Ooooh, if you live in the L.A. area, mark your calendar for this event tomorrow! Yeah, that’s gonna stir up some stereotypes on both sides.
Ooooh, if you live in the L.A. area, mark your calendar for this event tomorrow! Yeah, that’s gonna stir up some stereotypes on both sides.
Don’t know how anybody shoots with those silly long fingernails… but whatever. 🙂
And yes, this should get a whole bunch of nickers in a wad. Love it.
In the small sample of blogs that I visit, Erin’s coming out (which wasn’t as much of a surprise to me as the beard) didn’t cause much of a wave at all, and I get the impression that most of us were far more open to calling young Manning “Chelsea” than Erin was.
I wonder whether the authoritarians response will be “they’re not real gays if they do that”?
Mama – I wonder whether any are foolish enough to have worn a low cut top to the range?
The sizzle of hot brass between silicone falsies – y’ouch!
I’ve seen it successfully done. (Shooting with long nails, not the rest* of it.) A slightly larger grip helps.
I’ve frequently read LGBT comments saying they are much better received at gun-rights events than gay-rights events. From all accounts when Chris came out it was, “Okay. What gun are you shooting next match?” Apparently the common gay-rights reaction is “security will escort you out the door.”
* Around here I have more openly-gay friends in the little theater group than on the range.
Guns, Gays and Drag Queens, should go hand in hand. It is about freedom. Freedom of choices, freedom of association, freedom to define and defend oneself. In a free society, all of them should be welcome.
“The sizzle of hot brass between silicone falsies – y’ouch!”
ROFLMAO! And double y’ouch! I can’t say what hot brass is like on silicone, but boy, brass in the bra just once is enough to convert any girl to turtlenecks forever!
Keith, I was assuming that these folks had enough sense not to go to the range dressed like that. LOL But yes, if they do… once ought to be a real education. I took a hot brass case down my back once, between my nice high necked shirt and the coat I was wearing. Put a hole in the shirt and a little burn on my back because I couldn’t get the coat off fast enough. Had my gun belted on over the coat. OUCH indeed.
Louis Awerbuck always brings a tube of toothpaste to put on burns that have resulted from hot brass. He says that if put on immediately, no scarring will result. I can’t remember the chemical that works this wonder; I do remember that it’s not in all toothpaste.
Well, this one will go to moderation.)
@Shel, re: toothpaste on burns. I see some people swear by it, though others don’t. I suspect that the apparent value of the tooth paste is a minor cooling effect, along with moisturizing the burn (minor burns only). Pretty much anything with water will do that.
Personally, my preferred burn first aid is cold water or even ice to draw out heat (with a good burn, your flesh will continue to cook until the temperature falls below the threshold). Don’t leave ice on though, or you risk — ironically — frostbite as well. [grin] After that, I go with a moisturizing analgesic cream or gel.
My last serious burn (damned cat) — some charred skin, blisters, more skin sloughing off, whee! — got the cold water treatment, followed up with a disinfecting spray, then loose bandages that kept dirt out and anything from touching the damaged area. Guess it worked, because I can’t even see a scar there now.
Bear, I asked one of the class coordinators about the toothpaste; all he remembered was that Crest or Colgate would work. I went to the websites and discovered Crest has 33 different kinds of toothpaste and Colgate has 14. On neither site do they list the ingredients. I thought your information was very good, thanks. I do know that if Louis says something works, it works. He told a story that he had a student who was a SWAT team member who didn’t tell him he was experiencing brass burns. As a result, Louis had to fill out a lot of paperwork explaining why the student subsequently missed ten days of duty.
My cat, who I met in my driveway one evening, never caused a burn. His habit was that he would pee on the bed at night. This, as you might imagine, resulted in a serious relationship problem and to his regret he became an outside cat. After I brought a dog in he disappeared, likely to the great catnip patch in the sky.