VIa H. I. McDunnough @gd_plaster:
I expect, now that we are again bombing Iran, the price of gas is going to get higher again, very soon.
I like President Trump, I admire he does more of what he says he is going to do, by far, than any other president in my lifetime. I appreciate he is the master of the deal. Now that Iran has recommenced attacks on our allies and has fired on two ships in the Straits of Hormuz, I hope the president will fully realize there is no making any deals with the unmitigated scum who govern Iran.
I an no war monger, I detest violence, but I know when it is necessary from a one on one self defense action and maybe know right up to a full fledged war to ptotect not only a country but also from psychotics much like new wave Hitlers or Stalins who want to rule the world and do not care how many they kill to achieve that goal. Thus, I think it long over due to for the U.S. to attack Iran, not only by air and sea but on land with a full fledged invasion.
Of course that is merely my opinion and we all have more opinions that we do have arses. Yet, I really see no way to ever make a deal with the fanatics who run Iran and to assure they do not acquire weapons of mass destruction. Let's face it, all they did in the time frame of the current negotiations was to falsely agree to a deal, apparently only to rebuild their offensive weapons capabilities and then to again attack our allies and shipping.
The only ways to deal with heinous tyrants like them has been proven again and again throughtout history. Either you hope and wait for them to die but until then they keep killing innocent folks; or you annhilate them asap and end their reigns of terror much more quickly; thus saving a countless number of lives. Of course if the USA invades, many, too many, of our troops will be killed or terribly wounded. All I can say about that is I truly believe that if we don't put down the tyrants in Iran now, they will acquire nukes or other WMDs sooner or later and they will launch them, in the name of their version of god, on as much of the world as they can reach. I pray to the God of Christianity that I will not be around to see it and, that I am around to see their reign of terror obliterated. So, I hope President Trump terminates the problem now for once and forever.
All the best,
Glenn B
Sufficiently close to Kingsport to be on city water but in forested mountains. The driveway is steep enough that we will probably uaes ice tires in winter. It is about an acre with a 36' x 18' salt-water system pool. It has an 20' x 30' shop.with a garage door leading out to an adequately wide enough expanse of sky. Other parts of the property are forested. I may need to pour a level concrete driveway for the telescopes.
It is fully fenced for the dogs.
It is nominally 2671 sq. ft.; a little small. It has a substantial partially finished basement with a bathroom but no windows. While the staircase down to this part is scary enough that we will probably hire an engineer to design a less scary staircase (turn in half on way down losing a small amount of room), that can wait for old house to sell. The basement connects to the garage which has a less worrisome staircase. We will add banisters to the left side on both staircases also. It looks like a two car garage but one bay is so deep that two cars will fit head to tail. $489,000.
There are lots of houses for sale here. Many are impressively beautiful in a ostentatious way like my current house but too many staircases for us to enjoy.
Some are just weird. This house had the most impressive view:
Unfortunately, it was on a cliff. It was mildly scary looking down. The oartially finished basement had a 15' ceiling. It was bigger than some houses we have owned. There were doors leading to sections that were not even quite at the partially finished stage. $620,000 for a showpiece where our dogs would not have a yard.
I am writing this to post over at the CFDA page, so my normal readers should just buckle up, or scroll past.
Many of us have noticed over the past year that participation in our sanctioned matches is getting smaller. Large matches that used to draw 80 shooters are drawing barely 50 and match promoters are wondering how we can get more shooters to come to our matches.
I know, for myself, I budget $1000 for a three-day sanctioned match. Between entry fees, fuel, hotel, restaurant and incidentals, it costs money to go to a shoot. Like everyone, I'm getting older. Travel is a bit more stressful than it was10 years ago, and my old body takes longer to recover from the stress of traveling.
Putting on a match is a major commitment. It takes planning and coordination across several levels. By the time we rent a venue, buy trophies, pay caterers, arrange for prize money, and gather all the incidentals, a club might be several thousand dollars in the hole. We know we will never get rich doing this, but we certainly don't want to lose money. My club has successfully held nine (9) state championships. The numbers I am seeing from some state matches makes me wonder if those clubs are losing money, which does not bode well for the future of our sport. We need to get more people to our state matches, but I am not convinced that we are asking the right questions.
We need more clubs. We need to penetrate markets where the cowboy culture is strong. The fact that New Mexico does not have a strong CFDA club astounds me. New Mexico has a strong cowboy culture and should be fertile ground for our sport. Likewise, Missouri. Missouri should have at least one vibrant CFDA club. Those of us who remember the old TV series Rawhide recall that Rowdy Yates was pushing the herd to the rail line in Sedalia, MO. It seems like a natural for Cowboy Fast Draw.
Someone once told me that if your club isn't growing, it is dying. Likewise, the organization. We need more clubs.
Happy one hundredth birthday to a true national treasure, Mel Brooks!
Quote of the Day Communism through (my) ages:1) When I was 15, a teacher told me “It isn’t as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense.”2) At about 19, college friends, “Socialism isn’t communism.”3) At 20, on …
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At approximately 8:04 p.m., SPD officers
responded to the area in reference to shots fired. Upon arrival, they
encountered an adult male victim, who stated he had been shot at on his
property and returned fire.
Officers received reports of an injured
individual, Michael Ingram, suffering from a gunshot wound at Memorial
Health University Medical Center. Ingram was found to be connected to
the incident in W. 51st St. and was charged with aggravated assault.
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According to the LPSO, after 4 a.m., deputies responded to a home in
the 400 block of Mitchell Road. Deputies said two men allegedly entered a
home, which was occupied by their two friends, with handguns.
When the situation escalated, deputies said there was a reported
shooting among the parties, which resulted in one of the residents
getting a facial injury and one of the suspects suffering from an
abdominal injury.
Deputies said the two injured individuals were taken to out-of-parish
hospitals for treatment, where they are in serious but stable
condition.
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Police received video footage showing Broussard’s vehicle being
followed to Hawthorne Street, where Broussard’s grandmother resided.
Occupants of a Silver Malibu exited the vehicle to shoot at Broussard.
Brousssard returned fire, shooting the driver and rear seat passenger.
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Another reason to avoid California: Scientists say the ‘earthquake gate’ between California’s most stressed faults could trigger more dangerous quakes A single junction in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles may determine whether the next major earthquake stays bad or …
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There is a too much truth in this to actually be funny: Via Marcus Mendoza @MendozaVictor50.
Hawaii's refusal to recognize fundamental human rights (like our right to defend ourselves and others) is put paid to by a 6-3 SCOTUS decision.
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Tennessee must be close to refineries.
Quote of the Day Elon created $4tr in wealth for himself, his investors and employees. Politicians have created $39tr in debt for you, your children, and all the whiners complaining about Elon. Which is preferable? PFrost @Niio1111Posted on X June …
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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . Revolvers are the least suppressed type of firearm, thanks to the issues with gas leakage around the cylinder and barrel. But Revolver Seal has a new method for quieting down your wheel gun.
Both men were asked by a gas station employee to take their argument
outside, according to the incident report. The argument continued
outside in the parking lot where Moody changed shoes at the back of his
vehicle and confronted Nixon, according to both witness testimony and
review of surveillance video.
During the confrontation, Nixon allegedly pulled a gun and shot Moody
in the leg. Moody then, according to the incident report, also pulled a
gun and fired in Nixon’s direction while fleeing.
A 31-year-old man who was in the vehicle with Nixon and nearby the
argument when the shooting took place was also struck by gunfire in the
exchange.
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Police said an apartment tenant told officers he saw a man in all black wearing a ski mask trying to take his TV.
The tenant said the suspect turned around, looked at him, and reached into his bag, trying to pull something out.
He then took his gun out and shot the suspect twice, the tenant told
police. The suspect took off running from the rear side of the
residence.
The tenant shot two more times towards the suspect, and the suspect
dropped his back and kept running towards the apartment complex, police
said.
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We can learn many lessons from the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand). If we can remember history, we are less likely to repeat it. Whether in Iraq, Afganistan, Iran, Canaan, or again in Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. Here are a few.
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The Walther PDP has quickly become a pistol of choice for all manner of applications: defense, recreation, and competition. Like many stock handguns though, it can leave much to be desired in the way of iron sights and even the adaptation of optics. So, in this TFB Review, we are going to take a look at the XS Sights Walther PDP Tritium Sight Set and RMR Optic Plate Bundle to see how much of an upgrade it actually is for a factory Walther PDP. Let’s dive in!
The replacement of the G36 has been a long time coming for the Bundeswehr, and at Exercise Reliable Lion on the ranges at Grafenwöhr, Panzergrenadiere of Panzerbrigade 12 "Oberpfalz" are now putting rounds downrange with the rifle that finally closes that chapter: the G95KA1. Or how many optics can you stack on top of each other?
This week for Fudd Friday, I need your help. I drew a deer tag for Utah’s “restricted rifle” hunt. The rules are simple: the rifle must be manually operated and only equipped with iron sights. If you were going on a mule deer hunt out west and had to take an irons-only setup, what would you pick? Let’s discuss.
Switzerland’s B&T has regained full control of the B&T brand in the US. Legal disputes between B&T AG in Switzerland and its US subsidiary, B&T USA, emerged in 2025, with $15 million in B&T AG products reportedly unpaid for by B&T USA. The B&T AG has now revealed that they have regained control of their US trademarks and will be launching a wholly Swiss-owned U.S. operation later this year.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars.
So after nine years one of the two batteries (the smaller of the two) on
the cordless lawnmower gave up the ghost.
The label said "Poulan" but it wasn't. It was a relabeled... well, WORX and Greenworks are the electric lawn appliances still in circulation from those days.
I think we definitely got our money's worth out of it (and it still works, it's just the smaller of the two battery packs crapped out) so we're taking advantage of Prime Day and buying
a replacement. The old one can stay as a backup unit.
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I hate flying in a cattle car. Charter only. Probably at the $5 million invested level.
Luke C sits down with Jeremy Deadman, President of @Xtechtactical at GunCon to talk through what's new at the company — a fresh line of magazine wells, an expanded SKU list for Glock and Smith & Wesson magazines, and the LDR-2000, a speed loader designed to work across nearly every pistol magazine body size on the market.
“So where should I start with your books?” is a question that I get a lot on social media, and the answer is it depends on what you’re into because I’m a multi-genre kind of guy. So here is a list of all my series, the genre, what they’re about, and where to start. (I …
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The Meat Tray, praised be its memory, is a thing of the past and its never coming back. But, my local Albertson’s still ‘remainders’ meat at 30-50% off when it hits the ‘sell by’ date. This invariably results in me …
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Luke C talks with Earle Pope, owner of Chestnut Mountain Manufacturing, at GunCon 2026 about the company's OKP-7 reproduction optic — a faithful recreation of the classic Russian-pattern reflex sight right down to the real Russian manual (obviously translated into English, too). Built for real AK-platform rifles and pistols, not airsoft replicas, the OKP-7 will also be getting an upgrade in the form of a more common battery type and other improved features over the original to make it that much better.
I've never followed soccer, but I am told that the World Cup has come to America and lots of tourists are over here getting their minds blown. In a good way. Little things that we take for granted. Like restaurant portion size, like American barbeque, like yellow school busses. They seem to be baffled by gallons of sweet tea.
Many of these games are held in smaller towns, and mid-America friendliness and hospitality seems to have made a favorable impression.
Perhaps this is a good thing.
My wife and i have toyed with the idea of renting a
small motor home for our cross-country trip with deranged doggies. While there are one-way rentals available, they are from high-demand cities to others in the same category: Los Angeles to Chicago, etc.
Do any small towable trailers have bed, stove, and toilet? The attraction of bringing home with us is the prospect of trying to get our dogs to not bark in our hotel rooms.
6/25/26 Free Press reports on Trump’s deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons, a former inmate Trump patdoned during his first term. (Another beneficiary now runs the pardons office at the White House.) Behind a paywall; open a private tab.
John Smith (yes, really) found God in prison and used being in a white collar prison to learn about finance and credit. This happens a lot. One of my nephews did likewise and now is a successful businessman in Portland.
Among the interesting facts is that federal inmate population is falling under Trump as he attempts to right the wrongs of Biden's superpredator crime bill.
Luke C speaks with Josh at GunCon 2026 — a former suppressor engineer from Advanced Armament Corp (AAC) who's now putting that legacy industry experience to work at LayerX Suppression, a newer company out of Livonia, Michigan, building suppressors with aerospace-grade manufacturing techniques. Josh walks Luke through how the LayerX manufacturing background translates into modern suppressor design and what separates LayerX's approach from the legacy designs around which a lot of the suppressor market is still built.
Big picture ideas and methods from the best Frenchman to pick up a handgun, the 9-time IPSC world champion Eric Grauffel!
A coalition of five leading recreational fishing organizations has joined forces to support a new scientific initiative led by researchers at Stanford University to better understand and protect Pacific bluefin tuna (PBT), one of the most ecologically significant and recreationally important species in the Pacific Ocean.
BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water has just launched their 90-day temporary boating certification course for Florida boaters in Spanish. This course will make it easier for Spanish-speaking boaters to get on the water year-round in the boating capital of the U.S.
Quote of the Day In systems engineering terms, reliability improves most when the human is treated as a probabilistic cognitive processor surrounded by deterministic support systems that compensate for the specific interface properties humans satisfy poorly. The human remains in …
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The gap between classroom de-escalation performance and street application, what the research shows about verbal technique under stress, and what distinguishes training that transfers from training that produces a certificate.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Enigma Micro I’ve long been a fan of the Enigma beltless carry system since it was originally introduced. Their latest model just dropped this week. It is for smaller pistols, has a smaller footprint, […]
By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief History and common sense have twice again prevailed in the Second Amendment arena this year, where the gun control lobby and their allies have suffered two significant losses in as many weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court, in two important cases, United States v. Hemani and Wolford v. Lopez. This continues […]
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The vampire rule was struck down by SCOTUS today. The FPC announced it with this: I like the Firearms Policy Coalition. They get things done in the courts and they are extremely entertaining. For a more scholarly take see: And …
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We recognize and honor the Lakota and Cheyenne who fought for their freedom and land at the Little Big Horn 150 years ago. And recognize that Congress and the FedGov continue to behave as poorly today as they did in 1876.
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A few years ago I bought this 20 gauge flintlock Caywood Northwest Trade Gun smoothbore. Because I want this primarily for shooting ball and don't care about NMLRA trade gun match rules, I dovetailed a rear sight into the barrel. (A lot of originals had them added, so it's historically correct anyway.)
Today I took it to my club with the intention of finding an accurate load that is powerful enough for deer hunting. It didn't take long, shooting at 50 yards from the bench.
My first target was using a .600" ball, .010" patch lubed with October Country Bumbing Bear Grease, 80 grains of Scheutzen FFg black powder. It's certainly minute-of-whitetail.
I then shot a group with .015" patches and couldn't believe my eyes. It put three shots into about 2", from a smoothbore. When I viewed it through my spotting scope I was wondering where 2 of the shots went because I was not expecting such a small group from what's basically a shotgun. I had to walk downrange to confirm it. (Luckily, I had the place to myself today.)
After this I used a Wyoming Sight Drifter* to move the rear sight over, and also took a finer bead with the front sight buried in the rear notch to drop the POI. After moving the rear sight I repeated the small group 2 or 3 more times.
My point of aim on both of the targets was at 6:00 to ensure I got as precise a sight picture as possible.
I made this gun holder several years ago for when I'm doing small home gunsmithing jobs. I brought it along today because it makes sight drifting or filing at the range a lot easier.
I'm very close to having this dialed in for deer out to 50 yards. I need to get some more offhand practice in but I'm looking forward to carrying it in the Fall.
* If you shoot a muzzleloader or lever action rifle with traditional drift-adjustable sights, buy a Wyoming Sight Drifter. It's been worth every penny, IMHO.
Meprolight is a name that most shooters have heard of, whether for tritium night sights or reflex sights like the venerable M21. But over the last few years, they have been expanding their product lineup to include magnified optics as well. The newly released MVO 6-36x56 is the highest magnification model yet, lining up against some heavy hitters in the long-range scope world. Let’s see how it stacks up.
Tampa Bay turned into a live battlespace on May 20, 2026, as U.S. Special Operations Forces and personnel from 10 partner nations executed the annual "Battle in the Bay" capability demonstration along the downtown waterfront. The scenario centered on a simulated kidnapping and rescue operation, with helicopters, rigid-hull inflatable boats, drones, ATVs, and combat divers all converging in a compressed one-hour window that gave both conference attendees and members of the public a rare look at how modern SOF elements operate in coordination. Above a P320 with a FLUX Defence chassis can be seen.
Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner. Last week, we discussed the benefits and potential issues of carrying customized pistols. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. A common consensus in the comment section is buying higher factory options of carry guns, so everything is sorted from the factory. While I completely agree with that train of thought, it's important to understand the realities of carrying concealed and what those potential drawbacks are in the world today.
