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We need to remember the GOOD things in life! You know, it has never really taken much effort to find bad news if you wanted to look for it, but lately it seems like you have to actually expend effort to find good news. I think that's a shame. To be very honest, I think if we quarantined the world's media for 30 days or so and no one heard from them during that time, all of us would be a heck of a lot happier at the end of it. Since we can't force a media black-out, I figured we could use this thread to post about the things are keeping us HAPPY these days. Share a photo or just share a story. Let's keep it apolitical and leave the memes to other threads. I want to know what is personal for YOU. Here's something that keeps me happy daily. This is maybe the first photo of my almost three-month old daughter outside of the delivery room. You'd never know by looking at her that this girl has a date with a surgeon later this year to repair a partially cleft soft palate or that she has to wear a blood-oxygen monitor on her foot around the clock, every day, because that cleft causes her to be at high risk for sleep apnea. She's the object of constant affection from her older brother and sister, and makes me and her mom smile from ear to ear. Alright... what's keeping you all happy lately?

As an arm of the UN, I don’t support us funding it on general principles. I fully believe we should withdraw from the UN and expel it from our shores as an actively hostile entity and threat to US interests and national security.

Yes, this goes in this thread. A few weeks there was a discussion here about working from home and I stated that between telehealth patients I was refinishing a Model 63 Winchester .22 rifle. Not a great picture, but here is the finished work. This rifle was created in 1952 (3 years before me!) and purchased by my Dad. I shot it all my life and it is a great rifle! Over time the forearm cracked and could not be repaired, and of course, original parts for a 1952 Winchester are long gone. A few months ago I started looking on the internet and found a walnut forend for this gun on eBay for $45!. I ordered it and a friend worked the forearm down to fitting more closely. Jeff Walle did the final fit and put a new spring that drives the action in the gun. (It only lasted 68 years!) The last task was to get the forearm color to match the stock. Despite trying different stains, nothing worked. Then I found that linseed oil darkened the forearm to the same color as the stock. By the time I finished all with TruOil you see the result. I'm pleased with the stock/forearm color match. Finally I touched up the bluing (originally done by my Dad) with Brownell's Oxpho Blue and you see the final result. A good use of my "work from home" time!

I spend an inordinate amount of time away from home out in the truck. With the better weather as of late my wife has been sending me more pics of the kids as they are spending time playing outside together. Those pics and videos are what gets me through these weeks away from home. They let me see what I’m out here working for.

The UN is demonstrably as useless as teats on a boar hog!

That's a good start, now if we would get out of another useless parasite .org, the united nations, that would be great.

Opposition to authoritarianism doesn’t make one a Democrat. It makes one a believer in the individuals rights and liberties acknowledged and enumerated in the constitution.

I used "angry" because it is so true. We have to help out local stores as much as we can. It will mean paying a bit more, but your neighbor will be there when the need comes.

What do you want him to do? If he said he made a terrible mistake and it was all his fault, you would have a problem with that. And what good would that do? Now its time for tough choices being made deciding between public health and our economy. People sitting on the sidelines who only contributions are ripping on Trump serve no purpose what’s ever. The Governors of each state in conjunction with our President will be making decisions that will result in the death of Americans no matter which way they go. We should all be supporting them and trying to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem. There will be plenty of time and plenty of Congressional investigations started by the likes of Pelsoi, Schiff, and Schumer, to keep you entertained for months when this is over.

I'm thankful for the family reboot that is happening. My 21 y/o daughter is home from college. My 14&16 y/o son's lives were so busy with school and sports but now we are all at home spending time together, time that I never thought would happen again. Yes the current world situation sucks but hearing my 3 almost grown kids laughing and having fun together is pretty nice.

David, that’s a beautiful little girl, keep her safe. What make me happy is my family and the knowledge that my God is in control of my life and I just need to remember to surrender control to Him each and every day.

There is only one thing better than the beautiful smile of a child, the beautiful innocent laughter tops it for me. I am a happy guy, pretty much all the time (after appropriate amount of coffee). I am living a great life, with a great wife and son. I have my faith, my family and my friends that bring joy to and warm my heart. Yes there are material things that I have and enjoy, guns and motorcycles, but my life is completed by the people in it.

Good idea David. Beautiful daughter too. I'm happy because my wife and I both have jobs. On top of that my job is paying me 20% extra for hazard pay even though they are letting me work from home. We got a full price offer the 2nd day our home was on the market. Just waiting to close on the 29th. Happy to be selling while prices are so high. I'm also thankful for our health and the fact that my high risk dad has avoided catching COVID.

Favorite rifle: Henry H001. I don't have the history that most folk here do, but I bought the gun in 2009 when i first moved here & I lost my round a long time ago. I'd rough estimate 200k+ I've recently acquired am old Marlin model 25 &so far it's amazing. Smooth, accurate, fun to shoot & deadly on bottle caps! Pistol: I'm really digging this new Ruger Wrangler, but the finest I ever owned was a Ruger Standard (pre-mark) I regret selling that one hard.......

We have derailed this thread but I had to laugh at Amash being called a democrat. That might be most factually wrong statement I've ever read on this forum. Even 15 seconds worth of research would have revealed this. opposes abortion voted to repeal Obamacare Introduced an amendment that would require a balanced budget pro 2nd amendment- he was a founding member of the 2nd Amendment caucus. routinely speaks out against NSA surveillance programs "I follow a set of principles. I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty." Justin Amash Sounds like such a liberal..... If people would be honest with themselves they would probably love this guy as president.

I would generally agree with this statement but there is a small flaw in it. The way our political parties work, they reward extremism and employee purity tests. The country isn’t split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. You increasingly have the Republicans on one end, the Democrats on the other, and then a whole mess of folks bigger than either of those other two groups stuck in the middle. It wouldn’t be completely out of the realm of possibilities for the right person to come in and gather up those people under the umbrella of “those other folks are bloody lunatics!”

Which...is exactly how ALL the REPUBLICANS and ALL the DEMOCRATS want you think.

Not quite. It is extraordinarily effective at transferring wealth from the poor and middle class in the first world to the wealthy in the third world.

Perhaps that is exactly what it was designed to do. Remember, these places have been sitting on major stockpiles of cheap guns and ammo, ever since Trump beat the pants suit off Hillary over 3 years ago. I can't think of a better way to move it all.... And at a tidy profit as well.

Trump is cutting funding to the World Health Organization. Sounds like all of it.

We have done this a couple of times in the past. Since the increase in traffic at TGO since Covid-19 I thought it was a good time to bring it back. I am donating Qty 10 6 month benefactor memberships. The rules are as follows: 1) you mush have been a member at least 1 month prior to this post 2) you need to have at least 10 posts. 3) you can't currently be a benefactor. Thats it. If you meet these requirements then post in this thread that you want to be included in the drawing. I will keep this open through the weekend. Sunday evening or Monday morning I will take all the names and put them into a randomizer and select 10 users for the membership. The hope is that after your membership is up that you will renew and continue to support this site financially.

The other thread about 22lr suggestions got me thinking about how each of us probably tend to gravitate to one caliber or type of rifle/pistol. For me, that is 22's. I love 22's of all sorts. I am pretty well versed in 22's and have a lot of them including many competition guns (I shoot 22lr Benchrest), but I got to thinking about what got me started to really love them. We don't have a lot of 22 threads on here, but I thought it would be cool (at least for me) to see what others consider to be their favorite personally owned 22 pistol and/or rifle and why. I am sure for some it will be a handed down rifle from their parent or grandparent. For others it may just be an era of guns, or it could be the only one you have. I am always looking to learn more about different 22's so also hoping maybe I will see something that intrigues me that I didn't know about. It doesn't need to be expensive or rare, just loved by you. Let's limit it to one rifle and pistol per person. Can be hard for those with many, but there is always that one that means just a bit more. I'll start. Rifle: Winchester Model 52D with 14x Unertl When I first got into 22's a buddy of mine had a 52C that I shot and I fell in love. Many years later I own a few, but this probably my favorite. This is what got me started into thinking about shooting Benchrest and started me down the rabbit hole. I just had it out a few days ago shooting targets. It's still impressive to how well these old guns shoot. Pistol: Browning Medalist As you can probably see, I lean towards old classics. I actually bought this gun on here from a fellow member. I love older target pistols like 41's, Hi Standard's, and of course this Browning. Something about these that once I saw one I had to have one. The grips are amazing and it is just plain fun to shoot. This is a shooter grade, but a pistol I smile at every time I get it out and shoot. I hope some find this thread enjoyable. I know most are more tactical oriented on here.

When I was four years old my Pop started teaching me to shoot with a .22 single shot. I wasn’t strong enough to handle it in a manly fashion, so I shot cans up , while resting it on a stool. Fast forward to college at University of Tennessee, and I started shooting on the rifle team (club). We got to shoot Anshutz Target rifles. Later I was a member of the ARCOM Rifle Team and I shot a Winchester 52D. Over the years, I’ve had a number of different makes and models, Nylon 66s, Mossberg Plinksters, Ruger 10/22s and a really sweet Remington 521T (still have it). But the rifle I love the most is that Winchester 67, that I learned to shoot on, back in 1967! My favorite pistol, is a Ruger MkIII Bull Barrel Target Pistol.

Be smart and stay safe brother.

Beautiful little girl, David. My beautiful little two year old daughter when she sees me for the first time all day and runs over to me and hugs my leg until I pick her up. google street view

My kids and I were walking in our neighborhood the other day. Being in Brentwood, the back of my neighborhood is home to a bunch of turkeys that no one seems to have told that spring turkey season is going on. They’re safe and fat. Anyway, my kids and I were walking and came upon about 30 hens and two big toms who were all out in full strut. My 8 year old gobbled at them - not expecting a reaction - and you’ve never heard such a ruckus. They were so mad at him. He was kind of hidden by a bush, and the toms came to investigate. It was great once he realized they were coming his way - at which point he lost his nerve and high tailed it down the street. His sisters laughed all the way home.

I'm not sure I'm happy but I am thankful. New granddaughter that I'm staying away from, I still have some work, one bodaciously strong wife who's put up with me for 43 years, food in the freezer, and all the ammo I might need. Sometimes you just have to trust the words of George Harrison.....all things will pass. Hang in there guys.

First Bushmaster from 2009 and one of my current 11.5” builds.

This. Deerslayer, My explanation was answering Trekbike’s question. I was explaining for the non cross dominant people what cross dominant people are dealing with and why it is a problem and why it effects their shooting when it is an undiagnosed condition. Just like I said in the earlier post once We determined the student was cross dominant and I showed him how to mitigate that condition he shot very well. But he had been dealing with this for 40 years and as of yet had not yet considered (nor even heard of ) the possibility that he was “aiming with the wrong eye”. If you are cross dominant and you have already figured it out then you are that far ahead of those who still cannot figure out why they seem to be doing all the mechanics right but are still not getting the results they want . It could be that they just have a cross dominant vision issue that has gone undetected and undiagnosed.

I saw this a while back on the subject and thought I would post the link. https://youtu.be/u6ygkP87obE

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Current events will have more impact on this issue than who is in office at the time. All its gonna take is for a tear jerker of a story involving a brace and they are on the chopping block.

Maybe. I didn't think Trump could beat Clinton in the last election. Well...someone who can out-tweet Trump. At least he spelled everything right and used complete sentences. I wish for that day. Candidate D and Candidate R both show themselves to be despicable and then Candidate I comes in as a reasonable alternative and secure enough of the "non-voters" to win.

I couldn't agree more. Not only is it a WHOLE lot easier to employ some simple bio-mechanics to reposition the handgun instead of trying to remove genetic dominance reinforced by decades of life, most handguns are configured for right-handed shooters and can't easily be converted to lefty models. Forcing left-handed shooting will severely limit the choices of handguns and to me, would take all the fun out of it. It's no fun to keep doing something over and over again and still suck at it. I don't think after years of shooting lefty I'd every get as good as I am shooting righty with a shift to my left eye. I'm no Hickock45, but I do alright. Switching hands might work well for some, especially someone who has some reasonable coordination in their off-hand, but someone who insists shooting off-hand is the first and only solution should be forced to sit down and transcribe the Encyclopedia Britannica using only their off-hand. By the time they get to volume D they might write mostly legibly, but it will never look as good as their dominant-handed writing. Or maybe play piano but reverse the octaves played by each hand. Good luck with that. I'm not a doctor, neuroscientist, or an instructor but I know what works for me. If someone hadn't told me about cross-dominance I never would have figured it out.

^^^ This x 1,000. Most people have never heard of eye-dominance, much less cross-eye dominance. The standard mechanics often taught to shooters are for right-handed, right-eyed shooters. If I followed the common instruction like keeping both eyes open, squared shoulders, eyes straight ahead then I'd basically be playing Spray N Pray. When I first started shooting I was closing my left eye to get a clear sight picture. then I was reading here on TGO that I should shoot with both eyes opened. I kept trying it but I was sooooo bad that way. I eventually went back to closing my dominant left eye. then I took a shotgun class out at the clay range off Briley Pkwy and the instructor did the triangle hands eye-test as shown in the OP. Sure enough....cross dominance. He put a sticker on my left lens and it has been super-helpful. After that I was able to figure out a way to make an adjustment on handguns too to get the sights in front of my left eye while keeping both eyes open. It's waaaaay more noticeable on rifle/shotgun to me, and more challenging. The image entering my left eye is the frame, fore grip, and barrel of the left side of the rifle/gun. Compensating on a long gun is basically impossible with both eyes open and unobstructed. If I don't close my dominant left eye or use glasses with a sticker on the left lens I have to really pay attention and align my sights and target using the weaker image coming in to my brain from my right eye. I can usually manage that when bench shooting a rifle at a static target to get me to within minute-of-badguy inside say 100 yards, but it's too slow for action shots like clays or anything longer or smaller than a 2'x4' target inside 100 yards. When shooting scoped, it's like I have two completely different images and I have to pay attention to the one with the cross-hairs but my brain fights me the whole time. For a cis-vision ( ) shooter, get on your rifle and notice how you can see the left side of your rifle with both eyes opened, but it's not what you're focused on. It sort of just disappears and you mostly see the sights and targets unless you pay attention and actually try to focus on the left side image. It's the reverse for cross-dominant shooters.

I agree. That’s why I have said I don’t like him as a person. But he is a great President. We wanted a President that wasn’t a politician. That’s exactly what we got and prior to this, a booming economy to go along with it. I know you don’t think that economy would have continued, but he is a proven perform so far. I wish he would stop using Twitter. I wish he would quit making statements like “The Presidents power is absolute!” I wish he wouldn’t bait the idiots at the press conferences. But none of those things have any impact…none. I don’t know if he will be reelected, I can only pray that happens. I don’t understand how anyone, even a liberal, could let their hatred of Trump cause them to vote for any of the Democrat candidates we have now. And voting for anyone other than a Republican or Democrat is senseless. But then I never thought Americans would come that close to running a socialist. We are getting ready to either take an even bigger hit on our economy, kill a bunch of Americans, or both. All Americans should be concerned with that instead of dragging up old tweets from Trump. We all know he said those things. We all know he sometimes says stupid things; and we know why.

We that’s just fake news. POWNED!

It’ll come back around it always does. People just need to learn their damn lesson. Ammo has been so dirt cheap for so long...if you didn’t have ample supply don’t blame anyone for raising their prices man up and take the blame....kind of like people that complain about how little they get on social security but never saved a dime for retirement their working years.

Has that ownership really been contested, though? I don't think anybody is actually in love with China or anything, they've just been filling a void we left because that's how nature works. This isn't a decision I'm too firm about one way or the other, but a "taking my ball and going home" move isn't going to fix the WHO one bit, and it's certainly not going to teach China any kind of lesson. It's just more of the knee jerk reaction that's passing for decision making these days.

But China already owns the WHO.

Governor Northam and his cronies enact laws abridging basic civil liberties, and then celebrate. Hmm. Pop quiz, Virginians: What is your state motto?

After the Obama years it is beyond my comprehension why anyone is not at least marginally prepared.

Apparently so. Gun people are such a paranoid bunch.

That'll fix everything.

Update. Nice day to shoot! So this is Tula FMJ play ammo run threw the Mec Gar 15 round mag. Bottom is 10 yards off hand 10 second rapid fire while the top is shot off the bench. I don't use my bifocals shooting despite the blur of the target (lesser of the 2 evils). So for me the FEG is a nice target toy now. Having good sights as you get into your 60's is much more an item than ever! Only thing golden about these years is getting paid to breath air. LOL

I put a lot of Western Auto and Sears .22short, .22long and .22longrifle through my Model 61.

Pays to be a boy scout....

I remember a time when there was no such thing as bottled water except maybe tonic water or seltzer to make cocktails with until Perrier came along. Then everyone had to start buying water they’re already paying for at home or getting free anywhere they go, lol. It really wasn’t all that long ago. It’s amazing we survived.