Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

Most of my toys are here. The Mosin looks much better with a real rear barrel band in place of the tie strap that was holding the wood on,...

You have seen me yammering about this class that I'm going to be attending in October , and no doubt you have thought to yourself ...

I have a new entry on the blogroll, Arms are the Mark of a Free Man , by way of An NC Gun Blog . He has a post about shooting in a Vinta...

VFTP turns six today. Happy Blog-day Tam !

We just had another power bump at the Refuge, for reasons unknown. It is bright and sunny outside with no sign of the recently departed stor...

I ordered the missing barrel band for the Mosin yesterday, as well as five stripper clips and a gel filled recoil pad . That should make t...

Hurricane Irene came to visit this morning at about 8 AM, the effects were starting to be felt last night. About 6:45 AM the power blinked a...

Irene is approaching. Here at the Refuge we should be fine, we're going to get a lot of rain and some winds, gusts to 50 maybe, but n...

The two lovely ladies from Broad Ripple, who should have been in my blogroll all along (my blogroll is here for my convenience, and it has...

Earthquakes today . Hurricanes this weekend . The locusts are on order for delivery at a future date.

Yesterday I hauled myself out to the range for some badly needed practice with the Grok. I need to do this more often, as the location of my...

Today I got to visit the dentist. Last Friday I got to visit the dentist, too, for a semi-annual checkup. It was then he informed me of t...

Click on the picture. Try to touch his nose with the cursor. See you later!

Rick Perry of Texas has unofficially thrown his hat in the ring . Some idiot demonstrates the meaning of clue-deficiency (linky to Tam, ...

completed laps around the sun, as of today. Yay me.

I got to spend some time with the grand-baby boy while his parents were moving in. So there is a silver lining to this cloud. I predicted th...

TDP is back. Daughter just pulled up in the driveway with it, knocking and banging like she had a bunch of midgets in the bottom end of the...

A few links to things I have found interesting in the past couple of weeks, in no particular order: First, this guy isn't quite going Ga...

Iowahawk has made a few .

I would not have chosen a .22 caliber for the job, but this is an example of how important shot placement is . It doesn't matter if you ...