ARIZONA  RIFLESHOOTING 

"No te mostrare mi espalda sin razon.
No la guardare sin honor."
               -  engraved on a Spanish Sword in a museum.

Jag har svurit att aldrig starta
ett orätvist krig;
ej heller att sluta ett rättvist på
något annat sätt
än att förinta mina fiender.
 - Karl XII

Despite regulations, you can't stop a Punjabi from loving guns."
 - from an article on interest in guns in india

"An old gun will carry the tooth marks of long-dead craftsmen, the scars of hard hunts completed before you were born, the smooth patina left by the hand of an earlier generation. When today’s hunters use such guns, they carry an extra magic that I cannot define, but must acknowledge."

– Stephen Bodio, Good Guns Again, 1994
 

Molon Labe - come and get em!

Never criticize a rifleman until you have walked a mile in is shoes. That way, he'll be barefoot and you'll be out of range.

In Calgary, near the Bow River, is a small plaza that must have been built as part of the '88 Winter Olympics. Set in metal letters right into the stone surface of the plaza is this sentence:
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle."
(attributed to Baron de Coubertain, founder of the modern olympics)

"A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man."
    -   Theodore Roosevelt

"No wonder no one shoots Rapid Fire, it's too damn hard!"
        - -  Jerry Miculek (speaking of Olympic rapid fire)

"A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that." Shane, From SHANE The Movie

Three old rifle shooters are out walking.
First one says, "Windy, isn't it?"
Second one says, "No, its Thursday!"
Third one says, "So am I. Let's go get a beer."
- from fullbore list

"If a man stands just an hour with a weapon in his hands to fight Jihad, its better than being a preacher in Mecca for 100 years."
    -  -  unidentified Lebanese man who had gone to Iraq to join the insurgency and later returned, quoted in LA Times, 29-Dec-04

"Suppose the Second Amendment said, 'A well-educated electorate being
necessary for self-governance in a free state, the right of the people
to keep and read books shall not be infringed.' Is there anyone who
would suggest that means only registered voters have a right to read?"
-- Robert A. Levy, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Never Again means Never Again
 - slogan under a picture of a girl shooting an Uzi

Shooting is a lifetime sport
Le tir est un sport pour tout àge

چو کار از ھمہ حيلتے در گزشت

حلال است بردن بہ شمشير دست
     - from some Sikh sacred text.

"Do you not know that those who shoot in a match all shoot, but one receives the prize? Shoot in such a way that you may obtain it."
 - paraphrasing what some guy named Paul said in a different sacred text to make it relevant to our sport. I Cor 9:24.

"The .30-06 is never a mistake." Townsend Whelen

"I am learning lots of Hindustani here, none of my people speak a word
of English, so I have to talk to them in their own poisonous language."
- -  Frederick Dixon    in  http://www.piersallison.co.uk/biogs/f_a_dixon/diary.htm

6,5x55 - Nordens mest undervurderte langholdspatron. Knallgo' til 1000, rettelse 1200 meter.

"It is Sunna that every Muslim has the right to bear arms."
  - quote online.
(praise the lord and pass the ammunition)

Its not the caliber of the rifle that matters, but the caliber of the shooter.

No se caza para matar
Sino, al reves
Se mata para haber cazado
     - Jose Ortega y Gasset

"...it's not uncommon for households in the Middle East to have at least an AK-47 around the house..."

And why do I regard the British rule as a curse?

It has impoverished the dumb millions by a system of progressive exploitation and by a ruinously expensive military and civil administration which the country can never afford.

It has reduced us politically to serfdom. It has sapped the foundations of our culture. And, by the policy of cruel disarmament, it has degraded us spiritually. Lacking the inward strength, we have been reduced, by all but universal disarmament, to a state bordering on cowardly helplessness.

... It symbolizes the Social Contract between myself and society and declares that I am no mere subject but a free and independent citizen of the Republic who holds inalienable rights while honoring the responsibilities that accompany those rights. My pistol states that I will defend the common weal, that I will uphold what is right and decent and that I am willing and able to protect myself and mine. (The police cannot and are not required to protect the individual person or family. They are spread too thin for that. When called they will do their best, but all too often they can get there only in time to clean up the aftermath. You are responsible for your own safety.)

My pistol is my family’s shield, my guarantee that upon my life I will let no evil touch them. When a malefactor demands, Your dignity and your money, or your life!” my pistol introduces a very sobering third alternative: No - if you persist in this criminal endeavor, it is your life that will be at hazard.”

   - - Finn Aagaard

An' when there wasn't aught to do
But camp and cattle-guards,
I've fought with 'im the 'ole day through,
At fifteen 'undred yards;
Long afternoons o' lyin' still,
An' 'earin' as you lay,
The bullets swish from 'ill to 'ill
Like scythes among the 'ay.
   -    Kipling on Boer marksmanship

וגרחל םכשח ךגרחל אב םא הרמא הרותתו

“If a man comes to kill you,
rise early and kill him first”
(Talmud, Berakoth 58b).

Nah, you ain’t gotta be born out in the sticks
With an F-150 and a 30-06
 - country song by Blake Shelton

les .257 sont presque aussi bons que le sexe
-unknown

• 同一个世界，同一个 梦想
• One World, One Dream
  

“只有不悲不喜的人，才能经得 起大喜大 悲；也只有无所谓得失不等待回音的人，才能攀上人生的巅峰。”

 陶璐娜 – Gold Medalist, AP40, Silver Medalist WSP,  2000 Olympics, Sydney

Ando gav bi juklesko, jal o pavori bi destesko
 - Romani saying

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
  --  Theodore Roosevelt

"هذه قبلة الوداع من الشعب العراقي ايها الكلب"

"وهذه من الارامل والايتام والاشخاص الذين قتلتهم في العراق".

                                      منتظر الزيدي   -

"If tomorrow, Germany beats us at our national passtime, at least we can
 have the satisfaction of beating them at theirs twice this century."
   -   Spoken by some British person on the eve of a soccer game a few years back - on a wall in a museum

"We probably wouldn't be speaking the Navajo language - or even the English language - if it wasn't for the code-talkers."
       - some old Navajo code talker on a TV interview
 
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    - bumper sticker