The Firearm Blog

Have not been blogging for a few days but will be posting quite heavily shortly.

Sorry if I have not replied to your emails. I will be making my way through the inbox shortly.

Ed Friedman, Associate Editor of the NRA publication Shooting Illustrated, has started a blog called “Tell Me Why?”. Go check it out.

It is always great to see new gun bloggers!

A friend sent me a link to wordle.net. I used it to create a cool word picture from tags I have used on the blog. Pretty cool.

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You may have been wondering why your comments on the blog were not being approved. There was a major problem on the server that was affecting the site and the blog’s database. It is now fixed and all comments posted are now “live”.

If you ever notice problems with the site please do email me. My email is on top of the left sidebar.

Thanks.

If you want to subscribe to this blog I highly recommend using the RSS feed (a good RSS tutorial is available here) but if you prefer email then you can receive updates by filling out this form.

The blog has been moved to the new server.

The server is a VPS (Virtual Private Server) which requires the entire server be setup by manually. There is a good chance I have forgot to configure something. I would appreciate an email if you find anything not working.

I do know about the problem with some characters not showing up correctly in the blog posts. I am working on that.

I was having a problem when some text was not being displayed correctly. If this is happening you to please email me when a screen shot. Below is a screenshot of the text before I fixed it.

Different browsers / operating systems would be slightly different.

My email address is at the top of the left sidebar. Thanks for your help.

I will be moving the blog to another server over the next few days. There will probably be some downtime.

The blog had its first birthday yesterday!

The stats:

* 593 posts
* 982 tags
* 1,178 comments
* Most comments in a post: 176 (Ruger SR9)
* Oddest comment (which came through yesterday):

Please send for me the following Russian type ammunitions current price:-
1. 122 mm D-30 HE shell.
2. 130 mm M-46 HE shell.
3.100 mm T-55 HE shell.
4.122 mm BM -21 Shell.
5.120 mm mortar bomb.
6. 82 mm Mortar bomb
7. 60 mm mortar bomb.

Thank you

… I am a gun enthusiast, not a military arms dealer …

I have enjoyed running this blog and getting to know the gun blogger community. Thanks for all your encouragement.

And thanks to all the readers who took time to participate in discussions and let me know about interesting content to post.

A special thanks to Michigan Slugger for contributing the excellent article Accurate Slug Shooting Made Easy and my brother who frequently helps me with the blog (often correcting my awful spelling that my blog client fails to pick up on).

A new gun blogger:

A few months ago the bug finally bit me and I love it! My husband was thrilled and bought me a Glock 17. I decided to blog about my entry into the gun culture and start shooting IDPA competitively (wow, I suck).

You can check out my blog at www.prettypistolera.com

Very busy at the moment.

Suppressor maker Advanced Armament Corp now have a company blog. Go check it out.

AAC Rimfire Suppressor.

I hope more and more businesses in the firearm industry start blogging and actively join in the gun blogging community.

The server migration went smoothly. Comments are now enabled.

If you have any problems with the blog please let me know.

I just updated the blog to the latest version of wordpress (2.5). If anything is not working please let me know.

Thanks.

I am is back!

I am still loaded with more work that I can handle, so posting is going to be restricted to one post / day, for the next couple of week.