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| I said they would be armed, I never said with what. She is definitely sufficiently armed, with what it takes, to take down any straight man she wants to bring down. |
All the best,
Glenn B
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Everyman's Evening Eyeful
A Few Road Trips Are Upon Me..
...and before I leave home, for each trip, I will remove my EZ-PASS from my car and I will not purchase anything with a credit card while on the trips. The reason is simple, it is time to go digging in various locations. I know, some say if you think it time to bury certain things then it is high time to use them. All I can say in reply is that: I am not about to bury all of what I have, just enough to fall back upon for the Zombie Apocalypse should it befall us and should the zombies somehow prevent me from being able to access what I currently have at at hand. If you are wondering what prompted my desire to dig, go here:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/16/obama-reportedly-to-make-supreme-court-nomination-as-early-as-wednesday.html
If you are wondering about the whole zombie thing, go to YouTube and search for the key words 'Bob Hope zombies'.
All the best,
GB
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/16/obama-reportedly-to-make-supreme-court-nomination-as-early-as-wednesday.html
If you are wondering about the whole zombie thing, go to YouTube and search for the key words 'Bob Hope zombies'.
All the best,
GB
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
Life Is A Glass Of Cherries (And Some Applejack)
Have you ever eaten maraschino cherries, ones from which you drained the sweet red fluid and then replaced it with good hard spirits? I used Laird's Applejack recently and let it set for a week or so (I've used white lightning and potato vodka in the past).
Well, I just put 6 of those cherries in a glass, with a little of the applejack and cherry juice/syrup concoction from the jar (there is always some of the liquid left in the cherries that mixes with the booze) and added about 4 ounces of Laird's Applejack to it. The ration was about 4 to 1 for the liquids with the applejack being the predominant one. Sipped it down slowly, enjoying every sip as it passed through my lips and over my gumbs, during the last 15 minutes or so.
It was heavenly and had me smiling and looking forward to munching those cherries. Well, I threw back the glass and caught all of the cherries in my maw at once. I savored each bite until about the third or fourth one when I bit down hard on a pit. I swear, if I hadn’t had a good four ounces of the Applejack in that drink I would have howled in agony. As it is now, it only hurts like hell and I am betting I cracked one of my teeth, or made an existing crack worse, but with all the post radiation cracks - what does one more matter. What really matters right about now is having another wee dram of that Laird's Applejack.
All the best,
Glenn B
Friday, March 11, 2016
She Kept Pulling The Trigger Until It Went Bang...
...and that had me thinking she was one lucky woman or that maybe she did something else in there that she does not remember doing. I am referring to a woman in Louisville, KY parking garage who was stalked and then accosted by a dirtbag who tried to overpower her and who threatened her with a knife. More here.
A self defense shooting is a stressful situation, it can play tricks on your memory by making it sharp as a razor's edge on some things and by turning it into a blank slate relative to other things. So while you may remember your attacker's description, what he attempted to do to you that warranted a deadly force response from you, what weapon he was holding, how you drew your weapon and that you fired but only after pulling the trigger several times, you may forget that you tapped-racked-reengaged to clear a malfunction. Why? Who can say with certainty!
Of course, your mind, sometimes in like situations, can add memories of things that never took place . It is quite possible this woman squeezed the trigger only once but because of the stress remembers having done so several times before her pistol fired. Then again, maybe that is exactly the way it happened. She squeezed the trigger and it did not fire and she repeatedly pulled back on the trigger over and over again and the little 32 caliber Beretta Tomcat that she was holding finally went bang. It could have been a primer issue, a firing pin/striker issue, a spring issue, the gun being fouled, the pistol being out of battery or whatever. If it was one of these issues, she truly was lucky that it went off at all.
Regardless though, it did go off and she shot her attacker in the neck. He hastily departed. She saved her own life because she had the mindset to do so instead of being stupid enough to think that calling 911 would have a blue knight behind the shield suddenly appear and come to her rescue.
All the best,
GB
A self defense shooting is a stressful situation, it can play tricks on your memory by making it sharp as a razor's edge on some things and by turning it into a blank slate relative to other things. So while you may remember your attacker's description, what he attempted to do to you that warranted a deadly force response from you, what weapon he was holding, how you drew your weapon and that you fired but only after pulling the trigger several times, you may forget that you tapped-racked-reengaged to clear a malfunction. Why? Who can say with certainty!
Of course, your mind, sometimes in like situations, can add memories of things that never took place . It is quite possible this woman squeezed the trigger only once but because of the stress remembers having done so several times before her pistol fired. Then again, maybe that is exactly the way it happened. She squeezed the trigger and it did not fire and she repeatedly pulled back on the trigger over and over again and the little 32 caliber Beretta Tomcat that she was holding finally went bang. It could have been a primer issue, a firing pin/striker issue, a spring issue, the gun being fouled, the pistol being out of battery or whatever. If it was one of these issues, she truly was lucky that it went off at all.
Regardless though, it did go off and she shot her attacker in the neck. He hastily departed. She saved her own life because she had the mindset to do so instead of being stupid enough to think that calling 911 would have a blue knight behind the shield suddenly appear and come to her rescue.
All the best,
GB
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Everyman's Evening Eyeful
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| Could she be the local school teacher or librarian at home. |
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| Could she be your local barmaid on her weekend off. |
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| During the week, could it be, she wraps her hands around a pole and dances to your heart's content as you shell out greenback after greenback in tips; then on her weekends she wraps her hands around this steel & polymer boomstick and shoots targets that look like fat old men holding wads of bills. |
Glenn B
Chaulk Up Another One For An Armed Citizen
It is being reported here that an escaped murder suspect, identified in the article as Rafael McCloud, broke into a family home in Vicksburg, MS and stabbed the husband and then tied up the occupants including the child of the homeowners. After about three hours of being bound, one of the homeowners is reported to have been able to break free, retrieve a gun and shoot the dirtbag suspect in the head killing him.
If I was religious I would have to exclaim Hallelujah. Heck, I'll do it anyway and ask you to join me. Brothers and sisters - can you say it, cause if you can say it, say it loud - HALLELUJAH!
Once again I think an armed citizen has done society a favor; that my friends is about the only way I can look at this. That is other than to say "excellent shooting" to whoever it was who shot the guy in the head.
All the best,
Glenn B
If I was religious I would have to exclaim Hallelujah. Heck, I'll do it anyway and ask you to join me. Brothers and sisters - can you say it, cause if you can say it, say it loud - HALLELUJAH!
Once again I think an armed citizen has done society a favor; that my friends is about the only way I can look at this. That is other than to say "excellent shooting" to whoever it was who shot the guy in the head.
All the best,
Glenn B
Another Falling Star
All the best,
Glenn B
Good Set of Articles By Beretta - Introducing Stress to Your Shooting Regimen
Beretta has a set of two articles on their blog, about introducing stress into your firearms training. I think it a worthy read especially for those among you who have been limited to shooting holes in paper at a range without any sort of stress introduced into your routine. Such stress can be as simple as shooting a predetermined number of shots within a certain time limit or shooting competitively against a buddy in the next lane.
The articles can be found via these links:
All the best,
Glenn B
The articles can be found via these links:
All the best,
Glenn B
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
When I Recommend Shooters Get Training From A Certified Firearms Instructor...
...as a way not only to improve their shooting but to prepare themselves for the reason many of them carry in the first place - to defend themselves, I often get a lot of resentment from untrained, casually trained or self trained shooters. For some reason, way too many folks think anyone who suggests professional training is being some sort of snobbishly, arrogant, all knowing gun guru who believes that because of training they are better than the untrained. They are right about one thing, when it comes right down to a self defense situation, in which I shoot to defend myself, chances are that because of my training, I almost always will be better off than someone without it. That is not snobbery nor arrogance, it is just that the odds would be with me because of the training I have received. It's no guarantee that I will always come out the winner, it is just good hedging.
I am suggesting, no I am telling you as a point of fact, that to become a responsible shooter, you would be much better off getting trained by a certified firearms instructor than you would be by being self taught. By getting training from a certified instructor, you also probably would be better off than you would be if your father, brother, uncle bubba or your best friend had taught you - that is at least if you are carrying for self defense. Of course, you could be taught to shoot competently by a knowledgeable friend or a relative. The thing is, unless they have received training from a certified instructor and unless that training has been fairly recent, you have almost no way of knowing that you are getting the right training or that the training you are getting is being done right. Sure, it can be turkey shoot even with a certified instructor but you are much more likely to be properly instructed by someone who has been certified by a well recognized training establishment such as the NRA, a private concern like Gunsite Academy, or a manufacturer of firearms that offers such training than by an untrained and uncertified individual. Also, please note, while I am talking mainly about tactical or self defense shooting, it probably goes for all types of shooting.
There are many aspects of self defense and or tactical shooting that a certified firearms instructor can teach you. You need to pick the right instructor and right type of training. I already mentioned how to pick the right instructor, go to one certified by a major and well respected firearms entity. As for the right course, that is pretty simple. You don't want to take a Hunter Safety Course and think that will get you ready for a gun battle against armed robbers in the street or to defend your loved ones and your home during a home invasion - you would want to take a course in self defense shooting. If you have a question about which type of instruction to seek, call someone like the NRA and ask for some advice.
Some of the topics a certified instructor of self defense or tactical shooting should cover with you are: basic firearms safety, firearms and ammunition nomenclature, sight alignment, sight picture, proper stances and other shooting positions, proper grip, drawing and holstering, holster selection, basic operation of different types of firearms such as revolvers, semi-auto pistols, defensive shotguns and rifles; trigger control, basic two handed shooting techniques and drills, basic one handed shooting, shooting mistakes to avoid, shooting from a rest, aimed versus point shooting, hip shooting, vertical tracking, basic tactical shooting, one handed tactical shooting and reloading, reloading and malfunction drills - both two and one handed, proper use of cover and concealment, man down shooting, shoot - don't shoot scenarios, situational awareness, shooting under stress, firearms retention, firearms takeaways, basic firearms maintenance, legal aspects of self defense, what to do post-shooting if involved in a shooting, how to avoid a shooting situation in the first place and proper mindset. That's certainly not an all inclusive list but it covers a lot of what you should know about and be able to do proficiently and reliably if you plan to carry for self defense.
There are lots of places to get decent firearms training that can supplement that which you receive from a certified instructor. You can find a wealth of information about different shooting methods, in addition to what a certified instructor has taught you. It is out there from basic shooting all the way up to advanced tactical and even sniper training. It's in books, professional videos, magazines, on the internet (both video and written) or available from shooting associates. Note that the most important word in first sentence of this paragraph was the word supplement. Such additional training - that you get from books, videos and other sources - should be secondary and supplemental to what you learned from a qualified and certified firearms instructor. You should want, and I think really need, a certified and competent instructor to show you how to do it before you try doing something you saw in a video or read in a book - at least until you have become a competent and well practiced shooter by which point you should be competent enough to self train within your limits and to improvise your previous training to a good extent; although, refresher courses from certified instructors are good things to take now and again.
So before you shoot, or at least before you carry for self defense,
I recommend you get some training from a certified instructor. If for no other reason, the main purpose of me saying that last is simple., it is safety. So even if you are hesitant to listen to me and follow my advice on it, then do it for no other reason than for your own safety and the safety of innocents around you. Believe me, if in a self defense shooting situation, you never want to hear the second loudest sound in the world. If you do hear it - you want to know how to effectively deal with it. You also never want to hear the loudest sound in the world and you want to know how to avoid it at all costs because all too often there is no acceptable way to deal with it. A certified instructor can teach you how to deal with the one and how to avoid the other in ways that are considered safe, effective and acceptable among the professional shooting community.
Now, you may be wondering, just what are those two sounds. Well, the second loudest sound in the world is "click" or the sound your gun misfiring when you had hoped for and needed it to go bang. That one can often be remedied and being properly trained in how to remedy it can save your life. The other one, the loudest sound in the world, that's "bang" when you didn't mean to fire a shot but did fire one. If, at the moment you fire it, it just happens to be pointed at someone and that someone is you, you may wind up dead. Yep, you may live long enough to have heard it. On the other hand, if that shot is pointed at someone you did not intend to shoot, you may soon wish you were dead. I assure you, if you kill an innocent person (maybe even a loved one) that "bang" will have been the loudest noise you ever will have heard and it will reverberate in your conscience for the rest of your life. There will be no way to silence it.
Take it or leave it, my advice to you is to get as much firearms training, from certified instructors, that you can get. While it is not a fail safe, proper training from a firearms instructor can go a long way to help you be the winner in a gun fight. Just as importantly, if you pay attention to the training, then faithfully practice what you have been taught, it may just help you avoid ever hearing the loudest sound in the world and that can only be a good thing.
All the best,
Glenn B
I am suggesting, no I am telling you as a point of fact, that to become a responsible shooter, you would be much better off getting trained by a certified firearms instructor than you would be by being self taught. By getting training from a certified instructor, you also probably would be better off than you would be if your father, brother, uncle bubba or your best friend had taught you - that is at least if you are carrying for self defense. Of course, you could be taught to shoot competently by a knowledgeable friend or a relative. The thing is, unless they have received training from a certified instructor and unless that training has been fairly recent, you have almost no way of knowing that you are getting the right training or that the training you are getting is being done right. Sure, it can be turkey shoot even with a certified instructor but you are much more likely to be properly instructed by someone who has been certified by a well recognized training establishment such as the NRA, a private concern like Gunsite Academy, or a manufacturer of firearms that offers such training than by an untrained and uncertified individual. Also, please note, while I am talking mainly about tactical or self defense shooting, it probably goes for all types of shooting.
There are many aspects of self defense and or tactical shooting that a certified firearms instructor can teach you. You need to pick the right instructor and right type of training. I already mentioned how to pick the right instructor, go to one certified by a major and well respected firearms entity. As for the right course, that is pretty simple. You don't want to take a Hunter Safety Course and think that will get you ready for a gun battle against armed robbers in the street or to defend your loved ones and your home during a home invasion - you would want to take a course in self defense shooting. If you have a question about which type of instruction to seek, call someone like the NRA and ask for some advice.
Some of the topics a certified instructor of self defense or tactical shooting should cover with you are: basic firearms safety, firearms and ammunition nomenclature, sight alignment, sight picture, proper stances and other shooting positions, proper grip, drawing and holstering, holster selection, basic operation of different types of firearms such as revolvers, semi-auto pistols, defensive shotguns and rifles; trigger control, basic two handed shooting techniques and drills, basic one handed shooting, shooting mistakes to avoid, shooting from a rest, aimed versus point shooting, hip shooting, vertical tracking, basic tactical shooting, one handed tactical shooting and reloading, reloading and malfunction drills - both two and one handed, proper use of cover and concealment, man down shooting, shoot - don't shoot scenarios, situational awareness, shooting under stress, firearms retention, firearms takeaways, basic firearms maintenance, legal aspects of self defense, what to do post-shooting if involved in a shooting, how to avoid a shooting situation in the first place and proper mindset. That's certainly not an all inclusive list but it covers a lot of what you should know about and be able to do proficiently and reliably if you plan to carry for self defense.
There are lots of places to get decent firearms training that can supplement that which you receive from a certified instructor. You can find a wealth of information about different shooting methods, in addition to what a certified instructor has taught you. It is out there from basic shooting all the way up to advanced tactical and even sniper training. It's in books, professional videos, magazines, on the internet (both video and written) or available from shooting associates. Note that the most important word in first sentence of this paragraph was the word supplement. Such additional training - that you get from books, videos and other sources - should be secondary and supplemental to what you learned from a qualified and certified firearms instructor. You should want, and I think really need, a certified and competent instructor to show you how to do it before you try doing something you saw in a video or read in a book - at least until you have become a competent and well practiced shooter by which point you should be competent enough to self train within your limits and to improvise your previous training to a good extent; although, refresher courses from certified instructors are good things to take now and again.
So before you shoot, or at least before you carry for self defense,
I recommend you get some training from a certified instructor. If for no other reason, the main purpose of me saying that last is simple., it is safety. So even if you are hesitant to listen to me and follow my advice on it, then do it for no other reason than for your own safety and the safety of innocents around you. Believe me, if in a self defense shooting situation, you never want to hear the second loudest sound in the world. If you do hear it - you want to know how to effectively deal with it. You also never want to hear the loudest sound in the world and you want to know how to avoid it at all costs because all too often there is no acceptable way to deal with it. A certified instructor can teach you how to deal with the one and how to avoid the other in ways that are considered safe, effective and acceptable among the professional shooting community.
Now, you may be wondering, just what are those two sounds. Well, the second loudest sound in the world is "click" or the sound your gun misfiring when you had hoped for and needed it to go bang. That one can often be remedied and being properly trained in how to remedy it can save your life. The other one, the loudest sound in the world, that's "bang" when you didn't mean to fire a shot but did fire one. If, at the moment you fire it, it just happens to be pointed at someone and that someone is you, you may wind up dead. Yep, you may live long enough to have heard it. On the other hand, if that shot is pointed at someone you did not intend to shoot, you may soon wish you were dead. I assure you, if you kill an innocent person (maybe even a loved one) that "bang" will have been the loudest noise you ever will have heard and it will reverberate in your conscience for the rest of your life. There will be no way to silence it.
Take it or leave it, my advice to you is to get as much firearms training, from certified instructors, that you can get. While it is not a fail safe, proper training from a firearms instructor can go a long way to help you be the winner in a gun fight. Just as importantly, if you pay attention to the training, then faithfully practice what you have been taught, it may just help you avoid ever hearing the loudest sound in the world and that can only be a good thing.
All the best,
Glenn B
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
Everyman's Evening Eyeful
Do you remember Dale Evans, are you old enough.? She was no youngster when I was a kid but in her younger days she was quite the looker.
No, neither of the above was Dale Evans. Dale may not ever have been photographed in as provocative a photo as those above but she came purdy darned close.
All the best,
Glenn B
Ammo Alert - 308 WIN
One of the best prices I have seen in awhile for 180 grain, soft point, 308 WIN ammo is being offered by Palmetto State Armory. While one or two other sites I could find had it about one or two cents per round less expensive, their shipping, at least to me, was much lower than the other dealers would have charged for shipping.
What they have is:
Prvi Partizan 308 Winchester, 180gr, Soft Point Ammunition for $13.99 per box of 20 rounds.
I don't know about you but as I said it is one of the best prices, considering their shipping charges, that I have seen in a while. It is probably needless to say but I will say it anyway, I placed my order already. I have shot this ammo before, and as far as I am concerned, it is good enough for deer hunting out to at least 100 yards (and probably much further but I only got a chance to shoot it out to 100 yards). I imagine it would be darned good at shooting other things too.
If you are interested, go here:
http://palmettostatearmory.com/prvi-partizan-308-win-sp-180gr-pp3-27.html
Granted, PSA is somewhat slow on getting orders shipped, or at least they have been so on some of my past orders but they have ammo and other goods at prices worth the wait.
All the best,
Glenn B
What they have is:
Prvi Partizan 308 Winchester, 180gr, Soft Point Ammunition for $13.99 per box of 20 rounds.
I don't know about you but as I said it is one of the best prices, considering their shipping charges, that I have seen in a while. It is probably needless to say but I will say it anyway, I placed my order already. I have shot this ammo before, and as far as I am concerned, it is good enough for deer hunting out to at least 100 yards (and probably much further but I only got a chance to shoot it out to 100 yards). I imagine it would be darned good at shooting other things too.
If you are interested, go here:
http://palmettostatearmory.com/prvi-partizan-308-win-sp-180gr-pp3-27.html
Granted, PSA is somewhat slow on getting orders shipped, or at least they have been so on some of my past orders but they have ammo and other goods at prices worth the wait.
All the best,
Glenn B
Farewell Nancy Reagan
Rest in peace Mrs. Reagan.
Nancy Reagan was a true American patriot and an honorable lady. She will be mourned and missed and her passing is a great loss to the United States of America.
Nancy Reagan was a true American patriot and an honorable lady. She will be mourned and missed and her passing is a great loss to the United States of America.
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| I, Nancy, take you, Ronald, as my husband... |
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| ...to have and to hold... |
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| ...from this day forward... |
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| ...for better... |
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| ...for worse... |
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| ...for richer.. |
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| ...for poorer... |
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| ...in sickness... |
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| ...and health... |
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| ...until death do us part. |
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| Together Again In A Sea Of Love? Who knows but I like to think that it is so for all of eternity. |
All the best,
GB
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