Recent content by Kbaker

Thanks for the links! Those were pretty good essays if I do say so myself.

Actually... ...it's Gnat shooting in Florida. It started in England. And thanks for the link! It's a video of "sporting clays" with a radio-controlled airplane instead of clay pigeons. The plane is designed to absorb multiple hits from target loads, and there are multiple shot-activated...

With a good bullet and load, if you can't hold minute-of-hog at 50 yards with a 7.5" Blackhawk, I suggest the problem is you, and not the gun. I also would recommend the cast RCBS 270-SAA bullet. It's available commercially if you don't cast your own. This works VERY well out of my 4" S&W...

I have the RCBS Chargemaster and like it very much. However, using the standard trickle tube, it tends to throw 1-2 tenths heavy every now and then. I had a Frankford Arsenal powder trickler with a smaller tube. At a reader's advice, I disassembled the trickler and discovered that it fit...

Yes, yes we would!

Yes, I am. It also destroyed black families by encouraging single-motherhood. Check the statistics on single-parent households before and after implementation of The Great Society. Young men are violent. It's genetics, and has nothing to do with race. As the man said (in the link), "Very...

See the response immediately below yours regarding poverty and crime rates in W. VA. So, what you're saying is, the "inner city culture" is one of drug-dealing? I'd concur with that. Is it an unintended consequence of "an economic ghetto"? There we'd disagree. The "economic ghetto"...

Ah. But the data indicates that causal relationship. Young, urban black males kill and are killed at six times the average rate. They are a tiny segment of the population, yet are a huge chunk of the victim pool. Why is that, if not culture?

My apologies if I offended - it was not my intention.

I concur with this. Gun ownership has never been very high in the UK, but violent crime back before say, 1954 was miniscule. It was made "not valid" with the 1953 "Prevention of Crime" act. It didn't prevent anything. No, all you have to do is claim that the shotgun went off accidentally...

Yes, Americans kill each other far more often than residents of the UK do. We always have. Yet over the last two decades our homicide rates have been on a converging path - the UK's creeping up, and ours dropping significantly. The ratio between the US and the UK has been as high as 10:1. In...

What part do you consider to be non sequitur? (I'm the author of the post in question.)

My earliest memory of being a gun-nut comes from when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Every summer my family would spend our vacation time in Virginia where both my parents came from. My mother's uncle, a widower, lived alone in a big house spending most of his time sitting in a big recliner...

I'm one of the "minor bloggers" helping out. Obviously I don't post much here. I have met Mel & Chris. I've transported their firearms to and from the Gunblogger's Rendezvous in Reno two years in a row, so obviously they trust ME. I've spent time at three different events talking to both of...

Unfortunately, Bitter Bitch has decided to hang up her spurs, at least for the time being, and her co-bloggers have been MIA for quite some time. For that matter, the Geek hasn't been posting much of late...