I recently re-joined the Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club in an effort to give myself a good reason to get out of the house and do something other than sit in front of the computer. I’ve acquired a couple of new pistols over the last year and not had much chance to shoot them, so today was the day to get some lead on the paper.

I noticed that Mr. Completely and his wife Kee Wee were going to be at the match. I’ve been trying to meet him for the last several years and can never seem to make it out to a match. Today things worked out perfectly, I was already planning on heading to the range with a friend — We didn’t compete in the match, but managed to see Mr. C shoot a couple of stages — his barrel holding technique has to be seen in action!

He and Kiwi are off to Holland for the European Steel Challenge Championships, Best of Luck to them!

We spent a couple of hours putting the new guns through their paces, everything worked out fairly well. As usual I was anticipating recoil with my 1911′s (hitting low to the left), holding on too tight and using the wrong part of my finger on the trigger. Gee, lots of things to improve on! The IMI Automag III was a BLAST to shoot as always. One of the nice things about it is that you don’t have to put alot of ammo through it to get a huge amount of pleasure out of shooting it. As usual the first shot left my friend grinning from ear-to-ear. I tried to catch a picture of the muzzle flash, but my camera wasn’t shooting fast enough.

It is interesting that when shooting the Automag I don’t have my problem shooting low-left, instead they string out straight to the left just a bit. The grip on it is noticeably longer than the 1911, and with its extra mass it moves around in my grip less.

My new Buckmark ran great! After tweaking the adjustable sights a few clicks to the right it was hitting right on. I think I’ll try my hand at the Fun Steel Shoot next month using this gun — its dead easy to clean and .22 is still pretty cheap to shoot. I’ll have to get some practice in beforehand, but at least I won’t be breaking the bank.

I also got to try out a Sig 226 in .22 and 9mm. Why Sig makes their .22 magazine 10 rounds and the 9mm 20 rds. is a mystery. Shot a Kimber Ultra Carry II as well. Tiny little gun which has a very noticeable amount of muzzle flip compared to my 1911′s. I wouldn’t want to shoot it regularly, but it makes an excellent concealed carry piece.

The weather was great, the guns all worked really well, the company was excellent and we had an excellent lunch at the Red Apple Diner on the way home (Prime Rib special for $8.95, who could pass that up?).

I’ve just finished moving the site over to use mod_wsgi instead of running it as a CGI module. There should be a slight speed improvement, but not anything that you will likely notice.

I’d also like to welcome two new blogs to the list – The Molly Minute and Sipsey Street Irregulars

I hear Molly cleaned the clocks of the Bloggers at the GunBlogger Rendezvous steel shoot this weekend. Congratulations!

Its been a while since I’ve updated you with additions to GunBlogger’s new feeds. In no particular order I’d like to welcome the following blogs: The Clue Meter, Ry Jones, Rivrdog, Vin Suprynowicz, Dave Workman, Liberal CCW, Around Orlando, New User of Guns, Sharp as a Marble, One Inch Group, Gunblogger Conspiracy, Gun Nuts Media and Snarky Bytes

Whew! That’s quite a list. If you have a blog you want to see added please contact me.

for gun bloggers. When I went through the broken links on gunbloggers.com last week I found that a number of them that had converted their blogs to static pages because of problems finding a decent blog hosting company. Others were just gone. It looks to me like there is a need for a stable host for like-minded gun blogs.

Among other things I am an experienced system administrator (at one time adminstering over 100 servers), I have my own webserver here in my basement and bandwidth to spare. So here is the deal — If you are a gun blogger or other conservative blogger I will host a WordPress site for you. I will maintain the blog software, managing upgrades and backing up the database. You can have this for free as long as you run my google adwords ads on your pages.

Or for $10/mo I will do the same, but you don’t need to put up my ads.
Domains can be XXXX.gunbloggers.com, or if you register your own domain you can point it here for no charge.

These accounts include ssh access to your user account, nightly SQL dumps of your blog database and optional delivery of the backups to a remote server if you wish.

See www.gunbloggers.com/hosting for more details. If you want to sign up, email me at the address on that page and I’ll get you going.

I’ve just updated the LibertyNews Store to include new Molon Labe stickers and shirts using a Greek font.

From Wikipedia

The Greek phrase Molōn labe! (Μολὼν λάβε; approximate Classical Greek pronunciation [molɔ̀ːn labé], Modern Greek [moˈlon laˈve]), meaning “Come and take them!”, is a classical expression of defiance reported by Plutarch in response to the Persian Army’s demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons. It corresponds roughly to the modern equivalent English phrase “over my dead body” or “bring it on”. It is an exemplary use of a laconic phrase.

Firehand over at Irons in the Fire was lamenting the fact that he couldn’t find another white on black Molon Labe sticker. I’d had the greek version of it saved away for a while now so I whipped up a couple of images with Pixelmator and expanded the store’s offerings.

I also like the maternity shirt, it would be appropriate for a gun owner carrying twins.

Mr. C, the organizer behind the Gun Blogger Rendezvous and avid shooter was hospitalized with gall bladder problems the other night. He’s not going to make it to the Blogger dinner tonight, which is a real bummer (on top of gall bladder surgery) since I’ve been trying to run into him for a year or so now.

His wife, KeeWee has an update posted on his site.

I hope that he gets well soon.

I ran across this post over at Pass the Ammo via GunBloggers.com. I made what I thought was a fairly reasonable reply to the posting.

Later in the day I wanted to check out the rest of the site, and noticed that my reply was missing. I was pretty sure I’d done it right, but anything is possible. I happened to have it open on the laptop so I re-posted it this morning. Its gone again. Now, this doesn’t really bug me that much, I don’t have any ‘right’ to have my comment posted, but I do think that silently deleting opposing viewpoints gives the false impression that everyone agrees with you.

update It ends up that my post was the victim of an overzealous Askimet spam filter! Spammers certainly have made it harder to manage comments on blogs these days, and Askimet usually does a reasonable job of things. Sorry to Pass the Ammo for thinking the posts were being dropped on purpose.

So, I give you my original comment:

Please don’t.

I felt the same way in 1992, and by voting for Ross Perot helped hand the country over to Bill Clinton.

All through the primaries I swore I would not vote for McCain this time around.

But I have to act like a grownup now. The economy is sliding into a recession, people wrongly blame the Republicans for that. We WILL have supreme court judges retire in the next 4 years. Congress will likely be under democrat control. Bush has already tipped us over into the nationalization of banks and the use of public funds for private benefit. Obama will only make this worse.

If you vote for anyone but McCain you will be helping to hand the country over to the socialists, and once they reinforce their hold there will be no turning back. This is a turning point in the history of the United States. Can we survive as a nation of Free Men?

I’ve added some new blogs to GunBloggers.com, Blackfork, Cemetery and The Gun Shots

Somehow Cemetery’s feed triggered a bug in the feedparser module that I use to parse the RSS feeds, I added an exception for his site and got it all fixed up so that titles look ok.

Welcome guys!