CLEAN YOUR RIFLE, you maggot!
Last year I picked up an awesome addition to my arsenal; a Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle. Since I live in Kalifornia, owning a more traditional .223 choice is quite difficult. Yeah, I can try to skirt the current law with a few choices, but I just didn’t want to go that route. I had spent a few years looking at my choices, and decided that the Mini-14 would serve my needs wonderfully.
When I picked it up, it leaned against the inner wall of my gun cabinet for months before I had the opportunity to actually shoot it. It was great, and a lot of fun when I finally did take it out. I put 3 boxes of .223 through it, and brought it home. I can’t recall why I didn’t clean it that evening. Generally, I’m quite responsible with cleaning my firearms after use. It ended up sitting and sitting. Then I forgot. Shame.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to get out with my oldest boy, codenamed Sniper. He’s 8 years old now, and ready to push on from just shooting my old 22 bolt action rifle. I had seen a good friend take his son of similar age out hunting for rabbits, with a Mini-14, and decided that my Sniper was probably ready for mine.
We hit the The San Luis Obispo Sportsmen’s Association, just past San Luis Obispo, for some trigger time. This post isn’t about that shooting time, it deserves a post of its own. I may not get to it, very busy this weekend!
My Sniper put 10 rounds of .223 through the Mini-14 with great excitement and success. Every round hit the target, at 25 yards. Not bad for an 8 year old’s first time.
When we got home, I started to put the firearms away, and realized that I needed to leave them out, to clean them later. Late in the evening, after everyone had gone to bed, I broke out all the cleaning gear. I started with my Smith & Wesson M&P. It was in GREAT need of a cleaning. Next I tackled the Mini-14.
As I sat there, I realized that I really didn’t quite know the proper way to field strip this year old rifle. I had owned this beauty for almost a year, and I had no idea how to take it apart. Lame! Much shame!
Sitting there, it hit me I have this sweet mobile phone sitting right next to me, doing nothing. I grabbed my Nexus One, and navigated to the YouTube app. An easy little search, and walla, I found the official Tips videos from Ruger. They produced their very own little videos, showing us ignorant owners just how to care for our beautiful rifles!
I started watching the first video I needed, “Ruger Mini-14 Disassembly”, right there on my mobile. The host guided me through disassembling all the right stuff, including a couple of good tips. I kept gun oil off my left little finger, to hit pause and play with. It worked great! Below are all three videos that helped me the best!
Mini-14 Disassembly
Mini-14 Cleaning
Mini-14 Reassembly
The Nexus One unboxing…
For the 5, non-family, readers of my blog, you’re probably already aware of my passionate plea for help in replacing my very broken T-Mobile G1. Thank you to the 6 generous folks who helped it happen!
Well, today my replacement phone arrived!
It’s none other than Google’s latest and greatest Android powered phone, the Nexus One!
What follows is my brief unboxing of the phone, and several great shots I have of the experience. In the coming days and weeks I’ll be releasing a variety of reviews of the new phone. I plan on reviewing several focused aspects of the phone; like use of the camera, gaming, mobile browsing, and social networking.
To see the entire photo-set of the unboxing, just go here. Below are a few of the highlights:
Old Town Folsom Photowalk
OK, let’s get right to the point. I’m going to be photowalking around old town Folsom on February 20th, 2010. If you want to join me, meet me at the Folsom Railroad Museum at 4pm on that day. I’ve wanted to wander around old town Folsom for quite some time. It’s got fun history, and some great old west architecture. We’ll end the late afternoon/early evening photowalk watching the sunset from Folsom’s Historic Truss Bridge, just a short walk from old town. Below is a basic map of the area.
Head over to the Upcoming Event page, or the Facebook Event page to RSVP!
View Old Town Folsom Photowalk in a larger map
2010 Challenge, week #5
Can you see the constellation Orion?
This one actually turned out much darker than I wanted. But, if you view it large enough, you can see it’s value, I think.
2010 Challenge, week #4
Here’s my submission to week #4 of the 2010 Challenge. I took this one with my T-Mobile G1, at Dargan’s Irish Pub, in Santa Barbara. It was a bit dark in there, so I had to add a little bit of light from a little LED light.
Stop. Please. Stop.
Stop what you’re doing right now and do 2 things.
- Pray for the rescue efforts in Haiti.
- Rescue teams are flying in from all over the world to help save lives.
- A great majority of the people have gone with little to no water since the earthquake. Dehydration is rapidly becoming the next disaster.
- Now take a moment to give at least $1 to the life-saving efforts.
- Seriously $1. DO IT!
Do you know what today is?
Woah! Did you know what today marks?
Only…
…more days of Barry Obama ruining our great nation.
The Kindle unboxing…
Well, I got an Amazon Kindle
My first book on my Kindle? Counterfeit Gods
What follows is a series of shots I took, whilst unboxing this sweet little device…
2010 Challenge, week #2
I resolve to write a novel.
I resolve to produce a photography book.
I resolve to read more.
The 2010 Challenge, at PhotoChallenge.org is about shooting one photo a week, following a predetermined theme. The first 4 weeks of the year are about “resolution”.
The Apple Tablet, er iSlate thingy
OK, so I’m going to go on record that I believe the alleged Apple iSlate/tablet will actually be quite successful.
Here’s why:
Before Apple’s laptops had taken over the notebook category, there were users who had great desktops, with crappy notebooks they toted around. As the expected-quality grew for notebooks, because of Apple’s great PowerBooks, then MacBooks, large quantities of consumers began simply paying the single price for a great notebook.
Oh, there’s been mobile tablet PC’s for a while, but the segment isn’t real until Apple makes something for it.
I propose that we’ll see a return to the SOP of having a great desktop at home, with an affordable netbook or tablet in tote. Yes, the Apple version will top off the scale with a Grover Cleveland, but there will be a wide variety of alternate tablets, some sporting Linux and Android, and a few cursed with the latest crap from Redmond.
But the point is that Apple will once again choose the direction of travel.
