Lauren Bacall - a Dark Passage to The Big Sleep

One of the great actresses of all time, Lauren Bacall (aka: Mrs. Humphrey Bogart), has been lost to us (source). She will be mourned and missed by anyone familiar with her work and I must say I will miss her dearly.

Not only was she a native New Yorker (thus I have an affinity for her), she also was one of the best, most beautiful and most sultry actresses I have ever seen. She was repeatedly considered one of the most beautiful women ever, not only by fans but by organizations such as Harper's Bazaar (a very well know magazine back in the day), Empire Magazine and People magazine. In fact, her appearance in Harper's Bazaar quickly led to a screen test and she was given a starring role, in 1944, next to Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not (also starring Walter Brennan).  It was her very first film and there she was with Bogart and Brennan!

She starred in other true classics such as: The Big Sleep, Dark Passage (both beside Bogart) and in Key Largo (with both Bogart and Edward G. Robinson). Bogart was enamored with her from the beginning. They were married in 1945 and remained married until Bogart's death in 1957. She also acted beside the likes of: Gary Cooper in Bright Leaf, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe in How To Marry A Millionaire, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda and Natalie Wood in Sex And The Single Girl, Albert Finney and Ingrid Bergman in Murder On The Orient Express, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart in The Shootist, Jack Lemmon, James Garner and Dan Akroid in My Fellow Americans and as a voice of one of the cartoon characters in - Family Guy's - 'Moms The Word' episode as recently as this year. It was rumored she was working on a film in production at the time of her death. There were many more films and Broadway productions to her credit. Thus her acting career spanned the better part of 70 years! (Besides my personal knowledge of her films, the source for almost everything else in this paragraph was http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000002/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1.)

She was an amazingly beautiful, wonderfully productive and legendary actress who could act better than any today!

They say that actors/actresses die in threes and sadly it seems all too often to be true. With the passing of Robin Williams yesterday and Lauren Bacall today - I can only wonder whom we will lose and mourn next!

All the best,
Glenn B

She Thought Obama Was An Arsehat...

...then appeared to support him completely once he made her part of his cabinet (even to the point of outrageousness on Benghazi). She is now back to her normal politicizing self and to her seeming habit of placing blame on everyone else (even her former boss) and has now gone for Obama's carotid artery with claws fully extended as she prepares to make a run for the presidency. Who else but Hillary! See: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/10/clinton-critical-obama-foreign-policy-says-failure-to-act-in-syria-created/

All the best,
GB

Awakenings Nevermore...

...except in reruns. This was a bit of a shock: Robin Williams was found dead of a reported apparent suicide (source).

I guess he was a pretty darned good actor although I will admit I did not like much of his acting after Mork & Mindy. That NaNu NaNu stuff was a riot. I saw him in few movies after that, there was just something about him that creeped me out. I must say though, I was moved by the movie Awakenings, that was great and he was good in it along with DeNiro. Another of the few of his movies I have watched all the way through was Mrs. Doubtfire, it was okay. I also saw Hook but was not too impressed. Then again, I have to admit, he was excellent in The Birdcage and even better in The Survivors with Walter Matthau. Not trying to debase him, just saying he was not my favorite actor but I know he was a good one. He sure had his following and I know millions loved him and will miss him greatly.

All the best,
Glenn B

Friggin' Yugo SKS Bolt Disassembly

Brought the Yugo SKS to annual NE Bloggershoot last weekend. Fired a few hundred rounds through it and took it down to clean it today. Yeah, I know screw me for waiting a week. Well, I am happy I waited because if I had done it right after getting home from a 5 plus hour drive last weekend I may have had a coronary if I added what happened tonight to the aftermath of the drive.

What a frigging pain in the arse it is to disassemble an SKS bolt, at least one in a Yugo SKS anyway (and this is a common problem with the Yugo SKS). I remember having taken the bolt apart some time back and that the firing pin retention pin was a bit of a pain to remove but it came out without too much trouble. Well, that was not the case tonight. It must have taken me the better part of two hours getting that one pin to come out. Most of that time the bolt soaked in mineral spirits in the hope that would loosen it up somewhat (or should I say the false hope cause it did not work).



The bent and broken punches from the set with
the center punch that did the job underneath them.

After soaking it in the mineral spirits, I pounded on that bastard using my brass punch set and the tiny lightweight hammer that came with the punches. Two of the punches bent. I switched to a bigger hammer and wailed away again, this time the punch I was using snapped in two and it was not one of the ones that had already bent. I tried a small steel punch I had as it was the only straight steel punch I had (actually have 4 of them all basically the same). That one bent too.

Then, in desperation, I grabbed a center punch. They are tapered and the tapered end becomes much too wide for the hole that the retaining pin was in. I figured if I was careful, I could give some much stronger whacks to this punch because it is steel, thicker than the other steel ones I have, and very strong. After about 25 to 30 hard hits, the pin finally budged. It took another 5 to 6 good strong whacks to get it far enough out that I became fearful if I hit the punch again it would go too far in and widen the hole (remember this punch is tapered or conical). So I stopped, straightened out one of the bent brass punches by hitting it with the hammer and used that for the rest of the way. Talk about a pain the arse - that was one but it was not finished there was yet another.

Apparently the firing pin in my Yugo SKS is also a pain to remove. I had to use pliers. I would think it should have just slid right out as there was minimal fouling in the channel and on the pin. Not only did it come out with difficulty but it went back in the same way. I had to whack it with the nylon end of my punch set hammer to seat it. I do not recall whether or not I had that difficulty last time I disassembled and cleaned the bolt (maybe I did have some difficulty last time because its been awhile and that would have been incentive not to do it often). Even though it was difficult - the firing pin moves freely enough not to slam fire (which is sometimes a problem with this type of firing pin). I am thinking of ordering a replacement firing pin to see if that makes a difference, that is if I can find a reputable source for one. Actually, it seems I have already found a couple of them. I am not too sure if I want to get a firing pin of the same design as in my rifle like this, or go with an enhanced version like this one.

Before I change the firing pin though, I am going to look for the receipt for my punch set. I am hoping I got it from Sportsmansguide because if I did, I can either get my money back or get a replacement as part of their satisfaction guarantee. Took a break, looked for the receipt, and yes indeed it came from Sportsmansguide.com - so an email is on the way to them requesting a replacement or a refund. In the meantime I will decide on which firing pin to go with once I get paid next month.

All the best,
Glenn B

S&W Model 22A-1 - First Shots

I took the S&W Model 22A-1 along with us to the bloggershoot last weekend. I figured it would be as good a time as any to run some rounds through it, not so much to see if it was a tack driver or not but to see how well it functioned. I have to admit, I did not expect it to do too well because it appears to be cheaply made to me.

Having only two (2) mags for it meant I got to shoot 20 rounds out of it (10 round mags), then had to stop to reload meaning I lost my spot on the firing line (which accommodated six people at most at one time). That was a bit time consuming because after reloading the mags, I had to wait on a line to get back to the line. In all, I shot maybe 60 to 80 rounds at most through it. Not many and nowhere nearly enough to make it a true test of the little plinker but enough to realize that it functioned okay, at least with the ammo I was using that day. The ammo was CCI Blazer and Federal high velocity, copper plated, 36 grain hollow points (1993 vintage). The gun fed, fired, extracted and ejected every round without failure.

It was pretty accurate too, at least at a very close range. The target was set up at about 5 yards. I fired off a couple of mags rapid fire to see how it would function, then switched over to slow fire for the next couple to few magazines full. While shooting slow fire, I was able to attain a single group smaller than a dime for one mags worth of lead. That was with the old Federal ammo. The other groups were from smaller than a nickel to about a quarter in size.  The slightly smaller than nickel sized group was also with the Federal ammo; I think I only fired 20 rounds of that ammo through the S&W. The other groups that were a bit more open, from a nickel to a quarter size, were with the CCI Blazer.

I might have done better had I not been getting bombarded with hot brass casings from a full auto gun while shooting one stint of two mags worth of ammo and had I not had the guy next to me shooting off a 50 caliber rifle. The shockwave from the muzzle on that thing was tremendous and it certainly did just a little to make me loose my concentration on the next shot. Anyway, I did okay with it and have to say that at the least it seemingly would make a decent plinker. I think it would also probably make a decent small game pistol but will have to do some serious firing at a regular range to determine that. I will be doing just that - taking it to a regular range for some further evaluation on a future date. I'll write it up in more detail after that.

As for the impression I got after its first shots, I am happy with it even though, as I said, it appears to be cheaply made and I expect certain parts will not take all too long to fail. I guess after a year or three of toting it around and shooting it here and there, I may be able to tell if the parts I am guessing will fail will have done so or not. Hopefully I am wrong about it and it will prove itself a better made pistol than I suspect. By the way, the problem I wrote about recently with having difficulty getting one of the mags out of the mag well seems to have gotten a bit better though it is still not as easy as it should be to remove that particular magazine.

All I all, it seems like a fair to okay pistol so far, though it could use some improvements (such as having not one but both mags come free properly) and time and more ammo will tell if it is a plinker or a junker.

All the best,
Glenn B

Old Ammo - Like Old Faithful

Old Faithful is a geyser within the confines of Yellowstone national park. It erupts, send a plume of water skyward, about every 60 to 90 minutes dependent of the length of the previous eruption. The intervals between eruptions lasting less than 2.5 minutes is about 60 minutes; however, if an eruption goes for more than 2.5 minutes then the next one should take place in about 90 minutes (source). The thing is that Old Faithful has been faithful respective to its eruptions at least for hundreds of years, maybe thousands of years, because it always goes bang (so to speak).

I can happily say, I recently bought some ammo that is akin to Old Faithful in that regard - it always goes bang - at least so far anyway and I think we fired about 150 rounds of it this past weekend. Now my ammo is nowhere nearly as old as that geyser and not even old as my oldest ammo but it is kind of old. In fact, it was dated, I imagine by its previous owner, 12-30-93. So it is 20 years, 7 months and 9 days old as I type. Consider though that it is value pack ammunition (in other words inexpensive or cheapo ammo) and it still has gone bang for every round we have taken out of the box. That is a good thing. Besides being good that it still booms, it means I did not waste my money when I bought two 550 round boxes of it at auction without realizing it was already 20 plus years old. Not wasting money on old misfiring ammo definitely is a good thing.

Bang-bang, shoot-shoot.

The ammo in question is Federal .22 LR, high velocity, 36 grain, copper plated, hollow point, value pack ammunition. I have to hand it to Federal, they made some good ammo back then. Besides being viable after all those years, it also is pretty accurate. I am not saying it is target grade ammo but it is certainly suited for plinking or hunting. At 5 yards, while at the recent bloggershoot I attended, I was able to put in in nickel to quarter sized groups just about every time from a certain pistol. I said just about because, at least once, I put 10 rounds of it into a single hole smaller than a dime. Sometimes I amaze myself. Yes, I know, that may not be great shooting for an expert target shooter but it sure as hell was for me and yes, I am easily amazed.

Now that I have opened the box, I guess I will use it up as my go to 22 ammo whenever I shoot 22s. It fed, fired, extracted and ejected in three different pistols without any failures - a Beretta 70S, a Ruger MKII, and S&W Model 22A-1. Luckily, I purchased two boxes of it. I can keep one closed and maybe try it out in another 10 or so years; although, I doubt I will be able to hold off that long. I will probably fire it long before I fire off any of my newer 22LR ammo.

All the best,
Glenn B

Having To Do Ammo Transfers Sucks But With Volko Supply...

...I can say without a doubt it is easy and pleasant. Yeah, I know, if you don't live in NY you may be wondering what the hell is he talking about - ammo transfers. The state of NY and our communist socialist tyrannical governor mandated, by passage of the so called NY SAFE ACT, that we serfs (they certainly think of citizens as serfs or so it seems) must purchase ammunition only in face to face dealings with FFL dealers or registered ammunition dealers in NY. So, when one orders ammunition from an online dealer, it must be shipped to either one of those. I don't like it and when and if I travel out of state and get a chance to visit a sizeable ammo dealer with good prices, I will stock up but for now, when I buy ammo online, I comply with that law even though it sucks - FUAC.

Yes the law sucks but as they say: Every cloud has a silver lining. In this case, the silver lining are dealers like the folks at Volko Supply. They make the process about as easy as it can be and charge a reasonable rate to do the transfer $10.00. That is for whatever amount of ammo they receive on behalf of the buyer in one shipment. Just as you probably would not buy a single box of 50 rounds online because it is cost prohibitive with shipping, you would not transfer only 50 rounds through them either. A case of ammo, on the other hand, makes that $10 fee a decent deal. Besides a fair deal, they are always professional, efficient, courteous and pleasant to deal with. They have, in advance, notified many online ammo dealers that they are legally able to accept ammo shipments here in NY. If a dealer does not have them listed all it takes is a phone call to them to get it arranged. That is if the out of state dealer will ship to NY. Many will not thinking it illegal. Some out of state dealers know it is legal but simply will not ship here for whatever screwball reasons they have in mind. Screw them as far as I am concerned.

I digress, this is supposed to be about Volko. So, as I was saying, the folks at Volko Supply make the process easy, almost enjoyable. It certainly is nice dealing with them, I just wish it was for something else instead of mandated ammo transfers which I despise. They also do FFL transfers for rifles. As I recall they charged me $25 for that service. I imagine they would do transfers for pistols too but that requires a separate NY  State license as I understand - which is probably a huge pain in the neck to acquire or to deal with. In addition to the FFL and ammo transfers, Volko Supply Co. Inc., located in Garden City Park, NY, is a building supply business. If you uphold the RKBA and live in the area and are in need of their firearms services (or building supplies) I recommend them highly.

All the best,
Glenn B

PS: This, as are all of my endorsements, is made freely and without me receiving any compensation.

Little By Little - The Blog Roll Grows

Got a comment today on one of my posts and clicked on the link for the commenter only to find yet another blog worthy of inclusion on the blog roll. If you have not already become acquainted, why not visit 3boxesofbs (love the blog's name) at http://3bxsofbs.infamousanime.net/.

All the best,
Glenn B

Taurus PT145 Millenneum Pro - First Shots

Ok, I finally got around to shooting the Taurus PT145 Millennium Pro that I picked up at the Hessney Auction back in June. Took it with me to the Seventh Annual NE Bloggershoot. Funny thing is, even though it is mine, I was not the first to shoot it. I think that was Haylie, my son's girlfriend (who had a great time at the bloggershoot for sure), or it was my son Brendan. I am pretty sure it was her though as I seem to recall telling her she had the honor of being the first to fire it. I got to shoot it second, I think.

Whoever shot it first honestly does not matter; I suppose how it shot is what is important. I have to say, in purely firearms technical terminology that it was pretty much balls on accurate from what I could tell after having fired maybe 50 rounds through it. Yeah, I know - not enough to mean much of a test was done but I will shoot it a little more seriously at my local range sooner or later. This is just the preliminary report of its first shots fired. At about five yards my shots were in about half dollar to silver dollar sized groups at fairly slow fire. Mind you that was with people firing monster slayer guns right next to me or firing full auto guns that filled the gap between my neck and shirt collar with hot brass. Jay G called me 'Glenn B, the human brass catcher' or something like that during one such volley from a full auto next to me. Anyway, point shooting the PT145 rapid fire at the same distance put my shots where they should have gone in rapid succession and it would have been one dead or stopped threat had I been shooting at a bad guy. Shooting at about 25 yards, I hit a red reflector of about 3" in diameter on my first shot. I hit another one at about 30 yards a few to several shots later. Only two shooters were shooting at that moment - me and Brendan and it was easy to tell I had hit them. Brendan also hit one at about 30 yards with a Beretta 92FS. That's not bad for a guy who hardly ever gets to shoot pistol and his chances to shoot handguns are truly few and far between - I think his most recent prior opportunity was two years ago at the NE Bloggershoot. As a side note, the 9mm round put a clean hole through the red plastic whereas the 45 round exploded the reflector.

I digress, so back to the Taurus. It worked flawlessly though about a hundred or so rounds in total. While I shot about 50 rounds through it, Brendan and Haylie both shot it too, so I am guesstimating 100 to maybe 150 rounds went through it in total. There were no malfunctions. It fed, fired, extracted ejected and went through it again and again flawlessly and the mags dropped freely each time the mag release button was hit. Had I not cleaned out the white protective grease that was in it from the factory, I am betting it would not have functioned nearly as well. One glitch, maybe gun design, maybe shooter error, more likely I think a  combination of both, was that the mag fell out two or three times while Haylie was shooting it. I told her to change her grip a little bit and that ended that, the mag stayed put while she shot after she adjusted her grip. I wish I had more than a mere two magazines for it so I did not have to step off the line to reload after only 20 shots (and thus lose my place and have to wait to shoot again). I am pretty sure that more mags will be a done deal before the next blogger shoot. If anyone is wondering what I can use for my birthday or as a Christmas present - there you go - at least two 10 round mags for this pistol and three or four spares sure would be nicer than I could expect.

The only thing I did not like about the PT145 was the trigger pull. It was okay but felt kind of gritty on single action; for some reason while firing double action, I did not notice the grittiness. If you let the trigger go fully forward after a shot, instead of stopping right when it resets, the trigger pull on the subsequent shot is a long mushy one with grittiness. There is almost no resistance until back at the reset point thus the mushy comment. As opposed to what I thought earlier, the reset is not markedly shorter than on other pistols. I am guessing it is about average. If you shoot again, right from the reset point, this pistol is (or can be) a fast little shooter. I am not very fast from shot to shot but can be when I need to be and I think this gun would not hinder anyone in that department as long as you know to shoot from the reset point. As for the little bit of grittiness, I would bet that will disappear after a few hundred more rounds; some range time and number of shots fired will tell if I am right or not.

One thing that took a little bit of getting used to were the sights. They are different from my other handgun sights in that the rear sight has only a single white dot instead of two or instead of a three sided outline. I thought I would have /immediately gotten used to the single dot on both the front and rear sight but each time I brought up the Taurus I kept expecting to see the two dots on the rear sight. That was at least for the first 20 to 25 rounds and also a few subsequent ones at various shot numbers through the next 25 or so. Despite that, acquisition of a good sight picture and proper sight alignment was pretty fast regardless of what I was expecting to see. My problem was not getting it right but rather was with my expectations.

All in all, I am fairly impressed in a good way. I have heard both good and bad about Taurus and some terrible too. I did not expect my first experience shooting it would be as good as it turned out. While this no Beretta or Glock it seems to be a decently made pistol that I actually might consider as a carry gun. More on it, at some later time, after I have fired at least 500 rounds or more through it.

All the best,
Glenn B
 

The Seventh Annual Northeast Bloggershoot...Feast Your Eyes On The Guns

...and take a look too at some really happy campers shooters.

The bloggershoot - it was excellent. That regardless of the seven (7) hour drive to get there, a drive that should have taken about 3 hours and 45 minutes to maybe 4 1/2 hours at most (only about 5 hours to get home). Yes, the drive going there was pretty abysmal at least as to traffic. The company for the ride, my son Brendan and his girlfriend Haylie made it bearable. As I said though, the Bloggershoot was excellent and so too were the dinners (one the night before the shoot and one on the night of the shoot after it was over) but then they are all part of the annual NE Bolggershoots.

As usual (at least for the three bloggershoots I have attended) there were plenty of shooters and many more guns than shooters. The firearms ran the gamut from a derringer in 22WMR up to a Maschinengewehr 34 (MG-3) a full auto, WWII era, German machinegun. The guns we brought along were:

Hungarian Mosin Nagant M44 (7.62x54R)
Yugoslavian SKS (7.62x39mm)
Marlin 336 (.35 Remington)
Remington R1 1911 (.45 ACP)
Taurus PT145 Millennium Pro (.45 ACP)
Beretta 92SB (9mm)
Beretta 92FS (9mm)
Glock 26 (9mm)
Ortgies (.32 Auto)
Beretta 70S (.22 LR)
Ruger MKII (.22 LR)
S&W Model 22A-1 (.22 LR)

Those, with enough ammo to last the day made for a fun shoot. I shot a decent bit but most of my day was spent watching Brendan and Haylie shoot, helping to load magazines, getting reacquainted with shooters & bloggers I met at previous bloggershoots and meeting other folks whom I had not met before.

Enough jabbering about it, let me show it to you in videos and pictures:

Our fearless leader giving us some range rules
and safety pointers before the shooting started.

Jay talking about the firing line and the backstop.

Commence Firing. Actually not the first people firing but close
to it. The line could accommodate about 4 to 5 shooters at a time.
 

Is it my turn yet!

I am bad on names and don't remember his but I can tell
you that he was having lots of fun shooting lots of guns.

 I am going to have some serious fun with this.

See, what did I tell you!

Just another funster blasting away with a 22. The range was about
25-30 yards (my guesstimate), perfect for a 22 and okay for the rest.

I'll figure it out.
 

 

Got it! (And yes even folks with obstacles to
surmount showed up - its called dedication).

It wasn't all shooting fun, here are Brendan and Haylie hard at work.
When you shoot, shoot, shoot - it  means you have to load, load, load.

Beside the targets right at the backstop, I set
up my portable target stand at about 5 yards for
pistol shooters and as it wound up for 22 rifles
shot by newbies and shotguns shot by maniacs.



Lest anyone think, by my last caption that we had
less than responsible shooters in attendance, let me
point out that the stand made it through the day with
only two bullet holes in the PVC. Those were in the
cross member right under the cardboard. Actually we
had very responsible and safety minded shooters. Any
safety infractions were few and minor and caught quickly.

It was amazing that only two shots hit the PVC.
The targets on my target stand were pretty popular
throughout the whole day. As you can see it took
its shares of hits. The cardboard backer was a half of
a shipping box I had bought at Home Depot. About
$1.25 for the folded box, cut in half along the folds
and I had two backers for the price of one. Excellent.

There was a wide selection of toys, err firearms, available.
All one had to do was ask and the answer was almost always
"Sure you can shoot it" it meaning whatever you asked to shoot.



Wish I had realized there was table space left, I had my gun
cases on the ground along with my ammo and gear. Oh my
aching back. Anyway just a couple more of the guns at the shoot.

I am pretty sure that this gal was a brand new shooter in training.
"Training for what?" you may ask and I would answer - for a
lifetime of fun, ofliberty to exercise her rights, of being able to
defend herself, and of shooty goodness that puts smiles on faces.



After a quick lesson she goes right at it.

Speaking of quick lessons, here we have one on
what is almost an ancient firearm - I think it
was a Brown Bess (heard that mentioned a few
times during the day) but I'll be darned if I know
for sure. Anyway, our hostess and her eager instructor.

A bit more of a lesson on what
wound up to be a flame thrower.

More armaments, look an extremely eeeeeevil bayonet
on an equally eeeeeevil black gun - oh Lordy please save me.

Closer look at the revolver in the above photo. I think it's
a Smith & Wesson Model 17.

Oh shit - somebody is serious about his guns! Those are
both full auto guns. FUAC, in a free state, unlike as in NY,
The People of These United States can shoot what they want.
By the way, the one on your right is a MG-34 of WWII vintage.

Just another look ay marvelous engineering.
Haylie shot the one on your left and it put
what I can only describe as a divine smile
on her face, she absolutely was radiant.

Yes, in the state the motto of which is Live Free or Die, there
were an abundant number of silenced firearms at the shoot. 

Just another two.
 

Speaking of just another two, here is Brendan

shooting two at once. Think he had fun? 

 



As I said, there was one heck of a variety.

Nice example of a Mosin Nagant.

Lest you suspect there were not other great shots of folks at the
shoot or other great shots taken by shooters who were there,
just take a look at this photo by Cher. Talk about flame throwers
and let me attest it was loud too thus dad holding onto his son's
ear muffs. The blast you felt on either side of that beast slayer was
hotly immense to say the least. By the way, the young lad was one
of the safest shooters at the bloggershoot. Dad taught him well.

When table room ran short, folks started
putting their guns anywhere

Pistols, did anyone say pistols.

Boomers to the left of us, boomers in front of us,
boomers behind us, boomer to the right of us.

Some purdy big revolvers but not the biggest there by a long shot.

 

 

Three of these rifles would be illegal to own in NY. Thank the
heavens for free states like New Hampshire - Live Free or Die!

A nice Nagant revolver and I have no clue as to the other one.

Couple of nice Combloc (by my guess) pistols.

Lonely little fellow.

 

That pistol just above may be lonely but

Brendan and Haylie shot as a pair.

 



I wish I could remember the designation for the Soviet rifle at
the bottom of the three. Semi auto, was made to replace the
Mosin Nagant but never went into widespread production. I want
one badly, it shoots 7.62x59R just like a Nagant, really nice boomer.

Big pistols, medium pistols, little tiny pistols - even
one with a bayonet attached to its front end.

There it is that little boomer with the blade attached and,
I am guessing, also with a laser sight sitting on top.



Then there were the weird guns, well at least one of them.
This is called a Zip 22.

 

Just another shooter having fun with one heck of a gun.

And of course, how can I leave out those from the astral plane.
Oh, wait a second, that's an Astra, that's from Spain, not outer or
 inner space. A nice older pistol, one of the many I wish I owned.

Another baby pistol, probably illegal here in NY - FUAC.

Another one that I would like to own, a Colt Police Positive.
I have bid on these before but never had the high bid.

 

Did I mention we were all having fun?
Can you tell that this little guy had fun
watching everyone blast away at a target
that he brought along for all to shoot. We
used just about anything as a target.

Another nice selection of boom sticks.

These two were exceptionally nice; I wish
I would have asked to shoot the lever gun.

An AR with all the bells and whistles.

Leave it to someone (not me) to bring a sword to a bloggershoot.
Have to admit though, it's a nice sword and a nicer SKS.

Jay having some fun with a Thompson Center Arms

pistol in the veritable 30-06 chambering.

 

 

Did I mention we were having fun, if you doubt

that she had lots of fun, look at the next pic.

 

Well, that's just about it for now. I will have a few more pics to post later if Brendan ever sends me those I took with his phone camera. I would have had more videos on my own camera had some of the videos not come out like others from last year, in super fast motion. I don't know why it happens but this year it effected at least a half dozen of my videos. Too bad traffic wasn't moving like that.

There is one last photo I'd like to show you. It was taken by Wally and I shamelessly lifted borrowed it from him via Facebook. I am certain he will not mind. Can you tell, at least some of us were having fun. Made me happier than you can imagine to see that she and Brendan were having lots of fun. That he was having a great time was evident in the video of him shooting the two Berettas at once, that Haylie was having a great time could be seen when she smiled through the full mag out of a full auto gun (sorry no video or pic of that) and in this photo of her as she finished shooting a 50 caliber revolver.

 

Someone referred to it as the 500 mile smile which was,
I think, a reference to the one way trip of one of the blogger's
to the bloggershoot. Funny thing is that the round trip drive
for Brendan, Haylie and myself was almost exactly 500 miles.
They could not have said it better calling it a 500 mile smile.
Her smile said it all if you were wondering were we having fun!

While that's it for now, this hopefully is a work in progress and will have at least a few more photos added in the next day or three.

 

All the best,

Glenn B