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I slapped some flat OD green on the slide of the pistol. And no it did not make it any uglier, LOL. I agree with the post that said grill paint, but you might need to prime it first. And I do agree with OS, I would not paint that rifle. If you do not like it, sell it and get another. The stainless look is worth a dollar or two more.

if a Moderator happens by would you please lock this thread down.

Congrat's Cody, real proud of you dude.

I just watched the weather prediction for tomorrow. I don't think there will be much of a problem with the shoot going on. Looks like whatever happens will end tonight and not start back up until tomorrow night.

I'll go or not go based on what the rest of you are going to do. Pretty well can promise platezilla will not come out without some help loading it in the truck. We'll sort it out tomorrow morning.

You nailed it and understand exactly how I feel. I didn't know Chris, but he did impact my life. Far and away my all time favorite player for a franchise I once worked for. Your entire post was spot on. Thank you.

thanks for the post Slug. It does put things in perspective.

no one was glorifying Chris Henry, I certainly wasn't. I do grieve for his death, it saddens me. He left a family who was dependent on him, he has children he was supporting, he left a huge void in another family, his football team. hexhead said and you provided a quote where a judge called him a "one man crime wave", (which I guess you have edited out as it is no longer in your post.) At any rate, the charges you put in bold were dismissed, it was not Henry who was involved. It was those charges that brought about the judges comment and Henry's subsequent waiver from the team. Henry was brought back when it became obvious he was innocent. Funny though, crime is fine by you as long as it is you committting the crime or no arrest is made. Michael Vick paid his debt to society, as had Henry (which you seem to ignore). both to this point seem to have made things right.

whats the point some people are full of hate.

yanno, screw a bunch of you. The point of the thread was to give ME a place to vent some feelings. I feel sadness over this. I thought there might be support here, mostly there has been. Thanks for the support, ( thats sarcastic to the few of you who showed your ass)

Chris Henry remembered by Bengals players for turning his life around Chris Henry remembered by Bengals players for turning his life around | cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.Com The Bengals have already dealt with plenty of adversity with the death of the wife of defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer and the tsunamis in American Samoa, which affected the team’s samoan players. But nothing can prepare a team or organization for what they faced on Thursday morning – the death of one of their own. Chris Henry, 26, died Thursday morning at 6:36 a.m. in Charlotte, N.C., after suffering head injuries in an accident on Wednesday. Carson Palmer informed the team of Henry’s passing before their 10 a.m. walkthru. Palmer was one of Henry’s most vocal supporters, often calling him Randy Moss Jr. during offseason interviews. The quarterback and receiver even shared a ride to training camp in Georgetown, Ky. “Chris was a guy that I believe and our team believes was heavily misunderstood,” Palmer said. “There was a lot of speculation about who he was, but the only guys that knew Chris and knew how good of a heart he had, how kind he was, how gentle he was, the guys in our locker room, the guys who were close to him, his family.” To honor Henry during Sunday’s game at San Diego, the team will wear a helmet decal with Henry’s number and coaches will wear pins that look like the decal. Plans for Henry’s funeral were unknown. Said Zimmer of the events of the past couple days: “This is life. Life is so much more fragile. In this case it just shows how fragile life is.” Turning around his life Players and coaches remembered Henry not as a troubled football player but as a person who had turned his life around and was just starting to realize success on and off the field. Almost everyone spoke about how Henry’s public persona, which was known more for the five arrests in 28 months from 2005-08 than his on-field ability, was different than the person they knew in the locker room. Team president Mike Brown, who decided to re-sign Henry four months after he was released, was equally as stunned and sad over the news. Director of Security Rusty Guy arrived in Charlotte early Thursday to be of assistance to the family. Henry’s mom and his immediate family had arrived in Charlotte Wednesday night. Henry had been on life support since he fell from the bed of a pickup truck driven by his fiancée, Loleini Tonga, during what police said was a domestic dispute. “We knew him in a different way than his public persona,” Brown said. “He was soft spoken, pleasant, comfortable to be around. He had worked through troubles in his life and finally seemingly reached the point where everything was going to blossom and he was going to have the future we all wanted for him and he wanted for himself and then this tragedy cut him down.” Brown’s decision to re-sign Henry last August was met with public backlash. But in a period of 12 months, many of those questioning why Henry was back were asking why he wasn’t on the field more. Brown reiterated on Thursday that he did not regret the decision to bring him back. Defensive tackle Domata Peko saw firsthand what type of changes Henry had made, from a person who would stay out all night and get in trouble to a player who had become a family man. “As a teammate, a father and as a good friend of mine he’s going to be missed tremendously,” Peko said. “I had seen him change. True testimony. He’s been to my house a bunch of times and his kids would come over and have play dates.” Andre Caldwell talked about how the two of them went to the NBA Finals between the Lakers and Magic this past summer and how much Henry was like a big brother to him. Caldwell, Henry and Jerome Simpson were also in California during the past offseason to run routes with Palmer. The most devastated in the locker room was Chad Ochocinco, who had tears in his eyes as he described his last conversation with Henry, which happened Tuesday night. They discussed last Sunday’s game at Minnesota and Henry offered some words of encouragement. Ochocinco wore a No. 15 jersey during Thursday’s practice at Paul Brown Stadium. “He was doing everything right, he was doing everything right,” Ochocinco said. “My grandma always says you never question the man upstairs on decisions he makes… everyone makes mistakes, but. … I don’t see how Chris was supposed to go already, especially when he was on the right path.” Henry’s agents, Andy Simms and Dave Lee of Cleveland-based PlayersRep Sports, who started representing him this past February said that “he realized he made mistakes and made positive changes to his life. As a result of these changes, he had become a man that all Bengals and NFL fans could be proud of.” Henry was finally happy Henry was in Charlotte, where his fiancée’s family lives, to continue making arrangements for their March wedding. They arrived in North Carolina on Tuesday. On Nov. 9, after what looked to be a season of much promise, Henry’s season prematurely ended after eight games when he fractured his left forearm during the second quarter against Baltimore. He finished the season with 12 receptions for 236 yards and two touchdowns. Before the injury, coach Marvin Lewis saw Henry as the happiest he had been in awhile. In the week leading up to the Oct. 25 game against Chicago, Henry had been suffering from the flu and was not in the team hotel the night before the game. But Henry started to feel better on Saturday night and came to the stadium on Sunday ready to work. “I watched him work out on the field and they didn’t really do much but stand and catch. I said no, no, I need to see him run,” Lewis said. “So he ran routes -- Jordan (Palmer) I think was throwing -- and he came over and sat with me on the photographer’s stand at the end of the end zone and he said ’Coach, I feel better than I’ve felt in the last month.’ I said, ’You know what? You look that way, so you suit up today.’” “And just the grin on his face because again, when Chris spoke and talked, you got to see the genuine person. And a lot of times Chris was very quiet and he let everybody speak for him too much. And until Chris turned the corner is when he began to speak up himself and distance himself from the people that were dragging him down and express his real thoughts and feelings. And I thought that day, he did that.” Henry had two receptions for 26-yards in that game, a 45-10 Bengals victory, including a nine-yard touchdown in the first quarter. Henry was in Cincinnati last weekend for an exam by the team’s medical staff. With no rehabilitation for his injury beyond periodic adjustments of his cast,he was cleared at that point to return to Charlotte. “Since last August we’ve seen pretty much a continual growth of Chris in things and a degree of responsibility, expanding his role here, learning all three positions and our 3-wide receiver sets or 2-wide receiver sets and both positions in the regular sets, so quite an expansion of both football on the field and off the field,” Lewis said. Lewis also remembered a story from earlier in the season that showed Henry’s growth off the field: “I shared with Mike this story early in the season, when he asked me about getting the ticket to the Moeller-Elder football game so that he had enough tickets for his entire family. So things like that. To me, it’s a minor thing but it talked about the level of growth that Chris had had,” Lewis said. Career with the Bengals Henry was drafted by the Bengals in the third round in 2005. He was known as a player with immense talent, but his promise was marred by legal problems and three NFL suspensions totaling 14 games. During his first three seasons, his run-ins with the law included drug charges, to gun possession and, DUI. He served jail time for drinking in a Covington hotel room with underage girls. He was remembered more for that than his game-changing touchdowns or the team-leading nine TDs he scored in 2006. Born May 17, 1983, Henry’s five-year totals were 119 receptions for 1,826 yards and 21 touchdowns in 55 games. How the team responds in Sunday’s game against the Chargers along with the three remaining regular-season games remains to be seen. Lost in all the tragedy is the fact that the 9-4 Bengals would clinch the AFC North with a win or a loss by Baltimore. The game also has the second seed in the AFC on the line and a possible first-round bye. “The main thing is to stay focused, channel everything in a positive way,” said offensive guard Bobbie Williams. “He wouldn’t want us to be down and depressed. He’d want us to give it our all (this Sunday).” The Chargers will hold moment of silence for Henry before Sunday game.

where do they ride quads at Norris? Looking forward to the shoot

thats crazy Mark. On the serious side I am very glad that nothing came of it. Love the chainsaw idea and can't wait to hear you tell this firsthand.

hexhead go piss on someone elses thread will ya, I cared about Chris Henry, followed his career, ups and downs since he was drafted. The dude made mistakes in his life as do a lot of young people. He was turning it around. I see a family that will forever have this memory during the Christmas holidays, little kids who will always wonder where their Daddy went. There is no proof whatsoever of domestic abuse. He was in Carolina planning for their wedding. I will go out on a limb and say they were fighting from stress due to wedding planning. Kind of common yanno. Is an argument between you and your wife a domestic dispute? Should you be bashed for it? You do not know the first thing about the guy. People who are stand up citizens in Cincinnati have had this guys back, I take their word for who the real Slim was. Why don't you go back to crying about your guns in bars law. Jerk Go Bengals

they must be pretty sure of snow, they started with the brine on the streets already. If we get a good snowfall I might bail on the shoot to ride the fourwheeler instead. Will evaluate Saturday morning. I think it iwll need to get colder to make a ride worthwhile. Probably shoot em up

meh, would not want to hurt the truck, heck when it is parked I cannot even see it the camo job is soo good.

I know pretty much no one here will care but I have to get it out somehow. My favorite Cincinnati Bengal and NFL player died this morning. I am in shock, not sure how to feel. The guy had problems in his personal life but really seemed to be turning it around. Went to make plans for his spring wedding, got into a squabble with his fiancee, for whatever reason jumped in the the bed of the truck she went to leave in. Apparently he fell out hitting his head and died from related issues. A sad sad mistake by an young person with his whole life ahead of him. RIP # 15. The demons will haunt you no more.

30-06 was good enough to stop the Huns twice

I think we have something to stop Frankentruck dead in its tracks. A hole in the block will do that yanno

you crackers all need to get on the welfare train and start being baby daddies. Gotta turn this around

this guy looks familiar

bunch of ninnies, I dunno who makes it but The Rabbi is involved with it

looks great, but aren't you afraid if you lean it against a tree you might never find it again?

dude just axed a question