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Best-laid plans... 25 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm
... gone awry. I have company for the weekend, so fate decided to give me a swift kick in the pants and I got mandated for overtime today. There's a thousand-table gun show going on this weekend. I ...
Untitled 22 Aug 2013 | 11:26 am
Got a lead on a good deal on a nifty piece of equipment. Have some of the money, not all of it. Anyone interested in a complete AR/A2 lower, Hipoint carbine, or Kabar Potbelly knife? drop me a note.
Gun-safe shuffle 21 Aug 2013 | 02:50 am
I've shuffled around the order of things in the safe. I keep a rifle at the very front, with a full mag or two sitting on top of the safe. I just changed that rifle from a 5.56 AR to the M&P15-22. L...
Another notch... 13 Aug 2013 | 07:36 am
... not on the bedpost or the gunbelt, but on the freedom list. Seems Missouri isn't afraid of automatic knives, aka "switchblades". I've ordered a Boker Mini Kalashnikov to see how it feels. And .....
Magazines... 10 Aug 2013 | 08:45 am
For the M&P15-22 owners out there ... For a while, magazines were hen's teeth. They're more common now but most places are trying for panic prices still. Midway has factory 25-rounders in stock for $...
Fun silver 8 Aug 2013 | 10:34 am
Provident Metals is releasing a "Zombuck" silver round next week. Unlimited mintage but there is a cutoff date on orders. Right now looks like about $22/oz, which isn't a bad price for a round that w...
One for the prayer list, please 3 Aug 2013 | 09:38 pm
I just got email from Brigid, asking that I pass this along. TinCan AssassinĀ is in the hospital with some kind of heart issue; his wife passed the info to Brigid and will keep her updated. I'll post ...
Cameras... 31 Jul 2013 | 01:35 am
I've been shooting with a Canon EOS 30D for quite a few years now. Seven? Eight? Wiki says it was introduced in Q1 2005 and ended after Q2 2006, so at least seven years. I've taken tens of thousands o...
Other things in a free state... 30 Jul 2013 | 09:07 pm
I've slowly been unpacking and sorting. I traded a few of my ten-round M&P9 mags for full-capacity mags, and simply dumped the contents of the short mags on a shelf until the new ones arrived. I put ...
To my Tennessee brethren... 30 Jul 2013 | 08:32 pm
... would one of you please bash this man upside the head with a clue? He's not doing us any favors. Leonard Embody arrested again Seems this time he was wandering around downtown with an AR and can...