Pistol

Pistol

$12.99

Pistol is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It’s the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father’s dream — and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete — a basketball icon for baby boomers — all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed author Mark Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption. Almost four decades have passed since Maravich entered the national consciousness as basketball’s boy wizard. No one had ever played the game like the kid with the floppy socks and shaggy hair. And all these years later, no one else ever has. The idea of Pistol Pete continues to resonate with young people today just as powerfully as it did with their fathers. In averaging 44.2 points a game at Louisiana State University, he established records that will never be broken. But even more enduring than the numbers was the sense of ecstasy and artistry with which he played. With the ball in his hands, Maravich had a singular power to inspire awe, inflict embarrassment, or even tell a joke. But he wasn’t merely a mesmerizing showman. He was basketball’s answer to Elvis, a white Southerner who sold Middle America on a black man’s game. Like Elvis, he paid a terrible price, becoming a prisoner of his own fame. Set largely in the South, Kriegel’s Pistol, a tale of obsession and basketball, fathers and sons, merges several archetypal characters. Maravich was a child prodigy, a prodigal son, his father’s ransom in a Faustian bargain, and a Great White Hope. But he was also a creature of contradictions: always the outsider but a virtuoso in a team sport, an exuberant showman who wouldn’t look you in the eye, a vegetarian boozer, an athlete who lived like a rock star, a suicidal genius saved by Jesus Christ. A renowned biographer — People magazine called him “a master” — Kriegel renders his subject with a style that is, by turns, heartbreaking, lyrical, and electric. The narrative begins in 1929, the year a missionary gave Pete’s father a basketball. Press Maravich had been a neglected child trapped in a hellish industrial town, but the game enabled him to blossom. It also caused him to confuse basketball with salvation. The intensity of Press’s obsession initiates a journey across three generations of Maraviches. Pistol Pete, a ballplayer unlike any other, was a product of his father’s vanity and vision. But that dream continues to exact a price on Pete’s own sons. Now in their twenties — and fatherless for most of their lives — they have waged their own struggles with the game and its ghosts. Pistol is an unforgettable biography. By telling one family’s history, Kriegel has traced the history of the game and a large slice of the American narrative.

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Review of the Burris Black Diamond Rifle Scope

Burris is a manufacturer of precision higher end scopes for rifles, shotguns, muzzle loaders and pistols.

The claim to fame of Burris is the quality of their optics. They take great pride in putting quality optics in all their scopes. Burris also builds scopes to endure the rigors of hunting and target Shooting. All scopes are sealed and nitrogen filled to keep the optics from fogging up and keep the scope waterproof.

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The Burris Black Diamond scope is a premium, high quality scope designed to compete with the best brands from Europe at a lower cost. This scope exhibits precision quality construction and materials and will satisfy even the most critical shooter or hunter.

The critical part of the Black Diamond is the select lenses that Burris utilizes. They are produced from ultra-pure, ground and polished glass to transmit a maximum amount of light. These marvelous optics return a tremendously sharp resolution and brightness giving you an advantage in long range competition events and hunting for big game.

Image brightness, clarity and image purity throughout the power limits is spectacular.

The premium optics will benefit the shooter in two ways. First, the view of the target will be a clear as it can be, enabling the shooter to hit the target that he’s aiming at. Second, in low light situations quality optics will gather more light and make the target appear brighter. The obvious advantage during the early morning and later in the day hunting conditions when game is the most active.

To increase precision ever further, a side parallax adjustment is employed. This allows for extremely exact parallax adjustment, a shorter overall scope length, reduced mounting height and decreased weight.

The elevation and right to left adjustments are nice to operate and clearly graduated.

Overall, the Black Diamond is a high quality scope with no compromises. You can hunt or competitively shoot this scope for a long time and never want for another.

Burris Black Diamond Scope Specs:

Construction: Aluminum

Reticles: Plex, Fine Plex, Ballistic Plex, Ballistic Mil dot

Magnification: 4-16x, 6-24x, 8-32x

Eye relief: 3.25-4 inches

Tube Diameter: 30mm

MOA: .25 inch for 4-16x, .125 inch for 6-24X and 8-32x

Weight: 20oz for 4-16x, 21 oz for 6-24x and 8-32x