Quote of the day—Eileen Bresnahan @EileenBresnahan

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@MDBishop82 Does your tiny penis feel larger? @LilMissPrepper @MrMilitantNegro @lisaelyeasmith @A_M_Perez

Eileen Bresnahan @EileenBresnahan
Tweeted on December 26 2014
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!

Via a tweet from Linoge @wallsofthecity.—Joe]

USPSA match results

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As I posted earlier my participation in a USPSA match today was cut short by catastrophic equipment failure. Even having only completed three and zeroing three stages I still didn’t come in dead last:

MRCPS April Uspsa
4/19/2015
Match Results – Combined
Place Name Member # Class Division PF Lady Mil Law For Match Pts Match %
1 Helterline, Nick A24193 G OPEN MAJOR N N N N 745.4775 100.000 %
2 Ramberg, Tim TY70622 M OPEN MAJOR N N N N 704.8636 94.552 %
3 Pries, Scott A57006 G LTD MAJOR N N N N 650.9987 87.326 %
4 Kettels, Tom L465 M OPEN MAJOR N N N N 649.7426 87.158 %
5 Hoang, Vinh TY55787 M LTD MAJOR N N N N 612.2319 82.126 %
6 Wiley, John A68387 B LTD MAJOR N N N N 607.1873 81.449 %
7 Hong, Andrew A83199 M LTD MAJOR N N N N 599.8781 80.469 %
8 Tan, Loke TY66526 M OPEN MAJOR N N N N 598.7592 80.319 %
9 Loo, Bob L1770 A OPEN MAJOR N N N N 594.1050 79.695 %
10 Lee, Yong FY41528 G PROD MINOR N N N N 580.5697 77.879 %
11 Kim, Hwansik A86278 A PROD MINOR N N N N 539.6461 72.389 %
12 Eap, Sorida TY76563 B OPEN MAJOR Y N N N 532.4589 71.425 %
13 Albero, Joseph FY37033 C OPEN MAJOR N N N N 529.1346 70.979 %
14 LeRoux, Scott L3253 M LTD MAJOR N N N N 525.3467 70.471 %
15 Tag, Alan A51215 G PROD MINOR N N N N 522.1622 70.044 %
16 Shoemaker, Floyd L2396 M OPEN MAJOR N N N N 511.6337 68.632 %
17 Wood, Bruce TY47022 A OPEN MAJOR N N N N 507.5291 68.081 %
18 Huang, Jemy TY71576 B LTD MAJOR N N N N 491.8023 65.971 %
19 Cotie, Paul A76039 M LTD MAJOR N N N N 490.3199 65.773 %
20 Dong, James FY22573 B OPEN MAJOR N N N N 484.1667 64.947 %
21 Roberts, Kevin A66808 B LTD MAJOR N N N N 471.5292 63.252 %
22 Olka, Chris TY54513 B SS MAJOR N N N N 470.0700 63.056 %
23 Nevins, Chris FY75900 A PROD MINOR N N N N 460.1006 61.719 %
24 Plotnikov, Emanuel L3050 M PROD MINOR N N N N 456.4464 61.229 %
25 Munson, Lisa A8382 A SS MAJOR Y N N N 454.2216 60.930 %
26 Galanti, Mike TY13332 A LTD MAJOR N N N N 446.7189 59.924 %
27 Miller, Tavis TY71173 A PROD MINOR N N N N 441.2201 59.186 %
28 Roessel, Steven A44141 A OPEN MAJOR N N N N 439.5921 58.968 %
29 Stockwell, Nicholas A89438 C LTD MAJOR N N N N 432.0450 57.955 %
30 Leone, Larry L3001 A LTD MAJOR N N N N 426.6662 57.234 %
31 Noel, Brian A29646 G REV MINOR N N N N 418.1377 56.090 %
32 McNees, Don A88218 B LTD MINOR N N N N 415.6461 55.756 %
33 Farrow, Dave B49 B PROD MINOR N N N N 410.6384 55.084 %
34 Baleros, Rae A83018 B LTD MAJOR N N N N 406.8212 54.572 %
35 Mouille, Scott TY68271 B LTD MAJOR N N N N 402.2876 53.964 %
36 Saslawsky, Mike TY56783 C LTD MAJOR N N N N 391.1727 52.473 %
37 James, Jason TY75331 B PROD MINOR N N N N 382.9065 51.364 %
38 Erickson, Aaron TY84885 U SS MAJOR N N N N 374.4335 50.227 %
39 Domingo, Noel A85786 C LTD MAJOR N N N N 372.3201 49.944 %
40 Galind, Edward A61323 C LTD MAJOR N N N N 371.2768 49.804 %
41 Brosas, Albert A54960 B LTD MINOR N N N N 369.2145 49.527 %
42 Vanlandingham, Greg A90645 U PROD MINOR N N N N 360.9470 48.418 %
43 Chiou, Roger TY71834 U LTD MAJOR N N N N 359.3018 48.198 %
44 Roessel, Gary A2757 B LTD MINOR N N N N 358.9575 48.151 %
45 Slaughter, Rustin A90627 U LTD MAJOR N N N N 354.3652 47.535 %
46 Tomasie, Squire L1145 A PROD MINOR N N N N 349.1555 46.836 %
47 Wall, Gary TY41939 B LTD MAJOR N N N N 348.2757 46.718 %
48 Allen, Craig TY71465 B PROD MINOR N N N N 337.3902 45.258 %
49 Breitkreutz, Gale TY82582 D OPEN MAJOR N N N N 336.3473 45.118 %
50 Hodges, Palmer A80680 C PROD MINOR N N N N 336.2436 45.104 %
51 Straathof, Greg A89323 U PROD MINOR N N N N 331.6126 44.483 %
52 Pajarillo, Mario A25659 U PROD MINOR N N N N 328.3804 44.050 %
53 Tsang, Keith A71578 B LTD MAJOR N N N N 323.8689 43.444 %
54 Hodges, Justin A80693 C PROD MINOR N N N N 323.3540 43.375 %
55 Harris, Brad A54628 A LTD MAJOR N N N N 322.6308 43.278 %
56 Sherman, Tod TY37515 C LTD MAJOR N N N N 314.2959 42.160 %
57 Boffey, David PENDING U PROD MINOR N N N N 309.3078 41.491 %
58 Mackley, Matt PENDING U PROD MINOR N N N N 307.4944 41.248 %
59 Mortell, Jeff A86651 C PROD MINOR N N N N 307.4439 41.241 %
60 Dussault, Kyle A90234 U REV MINOR N N N N 304.4598 40.841 %
61 Shatto, Rollie TY18977 C LTD MAJOR N N N N 301.6599 40.465 %
62 Clark, Dean A85321 C LTD MINOR N N N N 295.1779 39.596 %
63 Harding, Matt A87093 C PROD MINOR N N N N 291.0945 39.048 %
64 Millican, Arthur L3892 U OPEN MINOR N N N N 286.3976 38.418 %
65 Tablang, Nelson A86966 U PROD MINOR N N N N 278.4613 37.353 %
66 Soraparu, Heather TY86040 C PROD MINOR Y N N N 278.0775 37.302 %
67 Smith, Alex TY78406 C SS MAJOR N N N N 276.6623 37.112 %
68 Westrich, Chaun A78506 C REV MINOR N N N N 271.8651 36.469 %
69 Paczosa, Dan 2(SS) A87261 U SS MAJOR N N N N 271.1708 36.375 %
70 Kellet, Steve TY37763 C SS MAJOR N N N N 270.8322 36.330 %
71 Paczosa, Conner 1(PROD) A87261 U PROD MINOR N N N N 262.0480 35.152 %
72 Gross, Brad A89754 U PROD MINOR N N N N 250.8192 33.645 %
73 Crow, Don A85736 U PROD MINOR N N N N 237.3173 31.834 %
74 Adam, Brandi A73942 C LTD MAJOR N N N N 232.1828 31.146 %
75 Fenlin, Jim A77726 D SS MAJOR N N N N 212.6674 28.528 %
76 Jensen, John TY87846 U PROD MINOR N N N N 211.2494 28.337 %
77 Parisi, Jesse PENDING U LTD MINOR N N N N 195.8696 26.274 %
78 Hansen, Susan A89501 U PROD MINOR Y N N N 179.5240 24.082 %
79 Grover, Jason A86456 U PROD MINOR N N N N 177.4217 23.800 %
80 Russell, Jim F79157 D PROD MINOR N N N N 176.7931 23.715 %
81 Huffman, Joe TY29386 B OPEN MAJOR N N N N 147.4298 19.777 %
82 Rowe, Mark A67862 D SS MAJOR N N N N 132.3297 17.751 %
83 Bregante, Carlos TY4508 C LTD MINOR N N N N 122.8851 16.484 %
84 Tolentino, Ronald A90654 U PROD MINOR N N N N 113.1315 15.176 %
85 (DQ) Soltesz, Bob PENDING U SS MAJOR N N N N 0.0000 0.000 %

For some reason they have me listed as being in Open class instead of Limited. I sent them email asking that they correct the error.

They had a very “interesting” stage where you ran about 15 yards to the first five paper targets then ran about another 15 yards to some more paper targets and around the corner there was a Texas Star and three poppers 31 yards away:

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A Texas Star is challenging under most any circumstances but 31 yards is almost obscene. Without going to Idaho I don’t have access to a place where I can shoot targets at 31 yards. This was evident in my performance. It took me several shots to discover I needed to hold at the top edge of the plates to hit them. Many people left some and at least one person left all of the plates as misses.

This was another “interesting” stage. The start position was facing up range with your hands on the X’s:

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It was very awkward. And the taller you were the more difficult it was.

Another article about Brad

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Long time readers of this blog will probably recalled that my nephew, Brad Huffman, died almost two years ago and that his boss at the University of Idaho named a wheat after him. Here are my previous blog posts about that:

I was browsing through spring 2015 issue of “Idaho Grain” (the Idaho Grain Producers Association magazine) and found another article about Huffman Wheat and Brad:

IdahoGrainSpring2015BradHuffman

The gun is all used up

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I went to a USPSA match today and my gun barrel fractured and locked up my gun. This is a cropped version of the picture I tweeted about shortly after the incident:

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Robb Allen almost immediately asked the obvious question, “Your own loads or factory?” And of course the answer was they were rounds I had loaded myself. In many situations this would be the end of the story. The shooter had a squib (a round with no or insufficient powder) which resulted in a bullet stuck in the barrel and the next round set off the automatic self-destruct sequence of events. Another way it could have happened was a round got double charged or the wrong powder was used. In any case it is relatively easy and frequent that handloaders blow up their guns through their own carelessness.

But as Ry pointed out the head of the shell casing is still there which probably means there wasn’t an over pressure event involved. I was able to hammer the gun open far enough for the shell casing to drop out and confirmed Ry’s suspicion:

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This is a perfectly normal looking piece of brass. Even the primer looks normal so there was no overpressure event involved. I tried putting it in the case gauge and it would only go in about halfway. The chamber of barrel is now, of course, large than spec and the brass expanded just a bit more than normal even though it can’t be seen with the naked eye.

I tried for quite a bit to get the gun open in the hopes that I could remove the barrel but I wasn’t able to get it open any beyond this:

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You can’t see it in the photograph but the feed ramp also split.

I finally just closed it up:

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I don’t know what the root cause was. I wonder if it wasn’t a timing issue which caused some abnormal stress because I had a broken link with this barrel once before.

Something that is interesting to me is that I had the lugs break on the original STI barrel after about 20,000 rounds and this barrel failed after almost exactly the same number of rounds. I have known the gun was living on borrowed time for nearly six years now so I can’t really complain a lot.

I’m not going to try to get the gun repaired. As Barb, essentially, and Gay_Cynic said, I used the gun up.

Update: I should have said that the shot sounded and felt almost normal to me. The recoil cycle wasn’t quite right but there wasn’t a greater than normal impulse or BOOM!

Quote of the day—Andrew Kohut

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We are at a moment when most Americans believe crime rates are rising and when most believe gun ownership – not gun control – makes people safer.

…

A 2013 Pew Research survey showed that protection is now the top reason gun owners offer for why they choose to own a gun (in 1999, hunting was the top reason). And among the public at large, the latest Gallup survey finds that 63% of Americans now say having a gun in the home makes it a safer place compared with 30% who say it makes a home more dangerous. Fifteen years ago, more said the presence of a gun made a home more dangerous (51%) than safer (35%).

Andrew Kohut
Despite lower crime rates, support for gun rights increases
April 17, 2015
[Principals are important but public opinion is what wins elections and to a great extent judicial rulings. We are now getting nearly everything going our way. We need to politically exterminate the anti-gun people as quickly as we can and make them as socially distasteful as the KKK.

In addition to reasonably hard data like the surveys referenced above I know my workplace has a lot of people quite friendly to gun ownership. And I know one woman who just recently put her profile on Match.com after being “off the market” for several years. She commented to me just last week that many of the men on the site have pictures of themselves with guns. According to her this wasn’t the case even five years ago.

The anti-gun people are headed to the dustbin of history. Help them get there as quickly as we legally can.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Heather Martens

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We need to make sure every gun sale includes a background check, and we need to make sure weapons of war are not available in the civilian market.

Heather Martens
Executive Director Protect Minnesota: Working to End Gun Violence
January 20, 2013
Minnesotans rally at State Capitol against stricter controls on guns
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.

We can conclude that she has no regard for settled Constitutional law. This is because of United States v. Miller 59 S.Ct. 816(1939) specifically said that military equipment is protected by the Second Amendment:

In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a ‘shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length’ at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment or that its use could contribute to the common defense.

Ms. Martens should also research Constitutional law regarding the “chilling effect” of regulations, such as background checks, on specific enumerated rights.—Joe]

Case prep

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I thought mine was getting complicated and expensive. Actually it’s complete ammunition manufacturing.

The guy giving us the tour obviously isn’t a hand loader, is he?

So anyway; you want a complete home loading facility, it would look something like that. The QA alone is quite an impressive operation.

I’d need a rather larger spare bedroom than the one I currently use for reloading.

Hat tip; Sipsey

Quote of the day—Matt Ridley

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The environmental movement has advanced three arguments in recent years for giving up fossil fuels: (1) that we will soon run out of them anyway; (2) that alternative sources of energy will price them out of the marketplace; and (3) that we cannot afford the climate consequences of burning them.

Matt Ridley
March 13, 2015
Fossil Fuels Will Save the World
[There is some really good stuff in the article. If you don’t have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal you can read the article here as well.

There is stuff like:

More than a billion people on the planet have yet to get access to electricity and to experience the leap in living standards that abundant energy brings. This is not just an inconvenience for them: Indoor air pollution from wood fires kills four million people a year. The next time that somebody at a rally against fossil fuels lectures you about her concern for the fate of her grandchildren, show her a picture of an African child dying today from inhaling the dense muck of a smoky fire.

And this point about plants being CO2 starved and grow better with more CO2 which I bring up with nearly everyone that wants to tell me about man caused global warming:

Although the world has certainly warmed since the 19th century, the rate of warming has been slow and erratic. There has been no increase in the frequency or severity of storms or droughts, no acceleration of sea-level rise. Arctic sea ice has decreased, but Antarctic sea ice has increased. At the same time, scientists are agreed that the extra carbon dioxide in the air has contributed to an improvement in crop yields and a roughly 14% increase in the amount of all types of green vegetation on the planet since 1980.

The more sophisticated global-warming/climate-change people want to talk about the positive feedback loops that will create runaway warming. But they give me a blank look when I ask about the negative feedback from the plants consuming more CO2 and more vegetation resulting from the increased CO2.—Joe]

My cell phone died

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My usual cell phone fails to boot. It probably will be a few days before I have a replacement. If you want to reach me and the usual number doesn’t get a timely response my alternate cell phone is 425-894-1677.

Quote of the day—chimprage

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Seems like the Seattle Times will use what ever angle they can use to further their anti-firearms ownership agenda. This time it’s the environmental angle. In the future it could be the medical angle, or the racial angle, or the feminist angle, or the gay angle, or whatever other angle they think can be used to limit the private ownership of firearms in the US.

What the Seattle Times needs to do instead is to acknowledge and accept the 2nd Amendment, and realize that it exists because this country owes it’s existence to the fact that private citizens owned and were proficient with the most modern firearms of the day.

chimprage
April 14, 2015
Comment to Toxic ranges win federal contracts
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Boomershoot daffodils

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Nine days ago Barb and I were in Idaho and among other things we inspected the daffodils we transplanted nearly two years ago. Last year they were rather disappointing with only a little bit of foliage and almost no blooms. I was concerned they weren’t going to make it. But this year they are looking pretty good:

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I don’t know if they will still be blooming for Boomershoot this year but I hope so.

It snowed most of the morning and on the north slopes and higher altitudes it stuck on the ground pretty good:

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We unloaded the stakes at the Taj Mahal, then we went to Mecca where I puttered around with Wi-Fi, lights, and shelves while Barb swapped out some fluorescent bulbs for LED bulbs and folded a bunch of target boxes.

Barb also got the conference/dining room at the Orofino Best Western scheduled for Boomershoot 2016. The date will be announced at the Boomershoot 2015 dinner on May 2nd, just 17 days from now.

Everything is on track for great Boomershoot this year. There are still positions available if you would like join us for an event you will never forget.

One lie update

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At a group meeting at work today they asked for “Two truths and one lie”. I used these:

  • I won first place while playing for the University of Idaho chess team in the Association of College Unions Intercollegiate Tournaments in Region 14 (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana).
  • I have a solar powered explosives production facility in Idaho where I make about a ton of explosives using Kitchen-Aid mixers each year for recreational purposes.
  • I went to Blackwater (a private military company and security consulting firm) for “gun blogger summer camp” for free and was taught by one of the top handgun shooters in the world.

After some discussion they pretty much unanimously agreed it was the chess item. Good job guys!

One of the guys in the group said, “I’m glad he is working on our side.” The director (who found out about Boomershoot during my interview for the job and signed up to attend Boomershoot with her husband) of our group responded with, “That’s why we hired him.”

Quote of the day—Brad R. Torgersen

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Western civilization is experiencing a post-Enlightenment crisis.

For hundreds of years we fought the chains of doctrinaire thinking — as told to us by superstition, folklore, and the churches. In the 20th century the trappings of the churches were almost entirely cast off, and for a few decades we (the West) thought we’d finally done it. We’d liberated our collective intellect from the machinery of dispensed truth. All souls would be free to find their own truths and their own meanings, and none could gainsay another man’s or woman’s path of self-discovery. The 21st century was going to be a wonderland of abundance economics, and the melting away of nationalism, tribalism, territorialism, and all the rotten isms of history. A global village, joined by the techno-wizardry of the internet, would rise.

Brad R. Torgersen
April 12, 2015
Flaming rage nozzles of tolerance
[As Rolf said it’s, “Well worth the read.”

I particularly liked the references to Original Sin which, in essence, hypothesizes the concept of Original Sin is semi-hardwired into us. If this hypothesis is true then one might be able to rigorously show that as traditional religion fell from popularity it has been replaced with something else which has the same mindset including an updated version of the Inquisition for suppression of modern day heresy.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Hillary Clinton

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I think a total ban, with no exceptions under any circumstances, might be found by the court not to be.

Hillary Clinton
April 16, 2008
Democratic Debate in Philadelphia
[It would appear that Ms. Clinton is of the opinion that as long as there are one or more exceptions under some circumstances then a near total ban on guns would be Constitutional in her view.

This should not be a surprise to anyone. She has explicitly said that people holding the opinion that the have the constitutional to own guns “terrorizes people” and this should not be allowed. She would be the thought police if she could.

She also thinks more people exercising their rights is something to be concerned about.

See also Hillary Clinton on Guns: Not a Big Fan.

Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.

Please don’t let her gain the power to nominate new Supreme Court Justices.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Bacon @Baconmints

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PSA: if you are a member of the #tinycockclub you will still be a member regardless how many guns you buy. #bokbok #fuckthenra #gunsense

Bacon @Baconmints
Tweeted on December 23, 2014
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!

Via a Tweet from BFD‏ @BigFatDave.—Joe]

Some writers can write

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Well no duh! I can hear you say. Every different community has its issues, events, and disputes. Being somewhat more than a mere spectator but less than a main combatant is an odd and interesting place to be.

The recent and ongoing kerfuffle in the sci-fi community between the SJW’s and and the Ilk of the Evil Legion of Evil has been educational, and many fascinating words are being spilled. Take, for example, Brad Torgerson, one of the principals in the whole Sad Puppies affair. His recent post titled Flaming rage nozzles of tolerance is great. Kind of long, but he does a good job of breaking down the current “we must blame ourselves for everything” SJW narrative-driven mindset as a modern secular take on Original Sin, and the competing with the free minds of people responsible for their own actions and nothing more. Well worth the read.

Steel Challenge match results

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Ry and I went to a Steel Challenge match today. I shot with a centerfire pistol and he shot a .22 Pistol.

I came in fourth out of 30 people which is significantly better than the seventh out of 36 last time with this group. I felt really good about almost all of my shooting this time. Well… except after stage 4 where I had no problems and it confounded almost everyone else in our squad and Taylor said she wasn’t going to hang out me with anymore. I completed it in 19 seconds flat and it took her over 49 seconds.

Ry made a video of me shooting one of the stages. It seems like my draw is really slow but it seems to be on the order of 1.5 seconds so that isn’t too bad.

Another thing of interest is that I was wearing a Boomershoot 2006 shirt and the R.O. said the Latin (Veni, vidi, BOOM!) was perfect.

Here are more detailed results:

Stage # SCSA ID Stage Name
1 ?? Go Fast
2 ?? Star Burst
3 ?? Concentrate
4 ?? In & Out

Centerfire Pistol

Place Name Comp SCSA Division Aggregate Total Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 DQ Additional
1 Christian S 58 PROD 57.71 57.71 10.40 15.62 15.48 16.21 Junior
2 Alexander W 55 3362 OPN 62.61 62.61 9.71 15.71 21.12 16.07 Junior
3 Connor P 60 A87260 PROD 72.30 72.30 11.00 20.43 20.04 20.83 Junior
4 Joe H 23 3799 ISP 74.71 74.71 12.54 20.58 22.59 19.00 Senior
5 Bob S 2 PROD 78.06 78.06 13.02 20.21 22.55 22.28 Senior
6 Euan G 4 ISP 81.87 81.87 13.85 26.14 20.99 20.89
7 Jeff K 15 PROD 87.74 87.74 13.69 25.61 20.77 27.67
8 Matthew M 14 PROD 88.08 88.08 13.94 24.69 25.48 23.97 Military
9 Dan P 62 A87261 ISP 89.16 89.16 15.05 25.94 24.13 24.04
10 Eric W 63 3362 PROD 90.28 90.28 16.24 22.62 27.87 23.55
11 Lukasz T 35 5956 ISP 90.31 90.31 10.87 24.60 26.03 28.81
12 Bradley M 57 PROD 96.33 96.33 13.15 23.80 29.56 29.82 Junior
13 Lance B 16 PROD 97.86 97.86 18.22 26.53 25.52 27.59
14 Tim R 20 ISR 99.84 99.84 18.85 23.81 26.24 30.94
15 Earl B 10 ISP 100.32 100.32 19.27 24.08 28.13 28.84
16 Don C 33 A85736 PROD 101.26 101.26 16.96 27.43 29.15 27.72 Senior
17 Jason F 24 PROD 104.44 104.44 14.90 29.54 30.07 29.93
18 Jeffrey K 39 A84426 PROD 106.46 106.46 16.19 31.00 25.14 34.13 Senior
19 Jesse P 28 PROD 109.06 109.06 18.42 29.30 28.91 32.43
20 Mark B 3 OPN 112.01 112.01 18.79 30.51 29.48 33.23
21 Bryce K 8 PROD 114.50 114.50 18.86 26.12 30.76 38.76
22 Brad M 49 ISP 119.75 119.75 16.98 39.49 34.20 29.08
23 Jason G 27 A86456 PROD 121.79 121.79 17.35 32.19 35.62 36.63
24 Joel F 7 PROD 124.19 124.19 18.71 29.01 33.64 42.83
25 Euan G 9 PROD 125.53 125.53 23.00 31.80 37.14 33.59
26 Patrick D 5 PROD 155.65 155.65 17.15 40.77 49.57 48.16 Military
27 Denny M 25 PROD 164.79 164.79 27.78 50.18 38.22 48.61
28 Taylor C 18 ISP 170.22 170.22 20.46 47.90 52.83 49.03 Lady
29 Gail C 19 PROD 210.22 210.22 29.49 62.28 52.56 65.89 Lady
30 Paul B 29 A87020 PROD 248.23 248.23 18.95 120.00 42.46 68.43 Senior

.22 Pistol

Place Name Comp SCSA Division Aggregate Total Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 DQ Additional
1 Christian S 59 RFPI 46.69 46.69 7.16 13.10 14.21 12.22 Junior
2 Connor P 61 A87260 RFPI 47.66 47.66 7.74 12.04 14.85 13.03 Junior
3 Lukasz T 34 5956 RFPO 50.86 50.86 8.54 14.39 13.33 14.60
4 Bradley M 56 RFPI 53.63 53.63 7.28 14.55 17.20 14.60 Junior
5 Jeff K 6 RFPO 55.02 55.02 9.39 14.23 15.63 15.77
6 Stephen D 1 RFPO 56.18 56.18 9.83 16.39 13.44 16.52
7 Alexander W 54 3362 RFPI 57.27 57.27 8.91 13.97 15.88 18.51 Junior
8 Cel A 48 4893 RFPI 58.49 58.49 11.97 15.46 15.82 15.24
9 Lance B 12 RFPI 72.81 72.81 12.20 17.27 21.37 21.97
10 Addison L 52 RFPI 73.83 73.83 9.14 20.13 26.24 18.32 Junior
11 Earl B 11 RFPI 79.23 79.23 9.65 19.77 24.54 25.27
12 Michael M 50 RFPI 93.87 93.87 17.92 26.63 23.32 26.00
13 Erik F 17 RFPI 95.71 95.71 14.51 26.51 30.53 24.16
14 Denny M 26 RFPI 103.69 103.69 11.45 29.27 36.83 26.14
15 Ry J 21 TY76202 RFPO 112.62 112.62 18.63 24.50 34.05 35.44
16 Adrian C 38 RFPI 113.81 113.81 15.13 25.98 35.98 36.72 Junior
17 James W 32 RFPI 116.89 116.89 13.68 40.04 35.67 27.50 Senior
18 Sara W 45 RFPI 117.25 117.25 30.42 30.62 30.36 25.85 Lady, Junior
19 Sabrina W 43 RFPI 125.27 125.27 19.81 37.65 36.21 31.60 Lady, Junior
20 Joey M 47 RFPI 143.40 143.40 44.56 42.90 26.41 29.53 Junior
21 Ezzy A 44 5478 RFPI 153.70 153.70 21.73 42.75 44.20 45.02 Lady, Junior
22 Isabelle M 42 RFPI 198.93 198.93 23.24 104.72 34.68 36.29 Lady, Junior
23 Paul B 30 A87020 RFPI 228.11 228.11 18.52 120.00 52.80 36.79 Senior

Quote of the day—Glenn Reynolds

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Glamour is undermined by mockery. People steeped in multicultural respect will find that mockery difficult. The other thing that undermines glamour is crushing defeat. The Axis had glamour of its own, until Dresden and Hiroshima.

Glenn Reynolds
January 6, 2015
LIKE MOST SUCCESSFUL CULTS, IT LETS PEOPLE ACT LIKE DEMONS WHILE FEELING LIKE ANGELS
[The context above is the Islamic State but the concept also applies to the anti-gun people.—Joe]

Quote of the day—C.D. Michel

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A regression analysis shows a strong correlation between handgun sales and falling crime (with statistically small odds that the covariance was based on random chance) positively certifies that California is safer when its people exercise their right to own the most effective tool available to defend themselves or their families.

Guns deter criminals and guns save lives.

C.D. Michel
March 27, 2015
More Guns = Less Crime; California Style
[As with the rest of the country gun sales in California have increased rather dramatically in the last few years. Read the post for the details.

This sort of evidence will, over the long run, make it more difficult to get repressive gun laws passed and to defend them in court. If we can get strict scrutiny at the SCOTUS level then it should just be a “mopping up” exercise.—Joe]

Quote of the day—Elizabeth Saunders

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In all the years I have been in business, I have never seen anything so blatantly un-American as that agreement. The establishment of a government oversight commission with virtually unlimited authority and no accountability is in itself a violation of the basic American concept of free enterprise. No reasonable business person could possibly sign this thing.

Elizabeth Saunders
CEO of American Derringer
March 24, 2000
American Derringer – Statement regarding S&W defection
[Smith & Wesson signed the agreement and came very close going bankrupt after gun owners spontaneously (not the NRA or any other gun rights organization) boycotted them. There were many people who were of the opinion that Smith & Wesson Must Die even after they backed out of the agreement.

See also this quote of Neal Knox about the depth the gun rights movement had fallen to in the mid 1970s. We sometimes think we have it bad now, but remember that in those dark ages we were close to getting national handgun licensing with people openly salivating at the next step being handgun confiscation:

In July 1976, Shields estimated that it would take seven to ten years for NCCH to reach the goal of “total control of handguns in the United States.”

Pete Shields was the chairman of the National Council to Control Handguns (which later became Handgun Control, Inc. which then became The Brady Campaign).

While we do have a long way yet to go we have come a long way.—Joe]