Elena looked sheepish this week. And was trying not to scuff her toes and change the subject ( Read more... )

( The fog was getting to Elena )

Okay, so Elena was late. And hadn't thought up a topic for this week. So, she was just going to go with it ( Read more... )

"Okay," Elena said, grinning. "This week, we're showing off our pretties. I sent a handwavey e-mail out, so I hope everyone got it? If not, take five and go get your guns out of storage. We're doing show-and-tell here. Which gun is your favorite? What are its advantages and disadvantages? Who would you recommend it for? What situations would you ( Read more... )

"Welcome back," Elena said. "I hope no one showed up last week, because I was in the Bahamas and I kind of figured everyone else was, too."

And if not, hopefully they enjoyed themselves sticking around here.

( Safety Info )

"Welcome," Elena said, nodding to everyone. She had no idea what, exactly, she was supposed to do, but "winging it" seemed to be a good option ( Read more... )

Most of the time Triela found spending time on the shooting range to be quite good at focusing her attention. Not that focus was often a problem. Training, inclination, and Conditioning all combined to keep her from becoming too distracted most of the time. Which, really, was a good thing on the range since guns were not toys ( Read more... )

It had been a while, so Triela had gone the extra mile and brought food today. Tea and tasty little cookies and things. Not that she would eat many herself, too much sugar, but she hoped that others would enjoy them ( Read more... )

"I know you're all familiar with them by this point, but I'm still going to talk about pistols today." She drew the one from her shoulder holster. "Pistols are small, portable, and quite deadly. They don't have the range of a rifle, or even an SMG, but it turns out that most firefights take place at ranges so short that a pistol is plenty ( Read more... )

Today Triela only had one, admittedly large, gun case out for today's demonstration.

"You're not going to get to use this one today because there's not really enough space, but I do want to give you a chance to see a sniper rifle. This is a Heckler and Koch PSG1. It's a sniper rifle designed primarily for medium range work. If you remember the ( Read more... )