More indicators that we are winning the Culture War. Notice the smile of the girls in most of the pictures, a sure sign that they are enjoying the whole thing and are not embarrassed.

“She’ll be right down son…”

“I remember what your father did to me at our Prom Night….”

“I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.”
Ten Simple Rules for Dating my Daughter

Photographs from Houston Texas: NRA 2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibits courtesy of Mark Vanderberg.

via Houston: NRA 2013 Annual Meeting and Exhibits – Photo View | Gun Rights Radio Network.

So I want this revolver and this pistol with “attachment” too and the funky muzzle brakes on the right and I don’t know what this is but I want it anyway …. and Gail scares me.

Shots were fired before dawn Friday during an attempted home invasion in the guarded and gated Silver Falls community in Miramar, authorities said.

A home in the Silver Falls community in Miramar where police said shots were fired during an attempted home invasion Friday. A home in the Silver Falls community in Miramar where police said shots were fired during an attempted home invasion Friday.

Men inside who told Miramar police they were house-sitting said they heard glass shattering and what they thought was gunfire that prompted them to fire their weapons, Miramar Police spokeswoman Tania Rues said

via Miramar: Shots exchanged during apparent home invasion early Friday – South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com.

This is a community of very nice houses and as the story says, guarded & gated. But that does not mean that they are 100% secured or that determined criminals will not find a way in. Hired security is just a layer, not a barrier. You are the ultimate barrier and better be armed with the proper tools.

Anyway, I like stories with happy endings

Reading other blogs this morning I bumped into this photo and it reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to point out:

That is the common B-27 target known to almost every shooter in the world. Millions of rounds have been shot at many pieces of paper with that imprint looking to score at the “X” and that is not precisely the best place for a terminal resting place of a bullet shot in self-defense if you have to translate your skills against an attacker.

I found the above graphic at US Concealed carry and the superimposition shows the folly of the “X” in a B-27 target. At best you are giving the Bad Guy a really bad case of bleeding ulcer combined with ballistic acid reflux but it would be far from a disabling or terminal wound, at least not within a reasonable time frame.

When I took a class with Randy Cain of Cumberland Tactics, he gave us a targeting that stayed with me since: Imagine a vertical line down the middle of the body and a horizontal line that goes from top of the armpit to top of the other armpit. Where the line intersects, that is where you must aim.

As you can see, you will be aiming at the biggest concentration of by-ways and the main pump of the circulatory system. Even counting a bit off center at any quadrant, you are bound to hit something that either pumps or carries a lot of blood, get a lung or even the spine. That is a lot of damaging that can be done.

What I do at the range is (when I remember to take it) to place a 3×5 index card dead center on the intersection and practice putting all the BBs inside the card. When allowed by the range, I pull out one of the targets designed by Randy Cain which I consider is one of the best ideas ever printed.

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At first glance, it looks like some sort of weird cammo, but among the shapes, there are actually some internal organs that can be used as reference for how harmful a shot could have been. You step back enough and it all becomes a mass of unidentifiable shapes that will not give you a reference and you must use your brain and eyes to properly place the shot. Do notice that the head has a very specific area where the shot is called good: the triangle made by the eyes and the nose where a pistol-caliber bullet will enter the cranial box without much deflection or prior deformation.

I have seen other targets with the same concept out there so there is some good paper to train with available. This should be used as much as possible or at least make the proper corrections and aim for the top “8″ & “9″ numerals of the B-27 Target as you ain’t shooting jalapeños.