:: Where to begin...?

I'm not sure where to start, so I'm  just going to dump a little stream of consciousness here.

I love guns. I love shooting, collecting, cleaning, modifying, customizing, learning about, and so on and so forth....guns. I love beautiful walnut stocks, damascus and rosewood 1911s, evil black rifles, .22 rimfires, .50 BMGs, polymer pistols, riot guns, historical military weapons, just to name a few. I love a lot of other things as well, not the least of which is my beautiful wife - who luckily for me also appreciates guns and shooting, if not nearly as obsessively as I do.

This blog, however, is going to be about...you guessed it, guns and shooting stuff. I felt the need to include "and shooting" in the name of this blog because some people are really into guns - but not so much into shooting them, just as some people are really into guitars - but not so much into playing them, and some people are really into motorcycles - but not so much into actually riding them, etc. I do not mean to cast a disparaging light on collectors, but I like to use my stuff, as well as admire it.

Guns were one of the first things I researched on the old bulletin boards and the fledgling internet, when it was all still new, and my internet quest for all things firearms related continues to this day. From alt.guns, to the hive, to The Firearm Blog, this has led me to a lot of widely varied websites, forums, blogs, etc. Some of these destinations have been, well, let's just say interesting. Go looking for gun stuff on the internet and you'll find everything from politics to zombies, and that's long before you ever wander off on related tangents...as I often tend to do.

So here we go, into the realm of "Guns and Shooting Stuff", according to one reasonably obsessed and somewhat musically inclined independent geek in the deep south, and I hope someone else enjoys this as much as I am planning to.