tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82934842009-07-04T19:07:05.824-06:00Author and host of the hit OUTDOOR CHANNEL show SHOOTING GALLERY spouts off...Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comBlogger1934125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-48255102651666246862009-07-04T16:48:00.001-06:002009-07-04T16:48:36.308-06:00

11 perfect stages, including one in the driving rain, and I throw away a perfect match in the "gimme" pistol segment of the 12 and final stage...a moment's loss of focus and away it goes! Still, the best cowboy match I've had as a leftie!-- Post From The Road

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To those who serve, and those who have served, thank youTo those who paid the ultimate price, we remember.-- Post From The Road

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In Cheyenne, WY, sort of the Mother Church of All Things Cowboy, to shoot Hell on Wheels, the big cowboy regional match. No crew! No cameras! Just shooting for the heck of it. After a day of shooting, I'm still "clean," no misses, and game plan remains intact...tomorrow is, however, ripe with opportunities!Happy Independence Day Eve...remember our troops and remember that the people in

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Rumors are everywhere! Supposedly Madonna and Angelina Jolie have committed to bid on "the cute one," while little Blanket will come with a plushie Blanket stuffed toy, valued at more than $250, and a Michael Jackson Swiss Army Watch. Allegedly, money raised from the sale of the three Jackson children will be used to fund a new Obama initiative to provide free emergency medical care for

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The on-going ATF "initiative" in Texas is the subject of a Houston Chronicle article that led off Drudge this AM (and my pod rant last week): Federal agents hunt for guns, one house at a time In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one

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I note the passing of another of our legends, Joe Bowman, the Straight Shooter. Joe died on his way home from End of Trail, an event he loved. This AM Jim Shepherd at THE SHOOTING WIRE penned an eloquent and moving tribute, and I can do no better: The last time I talked with Joe Bowman, we were sharing a table at an NRA banquet in Louisville, Kentucky. We were companions by chance, but it was one

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Something to get you all prepped up for THE BEST DEFENSE: SURVIVAL tomorrow night, from Michael Malone at PajamasMedia: Every sane adult knows what it takes to pull out of an economic deadfall: you tighten budgets, cut inessentials, pay as you go and restructure your debt - and hang on to your current job for dear life. And we also understand that, when it comes to a national economic crash, the

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Yep...gotta pull the lever on the reloader today. The gun room is slowly getting reorganized...at least I can find my way through it. I've been working up my list of my five favorite handguns for an episode of SHOOTING GALLERY we're filming next week, which is really kinda fun. You can probably guess Numero Uno, right? Wrong...Interesting discussion over on AR15.com, where I am banned for life,

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...and back in the saddle again, begging the question of how many cowboy cliches I can cram into a single sentence. Anyhow, am back in the office getting ready for the premieres of THE BEST DEFENSE: SURVIVAL and COWBOYS on Wednesday.I plan to be TWITTERING the 11PM Eastern episode of TBD:S as well as being on-line in the DOWN RANGE Television blog chatroom. Hopefully, cohosts Rob Pincus and

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Am still in Cowboy World, and to the best of my knowledge, Michael Jackson is still no longer with us. In the meanwhile, here's a really good Second Amendment news round-up from The Liberty Sphere.And in our JESUS CHRIST ON A HOBBYHORSE Department, coming apparently from Showtime: 

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Darn! My heart goes out to Bubbles the chimp, former companion to Michael Jackson, who got a really raw deal and ended up in an animal sanctuary. I believe Bubbles knew the inside story of Michael Jackson's pedophile romps and was sent to the slam to keep him from talking. The chimp never got a penny of royalties from the $250,000 porcelain sculptures of Bubbles and Jackson by alleged famous

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As my cherubs and seraphim mentioned last week, Remington seems to be taking a more military posture with their nameplate on the ACR, previously the Masada. To that they've added the the Modular Sniper Rifle (MSR), their next-gen answer to the venerable M24 sniper system. Here's the Remington blurb: Designed for operators, by operators. The new Remington® Modular Sniper Rifle (MSR™) combines

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First off, congrats to SG & COWBOYS regular Evil Roy — the irrepressible Gene Pearcey — for taking High Modern (and High Overall) at the 2nd SASS Wild Bunch championships at Founder Ranch, NM. He was joined by Fast Hammer as High Traditional and at 4th overall Holy Terror — Glock shooter Randi Rogers — as High Woman. Congrats, guys! It was big, big fun!The top trophies — sponsored by us here at

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Man, maybe I should write a book!!!Still clean after 3 stages on Day 2 of the Wild Bunch match, but stupid rookie mistake gave me a cataclysmic 1911 magazine jam that took forever (and a fingernail) to clear.Rookie Mistake #1: Change the plan the day before the match.Rookie Mistake #2: Change guns the day before the match.GREAT BIG Rookie Mistake #3: Don't test Gun A magazine in Gun B.Let my

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I didn't finish the Para Retro-Expert in time, so I defaulted to my Heinie Springfield 1911A1, which has run just fine. Today I used handloads with 230-gr LaserCast bullets and 231, just making IPSC Major.I finished the day 3 down...no excuses...pulled the trigger when the sights weren't on the target. Sadly, I was moving at glacial speeds...range officers were reduced to using an hourglass

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You eat the bear...today bear at Michael...Sometimes I think all Winchester '97s are FROM HELL! It is nothing short of amazing how many different ways they find to break!!!!-- Post From The Road

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Day 1Good Lord, Michael! Look at the darn FRONT SIGHT!-- Post From The Road

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...on CBS Sunday Morning, titled Bye Bye Birdie. It charts the rise of parrots as popular pets, and the sad consequences for the parrots. You guys know I have birdies — Ripley, my 14-year-old grey parrot I've had since he was an egg; Cleo, our blue and gold macaw and the baby, Bishop, a green-wing macaw, now 9...the picture is a green-wing...check out that beak! They are a staggering amount of

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From Chris Hedges at TruthDig, via the Survival Blog...remember, THE BEST DEFENSE: SURVIVAL starts in a week on Wednesday nights...and not a moment too soon! The America Empire is bankrupt: The cost of daily living, from buying food to getting medical care, will become difficult for all but a few as the dollar plunges. States and cities will see their pension funds drained and finally shut down.

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...at the Secret Hidden Bunker in the Rocky Mountain...pretty, huh?

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This is an excellent article from Jeff Stier in Forbes on intelligent risk-taking, a subject I have a passing interest in and knowledge of:We as a society need to redefine our relationship with risk. Rather than running away from it or trying to regulate it out of existence, we should learn how to evaluate it properly. Only then can we foster innovation--and enjoy greater freedom and success.The

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This is from the Sinclair blog. Sinclair makes some of the best high-end reloading equipment available, and this is an excellent analysis of the situation we find ourselves in: Basically, there has been a two-pronged drain on primer supplies for the reloading market.The first driving force has been the huge demand for loaded ammunition through 2008 and continuing into 2009. The large primer

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I'm was finally able to take delivery on my new Liberty Safe — too much travel! — and to say I'm pleased is a VAST UNDERSTATEMENT, It's super! I chose a Lincoln series, the best-selling safe in America, with 14 1.25-inch bolts on all sides of the door and the super door panel for storing handguns.YES! It has a BORING MECHANICAL LOCK! Once bitten; twice shy...After my safe debacle end of last year

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Not with the nutcase still running the country, but with the people of Iran, who cry out for freedom while the gutless socialist Knee-Pad Barry remains silent and hopes his new BFF Ahmadinejad survives. A brave moment for the Iranian people, and a pathetic one for America. Shame!"You shall steadfastly persevere. God is with those who steadfastly persevere."Sura 88:46Quran (Kalifa translation)

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From the NYT: Even if the Second Amendment becomes the controlling law of every state and town, constitutional scholars say it is still unlikely that gun laws would be overturned wholesale. The Supreme Court’s Heller decision last year, notes Nelson Lund, a law professor at George Mason University, “clearly indicates that governments will still have wide latitude to regulate firearms.”Even the

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