Guns & Ammo (not the magazine)

I have a bone to pick with current gun/ammo industry and our government. No question about it the .22 LR and the 9mm Luger are the most popular rimfire and handgun cartridge in America, respectively.

.22 LR is a great cartridge for not only squirrel/rabbit hunting, but plinking around also. You can you buy a wide array of .22 LR pistols, you can also get conversion kits for pistols to shoot these rounds for practice in higher caliber pistols. .22 LR are cheap rounds, you can buy boxes of 10-550+. The Ruger 10/22 is the most popular rifle currently manufactured, chambered in a .22 LR.


The 9mm Luger (Parabellum) is a great cartridge, law enforcement even uses it. It's also a great home-defense round for pistols. It is cheaper than your bigger calibers and doesn't break the bank to even target shoot with. This caliber is being offered in more and more pistols. It is even available in a once .45ACP only model, the famous 1911.

Try to find a box of either cartridge of ammo today...you'll be surprised what you find out. What was once a "redneck" store, Wal-Mart no longer has any ammo selection except for a handful of rifle cartridges and revolver rounds. Cabela's, "World's Foremost Outfitter", only has a box or two of either at any given time. Bass Pro Shops are the same way. Reason for this:

1. Simple economics: supply and demand. Consumers believe that ammo will be scarce and more expensive in the future...so they're buying it up as it hits the shelves now. Due to the current political control being 2/3 democratic, 2nd amendment supporters are running scared. Manufacturers are getting behind in making, distributors are getting behind in shipping, its a domino effect.

2. Future ammo regulations: Obama has in the midst a plan to serialize all ammo in certain states. This means putting a serial number on bullet and bullet casing. At which point the gov't could track who bought how much ammo and of what kind...also driving prices up close to $.50/shell on all ammunition. For ammunition like the previously mentioned, this would create a drastic increase in shooters costs. Aren't shooting sports expensive enough?

Gun prices have increased like crazy since November 2008. AR-15 style rifles were/are extremely popular. After the election results were announced, AR-15 style rifles were bought up like crazy. People started ordering them in fear of another Assault Weapons Ban. I personally have ordered this style rifle (direct from the manufacturer) and the wait for them will be 4-8 months, not to mention the wait if you order through a gun shop, which goes through distributors...

I recently placed an order for 9mm and .45ACP rounds. They are back ordered and I don't know how long it will take to get those in.

I'm just irritated at this current market and don't even get me started on the economy....

I'd like to hear your thoughts!!!!

A little Inspiration for you

As you all know, I am an active member of the JES PTO. We have been working hard at our fundraiser, Walk-a-thon, which took place last Saturday and was an overall success....plans to do the walk-a-thon are in the midst for next year. Next order of business for the JES PTO is celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week. We plan on using motivational/inspirational quotes to inspire the teachers. After doing research for these quotes I have found a few I would like to share to inspire my reader(s)...haha.


Both enthusiasm and pessimism
are contagious.
Which one do you spread?"
W. A. Ward

"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." - Josef Albers

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates

"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns" - Rita Dunn

"If what you're doing isn't working, try something else!" - NLP adage

"I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different." - Oscar Wilde

"I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son." - Thomas Wolfe

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." - J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers" - Richard Bach

"Men learn while they teach." - Lucius A. Seneca

"No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education." - John Carolus S. J.

"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives." - Thomas Mann

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity." - Samuel Johnson

There are plenty more where these came from....

Recent Idea for Reality Show

You can't choose your in-laws like you do your spouse, but I'd like to see a reality show that you pick the in-laws based on interviews and eliminations and then the spouse comes with the end choice: Monday nights on ABC this fall after Wife/Swap and SuperNanny. Just a thought. I'm calling ABC tonight......

Finding Motivation in a Milk Duds box

Today has been a fight to find motivation to do anything: laundry, dishes, showering, starting this blog, etc...Although these duties need accomplished regardless of my motivation level, I still procrastinate until additional tasks pile up (as I type). With frustration increasing, I enlist my 3.5 year old slave to help me: getting me a Coke out of the fridge, answering the phone, even putting laundry in the dryer. All this at the cost of a Milk Dud (actually the remainder of a box of Milk Duds I have been popping away at all afternoon). Now I am "motivated" to see what Colton will do when he gets home...with a little bribery of course.