The Michael Bane Blog

The hummingbirds come back from Central America in April; the mulies and elk are moving to their higher pastures now, and — a sure harbin...

This from the Times-Picayune : Interest Rising in Concealed Handgun Permits BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The number of people applying fo...

"The first note was clear and absolutely certain. There was no question or stumbling in this bugle. It swept across the quadrangle posi...

I think it's time for me to write about my father , who is dying. The medical reason he is dying is that his heart is in the process of...

OKAY...I HIJACKED THE ETHERNET CABLE IN THE MOTEL BUSINESS CENTER TO UPLOAD THE IMAGES OF FNH'S MUCHLY ANTICIPATED "SCAR" LITE...

It's a Gary Fisher 29-inch mountain bike, pretty much set up for riding fire roads , which is mostly what my Sweetie and I do. Notice t...

Okay, here's the short version: Last night's 3rd and final "open public forum" on the U.S. Forest Service's attempt t...

Wow. have lots of updates on the WAR IN THE WEST , as I attended the 3rd USFS "public meeting" last night in Boulder. And a big o...

You know, for reasons I don't fully understand, this trip absolutely kicked my ass . It shouldn't have — wasn't even a particula...

I have to say things went pretty good at the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation shoot. This year, the CSF arranged an a''-st...

...and not take me . I'm putting on my game face for Washington D.C., followed by the NRA Convention in Milwaukee later this week. To g...

This from Diane Nicholl , a fine firearms instructor and co-author (with Vicki Farnam) of TEACHING WOMEN TO SHOOT: A Law Enforcement Instruc...

Meet the MONSTER BLASTER , a Bond Arms .45/.410 derringer! I've had the gun for a while, — and featured it in this story on the SG site...

I just got my SIGARMS 226 back from SIG — I'd shipped it up for Bruce Gray's class rather than carry it since I had to fly through ...

Okay, I said I washed my hands of the "shooting on public land" issue. I lied , and here's why: Last night, at the invitatio...

Go down to my "Taxation Without Representation" post and read the long comment . Basically, a Fish-&-Game guy ripped me a ne...

Reason in Amsterdam, 2006 The Grand Amsterdam Hotel August 23-26, 2006 With Trey Parker and Matt Stone, ...

...with the usual caveat that this substantially upgraded/modified P220 is not necessarily the "official" SIGARMS entry in the G...

This video is especially for SG crew member Mark Jury !

The great country singer/songwriter David Allan Coe once wrote: They judge a boy by his friends And all of mine are trash They say you fi...