While I was in DC for Glenn Beck’s 8-28 rally with my Mom and sister, Mom took me to the Navy museum at the DC Navy Yard. The Museum is really cool, basically a warehouse filled with every bit of Navy history from it’s founding to sailors in the sands of Iraq.
While there I saw [...]
Ok, I’m kinda angry at Gaston Glock right now. Why? I just loaded 400 rounds of .40. And out of that 400 rounds, 250(!!) failed the case gauge! This is from a batch of brass we got pre-polished from a local sheriff’s deputy. He didn’t shoot it, but I assume it mostly came out of [...]
I’m back from Idaho. Got in 11:30 sunday night and was busy most of yesterday.
My Uncle Kevin, a policeman, has tasked me with kitting up an old Remington 870 into a ”tactical” home defense shotgun. He gave me a $150.00 budget and gave me a rough idea of what he wanted.
I’ve so far ordered a [...]
My little sister Jenny and I have been on the beaver mountain (and away from Ecto) with my grandparents for a couple weeks, so sorry for the lack of posting. Unfortunately I returned at exactly the same time as my parents returned from San Diego (where my dad had been staying for a month). The [...]
I found this awesome video on YouTube. Kudos to whoever made it, It looks like it was hard.
The splint finally came off yesterday, after being incarcerated for 3 weeks.
So earlier today I shot a match up in Cedar City. Results haven’t been posted yet, but I’m sure I took second, the winner being Jeff Bailey.
I decided to shoot Dad’s new Open gun as it recoils a lot less than my Limited gun, [...]
Here is a picture of the stitches in my right hand trigger finger:
Four on the outside and I’m not sure how many on the tendon.
Sorry for the lack of writing, my great uncle Ray passed away a couple weeks ago and I just got back from his funeral.
Unfortunately I will miss the Area 1 championships as while I was reloading for the match I went to open a post office box (containing bullets), the lock on the cheapo folding [...]
In June Dad and I are going to the USPSA Area 1 championship. We’re both shooting Limited and will be camping at the range. We’re going to show up early to attend the NROI Range Officer seminar the week before, as well as the Junior Camp.
Here are a few of the stages.
This one looks hard [...]
I discovered the Encore Western channel and have been setting DVR timers like it’s goin’ out of style.
So far my favorite is the old series “Have Gun, Will Travel”. If you aren’t familiar with this awesome series, here’s the plot:
Paladin (played by Richard Boone), “a fast gun for hire” living in the Carlton Hotel in [...]
Just got back from Colorado and the Rocky Mountain 300, probably the BEST USPSA style match I’ve ever shot.
The match has a normal round count of about 300 rounds. What’s unique about this match is the stages. There are only five of them, each 60 rounds or more! At the end of a stage, your [...]
Vintage Ordnance now makes a reproduction of a handgun I’ve often wondered about, the FP-45 Liberator pistol.
Look small and cheapy? That’s because it is, and designed to be. The Liberator was designed during 1942 to be produced cheaply and paradropped En Masse into Nazi occupied France, for use with the French Resistance. The Liberator would [...]
I shot my first match with the GP6-C on Saturday. Nothing fancy, just a local IDPA match down in Las Vegas. The gun ran great, no problems. I’m still getting used to the first DA trigger pull, which slowed me down a bit. I’m sure I’ll get used to it with more practice. I made [...]
Today I installed some Arredondo basepads onto Lou’s Glock. These basepads add 5 rounds to the 15 round .40 factory Glock magazine. That’s 21 (20+1 in the chamber) rounds of .40 S&W firepower! The longer baseplate also makes the mag easier to seat into the magwell:
Additionally if the baseplates are are used on a 9mm [...]
Lou Miles, a new USPSA shooter, dropped off a new Glock 35 for me to do some work on. Lou hasn’t been out to any of the matches yet, but he’s decided to jump into the sport headfirst by having me kit his gun out into an awesome custom Glock for Limited division!
So what does [...]
If you are a serious USPSA/IDPA shooter, you’ve doubtlessly heard of the company STI international, manufacturers of the finest competition 1911 pistols in the world. In fact, you might even have one of their 2011 double stack 1911s that you shoot in Limited division. But recently USPSA has seen a HUGE growth in the “Production” [...]
Eureka!! I’ve finally found .22lr ammo that will function reliably in every .22 I use! It’s readily available and reasonably priced.
The ammunition I speak so highly of is Federal Premium’s .22 AutoMatch, sold at Wal-Mart. Supposedly it’s been designed to function perfectly in semi-automatic .22 handguns, perhaps the fussiest guns when it comes to ammo.
After [...]
From time to time I like to hunt some pesky rabbits along the banks of the Virgin River where it runs through St. George. Unfortunately, that’s within city limits and there are a few houses nearby that the loud noise of a firearm might bother. So I use an air rifle, the Crosman Quest. It [...]
On the Dillon Precision website, I noticed something about their phone number. See if you can figure out what’s funny about it. You kinda have to be a gun guy to get it.
Orders/Expert Assistance: 800-223-4570
Catalog Order/Order status: 800-762-3845
Look closely, you’ll see it (here’s a hint, calibers). And just for fun, here’s that in Russian, courtesy [...]
Yesterday I traded with one of the shooters in the SUpistol club, Deputy Sheriff Jeff Bailey, for a “Production Ready” XD tactical in 9mm. After shooting it in a practice session all I can say is “wow”.
Before I jump into the details of the Canyon Creek XD, here is a little bit of the history [...]
