Overheard at the range yesterday

By | November 4, 2018

/me gets to try a new rifle

*Bang*  *Bang*

“nice”

*BangBang*

“uh…”

“Did you bump fire it?”

“I don’t think so…”

*BangBangBang*

“right”

/me drops the magazine and makes clear

The owner sends a message to the manufacturer asking for a shipping label.

Reassembling the Blogpsphere

By | October 8, 2018

This has been festering in the back of my brain for the past few days.

I stopped blogging, really, about the time we got pregnant with our second child. I don’t know if it was that or Google Reader being discontinued, but both certainly had an effect. Maybe it was the new position at my day job, but whatever happened I just didn’t seem to have the time to sit down for an hour and hammer something out.

The podcast scratched that itch for a while, but life got in the way of that, too, eventually. Podcasts are a lot of work, even if you are just the co-host with no production or editing to do.

I never really “got” Twitter and it didn’t shock me in the least when they started banned wrong think. I quit Facebook ~10 years ago but recently started a new account just to comment in some groups and scratch that itch again. But Facebook isn’t exactly neutral ground these days, and the two political-ish groups I’m in… Well they aren’t mine so I feel like I am borrowing the audience.

My Instagram page is pretty exclusively Cherokee XJ related and I’m not going to pull a Taylor Swift and start posting political stuff on a nonpartisan business page.

So maybe I’ll start posting more here. More SayUncle than Smallest Minority.

Maybe.

Wee Little Pocket Sun

By | October 3, 2018

Just got this little guy in.  It advertises 550 lumens on high.  After using it, I believe it.  I also appreciate that it’s button press cycle is “low, high, medium, flash.”  Especially, since you can hold down the button a turn it off at any point, without cycling all the way through.  The “flash” setting is just annoying.

Oh, and I love the itty bitty pocket clip.

Interestingly, it comes with a USB cable to charge it, that little pocket clip that’s sitting next to it above, a lanyard, and a neck chain for it, but not a key ring.  This thing is the perfect size for a key ring light, and that’s where it’s currently hanging out for me.

If you’re interested in getting one, you can find it here.

Some stuff happened at GRPC

By | September 23, 2018

Sadly, I wasn’t there, but I have been following it.

Apparently, it’s been a pretty big weekend for my good friend, Erin Pallette.

First, she was awarded a Defender of Liberty award by the 2nd Amendment Foundation.

Then, she announced that Operation Blazing Sword and the Pink Pistols are merging, and she’s going to be the national coordinator for the Pink Pistols on top of her duties at Operation Blazing Sword.

Congratulations to Erin, and I know that she will keep up the good work.

Deal Alert

By | August 6, 2018

For the 13 of you who 1) still use RSS feeds and 2) haven’t unsubscribed yet, boy have I got a deal for you.

Last week, I got a mailer from Midway and one of those items in there was the Hornady AR Gunlocker for $239. I have always been interested in vehicle mounted AR safes but usually they are in the $400 range, so I started looking around.

The original MSRP is around $350 on these. Amazon had them for $220. I decided to wait a couple of days until payday/allowance day (we still do Dave Ramsey and my “blow money” comes out of the wife’s biweekly check) to see if I still wanted it. I decided that I’d probably get it when the price dropped to around $200. By allowance day, it was $204 so I bought it.

The price is still dropping and my safe was delivered today.

It was $189 when I woke up this morning and now it’s $182 with prime shipping.
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Now, I just got it today and it’s still in the box so I can’t give a review yet, but for $184 (probably lower by the time you read this) I can make it work, even if I have to replace the electronics with something more useful. It may be too wide to fit in my cherokee but I can use it as an underbed safe or something.

I Have A Problem

By | August 5, 2018

So…. I found this mag at the gun show today….

 

Yep.  A 22 round drum mag for my Bersa Thunder 380.  ProMag discontinued these things years ago, and I never thought I’d actually find one.

I’m a sick man.