Reloading Shotgun for 3-Gun Competition

Here's a good video from the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit on speedloading your shotty for 3-gun. Looks like a good gig if you can get it.



Here's another good video with a breakdown of the shooter's technique.



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Galil Ace and Krebs AK

Galil Ace Rifle over at The Firearm Blog.


As he puts it, "the consumer AK accessory industry is sure to start producing handguards, pistol grips and stocks for dressing up a AK-clone as an Galil Ace."













That already exists. Here is the Krebs Custom AK rifle page, and the KTR-series rifle is at the top.

It has M16-style sights and thumb safety, handguards with rails, and a collapsible stock. I recommend them.

DEA Looking for Ebonics Translators

That's not a joke, that's the headline at CNN. HT Tam. Another sign of our failing public school systems. Used to be lots of fluent Ebonics speakers around, and you could find one anywhere, even on an airplane.

The Best Internet Thread You Will Ever Read

Over at The High Road, I stumbled on a thread chronicling over a year's worth of one man's struggle to control the wild hog population on his property in East Texas. Well written, numerous pictures. It is now at 22 pages, and covers everything from caliber selection, wildlife cameras, traps, and the author's purchase and use of an AR in .458 SOCOM. Seriously, grab a cup of coffee (or whatever beverage you enjoy while reading internet randomness) and set aside at least half an hour to read it.

Without exagerration, it is the best internet thread I've ever read. I've added it to the perma-link list.

Read the whole thing. If anyone has a better read from a gun forum (or anywhere on the innertubes), feel free to post it in the comments.

Zombie FAIL

Great article at Cracked.com on why a zombie outbreak wouldn't look like it does in the movies. I've long suspected that this was overblown, and now the internet has given us a real answer. (HT Sebastian)

Bottom line: guns rule.

Remember, the whole reason hunting licenses exist is to limit the number of
animals you're allowed to kill, because if you just declared free reign for
everybody with a gun, everything in the forest would be dead by sundown. Even
the trees would be mounted proudly above the late-arriving hunter's mantles.
It's safe to assume that when the game changes from "three deer" to "all the
rotting dead people trying to eat us," there will be no shortage of volunteers.
...
And that's just from the civilian population; counting the military
and police, we have another three million or so armed people, and instead of
just handguns shotguns and hunting rifles, they have machine guns, combat
shotguns, sniper rifles, assault rifles, sub-machine guns, grenade launchers and
the occasional taser, not to mention the training to use them effectively. But
why would they even bother? When they could just roll over swaths of zombies in
tanks, blast them with cluster bombs and MOABs and mow them down with miniguns
from the god damn Air Force that every zombie flick seems to forget about.

Seriously, RTWT.

Only Bacon Could Improve This

Proficient firearm handling, high quality video, and Johnny Cash for a soundtrack. Only the addition of bacon could make it better. H/T ENDO