Month: September 2013

Play with the Bull, Get the Horns

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It looks like Colorado’s recall efforts have been successful.  The Denver Post is reporting that Senate President John Morse has been unseated in the recall election.  State Senator Angela Giron lost her seat by an even wider margin.

Looks like Bloomberg wasted a bunch of money. The linked Mother Jones piece from Monday states:

The idea that bucking the NRA meant an almost-certain political death has always been a myth. With all eyes on Colorado, people might just finally take notice.

Not so mythical after all.  Perhaps now more politicians will take notice.

Good on ya, Colorado!

Home Again

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Got home about 4PM.  Another great Rendezvous, thanks to the efforts of Mr. Completely.  There will be a couple more updates once I get all my pictures and the (very) few videos I took uploaded, but let me start you with this one – the four fastest times from the steel shoot on Saturday, at least from the people who actually turned in their score sheets:


Jaci and Robert were drawing from the holster, Derek was drawing from CONCEALMENT. I was shooting from low-ready, but I was shooting a REVOLVER.  Yes, I am VERY happy with how I shot the Smith that day.

The guys from Gunauction.com brought professional-quality video and still equipment and there promises to be some really good coverage from them on the GunNews.com site that I will be stealing borrowing or linking to when it goes up.  I’ll also be writing about my conversation with David Smith, the guy from Gunauction who wrote that “We want your blog” email that caused such a fuss.

However, tomorrow comes early and I have to drive 101 miles back up to Phoenix in the morning, so this is it for me today.

0-For-8

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Gun Blogger Rendezvous VIII is winding down.  The pizza dinner and prize raffle was last night, and once again I didn’t win a gun.  However, Crimson Trace really came through in the prize department this year.  I got one of their Railmaster universal-mount green lasers, and a certificate for anything in their catalog.  I also found out that I had the best aggregate time in the steel shoot for the day (the two actual competition shooters either didn’t shoot the course, or didn’t turn in their timesheets.)  Not bad for an old guy with an iron-sighted revolver.

I’ll have much more to report, pictures and links later after I get home.  Now I need to finish packing, go get breakfast, and then launch some bowling balls WAY the hell downrange!

Seriously, y’all need to come to this thing next year.

GBR Day 3 – And a Blast is Had by All

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Just got back from the steel shoot, where I’m quite pleased how well I shot my S&W 327. I loaned my new(er) Kimber Target Match to the guys from Gunauction.com, along with my 3/4 full .30 caliber ammo can of reloads. The three of them burned through around 400 rounds, and the gun ran fine all day except for a little bit of user error on the part of one of them who is new to all of this (but is a natural, once he got the idea).  An empty ammo can later, and lots of smiles all around.

I’ve got time for this post, a quick shower, and then it’s time for pizza and door prizes, and the raffle benefiting Soldiers’ Angels.

Now don’t you really wish you were here?

GBR Day 2

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I’m in the Hospitality room with a crowd of bloggers and vendors (pictures hopefully to follow), blogging from my iPhone (which sucks as a blogging tool, but hey, it’s what I’ve got.)  Had a great breakfast provided by the NRA, a GREAT day at the range, and now it’s Show-n-Tell. Tactical Solutions has brought one of pretty much everything in their catalog. I want one of their 10/22 barrels!

Blogging like this is painful, so I’m going to stop now and listen to the presenters.

GBR Day 1

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It’s 5:15 PM and the first day of GBR is underway.  Just got back from the Roop County Cowboy Shooter’s range where they’re holding a major shoot this weekend, but were more than kind enough to let us step in and shoot some of their guns and ammo.  I got to whack some 400 yard steel with a very heavy-barreled Remington rolling block in .45-70, and some closer steel with a lever gun chambered in .50-100-450.  They even let me play with my 16″ stainless Rossi 92 chambered in .45LC.  But any day where someone lets you shoot their guns with their ammo is a good day in my book.

Bill from Daily Pundit got in the first post of the day from the site.

Now I need a shower and back down to the Hospitality room!  Don’t you wish you were here?

RENO!

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I’m in Reno – 13 hour and 40 minutes, 870 miles, two and a half tanks of diesel, but I’m here!  Just ate dinner ( notice I didn’t say anything about stopping to eat?)

#firstworldproblems – The peel-n-eat shrimp at the buffet hasn’t been deveined.  (Yes, I ate before posting.)

Dr. Grover Furr – An Example of Recto-Cranial Inversion

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Dr. Furr is a professor of medieval English literature, yet he writes books on Russian history, specializing in the period where Stalin was in power.  Mass murder under Stalin?  Never happened, he says:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPTZF5zSLQ?rel=0]

So all those Kulaks that starved to death?  Not Stalin’s fault or did they just not happen at all?

This guy teaches college students.  And, I imagine, he has tenure, so he’ll never have to worry about working another day in his life.