There is a shooting competition called Cheapskate. .22 LR’s. I think I’m going to get into this. But I don’t have a rifle for it and there isn’t a .22 rifle that I’m really digging as is.
Looks like I’ll have to CRUSADERIZE a Ruger 10/22.
Tactical Solutions Barrel, Slipstream ST-1 treatment on the bolt and inside the receiver… Oh yeah. I can see it now.
Admit it… Human Nature is a violent one. Everything we do is about one of two things… sometimes both. Sex and Violence. Those two things rule our world. The scriptures say someplace that the “Natural Man is an Enemy of God.” Well, that’s unfortunate because Violence is in our Core Programming.
Our Entertainment… The top money making movies are the ones with gratuitous violence. The more unique the violence, the better. Top movie in the last few months. “The Avengers”. What’s it about? Kicking Ass. Best scene in the whole film – The Hulk grabbing a guy and slamming him around like a rag doll. People cheered. That was some delicious violence wasn’t it? Spiced with humor… oh yeah… we all loved that bit.
You roll past a car crash and you have to look. What do you want to see? What are you looking for? Blood. Gore. The more the better. You are disappointed when you see the driver of a wreck sitting on the side of the rode… Ah man… he’s okay. Dang it… you wanted blood. Admit it. That Morbid Curiosity is in you… You wanted that violence.
We watched confrontations on TV… Jerry Springer is famous for it. Get people together that act like Sodium and Water when mixed. Why do people watch that train wreck? Is it for the story? Or is it for watching the people jump up off the couch and go all Gladiator on the other guy? NASCAR… you don’t like racing all that much. Especially not Round Track stuff. But you watch it for one thing. Those hideously violent wrecks.
Even small children are violent. I watched a small child of some British tourists come through… This kid has never held a firearm, let alone fired one. Highly unlikely being from Essex. Yet the little child, 4 years old? Bragged with pride that he knew how to shoot one of those pistols. One of my own boys… my oldest. When he was born we hid all our guns and didn’t watch any violent TV around him. He had no influences on him for violence. He chewed a Gramcracker into the shape of a pistol, held it like a gun and made Pew Pew Pew noises. How did he know how to do that? He was totally insulated from it? How? I’ll tell you how. It’s in his blood. Not just my Ogreish blood – but our collective human blood. Just like the little Oliver Twist kid… It was in his nature, in his DNA, in his blood. We are violent at the cellular level.
We have Canine Teeth. What are those for? Eating meat. And the best way to get it – to Hunt it. Find the tasty looking animal you want and your Predatory Nature kicks into overdrive and you visit violence upon the Prey.
And we wonder about the Roman Gladiators and how they could fight to the death… and how people could watch that. Blood Sports… Come on. We still watch that stuff. Not only that but those Athletes are paid like they were Royalty. We reward our Gladiators very well. All of our Sports are all metaphors for Conflict. Men run at each other, knocking them down, smashing them while all the time chasing the ball. Forget the ball. That’s not why we do sports or watch sports. Football… it’s for the Crashes, just like NASCAR. Even the NFL puts out a Greatest Hits highlight reel. We celebrate those most violent moments because above all… We thirst for Violence.
We are a violent species. We are, as a whole, brilliant when it comes to Violence. Even the Pacifist type people, deep down inside, want to do violence. They openly call for a new Civil War and mass executions of Conservatives. But there is one thing those guys don’t understand… How to do great violence. Conservatives… We do. We are the ones in general that get out there and Hunt, Shoot, and we train ourselves doing it. We excel at violence. It’s in our nature.
Some guys strive to bury that instinct. But it’s there. Suppressed and locked away under layers of Reason and Understanding. But that isn’t who we are and eventually those people erupt.
Sex is a powerful motivator… but they are mere shadows compared to Violence. With sex… come on, we’ve all seen the girl’s goodies and it’s pretty much all the same… like flowers… different colors sizes and shapes, but they are all pretty. Sex however is only just the reward for Violence done well. Sometimes sex has violence in it as well, because we just can’t get enough of it.
As a Nation, America is the best when it comes to violence. Victors of World Wars. We even had or own Civil War. Other countries can be violent, sure. Murderous and Genocidal… but they don’t compare to the level of Violence that America is capable of. As a Nation we have a great deal of tension built up… muscles taunt and ready to throw a swing. We are just waiting for that bell to ring. We’ve been at “Peace” for too long and these police actions in Afghanistan just isn’t doing it. We need a real enemy that we can duke it out with. We need the Germans to rise up again and get us going. We need an adversary. Someone to really fight.
God help whoever stands up to challenge us. We are ready to throw down.
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In the BMW S1000RR comments, the German 88 was brought up. Great weapon system that. 88mm, or 3.4 Inch, it was a big bore gun for Anti-Aircraft work, but it also served very well in both Field Artillery and Anti-Tank roles. Especially since our tanks were not burdened with an overabundance of Armor.
They used the 88 for everything… mounting it on everything they had that needed a big gun. The concept of the 88 was used by us, in the form of our 105mm guns. But still, the 105 as good as it is, especially in Smooth Bore versions, just never had that same Jack of All Trades utility of the 88.
Just take a look at this. Too many good pics to post up, even cherry picking the best ones.
On trains, on tracks, direct fire, AA, Arty, on wheels… And the fact that they could all fire the same shells made Logistics a breeze. Simple and Multi-Role effective. And at the time, allied forces didn’t really have anything quite like it.
We hear this comment a lot in the gun industry.
Yeah, pretty much Law Enforcement Training isn’t as great as the ANTI-GUNNERS think, yet continue to say that only Cops should have guns because they have the training. When it is suggested that Civilians get better training, they say that Civilians don’t need it. That’s their argument? That doesn’t work as it’s a complete failure of logic.
You know what I think?
We all need more training.
This is in no way a Cop Bash Post. Don’t take it that way. Many friends in Law Enforcement and a Blood Brother… Much Respect there. But if the question is Training, then the answer is more. Not only that, but Departments need to set aside a good portion of budget for Training, and this isn’t something I’m seeing. I know one Department that doesn’t even have any training budget… or budget for ammo so the Officers can even do a little practice on their own. They got the suggestion to use their individual Uniform budget. WTF? That’s not right. Especially when you are talking about a department that is always buying new vehicles. Citizens have better training in that area because they like to shoot and the Officers just are not paid enough to practice. They get 60 Rounds for Qual a year, and that’s it. And since Departments don’t like to hire Shooters anymore, they’ve created a department wide culture that Firearms are less important than a shiny snappy uniform and shiny car. Sad.
In the last few times I’ve watched motorcycle racing at M’s place, one bike was the consistent performer… This BMW. See, BMW is mostly known for their Adventure Touring bikes. Well, if you are into Sport Bikes, when you think of BMW, this is the machine that springs to mind. During the races is likes to takes a position up near the front… usually second place, right behind the Leader… right in his 6, like an Focke-Wulf FW-190 waiting for the right moment to shoot them down and take the lead and win the race. We’ve watched BMW do this to Honda and Aprilia. While the other bikes are visibly fighting, the BMW Rider looks like he’s just out for a cruise… totally relaxed… and then “Okay, you’ve had enough… Your done.” And the race is over. It’s able to do this because it’s hugely powerful and composed… and the BMW pilot is one scary motherfucker.
If I could have one bike, given to me for free… and it was the last motorcycle I could ever have and ride… I’d happily pick the S1000RR. Or even, this is the last vehicle you could ever own… Oh yeah… it would be this bike. Pure Teutonic Brutality. Engineered from the ground up Blitzkrieg everything.
Ounce for ounce, the Germans have never invented anything else so sinister or powerful. Or as beautiful. This is Heidi Klum and the Luftwaffe rolled into one. Look at the shark gill style vents. That’s a warning. It’s also serving a purpose… keeps that Sturmgewehr it uses as an engine cool, by pulling in air and blowing it out and away from the rider. Then there is the thing with the asymetrical headlights. That’s a one raised eyebrow saying that it isn’t going to put up with anyone’s shit.
Not from anyone.
2012 BMW S1000RR – American Specifications/Technical Details
US MSRP Price: $15,050 USD
I’ve seen scope failures from every scope maker. Zeiss, Swarovski, Leupold, Trijicon, Huskama, Nikon… Everyone.
A Rifle Scope is a precision instrument mounted on something that recoils and gets knocked around. Every scope, no matter what, will eventually fail.
That’s just a fact. Death and Taxes.
So just because someone on the internet bitches and moans about their brand x scope failing, doesn’t mean you should turn up your nose at a brand x scope. These things happen. What you don’t know though, is if the scope was abused, improperly mounted, or an inappropriate selection for the rifle.
Recoil, Temperature, Age, Impact… all of these things will destroy a scope. It’s just a matter of time. No one makes the perfect scope.
The mark of a good scope maker is how they back up their scopes. Also, the shope you got it from, how helpful are they when you bring it in.
At where I work, we do everything. Customer doesn’t have to worry about it.
Nikon, Bushnell, Swarovski, Trijicon, Burris, Vortex… These guys are the best in dealing with repairs, and repair or replace without question. So if you are Leary on optics, these guys are the best bets.
The day was hot and sweaty… we had an Outlaw Trail Caste Party in town so I rode in. Taking it nice and easy. There was a weather front that moved in and cooled things down. My new Joe Rocket Mesh jacket really felt good, flowing a lot of air through it. A little bit of rain splashed me… Oh man… No other feeling like it.
Grilled burgers in the park was awesome.
Unfortunately the ride home had me accompanied by a Law Enforcement escort almost the entire way. From Naples to Vernal, UHP. Then VCPD through to where I gassed up at Morts. After gassing up, another VCPD picked me up. He peeled off and I thought I was in the clear, but stayed chill. Up ahead, UCSD was on location in one of their new rigs sitting there watching the Round About. I didn’t speed through it, but I didn’t slow down for it. Gave the Deputy a wave as I memorized the rig. Turned by the Maeser Sev, and another UHP picked me up and followed me most of the way home. WTF is going on? I checked into it and there was nothing going down about me… just epic level chronic bad luck for a guy wanting to twist his wrist.
KSL.com has an article about the 13 Scariest movies.
This list is for Horror Lightweights… Which means for most people living in Utah. But the Ogre lives in Utah and this list is something he might watch at 3 AM because he can’t sleep. *Yawn*. I’m bored and tired just looking at that Fail Roster.
Okay, The Ring and The Thing are right up there for great Spook Flix… but they don’t SCARE me. I’m not exactly sure what it is that really scares me… but there is one that stands out that scared the shit out of me.
EVENT HORIZON.
There are two kinds of people out there… Those that have seen EH in the theatre… and those that have only seen it at home, safe, in your little box. Event Horizon scared the shiat out of me. 3 days later, I climbed a wall backwards trying to get away from my wife… because I was having a nightmare about EH. Uncle Musket did the same thing 2800 miles away after watching EH, three days later. Hell, I had nightmares and couldn’t sleep for a week.
The Woman in Black… with Daniel Radcliffe is a new movie out on disk that’s well worth watching. It has great Lovecraftian atmosphere and tells a good story. It’s scared a lot of people I know… and is now in my favorites list of Creepy Movies. You’ll have to check it out if you’ve not seen it.
So what movie scared you the most?