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The sound of gunfire is the most hazardous non-occupational noise to which adults are exposed and can be a cause of noise induced hearing loss. The damage happens to the microscopic hair cells found inside the cochlea. These cells respond to mechanical sound vibrations by sending an electrical signal to the auditory nerve. Different groups of hair cells are responsible for different frequencies (rate of vibrations).

I don’t believe in burying weapons. Still, I have received so many emails about this that I guess I need to mention something. Whatever you do, you need to keep at least one weapon set (pistol and rifle) with you along with the accompanying ammo. But for those with extensive arsenals who want to secure them better and outside of the “gun safe” method, read on.

Common wisdom has it that a shotgun is the best gun to use for home defense. This advice is often supplemented with such encouraging comments as, “You don’t need to aim, just point it in the general direction.” Usually added to this, with a knowing look, is another supposed statement of fact that, “Just the sound of racking a shell into it is enough to get him running.” Let’s take a look at these shotgun myths.

was there to exercise my serious rifle skills and learn new things from other shooters. My “score” was of only casual/pedantic interest. Conversely, gamesmen in my group cared about their individual scores (in excruciating detail), and absolutely nothing else! We were all there for our own reasons, I suppose, but the experience reinforced in my mind the impregnable divide between Operators and gamesmen, between people who have weapons, and those who have toys!”

After I encountered the story of Keith Labrozzi, and that of Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler, I felt compelled to share a few of my lessons learned. I don’t know it all, I am no self defense guru, but I have been in and out of some damned spooky places and situations both in the States and third world countries of the Orient.

I don’t sell my reloads very often, but with the price of ammo these days, reloading is like printing money. I stopped by the local range to pick up a couple of boxes of ammo on the way to a match. It was two boxes of S&B 230 grain FMJ. The clerk rang up the bill: $38. What’s different now is that the war happened; ammo got scarce; metals went through the roof, but I don’t want to give up shooting because ammo has tripled in price. My aching pocket book brought to my remembrance the reloading press that had been carefully packed away and stored in the basement.

News from The Sight M1911, 2/16/08

While I try to avoid doing too much direct politics in this newsletter, except as it relates to gun rights and law, I feel compelled to express my utter outrage at the Bush administration’s filing of an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in support of the Washington DC handgun ban.

Volume 278, 1/5/08
KIMBER PRO CARRY: RANGE REPORThttp://tinyurl.com/37awkl
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS IN A GUNFIGHT?The conclusions from twenty-five years of lethal force investigation by Dave Spauldinghttp://tinyurl.com/5dyr3
PREPARE FOR THE UNTHINKABLE AS THOUGH IT WERE INEVITABLEhttp://www.policeone.com/writers/columnists/calibre-press/articles/1298367/
THE SECOND GUN, PART TWOhttp://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/tactics/the-second-gun-part-two/
A SOLDIER’S FAREWELLAndrew Olmsted, who blogged at Obsidian Wings, was killed yesterday in Iraq where he […]

For those who frequently go in harms way, I highly recommend the second gun.