.22 LR ammo

Thanks to a friend, I scored some .22 today, a Winchester 555 pack for $40 or .075/rd. Lowest price I've seen since the great gun panic of 2013.

Should hold me for 6 months of postal matches.

Kinetic Sculptures

Build 'em and race 'em. This Saturday at Union Reservoir also known as Calkins Lake up in Longmont. It's hard to believe that some of those things will actually float, and sometimes your suspicions are confirmed.

Warm weather, skimpy bikinis, and outrageous contraptions. What's not to like? Gates open at 9AM, race starts at 1 PM and ends at 3. Miscellaneous fun stuff continues until 8:30.

Pulling A Gun

As we all know, you can get more with a gun and a smile than you can with a smile alone. If you're thinking of raising a few bucks by jacking a vehicle at gunpoint, your best bet is to pick a candidate out at the local supermarket, wait until the owner has loaded the groceries, and then accost him or her with the gun, take the keys, and leave with the vehicle and the groceries.

The wrong way to do this is to walk up to a group of bikers, pull your gun and demand the keys to the bike that appeals to you the most. Keep in mind that just getting started requires both hands and both feet which means you have to quit waving the gun about well before you make your getaway.

Bikers are notoriously possessive of their rides and even in New York where "everyone" is disarmed, this sort of effort is unlikely to end well for the thief. In this case, to quote Boris Badenov, "I love story with happy ending!"

Fun With Headlines

Reported by Taranto on WSJ online, here's one:

“Researchers Grow a Breast In a Dish”

To my observation, most of the "dishes" I've seen have grown not one, but two, all on their own.

Actual story here.

Solution To High Crime

Got high crime? Want to do something about it? Try this weird trick they used in Norway and reduce your violent crime rate by 30% in one year!

High Tech Guns

Remember that "laser rifle in the 40 watt range" the terminator was shopping for?

It's now available as a DIY kit, no serial numbers, untraceable, etc, etc.

Rumor has it that the ATF is looking to ban the green-wrapped Lithium batteries it uses.

Shooting Bowling Pins

I tried shooting bowling pins with the Glock last night with mixed results. First the good news. The low powered loads I've come up with to mitigate the recoil on my arthritic hands will take a pin off a 2 foot table with ease. They would probably be adequate on a 4 foot table as well although I'd be inclined to up the powder just a bit or use a heavier bullet.

The bad news is that the Glock, being much lighter and 2 inches shorter than my Rossi .357 revolver, takes more effort to get it carefully aimed so that speed is taking a bit of a beating to get the accuracy. Practice is in order I suppose.

Which brings me to this: How about an all paper pin match? Use this target:

 Two shooters each get 2 of these, side by side, at 3-1/2 yards as this target is about 1/2 scale. Each shooter gets 6 shots, 3 on each target and must alternate between targets. Whoever has the most hits in the circles is the winner with ties broken by whoever finishes first.

3 classes: Major = any centerfire pistol over 9mm, Minor = any center fire pistol 9mm or less, and rimfire. Sharpen your skills without having to clean up the wood and plastic debris.

Update: Revised the target.

The Electric Skateboard Finds A Home

In the "why didn't I think of that?" category although it's probably because I don't play golf. Here's an electric skateboard that seems to make the game more fun:

The big complaint about it is the lack of beer storage. Still, look at that unoccupied area over the rear wheels and imagine a cooler rack. Since everyone has his or her own board, you only need to carry booze for yourself so even that doesn't need to be very big. A small keg should do it along with a cup holder on the handlebar.

Found here in the WSJ which is behind a paywall. The product and the company is called GolfBoards. This looks as useful as a Segway but far less intimidating.

Man Cave Decor

Sick? Yes.

Twisted? Yes.

Hilarious?
Absolutely.

Gun Fun

Got out Friday and tried the e-postal target. Good thing I brought a lot because that one is addictive. I used 5 different guns on it and surprisingly did better with the Glock 22 than the Ruger Mk 1.

Also the level of accuracy required for a defensive piece or a bowling pin gun is not that required of a tiny bullseye gun. That's tiny bulls eyes, not tiny gun.

After firing 10 shots at the target, inspecting the target with binoculars at 30 feet, I missed a hole, down in a dark corner, in front of a black backstop, and tried for one more shot. The additional shot proved to be hole # 11 in a 10 shot limit target, and to add insult, it was my best target with that gun. Oh yes, and it missed.

Attitude Adjustment App

Yep, now there's an app for your crappy attitude. Feeling down? Zap! you're happy. Got road rage? Zap! you're calmed down and don't care about getting cut off.

The problem I see is that it probably won't work for just anyone on just anyone else, and the people who need it won't use it on themselves.

Going Green

It's that time of year again when all the greenie institutions get out and flog their wonderfulness. Last week the bus people were at my work taking pictures of anyone they could round up to possibly use on a billboard thanking my employer for giving everyone a bus pass.

I had not yet gotten my coffee and they didn't notice my cup had a Jaguar logo on it so I might wind up on a billboard.

Along with that is national Bike To Work day. Again here's the flyer, copied from the very first one published. Note that the word bicycle does not appear anywhere on the poster.

Only the date has been changed in the wording. Oh yes, and the picture. It originally featured a yuppie-looking fellow madly pedaling a 10-speed. I figured a bike is a bike and besides this is more like the way I roll. Just instead of an old Harley flathead, I have an old Honda Sabre.

DO NOT Shoplift in Greenwood Village

They are an up-scale type of place with a low crime rate and they aim to keep it that way. When someone boosts some goods from a Wal Mart and makes a run for it, best not run into G.V. The cops there take that sort of thing VERY seriously:

This from a 20 hour standoff and what looks to be a years supply of flash-bangs and tear gas.

And no, it wasn't his house.

Update: The homeowner wasn't impressed either.

June E-Postal

The June match is up at Engineering Johnsons.

In High-visibility black and white at the link. Based on the size of those animals, I have a decent shop at 50%. This is one of those targets that favors the larger calibers so drag out your S&W .500 Magnum, load up with .500 Wimpys and have a go. Good exercise for your carry piece as well.

Another Would-Be Gun Grab

This has been all over for the last week or two:

The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have been convicted of domestic abuse.

Yeah, the administration wants to disarm you, but we knew that. My question is this: What's a high-powered pistol?

Maybe one of those cut-down AR's I'm thinking. The ATF could define them as SBRs and demand they be turned in. Of course the owners could simply put on a longer barrel and a stock and voila! the "pistol" is now a rifle.

Still, anybody know for sure or will this be kept secret as long as possible to prevent people pointing out any obvious flaws and making Barry and the boys start all over again.