No time for a sight picture?

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Oleg Volk

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New on AllOutdoor: Designing meaningful practice targets

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Oleg Volk

How to learn from every range trip…on the cheap.

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New on AllOutdoor: Henry Arms survival kit

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Henry Arms survival kit reviewed by my friend Frank and photographed by me.

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Heller Commemorative .44 Bulldog

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Charter Arms supports Heller Foundation. You can also support them, either by buying this revolver or by making a direct donation.

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Little mouse.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Today, while on a photo shoot with me and another friend, the author of Just People found this tiny comatose mouse. The model wanted to warm it up, but its prospects looked poor.

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Social service homicide

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Oleg Volk

The killing at LAX was done rather inefficiently, but the sole surprise is that this hasn’t happened much sooner. Given that our side — non-government people — tends to avoid violence, this was probably squabbling among thieves escalating to a predictable end.

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USB card reader connection drops repeatedly.

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Oleg Volk

For some reason, all three of my CF card readers drop connection while I try to transfer files from them. They do it with all five cards, all six USB2 and both USB3 ports — but this was a very occasional problem till yesterday. Now I have to re-start transfers several times in a row. Any idea why? Other devices work fine on those ports. I tried multiple cables, too. Every so often, the transfers begin at USB1 speeds, too.

The computer is stable otherwise.

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WordPress posts no longer copying to Livejournal. Why?

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Does anyone know how to fix the break in the propagation of these blog posts to LJ?

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Scary Halloween thoughts.

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Oleg Volk

This year, same as last, the scariest deeds aren’t being shown on C-SPAN. They are being done on the quiet — so take C-SPAN level of scary and multiply it by some unknown but considerable coefficient to get the idea of how much evil is afoot this Fall.

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Loaner video camera needed.

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Oleg Volk

If anyone in Nashville has a current prosumer video camera and would be willing to let me try it out, please let me know. I’d like to figure out if the ergonomic advantages of a dedicated video camera would be worth going to a smaller sensor.

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Alternatives to QuickBooks?

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Oleg Volk

I am looking for a simple program capable of downloading and consolidating credit card and bank transactions, to do simple accounting, including preparing data for tax forms. Has anyone successfully used open-source (such as GNUCash 2) accounting programs for these purposes? Or a simple and reliable commercial software (I don’t need most of the features found in QuickBooks)?

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Strange shotgun

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Mossberg 500 shotgun converted to take Saiga 12 magazines.

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Slavery reparations?

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Has anyone considered the reparations owed to those who served involuntarily as draftees before that shameful practice was discontinued? Unlike the reparations to the long-dead slaves who were in bondage pre-1860s, these actually have a chance of reaching the living.

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Twenty photos from SkyDogCon 2013

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Photos | About SkyDogCon

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CZ P09 Duty as a Survival Gun: New on AllOutdoor

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Oleg Volk

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A good day with a lovely woman.

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Oleg Volk

(Photo by Ted Volk)

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Visible bullet trace

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Student in Condition 1 carry course fires a Glock 23 at the range. Bullet trace is visible. I recently attended one of their sessions and found both classroom and range portions very informative.

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Newlyweds in training

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Oleg Volk

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Austin, TX new travel dates.

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Oleg Volk

I will be there November 16-17. The joint dinner/get-together is planned for 8pm on the 16th, place to be decided.

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Good news on the computer front

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Oleg Volk

Today, a friend installed the new video card (gifted by another friend) and the replacement power supply. He discovered that the old card controller was accidentally nudged into overclocking while we tried to do the opposite the last time. It’s been half a day since, and not only have I not had any crashes, certain issues like fonts not smoothing correctly in Firefox have gone away. So I think this PC is in the clear.

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