scamp1776

Some interesting lessons from the Shooting competitions this year.

The two that I really like are SOF’s 3-gun match in Las Vegas and the “End of the Trail” shoot in SoCal - they both occur within a few months of each other and are two Centuries apart in technology.

SOF’s 3-Gun match is a pistol - shotgun - and battle carbine match which is considered by some to be a top test af tactical shooting and agility. Most competitors in the money have top of the line colt 1911s with some type of auto loading shotgun [most looked like remington 1100s] and a AR-15 carbine with optical type sights... usually an illuminated dot. This is a serious combat-style event this is the venue of the cutting edge tactics and tools.

SASS [Single Action Shooting Society] also uses three guns - pistols, shotgun, and a carbine... only they have to be manufactured before 1898 or be a replica of such a firearm. The SASS also encourages people to dress in period clothes - history is stressed. This also happens to be the fastest growing sport in the shooting fraternity. Which is, especially with “cowboy shooting”, becoming a Sorority... yep, women seem to like the shooting of olde tyme gunnes...?

Now the really cool thing is to watch these events - you learn a lot - even if you don’t want to.

This year I have been back in Appalachia to help my Dad. So I have been far from these events and was only able to watch them on TV... still very instructive.

The 3-Gun match was held in the Southwest desert of Nevada and they had some wind... alot of wind... and on that wind a lot of sand. This sand has the capability of adhering to most lubricants and forming a goo that has all the lubricating properties of lapping compound. The footage of the shoot was amazing. I saw had the effects of this environmental hazard graphically demonstrated.... massive ‘Malfs’ of almost everyone's guns... several of the top contenders were knocked out of the running and one out of the completion by jammed and broken weapons. One fellow was working so hard to clear his AR that the charging handle broke!

These weapons all autoloaders were all adversely affected by the fly dust and sand... some catastrophically. There was close to 15 minutes of what amounted to blooper footage... person after person stopping fire to clear a jammed weapon. some taking as long as 15 seconds to fix a problem - some just out of the game with a jammed weapon... high tech and unreliable.

The SASS match was held in a similar environment but the just as accurate 100+ year old designs had one great advantage - they don’t jam! Of course they are not quite as fast to shoot (Remember: you cannot miss fast enough to win a gunfight) and they are definitely slower to reload... so you have to learn to make every shot count (good mindset anyway).

The great thing about this is the weapons of the JBTs are the kind that are jammable and finicky and while they are nice and Tom Swiftian they are only and improvement in the sense that they are mechanically easier to reload and give you a higher fire rate. The accuracy - power - lethality all lie with the older guns and their larger caliber heavier bullets and more reliable designs... they are the guns that were used by citizens not JBTs to found and tame this country - they are my type of guns.

It takes longer to get proficient with these weapons but they have a bigger operating envelope... It may take 2Xs as long to get good with revolver - but once you are up to speed you can work on shooting at 100m with your revolver. A pistol is easier to shoot well sooner.... but it is extremely hard to shoot 100m with a pistol... it can be done - but to get to this level requires a skill level that most do not have - with a revolver and enough practice anybody can get to 100m shooting. With shotguns and carbines they only differ on two levels speed of reload and reliability - for my money I will go with reliability over reloadability... and I will save 70% of my $ which can go to buying reloading equipment which will let me practice 3Xs as much as before.

Remember one thing you can do is practice more - realistically you should be shooting 3-4Xs per week with about 1000 rounds per week. The JBTs have NO concept of what a firearm can actually do.... it is up to us to show them. [remember to tune up your body - you can’t shoot better than your physical condition... 30 min. of calisthenics will do wonders for your shooting.]

One aesthetic concern is that I do NOT want to have the weapons of the enemy - and dispute this if you will... I think that our people will naturally relate to patriots who fight with cowboy type weapons while wearing their own ‘street’ clothes rather than someone in cammies with a black rifle. And it is how I will fight... to each his own.

Yours in Freedom - Scott A. Campanaro

HERE ARE SOME RESOURCES:

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/
http://www.sierratimes.com/
http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/index.html
http://www.free-market.net/
http://www.freerepublic.com/
http://www.Vader.com/


Here is an ‘Eagle’ Project that a young man started and it is very good.
http://www.jurorsrule.com/

Here are the ‘few’ congressmen that are on our side:
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/

Here are the ones that are in the adversaries camp:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/

Good survival info:
http://www.alpharubicon.com/index2.html

A great gun rights group - absolutely NO compromise:
http://www.jpfo.org/

If we can get Informed and Armed Juries and this bill passed we may avoid civil war:
http://www.fairtax.org/
A great writer who has a logical and orderly mind - he has written what has been called the ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ of our day - “Unintended Consequences”
http://www.john-ross.net/ross_in_range.htm

Good site to browse guns for prices:
http://www.gunsamerica.com/



Here are some links to my various postings & ‘sightings’ on the internet.

http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/libe192-20020930-01.html

http://www.self-gov.org/lights-2000.html

http://www.acctaxpayers.com/Pages/Articles.htm#Disappointed%20in%20Times†

http://www.self-gov.org/liberator/v006n004.shtml

http://privacyalert.us/Letters/Letter-27.htm

http://www.theadvocates.org/lights-2000.html

http://www.citizenspokane.net/areyouready.htm

http://www.sepschool.org/cgi/RegDisp.cgi/CA

http://www.ca.lp.org/lpcm/lpcm199911.pdf

http://www.busthead.com/eastbaylp/lifeline/lifl9906.pdf

http://www.multicosm.com/facade/www.founding.org/signers.htm

http://www.vallejonews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=92964&webpage=79&cp=60

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=2855

http://www.webleyweb.com/tle/libe192-20020930-01.html#letter2

http://www.founding.org/signers.html#C

http://www.busthead.com/eastbaylp/lifeline/lifl0005.pdf

http://www.petitiononline.com/usdeclar/petition.html

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/cgi-bin/mlk?http://www.myplanet.net/jeffhead/dadmisc/

Mr. Romboy,

I read your column of 29 DEC 2003.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,575039935,00.html

Some information that may be of use for you is to follow. This paper is by a local Psychiatrist. “Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership” [JPFO.org] provides her paper at this web address:

http://www.jpfo.org/ragingagainstselfdefense.htm

While ‘Hoplophobia’ is a ‘new’ [at 20+ years] term the syndrome is hardly new - as per Sigmund Freud: "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." ("General Introduction to Psychoanalysis," S. Freud) ” given in [I believe ] 1910 at Princeton. My edition was published in 1970.

In the larger context this Psychological Dysfunction is not the crux of the issue it is a but a sign of a larger war. A war that is a clash of cultures. The “Gun Culture” [thanks to John Ross for that term] is the most visible part of the ‘Responsible Adult Culture’ as the “Anti-rights” groups are the most visible part of the ‘Eternal Adolescent Culture’. The ongoing ‘Range Wars’ [i.e. The Sagebrush Rebellion] are another manifestation - one which no one east of the Rockies has heard of.

Wars and other social disruptions that have fascinated me, not in the dramatic sense [though that has its appeal also], in the sense that most wars seem inexorable in their unfolding. It is as though the designs of men are full of unforeseen and unintended consequences which, caught up in their own passions and indulgences, these designers become oblivious of.

The designs of ‘Statists’ [political manifestation of the Eternal Adolescents... and all people who worship at the alter of the ‘State’] are a outgrowth of their culture. The love of, and dedication to, Freedom & Liberty are the cultural harvest of ‘Libertarians’ [the political manifestation of the Responsible Adults... and our Founding Fathers].

This dichotomy may be a harbinger of civil war. ‘Balkanization’ may be a real consequence of this. Lest this seem like dry hyperbole to you please refer to the map below:

http://www.oakparkgop.org/emap.asp

Now compare this polarization to the socio-economic-historical context of Bosnia and Serbia or the Roman Empire of the 5th Century CE.

Remember, in your analysis, that the ‘red’ areas are the areas where Water, Food, & Energy come from and where people who are used to doing for themselves live [i.e. Responsible Adults - mostly]. The blue areas are full of ‘consumers’ who ‘produce’ nonessential goods and services - people who have chosen to let others take responsibility for their lives and provide for them the basics of life [i.e. Eternal Adolescents - mostly].

The prognosis is quite dramatic and the outcome forgone.

Yours in Freedom, Scott A. Campanaro

Time to weigh in on the ‘same’ sex marriage chaos in California.

I am a Christian and a Libertarian [to be one you actually have to be the other or you will run in circles - as one of your ‘legs’ is not working]. As such I have several questions:

1] Why does the Gov’t have any say in marriage?

Let us try to keep in mind that the original reason for marriage laws were to prevent miscegenation and, now, I don’t think that that is very germane to our culture - and it was never legal.

So why do we need Gov't permission to marry - I will never take out a licenses to exercise a religious activity... ever.

Inside my Faith [the Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints] we only recognize the marrying of Man and Woman... but if two dykes want to exchange vows in the middle of a softball diamond - I could care less... as long as they do not try to coerce my people into false doctrine they are allowed to follow there own path - however much in error that I believe this path may be.

2] Does anyone remember that I opposed Prop. 22 - I felt that it would be ignored by the State and any challenge would put into the Judiciary which would erroneously rule that the 14th amendment meant that ‘gays’ have the ‘right’ to be married in any church they choose to be married in... lest that church that objects be guilty of violating the ‘civil rights’ of these ‘gays’. And through this economic terrorism destroy any faith that will not come into compliance with this Humanist doctrine.

So that is the whole issue - once again the ‘man’ behind the curtain is using sleight of hand to have us focus on a non-issue - and by doing that we miss the real question... why does the Gov’t have any thing to say about who you marry!

Sic Semper Tyrannis - Toto... opps! - SCamp

Here is the first post - Welcome one and all.

The time is now and we are the heros our posterity will sing songs of.

-Scott