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A good day

Posted on by Caleb

There is a saying that goes something like “if a man is judged by the number of his enemies, then I am a rich man indeed”.  It’s a ridiculous saying, but whatever.  Now, a better saying would be “if the goodness of a day was judged by a pile of empty brass, than I had a great day”.

From Para Tac-5

That’s the just first “brass call”. All told, we expended north of 600 rounds of ammo, and policed easily 90% of the brass we shot up. Anyone hungry for some delicious once fired .45 ACP and 9mm brass?

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Para Tac-5

Posted on by Caleb

You’re going to have to wait a couple more days for the “full” review, because someone forgot the spare batteries for the camera.  Heh.  Suffice to say, the gun shoots extremely well, turning in a 2 inch group with Federal 147 grain Hydra Shoks at 25 yards off the sandbags.  It seemed to really like the Winchester 124 grain NATO loads as well.  I’ll have a full review up for you on Monday.

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Support Gun Nuts

Posted on by Caleb

A you know, Gun Nuts Media (including this blog and Gun Nuts Radio) accept advertising, which if you’re interested in getting your business and products in front of 50,000 sets of eyeballs every month you should send me an email at [email protected]

However, if you’d like to support Gun Nuts, and help us defray the costs of sending a shooter to Bianchi Cup, or just generally support the site, then just click on the picture of Mrs. Ahab with the Thompson SMG to go to the donation site.  See how happy she looks?  She’ll be more happy if we end up with enough money for that Tommy Gun.  She said she needs “a home defense gun”.

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Some kind of party

Posted on by Caleb

Apparently, there were some kind of protests all over the country yesterday, including my city of Indianapolis.

I did not choose to attend the protests; however early action reports from the scene consisted of “angry” protesters milling about in a semi-orderly fashion. Oh those crazy right wing radicals, demanding things like government accountability and that the government stop spending our money. Madness, I tell you, madness.

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James Yeager on Gun Nuts

Posted on by Caleb

Did you listen to Gun Nuts Radio last night? Because if you didn’t, you missed a great show. We were joined by James Yeager of Tactical Response, one of the leading self-defense schools in the country. The topic of conversation ran the gamut from the self-defense mindset, to the value of playing games such as IDPA, and even to a discussion on gear. You can click this link to download the show, or click the next link to download an .mp3 copy of the show.

James was a great guest, and we’re planning on having him back again in the future, as some of the topics we just glanced over could have entire shows devoted to them. I can’t encourage you strongly enough to listen to us live, as it’s the only way to get the full Gun Nuts Experience, including live video feed of the host during the show. If you’d like to subscribe to the show, you can follow the link for instructions on getting Gun Nuts on iTunes.

Join us next week for a Tea Party wrap up show. As you know, today across the nation in “celebration” of Tax day, conservatives, libertarians, and people who are just generally fed up with the spending habits of the government are gathering to protest the outrageous taxation being levied against us. Next week’s show will be all call-ins – we want to hear from you, and from your Tea Party experiences.

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Someone's got a little crush!

Posted on by Caleb

Aww, look guys! It’s the first ever documented case of Sebastian Derangement Syndrome. It’s just like when I was in 3rd grade and I’d throw mud at the girls I liked. Gosh, they grow up so fast, don’t they?

Also, while the original post itself is pretty funny, some of the comments are even better. My favorite is from “Sean”, who says the following:

I don’t do pretty. My wife does that. I don’t own, nor would I own, something like that. It smacks of rot, decay, and corruption. It’s one of the reasons our Republic is on the wane. Too gilt-edged, too pretty and fancy. I’ll take the woods and the mud and rain in my face anyday. I don’t mind clean and neat. Just keep useless crap like that away from me.

So Sean, if you don’t “do” pretty, but your wife does, and you keep “pretty” away from you, does that mean your wife is uh…lonely?

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ParaUSA Tac-5

Posted on by Caleb

Today, as many of you know, is buy a gun day!  Robb picked up his heater yesterday, and is really enjoying his new mousegun.  I actually recieved my BAG Day purchase a couple of weeks ago, but have been holding off on blogging about it until today.  My new gun is a ParaUSA Tac-5, which is a build up of their 18.9 LDA gun.

From Para Tac-5

The Tac-5 is an 18 round 9mm, which is fed from Para’s double stack magazines. This gun has some improvements on the bone stock 18.9 LDA, which make it an ideal fit for practical pistol or tactical applications. As you can see in the picture, the pistol comes from the factory with an expanded magazine well for faster reloads, a compact beavertail for acquiring a fast grip on the gun, a single side extended thumb safety, and an extended magazine release. Additionally, the Tac-5 uses a standard 1911 guide rod – no full length guide rod to add extra weight to the gun.

From Para Tac-5

The keystone of the gun is Para’s proprietary Light Double Action trigger, which gives the shooter a trigger pull similar to a fine-tuned DA revolver. The trigger on this guns breaks at about 6.5 pounds, and that will wear in after I start pushing rounds through the gun. The best feature of the gun though isn’t the trigger (which I really do like), but rather it’s the sights. From the factory, the gun comes with a set of adjustable Novak sights – the rear sight is two black posts, with a large white dot on the front post. Usually on my competition guns I change out the front sight for a fiber optic, but on this gun there isn’t any need to do that, as the huge white dot is very easy to acquire.

Now, the final feature of the gun is pretty fun – I was checking out it, and there’s a little button on the back of the magwell labeled “stealth”. So I pushed it just to see what would happen, and holy crap my gun engaged a cloaking device.

From Para Tac-5

That’ll be a great feature for open carry! I kid a bit there – but back to the gun, this gun comes ready right out of the box to be a serious gun for IDPA Enhanced Service Pistol division, or to run in Limited-10/Limited if you don’t mind shooting minor. One of the neat things is that this gun is light – Para was able to save weight in several places, so the gun is 7 ounces lighter than the full on 18.9 LDA. Doing dry-fire, the gun moves easily from target to target, and I’ve got a gut feeling that this gun will be murder on steel plates.

This gun is coming with me to Bianchi Cup. It’s legal for the new Bianchi Cup Production Division, and I’ve been getting a load of trigger time with LDAs lately, it’s only natural I’d want to bring a light kicking 9mm along with me. I’m heading out to Atlanta Conservation Club tomorrow with a bunch of 9mm to put the Tac-5 through its paces.