JimmyZip

Is this a holster you have used and how would you rate it? Could I run without sending the pistol on a trip of its own? You guys have not steered me wrong before, just wonder if there was any learning curve involved. Thanks, JZ

I searched for the DOH and all I could find was a device that goes on your belt that you attach holsters to . I don't see how that will help me as it seems BladeTech does not make a HiPower holster. Am I missing something? Please educate the unlearned

Well we shot IPSC at the range today and I wasn't totally upset at my performance. Practice does help, I need to do more. What I did have trouble with was mags falling out of my pouch during a COF. I sprinted to engage an array of six, ran to engage another three, reached for a mag and nothing was there. Pulled my barney out of my cargo shorts and finished. Who makes decent mag holders for HiPowers? I am currently shooting limited 10 minor. I would like something that will not need to be replaced as I get better. Also, who makes a good race holster for the HiPower? I am using a copy of an Ernie Hill. I like good retention and I use a CR Speed belt. Thanks JZ

Feeling your pain! But I will invite them back, just not serve steaks. You can't put sauce on soup or pasta! Or invite them to eat and serve hot dogs and burgers. If they like that, you know you won't be expected to put on the steaks and you can save them for those friends that appreciate them.

Tell you someone else who I am feeling for, the little sisters and brothers of those kids having babies. I have a sister four years my senior growing up. She got pregnant and had a kid at sixteen and again at eighteen. Before the babies we were six living in a small three room one bath, no A/C in the desert near where I live now. It was tough having to try and grow up in a small place with two nephews. With both my parents working, very often, my other sister and I would be watching our nephews after school and on weekends. I will tell you that I grew up in a very religious home. It would seem some of us listened when told about what could happen as a result of certain behavior and some of us weren't. Not all parents are neglectful by nature, some are just not as good as others. I know our parents loved us, they just seemed to make bad decisions that had negative effects on our financial and familial lives. This will effect them for the rest of their lives and I can assure you that will not really sink in for most of them for years. I think I realized it even before my sister did and she had the kids! It wasn't until we had all moved away and she was forced to make it on her own with her children that she got her life together. ON A POSITIVE NOTE, she is doing well and is married with other children grown and out of the house. While not my favorite person, she is a decent parent and has a decent husband too. So while this is not a good thing, I hope these girls do at least as well as my sister, and that their siblings take it better than I did. I still have trouble being forgiving about it.

Like the Kershaw that my Dad gives me every other year. He gets them from the factory at their annual sale. Says, "Son, if you don't need it give it to a friend" Now all my close friends have one also. It has a spring loaded type blade that is so near a switchblade but not quite. I still have three, two new one almost ready for the trash heap. Use them alot at work, probably for more than their designed but I get two or three good years out of them.

LittleE, Thanks and I can sincerely say the same to you. I hope to come out to Yuma when I get a chance. ( Hopefully before the years end.) You are right, that squad was good. But I learned some good things about managing your match. You need to bring a chair and your own drinks. Also, don't wear your floppy hat during a stage when the wind is blowing! (Might cover your eyes when you least expect it! ) I just got home from riding and need to get some sleep. Oncew again nice to meet and shoot with you, tell Jaime I said the same. JZ

Jim, Over at our home range we have Iguanas that have found the range free of predators so that they flourish handily. They are large white and beautiful. They even do their mating rituals on the berms in the late spring. It always cracks a few of us up. Seems a lizard has to do alot of fighting and posturing to get a date. I guess that's not so diffeent from us JZ

My Father tells a story once in a while of he and his friend on the train in Switzerland with a gentleman and his MACHINE GUN! When asked where he was going with it, he said he was taking it to a gunsmith and that all men of a certain age were required to have military training and to posess their issued weapons at home. Imagine if we were also required to do the same. I sure do miss that M-60 I used to hump up and down hills all the time..........NOT! JZ

Shock to hear on my way home tonight. I'm going to miss Tim asking the tough questions in his straightforward no B.S. sot of way. Not your typical jounalist today. Rest in Peace Mr. Russert.

ChuckS WHERE WERE YOU? Well I went and had a great time. I didn't shoot well but I had a great time. I just wanted to say thanks to all who made my Friday fun and fed me very well in the process. Jojo V and Dennis Cruz, Ed Benedetto, Eva Subido, Jaime Almazan, Henry Toribio, and Steve from Fullerton. ( I'm sorry I don't know your last name yet.) That was a blast. I hope to see you all at another shoot and wish you the best until then. Nice to meet youEd. You are a class act. It was sure fun to see you all having as much fun as I was and the ribbing going on at that match was hilarious! I got laughed at for my procedural and even I laughed Met people, got good tips, found a new place to shoot, and did it all on a Friday.(Meaning while many were working, we were shooting!) And if any of you go out to Norco to shoot, get the pig on a stick early, cause that guy runs out early.( Grilled meat and shooting, was I in heaven?) Thanks, JZ P.S. I will be there next year! Happy Philippine Independence Day(Belated)

Bob, I know where that place is! I will have to hit that place when I finally get off my a$$ and drive over the hill to shoot Pala. Nemo, I've got it bad for bugers too! Got a minor fix today as my body was asking for real food. Took the kids to Isalnds and got their new sliders. Good, not great, but good.

Have to agree with you there! That is where I want to retire, somewhere near Flag or the Grand Canyon! Beautiful AND gun friendly!

Congratulations! But, what are you gonna change your tag line to?

We pray for you and your people Doug. Been flooded out before, not a good thing about it that I can recall. Please be careful. JZ, and Family

Thanks, Talked to the wife and if I can get a sitter I will be there. And I will hit Portillos in Moreno Valley on the way home. What I call a win-win!

Guess what I'm really after is if there will be a qualifier. Sounds great anyway, but just wondering.

ChuckS, You are THE MAN! I will hit that place this weekend! Think I'll call them tomorrow and get directions from the 60. Thanks! JZ

The one thing I have going for me is that she doesn't know one from the other. She rarely even wonders where they came from. I guess that is the lovely state of denial in my marriage. Don't ask about the guns, I won't ask about the shoes!

Is this a USPSA match? Is there a limit to the number of shooters or can I just show up? Thanks JZ

Should this be moved to Humor? Maybe if it wasn't so accurate.

ChuckS, If I ever get back to Chicago, I WILL get the Italian beef with peppers! I would have to say that the variety and quality of just about all the food I had while in Chicago( '96) was way above board. As a mater of fact, that is my favorite food city. While there my boss and I ( we were doing an installation of very high-end furniture and cabinets in a multi mil. house) had a car and food expense account of $200 a day each. I think that was the summer I first gained weight EVER! Even though I am from CA, the best sushi I ever had was in Chicago. Great Italian, steaks, whatever! Boy I hadn't thought about that in so long. Funny thing is I think that while I was in Chicago I didn't eat one burger. But boy did I eat alot of everything else! Still though, when I feel good, I'm gonna get me a burger with onion rings and a shake!

Yeah we do have some good ones in SoCal. In-N-Out for sure but I remember Knowlwoods as being a favorite of mine. Every time we played away H20 Polo games in Mission Viejo we would stop there to eat on the way home. Grilla Burger is great but well over my pricerange. I have trouble paying $8.50 for your basic burger. Well, home sick so I think I'll go dryfire, and dream of BURGERS!

The baby was sick for a couple of days and liked it so much that she decided to share . Oh Joy! (As Grandma used to say.) So after a night of worshiping the porcelain goddess, I was dozing and dreaming of what I would eat as soon as I am able. Hamburgers! I LOVE THEM! So what say you of the Benosphere? What is your favorite and why? I prefer homemade but find few that I dislike. It seems to be varying degrees of like between burgers and I. JZ

Feliz cumpleanos! JZ