{"id":1405,"date":"2007-09-04T07:09:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/09\/04\/hot-shots\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T23:03:32","slug":"hot-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/09\/04\/hot-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"right\"><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/2007\/09\/hotshots.php\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Whew! When we got to the range last weekend, the cooling fan wasn&#8217;t keeping up with the elevated temperatures outside. Good thing we dressed in tank tops to help us cope with the heat. <\/p>\n<p>California and the West have been having a heat wave. We usually have a warm spell toward the end of summer, and this year is no exception. Don&#8217;t worry, this has been happening for the last 60 or so years that I recall as a California native (second generation), and has nothing to do with mythical <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/features\/climate-and-global-warming\/\">anthropogenic climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting was a lot of fun in spite of the temperatures in the range. We each brought our little guns &#8211; Damsel&#8217;s S&#038;W 442 and my Glock 26 &#8211; the regular hand guns &#8211; the S&#038;W 686 revolver and the S&#038;W 908s pistol &#8211; and all three shotguns with wooden stocks &#8211; my 40-year old Ithaca, and both our Remington 870s. The video is us emptying the 870s 5-round capacity magazines. <\/p>\n<p>The 2 by 3 paper target did not do so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew! When we got to the range last weekend, the cooling fan wasn&#8217;t keeping up with the elevated temperatures outside. Good thing we dressed in tank&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,45,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-environment","category-firearms","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}