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Three Lucid sights arrive
An updated 6-24x scope, an updated HD7 with capped turrets and the little M7 with an AR15 riser. It uses an auto brightness sensor with a manual override. The thrifty among us will like that it runs on a single … Continue reading
Shooting 50BMG for the first time.
After taking photos of the Micor Leader 50 bullpup for a couple of years, I finally got around to shooting it. Since Charles St.George, the designer, didn’t have a scope with it, I mounted a 2.5x Konus shotgun scope kindly … Continue reading
Music and lyrics
I find myself drawn to musical ballads, in whichever language they may be. I like stories in music. Some do a good job of messing with the audience’s emotions: Баллада о матери. Others are just engaging stories: The Ballad of … Continue reading
Very tacticute
Melissa Gilliland keeps up her side of the family standards by being a competitive shooter in her own right. The rifle is an Asbury Precision Ordnance ASW with 3-15x Light Tactical by Premier Reticles. I’ve seen her kick ass with … Continue reading
Bad self-defense advice: Idiocy or Malice?
Recently, we have been treated to spectacularly stupid advice on self-defense by the vice president of the US. Doing what he advised would endanger the defender, the defender’s neighbors AND put him in legal trouble. That has been discussed in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, holster, pistol, rkba, self-defense, weapon
Tagged rape, whistle, women
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For Sale: Trijicon Tripower (contact info corrected)
Also posted for a friend, Trijicon Tripower: http://www.trijicon.com/na_en/products/product2.php?id=TriPower&mid=TriPower MSRP – $796.00 http://www.bravocompanyusa.com/LaRue-Tactical-CompM-Standard-Mount-QD-LT150-p/larue%20lt%20150.htm MSRP – $150.00 The TriPower has a couple small cosmetic scratches from being mounted and unmounted from different weapons, other than that its never been used while shooting. … Continue reading
For Sale: EOTech 551 (contact info corrected)
I am posting several items for a friend. First, EOTech 551: Law Enforcement and Military Night Vision compattable Holographic Red Dot Sight 65 MOA Circle with 1 MOA Dot Reticle Matte Finnish, (MSRP – $469.00) N Battery comes with a … Continue reading
Obsolescent calibers
One approach to the current ammo shortage is to preserve the current calibers and use up less useful ammunition in practice. In my case, that means 7.62x54R gets used up in Mosins which are hardly useful for social purposes. The … Continue reading
Somebody doesn’t like my posters.
Fast-forward this video to about 10:50 mark to hear an anti complain about this image of Lori. They aren’t fond of Chelsie, either. The young woman in the photo was 16 at the time.
Posted in Uncategorized, civil rights, pistol, rifle, rkba, self-defense, training, weapon
Tagged teen, woman
38 Comments
Serbu 50BMG rifle
For an upcoming magazine article.
Great leaders with guns.
Soviet leader Brezhnev. When guns are restricted, they become status symbols and the rulers pose with them. That doesn’t mean they support gun ownership for the “proles”. The first gun control on record, the 1518 prohibition on wheel locks, was … Continue reading
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain was right. The current gun control push is fueled by conducting a false flag operation (which Fast and Furious was and the school shootings may be), then quickly making many false claims about guns, medical privacy, freedom of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, civil rights, rkba, self-defense, weapon
Tagged gun control, Nazi
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The presumption of linguistic ignorance
If I watch a French or a Czech film, it usually has subtitles for whatever languages are spoke on screen. If a character speaks German or Spanish, the words are subtitled. Most American movies just put a caption [speaks German] … Continue reading
New Year Wishes.
To the readers of this blog, I wish a new year filled with old friends and new joys. And I hope that 2013 would be an uneventful year, unmentioned in the history books.
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The economics of gun control.
We talk often about the technical aspects of gun control. Arbitrary specifications, capricious enforcement, massive mis-allocation of resouces… What are the financial effects of gun control as proposed by Feinstein and others of her kind? The most immediate effect is … Continue reading
This is my killing curse. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of their marvels” This visual offense against good design actually shoots fairly well and the safety improves considerably on the … Continue reading
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Tagged 7.62x54R, bayonet, bolt action, bubba, custom, Mosin, russian
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Selective Outrage?
The bombardment of Guernica in 1937 is in every history book. The more destructive and murderous bombardment of Copenhagen isn’t. Likewise, the current efforts to raise taxes are condemned but 1950s administrations got a free pass on the 90%+ top … Continue reading
Hanging Professor
A humorous sculpture in Prague. Many other photos of the same.
Inflation Estimate
My best estimate for inflation on my own consumer goods basket this year is 21% rather than the official 3%. Product and service quality have dropped noticeably to maintain a price point. Personal incomes have dropped largely because government spending … Continue reading
Fun with social statistics
Let’s postulate a society with several identifiable ethnic groups. All other things being equal, the group with highest birth rates would be considered the poorest simply because their members would be overwhelmingly young. A 20 year old typically earns less … Continue reading