Friday, September 25, 2009

Let's Go Shootin'

After all the fun at work with the Flybar pogo stick, Travis, Chris, and I travelled to Travis' father-in-law's place to let out some stress and have fun shooting. We, more like they, brought a decent arsenal of all types and calibers. We did everything from rapid fire close quarters, off-hand rifle distance shooting, to 150 through 300 yard shots.

You can really tell that Travis has spent a lot of time here as he is deadly fast and accurate with his .40 S&W. I really enjoyed shooting Chris' .45 LC pistol and carbine. You gotta love cowboy guns.

It was a really good time with some buddies that I've come to enjoy and am sad to see be let go from the company. That's one thing that I've come to not enjoy with working in the government contractor's world.

Gotta Love Handguns


Chris enjoying the awesome handgun target setup


Chris getting sharp


Taking Travis by surprise

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Pogo Stick on Steroids

If there's one thing I like about my generation and those just a little bit older than me is that we love to bring things back from our childhood, but when we do bring it back we take it one step further.

Let's take pogo sticks for instance. They were cool back in the day (probably everyone's childhood) but they lacked the "takin' it to the next level" capability. Well some genius had the idea to make a pogo stick out of stronger materials, add 12 more springs to the equation, and call it the Flybar. This thing can actually propel you over 7 feet high if you know what you're doing. Paul actually bought one of these $200 plus items and we convinced him to bring it into work. Let's just say that we weren't too talented with it and "barely" missed the 7 foot mark. Here's a few shots:

"What?!! I'm only a foot high?!"


"How about now? Huh?!?! Still the same? Watch this!"


"Wow that was close. I'm done!"


Paul banging his knee getting on the thing.