Range Day Tomorrow

My brother and sister-in-law, my niece and her husband will all be my guests at my club range tomorrow morning. They will all have to fill out waivers first and I need to put them on file. I will then review The Four Rules of Gun Safety (I literally beat these into people's heads) and the club range rules and procedures. I facilitated the gun purchase for my brother of a brand new S & W "Victory" in .22LR that another friend was looking to unload so I know he'll be shooting that. I'm not sure what else they will bring. For me, I think I will just bring my PCC-9 and G-17. That way I can also act as R.S.O. while everyone else is shooting.

Hmmmm....

Recently, my blog has become very popular according to the stats. Because I have the "Sensitive Content" warning turned on requiring Goolag login and interaction to say they wish to continue, these are not simple bot hits or crawler activity. In fact Goolag, Duck-Duck-Go, Bing, Yahoo!, etc. none of the search engines find my blog directly by entering "75 Million Pissed Off Patriots", only the references to it from other bloggers. I have everything turned on for search allowances in the blog settings. Even when I search "75mpop" it comes up with my X profile, but not this blog. Yet the majority of referrals come from Goolag? The Goolag analytics show ZERO activity for the past 3 months. Weirdness I don't understand.

So if you are visiting my blog, please drop a comment. My brain is starved for the dopamine hit that comes from interaction on my ramblings. I am coming up on 3K followers on X so I do get quite a bit of activity there. Of course my hate speech (there is no such thing) earns me regular stints in X Jail, just like Otis the drunk on the old Andy Griffith Show.

GoPro Video

From my Patriot Guard mission to Cape Cod on Tuesday September 9th. I recorded every minute of the ride out and back. I only saved a couple of videos. The first one is the ride to and over the Bourne Bridge ending at Cape Cod Harley Davidson. The second one is the PGR ride from Cape Cod Harley Davidson to the National Cemetery in Bourne, MA. 

Both videos have been cropped at either the beginning or end to only show the best parts.

 

 

The cemetery is actually part of the National Cemetery system like Arlington and is very beautiful. It is located on the unsecured portion of Joint Base Cape Cod (formerly known as Otis AFB and Camp Edwards). That place is kinda special to me for a couple of reasons. I was at Camp Edwards a couple of times on maneuvers with my Army Reserve unit in the early 1980's. My dearly departed neighbor and "Pepere'" Andy Darico that served in WWII was stationed there in 1941 at age 26 when he was already in the Army. He was home for the weekend enjoying Sunday dinner with his family on December 7th when the phone rang. It was his buddy that drove home with him, telling him they had to return to Camp Edwards immediately because there was an attack on Pearl Harbor. Andy did not see his family again for 5 years. While his obituary lists his service battling Rommel in North Africa, he then landed in his family homeland of Italy to chase the Nazi's out of there and then in Germany until the end of the war. Below is a photo of him from 4/21/2002 with the last new car he bought, his 1951 Ford Victoria. He is still missed and spoken about by those who knew him.

 

 

Now You Know

If you weren't paying attention before you'd better be now. You should now know exactly what they think of you and are willing to do to YOU because of your political views. Think you're safe because you're not in the public eye like Charlie Kirk was? Think again. Voter records are public information. They list party affiliation and whether the voter record is active. All the deranged lefty loons have to do is look you up, see your party affiliation does not align with theirs, and if the voter record shows active, can easily assume the person voted in the last election and assume how they voted. Bingo... you are now a target.

Therefore, stay strapped, vigilant, and situationally aware at all times, even in your own home.

 

And if the need arises, respond accordingly and without hesitation.

These loons need to learn first hand the bible passage from The Book of Exodus Chapter 21: 23-25

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

 

And the way I see it, they owe us our due. 

GoPro All Set and Tested

Tomorrow is the inaugural ride to test the camera while riding to see how steady it is and make sure I have it aimed properly. Probably go out for an hour or so. All this effort is because of my close call last Tuesday the 2nd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a windshield clamp mounted down low so it shouldn't get a lot of vibration, doesn't interfere with driving or controls, and is mostly out of my field of view. I did not want to use the stick on mounts and wreck the paint. It took an assortment of mounting arms and a 360 degree ball swivel to get it aimed and level. In the trunk are two spare batteries, the charger, necessary cables, and the waterproof back cover in case of foul weather. The standard back cover captures sound better, whereas the waterproof cover muffles it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The gray disk on the inside of the windshield is a GoPro tether so in the event something lets go, I don't lose my camera and mount. I also shot a test video walking though the house to make sure I can play them back on my laptop OK. Works great. I have a USB connected adapter for all different size media cards and that worked fine too. The GoPro has a 64GB micro SD card for storage.

Once a year I make the trek out to Cape Cod with the MA Patriot Guard to perform a funeral flag line at the National Cemetery in Bourne, and that will be later this week. The GoPro will be used all the way out and all the way back. We meet at Cape Cod Harley Davidson which is a short ride to the cemetery. It takes me the better part of two hours to get to the Bourne Bridge but on a weekday traffic is non-existent. I head to Providence and jump on I-195 east through Fall River and New Bedford to I-495/RT. 25 to RT. 28. There are no graveside services, they all take place in chapels and are strictly scheduled so there is no dilly-dallying around a grave. The deceased are interred after the family leaves.

I don't plan on saving videos of all my rides. But if something bad happens I will have video. If there are items of interest I may edit them out into a smaller video or save some still pictures.