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Blogging to you from the Northeastern Badlands of The County of Lake, in the state currently known as Fatmanistan, DEEP DEEP DEEP DEEP DEEP inside the heartland of the Banana Republic formerly known as the USA, WELCOME TO THE NEXT CHAPTER! WARNING! ALL FORMS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ARE ADDICTIVE; EXCESSIVE USE MAY LEAD TO MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS, REDUCED JOB PRODUCTIVITY, INSOMNIA, SOCIAL ALIENATION, GENITAL ULCERS, BLINDNESS, POLITICAL EROTICISM, AND / OR DEVIANT FUNAMBULISM. NOTICE: NO GUNS OR AMMUNITION ARE FOR SALE VIA THIS BLOG. (No, I will not trade my Colt Python for some lubricious adventures with your trophy wife and a future first-round draft pick.) CAVEAT: This blog is not suitable for viewing while at work, while inside a public library, while inside any public or private school, or while inside any public or private restroom. Do not view this blog while driving a motor vehicle or while piloting an aircraft. Viewing this blog may be illegal inside the EU, NYC, Chicago, Seattle, and other parts of the Third World. THIS BLOG CONTAINS (albeit often very childish) ADULT-CONTENT. DISCLAIMER: This blog is a hobby, it is not a livelihood. Even though much of what I blog about relates to firearms collecting and recreational shooting, I am not an expert (by any measure) on any facet of guns, shooting, hunting, or personal defense. Entries at this blog are akin to good old-fashioned campfire chats or post hunt bourbon-fueled barroom-bluster; I offer no opinion on what you should or should not purchase, or what you should be using or doing. What does or does not work for me could be rugged-country-miles away from your tastes and your needs. All products, places, and miscellany that I review for this blog are purchased / rented / leased at retail price by me. I do not accept payment, gifts, discounts, freebies, products on loan, distilled spirits, recreational pharmaceuticals, plea-bargains, probation, parole, Papal Blessings, Presidential Pardons, or sexual favors for doing any review or blog post. TRACKING COOKIES: Google et al stick tracking cookies on everybody. If you are online, you are being spied on via one method or another, for one reason or another; 'nuff said. You may be able to minimize your online DNA residue by using Tor and Duck Duck Go. Vive la liberté! Vive all y'all! Ante omnia armari. To each of you, thanks for stopping by!

Thursday, March 19, 2020

I have 475 FEWER rounds of ammunition now than I did on the first day of this year.

 No, I don't just pull a loaded gun outta my pants for a shooting session.   
All handguns that I shoot at the range are transported unloaded in a padded case inside my range bag.
I often also have the cased range gun(s) du jour inside a holster for extra protection against getting bashed around.
Whatever I am carrying for personal protection stays holstered / concealed / secured during my range sessions.


This portion of the 02/03/2020 session was a fun run with the .45 Colt Defender and 18-rounds of Federal Syntech 205-grain personal defense hollow points at a 12'' x 18'' splatter target set a 21-feet (7-yards; 6.4-meters).

The personal defense load and this .45 Colt Defender seem to get along just fine as far as function.
  I need more practice time with it; the last time I had it to the range was 07/18/2019.

So far this year I have logged seven visits to the 5 Star Firearms shooting range.  A total of 475-rounds were fired using seven different handguns.  You betcha it all was good fun.  I'll probably not make it back to the range until this flu season (and the government COVID-19 lockdown) ends.

Am I joining in on this latest apocalyptic mad panic rush to purchase more ammo?  Nah, I have enough ammo cans on the ammo raft for me to fire over 1,000 rounds downrange during each of (hopefully) the many years yet to come during what's left of my lifetime.  Shooting is a wholesome recreation.  Self preservation is a human right.


As far as being a "prepper" I consider myself to be a minimalist --- I'm a lightweight.  For quite a while I've been maintaining between a three-month to six-month supply of dry goods (i.e., I replenish when down to a three-month supply) and a six-week to twelve-week supply of food (i.e., I replenish when down to a six-week supply).  We were pretty much fully stocked a couple of days before the panic set in soooooo I'm figuring that we are good for now and for the near foreseeable.  In light of what has been going on during this latest governmental / societal cluster fuck I just may decide to increase those baseline amounts a tad provided the opportunities allow (fair weather or foul, I've always tried to avoid large crowds and long lines).

Both cars have full tanks of gas and there is nowhere we need to go ... for now.

Prayers for all y'all.  Better days are coming, hopefully sooner than later.


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