The soul was willing, but the flesh was screaming in pain.

I left halfway the second day because my elbows were swollen and hurting after hours of prone on both days. My back gave up on me in the middle of shooting standing and obviously my accuracy went to crap. The transitions are a bitch and even though I was wearing elbow soft pads, I have a banana under the skin of my left elbow right now. Note made to research for hard elbow pads.

If you have been thinking about taking this class, do not hesitate and go for it. I can give you a long song and dance about how good they are and how much I improved, but instead I will show you my progress in three pictures.

Saturday Morning.

Saturday Afternoon.

Sunday Morning.

And no, not even close to get the Rifleman patch. The timed magazine change stages murdered me with enough mikes to make it embarrassing. Of course I will go back again.

PS: I hit two out of the three Morgan’s shingles I tried.

Not buying.

Too tired to do an AAR, but suffice to say Project Appleseed is worth it. My rifle skills went up considerably.

Right now I am about to pass the heck out after Aleve intake and slathering lidocaine creme on my elbows.

See ya later.

Missus and I will be taking the weekend off (sort of) but I will be involved in some learning stuff.

I may or may not update from the road. I have the WordPress App in the phone, but I dare not to do much. J.Kb does very good this way good and AWA posts everything via an old Nokia flip phone.

It is all true…. give or take a lie or two.

But retailing over $1K, it shall remain like all other Italian beauties…just a dream.

What does that even mean? that they were created by the or for the Military? Does any body in VPC knows how to use Google? Hiram Maxim came up with the silencer and the car muffler about the same time in 1902. The War Department did not begin to look into silencers till March 1909.

And silencers were pretty much abandoned by the War Department October of the same year.

If your cause is righteous, why lie?

You may have heard of Airman Jack Teixeira who was arrested for allegedly obtaining and releasing super-duper secret military information in some gaming community. Some have raised the question how is it possible that a lowly Airman could have access to such important material, but then I remember it is our new Military which was not very smart to begin with and lately they are more into crossdressing officers and electric tanks so leaving a computer server unsecured with a crapload of sensitive info is not beyond the realm of reality.

Now, the government wants this kid bad, so bad indeed that the prosecutors released pictures of an alleged arsenal belonging to Teixeira and that he researched mass killings plus talked shit in the internet.

Here is a photo of the “arsenal” (Don’t laugh just yet.)

I believe the orange tips gives it away:

You can laugh now.

Kinda explains the lack of ammunition in the photo, right? Plastic BBs do not make for thrilling and convincing cases.

The link above is from USA Today, the same one that seriously brought you the chainsaw attachment for the AR 15. That they missed something as subtle as a federal regulation instituted in 1992 is completely understandable.

“But Miguel, what about the misuse of arsenal?” Well hell, anything beyond 2 firearms and 50 rounds of ammunition is an arsenal for the Press. I won’t even ask how many weapons you have within 3 feet right now or the USA Today editors would be giving birth to rabid kittens in the coffee room.