Mike Huckabee says that he might give a Presidential run in 2012 a pass. Oh joy! I have a serious dislike of Mike Huckabee… he should stick to his radio show. But I hate his radio show as well. He’s always shilling his Simple Books, Simple Government, Simple Christmas… with his Huck This and Huck that… it really gets under my skin.
Why? Because Huckabee gave us Obama.
He stayed in the race only to make sure Mitt Romney couldn’t win. He divided the votes on purpose to allow McCain to win by such comfortable margins… McCain – the last guy any Conservative wanted to win the nomination. Then with some many people saying that they would never vote for McCain… they stayed home from the polls… Our turn out was low. Obama won each state by small margins overall. If we had a less distasteful candidate things would have been different. Instead, we got McCain and that allowed Obama to ride the Soul Train into the White House.
I hold Huckabee accountable for that. I also don’t like the fact that The Huckster is rabidly Anti-Mormon. Religious Bigotry because one Christian group believes differently than another Christian group. That’s small minded, pathetic, and is not a character trait that we need in a President.
I’ve spent several hours with an individual who had talked of ordering a rifle from me. We talked ballistics, caliber, BC, trajectory, rate of twist, air pressure, spin drift, shockwaves, bedding, trigger, stocks, brakes, MOA… I educated this guy for a very long time, to the point that other customers were going to other guys at the counter and making other sales.
So I’m working on editing my book getting it ready for publication. I’ve come to the conclusion that editing on the screen of a Netbook is far more grinding than editing normally is. This makes it slow. As soon as this editing is done, I’ll be working on the cover. I’m going to do a photo type cover. Staging, costume, make up… and asking the Utah National Guard for the use of some Military Assets.
As soon as I can finish the editing. I hate editing. I hate editing on a Netbook at least 3 times as much.
Browning is sending me an X-Bolt Stalker in .300WSM. Nikon has sent me a Monarch 3-12 BDC. I have the scope, still in the box, and unopened. The rifle will be sent to me, according to Browning, in June. This is a great package for hunting North American Big Game. I’m pretty jaded about rifles, but the new X-Bolts have impressed the hell out of me. I really like the way they feel and balance, and the accuracy has been awesome out of every X-Bolt I’ve seen. However, I don’t need this rifle. What I need is a good laptop for processing video. Oh, I want it… I’d love it… seriously… but I need a good laptop.
Got a message from my good friend and author Marcus Wynne. He is offering up his first book for free. I’ve spoken of Marcus’ works in the past. He is an extraordinary writer of gritty action, and I enjoy his writing a great deal. It’s actually his fault entirely that I’ve been jonesing hard for a Browning High Power.
The book is NO OTHER OPTION. To get the book for free, use code: KU25Y
If I could pick 5 authors to back me up in a fight, Marcus would be in that small group. That means he knows what it is that he’s talking about. Authentic knowledge. Marcus knows of which he speaks. He has been there, done that. He could be one scary dude if you didn’t know him. But he’s a great guy and one of the most noble men I know. Get his book. Read it. The get all his others.
I’m tired of hearing from Liberals that Bush was such an idiot. Bush graduated with an MBA from Harvard. Unless you did the same or equivalent, STFU. “But Bush was a drunk in college.” Okay… Let’s go there. Let’s say that’s true. Bush did better drunk than his critics did sober… so again, STFU.
You can’t go to a college theatre class without seeing someone doing “The Variations on the death of Trotsky”. I wonder how long it’s going to take for someone to rewrite it to star Osama Bin Laden.
Because seeing an Axe sticking out of his turban would be hilarious.
Congratulations to Larry Correia… he just sold the TV rights to MHI. I think a TV show is likely. Larry first gave me word of this at SHOT Show while on the way to get some chow… he said that it was in the works, but nothing finalized. Well, now it’s a done deal. That’s awesome.
I used to hear about Progressive Rifling in old guns from years gone by. I don’t hear about them anymore… Which to me seems odd. With modern precision machining, it should be much easier to produce a good Progressive Rifled barrel.
The advantage of this would be much like a Back Bored barred in a shotgun… Less felt recoil and a higher shot velocity. Who wouldn’t want this in a rifle? I guess the modern Polygonal Rifling pretty much does the same thing, and it’s easier to achieve, but not everyone likes the stuff. I know several guys that have a healthy distrust of any barrel that doesn’t have traditional lands and grooves.
I could especially see an advantage in a progressive barrel in calibers that prefer a long free bore… such as most of the Weatherby calibers. In a traditional rifled barrel, the bullet is slammed into the rifling a torqued around rather suddenly into the twisted rifling. This problem increased as the freebore is increased. This slamming can cause deformity in bullets and inconsistent pressures if the bullet is seated at eve slightly different depths. Progressive Rifling would slowly turn the bullet into an increasingly accelerating twist until the bullet leaves the barrel at the desired twist rate… and balance the pressure curves, thereby helping to increase accuracy. With increased velocity and accuracy… that would allow the full potential of any cartridge fired from it.
