Archive for November, 2007

AK 47, AR 15 or Mosin Nagant…

November 8, 2007

Stolen from Neil over at Hunters Glen! Enjoy! 🙂
 

Stuff you know if you have an AK-47, or an AR-15, or a Mosin Nagant:
____________ ________
AK: It works though you have never cleaned it. Ever.
AR: You have $9 per ounce special non-detergent synthetic Teflon
infused oil for cleaning.
Mosin: It was last cleaned in Berlin in 1945.
____________ _________ ____
AK: You are able to hit the broad side of a barn only from inside the
barn.
AR: You are able to hit the broad side of a barn from 600 meters.
Mosin: You can hit the farm from two counties over.
____________ _________ ______
AK: Cheap mags are fun to buy.
AR: Cheap mags melt.
Mosin: What’s a mag?
____________ _________ _______
AK: Your safety can be heard from 300 meters away.
AR: You can silently flip off the safety with your finger on the
trigger.
Mosin: What’s a safety?
____________ _________ ________
AK: Your rifle comes with a cheap nylon sling.
AR: Your rifle has a 9 point stealth tactical suspension system.
Mosin: Your rifle has dog collars.
____________ _________ _______
AK: Your bayonet makes a good wire cutter.
AR: Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife.
Mosin: Your bayonet is longer than your leg.
____________ _________ ___
AK: You can put a .30″ hole through 12″ of oak, if you can hit it.
AR: You can put one hole in a paper target at 100 meters with 30
rounds.
Mosin: You can knock down everyone else’s target with the shock wave
of your bullet going downrange.
____________ _________ ___
AK: When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club.
AR: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a great wiffle bat.
Mosin: When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike,
boat oar, tent pole, or firewood.
____________ _________ _________
AK: Recoil is manageable, even fun.
AR: What’s recoil?
Mosin: Recoil is often used to relocate shoulders thrown out by the
previous shot.
____________ _________ _______
AK: Your sight adjustment goes to “10”, and you’ve never bothered
moving it.
AR: Your sight adjustment is incremented in fractions of minute of
angle.
Mosin: Your sight adjustment goes to 2 miles and you’ve actually
tried it.
____________ _________ _______
AK: Your rifle can be used by any two bit nation’s most illiterate
conscripts to fight elite forces worldwide.
AR: Your rifle is used by elite forces worldwide to fight two bit
nations’ most illiterate conscripts.
Mosin: Your rifle has fought against itself and won every time.
____________ _________ _________
AK: Your rifle won some revolutions.
AR: Your rifle won the Cold War.
Mosin: Your rifle won a pole vault event.
____________ _________ _______
AK: You paid $350.
AR: You paid $900.
Mosin: You paid $59.95
____________ _________ _______
AK: You buy cheap ammo by the case.
AR: You lovingly reload precision crafted rounds one by one.
Mosin: You dig your ammo out of a farmer’s field in Ukraine and it
works just fine.
____________ _________ _____
AK: You can intimidate your foe with the bayonet mounted.
AR: Your foes laugh when you mount your bayonet.
Mosin: You can bayonet your foe on the other side of the river
without leaving the comfort of your foxhole.
____________ _________ ________
AK: Service life, 50 years.
AR: Service life, 40 years.
Mosin: Service life, 100 years, and counting.
____________ _________ ________
AK: It’s easier to buy a new rifle when you want to change cartridge
sizes.
AR: You can change cartridge sizes with the push of a couple of pins
and a new upper.
Mosin: You believe no real man would dare risk the ridicule of his
friends by suggesting there is anything but 7.62x54r.
____________ _________ _______
AK: You can repair your rifle with a big hammer and a swift kick.
AR: You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith,
it’s under warranty!
Mosin: If your rifle breaks, you buy a new one.
____________ _________ _____
AK: You consider it a badge of honor when you get your handguards to
burst into flames.
AR: You consider it a badge of honor when you shoot a sub-MOA 5 shot
group.
Mosin: You consider it a badge of honor when you cycle 5 rounds
without the aid of a 2×4.
____________ _________ __
AK: After a long day the range you relax by watching “Red Dawn”.
AR: After a long day at the range you relax by watching “Blackhawk
Down”.
Mosin: After a long day at the range you relax by visiting the
chiropractor, then watching “Enemy at the Gates“.
____________ _________ ___
AK: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for a stiff shot
of Vodka.
AR: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for hotdogs and
apple pie.
Mosin: After cleaning your rifle you have a strong urge for
shishkabob.
____________ _________ _______
AK: You can accessorize you rifle with a new muzzle brake or a nice
stock set.
AR: Your rifle’s accessories are eight times more valuable than your
rifle.
Mosin: Your rifle’s accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid,
but it’s buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest.
____________ _________ _____
AK: Your rifle’s finish is varnish and paint.
AR: Your rifle’s finish is Teflon and high tech polymers.
Mosin: Your rifle’s finish is low grade shellac, cosmoline and a
paste made from Olga’s ground up toenail clippings.
____________ _________ _______
AK: Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Mikhail
Kalashnikov.
AR: Your wife tolerates your autographed framed picture of Eugene
Stoner.
Mosin: Cameras had not even been invented to photograph the young
Sergei Mosin.
____________ _________ ________
AK: Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to hold your
rifle over your head and shout “Wolverines! ”
AR: Late at night you sometimes have to fight the urge to clear your
house, slicing the pie from room to room.
Mosin: Late at night, you sometimes have to fight the urge to dig a
fighting trench in the the yard to sleep in.

Yes, we’re an imperfect country

November 5, 2007

Yes, we’re an imperfect country…and some of the media delights in that, pointing it out to us repeatedly. But
here’s a pleasant read about America and our unselfish motives around the world. Enjoy.

When in England at a large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if
our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building’ by George Bush.

He answered by saying, “Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and
women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in
return is enough to bury those that did not return.”
It became very quiet in the room.
**************

Then there was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking
part,including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room
saying “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help
the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?”

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: “Our carriers have three hospitals on board that
can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore
facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can
produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters
for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.. We have eleven such ships; how many
does France have?”
Once again, dead silence.
*****************

A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S. ,
English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a
large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in
English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, ‘whereas Europeans learn many
languages, Americans learn only English.’ He then asked, ‘Why is it that we always have to speak English in
these conferences
rather than speaking French?’

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied ‘Maybe its because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies
and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t have to speak German’
You could have heard a pin drop!

Bears, flat tires, and Big Deer

November 4, 2007

buck-in-snow.jpgI don’t remember what year it was, 1988 or 89 somewhere there about. I went out to the Pieance basin, near Meeker Colorado during the third season. I had a Buck Tag, and an extra draw Doe License as well. Richard had a Buck license, and Robert had drawn a Doe Tag. All of us also had bought over the counter Bull Elk licenses as well.

We were in Roberts Dodge pick up heading up north of Meeker on Pieance Creek road, and had just passed the sign that announced that this was winter home to the largest migratory deer herd in the world. When suddenly the truck started to swerve…. Well guys, we got a flat. Robert was able to control it well enough that we didn’t end up in the creek at least. We piled out and began the task of tire changing in the snow that had started to fall a short time before. It began to get almost surreal, the early dusk. the snowfall, and gray shapes moving quietly all around us as we worked. There were deer everywhere. Some would stop and look at the crazy humans seemingly without a care. That task finished we headed up the road, and turned west at Ryan’s Gulch road.

We turned off and headed up a dirt road that had been made during the failed shale oil project days, past a windmill that fed a stock pond and rounded the top of the hill where we would again set up our deer camp, as we had been doing for so many years. Our hunting friends from Michigan were already there getting settled in about fifty or so yards away.

I was pounding in a tent peg when there was a sudden yell from their campsite that bordered on a scream. “Bear! Bear! Big G-D DAMN BEAR!” Now, you have to understand that most bears were already in their winter digs and fast asleep, not to mention that bears in this area were pretty rare. As I looked over at the commotion Robert was getting his rifle out and loading it in what might be called Rapid Order Drill… And I saw the bear, it was big, at least for that part of the state, about a four hundred pound animal! It was running for all it was worth to get away from the people that were screaming for all that they were worth. It ran right past us, through the camp that we were in the process of setting up and disappeared over the hill. All this took perhaps five seconds. I think that our collective blood pressures returned to normal about two hours later…

The next morning was opening day, and I had left camp about an hour before dawn. I position myself  just below the crest of a hill overlooking a small gulch that I had seen deer and elk pass through several times over the years. I set the model seven hundred to my side, sprayed myself all over with no scent goop, and then rested the rifle across my knees, and waited. The false dawn was in full swing as a small herd of does came through the draw that led to the path that the deer used in the gulch. I checked my wristwatch as I watched them. Ten more minutes to legal shooting time. The deer passed by, apparently unaware of my presence, and went on down the path. I removed the covers from my Burris six power scope, and then wrapped my arm into a relaxed hasty sling. That would allow me to raise the rifle into a sling supported sitting position without very much movement, and I worked the bolt of the rifle, chambering a Federal 140 grain cartridge into the 270, and set the safety. Then I waited. It was legal shooting time now, and I could hear soft hoof beats in the distance. I heard a shot from some distance off, probably a mile away. The hoof beats became louder, the deer were on notice now, and would be wary.

I don’t know which was louder, or more rapid, the hoof beats, or my hearts pounding. But suddenly, over the rise of the saddle came a small herd of young bucks, they slowed as they surveyed the ravine that they were about to enter, but were still moving. The rifle came to my shoulder in a well learned routine, scope to my eye, all in a silent and fluid motion. The cross hairs of the scope found the spot on the deers chest, the rifle cracked, the buck jumped once, and then tried to catch up with his buddies that already had after burners lit up. He made it about three bounds, and fell. It was a clean kill, with no needless suffering. I said a prayer thanking God for that, and for the harvest. Then waited fifteen minutes or so, and went over to my fallen quarry. He had lived about three years, and would be tender. His antlers were well matched and were close to twenty by twenty inches, a very good specimen of the Mule Deer genus.

Later in the week, I also harvested a doe, and a rag-horn Bull Elk. For some reason though, that young buck is what stands out in my memories of the hunt that started with a flat tire, and a hair raising encounter with a huge bear that was more frightened of us than we were of it!

The Rabbi and the Firefighters « THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

November 4, 2007

The Rabbi and the Firefighters « THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

Eric over at Tygrrrr Express writes a fine story of courage, faith, and human will. Many of my friends left the safety of the Front Range and headed out to do battle with the winds and fire that struck California in this most recent round.

Shalom Friend.

Al Qaeda 11/11 Attack Still Pending « Waste Of My Oxygen

November 4, 2007

Al Qaeda 11/11 Attack Still Pending « Waste Of My Oxygen

This is quite an excellent piece of writing! The security steps outlined should be the norm though, not just when an attack is contemplated. One never knows what will be just around the corner so to speak.

Wife beating 101

November 3, 2007

Wife beating appears to be acceptable in some places. What the heck? This cleric even has rules and such for such sport. Does that make it any more acceptable? Nope, not at all.

Full Story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307680,00.html

It is no more an acceptable story than the idiocy of an advertisement that I keep hearing on the radio that says that you must teach your son that “all violence against women is wrong.” Guess what? If a woman is trying to kill or maim your child you have a duty to stop her. If a woman is trying to harm you, you have a right to defend yourself. They want so called equality? Guess what, they get it, especially when it comes to defending yourself from their violence…