Blogorado

No, I’m not talking about shooting in general, I’m talking about triggers. I’ve never been a particularly discerning judge about how good a particular firearm’s trigger is. I’m a wingshooter, and pulling a shotgun trigger is more an exercise of “See the bird, BANG!” than in exercising a smooth, consistent trigger pull, or appreciating how well the gun facilitates that. ...

Many of you know that every October, a couple dozen of the People of the Gun gather in Secret Location, CO for a weekend of food, fun, fellowship, and firearms. The Keenans (aka FarmFam) are our hosts for that event, and now a member of their family (which makes her OUR family) is in need. Andi Keenan suffered a stroke ...

Last weekend, I trekked forth to Secret Location, CO for my annual stress relief and psychological battery-recharging called Blogorado. Nothing eases my burdens quite so well as hanging out with my gunnie tribe, turning expensive ammunition into smoke and noise, eating great food and drinking even better beer, and telling outrageous truths and plausible lies around a crackling fire at ...

… don’t pull the trigger again. Keep your pistol pointed down range, investigate, and clear the malfunction. Step away from the line if need be. This was from a new box of Federal Champion 9mm, aluminum-cased 115gr FMJ. As far as I know, there were no other issues with any other rounds from that box. Luckily for me, the underpowered ...

Lectured to a great bunch of EMS volunteers yesterday, people that embody all the good things about volunteer EMS. Good folks here in southeast Colorado. Today I finished some assignments under deadline, coon-fingered a bunch of guns, ate TWO enormous steaks from local beef, drank my share of Nerd Beer Emergency Medical Bock, was introduced to a smooth Islay Scotch ...

Stingray from Atomic Nerds, 3rd place winner (missing 2nd place by only three bucks) of the 2012 Kilted to Kick Cancer Fundraising Challenge, has graciously offered a case of his Emergency Medical Bock to our fundraising prize packages for 2014. I’ve tasted this stuff, folks. Nectar. Of. The. Gods. From his stouts, porters, reds, ambers and IPAs to the aptly ...

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dzZ5_Ea24&feature=youtube_gdata   Don't you wish you could have been there? I don't mean to gloat, but…   … neener, neener, neener.

Folks often say there's nothing to see in southern Colorado, nothing but a sea of grass and empty skies. And you know, they're right… … until you turn 180 degrees, and look back the way you came. Look one way, into the teeth of a wind that dropped the temperature thirty degrees in fifteen minutes, and turned the air into ...

The black-tailed prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, is a burrowing rodent whose range once stretched from southern Saskatchewan to Chihuahua, Mexico. They are still common across much of the western and southwestern United States. Prairie dog colonies range from populations of five to many thousands of individual animals, and are arranged in a fairly sophisticated social structure. The typical black-tailed prairie ...