Couple weeks ago my dad and grandma found in the back of drawer my grandfather's holster for the S&W Model 15 that I also inherited and they decided that I should have it as well. I was actually in the process of looking for a holster for the Model 15 at the time so the timing couldn't have been better and I gladly accepted it. When I first saw it I thought that it might have been hand made by my grandfather as well since he liked to work with leather in his spare time as well as gunsmithing but after a little looking around it turns out that it was a genuine Smith and Wesson made Holster specifically for the Model 15. Without a doubt a nicely manufactured and handy little holster so when I got it home I had to try it out of course.

Now being as that I'm a complete dork that actually meant a good amount of time was wasted playing cowboy and trying out different draw methods and tactics for both open carry and concealed carry. And yes I did attempt to draw, twirl then holster the Model 15 several times never did actually work though, the Hogue grips make it a bit chunky to actually twirl it that well. The important thing that I did come away with from the cowboy play is that it isn't easy to conceal such a large and chunky revolver unless I'm wearing my huge leather jacket. The holster pokes out from underneath any of the other jackets and coats I own. Not good but then I really wasn't considering CCWing the revolver anyways but just had to try it out. It'll be good for open carry out in the woods (you can still do that in Idaho damnit) or when out shooting with the friends so I don't have to lug the revolver around all the time just stick it in the holster and it's good to go.

Of course all this just meant that I could dig out the camera equipment and take some more pictures and you can find the rest of the ones that I took of the holster and gun at the usual place of course on Flickr, all the new pictures are at the end.

Well that was a rather boring start to the last month of the year. Of course that also means there is only 4 more weeks left of the year. Last week was a rather slow week of blogging and everything else really. Another slow week that I should have taken the time to catch up with friends and family since I haven't really been in touch with a lot of friends lately and now is the best time to do that catching up with you know.

The only thing that I did last week that didn't involve working, sleeping or donating plasma was I got bored and I busted out the camera gear and took some pictures. I took some test pictures of Yoko with the ammo and I discovered that I really need to work on that some more as only one picture came out crystal clear (the one I posted here) while most of the others had halo effects going on all over the place not to mention being out of focus as well. And since I haven't done any firearms photography in a while either I took some pictures of a holster that my grandma gave me for the Model 15 revolver. Her and my dad found it the other day while cleaning up some of my grandpa's belongs and she thought it would be good if I were to have it. But that's a blog for another day.

I did also pick up most all of my Christmas cards for the season so I'll be getting those written up and mailed off in the next couple weeks. I am however really getting annoyed with the Christmas music already. Doesn't help that I have to listen to it at work for a good solid 8 freaking hours five days a week. It's enough to drive someone insane.

So that's it for the first (boring) week of December and on to the next one. Hopefully it will be more interesting.

While the week was boring and filled with only work and donating plasma the weekend was much more enjoyable and fun. Actually on Friday I visited with grandma for a bit and received a holster for the Model 15 pistol I have. Great for packing around but the thing is way to big for concealed carry. Which is something on the list of things to get done before January 20, 2008. Roommate's dad showed up later that evening to get the black beast running again this time it was only a fluid issue and adjustment of the clutch. I just stood around looking like I knew what I was doing, and talking smack of course. I mentioned that it might be a good idea to install one of those airjack systems that LeMans cars have to make it easier on all of us, as much time as it spends in the air.

Saturday was a day of photography and anime watching as I found out that you can do HDR images in Photoshop so decided to give that a try and failed. Got some OK pictures of the roommate's Turboed Mazda RX-8 but mostly it was a bust for trying HDR out. Will have to play with the camera a lot more and figure out how to do that one of these days as it's a pretty cool looking photography trick. After that went to another Anime Meet-up and watched some more anime. Still not that gaga over Chi's sweet home but it is pretty funny at times. Other than that watch some stuff that I've already seen and some stuff that I haven't.

Sunday though was a blast as it was the last autocross event of the season and a fun time going for a couple ride-alongs. I'll be blogging about that later in the week when I get all the videos uploaded. And now I'm at work blogging at the end of the week looking forward to the next week. Also the poll ended this Sunday with a whooping 4 votes with all the votes going for you folks wanting to see some more hot 2D/3D ladies. So I'll be working on added that function today for the first time.