Yesterday afternoon I drove out to Giddings and took Karl Rehn’s Advanced Training 4: Pistol Skills Development class. The range is way out in the country making for a beautiful drive. Except it is bluebonnet season, so everyone and their dog, felt the need to go take pictures on the side of the road and…
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Carrying At My New Bank
Last week I finally had it with Compass Bank and decided to change to Chase. So on Saturday morning I went to the local branch and spent two hours creating accounts and filling out paperwork. When I walked into the bank a young man – God I sound old – greeted me and sent me…
Guess Placement Does Matter More Than Caliber
I was reading a Houston Chronicle story about a homeowner defending his property and person from a criminal with a tire iron and had a couple of interesting thoughts. First, the most fun I’ve had reading a news story comments in a long time. I love Texas. Normally threads on news paper websites are some…
Emergency
I mentioned Neil Strauss’ new book Emergency in my last post, but I wanted to talk about why I was gung-ho about it and why I pre-ordered it. (In paper no less, not Kindle) If you’ve read this blog for long you know I’ve got a lot of interests. Photography, guns, pretty girls, computers, filmmaking,…
AR Ammo Discussion
I’ve got a long time friend John who’s gotten major into all kinds of manly stuff including guns. He’s also started a blog Stuff From Hsoi and probably has as many posts in a couple of months as I have in 5 years. OK, that’s an exaggeration, but he’s very prolific. Go check it out….
Valerie Whitaker & My AR-15
I bought a day after Barak Obama was elected president from Talon Arms and named it after Barak. I mentioned this in the past, but hadn’t posted any pictures. Well now I will. I was scheduled the Sunday after I bought it shoot with nude model Valerie Whitaker, so I asked if I could bring…
FrontSight Member Now
Well I finally did it. I joined FrontSight as a Legacy member. If you look at their website that is a $9,900 membership, but I got a direct mail piece that let me get it for $1,900. I’ve been considering becoming a member since Feb 2007 when the Mrs and I went for the 4…
Obama And The Assault Weapons Ban
Don’t know if you get the NRA newsletter, but they included a PDF of President Obama’s “Plan to Stimulate Urban Prosperity” page in the last email. It was the google cache for Nov 7. In the Crime and Law Enforcement section, between “End the Dangerous Cycle of Youth Violence:”and “End Racial Proï¬ling” was this section…