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I am a gun enthusiast trapped in the People's Republic of Maryland. My political affiliation is Independent, as the Ruling parties are both full of crap, and long ago stopped representing the common man. If the Libertarians weren't such freaks I would probably be one. I am a member of the Nation of Riflemen and damn proud of it. I once took an oath that I would support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As far as I know I never broke that oath, and will continue to follow it. I am not Politically Correct and will NEVER be Politically Correct. If you need to know more, feel free, Ask.

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Well at 7AM this morning when I started up the snow blower we had 27 inches of snow, the snow blower is only 25 inches tall.  So by the time I had the driveway and parking area clear it was two hours later and we had an additional two inches of snow on the just shoveled steps.  So right now we are at somewhere around 30 two 32 inches.

Man I love the snow, at least now that I have a snow blower.  The last big blizzard when we got four to five feet of snow I had a shovel.  We spent three eight hour days shoveling.  I vowed to never have to do that again.  I went out the next weekend and bought a snow blower.  Now as it was winter just after a record snow fall the only place that had any snowblowers was a outdoor power equipment place.  Of course they were expensive and they only had the biggest ones left but after shoveling for 24 hours I could care less about how much it cost or how big it was.

Now I am glad I got the biggest one they had in stock. 

I even had to deploy the drift cutters for the first time ever, Sweet!!!

Well for a while there I thought that the Democrats in MD had learned their lesson on assault weapons bans but no…  They are back…

I bring you…

SB516

Brought to you by the same small minded gun bigots as usual in the People’s Republic of Maryland.  All with a D (increasingly standing for dumb-ass as the entire country is finding out) after their names.

Apparently these dumb legislators have yet to figure out that we vote them out when they try this crap… (look up our last great gun banner: Neil Quinter)

Losers…

Or down grading it to tool if you want to look at it that way.

It was a fairly Merry Christmas at my house this year.

I started it off with a new Hoyt AlphaMax 35 bow with all the associated do-dads and hoojie-himers. I will have to get some pictures of the Bow one day but it shoots quite nicely.  I will be looking for Bambi next deer season.

Next up is something that I have wanted for the better part of 20 years.  Yes I know it is a silly frivolous thing, but dammit I wanted one.

I first laid hands on one back in 1990 at my local range.  Back when the drug dealers would come out from the local cesspool of a city with their pagers and hats on sideways looking all thug.  The guy next to me was doing a bunch of cussing and saying his gun was broke, so I being a helpful guy went and took a look. 

He was shooting a Desert Eagle in .357 Magnum.  It would stove pipe every other round or so, misfeed often, and generally not get through a mag without copious issues.  I asked him to shoot a couple rounds and witnessed the issues first hand.  I then asked him if I could give it a go (all you that have ever fired one know where this is going).  Ripped through the complete mag with nary an issue and handed it back to him.  Explained that he was limp wristing the Deagle and went back to my lane.  He proceeded to limp wrist it and cuss a lot until he exchanged it for a glock.  But for me the seed was planted.

I just have not been able to get the thought of owning one out of my head.  Yes I know they are totally impractical (but as a Marylander except for the politically connected all guns are) but they are a hoot to shoot.  I have shot them all from the .357 Magnum to the .50 Action Express.  With the .357 Magnum being too wimpy and the .50 AE being way over the top, in fact there is a picture out there somewhere of me being inducted into the order of the bloody forehead via the .50 AE brass coming strait back out of the gun and pegging me in the face.  Not fun but made for a good story about the Blog meet at Coal Creek Armory way back when.

So here is my Desert Eagle in .44 Magnum.

I got it for a really good price, it has had less than a hundred rounds through it.  Not a mark on it, no scratches, no scuffs, no rust, no nothing, Pristine. 

The guy I got it from said that it had been very problematic for him to shoot, jams, stovepipes, yada yada yada, and was happy to get rid of it.  As soon as I took a look at what he had loaded in the magazine I figured that I knew what the problem was.  8 rounds of 44 special popped out of the mag with lead bullets.  Both are supposed no no items for a well operating Deagle.  So when I got back home I did a thorough cleaning and took it to the range. 

I got a box of Hornady 44 Mag 240 Grain XTP rounds which is a fairly hot .44 Mag load at 1360fps.  I also got a box of Magtech .44 Mag at 1180fps for comparison.  As expected with .44 Magnum ammo I had zero problems with feeding and ejecting.  At the end of 60 or seventy rounds I had had no issues except for the screws holding the safety lever came loose and the gun would go on safe after each shot, easily remedied with some locktight. 

Every shot was a hoot.  I was grinning like there was no tomorrow.  Fun Fun Fun.  The Hornady ammo definitely is stouter by a good bit, but the Magtech did the job just as well with a bit less recoil, but the recoil was not too bad from either one of the two rounds.  Now all I have to do is collect enough brass and work up my own load for .44 Mag and I should be a happy camper.

Here is one parting pic with the Nighthawk custom for a size comparison between the two.

Glad I have big hands because the Desert Eagle is a handful…

Noted for the quote “we have awakened a sleeping dragon” in reference to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Most of us who pay attention to the world around us already knew that most of america was “at the mall” while we have been at war with Terrorism around the globe.  Americans don’t really pay attention to things until they are directly impacted, as the memory of 9/11/2001 faded so did the average Americans interest in things outside of their 50 mile sphere of personal interest.

Hope has faded, Change did not occur.

It seems the politicians on both sides have gotten complacent about their serfs.

The dragon is stirring, we can and will vote them out.

If that does not work we have a fall back…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Lets just hope that “Plan B” does not come to pass.
Update: Seems that this video is striking a cord with a lot of people as it has been up and down on you tube and I had to resource it this morning as the original with hundreds of thousands of hits disappeared.  If this one goes away I will link over to Kevin at Smallest Minority as he had it happen to him originally and made his own flash version.

I should have some new pictures up soon.  Merry Christmas to me,  and you…

Found over at Mr. Freemarket’s place…

Ahhh.  Its good to be home.  Its even better to not have missed a major snowfall.  Drinking my second cup of Costa Rica Tres Rios from Clives Coffee, thinking that most is right with the world.

Soon I will go out and crank up the snow blower and get the two feet of snow moved out of the driveway and carve a path for the dogs in the back yard. 

Then the snow blower will go in the back of a friends truck as we go to another friend’s house for a snow blower party.  Lots of drive way at his house to clear…

I hope we have a couple more snow events like this one.

I hate blogging when I am out of the country.  Just don’t like letting people know that my wife is alone with the Pit Bull mix, the Australian Shepherd barking sentry, and a bunch of guns she knows how to use…

But I am back and it is snowing!!!!  Woot!!!  White Christmas, it has been a while.

Well I am down to one work day before WestByGod Virginia.  The weather looks to be fun fun fun…

Not like we have not been wet and cold at Hatfield before…

Well the bike is as ready as I can make it.  New back tire, changed the oil, the Rekluse is properly adjusted. Got a new helmet cam and tested it out. 

It is a V.I.O POV.1.5 it produces excellent images I like the cordless remote for starting and stopping the recording action.  So look for some video here shortly

Now all I have to do is survive one day at work and then one day getting things done before I leave on my trip.  Then it is 5 days of fun in WestByGod Virginia followed by two weeks of not so much fun in the middle east.  I tried to get out of the trip to the middle east no less than 5 times.  But when the customer likes you and even pushes back the start date because you are on vacation, and no other engineer will do, you just have to resign yourself to getting on the plane for the 10 hour ride.

Well at least I will have fun before I have to go back to the Middle East.

Well as you all may have noticed from the previous post I had a good match on Sunday.  I failed to mention that I went riding on Saturday.

We did a small road trip out to VA as they have some riding areas that we have not visited.  We did 24.7 miles in 2 hours and 42 minutes of moving time with a total trip time of 3 hours and 51 minutes.

We found out what rocky means on the east coast.  I had never really ridden on rocky ground.  There were places where there really was no dirt just loose rocks.  Not gravel type rocks either.  These were head sized rocks, with sharp edges and loose.  So top speed was less than 10mph for most of the day.  You had to spend most of the time fighting the bars to keep going the direction you wanted to go, thank god for steering dampers.

Fun was had and my thighs are on fire from all of the standing up and dodging of rocks.  I managed to not have an off all day but my buddy Mikey was not so lucky.  He decided that the easy trail was too easy and decided to take the “more difficult” trail.  It turned out to be a pisser but not as bad as the trail that it connected to at the top of the hill.  During our trip up the hill Mikey managed to send his bike off the trail after hitting a particularly nasty rock.  Getting it back up on the trail was not too bad but the trail never got any easier the rest of the way up.  Based on the amount of detritus on the two trails I can say that the quads don’t frequent these trails much.  Going down was much worse, the rocks got bigger and at one point we actually had to walk the bikes over the rocks.  We managed to boil over both bikes during this fun happy time on the “more difficult trails.

All and all we did have a good time and this is a good tune up for Hatfield in early December.  I will only have one more riding day before we leave due to my travel schedule and the thanksgiving holiday coming up.  Got to get more time in the gym before then to get the legs up to snuff.

Well since all the cool kids put their match videos up all the time, I figured I would do the same.

Oh and I took first place for my Classification not bad since I had 8 other shooters in my class.

Got a few hours of riding in today.  Slick wet leaves and logs make for some tricky riding.  The only time I biffed it was when we were on tight single track.  I whacked a bar on a sapling and went down on an off camber hillside.

Other than that the riding was good.  A few streams a few hills and lots of tight single track.  Not bad for less than 20 acres of riding area.  Nothing like Dirt Crasher is enjoying.  The Hollister Hills riding area where he is playing today is 3200 acres with over 100 miles of trails. 

I can’t wait to go to Hatfield & McCoy with 500 miles of trails.  We will be riding roughly 80 ~ 100 miles a day.  Now I only hope that come the first weekend in December, West Virginia will not be snowed in and frozen over…

Well I went to the local mom and pop pizza shop (the only one around that sells single slices) and there were 3 police cars out front.

When I went in there were 4 police officers eating their lunches.  I grabbed my slice of Pie and went and sat behind them.  At one point I asked them if any of them shot competitively.  They all kind of laughed at me and two stated that they shot enough to qualify and that was it. 

I asked them about their weapons as they looked like sigs.  Turned out that they were indeed Sigs.  Sigs in .40 S&W. 

To a man they uniformly hated their issue ammo.  One of them showed me a round and it looked like good federal HP.  They said the ammo sucks.  Barely penetrates windshields, has a hard time with car doors, and barely stops the bad guys.  Don’t know if that is because their lack of range time makes shot placement difficult, but they definitely do not trust their service weapons to do the job.

Interesting video about how the Obama campaign controlled the media.  I won’t put the video on the page but here is the link How the Obama camp controlled the media. 

The worst part is the Main Stream Media went willingly, they wonder why their readership and viewership is in the tank.  Fox News is killing them in the ratings, even the traditional broadcast media is getting flogged.

Maybe the People are telling you that the truth is better than being Obama and the Democratic parties mouthpiece.

If for some reason Tam’s blogging output falls precipitously its all my fault.

The Time Sucking Xbox of Doom is almost at her doorstep…

Oh and it is an original Xbox so she won’t have to send it back to mommy every 5 or 6 months when the red ring of death appears.