Nancy Pelosi wants to “compromise” on assault weapons. If you’re in a district represented by a Democrat, you write, call, email them right now. We need to express very strongly how disappointed we are with the continued resurrection of this AWB rhetoric. My rep is a Republican and I’m writing him anyway, just to get my voice into the fray. Contact your House Representatives today, especially you’re represented by a Democrat.
European Steel Challenge
Mr. C details the hoops that he has to jump through to get his guns and gear to the European Steel Challenge in Holland. Also, the Euro Steel Challenge, in a moment of ferious irony has the current target of my gunspaz featured on their flier: a Tangfolio Witness Elite Limited.
IDPA Division: CDP
Check out The Gun Nuts Radio Blog for today’s IDPA Division Installment on Custom Defensive Pistol.
Gun Nuts Last Night
Did you miss last night’s Gun Nuts Radio? If you did, don’t worry – because you can still download it by clicking on this link. It was a great show. I took the night off, which was the first time since the show started in June that I’ve had a night off, so I figured I could probably stand to take a day. Breda hosted the show by her lonesome, and it was a great show. If you want to grab an .mp3 copy of the show, you can click here to download or just click the icon below.
Also, Gun Nuts Radio is available in the iTunes store. If you’ve got an iTunes account, just go to the iTunes store and search for “Gun Nuts Radio” and you’ll find our show. Or, just click here for instructions on how to subscribe to the show’s RSS feed using your iTunes player or even a Zune.
Thanks to Breda for hosting, and for all the great callers who joined the show last night, including our first international caller! It was a great show, and we’ll keep the momentum rolling into next week with a show on self-defense and tactics for a mass shooting situation.
Speaking of shooting
I was cruising the Indiana Gun Owner’s forum this morning, and someone mentioned bowling pin shooting. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times – I love pin shooting.
Contrary to popular belief, a .40 will clean the pins off the table. You just have to hit them right.
IDPA Divisions
This is part 1 of a series that will continue through the week on the different competitive divisions and classifications in my shooting sport of choice, IDPA. Each installment will highlight specific details about each division, as well as guns that are successful and common in each division. Today we’ll look at each division in IDPA, with a bullet point on what it’s designed for.
- Custom Defensive Pistol: .45 ACP handguns only
- Stock Service Pistol: Most DA/SA or DA only pistols (Glocks, Sigs, etc)
- Enhanced Service Pistol: Single action pistols in calibers other than .45 ACP. This is where your Browning High Powers and 9mm, .38 Super, .40 S&W 1911s go.
- Enhanced Service Revolver: Revolvers that use moon clips to load. Dominated by .45 ACP wheelies.
- Stock Service Revolver: revolvers which load using traditional speed loaders – mostly .38 Special guns here.
Each category has a unique set of rules and permitted modifications as well – guns that are legal in SSP can compete in ESP or CDP as well, depending on caliber. So your .45 ACP Glock can gun in Stock Service Pistol, or ESP and CDP if you want to.
We’ll start the series officially tomororw with the flagship division of IDPA: Custom Defensive Pistol.
Gun Nuts Radio Tonight: The Breda Hour
Don’t forget to tune in tonight at 9pm to Gun Nuts Radio. I’m actually taking a much needed week off, as I haven’t had a vacation since uh…I don’t remember when, so you’re going to be Caleb-free on tonight’s show. It’ll be all the Breda you want for an hour. She’s got a pretty neat idea for the show in the works, so if you don’t listen, it’s your loss. Don’t forget, the show goes live at 9pm, and you can join the conversation by calling 347-539-5436. Join Breda tonight at 9pm Eastern time at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts!
What goes in your range bag
A reader of this blog and Sebastian’s blog emailed us asking what goes in our range bags, as he just bought a pimping range bag from MidwayUSA. Sebastian has his range bag stuff posted, so I’ll do the same here. Before I continue though, there is one abiding rule that I try to have for my range bag – 2 is 1 and 1 is none. That means if there’s something I’m likely to need, I try to have two of them. Just in case. Also remember that I’m a 1911 shooter, so some of the tools I have are specific to that platform.
- The Wilson Combat 1911 Versa-Tool – Seriously, if you’re a 1911 shooter, don’t leave home without this thing.
- My Leatherman multi-tool
- A set of Allan wrenches
- a small screwdriver set
- gun lube in a sealed container (ziploc baggies are great for this)
- ammo
- ears, eyes, etc
- a few key spare parts (mostly springs)
- A few pens
- A sharpie (for blackening the rear sights)
- All my magazines
- magazine holders
- spare magazine holders (2 is 1)
- holster
- spare holster
- a knife (rule 9)
- spare ears and eyes
- A silver sharpie (this is for marking the basepads of magazines that may need to be cleaned or discarded)
- Snacks, in a separate ziploc baggie. If you’re shooting from 0900 to 1500, you’re going to get hungry. There’s nothing worse than trying to shoot with a splitting headache because you’re starving.
- Water – see above.
Now, unlike Sebastian and Sean, I don’t have a bitchin’ range bag. My bag is an old gym back from this place I used to work out when I was in college. It’s given me yeoman’s service as a range bag for 6 or 7 years, and I’m not about to toss it out now. The thing reeks of brass, powder, and Hoppes #9 – and I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.