Perry Packing.

I'm sure I'm taking too much. Going to do laundry a couple of times. Lotta rifles and ammo. Washing the last go-round right now. Always an ordeal (travail), to go on a trip. Glad to get packed in Ricks truck and get the wheels rolling.

One of our best team shooters, Keith Stephens, can't go. Baby nearly here. Good for the baby but bad for team, Wish them the best.

Taking a MacBook to blog from. Ought to be more active this year with photos as well as daily posts, so start watching this space.

Robert VanGene

Tough 80 year old from last year at Camp Perry. Robert and I shared a firing point and a rifle during the M1A match. He loaned me his M1A when the one I borrowed wouldn't feed ammo. Hope he is back this year. He was from Minnesota or Michigan.

National Match Teams leaving Texas for Camp Perry.

Cat target on Commercial Row, Camp Perry.

Vans and trucks loaded with people and guns going North. Texas Juniors are nearly through Arkansas and the Sam Houston State ROTC is rolling out shortly. I've still got two practices and 200 rounds of ammo to make. Adults leaving Friday morning.

I'll be blogging all the way through with photos and videos uploaded on the new Macbook.

Shiprock Video

Video of me photographing at Shiprock on our recent vacation.

A.C. Gentry talks about Tyler in 1930

New VIDEO up of my neighbor and friend, Artist AC Gentry Jr. talking about the neighborhood in 1930.

Juniors leaving for Camp Perry.

Tomorrow the Juniors will roll off. Spent the morning with Andrew Trampus having him shoot sitting groups at 200 and then a little standing. He's home packing, or more likely: sleeping. He shot pretty well. Several 100s and 99s.

The West

Finally got the video to load. Cadillac Ranch, Shiprock, Canyon de Chelly, North Rim of the Grand Canyon. No Indian dogs were harmed in the making of this video.

Dead Cow Cam

Big dogs. Targets on them.


Missing carcass.


Possum after bugs.


The only crow ever to show up on the Dead Cow Cam.


Still picking.

Out to check the cow cam and the whole carcass had been stripped of its hide and pulled off. I dragged it back. Only one leg still attached. Missing skull has got to be close somewhere. Hide is off to the side about 20 yards.

Daily Deercam

No fawn yet, but this is a May date.

Jumped a little buck in velvet and a fawn over on the Dead Cow Cam side.

Cam across the creek got submerged when the dam broke. Probably dead and ready to be buried. Nothing on the card. Dead Cow cam running still. A doe coming and going in the brush on the hillside.

Happy 4th of July.

A sweet dog that doesn't want to bite, but will if pressed.

Beautiful summer day here in Tyler but I have a hard time forgetting that they are ALREADY treading on me. Happy 4th everyone!

Dead Cow Cam

After the big rain.


Skinny mom Coyote.


Possum going in.


There's a target. Better not show himself during deer season. Lotta dogs dumped at the lake.


Doesn't look like enough to make soup to me but they are still picking.

Haven't been making many lake runs. Roads still cut because of the big rains and Smith County is punishing voters for budget protests by deciding not to maintain roads this year. Cound't get across the creek. Trail lost in several places by flooding due to the big rain and dam collapse. I'm sure it will sort out.
Fate of my deercam across the creek is unknown. Will be interesting to see.

Chicago Gun Control law bites the dust.

Heavily armed Texans at Camp Perry. We broke lots of state laws just transporting our rifles to the National Matches in Ohio. Hopefully, some of that will be past.

CMP Rack-grade Garand.

Colt with shoulder stock. Illegal by BATF rules. In the A&M firearms museum.

Columbia in Ivory, (now illegal), leaning on spear with shield and laurel wreath.

Colt Revolver shotgun.

I'd be all for a constitutional reset by tossing out all case law and going back to the original documents. Congress shall make NO law and all that.

Happy day. Klansman Senator Robert Byrd goes to his reward, (should part of his reward be renaming all of the projects, bridges, roads and monuments he named after himself? All paid for with public money? Wouldn't that be a wonderful idea?), at the same time that the racist, un-American Chicago gun law is tossed.

Gun control advocates have lots of innocent blood on their hands. Think of the crime caused and lives lost by disarming the law abiding over the last 50 years. May God have mercy on those gun control folks. But on Earth they ought to be called to account.