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Dallas Safari Club Convention Moves To Atlanta In 2025

July 19, 2023 by

I received an email and video today from the Dallas Safari Club stating that their 2025 through 2029 conventions will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. The reason is that the City of Dallas will be doing a multi-year tear-down and rebuild of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

From Corey Mason, CEO of DSC and the DSC Foundation:

As you heard in the video, DSC is moving our annual Convention to Atlanta, GA, beginning in 2025. We are extremely confident that the Georgia World Congress Center will be the premier site to deliver successful DSC Conventions to come!


Dates for the DSC Conventions in Atlanta will not change from those previously published, and we are certain you will continue to enjoy the southern hospitality, which has long been a hallmark of the DSC Convention. 
 
In addition to the annual Conventions to be held in Atlanta from 2025-2029, DSC is excited to announce that in 2025 we will begin hosting a second convention in Dallas each summer. Aligned with the DSC Foundation Gala, this Expo will feature many of our valued Exhibitor Partners, include evening events, and culminate with the annual DSC Foundation Gala on Saturday night.
 
While Dallas will always be home and we are very excited about the future of the new Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, DSC looks forward to the opportunity to take the greatest hunting and conservation show on the road for a few years. We cannot wait to see you in Dallas January 11-14, 2024, and encourage you to please make plans to join us in Atlanta beginning in 2025!

The video message goes into more detail.

I should note that the NRA held their convention in Atlanta in 2017 in the Georgia World Congress Center and it was a very nice facility. Likewise, both the NRA Annual Meeting and this year’s DSC Convention will be held in Dallas at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

I know many Texans are upset at this move but I cannot say the same. I live about a 3.5 hour drive from Atlanta and am excited to be able to drive to the DSC Convention. Just as with SCI’s move of their convention to Nashville, I think it will expose DSC to a lot more people which is a good thing.

Having attended both DSC and SCI Conventions, they are similar yet different. This is not a slam at the SCI Convention but the Dallas Safari Club Convention seemed more open and friendly. I know that there were a lot more kids there when I attended it in Dallas in 2022. Kids under 16 accompanied by adult are free and day tickets for adults are much less expensive than SCI.

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Those Damn Assault Revolvers!

July 18, 2023 by 2 Comments

I saw a tweet today from KCAL-TV that had me shaking my head. KCAL-TV is the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, California. It was talking about a weapon recovered at the scene of a shooting.

An assault revolver with high cap mags? OMG!

Michael Bane has spoken in the past many times about a program that he and NSSF put on for journalists. It was to teach them the basics of firearms. I think it may be past time to bring it back.

On the other hand, seeing so-called journalists making stupid comments like this about firearms does illustrate my point about their naivete’ and stupidity. Unfortunately, too many of their listeners think they know of what they speak and believe them.

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.30-06 Springfield Versus .308 Winchester

July 16, 2023 by 5 Comments

I admit to being divided on the topic. Looking at my gun collection I have equal numbers of rifles in both calibers. Those in .30-06 are all US military rifles (1903, 1917, and M1 Garand) while the rifles in .308 are a couple of hunting rifles as well as a FAL assembled from a parts kit. I did have a couple of .30-06 hunting rifles but they have been converted into other calibers (9.3×62 and .338-06).

Vortex Optics through their Vortex Nation Podcast did a video comparing the two rounds including testing them on blocks of ballistic gel.

I do have some criticisms of the comparisons. For example, when comparing rounds for penetration they should have used the same grain weight bullets. In their first penetration tests they compared a 180 grain .30-06 to a 150 grain .308. To me, this is an invalid comparison given the 30 grain weight difference.

With regard to accessibility, 96 factory loadings in .308 versus 94 factory loadings in .30-06 is a statistical tie in my book. One loading not mentioned was the Remington Accelerator round in .30-06 which used a plastic sabot to hold a 55 grain bullet. Turns out Remington made these in .30-06, .308, and .30-30. While not currently being manufactured in factory ammo, hand reloaders can still make these cartridges. E. Arthur Brown Company offers the plastic sabots along with a seater die to allow you to load your own. While still kind of a gimmick given their accuracy, there was a thought they could penetrate Level IV body armor. According to this test, it didn’t despite speeds of 3800+ ft/sec.

In the end, there really is so little real difference between the two that you can’t go wrong with either cartridge. I would feel comfortable using them on anything from deer to moose to most African plains game.

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Play Stupid Games

July 15, 2023 by 5 Comments

I really don’t have much sympathy for protesters who glue their hands to the pavement, block traffic, splash paint on invaluable pieces or art, and the like. I do feel for the public safety workers who have to deal with their nonsense.

Thus, when I saw the video below, I felt bad for the firemen having to chisel the payment from around the protesters’ hands. As for the eco-fanatics, they were lucky the firemen where being so careful. There were times in the past century when German officials might not have been so kind.

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Everytown Really Stoops Low

July 14, 2023 by 5 Comments

Everytown wants you to know where gun dealers are in your neighbor. They especially want you (and thieves) to know the home addresses of dealers. They even have an interactive map to assist you in this.

Liberty Doll has done an excellent expose’ of the Everytown efforts in a YouTube video published today.

The only class of those with Federal Firearm Licenses not included are those of us with Curios & Relics Licenses. This is because they say we “are not engaged in sales and thus are not included in the analysis in this report.” How nice of them to not put targets on our backs.

You can read the whole so-called report here.

I would encourage you to share Liberty Doll’s YouTube with your friends. As a reminder, some newspapers in the past have published maps and databases containing the name and address of everyone in a state with a CCW. In places where there is registration of either owners such as Illinois or firearms such as with handguns in New York, what is to say that Everytown won’t publish these names under the heading “do you know your neighbor owns a gun!”.

This effort of Everytown reminds me of the “hate group” (sic) map published by the Southern Poverty Law Center which has led some disturbed individuals to attack these groups. Both should be condemned for what they are: an incitement to violence and theft.

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Stabbed With A Ghost Knife!

July 11, 2023 by 4 Comments

We were watching the CBS Evening News last night when a story came on about Dr. Larry Nassar being stabbed in Federal prison in Florida. Nassar is the disgusting excuse for a medical professional who sexually preyed upon US gymnasts for years until finally brought to justice.

I sincerely doubt Nassar’s attacker obtained a professionally made knife from Amazon. More than likely it was made from an eating utensil, toothbrush, or stolen tool that could be sharpened. Of course, mere possession of such an item is the 4th most severe infraction in this prison according to their handbook.

Here is an example of such a personally made weapon made from a toothbrush. It was confiscated from a prisoner in California.

Photo by James Sime

Given the gun control industry has deemed any personally made firearm a “ghost gun” (sic), then by logical extension the weapon used to stab Larry Nassar must be a “ghost knife”. It had no serial number and it has no markings indicating its manufacturer other than perhaps Oral-B or Colgate.

OMG! It is untraceable.

If the whole concept of a prison shiv or shank being called a “ghost knife” seems ludicrous, so, too is the media hysteria over personally made firearms aka “ghost guns” (sic) and their traceability. When the BATFE runs a trace on a firearm found at a crime scene, they first go the the manufacturer, then to the distributor, thence to the dealer, and finally to the original purchaser. Only very rarely is the original purchaser the one who commits the crime. Much more likely is that the firearm was stolen and has changed hands multiple times after that. Given the national average of “time to crime” or time from purchase until recovered at a crime scene is 6.24 years according to the BATFE, you can just imagine how many times a firearm could have changed hands whether legally or illegally.

So the next time you hear someone pontificating about “ghost guns” (sic) ask them what should be done about “ghost knives”.

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Asheville Gun Show AAR

July 10, 2023 by 1 Comment

This was a decent gun show in terms of both attendance and the traffic at the Grass Roots North Carolina booth. We had asked to move the location and the promoter graciously agreed to let us move. Given he donates the booth space as a way to support gun rights, this was not a given. Our new location was along the side wall with one of the main aisles ending right in front of the booth.

We definitely were more visible. Unlike the last show, we picked up a few new members. We also handed out a number of brochures as well as answered questions about the state of constitutional carry in North Carolina. HB 189 is alive but could use some help.

Given it was a nice day in July and people had other things to do, attendance was not what you might find in one of the winter shows. Still it was decent on both days.

I didn’t buy any new firearms but I did buy a couple of canisters of smokeless powder. I picked it up from the Redeye Reloading booth at a price that was lower than Sportsman’s Warehouse. I was really pleased to both find it and to get a good price on it. I have dealt with Redeye both online and at the show. They are a good company.

It is always interesting to see what people bring to the show to sell privately. This show it seemed to be heavy on the lever action rifles. I saw a lot of Marlins and Winchesters along with one or two Henrys. The only Savage 99s for sale were at the dealer’s tables. All in all, I would say the lever actions actually outnumbered the bolt actions this time.

Finally, if you are a North Carolinian who believes in gun rights you need to belong to Grass Roots North Carolina. We are the ones who get stuff done in Raleigh most of the time. To join, go to this website.

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Asheville Gun Show!

July 7, 2023 by

If you live in western North Carolina or are visiting the area this weekend, stop by the Asheville Gun Show. It is being held Saturday and Sunday in the Davis Event Center at the WNC Ag Center. For those attending from out of town, it is at the corner of Fanning Bridge Road and Airport Road in Fletcher just across from the Asheville Regional Airport.

It open at 9am on Saturday and runs until 5pm. On Sunday, it opens at 10am and runs until 4pm. If you got to the promoter’s website, you can get a coupon for $1 off the $10 admission. With 400 tables, it is one of the larger gun shows in the region.

If you do come to the show, stop by the Grass Roots North Carolina booth and say hello. I should be there most of the weekend. We will be in a new location that should give us more visibility.

More importantly, if you are not a member, take advantage of the gun show discount and join! We are still pushing hard on getting HB 189 – Freedom to Carry NC – through this session of the General Assembly. With enough pressure Tim Moore and Phil Berger plus the Republican supermajority in both houses, it is doable. More members means more pressure on those two.

I hope to see you there!

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Band Beach?

July 6, 2023 by 2 Comments

Today I learned something new. We’ve always known there were five beaches on D-Day in Normandy: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, and Juno. However, there was a planned sixth beach called Band that was a contingency to protect the eastern flank from the German shore batteries.

Jim aka Old NFO has more on it here.