Sex, Guns, and Yoga Pants

I am probably making mountains out of mole hills here, but I am going to drag out the soapbox about a pet peeve of mine, because it has reared its head again this week. The peeve is the sexualization of women with guns. I’ve written […]

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My Ruger LCR Part 2: The Carrying

This post will be fairly quick and photo heavy. It’s just an update to my previous post where I discussed range-testing my new carry revolver. http://boostershotsblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/my-ruger-lcr.html#comment-form My incentive for wanting to try a snub-nose revolver for carry was the neighborhood dogs, which I have discussed in […]

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Shieldmaiden

“The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them.” ~Eowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan  JRR Tolkien The concept of women learning the art of weaponry for defense of self, home, and family is not a new one – despite […]

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My Ruger LCR

What follows comes with the usual caveats – I am NOT an expert, or an instructor. I’m just sharing what my personal experiences are, while I travel along the learning curve like everybody else. As you may recall, I started playing around with shooting an […]

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Random Updates

Life has been a bit scatterbrained for me lately, so I thought I should make a sort of “catch-up” post. I’m trying really hard to keep THIS post unpolitical – and save all of that anger, outrage, and heartache for another day.  So here for […]

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Otis and Cleaning

So, I guess it’s pretty common knowledge that I hate cleaning. That goes for pretty much any kind of cleaning – except personal hygiene of course – I’m totally a fan of long, hot, showers. But household cleaning, car washing, and gun cleaning – not […]

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Neighborhood Dogs

I feel a rant coming on, and it may offend some of you, so be prepared, because I’m pissed. I was chased by a neighborhood dog this morning. I wasn’t carrying at the time, but I may have to start. Either a pistol or bear […]

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