The other day I ran across a website that would help you keep track of your range outings, such as shots fired, cartridges used, etc. For the life of me, I can't find the link, if I do I'll update this post.
It got me to thinking though about how could I use my programming skills to improve the gun owning community. One of my problems in life is that I have a distinct lack of ability to come up with marketable ideas. I can write the ever lovin' heck out of software, but coming up with ideas that would be a hit is a hit or miss thing for me. Basically, I do not have business acumen worth a shit.
So, I'm trying to think of something that would be very useful for the gun owning community that I could provide. I thought of writing a ballistics calculator app, but that's already widely available (See Joe Huffman's Modern Ballistics for a fine example). Also, there are so many things that simply do not lend themselves well to being web enabled. While you're physically at the range, how useful is a webpage?
I've thought about building some sort of searchable database insofar as being able to search for guns based on their features. Finish, barrel length, caliber, rifling, trigger type, years made, etc. This would be a MASSIVE undertaking, but I could see a commercial opportunity for gun stores to be able to use this remotely to be able to to give end users a much easier and much more comprehensive ability to search their wares.
Any ideas for software that would improve your life as a gunnie? Consider this a brainstorming session – no idea is stupid or too far out there. I just need to get ideas going. Doesn't have to be a money maker though.
Have at it!
Why is it I want both a Smith & Wesson Model 500 and a 50 BMG?
What is it about firearms with exotic, expensive, and recoil-intenseness that appeal to me?
Not too long ago, I was going a little YouTube surfing and ended up on a whole mess of S&W 500 videos that just made me drool. I'm just finishing up a web site design that I can't wait to show the world and I did it via bartering for equipment. I'd do the same for a 50 / 500 too.
Dunno why I enjoy the thought of breaking my wrist / shoulder so much. Just seems like a lot of fun.
Captain Oveur, dead at 83
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A 3D printer. For making prototypes of things that go boom. Well, technically in this case for things that go *fwip*
I love this song
It's my favorite by them.
I saw this the other day over at Walls of the City and absolutely loved the way Linoge put this together
As I write this post, I am sitting within about 25 feet of four separate loaded firearms, each with between six and 30 rounds of ammunition already inserted into them, and magazines full of about another 250 rounds within that same radius. In that same radius, there are also about five gallons of various forms of alcohol, ranging from Two Buck Chuck to sake to a few other things in between. Finally, I live in an apartment complex (at least for the time being), with the resulting thin walls, really-next-door-neighbors, and high population density. In short, I could get up from where I am sitting, get so wasted I could hardly stand, and ruin a lot of peoples’ lives – far more than I could if I did the same at a bar. The same is true for every single other firearm-owner in Tennessee who possesses both loaded firearms and alcohol at their habitations.
As I write this post, I am sitting within about 25 feet of four separate loaded firearms, each with between six and 30 rounds of ammunition already inserted into them, and magazines full of about another 250 rounds within that same radius.
In that same radius, there are also about five gallons of various forms of alcohol, ranging from Two Buck Chuck to sake to a few other things in between.
Finally, I live in an apartment complex (at least for the time being), with the resulting thin walls, really-next-door-neighbors, and high population density.
In short, I could get up from where I am sitting, get so wasted I could hardly stand, and ruin a lot of peoples’ lives – far more than I could if I did the same at a bar. The same is true for every single other firearm-owner in Tennessee who possesses both loaded firearms and alcohol at their habitations.
Here's a quick visual of what he's talking about
There is enough alcohol there to kill a man (and there's more elsewhere, and we're not even people who drink that often). I've got enough firepower to cause Petey Hamm, Paul Helmke, Josh Sugarmann, and Sarah Brady to collectively crap their britches several times over. There is nothing illegal in this picture. There is nothing odd either. I could get all likker'd up, strap on the Glock, shove the KelTec in a pocket, and go waltzing down the road taking pot shots at anything that moved.
But I don't.
And neither does the vast majority of the populace. Here in Florida, it isn't illegal to have a drink while carrying. It's not advised, just like drinking and driving. But just like drinking and driving, having a beer or two doesn't automatically mean you are incapable of operating a vehicle. If it's not a problem here, or in any of the other states where it's allowed, what leg do the anti-gunners have to stand on?
Hit the gun show today. Found Federal Large Pistol Primers, some TiteGroup, and some .380 (reloads, but from a reputable source).
The main gun dealer, Shoot Straight, was trying to sell 1000 primers for $50. Didn't feel like waiting around to tell one of their workers to shove 'em up his boss' ass at that price. Found the Federals for $35 per 1000 which is still a shock to my "I used to get them for $20" system. I bought 2k. Should last a bit over a year or so. Unless somehow I get to the point where I get to start shooting more again.
Didn't look at anything at all 'sides the stuff I bought. Too broke to afford them as it was, looking at all the pretty things that go boom and not being able to take them home is just painful.
I almost didn't recognize him since in this picture he's not crying.
Instead of buying shotguns for the Department of Education, why not just buy Air Soft rifles at a fraction of the cost and then convert them?
All-black penguin discovered
King Penguins are notorious for their prim, tuxedoed appearance -- but a recently discovered all-black penguin seems unafraid to defy convention. In what has been described as a "one in a zillion kind of mutation," biologists say that the animal has lost control of its pigmentation, an occurrence that is extremely rare. Other than the penguin's monochromatic outfit, the animal appears to be perfectly healthy.
I admit I was surprised it wasn't blamed on Global Warming. At least you can get a steep discount on 'em (reference to the joke here)
Hat tip to the notorious racist white guy himself, Say Uncle.