JimmyZip
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Limited, It's what I had to shoot when I joined USPSA.
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Live long enough to see my girls out and living on their own so I can go back to chasing their mother around the house like I did in my 20s
Realistically? See another part of the world in an un-miltary fashion. Like with family and out of the elements while sleeping. Previous trips abroad were all courtesy of your tax dollars.
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Next they'll have little GPS trackers in the pizza delivery girl's car so you can watch her on your computer screen ...... go to 2 other houses & buy gas before she stops at yours.
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I was bullied at an early age. In our neighborhood I was jumped and beaten by the other kids when I was four years old. This in turn made me a bully when I reached public school in the Third grade. This issue was rectified by a short nice kid named Chris whose parents thought it good to have their small boy learn Karate should he ever come in contact with a bully.
It was the quickest lesson I have ever learned and I later became friends with him hunting rabbits and coyotes in the dunes around here through Junior High and High school.
While I have been in fights since then, I have never provoked another person since.
We have since grown apart and I still think of him and wonder how he is doing.
Here's to Chris Carlson for teaching me a life lesson that I will carry to the grave and which made me a better person INSTANTLY!
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Slurpees/Icees make me think of days long past, when a bunch of neighborhood kids could safely walk a mile or so down the road with 50 cents in their pocket or pick up a few "glass" soda bottles and refund them for change and buy some wax lips and bubble gum with trading cards or the big slabs of Jolly Rancher candy, and the Icees. All for half of what a 20oz, soda costs today.
good times
trapr
That was my Summer when I was a kid. I can remember the day we went up to the Circle K and there was an Astroids game over by the magazine rack. I went home with my Icee or Freeze, but not my Jolly-Ranchers. I just had to try that Astroids.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane
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Bay 4 again with the plate rack. This time I e-mailed a fellow shooter who I really think has a good attitude and he showed up. This was to say the least the best practice I have had yet.
I practiced for a half an hour before he arrived on draws, first shots, reloads, and weak hand. I seem to be improving with the first three, but not doing the greatest with the last. So I shot sveral hundred as a southpaw until my hand was dead tired.
When shooter #2 showed up with his timer, we did Virginia count timed drills from the 10, 15, 20, and 25 until it was getting dark
Drill #1 was clear the rack at the starting signal. Two strings one left to right, the other plates 1, 6, 2, 5, 3, 4.
Drill#2 was draw and fire once at the signal. Do that six times from each distance.
Drill #3 was Draw and fire from about 35 yards. This was showing me that I need to re-sight my pistol for about 25yd.
Did I do good? Well let me just say that I need to spend more time dryfiring and more time livefiring. Still, it was fun and educational.
Thanks Dennis for showing up and being a pusher when I needed it. Chris, I hope you get out there next Thursday and we can put up some different things to really tune it up for this months match.
JZ
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UPS on my SH&* LIST now!
Seems a scope is not much different than any other optical evices one would ship.
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Does it come with GPS, Garmin, or those cool liquid filled orientation gizmos of days gone by? I think they were called compasses.
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This will change the way you look at range brass forever. You will find yourself picking up calibers you don't load so that you might trade it for brass in your caliber, powder, bullets, primers. I usually find the desire to dryfire after I reload, or reload after I dryfire.
I only have a SBD, do you have to get a 1050/650 to get the wife to leave?
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Many happy years to you and your wife!
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Jimmy, there ain't a thing that we cook down South that is healthy...especially South Louisiana. However, our food is so good it'll make your tongue slap your brains out.
Buddy
Buddy, my Wife's family is from Central Texas, and North Western LA. They may not be healthfood poeple, but they are FOOD PEOPLE. I like fried meat pies, gumbo, roundsteak rice and gravy, pork chops and dirty rice, jubalaya, and chicken-fried steak mashed potatoes peas and gravy....oh this list can go on and on. I just wish my wife knew how to or liked to cook like that. That leaves me, a culinary school dropout, to cook for our family. I find the best recipes by word of mouth, hence the questions on food here.
If you want to get a good recipe, ask a friend or acquaintance what they like. You usually get a no-frills down home answer that pleases the palates of both adults and children.
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Nik,
The girls thought yours sounded best so I will be mking it tomorrow. I will let you know how it went and thanks y'all once again. I think you people are the BEST!
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Back to competition, first time in a looong time. Today was the USPSA match at Palm Springs Gun Club.I was squaded with the match directors and several great guys. I wish that IPSC had been this way back in the day. I am all for high round count run and gun. This has bitten me hard. If you ever get discouraged about dryfire and practice, you need to go shoot a match.
That was just about the most fun I've had ever. I did well for a newbie until I got to the classifier where I promptly choked! I failed to seat the magazine on LMR and drew and fired on an empty chamber. This threw a 48" wrench into my game plan and I proceeded to get a procedural, two or three mikes and several other things that I've forgotten or chose to forget selectively. Needless to say, if I had shot the rest of the match as poorly as the classifier, I may have had a worse time. But being a newbie to this angle on practical shooting I feel that my feloads and draws were good and that I was able to move and shoot well for my level of proficiency.
I just want to thank Chris and Hartman for putting on a good match and for being such good hosts. They are great people and I will be back next month.
Shooting steel is fun, SC is cool, Stock Gun and Speeding Zone also, but the IPSC match at PSGC ROCKS!
Now, planning on practicing strong-hand and weak-hand only on Thursday. The qualifier has shown me my major weakness and I want to push to plug up that hole in my game.
To all of you who have given me humble and sage advice, I want to say thank you and thanks for giving me a place to inquire about this sport without fear of ridicule.
Like Merlin Orr has said, "I love you guys."
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C'Mon GlockSpeed. I just said chicken. You give me the recipe and I'll make it. Me and the kids like chicken( baked, broiled and fried) I was online looking and didn't find anything interesting so I came here 'cause I've seen good recipes on this site. That's the cool part of this forum. Tightloop where are you?
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I have skimmed two good recipes from this website. Seems shooters know how to cook. Mus t be because we know how to eat. Looking for a good chicken recipe for tomorrow night. Thanks, I await your brilliance
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I so need to work on that more!
But yours looked great!
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And stands? Would love to have a set of five or six stands. Make my whole backyard my dryfire dojo.
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Rich,
Who gets those great tactical goodies like the V-Tac for our troops? I'm sorry for the drift, but I was wondering if that isn't a good cause to get people together on. Better than issue gear for our guys out in the boonies. Or does anyone know of something like that already?
BTW, I have that sling on my SOCOM and I like it quite well. It has a great range of adjustment and seems to be of high quality.
JZ
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Happy B-Day Scout!
Trapr, is that a Rhodesian? If so I must say that one I had years ago, best dog ever! My girfriend named him Arbuckle!
(Ex-Girlfriend! Can you guess why?) Anyway, great lookin lad, I hope his days are many and lazy!JZ
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Out here we have a station out of Santa Monica called KCRW. It is the mecca for anything from Indie, Roots Rock, World Music, Latin Music, Electronica, Reggae, Indie Country, Urban and Dance. The news on this station is typical NPR lefty, but the music is usually something interesting. Even though I don't always like it, I can usually appreciate it. Check them out on the internet and you can podcast their stuff.
JZ
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Pharoah, Thanks for that imaging. My 2nd grader was only able to catch the end as we're here on the West Coast and by the time the clouds cleared, it was beginning to wane. I shall show her tomorrow morning that which we missed. Thanks again, JZ
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If the Big Bad Wolf had had that stuff, Little Red would be dead. We need to make sure that none of the S.T.U.P.I.D. camo gets into the hands of any Big Bad Wolf brethren.
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Sundays SC match at P.S.G.C. and the squad before us wasn't picking up it's brass. Generally we clean up our brass upon completion of each stage and divide it amongst ourselves. Only three out of our seven was a reloader. Left with five hundred more than I came with, and we still left piles as there was just too much as most of us are heavy with brass 'cause the cops use our range and NEVER pick it up!
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Congratulations!
You will motvate others, now bask properly
,JZ
(Ex-Girlfriend! Can you guess why?) Anyway, great lookin lad, I hope his days are many and lazy!
Chiquita bananas
in What I Hate
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Sounds like business as usual for an American company in South America. I know that sounds awful, but even the CIA has been party to such things before. Not trying to bash anyone or such, just had a close relative that was party to similar things. After talking with that relative for a few hours one evening, I didn't want to know anymore.
Corruption and payoffs to the people with the guns is typical in any country where the state does not control the countryside 100% therefore giving other factions room to breath and grow. For all we know, Chiquita may have seen this as the cost of doing business in that country. Fruit, oil, timber, minerals, they are usually in the heart of Indian Territory or outside zones controlled by the state completely. In such cases, the companies usually are paying both sides to allow them access to their feilds/mines/orchards/railheads/etc.