I hate to ruin a good male fantasy,

But if you need this to fight off the zombies,




Aren't the zombies already eating you?

Mind you, I bet this young lady could have used one:

During the struggle, the girl's calls to her mother were cut off at least three times. The girl somehow managed to call her mother back each time. A helpless Tsyganenkov could only listen in horror to her daughter's screams for mercy.
In a second call to her mother, Moskalyova said, "Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They're... eating me," The Daily Mail reported.

I change my mind, because what do I know about  the most appropriate weapon for nuclear mutant Zombie fighting? I'm currently stuck with the grand plan of throwing day old biscuits at them...

Swarovski....

About a year ago if I heard the name  Swarovski I would have immediately thought of this:


Today I just might think of this:



I've come a long way baby and apparently just part of a growing trend of interest in hunting and hand guns among the fairer sex.

When Gina York married an avid hunter six years ago, she tried going out with him, but said it “just wasn’t fun,” because men “are so serious about getting the buck, getting the prize,” and she didn’t learn the skills she needed to enjoy herself. That all changed last year when she joined DIVA...WOW (Women Outdoors Worldwide), a shooting and hunting group for women only.



“The first clinic I had attended was last fall and I had never shot a shotgun before,” York said. “When you are starting to do some of these shooting sports, it’s very frustrating, and they are very good with support and teaching you the proper way to use your firearms.” On her first big hunt with the Divas, as she calls them, she bagged not one, but two deer. She said the DIVA women were happy and supportive and her family ate the venison she brought home. Her husband, she joked, was “jealous.”

Hunting isn’t just mostly for men anymore. Gina York is just one of the many women flooding the firearms market, including some picking up a hunting rifle for the first time. It may seem surprising to the non-gun-toting women in America, but women are packing heat in increased numbers—for personal defense as well as hunting. The market is focusing on the female demographic in a way it never has before. And it’s working: In addition to buying firearms, more and more women are purchasing accessories made specifically for them, and going out with other female hunters in record numbers.

Of course we can't have or use guns for anything as rude or spiteful as self defense here in Canerder, but we are still allowed to go hunting and such...

Son of a gun....

I was supposed to spend this weekend at the Hunter's safety course and writing for my Possession and Acquisitions Licence. Been looking forward to it for months (working up to it for perhaps years) for crying out loud., What am I actually doing?

Knee deep in fevered, sick with the flu children is what I am up to........

At this rate of life's co-operation, I figure this will be me when I finally get my permit to buy a rifle.......

I touched a gun today.

What I know about firearms I have already written about extensively.

But Wait GL you have not one firearms post....

Exactly...

But today the Cattleman and I went to  "hunting" shops to research and budget for our purchases after we complete our Possession and Acquisition License safety courses, classes are in January. Our PAL will make us fit  for ownership of rifles, shot guns or competitive use hand guns.

When we walked in the store the guy asked shot guns or rifles.

Cattleman: Shot gun

Grey: Rifle

Cattleman: Really Rifle? Why?

Grey: Don't know, how would I know? I never touched a gun in life. Any good reason I shouldn't?

Cattleman: Nope.

Salesman: (eyes rolling)

The Cattleman of course having hunted since a child back on the farm, he knows exactly what he wants to start off with, a Browning over under shot gun.  Reason? He is familiar with it, caliber, the feel, he's always wanted one and partially economics.  The cost of ammo to practice with. Apparently we can get hundreds of shots for the 22 instead of the 10 we would get for the 30-30. So we both start with the 22..apparently.

I will tell ya right now I am around five feet, 1 inches and a quarter ( because ya know that quarter makes a huge difference.)tall, not exactly thin, I hover around 140 lbs. I kept getting directed by the salesman to "youth" guns and advice to stick with the 22. Something about weight and recoil. This is what I was not so subtly pushed toward. :O)


http://www.mossberg.com/products/default.asp?ID=30&section=products#

I don't know I was kinda insulted by the name alone, plinkster? Sounds like a "pretend play" gun for crying out loud. Plinkster.  Pfffft. The only thing I liked about it was the site and the magazine capacity, everything else in the store was  just three or four. I have never heard of Mossberg before, not that I am gun chick, (yet) what think you all?

Could someone explain to me why as complete neophyte I should prefer a shotgun over a rife? I will be using it initially for target practice, to get comfortable, again I think, for hunting fowl, I really felt like I was being talked in a manner to sway me to a shot gun just like the Cattleman's choice.

(Our goal is to upgrade later to a 30-30 for deer and moose, but right now for this gal baby steps in the gun department.)

Pros/Cons anyone?