Monthly Archives: October 2011

28 Oct

Alaskan Bear Hunt with EOTech 2011

Steven K. Ledin,

My God was drunk and delirious and flailing when His Paintbrush spewed forth the colors and medium to make this part of our planet. Ketchikan (Kehi to the locals) was the first city in Alaska I'd ever landed in, and the terrain and scent of it is something I had always hoped I would experience sometime in my life. It didn't disapoint. I was with JB from EOTech, the inimitable predator hunter Byron South, and his camera man Sammy. If Byron is Cisco, Sammy is his Pancho. A good working pair.

We were in Alaska
21 Oct

ATF Confiscates My Gun Case In Anchorage!

Steven K. Ledin,

I was home packing for my flight leaving early the next morning to Seattle, then Ketchikan, Alaska. I got a call from work and they said I had to call Special Agent J right away. I called him and he told me that they confiscated my gun case and sequestered it in Anchorage because they scanned it and found I had an aerosol can in it. Gun Scrubber. Can you believe it? I couldn’t either. I needed to give him the combination for the locks or he would get a warrant and cut them off. He was not to be …

21 Oct

Alaskan Bear Hunt Storm 3300 Case Preparation 2011

Steven K. Ledin,
11 Oct

Bear Hunting with OPMOD in Alaska 2011

Steven K. Ledin,

I’m leaving tomorrow for Prince of Wales Island outside Ketchican, Alaska, for a bear hunt. I can never sleep before a big event, weather it’s a new training class or a competition or a SHOT show, or especially a big hunt. That’s okay because maybe I can get some sleep on the plane, which is also hard for me to do. I’ve traveled a bunch in my life and I can do without it, mostly, but you have to go where the action is.
Yesterday I shipped out my Storm 3300 case with my gun and lots of
04 Oct

Outdoor Ignoramus, Remington R-25 with OPMOD MPO II, Alaska Preparation

Steven K. Ledin,

It takes all kinds of people to make a world, including dorks. I’m not proud to say that I still have plenty of points left on my dork card. I didn’t research my Alaska hunt well enough to realize that there will be a film crew there to film an episode for an EOTech-sponsored TV show, and that they would like me to use their products. Not a problem, really, they are superb optics, except I don’t have anything that will accept the G23 magnifier that I could shoot without losing an eye due to the short two inch …