I still want one of these. That GI Expert from Para looks like a great “Point A” for building up a pretty awesome gun for Custom Defensive Pistol. Want want want.
"Ain't we just"
Big Damn Heroes, that is – the subject of last night’s Gun Nuts Radio. We spent the show focusing on the people who have done great things not just for our right to keep and bear arms, but for the shooting sports, and shooters everywhere. Just a few of the people we and out guests spotlighted:
- Suzanna Hupp
- Alan Gura
- Robert Levy
- Marion P. Hammer
- And many, many more
To hear the rest of the luminaries we listed, check out last night’s show by clicking this link to download. You can of course also download the .mp3 file to keep on your portable music device, such as iPOD or even a Zune if you have: click here to download our .mp3. The neat thing about shows like this is it lets us shine the light on people that are truly deserving of recognition and respect for everything they have done to help keep us shooting, hunting, and enjoying our liberties.
Next week’s show is going to be hosted by Breda, live on the webcam feed, so if you don’t listen live, you’re going to miss out. As we rotate the host duties each week, you’ll start to see us featuring different firearms on the camera feed, as well as other specials for the folks who listen live. So don’t miss out…but if you do, you can still download the show, or subscribe to us on iTunes by following the handy instructions here.
One from Bianchi
I’m glad that Tactical Wire ran this story on Max Michel winning the Pro-Am shootoff at Bianchi Cup, which was a side event to the Speed Steel Shoot off. The reason I’m glad to hear that is because I wanted to show you this picture of Max. The Speed Steel event involves shooting 5 large plates as fast as you can; the timer over your head records how long it takes to do that.
Photo is from Yamil Sued, not from me. Now, if you’re looking at the timer, it says 1.70. That means it took Max 1.7 seconds to draw and fire 5 shots, cleaning all the plates. To put that in “mere mortal terms”, if the average citizen can draw and fire a single shot into the A-zone in 1.5 seconds, that’s considered a fast draw.
Not a whole lot to the story beyond that, other than “Max Michel is scary fast”. I had the pleasure of sitting there watching him shoot that string, and I swear it’s over before you realize it started.
Visual Aids
This is both entertaining and depressing.
Thanks to Sebastian for the link.
Beretta Laramie
You know, it’s always a little sad when a cool gun doesn’t sell well enough and ends up getting dropped from the product line. Such was the case with the Beretta Laramie, which was Beretta’s clone of the classic S&W Schofield revolver. The Schofield was a truly revolutionary design in its heyday, featuring a break open cylinder that allowed for much faster reloading that the contemporary Colt Single Action Army.
The Beretta version wasn’t actually a Beretta, in a technical sense. Uberti has been well known as the leading producer of western style firearms, cranking out some truly lovely copies of the classic Colts, as well as several models of the Schofield. What you may not know is that Uberti is also a subsidiary company of Beretta. Much as Beretta does with their Stampede, they essentially cherry-picked the parts for the Laramie from Uberti parts, and then assembled them in the Beretta facility.
So what was it that killed the Laramie? Probably a couple of factors, not the least of which was the 1,000 dollar price tag hanging on the gun, especially when you could (and still can) get an Uberti for half that. It also doesn’t help that the Single Action market is owned by Colt clones. It’s much easier to find a gunsmith and parts for your Ruger Vaquero than it is to find them for a Schofield style revolver. It’s a damn shame, at that. You can still get a Schofield, though. If you’ve been watching 3:10 to Yuma and have a craving for a break too, Uberti still carries one.
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Gun Nuts Tonight: Big Damn Heroes
That’s right – tonight on Gun Nuts Radio at 9pm Eastern time we’re talking about heroes – big damn heroes. We’ll be live talking about the people who are quite literally on the forefront of the right to keep and bear arms – men and women that have done more to preserve our right to bear arms than most of us combined will do. People like Alan Gura, for example, one of the lawyers on the DC vs. Heller case.
We’ll also be taking call-ins from listeners on our dedicated line at 347-539-5436: we want to hear who you think is a quite literally a hero for 2nd Amendment advocates to look up to. Join us tonight at 9pm Eastern time at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts – you won’t regret it!
We're winning, they're losing
So now “the real work begins”, according to Task Force 20/20. The 2009 Shooting Sports Summit in Floriday wrapped up recently with the overal goal of growing participation in the shooting sports by 20% in the next five years. I’m actually disappointed that I wasn’t able to attend, as I’m literally buried under five different projects right now and just wasn’t able to make a trip to Florida.
One of the big “talking points” at the recent Summit was the integration of new media in to promoting the shooting sports – you’ve already begun to see that with efforts like NRA’s outreach to bloggers, the NRABlog, Ruger taking a huge online marketing presence, etc – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s my personal hope to see more and more industry reaching out to new media; and not just for selfish reasons either. I truly believe that the upcoming generation of shooters, the people that we need if we want our sports to prosper are found almost entirely online. I also believe that the aforementioned generation of shooters acquires a tremendous portion of their information from online sources as well, which means to get their all important shooting dollar, you need to be where they are…on Facebook.
Eternal win
This is the most awesome thing I have seen in my entire life. Period.
Great Minds
Earlier yesterday morning, I had emailed a copy of this story to Tam along with the commentary “remember when we used to park a carrier group off your coast for this?” Tam being notoriously bad at checking her email doesn’t open the message until after she’s already blogged the story with much the same commentary. I mean I honestly don’t have a whole lot to say about this other than “when are the SEALs going in”?
Did you hear?
Apparently, this past weekend in Indianapolis there was a man with a gun in The Rathskellar, a popular bar and restaurant. Eye-witnesses described the man as “just a regular guy” and had “no idea” he was carry a small pistol for the entire evening. According to reports, the man spent the evening listening to the band and conversing with, until he left at approximately 0100. No injuries were reported, as though by some force the man was able to resist the magical forces that will so go into play in Tennessee – the magic that when you put a law abiding gun owner in a room with alcohol, a BLOODBATH is the only possible result.
Yes, that was me in the Rathskellar, and yes I was packing, and no, I wasn’t drinking. I was the DD, so I was also carrying.