Busy, Busy, Busy

Sharpening the knives,

Test the alarm system,

Clean and load the guns,

Nothing serious here, but there was a murder a block away, with no motive and no suspect.

Awkward, that is.

Dude!!!! What are you thinkin"

4 suspects dead in police shooting in Miami area

Published - Jul 01 2011 07:06AM EST

MIAMI — Authorities in Miami-Dade County say police shot and killed four suspects during a confrontation after they got out of their vehicles wearing ski masks and carrying guns.

Miami-Dade Police spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta says the robbery bureau was investigating Thursday evening in the southwestern section of the county when they learned of suspicious activity.

Several suspects were identified and due to their criminal history, Zabaleta says the department's special response team was called in.

According to Zabaleta, the suspects arrived in the area wearing ski masks and carrying guns. A confrontation occurred as the men got out of their vehicles. Shots were fired and four suspects were killed.

Zabaleta says none of the police officers were injured.

No other details were immediately available.

Who needs details? Idiots confront cops with guns wearing masks.

Idiots get shot lots.

Cops reload, take pictures, get garbage off streets.

Normally, I don't carry a gun, though after my time in Florida City last fall, I do now. Scary place, don't leave anything in your car, don't fill up at a stop and rob(the name fits) after dark, don't go to Walmart unless you are of Cuban decent. I know of one guy stopped for driving the speed limit, then advised to drive like everyone else (speeding) or get shot for being a gang banger, or pulled by every cop in Dade county for suspicious behavior.

The party of rants, violence and lies.....

SALISBURY, Md. -- A gunshot shattered a glass door Wednesday at a Salisbury office of the Maryland Republican Party, according to a party statement.

The party published the statement on its website, indicating that a single gunshot shattered the front door at the office early in the morning.

Salisbury police officers discovered the shattered glass after midnight and reported that the office had been vandalized.

The statement indicated that a party staffer found a bullet in the office.

If you have any information regarding this continuing investigation, contact Salisbury police by dialing 410-548-3165.

In these days it is entirely possible that someone from that office, or a friend, fired a shot to get a little notice for the GOP.

Even so, the person responsible needs a little jail time.

I am willing to believe a frustrated Demi could no longer restrain it's self. This would not be the first violent attack by the pacifist party. Stand by for more demonstration of unhinged politics.

I was talking about fishing....

I haven’t thought of this story in a long time. A friend of mine is from the Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky. He invited me and another friend to do some snag fishing below Kentucky Dam.

I’m always ready to go fishing.

The process is simple. Take a fishing rod seven feet or less long, a sixteen ounce sinker, 140 lb line, and a 14/0 treble hook, then go to the river and whale the thing as far as you can.

Hopefully it will hit the river. When you feel the sinker hit bottom, swing the rod to the side, and occasionally you will hook a fish. The day I went, we used two rods, for three men. The result was more fish than me and a big man could carry to the parking lot. I was worn completely out and I only fished for part of the day.

It’s a popular pass time. The fly in the ointment can be the commercial fishermen.

The commercial guys buy the biggest flat bottom john boat they can, and a six horse power Johnson out board motor. They have one wash tub for cut bait, and another for fish. Their sinkers are two or three pound balls of lead. Those are kept in a bucket with the pistol. They will motor to the top of the boil below the dam, drop a bait from a two inch long rod and wait for something whiskered to show an interest. They then hand over hand it to the top of the water, accesses the danger, apply sedation with a small pistol as appropriate, and throw them into the wash tub.

Pistol?????........yep, pistol!

If you’re wondering why a pistol in the boat, consider what would happen if you hauled an unsedated catfish of,, say,, 100 lbs into the boat? Nothing good, you can be sure. Some times a tourist will see the big fish, and see just enough to be foolish and drag a pissed off monster into the boat,,, sans sedation. Said tourist will immediately be balanced on the windshield like an ungainly cat, whilst the fish swats every thing not nailed down into the river. The oh, so helpful river rats, between gasping for breath and belly laughs, are yelling helpful advice, like, “shoot ‘im”. Like the dude has a gun or it wouldn’t blow a hole in the boat.

The bank fishermen have a gun also, in their sinker bucket, after all they don’t want to get a leg broken, or get finned by a catfish.

The problem starts when a boat fisherman decides to fish the boil nearest the bank. The bank fishermen are shut out until he leaves.

They take exception to that, seriously.

A new boat fisherman decides that the bank fishermen are having better luck a hundred feet away, and they can’t do anything to him, so he’s going to putt over and drop a bait. Profanity and verbal abuse ensue. Threats and such fly back and forth. Still the boat guy doesn’t move off.

A small group of bank fishermen gather and discuss tactics, then spread out and get ready to cast. The boat guy is lulled into a false sense of security. When the boat comes into range, all the bank conspirators cast at the same time.

It sounded like a hail storm on a tin roof.

Remember all those 140 lb lines and 14/0 hooks?

The boat guy is caught, and the six horse motor starts to lose ground. Someone is about to get his butt kicked.

Boat guy panics and grabs his pistol first, after a couple of shots, the bank guys, not to be out done, grab their pistols and return fire.

These are .22 or .25 hand guns with a two inch barrel, kept in a bucket full of lead balls. Probably not target pistols to start with and likely abused for years, a hit would have been an act of Providence, who was bent over laughing hard enough to puke at the moment, not deciding anyone’s fate.

The unarmed people freak and streak.

Good idea!

The TVA guard hears the commotion and takes cover with my friend behind a parapet wall.

Boat guy finally grabs a bait knife and starts cutting lines to make his escape.

So my bud asks the guard, who is holding his .38 revolver in his best TV dude, “point in a safe direction”, grip…”What are you going to do about that?”

He replied, “As soon as they run out of ammo, I’m going down there and run them off!”

Who says fishing is boring?

Short Guns I have known 2

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This is the big daddy of the collection. A Dan Wesson .44 Mag with an eight inch barrel. This is reported to be one of the worlds most accurate handguns out of the box. That might be PR but they have some impressive stats to back it up.
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I am by no means the best hand gun shot in town, but I'm better than most, and this gun is way better than I can make it perform. A ransom rest is needed to really put it through it's paces, but with practice I can hit a quarter sized bull at 25 yards regularly.

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These pistols were manufactured with interchangeable barrels, they come with a clearance shim

and a barrel wrench. The cylinder to cone gap is adjustable as is the tension on the barrel.

Which brings us back to the design claims. Supposedly the barrel being under tension makes the vibrations that occur as a bullet passes through the barrel more consistent. Additionally the forward locking cylinder crane gives better alignment with the forcing cone.

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When I bought the pistol, from a friend with a FFL, I picked it up late at night, and before work the next morning I returned it with a list of ten items I was dissatisfied with. He returned it to Dan Wesson who said they would do what they could. "What they could" turned out to be a trip to the company gunsmith shop for the full treatment, trigger, springs honing and smoothing the internal parts. The checkered hammer strikes a transfer bar, as you probably know this arrangement makes for a very safe weapon with the hammer down. Single action trigger pull is about three pounds, double is about ten. It is with out doubt the easiest to shoot of all my pistols. Dan and company believed in customer service.

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This is a six round rumble of thunder. I scoped it at one time, but couldn't shoot it as well with optics (I know, old dog, new trick), so I went back to iron sights, so it will remain.

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It may not be obvious, but the weapon is huge. It needs to be, recoil is impressive. If I allow

some one to fire it, they are required to wear a ball cap for the first few rounds, to ensure the vent rib doesn't split their head open. With a little instruction the cannon is easily controlled and somewhat pleasant to shoot, in an arm numbing kind of way.

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It has Pachmayer grips and a red front sight blade. The sight blades are interchangeable.

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Just in case anyone wondered, it is neither a concealed carry piece nor is it a home defence piece, that would be if you didn't care to shoot through the walls and hit a neighbor. Other wise feel free, if you miss, the concussion from the muzzle blast may knock your adversary unconscious or the muzzle blast might toast the critter on the spot.

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They will for sure need a new laundry person.

Today is the birthday...

I am so glad to be getting older, as opposed to the alternative.

The after life is supposed to be better. Well, maybe, but no one has phoned back to say for sure. I would hate to get the call, probably means you are on your way, so it doesn't matter what you tell the dude in the next seat.

Youth is wasted on the young, the golden years are something around twenty five to thirty five. Now everything is more painful.

Now that the whining is over, goin' to the range today! Takin' the big boy's toys! Got two that qualify as A$$ Whoopin' in a box, plan to come back with bruises and ringing ears (hearing protection is not optional)!