The Reaper Man -Terry Pratchett
If you don't subscribe to Concealed Carry Magazine already you should, not just for the free monthly newsletter, but their magazine for members that has a monthly feature by Tam, and other articles by Caleb, Kathy Jackson and some other people you might know (ahem). Each month's cover article features someone that believes strongly in the Second Amendment affirmation of our right to carry. Young, old, male, female, all share that common bond, strength of character and strength of belief for what is right to protect themselves and their family.
I'm fortunate to have people like that in my life, people who are my Indiana family, my cousin R and his family, Og and my team at work, girlfriends like Tam, Bobbie and Stephanie, Shannon, Lin, Christina, Rita, and blogger LauraB. Shooting buddies who are also friends, Tim, Mr. B. Ted, Caleb, Jim, Bruce B., too many to mention.
So it was with great delight that I was informed of the shooter to grace the cover of the August issue, one of my favorite people in the world. Readers have no doubt seen Miles pictured on Home on the Range, shooting a zombie or strumming his guitar on my sofa. T Miles is not a blogger but he is a true Renaissance man, an artist and a talented shooter, one of only a handful of people I trust with my back and my life as I go about each day (hey, that's MY Guinness). His talents are many but he'd rather talk about his beautiful and loving family, more than himself, bearing those Shotokan principles of the martial art he studied - humility, respect, compassion, strength and inward and outward calmness, traits that suit a shooter well.
Over time, we have shared steaks and stakeouts, flights of fun and fearlessness (no Miles, if we fly THRU the arch someone will get mad), Guinness, gun lanes and zombie targets, and a Squirrel adventure or two (we'd tell you about those, but then we'd have to kill you :-)
I have to say Concealed Carry made a wonderful choice. I know your family is very proud of you.
22 comments:
It's been a coupla years since I subscribed to CCM. I wasn't impressed so I dropped my membership.
Maybe I need to sign up again.
I for one love your writing and your
photos both exellent.
Oleg - as always the photos you took for the article were excellent.
Talk to you soon.
Rowrr! Fine choice, indeed!
I'm a little envious. You've already received your copy, and I'm still waiting for mine.
Never even heard of this magazine - the only publications that come through our mail are the free ones - Dillon Press & Cheaper Than Dirt. I'll definitely check it out though, if only to see your name in there. Fabulous pictures!
w00t! Good thing my roomie has a subscription...and he's good about letting me borrow his copies. :D
More stuff to look forward to, yay!
*ahem*...GRANDSONS?! Really? Hmmm...
Sure, he's cute, but does his snoring lure deer to your treestand?
This is a heads up! When I went to the CCM page to verify my email subscription... my computer went into the "Blue Screen of Death". I rebooted, and went to the web site again... again "BSofD". Funny, two years I tried to subcribe to them, and I got the "BSofD". I emailed them, back then, and the response was "it's your computer, not us". Well, now I have a totally different computer, gob's of memory for everything, so "son" it ain't me (I do computer consulting on the side). Seems their webmaster has some funky code on their website that overloads the memory and then causes the "BSofD".
They didn't want to listen to me back then, so I'm not about to go through the trouble of contacting them now. So this is just a heads up, methinks they have a problem.
Does this mark a new career direction for Miles?
Ha! Flying through the arch might be fun but the fun would be over when the authorities came calling.:-)
SO, about the shinys, Hornady XTPs?
I`m more than envious! You folks over there can carry hollowpoints.. Bad urpeein politicians, no vote!
Congrats to Miles by the way :)
Mark - they're reloads made last summer. Not sure exactly what went in those, one of my friends walked me through it as I was totally new to reloading.
Onkel - I've testified against more than one person that ended up in jail. Doesn't make you friends. Hollow points are nice.
Brigid - It is a very new situation for me, but worth it. Bad guy sits, his relatives might jump through roof by anger and I keep smiling all day :)
Hollowpoints are considered evil and inhumane by the law around here. Shooting through bad guys to another folks standing hundred meters away is good and human thing to do, apparently.
Brigid
I’d guess that at least 2 of those declined comments were mine. LOL
I think I have always been polite. Well I hope I have! I can’t comply with the second part of the qualifying criteria as I don’t have a blog. I don’t have the time for a start. There’s also a basic need to have something worth while to say on a regular basis. No point in having a blog and only posting up something once in a blue moon. Also blogs are very different from the likes of Twitters. IMO
No disrespect but it the blog is simply a means for friends and family to stay engaged, why not just have a Facebook page? Far less public domain and far less open for negative commentary.
I respect your right to not show negative comments, I also respect your right to paint the middle America view any way you see it. But sometimes, just sometimes the ballsy independent and armed woman, America is the greatest national stuff is ladled on a little too thick. Same goes for the metaphysical philosophy. That’s all BS anyway. LOL
Anyway, thanks for your time and considerable efforts, which I do enjoy reading. I just thought I’d add a little grist to the mill. Which might at least give some food for thought.
Pardon the pun. LOL
ATB
Baz
"Which might at least give some food for thought."
Well, since we're capable of thought, Anon, we know that what you have to say is the utterest kind of bullshit, so feel free to spout it all you want. Elsewhere. In the meantime, try to understand it is our freedom itself that you disdain, so realize that when you try to take it away you wil have your clock cleaned.
Regarding Concealed Carry Magazine, I was an early subscriber and enjoyed every issue for almost 4 years. I even gave subscriptions to friends and family. However, the continual mailings from Tim inviting me to subscribe to CCM caused me to cancel my subscription. Multiple attempts to communicate that I was, in fact, a subscriber failed to stop the solicitations.
Anon - I doubt I'll be the only family or friend that takes issue with your comments. Call it polite or discussion or anything you want but you still managed todeeply insult one of the best women I know.
I speak as a big brother but she IS as gutsy as she writes, she can outshoot, outthink and outsmart most men, let alone women, she DOES love our country, tnough to give up 10 years of her life in service to it, and as for the other, she has an IQ that's off the charts, so that IS how she thinks.She is also incredibly kind, enough to post your comment, funny and sweet.
If you don't like her, or what she believes than go home.
Brigid,
Thank you very much for the kind words. Many others deserve to be on the cover more than I do. My brother mentioned that I am the first person in our family to have their photo in a magazine that wasn't about the criminally insane. I guess that's something! It's good to have support!
og, I am a little uncomfortable with you saying I am cute. just say'in.
To Hat Trick: Ahhhh, I know nothing about that. It was dark. No one saw it. And, I wasn't there. REALLY!!
And, to Anon:
I was going to comment. But, what og said is quite accurate. Brigid is beyond brilliant. She has a marvelous gift in her ability to express her thoughts, feelings, and emotions as painted words. And, her passion to her craft, this country, and those who she loves, is beyond reproach. I have learned much from her. She has much to teach all of us. I was quite impressed she posted your comment. She didn't need to. But, she is confident with her thoughts and words. WIth some of the things she's been through, she is tough. Incredibly tough.
So, listen...don't talk...just listen to her. You might learn something about yourself in the process.
M
Guy's
I understand your desire to step forward and offer words of support and protection. There really is no need. I meant no insult, I simply offered an alternative view. Perhaps one not quite so folksy and all american. But valid never the less. Sometimes those in the "land of the free" would do well to take on board how the rest of the world views them, their country and their politics.
That so often admired at home, "can do" attitude has not always stood you in the best of lights. Especially when you then come up short. Dabble in world politics and eventually you have to pay the price or deliver the goods.
I too appreciate Brigids wordsmithing. I appreciate her willingness to share her world and her life experiences with complete strangers. Like you say a brave and gutsy thing to do.
What I've never completely understood in regards to ballsy , determined and strong women is their need for almost constant reaffirmation that they are ballsy, determined and strong. It gets to a point where you're inclined to say "yeah great! But so what!". Perhaps its a girl v guy thing.
I hope my added grist has not caused the mill or her friend and family any calamity or over consternation. Like the old Homepride Flour strap line said " graded grains makes finer flour!"
All I've added is another sieve.
Hey Anon, I'm an Aussie with a fairly jaundiced view of world power politics, and I don't see that Brigid's viewpoint of America is invalid in any way.
Nor can I recall this blog being about any thing other than Brigid's viewpoint on life, it's a ladies blog with guns; have you noticed the recipes? The discussion about family? Friends? Children? Growing up? Growing old? Falling in love? Falling out of love?. It isn't Foreign Policy magazine.
Comments such "Dabble in world politics and eventually you have to pay the price or deliver the goods." are non sequiter.
Perhaps you should look at her blog from a different viewpoint than one of niggling superiority.
I'll also address your straw man argument: "What I've never completely understood in regards to ballsy , determined and strong women is their need for almost constant reaffirmation that they are ballsy, determined and strong."
The only time I've read a complaint by Brigid about lack of affirmation was when she had posted about a period of tragedy in her life and few of us commented because it was so personal. Putting your heart out for other people to review is hard, to get no feedback is in some ways worse. Apart from that one time she's basically required people to mind their manners, nothing more, nothing less.
I actually have some experience with a tough ballsy woman who needed affirmation. My ex is/was a Federal secret squirrel. Sometimes she needed to be a blubbering wreck on my shoulder, but when it mattered she held herself together, took control and handled the situation. Falling to pieces when safely home was fine.
My lady went on to be security for our Prime Minister and at two embassies, including one subject to terrorist attack. Damn I miss her.
Anyway, the point I am trying to make is that occasionally (not constantly) ladies with big brass ovaries(no balls involved) do need to let emotions out. It means they are ladies, not some parody of a man.
The male Federal secret squirrels I have known tended to drink to excess. I think the chicks are onto something.
Getting back on target, people of goodwill should be respected and either complimented or left to do their own thing. Your 'grist to the mill' is actually negative commentary. I don't see any need for it here.
Some of Brigid's posts don't suit my taste for prose, so I just skip over them. If something makes me burst into laughter then I'll post a compliment. Why not try that yourself?
We are not paid customers, just uninvited guests. A lesson I learnt years ago is that if are an uninvited guest at dinner time you don't critize the hostess, don't complain about the meal and always insist on doing the dishes. Apart from it being plain good manners, you are likely to become a regular invited guest based on that behaviour.
Brigid is the hostess. Her posts are the meal. Comments are doing the dishes. Try scrubbing yours a little cleaner.
:) Yeah, yeah, yeah.. we get it already. America isn't perfect. My travels tell me there's still no better place to live, even if we have a Socialist for a President (for the time being.)
Brigid needs our protection? HA!
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