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Dear Professional Athletes

Posted on by Caleb

Please stop carrying guns.  I’m serious guys, you have to knock this kind of crap off.  You see, it’s not that I don’t support your 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms, because of all the people on earth, I do.  But the problem is that you (professional athletes) seem to be a subset of the general population that is incapable of grasping two of the fundamentals necessary for responsible gun ownership, namely 1) the 4 Rules, and 2) the different laws that each state has.

You see, when one of you does something stupid with a gun, it causes problems for all of us – you know, those “little people” who don’t get paid millions of dollars each year to play a game.  Because you’re a public figure, the media gets a hold of stuff like this, and then for the next few weeks I have to hear over and over again about how “no one needs to carry a gun” or “why would anyone want a gun for protection”.  I guess what’s frustrating me is that guys like you don’t have any concept of the fact that your actions have consequences beyond your immediate universe, so you don’t think about the fact that carrying a gun illegally could paint law-abiding gun owners with a negative brush.

So, Pro Athletes, I will take a step back from my initial statement. If you want to exercise your right to keep and bear arms, please do so. But if you are going to do it; realize that you’re held to a higher standard as a gun owner – that your actions if they ever become public have far reaching ramifications for the people who ultimately pay your salary (the fans). So go ahead and carry, but if you are going to, do it legally and safely.

And if you do shoot yourself in the leg while carrying illegally, don’t be surprised if we hang you out to dry, you idiot.

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IDPA Stage Ideas

Posted on by Caleb

From the movies – last night Mrs. Ahab and I watched Blood Diamond, with Leonardo DiCaprio, which was actually a pretty good film.  There was one scene that gave me a great idea for an IDPA stage – the bridge shootout.

With the exception of the part where he shoots the two guys again for insurance, this would make a pretty cool IDPA stage.  Two targets equidistant, you have to neutralize them with 1 shot each.  To make it challenging, say that each target has to be hit in the “Down 0” area, and make the stage limited Vickers, so you only get the two rounds.

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Word of the day

Posted on by Caleb

“Tauretta”: A Taurus filled full of Beretta replacement parts.

I like the Taurus PT92 series of pistols, mainly because they can be carried cocked and locked due to the fact that they don’t have the slide mounted safety that the Beretta M9/92 series of guns have.  The Taurus is sporting a frame mounted safety, which is where God and His Servant John Moses Browning want safeties to be.

So, I have a Taurus PT92, which has a bunch of aftermarket Beretta parts on it – hence, Tauretta.

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French Gun Laws

Posted on by Caleb

From the comments on this post:

Yes, we can have handguns in France, but only for sport shooting. You need to be registered as a sport shooter and then ask for an autorisation (from a month to a year waiting for it, depending of your local administration), that you must renew every three years. You have to go to the stand at least three or four times a year (I don’t remember exactly) and if you drop your shooting licence, you lose the right to own your gun. With all that in mind, you have the right to own a maximum of twelve classified guns. I won’t go deep inside details of the law, which is almost as stupid as it’s complicated.

Remember, this is what the other side of the fence defines as a “common sense” gun law.

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Not Even Todd Jarrett can help me now

Posted on by Caleb

Ah, Thanksgiving.  A time to gather with your family and friends, enjoy fine food, good company, and infrared light based shooting games.  Yes, there was pie as well, however (for whatever reason) my father-in-law had purchased this light-gun game (presumably) for my nephew, and hey, if it involves pulling triggers I’m game for it.  As usual, click all images for full-size.

So, that’s the game itself – and it came with this huge orange light-gun that sort of looks like a Colt Single Action Army, that makes “bang” noises when you pull the trigger.  Basically, a completely awesome toy for any boy-child, whether they’re 4 or 26.

Now, seeing as I’m a total goober, I felt it was necessary to be as tactical as possible for this, which meant hauling out the Blackhawk gloves for maximum effectiveness (side note: those Blackhawk gloves make excellent driving gloves) on the obviously terrorist targets downrange of me.

Yep, got a good isosceles stance going there, keeping my eye on the front sight, oh yeah – I’ve got this light gun thing down pat.  Too bad that the infrared beam doesn’t exactly go where the sights are aimed, but I can’t help it if the gun is out of spec.

Of course, the best part is the part where I’m playing with my 4 year old nephew, who after watching me shoot did the most adorable thing and adopted my facial expression when he was shooting.

What you can’t see in this picture is the constant stream of “get your shock absorbers into it” or “hold the gun 20% tighter” that’s coming from me as he shoots the toy gun.

I mean, hey, I figure you can’t start them too early on proper fundamentals of recoil control and sight picture, right?  Once he figured out that he had unlimited ammo, it was all over.

Watch out Jerry Miculek, in 20 years you might have some competition from my speed demon nephew here.

I hope that everyone else had as much with their friends and family as I did yesterday, and that we can all successfully recover from the ham/turkey/pie or whatever it was that we OD on yesterday.

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I concur

Posted on by Caleb

Help someone from the EBR side of the gun industry win “Influential Person In the Gun Industry” award. There’s a link up at AFCOM, which Uncle has linked to.

The Above is a link to Outdoor Life’s Website where there is a vote going for the the most Influential Person In the Gun Industry this year. Our President Randy Luth is up for this vote. It is very important to us that someone from the black rifle side of the industry wins, especially in the light of the election our new presidents view on these guns. It has taken years for people to become comfortable with these weapons that are only different from bolt action guns because they are semi automatic.

Like Uncle, I think it’s a great idea.