Uh-Rah to all those who have been fighting the good fight.
~George Orwell
We are those rough men
Thanks to Brutally Honest.
More info about The Warrior Song here
Saw it initially over at my friend Jennifer’s site, but The Smallest Minority has the whole story.
The story is that Soldiers’ Angels is right now holding a raffle where the prize is a very nice .45 pistol. Because Paypal has a policy that ranks guns right up there with crack cocaine and pornography
relate to sales of (a) narcotics, steroids, certain controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer safety, (b) drug paraphernalia, (c) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (d) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime, (e) items that are considered obscene, (f) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (g) certain sexually oriented materials or services, (h) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories, or (i) ,certain weapons or knives regulated under applicable law
I could understand if they based it around the law, like the rest of their ‘Terms of Service” agreement, but it’s not. It’s a blatant “We hate you gun owning bastards” that I don’t have to put up with and I’m not going to. So, all I have to say to Paypal is that they can go take a nice, long flying fuck at a doughnut because I will NEVER use their service again under any circumstances. I’m also going to buy two tickets.
Fuckwads.
I have found a new guilty pleasure.
While flipping channels yesterday in an attempt to find SOMETHING on the boob-tube that was worth watching I came across a program that made me flop back on the couch, forget about my other plans for the day (like kitchen cleaning and vacuuming) and revel in all out dudeness. It’s called Deadliest Warrior and it’s on SPIKE TV. They were doing a marathon of them so I was set for the afternoon.
Yep, supreme guy stuff.
They start the show with the premise of what if two warriors who never met in reality were put up against each other? Examples of what they did are Apache vs. Gladiator; Shaolin Monk vs. Maori Warrior; Pirate vs. Knight. They they go through the whole show testing weapons to see how much damage the really inflict in the hands of various experts, and to be honest I was amazed at the amount of damage that some of them could do. Even weapons that I have trained with I did not truly realize how devastating they can be until seeing them used against ballistic dummies.
During the weapons testing phase there is a lot of trash talking among the two teams of experts but it is good natured for the most part and all part of being a guy who has 100% confidence that his fighting style is the best, and to be honest they all have a right to brag. On one show they did Yakuza vs. Mafia and the Mafia expert showed how easy it was to shatter a spine with a baseball bat but the Yakuza expert just looked and said “Big deal, I can do that with my leg” and then proceeded to prove it.
Once all that is done they plug it all into software that was developed for combat simulation for armies and has been modified for individual combat. They then run the combat 1000 times to see who comes out on top the most. I won’t post any video’s from the show here for two reasons. One – You can see the whole episode online over at SPIKE and I don’t want to ruin the suspense of the fight at the end of the show by posting it here.
I did learn one thing though. Ninjas had a black egg that they would carry with them that was filled with ground up glass. They would crush the egg in their hand and then throw the glass dust into the eyes of their enemy – nasty.
Well, the semester ended last week and so to celebrate surviving we went out shooting with our friend who we will call ‘Andy’.
Andy is a certified firearms instructor and he brought along his three favorite pistols; A Sig 226 9mm, A Sig 239 .357 and a Beretta M9 9mm with a conversion so it can shoot .22s. Since the range was indoors we couldn’t take Bruce with us, but we are planning on going to another range in a few weeks where we can put some rounds through him as well and get him broken in on a few silhouette targets.
Anyhoo, we got out there late in the afternoon so we didn’t have that long of a shooting time, but it was OK with us, the wife wanted to learn more about shooting and I just wanted to knock some of the rust off of my skills. In the Navy I had qualified as sharpshooter with pistol and rifle but since that was about 17 years ago and it had been ten years since I had last picked up a firearm I was a little apprehensive about it. I wasn’t afraid that I was going to shoot my foot off or anything, it was more that kind of apprehension that you get when you haven’t done something in a really long time and you don’t want to look stupid. You know, the old ego kicking in.
There were two lanes open, but the target retrieval motor on one of the lanes was broken so the three of us ended up on one lane The first one that we shot was the .357 and I must say that while I like Sig, this gun made me love them. The trigger pull was nice and smooth, the sights were bright and the recoil wasn’t as much as you would expect from a .357, especially one this small. I was able to get back on target very quickly and put five down range in no time at all. The wife (who has small hands) was easily able to control it as well and put five of her own in center mass as you can see here, this one was at ten feet.
When you pull the trigger on the 239 though it makes a very nice BOOM followed by a shock wave you could feel and almost see. We even had a guy who was two lanes down come over to ask what we were shooting, the lust in his eyes over it was obvious. It was even more fun because that was while the wife was shooting and the surprise in the guys eye’s to see a small lady making such a big boom was amusing.
We shared this target and that one that dropped out of the five ring – not mine. I’m just saying.
Once we did that one we decided to try the 9mm 226 Sig and I have decided as soon as the money is available I will be getting one of my very own. First time shooting it and while I did finger the trigger a little too much I still did a pretty nice job of keeping them in center mass and after firing off ten in quick succession I decided to try triple taps and see if I could still do them. You can see the results for yourself.
I walked them down the head a little bit, but overall I’m pretty happy with how I did. This target at least isn’t going to threaten anyone ever again by putting it’s hands on it’s hips.
After that it was round after round through the .22. I didn’t get a shot of that one, but suffice it to say that another target was filled full of holes through the heart by the wife and I. I must say that considering she had only shot once or twice before now both Andy and I were very impressed at her skill. She listened to everything he had to tell her, handled the gun safely and with confidence, and kept her shots nice and tight. Little practice and time and she’ll be out shooting all of us I think.
We are planning on getting out and going again next weekend to a different range that allows shotguns so I’ll let you all know how that goes.
