"...heart must be hardier, courage the keener, bolder our mood as our band diminisheth..."

I don’t need a gun
I have never needed a gun
I hope I never need a gun
And, in all likelihood, I will never need a gun
However, should I ever need a gun, I had better have a gun
Therefore, I have a gun
And if the government ever says you can’t have a gun,
That’s when you’ll need a gun

Keep your head up. Maintain your options. Stay dangerous!

Reminds me...I need to clean my two AR's.

They have just been living in my safe for a couple years now.

...I show wished I could have brought me back one of them Beretta M12's that those Belizean military and police forces carry whilst on vacation awhile back!

Old school carry bliss.

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Originally posted by Warhorse:
Reminds me...I need to clean my two AR's.

They have just been living in my safe for a couple years now.

Hi Rick,
Might have some AR(9) questions for you..., please.

After Black Friday, things dried up for a bit. Many speculated prices would rise and rifles and parts would not be available to us like they have in the past year.

It seems that has settled down again. Lots of inventory out there and some amazing deals.

Will this change with the potential of the Supreme Court to tip left? If that happens will it become more difficult to defend ourselves. We all know it will not impede evil doers from spilling blood.

I think a few more mags, some more reloading goodies, some more training (not just plinking steel in the back yard) is in order.

A few threads on covert bags makes me want to design my own leather / canvas hybrid for a folded/broken down pistol or SBR. Something I can carry a peanut butter sandwich, a bottle of milk and an ice pack in. And 6 Pmags.

Oh yeah, after I replace my trigger pins with KNS pins in all my rifles this weekend, I'll clean a rifle or two.

ETA: I'm so proud of my wife carrying the same mindset. We were at a club Friday night listening to some music. She was the one that pointed out to me the escape routes in a crisis. Good Girl!

Ran 60 rounds through my very cold MCX. Ran like a champ. Cleaned and inspected it. Next up, a new trigger.

20 more magazines via PSA, half will be loaded and the other kept for bartering.

and a lower kit to finish another rifle.

swapped scopes on 3 rifle this weekend and sighted them in at 50 and 100m (1.5x6 MTAC).

All cleaned

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/jflUvxQLkgs

Full speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaQZF

Thanks Monkey...I like that!

Great video monkey! Thanks.

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Originally posted by guardianangel762:

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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!

Hahahahahahahaha!!!

Guardians of the Galaxy, right on!

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:
In my experience, women are amazing at picking up and shooting a semi-auto rifle way faster,, more accurately, and more comfortably, than a handgun. They just need to not slouch to support eh weight of the rifle, and not have an idiot teach them to get scope hammered and scare them away from guns totally.

Mr. MacGregor,

Thank you very much for the input. I shall do my best to make sure she has good posture when holding the rifle. Perhaps she can lean into it a bit ? I will also try hard to not be an idiot. I do not think she is afraid of them, having fired full autos in Thailand. Please can you explain "scope hammered" ? Sorry, but I am not at all familiar with the phrase. Thanks

I have had hundreds upon hundreds and yet hundreds of students, as a professional firearms trainer and educator, teaching 3 and 4 day classes, in my experience of them learning how to shoot a rifle,this has been true.

Haven't you seen the YouTube videos of idiots taking their wives or girlfriends shooting? You must not have, this was a general funny note, why did you take it so personally? My comment was not directed at you, how am I to know what you teach with your wife or not?

Apparently you went looking for my name to connect with my screenname, and then addressed me by my last name. Under a variety of online etiquettes, this is not cool. Why don't you address the owner of this board by his name?

I wish I had seen this almost a year ago, it's been a very busy year.

You have a quote by Para below in your signature block, you should look at it again and not go looking to male an issue out of nothing. Not cool ersatzknarf.

I know Frank. He is a genuine , thoughtful guy. I can confidently say that his post to you was humble and sincere and using your actual name was done out of a true desire for friendship. Reading this made me wince. When he reads your post it will hurt him.

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:
...Apparently you went looking for my name to connect with my screenname, and then addressed me by my last name. Under a variety of online etiquettes, this is not cool. Why don't you address the owner of this board by his name?
...

You mean your name you have on the website you have in your signature line in your "about" page?

That one. The one that takes two clicks to get to, following the breadcrumbs you dropped in front of the whole damned internet universe?

That name?

Bad etiquette?

Hoo boy!

You are being not so very nice. No graham crackers or milk for you today.

Maybe make you wash all the paint brushes and put away the clay during recess.

And stop eating the paste...

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:
In my experience, women are amazing at picking up and shooting a semi-auto rifle way faster,, more accurately, and more comfortably, than a handgun. They just need to not slouch to support eh weight of the rifle, and not have an idiot teach them to get scope hammered and scare them away from guns totally.

Mr. MacGregor,

Thank you very much for the input. I shall do my best to make sure she has good posture when holding the rifle. Perhaps she can lean into it a bit ? I will also try hard to not be an idiot. I do not think she is afraid of them, having fired full autos in Thailand. Please can you explain "scope hammered" ? Sorry, but I am not at all familiar with the phrase. Thanks

I have had hundreds upon hundreds and yet hundreds of students, as a professional firearms trainer and educator, teaching 3 and 4 day classes, in my experience of them learning how to shoot a rifle,this has been true.

Haven't you seen the YouTube videos of idiots taking their wives or girlfriends shooting? You must not have, this was a general funny note, why did you take it so personally? My comment was not directed at you, how am I to know what you teach with your wife or not?

Apparently you went looking for my name to connect with my screenname, and then addressed me by my last name. Under a variety of online etiquettes, this is not cool. Why don't you address the owner of this board by his name?

I wish I had seen this almost a year ago, it's been a very busy year.

You have a quote by Para below in your signature block, you should look at it again and not go looking to male an issue out of nothing. Not cool ersatzknarf.

Mr. MacGregor...I have always thought you were a tool. This idiotic response about your name being brought up on the internet just proves it.

Pleaser guys, let us not let this wonderful thread get out of hand and then get locked.

At least here, maybe we should let some things go. Also, recall the meaning and purpose of this thread. Let that time, if it comes, take care of the morons and tools.
Be well and stay safe.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A G R E E D !!!

As I were!

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Originally posted by Warhorse:

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:
In my experience, women are amazing at picking up and shooting a semi-auto rifle way faster,, more accurately, and more comfortably, than a handgun. They just need to not slouch to support eh weight of the rifle, and not have an idiot teach them to get scope hammered and scare them away from guns totally.

Mr. MacGregor,

Thank you very much for the input. I shall do my best to make sure she has good posture when holding the rifle. Perhaps she can lean into it a bit ? I will also try hard to not be an idiot. I do not think she is afraid of them, having fired full autos in Thailand. Please can you explain "scope hammered" ? Sorry, but I am not at all familiar with the phrase. Thanks

I have had hundreds upon hundreds and yet hundreds of students, as a professional firearms trainer and educator, teaching 3 and 4 day classes, in my experience of them learning how to shoot a rifle,this has been true.

Haven't you seen the YouTube videos of idiots taking their wives or girlfriends shooting? You must not have, this was a general funny note, why did you take it so personally? My comment was not directed at you, how am I to know what you teach with your wife or not?

Apparently you went looking for my name to connect with my screenname, and then addressed me by my last name. Under a variety of online etiquettes, this is not cool. Why don't you address the owner of this board by his name?

I wish I had seen this almost a year ago, it's been a very busy year.

You have a quote by Para below in your signature block, you should look at it again and not go looking to male an issue out of nothing. Not cool ersatzknarf.

Mr. MacGregor...I have always thought you were a tool. This idiotic response about your name being brought up on the internet just proves it.

Well I appreciate you being honest and forthright to make this comment on the public forum. I have no idea who you are, I do not believe we have had any interaction. As such, I do not know how you could make such a blind assessment, maybe you're just presumptuous and another guy on the internet just looking for trouble where it's not necessary to be found?

I read Frank's comment this morning, it struck me a different way. I looked back through the thread and realized I had replied just under a year ago, and at the time, took it as tongue-in-cheek and hadn't gotten to deleting my reply just yet. It's unfortunate. I owe Frank an email directly. This is honor. Taken as a whole, his post just struck me totally differently today...strange. I've goofed up here, and I know many good people on this forum in person. This is integrity.

My apologies to pee-ing on the carpet to Para, I'll clean it up. This is integrity.

A tool is something to be used, something unintelligent, good for a purpose, but nothing more. Warhorse, in a way, I'm glad I made my comment, it brought you out, now, I know of only one guy on the entire forum and my experience on SigForum that I do not have to ask myself any more questions as to honor and integrity. You show yourself for who you are and I just let you, be you. You could have sent me an email personally perhaps, just like I could have sent to Frank. I'm so tired of BS the older I get, I have much less tolerance for it as time goes by.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by AdkMtnGuy:
...Apparently you went looking for my name to connect with my screenname, and then addressed me by my last name. Under a variety of online etiquettes, this is not cool. Why don't you address the owner of this board by his name?
...

You mean your name you have on the website you have in your signature line in your "about" page?

That one. The one that takes two clicks to get to, following the breadcrumbs you dropped in front of the whole damned internet universe?

That name?

Bad etiquette?

Hoo boy!

You are being not so very nice. No graham crackers or milk for you today.

Maybe make you wash all the paint brushes and put away the clay during recess.

And stop eating the paste...

It's not too difficult to find my name, yes I know this, I misinterpreted this whole thing. My fault, and my apologies to all involved.

I don't deserve milk and cookies today, nope.