Utley Wins Panola NRA Regional.

And the other stuff is just details.

Too fried tonight to caption anything.  Justin won.  The end.

Panola Regional Match Weekend.

  Sold out, as usual.  64 shooters fills the range.  I don't think there is a slot left.  We used to squeeze in an extra relay or add folks by pair-firing and shooting the rapids on an alibi relay, but Match Director Dave Wilson decided it was simpler for everyone if we played it straight.

  Today was team day and Ken Gaby and Dave put together teams out of the likely National Match shooters.  Some very strong scores turned in.  Seems like a 1949 point aggregate for four shooters each firing a 50 shot 500 point match won.  1919 was the next score down.  Winning was TSRA White with Buddy Reich, Randy Scheibel, Jeff Lin and Clay Hefner.  484s and up.

  A little over 40 folks today on a work-day Friday.  The full 64 tomorrow.  LEG match near capacity on Sunday plus a Pistol Leg afterwards.

Scheibel and Reich looking armed, yet confused.  They weren't.

Mitch and Zeke on the big end of the line.

Warren Vandiver getting his .223 face on.

Our Favorite Emily.

Zeke E. down on the big numbers with Mitch.

Katie Davis waiting on somebody else's problem.

Match Director Dave Wilson.

Consiglieri Karl Schultz gets the word.

A little service-rifle butt showing.

Izzy prepping for 200 sitting rapid.

Clay Hefner learns he missed Earth Day.

Em.

  In the pits.

Fine dining while calling the pits.

Schiebel and Riech target at 600.  

Miller shoots while Lauren Lecren calls the wind.

Dave with the numbers.

Beagle boys Tracker and Trigger.

Hefner breaks out the counter-jihad.

Tomorrow is the NRA Regional.  80 shots.

Paris Catacomb Tour, March 2013

The Empire of the Dead.  Video up.

Took us about an hour and a half to walk through the underground galleries.  When we came out we had seen enough.  Great tour.  Wish I had taken a much more powerful flashlight with sweeping beam.

Three million French excavated from cemeteries in the city and relocated here.  Ornate walls of bones were built, most folks just shoveled in behind them.

There won't always be an England...

In fact, the one that is currently there is hardly a shadow of it's former self, but ONCE there WAS an England, and it was great.

Thieves shoot clerk through bullet-proof glass.

In Houston.  I wondered what this story was about.  I bet it's a great video...unless you are the guy getting shot, of course.

Los Angeles Sheriffs Dept shooting and range, 1936.

Pre-WWII look at the LASD range along with shooting demo team and some training.  All revolvers all the time.  Pretty wild walking-forward one-handed drill, Thompson Machine gun shooting, cigars shot out of mouth.  They even had pistol pits.  Wonder what sits on that site now?

Holly Maddux: Never forget.

This guy still alive and well and in the Federal system.  Should have been composted by now.  Tylerites shouldn't forget.

Happy Earth Day.

What Would Bigfoot Do?

Pine nuts.  OK.  But what ELSE would Bigfoot do?  He wouldn't be driving a zipcar, that's for sure.