Snooze Button Ronin

I don’t know about other Wally Worlds around the country, but here in central Illinois, it is unusual for a Walmart to carry something other than shotgun hunting loads, hunting rifle calibers,  and the occasional FMJ ammo for pistols. In the last year or two, especially since the great ammo rush of 2008-2009, the variety has really risen. .380 Auto FMJ became a regular sight, and astonishingly enough 7.62×39 FMJ started to appear. Usually it’s all Winchester White Box (and occasionally White box hollow-points, but only in .357) or similar fare.

But this! This is unprecedented for this local Walmart. Actual defensive ammo!

The store across town started selling firearms again in the past year or so, too. Not the AR-15s I’ve been hearing about, but it’s still nice to get a nice competitor in the game to keep Gander Mtn and Scheels on their toes. I wonder if they’d do price matching.

I went shooting last Saturday with a 67 year-old lady, her husband, and her 12 year-old grandson. I’ll post up a more in depth report when I’m finished with what I’m supposed to actually be doing today/tomorrow – but while I’m distracted:

G’ma, as she is known to any acquaintance under 40*, hasn’t shot a pistol in a great many years. Even then, most of her shooting experience is with shotguns. Her husband bought her “the cutest little gun” a few weeks back – a pink framed Walther P22.

After a brief overview of the controls, she took aim and fired at the clay target on the berm. She was slightly disappointed – the target didn’t shatter. Then she took a closer look.

Annie Oakley is alive and well.

*I’ve been corrected, everyone calls her G’ma.

Hornady released another promo video today.

I also recieved an email from Midsouth Shooters Supply about pre-ordering.

Some say it’s Hornady is taking the marketing too far or that zombies have become too mainstream. Me? I’ll go in for at least a box.

Also, Horady, way too much yelling.

I found a new blog to read a couple of months ago:

Adaptive Curmudgeon

It’s been several weeks of work and surfing and reading his old posts, but I’m reasonably sure I found him by way of Borepatch.

All of this, however, culminates in that happy and joyous event: the purchase of alcohol.

This post introduced me to a Rum of exquisite character. Without any knowledge of the taste or quality, the sheer fortitude of their advertising required me to procure an introductory supply.

The video is a string of three separate commercials.

Gumption and genius such as this must be encouraged!

Sadly Bundaberg isn’t distributed in these great United States. It is, however sold in jolly-old England.

Building on my scotch-buying experience, I struck gold: the Master of Malt

Two varieties were in stock at the time, the regular and the overproof. I plucked up a bottle of each, along with some interesting scotches to make the shipping worth it ($25 US originally, $30 US with the added goodies).

I must say that I am very satisfied with my purchase. I’m not much of a rum drinker, my limited palate being restricted to the normal Caribbean fare, but I found them both to be very smooth and quite drinkable. The molasses is very distinctive and more caramel is present than Caribbean rum.

I found myself more drawn to the overproof, as the flavor was a bit stronger and the higher alcohol content led the experience into an area closer to my preferred drink, whisky. Both varieties lend themselves well to cigars, and I think I could get used to drinking rum more often.

When the booze budget replenishes itself again, I think I’ll scout around for the Bundaberg Reserve pictured in the commercial.

I’ve been seeing increased amounts of spam and new users with seemingly gibberish names and emails.

I typically find Captcha solutions to be annoying, so I found one that was relatively fast to complete.  I’m only enabling it for the registration and password recovery pages for now.