At least the new plastic Ruger 22/45 goes bang every time you pull the trigger, and the rounds hold in a couple-three inches at 50 feet from a semi-steady braced position. (Leaning on the truck is our bucolic version of bench rest shooting.) Thirty rounds of el cheapo 36-grain hollow points were fired. Not counting two trigger jerks, all but three or four of them punctured a beverage can of my choice.
The same trip to a piece of DNR land a couple of miles west of Camp J gave me the excuse to run New Dog Libby and see how she works the brome and cattails. Not bad, but she did let a winter-killed deer distract her.
It isn't spring yet, but the sun is becoming slightly more arrogant, and a chinook wind is aiding the illusion that winter at 43 North is tucking himself into the history books. It is a day when the Lords of Blast and Fire would not be denied.
Feb 15, 2011
All politics is local,
not to mention bloated.
The census snoopers credit Smugleye on Lake with 341 residents as of last summer.
My SOL neighbors and I are supervised by 21 local officials, elected and appointed. That's one superintendent for every 16.23 citizens. It works out to something like five houses per regulator, so they could check us all every day, just to make sure we aren't feeding the stray cat or replacing windows without a building permit.
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*This doesn't count cops. We pay the county sherf to hold down crime in Smugleye.
The census snoopers credit Smugleye on Lake with 341 residents as of last summer.
My SOL neighbors and I are supervised by 21 local officials, elected and appointed. That's one superintendent for every 16.23 citizens. It works out to something like five houses per regulator, so they could check us all every day, just to make sure we aren't feeding the stray cat or replacing windows without a building permit.
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*This doesn't count cops. We pay the county sherf to hold down crime in Smugleye.
Feb 14, 2011
Fancy that: Merchant of Death to Advise Obama
A veteran Ruger executive is about to join the Obama team.
The Ruger news release:
Kim Pritula, Director of Export/ATF Compliance & Security, has been appointed to the President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration (PECSEA).
Sounds okay to me. She's been with Sturm Ruger some 30 years, helping the bosses navigate the Kafka novels which make up ATF and other Washington rules about who can sell what to whom. But maybe it would have been better if the Ruger flack had ended the release right there, because:
“Kim has a very unique talent and passion for export regulation and plays a critical role in the Sturm, Ruger organization,” said Ruger President and CEO Mike Fifer.
Well, I'm pleased for you, too, Kim. It is a personal achievement. However the quote your PR guy made for President Fifer begs a point some of us find important. Is it actually a good thing to hold "a passion for export regulation?" We libertarian scallywags tend to think of regulation as, at best, a sometimes necessary evil to be treated about like a spitting cobra sharing your howdah.
It would be picky these less-literate days to sigh over your "very" unique talent and passion. Better we should spend our effort finding another word to mean the only one in the world -- a new one that will serve until public relations guys and advertising copywriters start loading it up with modifiers until it, too, deteriorates to just another word for "somewhat unusual."
Anyway, it's nice to know someone from the firearms industry is functioning in high councils of government, so congratulations.
(My spies tell me the Tune-In is still the most pleasant bar on Capitol Hill.)
The Ruger news release:
Kim Pritula, Director of Export/ATF Compliance & Security, has been appointed to the President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration (PECSEA).
Sounds okay to me. She's been with Sturm Ruger some 30 years, helping the bosses navigate the Kafka novels which make up ATF and other Washington rules about who can sell what to whom. But maybe it would have been better if the Ruger flack had ended the release right there, because:
“Kim has a very unique talent and passion for export regulation and plays a critical role in the Sturm, Ruger organization,” said Ruger President and CEO Mike Fifer.
Well, I'm pleased for you, too, Kim. It is a personal achievement. However the quote your PR guy made for President Fifer begs a point some of us find important. Is it actually a good thing to hold "a passion for export regulation?" We libertarian scallywags tend to think of regulation as, at best, a sometimes necessary evil to be treated about like a spitting cobra sharing your howdah.
It would be picky these less-literate days to sigh over your "very" unique talent and passion. Better we should spend our effort finding another word to mean the only one in the world -- a new one that will serve until public relations guys and advertising copywriters start loading it up with modifiers until it, too, deteriorates to just another word for "somewhat unusual."
Anyway, it's nice to know someone from the firearms industry is functioning in high councils of government, so congratulations.
(My spies tell me the Tune-In is still the most pleasant bar on Capitol Hill.)
And, speaking of morons
Roberta takes some of that class of vertebrates to task, specifically His Obamness with his plans to give us all free high-speed wireless internet. To make it happen, Washington will need to enact a new law of physics requiring five-pound pots to contain ten pounds of (euphemism). Otherwise it will be only sorta free.
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