Author Archives: oddball

$@!*$^#(#*!#&%@)*!

By | August 12, 2012

Something that causes cursing: having a pin punch jump and take a chunk out of your finger Something else that causes cursing: having that last blow bend the pin that was supposed to be driven into the hole. On the plus side, I did manage to bend the pin back and get it driven into… Read More »

lesson 1: Gun stays in holster unless in use!

By | August 7, 2012

How bloody difficult can that be to remember?  It seems to happen a lot that people (specifically “Only Ones”) have this tendency to take their pistols out of their holsters when they need to use the bathroom.  This leads to the possibility of someone finding a nice shiny loaded weapon on the toilet. Yep, it’s… Read More »

What the…?

By | July 30, 2012

last weekend, I was at Libertycon.  Truly a great con, which was good, since I needed to blow off some steam.  Maybe one of these years, I’ll get in with the cool crowd enough that I’ll get to go to the gun range with the Baen guys. Anyways, I was playing Descent with some folks,… Read More »

Knee jerk reactions

By | July 27, 2012

With all this talk about folks wanting to re-institute a high capacity magazine ban, I reacted in my normal way. I’ve just order a couple 17 round mags for my Bersa Thunder 9. Last time this came up, I bought a Springfield XDm 9mm compact because it held more rounds than the other guns I… Read More »

So Shiny…

By | July 10, 2012

So… as I alluded to in the post I made yesterday, I have a problem.  I believe that I’ve stated that WizardPC is an enabler of this problem (I’ve purchased a few guns off of him, and he’s been the indirect cause of a few other purchases).  With that said, I ended up going with… Read More »

So…. yeah…

By | July 9, 2012

…I think I resemble this YouTube vid:   [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpK6GcFwPKc&w=560&h=315] I’ll have a related post up tomorrow, and no… it’s not that Garand I was talking about (guy never returned the email).

Quick question…

By | June 29, 2012

I’m looking at maybe buying a used Garand this weekend (local ad, too good to pass up). Anybody have any good pointers on what to look for? I know the stock is a little battered, so I’m not looking for a collector’s piece, and I do like to shoot my guns.

The damn things keep following me home!

By | June 27, 2012

So, this past Friday, I was kind of depressed.  I think it’s because my birthday was Saturday, and I didn’t have much planned because just about all my friends had already made plans to be out of town or with their families or moving family members from out of town.  Seems to happen every year. … Read More »