Your Hump Day Reading List for August 2, 2018
I found more interesting articles for this week’s List, some of them guaranteed to make you think twice!
Whatever happened to positively identifying your target?
I’m not sure where to start with this article, but I’ll boil it down to this: Just because an alarm goes off doesn’t mean there’s a threat, and blindly firing through a closed door without first ascertaining an actual threat is irresponsible in the extreme.
Speaking of stupid self defense tricks…
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“Justifiable” isn’t the same thing as “desirable”.
It’s been my observation that only a very small percentage of gun owners think deeply about this business of shooting another person. By that, I mean beyond the aspects of sight picture and trigger press.
What brought this to mind were the reactions of people to a recent story out of Oklahoma.
A landowner’s tale
It seems the owner of a vacant home had tired of people breaking into his empty house and developed the habit of frequently checking …
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Handgun caliber and lethality.
This post is NOT about gun control, even though the article which it references specifically is. I don’t want to get into that discussion here, and will delete any comments which attempt to discuss it. Rather, I want to look at the article in order to better understand ‘real world’ handgun effectiveness, in terms of […]
Slee Overtakes O-Class for Fourth Time at Soggy 2018 National Rimfire Sporter Match
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio – The National Rimfire Sporter match fired on Sunday, July 22, with a total of 273 entries throughout the day. Heavy rain, wind and erratic temperatures challenged competitors on the firing line as well as the spectators behind it, with precipitation eventually passing through and leaving wet conditions for the rest of Continue Reading
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CMP Sees Unexpected Numbers at Inaugural National Smallbore Matches at Camp Perry
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Just like the blustering winds off of Lake Erie, the 2018 National Matches smallbore rifle series returned as a powerful force across the ranges of Camp Perry. Drenching rainstorms and consistent heavy gales tested the abilities of the competitors on the line – appropriately welcoming the events back to the venue Continue Reading
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Your Hump Day Reading List for July 25, 2018
I haven’t let this heat wave stop me from gathering more great self defense and preparedness articles for you! (Now, where did that iced tea go…)
The gun shouldn’t be the first thing you grab
“I don’t need to identify my target, because I can tell my girlfriend’s steps from an intruder in the dark”. Someone actually told me that, in explanation for not having a flashlight with his home defense gun. I offer this article as counterpoint, …
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Bred To Be Distinguished: The Ohlinger Family Marksmanship Legacy
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer The 2018 National Matches are well underway, having already assembled a cluster of competitors of all ages and skill-levels onto the grounds of the historical Camp Perry National Guard Training Base through the pistol, smallbore and rimfire sporter rifle phases – with the highpower and long range series of events still ahead. Home of the Continue Reading
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Reasonable Weather Finally Finds Competitors at 2018 CMP National Trophy Pistol Matches
By Ashley Brugnone, CMP Writer CAMP PERRY, Ohio – Notorious for its difficult and rapidly-shifting rain, wind and storms during the summer season, the weather at the Camp Perry National Guard Training Facility actually gifted competitors with some of the best weather in years during the 2018 National Trophy Pistol Matches. Nearly 800 competitors took the firing line during the Continue Reading
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Self defense, quantum physics, and negative outcomes
The great physicist Werner Heisenberg is responsible for describing a very interesting phenomenon in quantum physics: our observations effect the behavior of quanta (quantum particles). In other words, by simply observing an experiment, it’s possible that we inadvertently change the outcome.
Quantum physics gets really weird after that, but this is as far we need to go. For now.
Doing it means you won’t need to do it
Heisenberg described something similar to what I’ve observed over the years …
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2018 ORPA Highpower Rifle Match
By Serena Juchnowski, Feature CMP Writer Sunday, June 24 marked the return of the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association (ORPA) matches to Camp Perry under the leadership of ORPA’s new highpower director, Samantha Henderson. This was an enjoyable learning experience and she noted that everyone has been incredibly nice and helpful. This 80-shot NRA match with two sighers at Continue Reading
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