Daily Archives: March 13, 2008

Bigger than golf

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March 13, 2008

That’s right, the shooting and hunting sports generate more revenue than golf. New statistics show that hunting gear and firearm sales topped $3.7 billion in 2006, up 4.1 percent from the previous year. Only exercise equipment performed better, with sales of $5.22 billion, according to NSGA’s most recent “Sporting Goods Market” report. Golf equipment,...
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New Podcast feature

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March 13, 2008

The new podcasting feature is up and running. On the right menu bar, you can see a selection that shows the 10 most recent podcast posts. Additionally, if you’re a user of iTunes, you can click on this link which will take you to where you can subscribe to my podcast with your iTunes...
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New Blog Bash event

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March 13, 2008

Mix and Mingle with NRA-ILA staff! Bloggers are invited to come out and join the NRA-ILA Public Affairs staff for a kick-off meet and greet on Thursday evening, May 15. It’s too bad that it’s Thursday, as I don’t arrive until Friday. Although I’m looking into changing my plans.
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Coast Guard Budget Cuts

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March 13, 2008
Coast Guard Budget Cuts

Click to embiggen.  I love that picture.
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Air Force retiring Stealth Fighter

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March 13, 2008

Air Force is retiring the nearly 30 year old F-117 Stealth Fighter. I’ll be sad to them go, I remember as a child watching the occassional Stealth fly over my house on it’s way to Edwards or the Skunkworks and thinking to myself “that is an ugly plane”.  Still, by virture of my house’s...
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Blast from the past

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March 13, 2008

Browsing Youtube at night is dangerous, you just might run across a video that someone put together of the commercials for the Hellstorm Trigger System, and the GAT Trigger. If you don’t remember the Hellstorm, it was basically a $30 piece of metal that made it slightly easier to bump fire your semi-autos and...
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The greatest homeschool myth

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March 13, 2008

It seems that my discussion of homeschooling is far from over, as thanks to Tamara, I am directed to part of the California ruling on homeschooling which I hadn’t addressed directly in my previous post. This excerpt is the section which I am talking about most directly: “Specifically, the appeals court said, the trial...
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