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« on: January 24, 2016, 10:39:42 AM »
Weston is doing great as far as the cancer goes. No signs of even the slightest blur or redevelopment of anything. I guess the biggest challenge lately on his front has been getting him out of the state of mind, so to speak... He spent a year wiped out from chemo and radiation and it's hard to get him motivated to get moving. His stamina is very low and he has gained all of his weight back plus a lot more in a short period of time. He does have an HGH deficiency though we just found out which explains a lot. His mother and I parent very differently. I'm a drink water and get some sunshine kind of guy... she's a "there's gotta be a pill for that" kind. it's frustrating... but we are managing.
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« on: January 19, 2016, 08:34:50 PM »
I was a little apprehensive but honestly she did better than the boys on their first trip out...
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« on: January 19, 2016, 07:37:33 PM »
Go big or go home! She learns how to maneuver this her car should be a piece of cake!
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« on: January 19, 2016, 07:15:35 PM »
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« on: January 19, 2016, 07:13:41 PM »
My truck would prolly quit on me if she saw me stepping out with an Asian 6 lug
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« on: January 19, 2016, 07:12:36 PM »
No, they were closed. Maybe on my next day off!
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« on: January 18, 2016, 09:15:48 PM »
5.0 Cummins 6spd Aisin 59k sticker   Just drove by and saw this monstrosity! Can't even drop the tail gate! Gotta wait for it to fall slowly! How inconvenient! Can't slam it neither! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: January 16, 2016, 03:25:07 PM »
Link leads to a big page full of ammo. I like to spend less than .40 a round before I say "good deal"
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« on: January 15, 2016, 09:43:02 PM »
March'sh
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« on: January 15, 2016, 04:41:00 PM »
Everything is looking great! What is the reasoning for the raised floor behind the bar area?
So women can stand on the high side and be eye to eye with their men! Or... Because we decided we wanted a sink in the bar instead of against the wall *after* the concrete was poured... So one day off I improvised! VOILA! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: January 15, 2016, 03:08:10 PM »
^^ I read that "SIGH.... They are there for a reason"
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« on: January 15, 2016, 02:41:07 PM »
I've always used my sights. Both eyes open dot on the bullseye. There is a difference between surgeon CQB and Viking CQB. I practiced instinctive fire or intuitive fire. But I found I was only slightly slower getting on the dots and I had a higher percentage of accuracy. I got away from it after teaching/attending schools where too many people used the excuse they were developing "intuitive shooting" skills to hide their piss poor performance. That's just me though. I constantly evolve and maybe some day will be convinced otherwise.
Playing the opfor in active shooter and officer survival training using sim rounds. I always fear the guys I see on their sights because they hit me twice as often regardless if they are fresh recruits or seasoned shooters. I think there is something to be said for "intuitive sight alignment" perhaps. I have seen studies involving eye tracking software where guys claiming to be intuitive shooters were more often than not (at least subconsciously) lining up their sights, just didn't realize it.
This being said, your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you! At least it used to be, before Obama ROE.
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« on: January 15, 2016, 12:08:48 PM »
The house is nice but it's just a thing. If you can't find happiness anywhere, then you are never truly happy.
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I might disagree slightly....
We went from a 1600 to a 3100 sq ft house with a family of 6 (4 girls) and the daily bickering deminished substancially. Everyone just needed a little breathing room. It got even quieter when 3 left for college. lol
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« on: January 15, 2016, 09:42:37 AM »
The house is nice but it's just a thing. If you can't find happiness anywhere, then you are never truly happy.
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« on: January 14, 2016, 08:37:23 PM »
All of the cabinets will have crown molding around the top
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« on: January 14, 2016, 08:36:04 PM »
Here's a little pic dump of some stuff. Sorry it's been a while but truthfully it's been a little slow for a while painting and getting all the finish wood in...   Basement bar  Office  Living room  It's coming along nicely. Here's some crown  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: January 08, 2016, 08:57:52 AM »
I just use a small pile of instant lite charcoal. That's usually good for a ten minute flame that'll get even wet logs dried off and cooking!
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« on: January 07, 2016, 11:14:28 AM »
set as sticky
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« on: January 02, 2016, 11:24:14 AM »
cant imagine drawing from a seated position is an option either.
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« on: January 01, 2016, 07:00:05 PM »
Lol! Yessir! Good old fashioned kiwi and elbow grease! It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to cutting corners to laying down a good shine! My sister showed me her "hair spray" trick she learned in navy boot camp. SMDH!
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« on: January 01, 2016, 06:02:53 PM »
G-shock tough solar. Great piece. Super well built and was on rollback at wal mart a few years ago for forty bucks! My wife got me the MTM Patriot for a "retirement" gift after my last, last deployment. It's a great piece as well with a real chrono, I guess it was pretty expensive.  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: January 01, 2016, 05:48:39 PM »
 Love these merrells for comfort. Not sure they are gonna hold up   Just got these keens for winter, trial year. Taking a while to break in for sure  These Vietnamese Skechers were absolutely the best shoes for running on five years. I got them caked in mud last winter and kicked them off in the garage. When I decided to clean them, the fastening had started to rot. But they are still comfortable as heck!  Truth is, most days when I'm not in these-  I'm in these  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: January 01, 2016, 02:28:58 PM »
I'll PM you my addy. I'll get it fixed and make sure it stays fixed for a couple of years
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« on: December 27, 2015, 01:49:44 PM »
we buy those remote control helicopters bi-annually. it is a TRIP when we get all of them flying! We got away from the air hogs though and found some on amazon that you can buy spare parts for.
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« on: December 26, 2015, 04:42:27 PM »
As I nail this ark together to prepare for our impending flood, I thought I would check out the area flood maps. Thought I would post it up here as a quick link so those of us who don't have a flood evac plan, can do so. https://msc.fema.gov/portal/Just enter in your long/lat's or addy and check her out! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: December 19, 2015, 10:46:37 AM »
I almost forgot. If you look under the extremism tab, you can find PDF files of the Dabiq. It is the ISIS sponsored periodical for those who don't know. It lends itself as valuable intel on mindset.
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« on: December 19, 2015, 10:24:11 AM »
http://www.clarionproject.org/homeI have found this a pretty good resource for keeping up on current events dealing with just about everything. I spent, probably a little too much time looking through it the other night, but in my endeavor to find harsh political bias, or other negative intents, I failed. SO it must be a pretty good site. see what yall think. watch this in it's entirety when you have 15 mins to spare. This is what turned me on to them the other day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPvnFDDQHk
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« on: December 19, 2015, 10:04:06 AM »
Second thought....I'm stupid. Of course I'm carrying. If they are wanding, I'll go to the car and drop it off.
AIWB behind that Star of Texas belt buckle. I know you have one.
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« on: December 06, 2015, 11:50:27 AM »
I didn't know you could ski in Wisconsin. We had a "mandatory fun" day at some paintball park on base there IIRC. I am not all in to paintballing and air-soft but we had a pretty good time! That place seemed like a pretty sweet installation with the big bowling alley and MWR building. They had a pretty decent gym too
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« on: December 06, 2015, 10:44:28 AM »
We were at Ft McCoy Wisconsin doing our 9 day d-mob stand down
And this was when?
2010'sh. I didn't think about that being your stomping grounds... Do you know the name of the place I'm talking about? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: December 06, 2015, 09:13:10 AM »
We were at Ft McCoy Wisconsin doing our 9 day d-mob stand down, make sure you aren't going to cook off, and health assessment. 1SG, in an attempt to show solidarity, pulled duty. We decided to go out because a guy knew a guy who knew the gate keepers girl friend (small world I know). So like any good soldier would do, we called a cab to meet us at the gate, paid off the guard and headed out on the town. As if that is possible in Sparta Wisconsin. But we decided to pub crawl. Bad idea! Post deployment alcohol metabolism is nearly nil. You basically drink two of the devil's spirits and you are stumbling, five mins later you are stone cold sober... and the cycle perpetuates.
We wound up in some little hole in the wall. Some literal "Shack" of some sort, not even sure if they had a liquor license, but the bar tender was a crusty old Vietnam vet. He didn't make us pay for a drink all night, so we never left. Played darts and pool. Spc. Wagoner got a dart lodged in his trapezius. It was one of those sorts of nights. We were the only ones in the bar, the old man told some sweet stories and we just sat around him like a bunch of kindergarten kids. He got tired and gave us a key and told us to lock up and put the key under a rock before we left. Being the ranking NCO and the "good example" I toasted a final time and told the boys it was time to go. We got a cab and rolled back to base. It was a great night but this is where the problems started.
It was probably 4am by this point, we decided to get 1SG a box of donuts and a huge coffee. Still hadn't figured out how we were going to sneak in but we had it in our polluted heads that we could pay him off too with the donuts. The gate guard we had paid off was off duty upon our arrival, oops. We had all left practically all or our cash at the bar for the old man since he had been so generous. So for four benchmades, a gerber multi-tool, and two pair of oakleys, the DOD security let us back on base. Good thing we weren't the Taliban. As we walked back to our barracks, roughly 1.5 miles, it was getting close to first call.
We had it in our heads we could hide in the bushes until people started stirring and storm our rooms *fire escape*. Then someone remembered it was Sunday and we weren't due until a 0900 formation. We snuck up the backside of the barracks careful to conceal ourselves. As it would turn out, 1SG was wide awake in his sniffle gear and on a patrol, straight for our egress route. We needed a distraction technique. The sun was coming up fast. We hunkered down and I sent PFC Elmore to the dumpster for a Gatorade bottle and an MRE heater. PFC. Elmore returned with said supplies. Our intent was to make a small but percussive explosive device in order to elicit a response from 1SG and we could run right in our front door and hunker into our beds before he could return. We had no water to initiate the chemical response necessary to expand and explode the bottle, but we all had to pee. We shoved the heater down in the bottle and I unzipped and filled it about half full. It started steaming. Perfect! PV1 Barker was tasked with setting the device. He was given specific orders NOT to tighten the lid down until he was ready to set it. PV1 Barker tightened the lid down and ran for the dumpster in a direct disregard of my authority.
We all looked at each other and giggled. 1SG was lighting a cigarette about this time watching the sun come up. We were roughly 120 meters from him. A few people were strolling about in PT's for morning smokes. We were sure to get busted if this didn't go as planned. The targeted dumpster was about fifty meters to our 9:00. If we timed it correctly, 1SG would go running to respond to the explosion around the opposite side of the building, and Barker would have time to make it back as we were running up the stairs. We would leave the aforementioned coffee and donuts on the hasty CQ desk and make it to our rooms to snuggle down with our woobies for a couple hours.
Was a perfect plan, except in Barker's haste, he had tightened the lid down on our IED prematurely. Barker made it about 5 feet from the dumpster when the thing cooked off and shook the still dawn with a deafening KAPOW spraying urine everywhere and even in his mouth! But we continued mission, because that's what we do. Barker came running back, 1SG went running around the opposite side of the building just as we had planned, I dropped the donuts and coffee on the desk and we all shot up the stairs and bedded down. I love it when a plan comes together!
There was no time to laugh about Barker being covered in my urine or surely his 10% disability he would receive for bad hearing. We were all too amped to sleep by this point so we decided to don our PT's and head to chow. With reflective belts securely fashioned we all headed downstairs, *yawning* and *stretching*. Get to the bottom of the stairs. 1SG was partaking in our rations we provided. "mornin' first s'arnt"..... "Gentleman! Good morning... Sleep well?" .... "Couldn't have slept better first s'arnt, thanks for asking first s'arnt" .... "excellent, did you guys not hear all the commotion this morning?" ... "no first s'arnt?? what happened??" ... "Oh nothing... it's funny ya'll are the only squad that didn't clear the barracks tho... just sayin'..." .... "...crickets..." ... "That's what I thought" as he very firmly stuck a receipt in the middle of my chest and punched it, same way he had when he busted me down with my honorary Spc rank after the baboon incident, and the same we he had subsequently promoted me at the post deployment awards ceremony and battle hand off while we were still in country. "head on to chow now gents..." "yes, first s'arnt" and we all scurried along... We get to chow, and the lunch lady inquires about my receipt. I pulled it off, looked at it... and in big bold letters across the bottom of my credit card receipt, printed as it often is, "Visa CORNELIUS 1234"...
Never heard another thing about it... PV1 Barker however, still holds the title of Goldie, short for "Golden ...." (you get the idea)
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« on: December 06, 2015, 07:59:25 AM »
I apologize if it does not work out......#hangmyheadinshame
chin up bro! It was a great lead!
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« on: December 06, 2015, 07:56:01 AM »
Hope you get to feeling better soon brother!
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« on: December 05, 2015, 08:08:47 PM »
Well Nate found a motor on c-list. I contacted the guy and another individual from DF. The DF guy is actually my dads neighbor, go figure! He was supposed to contact his mechanic and get back to me, but I haven't heard anything going on almost a week now so that prolly won't be a thing.
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« on: December 04, 2015, 12:15:00 PM »
HC Very sweet looking rifle. I would take those groups any day!
Do you mind sharing where you got the Nikon? The prices seem to be all over the board. Which power range did you get? 3-9x40? Thanks
Here is the exact scope and this is where I got it! I bought it a couple years ago for my troy, but ended up putting a 1-4 vortex on it instead. http://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/nikon-p-223-3---9-x-40-bdc-600-riflescope?repChildCatid=552712
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« on: December 03, 2015, 11:05:18 PM »
Yeah, they come in .300 blk as well, and that would be cool, but I am trying to maintain my consolidated ammo integrity.
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« on: December 03, 2015, 07:42:13 PM »
One gripe I have is the scope rail is not your standard mil 1913. Trigger is exceptional! It is just fun to shoot!
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« on: December 03, 2015, 07:34:36 PM »
Independence 55gr FMJ (bulk stock) Nikon P223 in leupy rings
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« on: December 03, 2015, 05:29:12 PM »
Because! FREEDOM Why? Not being a smart a** just wondering how many guys on here have had a set walk?
Edit: and then my next question is why a drop in verus a standard upgraded trigger set?
I would like to suggest some "no walk" pins.
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« on: December 03, 2015, 05:27:22 PM »
I've never had a set walk all the way out on a standard assembly but I did on a drop in. It was on my birthday, 1968. Phase one of the Tet offensive. We had just stepped off. I was tickling the trigger of my M16A1, and realized my fire control group pin had walked out on me... I ripped my dog tags off and fed the globular chain through the hole and fastened it back to itself.... Them NVA weren't going to take me this day! (Literally being a smart a$$) ;)
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« on: December 03, 2015, 04:05:31 PM »
Popped on the Ruger American Ranch of the compact type! I absolutely love it!  100yds 3rd group right, 3 rds high (oops, wrong way on the turret) 4 rds clustered on the top of the mark.   Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: December 03, 2015, 03:58:41 PM »
I would tend to agree but on a drop in trigger set, I think they're pretty important. Cheap insurance
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« on: December 02, 2015, 06:59:00 PM »
I would like to suggest some "no walk" pins.
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« on: November 30, 2015, 07:56:57 PM »
Thanks buddy!
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« on: November 30, 2015, 05:53:30 PM »
Here are a couple of pretty good articles on the move itself. Secondary to that, research the 10k swing kettle bell workout!
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« on: November 30, 2015, 05:35:00 PM »
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« on: November 29, 2015, 09:02:32 PM »
$4k is about all we have to work with
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« on: November 29, 2015, 09:01:52 PM »
Somewhere between SW Missouri, SE Kansas, NW Arkansas, Oklahoma and north Texas
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« on: November 29, 2015, 06:31:46 PM »
My dad is in a super tight spot financially and emotionally. It's a long personal story. The motor seized up in his dually 02' lb7 duramax. I need to get him in to a different truck or source an engine for his. The only real requirement is that it's 3/4 ton or bigger and its dependable sand able to pull. Let me know if anyone has seen anything recently or possibly has something to part with.
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« on: November 28, 2015, 07:31:48 AM »
grunt perks! collective bargaining- We got Kevlar seat cushions in the helo and the 42A's got to keep their up-armored Humvees that never left the wire... Of course we still stole them. I remember there being a note on the door from the navy chief requesting that we maintain branch integrity when we pick the vehicles we were going to steal.
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