If you have ever worked in a gun shop

Then you will have to identify with this comic strip.

I started in 1972, at 11 years old, sweeping one out in trade for AA 12 gauge hulls to reload.

Been in one from there on most of my life since.

This guy hit's the nail on the head until we get into the "Rom Com", but hopefully, he will have more of the shop in the future.

http://ftf-comics.com/?comic=so-it-begins

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TimDum Style Gunfighting, Advanced Class

I want to welcome all my returning students.

It gladdens my heart to see all the bright and shiny faces all in their places!

Tonight's class will be on Advanced gunfighting skills.

I have sat through many, many 

( lets just say a ungodly amount)

of hours in classrooms and under hot tin range roofs to garner this knowledge.

It should take you .....about 5 minutes tonight.

Everyone ready? Pencils up, have you gone to the potty?

Great, let's get going.

Step 1; Cover and Concealment

This is a form of concealment, they cant see you, but they can shoot you

another form

 

This is cover, it can't be shot through.

(unless they have a very big gun)

Stay behind cover when you can.

Step 2; Drawing from a holster.

Buy a holster, put gun in it, take it out.

 Enough said.

Now we move on the some very advanced shooting, in most classes, you would have to be on your third course or so and be 1500.00 or more into ammo and course costs.

(Look at all the money I am saving you!)

The Double Tap

( now days, this was not a superninjaHSLDTOTS enough name, so it is now called the controlled pair)

(Not to be confused with the holster picture in step 2)

Draw gun from holster, point open end at bad guy,

 pull trigger twice.

If you really want to be an "operator" you can try the very super advanced,

HAMMER

(Not this guy)

 

Stay with me here, this one is hard.

Draw gun from holster, point at bad guy, pull trigger two times, real fast.

Have you been able to process all that so far?

Just one more thing to go over

Reloading your gun

Are you ready, it's hard to grasp all at once

OK, here we go,,,

When your gun is out of bullets, put more in.

I know this was a lot to cover on one class, but you were up to it.

Congratulations, you my now shift the tassels to the other side of your tactical beret.

You are now a High speed, Low Drag Tactical Operator, you are the Tip of the Spear, 

the Sharpened Edge of the Sword and all that other crap.

You may now wear a ball cap with velcro and those 500.00 pullovers made of fleece 

and the real cool sunglasses.

 Next Week

Super advanced knife fighting

You must bring a note from your congressman and a letter from the local preist stating that you have never been convected of moral turpitude or mopey to take this class.

The owners and instructors of this website are not responsible for any accidents, loss of limbs or other body parts,  loss of appetite,  increased weight gain, 

blue vision or dreams of my pretty ponies.

If you find yourself shooting for more than 4 hours, consult your local gun shop.

 

 

Till Tomorrow

Stay Thirsty my Friends.

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Security and the internet

Security for your toys and other things in life

We all can't have a super hero hanging around the house, so we need to watch out for ourselves.

I have been perusing the internet the past few days, reading lots of Gun forums and
have noticed some things I wanted to talk about.

It seems like we all  love to show off our collections online.

Over the last couple days I have viewed some incredible collections of
 Firearms, High end collectible knives and airsoft guns.

They are all on open forums, hooked to a screen name.

That screen name nine times out of ten has a profile connected to it with the hometown of the poster.

Sometimes even the persons real name is also available.

Now lets say you post up a collection of Vrosapale pistols, you are very proud that you have scoured the world to find all models of this unique piece.

A few weeks later you post that you are on your way to the Vrosapale collectors convention half way across the county and you will be off the forums for 5 days.
You revel in your Twitter updates about your most recent find at the show, or what a jerk that last guy you dealt with was.

What have you just done?

Have you just told someone that you have valuable items and you will be gone from .to.?

What do you think?

I know you have a gun safe, but don't you think in two days time someone can't get into it, most of the time using tools from your own shop?

What about the other things showing in the pictures, computer systems, flat screens and all the cool movie collectibles in your "man room"?

Do you think bad people don't read Glocktalk, AR15.com or ASR?

I bring this up because years (way too many) ago I was doing the gun show circuit in FL, 51 weekends a year, driving from one end of the state to another, setting up on on Fri, break down and home Sun night.

We had a time when a small group would come to the show on Sunday, tag a dealer that had a nice display and then wait around till close down and loadout and follow him home.
Sometimes they hit as soon as the dealer got home or to his shop, sometimes waiting till the next day if it was a collector who worked during the week.

One dealer got killed and a few got hurt and they didn't stop until they screwed up and  got caught.

Now it's 2013, we have Google maps, Google name search, find anyone for 8 dollars and tons of other neat ways to locate an address.

Am I too paranoid? (can you be today?)

I learned to keep every thing collectible or rare at an off-site storage location. That and insurance keeps it away from myself and loved ones

.

It does suck that we can no longer have the "Trophy" rooms of yesteryear.

(even if you never have posted a picture, how about the bug guy, meter reader, the guy who trims your trees.

Do you think they might have looked in the window and passed on how cool your cave was?)

From AOL article, 

 Some insurance companies are catching on. Legal & General Insurance in New England says Facebook and Twitter users could be hit with higher homeowner's insurance premiums. Why? All that blabbing about activities away from home means they face a higher risk of burglary.

The company thinks burglars are actually "shopping" for victims on social media sites, looking not only for an indication you're not at home, but also photos of your home and valuables. That cute picture of your son hugging the dog? A burglar is looking in the background, eyeing your big-screen TV and new stereo system.

And it's not just adults. Teenagers are even more likely to post personal information, so Legal & General has warned that parents who aren't even online themselves could face higher homeowner's insurance premiums if their children are online.

So, a month after I post, others catch on, welcome to the party, Pal 

Even though I have a overlapping video system with my next door neighbors, a alarm system, Two big dogs and a neighbor on one side who's a Reserve police officer and has a home office where he works that overlooks my house and on the other side is a just retired Navy DEVGRP 20 year man who has nothing better to do than sit on his back porch and shoot guns most of the day (and night, for the past damn week!)

 I still want to keep the good stuff locked up.

I hate that when I want to review a gun or get ready to go to a gun match or a airsoft game that I have to lay in another 40 mins to go by and pick up what I need, but I would hate to have a shootout at my house or even worse  to come home and find what I had worked 40 years for ransacked and off at some pawn shop.

My stuff is pretty safe and yes, I have gone overboard but it gives me piece of mind that I have done all I can, if I get hit now, that's what insurance is for.

Just some random thoughts that came into my head and I wanted to share them, and because I am old and it's my Blog, I did, Nah nah neey po po

I am losing it

Please share your thoughts on this in the comments.

See you tomorrow

Till then, Check 6

This was originally posted on my airsoft blog a few years ago, I have seen so many pictures on facebook the last few days of gun collections I though it needed to be said again.

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WWWWH

I am the old guy, on the left

Lets start this blog with a little history.

Who am I

My name is Ellwood, Tim Ellwood,

born in AZ back in the good old days, when tumbleweeds blew done the streets and real men wore real steel on their hips.

I started working in a gun shop very early, sweeping the floor in trade for AA shotgun hulls to reload.

I moved to Orlando at age 16 or so, misspent my youth in gun shops and shooting, stint in the Coast Guard, worked for Orange county, Malibu Grand Prix, Barrets guns, strike Force and Magnum Guns (in Orlando) and others, got into airsoft by way of a phone call in 1986.

I was working in a gun shop in Orlando and spending way to much of my money on guns.

I had bought a Tokyo Mauri spring gun from a company up in the panhandle of Fl, talking with the owner brought forth he was looking for a partner in crime, so I moved to Crestview Fl and embarked on the start of my airsoft career. The Command Post was the 1st airsoft/paintball gun and accessory catalog in the US. We carried all the top makes, Splatmaster, Nelson and Brass eagle, that was about it for paintball back then. We were the exclusive distributors in the US for the Para Ordnance model 85, yes Para started life as a paintball gun manufacture!

SHOT show 87 found us in New Orleans, trying to explain what these weird looking guns were, and on the airsoft side, fielding comments like " Hell son, I could buy a real gun for that"

I traveled the country promoting paintball and had a lot of fun. I was also the back cover "boy" on the 1st few issues of Action Pursuit Games magazine and ads in SOF and the like.

So, if you hate airsoft, blame me. It's all my fault  

( Plus I am all that's left, The person that started Command post died in a plane crash a few years back)

In late 1988 I left the company to pursue matters in the "real steel" market place.

I have been involved in the Central FL scene of IPSC, IDPA and the CAS sports, got into them all early 

( I am a big 1st adopter)

I have had a gun shop, managed a police supply company, was sales manager for a major firearms and accessorizes distributor, ran the Smith and Wesson store in Orlando and then moved to NC to take over the SE regional sales manager position for S&W to cover NC, VA and eastern TN.

After the mass layoffs at S&W, that I got caught in, I manged a gun/LE supply shop in Greensboro for a while, tried to own my own used book store, I then embarked on a quest to provide a affordable video camera that could be mounted on a firearm to the LE community.

Working for Pacific Concepts, after a year in RD we brought to market the Advanced Tactical Camera. Sold by US Calvary and other retailers, it enjoyed a minor success.

After parting ways with Pacific I got very lucky to meet the owners of a company that is on the cutting edge of flashlights and lighting solutions for LE/Mil and firefighters.

They brought me on board as their LE/Mil sales manager and I have been a very happy camper ever since!

So, that's me in a nutshell

What will this blog be about?

Random acts of guns, flashlights, knives and a random female or two, as it relates to the AARP crowd.

When will I post?

When ever I have something worthwhile to say, or when I just want to ramble, hey, it's my blog!

Where will the info come from?

My many minions will fan out from my fortress here in Skull Island NC and call in news, tips and other assorted intelligence, most of it gleamed in death defying ways! I will leave no stone unturned to bring you the hottest news from the fast breaking world of the shooting sports ( not really, I will just pass on crap I find on the web, from phone calls and trade shows)

How can you do all this and still have a life?

To be honest, I am just that good!!!!!

Stay tuned for many thrilling adventures, gun reviews and other crazy stuff, or just a lot of boring crap, depends on how you look at it.

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Thanks for coming, when the car stops, step off to the left.