The Group Room Discount Code for the Silver Legacy is
GBLOG12
Give them this code when you make your reservations and you will get discounted room rates and free WiFi, which they otherwise charge you for.
See you in Reno!
17 Haziran 2012 Pazar
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I thought I had posted the group discount code for the rooms at the Silver Legacy for the Gun Blogger Rendezvous, but after looking for the post, I can't find it, so I guess I didn't get it posted after all.
The Group Room Discount Code for the Silver Legacy is
GBLOG12
Give them this code when you make your reservations and you will get discounted room rates and free WiFi, which they otherwise charge you for.
See you in Reno!
The Group Room Discount Code for the Silver Legacy is
GBLOG12
Give them this code when you make your reservations and you will get discounted room rates and free WiFi, which they otherwise charge you for.
See you in Reno!
13 Haziran 2012 Çarşamba
Back-Up Shoes and footwear fashion for gals...
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There are quite a few differences between men and women, but nothing seems to emphasize this more than the way we go about choosing what we wear, particularly when it comes to footwear. Most guys I know have a very limited selection of footwear choices at home... but when it comes to footwear for gals... it's kind of like guns... if you know how many you have, you don't have enough.
Most gals I know love to have terrific footwear to accentuate their outfits and fashion. With that being said, I should first offer up that ladies footwear is not my area of expertise, but like most men... we try to be observant of the gals in our lives. I see a lot of gals that are wearing shoes and other footwear that look awesome, but except for some casual walking... would be completely useless if a gal had to run or spend much time in an adverse environment such as bad weather.
I left my man-card on the dashboard of our Ford F150 last night, so let me use that as an excuse to offer a quote from Sex and the City...
Gals, there is absolutely nothing wrong with wearing cool, trendy, sexy, and/or fashionable footwear... I'm just suggesting that, like folks who carry an extra magazine of ammo or a Back-Up Gun (BUG), you should consider some Back-Up Shoes (BUS) and keep a pair of more comfortable, back-up footwear handy at work, in the car, or elsewhere.
There may come a time that due to a change in the weather, your building needing to be evacuated, your vehicle breaking down, or encountering some two-legged varmints... that you will need a more practical... or tactical... footwear choice. It never hurts to be prepared.
I posed this thought to Shelley Rae... the talented writer, editor, and shooter from Gun Nuts Media who is currently the editor of the recently introduced Western Shooting Journal... and she said...
Flip-flops are fun, but they're not much good for rough and rocky terrain or mud and snow. I know a lot of country gals out here where we live wear cowboy boots, work boots, hiking boots, and muck boots, but not all the time and you might even want to keep a pair of those handy to change into after a day or night on the town. You never know when you might want to take a ride on the big green tractor.
And nobody ever said a pair of boots can't be stylish.
My wife is a school teacher and like nurses and many other professions, she spends most of her day on her feet... fashionable is good, but comfortable is better. My gals try to always have an extra pair of comfortable footwear handy just like Shelly Rae... and we all have a pair of good, all-terrain walking shoes we wore for a month to break in and then tucked them into our Bug Out Bags (BOBs).
So whether you're at work or out for a night on the town... and you don't want sore feet if you're packin' heat... you might want to consider taking along some extra footwear... so consider some... Back-Up Shoes and footwear fashion for gals...
So gals, what are YOUR thoughts on this subject?
Most gals I know love to have terrific footwear to accentuate their outfits and fashion. With that being said, I should first offer up that ladies footwear is not my area of expertise, but like most men... we try to be observant of the gals in our lives. I see a lot of gals that are wearing shoes and other footwear that look awesome, but except for some casual walking... would be completely useless if a gal had to run or spend much time in an adverse environment such as bad weather.
I left my man-card on the dashboard of our Ford F150 last night, so let me use that as an excuse to offer a quote from Sex and the City...
Miranda: “I had to walk all the way from the subway in these heels. My feet are killing me.”
Steve: “Why didn’t you just carry them and wear sneakers like everyone else?”
Miranda: “Stop. You can take me out of Manhattan but you can’t take me out of my shoes.”
Gals, there is absolutely nothing wrong with wearing cool, trendy, sexy, and/or fashionable footwear... I'm just suggesting that, like folks who carry an extra magazine of ammo or a Back-Up Gun (BUG), you should consider some Back-Up Shoes (BUS) and keep a pair of more comfortable, back-up footwear handy at work, in the car, or elsewhere.
There may come a time that due to a change in the weather, your building needing to be evacuated, your vehicle breaking down, or encountering some two-legged varmints... that you will need a more practical... or tactical... footwear choice. It never hurts to be prepared.
I posed this thought to Shelley Rae... the talented writer, editor, and shooter from Gun Nuts Media who is currently the editor of the recently introduced Western Shooting Journal... and she said...
"I have a good set of Puma flats that are well padded and actually work for extended wear. All of Puma's flats have a good midsole and mine have padded heels which is really nice. Keeping athletic shoes in the car is a great idea, but the flats actually fit in my purse which works well when I'm out to dinner or at the bars so I have them with me at all times."
Flip-flops are fun, but they're not much good for rough and rocky terrain or mud and snow. I know a lot of country gals out here where we live wear cowboy boots, work boots, hiking boots, and muck boots, but not all the time and you might even want to keep a pair of those handy to change into after a day or night on the town. You never know when you might want to take a ride on the big green tractor.
And nobody ever said a pair of boots can't be stylish.
My wife is a school teacher and like nurses and many other professions, she spends most of her day on her feet... fashionable is good, but comfortable is better. My gals try to always have an extra pair of comfortable footwear handy just like Shelly Rae... and we all have a pair of good, all-terrain walking shoes we wore for a month to break in and then tucked them into our Bug Out Bags (BOBs).
So whether you're at work or out for a night on the town... and you don't want sore feet if you're packin' heat... you might want to consider taking along some extra footwear... so consider some... Back-Up Shoes and footwear fashion for gals...
So gals, what are YOUR thoughts on this subject?
Our house, in the middle of our street...
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Back in the 60s, my folks bought a house about a mile outside a small town. We were surrounded by farms and fields, there were trees to climb and country roads to be explored. We built friendships, made memories, added scars and wrinkles. Homes were open and places to be back then. It was our base for our adventures, our supply depot, our resting place.
There was a brick fireplace in the family room where countless family pictures, gatherings, and marshmallow roastings took place. It kept us warm when we truly learned the need for prepping while the power was out for two weeks during the Blizzard of '78. It also served as the background for many family photographs, even the first Christmas for my main gal and I about a quarter of a century ago.
My mom still answers the first phone number I ever learned forty-some years ago. Old photographs hang on the walls... joined by new photos of my daughter, the steps upstairs still creak in the same order, and some of my baseball caps and farm hats are still hanging with work clothes in the basement. My first dog, Smokey, a black and white mutt from the humane society lived with us for sixteen years in that house. But things have changed.
Over the years those farm fields sprouted houses. That little town of 2,800 friends and neighbors we lived near swallowed our farms and country living... swelling to almost 35,000 people and strangers. The lane and a half gravel road leading out our way, where cars and pick-ups had to have two right tires off the side of the road to pass, is now a busy three-lane boulevard. You can't walk up the road or across the field to shoot anything anymore... no more fence rows to walk and hunt. It's not the same as when I grew up, but it's still my home in many ways.
It's not been a year since "Pa" passed, and Mom had talked about selling the house and moving down our way to be near family. Well, mom called last night. A neighbor in the real estate business called her about a family interested in buying her house even though it wasn't listed. A little back and forth... a price was agreed to... and it's a done deal. We'll be moving mom down our way in the next few weeks.
I knew it was going to happen eventually, but it still kind of feels like the last chapter of a good book has been written, the cover closed, and it's being put on a shelf to collect dust in the back of my mind. Unlike my grandfather's farm house where my aunt now lives, this house will no longer be in the family.
What can I say... it was... Our house, in the middle of our street...
Our house it has a crowd
There's always something happening
And it's usually quite loud
Our mum she's so house-proud
Nothing ever slows her down
And a mess is not allowed
Our house, in the middle of our street
~Lyrics from "Our House" by MadnessMaybe it was the lack of central air conditioning, but the doors and windows were open, we came and went, people and neighbors stopped by and were in and out. There was one telephone and it was fixed to the wall in the kitchen... which I'm not sure in this day and age of cell phones and texting... still isn't such a bad idea.
There was a brick fireplace in the family room where countless family pictures, gatherings, and marshmallow roastings took place. It kept us warm when we truly learned the need for prepping while the power was out for two weeks during the Blizzard of '78. It also served as the background for many family photographs, even the first Christmas for my main gal and I about a quarter of a century ago.
My mom still answers the first phone number I ever learned forty-some years ago. Old photographs hang on the walls... joined by new photos of my daughter, the steps upstairs still creak in the same order, and some of my baseball caps and farm hats are still hanging with work clothes in the basement. My first dog, Smokey, a black and white mutt from the humane society lived with us for sixteen years in that house. But things have changed.
Over the years those farm fields sprouted houses. That little town of 2,800 friends and neighbors we lived near swallowed our farms and country living... swelling to almost 35,000 people and strangers. The lane and a half gravel road leading out our way, where cars and pick-ups had to have two right tires off the side of the road to pass, is now a busy three-lane boulevard. You can't walk up the road or across the field to shoot anything anymore... no more fence rows to walk and hunt. It's not the same as when I grew up, but it's still my home in many ways.
It's not been a year since "Pa" passed, and Mom had talked about selling the house and moving down our way to be near family. Well, mom called last night. A neighbor in the real estate business called her about a family interested in buying her house even though it wasn't listed. A little back and forth... a price was agreed to... and it's a done deal. We'll be moving mom down our way in the next few weeks.
I knew it was going to happen eventually, but it still kind of feels like the last chapter of a good book has been written, the cover closed, and it's being put on a shelf to collect dust in the back of my mind. Unlike my grandfather's farm house where my aunt now lives, this house will no longer be in the family.
What can I say... it was... Our house, in the middle of our street...
Ruger LCP... a no-excuses, back-up plan
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There has been a lot of debate over the years about which caliber or cartridge is best for self-defense, but Jeff Cooper's first rule of gun fighting has never changed: "Have a gun." According to John Lott, the author or "More Guns, Less Crime" and many other articles and books, his research indicates that on average only a couple of percent of the population who can get a concealed carry permit do so and then only a very small percentage of that small percent with permits carry daily.
While there are many reasons folks don't carry their gun every day, one of several reasons I have found in talking with family, friends, and students is that the gun is just a lot of weight and bulk to carry and conceal every day... especially on hot, summer days when you don't feel like wearing clothing that makes for easy concealment of a gun. I would suggest that a quality "pocket pistol" like the Ruger LCP shoots a lot of holes in that excuse.
While many folks consider the 9mm or .38 Special as the minimum caliber for self-defense, I would say that modern .380 ACP cartridges offer at least a minimum level of ballistic punch that most two-legged varmints wouldn't want to tangle with. The Ruger LCP offers six-plus-one rounds of .380 ACP capacity in a package that is smaller than my wallet on payday, and that is pretty small.
The trigger is double-action only with a long, but smooth and fairly easy trigger pull. The magazine release button is easy to access and index, and there is a manually activated slide stop, but it doesn't hold the slide open after the last shot so you will have to cycle the action with a quick overhand as part of reloading the pistol. While the pistol is small, it uses a stiffer spring for recoil management, so some folks with arthritis or weaker hands may find grabbing the slide to cycle the action a bit more difficult than a larger pistol.
For those with larger hands, the Ruger LCP comes with two floor plates for it's magazine. One floor plate is flat while the other is extended and allows me to get my index finger on the trigger and two fingers fully on the grip, but poor Mr. Pinky still has to dangle in the wind.
Take-down for cleaning and maintenance is easy. First, always make sure the gun is unloaded and there is no ammunition around. Then you simply lock the slide back, remove the pin from the left side, slide the slide forward off the metal rails in the polymer frame, and then take out the guide rod/spring and barrel. Reassembly is just as easy.
Now any review or discussion of the Ruger LCP would probably not be complete without also taking a look at the Kel-Tec 3AT. Some folks argue that the Ruger LCP is just a copy of the Kel-Tec 3AT and while they are very similar, the overall design of a semi-automatic, locked breech, double action pistol is nothing new. Additionally, in my view as an owner of both pistols, the Ruger LCP is what the Kel-Tec 3AT should have been with a slide stop, a titanium firing pin, a better extractor, and a much higher quality of fit and finish.
My wife bought me our Kel-Tec 3AT as a present a few years ago. I couldn't get through a six-round magazine without two or more malfunctions. I called Kel-Tec and the technician said I should run at least a two-hundred rounds through the gun so the parts have time to "wear in". After two-hundred-plus rounds, it wasn't much better. On the second call to Kel-Tec, the technician said I could send it in, but there was a seven to ten week turn-around time due to a backlog of work needing done. He suggested, if I was comfortable, to use some 1,000-grit sand paper to polish the feedramp and clean up the grooves where the slide rides on the rails.
I do a fair bit of amateur gunsmithing, so I gave the little Kel-Tec an internal "fluff and buff" and I had much better results, but with over a thousand rounds through that gun, it's still only mostly reliable with FMJ "ball" ammo so I may send it back to Kel-Tec yet. I've shot several of these Kel-Tec 3AT's and have several friends that have owned this model with similar results, but two friends say Kel-Tec has been good with fixing most issues through their service department.
The Ruger LCP (lower in photo) on the other hand came out of the box and has given the gals and me no problems whatsoever. For us, the fit and finish, along with the ergonomics, is better then the Kel-Tec 3AT while both guns are pretty accurate, even with their diminutive sights and "snappy" recoil. I have no trouble putting seven rounds from the LCP into a six-inch Shoot'n-See target at ten yards off-hand, although this gun is best suited for up-close, self-defense work. Our two little LCP's reliably feed FMJ's, Federal Hydra-Shoks, and Winchester PDX-1's without any problems. I've purposely tried to slightly limp-wrist this little gun and it still cycles.
Many folks refer to the Ruger LCP as a "pocket pistol" because it does easily fit in your pocket. I would encourage anyone with a pocket pistol to carry it in holster, preferably a holster with a closed muzzle end if you carry it in your pocket to keep fuzzies and other items in your pocket from finding their way into the barrel.
The Good: The Ruger LCP is a reliable, quality pistol right out of the box. It's size and weight eliminate all excuses for not carrying a gun and it works as a terrific back-up gun that can be concealed almost anywhere. The street price at gun shops is very competitive and affordable.
The Not So Good: Mostly, my concerns are applicable to the Ruger LCP and most pistols of similar size. The diminutive sights and short sight radius are not easy to use without practice so don't try to pass this off as a beginners or ladies gun. The recoil can be a bit "snappy" for some folks preferences and cycling the slide can be difficult for folks with limitations in hand-strength or dexterity.
There are already a lot of reviews out there for the Ruger LCP, so if you need specifications or other detailed information like that, it's easy to find. We've had almost three years of experience with the Ruger LCP with well over a thousand rounds downrange from the one gun and it has just been a good, reliable firearm.
While I have carried everything from a .357 magnum and 1911 down to a .22 long rifle, my primary carry gun is usually a Ruger SR9 or Ruger SR9c, but in my opinion... you can't go wrong with the... Ruger LCP... a no-excuses, back-up plan.
While there are many reasons folks don't carry their gun every day, one of several reasons I have found in talking with family, friends, and students is that the gun is just a lot of weight and bulk to carry and conceal every day... especially on hot, summer days when you don't feel like wearing clothing that makes for easy concealment of a gun. I would suggest that a quality "pocket pistol" like the Ruger LCP shoots a lot of holes in that excuse.
While many folks consider the 9mm or .38 Special as the minimum caliber for self-defense, I would say that modern .380 ACP cartridges offer at least a minimum level of ballistic punch that most two-legged varmints wouldn't want to tangle with. The Ruger LCP offers six-plus-one rounds of .380 ACP capacity in a package that is smaller than my wallet on payday, and that is pretty small.
The trigger is double-action only with a long, but smooth and fairly easy trigger pull. The magazine release button is easy to access and index, and there is a manually activated slide stop, but it doesn't hold the slide open after the last shot so you will have to cycle the action with a quick overhand as part of reloading the pistol. While the pistol is small, it uses a stiffer spring for recoil management, so some folks with arthritis or weaker hands may find grabbing the slide to cycle the action a bit more difficult than a larger pistol.
For those with larger hands, the Ruger LCP comes with two floor plates for it's magazine. One floor plate is flat while the other is extended and allows me to get my index finger on the trigger and two fingers fully on the grip, but poor Mr. Pinky still has to dangle in the wind.
Take-down for cleaning and maintenance is easy. First, always make sure the gun is unloaded and there is no ammunition around. Then you simply lock the slide back, remove the pin from the left side, slide the slide forward off the metal rails in the polymer frame, and then take out the guide rod/spring and barrel. Reassembly is just as easy.
Now any review or discussion of the Ruger LCP would probably not be complete without also taking a look at the Kel-Tec 3AT. Some folks argue that the Ruger LCP is just a copy of the Kel-Tec 3AT and while they are very similar, the overall design of a semi-automatic, locked breech, double action pistol is nothing new. Additionally, in my view as an owner of both pistols, the Ruger LCP is what the Kel-Tec 3AT should have been with a slide stop, a titanium firing pin, a better extractor, and a much higher quality of fit and finish.
My wife bought me our Kel-Tec 3AT as a present a few years ago. I couldn't get through a six-round magazine without two or more malfunctions. I called Kel-Tec and the technician said I should run at least a two-hundred rounds through the gun so the parts have time to "wear in". After two-hundred-plus rounds, it wasn't much better. On the second call to Kel-Tec, the technician said I could send it in, but there was a seven to ten week turn-around time due to a backlog of work needing done. He suggested, if I was comfortable, to use some 1,000-grit sand paper to polish the feedramp and clean up the grooves where the slide rides on the rails.
I do a fair bit of amateur gunsmithing, so I gave the little Kel-Tec an internal "fluff and buff" and I had much better results, but with over a thousand rounds through that gun, it's still only mostly reliable with FMJ "ball" ammo so I may send it back to Kel-Tec yet. I've shot several of these Kel-Tec 3AT's and have several friends that have owned this model with similar results, but two friends say Kel-Tec has been good with fixing most issues through their service department.
The Ruger LCP (lower in photo) on the other hand came out of the box and has given the gals and me no problems whatsoever. For us, the fit and finish, along with the ergonomics, is better then the Kel-Tec 3AT while both guns are pretty accurate, even with their diminutive sights and "snappy" recoil. I have no trouble putting seven rounds from the LCP into a six-inch Shoot'n-See target at ten yards off-hand, although this gun is best suited for up-close, self-defense work. Our two little LCP's reliably feed FMJ's, Federal Hydra-Shoks, and Winchester PDX-1's without any problems. I've purposely tried to slightly limp-wrist this little gun and it still cycles.
Many folks refer to the Ruger LCP as a "pocket pistol" because it does easily fit in your pocket. I would encourage anyone with a pocket pistol to carry it in holster, preferably a holster with a closed muzzle end if you carry it in your pocket to keep fuzzies and other items in your pocket from finding their way into the barrel.
The Good: The Ruger LCP is a reliable, quality pistol right out of the box. It's size and weight eliminate all excuses for not carrying a gun and it works as a terrific back-up gun that can be concealed almost anywhere. The street price at gun shops is very competitive and affordable.
The Not So Good: Mostly, my concerns are applicable to the Ruger LCP and most pistols of similar size. The diminutive sights and short sight radius are not easy to use without practice so don't try to pass this off as a beginners or ladies gun. The recoil can be a bit "snappy" for some folks preferences and cycling the slide can be difficult for folks with limitations in hand-strength or dexterity.
There are already a lot of reviews out there for the Ruger LCP, so if you need specifications or other detailed information like that, it's easy to find. We've had almost three years of experience with the Ruger LCP with well over a thousand rounds downrange from the one gun and it has just been a good, reliable firearm.
While I have carried everything from a .357 magnum and 1911 down to a .22 long rifle, my primary carry gun is usually a Ruger SR9 or Ruger SR9c, but in my opinion... you can't go wrong with the... Ruger LCP... a no-excuses, back-up plan.
Daughters and a Heritage of Gunpowder and Lead
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Today was the first National Take Your Daughter to the Range day so the plans with our 4H Shooting Sports club was the perfect coincidence. Between our 4H club, 4H camp, and Shooting Camp at our local gun club, my main gal and I work about thirty days each year with our other certified 4H Shooting Sports instructors teaching and training over one-hundred youth ages eight-to-eighteen in four disciplines including rifle, shotgun, pistol, and archery.
Once each year, we move over to the Bullskin Trail Black Powder Club's shooting range for some instruction, training, and shooting fun with a lot of different black powder firearms. The kids get a chance to learn about the history and heritage of many firearms that helped build this country, also why the second amendment is as important today, as it was two-hundred-plus years ago.
There's even an original log cabin moved from a family's homestead here in the county. This is a primitive facility as the restroom is up a hill, then the third tree to the left. You can see some of our 4Her's learning about black powder guns including terms like flintlock, cap and ball, and ramrod. It's also a lot of fun for them to see where so many sayin's and phrases come from like "flash in the pan", "keep your powder dry", "don't go off half-cocked", "were taking everything... lock, stock, and barrel"... even "bury the hatchet".
All the folks had an opportunity to do some hatchet or tomahawk throwing 'cause in those pioneering days, once you shot your rifle... the slow reloading meant you better have a back-up plan.
The wife and I spent some time with our daughter shooting (above) and one of our club's first-year members whose mom is also in her first year as a certified instructor posed for a quick photo-op on the range (below). Start'em young and the apple won't fall far from the tree.
Gunpowder and lead with black powder firearms have real meaning for the kids. Talkin' about lead balls, powder horns, paper and cloth patches, smooth-bore muskets, rifled muskets, six-shooters... it was all there today.
Modern in-line black powder guns are pretty reliable, even high tech... but the accuracy and thumping boom of a Hawken or Kentucky Rifle is still pretty fierce. A .54 caliber ball isn't anything to laugh at, whether you're a buffalo, a grizzly bear, or even a two-legged adversary.
Some of those old smoke poles were longer than a few of our shooters were tall.
We even had a one gal's shooting experience turn out to be just a "flash in the pan".
It wasn't just all daughters on the range today, we had a good showing by the guys.
Trigger squeeze, sight alignment, sight picture, breathing... BANG! Safety and fundamentals still count and there was a lot of lead sent down range today at the targets for practice. It's always fun to watch the confidence of these kids build with each shot.
We have a lot of gals in our 4H Shooting Sports and I've had a lot of gals come through my NRA and Ohio CCW courses over the years... more so in the last few years. I hope interest from the gals keeps building.
We're very glad to have gone shooting with our daughter on the first National Take your Daughter to the Range day... but in many ways I hope that someday, gals going to the range is such a natural thing, we won't need a special day to remind folks to take our little gals shooting...
Until then, lets just keep using it as an occasion to remember our... Daughters and a Heritage of Gun Powder and Lead.
Once each year, we move over to the Bullskin Trail Black Powder Club's shooting range for some instruction, training, and shooting fun with a lot of different black powder firearms. The kids get a chance to learn about the history and heritage of many firearms that helped build this country, also why the second amendment is as important today, as it was two-hundred-plus years ago.
There's even an original log cabin moved from a family's homestead here in the county. This is a primitive facility as the restroom is up a hill, then the third tree to the left. You can see some of our 4Her's learning about black powder guns including terms like flintlock, cap and ball, and ramrod. It's also a lot of fun for them to see where so many sayin's and phrases come from like "flash in the pan", "keep your powder dry", "don't go off half-cocked", "were taking everything... lock, stock, and barrel"... even "bury the hatchet".
All the folks had an opportunity to do some hatchet or tomahawk throwing 'cause in those pioneering days, once you shot your rifle... the slow reloading meant you better have a back-up plan.
The wife and I spent some time with our daughter shooting (above) and one of our club's first-year members whose mom is also in her first year as a certified instructor posed for a quick photo-op on the range (below). Start'em young and the apple won't fall far from the tree.
Gunpowder and lead with black powder firearms have real meaning for the kids. Talkin' about lead balls, powder horns, paper and cloth patches, smooth-bore muskets, rifled muskets, six-shooters... it was all there today.
Modern in-line black powder guns are pretty reliable, even high tech... but the accuracy and thumping boom of a Hawken or Kentucky Rifle is still pretty fierce. A .54 caliber ball isn't anything to laugh at, whether you're a buffalo, a grizzly bear, or even a two-legged adversary.
Some of those old smoke poles were longer than a few of our shooters were tall.
We even had a one gal's shooting experience turn out to be just a "flash in the pan".
It wasn't just all daughters on the range today, we had a good showing by the guys.
Trigger squeeze, sight alignment, sight picture, breathing... BANG! Safety and fundamentals still count and there was a lot of lead sent down range today at the targets for practice. It's always fun to watch the confidence of these kids build with each shot.
We have a lot of gals in our 4H Shooting Sports and I've had a lot of gals come through my NRA and Ohio CCW courses over the years... more so in the last few years. I hope interest from the gals keeps building.
We're very glad to have gone shooting with our daughter on the first National Take your Daughter to the Range day... but in many ways I hope that someday, gals going to the range is such a natural thing, we won't need a special day to remind folks to take our little gals shooting...
Until then, lets just keep using it as an occasion to remember our... Daughters and a Heritage of Gun Powder and Lead.
A Blogiversary Give-Away...
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This little blog adventure began for me almost a year ago on June 20th. I've been blessed with some great conversation, excellent discourse, fun interaction, and new friendships along the way... so I thought I'd give away a couple of God, Gals, Guns, Grub t-shirts to you folks.
They come in any color as long as it's black with the God, Gals, Guns, Grub logotype on the back (above) and the tag line "Learning a little more every day" over the heart on the front.
How it works: (I'm a little new to this give-away rule making stuff.)
Pick a number between one and one-thousand and head over to our Facebook page to leave your number in a comment on the Facebook post for the give-away (give us a "Like" over there if you want - not required) or put your number in the comments area for this post.
The rules are simple, please enter only once before 12:01am on June 20th (our blogiversary) and the gals will use a random number generator to pick a number between one and one-thousand. I'll announce the winners on June 20th, 2012 (our one-year blogiversary) and the two folks who picked numbers closest to the number randomly generated by the gals will each get a t-shirt. I have one t-shirt available in each size from Medium to 3X. Check back on June 20th as the winners will need to send me their mailing addresses within 48 hours of the announcing the winners so I can send them to you or the gals will draw another winner.
Thanks for stopping by and good luck with... A Blogiversary Give-Away...
They come in any color as long as it's black with the God, Gals, Guns, Grub logotype on the back (above) and the tag line "Learning a little more every day" over the heart on the front.
How it works: (I'm a little new to this give-away rule making stuff.)
Pick a number between one and one-thousand and head over to our Facebook page to leave your number in a comment on the Facebook post for the give-away (give us a "Like" over there if you want - not required) or put your number in the comments area for this post.
The rules are simple, please enter only once before 12:01am on June 20th (our blogiversary) and the gals will use a random number generator to pick a number between one and one-thousand. I'll announce the winners on June 20th, 2012 (our one-year blogiversary) and the two folks who picked numbers closest to the number randomly generated by the gals will each get a t-shirt. I have one t-shirt available in each size from Medium to 3X. Check back on June 20th as the winners will need to send me their mailing addresses within 48 hours of the announcing the winners so I can send them to you or the gals will draw another winner.
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14 Mayıs 2012 Pazartesi
Question on the four boxes
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At the NCPATCON in a discussion the four boxes of Liberty came up (soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box). Then this question was put forth for each box: Who believed that this box would resolve the grave issues we now face? After the first three boxes were brought up not one person admitted that they thought anyone of the first three would right the ship and turn the ship around.
Now we stopped after the question was asked about the first three boxes not venturing into the arena of armed revolution. The question is that if we cannot restore the republic with the first three and I find that indeed doubtful then what alternative do we have. What options between number three and number four?
Michael
L&P
Now we stopped after the question was asked about the first three boxes not venturing into the arena of armed revolution. The question is that if we cannot restore the republic with the first three and I find that indeed doubtful then what alternative do we have. What options between number three and number four?
Michael
L&P
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