PawPaw's House

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

New Year's

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A student working for the school newspaper asked me just prior to the Christmas break if I had any New Year resolutions. I told her that I ...
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Smith on Guns

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Sometimes I wonder what drives other folks. Liberal, inner-city types. It helps me to understand how they think. If the way they think is...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Apples and Oranges

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In comments about the post on the .17 HMR , commenter Old NFO asks: Interesting... Better than a good .22? Uuuh, no. Nothing is better th...
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Manual Labor

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For the past two days, PawPaw has been engaged at manual labor over at Momma's house. She's got eight acres way out in the country ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Watching the carnage

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Hamas never ceases to sicken me. In a cockpit video, the IAF shows the destruction of a Hamas missile situated in a residential area. The ...
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.17 HMR

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I took the little Savage 93R17 to the range today along with the Ruger 77. While I shot one, the other rested. I'm going to like this l...
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Ruger .25-06

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I finally got a chance to take the Ruger Model 77, .25-06 to the range today. I'm impressed. It's a pawn shop rifle and I picked it ...
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I wonder

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Courtesy of David Codrea , we learn of a gun buyback program in Los Angeles. It's seems that if you turn in a gun, you're given a $...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Wind Advisory

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While we were at the range this morning, the wind was terrible. Blowing strongly enough from the Southwest that partially full ammo boxes w...

Iron Sight Saturday

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I went out to the Woodworth range this morning to try out the Model 28 and the 1894C with the re-engineered TLC 358-190 RF bullet. After th...
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Hamas starts war

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Hamas has been raining rockets on Israel now for a couple of weeks. Several a day. This morning , Israel had enough. They're hammering...
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Friday, December 26, 2008

Friday morning

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It's Friday, the 26th, so Christmas is over. We had the kids over for Christmas Eve, let the grandkids open presents, ate a hearty meal...
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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Doctors can't cure cancer, aids, common cold, Incompetent.

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Ya see, that's what happens when people have opinions about things outside their area of expertise. Just like this article , where doct...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Merry Christmas

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In a few minutes I'll be turning the computer off. We've got family coming for dinner and Milady will have my afternoon totally eng...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Entitlement

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I see that Caroline Kennedy wants to be the new Senator from New York, filling Hillary Clinton's post. Lots of folks are opposed to the...

In praise of the .22 Long Rifle

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Every generation discovers the .22 Long Rifle (.22LR) cartridge. As ubiquitous as can be, it's properly a starter round for pistol and ...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Monday ramblings

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I got up this morning and went looking for a final Christmas gift. I walked into the mall at 9:00 and found that in umpteen-basillion suare...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Overall Length

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When reloading, it's important to pay attention to overall length. It's important when you want ammo that works. For example: I...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Graduation

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Youngest son, Joey graduated from college last night. He took a Bachelors degree from Northwestern State University. No pictures of the gr...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Auto Woes

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The automakers are crying, whining, begging in the streets. No one's buying their cars. Chrysler is closing all it's plants for 30 ...
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I'm a grandpaw who has lived a life of adventure, and resent having to slow down. I've been a Tank Commander, a Company Commander, an MP. My main career has been law enforcement, with 30 years and counting. At this stage of my life, the most important people in my life call me PawPaw. You've come to PawPaw's House. Sit back and enjoy. Email me at ddezendorf at yahoo dot com (all spambots must die)
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