Eastern Arenac Sportsmens Club Gun Raffle

Posted by Greybeard on Jul 21st, 2010 in Local, Shootist | 5 comments

Well it’s that time of year again at the Eastern Arenac Sportsmens Club .   Tickets are available again for their annual gun raffle.   700 tickets,  10 new long guns as prizes.     Check the link for more info.

I’ll be buying some tickets,  but unfortunately they’re not offerring the lightweight 20 gauge double barrell I’ve been lusting after, as a prize this year.   Maybe if I win a gun,  I can trade it for the double?   And then there’s that SpringFeild Armory .45 XDm  that’s not on the prize list either.     Oh well,   maybe I’ll win one of those big NRA gun raffles.  (a maybe one in 5 million chance)

It looks like I missed out on the drawing for the Michigan State Muzzleloading Associations Rifle Raffle.  It was a beautiful  little .32 Cal. North Carolina Flintlock.   The drawing was July 11th,  and I haven’t had a call yet.

Just sayin’

Posted by Greybeard on May 24th, 2010 in News and weather, Political, Shootist | 0 comments

LATEST FBI CRIME DATA CONTINUES TO REFUTE ANTI-GUN RHETORIC, SAYS CCRKBA

BELLEVUE, WA – For the third year in a row, violent crime has declined in the United States while increasing numbers of American citizens own firearms and are licensed to carry, a trend that belies predictions of anti-gunners that more guns will result in more crime, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

Grey’s Anatomy

Posted by Greybeard on May 21st, 2010 in Political, Shootist | 0 comments

Grey’s Anatomy is not a series I normally watch.  (In recent years I’ve developed an aversion to casual interactions with hospitals).   Last night I decided to sit with the wife and watch the 2 hour year’s finale .   It turns out that it was a show built around a disturbed man, seeking vengance for his wife’s death in the hospital.    His method of vengance was to walk around the hospital,  shooting doctors and nurses that were involved with treating his wife.   After an hour or so of fearful and intense seek and shoot,  the man decided to talk with one of his intended victims.   This is when the entire 2 hours went sour,  a five minute politically minded speach,  maligning gun ownership and the second ammendment.   Quote:   “I’ve never owned a gun before,  but 5 day’s ago I walked into a mega-mart,  and bought this 9 mm handgun and all the ammo I could carry”.

My question for the writers:   And on which planet did this happen?    Come to Michigan and try to buy a handgun at a mega-mart, or find one that sells them.   And if you’re looking for ammo,  better have 2 pieces of I.D.,  and a clean record,  not to mention,  leave your name, S.S. number,  and current address.

Bottom line,  the writer’s of the show used five minutes of the program to express their twisted mind set about gun ownership.   Likely the entire program was designed to support the lie of  how dangerous the second ammendment makes our country.   The flaw of their logic,  is that like almost all shooters and terrorists,  the shooter in this story,  decided to go to a location marked with the politically correct,  “NO GUNS” sign,  where he could walk around freely and shoot people at will.

I’m so tired of being told I’m endangering my life by owning a gun.   Note to television and movie moguls, to anti-gunners and politicos :  Your hidden symbolism,  and preaching propaganda,  and lies are not working.   In fact it’s just the opposite,  the more  you press your unconstituional agenda,  the more Americans wake up  and see the light of this great Nation!

Next episode of the Lasered Glock

Posted by Greybeard on Apr 29th, 2010 in News and weather, Shootist | 0 comments

The LaserMax LMS-1181  came back from the company today.   Supposedly repaired and included a test fired target with ten rounds fired from 15 yards.   The target has the center dot obliterated by 9 touching holes. (1 flyer)

First off,  my Glock 36 has never shot that tight of a group at 15 yards!  Second,  I question why 10 rounds out of a gun that has a 6 round magazine?

I have to admit that it looks like they’re really trying,  but,   after assembling the gun and checking the laser against the sights,  I find it is still off about 4 inches off  at 15 FEET.   At 15 ft,  the laser dot is about 4 inches off where the sights are aimed.   I haven’t shot the gun with the repaired/realigned laser in it yet,   but I have to assume that if it’s off 4 inches at 15 feet,  it’s going to be worse at 15 yards.   I wonder what the difference is between their Glock 36,  and my Glock 36?     Another issue was, that is very hard to turn off and on,  requiring the slide to be slightly retracted to get a good switch action.   That issue wasn’t taken care of either.  Finally,  the gun is now rather difficult to  reassemble,  since the Laser guide rod,  keeps falling out while trying to put the slide back on.    So,  I guess I’ll be calling Bob at LaserMax again.   But to be fair,  I’ll wait until after I get the gun out on the range again.  Range report to follow later.

Waiting for the Laser

Posted by Greybeard on Apr 22nd, 2010 in Fishing, Shootist | 0 comments

It’s been 10 day’s since I returned the LaserMax laser sight for my Glock. I haven’t heard anything from them yet. Other that the nearly $300 I paid for the laser product, the Glock and I are still getting along quite well. It’s night sights are still strong after nearly 10 years. I’m hoping for a good outcome with this LaserMax story, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

And on another train of thought:   I launched the SportCraft today.   Everything went well,  and once in the water,  it amazed me by starting on the first turn of the key.   I still have some fishing gear to load on the boat,   and then we’ll be ready for a shakedown run.  (Hopefully the weather co-operates)   I talked to a couple of fellow fisherman who were loading their boat,  as I was launching mine,  and they said that they did quite well,  but that it took them all day to do it.   Translation:   The Walleye are there,  but the bite was slow.