Range Report!

So today I take this stuff to the range:

Top to bottom the S&W Model 28-2, The Browning BDA-380 and the S&W M&P. The Highway Patrolman was a big hit! Ran some Speer .38 SPL +P's through it. The Action was "as smooth as a mouse's ear". The Browning is as good shooting as it is looking. 

The Highway Patrolman left its mark on the triangle, the Browning on the #2 target. Both are fun to shoot and created much conversation today at the range. I was asked "How many guns do you have?" I said "right now, three". 

 

Happy New Year!

As I look back on the past year I can only say that I am stunned at the response I have had here. I have met many fellow bloggers both in real space and by phone. I am simply amazed at this. 

I live in a small town and social interactions are limited in this physical space. They are surely not so in this Blog space. I am truly thankful for this outlet and humbled that anyone would stop by here to check on my pedestrian activities. 

So for all my friends, if I have not met you yet in person yet I look forward to it this coming year. 

Several Bloggers were instrumental in keeping me here. I was freaked out starting out almost two years ago. I must say that I count Brigid as one.

After casually watching Dick Clark's show tonight I was approaching my "get off my lawn" stance. So I thought I would throw this link up for my blog mother. +1 for the bib overalls and again for the perfect words I think to describe my friend. 







Happy New Year everyone!

As for tomorrow? Well, none of this is going to shoot itself!

Range is open tomorrow!  I felt bad in WV as everyone is all about running the long gun. I think I comported myself well when asked to shoot one, but I am after everything is said a pistol person. It is what I teach and shoot most. 

 

Stupid Kindle Tricks

Besides all the blather about it not being an iPad (well duh), I have found several useful tasks for it. See all this?

Instruction manuals for oh, about everything. If it is on line I get the PDF file, if not, I scan it into a PDF and throw it up to the Amazon Cloud. Another bonus is if you get a manual like the ones that came with my camera that are printed on proprietary disintegrating rice paper making them virtually useless, you can transform them to this:

Being able to take to your workspace helps and the bigger print and no bookmarks are just more perks! 

So for the first time the camera was converted from a PhD (Push here Dummy) camera and after some experimentation:

 














I was able to make the camera do what I wanted it to do:

(Teaser for upcoming review post)

They also have VNC clients for the Android platform. I guess I need to unlock the thing. That would make work a bit easier! 

Changes in North Carolina CCH Law

Here is the PDF from the NCDOJ outlining changes to NC Statutes Effective December 1st of this year as they pertain to CCH (click to enlarge).

Smith and Wesson Highway Patrolman

Otherwise known as the Model 28-2.

Shhhh.... She's soaking in it! 

Break Free that is! Will reassemble and go shoot this weekend with a full write up as well. Waiting on the Standard Catalog of S&W too for reference. Heaven forbid I get anything wrong about this gun! Tam would be all over me if I did that! 

She's not real pretty, but in good shape (uh, the pistol, not Tam. I assume she is all sweetness and light)! 

US Navy Speak....

"The free flow of goods and services through the Strait of Hormuz is vital to regional and global prosperity," said a spokeswoman for the US Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet. "Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated." 

Translation? "Come get some!"

Record Gun Sales

For the past two months in a row! CNN article:"

Two days before Christmas, NICS ran 102,222 background checks, which was the second-busiest day in history. The one-day record was set this year on Black Friday, the big shopping day following Thanksgiving, with 129,166 searches. 

Good news! 

In the same article a bit of delusion as well: "The research we've seen indicates fewer and fewer people are owning more and more guns," said Caroline Brewer of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "All the trends indicate the number of Americans who own guns has declined."

Uh, right.