Will Carry

 The Waffle House is a freak show at 2am Sunday morning. I wouldn't go in there unarmed. I won't walk past a gun buster sign anyway.

 I could hardly put the first book down and the second book is even better.     The first book, "An Army At Dawn" tells about an army of green soldiers and untried officers landing in North Africa to confront Rommel's battle hardened Africa Corps. For the first three days Patton was fighting the French!  The French killed, wounded and captured hundreds (over 2000) of US troops, until they changed sides and fought with us.  When the French army changed sides, Hitler ordered several crack divisions to occupy Vichy France. These divisions were supposed to have been sent to fight the Russians, who were reeling from the Blitzkrieg.   One night, as the US Navy's transports lay off the beaches of Morocco, in the Atlantic ocean, a German Submarine surfaced right in the middle of the fleet, spun around firing both bow and stern tubes, then submerged and got away. It sank 3 ships and crippled two more.  The very next night another German sub did the same thing with similar results. Both subs got away.    The American military did not want to fight in Africa. They wanted to charge across the English channel at Calais and go straight to Berlin. Churchill convinced Roosevelt that perhaps that was not a great idea in 1942. He was right.  Rommel's Africa Corps mauled the green US forces at Sidi Bo Zid and Kasserine.  The Germans were really good soldiers and were well led by officers with years of combat experience. 

During World War 2 Winston Churchill travelled across the Atlantic from England to New York on the Queen Mary. He insisted that his life boat have a Browning M2 mounted on it. "They won't take me alive!" He said, referring to the U-boat threat.   I'm reading the second book of Rick Atkinson's Liberation trilogy. A great read full of interesting facts.

My LC9 (hammer fired) has eaten everything from +P loads to cheap target ammo. It has never failed from the first shot. I have gotten to the point when someone tells me a pistol is "ammo sensitive" I back away. Diamondback told me that about the DB380. They said I need to shoot quality ammo. I'm lucky to find any 380 ammo and I have to take what I can get. For the LC9, I have a N8Squared holster, a Cross Breed Supertuck and a cheap Uncle MIke's. The N8Squared is the most comfortable and the Uncle MIke's works great too. The Super Tuck is the best though.

I traded my DB380 plus some cash for a LC9S striker fired. The trigger is great, it beats my Glock 19 by a mile. Why Ruger came out with the LC9 hammer fired I'll never know. I own one of those too. This LC9s is what they should have made and it makes this a great little pistol, if it shoots as flawlessly as the LC9 hammer fired. When I have a chance to shoot it, I'll post a range report.

Stocks going up or down don't mean dittley squat. When stocks go down. Buy. When they go up. Sell. Now might be a good time to buy Ruger and Smith & Wesson stock.

    I jumped on the Pocket Pistol bandwagon a few years ago. I purchased a DB380, Sig P-238 and a Ruger LC9 and to tell you the truth, I'm not really satisfied with any of them.   Lets start with the DB380. It's ammo sensitive and doesn't like to operate while Limp Wristing. It's hard enough to find 380 ammo much less a certain brand.  What if I can't put a Kung Fu grip on it, like If I'm wounded or otherwise incapacitated?  The DB380 must go.   The Sig P-238: I love this little Honey! It's reliable, accurate, has a good trigger and night sights but it has too many catch points to pocket carry and I carry "cocked and locked". I wear it IWB but if I'm going to wear inside the wasteband, why not carry something bigger than a 380? I'll keep the Sig but If I could get rid of all my 380s, it would be one less caliber to have to worry about.   The Ruger LC9: This pistol eats any kind of ammo, it has never failed to fire and shoots a respectable round but it has the worst trigger I have ever squeezed. The trigger is so bad that I wonder if I could effectively use it in a SD situation.  Shame on you Ruger! You guys knew this trigger was bad when you made this gun.   Right now I'm carrying a Smith and Wesson J frame with a 3" barrel. It is everything I want in a small handgun but it's not a pocket pistol either.  I have decided to trade some or all of these and get a real pocket cannon. Any suggestion would be great.

I miss Tennessee too. I just can't go back there. I had a little trouble with my sweat heart's Pa and one of her brothers was a bad outlaw.

You guys were RIGHT and I am a dumb arse!  No one at the church knew anything if my wife's surgery. I called the church today and the pastor is coming by this afternoon. He is going to get a volunteer to come by and stay with her while I work. Talk about foot prints in the sand! I want to thank you guys for your replies and prayers.

My wife has been going to St. Phillips Episcopal church for several years now. I will go with her every once and a while but I have found the people to be cold and aloof.  Last year my wife had a terrible accent. She broke both of her arms, dislocated her shoulder and hurt her back. It was awful.  Where I come from, the Methodist would bring over food, the pastor would come by and pray for you and other church members would come by to offer to help. We never even got a get well card from St. Phillips.    My wife had surgery last Friday and has been in a lot of pain, can't walk and needs constant care. I have had to take off work to care for her and it has been a great strain on both of us. Once again not one person from St. Phillips has even called.  The more I think about it, the more resentment I have. Is it hypocritical of me to get angry about this? This church does support the homeless shelter and they send people all over the world to help the needy and I am a terrible sinner.  

It seems that in a time of mass media an ugly man or woman would be at a disadvantage running for president. Abe Lincoln would never have been elected today. He has my vote as the ugliest man to ever hold the office of president of these Unites States......but it is a close call.

I traded my Glock 36 for the Glock 19.  I don't care about the "grip angle isn't right for my ultra-sensitive feel." or "The trigger isn't good enough for my special finger." FTS. The Glock 19 is a true classic. It has never ever failed to fire.

The media is doing an excellent job of "Race Baiting".  Don't let them get to you.

You have to organize. It can be your neighbors, your church or just a group of like minded individuals.  I'm not talking about an armed mob, I am talking about concerned, law abiding, citizens who want to keep the peace.

I remember those cars well. If you got 70,000 miles on one it was incredible. Not because they weren't well built but because we drove them so hard.

I have an LC9. It is 100% reliable and the accuracy, for what it is, is good. The trigger is so bad that it may be the worst I have ever pulled on a semi-auto. Shame on you Ruger!  You made the trigger long to make it safer? WTF! I will not sell my LC9 to get the striker fired version.....at least not right away.

Look, the video had hard driving heavy metal music! It must be true.

"Life is hard. It's even harder if you're stupid" John Wayne   "If you're going to be stupid, you got to be tough"   Unknown

What have the Romans ever done for us? Ohhhh.... I'm a Lumber Jack and I'm OK.......

Too Kill A Mockingbird:   Atticus:  I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.   Dr. Strangelove: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."   The Outlaw Josey Wales: "Pull Emuel Pull"

I measure 8" from wrist to fingertips. I carry a Smith and Wesson model 36 square butt, which is a tiny grip. Maybe you should try a wheel gun. The thing about an EDC is you, hopefully, will never hold it unless you are at the range.

This is a joke...right?  Ha ha ha ha. Good one!

"GENERAL! We are all out of ammunition!" "Then we will give them the Bayonet !"

We shot and cleaned an Armadillo once. We took the meat, which is very lean, and ground it up with beef to make Armadillo Burgers. I wasn't bad, but we never did it again.

I carry an XD-45 in the winter. It fits in a supper-tuck holster or in my vest pocket. 13+1 rounds of 45acp makes me fell warm and fuzzy. I also carry my Colt Government. It is surprisingly slim.