Ten Years Later, I've Returned Like A STD Flare-Up
It's been a hot minute since I've logged in. Since my last visit:
- I've acquired and/or carried 4 new guns: P320 X-five Legion (duty weapon for the last 5 years and about to be mandated to be replaced), Glock 21 (duty weapon before the P320 and after the P226), HK VP9SK (off-duty and CCW), Springfield 1911 (gift from my sergeant when he retired)
- Set foot on 2 new continents: South America and Australia
- Been as far east as I've ever been: Ephesus, Türkiye
- Been as far west as I've ever been: Katoomba, NSW, Australia
- Been as far north as I've ever been: Arctic Circle, rounding the Hornstrandir Peninsula, Iceland
- Been as far south as I've ever been: Dunedin, New Zealand
- Sent 3 awesome retired working dogs over the Rainbow Bridge
- Fell in love with German shorthaired pointers and have Riley 9F and Kona 2F
- Adopted a rescue German shepherd Gracie 7F
- Been saddled with a mostly-malinois heathen working dog, Cairo 2M
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: Breast size really isn't important. Heck, handgun size isn't either. Any time there's a pair of either one of those unholstered and pointing at me they have my full undivided attention.
July 28, 2025, 08:54 AM
David Lee
What have you missed ? Welcome back as we have missed you. I keep Aikos pictures on my phones screen. Ta hell were you doing in all those different places around the globe ? Know Hickory, 2 Members who've always impressed here with your camera work, you and Flash guy. You must have run low on film. Welcome back sir. Plant it and stay around.
July 28, 2025, 08:59 AM
arfmel
Welcome back, Kotter
July 28, 2025, 09:02 AM
David Lee
I bumped his pics up for you in the Gallery.
July 28, 2025, 09:08 AM
Hickory Shampoo
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Originally posted by David Lee: What have you missed ? Welcome back as we have missed you. I keep Aikos pictures on my phones screen. Ta hell were you doing in all those different places around the globe ? Know Hickory, 2 Members who've always impressed here with your camera work, you and Flash guy. You must have run low on film. Welcome back sir. Plant it and stay around.
Thanks, bud! You've got me all verklempt! I've been trying to improve my photography over the years. I'll drop a few momentarily.
As for the globetrotting, it's just the wife and I doing yearly cruises. I took a "What to do after retirement" class just to get credits toward my annual mandate, but ended up really learning useful ideas. Like travel NOW while you have your health. Lots of people plan to travel AFTER retirement, but don't consider their health my shit the bed.
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: Breast size really isn't important. Heck, handgun size isn't either. Any time there's a pair of either one of those unholstered and pointing at me they have my full undivided attention.
July 28, 2025, 09:17 AM
liner
Welcome back, followed you InstagramThis message has been edited. Last edited by: liner,
July 28, 2025, 09:30 AM
oddball
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
July 28, 2025, 09:49 AM
tatortodd
Welcome back
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So, catch me up. What have I missed?
Quite a few longtime Sigforumites have passed: JAllen BigBoreShooter Old Frank Vero8 Jim Shugart Sapper Steel Striker1 txpete Others that my memory fails me
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity
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July 28, 2025, 10:24 AM
ArtieS
Welcome back! Good to see that your avatar hasn't lost any enthusiasm for life.
Other than losing so many members to an early death, it's been pretty quiet.
Para has stomped out the miscreants, the locals pretty much follow the rules, we haven't had an epic flameout in some time, oh, and the SIG P320 is reported to go BOOM without warning.
That's kind of a big one.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
July 28, 2025, 10:37 AM
Hickory Shampoo
Online forums are odd in that you may never meet folks in person, but when they're gone, you miss the interaction and familiarity.
Pour some Hoppe's No 9 on the block for those who've flown west.
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: Breast size really isn't important. Heck, handgun size isn't either. Any time there's a pair of either one of those unholstered and pointing at me they have my full undivided attention.
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: Breast size really isn't important. Heck, handgun size isn't either. Any time there's a pair of either one of those unholstered and pointing at me they have my full undivided attention.
July 28, 2025, 10:48 AM
Pipe Smoker
Welcome back! What prompted your return?
Serious about crackers.
July 28, 2025, 01:50 PM
Hickory Shampoo
Partly the P320 madness and partly to bathe in the wisdom of the SF hivemind about what to replace mine with.
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: Breast size really isn't important. Heck, handgun size isn't either. Any time there's a pair of either one of those unholstered and pointing at me they have my full undivided attention.
July 28, 2025, 02:04 PM
sigfreund
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Originally posted by Hickory Shampoo: Here's what I've been up to, photography-Wise
Some very nice macro shots (among all the rest), but I’m particularly interested in the infrared work. The album indicated they were taken with a Canon Power Shot G11: true? Was it converted for IR only?
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To operate serious weapons in a serious manner.
July 28, 2025, 04:12 PM
flesheatingvirus
I thought you were dead.
Welcome back!
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-- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. --
July 28, 2025, 04:56 PM
Hickory Shampoo
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Originally posted by sigfreund: Some very nice macro shots (among all the rest), but I’m particularly interested in the infrared work. The album indicated they were taken with a Canon Power Shot G11: true? Was it converted for IR only?
Yep. Bought it on Ebay for a few hundred bucks. Ran it a handful of times and realized the images don't come out of the camera like that. There's additional manipulation needed to get the finished product and my ADHD doesn't like that.
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: Breast size really isn't important. Heck, handgun size isn't either. Any time there's a pair of either one of those unholstered and pointing at me they have my full undivided attention.
July 28, 2025, 04:58 PM
Hickory Shampoo
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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus: I thought you were dead.
Welcome back!
Rumors of my demise were greatly exaggerated. I recently took a shower, so no one should mistake me for deceased again for a while. At least by smell.
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: Breast size really isn't important. Heck, handgun size isn't either. Any time there's a pair of either one of those unholstered and pointing at me they have my full undivided attention.
July 28, 2025, 06:22 PM
old rugged cross
I love dogs too, but the women? Traveling the world and nada. Maybe you just did not mention the love of your life?
Welcome home brother!
"Practice like you want to play in the game"
July 28, 2025, 06:47 PM
Hickory Shampoo
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Originally posted by old rugged cross: I love dogs too, but the women? Traveling the world and nada. Maybe you just did not mention the love of your life?
Welcome home brother!
My wife takes a dim view of me trying to pick up women while we travel.
Originally posted by Texas Bob C.: Breast size really isn't important. Heck, handgun size isn't either. Any time there's a pair of either one of those unholstered and pointing at me they have my full undivided attention.
July 28, 2025, 06:51 PM
old rugged cross
That is why I said, maybe you just failed to mention her Glad you have the love of your life!
