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Everyone is watching the election playing out in Louisiana right now, where incumbent Mary Landrieu is in the fight of her political life.  ...

We've pretty well defined it at this point, but we haven't done the most important thing.  Whether your practical rifle is a semi, o...

It's time to think about sights.  If we consider the basic purpose of a rifle is to put a bullet into a target, then we must also consid...

Length is important when we consider rifles, but there is more to it than that.  Overall length is perhaps the easiest to consider because a...

As we consider this mythical practical rifle, we've already talked about bore diameter, but I think it's important to consider the c...

The dog this morning demonstrates that however far from the ancestry, every dog has a hunter inside him.  I was surprised this morning to he...

As we consider the practical rifle, we've got to set limits, as wide as those limits might be.  Today we'll consider weight. Last ...

Continuing our discussion of practical rifles, we turn now to action type, and we shouldn't be too hasty in deciding, so let's look ...

Useful comments from this series, and I appreciate the input.  Let's look at a couple of them, and not get ahead of ourselves. Anonymo...

No serious discussion on rifles can be conducted unless we examine bore diameter as it relates to the practical rifle  If we accept as a giv...

I'm continuing to think about rifles, particularly practical rifles, and attempting to define in my mind what a practical rifle might be...

It appears that a bear has killed a hiker in New Jersey. New Jersey wildlife officials believe that a black bear in search of food killed...

Earlier I was reading Jeff Cooper's Commentaries, looking in the old stuff from 1993 and came upon his thoughts on the modern bolt-actio...

Not something you see every day, the Goodyear blimp flying over Pineville, LA.  Don't know where it was headed, but it was flying genera...

A couple of years ago, the grandkids left a frisbee on the deck, and after a rainstorm it filled with water.  The dog, of course, drank from...

One of my all-time favorites, Katy Mattea, singing at the Grand Old Opry. He'll spend the rest of his life with the one that he love...

Milady and I like wind chimes, as a casual observer of our back patio can attest.  Big ones, little ones, we like them all.  Last night at t...

Surfing around Instapundit, we come to this little blurb that says the Army wants a parachuiting tank.  Really?  Well, who doesn't? T...

If you follow the political blogs and news aggregates during this election season, you'll see lots of concern about political waves and...

We The People are perhaps the strongest words in the American Experiment and the opening words of our Constitution.  It behooves American of...