I’ve been passing on covering things like “the Mexican Gun Canard” and the 20/20 “guns on campus” abomination because other blogs have covered them mighty well. I have nothing to add.
But discussion of the Inter-American Arms Treaty (also known as CIFTA) has ugly implications. You need to contact your Senators and ensure this doesn’t happen.
Current weather forecasts are for rain, and lots of it. A very slow moving storm system coming across the area. I’m thankful for it because Texas is in a major drought so all the rain we can get I’m happy for.
The slight bummer? I was going to be at the gun range for a lot of the weekend. Will I still? Depends on a few things. But regardless it made me think about shooting in the rain. Specifically, shooting my polymer-framed Springfield XD in wet conditions. The grip on the XD is kinda slick and if it was wet it’s not going to be the easiest thing to keep hold of.
I do regret not getting the stippling grip modification by Springer Precision. I’ve tried it on a buddy’s XD and it’s awesome. I guess I might have to go the grip-tape or skateboard-tape route, but I know it’s not as good as the stipple job.
The point to think about is shooting in less-than-ideal conditions. When it comes to defensive shooting, you have no control over when and where the situation would occur: low light? cold weather and you have gloves and a heavy coat on? rain? ice? While we all like to practice in nice and dry conditions, every so often we should push ourselves outside our comfort zone and work on the less-than-ideal.
Hot on the heels of the cat, we now have the hamster.
Sebastian has a posting on using competitive shooting sports as police training. Good stuff all around and I think the main article makes all the relevant points. I’ve been wanting to get into competition shooting (IDPA or IPSC) but so far the schedule just hasn’t meshed for it.
What I wanted to comment on in Sebastian’s article tho was his comment that “you can’t really practice real gunfighting”. While you truly can’t practice this (or at most you’d only be able to practice it once :D), I’d say what gets you closer than anything would be force-on-force training.
Tesla did a little “in the studio” spot on WGN. Click here to see it.
It’s Jeff, Frank, and Dave in the WGN studios promoting their upcoming show, the “Forever More” album, and their “Commin’ Atcha Live 2008” DVD.
There are 4 videos to watch, the longest of which has the boys singing “Fallin’ Apart” off the new album. A little clip of “Signs”, and some brief fillers (kinda cool they had “Breakin’ Free”).
I keep listening to “Forever More” and I just love the album. It’s so strong.
There’s a lot about the HuffPo that doesn’t jive with me, but this article by Gretchen Rubin about 10 ways to be a more light-hearted parent is a pretty spot-on piece.
While I understand and agree with the point of #6, I would say it’s more important to phrase things in terms of what you want them to do. Sometimes negative phrasing might be the right way to phrase it. Still, Ms. Rubin’s point is generally solid. You can read this for further elaboration on what I mean.
Still, a pretty decent list.
ToddG at pistol-training.com has an article about sight picture. What I like is the article’s graphic and discussion of sight picture names and how they relate to what the graphic displays. This is one of the better discussions of the matter I’ve found.
For the record, I use #2.
So you just went to a Tea Party yesterday. Now what to do?
Check out After The Tea Party. from the American Majority group.
We have 4 cats. Two are old, two are young. This is about the older cats.
I’ve seen this before and in light of my postings here and here, I thought it would be worthwhile to post. There are certainly a great many things one can take from this video, but the one I wish to stress is training. Lance Thomas feels he was able to handle his situations because of training, and he flat out says that just having a gun isn’t enough… you have to train.
Stuff From Hsoi 
