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Going Home

Posted on Aug 25, 2008 in Special Events

Time to head back home. After spending a weekend with Superman learning how to fly, it’s going to be awfully hard going back to being Clark Kent again. Trip time is about 6 hours. See you all when I get there. This post was written by Sebastian and was originally posted on Snowflakes in Hell. Reposted with...

Whupped.

Posted on Aug 25, 2008 in Special Events

Woke up yesterday at 6:30AM (that’s 0630 in tacticalspeak) at Blackwater. Spent most of the day on the range, ’til about 3:30ish. Packed up, rode the rock star Blackhawk! bus back to where the Nazi slot car was parked. Mad props to Caleb, who noticed that the effects of the sunburn had me hanging on my chin strap and cancelled his flight to share the...

ICC Frangible Ammunition

Posted on Aug 25, 2008 in Special Events

International Cartridge Corporation provided us with all of our ammunition. It was frangible .45 ACP and 9mm. I had heard bad things about frangible ammunition, but this stuff was pretty tip top. No failures to chamber, no misfires, and it shot just as well as you would expect any good quality commercial ball ammo. As a silhouette shooter who’s...

Para TTR AR-15

Posted on Aug 24, 2008 in Special Events

Para and Todd Jarrett demonstrated the new TTR system, short for Tactical Target Rifle, slated for release in 2009. Quite simply, it is made of awesome. For an op-rod driven AR, the thing has no recoil. It’s literally like shooting an airsoft gun. Recoil on a 10/22 is greater. An AR that shoots well that doesn’t get as dirty? Where do I...

All Good Things Must End

Posted on Aug 24, 2008 in Special Events

Our time at Blackwater is at an end. I am back in the hotel at Norfolk, Virginia. I still have a few more posts to do on the experience, but I definitely want to send out a few really big thank yous for helping put this together: Kerby Smith, Director of Communications for ParaUSA, who put this all together, and shot with us, with great skill, I might...

The bet has been settled

Posted on Aug 24, 2008 in Special Events

I won the bet with Caleb today. Caleb reported it live from the range. I won only because I made fewer mistakes than he did. In a second run through the house with a different configuration I again beat him by a slim margin because I made slightly fewer errors than he did. In both runs through others beat us. My second run was good enough for second...