Last Tuesday evening Capital Ale House held a “Steal the Glass” night featuring four Heavy Seas Brewing beers. I had previously acquired a Heavy Seas glass, but I was still interested in trying out the new seasonal from the Baltimore brewery, TropiCannon, one of the featured beers.

Rain records that is.I’ve been driving around with targets and other range gear in my car for a week, hoping for a break. We saw some sun briefly on Saturday, and just my luck, the ranges were closed for a maintenance day. So I used the only sun i…

Passing by a room full of developers this morning, I overhear what sounds like a weapons discussion going on. I slow down and hear “… but the aiming point will change.” Coming to a full stop outside the door, I soon pick up more of the conversation.”…

I ran across this on Facebook today.I get it, I really do. But I laughed anyway.
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Adventure Brewing has been on a roll recently, releasing a new beer each week. Colleen and I visited on Saturday to catch up on the recent releases. We figured we’d settle in for the afternoon, take advantage of whatever food truck was on site, and try…

The weather outlook is dreary at best. I haven’t made use of the indoor range in the past few weeks, opting instead to take advantage of the nice weather to shoot outdoors. Looks like that will have to change in the coming week.And perhaps there will b…

A lack of blogging recently isn’t an indication of a lack of life activity, just the opposite in fact. It means I’ve been too distracted by life to sit down and write. We were out of town last weekend, in part to attend the Spring Game at VA Tech. I wa…

On Thursday our friend “Checkered Flag” was visiting, so he, Colleen, and I headed over the range after work. It was a sunny and warm day, perfect for spending some time outside. Since I knew I couldn’t get to the range on Earth Day, I counted this day as my “celebration” and figured I’d do my part in restoring some lead and copper back into the earth.

We ran no specific drills this outing, it was really just time to stand and shoot. You might say it was like dry fire practice, pulling the trigger — but with live rounds  — over and over again.

At one point Colleen asked me, “Who’s the guy watching us with binoculars?” I looked and saw him about 50 yards back by the bench. When I went to talk to him I saw he was one of the range officers. He said he had come out of the club house because of the “rate of fire going on.” I guess he was satisfied to find he was hearing three guns going off, and not someone violating the “rapid fire” rule, as he didn’t stick around.

At least standing in just a few places while we shot made the brass easy to pick up. It was a fun couple of hours before it was time to head home for a refreshing adult beverage.

I laughed a bit last week when anti-gun democrat Deb Lavender of Missouri introduced an amendment opening the state capitol to concealed carry for members of the public. Of course, she did so in an attempt to prove a point, and was bitten by her own arrogance. But my irony meter pegged again this week with the news about the $20 bill.

Democrat Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew announced that the portrait of Andrew Jackson would be removed in a redesign of the $20 bill, and replaced with an image of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. In the attempt to cover their own party’s history, the left has actually managed to promote freedom and guns. Andrew Jackson was a slave owner, championed the massacre of native Americans, and was the first Democrat president of the United States. It’s not surprising that the whitewashers of history wanted him gone.

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Harriet Tubman was everything the progressives hate about freedom loving Americans. She is credited with saying, “There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.” And she was not opposed to backing up her freedom with a gun, in violation of the law.

After that super fun IDPA match on Saturday, we drove out to Purcellville to visit a friend and a brewery or two. Our first stop was Belly Love Brewing.When we walked in, I was surprised at the lack of a crowd, for late Saturday afternoon. We placed ou…