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To those who have come before and to those now serving, you have my ever-increasing gratitude, and my solemn promise to perpetuate what you have given us.

… for your wadder’s recoil spring.

Here are two 1911 recoil springs, one heavily used and the other brand new. The difference is obvious - the old spring has “taken a set” and is visibly shorter.

If they could, statues would hate them.

Statue cleaners surely do.

Jim Henderson is serving us–that’s you and me as well as “US”–in Afghanistan.

Back in May, I blogged that I’d shot well enough to earn an Outdoor Expert ranking.

Hot? Did someone say it’s hot in Arizona? And at the end of September?

Wow, what a turnout! We had a total of ten (10) shooters last night for the Nighthawks weekly event at the Phoenix Rod and Gun Club in spite of the unseasonal heat. That included three beginners and one out-of-state visitor. (Beginners and visitors is how the ranks will be built up. They are always welcome!)

I went to the range yesterday, the 4th, for several reasons.

About five years ago, the adult leader of the Boy Scouts of America troops in Phoenix said that the Arizona chapters had stopped their 100+ year old tradition of taking scouts out for camping trips to southern Arizona because “coyotes” with AK-47s were shepherding illegals into the scout camps and demanding food and water.

My work takes me to many large and successful companies. Some of them build airplanes. Some of them make automobiles. And some of them … well, they won’t say what they do. They just smile and change the subject.