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A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a very attractive woman waving at him.             She says, 'Hello.'             He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from. So he asks, 'Do you know me?'             To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one of my kids.'             Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife.             So he asks, 'Are you the stripper from the bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table, with all my buddies watching, while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery?'             She looks into his eyes and says calmly, 'No, I'm your son's teacher.'

Guys, this will be the first, last, and only warning for trolling. If you have a problem with someone, man up and talk to that person face to face, not anonymously on an Internet forum. Or for that matter, not out in the open on THIS Internet forum. TGO will NOT be the conduit for you to attempt to trash someone who hurt your feelings. If you require counseling, I can recommend a good therapist.

I have never been a big fan of the Redhawk. I always preferred the slimmer frame of a Blackhawk. This new Redhawk looks interesting. I kinda dig the funky shape of it and like the smaller grip. Looks like it will ship with three moon clips so it can shoot 45LC or 45acp.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33130987   Here's a bit of advice on how to lower their debt... get the hell out of Connecticut!

Why are they running around with their fingers on the trigger?

Having your vehicles serviced at Walmart is roughly akin to expecting to get a gourmet meal through the McDonald's drive-through window ...

So tonight my nephew tested for his yellow belt (second belt) in Taekwondo and Hapkido. The man who test him was the same man who tested me, my dad. I thought it was pretty cool that we now have 3 Generations of Martial Artist in the family. My dad is a 6th Degree blackbelt in Taekwondo, Hapkido and Judo, My oldest sister and myself are both 1st degree black belts in all 3 arts, and now her son and my nephew has started on the same path. Here are some pictures from tonight's test. The test included judo, even though the judo belt ranks take much more time to achieve, the school has always taught all 3 together and not made separate time or classes for each. Sent from the backwoods

For the hipster, it's just another way to be fashionable and see who can spend the most money on the current trend. Not that the guys at zero tolerance or benchmade or other high end makers will complain. Sales are sales.

Do ya really think Beretta will stay when they find out the State is requiring them to stamp "Go Big Orange!!" on all their guns? :bow:

Worst.  Excuse.  Ever.    Either their firearms safety training program is substandard, their officers adherence to firearms safety is substandard, or some combination of both. 

Well, my patients can't talk, but I did have a scratch on my cornea once.  It felt like sand or a hair was in my eye constantly (like I wanted to rub and flush my eyes, but it had no effect).   When animals have corneal ulcers they will have similar symptoms--spasms of eye, excessive tearing, redness, and sometimes a constricted pupil.   I would go to an ophthalmologist.  An optometrist is more focused on correcting visual deficits with lenses.  An ophthalmologist is a medical doctor who then specialized in diseases of the eye.  Their education overlaps, but the ophthalmologist will have more training and experiences with eye diseases.

I guess if I had to choose my 2 I hate most it is a toss up between the Lawyers and the Pharmaceutical companies pushing their pills that will treat 1 issue and give you at least 5 other bad issues to get rid of one. Gotta love those with 25 Plus bad side effects to get rid of an ingrown toenail...................... :shrug: :shrug:  

No sympathy whatsoever for a company that can't exist without a firm bite on the .gov teet. 

Tough love? keep screwing around with your eyes, they will give you a free dog! Seriously, go to an Opthamologist, our opinions are worth exactly what you pay for them.

All I have to say about this is I wish they would have stayed with Beretta's because the new plant here is under construction and I want them to be successful here..............jmho

Colt messed up big time by basically ignoring the civilian market while their pockets were being filled with uncle sams moola...Now that uncle sam dropped them as their small arms supplier in favor of Remington, they were left with nowhere to peddle their wares with an already booming civilian market...

I'm not allowed in local Arby's since my last visit when I refused to leave the store until they made me a sandwich that looked like the one in the TV commercials. The manager finally made me one with all the meat they showed on TV and served it to me in a bag with fries and politely told me not to come back so I have not been back. They advertise that they have the meat so I wanted the meat.......... :rant: :rant: :rant:

Those two dufus guys for Sonic just make me sick. Talk about insulting your intelligence...they are some of the worst.

Transitional training from the 92 or 5906 to an M&P in the hands of a 10-20 year veteran is a major shift in direction. All of the potential bad habits of staging a DA trigger while on a target become a ND  in the making with the M&P. E1 has the right of it, this is a transitional training issue that's only going to be solved by repetitive training. He's also right in questioning the type of holsters being used. I'm not going to point a finger at "finger on the trigger" because of sloppy gun handling.  

Good Mojo sent your way. I hope Bogey takes a turn for the better, we know how you feel.

I had some friends over one night. We were sitting around a fire talking and drinking when coyotes started raising hell. All of a sudden a bobcat let out a bloodcurdling scream from the same direction as the coyotes...Silence. Like someone flipped a switch. Not another whimper out of anything the rest of the night.

Fun Fact:  Restasis for the treatment of KCS was first invented and patented as a medicine for dogs for the treatment of KCS (by a Georgia veterinarian, no less).  I was using topical cyclosporin for KCS in dogs for a long time before the human version was approved.  Most medicines shared between the species start on the human side and then are adopted for animals.   Probably costs a lot more for humans, though.

You can’t pull the trigger if your finger isn’t on it; and that shouldn't be an issue. They are going through the same learning curve Officers did went they went from revolvers to Tupperware. I want to know why the guy had his finger on the trigger when he fell over a baby stroller. Or are they trying to imply the fall fired the weapon?

Those are the ones that kill me.   We can get rid of your minor problem that is an inconvenience, but we will give you ten major problems, and possibly death, oh and if you have any other issues, you problably shouldn't take this either.         And then a year down the road, there will be one for a lawyer who is leading a class action suit against the aforementioned drug.

I know i'm just an armchair civilian but, would it be out of line for me to suggest that the LAPD might want to make some changes to their firearms training? Just saying. It is California, one problem could be liberals handling firearms peroid, that even sounds dangerous by itself.  :eek:

If stamping Go Big Orange on their guns helps them sell guns I am sure they will stamp it on them for sure................. :rock:

Maybe S&W will buy the rights to the Python and Anaconda?

Concur, but its not uncommon for the heavy DA trigger of a DA/SA pistol to be slightly preset due to piss poor handling practices. All of which reaffirms solid firearms and use of force policies coupled with continuous training.  

And why the hell isn't he wearing a belt? What the hell kind of man tucks his shirt in and doesn't wear a belt? WTF?!

  Yes, all eye drops tweak PH to be same as eyes, that is, to "normal" eyes anyway -- these will safely flush your eyes but not leave any extra lubricating film.   Dry eye syndrome, if that's really a factor, can be simple deficit in tear volume, or no deficit in volume at all, but that the tears are no longer chemically balanced with correct protein blend for optimum surface retention (ie, evaporates too quickly), so you need a lubricant in there also, like Polyethylene Glycol, or Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, or whatever.   You'll find that unlike this saline only solution, most of the "natural tears" type drops also contain a lubricant, just generally not as much as in the ones described as "lubricant" drops.   Perhaps erroneous on my part to suggest that saline alone will make them any "drier",  but won't make them any "wetter" either except very briefly.   Whatever works for ya is right,  of course. But if the saline doesn't do anything for ya except 5 minutes at a time, try a few with different actual lubricating compounds in them.   - OS

Bring back the python and anaconda. If its done right bet their sales rocket. 

I'm in on this one bud. I'll take the usual #16 with a stonewashed blade. Thanks!

Nobody beats the Trivago guy! Can't even figure out what he's pitching because I spend the whole time wondering why in the world they thought this guy and his look were TV commercial quality. Is he young? Is he old? Is he old trying to be young? Is he a grown up from the Seattle grunge scene? Did he just get up? What's going on here?

  Seven ND's out of that many officers is pretty close to perfect already.

The guns don't go bang all by themselves.....just sayin. Idiots.

  which is wrong IMHO.  Send them thru 2 weeks firearms practice and training (possibly unpaid).  Sending them home and people are like teenagers that discover that doing certain things at school gets you a 3 day break from school ....

I was about to seriously call shenanigans then, I realized you were talking about the LASD and not the LAPD. :lol: It really is a non-story as long as no citizens were hurt and were made whole for any resulting property damage.

The original story has me flashing back to the early 90's when a guy decided to clean his ears with one of those wooden shaft qtips & it broke off in his ear. The look of sheer terror on his face as he said help holding up the broken stick, someone fished it out with some forceps, no harm done but it cracked me up thinking about it.

That depends on the department involved. When my outfit transitioned from revolvers to auto pistols, the transition course was 1,260 rounds, fired in two range days. Having experienced California's emphasis on peace officer training standards as a police trainer out there, I would guess that the state's Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training would probably insist on a minimum of at least a 300 - 400 round course for officers already qualified on auto pistols when they transition to the new pistol, and the ammo requirement for monthly practice courses would probably be increased quite a bit for six months or so. Like I said that's an educated guess, and each department would be allowed to fire as much above and beyond the minimum as they wanted or could afford. They take firearms training out there very seriously - my department had a 2,000 round training standard for cadets in training twenty years ago, just to give you some idea, while Tennessee had a 600 round requirement at that time. They get in lots of shootings out there and do indeed take it seriously. Very seriously. Hope this helps answer your question.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is one of the most professional uniformed police agencies in the United States, and adheres to rigorous training standards. I've worked with them many times over the years.  My guess is that there is some kind of a glitch going on with the transition from the DA/SA Beretta M92 and the striker fired Smith and Wesson gun. It could involve the need for different handling procedures or enforcement tactics, or the use of different holsters, etc. etc. The number of AD's with the new gun says to me that the problem is in the transition training process or equipment somewhere, but blaming the gun is nonsense - the guns aren't firing themselves. If I had to bet on a possible cause, it would be that deputies are applying Beretta 92 habits to the new pistol and that doesn't work. LAPD is converting from the Glock to the Smith and Wesson guns and is having no such problems.

If you are using lame old drug store pipe cleaners and swabs you need to change to these.       http://www.bearmetalclean.com/   http://www.brownells.com/gun-cleaning-chemicals/brushes-amp-bore-snakes/specialty-cleaning-brushes/super-duty-pipe-cleaners-prod1715.aspx

If you had something simple like a corneal scratch, then I would assume any urgent care place should be able to do a fluorescein dye test.  It is relatively simple to do and interpret in animals, so I would think one of those urgent care docs should be able to muddle through it.     (Human doctors are just like veterinarians who specialize in only one species. :rofl: )

60 are better but not by much, unless you shoot FA there's really no reason to go over 30

Crossfire thanks for the reminder, this is a day that I generally don't forget. Another few dates that most don't celebrate is June 5th, 1944 this is when the Allies entered Rome, also the Brits dumped 5,000 tons of bombs from 1,000 bombers on Normandy coast. And the one that really counts is May 8, 1945 which is VE day, victory in Europe. Thanks to all the vets and their families who paid prices we cannot comprehend for our freedoms.

That cat would look good up on the wall right next to this one... [URL=http://s196.photobucket.com/user/kahrman/media/bob.jpg.html][/URL]

$5 a box of 50 is .10 /per round and OK by you. But $40 for a brick of 500 .08/per round is scalping? As far as I see it they are both scalping.

  Only in one way IMO -- once charged all you have to do is keep pulling the trigger for 30 shots.   - OS

In the event of a home invasion, I'm not clearing my house (no little ones to protect) I'll be protecting my wife, barricaded upstairs in the bedroom with pistol, shotgun, rifle with ears on waiting for Dude to leave or choose to try to invade my bedroom. We've got insurance for all the stuff downstairs, I'm not using my life insurance early to play SWAT. I don't have that kind of training and I'm not secretly a ninja.

Sweet! That came out the year I graduated high school. I haven't heard that song in years. Brings back a lot of memories of my teen years & good times with friends. One of my favorite soundtracks on my computer is from "Empire Records". "The Cranberries", "Toad the Wet Sprocket", "No Doubt", & "Better Than Ezra" were topping the Billboards back then.

Great info! Know where can I can order some food stamps or other government assistance? I like this getting stuff for free ... I might be hooked. Hillary 2016!! Hahaha. Jk