The Benjamin Marauder PISTOL - Finally is Here.

Okay, you all know I am crazy, and that I like things that are different and "yes" when they are different they cost more. In the long run an air gun cost less due to the rising cost in ammunition compared to a firearm. But I have always loved the Air Guns, even way back when I was with Lewis and Clark on the Expeditionary trail to the west coast  LOL. Well the folks at Crosman has done it again! I knew they would because they had the right platform to do it with... What am I talking about, the all NEW "Benjamin Marauder Pistol". Here is the report from "The Outdoor Wire" , coming from the SHOT Show 2010, Please READ it!.  I am so excited to see this because I imagined it as soon as I saw the Benjamin Marauder Rifle was a success.  Yes this is the same rifle I have been having fits over seen I have seen it. 

Here are the spec's on the pistol that I know of:

8-rd circular mag with auto-indexing

Internal shroud makes this a VERY quiet gun

Choked barrel delivers superior accuracy

Raised aluminum breech for easier loading of the clip

2-stage adjustable match trigger...and the trigger is metal!

Uses 3,000 psi compressed air

Built-in pressure gauge

Tank ends with quick-disconnect Foster fittings for fast refills

Includes CenterPoint Optics red dot scope & stock extension to shoulder mount the gun

Ideal for hunting small quarry up to 33 yds away

Made in the USA

This is great news to see the "Made in the USA" on another fine product. Goto to the fine folks at Pyramyd Air to pre-order this pistol NOW! Crosman plans to start shipping around the 8th of February, in late August of 2010. Just in time for my Birthday.  Did you notice it comes witha scope and shoulder stock extenstion?  One day I may get to start doing "actual hands on reviews" on all these products that I blog about. I will be excited to see reviews by Jim Chapman, the "A-Team", Paul Capella, Rick at AirGunWeb, and Tom Gaylord or course. More Later, Enjoy

2010: Odyssey Two

2010: Odyssey Two can you remember back to January 1968... As a child I never thought I would reach this year coming up - 2010.  Just a mire 42 years in the future. There are times that I wish I had not, Mankind has certainly not grown or matured that much in that time span, looking at the wars and rumor or wars and the pain and suffering that we still have not solved.  We are still far away from a world of peace and unity. But I someone do not see that ever happening till I reach glory. I pull this from  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  I think we have not yet reached to point in technology that is in this story line.  Do you remember HAL?  I wonder where we will be in 2061, and if we reach the story line in the book 2061: Odyssey Three .


In both the book and the movie, the story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter.^{[4]  A joint Soviet-American crew,[5] including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the famous cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of David Bowman. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery One. The Soviets have an advanced new "Sakharov" drive which will propel them to Jupiter ahead of the American Discovery Two, so Floyd is assigned to the Leonov crew.}

However, a Chinese space station rockets out of Earth orbit, revealing itself to be the interplanetary spacecraft Tsien, also aimed at Jupiter. The Leonov crew members think the Chinese are on a one-way trip due to its speed, but Floyd surmises that due to the large water content of Europa they intend to land there and use the water content to refuel. The Tsien's daring mission ends in failure, when it is destroyed by an indigenous life-form on Europa. The only survivor radios the story to the Leonov; it is presumed that he dies when his spacesuit air supply runs out.

The Leonov survives a dangerous aerobraking around Jupiter and arrives at Discovery. Mission crewmember and HAL 9000's creator, Dr. Chandra, reactivates the computer to ascertain the cause of his earlier aberrant behavior.

A sequence of scenes follows the explorations of David Bowman, who has been transformed into a non-corporeal, energy-based life-form, much like the aliens controlling the monoliths. During his journey, the avatar of Bowman travels to Earth, making contact with significant individuals from his human past: He visits his mother and brushes her hair (shortly before she dies), and he appears to his ex-girlfriend on her television screen. In the novel, the aliens are using Bowman as a probe to learn about humankind. He then returns to the Jupiter system to explore beneath the ice of Europa, where he finds aquatic life-forms, and under the clouds of Jupiter, where he discovers gaseous life-forms. Both are primitive, but the aliens deem the Europan creatures to have evolutionary potential.

An apparition of Bowman appears before Floyd, warning him that they must leave Jupiter within 15 days. Floyd has difficulty convincing the rest of the crew at first, but then the monolith vanishes from orbit and a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter begins to form and starts growing. HAL's telescope observations reveal that the "Great Black Spot" is, in fact, a vast population of monoliths, increasing at a geometric rate, which appear to be eating the planet.

The Leonov crew devises a plan to use the Discovery as a "booster rocket", enabling them to return to Earth ahead of schedule. Unfortunately, HAL and the Discovery will be trapped in Jupiter's orbit, with insufficient fuel to escape. The crew are worried that HAL will have the same neuroses on discovering that he will be abandoned yet again, and Chandra must convince HAL that the human crew is in danger.

The Leonov crew flees Jupiter as the swarm of monoliths spread to engulf the planet. Through a mechanism the novel only partially explains, these monoliths increase Jupiter's density until the planet achieves nuclear fusion, becoming a small star. In the novel, this obliterates the primitive life forms inhabiting the Jovian atmosphere, which the Monoliths' controllers had deemed less worthy than the aquatic life of Europa.

As Jupiter is about to transform, Bowman returns to Discovery to give HAL a last order to carry out. HAL begins repeatedly broadcasting the message "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE." The creation of the new star, which Earth eventually names Lucifer, destroys Discovery. However, HAL's artificial intelligence is removed from Discovery's computer core and transformed into the same kind of life form as David Bowman, and becomes his companion.