{"id":870,"date":"2009-08-01T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2009-10-15T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:35:22","slug":"smoke-signals-from-gunsite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/smoke-signals-from-gunsite-2\/870\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke Signals from Gunsite"},"content":{"rendered":"

High summer is upon us here at Gunsite<\/a>, meaning we\u2019re experiencing warm summer days interrupted by afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms.\u00a0 From our vantage point on the ranch we are treated daily to the cloud buildup and thunderstorm formation.\u00a0 Sometimes we can see as many as a dozen thunderstorms towering and dancing about and sometimes we manage to get some rain from one or two of them.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago we were treated to a visit from an old friend, King Abdullah II<\/a> of Jordan.\u00a0 As you may know, the king came here as a student back in the mid-80s, at a time when Jeff was running the school and the king was the heir to the throne of Jordan.\u00a0 For this visit, the King, the current Crown Prince, two Princes (brothers) and a group of friends from both Jordan and the United States were taking a motorcycle vacation of the American West and decided to stop and see us for some visiting and shooting.<\/p>\n

For this visit we arranged to have our friends at Colt<\/a> put together a set of pistols for presentation to King Abdullah. The two gun set consisted of a slightly embellished stainless Colt Gunsite, and a Colt Single Action Army, in .45 Colt, highly embellished with gold accents, royal seals, and so on, and genuine ivory scrimshawed grips.\u00a0 General Bill Keys, CEO at Colt, and Buz Mills presented these pistols to the King.<\/p>\n

American Rifleman<\/a> is working on an article concerning this visit, so stay tuned for more.<\/p>\n

The week prior to the royal visit we were visited by our friend Tom Gresham and his film crew for Personal Defense TV.\u00a0 We spent the week filming several shows and a number of training tips for the series, which will air starting in October on the Sportsman\u2019s Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of TV, several episodes we filmed here for American Guardian<\/a> have already aired this season and more will be following.\u00a0 Check out this show, hosted by our friend Chad Adams, on the Outdoors channel on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n

We have received our latest shipment of blued Colt Gunsite pistols from Colt<\/a>, and they are as good as any 1911 I have seen.\u00a0 If you want a pistol that is \u201cgood to go\u201d this is it.\u00a0 And, each pistol comes with a certificate good for a $100 discount on a Gunsite training class.\u00a0 For information or pricing contact Susan in the Pro Shop (proshop@gunsite.com).<\/p>\n

The 2010 training schedule<\/a> is taking shape and should be up on our website in a few weeks.\u00a0 There is still time, if you have particular scheduling suggestions, to get those ideas in before we publish the schedule.\u00a0 Speaking of our website, it has been undergoing a major makeover and we\u2019re not finished yet.\u00a0 Along with a number of improvements, look for a greatly expanded online shopping opportunity in the near future (www.gunsite.com).<\/p>\n

We just finished our annual Vets Pistol class and the Vets Carbine class is coming up in a couple of weeks.\u00a0 As you may know, these classes are free to Gulf War vets and are one of the ways we try to show our appreciation for our veterans.\u00a0 Students throughout the training year donate excess ammunition for these classes, the instructors volunteer their time and we receive support from some of our friends in the industry.\u00a0 For the pistol class, our friends at Blackhawk, SureFire, EOTech and Mil-Tac were sponsors, and we thank them for their support and hope you will do so as well.<\/p>\n

When the PDTV folks were here we did another wall penetration test, this time comparing .223 ammunition and pistol ammunition.\u00a0 Regardless of the bullet weight, .223 ammunition fired from a 16\u201d barreled carbine does not penetrate as many typical interior walls as does pistol ammunition, whether ball or hollowpoint.\u00a0 In our test, the .223 bullets tended to tumble and fragment, none of them passing through a second wall, unless in tiny fragments.\u00a0 Our pistol ammunition, consisting of 9mm, .357 Magnum and .45 ACP defensive ammunition, penetrated all three of our walls and exited our \u201chouse\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course, these tests are far from perfect, as we did not test all examples of pistol and carbine ammunition from all barrel lengths in all possible walls.\u00a0 What this test does show is that, in general, pistol ammunition tends to penetrate typical interior walls further than high velocity carbine ammunition.<\/p>\n

For many shooters, ammunition availability is a big concern these days.\u00a0 Fortunately, if you are coming to Gunsite for training, we can supply most of your ammunition needs.\u00a0 We have a good supply of the common calibers on hand and there is a discount on ammo when purchased with a class.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let ammunition shortages keep you from training, come to Gunsite<\/a> and let us take care of it for you.<\/p>\n

DVC,
\nEd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High summer is upon us here at Gunsite, meaning we\u2019re experiencing warm summer days interrupted by afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms.\u00a0 From our vantage point on the ranch we are treated daily to the cloud buildup and thunderstorm formation.\u00a0 Sometimes we can see as many as a dozen thunderstorms towering and dancing about and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[3605,118],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ed-head","tag-ed-head","tag-gunsite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}