An interesting article in the UK Times on the rise of shooting as a networking tool. It appears they’re talking about a British Sporting Clays style game and I can personally attest to how much fun Sporting Clays is even for novices and non-shotgun oriented shooters like myself. So I see the value of it […]
A punk breaks into your house and tries to rob you at gunpoint there are several avenues open to you, usually going in a direction away from the punk or toward your own hardware. But not this homeowner. This will be a beating this kid won’t forget and it may well save his life. […]
I find it amusing that we were discussing exactly this subject at a recent family gathering. Then a week later some Kentucky newspaper publishes the article Can you tell the difference between a Hillbilly and redneck?
“To the people who use these dismissive and dehumanizing terms, we hillbillies are a subset of rednecks,” she said. […]
January in Indiana is what we Hoosiers refer to as “cold”. Now you folks up further north such as the Dakota’s would consider our “cold” rather balmy in comparison but to Hoosiers it’s still “cold”.
So here it is the 5th of January and as you can see by the timecode on this […]
Techies and especially Canadian techies aren’t typically the type you’d find at the range anywhere let alone in Manhattan. But it looks like maybe we’re making some headway as one of Wired’s writers makes a 4-week quest to shoot straighter. It is difficult to tell from the article if he’s shooting a pistol or […]
Pointman is a Hoosier who works in the IT industry, is an amature photographer and avid shooter and firearms collector.
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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