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« on: November 26, 2015, 01:04:21 PM »
 Thanksgiving office "selfie" Thankful for my God, my family and friends, the protectors at large, hollow points, 3M Kevlar, rip stop polyester blend, and convenient cover. Gaston Glock and Eugene Stoner get an honorable mention as well! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: November 26, 2015, 08:59:49 AM »
That definitely picks up your pace for sure... For comparisons sake, my last 5k, (3.1m) last year thanksgiving was under 23 mins... I'm going to keep training up, alternating between kb's and weighted runs. We will see how much strength I lose...
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« on: November 23, 2015, 10:28:50 PM »
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« on: November 23, 2015, 07:39:35 PM »
I'm 35. Just laid off the cardio too long to try and build muscle. Played with this guy yesterday- kettle bell swings  10, 15, 25, 50 X 5sets X 20 workouts 10,000 total Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: November 21, 2015, 07:32:56 PM »
So I had a hot call today, physical domestic bum beating up on his crackhead girlfriend, the usual. The apartment is above some businesses downtown. Stairway of death heads up to it, loud and creaky, up two stories with walls on both side of me. It's a tactical nightmare but I digress. The only good way to handle it is a quick sprint up the steps, peak through the window and bust through to the hallway, cover to your right, reassess and continue mission. I shot up the stairs and posted up. Found myself short of breath. Generally isn't a thing for me. Guess I have been spending too much time under the barbells.... As soon as I got off work, I stripped my gear and donned my weighted vest. 2.2 miles in 22 mins with 22lb vest.... (22 a day). Smoked me! Time for a re-evaluation of my fitness level and to re-focus on getting my own body moving...  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: November 21, 2015, 06:18:29 PM »
It even has a forward assist and a dust cover... A co worker of mine just got a DPMS ar15 of one flavor or another. I tore it down and put a bunch of ninja parts on it for him today. For as cheap as they are, I was surprised at the quality. Maybe I'm just too used to handling the frankengun though...
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« on: November 21, 2015, 08:43:44 AM »
I would never condone civil disobedience. Generally the gun free zone, extends the breadth and width of the campus site along with all school district properties and parking areas. I hate to say it, but leaving it in your car in most instances is no more illegal than carrying it on your person right in to the class room. Does the ram mount lock? In some jurisdictions, if a firearm is not in your physical control, it must be either locked away or unloaded and separate from ammunition. It is sad that only people intent on harm will carry in our schools, but I do not condone civil disobedience.
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« on: November 21, 2015, 08:33:17 AM »
Who wants to A) wash their underwear every day, because you cant turn those inside out, or B) buy 7 pairs of $50 underwear.
as far as link 2 goes, $70! (I'll refrain from commenting on the elephant in the forum as well)
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« on: November 21, 2015, 08:19:47 AM »
I have heard a couple of good terms
Refujihadi & refuhaji
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« on: November 19, 2015, 09:50:52 AM »
why not just keep it on your person?
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« on: November 18, 2015, 12:50:35 AM »
Not sure on the barrel or can yet. Prolly a lone wolf for the barrel I imagine. I'm about to move in to a different state so I'm not in a position to begin paperwork on a can just yet so I'm not too worried about it. Actually put a bucket of rounds through her today though. I'm really digging the RMR! I was nervous about it at first, but I'm pretty sold on it! It was raining buckets today, so if I was going to break smtg it would have been today.     Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: November 15, 2015, 12:04:56 PM »
The quote is beautiful but exsanguinates with irony as applied to the recent incidents in Paris. Is Paris France, not “The City of Light” or perhaps, as it is often referred, “The City of Love”? While MLK’s quote was certainly applicable to the ignorance of racism, it has no bearing and less merit when applied to terrorism instituted by fundamentally psychopathic jihadists.
There is no capacity of love or enlightenment great enough to combat jihadi assholery. We cannot love the visceral hate for the infidel out of a suicide bomber. There is no measure of light or reason great enough to keep planes in the sky as we know all too well. The only mitigation to jihadi violence is firepower superiority and .556 rounds to the cranial vault.
At some point we will realize the idiocy of our endeavor to re-program a corrupted hard drive and get down to business or get out. Until then, wolves will hide amongst the sheep as they are shepherded into our countries and more senseless blood will be shed. The tenacity of the ideologue grows with every victory. If a simple handful of terrorists can cripple a peaceful nation, imagine what an army can do.
Make ready your arms ladies and gents; Jihadi 2.0 is coming soon to a city near you. Will you be ready?
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« on: November 09, 2015, 08:31:39 PM »
Flooring  Standard 13" tiles will be for foyer the wood grain tile will be for most of the main living areas. Below is the accent stripe that will separate the two  Counter top for center island in kitchen.  The perimeter counter top is mostly black with light metal accents.  Woodwork will all be in knotty alder. This is the main stain "cinnamon"  The center island and basement bar will be stained this darker color. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: November 06, 2015, 09:56:02 PM »
Amazing.
...how did the deer "stabbing" go?
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« on: November 06, 2015, 09:55:19 PM »
Ok ok ok..... We are going to hash this out! We have *9* kids! We need a 14' kitchen table if we are all going to sit down together! We don't even have a guest room and most of the bedrooms of Camelot are double booked! Truth is, you can build a lot of house down here for a lot less money than most parts of the world! we probably have less money in it than Don has in Square D! ;)
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« on: November 06, 2015, 05:20:11 PM »
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« on: November 05, 2015, 10:14:21 AM »
Probably spring
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« on: November 04, 2015, 11:27:18 PM »
 Great view from the kitchen sink  Entry foyer  Living area  Kitchen/dining  Master  Rear walk out Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: November 04, 2015, 11:22:21 PM »
 Pretty much all the siding is up, insulation is done and Sheetrock is getting hung daily! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: November 02, 2015, 02:11:37 PM »
I'm not sure if it's the squirrels or what, but the longer I sit passively in the woods with this bow, the more ideas I come up with for aggressive harvesting of deer. I have myself convinced I could sooner low crawl in to a bedding area and take one with my knife before I could get one of these guys to come in to my lane today! Like  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: November 01, 2015, 08:56:40 AM »
he's just a loud mouth know it all that think's he is God's gift to gunfighting... He makes tacticool videos but when you watch them, you see things that make you shake your head east to west and sigh like a puppy. Very narcissistic and nauseatingly arrogant.
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« on: October 30, 2015, 03:52:15 PM »
I second the approval- why didn't I think of that??
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« on: October 29, 2015, 12:57:25 PM »
Our society is headed down this crappy road of scapegoating responsibility. I know if I don't pay my electric bill I am responsible when the electricity gets shut off. The couple I dealt with earlier today, felt it was the states fault because they should have known where to send their assistance check even though the couple never advised the state they were moving in the first place. I teach my kids that "consequences are chaos". If you do good, you get good. If you screw up, there is no telling what the consequences will be. For this "young lady" it was something she will never forget, but for all the wrong reasons! Now she knows, she can screw off and EVERYONE else is to blame for it. Her and her family will surely receive a generous settlement from the county as well as the school district.
The community asks us to police them, mostly because they can't or are unwilling to police themselves. The way they want us to go about doing it however is absolutely absurd. We are violent, it is what keeps us alive. Our mindset is what allows us to come back for another shift after squeezing a confession of indecent liberties out of a degenerate butt hole. Our mindset and our inherent violent nature is what allows us the fortitude, damn the mmqb'ing, to drive forward into scary $#!+, when everything within us screams at us to turn and run. We are willing to walk past our own children lying bleeding in an elementary school hallway screaming for us, "Daddy help me!", to save yours from some psychopath using kindergartners for target practice. Yet you get to judge us, when it doesn't look pretty. Who the hell would want this job????
You put an individual with the aforementioned attributes into this setting and all of the sudden they start getting hit and slapped, you can damn sure bet, they are going to react swiftly in order to stop that nonsense from happening. That's a reaction to a stimulus plain and simple. I would have done the same thing if she started smacking on me. You ask other officer's that I work with or soldiers I serve with if they play grab ass games with me, they will tell you stories about being folded up in a hallway after trying to play the "touch my gun" game. So what's the difference between us and the bad guys, "if we are supposed to be so violent", I'm often asked. It is that we have a capacity for compassion that is un-paralleled by any other human being.
I don't even need to see the rest of the video to tell you this little princess booked that flight across the classroom with Travelocity. You can probably play those stupid little games with mom, you can probably play them with your teacher, you can probably even play them with your assistant principle, and they will probably all walk away. But when you play them with the police, you are responsible for your arrest. You resist, you are responsible for having forced used against you. You fight back, you are definitely responsible for getting tossed around.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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« on: October 29, 2015, 12:18:43 PM »
I support the cop. Period.
We must stop coddling these people who defy authority and believe they have a "right" to adjudicate their issues on the spot.
I think he used the minimum necessary force. If he'd have used a taser on her they'd have squealed to high heaven.
What was he to do? Ask "please"? c'mon. My parents had seen me on TV doing that as a kid in school I'd have been unable to sit for a month.
Well I am glad there were not four cops there or chances are they would have all fed on the moment and been involved in the take down. That does happen more often than not doesn't it. The chair spun out on the spindly legs is not what I saw. He could have taken her into custody while she was sitting in the chair. I bet on the side of the car he rode in on were the words "to protect and serve". Was she really a threat with a .45, no she was a young lady with a cell phone. Was she wrong, yes she was talking on a cell phone in class. That must be a felony right. Did he need to use that much force to take control, well most of you think so and I am sorry you feel that way. Maybe if the cops would treat people more as equals instead of a threat, or that cops need to be in control of everything and everyone, these type of events would be far fewer. One way to get into a fight is to act like you are looking for one. What happened to saying calm heads prevail.
If there were four cops there, one could have held the desk so it didn't look so bad, one could have kept the other students away, one could have engaged, and the old fat one could have managed the incident. However there was only one person in the room with the intestinal fortitude to physically engage the little princess knowing every action he took could be and would be picked apart by every tom, dick and harry from the time of call through the rest of eternity. Are we forgetting sir, that he was called there to perform a service? This service we offer as LEO's is toxic and it's ugly sometimes. IT's not always helping little old lady's cross the street, or plucking kittens out of trees. This was a "no win" scenario for the officer. Using force on kids sucks. period. But when it's necessary it's reasonable. If we examine this from a force continuum stand point, we see at first a passively non-compliant subject. Every force continuum in the world allows it as "objectively reasonable" for an officer to go hands on at this point. Once she started striking him (as seen in the video) the officer has every right to step up his force another notch, but he didn't, he NEVER struck her or used an impact weapon, or taser, or pepper spray... he just handled her. Force scenario's are never pretty, but they aren't judged by how pretty they are. "young lady" hardly describes this little $#!+ appropriately. "Young ladies" put their cell phone's away before class and respect authority. Nobody claims talking on your cell phone is a felony. But disrupting a class in that state is a misdemeanor and she was under arrest for a misdemeanor, AFTER she had been given EVERY opportunity up to the administration level of the school to comply before the police were even involved. You break a law, you are subject to arrest. period. You resist a lawful order, you are subject to arrest. period. You resist arrest, you are subject to the consequences of your own actions. more on this later...
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« on: October 20, 2015, 11:14:09 PM »
I'll post up my latest splurge knee jerk reaction purchase. I most likely will never use it other that a around the house pocket knife but I have been wanting an OTF for a long time and if Hillary get's in the Oval Office these will probably be banned as well. (At least that's the poor excuse I used to buy it.) :o
Overall Length:8.91"
Blade Length:3.95"
Blade Thickness:0.118"
Blade Material:D2
Blade Style:Spear Point
Blade Grind:Flat
Finish:Black
Edge Type:Plain
Handle Length:4.80"
Handle Thickness:0.90"
Handle Material:Aluminum
Color:OD Green
Weight:5.0 oz.
User:Right Hand
Pocket Clip:Tip-Down
Knife Type:Double-Action OTF Automatic
Opener:Thumb Slide
Lock Type:None
Brand:Benchmade
Model:Infidel
Model Number:3300BKOD-1101
Country of Origin:USA
Best Use:Tactical
Product Type:Knife
I have only used it a couple of times. Very large knife handle. Edges of the handle are very crisp. Fairly heavy as well for a "pocket clip" knife. The action works very well. Came very sharp from factory. Nylon sheath is a little odd with it snap over design. Will probably not use it. Just the clip.
hate you... you see, I made the mistake of telling my wife, the infidel was my dream knife......... so now I cant really buy one for myself, I have to wait for her to get it for me... still waiting.... hate you not really just kiddin
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« on: October 17, 2015, 07:45:32 PM »
Check out the AR 680's 6.2lbs. Like packing around two fish https://armour-wear.comSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: October 16, 2015, 10:50:26 PM »
Leaves us finding a new AV group. No biggie. Meeting with one Monday. The guys got the fireplace in today... I think a guy could cremate a Sasquatch in this thing! Dad gum! Looks even bigger now!  Sorry for the crooked picture Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: October 16, 2015, 05:05:01 AM »
My step son was deathly allergic to dairy, eggs, and tree nuts. He's almost 17. Only issue now is tree nuts.
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« on: October 16, 2015, 04:59:35 AM »
So things are moving right along. Putting in septic and hooking up water tomorrow. Siding is going on and the beams are done in the ceiling. The audio visual guy and I went a round and we will just say he has been fired, by me anyways. The system was paid for and waiting on install and darn me I had a question concerning their planned installation. He wouldn't answer his phone, but communicated with me via text. Which was no big deal but three questions in and he tells me to "google the electrical code for more information". Instead of driving to his location and "working things out" I took a pill and petted my dog. I'm sorry but it's not my job, when I have paid you to do something for me, to have to "Google" anything! I have a question, you answer it, if you don't know the answer, YOU google it and get back to me! I don't know, am I off base here?? Anyways, here's some pics!  kitchen/dining room beams    Siding on garage Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: October 11, 2015, 12:53:31 PM »
 Most of the ZT's are pretty bulky. But this guy is perfect. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: October 11, 2015, 12:48:05 PM »
Just house and garage. Going to do the drive last prolly
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« on: October 10, 2015, 05:43:05 PM »
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« on: October 10, 2015, 05:42:20 PM »
KAI US Ltd. they own kershaw, zt, and shun.
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« on: October 10, 2015, 12:43:14 PM »
I would say that it's a pretty good letter opener. As far as utility is concerned though, I can't imagine an acrylic handle would be very rugged or offer much purchase. The grip action is intriguing but I'm curious if the blade locks in any hand position. Boker is a great brand. Generally the ones under $100 are China imports if that matters to you. Check out the ZT 0900. It's a little more money but if you want a smooth consistent action, small enough for EDC, but big enough for utility or defense, it is just about perfect
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« on: October 08, 2015, 09:10:49 PM »
I'll have to look in to that TRN! Thank you!
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« on: October 08, 2015, 04:44:52 PM »
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« on: October 08, 2015, 04:38:25 PM »
Light pic dump here. You can see trim is mostly up. The yard is to grade sans top soil. The racetrack, I mean driveway is being based in. On the inside we have HVAC finished, electric rough in is done, plumbing rough in is done. Currently installing security protocols and intelligent AV integration (smart house).    Soup can for scale. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: October 07, 2015, 08:07:34 PM »
22k probably puts it in the 90+/- amp continuous 220 volts.
Will do a lot. But depending on location and amenities not whole house.
It's a keeper for sure and a great backup.
HC, are you putting in an auto transfer setup?
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« on: October 07, 2015, 01:44:05 AM »
Redneck,
I have seen pictures of you on here... I would profile you as a carrier... Easy to do. That's how I start my flow chart assessment matrix.
It doesn't matter what I wear, people always ask, "are you a cop?" *or* I get, "You are either a cop, or in the military..." I took my girls for ice cream the other day, little old lady walks up, "thank you for your service" I was in my standard, cargo shorts, t-shirts, and tennis shoes... I cant shake it. I always ask, "How can you tell?" I either get, "just the way you carry yourself" or "I could just tell"...
Funny caveat- I can stop the mope mobile with my red and blues, driver bails, I chase them down screaming, "POLICE OFFICER STOP!" and when I catch them and ask them why they run? "I didn't know you was the POlice and I got skeered" oh, and "these aint even my pants dawg, I just found these"
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« on: October 07, 2015, 01:14:38 AM »
It's propane or NG. I'm burying two 1000 gallon tanks. I can stock up during the summer. No pics lately because not too much big has happened on the outside. Most of the work is happening on the inside. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, building arches, setting beams, etc.. They have just about finished trimming the outside and we dug a water line and began leveling the yard to grade. I'll get some new pics up prolly when they get it sided! Even at 22k, it's not big enough to power the whole house. Just necessary items a, bathroom on each floor, main rooms and a bedroom, also appliances, and HVAC, fireplace blower.
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« on: October 05, 2015, 09:39:31 PM »
Do they make propane conversion kits for those Honda doodads? I think that would be handy to run off of to keep from lugging around two (three) fuel sources.
I just bought a 22k generac. Doesn't fit on a camper tongue though... :(
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« on: October 05, 2015, 08:22:27 PM »
Wearing shorts and fitted t-shirt I can conceal my G19 easily with a IWB holster at 3-330 position. Carrying a gun, while not comfortable should be comforting... Heard that smwr.  You learn to adjust your wardrobe, wearing darker clothes helps a lot! Get a good heavy belt that supports the weapon on an axis. You will be surprised how comfortable it becomes as well as comforting! Y'all really derailed the heck outa this thread!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: October 02, 2015, 04:08:31 AM »
(note, I wrote this in an endeavor to be neutral on RTKBA, for educational purposes and to spur some commentary from both sides about the, for lack of a better term wussification of our youth. I think we all *here* know where I stand.)
Crapper Perspective-
This evening on the radio, I heard a staunchly conservative, pro 2A, individual call for a certification process for gun owners in the United States of America. I then heard President Barack Obama; in an almost furious tone again call for stricter gun control measures. A friend of mine mentioned this is the 15th such address the president has made during his tenure in response to a spree killing. Our populace grows weary of violence with every breaking news headline, yet we lie in wait for our turn to be victimized and still don’t really do anything about it.
Here in Joplin, the majority felt it a luxury to equip their abodes with storm shelters until the storm of the century wiped out a third of the city and claimed over 160 souls. Now the city scape is littered with storm shelters and if you don’t own one, your neighbor probably does and you have access to it. When people re-build after fires, the first thing on their mind is a state of the art smoke detection system. If unfortunately we are burglarized, we make the call immediately to arm our home with the best alarm system we can afford. When we come down with an illness due to an unhealthy lifestyle, we relentlessly seek mitigation to return to good health.
Yet when it comes to violence, the weary people rely on hope or pray they will not be victimized. The law-makers on the right fight to preserve the right of the people to keep and bear the tools necessary to defend themselves, while the left leaning law-makers call for measures to keep the same tools out of the hands of people who intend to use them for violence. With good intentions (hopefully) they both seek to bring safety and security to us. For whatever reason, this is where it stops. Occasionally you hear the “never again” stories of the individual who made the decision personal security was their own burden to bear, but the vast majority, hopes or prays and waits for someone else to establish security on their behalf.
Where does this mentality come from? The mentality that self-reliance is imperative up to and until we are confronted with violence? When we are hungry, we eat... When we are un-quenched, we drink... When we are cold, we make a fire… But when we are met with a foe bearing an impeccable will to destroy us, we just hope or pray. You wouldn’t hope or pray not to be ejected from a car in an accident. You wear your seatbelt, drive defensively, and you pay attention to your surroundings! Yet still, when confronted with harm at the hands of another, again you hope or pray they will change their mind and spare you.
It is our culture to teach our children, starting at a very young age, that violence doesn’t solve problems. Truly, you can’t solve all problems with violence. What kind of society would we be if we tried? If a lady stands in the middle of the aisle at Wal-Mart, oblivious to your endeavor to get to the pickles, it would be socially un-acceptable to round-house kick her. Violence does however solve *some* problems. Specifically, problems of the violent category are solved with a proportionate amount of violence instituted swiftly in return.
If we want to continually see the victimization of our people, then we should just maintain the status quo. If we wish to implement a strategy of defense against violence, it starts with the individual and developing them to realize there is more to self-reliance than basic sustenance. We must prepare a canvas within our youth which reflects hope and embraces prayer, but is not solely reliant upon it during a violent encounter. The tools of defense are debatable, but the gumption to defend one’s self is paramount.
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« on: September 30, 2015, 02:04:03 AM »
I enjoy picking things up and putting them down...
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« on: September 24, 2015, 06:47:19 AM »
are you using smart siding?
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« on: September 22, 2015, 03:15:44 AM »
I teared up... just a little... but I did tear up... don't tell anyone
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« on: September 18, 2015, 05:51:23 AM »
I was just running over this in my head at length the other night. Would I opt to try and draw my weapon with a gun already in my face? I dunno... Lots of variables. I haven't had intensive training like lots of you, it might be naive to think I could flip that scenario effectively with a high probability. Would be foolish to ensure getting shot by fumbling with trying to draw if a couple credit cards and the $20 bucks in my wallet is all the dude wants.
One things for sure, next time I'm walking in the dark in seedy areas, I'll probably be more inclined to discreetly remove some concealment (tuck shirt behind holster, unzip jacket, etc) as to make quick access as easy as possible.
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You're limiting factors are your training and experience. Within ECQB, (arms reach), you fight the fight you're in brother. This is a hands on scenario. This is where you give in, (not give up) to the demands of the perp, or you make the decision to respond decisively and violently to distract, disarm, and disable your attacker. There is A LOT of training out there. The problem is, people go to training, practice it a couple times, train virtually in their head, and then soon forget. One thing high speed training is, IS too high speed. It looks cool on youtube and the dude that is instructing it can do that in the street, because this is what he makes his money at, but the fact remains, too much training is geared toward the "awe that looks cool jitsu" factor and not the reality that is deadly close quarters combat. there are few gun fighters out there that could succeed against a determined butt head with a gun to their head, by going *straight* for their concealed weapon. I would never ever ever ever ever ever recommend to anyone they should draw on a drawn gun within arms reach. It's just not feasible and we aren't fast enough. You redirect and trap that weapon, then attack the ever living shoot out of the degenerate. Im talking gouge his eyes from his head, bite his face off, rip his throat out, then when you are absolutely confident, you STILL leave the gun in the bucket and go for the sweet emerson TRN posted up or your own defensive blade of choice. It is *Easy* at close quarters to defend against a weapon that only hurts you from the very tip when you are directly in front of it as opposed to a good sharp knife. You don't even have to be an expert knife fighter, just start slicing and stabbing things that make pretty shades of red. on knives- I carry two always... a utility knife and a defensive knife... the only one that cross trains is the utility knife. the defensive knife is only for defensive purposes.
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