*NOTE: This is a transcript of my segment on the Assorted Calibers Podcast episode 36* Welcome to Oddball’s Corner Pocket. This week, I think I’ll do a request. Weerd had asked me to talk about Cold Steel Knife and Tool Company, and why the their reputation is, shall we say… mixed in the knife community.… Read More »
*note* this is a transcript of my segment on the Assorted Calibers Podcast episode 37* Welcome to Oddball’s Corner Pocket. This week, I thought I’d step away from knives a bit and talk about something that I’m not a huge fan of in the firearms community. Namely, the use of the term “Sheepdog.” If you… Read More »
Someone desperately trying to sell their bumpfire stock. Buy now, before it’s a felony! Someone selling a Cobra 380 for $400. Surprisingly, there were no takers. A manufacturer selling electronic AR trigger packs, and claiming that they have an ATF letter stating that it’s cool. The guy running the Friends of the NRA table trying… Read More »
Went to the gun show yesterday, and, among the tables of beef jerky and emergency food rations, was a guy trying to sell a Slide Fire bump stock with a “last one in stock!” sign on it. I guess he was trying to sell it to someone before having it in his inventory became a… Read More »
The owners of my martial arts studio decided that they needed to give my wife and I his and her knives. I present to you… these beauties. There is something about truly terrible knives that just puts a smile on my face. Oh, and in *true* terrible knife fashion, you can see the chip in… Read More »
This past Saturday, I was eating dinner at the local Logan’s with my martial arts instructors after running a testing. As we were finishing up, we witnessed a couple of folks getting into a fight, that quickly turned into a stand up wrestling match. The three of us, being highly trained martial artists, quickly observed… Read More »
Quick note: I realized that it might be helpful for folks for me to post modified transcripts of my segments on Assorted Calibers Podcast. Especially, since some of them are serious info dumps. The fact that this means that I get to reuse stuff in multiple places is completely unrelated… I swear. This is the… Read More »
“I’d never pay more for a knife than I did for a gun.” “yeah… about that…” I probably still need help… Oh, I guess I should have included the Heritage Arms Rough Rider .22 revolver in that pic. I think I paid $120 for that…
Looks like the DoJ has decided “screw it, we’ll just make the law up as we go,” and declared bump stocks to be machine guns. Never mind that the ATF declared them to not be machine guns, since… you know… the law has a very specific definition of what a machine gun is, and bump… Read More »
/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.