What a sad state of affairs.  Diversity in the military will never be readiness for anything but failure.

God has rules for war and for military service (I won’t rehearse those now, but you can refer to R. J. Rushdoony, “Institutes of Biblical Law”), but they aren’t being followed here.

Thus this is alignment with wickedness.  Of course, destruction of U.S. military capabilities may be their intent.

Was anybody other than me aghast at the terrible state of the NG troops sent to D.C. recently?  Those boys and girls had better hope they never face combat.

I would assume that the correct answer to this question is, “You can thread pipes by hand (I’ve done that). You shouldn’t do that with barrels.”

His word is identified with Him. In the Scriptures, it takes on holy attributes by self proclamation.

Prepare.

Judgment cometh.

AllOutdoor.

That’s correct. You are not seeing things or dreaming. Check out the photo once again. The price tag on that 38 Special +P+ ammunition is $110 a box of 50 rounds. Outrageous. This is just one example of current pricing of ammo at a recent arms show due to the ammo crisis.

At a recent gun show, I recently saw packages of 100 rounds of 22 LR ammo selling for $40 — and that was a good buy.

Ammo at inflated prices? That 22 rimfire ammo mentioned above only 9 months ago was selling for $15 a box. The ironic part is that any available ammo was flying off the tables once buyers got over the sticker shock and pried their wallets out of their pockets. Some buyers came by the tables two or three times before they bought. It took a while for the high-priced reality to settle in.

What’s the deal? To be honest, no one really seems to know. Dealer after dealer told me their suppliers and distributors were simply “out” of ammunition — and they were not accepting any back orders. Many felt like some suppliers were withholding stock to keep the prices high so they could cash in while the getting was good. We’ve seen that before as well.

There were no indications of when ammo supplies might be fulfilled in the future. Smaller dealers said they believed that ammo supplies were being allocated to their biggest dealers and the little guys were just left with nothing. It’s getting to be a dire situation if you are really in need of even just a few boxes of ammo. It’s getting to be the same with guns. One dealer told me he would be out of business in six months if firearms supplies did not open up.

Even common everyday hunting loads for the 30-06 Sprg, 270 Winchester, 30-30 Winchester, or the 243 Winchester were non-existent at this gun show. Deer hunting season is still open here and hunters were frantically searching for even one last box to close out the season. There was almost none to be had, and what was available was triple the price it would have cost twelve months ago.

The ammo crisis is hard to understand, given manufacturers’ reports that ammo production is at top capacity. There have been local news reports of the Winchester rimfire factory in Oxford, MS running full blast. If so, where in the heck is all the ammo going? Even the big box stores are out of ammo, too, including Walmart and Bass Pro Shops here locally.

I know that in my neck of the woods it may be something, I don’t know what, alluded to in the article, but it’s something else too.

I dropped into my local Academy Sports a few days ago and talked to one of the guys behind the counter.

Buyers know when the trucks come, and when they do, there is no telling what they will bring, what caliber, or how much.  But it’s usually Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and he told me folks start lining up at around 0230 hours on all three of those days.

He said, “If you’re not here in line by 0600, you won’t get any ammo.”

It’s being hoarded for sure, but then, I live in a firearm friendly county.

Rifles, from Field & Stream.

Observations: There are some oddball cartridges like 6.5 PRC and .280 Ackley Improved, but pretty much everything is being made in 30-06 and 6.5 Creedmoor.  A lot of manufacturers are protecting barrels with Cerakote or lightening up the load with a carbon wrapper.  But reducing the weight takes money.  You pay big for reduction in weight.  It would be nice to have that Savage 110 Ultralight.

Shotguns, from Outdoor Life.

Observations: There are still break action guns and over-unders, some with very nice engraving.  In spite of what’s shown here though, manufacturers have finally gotten the touch on their gas systems, and most of the market seems to be dominated by auto-loaders.

My opinion is that without renewal and reformation of the church in America, there is no basis upon which to save the republic.  It lacks any foundation upon which to build.  If we cannot save the republic, we cannot hope to build a new one.

For there to be reformation in the church, we must go back to the basics.

I found this video very interesting, and he’s only discussing the engineering of outdoor shooting ranges.  Inside it becomes even more complicated with sound-absorbing materials, ventilation, filtration of hazardous materials in exhaust air (lead, copper, etc.).

This web site is devoted to cataloging the studies performed analyzing the effective use of hydroxychloroquine as a therapeutic for Covid-19.

As of this writing, there are 232 such studies.  But don’t worry.  The CDC will still recommend that state boards try to take the license of any physician who uses it.

The use of Ivermectin comes in second with 53 studies.  Between the two, these are the most effective therapeutics.

The rest of the world can be treated with an inexpensive, life-saving drug.  But not Americans.

Because reasons.  Shut up.

He quickly deals with the issue of height-over-bore for close range shooting (as in CQB), and then discusses why he mounts his scopes high.  A very interesting discussion.