Irons in the Fire

Got up at 0500, which I normally don't do unless there's a chance of shooting something, and got home about fifteen minutes ago. An...

In some things, anyway. The friend I'm going to the Big Gun Show with has a set of short-range radios we've used the last couple of...

I argue with him on a number of points, but more often I tend to nod my head in agreement when he's doing one of his reports. Case in po...

In a comment on my last 'cleaning greasy old guns' post Gerry close his comment with this: "I could go into minute detail, but ...

I was reading Steve's stuff about cornbread, and started wondering why so many people have conniptions at the idea of baking bread? Adm...

Up in Tulsa, the Wanenmacher Show . They only have it twice a year, spring and fall, and since I've never been able to make the spring ...

I noticed something today. I've got a RCA 'personal stereo' type; earphones only, runs off two AAA batteries, gets AM and FM st...

Not that, the time. I realized the other day I've been running this blog for just over a year. I started a diary once when I was a kid...

And why not? They give us so much material to work with. Right now, I've got two things in mind, somewhat connected. First, if you hav...

The weather's been about as fine as you could wish for the last couple of weeks. I haven't had to use the a/c for about a month now...

Old military rifles, to be precise. I wrote on this subject a while back( here ), and have something to add. When you've got a rifle wi...

And I mean that literally. Reading about the election in Iraq. In a place where people literally have to worry about being killed for tryi...

A while back I posted on the #1 Mk3, this is the younger brother to it. In the 1930's the British decided to upgrade the Enfield design...

Looked at Michelle Malkins' site today, and found this , this and this . In short, a bunch of media weenies accused the White House of...

It's up over at Gullyborg . Aside from telling you to go there and enjoy, send some thanks to the proprietor for his consistently fine ...

Not accomplishing much, but still here. It's October in Oklahoma, which means in one day it can go from highs of 80's and lows of 60...

I was looking over some sites this morning, and found several people wondering why the national news has paid so little attention to the FRE...

Alas, I must report that the mouse passed away. Unknown causes, though it's suspected it caught pneumonia from repeated falling/jumpin...

Zoo day in other words. My daughter had the day off(yay Columbus) and I hadn't been there in a couple of years, so off we went. Oklaho...

I just looked at the Site Meter, and sometime in the last couple of days I passed 20,000. I thank you, my parents thank you(thank God they...