Archive for the 'Firearms' Category

I’m left eye dominant but shoot with my right eye.  It’s what I’ve always done, I’ve done it an awful lot, and my brain knows what I want to do now.

My Marine son described for me how the Marine Corps deals with eye dominance issues.  The USMC doesn’t abide lack of conformity and uniformity.

He fixed eye dominance issues with his “boots” by putting a patch over their left eye for several weeks and giving them menial chores around the barracks.  Soon enough, the brain reprograms itself.  My eye doctor also described for me various experiments the Army did a number of decades ago with glasses designed to make the wearer see upside down and letting them live that way for a period of time.

The brain can be reprogrammed.

At Outdoor Life.

And the only one under $1000 is the Henry lever action rifle.  The Ruger Hawkeye Long Range Hunter is close, coming in at an MSRP of $1279.

Accurate is great (the expectation now is sub-MOA), but light weight with composite build is better (when combined with accuracy), but costs big.

From reader BRVTVS, Paul Harrell does an analysis of negligent discharges.  His analysis is comprehensive and incisive.

Following up our previous video, this one is a must see.  “All six of my six shots can be accounted for.”  That’s quite a statement.  I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to say that.

So when’s the last time you worked as an emissary and evangelist for the cause?  It’s easy.  And fun.  And you have to be patient.  And you can’t call people ugly names and curse at them.  And you have to teach them.  And you have to go slowly.  And you have to invest a little time.  You’ll lose some converts, and you’ll win some converts.  Do it for the win column.

Reader AZ Guy.

I specifically attended SHOT to speak with FLIR about some of their products. To say they were jerks to me would be an understatement and I actually walked away mid-sentence from one of their smug talking-heads. Fortunately, right across the aisle was US Night Vision corp and David there was happy to spend over 10 minutes educating me. He confirmed what someone wrote above, that FLIR is more interested in 50-pack sales to dot gov and dot mil customers. David also said that Trijicon has better firmware glue between the sensor and the display compared to FLIR and suggested the Reap-IR model. A soon as everyone gets back home next week, I will give them my business. usnightvision.com

I think we’ve seen this song and dance before.

This video, around the 43 second mark.

Shooting windows out of cars.  Grand theft auto and cop-games.  It looks like they’re the same thing, and Springfield Armory is going for that market.  Why you would want to do something like this anywhere except downtown Fallujah in 2004-2007 is anyone’s guess.

After discussing the wisdom and utility of having a lever action carbine and a revolver in the same caliber, I wrote a note to Mr. Anthony Imperato of Henry Repeating Arms.  He wrote back a nice note and explained that they had new models coming but didn’t like announcing until they had the models ready to ship.  Then he sent me some swag.

Today I exchanged another note with him and congratulated Henry’s engineers on a really nice release.  The Henry X Model.

The specifications can he found here (focusing on the one that interests me, the .357 Magnum).

17.4″ barrel, scope-mountable, fiber optic sights, 7-rounds, side gate loading (which was the feature I was waiting for), synthetic stock, and rail at the front (would be useful for hog hunting).  MSRP = $970.

I really want to get one and perform a review, but this one will have to go into the queue.  Wife would not approve at the moment, and neither would the bank account.