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Camouflage Patterns on Guns: to Hide or to Flaunt? New on AllOutdoor
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A Magazine Alternative for the GSG AK47-22: new on AllOutdoor
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A short but satisfying range trip
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Full magazine at ten yards (185gr copper HP).
Earlier today, I ventured out to put a few rounds through a Guncrafter Industries Model No.4— a .50GI longslide. The full review is slated for publication in American Shooting Journal. In sum: it’s pretty nice luxury to have. Combined with the mild Spring weather — pure enjoyment.
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Thousand yard shooter.
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Missy Gilliland, a long-range badass, with her new 6mm rifle.
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No Deus ex machina in “The Gods Defense”
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My girlfriend Amie Gibbons has been writing for many years. In the past six months, she published a number of short stories and collections, paving the way for her first novel. I read that book first as a novella, then again as a full length story.
The story is in the urban fantasy genre, which simply means “our world with minimal distinctions, such as limited magic.” Such worlds are the staple of storytelling for authors like Lawrence Watt-Evans because they allow almost instant recognition of the environment. For my taste, that’s rather more fun than having to learn fifty elvish and gnomish names before the story can commence. Magic has to be consistent with physics, and there’s little room for the annoying arbitrary details.
In Amie’s newest book, the familiar Greek pantheon meets the US legal system in a rather unpredictable manner. Mysteries of purpose and motivation abound, to be mostly resolved by the book’s end, with just a little left unclear for the second part. Plenty of humor to lubricate the narration, and more than a few wry commentary on the state of the current union.
I recommend.
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Alternative history
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Looking at alt.history genre, I wonder if anyone has ever done the 1973 Arab-Israeli War as the bifurcation point. It is plausible that Israel would have gone down fighting, as the reserves of territory were quite thin at one point. Slightly more energetic Soviet aid to the Arab allies ahead of the US air lift of supplies might have pushed them over. Presuming that Israel failed to use nukes at that point, how would the Middle East look under Arab hegemony?
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Roni and Mic-Roni pistol adapters: new on AllOutdoor
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MM10X rifle: new on AllOutdoor
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Review of Keystone Arms 722 coming soon
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OATH expanding TSR slug: new on AllOutdoor
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Idaho trip postponed
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Due to the overwhelming number of home commitments and bad timing for the Boise trip, I am postponing until Fall. Unfortunately, that also cancels the Orofino trip for Boomershoot this year.
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FN FS2000, Sig P210
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Sometimes, all kinds of oddities turn up at the local gun store. They specialize in defensive guns. The people are knowledgeable — one owns a private museum of US military arms — and very helpful.
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Angel Kim
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Girls like fine metalwork, it’s true.
Engraved Smith&Wesson M27, I think.
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Where to get lenses and camera tested for focus problems? (Nashville)
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Ever since I got 5DRS, I’ve been getting an insanely high proportion of out of focus photos with 70-200/2.8. With 80% of the images of stationary objects looking defocused, I am trying to figure out how to check if the camera and lens have to be adjusted to each other. The same lens has no problems on Sony A7R. Any idea who in Nashville could help me with this for a fee? I asked a lens rental place, they said that’s not a service they provide.
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Is she a model, or real?
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At the time this photo was taken, the model has never fired a gun. The image is ok, but not amazing. As we worked with long guns, cross eye dominance was discovered.
A good quality red dot sight, like the Vortex Stikefire, solved that problem. A low-end one, such as what she actually used when learning later that day, doesn’t. She still managed to do quite well.
Harry Perette of Twisted Industries kindly provided a private range with a scary zombie, ammunition and rimfire guns, a Keltec SU22 and a .22 conversion of Keltec PF9. PF9 is a defensive, not target pistol, so Angel’s competent progress with its double action trigger was a good sign. Her ability to shoot the SU22 from standing, kneeling, squatting, sitting and prone was quite impressive. Consistent one inch groups at 15 yards are pretty good for the first time.
A range trip should be A)SAFE and B)FUN. That event proved both. And Angel topped that accomplishment today. She went to Project Appleseed workshop! Thanks to the capable and generous support of Appleseed volunteers, she was equipped, trained and had a great time.
So my models are real. Even if they don’t know weapons upon arrival, they know some after the first photo shoot. It helps with the realism. It also makes a very direct statement of peaceable intentions: “Here, have a skill that puts you on part with me in terms of power.”
Who, except a brain-eating zombie, would object to that?
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Turkeys
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Earlier today, I was doing photos of boots and shotguns with a friend. Ran across turkeys, at least three pairs of toms and hens. They were not too worried and grazed within 20-30 yards of us. I took a few photos, but the only lens I had was my 100mm macro, not long enough for the task. After the photo shoot, I went home, got my 300mm with 1.4x tele extender, and a tripod. Four of the turkeys were still there and still unworried. Got 100+ images, now sorting through them.
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WordPress stopped sending notifications of posts…
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Some weeks ago, WordPress stopped notifying me of either completed or pending posts. If you wondered why I didn’t approve your post, that’s why. Checking the settings, I don’t see why — the right checkboxes are marked, and nothing shows up in spam trap in the email. Any suggestions on what to check next?
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Kelly Monochrome
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Maria Butina
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One of the faces of the Russian effort to improve their legal gun rights. While Maria prefers to get by on ability and multiple competencies, i don’t mind noting that she is also photogenic.
Interview with Maria and the associated video. Another.
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An upcoming advisory on unethical conduct
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At the end of last year, I worked for a rifle and ammo maker, They paid about 2/3 of the invoice and then stopped. I later learned they aren’t paying any of their contractors. The amounts involved aren’t large, but the company owner has proffered brazen lies and counter-accusations against me and others as “people profiting off him”.
I am currently waiting for the resolution of this through a good faith effort by a friend. If nothing useful comes out, then I will post a more detailed advisory. The company owner cursing at my counsel on the phone isn’t a positive sign. Defense industry is pretty small. I am puzzled as to why somebody would risk their reputation like this…
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