobacco, drugs, evolution, hunting, nuclear weapons, politics, slavery, terrorism, war, and weapons (guns, knives, etc.).

That’s going to make it rather difficult to write a test that addresses history and even the 2nd Amendment. But perhaps that is their intent rather than some sort of unintended consequence. It is New York City after all. They have put stunning restrictions on large sweet drinks, salt, and guns. Is it any surprise they now want to ban words?

Whether it’s sugar, salt, patrol rifles, or words the answer should be the same, ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ.

Don’t be stupid

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I understand the joys of playing with things that go boom. But don’t be stupid. Especially felony stupid:

the Utah beauty queen was arrested over the weekend and charged with assembling homemade bombs and throwing them from a car, many of them at people, authorities said.

Forest service may ban exploding targets

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Via email from Chet (and I think someone else Tweeted about it but I can’t remember who) we have this story:

Federal authorities on Monday cracked down on the use of exploding targets popular in the shooting community but blamed for seven recent wildfires in the Rocky Mountain region.

U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Forest Service regional forester Dan Jiron issued a prohibition on unpermitted explosives in 22 million acres of forest and grassland in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.

Violators face fines of $5,000 and up to six months in prison.

The Forest Service likely will impose a nationwide ban within a year. Meanwhile, other regional foresters are expected to issue similar prohibitions.

My experience is that it’s tough to ignite things with an exploding target. But these guys were able to do it and have the video to prove it. Ry and I worked on and off for over a year trying to ignite gasoline. It it was only by putting Titanium or Magnesium shavings in Boomerite were we able to get fairly frequent ignition. The type of targets these guys were using is different than Boomerite. These targets are made with flash powder and rapidly burn more than detonate.

About one out of every two or three thousand Boomerite targets will ignite rather than detonate. We don’t know why this is. We think it might happen when there is an edge hit. In any case we schedule Boomershoot to be sometime other than fire season because of the risk of fire. Even then we have had numerous fires.

The bottom line is that I understand the concern about exploding targets in the forests during fire season. It’s not very wise to take that sort of risk.

Chet asked if this change in regulation would impact Boomershoot. The answer is, “It might.” But probably not in the way most people might think it would.

Boomershoot is held on private property, not public lands, so prohibitions against exploding targets on public lands isn’t going to be a problem for us. The way it might change things is if it more people attend Boomershoot to get their “fix” of shooting exploding targets that they previously satisfied by buying their own targets and shooting them on public lands.