Vagus

The scam is the bad check.. You sell something for $5 they say they will give you $10 for the item if you cash their $15 check and send the extra $5 back to their private shipping company. You don't know that check is bad for a week or two, but by then you've already sent them a real check for $5.... Alternatively, they send you a larger check and when you, the honest seller, let them know it was too much - they claim it was a mistake and you can cash that one and send them the difference.... Because most banks will deposit funds after 48 hours, but still mail the check to the origin bank - it can take weeks to find out the check was bad, even when you bank put the funds into your account. Worst part is you are completely liable and the bank will take that money out, even if you spent it.

At least I had some fun with this one... On 9/14/08, STUPID SCAMMER wrote: ** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY ** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home ** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping ** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html Is it still available for sale? On 9/14/08, VAGUS> wrote: yes it is. On 9/14/08, STUPID SCAMMER wrote: Ryan Hello, i will not be able to come look at it at your place due to my tight schedule for now. I would be happy in picking up the unit in person at my leisure time, it's advisable to make arrangement on how to get the unit shipped via my shipper without you paying for any cost. I will be sending you a money order/certified Checks as a form of my payment. All i need in order to get this done is your full name and mailing address where payment will arrive, If you wish to compromise with this payment method ,I will be sending you an excess in which you will send to my shipper as soon as you faithfully deduct your own part of the payment...I'm doing this cos my schedule for now is so tight and i'm intersted in buying it. kindly get back to me with all what i requested above in order to finalize payment immediately. Thanks P.S:- I will be offering you $700. As for the pickup you dont have to pay a dime for it cos my shipper will be responsible for the pickup to destination and they will come for the pickup immediately the cheque clears,My advice for you as a seller is to remove the item off Craig list,I will like to read from you if this is okay by you. I await your info for quick payment. On 9/14/08, VAGUS> wrote: Wade, How generous of you. That is more than I am asking! how absurd! I insist that you only pay me $600 for it and I will personally hand deliver it to you. This unit is too nice to be trusted in the hands of a shipping company, and I fear their treatment of the item will ruin the timbre and natural resonance of the finely crafted Tennessee unit. As someone with a busy schedule like yourself, who in the need for brevity uses the short hand "cos" for "because" to save valuable time, will appreciate my offer to accommodate you so readily. Please give me your itinerary and I will arrive by motorcade to deliver the unit under armed security.

Big brass ones, Vagus...big brass ones Obviously.. I shoot a .45 (ps it is a photoshop)

Ummmmmmmmmmmm I Clearly remember watching it live when I was in college on April 8, 2000. So yeah, I am over 8 years old I was finishing up my B.S. in music, so needless to say "more cowbell" was a popular phrase amongst my peers at the time.

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A friend sent this link to me. http://bored-night.com/index.php/People/Gr...T-Handguns.html Whatcha all think? Can't imagine my personal terror had they been 1911's or something I was more intimately familiar with.

Do you like crutches? All that machine work making you want to do Orthopedic Surgery now or something?

So I when I go see Joe on Monday, I can be the first to break, errr play with your new toy??

I don't know if I would call it bold, but more in the moment. I find in practicing, I only shoot and drill what I can consciously think to try and do. However in matches I let auto-pilot take over and don't think anything, make any plan mid-cof, or decide to try anything. Every so often however some amazing shots are made, in ways I never trained or practiced before. Most of the time they are subtle variances of calling shots and makeup shots that are nearly instantaneous. One particular bold move was on this one hoser stage where i needed to reload 3 times, I found myself shooting the last target in a group one handed while doing the reload. ( shooting 8rnd mags 1barny - shooting 3 targets and while transitioning to the 4th i was reaching for the mag and bringing it up while engaging the 4th strong hand ) Those reloads where well under a half second and my time was absolutely smoking on that stage. If i recall I came in second over all to one open shooter with my single stack on that stage. I have found it hard to consciously practice doing this - yet I will find my self doing this automatically time to time during a match.

If you ever noticed Jerry always shoots facing west.. this ensures that the Earth continues to spin the right way. If he shot the other direction time would stand still, possibly could even go backwards. Steven Hawkins talks about the Micelik phenomena in his book.

I've lived up in alaska for about a year over the 5 or 6 trips at different times over 4 years. There isn't any place like it. I had a lot of fun and left quite a bit of blood up there.

You need a little patience but the pay off is worth it. This video was posted showing a flaw in the Golfing game for xbox The guys that made the game actually posted this video in explanation of the supposed mistake.

I think I might take this shotgun in to trade on some other toys I want more. I don't like getting rid of guns, but the safe is only so big. This gun was only made 4 years and I can't get a good feel for what it may or may not be worth. Anyone have access to price guide or anything to give me an idea on this one? Thanks

All of these where quotes that where featured in the game Call of Duty 4.. lots of good ones. "In war, truth is the first casualty" -Aeschylus "Incoming fire has the right of way." -Unknown "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." -John F. Kennedy "War does not determine who is right - only who is left" -Burtrand Russell "A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons." -Admiral David D. Porter, USN "The press is our chief ideological weapon." -Nikita Khrushchev "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!" -Nikita Khrushchev "If the enemy is in range, so are you." -Infantry Journal "Cost of a single Tomahawk cruise Missile: $900,000" "Cost of a single F-22 Raptor: $135 million" "Cost of a single AC-130U Gunship: $190 million" "Cost of a single F-117A Nighthawk: $122 Million" "Cost of a single B-2 Bomber: $2.2 Billion" "So long as there are men, there will be wars." -Albert Einstein "Aim towards the Enemy." -Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher "I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?" -Robert McNamara "Any military commander who is honest will admit he makes mistakes in the application of military power." -Robert McNamara "You can make a throne of bayonets, but you cant sit on it for long." -Boris Yeltsin "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!" -General John J. Pershing "Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty." -Ronald Reagan "Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist." -Yassar Arafat "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." -Winston Churchill "War is delightful to those who have not yet experienced it." -Erasmus "Friendly fire - isn't." -Unknown "Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it." -Will Rogers "I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or evil that they become good or evil." -William Gibson "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die." -Herbert Hoover "The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise." -Colin Powell "Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share." -Ned Dolan "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -Norman Schwarzkopf “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” -Sun Tzu "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln "If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning." -Robert McNamara "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -Thomas Jefferson "If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe." -Unknown "Five second fuses only last three seconds." -Infantry Journal "If your attack is going too well, you're walking into an ambush." -Infantry Journal "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." -Colin Powell "When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend." -U.S. Army Training Notice "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." -John F. Kennedy "Cost of a single Javelin Missile: $80,000" "A leader leads by example, not by force." -Sun Tzu "If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed toward you." -Unknown "There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion." -General William Thornson "The more marines I have around, the better I like it." -General Clark, U.S. Army "Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder." -Unknown "Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find." -Colin Powell "Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." -Infantry Journal "The world will not accept dictatorship or domination." -Mikhail Gorbachev "Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them." -Voltaire "Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just brave five minutes longer." -Ronald Reagan "In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck prevented it." -Robert McNamara "Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem." -Ronald Reagan "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed." -U.S. Air Force Marshal "We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us." -George Orwell "If at first you don't succeed, call an air strike." -Unknown "Tracers work both ways." -U.S. Army Ordinance "Teamwork is essential, it gives them other people to shoot at." -Unknown "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." -Ralph Waldo Emmerson "We're in a world in which the possiblity of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry we didn't act." -Condoleeza Rice "All warfare is based on deception." -Sun Tzu "The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations." -Robert McNamara "In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash." -General Douglas MacArthur "You cant say civilization dont advance - for in every war, they kill you in a new way." -Will Rogers "They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations." -Robert McNamara "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." -General Norman Schwarzkopf "Any soldier worth his salt should be anti-war. And still, there are things worth fighting for." -General Norman Schwarzkopf "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -General Douglas MacArthur "Let your plans be as dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." -Sun Tzu "Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has truly never been there before!" -Larry Reeves "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." -General Douglas MacArthur "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain." -Vladimir Putin "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." -George Washington "Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very, accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." -USAF Ammo Troop "If a man has done his best, what else is there?" -General George S. Patton "The bursting radius of a hand-grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range." -Unknown "The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them." -Ramman Kenoun "Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom - for himself." -Elbert Hubbard

I want one. It will be handy when the zombie hordes start attacking.. Speaking of zombie movies are significantly lacking in mini gun action.

I dunno. Sometimes people seem like they are being good sports, but in the back of their mind they are grumbling about "next time" and setting forth a plan of action for improvement so they will not have to suffer the agonizing stench of defeat again. Or maybe he was just being a nice guy either way it is the thought that counts right?

I am shocked you are at a school that allows ccw's to ccw. That's awesome.

Good job My brother in law just got promoted - E3?A1C and my Dad is finally just now retiring at E9/Chief Master Sergeant I have an Air Force family, It is very weird going back home and meeting the airmen that work with my old man and how much younger they are than me. I think if flips them out more. I guess if I joined out of high school I would be well over the 8 year mark now.... yikes....

I actual met you Rush, I sat in the NROI seminar and played the stupid shooter during the scenarios. I am in the Quad Cities, webmaster for the milanpracticalshooting.com site, and all around involved shooting guy in the area.. Unfortunately I am moving to Colorado at the end of October, but I know a lot of great guys that would love to take JR under their wing. Shoot me a message sometime and I can chat with you and give you some other people's contact info that are involved in teaching and instruction.

Ahh Good Call.. Carry On...

Saving this thread from the second page... I like the shirts alright, but the line "getting back to where it all began" - Wouldn't a true snob quip " when did I ever leave?" :smug: I've only ever shot a single stack Alright- I have fired other pistols before, but not in competition. And I swear that I didn't enjoy it.

It seems to me that I've seen a thread or two talking about someone getting a detonation from letting a live one hit a rock or casing.. I've seen a thread or two about extractor detonation too.. I am personally more worried about detonations due to someone pulling the trigger of a loaded gun, as that is by far the greatest threat an RO faces. I've decided that I am not going to RO anyone that has strong feelings one way or the other on this issue.