August 2008 – Page 9 – Shall Not Be Questioned

Preparing for Blackwater

I’ll be pretty light posting today, due to preparations for Blackwater.Â Tonight I need to hit the range, just to polish up a bit too.Â A bit of bad news in that Bitter will not be attending with me.Â She got a last minute invite to the launch of Sportsmen for McCain in Scranton this weekend, and it was just too good of a networking opportunity for her to pass up.

I will be covering the training with Todd Jarrett while I’m there.Â Blackwater has seen to it that we have WiFi, so we should be in good shape for coverage.Â And don’t forget Michael Bane will be there filming for both Down Range TV, and The Shooting Gallery

Eye Bleach Needed

Crack kills.

You Might Be a Silhouette Shooter

Applies more to pistol shooters, but here goes:

If you know the Spanish words for Chicken, Pig, Turkey and Ram, you might be a silhouette shooter.
If you worry that you might taco grip your carry gun if you ever got mugged, you might be a silhouette shooter.
If your idea of rapid fire is one shot every 15 seconds, you might be a silhouette shooter
If you don’t know why spray paint comes in colors other than black, white, and almond, you might be a silhouette shooter.
If you think 3lbs is a heavy trigger pull, you might be a silhouette shooter.
If you know what the Creedmore Position is, you might be a silhouette shooter.
If your pistol looks like a rifle with the stock sawed off, you might be a silhouette shooter.
If you have a rifle scope on your pistol, you might be a silhouette shooter.
If your idea of a short barreled pistol is 6″, you might be a silhouette shooter.
If you load rifle bullets in your pistol loads, you might be a big bore silhouette shooter.

Bigfoot Hoax

Now that it’s a confirmed hoax, it’s funny, I have to admire the hoaxsters a bit.Â Taking advantage of people’s desire to believe — to just believe, man — is kind of a crappy thing to do except to people who deserve it.Â This happened in Pennsylvania not too long ago, despite the fact that Pennsylvania Game Commisssion biologists said it was most definitely a mangy bear.Â I can kind of understand why people want to believe in UFOs.Â I can even grok the need to believe in highly unlikely government conspiracies.

But I can’t wrap my head around why people believe there just has to be a Bigfoot.Â Certainly the idea that there are proto-humans living among the creatures in the wooded area behind the Wal-Mart is kind of cool, but this borders on religious for some people.Â Â What’s the deal?

California Gun Show Ban Defeated

Gun shows will continue at Cow Palace, since the bill to prohibit them was defeated in the California Senate.Â According to John Rosenthal, there will be terrorists in caves in Pakistan who will cheer this ruling.

Don’t Mess with Octogenarians

Especially when they are wielding revolvers.Â I would note that despite the Brady Campaign’s celebration of reasonable gun laws, they did everything they could to prevent people in DC from having the tools necessary to defend their homes.

A Devious Idea

I like the way David is thinking here.

Politics would be more interesting …

… if politicians actually were armed and ready to duel.

Positive Coverage of Clubs in the News

One in Texas, which might be perhaps the oldest shooting club in the United States, and one in update New York.Â Both are smallbore/airgun clubs, but hey, you can have a good time with both.Â The Texas Club, New Braunfels Schuetzen Verein, has been in existence since 1849.Â If they are indeed the oldest club, it’s interesting to ponder what effect immigration played in the 19th century in transforming the shooting culture, particularly in bringing European style shooting clubs to the United States.

It will be interesting to see the effect heavy Russian immigration has on the shooting culture here in the Philadelphia area, which has developed a very significant community of Russian and Eastern European shooters, both men and women.Â I haven’t noticed them too much in the area club culture, but at the public ranges, Russian is a common language on the range in this area.

Humanitarian Aid

Looks like Bushmaster has been pretty generious with humanitarian aid to Georgia.Â Looking at the selector position on one, those aren’t ARs, they are M4s.Â I hope we’ll be sending a lot more humanitarian aid their way.Â Bear… meet cobra.