Looking out over the South Section

questions that need answered

2012-01-27T08:09:00.000-08:00

Just a few Questions for any Government official who advises people not to get a gun . Would you feel comfortable advising folks not to Vote? Not to Speak about their needs , desires, or concerns? Not to attend the church they choose? Not to Rent to or hire a minority ? If not, why the hell do you feel fine advising them not to exercise their second amendment right ?

While you celebrate this Christmas

2011-12-24T16:20:00.000-08:00

Keep in mind that its really about giving , not presents.

A cheerful Thought for the Holidays

2011-12-24T08:58:00.001-08:00

One sunny day in January, 2013 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here."

The old man said, "Okay", and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is no longer president and no longer resides here."

The man thanked him and, again, just walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Obama.

I've told you already that Mr. Obama is no longer the President and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?"

The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it."

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted and said, "See you tomorrow.

I'll see your shoot me first vest...

2011-10-26T06:19:00.001-07:00

And raise you...

Bbq continues

2011-10-05T17:09:00.001-07:00

Dry rub mix
1/4 cup each salt, black pepper, cyanne pepper, and crushed red pepper.
1 heaping table spoon each granulated garlic & onion power.
1 heaping teaspoon cumin.
If you like a sweet/hot taste add 1/3 cup of brown sugar .

Must be close to blogarado

2011-10-03T12:00:00.001-07:00

The cooking has started.

Denver again

2011-09-26T16:24:00.001-07:00

About the time you decide its a festering wound in Colorado that only supperates hippies and liberals you see this.

You arn't in the country anymore son....

2011-09-05T13:16:00.001-07:00

So on a pilgramage to Denver Farm Mom needed to get some fabric. We stop in to a Jo-Anns shop and I had to use the facility's. When business is finished and folding the paperwork there is a tampon applicator in the men's room trash... *blink* *blink* I guess times have changed more than I realised.

American Rifle

2011-08-06T08:10:00.000-07:00

American Rifle .. No further comment needed

http://youtu.be/CeONPI2YaPc

Sometimes a couple of pics are worth a thousand words .

2010-07-20T14:37:00.001-07:00

I think they speak for themselves .

A House Divided

2009-09-21T09:42:00.001-07:00

What the hell has happened to us ?

Lets look at the issue in both macro and micro . then we will take a stab at overall . Macro is the gun community . We have the “ prags “ on one side shown by Sebation ( http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/ ) and lionage (http://www.wallsofthecity.net/) and the other best done by Mike at http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/ and david at http://waronguns.blogspot.com/.

Now you can go read , but suffice it to say there are two fundamental ideas on just what our rights , and specifically gun rights mean . such goes the micro .

Lets look at the macro … the tea parties , and the honest folk who worry about some folk not having some services .. Now i am going to try to keep this post neutral . I may well not succeed , but ill try . I remember when Regan was the dumbest sob on the block . I remember when Carter was going to save us from ourselves . Hell i remember Nixon … nuff said there ? . Nowadays we have Obama . Like him and his policies or no we do have him . When the sun comes up tomorrow he will be my president . which leads me to some of the discourse . I remember when our gun disagreements run to the gamers ( calib ) vs the “ shooters “ ( farnam , aayub, cooper .. ect ). but ill note that the “ shooters “ fed off the gamers for both techniques and technology .

Today the politics is not far off this . I just talked to a guy who is close to a friend who says the time for revolution is NOW . Now this is not a gun trader friend , this is a hs basketball friend . and he and i have some deap seated disagreements as to just where a “ revolution “ starts . He says it starts from shooting our elected folk … i say it starts by shooting the guy i know who is a cop . I d0nt think we are “ ready “ because “ ready “ will involve shoot your neighbor . I wont do that . You simply cant kill down enough to make a “ bullet vote “ work We threepers and prags have a window to work togeater and cast the ballet.

ill post more later on the disagreement and just what imho an armed insurrection might need .

Two Americans in Mormon sect slain in Mexico | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

2009-07-08T11:30:00.001-07:00

Two Americans in Mormon sect slain in Mexico | World | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Now i am neither much , nor little on the Mormon faith and in fact i am not just sure as to why it is relevant here .

To me the relevant quote is :

“We don’t know what to do,” he said. “We can’t bear arms. We have no way of legally protecting ourselves.”

Think hard about that .

Mexico is not exactly a 3rd world shithole , and it is our neighbor to the south . However it is our neighbor , not our satellite and it has its own gun rules and rule of law . It seems that like some of our major metro areas here in the USA the only folks who obey the law and are disarmed are folks who have values that respect the government in the first place .

The same Americans who bother to be armed see to it that we all have all our rights . I feel that the amount of new Americans who have bought firearms encourages this viewpoint.

Interesting times indeed … we are killed where we can defend ourselves , and we are killed without cause or pause where we cannot .

Independence Day, 2009, and the totems of freedom

2009-07-04T21:24:00.001-07:00

Here as I type this , its all over but the ring of fireworks , and for some putting the children to bed . The wife and the daughter drove half way across the county to watch the fireworks that the area volunteer fire depts put on ( they pool the money donated to put on a show and this year it was in the next town over ) , the son is at his house babysetting his dog , as am I mine as the “ rockets red glare “ and the happy reports rebound from the tallest structures in town .

Mother Nature is slowly moving thro our area with her own lightning show that washes out the fireworks , though not enough rain to bother anyone . This gives a few minutes of peaceful contemplation on just what the 4th means to me , and how that has changed over the years .

As a rural child I would do anything up to and including an Indian rain dance to insure rain on or near the 4th . No rain was simply NO fireworks in our wheat/grassland .

As I grew ( maturity is still not there ) I came to understand that the 4th celebrated the wonderful nation we live in , and paid respect to all who served to make and keep it .

Tonight while I removed my carry gun I paused to reflect on today's politics and again realized that once again the meaning of the 4th has changed for me .

Nowadays I recognize that the day celebrates a successful revolution against unfair oppression . and in that spirit i am going to “ geocache “ an sks with a sealed tin of ammo . In the same spirit i will continue to talk to my state reps who i know , and contact my national reps in the hopes that one of my grandons can “ dig it up “ . to have what today is a common rifle , but then might be worth owning .

The best to you and yours on this day .

Grief turns to anger for Jackson fans

2009-06-27T17:19:00.001-07:00

Grief turns to anger for Jackson fans

Ill save you a click …

“

Grief turned into anger Saturday for fans of Michael Jackson who bitterly accused his doctors -- and society at large -- for cutting short the King of Pop's tragic life.

Two days after one of history's best-selling artists collapsed and died at his rented Beverly Hills mansion, streams of fans kept offering flowers and teddy bears outside his home and on his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

"He shouldn't have died so young. It's so sad. I'm just hysterical," said Deborah Canton as she sobbed inconsolably near the late 50-year-old pop singer's star. “

What the hell is wrong with us , or our media when a pedophile supplants such true life heroes such as Neda Soltani and her compatriots. Jackson according to some accounts made some good music but he is innocent of pedophilia in the same level oj is of murder . It seems to me that he was a sexual “ tool “ for all his life , and is serving as the same in his death since his trainwreck of a life supplants real news such as the iran situation , or the cap and trade tax bill that the house passed . We have the media foreplay , now comes the “ screw “

furthermore i wont say because i might speak candidly .

The “ White , “Conservative “, male “ Shootings.

2009-06-11T08:57:00.001-07:00

Fyi I dont count myself as “ conservative “ , I range across the political sphere depending on the issue . I will count myself more right than left tho . Many liberals would color my as a con or neo con due to my attitudes on such things as the 2nd Ammendment , the right to self defense , and responsibility/accountability in our government .

We , i am sure, are all saddened by the shooting at the museum in DC . As a white male i am also irate at the spin on the blood dance by the media.

An 88 year old nutjob shoots up a place and the focus is on guns=bad / and his politics which are nutjob not conservative . Not that you would know that from media spin .

Recently another idiot in KS chose to perform a really late term abortion on a doctor who preformed procedures that at minimum danced on the edge of what is legal , and in church no less . He also was not a “ conservative “.

In the Museum case at least the nutjob was a prohibited person , in a prohibited location with a gun . The “ Good doctor Tiller“ in KS apparently chose to rely on police or the sanctacy of the church to protect him in spite of his controversial practices . He could have taken responsibility for his safety if he chose ( if i understand KS law right ) with who may know success .

No dear readers i am not real sympathetic for the good MD in this case since i consider him a state sanctified serial murderer due solely to his practices on the latest of late term procedures . I however in no way think killing him was right and strongly believe he should have taken measures to defend himself from the foreseeable consequences of his practices in a highly emotional , though legal medical issue .

Both cases though show me that the only defense a person may have is the defense they carry be it within mindset or tools or both .

Both cases also show me the media of our day will report “ white wrongs “ , especially “ White Christian wrongs “ to absolute hysteria while downplaying other perceived motivations be they racial or religious. The motives of other horrific crimes seem not to be reported such as the truly “ hanable lectorish experience of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome, or the shootings of Pvt. William Long and Quinton Ezeagwula at the army/navy recruiting center in Little Rock . Strange how the idiots in once case professed a racial motive , and the idiot in the other a religious motive .. Now just how did this escape massive media attention , and calls for the “ black raciest “ and “ Islamic terrorist” groups to be watched closer ? Oh wait .. if your in the right group you can waive sticks around while talking shit at a pooling place ( and intimidating voters with your clubs ) and get charges dismissed .. not found lacking .. just dismissed by request of the federal prosecutor now in charge of the case . No one in the old media makes much of this .. what do you think would have happened if so slight a gal as michelle malkin was armed with so much as a set of nail clippers within a hundred yards or so of a polling place ?

Lastly lets play “ name the party “ with the news . Liberals are not habitually identified by party if they make a legal oops . Conservatives though are almost universally named as republicans .

Now that i have established my “ Racist “ credentials for the stray liberal that blunders by , i wish to leave you with two links .

http://blackmanwithagun.com/

and

http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/ngn-download-view.htm

I am sure the “ jewz “ and the “ nigers “ will agree that i am against them all . So will the spics , slopes , and i dont know what the hell to call the lithiwanion’s or i would , Oh by the way ill include all the scandihoovians in the usa on the rant . I hate all of you , without regard of skin or religion unless you wake up and use “ common sense “ for more than paul helmke’s talking points .

The case for the Judge: Buzzworms

2009-05-18T11:10:00.001-07:00

In My opinion one of the more controversial revolvers on the market today is the Taurus Judge . The Judge is a roughly “ K” framed ( think S&W 13,19,10, ect.. with a 4” barrel ) chambered to .45 LC /.410 shot shell.

It seems everyone has an opinion on the little beast good or bad . I have read posts calling it everything from a gimmick to a boat anchor . Without a doubt it is a niche pistol which would not be suitable for everyone . However SWMBO fondled one and promptly issued an edict…. Get Me One! Whereupon I rolled my eyes and hoped she would forget. No such luck .

So with some soul searching , and the sale of a rifle i did not shoot a lot (a guy has to know both his limitations and his priorities ) She got one .

Test shooting the Judge shows it to be moderate in both recoil and accuracy ( minute of pop can at 20 paces ) with .45 and a close range proposition with shot shells on such targets as barn pidgins .

Yesterday the bride was moving the tractor to till the garden and I went on ahead to get the disk ready .

The disk had set for a year , tires were flat , bearings dry , and I needed to change the ends on the hydraulic hoses for this brand of tractor .

So there I was…

Climbing over and thro said disk when I dammed near kneeled on a rattlesnake. Now I am a live and let live sort of fella for the most part but let me tell you , this little legless bastard was way to excited for my good . I promptly set the county record for the grease gun throw , and hit the end of the air hose (which evilly attacked from its coil beside me in support of a critter that looked like it ) akin to a dog hitting the end of the chain . Now I carry a pistol , but a standard pistol round shot into a maze of that much steel from close range is not the best idea anyone ever had . To the pickup I went and out came the Judge .

By this time the sucker had moved a few feet but not far enough .

Here is a pic after I pulled him from the new lair

The Judge went on the belt and I continued on for a bit until about 10 feet away I ran across another one which met a similar fate .

Yes the heads and rattles are removed , I keep the rattles and bury the heads leaving the rest of the snake for a hungry hawk , badger , or whatever . The reason i bury the head is because of the fangs which are fair sized even on a small prairie rattler,

and possibly full of venom , not to mention still connected to the venom sacks . Not something you want to step on , or have stock step on .

I have to say that in the niche of a ranch utility pistol the Judge is hard to beat . It is a nearly immediate off switch for vipers , and in the .45lc both powerful and accurate enough to put down a bull that has broken his leg as I had to a while back ( no i did not take pics of that ).

We carry the Judge in a Bianchi #4001 size 5 ( K/L frame 4”) that I had laying around from years ago .

The Judge is also avalable in a 6.5 inch barrel ( this one belongs to a friend ).

I would not buy a Judge for a defensive pistol , although I would not feel unarmed if i had to press one into that role with the .45lc option . Its that I simply feel there are a lot better options out there . The Judge shines where a person needs both hands free to work and a portable vermin control firearm is desired . Or where a person wants a fun and unusual pistol with a steampunk appeal .

Gardening the Rural way

2009-05-18T10:10:00.001-07:00

The Time comes every year , and every year we are late but Yesterday the decision was made that the garden must be tilled for planting.

Its nice to have a garden plot bigger than the archive of Pelosi’s truthful statements so we used an abandoned earthen inslage pit to shield from the winds we get .

First order of business is to get rid of the dammed Russian thistles ( Tumbleweeds ) as easily as possible so fire is involved .

As you can see it did a “ fair “ job with most of the dead matter too thick to till .

Next you need to actually till the ground . We prefer a Garden tractor for this so here is ours .

First you must prepare the ground for tilling breaking it up a bit so it will till to a useable depth without big clods .

Then a couple of passes with this ….

and you get this..

One more pass with the original implement.

and you have the ground ready for planting including rows laid out for corn .

Drop the seed in , cover and water with either sprinkler hose or soaker drip hose and your in business .

That folks is how you might choose to do it if you farm .