I Thought I was Being Amusing
But there seems to be no level of absurdity the AGW faithful won’t descend to:
“Hopenhagen.” Srsly.
AZ Blogmeet & Range Trip – It’s Still On
AZ Blogmeet & Range Trip – It’s Still On!
Despite my change in employment status, the Saturday, December 12 range trip and blogmeet are still a go, and I hope to see all six or eight of you there. It looks like Saturday is going to be a bit chilly and possibly damp, so dress warmly. This is still Arizona, so bring plenty to drink (non-alcoholic, of course). Since we’re going to shoot until about 1:00PM or so, you might also want to bring a snack of some kind.
For those who have never been there, the Elsy Pearson Public Shooting Range is quite easy to get to:
From either the direction of Phoenix or Tucson, take I-10 towards the I-8 interchange.
Take Exit 199 to I-8 West
The first exit you come to on I-8 is Exit 174 for Trekell Rd. Exit there.
Turn left and go about 2-3 minutes. (Note, the speed limit through the residential area there is 25.) Proceed on through the first minor intersection, and keep your eyes on the left side of the road for a sign for the Casa Grande Trap Club.
Turn left again at W. Arica Rd. The road turns to dirt here, so your vehicle will get dirty. Go for another 2-3 minutes. W. Arica Rd. intersects Isom Rd. at the trap range.
Turn right on S. Isom Rd. Go for a minute or two, and you will pass the Casa Grande police range on your left, and immediately after that will be the Public range.
Here’s a picture of how to get there:
And one showing the three ranges a bit better:
The range opens at 7:00AM. As I said, it is my intention to be there when it opens so I can set up my steel targets.
One further note: While the range has some very nice concrete shooting benches, there are NO CHAIRS. If you want to sit down, BRING A CHAIR or something to sit on.
Edited to add: Here’s my previous list of things-to-bring-&-do:
1) It is an unsupervised range – there are no Range Officers, so we have to do that ourselves. I expect everyone to be familiar with the Four Rules. I also expect everyone to be familiar with firing range etiquette.
2) There is no potable water at the range. Bring fluids. (But no alcohol.)
3) There is, at least, a Porta-Potty on site now. There didn’t used to be. I suggest that someone bring some toilet paper, just in case. And hand-sanitizer, too.
4) Even though it’s late fall, and the firing line is covered, Mr. Sun is nasty. Bring sunscreen.
5) There are no targets nor target stands at this range. You can bring anything you’re willing to clean up as a target (exceptions being glass and explosive targets – that’s posted). As I said, I’ll be bringing my steel targets, and everyone is welcome to shoot them. I’ll also be bringing a target stand for paper targets. If you go out to pick something up, don’t get the “stick in the ground” type target stands. The ground out there is caliche, and about as hard as cement.
6) There are three ranges to shoot from, a 100 yard range with covered shooting benches, a 300 yard range with covered benches, and a 25 yard range with no benches, but the firing line is covered too. I figure we’ll take up one end of the 300 yard range. In addition, the backstop is a range of mountains. About 600 yards downrange on the side of the mountain someone has put some steel targets, so if you bring something with some reach, you have something to shoot at.
7) Sorry, but they don’t allow .50BMG at this range. I suppose it’s just slightly possible to loft a 750 grain .50 caliber projectile over the mountain range backstop and drop it onto Interstate 8, so they’re verboten.
End edit.
At about 1:00 we will pack it in and head to Ochoa’s. It’s just off Trekell Rd. The address is 512 East Cottonwood Lane. Get back to Trekell Rd., turn right (North) and drive until you hit Cottonwood Ln. Turn left and if you get to Casa Grande Ave., you went too far. It’s back a bit off the road on the North (right) side of the street just before Casa Grande Ave.
Hope to see you there!
Wishful Thinking
Wishful Thinking
But I LIKE how this guy thinks!
Well, THAT Sucks
Oh Boy! I’ve just joined the ranks of the unemployed. Due to lack of work, the entire Controls staff of my office (all three of us) just got laid off.
However, I do have an interview tomorrow morning. I’m not all that concerned about getting another job, but you have to admit, the timing SUCKS.
Your Moment of Zen
Your Moment of Zen
The last one scrolled off the front page, time for a new one (and I need it):
That’s from Zion National Park, Utah.
Hopenchangen Hopenhagen Carbonhagen
Hopenchangen Hopenhagen Carbonhagen
So Obamateur is flying to Carbonhagen on his way to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize to inspire other World Leaders™ to Do the Right Thing© and cut per capita CO2 emissions back to 19th Century levels in order to Save the Planet!©™® In the mean time, the Imperial Senate Democrats are preparing to throw their female constituency under the bus® by prohibiting Federal funds from being used to pay for abortions just so they can get Health Care Reform©™® passed and fvck the rest of us, too.
Just when do the actions of our Congressweasels fall to the level of “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object…a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism”?
Just askin’.
UPDATE: Who needs Carbonhagen? The EPA can just make sh!t up as they go!
Remembering Pearl Harbor Day
Sixty-eight years ago today, Japanese Naval aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor and surrounding Army and Marine air bases on the islands of Hawaii, precipitating America’s entry into World War II. From an article in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle about the addition of a Japanese Navy mini-sub to the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredricksburg, Texas (birthplace of Adm. Chester Nimitz):
The youngest of the World War II veterans are now in their 80s and it’s estimated less than 1 million Pacific war combatants, primarily from the Navy and Marine Corps, are alive.
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I think I’d like to visit that museum.
Quote of the Day – Chicken Little Edition
This time it’s me, paraphrasing what I’ve seen in several places recently:
“Environmentalism” is all about CONTROL. You can tell because no matter what the dire warning is – “Climate Change” (née Anthropogenic Global Warming), Global Cooling (The coming Ice Age), the Population Bomb (which Ehrlich is still not ashamed of [read that – how can someone be so wrong for so long and still hold a professorship?]), Nuclear Winter, and to a lesser extent Silent Spring and the Ozone Hole – the solution is ALWAYS THE SAME: CONTROL OF OUR LIVES AND CONTROL OF OUR MONEY BY OUR “INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORS,” THE MORONS WE PUT IN PUBLIC OFFICE AND THE “EXPERTS” THEY APPOINT.
Quote of the Day – California Edition
Quote of the Day – California Edition
The State of California has been mismanaged literally for decades now. Governor Gray Davis was recalled because of it, and Arnold “The Governator” Schwarzenegger got himself elected – twice! – to the Captaincy of the Titanic on the promise that he could fix it.
He failed, because the electorate cannot figure out that you cannot spend money you don’t have – at least not for very long, and Ahnold refuses to unsheathe the Clue-Bat™ on them.
He wants to keep getting re-elected (to something, anyway.)
So when I ran across this while perusing the internet this afternoon, I knew it would make the perfect QotD:
Mark’s one sentence description of California:
California: where the Anarchists sound like Libertarians, the Libertarians sound like Republicans, the Republicans sound like Democrats and the Democrats sound like Leon Trotsky, and about the only saving grace is that they do not actually get all the government they pay for.
Can I get an “AMEN!”?
The Gun You Carry
. . . when you can’t carry a gun.
I live in Arizona. It tends to be a bit warm here nine months out of the year. And (to put it mildly) I’m on the husky side. My preferred carry piece is a 1911, but it’s tough (for me) to wear clothes that will adequately conceal such a piece, whether it’s my full-sized Kimber Classic, my Para USA Commander-sized Gunblog 45, or my Kimber Ultra CDPII.
Well, conceal it and still give me reasonable access to it.
Recently I’ve been toting a S&W Model 60 2″ snubbie .38 revolver in the front pocket of my jeans, but it’s just a little bit lumpy. My (ex-)boss purchased a Kel-Tec PF9 a while back, and I found that I really liked it – 7+1 rounds of full-house 9mm (+P rated, but not as a steady diet) in a pretty tiny package that still offered reasonable sights.
I picked one up a couple of days ago. I still need to do a “fluff & buff” on it, then run a couple hundred rounds through it, but I think this will easily fill the bill for the gun I carry when I can’t carry a gun. Mine looks just like this one:
The slide is hard-chromed on mine.