Author: Sebastian

The Bear Truth

New Jersey is overrun with bears.  More dangerously, they are losing their fear of humans.  It’s really only a matter of time before there’s a horrible incident.  Some politicians in New Jersey are beginning to criticize Jon Corzine, who’s caved to the animal rights folks on having a bear hunt:

“The Governor’s bear management policies are based on little more than a reflexive opposition to hunting, disregard of science and a dose of wishful thinking,” said Oroho. “The numbers compiled by the Division of Fish and Wildlife demonstrate a different approach is adamantly necessary.”

We’ll see how cute the animal rights people think the bears are when they end up preying on children because the habitate available can’t sufficiently feed them.

UPDATE: In the mean time, we’re having a record bear harvest over here.

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Quote of the Day

From Blackfork on reloading your own ammo:

You have to handload to shoot serious rifle match scores.  You just can’t get good enough ammo cheap enough without doing it yourself.

I am not nearly the shooter that Blackfork is, but I can tell you this is true.  There is definitely a difference between what you carefully hand load for yourself, and what you can buy for any reasonable price commercially.  Even using my primitive equipment, and skills, I do better with my own hand loads than I do with commerical ammo.  In these Obama days, handloading is a skill we should all master.

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McClintock Wins!

Looks like Tom McClintock managed to pull it out in California’s 4th.  McClintock is a great friend of the Second Amendment, and of conservative causes in general.  Unlike a lot of other politicians, he walks the walk.  So this is also a nice silver lining to an otherwise ominous dark cloud.

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The Canned Gourmet

I was amused by these reviews for various prepared and canned foods.  For those of us on the go, it’s a good look at what’s good and what sucks.  How can you beat reviews that go like this:

Boulder Ice Cream – Super Premium Vanilla

Says “produced with milk from cows not treated with rBGH.” Well maybe they should be. Cuz this ice cream sucks. Horrible consistency (too globby). The flavor may or may not have been okay, but it doesn’t matter. As the great philosopher Carrito once said, “Ice cream should not be like taffy.”

I will have to reference this before I restock my office Emergency Lunch Survival Kit.  What prompted me to find this was eating a can of Campbell’s Harvest Select Light Clam Chowder, which has the aroma of a can of fresh Alpo, and a taste that pretty closely matches.  I couldn’t even finish it, and  will normally eat anything.

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One-Gun-A-Month in New Jersey

It’s up for a committe vote in New Jersey on December 8th.  Scott Bach has this to say:

Unfortunately, a bill pending in the State Senate and up for committee vote 12/8 (S1774) is a bad dose of old medicine. It’s a proposal to ration the Constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to own handguns beyond the existing regulatory thicket, which already slows exercise of those rights to a trickle. It ignores violent behavior and known sources of illegal trafficking, instead restricting only persons investigated and pre-certified as acceptable to own firearms. Even mainstream media recognize the ineffectiveness of this approach.

He goes on to describe how utterly worthless this law is going to be in light of New Jersey’s requirements to even purchase a firearm.  Bryan Miller is pushing for this law just because he can.  No sane person believes that criminals are following New Jersey’s draconian gun regulations to get guns, rather than buying them on the street.

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Sound Gun Control Laws

Eugene Volokh offers some excellent criticism to the New York Times for the Brady Campaign inspired editorial from yesterday.  I don’t think they really want to get into specifics too much at this point.  They are mostly interested in getting the public used to hearing “reasonable” and “gun laws” in the same sentence, in the hopes that they’ll, by default, assume that all gun control laws are reasonable.  The real sorry side to this story is that the New York Times chooses to do the heavy lifting for The Brady Campaign, rather than seriously think about the issues.

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