This is the personal blog of Walt White. I am a Drafter/Designer living in Berks County, PA. I have a fondness for Cigars, Photography, and Firearms. Take a look around and you may find something interesting regardless of how different your hobbies may be from my own.
Over the past couple of weeks I have been having a great time trying my hand at USPSA Stage Design. My first stage certainly had a few hurdles to overcome but I’ve been having a great time learning the ropes. I think I am at the point now where I can say that Stage 001 [...]
Over the past week I have been up to my neck in USPSA Stage Design, and lovin’ it. There have been a few snags along the way but nothing that couldn’t be worked through with the advice of readers and email exchanges with the guys over at the Power Factor Show. When the concept design [...]
I’m still trying to adjust to my new podcast recording schedule but I was able to sit down on Sunday and take advantage of a quiet house. The extra time to review and edit was nice for a change. The episode runs a little over an hour and is available in both audio and video [...]
Yesterday I posted about a problem with my Community Developed USPSA Stage. It was pointed out to me that my No-Shoot Swinger created an issue which needed to be resolved. I toyed around with the idea of changing the No-Shoot to a typical target but ultimately decided to scrap the swinger and re-design the far [...]
Earlier this week I posted the first, of what I hope will be many, Community Developed USPSA Stages. I was happy with the feedback that I received and think it is about time to make the first revision. Before I start making revisions, I want to share two items. The first is a problem with [...]
Back around Black Friday, Midway was running their usual sale. Some of the items were kind of cool, others I could do without. One particular item that caught my eye was the Walther Sub Companion Knife. I thought picking up a few would make for nice little Christmas Gifts. I ordered a couple knives and [...]
During Episode 25 of Shooting The Breeze, I spent several minutes talking about Episode 55 of The Power Factor Show. Towards the end of the show, the guys informed their audience that they were looking for some stage design submission to critique in a future episode. I’ve been wanting to try my hand at USPSA [...]
Way back in the early episode of Shooting The Breeze, I sat down and put together a small list of podcast goals for myself. The objective was to keep me focused on producing content week after week. I reached my first goal after completing Episode 10. The next goal was to reach Episode 25. If [...]
This weeks episode of Shooting The Breeze was rather interesting. If you watch the video closely (or listen closely, for you audio folks out there) you can actually see me get sick during the podcast. In the middle of the first news story I had sinus pressure creep up on me and only get worse [...]
This shooting season I had one goal that was more important than all the others. It was a simple goal, actually. All I wanted was to get a USPSA Classification so that I could determine a base line for future goals. To become classified in USPSA you need to shoot at least four classifier stages. [...]
In this weeks gun podcast, I was given the gift of gab. That, coupled with simply being in a good mood, stretched this podcast out to roughly an hour and thirteen minutes. I followed the usual flow of the show, however, I added in an extra piece of news as I felt that it shouldn’t [...]
Earlier this week I was cruising Good Reader when I came across a variety of items discussing the upcoming plans of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. On January 8th, the one year anniversary of the Arizona mass shooting where six were killed and thirteen injured, including U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Candle-Light Vigils were [...]
Episode 22 of Shooting The Breeze received some fantastic comments and opened my eyes to a subject that I’ve been thinking about off and on for a while. I decided that while my Beretta 70S was my first pistol and has brought me some fond memories (taking an NRA Basic Pistol Class with my wife, [...]
The holidays were both cruel and kind to my little podcast. While some much needed time away from my day job was great, I had difficulty prying myself away to work on the podcast. My trend of recording the podcast at the last minute continued and I wrapped up recording last night. The episode runs [...]
Earlier this month I came across a thread on the PAFOA Forums announcing another informal shoot being held at Oley Valley Fish & Game. I enjoyed myself at the last one and thought I’d sign up and shoot once again. This time around conditions were less than ideal and I wound up chilled to the [...]
