angel!

angel is by far my favorite tattoo artist ever, and just hella rad all around. here she is being bundled up, and shooting a gun! yay portland vacation!

more norther gun pictures!

from that same gun shootin adventure as earlier, these just took longer to get developed.

robin

robin was probably the only person properly dressed for shooting guns on a snow covered mountain. luckily, she balanced the scales by showing up WAY hungover.

norther emily

my good friend norther just moved back to portland after being gone for a couple of years. I really wanted to take her out, bro-down, catch up on everything we've missed in each others lives, and have a really fun time doing it. so we jumped in my truck, headed to the wilderness, played in the snow, and shot a bunch of guns. if handing a girl with frostbitten hands a tec-9 isn't a great welcome back then I don't know what is.

the brit

so, we took another foreign european type shooting with us, this time, some kid from where bbc is from. he seemed scared, and also, angry that I kept calling him the brit. this wasn't meant as a diss, more that I just couldn't remember his name, and he was the only foreigner there. he was not nearly as attractive as our last foreigner, but he was a nice kid.

what the fuck?

it's this kind of insanity that makes vanj great. "would you like to shoot the ar?" "sure, hang on a sec..." *digs through bag, pulls out a mask, puts it on* "okay, I'm ready!

andrew

I really like andrew. he's what I would describe as a "capitol weirdo". this is a great thing to be, a little eccentric, a bit weird, but a good dude. this picture's not that great, but I wanted to post it because I like the hella old grandpa gun, the sleeveless t, and the goofy haircut together. it's a nice combo.

alexis wrekk: gunslinger

alex was un- comfortable about shooting guns. I told her over and over again how safe and sane we were shooting, and that if she wanted to come, I'd be happy to have her. she came, and became the first person to hurt themselves with a gun that we've shot with. I felt really bad. luckily, it was a little ding. sorry, alex.

back in time vanj

we went shooting this summer. and I developed the film this winter. a couple of the shots looked weird. I like them. vanj + pistol + cheerleading outfit. whynot?

nicholas rouley

nick came out to visit portland after years of talking about it. one of the first things we did was head to mt hood and shoot guns in the snow. I really hope I did a good job of showing him how we do in Portland.

lil emily. ememily. etc emily.

I'm really glad we got emily back. it felt like forever that she was in this strange alternate universe, a desolate black hole. but now she's all normal and fun again. and with a coonskin hat.

f/s: one gently used belt buckle

this shit's going on ebay. a vast improvement, even if it doesn't actually help keep pants up anymore.

THIS IS WHAT FIGHTING FOR YOUR FREEDOM LOOKS LIKE

james shooting the shit out of some shit.

arwen

I've mentioned arwen's awesomeness and gun lovingness many times, (like here: ARWEN) and the only thing I really have to add this time is that she's a scorpio, and we bro-d down about that, and her skylark, while a really debatable mode of long distance travel, did a fine job of getting us to simon's and back. she's still rad, she's still tougher than you, and there we are.

meggan

meggan's pretty rad. I don't know much about her, something about redneckery in her past, but never having shot a gun before, she works at a cafe, she wears doilies, which I don't even know if that's how you spell that. but she seems pretty awesome. so that's cool. I would question her sense of direction, especially when drunk, but my friend elias once walked four miles in the wrong direction while wasted, and he's lived in portland for like 7 years. it happens. anyway, if I wasn't lazy, I'd make an animated gif of the first two pictures. also, she looks sort of scart with that tec, no?

victor

so, I only got a couple good shots of vic shooting, mostly because he didn't yell or walk at targets or shoot with the gun sideways as much as everyone else. but I really like the one of him here with the tec, and I think he and mica ended up making a really weird/awesome picture together.

my girl.

mica had never gone shooting before. I wasn't really sure how she'd feel about it, whether or not she'd be stoked on it. about half way through the day she looked over at me, with this awesome goofy grin, while holding a semi- auto tec-9, and I got the impression she was having a good time.

mal and james, a love story.

nothing romantic than teaching your wife how to shoot a gun. mal with her first shot, mal figuring out how to get over her winking problem, mal smoking and shooting a tec-9.

professor of fire arm technolitar

I love it when simon tells us about the history of guns, but I think the cigarette dangling from his mouth, interfering with his speech, makes it seem a little less informative than it actually is. it's the equivalent of your calculus teacher wearing a cowboy hat in class.

miguel

holy shit, way to own it, man. boondock saint?