The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Osage County Guns, a new sponsor to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous is contributing ANOTHER pistol for our fundraising raffle for Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA), a SIG Sauer 1911-22 that will look a lot like this one:
And you can win it with a simple raffle ticket. But you must be present to win! So make your reservations today to come join us in Reno, September 4-7! And thanks to ExurbanKevin, Osage County Guns’ new head of social media marketing.
Mr. Completely emailed me tonight. For our Sunday morning event at Gun Blogger Rendezvous IX, it looks like we’ll be doing digital shoot-house training at MiScenarios Indoor Shooting Range.
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He needs at least ten shooters @ $15 each. That won’t be a problem, I think. I’m definitely in.
Time’s running out, make your hotel reservations and get your registration in soon!
Silver Legacy Group Rate Code: GBLOG14 You must phone 1-800-687-7733 to get the special room rate.
The registration form is now available to print out, and the Silver Legacy is taking reservations! The Group Rate Code is GBLOG14, and the number you must call to get the special room rate is (800) 687-7733. I made my reservations tonight. Get yours in soon!
Just… damn.
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If you’d like to see the whole video, with some normal humans giving it a try, you can see it here.
Midway is selling refurbished Daisy Powerline 880 air rifles for $19.99. That’s a steal. I got one of these for Christmas when I was about 13, I think, and I wore that thing out. It took a while. I shot pellets out of it almost exclusively. The squirrels in the back yard hated me.
Read the reviews – apparently Daisy’s QC has slipped, but since these are refurb’d, hopefully they’re all in good working order.
Still, for $20, (plus freight) seems like a decent risk. YMMV
Recall page is here. If you were somehow lucky enough to find .22 ammo, I hope it wasn’t this stuff:
Olin Corporation, through its Winchester Division, is recalling two (2) lots of M*22™ 22 Long Rifle 40 Grain Black Copper Plated Round Nose rimfire ammunition.
Symbol Number: S22LRTLot Numbers: GD42L and GD52LWinchester has determined the above lots of 22 Long Rifle rimfire ammunition may contain double powder charges. Ammunition with double powder charges may subject the shooter or bystanders to a risk of serious personal injury and/or death, or cause firearm damage, rendering the firearm inoperable.
That would leave a mark that would not buff out.
I’m getting ready for tomorrow’s Central Arizona Blog Shoot. I’ve decided to take the .458 SOCOM, the Garand (a perennial favorite at these things), the 1917 Enfield (as it shoots the same ammo as the Garand), the new Smith 629, the Power Tool™, and my XP-100. Oddly, I don’t have pictures of either the SOCOM or the ’17. Looks like turnout is going to be a dozen or so.
Should be a good time. Hope you can make it.
Just a reminder to my Arizona readers that there’ll be a shoot in Casa Grande in January.
The date has been set for the (mumble, mumble, mumble…) annual Central Arizona Blogshoot: Sunday, January 5, 2014, at the Elsy Pearson Public Shooting Range in Casa Grande, beginning at 0700 and running until we get tired and go home.
Same as last year, the range opens at 7:00AM. There are no rangemasters. There are no chairs – bring something to sit on. The firing line is covered and there are concrete shooting benches, however.
And the city has porta-potties out there on a permanent basis, so we don’t have to rent our own (but bring your own TP just in case.)
The rules are pretty simple:
No explosives, no .50BMG rifles, clean up after yourself, don’t be a dick.
The rifle range is 300 yards deep with the first berm at 200. The mountains that form the ultimate backstop are another 300 yards out and farther. The ground there is reinforced concrete disguised as sun-baked clay. Forget about any target stand that needs to stick into the ground, it ain’t happenin’ short of bringing a sledghammer. Steel and targets that don’t need taping are best. And the benches are funky-shaped. Regular camping chairs are marginal, stools are better. I bring a folding chair, a target stand made of 2″ PVC pipe, and my steel swingers. I also have some .22 rimfire rated rolling targets made of steel.
The other other Kevin will be bringing an M1903, at least 2 AR’s, some pistols and a scattergun or two along with a clay flinger and some clays. I haven’t decided exactly what I’ll be bringing, but my 1917 Enfield will definitely be coming. I’d like to try some clays with it again.
I recommend you bring: water or other non-alcoholic beverages (no alcohol on the range), sunscreen, ear and eye protection. Ladies, don’t wear anything low-cut or open-necked. Yes, I’m sure it looks lovely, but you don’t want to catch hot brass down in there. OPTIONAL: Something to shoot with, and something to shoot AT. If you’re a reader or a non-gun blogger interested in coming to a off-the-cuff funshoot, please come on down! I imagine most of us will be bringing multiple firearms and lots of ammo, but if you don’t, well, I’m willing to let people shoot my stuff (with my ammo), and I’m willing to let them shoot at my targets.
If you’re coming, please let us know in comments, or on the Facebook Event page.
Here’s a sale I can get behind! (Yes, I’m aware that some people have a problem with Ammoman.com having to do with an SKS rifle that was supposedly a “bring-back” that wasn’t. I don’t have first-hand knowledge of this, and my dealings with the site have always been good.)
Ammoman.com is having an “ammo by the pound” sale:
More often than we’d like, we pull ammo off the delivery truck from a manufacturer and we find blemishes or damage to the packaging itself. Often, it’s nothing major. Maybe the corner of the box was torn or the logo of the ammunition maker was scraped so it’s just not as pretty as what you’d expect.
The rounds are good, the cases are undamaged, and the rounds will function properly but nobody wants to get a banged up box of ammo when they’re paying full price. So, we’re generally forced to scrap the ammo. Our guys take it out of the box, toss the rounds into a barrel, and pile up in the corner calling it “waste”.
We don’t have a ton of it, but it’s been collecting in our warehouse for years and it could be making somebody’s guns really happy. These rounds need a home.
While it would take us years to separate the full metal jacket range rounds from the hollow-point self-defense rounds but we could easily find a way to sort the calibers.
The boys in the warehouse went to work and found a solution.
They bought a few shell sorters and separated out all the calibers and then hand-checked to ensure the sort was done properly. Combined, it’s a lot of ammo in a wide range of calibers. We’re talking thousands of rounds ranging from 9mm to .22 long rifle, to 5.56×45 NATO.
What that means is we have bins of various known calibers unsorted by grain or bullet type. For example, our 9mm round bins contain rounds ranging from full metal jacket to jacketed hollow point, 115 grain to 147 grain, all mixed together in a bit of a hodge-podge. To sort it would cost thousands of dollars but we’d rather pass the savings on to shooters.
From there, each caliber was bagged and placed inside a 30 Cal Plano or 50 Cal ammo can. Now, we have a limited inventory of these rounds available for a price that’s extremely competitive and likely better than what you’ll find anywhere else.
Check it out. The sale goes live at midnight Thursday night/Friday morning.
UPDATE: 12:00AM EST and the Ammoman.com website was obviously made by the same people who did Healthcare.gov! Somehow I don’t think I’m going to get to order any 9mm tonight.
UPDATE: 12:22AM EST Aaaand it’s gone!
No, we won’t be shooting blogs.
Or bloggers.
The date has been set for the (mumble, mumble, mumble…) annual Central Arizona Blogshoot: Sunday, January 5, 2014, at the Elsy Pearson Public Shooting Range in Casa Grande, beginning at 0700 and running until we get tired and go home.
Same as last year, the range opens at 7:00AM. There are no rangemasters. There are no chairs – bring something to sit on. The firing line is covered and there are concrete shooting benches, however.
And the city has porta-potties out there on a permanent basis, so we don’t have to rent our own (but bring your own TP just in case.)
The rules are pretty simple:
No explosives, no .50BMG rifles, clean up after yourself, don’t be a dick.
The rifle range is 300 yards deep with the first berm at 200. The mountains that form the ultimate backstop are another 300 yards out and farther. The ground there is reinforced concrete disguised as sun-baked clay. Forget about any target stand that needs to stick into the ground, it ain’t happenin’ short of bringing a sledghammer. Steel and targets that don’t need taping are best. And the benches are funky-shaped. Regular camping chairs are marginal, stools are better. I bring a folding chair, a target stand made of 2″ PVC pipe, and my steel swingers. I also have some .22 rimfire rated rolling targets made of steel.
The other other Kevin will be bringing an M1903, at least 2 AR’s, some pistols and a scattergun or two along with a clay flinger and some clays. I haven’t decided exactly what I’ll be bringing, but my 1917 Enfield will definitely be coming. I’d like to try some clays with it again.
I recommend you bring: water or other non-alcoholic beverages (no alcohol on the range), sunscreen, ear and eye protection. Ladies, don’t wear anything low-cut or open-necked. Yes, I’m sure it looks lovely, but you don’t want to catch hot brass down in there. OPTIONAL: Something to shoot with, and something to shoot AT. If you’re a reader or a non-gun blogger interested in coming to a off-the-cuff funshoot, please come on down! I imagine most of us will be bringing multiple firearms and lots of ammo, but if you don’t, well, I’m willing to let people shoot my stuff (with my ammo), and I’m willing to let them shoot at my targets.
If you’re coming, please let us know in comments, or on the Facebook Event page.