My In Laws are strongly hinting about taking me hunting. The only thing I have that looks like a hunting Rifle is the 1964 Winchester Model 70 National Match Rifle I bought some years ago. It comes with match sights and with my eyesight, I simply can’t shoot that thing comfortably. Rather than invest in modifications that would change the rifle or invest on expensive stuff to make it comfortable to shoot, I decided to sell it and get me some modern bolt action which hopefully will also be lighter that this bastard.

Now, this is what I have “learned” reading articles and blogs out there: I should go for something in the 30 caliber region because you can take most US game with it.  Something bigger is overkill and something smaller may not take game humanely. Then we have the issue of ammo availability for hunting rifles which seems to be somewhat disappeared or very frigging expensive. And lastly but most importantly, get a reliable rifle from a good company.

Till yesterday, I was still debating between .30-06 and .308 mostly because the latter ammo seems to be crawling back into shelves. But then I bumped into this video:

First the question I had of ammo availability: No issue there. Y’all remember my first rifle was a WASR-10 and I bought it when Cheaper Than Dirt was not yet ScumbagDotCom and their price for 7.62 Russian was in the $100/1K range. Basically I have plenty of ammo to hunt (game) for decades.  Then the caliber itself being in the metric side of the 30 caliber should be good enough to take your average deer, but I would like shooter among the readers to confirm/deny/advice on it.

And then it is Ruger and I have not heard bad things about their American Rifle series, but then again I do not keep my ear grounded on this particular type of weapons.

And the last thing: There are a couple of these rifles in stores not-so-nearby and at a decent price ($500+/-) so it would be just to show up with the cash and I go home with it rather than hunt and wait for one to show up somewhere or pay exaggerated prices in Gunbroker.

The Winchester will be put up for sale later today or tomorrow. So while I wait for the transaction to occur, I figured I ask you for your opinions and advice on the Rusky Ruger before committing the coin to it.

California took another step toward its goal of ridding the state of all gas-powered engines thanks to a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.
The new law will ban the sale of all off-road, gas-powered engines, including generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers, and even golf carts. Under the new law, these machines must be zero-emissions, meaning they will have to be either battery-powered or plug-in, according to the Los Angeles Times.

California law bans small off-road gas engines, including lawnmowers and chainsaws (msn.com)

After more than two decades in a Hurricane zone, I still can’t shake the idea of living without a generator. In fact, it was one of the first things that went inside the container while we were packing.  And here is the thing: I moved from a location with a pretty stable power supply to another with also a stable power supply. Regions of California has been suffering blackouts for years and years now without any real investment on eliminating them and a bunch of political mandates to depend on unreliable sources of power.

The new law is expected to affect nearly 50,000 small businesses. California’s budget includes $30 million to help professional landscapers and gardeners quit using gas-powered equipment, but even then, the budget is still not capable of bearing the full financial burden.

That comes to $600 per small business using gas powered small engines. Truthfully not enough to buy a good gas-powered lawnmower and trimmer combo and probably insufficient down payment for the Glorious Greta Approved EcoBullshit products

The Green Dumb giants in California are actually pushing for something like this which curiously appeared in my YouTube feed for some strange reason.

It intrigued me, so I watched it and realized something funny: It is not a generator, Sparky. It is a frigging rechargeable battery!

Generator by definition makes its own electricity but the contraption above needs to be connected to a source of electricity to obtain the power it will be used later. And the cost?

A brand name generator running on gas and providing the same amount of power are running less than half the price and have the enormous advantage of just needed to add gas when they stop and then get back to generate electricity. What the flock are you gonna do with an “Eco generator” once the battery is spent and there are no other sources to recharge it?

In a few years we will see California mandating that all candles be made from natural sources and not paraffin.  That way no hydrocarbon-based light pollutes the shithole the state and thus reducing the only other choice they had to have some illumination when it gets dark and after the mandatory 2 hour use of eco-lightbulbs per night is over.

Dark ages indeed.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Metro Nashville Police Department officers said one man is dead Sunday morning after a road rage shooting this weekend.

Officers responded at 9:50 a.m. Saturday and found Emilio Lopez-Lajuj, unresponsive and sitting in the driver’s seat of his Toyota Camry with a gunshot wound to his upper left leg in the 900 block of Richards Road. His car was running and still in drive, police said. Lopez-Lajuj died at the scene.

MNPD homicide unit detectives reviewed surveillance video, which showed that Lopez-Lajuj was slowly driving west on Richards Road when a newer model black Dodge Charger with tinted windows and black wheels drove around the Camry.

Police said Lopez-Lajuj then pulled his car up to the Dodge Charger and bumped the Charger’s driver’s side rear quarter panel. Lopez-Lajuj and the other driver got out of their vehicles and appeared to briefly argue prior to the shooting. The suspect drove off toward Interstate 24 and Haywood Lane.

One dead after road rage shooting in Nashville (newschannel5.com)

I have the feeling that Mr. Lopez felt slighted the driver of the Dodge passed him and decided to play bumper cars earning him first place in the Stupid Games competition.

We are in “special” times. Tempers are flaring easily and Gun Control has failed miserably (as we figured long ago) from keeping guns in the hands of the criminal and/or crazy element. Ego is the one thing we cannot afford to flaunt, specially our kind that does the 24/7 Carry Culture. Bruised feelings heal quick, rape in prison takes weeks unless you catch some transmittable disease and death is forever.

This just popped in my FB feed.

The magnificent title track.

And the equally superb companion:

When I croak and you suckers are still alive and want to render me a memorial that does not involve cuss words, play Epitaph while sipping a shot (or two) of Gentleman Jack.

ROME—@SpeakerPelosi reportedly heckled at St Patrick’s Catholic American Parish, in Rome, causing her to abruptly leave the Mass she was attending.

Paulist Fr. Steven Petroff, rector of St. Patrick’s, addresses the alleged “security incident”, causing the Speaker to leave. pic.twitter.com/IxBlfiBAMp

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) October 9, 2021

She was not attending like you and me would. She was not there like any other parishioner but was invited by somebody in the parish to participate in the ritual doing the second reading of the scriptures.

Who in the effing parish thought it would be right to invite (and this accept) a fully committed abortionist to be active part of the Mass?  I joke around about Catholics love a sinner, but never we allow an active and unrepentant sinner to be the example to be admired or follow. Or at least that was the way things were done back when we did not have a fucking communist wearing the Papal vestments.

They are usually nonchalant with a fierce “I don’t give a gnocchi” attitude. But suddenly they are hanging tyrants by the ankles and pissing on their corpses.

Italian police forced to flee as anti Coronavirus tyranny protesters fight back pic.twitter.com/A8PjvyDFYc

— Wittgenstein (@Kukicat7) October 9, 2021