New scope on the Ruger
News ·Friday October 9, 2009 @ 20:02 EDT (link)
Went shooting Wednesday, taking the Ruger 10/22 out for the first time with the scope (Bushnell Banner "Dusk and Dawn" 3-9x40). I was just shooting at fairly close targets in the SVRC pistol put (.22s are allowed; still a lot of fun. Since the scope is set for 50 yards the POI was low.
Found a new site—a kinder, friendlier version of FML (not linked, for language etc.; Google it if you're curious): My Life Is Average is pretty cool; random positive, somewhat banal, but interesting (voted on by readers) events from people's lives.
I got a Nerf N-Strike Maverick gun recently, and a pack of 30 extra darts; it's entertaining to shoot it at my apartment or office walls (or window). Passes time while compiling, or when the symbol servers are slow. I'd bought a different one, a single shot (reload after every shot), but returned it; this is a six-shooter with a rotating cylinder like a revolver, and is spring powered, requiring one pull of the slide per shot, and requiring a reload after the cylinder has been emptied.
I'm reading a Constitutional law book, so I'm going to make a few notes on the cases it covers in coming entries. Some other books I've been reading mention interesting (and fatally flawed) cases; The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed To Ask go over several well known bad cases that are clearly political and not really constitutional (e.g. Dredd Scott, which held that slaves and their descendants were not and could not be citizens, which was reversed by the 14th amendment, which, while necessary, was rammed through illegally and is abused these days to claim that children of illegal aliens are United States citizens; but I digress).
Books finished: The Politically Incorrect Guide To the Great Depression and the New Deal, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, Libertarian Nation.DVDs finished: V for Vendetta, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season 6.
