*Preface: No, this isn’t about my soon-to-be-born daughter… she’s still gathering courage to go down the water slide… though this is about something that will help me fend off her parasites in the future…
I’ve been meaning to up my collection of firearms for some time now.  Upon returning from my [...]

Before I left for my last overseas trip, I got to shoot some 105mm rounds from a Gunship (covered in The Big Guns).  Most pilots know that rounds from big guns can be turned into drinking containers; hell, the 20mm shells from the F-16 can be seen in the form [...]

This past week, I got the opportunity to go up in a Gunship and see what that’s all about.  Aside from interacting with Air Force peers (something a rarely get to do in this job), the guys in the back let me load and “shoot” the guns.
Sure, I bet [...]

I’ve had my Smith and Wesson 629 for at least 5 years now… and sometime about 4½ years ago, it started developing this problem where the thumbpiece would get jammed, preventing the cylinder from being opened. I had taken it to the pawn shop I bought it from soon [...]

In honor of Astro’s many “Range Report” posts, I figure I’d do one since The Astronomicon is down for the count (for the time being). Granted, I don’t have nearly the repertoire that Astro has when it comes to guns (nor do I intend to), but I do like [...]

I just made a visit up to Tennessee to visit one of my bro’s and bagged my first deer.  From a very expensive tree-stand, I shot out of a Mosin-Nagant and dropped a young doe with one shot.  It ended up going right through the heart.  To get the full [...]