BAR wrote:
H the K wrote:
Don White wrote:
"H the K" wrote in message
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jps wrote:
Couldn't agree with this writer more...


At The Atlanta Journal Constitution in Gingrey’s home state, writer
Jay Bookman takes issue with the increasing trend of Americans coming
to public meeting with deadly force in-tow. “It is attempted
intimidation,” he wrote. “It is an acknowledgment
that, lacking the intellectual firepower and ammunition to carry the
day, the person in question is prepared to try to settle the issue
using the kind of firepower and ammunition that any idiot can purchase
at a local gunshop.”

Bookman continues: “It also reflects a growing mindset among some that
the government just isn’t listening and thus must be made to listen,
one way or the other. There’s a fundamental childishness to that
attitude, a notion that equates listening to agreement. The person in
question is not prepared to accept the idea that having listened to
him, a majority of his fellow Americans might decide that he is wrong.
So he reserves the right to try to impose his view at the point of a
gun.”

Sooner rather than later, one of the gun-toting right-wing
nincompoops is going to open fire or "have an accident" or get into
a brawl with law enforcement.

When these armed idiots show up at public meetings at which the
president is going to appear, it increases the workload of the
secret service and local police forces.

Some kind of federal law restricting weapons within a couple thousand
feet of anywhere the President of member of congress may be is in order
This is something you couldn't trust the individual states to
pass/enforce.



I've been practicing so I can handle the impending invasion of the
Loogy/JustHate Zombies...


http://tinyurl.com/ma5znl

Did you bother to read the target "100 Yard Sight-In" in the upper right
hand corner of the target? You use that target to get your weapon zeroed
so that you can move to the 300 and 500 yard targets.

First five shot group at 100 yards from the new ZombieKiller Rifle. I
was plopped on a ground cloth and using the rifle's built-in sights.
Took a couple of shots first to sight in for elevation...there wasn't
any wind.

They are called iron sights. And you should be able to walk the group,
1.5 inches, to the center in no more than four three shot groups.

Tomorrow I'm going to try some shots with the new scope I just
attached. Once I get used to it, I should be able to put five between
the eyes of your typical zombie at 100 yards.

Scope? Scopes are for pussies. You should be able to put 10 in the black
at 500 yards in the prone position using iron sites.

Freaking scopes, are you pretending to be a sniper shooting a paper
targets at 100 yards?


Harry pretends to be a lot of things. :-)

Scope? Scopes are for pussies. You should be able to put 10 in the black
at 500 yards in the prone position using iron sites.

Freaking scopes, are you pretending to be a sniper shooting a paper
targets at 100 yards?


Scopes and lasers are for people who can't shoot.

Steve

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:52:57 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

Scopes and lasers are for people who can't shoot.

Scopes are quite useful to those of advancing years whose eyes are not
what they once were. They extend the period just after sunset when the
deer, for example, show themselves, as they can be used in dimmer
light than iron sights. The iron sights have advantages: lighter and
more compact, more rugged [usually], cheaper.

Casady

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:52:57 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

Scopes and lasers are for people who can't shoot.

Scopes are quite useful to those of advancing years whose eyes are not
what they once were. They extend the period just after sunset when the
deer, for example, show themselves, as they can be used in dimmer
light than iron sights. The iron sights have advantages: lighter and
more compact, more rugged [usually], cheaper.

Casady

I agree. But in the context of the conversation, the poster was not even
using the proper terminology for iron sights, showing a lack of knowledge.
There are a lot of people who own guns who really don't understand them, or
are able to use them with much proficiency. They always want bigger
magazines and larger caliber, plus anything other gimmick that will
compensate for lack of skill and experience.

Steve

SteveB wrote:
"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:52:57 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

Scopes and lasers are for people who can't shoot.
Scopes are quite useful to those of advancing years whose eyes are not
what they once were. They extend the period just after sunset when the
deer, for example, show themselves, as they can be used in dimmer
light than iron sights. The iron sights have advantages: lighter and
more compact, more rugged [usually], cheaper.

Casady

I agree. But in the context of the conversation, the poster was not even
using the proper terminology for iron sights, showing a lack of knowledge.
There are a lot of people who own guns who really don't understand them, or
are able to use them with much proficiency. They always want bigger
magazines and larger caliber, plus anything other gimmick that will
compensate for lack of skill and experience.

Steve




If you are referring to me...why would I call sights that are NOT iron
sights iron sights?

The stock sights on my rifle are fiber optic, front and rear.

I understand the etymology of the phrase, iron sights, but in some
instances it is outmoded, even if what has superseded it sort of
resembles "iron sights."

Now, my Sig pistol, it has "iron sights."