You really need to read this then. 

I prefer to slip than to crab, I think. I find it a lot easier at the end.

5 good ones, and one where we miscommunicated and I thought I was stopping but was told to go around. So I rushed and applied power and took off accidentally with flaps. Which I chose not to change until I was at a few hundred feet of altitude. First time taking off with flaps. Came right off the runway in 50 degree weather and 800 foot field elevation with all those flaps. Lots of lift, and lots more drag.

Plus I gotta start my turns sooner. I over shot my base to Final turn twice ’cause of the wind.

And on the climb out at about 500 ft AGL, Bob pulled my hand on the throttle back just a bit, just enough to change the engine note. “Ok, engine failure. what now?”

“Straight ahead over the railroad tracks” says I ..”Nice field there”.

“What if a train comes?”

“Then we are screwed,” I answered. ” We will hit it”.  “First ever midair with a train…..”I laughed. So did he.

Went around and landed again.

I need some practice, but I can do this. I finally realized that the runways are (generally) a lot longer (and most are wider) than I need, so there is lots of time and lots of space to land on.

Didn’t fly today, the winds were 200 10 knots gusting to 28. 

I didn’t need one, but had been thinking about building an AR-10 as a project, and PSA had ’em on sale. Full lowers for $159, and stainless steel uppers in .308 for $399. Free shipping too…. Hoo-Ray!!, an AR-10 for under $600.

And, while I dithered, the asshole of Vegas did his thing…..and I decided to, as it were, pull the trigger …’Cause I figured there might be a run on ’em as folks stocked up just in case the RNC boys and the NRA kinda chose to knuckle under to the DNC/Bloomberg folks.

I got all the stuff a bit over a week ago, but only got to the range today. What with my normal stuff, the rush to finish splitting wood before winter, the whole flying/Ground School/Study thing, I’ve been busy.

And besides, when it is good range weather, it’s good shooting weather, and when it ain’t good for one, it ain’t good for the other.

Anyway, got out to the range today. The range was all being used at 50 yards, so that is the distance I had to use, unless I wanted to wait ’til everyone else left.

All I had on it were some older pop up back up peep sights for an AR that I didn’t like, but they did the job for testing.

A bit over 40 rounds, 5 at a time. Best group at 50 yards was 4 touching and one flyer about an inch to the left. Not bad for a 10 knot wind with gusts to 25.

Now I gotta find some decent glass. I’d really like to find a 4-16 x 50 MOA dot first focal plane with fine crosshairs and an empty 4 MOA diamond in the middle. I have one on my stainless heavy barrel .223 Wylde upper that is the best scope I’ve ever had, great FOV, great glass, great eye relief, but alas it has no name on it and I got it at a gunshow, used, so I have no idea who made it. Never seen one like it since, but I’d love to have another. Easy to measure distances with, large enough FOV for decent holdovers without having to adjust zero, just a great scope. It might move to this upper…..maybe.

Anyway, I’m happy. not bad for $559.00 for a decent AR-10. I’ll likely spend as much or more for decent glass for this rifle as I spent ON the rifle.

Now I gotta stock up on some powder and 150 G .308 bullets.

‘Cause a woman wearing mans jeans and workboots and a flannel shirt doesn’t make a man.

Yet, oddly, we allow folks with Gender Confusion (mostly men) to use the term “her” when they are feeling feminine that day….or just feel like wearing a dress. Or whatever that day makes them feel like a girl.

But seriously, what makes one a woman? At what point is a man still a man even if he chooses to “identify” as a woman? How do you define it?

At what point are you willing to let them be in a locker room with you?

Seriously. I’m trying to ask the hard questions.

If a man, who self identifies as a woman (that day) is wearing a dress and makeup….is that a woman?

How about if (s)he decides to get some kind of hormone therapy? Is (s)he now a woman?

How about if they have surgery to alter their genitalia? Are they now a woman?

What makes a woman a woman? Lack of male genitalia? Breasts? Ovaries? Lack of testes?

At what point are you willing to let them into a locker room with you and your prepubescent daughter?

How do you define a woman? VS a man playing dress up?

Please, be specific. 

You really should click the link and read, as they say, the whole thing.

He’s a weasel without a backbone. Or he just postures but has really sold himself cheap….I can’t tell which.

Rand Paul: Congress needs to be ‘the boldest we can’ with tax reform to compete with other countries

So far, this year, Mr. Paul has exceeded my expectations, if only because I had none for him.

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Who did he piss off?

Apparently his use of the “casting couch” was well known, and all those women who went to him for his access willingly chose to do so. As far as I can tell, he NEVER forced anyone to fall upon that couch. Apparently they chose to pay that price in an attempt to gain stardom.

Plus, he’d been using that tactic for more than 20 years….And, apparently everyone in the business knew it.

I find it hard to believe that he is the only man (or woman) to use their power like that.

Why, suddenly, is the fact that he did so, something of a terrible revelation? Apparently it was an “open secret” until a few days ago, then it became something else…..

It looks like he is being “Cosby’d” to me. Someone is mad at him and is going to take him down.

So why now? Why are they going after him NOW?

Why not earlier, or 5 years ago….or 3? Or even last year, before the election?

Why now? Who gains? 

and it is, indeed, the opening for further Gun Control.

Make no mistake, I have no need for a bump stock. I’ve seen and used one. It is merely for the most part, a way to turn expensive ammunition into smoke and noise downrange. One cannot be accurate when using a bump stock (I can’t, anyway). nor do I think any of the other toys mentioned in this bill are useful for a marksman.

Having said that, this is the opening wedge. Especially since it is a “bipartisan” bill.

Let us not forget that the ATF(e) has stated that Bump Stocks are legal. No one can prevent someone else from choosing to use something legal in an illegal manner. Nor were Bump Stocks the only way that killing large numbers of people can be accomplished. 

Flew to another small airport, about 20 miles away. Wind there was 170 at 8 so I landed on 20.

5 times. All decent landings. Lots of room for improvement, but good ones nonetheless.

Flew home, did one go around because we thought there was an animal on the runway, then a full stop landing.

I’m much happier with my progress than I was a week ago.

I do find the 172 to be much heavier in pitch than the 150.