Gee… I wonder could have caused that step change in the price of gold yesterday…
Could it be that QE3 means dollars are worth less today than they were yesterday?
Graphic from http://www.goldprice.com/.
*Electrical Engineers who write software will understand the title.
It takes a child to raze a village.
scizzoid
2011
Comment to this picture:
[H/T to Brennan from the gun email list at work.
It looks like she has really good control of the gun for someone her size.
A comment by Sherman from the email list at work is also worthy of note, “Peace through superior firepower!”—Joe]
This got lost in my inbox while I was out of town, sorry Mike:
Hi Joe,
Say, I’m thinning the rifle herd a bit, and thought I’d mention one of the rifles I have for sale to you, in case you or someone you know would like a superb Boomer/Tactical rifle.
It’s a Remington Tactical/Target – .308 caliber. Comes from Remington with their adjustable target trigger, tactical stock, and triangular shaped barrel with 5R rifling. I’ve mounted a Nightforce NXS 8-32×56 scope (NP-R2 reticle) on it in the Nightforce one piece mount/ring setup. The scope and rifle are brand-new, never been fired. This would be an absolutely killer long-range setup. I already have a couple of other .308s that I really like, and could use the bucks, so this setup really belongs in the hands of someone who will use it properly! I’d love to see a Boomershooter use it to good effect!
Asking $3200 for the setup – all mounted and boresighted.
If you know anybody interested, feel free to let them know, post it on your blog, etc.
Mike
If you are interested send me an email (blog@joehuffman.org) and I’ll forward it on to Mike.
This is an example of why comedians tend to leave Obama alone. It’s not that they’re afraid of being called racists. It’s because he’s beyond parody.
Jim Treacher
September 13, 2012
Middle East explodes, Obama’s palace guard digs in
[Well… I suspect there is a little bit of fear of being called racists. But still the raw facts are enough that parody is difficult.
H/T to Breda.—Joe]
Meet with me and a few select others for counseling that will truly get to the heart of the matter. Let’s get past the firing mechanisms, types of lead or brand name intrigues and into the real-world answers that can reduce or stop this sort of behavior and make our world more safe. Together we can fix this.
Alan Korwin
August 27, 2012
Whatever Happened to Waiting Periods for Guns?
[The Brady Campaign want to have, “a thoughtful conversation that explores real, effective solutions to our national gun violence epidemic”. But the problem is that every single one of the ideas proposed by the Brady Campaign for the last 40 years has proven to be unconstitional and/or ineffective in reducing violent crime.
It’s time to try some different ideas. I know Korwin. I know people at the NRA. I know people at the Second Amendment Foundation. These are some very smart people. I have met and talked to numerous people from the Brady Campaign and Washington Ceasefire. I wasn’t impressed. They were evasive, easily angered, and/or ignorant. We are better than this.
The media and politicians have been riding a dead horse for 40 years. You would think it would be obvious that it is time to get off and ride a fresh one. But it is irrational to expect people to be rational.—Joe]
I know that big money, special interests, the gun lobby and cowardly, greedy politicians are to blame. BUT, WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY? Too many issues have been allowed to be pushed aside in this country. We need to change this. I urge you to demand that guns be banned and a Felony penalty imposed on those who would reject a federal gun surrender ALL GUNS ARE MADE TO KILL. WHATEVER SIZE THEY ARE AND HOWEVER QUICKLY THEY DISCHARGE THEIR BULLETS.
Suzanne Langland
September 7, 2012
Facebook comment.
[Special interests? How many people own guns versus how many want guns banned? It would appear to me that the people that want guns banned are the “special interests”.
In any case it’s nice to have their real agenda out in the open. Do not ever forget that they want you defenseless and/or in jail.—Joe]
I arrived back at my clock tower last night after being on the road for nearly 15 hours, got six hours sleep and went to work. Tonight I had the usual dinner and Sci-Fi video evening with son James and Kelsey.
I have lots of pictures and stories to share about Gun Blogger Rendezvous but I’m just too tired to do that tonight. Perhaps I’ll make some progress on that tomorrow night.
Now that you said “lubricant” I think I should shake your hand.
Anonymous
A woman at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous,
September 8, 2012
[No. It wasn’t me she was talking to. I was between her and the person she shook hands with.
In some ways this GBR was far more “interesting” than any previous one I have been to. There are stories from this event that will last a lifetime and will probably never be told involving a woman licking a stripper’s breast, whiskey to be licked off one another, 2 Women 1 Cup (DO NOT WATCH IT! I haven’t and neither should you), Jar Squatter (DO NOT WATCH IT! I haven’t and neither should you) and the hand on my thigh as a certain someone told me they were going to bed.
Being the guardian of morals that I am I took it upon myself to do something about this. I was able to get the two people I believe were most responsible for the decadence to agree to attend Boomershoot 2013.—Joe]
Last Sunday the Lewiston Pistol Club ran a USPSA stage which mimicked the NYPD shooting at the Empire State Building. Here are the results:
|
Stage No: |
4 |
Police at Empire State Building |
||||||||
|
Place |
Name |
No. |
Class |
Division |
Points |
Penalties |
Time |
Hit Factor |
Stage Pts |
Stage % |
|
1 |
Adam |
13 |
M |
Limited |
80 |
0 |
7.09 |
11.2835 |
80.0000 |
100.00% |
|
R2 |
Mark |
22 |
U |
Production |
78 |
0 |
8.32 |
9.3750 |
66.4687 |
83.09% |
|
3 |
Robert |
20 |
U |
Open |
79 |
0 |
9.46 |
8.3510 |
59.2086 |
74.01% |
|
4 |
Mark |
12 |
U |
Limited |
78 |
0 |
9.53 |
8.1847 |
58.0295 |
72.54% |
|
5 |
5 |
B |
Limited |
80 |
0 |
10.05 |
7.9602 |
56.4378 |
70.55% |
|
|
6 |
Velle |
8 |
U |
Production |
78 |
0 |
10.27 |
7.5949 |
53.8478 |
67.31% |
|
7 |
Jon |
9 |
U |
Limited 10 |
78 |
0 |
10.40 |
7.5000 |
53.1750 |
66.47% |
|
8 |
John |
4 |
C |
Limited |
78 |
0 |
10.89 |
7.1625 |
50.7821 |
63.48% |
|
9 |
Brian |
17 |
U |
Open |
76 |
10 |
9.62 |
6.8607 |
48.6424 |
60.80% |
|
10 |
Don |
19 |
A |
Limited |
80 |
10 |
10.32 |
6.7829 |
48.0908 |
60.11% |
|
11 |
KW |
3 |
C |
Limited |
80 |
0 |
11.88 |
6.7340 |
47.7441 |
59.68% |
|
12 |
Tim |
11 |
U |
Limited |
79 |
0 |
12.09 |
6.5343 |
46.3282 |
57.91% |
|
13 |
Bill |
14 |
C |
Limited |
79 |
0 |
12.39 |
6.3761 |
45.2065 |
56.51% |
|
R14 |
Roger |
21 |
C |
Production |
80 |
0 |
12.61 |
6.3442 |
44.9804 |
56.23% |
|
15 |
Kevin |
7 |
B |
Limited |
74 |
10 |
10.66 |
6.0038 |
42.5669 |
53.21% |
|
16 |
1 |
D |
Limited |
79 |
0 |
13.48 |
5.8605 |
41.5509 |
51.94% |
|
|
17 |
Erik |
15 |
C |
Single Stack |
79 |
0 |
15.24 |
5.1837 |
36.7524 |
45.94% |
|
18 |
Kami |
10 |
U |
Limited |
80 |
0 |
16.48 |
4.8544 |
34.4177 |
43.02% |
|
19 |
Roger |
18 |
C |
Revolver |
80 |
0 |
18.16 |
4.4053 |
31.2336 |
39.04% |
|
20 |
Ben |
2 |
U |
Limited |
68 |
20 |
12.71 |
3.7766 |
26.7761 |
33.47% |
|
21 |
Jodi |
6 |
D |
Limited |
75 |
20 |
15.83 |
3.4744 |
24.6335 |
30.79% |
|
22 |
Donald |
16 |
U |
Limited 10 |
80 |
0 |
50.31 |
1.5901 |
11.2738 |
14.09% |
The bottom line is that a bunch of beer guzzling, uneducated hillbillies fired 352 shots hitting no-shoot (innocent bystanders) targets twice and had three misses. This compares to NYPD firing16 shots with nine innocent people injured and six or more misses.
There is at least one important difference. The police were facing a guy pointing a .45 at them. We were not.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
[After dinner last night at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous several of us stayed up late talking. One of the topics was the inability of the anti-gun people to think logically. In many cases they claim to simple “know” the truth. Nietzsche was a pretty sharp guy.
See also this quote from Nietzsche.—Joe]
I got the USPSA match results back for the modified LAPD qualification stages I designed. In order to conform with USPSA rules we actually made the courses much harder than what the police officers have to do. We always started from the holster. In most of the strings the police started from the low ready position. In one string the police start with the gun pointed at the target and their finger on their trigger. Even starting from the holster the allocated three seconds was more than enough for us draw from the holster and make the same shot the police make.
We put 22 people through the stages. 20 people passed with a 60% or greater. That is 90.9% passage. The best results were by Roger who scored 95.1%. Roger was shooting a revolver.
Today was the first range day for the Gun Blogger Rendezvous. I pretty much ignored everyone at the range today. I had a rifle that I needed to zero and test and Barron and I did little else.
At 200 yards I was disappointed:
My Spud Gun will yield a group about one third this size at this range.
I zeroed it and put the results in my ballistics app for my phone (still under development, not yet available).
The wind was a bit of a problem but the elevation was good on the steel at 350, 435, 500, 600, and 700 yards. We could hit without much difficulty so we moved out to the 957 yard targets.
We first started shooting at the barrel. It seemed that we were hitting all around it. I finally moved to the plate. It was smaller but I wanted a hard target. CLANG! First shot hit. The next shot was a miss, then two more hits. Barron then took a few shots at the plate. He did well too.
We concluded that we were poking holes in the barrel and seeing the dust kick up behind the it. We probably had a lot of hits on the barrel but just couldn’t be sure.
Still, getting three out of four hits on the plate with this gun was confirmation it is a good enough for most social occasions.
The long range results are similar to my previous attempts at the same target.
From Cabela’s lobby:
I found this on the inside bottom of the box of shoes I bought:
From the gun email list at work (via Jeremy):
Imagine the uproar if a politician announced that after consulting with the BATF and VPC, the proposed solution to the increase in rapes of women in the city was to have a curfew on women, and mandatory photo registration of every married male resident of the city!
Windy Wilson
September 7, 2012
Comment to No brainer.
Sometimes it takes a while for you to figure it out. Sometimes it’s easier to not “rock the boat” and just stay with what you have because of fear of the unknown. But there are times when it’s obvious you need to dump them, heal as best as you can and move on. As the woman in the video below point out after four years it’s now obvious what needs to be done.
Barron reported on our taking delivery of the Ammonium Nitrate for Boomershoot 2013 and our trip to Reno for the Gun Blogger Rendezvous yesterday.
It always annoys me that the most stupid and most ignorant are frequently the most vocal. Case in point:
It seems that gun control should be a no-brainer. Our city and other communities across this country have recently seen the tragic results of the misuse of guns by ordinary citizens, including by young teens.
When I was a growing up in Baltimore people felt safe. We went out alone at night; I often went to the library alone after dark at age 10. We never heard about shootings. They seemed to be only in cowboy movies.
The availability of guns to any two-legged creature who could talk changed all that. It’s true that human beings can get very angry, perhaps even angry enough to kill. But if guns weren’t so readily available that anger might be expressed in less lethal ways.
I doubt that the Founding Fathers meant for anyone to lawfully carry a gun.
The “availability of guns” has not gotten easier in Baltimore anytime in the last 100 years so I can’t imagine when Jeannette Ollodart Marx grew up and guns were less available than they are now. I have to believe she is ignorant and/or stupid. This conclusions has further support with her speculation about the Founding Fathers not intending for nearly everyone to be able to lawfully carry a firearm.
It would seem that if she is sufficiently self-aware Ms. Marx should be intimately familiar with no-brainers.
One of my personal rules is to never piss off a drag queen.
Gay Cynic
September 6, 2012
[You hear the most interesting things when attending the Gun Blogger Rendezvous. The story that followed was worthwhile but I’m not interested enough to type it all in. You can find the basics of it here.—Joe]
Barron and I are awake and waiting for the Ammonium Nitrate to arrive. Then it’s off to Reno.
I see the semi-truck coming now.
I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above- above the world, he’s sort of God.
Evan Thomas
July 2009
From What Liberals Say.
[And how is that god working out for you now?—Joe]