Awesome fortune, although it does violate the “be sure of your target and what’s behind it rule”

That kid must have ate a lot of blue Freezies! haha

You can buy Toilet Sniper in Camo for $10 or Red & White for $5.  I have no idea why the Red & White is half the price.

Aiming a weapon is harder than it looks. Shooters need clear views of a distant object (the target) and a near one (the iron sight at the end of the rifle barrel) at the same time. But the eye can’t quite pull this off, as a simple experiment shows: Point at a faraway house or storefront, then try to bring both your finger and the building into focus. One or the other will be blurry.

Enter the MicroSight…. It allows the shooter to focus on both the target and the front sight.

Full Story – HERE

Or watch this video if you are too lazy to read:

If you ask me, David Crandall (the Engineer who developed this technology) should have quit his job, got his own funding, and started his own company. He basically just threw billions of dollars in the garbage by letting his employer (the Idaho National Laboratory) have the technology.

According to a study conducted by Responsive Management, 34.4 million Americans went target shooting in 2009.

For comparison, 28.6 million Americans golfed (a minimum of one round) in 2008, according to the National Golf Foundation.

Full Story – HERE

I have only been golfing a couple of times, but I actually found it more stressful than a stress relief. Shooting on the other hand, even if you are terrible at it… it’s hard not to have a great time.

No word yet on the statistics of the popularity of combing guns and golf as shown in picture I used for this article.

A 50-year-old man was mistaken for a target and accidentally shot during an exercise at Gunsite Academy’s training facility in Paulden Arizona, authorities said.

Full Story – HERE
 
OOPS… Somebody needs new glasses! That’s a negligent discharge at its finest.  According to the article the man is is “good” condition, hopefully he recovers quickly.

I wonder what caliber he got hit with? There are a lot of important things in the abdomen, it’s a miracle he is still alive.

Pretty awesome idea to use them for training. You know it’s doing a good job of impersonating a walking human when it looks creepy in action.  I wish there was some range I could go to and give that a shot.  I want every one of those RMP (robotic mobility platform) Segways shown in the video.

I’ve been obsessed with the Segway ever since I did a few hour tour of Chicago on them with my dad a few years ago.  I’ll definitely buy one eventually, I’m just waiting for them to come down in price ( I’d like to get one of the more durable models that you can take offroading ).  I think its dumb how some cities ban Segways on their sidewalks, I think mine is one of them.

I’m really surprised not to see more people riding around on them.  Especially in warmer climates where you could ride them all year round, it seems like a viable method of transportation.

HatTip: Engadget

I’d consider watching the Olympics if they spiced up the events like this:

At the very least I’d like to see higher caliber guns used, longer distances, and even a “production” rifles event, where modified rifles are not allowed.

Watching someone in spandex shoot 50m with an alien looking .22LR does not interest me even the slightest.

They say cats have 9 lives:

Hopefully this one isn’t on its 9th.