Snowflakes in Hell

Blackwater is not the company doing blogger outreach.  Para-USA is the company sponsoring our blogger summer camp.  The training is going to be provided by Todd Jarrett, who is a many times over IPSC world champion.  Para is paying Blackwater for the use of their facilities.  That’s the extent of the relationship, despite some folks attempt to read more into it.

According to The Firearms Blog even the Canadians will be able to get them.  This version will be chambered in 5.56mm NATO and will take STANAG mags.  Will they be available here?  Or are they not considered “sporting purposes” enough?

Looks like we have a new World Steel Challenge Champion from the Army Marksmanship Team.  Mr. Completely scored 24th of 84.  Not too bad for an international competition!

Well, today I shot the State Championships for NRA Airgun Silhouette which was held at My Club in Falls Township, Pennsylvania.  We’re loacated just north of Philadelphia, and do an NRA sanctioned airgun match every Thursday evening starting at 6PM in summers, and an unsanctioned indoor air/smallbore silhouette match during the winter months.  It’s great fun, really.  At states, I managed to score second out of four in my class with a 39 (out of 80.  22 on the first match, bombed the second with a 17).  We started off with five AA shooters, but one guy shot well enough to move his classification up to AAA.  I decided to take some pictures so folks who aren’t familiar with silhouette, and what club competitions are like can see for yourselves.

It was a very fun match, and Dave did a great job putting it together.  He knows how to run a fun match.  I never thought I would get as much enjoyment out of air gun as I do.