Winter Rites

One of the winter rites is my escapade on ice. At least, once each winter I do the Charlie Brown football type spill. Today was the day.

I was packing up at the range. To get back to the car I had to cross this glacier like ice sheet that had formed lasted night. The ice was about an inch thick, but I have successfully navigated this hazard for the last two hours. So there I was with my orange gun bucket in one hand and a shooting bag in the other, walking like a grampa (careful!).

One step, two steps, then things did not feel quite right. The horizon flipped over and WHAM!!!! I am flat on my back. The gun bucket is bouncing on the hard ground and stuff is flying all over the place. Two guys coming back from hanging targets witnessed my back flip and asked if I was okay.

Oh yeah, I'm fine. My pride is a bit bent, but I have been here before and I guess I'll be here again. So I picked myself up and got back on my feet. More grampa steps back to the car.

Breath Taking Corruption

The feds arrested Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. The Guv has problem. He is being chased by the media, the feds, the Obama maniacs and the right wing. His list of friends might include his dog, but I doubt it.

Now the Guv is a product of the Chicago Machine, just like Obama, The Chosen One. This scandal may be nothing, or it may touch everyone connected to the machine and Obama's, The Chosen One, campaign and government.

The Guv is charged with attempting sell Obama's senate seat. Evidently there was horse trading between Obama's, The Chosen One, people and the Guv. Allegedly, Jesse Jackson Jr. offered upwards of $1,000,000 for the seat. It looks a toxic mixture of influence peddling and bribes. It is utterly delicious and it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of thugs.

Make My Day

I know it is going to be a rough four years under the Obama Thugocracy, but PLEEZEE don't insult my intelligence. In light of the massive sales spike for guns and ammo since September, Obama, the Chosen One, issued a statement attempting to calm go owners. He indicated he only believed in common sense gun measures.

That's code language for hand gun bans, confiscation, bullet taxes and other Draconian measures aimed at the second amendment.

http://www.ontheissues.org/domestic/Barack_Obama_Gun_Control.htm

Common sense suggests that you keep your powder dry, your guns cleaned and oiled and your ammo stocked. We went through this with Clinton and it looks like we have another horror show ahead with the Obama Administration.

Guns and Ammo

The election of Barack has been a boon to the guns and ammo folks. Certain guns have vanished due to demand. All kinds of ammo have become hard to find.
On one order I made recently, the vendor sent me the following message:

"Thank you for your order. Due to the political situation we have seen an extreme increase in orders. We are doing our best to ship out orders A.S.A.P. As it stands now your order will be shipped within 10 - 14 business days. Thank you for your patience."

The political situation is that we have elected a gun grabber to the White House and all of us gun people remember the last time this happened. We had legislation that judged guns on their looks and magazine capacity. Washington punished the people most capable of protecting the Stars and Stripes. We you see a spike in sales like this, it means those same people are fearful of being punished again for doing nothing more than obeyiong the law and paying their taxes.

Range Day

My neighbor (we'll call him Rambo) wanted to try out some different hand guns to figure out which one he liked the best. So I loaded up an assortment of .45 and 9mm pistols for him to try out.

I did my best to keep my bias out of the mix, although, there were 2 Glocks in the mix. I carry Glocks exclusively.

He worked his way through the auto loaders, then I gave him a .357 Magnum revolver to try. Wheel guns might not be sexy anymore, but they still deliver the goods. Rambo liked the muzzle blast and the flames licking out of the cylinder.

Rambo had a good time. He looked over at the black nylon case. I pulled out a UZI and eight magazines. Oh, he had to try that!

I mentioned I needed to test one other gun as I had changed the stock and wanted to make sure this thing behaved the way I intended.

"What is it?" asked Rambo.

"A Mossberg 590 with an adjustable stock, pistol grip, ghost ring sights and a seven round magazine."

His eyes twinkled.

"Birdshot?" he wondered as I loaded the magazine.

"No, rifled slugs," I answered. The whole reason for the Mossberg is to put an end to nasty problems.

"Rifle slugs! I've got to try those."

I ran through the magazine as fast as I could to make sure everything fed okay. Then I loaded it up for Rambo and let him have at it.

You see a Mossberg modified like this loaded with rifle slugs goes bang real loud, makes really big holes down range and produces a silly grin.

Rambo was hooked.