Long Guard Weekend

I have three days of range fire coming up, and it's a couple hours away from home, so no posting until late Sunday night.

A Tip Of The Hat...

To Xavier, for noting my unfortunate obsession with mutilated, abused, and just plain ugly firearms. You, sir, have a large number of readers. And a fine appreciation of the practical work of art that is the Smith & Wesson revolver.

Latest Addition To The Armory

A Hungarian Axe, manufactured by Arms & Armor of Minneapolis. These craftsmen specialize in replications of existing relics in museums to turn out historically accurate but affordable (and fun) hand weapons. I've purchased both my pieces at the Renaissance Fair in Minnesota, and haven't regretted either purchase. I love old military bolt rifles, but sometimes the old up close and personal weapons really draw me in. I'm looking forward to buying more of their excellent edged weapons in the future.

Sunday Ugly Gun Post

Granted, I've never thought of Carcanos as particularly handsome rifles to start with, but I don't have any idea what this person's reasoning was.

Peace, Love, and Understanding....

They're all about love for all, you know.

I Think I Just Threw Up In My Mouth A Little Bit.....

I was going to post some pictures of the new addition to the armory, but I started cruising the blogs, and look what I found at (NSFW) Zombietime's blog.

WTF??? I don't care what consenting adults do in private. What people do in public is another matter. There were kids present at this.

Pervs.

POSers

I'm not sure if this was some kind of stupid protest, or another fashion trend among the idiots. Walking through the gates into the renaissance Saturday, I see a guy in his twenties, wearing BDUs, with a soft cap. I've never seen anyone in uniform at the renfair, and it's a pretty unlikely place for someone to be authorized to do so. Getting closer, I see a chain for one of those trucker wallets hanging out of pocket; when he turns around, I see the whole Che Guevera beard. They both go very nicely with his rank of Major.

Then there was the E-1 Private, in his new ACUs. The only two patches he had were a name and "U.S. Army". The rest of the velcro on them looked like nothing had ever been attached to it, and his spiffy black tennis shoes really set of the uniform:

And then another young guy, running around in BDUs, no cover, and tennis shoes:

This kind of crap begs for judicious application of a large cluebat to the head. Jackasses.

On the bright side, most of what I saw was a lot of people having a good time:

Plus, as I had The Wife's approval, I picked up a new addition to the armory at the blacksmith's. Pictures of that later this week.