13:31EST-THU-2/12/2004
- Oh, woe is me... My precious P22 fantasies have been... sullied! Yesterday, Wulf and I had a great lunch at Magic Wok followed up with several hours of chatting at Coal Creek Armory where we got a couple of free hats (they're awsome) and played with all manner of goodness. After that, we skipped on over to Guncraft Sports for some range time. The prices have gotten DAMNED REASONABLE for an indoor range and we had all sorts of fun there with our .45's and Wulf's new shotty. $10 for all day shooting. Consider that you can buy paper targets there for cheap, they provide you eye and ear protection, they have a coke and snack machine, and you may bring your own ammo (prices there suck aaaaaaaaaaasssss) makes it a great deal! Renting one of their guns is also pretty cheap too. Like $7 or something. Good if you ever wanna try your new fantasy before you plop down good monies for your own. Anyway, I was frustrated because I had a 8" group with my .45 at 7 yards after trying several things. I pretty much got my grip figured out (need to get a slip-on) and still have a bit of fun trying to find a comfortable place for my trigger finger but was still miffed at the 8" pattern that came up clip after clip. Just for fun, I sent a fresh target down to the furthest position (~25 yards) and loosed an entire clip again. Eight inch pattern, but much tighter overall with just a few roamers to make it eight inches. WTF??? I'm just as good or better at 25 than at 7? Hell, I guess I got my CCW nailed then. =) Keep in mind that I'm still using the ammo that Zak and I loaded way back when. Very mild. I call them my Sweetloads. I wonder how that plays into my accuracy since I'm using 200gn lead SWC rounds with a crazy ammount of powder and getting wild FPS variations. After I finished up my .45 work, Wulf comes in with his new shotty (Benelli Super 90 except that Wulf's is long enough to pole vault with) and opens up. This sucker was so lound (indoor range, remember?) that everyone in the other lanes backed up and wanted to see what he was shooting. It was fun to shoot but it's length made it so noseheavy that I had trouble bringing it up to target with any degree of steadiness. Anyway, we were on our way out when I noticed the guy in the last lane firing a P22. Oooooh! He overheard me asking if the store was ever going to get a P22 for rental. He and I started talking about them and he broke my heart by talking about how poor the accuracy was. Apparently there just isn't enough barrel, even on the Target model (which just looks so damned cool). He let me tinker with his and I keep forgetting how diminutive the gun is. You just don't understand how tiny it is from looking at it. A P99 it definitely isn't. I can put my hand on top of it and you'd never know it was there. He loaded up a clip and sent me back on the range. I chewed through the clip pretty quickly and came back almost in tears. Even at 7 yards, I couldn't keep all the shots on the paper. Granted, my first couple of shots were WAAAY overcompensated and I flinched the first couple of shots because I was so used to firing the .45 all afternoon. There were two tight groups of 3 shots each, one roamer, and one off paper. Pitiful. Another lousy 8" group with one MIA. I asked again about the 5" target model and he said it was just as bad. Well, damn. I guess that means I am getting a Ruger 22/45 unless I suddenly become rich and can afford to get a glock and a conversion kit for it (and still not be as accurate). Hmmm... I wonder if it was just the ammo he was using... We all know that some ammos are more compatible with certain guns than others and finding the right match is an art. Maybe there's still hope!
17:35EST-SUN-2/8/2004
- YAY! Ok, you gotta check this out. Oh, the strangeness I find on the web. This guy has a good racket going. www.imamoron.com
16:32EST-THU-2/5/2004
- I remember the good old days of TV. Sure, there were commercials, but you didn't have to pay to watch them. Now they're getting even more vicious. Remember when cable tv came out? Clear signal and no commercials. GASP! Of course there weren't commericals. You had to pay through your nose just to get HBO and MTV. That changed soon enough. I want to find the sob who sent the networks a letter saying "Your station is great, but I miss seeing commercials about fat pets and old people falling down" and destroy him/her in a very satisfying manner. Is that wrong? No, really wrong? If it's not -too- wrong, I will still do it. Cable used to be so cool. There used to be so many channels you had to have a special box just to hold all the channels because the knobs on the TV didn't have enough numbers. In fact, one of the channels was so cool that all it did was show you what was playing on other channels and play strange music in the background on repeat. One day I noticed that one of the channels (I think it was USA) had the station letters on the lower-right hand side of the screen for a few seconds every now and then. They stood out but weren't too big to be annoying because it went away after a bit. This continued for a while until it just stopped going away at all. I guess not enough people complained. Not at first, at least because then they made it sort of see-through. Now it's called a 'watermark'. How clever. Soon after that, everyone and their mother's TV station had a watermark of their own displayed full time. It made it easy to identify what station you were watching while there wasn't a commercial playing (can't interfere with the bucks can we?) but they've started getting bigger and more annoying. Now they're frequently animated and no longer transparent. Again, I guess not enough people complained. You remember that cool channel that we used to spend all our time watching in hopes of seeing something actually good come on scroll up on some distant channel? I know, I miss it too. We would spend hours watching that channel just waiting and waiting and waiting to see something interesting comming on another channel. GOD WE WERE BORED! We payed how much for that per month? I guess the other networks got jealous of all the attention they were losing for their precious watermarks and commercials so the channel-channel (forgot what they call themselves now) shrank just enough to show commericals in the top bit. Over time, that top bit has grown and grown squeezing out more and more of the viewable channels you're trying to scan in hopes of finding entertainment. Why do I care what's on HSN? Now the channel-channel is not worth watching at all. It's much faster and less annoying just to flip through 100 or so channels until you find something suitably less mind numbing than actually watching them show you three channel listings at a time and various paid advertisements. I knew things were going bad when they started shrinking the credits of shows that just ended so that they only took up part of the screen while playing more advertisements. Even during the shows that little watermark animation comes up trying to endorse something or other. They must be making advertisement revenue hand over fist! How much more entertainment can they push asside or advertise on top of before enough of us get sufficiently pissed to stop watching or at least stop paying for the privelige of them showing us adds. It's like spam for the tv. How much time do we have before all we have are 10 minutes worth of a show squeezed into a 30 minute block while the rest of the time is commercials and even during the show, it's pushed up to a 1/4 of the screen while the other three are adds??? I'm not mad...
1:42EST-TUE-2/3/2004
- If you haven't heard about Chick.com then you have now. It will become immediately obvious what the page is about. Yes, it is work safe. Too much so in fact. Once you're done there and need to wash the clean off, go here. Also work safe. Special thanks to Wombat (Beef Flavor Man-0-War) for that one.
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