PT Turn Swing™ Target by Action Target

This is what Murdoc needs for the back yard:

With the PT Turn-Swing™ you will enjoy the benefits of training on turning targets, even on the most remote and undeveloped ranges. Because the target is driven by 2 simple pull cables, no additional power of any kind is required.

In addition to the turning action, you can also use the PT Turn-Swing™ as a lateral swinging target just pull on the second control cable instead. No adjustment or reconfiguration is required to switch between turning and swinging, and both actions are spring loaded to return automatically to their original position.

For more challenging scenarios or to accommodate more shooters, up to 6 units can be linked together to function simultaneously from a single control point.

I haven’t priced these sorts of things, but $180 seems reasonable. Video at the site.

Lakeside Giant Paintball in Barona, San Diego California

Via Rummel: Pictures from Paintball

Murdoc’s only paintballed a couple of times, and not for over 15 years. This place looks like a lot of fun.

Uncle:

Some people built houses near the range and are surprised that ranges are noisy (note: if sound suppressors weren’t so heavily regulated, this wouldn’t be a problem). So, they try to shut it down. They lose. They do the logical thing and vandalize and destroy property.

Message left by vandals for Creekside Firing Range near Atlanta

“U Will Loose”

What I find amusing is that if a bunch of us were to go and create fake/photoshopped images of vandalism and protesters, we’d make them look a lot more intelligent than they really are. It’s probably hard to effectively imitate this sort of thing.

Apparently the home of the range owner was spray-painted as well.

Background and many more photos at AR15.com.

The Soundboard: “Do try this at home” Edition

RNS points out a brilliant idea: using pool cue chalk as a reactive target:

Billiards chalk is 7/8 of an inch per side and even when hit with something as slow moving as a standard velocity 22LR out of a pistol, makes a bigger poof than Charles Nelson Riley.

If you can hit it.

I found cheap chalk ($12.95 for 144 pieces) on Amazon and just placed an order.

And then there’s this:

Some of the people at the range will tell you that you won’t be able to hit them. Some of them will actually get amusement from telling you so repeatedly. Even when you hit your first one, they’ll call it luck. After you start hitting them in strings, those same people will then tell you about how they could probably do that with an SKS.

LOL.

Forgot to link this last weekend. Definitely worth checking out.

Todd Jarrett giving a demonstration at the Para USA booth

Look how fast his gun hand moves. Amazing.

If this won’t get you to the range, nothing will

James talks about what unsettles new shooters and says It Usually Isn’t the Recoil

I would tend to agree. Unless someone is introduced to shooting by 12ga 3″ slugs, .30-06, .450 Bushmaster, or something else stupid for a first-timer.

Bullet splitting joker

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I meant to post on this incident yesterday but didn’t get to it. An 8-year-old boy at a machine gun shoot event shot himself and died of his wounds. Obviously tragic, it isn’t clear to me how both the father (who was right there) and the range safety officer could have let this happen.

I’ve not been to one of these public-type machine gun events, but I guess I wouldn’t think they’d let little kids shoot them. And a little light weapon like an Uzi, with less mass to absorb the kick and a shorter barrel to more quickly point in a bad direction seems like it would probably be even more dangerous for a little shooter than a larger weapon.

Regardless, the father blew it big. I’m sure he knows it, too. I can’t imagine that.

Meanwhile: DA: criminal charges possible in boy’s Uzi death

Hampden County District Attorney William Bennett said Tuesday he hasn’t been able to find any law that would authorize a child to possess or fire a machine gun.

I thought laws were limits, as in: Shouldn’t he be looking for laws precluding a child to possess or fire a machine gun?

Of course, there’s this:

In response to this tragedy, Freedom States Alliance (FSA), a national coalition of gun violence prevention groups along with the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence (NECPGV), are calling for legislation to be passed immediately that would require that no child under the age of 18-years-old be allowed to use or operate any fully automatic machine gun, or semi-automatic assault weapon under any circumstances including at a “machine gun shoot,” shooting competition or firearm demonstration.

Maybe I missed something. Was there any gun violence involved? If not, what are they doing getting in the mix?

More info and discussion at Alphecca.