J.Kb. mentioned the Ruger LC Carbine in 5.7×28. There was recently a YouTube review on the LC Carbine. It seems like a nice place between a pistol caliber carbine and a full up “deer rifle” Only $1000.

Somebody else mentioned a lever action in .357 Magnum. $700 for a Rossi and north of $1200 for a Henry, Marlin or Winchester.

Not to mention I want a .50Cal bolt action or semi auto. Call it $2000 to $10,000 depending on make and model.

There is the acres of land I want so I can have a private range.

There is the collage education for my children.

Would it have been so bad for God to have made me a rich man?

I keep bumping into variations of the same theme with the same result.

If you are told to get in, might as well start fighting right there and then.

New World Record Set for Farthest Long-Range Rifle Shot: 4.4 Miles

The long-range shooting world record was broken yet again when a team of spotters and a shooter hit a target at 4.4 miles (7,744 yards) in the Wyoming desert earlier this month. The marksmanship feat was orchestrated by Scott Austin and Shepard Humphries, who run Nomad Rifleman, a long-range shooting school out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Together with a group of friends they spent several hours launching bullets downrange before connecting on their 69th shot, according to a release on Nomad Rifleman’s website.

Making that many shot attempts isn’t unusual when trying to set records of this type. Humphries noted that the previous record, a four-mile shot made by Paul Phillips in 2019, required 69 attempts as well before the shooter connected.

The target they shot at was constructed of thin sheet metal and measured 10 feet wide by 7.6 feet tall. It was also placed at a steep angle so it would be more in line with the fall of the bullet as it came back to earth. The target’s dimensions (120 inches by 92 inches) made it 1.54 MOA wide and 1.18 MOA tall at 4.4 miles.

The rifle is a custom built 416 Barrett.  They sunk over 1,500 man hours into modifying everything, including the optic, to pull this off.

But they did.

It’s not a reasonable shot for the vast majority of people to take, but consider what it means for a person to be able to reach out and touch a target at what is typically air strike or artillery distances.

This Twitter video is blazing through DeSantis Landpic.twitter.com/572DgdL2id

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 3, 2022

I don’t believe Florida Democrats were expecting recovery efforts working so fast even though they should have known better. The Media was waiting for the people’s complaints to come out and got overcome by the preparedness of Florida Emergency services and planning. 95% of power restored and water services running with a very few exceptions make it hard for the Crist and the Democrats to crap on DeSantis.

They will probably still try. Scum floats to the top.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action — Ian Fleming

New York is well past enemy action. They are in full fledged battle.

We saw it in the “S.A.F.E. Act” where it was so important to pass gun control legislation that it happened in the dead of the night without anybody having a chance to comment. We saw it when they dropped a “regulation” and then the state changed the law to moot a case before the Supreme Court. And we saw it with their post Bruen actions.

At this point my contacts in the reenacting community are reporting that nobody is doing any events in New York. These are smart people with lawyers that read the actual law. Having a flintlock rifle in a public place is a felony is how they are seeing the law.

Part of what NY did was that they made just about anyplace that reenacting events take place “sensitive places.” There are no exceptions in the law for these sorts of people. And since all of these weapons are fully functional, requiring only real shot to be used to make them deadly, they are targeted by the new laws.

Now another group has been caught up in this.

The American Legion and VFW and certain other groups are currently banned from firing the volley gun salute at veterans funerals and other events.

Commander David Riley, of the American Legion Department of New York, said he feels the current state gun laws as they are written right now prohibit traditional veteran ceremonies from taking place.

They may say we won’t be arrested, but we’re not going to take those chances, especially if it’s a religious cemetery and fire a 21-gun salute we can be arrested for that,” said Riley.

The governor’s office replied with:

These laws allow for funerals and other solemn observances to occur with gun salutes, and there should be no concern otherwise,” according to a statement. “We will work with legislators and local law enforcement to ensure these events can proceed and in the meantime, individuals who have lawfully participated in these meaningful salutes at military funerals should continue to do so.

The problem is that the laws, as written, don’t provide these exceptions. The politicians are saying that law enforcement and prosecutors will not enforce these laws so just trust them. And these people are saying “Hell no, we do not trust you.”

Veteran groups fear prosecution due to New York gun laws that might impact ceremonies

Could A Small Nuclear War Reverse Global Warming? | HuffPost Impact

My generation remembers well the concept of Nuclear Winter. But it takes a special kind of disconnected imbecile to even insinuate that a nuclear war is a good thing for the planet. I guess the fucking radiation is not going to affect living creatures.

I have to add my two cents about the comment of this individual.

“If ya don’t get food and water to people they will go survival mode and and start looking@ for it .”

Which begs one question: Were these people in a coma since April 1st? One thing Florida does regularly on that date is to remind and hammer on people that hurricane season is coming and to start preparing. You cannot walk into a supermarket or mega store without seeing stacks of pamphlets on hurricane preparedness. They all include different variations of the same list which begin with the amounts of food and water you should keep during hurricane season! And different versions of the same checklist will be seen on TV and heard on the radio and websites (Including this humble blog) would publish them.

I still remember Governor Jeb Bush warning people to prepare for an upcoming hurricane by blunting stating that for at least the first five days, those affected by a hurricane would be on their own.

And I guess Gen’rul Honore was too busy being NOLA’s Warlord that he did not hear about another hurricane that happened while he was strutting for the TV cameras: Hurricane Wilma, a category three event that swept through South Florida a month or so after Katrina. We got nailed bad but we were prepared and came out of it because we were prepared and even the few that were not prepared, got relief faster than their fellow New Orleans idiots because the Rescue Resources were not taxed and overwhelmed by crowds of ignorant idjits who took a chance by doing nothing and lost.

As for looters, we had some, but nothing in the nightmarish behavior of New Orleans. Those who were not caught by cops were either lucky or were sent running away by armed civilians who may have or have not placed a couple of shots by their immediate breathing area.  Police was not taxed either and could respond to other incidents because neighborhoods were being kept safe by its inhabitants.

Florida did not need the National Guard patrolling the streets because we civilians were keeping them safe. Hell, we were probably better armed that them. Armed Florida Civilians made men like Russel Honore unnecessary and irrelevant.

And now you understand more clearly that tweet.