California fires, PTR shooting, gun show

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Ah, the fascinating times we live in.

The Carter II Obama administration is ramping up. Did you guys see that one of the questions they ask prospective employees is if they own guns? Presumably this is to weed out people who might later turn out to be ‘embarassing’ to the administration. Personally, I think if youre going to go work for this yahoo then you’ve already pretty much embarassed yourself. Just my opinion.

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I see California is doing its annual self-immolation. Whenever I see a news article about the wildfares that are raging (notice that fires always ‘rage’? They never happen, occur, burn, exist, or spread..they rage) they always throw in the standard photo of someone standing in front of their house with a garden hose. Just once I’d like to see a picture of some guy with a massive pump sitting next to his swimming pool and coils of 2″ hose snaking across his property while he soaks the place down. I mean, if I lived in an environment where these sorts of occurrences were fairly predictable I’d have some top notch firefighting gear sitting in my garage.

Montana does get its share of forest fires. Living in town theyre not really a threat to my property since they’d have to burn through a whole lotta real estate to get to my part of town. But there have been summers where the smoke gets so thick that you literally cant see down the street and you have to keep the windows closed at all times if you want to breath normally.

Someday when I get the much daydreamed about place out in the boonies, it will most definitely be as close to fireproof as one can make such a structure without building it out of solid granite.

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Need to head to the range this week and play with the PTR-91. I have it on a three-point sling and I’d like to practice snap shooting with it. A perfect opportunity to take out the .22 L conversion kit for the PTR and get some use out of it. Still gotta get a conversion for the AR and the Glocks though.

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Gun show coming up in three weeks. It’ll be the first local one since the election. Im very curious to see how it unfolds. I’ll be taking along a hundred or so AR mags to sell. Be interesting to see what the market is like by then. I am astounded that there are people who have waited this long to buy their mags and guns. These elections happen every four years so that wasnt exactly an unexpected event, and it was, I think, a little obvious that the Democrats were gonna win several months before the election. And now people complain that when they try to buy guns and mags prices and availability are problems.  What a surprise, eh?

12 thoughts on “California fires, PTR shooting, gun show”

  2. My favorite California wildfire story was from the South Lake Tahoe fires a couple years ago. A whole neighborhood went up in flames, except one guy’s house. They asked him how he managed to save his place, and he said it’s because he blew off the local environmental regulation that wouldn’t allow him to clear the native foliage past a certain distance, and cleared 30yds or something instead.

    Everyone who followed the enviro-wacko law lost their house.

  6. There are neighborhoods in the hills out here that have actually purchased tanker trucks and firefighting engine on their own and use it to protect themselves… those living far away don’t hear about it probably because it’s not newsworthy enough or something…

  7. Reminds me of a fire back in the nineties, when I lived in Fresno… no one in this one area was allowed to clear vegetation from their property because some endangered mouse lived there. They were all told to cut the grass/weeds short, and that it would provide just as much fire protection…

    So when the fire comes, guess what, everyone’s home goes up in flames. One guy sees it coming, hooks his plow to his tractor and feverishly starts plowing the vegetation under all around his house… he clears a big enough area by the time the fire gets there that his home is saved. A news helicopter was filling him as he was doing it, with the fire racing towards him… it was actually quite dramatic.

    So of course, after the smoke clears, he is fined $250,000 for destroying the habitat of this mouse, which was also wiped out everywhere else by the flames…

    Oh, and everyone who tried to sue because they were told not to plow? Case dismissed… you apparently can’t sue when the Feds are protecting mice, or something…

    *sigh*

  10. Are you in Montana??? Me too!!! And yes, sometimes those summer fires will choke the life right out of you. 🙁

    Hamilton gun show??? (Dec 5-7)??? I’ll be headed to that one to stock up on some ammo, and perhaps toy with the idea of a new “christmas gift” for myself.

  11. In Missoula, actually. And, yup, I’ll be at the Hamilton show. Doublecheck your calendar..it got bumped back a week to the weekend of the 12th. I’ll be there for all three days.

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