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Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:30 AM

Gun Day

This past weekend, KenC, LoganB, AndyD, TimS and I headed east of the mountains to spend a day shooting guns. While there are laws governing what you can do on federal land, it’s pretty easy to find a safe and legal place to shoot. Ken had already scoped...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:30 AM

Snoqualmie Valley Rifle Club

Last week, MikeF, a friend from work, took me as a guest to the Snoqualmie Valley Rifle Club. If you’ve ever driving up to Snoqualmie Falls from Fall City, there’s a big hairpin corner before you wind your way up the hill to the falls. There’s...
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Friday, April 05, 2013 12:30 AM

Pellet Trap

Mom and Dad got me a great CO2 powered pellet revolver for Christmas. I’ve had fun shooting it but instead of shooting cans in the yard and dumping a bunch of little lead pellets into it, I decided to build a pellet trap. You can buy them premade on the...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:30 AM

Trap Shooting

I picked up a copy of Breaking Clays: Target, Tactics, Tips and Techniques by Chris Batha in hopes that it would help with my trap shooting. The first half of the book is an introduction to shotgun sports while the second half covers the various sports...
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Friday, February 22, 2013 12:30 AM

Choke Tubes

When Logan and I took the trap shooting class, they suggested that I go two steps tighter on my choke tube. The choke of your shotgun determines how the shot flies out of the barrel. As the shot gets farther from the gun, the area it covers expands. That...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:30 AM

How To Shoot Trap

Logan and I took the “Break More Birds” class at the Kenmore range last weekend. It’s a two hour class that includes two rounds of trap and only costs $35. it’s an incredible deal and I want to take it again in a couple months. Unfortunately it was raining...
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Monday, August 20, 2012 12:30 AM

Olympic Medals and GDP

Can you buy an Olympic medal? I pulled down the list of the top 10 countries by total medal count and their Gross Domestic Product data from 2010. It definitely seems like the richer countries win more medals, though Russia and South Korea bucked the...
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Friday, August 03, 2012 12:30 AM

Trap Shooting

Don and Logan have me hooked on trap shooting, but before they took me for the first time, I knew nothing about it. Trap? Skeet? Clays? What’s the difference? All I knew was that you had to shoot flying things with a shotgun. Nevermind that I had probably...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:37 AM

Ozzie Guillen’s Comments

Ozzie Guillen is the center of a media swarm this week for the following comments: "I love Fidel Castro. I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that (expletive) is still there...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:30 AM

March Madness Streams

Every year, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is a stellar example of how to stream sporting events on a large scale. So it doesn’t come as too much of a surprise that they’re trying to cash in on it a bit this year. Normally everything is free, but...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:30 AM

Strike Three!

While I was home for Christmas, I brought back the photo albums that Mom and Dad had made for me and I’ve been scanning in all the photos. I found this newspaper clipping of one of my proudest moments in sports. Yes, yes, it was little league baseball...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011 12:30 AM

NASCAR Finale

Last week was the end of the NASCAR season. Tony Stewart pulled off a very dramatic win. In the first 26 races of the season, Stewart had a grand total of zero wins. In the final 10 races (called the Chase for the Sprint Cup), he won 5 races. He went...
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Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:30 AM

Ben At Safeco

When Mom, Dad, Aunt Sandy and Uncle Dean were in town last week, we headed to Safeco to watch the Mariners lose. I was texting Tim since I knew he was watching the game and I told him where we were sitting. A few minutes later, a ball was hit to right...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:30 AM

Danica in NASCAR

The big news in NASCAR last week was that next year Danica Patrick is going to race full time in the Nationwide Series (aka. the JV league) and part time in the Sprint Cup (aka. varsity.) She’ll be a part of the team that I cheer for: Stewart-Haas...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:30 AM

Incredible Race Finish

I don’t normally watch the NASCAR Nationwide series races, but for some reason we had it turned on last weekend. (Nationwide is like the JV league and Sprint Cup is Varsity.) The last lap didn’t look like it would have anything too crazy going on, but...
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