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Saturday, May 10, 2008

M1 Garand and target loads

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A while back I picked up some of the military 172-grain boattail match bullets for .30-06: I wanted to put together some target loads, and d...
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I haven't sent anything to Burma

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for precisely these reasons : Burma, a former British colony, was once the rice-bowl of South-East Asia, but in 1962 a bunch of generals too...
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It seems Bloomberg(Tyrantwannabe-NY)

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has problems with more of the Constitution than the 2nd Amendment: Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to th...
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Stephen King holds shovel,

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keeps digging . Be sure to check out the comments, which include a quote in which King follows standard liberal method: accuse people of sa...
Friday, May 09, 2008

Range day, further test on the plastic bullets

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I wrote about here . While I was out I took the opportunity to try these at 50 yards. Being as how I had already put the chronograph up an...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

A good article on self-censorship

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due to ' sensitivity '. Often another name for 'fear'. In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of the ver...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

And for an example of people who do NOT qualify as sheepdogs,

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take a look at this : About a month ago I got a call from a reporter for the Arkansas Times inquiring about my research into paramilitary d...

Yeah, it's spring

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I know this because I'm sitting here listening to the rain outside the wind the tornado sirens and the near-PSH on the tv weather warnin...
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I have one question for the guy who wrote this article

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pointed out by Michelle Malkin : why the HELL didn't you prosecute these people?
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Gee, maybe the Stupid Party is finally

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getting the message . Although I have doubts they've got enough brains to know people really mean "Don't act like the Evil Par...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Word from the son

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So far, so good. Apparently it's hatching season, as there are lots and lots of little(4-6") camel spiders all over the place. An...
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How to relax after work

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There’s a ‘big trash pickup’ one day each month. You’ve planned to move this stuff from the back yard to the curb a day or two before, deci...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

On the subject of the UN- again- the question is asked

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How bad does the UN have to get? I’ve argued before that, for many Lefties, intentions seem to matter more than outcomes. But how bad do the...

I don't care if Obama claims to only know him 'casually',

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his long-time association with this bastard, and his defenses of it, should tell you a lot. Insty points out this post with the photo. ...
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Sunday, May 04, 2008

A link I forgot to add back to the blogroll

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after the, ahem, 'accident' a few months ago: Havaria Information Service , or as Tim Blair once noted, 'All the trouble in the ...

Some thoughts following up on 'On Combat' Updated

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Got this in a comment from Saladman: I have a concern, though. It seems to me that the ethos of the policeman as warrior is in direct confli...
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Trees! Ladders! They're EVERYWHERE!!

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Ahem. Sorry 'bout that. Just got back from visiting my parents, and what was the big thing Dad needed help with? At tree that needed c...
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Friday, May 02, 2008

A bit more on cleaning corrosive-primed ammo

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Very Helpful Commenter, who once sent some very nice information on how he moved the front sight and cut down the barrel on a SKS, had menti...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

'On Combat'

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by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Loren W. Christensen If you are in a war, you are a warrior. Is there a war on drugs? Is there a war on crim...
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The further story on the bears

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The two grizzly at the zoo have in their enclosure a pool and a long canal. The slightly smaller one found a sport bottle somene either dro...
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