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 And as disgusting as it might sound cities have tons of rodents that can be harvested for food.     This is my only problem with Dolomites post. ;) Rodents are very tasty! How many of you eat squirrel? They are rodents and taste much like rat. Yes I have first hand knowledge of it. The one problem with rodents though, is they carry diseases so who ever catches and prepares them should make them selves knowledgable in said food groups. LOL        

While MRE's are not the be all, end all, best of all food cache items they do have thier place. As mentioned before surplus ones can have been stored/handled badly. However with all the other foods out there the one advantage I see with MRE's is that each meal is designed to provide 24 hour nutrition. Meaning one isnt suppose to eat one at breakfast, lunch and dinner, rather eat one MRE throughout the course of the day. If you do eat one for each meal, good luck with any bowel movement. LOL

  Yes, yes it does!

Fruitcake, under any cirmumstance should never be considered edible! LOL Glad you made it.

Awesome! Now lets see some video of it cutting or whacking something. LOL

I guess I will throw this out there as it’s probably not what you are looking for in an essay. It is a funny story now and I assure you I wasn’t laughing as it happened.   From what I gather this is supposed to be about a knife I would like to have made. Even today I am not sure if any knife would have helped me. Now, the rest of the story… From 1997 to 2000 I was lucky enough to get orders to SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) where I spent my first two years as a Field Instructor. Basically we taught the survival and evasion phases of training. It was fun and I had a blast there doing that. So I was there for a year and a half and it was winter 98. Without giving too much of the training away let’s just say I was playing a role in civilian clothes walking around in the middle of the night. On the training course (Remote Training Site Warner Springs) there is no live ammo, period. As we moved through Fall and into Winter there had been reports of mountain lions in the area. Earlier that day the coordinator had passed the word that a mountain lion had been seen in the Northern area where we train. So as I walk around all night I have the mountain lion in the back of my head. As I said I am in civilian clothes, but I do have a rifle, an M-14 with 100 rounds of blanks. I have my Mk-3 Mod O issued knife and a 2 cell mag light. I am walking South in the San Luis Rey River, it winter so there is some water flowing but not much. At this time it’s just a small stream. I start hearing a bit of noise in front of me, maybe a 100 meters out. I am out there to perform a role, and one of those roles is suppression. I wasn’t the OPFOR (opposition force) so I am not supposed to engage the students. As I quietly work my way to the noise, please keep in mind this is about 0230 on a moonless night, I get maybe 30 meters out and stop. I am trying to pin point the noise as I obviously can’t see anything. I slowly creep up to where I am about 10 meters from the noise and at that point I realize the noise isn’t on the ground! My first thought was oh $hit, mountain lion. I am standing there in the middle of the night with 20 pounds of useless junk (M-14 and blanks). I just slowly ease the rifle to the ground, grab the mag light with my left hand and draw out the Mk-3 with my right. About the time I get the mag light up to head level and the Mk-3 in front of my chest it sounded like all hell was coming at me from the trees in front of me. I hit the light and thought my heart blew up! Something was coming down at me from a tree that I thought was 10 meters, but it was more like 5 meters. After what seemed like 15 or 20 seconds after my light came on illuminated the “object” coming at me and my mind realizing what was happening and actually identifying the object as a turkey. After the adrenalin dump, I just stood there as the turkey landed in front of me and ran off to my right. There I was preparing to go toe to toe with a big cat, and most likely lose, and a freaking turkey almost blew my heart out and caused me to defecate myself. I did learn that an M-14 is heavy and useless unless you actually have ammo and a Mk-3 would be a poor choice to wrestle a mountain lion. What kind of knife would I want to wrestle a mountain lion? I wouldn’t, I’d rather have my 44 mag. LOL

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Good deal that you have a "mom and pop" shop to shop at. And even better that they dont participate in gouging and even better is that you stepped up and did the right thing when buying and not just over looking it.

I have been getting interesting in 300 BLK and was wanting to get an upper for my Colt. As with everything I sat on the idea too long and now the market is driving the prices out of my reach (or more than I want to pay). If and when the craziness dies down I will revisit the issue then. Until then I will continue to learn (and read Dolomites threads here) about he 300 BLK.

Get the Spyderco sharpening system and learn to do them yourself. With a little time you will have it down. However, dont let that little secret out. Last year I let it slip to my sons kindergarten teacher so I started sharpening her scissors. These day I get to sharpen all the scissors plus some of them from home. LOL

I was Volunteer Ordinance Works here in Cleveland on Thursday and thier Glock wall still had a good selection of mags. I picked up two 21 mags for a buddy for Christmas.

  Fixed it for ya, buddy. ;)

Panic buying? Not so much, but I did buy two Glock 21 13 round mags for a Christmas gift/stocking stuffer for a real good buddy who just got a 21. It could be thought of as a panic buy since he just got it and I had to run to the LGS the next morning to get the magazines. LOL

You Sir, are a nut,  and I respect the heck out of you for it! I look forward to seeing the updates.

Then I must research and find the longest Tactical Beard available. Thank you internet for saving me from the boredom and loneliness of being non-tactical. :up:

I am in no way, shape, fashion or form tactical. Could the Tactical Beard really help me? LOL

I was just speaking to my sons substitute teacher (his teacher has the flu) when I went to pick him up and her carry gun is a LCR 38 (NOT at school though). Like i said earlier there isnt much anti talk at his school. LOL Granted we dont speak of firearms in front of the kids but its nice to know the prevailing thought amongst my sons educators isnt anti-gun. :)

  Is there anyway I can like this post times a hundred?   I volunteer and my sons school, and good portion of those there are pro gun. So, no I didnt feel like a leper. I did have Dr appointment this morning and I was trying to sneek out before he saw me. ;) The good Dr. pulled me to the staff lounge to discuss guns, etc. After two minutes he showed me his carry gun and asked what I was carrying today. LOL 

  True, I have worked and trained with them. It was fun and annoying at the same time. LOL

It just goes to show how far service members will go to entertain themselves. :)

  They can be used to shape an edge, given enough time and effort. LOL Me, I am too lazy to do that. If my knife needs re-edged, I use the lansky. If its a touch up the Spyderco sys works great. I have used mine alot this year at my sons school, where I volunteer. Let me just say Hopewell Elementary has the best maintained scissors in Bradley County. LOL

Pirates since they can stay offshore and bombard the Ninja. And everyone knows Ninjas dont have a Navy. LOL

PIE! Cake is for the French. LOL   And since I yelled pie, I may as well yell MEDIUM RARE. :)   And Yeager is still an arse......

    Yikes! Its gotten real serious in here real quick!!! I am through with this thread as I will not stand to have MY pudding taken away. ;)   Back on track, Yeager still comes off as an arse, that is all.

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