Modern history suggests that when the Jews are fleeing your country, bad things are going to happen, probably self-inflicted.
Glenn Reynolds
January 10, 2015
ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE: The Exodus Has Begun
[I have nothing to add but my tears.—Joe]
Helen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat
H/T to Justin J. Lehmiller.
This is a bit long but I found it very interesting:
This TED talk is centered around this observation of human brain systems:
Millions of years ago, we evolved three basic drives: a sex drive, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brain.
The comments are very hostile and complain about her feminist agenda, that she incorrectly described the mechanism of how anti-depressants work, and “humans” were very different a million years ago, and other stuff unrelated to her basic points.
I didn’t really pick up on the feminist agenda. I presumed she had good data on women worldwide are entering the workplace and tending toward achieving economic parity with men. It certainly seems plausible to me.
I gave her a pass on a few things that weren’t 100% correct in their details because they were unrelated to her main point and when giving a talk it is easy to misstate something that isn’t your main point (100,000 years versus 1,000,000 years for long term human/ape brain circuitry development).
Given that, I found it fascinating to just have the model of the three different basic drives. It explains some things such as what is described in Sex at Dawn- How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships. And it also explains some almost shocking comments I ran across today (“GB” means “Gang Bang”). This is representative:
S.: I’m headed out solo on Wednesday and my wonderful hubby will be with me on Friday! Anxiously awaiting my first GB experience on Friday. Let’s have some fun party people!
How do you resolve that with the typical model of romantic monogamous love and marriage? The typical model doesn’t explain that and therefore has to have some extreme exceptions or we need a better model. I think we need a better model and Fischer’s model might be that model.
Quote of the day—Frank Jardim
The sniper is an incredibly efficient fighter, compared to the typical infantryman. Consider that in World War II, American infantry units fired 25,000 rounds to kill just one enemy soldier. By the Korean War, that figure jumped to 50,000 rounds, and the select-fire M14 and M16 infantry rifles of the Vietnam War only seem to have produced more misses, requiring the expenditure of 200,000 rounds to kill one enemy combatant. Nowadays, it’s a quarter million rounds of spraying and praying to kill a single Taliban. By comparison, on average, a sniper requires only 1.3 bullets to kill an enemy. During the Vietnam War, it was noted on many occasions that a handful of snipers accounted for more enemy killed than the entire infantry battalion (and sometimes even regiment) they were assigned to.
Frank Jardim
February 27, 2015
History of the Sniper
[250 K rounds to kill one Taliban? Can anyone who has actually “been there and done that” recently confirm this? It seems like a lot.
And of course bullets and kills are not necessarily the appropriate measure of battle efficiency. You could consume 0.9 bullets per dead enemy by firing nine rounds for ten kills where one bullet killed two of the enemy and lose the battle because your enemy fired 10,000 rounds and killed 1000 of your troops.
Or you could roll your 1000 tanks supported by 10K troops into your enemy’s capital and the enemy gives up without firing a shot and no one dies.
But still, there is something to be said for one person being able to take out a selected enemy at will with a good chance of escape. This makes moderate numbers of individuals without a lot of infrastructure supporting them very powerful.
This is Why Boomershoot.—Joe]
Quote of the day—George Washington
So that moron who keeps spewing garbage – and doesn’t seem like he’s even listening to your responses – may actually be a bot.
George Washington
March 23, 2015
Propagandists Use Automated Software to Spread Disinformation
[We have suspected this for some time now. The anti-gun people are just so dense they could be replaced with a bot without any degradation in perceived intelligibility.
Our time is probably better spent taking new shooters to the range than it is engaging in battle on Twitter.—Joe]
Exactly like an Obama ad
This Ted Cruise ad could be an Obama ad, except for one single word (and the face). It may in fact BE a recycled Obama ad, with the tiniest bit of editing. Check it out.
Someone needs to be fired, and right now too. The same old crap such as this won’t do this time around. It won’t do at all.
Gun cartoon of the day
In what universe is this cartoonist living in? If anything like this were to be true then it would also be true at the gun stores of today. There also have been lots of guns printed and I’m certain nothing like this has happened, let alone the first time a gun was printed.
This guy wants to make people think that only cold blooded killers would want a gun. This, of course, is demonstrably false. But the bigger the lie the more likely is it to be believed.
Ry’s wish list?
I’m thinking this is on Ry’s wish list for Boomershoot clean up:
H/T to Say Uncle.
Ted declares his candidacy
The Democrats are totally ill-equipped to defeat him. He simply doesn’t fall for their game, and so it will require the combined efforts of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, the American Communist Party, et al, plus Jihadists and other foreign interests, to defeat him. This will be interesting.
The predictable, or rather a common, outcome would be that someone would get to him and convince him (threaten, bribe, cajole, lie, intimidate, mesmerize, etc.) that “For the Greater Good of the Party” he should quit before he does too much damage to the 2016 prospects. That or they primary him right out.
Quote of the day—Donnie Brasco @D0NNIE_BRASC0
U dickless fucks R broken & fuckd in head.
Donnie Brasco @D0NNIE_BRASC0
Tweeted on December 19, 2014
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via a tweet from BFD @BigFatDave.—Joe]
USPSA match results
I participated in an USPSA match today. The results are:
Match Results – Limited
| Place | Name | USPSA | Class | Division | PF | Lady | Mil | Law | For | Match Pts | Match % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TY55787 | M | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 767.5256 | 100.000 % | |
| 2 | A89049 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 573.9757 | 74.783 % | |
| 3 | L3253 | M | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 556.5122 | 72.507 % | |
| 4 | A71227 | B | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 555.3398 | 72.355 % | |
| 5 | A79458 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 552.1760 | 71.942 % | |
| 6 | TY29386 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 529.4745 | 68.985 % | |
| 7 | PEN | U | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 527.5801 | 68.738 % | |
| 8 | TY13332 | A | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 527.0083 | 68.663 % | |
| 9 | A71578 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 516.8853 | 67.344 % | |
| 10 | TY71576 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 516.2424 | 67.261 % | |
| 11 | A47451 | B | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 455.2447 | 59.313 % | |
| 12 | A72439 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 445.7381 | 58.075 % | |
| 13 | A89438 | U | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 434.0948 | 56.558 % | |
| 14 | A85786 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 418.2819 | 54.497 % | |
| 15 | A88218 | B | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 410.8311 | 53.527 % | |
| 16 | A83199 | M | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 399.8011 | 52.090 % | |
| 17 | A85741 | U | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 387.1407 | 50.440 % | |
| 18 | TY37515 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 374.8925 | 48.844 % | |
| 19 | A84564 | D | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 364.6060 | 47.504 % | |
| 20 | A84974 | U | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 354.9776 | 46.250 % | |
| 21 | PEN | U | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 347.6332 | 45.293 % | |
| 22 | A85106 | C | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 310.2931 | 40.428 % | |
| 23 | A88208 | U | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 281.3870 | 36.662 % | |
| 24 | TY4508 | C | LTD | MINOR | N | N | N | N | 181.1482 | 23.602 % | |
| 25 | PEN | U | LTD | MAJOR | N | N | N | N | 172.6321 | 22.492 % |
I came in at the 76th percentile this time. This is a slight improvement from last Sunday. But what is most interesting to me is that at the last match Andrew Hong came in ahead of me getting 99.6% of the possible match points (I got about 78.6%). This time he came in number 16 with 52.1%. He must have had some equipment problems or something. He zeroed stage 1 and stage 2. And he came in 9th on stage 3.
Here are pictures of stage 5, “More Disaster Factor (13-08)”, and stage 7, “Window Pain”:
This was before it started raining. It got pretty muddy and for most of the match we had clear plastic bags over the targets. It wasn’t nearly as wet as last Sunday but it was enough to cause a few issues with the targets and the tape failing to stick.
Quote of the day—Granny
I thought they was Yankees.
Granny
From Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History)
[During World War II three German submariners escaped from Camp Crossville Tennessee. Their flight took them to an Appalachian cabin where they stopped for a drink of water. The mountain Granny told them to, “Git!” When they ignored her she promptly shot them dead. The sheriff came and scolded her for shooting helpless prisoners. Granny burst into tears and said she would not have done it if she had known they were Germans. The exasperated sheriff asked her what in tarnation she thought she was shooting at. Her reply is today’s QOTD.
A case could be made that the divide between certain cultures in the U.S. has just as much stress now as it did then.—Joe]
Rattlesnake Ridge
Barb, Maddy (Barb’s daughter), and I went on a hike up to Rattlesnake Ridge yesterday. It was cloudy and there was some precipitation but not bad. It was about two miles each way with quite bit of elevation gain. Because of the dreary weather I hadn’t anticipated there being any great photo opportunities so I didn’t bring my SLR with me.
The view was nicer than I expected and we took a few photos with our phones:
New shooter report
I took a former boss of mine, Marcello, to the range today. It was over two months ago that he had express an interest in going shooting for the first time but schedules hadn’t worked out until today.
Before we stepped onto the range we did the normal safety, grip, stance, and sight alignment stuff. I thing asked what he wanted to get out of this range session. His was a different story than I had ever heard before. He was a little bit scared of guns. He wanted to resolve that. He wanted to be either comfortable with guns or know for certain that it wasn’t for him. I’m sure nearly all of my readers know how this is going to resolve.
Here is just the bull’s-eye:
That is the result of firing his first 20 rounds of .22 LR from my Ruger Mark III into a target nine feet away. I verified on another target at 21 feet the sights are a little off. The gun is shooting a little bit to the right.
I would edit the picture to emphasize his smile but it is big enough to easily see in the picture above.
I put up a more difficult target (four diamonds) and moved it out to 15 feet where he continued to do extremely well. I had him put one shot on each diamond. I had him go from low ready to fire on one diamond. I had him go from low ready to fire one round on each diamond until the gun was empty. I had him go from low ready to fire two rounds on each diamond until the gun was empty.
He kept probably 80% of the shots inside the diamonds and his speed rapidly increased.
I had him shoot a .22 LR revolver in single action mode from 15 feet. First dry fire, then live fire. He did great. Then I had him shoot double action dry fire about a dozen times. It looked pretty good even though you could tell he was struggling a little to get a consistent pause between the cylinder rotation and the hammer falling. The first cylinder of live fire was not very pretty. Everything was on paper but not many were on the diamonds. The second cylinder was much better. Nearly all were in the diamonds.
He moved on to 9 mm. Dry fire followed by a single round in the gun. He was a little bit surprised at the recoil even though I told him it would be a lot more. Then I had him shoot two rounds. All the shots were great and I had him empty a magazine into the target. Again all good and his speed was picking up as well.
I had him shoot a few rounds of .40 S&W through my STI. He could tell there was more recoil and it was a bit more than he wanted. He went back to the 9mm and soon his shots were getting a bit wild. Still on paper but not the tight groups on the diamonds like before. It had been nearly two hours on the range and I was pretty sure he was getting tired and maybe developing a bit of a flinch. I suggested he might be getting tired because of the shots weren’t as good as he was doing earlier. He agreed and we packed up and left.
I told him about professional training available from Insights offered at the same range, different range options in the area, rental guns, and competition. He seemed interested and told him I would be glad to give him more lessons. He just needs to let me know when and next time he needs to buy the ammo.
Winning. One new shooter at a time.
Quote of the day—Bob Puharic
The fact is the US has no gun control and the fact is Americans don’t want gun control because they’re largely illiterate on the topic.
Bob Puharic
March 11, 2015
Comment to The NRA Wins Again on Armor-piercing Bullets, But Common Sense Was Already Lost
[Wow!
I consider myself only semi-literate on gun control laws in this country because I haven’t begun to read all of the estimated 20 to 30 thousand laws we have.
Puharic is a stunning example of the Dunning–Kruger effect.—Joe]
Overheard
I was at the bank today while wearing a shirt with this image on it:
As I was finishing up my business the teller and I had a short, off topic, conversation.
Teller: So, how do I exercise my freedom with explosives?
Joe: Once a year I put on a shooting event with high explosives as the target.
Teller: Oh! I thought maybe I would get to throw grenades or something.
Joe: Nope. The permits for those are much harder to acquire.
Teller: I would imagine so. Have a nice day.
Quote of the day—Sir Malta
holy shit kill yourself.
You realize the only people who want these are those who can’t legally get guns, right?
I can say this honestly: I hope you or someone you love is shot.
Sir Malta
January 6, 2015
Comment to 3D-Printed Guns Are Only Getting Better, and Scarier
[There are many legitimate reasons why one would want a gun without it being registered with the government. Sir Malta with his desire to see you and/or your family dead or injured is one of those reasons.
Via email from Jack M.—Joe]
From my ammo depot
I have been doing some organization of my ammo and shooting up the older and small quantity stuff. I noticed the packaging for CCI Mini-Mag .22 LR ammo has changed over the years:
The leftmost is the oldest and the one on the right is the most recent.
On Tuesday I finished off the box on the left. I suspect it was getting close to 20 years old. Every round fed, fired, and ejected without a problem in my Ruger Mark III.
We need more of this
Via a post of Alan Andrews on Facebook we have Davenport employer offers cash bonus to conceal carry:
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) – Getting paid extra, to carry a firearm.
A local attorney said he is giving his employees a $50 bonus each month if they choose to conceal carry.
Not only does this help normalize the carry of firearms it probably is going to induce aneurisms in the anti-gun crowd.
We need more of this.
Quote of the day—Matthew
If you track the scoring, and the graded topics, over time it becomes clear they are publishing their own obituary in slow motion.
Matthew
March 17, 2014
Comment to Gun Control ‘Humor’ in regards to the Brady Campaign’s gun control “scorecard”.
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]
Mugme Street news
The following event occurred one block from what Barb and I fondly call “Mugme Street”. This has been my bus stop on the way home for a year and a half:
Police arrested a man who was seen counting his heroin stash Downtown Monday afternoon.
Bike officers were on patrol Downtown when they noticed a man acting strangely at 2nd Ave. and Stewart St. just before 1 PM. The officers approached the man and could plainly see him counting baggies of heroin, all of which were individually marked with a price.
Police arrested the man and collected the heroin as evidence.
I’ve had very strange people approach me at this location. When I’m waiting for the bus here I get and keep my back to the wall until the bus arrives.
I don’t want to work in downtown Seattle.