I just noticed this collage with the Boomershoot 2009 slogan/ catchphrase/ motto. Kewl!
I gave away most of my raffle tickets at the Boomershoot Dinner this year, so I didn’t have any left to try for the Boomershoot t-shirt/mug swag. That just means I’ll have to buy some!
My wife always complains I need to buy new clothes. When I show her the neat T-shirts I buy for Boomershoot and other shooting events, she mutters something about that not being what she meant.
Joe detonates sample. Sample was a success. –Dave the RNS Staff Photographer
From Boomershoot Gunblogger Day 2009.
Boomer assemblage: Martha Stewart would be jealous. –Dave the RNS Staff Photographer
From Boomershoot Gunblogger Day 2009.
The #4 GBR wasn’t going to be cool enough, Traction Control has word that Mr. Alan Gura will be visiting us all in Reno.
I told you you’d want to go.
And while I was in even before that announcement, Kevin at The Smallest Minority is putting up a Para-Ord 1911 GI Expert for the Valor IT raffle.
Really, is there any excuse to stay home?
Psst! David got me a copy of the Heller decision autographed by Mr. Gura. Dirtcrashr has a Heller Kitty t-shirt signed by him. If you could take one item to have him sign that isn’t one of the above mentioned, what would it be?
You could help Rawles write the next “Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse“.
Via email:
I recently signed a contract with Atria Books (a division of Simon & Schuster) to write two sequels to my novel “Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse” Unlike traditional sequels, the storylines of these novels will be contemporaneous with the economic collapse and invasion described in the first novel. There will be some overlap of characters, but most of the action will take place in different locales. My goal is to use these two books to write about a lot of different tactics, techniques, and technologies for survival.
I’d greatly appreciate getting some tidbits of information from readers that would help add realism and authenticity to the next manuscript. I have fully outlined the book, but have thusfar only written three draft chapters. I’m hoping that there are some subject matter experts out there in the SurvivalBlog readership that can help me out with:any of the following information and insights:
* Commercial fuel distillation, and how it might continue (localized) if the power grid goes down.
* Details on natural gas “drip oil” collection and its use in gasoline engines
* Experience with a 30-foot to 38-foot blue water sailboat
* Raised in the Creole culture
* Knows the current aggregate value of the Property Book of a Stryker Battalion. (Yes, I know that Strykers cost $2 million each, but…)
* Recently lived in the Four Corners region
* Done bicycle touring in France and Germany, preferably with winter bike touring experience
* Lived in Belize for several years
* Experience with reconstructive facial surgery, following trauma. (Surgeon or patient)
* An F-16 fighter pilot within the past 10 years.
* Experience with Laron Starstreaks or similar “Light Experimental” class aircraft
* Lived in or near Prescott, Arizona
* Worked in a commercial cornmeal processing plant, preferably “old school”, small scale
* Recently stationed at Luke AFB
* Owned a Lahti 9mm pistol
* Raised in the “Texas-German” culture (such as New Braunfels)
* Lived in Wisbech or a similar town with a yacht harbor in southern England
* Experience using compact QRP 40 meter band HF transmitters.(Paperback book size or smaller, preferably DC-powered)If you can answer “Yes!” to any of these, please send me an e-mail (james – at – rawles – dot – to). I’ll try to keep my queries brief, and not pester you too much. In exchange, you are welcome to equivalent consulting time in any of my areas of expertise.
His email is in the parentheses (hopefully foiling the bots).
Sounds like we’re going to hear about what happened in Europe this time around. Me likee.
Please, please don’t let them screw this up.
The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we’re in. As ‘Red Dawn’ scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?
Carl Ellsworth – Screeenwriter for the 2010 remake of Red Dawn
Also, please let them include more than just a mention of the 4473 when the invaders talk about rounding up the gun owners.
Want to call your Senator or Representative concerning the wasteful Stimupalooza Bill?
You’ll need to register first.
Following OMB’s review, the Administration has decided to make a number of changes to the rules that we think make them even tougher on special interests and more focused on merits-based decision making.
First, we will expand the restriction on oral communications to cover all persons, not just federally registered lobbyists. For the first time, we will reach contacts not only by registered lobbyists but also by unregistered ones, as well as anyone else exerting influence on the process. We concluded this was necessary under the unique circumstances of the stimulus program.
Second, we will focus the restriction on oral communications to target the scenario where concerns about merit-based decision-making are greatest –after competitive grant applications are submitted and before awards are made. Once such applications are on file, the competition should be strictly on the merits. To that end, comments (unless initiated by an agency official) must be in writing and will be posted on the Internet for every American to see.
“The unique curcumstances of the stimulus program” = Lots of pissed off people wanting to let their pols know exactly what they think of them.
Hope and Change, indeed!
Found @ the AoSHQ
20mm Lahti
Yes, there is a technique. Odervise you getz pained.
