Firing the Shot

(Part four of a nine part series, courtesy of Fred’s M14 Stocks) Congratulations. If you’re still with us, you’ve taken an important first step – a baby step, but a vital step nonetheless — towards becoming a Rifleman. Persistence, even from behind that computer monitor, is one of the very few absolutely indispensable abilities that…

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Learning to Shoot

(Part three of a nine part series, courtesy of Fred’s M14 Stocks) Okay, you know what the important issues are – freedom, and its protection against growing encroachment from the Left in this country. You know that your task is to wake up those sleeping frogs around you, as they slowly poach in the water…

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Starting Out

(Part one of a nine part series, courtesy of Fred’s M14 Stocks) We begin today our series on becoming a Rifleman: Every new year, it’s time to take stock, and time to make resolutions. To resolve to do important things you need to do. But how do you know what you need to be doing?…

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Smoking Gunpowder – April 10, 2010

April 10 was Smoking Gunpowder Day out on the 30 acres, where the only other sounds to be heard were birds chirping and the wind rustling through the leaves.  The original plan was for a few more guys to be out with us, but due to family and other obligations, only five of us were…

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Texas sheriff to border farmers: ‘Arm yourselves’

You farmers, I’m telling you right now, arm yourselves. As they say the old story is, it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. Damn it, I don’t want to see six people carrying you. Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West I wholeheartedly agree with the Sherrff’s statement. Things have gotten bad around…

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