Snowflakes in Hell

I noticed a few blogs out there do random conversations. Every once in a while I’ll make it a feature here too. One of my friends from college ended up marrying an exotic dancer, so today’s random conversation will be with Christina the Exotic Dancer:

Christina: i have a moral dilema
Christina: whether or not to narc
Christina: although i pretty much already did so
Sebastian: narc on who for what?
Christina: well, this week i tried out a new club
Christina: and i REALLY like it and am making the best money i’ve made here so far
Christina: the manager is really nice and went out of his way to be helpful my first day
Christina: he also mentioned that he was trying to clean the place up a bit and he suspected there were there were girls there recruiting other girls to escort and if i was asked to do anything to feel free to let him know
Christina: it turns out it’s not any of the girls, but one of the bouncers, who tried to recruit me the second day
Christina: i have no problem with prostitution, which i think should be legal, and even with prostitutes recruiting clients for incall
Christina: but when customers are being taken out of the club while dancers are just signed out on a “break” that takes money away from the club, and therefore from me and other girls who don’t do that
Christina: and since i want to stay at this club i decided to narc
Christina: which my husband thinks is a bad idea because he thinks the bouncer/pimp will find out and bust a cap in my ass
Sebastian: He might
Christina: probably that is most sensible, but my moral conscience gets in the way (as does my irritation with people messing with my money)
Sebastian: Just remember, if you’re being shot at to run.
Sebastian: It’s harder to hit a moving target
Christina: thanks, i’ll keep that helpful tip in mind

Loretta and I ran into this old Ford truck on Street Road, near where I live. The good thing is we had a camera in the car and managed to snap a picture:

Fortunately my tin foil hat is pretty good at reflecting laser energy.

This is the inaugural post of this blog, because I think that one of the greatest things we shooters can do for ourselves is to introduce new people to our community. My friend Loretta, who came to visit over the holidays, did not have any existing prejudice towards guns, but I have taken people shooting for the first time who have. There’s nothing that quite opens people’s minds like seeing firearms as the tools that they are, and shooters for the ordinary people that they are, than a trip to the range.

Loretta wasn’t a complete noob, as she has some experience with shooting .22s and BB guns previously, but this was her first experience with anything with a reasonable amount of powder behind it.

We started off indoor shooting with pistols, which I didn’t get any photos of, because the indoor range I belong to doesn’t allow photography. After that, we headed up into Lehigh County to the PGC public outdoor range there. I had given her the safety lecture, and introduced her to the operating systems of the various rifles and pistols the night before. After a brief explanation of the range rules, we were ready to shoot:

Here she is loading up the magazine with three 5.56×45mm rounds.


Taking aim downrange with my AR-15. Click on the picture to see video.

We need to work on stance a bit, but it was rather difficult to shoot standing, since it had rained heavily the night before, and the range was a puddle of mud.

Time to switch to the Kalashnikov. I decided to take the AK-47 rather than the AK-74. The recoil impulse on the 47 is harsher, and has been too much for other female shooters I’ve taken to the range, so the 74 would have been my first choice, but I only have surplus ammo in 5.45×39mm, and it has corrosive primers, so I would have had to spend an hour or so when we got back cleaning the rifle out to avoid rust problems. Loretta handled the recoil of the 47 just fine though.

Taking a shot downrange. We’re shooting at the 50 yard target. I like to use the Birchwood-Casey Shoot-N-See targets. It makes them easy to see, even without the spotting scope showing in the picture. Click on the picture for video.