So, went out Thursday evening to doing some practice on bowling pins. For the most part I shot at them with my CZ-75B in 9mm, the pistol I’ve owned the longest and I’m quite certain shot more than any other centerfire pistol.

After a while we started timing them and I was running about 7 seconds for a table with 5 pins on it. I think I managed to eek one out somewhere between 4 and 5 seconds but I wasn’t writing it down.

Then I picked up a 9mm Hi-Point carbine fitted with an open red-dot sight on it and ran a table in, by my estimation, just a hair over 3 seconds without missing a single pin.

So, 8 years of moderate practice with a pistol and I’m twice as fast using a carbine I’ve never shot before.

Anybody wonder why I sometimes recommend pistol caliber carbines for home defense? They’re far easier to get on target and make hits with than a regular pistol.

Just my luck. Every time I lend a newbie a gun…

So, ventured up to Cedar Springs tonight to shoot trap with some members of the team that live up there. Good times. A total newbie came out today too and shot a 17 his first time on the trap range.

With an 870 fitted with a 20″ cylinder bore rifle sighted barrel. One you’d use for slugs and deer. That kinda thing. Impressive!

For his 2nd round I lent him my Baikal single-barrel. He was dusting the clays with it until he broke it open and the whole thing fell apart. So, we helped put it back together. Then it did it again.

*sigh* Last time I lent a shotgun to a newbie it was my Huglu and it started doubling on that person.

Anyway, we took the Baikal aside and fired a few shots into the air to test it out just to make sure the newbie wasn’t hitting the forearm release. Turns out he wasn’t, the forearm was wiggling loose under recoil.

I think I got it fixed though. A couple of screws that hold the forearm bits all together were a bit loose.

I’m getting set up for a bowling pin practice shoot on Thursday this week so tonight I’m running through parts of my gun collection, cleaning things up, and making sure I’ve got all my magazines ready to go.

The handguns are easy but putting this Kel Tec Sub 2000 back together is a bitch. Now, there shouldn’t be anything hard about it but the bolt doesn’t want to “hop” over the hammer on reassembly. It’s always been a problem but it’s been at least two years since I broke it down so I wasn’t sure what to do anymore.

Basically there’s a big heavy bolt, as it’s a delayed blowback system, in two pieces. This slides down the buffer tube and is supposed to hop over the cocked hammer. Supposed to. On mine the freaking bolt face slams into the hammer which leaves me with two choices:

1) SLAM the bolt into it, hard, over and over until it hops over. This is what I used to do but didn’t feel this was the proper way anymore. I’m becoming more gentle.

2) Slide the bolt in, insert the cocking handle to keep in place, and then shove a metal rod in to push the hammer down.

What a bitch. Took me about 45 minutes to actually get it back together.

If you’re looking to mug somebody with a knife you might want to make sure it’s not the author of Gun Nuts Media and the host of Gun Nuts Radio. Talk about a failure in the victim selection process.

Caleb persuaded a mugger to find another target by throwing hot coffee into his face and drawing hit Jetfire which prompted the guy to get smart real quick like.

These are nothing new but a Russian firm has now come out with a tactical model of the revolving shotgun.

This is, uhh, interesting. I kinda like the idea as it presents an opportunity to get some fast reloads compared to the tube-fed guns out there and unlike the detachable box magazines (like on Saiga) you won’t get any shell deformation with the top shell being mashed up against the bolt.

Although I’m not sure what in the heck you’re supposed to do with a DA trigger on a shotgun. There’s a good reason you don’t see them on shotguns often. Well, ever, actually. I can’t think of another shotgun that has a DA trigger on it.

That said, if they want to send me one to review I won’t turn them down.

Got home tonight and my MacBook (purchased in 2006) was dead as in it can’t find it’s hard drive.

So, I did what I normally do and removed every screw I could find trying to get the hard drive out. After about 30 of the little suckers I looked up how to do it on Youtube. Then I learned I had removed the only 3 I needed to a LONG time ago and yanked on the slightly hidden tab to remove the hard drive bay.

Contacts are all tarnished. Great. Clean it up, shove it back in, push back enough of the 30 screws into the case to make myself comfortable (20 to go!) and fire it up.

Still dead.

So, I got a feeling I’ll be buying an Asus Eee pretty soon. Need to get the wife a new laptop too.

Well, this is an interesting technique, racking the slide on a Glock without actually touching the slide.

Here’s another example:

Is this kinda thing actually used in IPSC competitions with any regularity? Seems a little too goofy to me.

I was in Gander Mountain this afternoon and wandered by a rack of those 20 gauge 870 youth models. They looked like they’d be pretty manageable to me, and by manageable I mean something that I could use as a “fighting” shotgun.

After trying to wrap my tiny mitts^* around four 12 gauge shells and shove them into magazine tube I got to thinking that I might have better luck with the same feat in a 20 gauge. It’s something I’d definitely like to try if I ever get the chance.

*: I’ve got hands that are identical in size to a petite 5’2″ girl I went to high school with and can generally fit them into women’s size gloves when I’ve tried to. Try not to read anything into that last statement. It’s just an observation.

This is just stupid:

Police say the accidental shooting happened as the group was planning to go to the gun range. One of the adults raised concern about the 25-year-old man handling the firearm because of the infant being in the room, according to a police press release. The adult also was concerned that the rifle was loaded.

“The man joked that there was one way to find out if it was loaded and, at that point, he reportedly put the rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger,” according to the release.

Here’s the kicker for me:

Neither alcohol nor drugs appear to have played a role in the incident, police reported.

Wow. Makes you wonder what kind of shenanigans the guy got up to after he had a few beers in him. Kinda surprised he’s survived this long.

I do hope he recovers.