From Chad at Pass The Ammo:
So Jonas and I finally got our hunting store good and live. Only took a year to get everything in gear. But most the time goes into adding products. I’ve got just under 400 products on there now, and we carry about 2,000. So products are added all the time. And just in case anyone is interested and living in a true state. I can sell you an M-249 SAW, If you want to spend around 7 grand.
Yes. I want a SAW.
I’m making a new God, Guns, Glory, video called “From My Cold Dead Hands.” It’s going to be more or less a music video (I hope people like hardcore) with a bunch of photos and video of either 1) Us shooting, 2) Photos of us shooting or holding our favorite weapons, or 3) photos of our favorite weapons.
I am asking all who occasionally or regularly get on 3G (that includes you Guav… im not discriminatory) to email me their pics or video so I can add it to the movie. If you are one of those secret squirrels, who don’t like their picture on the nets, then just send me one of your favorite pics of your favorite weapon and I will be sure to include it.
You have till the end of the week! Email me: JJ [at] springer45 [dot] com… I must say, it’s looking pretty sweet so far.
“I have only five words for you, FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!”- Charlton Heston, NRA HERO
I know this is a bit old but this was this first time I have ever read it. I heard Michael Savage talking about a essay entitled “On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs.” It’s actually out of the book, “On Combat” by Lt. Col (ret) Dave Grossman.
Dave Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, trainer and speaker on the subjects of violence and human aggression and a Pulitzer Prize nominee for his book titled “On Killing“. He is currently the director of the Killology Research Group. You may find out more about the author, his books and calendar of speaking engagements on his website www.killology.com
Here are a few blurbs:
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, “Thank God I wasn’t on one of those planes.” The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, “Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to make a difference.
“If you are a warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be “on” 24/7, for a lifetime. Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself…”Baa.”
Click below to read the entire transcript.
Or, as it is often said, visualization can do wonders for performance.
On the practical side of things, John Hawkins over at The Conservative Grapevine linked to this story at Handguns Magazine. Written by an experienced police officer, it chronicles personal interviews with over 200 survivors of gunfights to write, What Really Happens in a Gunfight? Good stuff. This is a three part series with a link to the other parts at the end of each one. The link above is to the first installment.
Blue Collar Muse
With Father’s Day coming up, I thought I’d post a URL to a site with some really cool shooting glasses as well as glasses for practical application.
Be sure and check out the testimonials. These glasses have deflected sniper rounds, stopped shrapnel from slashing eyes into uselessness and allowed the soldier to keep fighting with the shrapnel STILL EMBEDDED IN THE LENSES!
For some great gift ideas, print the page out and leave it where family and friends can find it.
Enjoy!!
Blessings,
BCM
I just got home and was stupidfied by the shear awesomness that is K&D Holsters. The box sat on the table, the light beamed down through the window apon it, as if it were ordained by the Good Lord, Himself. I ripped open the box with my house key (my knife was on the kitchen counter and I couldn’t waste the three seconds to run over and get it). And what to my wondering eyes did appear, but visions of my glorious leather concealment gear. A single tear ran from my eye as I sat in silent awe of the majestic craftsmanship. Never has the hide of an cow taken on such a beautiful shape. Ever.
See for yourself:
My Whole Rig (Gun Belt, Holster, and Mag Holster)
Dakota Defender IWB for a Springfield 1911 Micro Compact
.45 ACP 6 round Magazine Holster
Double Layer 1 1/2” Gun Belt (I am changin out the buckle soon)
Sometimes things happen you didn’t plan on or that you knew were possible but considered unlikely. Unexpected events are, by nature, Ooo, I don’t know …unexpected? I thought of this Thursday morning, on my way in to work just before dawn, headed to my favorite gas station for fuel and morning coffee.
The station was closed as was a main artery headed into town. Two drunk teens ran a redlight and caused an accident. Their car was almost unrecognizable as a vehicle and they were airlifted to a local trauma unit. They hit a car forcing it into the gas station where it hit another car, smashing car two into the building. Then car one skidded into the gas pumps, almost collapsing the canopy onto the pumps and patrons below.
Definitely unexpected.
Hurricane Katrina was unexpected, too, though not unplanned for. So was the recent Asian tsunami. These two events are much larger than an auto accident but serve to remind us the world around us, macro and micro, holds some nasty surprises. Smart people take steps to prepare for them. In considering larger scale surprises, some stock up food and water, others buy generators and fuel while others establish support networks.
One of the wisest things you can do is avail yourself of your 2nd Amendment rights and arm yourself. If you have been the prudent ant and stockpiled, there will likely be a shiftless grasshopper in the neighborhood looking to play a little catch up. Being able to defend what you and your family have accumulated for your own protection and survival is a common sense part of your overall plan. Unless, of course, you live in Tennessee.
When I got home from work late Thursday, this nugget was waiting in my inbox from TeamGOP. It’s a press release from TN State Senator Mark Norris concerning TN Governor Phil Bredesen’s response to Norris’ proposed legislation. It reads in part:
NASHVILLE - The Bredesen Administration expressed opposition to Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris’ legislation limiting the Governor’s power to confiscate firearms and restrict the sale of ammunition during declared emergencies. Senate Bill 1597 would prohibit the Governor from confiscating weapons from law-abiding citizens or restricting the ability to purchase guns and ammunition during times of natural disaster or declared emergency. Most of the public is unaware that the Governor currently holds this statutory seizure authority. Norris said he received a letter from Mary Freeman, the Governor’s Director of Legislation, requesting he “consider halting further action” on Senate Bill 1597. The letter states they “disagree with the intent of this legislation and therefore cannot support it.” Norris said he simply wants to protect Tennesseans’ basic constitutional rights. “The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is never more precious than during natural disasters or declared emergencies when self defense can be the key to survival,” Norris said. “The Hurricane Katrina disaster was a wake-up call that this could happen.” In New Orleans, governmental confiscation of citizens’ arms sparked outrage in the aftermath of Katrina. A federal judge later enjoined the City of New Orleans from violating Second Amendment rights after the National Rifle Association (NRA) filed suit. “New Orleans citizens in lawful possession of weapons to protect their homes and families were forced to surrender those arms,” Norris said. “We do not want a repeat of that scenario in Tennessee. The ability to defend one’s home place and family in the absence of adequate law enforcement is essential.”
Count me in the group ignorant of the Governor’s authority to demand I surrender my lawfully owned firearms. I’m stunned to find that such authority exists. My first response is of the Hollywood vapid blonde variety, “Hellloooo …. we have, like, the ConstiTUtion!!”
Once the outrage wore off, I looked at the language and was immediately angry again. The Governor disagreed “with the intent of the legislation”. What?!? As TeamGOP’s intro to the press release stated:
When Gov. Phil Bredesen is out in public, he is surrounded by brave men and women of the Tennessee Highway Patrol who, of course, are armed. Any law abiding citizen deserves the same right and the same protection.
Is our state’s Chief Executive intending to give up his protection in the event of a crisis? Sounds ridiculous to even ask the question doesn’t it? Why does he disagree with my intent to protect my family from the same people he needs protection from?
As usual, the Gov’s intent only harms law abiding citizens with legally owned firearms. To confiscate them they first must know where they are. As we are law abiding, we’ve registered ours in accordance with the law. The bad guys, the ones we need protection from, will have no one knocking on their door to take their weapons since they are illegally acquired. Then, when they come for me and mine, I’m powerless to defend my own family and home.
I know we are unlikely to have hurricanes here, but we do have tornados. Sometimes, lots and lots of tornados. We’ve had areas declared ‘emergency areas’ before for floods and the like. And, lest we forget, Tennessee is on the New Madras fault, one of the largest earthquake fault lines anywhere. It wasn’t all that long ago that we had an earthquake here so strong it made the Mississippi River run BACKWARDS for a time. I’d say that qualifies as a natural disaster.
Contact Mark Norris and tell him thanks for looking out for us and to keep up the pressure. And contact Phil “Just Call Me Carpetbagger” Bredesen and tell him to keep his mitts off our muskets!
Keeping my powder dry, just in case …
BCM
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One of my pet peeves is when people pass on stories via email or some other media without checking to see if they are true. It’s not hard to do. I even include a link to Snopes.com over at Blue Collar Muse for precisely that reason.
Every now and then I’ve been guilty of doing it myself. So, before I pass this on, let me just state, for the record, that according to Snopes.com, the Katie Couric sniper story is false.
That having been said, it’s still a great Urban Legend and deserves being passed on as such. Besides, the pic of the .50 cal is GREAT! While I’ve seen the story before, I’ve not seen the picture. I got it from Gunny John over at Jarhead’s Firing Range and he got it from the boys over at The Politically Incorrect Gazette AKA Pigazette AKA just plain ol’ PIG.
Wondering if I can get a Concealed Carry for one of those things …
BCM
I decided to write a little something about my favorite pistol manufacturer, Springfield Armory. Why? Because I can! I currently own a Springfield XD sub-compact .40 S&W. But guess what? I just got me the hottest concealed carry .45 ACP on the market: The Springfield 1911 Micro-Compact .45 ACP.
Now don’t be jealous… i’ll let you look at it. I might even let Chad shoot it (it was on his weapon wish-list). The bad news is that now I have to sell my XD. But here is a little history on one of the most respected Arms company of all time. This is from Guns and Ammo’s “The Complete Book of the Model 1911″ magazine, article written by Paul Scarlata:
“Springfield Armory is a name that is immediately identifiable, even by those who have just a passing interest in firearms. In 1777, an arsenal was established at Springfield, Massachusetts, to manufacture cartridges and gun carriage for the U.S. Army. In 1794 President George Washington ordered that the manufacturer of small arms begin at Springfield so that the United States would not be dependent on foreign sources for it’s weaponry. By the end of that year, the Springfield Armory had 40 employees and was producing 245 muskets a month.”
Today it’s known for making high quality rifles and pistols. Springfield is a great company that puts it’s customers #1. They make a quality product and keep making improvements to their models. Click below to see my baby.
Last night I decided to head down to Sharp Shooting (Spokane’s only indoor shooting range) to take their Basic Handgun Course. I have owned a pistol for over a year now and do have my CCW but I thought it would be nice to have some professional insight on a few things.
First, I am right handed but left eye dominant AKA “Cross-dominant”. When I was in the Army I fired my weapon left-handed in order to utilize my 20/20 left eye. Holding a rifle left-handed seems to feel comfortable to me. But a pistol is a different story. I have always fired my pistol in my right hand and used a goofy version of the Weaver Stance with my left eye much like this guy. My accuracy suffered. Last night Travis (Sharp Shooting Instructor) taught me the “Isosceles Stance.” It may not look as cool but hey, Robbie Letham shoots this way, and if it’s good enough for the best pistol shooter in the world… it’s good enough for me. You positions the feet shoulder width apart, on the same plane, and pointed toward the target. Knees can be locked or slightly flexed. The lower body thus forms a second isosceles triangle. This meant I needed to hold my pistol with my left hand.
My marksmanship did improve but needless to say it took some (and will continue to take some) getting used to. I will have to change the way I carry concealed and the way I draw. I better invest in plenty of practice time. Speaking of practice… Sharp Shooting Indoor Range has a deal where you pay for a full year of unlimited shooting for $240. It’s a great deal. They are open 7 days a week and until 9PM on weekdays.
The second thing I found very helpful was the tip regarding the front sight. The instructor, who has been a competitive shooter since he was 15 and served as a policeman, taught me that it is important to always keep you front sight in focus. I found that I try too hard to focus on my target. This small helpful tip helped my shot grouping as well.
Overall it was a great class. Sharp Shooting charges $35/hour for marksmanship one on one training. I think I might get an hour or two. Next class I try: “Defensive Shotgun!”
