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Murphy showed up at Mass one Sunday and the priest almost fell down when he saw him. He'd never been to church in his life. After Mass, the priest caught up with him and said, "Murphy, I am so glad ya decided to come to Mass. What made ya come?"  Murphy said, "I got to be honest with you Father, a while back, I misplaced me hat and I really, really love that hat. I know that McGlynn had a hat just like mine and I knew he came to church every Sunday. I also knew that he had to take off his hat during Mass and figured he would leave it in the back of church. So, I was going to leave after Communion and steal McGlynn's hat."  The priest said, "Well, Murphy, I notice that ya didn't steal McGlynn's hat. What changed your mind?"  Murphy replied, "Well, after I heard your sermon on the Ten Commandments, I decided that I didn't need to steal McGlynn's hat after all."  With a tear in his eye the priest gave Murphy a big smile and said; "After I talked about 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' ya decided you would rather do without your hat than burn in Hell?"  Murphy slowly shook his head. "No, Father, after ya talked about 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' I remembered where I left me hat."

Well, when you are raised by government and basically taught there is no accountability for any action, everything is given to people and the culture around you is based on nothing but crime and corruption with no consequences in most ghetto homes, there you go. An entire subculture of takers is born and they can't differentiate between taking handouts or stealing from someone with more than them, or even less. 

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For the life of me I can't understand why people buy Kel Tech handguns. One of the least enjoyable guns I've ever shot was the PF9. Hell, you can just look at it and see how cheap they are. For just a little more money one can find better options.

Good riddance. Newsflash!! Breaking news, this just in! You can increase your chances of NOT getting shot by an order of magnitude....All you have to do is not be a damn criminal.

Honestly, when a family comes out after something like this and spouts things that basically say that it is okay for a person to go 'shopping' at someone else's house because that person was raised in the 'hood I do not feel a bit sorry for their loss.  "Where will he get money for clothes." etc.  Who cares?  Where the hell do these people think the homeowner got the money for the stuff he was there to steal - from a friggin' pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?  How is it that homeowner's responsibility to see that Trevon has clothes and so on?  Screw the lot of them.  Further, I don't feel a bit sorry for the dead guy, either, nor do I think his death is in any way a 'tragedy' or even a real loss.  Bottom line: thug broke into middle-aged lady's house, middle-aged lady decided not to be a victim, thug got dead and won't be breaking into any more homes.  The only sympathy I feel is for the homeowner who was dragged into this situation by the aforementioned thug.

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The only thing carbide in a carbide set is the sizing die.  You may try putting a tiny bit of lube on the expander so it slides on in there a little easier.   Or....the expander may be a little rough.  Wouldn't hurt to take it out and polish it up a bit.

I've had two that I would give all I have to get back. I've spent thousands on dogs, hundreds on dogs that weren't even mine. Never regretted it not even once.

The biggest part of self-defense training is training your mind to know when to act and what to do. In my 40’s I figured out I’m not 10 foot tall and bulletproof anymore. By 60 I figured out I’m not able to go hands on with anyone anymore. Situational awareness. Will you see a threat progress? At what point are you justified in pulling a weapon on a person? Do you have quick access to a weapon you are willing to trust your life to? Do you practice for that scenario at the range? Can you do a mag dump at 7 or 15 yards into a silhouette without using sights and have effective hits? Can you put your hand on a weapon without pulling it that is ready to fire? Have you thought about what you will do when the perp has the drop on you? We tend to underestimate thugs. Todd you probably won’t see coming. Fred you might, but he could be an ex-special forces operator with PTSD that is far better trained than you. You may find yourself in a situation where going for your gun will do nothing but get you killed. As cops we learned from the mistakes of other Officers that lost their lives. We looked at the situation in-depth to see what could have been done differently. And unfortunately sometimes there is nothing that could have been done and the good guy dies. Training your body is very important. But when your body starts slowing down your mind is still capable of getting/keeping you out of trouble.

BS; first, Todd having the mental toughness and mental discipline to do all that is probably somebody on your side. Todd, wants to go home at the end of the day, Todd does not want your measly $20 you may have in your wallet, and Todd, having undergone all that training is probably doing all this overseas to the same people that we all want to have it done to. No, Todd is not the guy you need to worry about; it's Fred Crackhead, and Mohammed Martyr which pose the greatest risk. Fred, wakes around 1pm after a night shooting up heroin or smoking crack. He needs another fix, he has honed his skill by shoplifting, breaking into cars and houses. He doesn't really care if anyone is there or not, his only goal is the next fix. He started off carrying a piece of pipe someone threw out, upgraded to a knife in one of the home burglaries then scored a nice 1911 when he broke into a truck looking for loose change, he was almost caught though, but he managed to give the owner the slip. Fred has now decided that loose change just isn't cutting it, he decides to go for the big score so he picks a nice store to rob, and look there is a sign out front letting him know that nobody inside will confront him. So he begins his robbery when what do you know, the trucks owner just walked in... Mohammed, wakes at 4am tired and restless from the long flight the night before. He has just completed a 6 month course in Somalia where they taught him hand to hand combat, how to shoot rifles handguns and RPGs. John, I mean Mohammed, mustn't make that mistake again; it could mean his head...Mohammed has come back home to the US. He was born in Michigan, dated a high school cheerleader, worked his dad's farm, but became dissolutioned after graduation, thought Obama was going to fix things, after all he is one of them. But listening to his heroes Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright he has come to the realization that only he can strike a blow for Allah. So he straps on a his vest made just like his explosives instructor taught him using dynamite his dad was planning on using for those stumps in the new pasture and loads his equipment into the old ford. His chosen targets, the local water supply, his friend Thomas, err I mean Maliki, brought over some powder to dump into the pumping station, it's right by the stadium where the big homecoming game is scheduled to be played. He knows security will be light, after all nothing can happen here, but he has had a friend supply him with a new AK-47 just in case...

Boy, I bet Jon was mad as a hornet before you got done with him!

You're likely wasting your breath until they've had the experience of shooting the pistol and getting frustrated on their own.   If they get frustrated, that gives you an opening to help them learn.  But, up to that point, it involves throwing the husband under the bus.

There comes a time...been there and hated every second of it.

Lots of fun today at the range! Just wanted to SHOW you my fire and TELL you how much fun I had today! Happy St. Pattys Day!

Both are 5/32" thick 1095 carbon steel that have been double etched and have mosaic pins. This one has a matched set on mesquite scales and thumb jimping on the spine. This one has a nice set of mahogany scales and some filework on the spine..

This popped up on my facebook. My apologies if you have read it, but I thought it was pretty insightful to look at things this way. We always talk about being ready for a worst case scenario, and this is one way to think on it. I didn't write this Todd presents an interesting way to look at where to fill your own voids, or what you need to train up on to be able to successfully confront. Todd By belisarius That long thread about Aikido got me thinking about the assumptions that we make about our potential opponents when we enter into any kind of "self-defense" training. I suppose that virtually any martial art or fighting system will work if your opponent is a moron, but how does it fare when you have to go up against the rare "black swan" event---the perfect storm opponent situation? Since you cannot control who you will run into, maybe it is prudent to create a template for a worst case opponent and assume that is who you will have to face in a fight for your life? Let's call him "Todd." Physical fitness? Discipline? Motivation? Todd is a former Division I-level athlete. He benches over 350 and runs an all-out quarter-mile in just over 50 seconds. Todd spends his mornings pounding out miles of hard roadwork, pumps iron like a maniac in lieu of eating lunch, and spends his evenings dry-firing his EDC handgun, studying ways to hurt people, and beating the hell out of his Spar-Pro and heavy bag. He maintains an extensive library of books and videos on combat and survival-related topics. He goes to bed tired but satisfied every night, satisfied because he has no other hobbies and because he looks at training as money in the bank---he will cash in his full paycheck on the fateful day that he faces you in a fight. Todd spends his weekends doing strenuous physical activities and competing in IPSC Limited or IDPA matches. He spends his vacations going to places like Crucible, the Rogers Academy, and BSR. Todd has no other hobbies and he is not really concerned with being a "weird, paranoid freak" in the eyes of many normal people. Todd does not really hang out with "normal" people, anyway---he prefers to hang out with people like himself. Warning of an attack? Deception? Good luck trying any Jedi mind tricks on Todd: he studies NLP and evolutionary psychology. Todd does not dress like some kind of thug, either: he knows that a clean-cut appearance increases his time/distance window of opportunity to ambush his prey. Pay very close attention to Todd's choice of boots, belt, and watch---they may be the only warnings that you get. Todd knows that anonymity is the most important weapon in his formidable arsenal. He does not threaten, he does not warn, he does not talk #### or insult---those things take time and telegraph intentions. Todd just makes a binary decision and then acts. Training? Background? Todd trains in the most effective fighting and survival techniques that he can. He is open-minded and non-judgmental, caring only that techniques fit within an overarching framework of logic and ruthless pragmatism. He lives his whole life this way---it is his structure, his discipline, his religion. Todd may have a black belt from Rickson Gracie, may have been a Golden Gloves boxer or a freestyle wrestler or a linebacker, may have trained in the famous Muay Thai gyms of Holland, may be a student of WWII Combatives or battlefield jiu-jitsu methods. Maybe---and now the plot gets chilling (as Marcus Wynne describes in his books)---Todd has been the recipient of millions of dollars in government-sponsored training...money that was specifically spent to turn him into some kind of professional shadow-warrior badass, like John Macejunas or Kelly McCann. Maybe Todd is all of the above: operator, martial artist, fighter, contact-sport athlete. It does not really matter where he got his start, because he has synthesized his approach into a combination of very destructive, attack-oriented techniques that he can perform with maximal effort without much fear of hurting himself in the process. He can strike and he can grapple, and most importantly he always tries to hit first. Weapons? Equipment? This is the best part: trying to beat Todd in an unarmed fight is largely an academic exercise, because you will never, ever catch Todd unarmed. He carries a Glock or 1911, Fox OC spray, and a fixed-blade with him CCW every single day of his life. Todd is not interested in hitting you with his hands or feet---given even the slightest provocation, his opening gambit will be to present his handgun from the holster and to demand that you remain very still and quiet. If you then try to disarm Todd, strike Todd, or reach for your own weapon to attack Todd, Todd will not hesitate to shoot until slide lock. Todd also trains in ways to use his knife to great effect---maybe pikal, maybe more of a Kni-Com technique, maybe both. Names like James Keating and the Dog Brothers are very familiar to Todd. Todd will run you over with his SUV if you give him reason to. If you are more of a distant problem, he keeps an M4 or a DSA FAL in a Pelican case in the trunk, next to his trauma med kit and bugout ruck. Forget trying to get to Todd at home: his place is like a fortress, complete with crazy locks (Todd studies B&E, too), a large dog, and the ubiquitous Scattergun Technologies 12-gauge with Sure-Fire light. Remember that Todd likes to move first---his first move is to draw a weapon on you. Todd is not stupid. This isn't Bloodsport or a Sho Kosugi film. Todd wants to win...period. Todd sounds like a nightmare, doesn't he? Well, let's all take heart---while we cannot control whether or not we will ever have to face a Todd, we CAN control our own training and preparation. We can become "Todds" (!). Many of you probably consciously found similarities between your own lifestyles and habits and the ones that were described above. I think the idea is to imagine the most ferocious and skilled opponent that you could face in a nightmare, then try to become that person (within whatever constraints that you face). If you are not willing to become a Todd, then you need to ask yourself who it is that you believe you are training to face. We can become the "worst-case scenario" for someone else to have to deal with. I believe that these forums are about this...the mindset, the techniques, the equipment. There has been a lot of heated debate lately on various subtopics beneath the mantle of self-defense, but we are all students (no one has all the answers) and we are share far more similarities than we do differences. I don't believe that anyone here is interested in promulgating some kind of massive mind-meld---dissenting opinions are what fuels progress and interesting debate.

The first rimfire match at Strategic Edge is set for March 19th at 9:00am   This first match will have a tactical and a benchrest part.  You can shoot either or both Benchrest will shoot 3 different 50 yard targets: ARA, IR50/50, and IBS-50 Tactical will have a mix of paper, silhouette, and 3D targets from 25 to 150 yards. For this first match only, tactical will be shot from the benches.   Entry fees are: Age 11-17 $10 each for Tactical and Benchrest  (prizes awarded in each division for 1st, 2nd, 3rd) Age 18 +  $20 each for Tactical and Benchrest   (cash prizes awarded in each division for 1st, 2nd, 3rd) There will be a $5 non-member fee for the day   Any money remaining after prizes and target expenses will go to youth training program.   For directions, go to http://www.strategicedge.us/about-us   Feel free to ask questions here also or PM me.   Regis

Gorgeous knife and sheath. GT does beautiful work. I love mine.

I think the only one you will really need to snug up will be the center rivet. Possibly the rear trunion. I used the press tool on the center and rear. You might be able to rig up something using a c-clamp or one of those wide jaw vise grips used for welding.    You will find you press comes in handy for putting the barrel in and out.

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Fun day today. Thanks to everyone who came to shoot and especially those who came early to finish setting up. Incorporating the classifier in to a match worked great. Terry did good with his stages that were both challenging and fun.

  She-who-must be-obeyed will hear that! 

I thought you could shoot all you wanted in Memphis? It seems that way in many parts of town.

Your spartan.....he bears a certain resemblance to.....Mr. Wrestling #2.....jus kiddin' it looks awesome.

wife: honey,why don't you fire up the mower and cut the lawn!? husband: okey dokey baby!

I believe that long barrel solved the problem. Sent from the Fortress of Solitude.

On the reloading front, buy in bulk when you can. Also I purchased the Giraud Tri-way trimmer head for .223 and picked up a used Evap cooler motor off of ebay for 25 bucks shipped. The tri way trimmer turn brass prep into an easy process, just stick the case in like your sharpening a pencil, brass comes out trimmed to length, chamfered, and de-burred. Wish I would have bought that set up first before spending money on other set ups that just didnt do it for me. Sent from my SM-G900P using Tapatalk

The reasoning is sound for soldiers, but that could not be further from the truth for LEOs. Just in TN there are probably 20 different issued handguns, and they aren't all Glocks or even .40s. Tennessee State Highway Patrol are issued Glocks in .357sig. Just check the thread pinned at the top of this sub forum, "LE Duty handguns in TN"

AR accessories are a lot like fishing lures.  I bought a lot of lures that caught more anglers than fish.  OK maybe the analogy was a stretch but what I am saying is that the AR accessory market is a big market.  New gadgets, gizmos, pouches, rigs come out daily marketed in a manner to sell.  That is why a lot of us end up with boxes of cool looking "stuff" that we never use.  I usually end up with a kit that consists of well worn, often surplus, equipment that is pretty much basic.  May sound crazy to some but my old H-harness with a couple pouches, bands and butt pack see more time than any now days. Nothing wrong with "Old School".

Don't wait, hit him up and he will make what you want. That is how I am getting that second knife you see in this post. He could not be easier to work with and goes above and beyond to get you what you want. Can't wait to get my hands in it, just waiting on one of our resident leather masters to work their magic on a sheath.

Me? Yes. Some jack wagon that is living under this flag and all it represents as well as the symbol of all that have sacrificed to make it that way doesn't deserve to live under it. Of course they could just leave instead.

It is a 1896 S&W. Had a S&W specialty guy look at it and it was made in last 3 months of 1899 or first 3 of 1900. All markings verified and certified. It is also now resting nicely in my safe.

I was in there today also. Lots of cases of Norma 22. $56/500 if I recall correctly.

Speaking for myself, I understood your position, but as Dave said we are already a "special group" who pay for a privilege and I don't think the correct path is trying to make us more special. The state should recognize and respect the rights of all the people instead of forcing folks to pay exorbitant fees to exercise their rights.

I would pick Constitutional carry. We as a “special group” can have all the carry permits we want but we will never be able to drive it down the throats of business owners. The state can try, but the courts won’t uphold it. You have more of a chance of carrying in government owned buildings if it’s a recognized right.

A Hi Point would be Waaaaaaaaaay better than a Raven!   I might say something similar to what Pete123 said, and ad in some info about caliber selection based on FBI stats as well. If money isn't an issue then it sounds like the problem may be that the husband thinks his wife can't handle a 9mm or even a 380. Interestingly I went pistol shopping with a friend a while back and everyone was pushing her to a 380. She had problems cycling the slide on blowback 380's but locked breach 9mm weren't a problem particularly on compact size guns where the slide mass allows for slightly lighter recoil springs.   They have come to you as an expert. They should respect your opinion. Discuss the Raven's materials of construction (Zinc Alloy) vs a quality brand handgun. It may take some shopping to find something she likes but I haven't met a woman yet that doesn't like shopping. Most are intimidated by the lingo and testosterone heavy atmosphere of a gun shop. Your training should help with that.   Fit is important for good control and there are a lot of good pistols out there for smaller hands now days. My wife uses a S&W M&P Shield 9, and a Sig P320 compact with a small grip module with no problems. My friend went with a Shield 9 as well but came close to buying a Glock 43 and a Sig P225.   I'm sure that after she has a chance to shoot she may also make up her mind that the Raven is sub par at best...   Good Luck!

If there had been a surgery that would have saved my friends life, I would have sold everything I have.

He who finds roll pin must build rifle ASAP

Maybe I'm jaded but I shed zero tears when someone like this dies. I'm the world is a better place without them. I value human life, but only human life with value.

They moved over as much as possible, there was a pickup truck and a guard rail on the other side.

Any death is regrettable...period.   But committing a robbery is not justification for  school clothes money. At least not in my world.

With the help of another friend I think I've decided on a lever action 30-30. Going to start my search for a decent used one. Seems to be the best of both worlds and doesn't look all tactical in case I need it for a worst case scenario. I liked what one guy said on another thread "don't look like the bad guy". And the lever gun would be a good woods gun as well and deer rifle if needed.

Good lord, the quotes from his family members.................

The beat fits better than Hank Jr. I thought the mud was camo paint on the AR first time I watched it.

https://youtu.be/Y7De_DDqBtc

Indeed. They have a history of excellent cover songs.

I am 100%  behind the LEO on this one. I have lost a few family members and a few friends and one entire family of Husband,wife and two wonderful toddlers all to drunk drivers. I have zero tolerance or pity for a drunk driver. The way I look at it 1 less off the road makes the roads that much safer. And as for his being killed, that falls under the list of Self inflicted injuries caused by stupidity for which I have no mercy..............jmho

There's no excuse for driving drunk.  It's attempted murder every time you do it.  Premeditated at that!     I hope more drunk drivers get shot.  Good enough for them.  There's many a mother that's buried a child who would agree.