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Tramp
| | Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 07:15 pm: | 
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That's insane on the part of gander mountain- I'm still unclear as to the reason- was it because the wait begins after the paperwork is completed, or because the found out about all the dead nurses? |
M1combat
| | Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 07:57 pm: |
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I don't understand Tramp... Why don't you figure that everyone that has a legal right to do so shouldn't carry at all times?
I'm mostly just curious. Gun balls aside, wouldn't that make for a more polite society? I think even gun balls would present themselves less frequently.
Just my opinion I suppose.
I've done martial arts, I practice shooting, I have a local IDPA/IPSC range I'm going to start going to once I get .45 reloading equipment for the Kimber... Isn't it just best to be prepared? I think I like the post about making sure the other guy can't out elevate the threat that I can respond to.
Maybe I just figure that way because where I live we have cowboys that stagger out of bars and shoot people (generally each other) every couple years down on Whiskey Row? Who knows. I was living about 100yards from the center of town a number of years ago and heard three gunshots one night. It's a fairly small town so I didn't think too much of it (didn't know where they came from anyway). The next day I found out that two ranchers decided to do the old quickdraw duel with each other... Not that I was in any danger though... |
Tramp
| | Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 08:31 pm: |
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(Message edited by tramp on May 30, 2008) |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 09:41 pm: |
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There are only a few who are allowed to present themselves as bad asses.
The rest of us are simply civilian.
The shop from which I bought my weapon did an instant background check with no waiting period. They said it took about 30 seconds.
I don't know if GM does theirs by paper if they 72 hour wait is a state regulation. I didn't have to wait. |
Cudajohn
| | Posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 03:44 am: |
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After getting back from a deployment to a hot area of responsibility, there is something very liberating about walking around town WITHOUT having to carry a weapon everyday(M4 and M9) or cleaning it 3 times a day. After 4 deployments since '03 this liberating feeling usually ends with my first trip to New Orleans (45 min. away).
I usually carry my Sig in car on trips outside of what I deem as home turf. N.O. or road trips I'll be carrying; auto parts store, grocery store, mall.... not likely. If I lived IN N.O. I would constantly CC. I choose to avoid living in shi++y areas though.
I am usually looking for a fist fight rather than a another gun fight. Call it a "type A" personality, Alfa male, or whatever but maybe it is too much UFC, reared with a brother who liked to fight, or maybe I'm just an A hole? Guys in my Battalion get into bloody fights all the time and hug and kiss afterwards. Yes, I said kiss. Get your mind outta the gutter. It's not like THAT!
If you NEED to CC to make you feel like a man then you aren't one at all. If you need to CC to feel safe.... move or practice you draw down fundamentals regularly.
High Speed, Low Drag. |
Buellerandy
| | Posted on Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 10:01 am: |
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I'm more or less the type that would rather have it and not need it, than to need it and wishing like hell I had it. If cc ever hits Wisconsin, I will. Until then, I'll continue to be a law-abiding citizen.
Unless I'm on the Buell. |
Jimidan
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 11:23 am: |
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I am usually looking for a fist fight rather than a another gun fight. Call it a "type A" personality, Alfa male, or whatever but maybe it is too much UFC, reared with a brother who liked to fight, or maybe I'm just an A hole? Guys in my Battalion get into bloody fights all the time and hug and kiss afterwards. Yes, I said kiss. Get your mind outta the gutter. It's not like THAT!
Well, yeah it is like "that". You don't have to have your mind in the "gutter" to get that mental image...two bloody combatants hugging and kissing, while nursing each others wounds. "I guess I got ya' pretty good with that one, huh?" "Yep, I shoulda ducked!" "Hardy, har-har! Yuk, yuk yuk!" What ever happened to don't ask, don't tell? Sounds like a scene from Brokeback Mountain.
So, is this why so many say that they can't wait to be sent back for a 3rd or 4th tour? |
Ferris_von_bueller
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 11:25 am: |
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LOL Jimi |
Cudajohn
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 02:34 pm: |
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Well, I can't say I wasn't expecting that. I would try to explain but it would sound like I was back peddaling. I will tell you it has never been on the lips. Well.....
No, really, I'm secure with it.
As for wanting to go back for a 3rd or 4th tour? Sometimes you leave something on the field and you think going back will help you find it. I am in a Battalion that is home 10 months and deployed 6. 10 and 6, 10 and 6, over and over and over. After 6 years I am ready to go but still want to go back to Ramadi next year with my friends. I don't want them to be there w/o me.
Edited the Blazing Saddles ref. out.
(Message edited by cudajohn on June 01, 2008) |
Captnemo
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 04:05 pm: |
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We just lost Harvey Korman this past week. RIP Headley Lamar.
(Message edited by CaptNemo on June 01, 2008) |
Captnemo
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 04:17 pm: |
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}Cowboy
What works for one person will not work for another. I wear a doc. Holiday shoulder rig with a texas cross draw had to home make it to use both parts. I can hit kill button on v-rod with right hand pull in clutch with left hand un zip draw and fire with bike still in motion it works good for me. (it will take a lot of practice before you are acurate and fast though.
Must be part of his Zombie Plan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFLtUxncZcU&feature =related |
Tramp
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2008 - 08:58 pm: |
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Anyone recall what they called those big revolvers back in the teens, that used halfmoon clips to hold .45 ACPs? they were manufactured as cheap wheelgun for mass manufacture, that would use the '11's round.
(Message edited by tramp on June 02, 2008) |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 - 05:40 pm: |
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1917's ... both Smith & Wesson & Colt made them. ( different guns, same model #, same .45ACP round with half moon clips. )
Now you can get full moon clips, and in a small(ish) revolver ( Taurus & S&W ) have the advantage of speed loading with a proven round. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 - 06:01 pm: |
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Thanks, Aesquire.
I had a few of those as a kid, I miss 'em.
They were great for shooting carp with |
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