Category: Shooting

That’s really all I have to say about that. They can ski across my country and shoot at my range any day of the week.

Caleb has something good to say about the Call of Duty Effect, and I have to agree:

But here’s the thing – yeah, those kids can be annoying at times.  But instead of shunning them or casting them aside, I truly believe that we need to embrace the video game generation and their love of firearms.  You see a kid that’s interested in learning about the Bushmaster ACR, or M4 Carbines or whatever because he’s been playing Modern Warfare?  Talk to that kid.  Educate him, don’t dismiss him.  Someone come to your range with his freshly purchased semi-auto Thompson because it was awesome in a World War II game?  That kid is the future of our shooting sports, right there.  Take him to a USPSA match, because that kid needs the adrenaline from Run and Gun.

I have probably said this before, but I honestly believe that the video game generation is our future in the shooting sports.  Think about it for a minute – kids growing up playing games that involve firearms are going to have fewer mystical beliefs than those that have never been exposed to any type of firearm, digital or otherwise, so there is the potential for great teaching and recruiting opportunities.  It’s up to us to capitalize on that opportunity.

Video games are about the only way boys can play with guns these days. BB guns? Pretty much out. Cowboys and Indians at the playground at school? Hell no! No in the days of “zero tolerance.”  I think Caleb is right. The future shooting sports participants are going to be the Counterstrike Kiddies, or whatever it is the kids are playing today.

… only SASS Outlaws will have guns.

SayUncle is reporting Todd Jarrett would seem to be leaving Para to start his own 1911 company. ParaUSA and Todd were gracious enough to host gun bloggers a few summers ago, and I think I can safely say we all wish Todd the best of luck in his new endeavor. That 360 degree shoot house was the most fun I’ve ever had with a gun.

I covered the first part a while ago, but Mr. C has added a part two, and part three to the series. Basically everything you ever wanted to know about tweaking rimfire magazines.

Via Cemetery, here’s an NSSF report that shows the distribution of guns sales. AccurateShooter.com has some commentary, as well as visual aids.

Our normal Thursday club indoor silhouette matches were moved to Wednesday this week because of the holiday. Since I finished up work early, I came home to clean my pistol first. It was really gunked up. I had been having problems with FTEs and FTFs with light strikes in the rim.  With that cleared up, I tied my personal best of 35 out of 40 animals. Last week I scored 34 out of 40, so I would seem to have improved by several animals, which I am happy about since I’ve been absent from Thursday nights for a while because of work demands.

I would have had a good chance of beating it my personal best, but tonight Dave, our match director was running long runs for a brick of .22 ammo, and a set of earmuffs, so anyone who shot all ten animals could shoot off after the match for it. I shot 9 chickens, and missed the tenth, then shot 9 turkeys, and missed the 10th. The pressure was just too much. It doesn’t take much to make you rush the shot, or pull the trigger when you shouldn’t. What I’ve been good at lately is clearing the mind, mostly because I’m too busy worrying about work to think too hard or care too much about how good I am or am not shooting.

It’ll be interesting next week, to see how I do. I am off work until the Monday after the new year. Blogging might be a bit off schedule, but I will still post. Not much going on right now anyway.

… and apparently you can do quite a lot to help keep your men’s rooms clean.

I just got word that the NRA stat book for 2010 are going to be grey for rifle, and pink for pistol. Pink pistol stat books? Is this a new partnership program?

Chris Byrne talks about how to get into 1000 yard shooting without spending a fortune. Well, it sounds like you’ll still spend a lot of money, just because it’s not a cheap sport. It’s something I might be interested in if there were more places to shoot that kind of distance. They are scarce, especially on the east coast.