Articles by Herschel Smith

From reader Ned.  That’s fine shooting in my book.

Are you a bit puzzled reading articles like this discussing the affect of Avian flu on wild ducks and geese?  Do you understand yet why you can’t find chicken at the store?  Listen to this.

There are two schools of thought on things like this.  One school says, “Well, it’s been a mighty strange several years now, hasn’t it?  A bat got AIDS and passed the virus on to humans in a market which all the world got, they had something called Agenda 21 where the richest men on earth plus health professionals and former military generals talked about pandemics just before all of this hit, there is mass migration from South of the border which threatens to crash the American system, the masked the servant class for two years, war is happening in Eurasia, and now they’re saying C19 was just a rehearsal and the real pandemic is coming which will kill half of the world.  Guess we need to continue to listen to the experts.”

Then there is the other school of thought that says, “Something very foul is afoot.”

David Codrea.

“David Codrea, Scott Heuman and Owen Monroe lawfully owned bumpstocks.1 They relied on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (‘ATF’) repeated express approval of so-called bumpstock-type devices,” a friend of the court brief filed Wednesday in the United States Supreme Court by attorneys Alan Alexander Beck and Stephen D. Stamboulieh explains. “Despite the ten-plus years of approval, the ATF reimagined and redefined terms in an unambiguous criminal statute to outlaw bumpstocks under penalty of prison, fines, and loss of Second Amendment rights.”

Good.  Stephen Stamboulieh is a friend of TCJ and a highly successful lawyer and one of the good guys.  Glad to see this.

Oh, I wouldn’t worry too much about him.  He’s a soy boy from the inner city who wouldn’t know how to pick stalls, doctor a dog or horse, grow produce, or string a barbed wire fence.

I can do all of those things, and calculus too.

BLUF: He likes it.

He obviously likes the Holosun.

It’s Chinese.  We all know that.  It’s also less expensive than the Trijicon RMR.

If Trijicon wants to compete against a product just as good and less expensive, they’re going to have to do it by coming down on price.  I hope someone who works for Trijicon is reading this.

It’s just that simple.  Yea, you can make the claim that you don’t want to fund business in China.  That’s all well and good.  But every unnecessary penny you spend now will affect your future wealth or the wealth of your children’s children.

So Americans can get their righteous indignation on, but when it comes to spending wealth, the case becomes much more complex.  God has expectations for what we do with our wealth.  So go ahead and play that balancing act – you know that’s what’s going on. And I don’t mind pointing it out.

Via SurvivalBlog.

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.” – John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

The notion that 51% of the population can give a giant wedgie to the other 49% is wicked.  On the other hand, there is this.

“We are on the brink of a dramatic change; we are about to abandon the traditional system of money and replace it with a new one, Digital Blockchain CBDC, which will give us greater clarity over every single transaction.” – Economist Pippa Malmagren, speaking at the 2022 World Government Summit.

And I would add, the ability to manage and approve those transactions, as well as provide opportunity for graft and corruption (like bailing banks out with your wealth).

Sin infects every form of government.  It’s all considered building the Tower of Babel to God.  Only nations under the rule of His law-word can survive.

American Hunter.

The shooters tested the rifle out as follows.

That’s an accurate gun for MSRP of $1045.  Not a single 3-round group over 1 MOA.

I am posting this in the spirit of keeping you informed of the current firearms on the market and how they’re testing, as well as what they cost.  This looks like a good deal.

But then there is the old issue over these pages of desiring something with classic, elegant wooden furniture.  It would make a better heirloom, but be much heavier to carry.

Dean Weingarten.

Three bears – a polar bear, a grizzly bear and a black bear.

Kiepertoyo Hinlopen Strait, August, 1995

Another five people of the crew set out separately with only a .22 pistol and a flare gun. After an hour’s march, the second party were met by a bear, 75m away and openly aggressive. The bear was distracted neither by warning shot nor flare and attacked one of the party. As he did so, he was shot, from a range of only 15m and turned against the man who had fired at him. This man tossed the gun to the first, who shot again. The process was repeated, with first one man being attacked and then the other. By the time the pistol was emptied and a knife drawn, one man was dead and another badly injured.

[ … ]

Miller managed to pull out his .357 Magnum revolver and squeeze off a shot, possibly grazing the animal. Then he fell onto his stomach, dug his face into the dirt and covered his neck.

The bear went for his exposed right arm, gnawing and clawing it and chipping the bone off the tip of his elbow. The attack lasted 10 to 15 seconds, then the animal lumbered away.

As Miller rolled over and was getting to his knees, the bear, only about 40 yards away, came at him again.

He managed to fire two more shots, but with his right arm badly injured he thinks he missed the bear. Then he lay still as the animal gnawed and clawed at him.

[ … ]

The hunter received bite injuries to his foot through his boot as he climbed a tree to try to escape the bear. He was taken to Alta Vista Hospital in Las Vegas, N.M., where he was treated and released.

In Thursday’s attack, the hunter told officials he was eating lunch under a tree when he spotted the bear and her cub in a watering hole. He took photographs and started shooting video of the animals when the mother bear got angry and charged. The hunter, who officials did not identify, climbed the tree to escape.

At one point, the hunter fell 15 feet from the tree and then managed to climb back up. He fired his pistol into the air and at the female bear in attempt to scare it, but the animal didn’t leave.

So, in order, a .22LR, a series of misses, and shots never fired directly at the bear.

Dean once again proves himself to be the king of the researchers on firearm defense against bears.

Carry a large bore handgun, practice with it, and hit what you’re aiming at.

You can read the rest of Dean’s analysis at the link.  It’s worth it.