May 2011 - Argghhh!

Blogging has some pluses. One of them is being big enough in reach that people send you presents, hoping to entice you to write about them. My new bestest friends in the whole world are the guys and gals at Luckygunner.com . Earlier this week, the Big Brown Toy Delivery vehicle dropped off a package blazoned with ORM-D, which is shipping code for "Other Regulated Material - Domestic." I.e., hazmat of some sort. When something marked like that shows up at Castle Argghhh!, it's almost...

I'm perfectly willing to give the President credit where it's due - and giving the "go" order slots neatly into that. And ensuring, when he took office, that the appropriate people understood that bin Laden was *still* a #1 priority. All good. But to make it out like this wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been in the Oval Office? Please. Remember - this wetwork was the culmination of information obtained... from Gitmo detainees, something that we are to suppose a President...

The new, reputedly more environmentally friendly M855A1 5.56mm bullet for the services is being touted as a success story. One of the major aspects of the "greeness" is it uses a copper core vice lead. Well and good, if it works. My interest, aside from an interest in the troops having effective weapons is... does this mean we'll see the old stuff surplused out? If so... wheeeee!'Green bullet' as effective as M855 round - consistentlyMay 8, 2011In-Depth Coverage By C. Todd LopezABERDEEN...

During the past three years we have become accustomed to our beloved TOTUS .

Wow - if true, a two-fer! US forces reputedly are in possession of a dead Osama bin Laden . And NATO apparently managed to nail Qaddaffi's son . Some good news. Yay.

[click picture to engage enlargificator] An F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot from the 79th Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., heads out to the fight April 28, 2011, during Green Flag West 11-6. Green Flag West provides a realistic close-air support training environment for Airmen and Soldiers preparing to deploy in support of combat operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald)

Not so much, anymore... I didn't even know there was a competition about who were the favs! Which is my fault - I haven't been to the GunBlogger Rendevous in a long time, though we'd like to. Or the Boomershoot. Ah, we're not really a milblog (but close), we're not really a poliblog (but kinda), and we're not really a gun blog (but we got gun ***!). We're Castle Argghhh!.

This weekend was the opening of the Farmer's Market for SWWBO, and a time for maintenance of the Range and Arms Room of Argghhh! Needful stuff, as this shot of Firing Point 4 , the 150m berm shows. The current state of play is four firing points. FP1 is a 50 foot one, shot from the covered deck on the Castle Bailey. FP 2 uses the same target point, but is on ground level and serves as a 0-30 foot range for pistol. Targets have to be lower when configured this way, to ensure that rounds are impacting...