I know lots of people who control pests with .223 ARs. The magazine is kinda irrelevant, but It simply means more time on the bench, blind, or prone in the field. Oh and they’re called “Varmints”. You just said the equivalent of “My computer is for checking the internets”. Of course making you look ignorant isn’t much of a concern when in fact you ARE ignorant.
BTW How many of you out there have hunted medium game with .223? I always heard the round was too small, but I have since heard a few accounts of people taking deer and larger creatures with one humane shot from a .223 gun, as with people who hunt pigs with them. I would say bullet selection would be VERY critical for that application, but a properly performing .223 bullet through the heart/lungs should do the trick for most things.
Yep Obama is now so desperate that he’s doing a how-to video about sending him money! Because evidently his key demographic is the “Too stupid to know how to send money” one. Seriously, I have to throw away so many donation forms in junk mail, both paper and electronic. And that’s stuff they’re sending ME! Let alone this simplicity
Look at that, just a few strokes of the keyboard and you can donate, or give your personal information so they can send you solicitations by post mail or email!
“Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson has confirmed on Facebook that “The Hobbit” will become a film trilogy.
Now the other two movies, starting Irish actors James Nesbitt and Aidan Turner, have wrapped the director has confirmed that a third movie is now in the mix.
To anybody who’s read The Hobbit, and the three books of Lord of the Rings will know the stories could be considered totally different animals if it wasn’t for the common characters, a “Blilbo’s Magic Ring”.
Now, like the people who only watched the films, I read the books the same way Hollywood has produced the movies. I read the LotR trilogy first, then went back to The Hobbit and read that. Knowing the saga of The One Ring, and Smeagol’s corruption by the Ring, I was appalled by how glib the “Riddles in the Dark” chapter was. It was pretty obvious to me that Tolkien was writing more of a classic children’s story with “The Hobbit” and a Magnum Opus with “Lord of the Rings”, and it seems almost more a convenient relationship that the two are even linked.
I can certainly agree with a creative process where “The Hobbit” is padded up a bit to make it fit better with the previous film blockbuster. Still I’m curious on HOW much padding can be added before the whole story capsizes. Certainly it would be wise to add a bit more gravity to the “Magic Ring” that is viewed as a quaint magic trinket in “The Hobbit”, and a malevolent force in “Lord of the Rings” (note that Gollum’s back story, he kills his cousin after just getting a brief glance of the One Ring, but Bilbo just sees it as a bit of treasure to be had), and with all the details Tolkien puts in his stories, as well as things that have been written about that time in Middle Earth in other works can easily fill two films.
Still when you read “The Hobbit”, its a quaint, and simple weekend read, and very suitable to young children…meanwhile “The Lord of the Rings” is dark, dense, and at times rambling with details. I wonder if a third Hobbit movie can be made without heavily watering down the story, as there really isn’t THAT much story to begin with…and maybe this is just a ploy to put more butts in seats and sell more DVDs.
The fatal stabbing of a 45-year-old woman in a downtown Minneapolis parking ramp over the weekend does not appear to have been the result of a random attack, police said Sunday.
An employee of the ramp at 9th Street and LaSalle Avenue called security guards about 9 p.m. Saturday after finding the woman lying on the ramp’s concrete floor, and police were quickly summoned, said Sgt. Stephen McCarty.
Just found a cool video of Larry Correia talking about authors who mess up gun stuff in their books, and why we should care.
There are countless books where I totally stop reading for a moment just because something impossible, improbably, or just dumb happens with guns, its distracting and can inadvertently change your impression of the story or the characters.
To pick on myself, as a young man I had aspirations of becoming a fiction author (I have since settled for being a blogger), and one of my stories was a tough New York cop who was modeled after the action movies of the 80s and 90s that I loved…lots of gun play, no knowledge of guns on my part, and it was full of foolish mistakes. The best example was this character’s sidearm was a Colt SAA. Why? Well because I had a toy replica of one, and thought it looked cool. Oh, and BTW the toy was a double-action cap gun!
The character grew up in a gun shop and learned at an early age how to shoot, so it was assumed and claimed he was an expert in them. Also a SAA is hardly a bad gun. Still I had scenes where he was quickly reloading, and never an explanation on WHY he carried such a unique gun.
I was actually thinking about it the other day, and I suspect that if I re-wrote this *awful* story today the gun would more likely be a Colt 1911, or a S&W Model 29, or 25. Those would have made a LOT more sense, but I didn’t know. Of course just because YOU don’t know, doesn’t mean NOBODY else does.
gnoring a touch of rain and a ton of pressure, the USA’s Vincent Hancock hit ’em with his best shots. His record accuracy Tuesday with a double-barreled shotgun gave him his second gold medal in as many Olympics in skeet shooting.
After hitting an Olympic skeet record 148 of 150 targets over two days — including 25-25 in the final — the 23-year-old stood atop the podium for the playing of the U.S. national anthem.
He held his hand over his heart and stood ramrod straight like the Army sergeant he is.
We all know NYC is one of the most anti-gun places in this country. But we should also know by now that anti-gun people really aren’t anti-gun, they’re just anti-freedom:
Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed.
Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation.
Your body, your choice…unless they don’t like the choice. Also kinda neat that its a man dictating how women raise their infants.
