The Miller

Flying Camera From Animal Rights Group Shot Down at Pigeon Shoot

Sometimes there is goodness on the News:

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--Someone should send them a tank you note for the excellent target.

Survival Firearms

This video is a list of 5 survival guns that are all under $300.

--Not a prefect list but good concepts and examples.

Interesting concept

--I'd buy this if the price is right.

Life is NOT Fair

My Daughter is off to her first semester at college. She needs to know a few things.

I recently received this old email forward that is still floating around the Internet. I don't care who wrote it. It's the message it contains.:

Life is not fair -- get used to it!
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”

-Voltaire

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

–Paul Valery

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

–Confucius

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

–Lord Chesterfield

Custom Zombie Lowers

I am seeing more and more Zombie themed gun accessories for AR15s and other guns

The bright green furniture is the most silly.

The EOTech Zombie sight is great.

The lowers with safety indicators completely crack me up.

If I were to get one, it would be like this.

--Or an additional full-auto position.

How to...

On Being Thanksful

This morning I woke up and made coffee and put a pile of Orange Cinnamon Rolls in the oven.

In the quiet I consider all that I am thankful for.

The list is long. It has more than beer and pie and bacon on it.

Take some time today and be thankful.

For everything.

--Because if you are reading this you are better off than most of the world.

Prep Tip of the Week

The Prepping Book of the week is a classic from Mel Tappen: Tappen on Survival

Tappen died in 1980 but there are still a lot of good points in his book. Click the link above for a PDF of the full text.

Three Days:

Here is your first goal in preparations, three days. You can be bothered to prep for three days of trouble, right?

Keep three days worth of gear, food and water in your car, and your Bug Out Bag (BOB), and at work, and where ever you spend a lot of time.

It's easy. Use some space in the back of one desk drawer. Put a stocked book bag in your locker. Stash a milk crate of items in the trunk of your car. And/Or put together a fully stocked backpack BOB.

Don't forget the importance of what is in your pockets ALL the time. You better have at least a multi-tool knife of some kind!

--Rule #2: Be Prepared

California AR

Here is yet another example of how dumb assault weapons bans really are.

This is a picture of an AR15 that is "California compliant".

Are you kidding me?

No flash hider, no pistol grip, folding stock, no bayonet, and a 10 round magazine. Now it is completely safe and legal for civilian use.

--A total farce.

Holster Problem

I have carried a compact 1911 in a Crossbreed Deluxe holster for years, I love it.

When I decided I was going to carry my Px4, the Crossbreed Deluxe was a natural choice when I discovered they made one for the Px4.

I have been using it now for about a month now and unfortunately it has a problem. A bad problem.

The holster presses the mag release button all the time. I never had the mag drop out but if I had needed it that is some very bad mojo.

The photo to the right shows clearly the wear point where the mag release was getting pressure.

I plan on contacting Crossbreed to see if they can do anything. Otherwise I think I will cut a circle out at that spot.

--Let me know if you have had this kind of issue or have any ideas.

Quotes of the Week

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

--John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

Chuck Woolery and the Constitution

Chuck Woolery is my new hero.

--Watch this video. He makes concise points that can be used in conversation!

Prep of the Week

Book of the Week

I am going to start a new weekly feature called Prep of the Week. I hope it will be common sense things everyone can do to help their families and a bit more security. I'm not going to talk just about stockpiling guns and ammo. I will talk about real practical preparations. I will recommend a book. Talk about survival oriented firearms. Lots of other things.

I will even talk about current events:

Thousands of people are still without power from Hurricane Sandy.
The US is hurtling toward financial disaster.
Our increased indecision and perceived weakness invite attacks from extremists.

What to do?

First off you need to assess where you are right this moment. If the power went off right now, how ready would you be? Water, food, shelter and security?

The Rule of 10s - Will you be OK in:

    10 minutes - computers crash, clocks blinking
    10 hours - freezers begin to thaw
    10 days - store shelves are empty, water runs out
    10 weeks - riots, looting, population migrations
    10 months - organized criminal ransacking
    10 seasons - starvation and ammo worth more than gold
    10 years - new civilization begins to formalize

-- How ready are you?