Year: 2007

I’d like to comment a bit on Jeff’s post here.  I’m with everyone else.  Submitted photos need to display safe gun handling.   Pictures with the guns pointed at a camera are still a no no.  Even though that can be done safely with a tripod and a timer, it still is still off putting, and is a threatning posture, which is not the image we want people walking away with.

I would go a step further and suggest that people submit normal photos.  I’m totally fine with reenactors dressing the part, because that’s part of what they do.  Just about all the photos on “People of the Gun” are just fine.  A few, I think, are a little weird, and we ought to try to avoid weird.

Remember, we want people to walk away with the impression that gun owners are normal; they are your neighbors, your friends, and people you run into every day.  The photos on that site should reflect that.

Ahab again.

So, short story – I had some steel cased ammo blow up in one of my guns. Fortunately, it was a revolver and not a semi-auto, so I wasn’t picking up pieces of pistol from here to Peoria.

You can read about it here at Call me Ahab. Side note, I’ve now contacted Wolf about the product failure.

Tim from Ko-Tonics had a good comment I feel like should be its own post:

I am glad you enjoyed our 6.8 SPC upper, and thanks for the kind words.

Just a brief comment about Linoge’s “it better be awesome at that price.”

1) Cheap blasting 6.8 SPC ammo can be had for $12-$13 per box if you look around. Silver State Armory will be coming out with such a round at the end of the calendar year.

2) 6.8 SPC will never be as cheap as .223. For what 6.8 SPC does, it’s much more comparable to .308 in terminal ballistics and all-around usefulness. 6.8 SPC is FAR more lethal than .223. You get what you pay for.

3) The beauty of the AR-15 system is that you don’t need a whole new rifle to get into 6.8 SPC, you just neeed an upper, bolt and magazine. Your current .223/5.56 NATO AR-15 lower will work just fine, with no modifications of any kind. When you want to do some blasting, just put your .223 upper back on.

4) 6.8 SPC is an OUTSTANDING hunting cartridge for deer, hogs, or any other critter weighing less than 400 pounds.

I have a FAQ on 6.8 SPC, as well as a 6.8 SPC hunting page, on our www.ko-tonics.com Web site, point your browser over there if you’d like more info.

Again, thanks for all the nice comments.

I was indeed awesome. Thanks Tim! I can’t wait to show it off to all my shooting buddies back home.