Snowflakes in Hell

Got the new SKS today.  For the rest of the evening, I will be battling the cosmoline.  Pictures forthcoming when I’ve won.  This will be a good test of Gunzilla.

Jesse Jackson has a well deserved reputation as an attention whore.  Do we really need to go adding more federal crimes to the books because of that fact?

After denouncing the demagoguery of Rev. Jesse Jackson in his continued protests at a suburban Chicago-area gun shop, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today announced that it has drafted federal legislation that would prevent such protests from interfering with legal businesses.

“This is not an attack on the First Amendment rights of Jesse Jackson or anyone else,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “But it would put an end to the kind of publicity-seeking shenanigans that Jackson and his cohort, anti-gun Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, have been conducting at Chuck’s Gun Shop in suburban Riverdale for the past three weeks. We’re working on Capitol Hill right now to gather sponsors.

Jesse Jackson and Snuffy Pfleger were already arrested under state law for trespassing.   Why exactly do we need to make a federal issue out of this?

Dr. Helen has a new advice column. Hopefully, I will not be in need of relationship advice from her anytime soon. But I am interested in hearing whether Uncle is crazy.

If this guy thinks that Ahab’s blog is scary, the contents of my safe would absolutely make him crap his pants.  Why is it that no one ever asks someone into classic cars “What’s your fascination with engines?  Why do you need an engine that will do 110MPH?”  Or someone into coin collecting “What’s your fascination with coins?  Clearly you’re just a greedy bastard.”   No one ever asks a golfer what his fascination is with constantly acquiring new and better golf clubs, or finding new and challenging courses.

But all kinds of false assumptions are made about people who enjoy the shooting sports and collectors.  Ahab has it exactly right: they are just machines folks, relax, and don’t worry yourself about it.  A street urchin with a broken beer bottle should be more worrisome than a guy at the range firing a machine gun.

I want my next vehicle to be one of these.

Not much in the way of armor, but it sure would be fun to show up at a car hunt with one of these.

I got my entry submitted to Sailorcurt. I managed to tie Ahab!

If I hadn’t pulled that three, I would have beaten him! But such is life in when shooting. It only takes a little jerk. I noticed I was worse on the initial draw and aim, than on the reload and aim.

So my goal of one day beating Ahab in an e-postal match still remains elusive, but I tied at least! This is the type of shooting I practice most often. Granted I don’t usually do double tap, reload, double tap, but I generally practice rapid, not too carefully aimed fire. I liked this e-Postal, as it actually exposed some flaws I had in my shooting technique when practiced from draw (well, as close to draw as I could do at the range) and reload. I think I might actually add the double tap reload drill to my regular routine.

We’ll see how it goes overall. I’m hoping I scored properly. I’m only used to rough scoring for myself. My general rule for touching the ring is if I can’t see any white between the ring and the bullet mark, it’s touching. I have no idea if that’s the right rule to use though.

Dave Hardy has a good summary.  I’m very pleased with the result, but I hope The Court will overturn McConnell in it’s entirety in the future.