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In the previous post, Old NFO makes a comment that he claims is a nitpick, but I'm not sure. The only thing that would worry me is tha...

Our great experiment in self-government kicks off again tonight, like it does every four years, with Iowa starting to thin the herd. PawPa...

Practice Day at Thorn Valley. Zachary was hot today, running in the 6s.  His best series was a 0.646, 0.616, 0.600, and a final 0.575.  He...

Compliments to Mostly Cajun , who takes us to this list of the most dangerous cities in the world .  I'm not sure how they prepared the ...

My son is t alking about grips on his J-frames , and this is a good enough time as any to talk about such things.  Grips on a handgun are im...

Regular readers here don't need any introduction to Oleg Volk , a noted firearms and 2nd Amendment photographer.  His blog is on my side...

Old photos are interesting.  Photographs prior to 1900 were normally planned events.  No one had an Iphone or a selfie-stick.  Cameras were ...

Just to give the non-educated a slight understanding of security procedures, You can read this article by Kurt Schliechter  (who knows of wh...

Two posts from yesterday at Hot Air are compelling reads.  It seems that the FBI noose is tightening around the Clinton campaign, and that t...

There's been some controversy in Cowboy Fast Draw about Rule 17, which requires that we fire the gun with the muzzle in front of the ope...

It's crawfish season in Louisiana, and the mudbugs are running.  We've got several seafood places in town that boil for takeout, so ...

The Old Guard is the US 3rd Infantry Regiment .  They are a ceremonial unit, primarily concerned with guarding the President and important l...

As old folks understand, technology changes over time, and our perception of what technology is capable of also changes over time.  For exam...

Fox News is reporting that some of the emails on the server at Hillary Clinton's house were too classified for members of Congress to v...

I've been using cast iron my whole life, and still cook with my cast iron skillets and dutch ovens daily.  If I'm cooking, the first...

I know, I know, Louisiana elected a Democrat as governor this past November, and now we've got to dance with the devil.  He takes a look...

That's how the ACTA describes the state of American college education.  Alarmingly ignorant.   In a recent survey, they learned that man...

Ive been surfing around for two days, trying to find something to blog about.  The political races have devolved to the merely boring.  SHOT...

Some of us were talking the other day, and we started discussing the NICS, or the instant check system that we use to buy firearms.  Over ti...

In shooting of any kind, it is our responsibility to grow the sport.  Many of us learned to shot from our family.  Fathers, uncles or aunts ...