The Common Black Bear
30 Oct 26 “Don’t bet your life on ‘generalities!’” Ferris Grizzly bears and wolves “generally” don’t like being in the same area as humans. By contrast, black bears and coyotes (like rats and wild pigs) have “adapted” to living close to, even among, humans. Thus, the vast majority of harmful/lethal bear attacks on humans involve […]
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28 Oct 26 SIG’s latest iteration: Since the first of the year, I’ve received several phone calls from plaintiff’s attorneys representing clients claiming to have been harmed by “uncommanded discharges” involving SIG’s 320 Pistol. Introduced to the American market in 2014, the 320 quickly became popular with American police, non-LEO consumers, and was subsequently selected […]
The Pyramid Collapses
22 Oct 26 When the Pyramid Collapses! This reply from a friend and colleague: “I spent my youth behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ of Soviet-controlled socialist Eastern Europe in the decades after WWII, and I can personally attest to the misery this wretched system ultimately inflects upon its hapless victims. Socialism removes all motivation. Low productivity […]
Pyramid Scam!
21 Oct 26 “When you take $500.00 from a productive worker (who earned it) and then give it to five lazy people (who are willfully unproductive, don’t work, and thus haven’t earned it), you lose one vote but gain five. It’s the biggest pyramid scam in history, and it’s called ‘socialism’” Elon Musk 21 Oct […]
Yet Again!
19 Oct 23 Here we go again! “Good men must know violence, so that evil men do not become fluent in it” Musashi Last Thursday, a teenage school shooter, who broke-into an elementary school in Bend, OR and murdered four, was subsequently shot dead by the father of two children who were enroled at the […]
Medical Aid to Suspects!
13 Oct 26 “‘Risk’ is nothing more than the interaction between probability and consequence” Rendering medical aid: Last night, we had an OIS (Officer-Involved Shooting) on the CSU Campus here in Ft Collins, CO. A CSU Campus patrolman fired his pistol at a single suspect. Suspect was struck and is currently hospitalized. No officers, nor […]
Random?
9 Oct 26 “America’s ‘intellectual community’ has never been very bright, nor honest. They’re all sheep, following whatever the current pseudo-intellectual fashion happens to be, and snobbishly demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep.” Orson Card This past weekend in Chicago, an innocent seven-year-old girl was walking on a public sidewalk, hand-in-hand with her […]
No joy!
4 Oct 26 “There lives more faith in honest doubt… than in half the creeds.” Tennyson Developments! Some ammunition companies are now making high-strength, steel cartridge cases that can supposedly handle 80k psi. Some are monolithic. Others are two-piece (“bi-metal,” with the cartridge base of steel, while the forward portion is traditional brass). Bullets mounted […]
Big-Game Hunting
3 Oct 26 Fall big-game hunting at Shawnee Ridge, OH On Thursday of this week, Vicki and I, along with a cadre of close friends and colleagues, went on our annual big-game hunting extravaganza at our favorite place for such things, Shawnee Ridge in southern OH. It was spectacular, as always! I shot a beautiful […]
“The System” fails!
2 Oct 26 “The System” will fail you. You’re going to have to save yourself! As Western Civilization continues to deteriorate, a revealing symptom is the ecumenical denigration of individual heroism, individual decisiveness. Audacious heroes are today predictably besmirched as “vigilantes” by the leftist media and leftist politicians. Leftists insist that we never to do […]
Gun industry legends Dave Spaulding, Massad Ayoob, Mike Boyle, and John Farnam join Fernando Coelho to dive deep into the history of the gun industry, shedding light on how firearms and firearms training have transformed over the decades. They discuss the dramatic shift from traditional print reviews to the digital age of internet forums, social media influencers, and YouTube personalities of the industry.
