When SHTF and you head for the hills, or for home,
you will wish to avoid people who might rob or kill you or worse.
Some prefer the Marlin Papoose (stored in 24" case),or AR-7
(16.5" stored in stock). My Marlin 725 bolt 22LR is 41" OAL,
stock 29", barreled action 28-1/2", held together with one screw.
I installed a large knob on that screw and can easily (dis)assemble
the rifle.
Some use high-velocity ammo at about 3 cents a shot which can be heard
at a distance. I prefer 22LR subsonic ammo 7 cents a shot as it is very quiet.
In the video the 10-22 shooter uses high-velocity. The other man shoots
subsonic. Listen carefuly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ppdbert34
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
A python killed in Everglades.
Florida F&G killed a 16 foot python that had eaten a 76 lb deer.
Python is not native to America. I wonder if there are others in the
Everglades. Were they released maliciously, or by an idiot not
capable of grasping the ramifications of introducing snakes that
grow to 16 feet and eat critters as large as your children?
http://tinyurl.com/7zevyfq
Python is not native to America. I wonder if there are others in the
Everglades. Were they released maliciously, or by an idiot not
capable of grasping the ramifications of introducing snakes that
grow to 16 feet and eat critters as large as your children?
http://tinyurl.com/7zevyfq
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Lest we forget
Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall - SOMETHING to think about.
Most of the surviving Parents are now Deceased.
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.
The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.
Beginning at the apex on panel 1E and going out to the end of the East wall, appearing to recede into the earth (numbered 70E - May 25, 1968), then resuming at the end of the West wall, as the wall emerges from the earth (numbered 70W - continuing May 25, 1968) and ending with a date in 1975. Thus the war's beginning and end meet. The war is complete, coming full circle, yet broken by the earth that bounds the angle's open side and contained within the earth itself.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, MA. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965. There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger...8,283 were just 19 years old.
The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old...12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old...5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old...One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock, was 15 years old.
997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam ...1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.
31 sets of brothers are on the Wall. Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
54 soldiers once attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia. I wonder why so many from one school? 8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.
244 soldiers were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.
Beallsville, OH, with a population of 475, lost 6 of her sons. West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
The Marines of Morenci: They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
The Buddies of Midvale: LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah, on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam. In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed.
LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths. The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.
Most Americans who read this will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters.
"There are no noble wars, just noble Warriors."
Most of the surviving Parents are now Deceased.
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.
The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.
Beginning at the apex on panel 1E and going out to the end of the East wall, appearing to recede into the earth (numbered 70E - May 25, 1968), then resuming at the end of the West wall, as the wall emerges from the earth (numbered 70W - continuing May 25, 1968) and ending with a date in 1975. Thus the war's beginning and end meet. The war is complete, coming full circle, yet broken by the earth that bounds the angle's open side and contained within the earth itself.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, MA. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965. There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger...8,283 were just 19 years old.
The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old...12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old...5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old...One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock, was 15 years old.
997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam ...1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.
31 sets of brothers are on the Wall. Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
54 soldiers once attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia. I wonder why so many from one school? 8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.
244 soldiers were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.
Beallsville, OH, with a population of 475, lost 6 of her sons. West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
The Marines of Morenci: They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
The Buddies of Midvale: LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah, on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam. In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed.
LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths. The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.
Most Americans who read this will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters.
"There are no noble wars, just noble Warriors."
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Semper Fi Ave atque vale
Justin Allen 23,
Brett Linley 29,
Matthew Weikert 29,
Justus Bartett 27,
Dave Santos 21,
Jesse Reed 26,
Matthew Johnson 21,
Zachary Fisher 24,
Brandon King 23,
Christopher Goeke 26
and Sheldon Tate 27...
are all Marines who gave their lives this week
for you. There is no media for them; not even
a mention of their names.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Stop online piracy
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R.3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith [R-TX] and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.[3] Now before the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the Protect IP Act.[4]
more...........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R.3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith [R-TX] and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.[3] Now before the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the Protect IP Act.[4]
more...........
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Obama pushing shooters (and hunters) off public land.
Obama Pushing Shooters Off Public Lands
November 16, 2011 RSS Feed Print
http://tinyurl.com/6wwtsp8
excerpt
Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.
Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who like to use same land for hiking and dog walking.
November 16, 2011 RSS Feed Print
http://tinyurl.com/6wwtsp8
excerpt
Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.
Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who like to use same land for hiking and dog walking.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
anti-Muslim gun instructor may lose license says TX DPS
http://tinyurl.com/3rpwbuv
(listen to radio ad)
A wildly popular clip shows Texas handgun
(listen to radio ad)
A wildly popular clip shows Texas handgun
instructor Crockett Keller coolly informing
listeners that Muslims and Barack Obama
supporters are not welcome at his firearms
classes.
"If you are a socialist liberal and/or voted
for the current campaigner in chief, please
do not take this class," Keller says in the ad.
"You've already proven that you cannot make
a knowledgeable and prudent decision as
required under the law. Also, if you are a
non-Christian Arab or Muslim, I will not
teach you this class. Once again, with no
shame, I am Crockett Keller."
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