No Joy Saturday

Another Saturday running around with the Boss. First to the bank for some cash, a granddaughters soccer game and finally a couple of electronic toy stores. We purchased a 27" LCD TV for the basement and a new computer system for the Boss. Her new computer has 8GB of RAM and 1TB of hard drive space with an ergonomic keyboard and a 23" monitor. That will replace the old Dell we bought, I think, 8 years ago. The Dell was recently upgraded to it's Max of 1 GB Ram.

I'll set the Dell up in my armory since it's completely inadequate for the new task as recently defined by the Boss, but is just fine for my use of a home computer . She purchased software that has the capability of rejuvenating very old photos that is a real computer resource hog.

Now I get the very painful job of setting it all up.

Happy Day

I hope every one is enjoying the celebration of NATIONAL LEGALIZED THEFT DAY.

I do my best to buy a gun or a bunch of ammo on this day of the year. Unfortunately I didn't make it this year. Shame on me.

Little Elephant

Four of the my new shirts from last Saturday have little elephants on the left breast. I didn't pay it much attention until one of the guys at work today pointed it out. His comment was it's a good thing it isn't a little donkey. I told him that I could barely tolerate the elephant because I'm not very fond of the Republican party these last couple of decades.

I found s place on line to down load the Dem donkey and the Rep elephant graphics. My original intent was to make a few donkey targets fot the range. If I do that I should shoot at both the donkey and the elephant.

I Just Hate Shopping

Yesterday the Boss drug me (actually I drove) down the highway about 45 minutes to a relatively new outlet mall. She's gotten tired of me wearing the same shirts each and every week, and for some reason thinks I need some new ones. Other than a couple pair of shoes that are easier on my gouty feet and a suit for job interviews, I haven't shopped for clothes for myself in years. The Boss buys them and I wear them. I like it that way.

I often wonder if some people are vampires and can't see themselves in mirrors. Maybe they don't own a mirror, or just don't care what kind of misery they force on these old eyes. For instance there was one guy wearing jeans that had some sort of red pattern on the back from his knees to his belt. He also wore a bright yellow belt, matching yellow cowboy boots and a red hat. He must've been real proud of those boots because he bloused his jeans so as not to hide any bit of that hideous color. It was all I could do to keep from bursting out in a loud laugh.

So I came home with 7 new shirts, sore feet and an achy hip. I just love arthritis. The best thing was looking forward to a trip to the range today. Yep, that worked out extremely well, as noted below.

The Plan For Today

went ker-plunk like so much wet newspaper. Yes I went to church with the Boss. Yes we enjoyed the little carry-in meal. And yes we hauled some stuff there for the upcoming church garage sale. But unfortunately we never made it to the range.

The Boss wanted to shoot her Firestorm 380, but alas I had only 1/2 a box of 380 ammo in the house. Now there's 3 gun shops within 15 minutes of where we live and 2 are open on Sunday, so no problem. Right? Wrong. Not a box of 380 to be found. There was a time when 25acp and 32acp was hard to find, but not today. I found that ammo in abundance, but not the 380.

Both shops claimed to be getting a shipment in around the middle of this week, so we're postponing our little trip for another week. I got on the 'net this afternoon and managed to order 500 rounds of once fired, mixed brass and 300 bullets for her 380, though not the ones I wanted. I ended up visiting 5 locations to find those. Even components are hard to find. Thankfully I was given dies for the short 9mm a few years ago. Looks like I'll be making ammo for the Boss as well as for myself.

Fed - - Take a Hike

There is an Ohio constitutional amendment proposal that's starting to gain momentum.


The amendment provides that, in Ohio:

◦No law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in a health care system

◦No law or rule shall prohibit the purchase or sale of health care or health insurance

◦No law or rule shall impose a penalty or fine for the sale or purchase of health care or health insurance

Looks to me like somebody is setting the stage to tell the Fed to go take a hike regards the new health care law, and expands the likelihood of competition in the market.

Rifle Distance ?

A co-worker once stated that he knew someone that regularly carries a Bersa 380. As it turns out it is his sister. Since the Boss's Firestorm (Bersa) shot about 7" low for me at 25 yards I asked him about that. His first comment was that is rifle distance. I'll get to that in a moment.

He confirmed that his sister's gun shot a little low for him at his normal handgun range. I wondered if that is typical. I don't like to generalize using a sample of 2, but so far it appears to be normal. Looks like I'll learn a bit more this Sunday if we make it to the range for the Boss to sling some lead. It might hit closer to the sights in her weaker grip.

There seems to be a whole lot of handgun owners who can't hit a full sized silhouette target at anything beyond 20 feet, even slow fire. I understand training for personal defense at close range, but that's no excuse to not practice shooting at small and/or more distant targets.

For instance I practice shooting at 4" clay pigeons targets out to 100 yards with my revolvers, 12" targets out there at 200 yards and up to 50 yards (clay pigeons) with my autoloaders. This is pure marksmanship skills that I continually try to improve.

I seldom shoot any of my carry guns (45acp, 9mm, 380) at closer than 25 yards, and usually half sized silhouette targets are considered large. Improving any skill requires pushing your personal limits.

As was said in a movie "aim small, miss small".