"Weekend"

I just finished a 12 hour overnight, and now it's technically my "weekend," so forgive me if things are a little slow around here today...

Merry...

Easter?

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Walking Dead

Target's got season one on DVD on sale for $10 this week.  I picked it up yesterday.

GemTax Day

In, er, celebration of income taxes, Gemtech is paying the $200 privilege tax on their Trek-T 5.56 can for you if you order before the end of the month.

>:P

Finally crawling into bed (night shifts suck...) and the weather people say I should be waking up to 5-8 inches of "heavy, packing snow" throughout this afternoon and my next shift.

Hopefully one of these days I'll wake up and find myself in a place that remembers what spring is...

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Salute Products

Anybody have any experience with their stuff?  I like the idea of a springy steel target, especially since my usual range has close to zero maintenance (the target stands usually last about a month, or until the first hard rain...) Plus a nice "DING!" and some movement can make for a more enjoyable range session in my opinion, especially with newer shooters.

I'm eying up the Small Spring Base combined with an IPSC MiniMe...

If anybody's run their stuff before, feel free to chime in!

McChrystal Cleared

I didn't notice this in anything about this in the domestic press, but BBC News has it up pretty high on their feed...

That's good to hear, I always thought he seemed like a pretty decent guy, for an officer.

A Few Range Shots

Judge Testing

Not the Supreme Court type, but of the "how the hell do these things sell?" Taurus type.

Old_Painless, of The Box O' Truth fame, did a revisit of his first Taurus Judge test to see if the "magnum" version loaded with "handgun" specific .410 rounds would work any better.

The biggest thing?-

Even at 7 yards, the pattern of the Judge is too wide, and will cause some of the load to miss a bad guy. Not only are you responsible for every pellet you send down range, but if they miss him, they do not Stop him.

Not that surprised; rifled barrels, let alone super-stubby ones, never work well for shotguns.

I'll stick with the 17 rounds of 124gr JHP in the ol' M&P for now.  At least I know where they're going when I squeeze the trigger.

Oh Yeah, Prosser Won...

In case you've been stuck under a rock or just not up to speed on Wisconsin Politics, Justice David Prosser won by a bit after some misplaced ballots were found durring canvassing.

This is rather important to the impending CCW battle, as I have a feeling the minority will be challenging anything the majority passes for a while, and Justice Prosser has a 2A friendly track record.

B.A.G. Day and Whatnot...

My purchase is being slowed a bit by waiting for funds to come in, and me to make a final decision and tell my dealer to order it (it's a current production piece that's not on backorder anywhere, just need to give him the green light.)

I do see that Jay G ordered himself up one of the runners-up in my mental race for his buy.  I'll be looking forward to hearing what he has to say about it, as I may still get one down the road if we ever get CCW for those days when I'm doing something where I can't carry a gun.  I've fondled them a bit over the counter at some shops and do like how they feel.  He's also got a nice round-up of some other's purchases.

I did pick up a cheapo crap coffee cup after waiting 5 hours for my coffee to cool down from magma to a mear scalding last night (when I seriously needed it...) So if you're in the market, the Nissan Thermos Backpacker is capable of keeping coffee drinkably warm for nearly 8 hours.  The new one was on sale at the local big box for under $4 and isn't worth mentioning.  It's getting its field test tonight.

Double Yuck.

It's snowing.

Yuck

It wasn't bad... until it started sleeting.

But we powered through it.

Fun was had despite the weather, and more photos will come in the next few days.

CZ-82

I Ain't No Softy!

Currently a steady 25mph, gusting up to 35-40.

Just waiting for Marty to get done with work.

Two of my Favorite Things

Legos and Zombies.



h/t Breda

A Relevant Cause

G4 is putting together an effort to send "decent coffee" to the front lines after seeing the video that was making the rounds last week.

Everyone knows that soldiers are overseas to protect our country and our country runs on coffee (at least, according to Dunkin Donuts). Therefore, our soldiers need coffee to keep our homes safe and running!

But we can't have them suffer with bad coffee rations--and boiling up a cup of Joe in the middle of Afghanistan isn't an easy task, as you can see in the YouTube video below of Canadian soldiers demonstrating how they brew coffee in combat conditions. This makes your local Starbucks seem like the most luxurious place in the world, right?

That's why Attack of the Show is excited to launch Operation Instant Jolt where viewers like you can send in instant coffee, which we'll forward to the troops in Afghanistan. Your instant coffee donation can be sent here:

Operation Instant Jolt c/o G4TV
5850 W. 3rd St. #155 
Los Angeles, CA 90036

 We'll be accepting your instant coffee until May 1st, 2011 so get those packages in ASAP!

From my experience, even at the big places like BAF it can be difficult to find some actual quality coffee, and even worse so out in the field (no surprise there though.)

My suggestion for "instant" coffee does have to go out to the Starbucks VIA, it's easily the most convenient and trooper friendly in it's little single serving packets, and although I've been hard on Starbucks in the past, it's is easily the best tasting "instant" I've tried.

M1895 Nagant

Almost peed myself...

It's for the children.

Ducks...

I'm sure they're happy...

But they're floating a good six inches above my single-track...

The snow melt was aided by a pretty good thunderstorm over the weekend.  It's come down, but that's two floods since I've ridden on that trail, and I don't know how much longer I can take.

M&P9FS

Working on some photography stuff...

Speaking of Range Mishaps...

Stuff like this make me afraid to get into reloading.  Seems like a pretty easy mistake to make if you're even a little absent minded.

Squibs

They happen.  Listen to your gut out there.  If that last shot seemed off, stop and check.

I Agree

From Oleg.

Reverse Engineering

They've been around for a while, but today Caleb mentioned a metal frame for your Glock.  Glock is probably the most responsible for bringing plastics into the serious handgun game, freaking out the libbies all the way (ZOMG IT GOES THROUGH METAL DETECTORS!!!11)

I was going to say the only thing that they need is a steel frame for your Glock that mimics the 1911 grip angle, but then I noticed-

One of these backstraps duplicates the factory Glock grip angle. The other is flatter, resulting in the pistol pointing more naturally for the vast majority of users and mimicking the grip angle and feel of a 1911.

I have to agree with one of Caleb's points though, if you must have a metal framed pistol, just stick with a Sig or something.

At least it's for a good cause...

Shooters can now blast clay pigeons for a cause. Federal® Ammunition’s special edition Top Gun® Target loads support finding a cure for breast cancer. These distinctive pink hulls are an effective hunting and shooting practice option or a solid load for shooting competitions. A portion of the sales of this product will go directly to the search for a cure. The new 12-gauge 2-3/4-inch #8 shotshells deliver consistent performance for all types of clay target shooting.

I might have to keep an eye out for some, just for the hell of it.

B.A.G. Day

Is just around the corner.  I need to talk to my dealer about skinny nines...

Heads Should Roll...

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said it was "human error" that resulted in more than 14,000 votes from her predominantly GOP county not being reported to The Associated Press on Tuesday. She said the most significant error occurred when she entered but did not save totals from the city of Brookfield, a suburb of Milwaukee.

This puts Prosser up by more than 7,000 votes, a pretty serious amount in an election that's been as close as 11 votes...

WI Castle Doctrine Introduced

Catching up on some state news... looks like the Castle Doctrine has been introduced into the assembly.

Embarrassing...

Illinois is getting closer to CCW than we are...