Starvin Larry

“All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes—all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers.”— Rod Serling,Deaths-Head Revisited

In the politically charged, polarizing tug-of-war that is the debate over COVID-19, we find ourselves buffeted by fear over a viral pandemic that continues to wreak havoc with lives and the economy, threats of vaccine mandates and financial penalties for noncompliance, and discord over how to legislate the public good without sacrificing individual liberty.

The discord is getting more discordant by the day.

Just recently, for…

The following is a post I copied with permission from a discussion over at the Brushbeater Forum. I thought the author made a lot of good points and they seemed to reflect my own observations I wrote about recently.

What makes a rifle practical and well suited to the tasks you envision for it?

When cogitating on what platform, caliber, optics, etc. one should pursue when attempting to put together a capable, versatile rifle covering a variety of roles – as always, “it depends” is the answer.

For example, from a quantitative analysis perspective, a test with all things being equal will show that a semi auto will be faster for follow ups shots than a bolt gun shooting the same cartridge.

That said, how much faster? Does it make any practical difference? At the cost of what other aspects? These are really the…

The following was an email I received from a student, and as I was trying to answer it I had a lot of thoughts I wanted to convey so I figured it would be a good article.

Hi, I’m wondering if you would allow a bolt action rifle for the fieldcraft course. I have a Bergara B14 HMR in .308 that accepts 10 round mags.
The only self loading rifle I have that’s capable of 500yds is a Springfield M1A but the best accuracy I’ve gotten out of it is about 2 moa. Please let me know if either of these options would be acceptable for the course. Thank you.

To answer your question: yes, either rifle is appropriate and of course they are allowed (I’m a modern man, I’m not riflephobic after all). The Fieldcraft Course is a class that teaches skills that apply to anyone in the outdoors…

By John Cylc

January 14, 2022

President Joe Biden gave a fiery speech in Georgia on January 11^th, 2021. He declared that those who oppose the Freedom to Vote Act must support Jim Crow laws, George Wallace, and Jefferson Davis. I neither support any of those people, nor the Right to Vote Act. I support our Constitution. I support conservatism, especially when it comes to limiting government powers, size, and spending. I consider myself a patriot. In the minds of leftists like Biden, that alone makes me a racist. Maybe he is right, and I just never understood what that word means?

If opposing the Federal Government taking over the Constitutionally defined right of states to conduct elections is racist, then I am a racist.

If calling for laws establishing that ONLY United States citizens can vote in elections, even local elections, is racist, then I am…