It’s all over the local media.
Police are saying that this was an actual accidental shooting caused by a mechanical failure, not a negligent discharge. My suspicion is some sort of decocker failure.
Unfortunately, there was a rule 2 violation, and the man’s 10 month old son was shot in the chest and killed.
It’s probably a good idea to stay away from the comments sections of the news articles.
Actual Headline: Dad finds loaded gun, ammo near MTSU campus
Accurate Headline: Drunk finds Police Officer’s utility belt, complete with all equipment, in ditch.
Actual Headline: House OKs Proposal To Cut Lawmaker Allowances
Accurate Headline: Democrats can’t understand why Nashville Legislators shouldn’t get a hotel per diem.
Actual Headline: Democratic lawmakers vote to replace longtime Nashville election commissioner Eddie Bryan
Accurate Headline: Democrats fire 20 year political appointee after he votes to check the citizenship status of voters who recently immigrated
We’re listing the house in a few days. Been here a touch more than three years. We’re moving a little bit closer to work and to a much better school system.
The house we’re in now was a foreclosure, but it was in very good shape. There were a couple of things we wanted to do after we moved in, but apparently the normal process for these sort of things is this:
So now we’ve got a finished fourth bedroom, new landscaping, new carpet, miscellaneous items from original construction removed, and many other things. And a storage unit, which makes me die a little inside (but we have a storage unit to declutter and make the house look bigger, so there’s that).
And cleaning. Lots of cleaning.
This stuff
Magic Erasers
Super Glue works really well to repair that diffuser
Replacement diffusers are more expensive than new fixtures
A trashcan full of roofing shingles and planters (with the dirt still in them) is really, really heavy.
The Excursion is a Transformer. It transforms from “Minivan for Dads” into “Uhaul Box Truck” pretty easily.
Blogging about shooting, and any actual shooting, may be delayed for a while.
I may have mentioned that I am keeping a friend’s firearms while he is out of the country, with his explicit wish that I shoot them. One of them is a Remington 700 in .308 that has an absolutely terrible 4x scope on it. My friend will be gone until sometime in 2015, so I’m thinking about replacing the glass with something a little better.
The big-box sports store near my house has this Weaver Kaspa 4-16X44SF Ballistic-X Scope
It’s got side-focus and a range-finding/bullet drop compensating reticle (which I can’t find much information on). The windage and elevation are finger-adjustable once you remove the caps, making it functionally like this one
Anybody got one? Should I run far, far away? The display model in-store is clear and easy to use, but will it hold up to .308? Save my money and get a “real” scope
My priority this year is optics for the rifles I have, and this one is inexpensive enough that I’m tempted to go ahead and get it for the loaned one.
Apparently even the Tennessean (the local main-stream paper) has noticed that there’s a bit of an ammo shortage right now.
By the way, this ran on the front page as the big color article, so I’m guessing today was a slow news day.
As per usual, it’s probably best to not read the comments.
Rachel Lucas is blogging again.
She switched to Twitter-only there for a while, and I don’t get Twitter so I was deprived of her wit for a year or so. Glad to see she’s back (and that she has a precious mutt).
Bush Justice Department authorization to use waterboarding on a foreign terrorist in a foreign country: “Shameful”
Obama Justice Department authorization to use drone strikes on Americans in America: That’s probably okay. Let’s not talk about it right now.
TDS Telecom has been trying desperately to get in to the Nashville market. They are directly and aggressively competing with Comcast (whose customer service practices come from depths of Hell) and AT&T (who still think a land line is required for anything).
My mother has TDS service and is quite pleased with it. Fiber Optic straight to her new house. It’s pretty neat and uber-geeky. We’re hopefully moving soon and I was planning on giving them a chance.
Was.
After several months of throwing their mailers in the trash after briefly looking at them, I got this:
WTF? Why am I getting something from the BILLING office for TDS? I’ve never had service with them, ever. It’s addressed to me, so it’s not a delivery problem. Did someone steal my identity? WHAT IS THIS!?!?
Oh. It’s more promotional material.
Screw you guys.
Advertisements don’t come from the billing department. Bills come from the billing department, and not addressing bills you didn’t sign up for can have serious consequences. Which, I guess, was the point.
If you’re going to LIE to me when you’re trying to win my business, how badly are you going to treat me once you’ve already acquired me?
…when I came back from lunch and saw this as the top story on local media.
Police arrested a south Nashville man after they said he was threatening a neighborhood with a semi-automatic machine pistol.
A semi-automatic machine pistol, you say? How’s that work, exactly?
I double-facepalmed when I clicked on the article and read the URL title: “south-nashville-uziarrest”
The gun is reportedly a MAC-10, but I’m sure it’ll end up being a Masterpiece Arms 9mm. Or an AR or AK pistol. Or a revolver.
Oh, and I tried to email the reporter but their “Email us” link is malformed.
Looks like Marlin has decided to put out Project Appleseed edition 795’s. Oleg has a post up about them here that includes close up pictures that would put anything my hamfisted attempts at photography could produce (there’s a reason he gets paid for his stuff, and I don’t).
The Appleseed edition is essentially the same setup as I took when I participated in it. From the pictures, it looks like a stock 795 .22 semi-auto with Tech-Sights and a GI sling. What I took differed only in that I used a different kind of sling that frankly didn’t work well as a shooting aid. Oh, and mine didn’t come with a certificate good for one Appleseed shoot.
I know everyone loves the Ruger 10/22, but I’d wager that the Marlin 795 is just as good of a rifle (some say better out of the box), and costs significantly less. The base 795 goes for around $150 these days, and it looks like the MSRP for the Appleseed edition is $299, which isn’t far off what it would cost to buy the base, Tech-Sights, sling, second mag, and membership to Appleseed. For that money, you’re looking at not much more than a base line Ruger 10/22.
Of course, I’ve gone a little further in tricking mine out for the next time I head to Appleseed in hunt for that patch, but that set up will do great for most folks.
