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Today I cleaned my rifle
November 15, 2015, 10:49 AM
Ironmike57Today I cleaned my rifle
Not so sure. I do not wait for events like these to get ready or to "clean my rifle". I am just as pissed off as the rest of you. And I try to be always vigilant.
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Originally posted by parabellum:
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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
My rifles are always clean.
You couldn't have missed the point any more if you had tried.
November 15, 2015, 12:11 PM
darthfusterquote:
Originally posted by Ironmike57:
Not so sure. I do not wait for events like these to get ready or to "clean my rifle". I am just as pissed off as the rest of you. And I try to be always vigilant.
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Originally posted by parabellum:
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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
My rifles are always clean.
You couldn't have missed the point any more if you had tried.
Mike, it could be that cleaning the rifle is not always about maintenance of the rifle, but readiness of the heart, mind and spirit. At the risk of over-thinking this, sometimes a task or threat is so ominous that one must prepare him/herself to engage it beyond the equipment taken into conflict. I'm reminded of scenes in dramatic battle depictions where the warrior sits with the thousand yard stare and hones the edge of his weapon. The real preparation is that which cannot be seen. The individual focuses emotionally, mentally and even spiritually in the interest of success and survival. So today we clean our rifles to purify our souls.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier November 15, 2015, 12:56 PM
6gunsquote:
Originally posted by darthfuster:
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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
Not so sure. I do not wait for events like these to get ready or to "clean my rifle". I am just as pissed off as the rest of you. And I try to be always vigilant.
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Originally posted by parabellum:
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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
My rifles are always clean.
You couldn't have missed the point any more if you had tried.
Mike, it could be that cleaning the rifle is not always about maintenance of the rifle, but readiness of the heart, mind and spirit. At the risk of over-thinking this, sometimes a task or threat is so ominous that one must prepare him/herself to engage it beyond the equipment taken into conflict. I'm reminded of scenes in dramatic battle depictions where the warrior sits with the thousand yard stare and hones the edge of his weapon. The real preparation is that which cannot be seen. The individual focuses emotionally, mentally and even spiritually in the interest of success and survival. So today we clean our rifles to purify our souls.
Well put!
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November 15, 2015, 01:06 PM
mrmn50The real preparation is that which cannot be seen. The individual focuses emotionally, mentally and even spiritually in the interest of success and survival. So today we clean our rifles to purify our souls.[/QUOTE]
Well put![/QUOTE]
Sometimes the prep of the spirit happens during a poker game where millions are at stake
or in lighting smoke after smoke without taking a drag. But, you are so right that this has to happen.
Be well
November 15, 2015, 01:39 PM
911BossI do find I spend more time handling the rifle, even if I am not able to shoot it as frequently as I would like.
Familiarity, muscle memory, etc. Last count I am sitting on about 30 magazines, they will soon all be loaded instead of just 3-4.
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November 15, 2015, 01:44 PM
parabellumquote:
Originally posted by Ironmike57:
Not so sure. I do not wait for events like these to get ready or to "clean my rifle".
Yet again, you are missing the point.
It's a metaphor intended to convey a message of vigilance, and you're taking it literally.
November 15, 2015, 05:10 PM
dewhorseCleaned mine after using a 25m, 15m, 10m, 5m to confirm my POA/POI at those ranges. This was with my SBR i use gor HD.
Everyone knows their 25m, 50m or whatever meter zero but do you know what it is at true social distance.
Nice to finally find a range i can practice at these distances.
November 15, 2015, 05:14 PM
guardianangel762quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
Not so sure. I do not wait for events like these to get ready or to "clean my rifle".
Yet again, you are missing the point.
It's a metaphor intended to convey a message of vigilance, and you're taking it literally.
Nothing goes over my head! My reflexes are too quick, I would catch it!
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November 15, 2015, 06:33 PM
BigboreshooterTook both my AR's and my 10/22 TD to the range today to zero/re-zero the optics. All is good. I feel better.
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November 15, 2015, 06:58 PM
justjoequote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
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Originally posted by darthfuster:
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Originally posted by 6guns:
How are you storing your ammo? How much of it is ready to go....in mags? How do you keep yourself portable and what and how much do you keep for bug out gear?
Because of all that's going on now, I don't think I'm quite prepared enough, but want to be.
Over the last couple of years I've been assembling a couple thousand rounds for each AR in my family. I store the bulk of it on stripper clips in metal ammo cans. Each can has a stripper clip spoon and desiccants. Each person in the family has his/her own AR with several mags. Each person also has a load bearing vest with pouches. some of the pouches have mags, but most of the pouches have loaded stripper clips. That is how I keep them. This way we can be mobile within minutes, we can carry the max ammunition per and have ammo in storage. I hope we never need it.
OK, I'm not the biggest gun expert, I just like to shoot them and have for protection, so this may be a dumb question. I've always been concerned about keeping mags loaded and it wearing out the springs, so I keep a couple 5.56 loaded and a couple 9mm. Does it weaken the springs to keep mags stored long term loaded?
Springs weaken from being coiled and uncoiled repeatedly. You can leave them loaded, just slightly underload the mags.
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November 15, 2015, 07:07 PM
P226RNTook a class yesterday and am signing up for more to knock the rust off. Practice practice practice makes progress.
And I can't stay in Md anymore. I feel defenseless unless I am at home with my guns. I do not like that feeling.
If it won't matter in 5 years don't give it more than 5 minutes.
November 16, 2015, 04:21 PM
colomtnMore good advice from John Farnam
Stay alert and aware Have a plan Buy guns, ammunition, blades. Get trained in their effective use Go armed Posted by John S. Farnam on 16 Nov 2015
16 Nov 15
“I always believe in being prepared, even when dressed in white tie and tails.”
Patton
Post-Paris, 2015
Do you think the French have finally learned their lesson about “no-policing zones” in Muslim neighborhoods?
Over here, the BHO Administration, even now yet locked in its leftist fantasy world, has apparently learned nothing! From the White House, we’ve heard little more than hand-wringing drivel of bleating sheep. Pompous weasel-words, the language of liberals, designed to mean nothing, offend no one, and commit themselves to no course of action.
While assuring us that ISIS has been “contained,” a laughable absurdity, BHO still can’t get the phrase, “radical Islam” to come out of his mouth! And, even after last week’s events in France, he insists on importing thousands of military-age Islamic “refugees,” with no conditions, while simultaneously releasing Gitmo detainees. More than a few of us are openly speculating about whose side he is really on!
In Paris, pitiable hostages used social media to send desperate pleas for help, appealing to police to respond immediately, in order to save them from certain death. They indicated that their captors were casually shooting them to death, one by one. French citizens paid a terrible price Friday for being unable to defend themselves in any effective way, as dictated by current French law.
“Tweets” were the only weapons they had!
When that awful moment comes my way, for one, I will not be responding to such bestial violence with “tweets,” but rather with fast-moving .355-caliber projectiles (at least until I can get to my rifle)! Of course, there are no guarantees, but for one, I will go down fighting, rather than surrender to these modern-day savages for whom wanton murder is part of their “religion.”
It is obvious that the BHO Administration’s agenda does not include protecting American citizens from terrorist attacks, attacks that ISIS has already promised are coming our way soon.
Down here at the peon-level, every American better understand that we are on our own. Whatever protection we enjoy, we’ll have to provide ourselves.
My advice:
Stay alert and aware
Have a plan
Buy guns, ammunition, blades.
Get trained in their effective use
Go armed
“A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
James Madison
/John
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November 16, 2015, 04:28 PM
rainman64quote:
Originally posted by dewhorse:
Cleaned mine after using a 25m, 15m, 10m, 5m to confirm my POA/POI at those ranges. This was with my SBR i use gor HD.
Everyone knows their 25m, 50m or whatever meter zero but do you know what it is at true social distance.
Nice to finally find a range i can practice at these distances.
There is a range in Terrell you can use for free.
And I will help clean your rifle.
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November 16, 2015, 07:23 PM
dewhorsequote:
Originally posted by rainman64:
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Originally posted by dewhorse:
Cleaned mine after using a 25m, 15m, 10m, 5m to confirm my POA/POI at those ranges. This was with my SBR i use gor HD.
Everyone knows their 25m, 50m or whatever meter zero but do you know what it is at true social distance.
Nice to finally find a range i can practice at these distances.
There is a range in Terrell you can use for free.
And I will help clean your rifle.
Thank you Sir, once the misses get back from UA i will drop you a note.
November 16, 2015, 07:38 PM
parabellumquote:
Originally posted by colomtn:
More good advice from John Farnam
Down here at the peon-level, every American better understand that we are on our own. Whatever protection we enjoy, we’ll have to provide ourselves.
Yes indeed.
November 17, 2015, 12:38 AM
newtoSig765Anybody know a good grease for an M-1 Garand? I never used it before (only sparingly used the M-1, in fact!) and, until it was mentioned in a thread here, didn't know it should be.
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November 17, 2015, 03:20 AM
NismoIm pretty sure the Garand calls for Lubriplate 130A as the standard grease.
November 17, 2015, 04:05 AM
lastmanstandingquote:
Down here at the peon-level, every American better understand that we are on our own. Whatever protection we enjoy, we’ll have to provide ourselves.
yes indeed, not only are we alone but we have been betrayed....
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton
November 17, 2015, 04:29 AM
rifmonThat speech in Turkey was mind numbingly bazaar. Even the faithful Democrats called him tone-deaf.
I get the "cleaning my rifle" thought. I carry a gun every moment of the day even when I'm home.
I live in PA and until now, I've felt fortunate. But now I look at my liberal governor's position on the Syrian immigrants and now feel not so fortunate. All my guns will be very clean.
November 17, 2015, 06:40 AM
newtoSig765quote:
Originally posted by Nismo:
Im pretty sure the Garand calls for Lubriplate 130A as the standard grease.
Correct, according to MidwayUSA and Brownell's websites. I'll have to look for it, since it's out of stock at Midway and almost twice the money at Brownell's when you compare shipping.
Must be a lot of people cleaning rifles, if it's out of stock!
Thanks, Nismo.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
-- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is.
-- JALLEN 10/18/18