Spirits Review #23: Grand Imperial - Orange Liqueur!



Bottom Line: Strong alcohol burn on the nose followed by orange. Plenty of sweet orange flavor accompanied by very strong alcohol burn! Ice improves it a little bit. 1.5 thumbs up!

Terry

On Monday this week I had the pleasure of being the recipient of a 1 man CQB / Active Shooter Response course. Some may remember from my posting on the Armory, that last spring after the Nashville school shooting, my kid's school decided it needed security - and I became the security department for the school, all one of me.

A concerned parent who is law enforcement brought up the issue that I've never received formal active shooter response - and he was right, and it's something I've wanted to do, but typically those courses have been LE only. I'd reached out to some trainers who said they wouldn't train a security monkey (my term) - but found a local training outfit run by a Houston cop that said yes. So two HPD officers, one who spent time on the SWAT team, gave me 8 hours of private instruction. It was a good course, eye opening to some things, and I walked away wanting to do it again - just need to figure out finances (meaning getting the school to give me a training budget if possible, because training ain't cheap!)

During the course, I ran Glock simunition guns. The instructor brought three, which was good because we had failures with a couple. That gave me the opportunity to run two different sights - two different versions of sights I already own, those being the Holosun 507K, and the 509.  Right now I currently own a 507K, 509T, and EPS - all red, all multireticle versions.  The sights I got to use on his guns were a 507K in green, and a 509 Primary Arms edition with ACSS reticle.

I am frickin in love with the ACSS chevron. Did not use the huge training wheels ring, just the chevron. I loved it - so much easier for my eyes to acquire, and it doesn't seem to get in the way or draw the same attention as the circle reticles do, and it doesn't star burst with my astigmatic eyes like a dot-only does. When I did my part and applied good fundamentals of marksmanship - my hits were fast and accurate.

When that gun went down, I wound up running the green 507K - I've preferred green before on rifle dots, but that was before I moved to such a lush green property (going from Oregon to Texas, and finding the greens here more plentiful and vibrant was cool) I got away from green, because it disappeared.  What I found in the training scenarios was that I didn't visually process green nearly as easy as I did red against a human target - so I'm going to stick with red from now on.

I'm about to the point that I might put a couple of my sights up for sale, to fund the 509 ACSS to stick on my duty gun. It was simply that much more superior to the standard versions for me.

What do we think of this load?



I have some 115 gr XTP’s and some PowerPistol and I’d like a good, hot load. Obviously, I’ll start lower and work up. Also, it’s got to be accurate enough. But I’d work toward this 1200 fps load. Thoughts?

Spirits Review #22: Sir Edward's - Finest Blended Scotch Whisky!



Bottom Line: Sweet fruitiness on the nose with very light alcohol note. The oak note came after we put it on ice. Sweet apricot note up front with very mild burn. 4 enthusiastic thumbs up!

Terry

Spirits Review #21: Fennellys- Mint Chocolate Cream Liqueur!



Bottom Line:  Smells like a Peppermint Patty! Creamy mint up forward followed by chocolate. Very little alcohol burn. Pairs extremely well with coffee! 4 Enthusiastic thumbs up!

Terry

[FPC News] FPC WIN: Federal Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order Enjoining New M

<p><strong>ALBUQUERQUE, NM</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">September 13,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 2023) – Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today that United States District Court Judge David Urias has issued a temporary restraining order against New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive order banning firearm carry in Bernalillo County and Albuquerque. The order in </span><a href="https://www.firearmspolicy.org/grisham"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fort v. Grisham</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which Judge Urias said will be issued either this afternoon or tomorrow, will be viewable at </span><a href="http://fpclegal.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FPCLaw.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>


http://www.firearmspolicy.org/federal-ju...-carry-ban

Came back from a weekend of archery elk hunting and I saw this magnificent bastard in the display case and had to have it.  Got it kitted out with a fde TLR1 HL so it can okay 50 shades of FDE (an FN tradition) and a Holosun 508T with green reticle they also had in stock.  22+1 rounds of 10mm is indeed glorious to behold. 


I ran about 200 rounds of hit underwood through it and it works flawlessly so far, and is a real pleasure to shoot.  Now it can be my cat/bear/wolf gun and my big boat of a Glock 40 MOS can take a break.



My favorite local custom holster maker (KT-Mech) got me a holster made in one day, which is awesome.  Went with a camo fabric wrap to mostly match my hunting camp on the outside and black felt lining on the inside with this one.

BREAKING NEWS: Gun Owners of America Secures Temporary Restraining Order Against New Mexico Governor



Terry