tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82934842012-01-31T00:50:51.707-07:00Author and host of the hit OUTDOOR CHANNEL show SHOOTING GALLERY spouts off...Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comBlogger30241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-78266108594347961942012-01-30T09:53:00.003-07:002012-01-30T09:57:08.272-07:00

First thing this AM, Para USA has been acquired by the Freedom Group of companies...here's the press release:Madison, NC – Freedom Group, Inc., (FGI) through a wholly owned subsidiary has announced today that it has finalized an asset purchase agreement to acquire certain assets of Para USA, INC., (Para).Founded in 1985, Para has built a solid and enviable reputation for innovation, performance

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-23860339568033769772012-01-28T11:08:00.001-07:002012-01-28T20:53:35.738-07:00

....Rob Allen started this meme about the 5 guns you'd buy if money was no object...Say Uncle, Bob Owen and John at No Lawyers weighed in, and I couldn't resist. Here's mine:1) Cylinder & Slide Commemorative 1911 "Exactly the way John Browning made them" -- These may be some of the most amazing custom guns ever made. Bill Laughridge. a meticulous researcher as well as THE master 1911 gunsmith,

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Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-42834608429456199942012-01-26T17:39:00.001-07:002012-01-26T17:39:23.464-07:00

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-51868957749101832822012-01-25T20:04:00.001-07:002012-01-25T20:04:24.904-07:00

...heading to Cylinder & Slide tomorrow, then home. Am documenting Bill Laughridge's "recreation" of the 1911...he is one stubborn cuss, to be sure!Am finally back under way with THE NEW SURVIVAL GUNS, plus I'm working on the outline for the concealed carry DVD, which I'll be filming with Panteao Productions in March. I'm talking with Marshal Halloway about expanding our DRTV video coverage of

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Man, I can't seem to catch up on my sleep! Maybe by tomorrow, when Alf the Wonder Beagle has to go in to get a tooth pulled. Better her than me, I suppose... I'm working on a SHOT round-up for this week's DOWN RANGE Radio podcast. I'm definitely calling the 2012 Show the "Year of the .22 LR." I think there are several reasons, but I want to highlight and discuss 4 for Wednesday: • The Great Ammo

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-9131226906491460602012-01-22T16:55:00.001-07:002012-01-22T16:55:39.745-07:00

From Reuters, as lined on Drudge & InstaPundit:Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves informally as "preppers." Some are driven by a fear of imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm.

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-58170620456698817122012-01-19T22:54:00.001-07:002012-01-19T22:54:13.557-07:00

Heck, we beat out the zombie ep of Shooting Gallery! Hell of a night!

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....best educational show of 2011!

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-7026368383303435442012-01-18T09:12:00.001-07:002012-01-18T09:12:51.153-07:00

As you guys have probably figured, I'm slammed big time here at SHOT. I've been focusing resources on the podcast (complete with coughing fits from talking too much, and DRTV's daily uodates.So far, I have agreed to purchase a Legacy/Chiappa M1 Carbine in .22 LR, an Air Force pre-charged air rifle and maybe one of the Crosman/Jim Shockey signature air rifles. Shockey sure likes 'em!No pistol

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I strongly urge you to read this post from Bitter on the Shall Not Be Questioned blog (previously Snowflakes in Hell). Bitter and I have had our differences over the years, but she has been steadily on the front lines of the RKBA battle...and in this powerful piece of writing she tells the whole truth from the perspective of someone who was there. I strongly urge you to read the whole thing, then

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...from American Digest...please, take it to heart!Yes, nothing is damaging the "Conservative Brand" lately more than the rolling stupidity that is lumping itself around the failure of the Republicans to come up with a viable candidate that is more "Conservative" than Mitt Romney. This "failure", which was predictable as long as four years ago, is causing many online 'conservatives to drop into

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Monday will be Media Day at the Range, so I'll get a chance to shoot a bunch of stuff...including the new Colt Gatling Gun...man, that would look so good on my porch! Is there anything you guys have heard about and want me to try and run down and photograph????? Then it's hardcore SHOT...we'll be filming for DRTV and OutdoorChannel.com all day Tuesday. Marshal and I plan to post a daily wrap-up

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Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-74106594317706382392012-01-11T09:22:00.001-07:002012-01-11T09:22:42.616-07:00

Sorry for the blog silence this week...I was out in California finishing up both our SHOOTING GALLERY Celebrity Shoot-Out for the season and the episode with everything you ever wanted to know about how guns make it to television and the movies. I was at the prop house Independent Studio Services and the set of Criminal Minds, which we're using as our centerpiece. I had planned to post pictures

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Will try to get some pictures posted by end of day...

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...avoid watching pandemic movies like CONTAGION before heading to the airport, lest you find yourself bathing in hand sanitizer...Got my Green Mountain 10/22 barrel with the Fire Sights, part of my plan to do better in the Ruger Rimfire matches this year. It's a .920 barrel, but shorter and with lightening cuts in the barrel. Hoping to split the baby between super light and super heavy. Am also

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Here's a great piece, coauthored by our good friend Paul Erhardt, in the giant Daily Caller blog, covering an area we've been surprisingly week in pointing out...that's the "business" side of the gun business, and its implications in the upcoming New Hampshire GOP primary: Campaigning in liberal San Francisco in 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama was caught ridiculing those “who cling to their

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Tonight's SG on suppressors has generated tons of response, almost all of it positive. That's great news, because suppressors are indeed a great tool for safety and for shooting. Period. At the very least they should be moved to the AOW list, since they're demonstrably not firearms.BTW, I'm in my 5th month of waiting for my paper to clear on 2 suppressors.Interestingly enough, I was looking at

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Of course, it could be that this is the first working day of the year and I'm swamped. I got this incredibly stupid idea thatI was going to overhaul my recording studio, which I've been tinkering together as each piece of equipment failed over the years. In fact, I have no idea how I built the thing in the first place...maybe the South Park underwear gnomes built the whole thing. I started it on

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It's cold and windy here at the Secret Hidden Bunker as the new year is born. There's many things I could say on this first day of a new year...we are a troubled country, the fear spreads like a disease and our future is clouded. As always on New Year's Day, I go back to the wisdom of LOTR, the great mythological tale of our time...especially appropriate for this year, as our own quest, the

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From my friends at Stag Arms, the ideal briefcase for the Year the Mayan Calendar ends: From the press release: STAG ARMS is proud to announce that it has partnered with LAN World, Inc. to introduce the 2012 Executive Survivors Kit. STAG ARMS and LAN World, Inc. have designed the executive survivor’s kit (ESK) for the discerning customer that demands the highest quality equipment. Using only

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Trying to get my apps back up and running...

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A combination of hellish end-of-the-year stuff that has to be finished by tomorrow and an ill-timed (okay,,,there aren't any GOOD times for this!) computer changeover that has not not gone nearly as well as I'd anticipated. I'm still trying to get everything up, running and sync'ed! BTW, this AM saw a huge coyote in full winter fur about 7 yards from the house, standing up on one of our trees

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-91459339524031077512011-12-25T09:28:00.001-07:002011-12-25T09:28:33.879-07:00

Clear, cold and very still here in the High Country. Dinner will be "Midwest Traditional," with smoked turkey, sage dressing, dumplings, grilled asparagus, homemade bread. My contributions include a new lime/tequila/jalapeño cranberry sauce, a small bowl of very-Southern oyster cornbread dressing and amaretto chocolate mousse. Maybe King Fu Girl Riesling wine for a change of pace.Tomorrow I will

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We just came back from a long walk in the snowy woods with the Wonder Beagle, shown here after sticking her nose deep into the snow to see if there were any elk, or anything edible, such as biscuits, nearby. The woods are indeed lovely, dark and deep, and we are amazingly lucky to live up here. It's going to be a low-key Christmas here at the Secret Hidden Bunker, and, obviously, a very very

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-44978854471687139722011-12-22T18:50:00.001-07:002011-12-22T18:50:59.805-07:00

Well, maybe not that cold, but it was nippy up here at the Bunker. We hosted a neighborhood party last night, and it went wonderfully. We even drank up the last of my hi-zoot Brian Benson Kandy Red, a just wonderful red wine.The winter storm that slipped through last night dumped about a foot-and-a-half of snow, which my Sweetie and I spent the afternoon chiseling off the driveway..ah, winter!

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In other words, I need another Sunday, or maybe even a Saturday and Sunday. When a major holiday like Christmas happens on a weekend day, doesn't it seem like a gyp? I haver a genuine grueling day in front of me, staring at a microphone, which is, I realize, perhaps less taxing than hanging drywall. Still, a day's work...I'm waiting for the stuff I need to voice-over to finish downloading...the

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-53207584197867250572011-12-17T18:56:00.001-07:002011-12-17T18:56:15.093-07:00

The McBane of McBane weeps in his grave, and the fallen of Culloden Moor are dishonored...from The Scotsman:ANYONE caught carrying a knife in town and city centres in Scotland in the coming weeks faces a potential four years in prison, under a new crackdown announced today.The six-week pilot scheme will see cases automatically prosecuted as more serious offences, increasing the length of jail

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-29519895228459169422011-12-16T09:15:00.003-07:002011-12-16T10:55:41.361-07:00

The Ruger LCR revolver...in .22LR! The .22 LCR weighs in at 14.7 ounces and has 8 holes in the stainless steel cylinder...otherwise it's the same as it's .38 and .357 brothers, including the patented Friction Reducing Cam trigger system that gives the small-frame revolvers one of the best trigger pulls I've ever felt on a revolver of that size. The HUGE utility of the .22 LCR — and something

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-64872208675630957642011-12-14T15:22:00.001-07:002011-12-14T15:22:49.390-07:00

So I was at the Tulsa airport staring aimless at a spot between the magazine rack, women's fashion rags, and the Duracell display when it finally hit me that this is my airport of the year. If I can get out of Tulsa before the line of storms I can see moves in I will have gone the distance for 2011. Heck of a year -- taking SHOOTING GALLERY to an hour, the huge success of GUN STORIES, the

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-5220561825238038392011-12-13T11:19:00.000-07:002011-12-13T11:19:54.594-07:00

As I have mentioned, I've been doing a couple of months' experiment with carrying a small-frame revolver, a Ruger LCR in .38 Special, as my primary carry gun. I wanted to give it a try because it has been a long time since I carried a J-framed sized gun as my primary, and I've been getting a lot of questions. I'm thinking that many new CCW holders, what we refer to as Gun Culture Ver. 2.0, has

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-29543952897776300652011-12-12T19:59:00.001-07:002011-12-12T19:59:20.178-07:00

Say, what if the GUN STORIES team created a series that focused on full auto rock-and-roll? RAPID FIRE, coming Q4 2012...this ought to be a hoot!

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-76575755698996532572011-12-11T10:59:00.001-07:002011-12-11T10:59:43.488-07:00

"There's a saying in prize-fighting...everybody has a plan until they get hit."-- Charles Remington (Michael Douglas)"The Ghost and the Darkness" I made a special trip to the Field Museum in Chicago to see the Ghost and the Darkness...a little tatty, but think of it as a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour of our culture...

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-80423086233963301272011-12-10T10:36:00.001-07:002011-12-10T11:06:00.018-07:00

The Tombstone-Hollywood-Tulsa back-to-back filming trip is finally finally over! I'm not lying...this one was a toughie....lots and lots of moving parts. We ran mostly 4-camera shoots, adding in the ultrahigh-speed Phantom as a regular item. We really are taking the shows to a new level, and I can't wait to get them out there!Couple of gunny things. Say Uncle links to a story on the current

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It gets harder and harder for anyone to even pretend...from this morning's PowerLine Blog: If the Obama administration wasn’t trying to set up an argument for more gun control, then what was it trying to do? That question has never been answered.If the Obama administration did arrange for the shipment of arms to Mexican drug gangs, not for any legitimate public purpose but in order to advance a

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-63552352229973039542011-12-07T20:28:00.046-07:002011-12-07T20:58:59.930-07:00

From Tombstone last week... Man, what a week! From Tombstone to Hollywood to Tulsa, bippity bappity boom! I am seriously glad to see so many things coming together, but I can at least "see the barn" from here. Couple of things...Eric Holder before the House again tomorrow...wonder what Mr. "You're all cowards" will have to say? The dog ate his homework? That the buck stops somewhere else?

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...on the Criminal Minds set...-- Post From The Road

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...tonight...was truly a Whipped Puppy last night. Hard to keep up with so many things going on...the record Black Friday gun sales are amazing but not surprising. We are an unsettled nation clinging to our God and our guns and counting the days until next November. Not to mention there are some very good deals out there! I have said this before and I will say it again...if you don't own an AR,

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-28652435720641475792011-12-03T13:38:00.001-07:002011-12-03T13:38:23.133-07:00

..."Tough Day at the Office" pixs!-- Post From The Road

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...on both SG and THE BEST DEFENSE. Lots of long days, so expect limited blogging. Tomorrow, weather permitting, we'll be back at the range with the ultrahigh-speed camera and various point-of-view stuff. Too tired to do more...sorry... Here are some pictures from today's filming: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2411648205276.2116627.1073377951&type=1&l=5c37ce2b64 .

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About a foot if snow in the driveway of the Secret Hidden Bunker...Alf on strike since we wouldn't give her all the leftover sausage from the red beans and rice dinner. Maybe I can convince the cat to clear the snow...-- Post From The Road

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-53961463973625444722011-11-29T20:20:00.001-07:002011-11-29T20:20:44.118-07:00

Spent all day working with John Carter and Gene Moffitt on ultra-high speed videography for Shooting Gallery 2012...totally cool stuff!I couldn't resist this...been reading a lot of stuff on the .410...stumbled across interesting tidbit that the closest approximation to the human eye is a soft-boiled egg...c'mon...had to be done! This is a piece of video you'll save! Ultra-high speed videography

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Start out with this excellent and thoughtful blogpost from Daniel Mitchell at the International Liberty blog on why the current European trainwreck should strengthen our resolve to oppose any gun control measures: I’ve learned over the years that things are usually never as bad as they seem (or as good as they seem), so I don’t expect that a nightmare situation will materialize, but I certainly

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-72881906531383329272011-11-26T12:27:00.002-07:002011-11-26T13:40:30.383-07:00

...is, I suppose, not to shop! In between food and long, long bouts of sleeping, we did manage to get to the hardware store to buy a replacement shelf and the yarn store for my Sweetie, the World's Fastest Knitter, to pick out an autumn project. While she was sifting through yarn, one of the store owners took the time to explain and show how a spinning wheel works, which turned out to be pretty

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-31648656058859167962011-11-24T15:39:00.001-07:002011-11-24T15:39:48.775-07:00

Low key today, since there's been so much time on the road..Appetizers:-- local goat cheese, Irish sharp sharp cheddar, smoked Gouda w/mixed olivesDinner:-- lobster tails, grilled a la Bobby Flay-- tamales w/shrimp & roasted garlic sauce-- skewers of grilled veggies (peppers, red onions, zucchini, portobello mushrooms-- homemade whole wheat breadDesert:-- homemade vanilla flan w/fresh raspberries

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-44727071919347297462011-11-24T10:35:00.002-07:002011-11-24T12:05:02.546-07:00

A nervous Thanksgiving for an unsettled year. The mountains surrounding the Secret Hidden Bunker are unchanged in their stately magnificent, but the fear is like a clinging mist in the valleys. Mostly this morning my thoughts and prayers are with those in uniform who serve around the world. My thoughts are with our troops in the Sandbox, led by a Commander-In-Chief who clearly despises them, by

Michael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-65499268224665879012011-11-23T05:58:00.000-07:002011-11-23T05:59:02.363-07:00

...forgot pix...-- Post From The Road

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...after whirlwind trip to Brazil & Taurus. They make a way cool .40 submachinegun! One mire quick flight and I'm back in the Secret Hidden Bunker...expect a full report on DOWN RANGE Radio next week.Hey, isn't tomorrow a holiday?-- Post From The Road

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From John Fricke @ American Thinker, titled "Should I Get a Gun?"My stepmother is taking shooting lessons. Seriously. She is trying to choose right now between a couple of guns -- one was a 9-millimeter Luger, I believe. She announced that she was doing this while I was thinking of doing the same. Though I lean shotgun, if for no other reason than, well, easier to hit stuff, y'know. Her

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The new 1-hour Shooting Gallerys are, IMHO, going to be groundbreaking, but it is massive work building a new format. Especially with TBD in production at the same time. Especially with gun companies starting to roll out -- behind closed doors -- new product to be introduced at SHOT...fun, but hectic!Sucked it up this weekend and bought a new computer...I went back to an iMac to replace the Power

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Swamped right now...more when I can...read Uncle's superb post from today!

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...been crazy busy, but I think this is great.-- Post From The Road

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...Gino films Brian line-boring the big .500 Linebaugh...-- Post From The Road

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The .500 Linebaugh Blackhawk moves along...-- Post From The Road

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...we're (and I say "we're" in the sense that I'm in the same room) one of Hamilton's signature "Nimrod" 5-shot Ruger Blackhawks in .500. And no, I don't get to keep it, although this AM I will be shooting several of the Bowen .500s. Actually,, the coolest Bowen gun I've seen is a little Ruger Single Six in .327 Magnum...Hamilton enlarged the cylinder window slightly to allow the .32 H&R Single

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From Ruger: Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) is proud to announce new polymer magazines are available for the Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle. Made from durable, glass-filled nylon, these rugged, smooth-feeding magazines are available in ten-round, five-round, and three-round capacities. "Consumers have made many requests for lower cost Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle magazines," said Mark Gurney,

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-- Post From The Road

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-- Post From The Road

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...they don't let me near a file!-- Post From The Road

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-- Post From The Road

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...after a vicious windstorm last night...75 mph + ...lots of trees down...not particularly cold (30s), but we went to aux heat around 4 AM for our birdies. Alf the Wonder Beagle insisted on jumping in bed with us about the first time one of the big gusts hit and the Secret Hidden Bunker shuddered...very brave of her!

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...with good friends in Ft. Collins! One brain fade, but otherwise the match ran smoothly...more tomorrow after a serious good night's sleep!

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Traveling, but wanted to say to those who served and those who serve now , thank you for all that is America...And thanks to my late father, Bob Bane, for his role in the Greatest Generation...-- Post From The Road

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Two days...4 live studio audiences...7 great interviews...one burned out voice...It has been a wonderful 2 days! We had four live audiences at the Midway USA studios, doing openings, closings, throws to commercials and interviews. There were 40 audience members in each group, drawn from an exclusive Midway USA list. We had hoped to have some extra seats left over for DRTV members, but the seats

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-- Post From The Road

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More gun control, says an unrepentant Eric Holder.Which was always the point, wasn't it? There never was and isn't now an "Iron River" running guns into Mexico, so it was necessary to create one, to build the straw man for Holder, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the pathetic antigun cadre of the present administration to knock down.Remember the early days of Eric Holder, when he called all of us

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Well excuse me, I think you've got my chair...— George Strait Heck, it's 5 o'clock here! Day was at a dead run, but the podcast is in the can. This week, I step in front of a live studio audience for SHOOTING GALLERY for the first time. Will be big fun, unless somebody lobs a milling machine at my head. We should have behind the scenes video for DRTV, "Look! I think that milling machine landed on

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I think everyone should read this brilliant analysis of the current "Occupy" fad by Victor Davis Hanson in PJ Media, titled "Playing With Fire:"Occupy Wall Street follows three years of sloppy presidential name-calling — “millionaires and billionaires,” slurs about Las Vegas and the Super Bowl, profit-mad, limb-lopping doctors, introspection that now is not the time for profits and at some point

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I woke up this AM at 5AM, with the alarm set for 6AM...immediately fell back into a deep sleep and dreamed I was arguing with my car repair shop over a bill. On the balance, I'd have rather remained awake and practice shooting staple into my arm. Yesterday was a rough production day, especially after an editor discovered that one of our cameras was having an intermittent image quality issue...

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-- Post From The Road

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Hectic, hectic day! DRTV filming...Outdoor Channel photo session...planning for "workplace shooter" scenario tomorrow AM and to top it off a complex scenario for The Best Defense based on the horrific CT home invasion a few years back. I think we did a very good job of building and filming the scenario, but I'd be lying if I didn't say it creeped us all out. Sometimes the better you build a

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On a dream date...-- Post From The Road

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Or do I have to speak to you in 12 gauge?Been that kind of day... Am in a foul, foul humor. Doesn't happen often, but there it is...I'll write about S&W coming out with an AR in .300 Whisper, J.D. Jone's proprietary .30 cal cartridge based on the 5.56 (and is a virtual twin of the .300 AAC Blackout) tomorrow...

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-- Post From The Road

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...bizarre Egyptian meat mummy burial ritual...-- Post From The Road

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...meat transfusion!-- Post From The Road

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-- Post From The Road

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...in advance of tomorrow's "Flash Mob" scenario filming for THE BEST DEFENSE...today we did multiple attacker sims, sort of as a prelude. There are truly not enough hours in the day. We'll also be filming some DRTV stuff later in the week.Last couple of road trips have been with the Ruger LCR, trying to remember what it was like carrying a small frame revolver all the time. I'm sort of coming

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-- Post From The Road

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...a stack of forged receivers at DS Arms...-- Post From The Road

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The new Gallup poll, released today, chronicles what we've been saying...there has been a societal change regarding guns:A record-low 26% of Americans favor a legal ban on the possession of handguns in the United States other than by police and other authorized people. When Gallup first asked Americans this question in 1959, 60% favored banning handguns. But since 1975, the majority of Americans

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...after a travel day, but all good. Snowing at the Secret Hidden Bunker; Alf the Wonder Beagle is beside herself, as she is crazy about snow. I'm glad at least one member of the household is. As we say up near The Wall, "Winter is coming..."I've been following several Internet threads on various home defense subjects, and I think the thing that jumps out at me is we need to remember ONE SIZE

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...from my visits to gun companies. It gives me a chance to talk to company execs before the craziness of the SHOT Show. Yes, advertising has a lot to do with it...TV is an advertising-driven medium, and those guys pay the freight for the shows...but it's also a chance to talk about what's going to be introduced at SHOT, what's in the works, etc. If I have the time, I head for the factory floor..

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On Legal Insurrection, a funny note on how liberals are not like us.In our universe, the answer to Nick Kristof's tweet is, "Bang!"

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Was at Colt today and had my first chance to handle the new Colt Mustang .380s (sorry...no pixs on this...was on short schedule). As you guys know, I've been a big fan of the Mustang...I had one redone by the old Scott, MacDougal Associates back in the late 1980s/early 1990s and used it as my designated pocket pistol (in a Jerry Ahern pocket holster) for years.Anyhow, was talking to one of the

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They just posted photos on their blog...

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...but first, the opening sentence from Stephen Hunter's newest thriller, SOFT TARGET, coming on December 6: "The bullet hit Santa Claus beneath the left eye." Well, there you are! You're going to buy it, aren't you? Then, as usual, you're not going to be able to put the darn thing down until you finish it (which I haven't done, BTW, although it kept me awake and reading on an entire

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is there any moment so profoundly and sadly bittersweet as the return home from a wonderful vacation? Well, in my case the return at least to the home country if not the specific location designated "home." My Sweetie and I went to London for 10 days, not to do anything special, but visit museums, sample authentic English ales and generally try to take a deep breath before the sprint to the

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Will be there Saturday & Sunday!Say HI!

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...of the Baskervilles..-- Post From The Road

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Am still out among the stars...and what is that strange feeling???? Relaxation?Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaw! Must be related to the beer!Back soon with stories galore!And, BTW, with a new book from our friend and star on GUN STORIES Stephen Hunter! That's something to look forward to!

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Back In The Day, I got to spend some time at the MIT Media Lab...I thought I knew a lot, but these guys blew me away. "You have no idea what's coming," they told me, circa 1988 or so. "The guys at Apple are real smart..." So I'm in a foreign city, and I wonder what that building across the street is. I turn on the iPhone, point its camera at the building and in a few seconds it tells me the

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...for the next 2 weeks...expect light blogging! If I get a wifi connection, I'll punch something up. In the meanwhile, stay safe out there!!!-- Post From The Road

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Go to Amazon and buy my friend Jim Rawles' (from Survival Blog) newest book, SURVIVORS. Help him hit #1!

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He who laughs last, etc...From Drudge: ESPN yanks Hank for comparing Obama to Hitler Hank Williams, Jr., the voice famous for asking millions of football fans whether they’re ready for some football, has been pulled from tonight’s broadcast of “Monday Night Football” over a comment he made on Fox News this morning. Williams, who sings the lead-in song to the game each week, criticized the

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Hubba-hubba! ...watching "River of No Return," perhaps not Robert Mitchum's greatest role. That's what lazy Sundays are for, though. Managed to eek out a top ten finish in Cheyenne yesterday, largely because of a pretty consistent rifle and finally coming to grips with the Browning BSS double. Makes me feel a little better about my less than stellar performance in the IDPA Worlds. I'm trying to

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-- Post From The Road

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...my ultra reliable Honda tanked, so I'm on a borrowed Beemer...-- Post From The Road

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