Author Archives: wizardpc

Thought for the day

By | December 15, 2013

Last year, Wayne LaPierre held a press conference and declared, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” He was mercilessly mocked for proposing such a “crazy” idea. The Bloombergs of the world dusted off their playbooks, set the faux outrage meter to 11, and… Read More »

Gun Porn: 10/22 Takedown Tactical

By | December 11, 2013

Mine. Alllllll mine…… I picked it up this weekend from my friend Reese at The Nashville Gun Company. Not a fan of the Mossy Oak stock, but colors are about the least important feature of a tool. Two cool things about this particular catalog item (11140, if you’re interested–and I think it’s a distributor exclusive… Read More »

Gives “Black Friday” a whole new meaning

By | November 30, 2013

From IRC: 16:43 Things I learned today: .300blk subsonics won’t penetrate soft body armor 16:43 really 16:44 but the body armor will deform about 4 inches into “whatever” is behind it 16:44 so, ribcage broken in many pieces 16:44 * oddball is glad he didn’t go black friday shopping with wizardpc. This is where I… Read More »

Black Friday!

By | November 29, 2013

Being the crass consumerist I am, the only thing I’m buying today is this. For me. Because I want it. (Meanwhile, Mrs wizardpc is braving the hordes shopping for actual Christmas presents. I’m at home with lilwizard and tacticaldog.)

My month without a cell phone.

By | November 3, 2013

My parents got the family’s first cell phone in around 1994. I got a pager in 1996 around the same time I got my driver’s license (so my parents could randomly ask me where I was). In 1998, I bought my first cell phone for me, but gave it up shortly after that mostly because… Read More »

Notes from the weekend

By | October 28, 2013

Went to the gun show with oddball. Ammo retailers had ammo at their normal “Internet +25%” prices. I think I saw two bricks of .22lr, both less than $60. Towards the end of the show, there was a guy behind a table furiously trying to sell oddball one of these, with a forward vert grip… Read More »