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D.O.T. / Re: Not that active...hmmm
« on: June 03, 2015, 06:08:59 PM »
I always leave enough room for an exit. Anytime I'm stuck in traffic, I stick to the shoulder, right or left, whichever affords a hasty egress. Same at red lights. Generally leave enough room to pull out or if terrain dictates, and I am handicapped to the right lane bc I have to turn, I'll stop near an alley or driveway...

Are you that guy that's always behind me honking???!!!! ;)


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D.O.T. / Real Courage
« on: June 02, 2015, 05:00:23 PM »


With all this Bruce Jenner sensationalism and people referring to him as heroic and so courageous maybe we should take a second and re-set in our brains what real heroism and courage look like! Roger that!


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Medical Corner / Re: What are the items in your medical kit?
« on: May 30, 2015, 09:21:35 PM »
I think we discussed it before, but where does one get anti-biotics other than through a Doctor friend?

Veterinarians, feed stores, online. I've heard some of the easiest to get a hold of are the ones for fish

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These are good for gaining weight-

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D.O.T. / Re: Weston Update
« on: May 30, 2015, 03:17:15 PM »
Nice!

His hair coming back OK?

He's got some fuzz for sure. It's pretty thin! But it's there!

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D.O.T. / Re: Weston Update
« on: May 30, 2015, 03:15:56 PM »
Weston is. I always showed him things everyone says and replies. One of the coolest things was a Facebook page I like called "fit cops" I posted one of our pictures to their site and they made him a "man crush Monday"! He got hundreds of brothers and sisters of my profession praying for him and wishing him well. His mother was always in there when I would tell him about all of it. Her and I have a "business like" relationship I guess you could say. I do pretty well just to sit in the same room with her. I will leave it at that for now.

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D.O.T. / Re: Weston Update
« on: May 30, 2015, 12:52:33 PM »
Thanks Ken! Was wondering who was doing that for me!
Something to do with loading them from my phone!

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D.O.T. / Weston Update
« on: May 30, 2015, 11:38:46 AM »
Guess we will kick this off right! WD is doing fantastic! Fired up and ready to re-claim his boyhood! Last summer SUCKED! This summer it is fishing and exploring and doing all those things little boys do!

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Firearms / Heirloom guns
« on: May 30, 2015, 02:09:43 AM »
My Belgium A5 in 12 ga owned by my "Bapaw"- (great grandpa) and the Remington model 11 owned by his wife. My "mimo". Story on the A5 is it was a seizure by the sheriff of Tarrant Co TX after being used in a homicide in the early 1900's. My Bapaw's brother was the DA and was able to give him the story after he bought it from the sheriffs auction in the sixties--- at least that's my recollection of the story anyways!

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Build Threads / Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« on: May 29, 2015, 03:35:26 AM »

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: Father's Day
« on: May 29, 2015, 03:03:25 AM »
Well my story is a little different! One thing I can say so far a re-curring theme here is going to be all of us "real-men" having had great patriarchs for mentors-

My real father- or my sperm donor, I guess you could say- Was a rodeo cowboy turned career military man, circa Desert Storm. I can probably count the number of days he spent raising me- There weren't many. When he left my mom, he left me in the custody of my drug addicted mother. I was eventually saved and given to my grandmother for raising.

Growing up in Austin Texas, it was my grandma, "Nana", my aunt Kelli (mom's sister) and me. The only real male figure I had in my life up until I was 11 was my great grandfather "Bapaw". He was well in his 80's and although, I could always see he wanted to do more for me, his health just didn't allow it. He was circa WWII Major in the US Army. He was a dentist by trade, seeing the inevitable draft, He instead enlisted. He was a portly fellow, and in his older thirties wouldn't have served well jumping out of planes so instead he yanked our young paratroopers teeth. He was a great man.

When I was 11, my Grandmother re-married, a beau from her younger years swept her off her feet and he was the gentleman who became the only man, I have ever referred to as my dad-

My dad grew up a dirt poor share-cropper out of Northeastern and central Arkansas. His daddy and uncles ran moonshine through the ozark mountains during the prohibition. You wanna hear some great stories, his daddy could tell them! I digress- My dad grew to be a Church of Christ preacher and moved to Texas. After a divorce the church ex-communicated him and he became a truck driver. He was always a cowboy no matter what his profession. He raised or helped raise cattle all over central Texas. He also maintained a business where he up-fitted and customized trucks and suburbans into sort of "cowboy limousine's". When north cental Texas began to boom, he saw money in real-estate. He put himself through correspondence school to become a real-estate broker. He was pretty much the best at anything he did. He won several awards for selling real-estate and brokering huge deals. He never shied away from learning anything. When the real estate market crashed and property taxes sored, he came up with a hair brained idea to  have commercial business let him petition the county commissions to de-value their properties, thus saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars on taxes of which they would pay my dad on a percentage.

He did that for 15 or 20 years and got tired of it and decided to live out his dream of being a saddle builder and leatherman. That is what he does to this day, now in his 70's.

So he took hold of me when I was 11 and I moved out on my own at 17. Not much time to teach a little boy everything he needs to know about being a man, but in just those short 6 years he instilled into me a set of values and ethos which have always kept me on track. I am not going to say, I have never screwed up, but anytime I have screwed up it was in direct contradiction to the things he taught me. This could go on all night but, I will list some bullet points which were instilled in me.

-There are a thousand honest ways to make a dollar, if you do all of them, you just made a thousand bucks.
-Dont become bitter, Dont operate in a manner contradictory to your value system just because someone isn't holding up their end.
-Hard work beats a hand out ten-fold
-Never pass up an opportunity to make a connection
-Always pay it forward
-Never stop learning/Teaching
-Consequences are chaos
-It's only a mistake if you dont learn from it, otherwise it's a lesson
-humility is gentlemanly
-never pass up an opportunity to flirt with a pretty girl (not sure he meant to teach me that- but it rubbed off)
-"Toughen up buttercup, it's a long way from your heart"
-When you have enough, provide for others

There are dozens of things I learned from that man that I dont even remember until someone asks me, "Where'd you learn to do that?". I pause and think about it for a second and it's always, "My dad showed me".

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: Father's Day
« on: May 28, 2015, 06:20:36 PM »
Well that hits you right in the feels! Sniffle

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Firearms / Re: Sadly parting with a Beretta BL-4 Over/Under.
« on: May 28, 2015, 06:01:47 PM »
How about you let me buy into it and you just keep it for me. I'm sure there's enough of us on here to get you that $600.00- only stipulation is you have to keep it!! Forever! In case we want to shoot it!

The biggest mistake I've ever made, including marrying my practice wife was selling a passed down Mickey Mantle baseball card...

Send me your addy in a PM. I got $150 bill with your name on it brother!

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / This morning-
« on: May 25, 2015, 06:10:54 PM »
Every Memorial Day morning I set my flags at sun up and take them down at sun down.

American exceptionalism is a term coined by individuals who feel we should be ashamed of ourselves. I refuse to be ashamed. America *is* exceptional even in our current challenging times. America is exceptional because brave men and women fight and die to make sure she stays that way. The current generation has experienced more years of war than any other generation. While the objective of war is not to die for your country but rather allow the opposition a means of dying for theirs, we shall not under any circumstance believe or cause to believe the loss of any American Soldier is in vain. The individuals who have fought and died for our country in recent wars did so voluntarily. It takes an unmitigated amount of courage and fortitude to take an oath to defend ones country in a time of war knowing the dangers you will face. In the school houses we hold our hearts and pledge our allegiance beginning at a young age. On the ball fields we stand and sing our national anthem. For some, this show of support is enough and from the bottom of our hearts we are appreciative. For others, this is merely the catalyst to donning camouflage and combat boots. We insert ourselves into hostile areas in order to free the oppressed, aide the sick and hungry, and arrest terrorism and evil. We do so, not for ourselves but instead for our sons and daughters. We all leave pieces of ourselves in places when we return home. Some however left their last breath in those places and had to be carried home.  This is their day, do something in remembrance of them.

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Firearms / Wyatt Earp on shooting vs. gunfighting
« on: May 23, 2015, 12:39:48 AM »
FINALLY found this! My favorite article! It is absolutely timeless! This is good stuff, you're welcome!

Wyatt Earp-

“I was a fair hand with pistol, rifle, or shotgun, but I learned more about gunfighting from Tom Speer’s cronies during the summer of ’71 than I had dreamed was in the book. Those old-timers took their gunplay seriously, which was natural under the conditions in which they lived. Shooting, to them, was considerably more than aiming at a mark and pulling a trigger. Models of weapons, methods of wearing them, means of getting them into action and operating them, all to the one end of combining high speed with absolute accuracy, contributed to the frontiersman’s shooting skill. The sought-after degree of proficiency was that which could turn to most effective account the split-second between life and death. Hours upon hours of practice, and wide experience in actualities supported their arguments over style.

The most important lesson I learned from those proficient gunfighters was the winner of a gunplay usually was the man who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live long on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting—grandstand play—as I would poison.

When I say that I learned to take my time in a gunfight, I do not wish to be misunderstood, for the time to be taken was only that split fraction of a second that means the difference between deadly accuracy with a sixgun and a miss. It is hard to make this clear to a man who has never been in a gunfight. Perhaps I can best describe such time taking as going into action with the greatest speed of which a man’s muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick-shooting involves. Mentally deliberate, but muscularly faster than thought, is what I mean.

In all my life as a frontier police officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip. In later years I read a great deal about this type of gunplay, supposedly employed by men noted for skill with a forty-five.

From personal experience and numerous six-gun battles which I witnessed, I can only support the opinion advanced by the men who gave me my most valuable instruction in fast and accurate shooting, which was that the gun-fanner and hip-shooter stood small chance to live against a man who, as old Jack Gallagher always put it, took his time and pulled the trigger once.

Cocking and firing mechanisms on new revolvers were almost invariably altered by their purchasers in the interests of smoother, effortless handling, usually by filing the dog which controlled the hammer, some going so far as to remove triggers entirely or lash them against the guard, in which cases the guns were fired by thumbing the hammer. This is not to be confused with fanning, in which the triggerless gun is held in one hand while the other was brushed rapidly across the hammer to cock the gun, and firing it by the weight of the hammer itself. A skillful gun-fanner could fire five shots from a forty-five so rapidly that the individual reports were indistinguishable, but what could happen to him in a gunfight was pretty close to murder.

I saw Jack Gallagher’s theory borne out so many times in deadly operation that I was never tempted to forsake the principles of gunfighting as I had them from him and his associates.

There was no man in the Kansas City group who was Wild Bill’s equal with a six-gun. Bill’s correct name, by the way, was James B. Hickok. Legend and the imaginations of certain people have exaggerated the number of men he killed in gunfights and have misrepresented the manner in which he did his killing. At that, they could not very well overdo his skill with pistols.

Hickok knew all the fancy tricks and was as good as the best at that sort of gunplay, but when he had serious business at hand, a man to get, the acid test of marksmanship, I doubt if he employed them. At least, he told me that he did not. I have seen him in action and I never saw him fan a gun, shoot from the hip, or try to fire two pistols simultaneously. Neither have I ever heard a reliable old-timer tell of any trick-shooting employed by Hickok when fast straight-shooting meant life or death.

That two-gun business is another matter that can stand some truth before the last of the old-time gunfighters has gone on. They wore two guns, most of six-gun toters did, and when the time came for action went after them with both hands. But they didn’t shoot them that way.

Primarily, two guns made the threat of something in reserve; they were useful as a display of force when a lone man stacked up against a crowd. Some men could shoot equally well with either hand, and in a gunplay might alternate their fire; others exhausted the loads from the gun on the right, or the left, as the case might be, then shifted the reserve weapon to the natural shooting hand if that was necessary and possible. Such a move—the border shift—could be made faster than the eye could follow a top-notch gun-thrower, but if the man was as good as that, the shift would seldom be required.

Whenever you see a picture of some two-gun man in action with both weapons held closely against his hips and both spitting smoke together, you can put it down that you are looking at the picture of a fool, or a fake. I remember quite a few of these so-called two-gun men who tried to operate everything at once, but like the fanners, they didn’t last long in proficient company.

In the days of which I am talking, among men whom I have in mind, when a man went after his guns, he did so with a single, serious purpose. There was no such thing as a bluff; when a gunfighter reached for his fortyfive, every faculty he owned was keyed to shooting as speedily and as accurately as possible, to making his first shot the last of the fight. He just had to think of his gun solely as something with which to kill another before he himself could be killed. The possibility of intimidating an antagonist was remote, although the ‘drop’ was thoroughly respected, and few men in the West would draw against it. I have seen men so fast and so sure of themselves that they did go after their guns while men who intended to kill them had them covered, and what is more win out in the play. They were rare. It is safe to say, for all general purposes, that anything in gunfighting that smacked of show-off or bluff was left to braggarts who were ignorant or careless of their lives.

I might add that I never knew a man who amounted to anything to notch his gun with ‘credits,’ as they were called, for men he had killed. Outlaws, gunmen of the wild crew who killed for the sake of brag, followed this custom. I have worked with most of the noted peace officers — Hickok, Billy Tilghman, Pat Sughre, Bat Masterson, Charlie Basset, and others of like caliber — have handled their weapons many times, but never knew one of them to carry a notched gun.

There are two other points about the old-time method of using six-guns most effectively that do not seem to be generally known. One is that the gun was not cocked with the ball of the thumb. As his gun was jerked into action, the old-timer closed the whole joint of his thumb over the hammer and the gun was cocked in that fashion.  The soft flesh of the thumb ball might slip if a man’s hands were moist, and a slip was not to be chanced if humanly avoidable. This thumb-joint method was employed whether or not a man used the trigger for firing.

On the second point, I have often been asked why five shots without reloading were all a top-notch gunfighter fired, when his guns were chambered for six cartridges. The answer is, merely, safety. To ensure against accidental discharge of the gun while in the holster, due to hair-trigger adjustment, the hammer rested upon an empty chamber. As widely as this was known and practiced, the number of cartridges a man carried in his six-gun may be taken as an indication of a man’s rank with the gunfighters of the old school.  Practiced gun-wielders had too much respect for their weapons to take unnecessary chances with them; it was only with tyros and would-bes that you heard of accidental discharges or didn’t-know-it-was-loaded injuries in the country where carrying a Colt was a man’s prerogative.”

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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 22, 2015, 08:14:51 PM »
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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 22, 2015, 08:13:27 PM »
Walls formed up

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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 22, 2015, 08:11:20 PM »
8" thick walls and 12" ceiling (concrete) hidden in the bowels of the basement

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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 22, 2015, 08:09:19 PM »
Safe room and armory

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Firearms / Re: Sig P226 vs Glock 17
« on: May 22, 2015, 07:31:04 AM »
Like this guy-

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I just felt like these were important-

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Firearms / Re: Sig P226 vs Glock 17
« on: May 22, 2015, 12:37:05 AM »
Not that all units admit to TRADOC conformity but the safe to semi from low ready to high ready is doctrine. I'm sure rain man "Nate" will spit out the TM for us in the AM. All of the legit operators I have ever had the pleasure to stack up with operated in that manner. Obviously we clear structures from the high ready, on semi, and finger in the "universal cover" position, but any time your eye is relieved from your sight the selector is swept back to safe.

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Build Threads / Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« on: May 21, 2015, 10:07:29 PM »
I say after you weld it solid you don't grind anything and let it sit in the rain and rust slightly, then clear coat it!

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Firearms / Re: Sig P226 vs Glock 17
« on: May 20, 2015, 09:12:31 PM »
Pics or it didn't happen! Congrats on your new investment in freedom!

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Firearms / Re: Good deal?
« on: May 20, 2015, 05:06:42 PM »
Depends on how you feel about some of their practices. Troy makes quality stuff! Damn good and solid gear! But they have made some controversial decisions regarding cadre on their subsidiary Troy assymetrics. Check out this link-

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/08/daniel-zimmerman/what-the-hells-the-problem-with-troy-industries/

I own a Troy rifle and I love it... Just don't tell all my friends! I bought it before I knew any of this and I'm not going to just throw it away or sell it for half of what I have in it or not tell someone about Troys business practices to get its full value- basically, use your own judgement!

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Firearms / Re: How to... Scribble- Monty Python quotes and stuff
« on: May 19, 2015, 01:54:06 PM »
Bring me the machine that goes BEEP!
Love that one!

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Self Defense and Tactics / Re: A few notes on light discipline
« on: May 18, 2015, 02:24:49 PM »
if you told a grunt, we are moving out in 45 minutes, after our eyes get accustomed to the darkness, you would have literally 50% of your platoon asleep while the other half stood guard for the first 22.5 minutes and then they would swap.... I was once a wee private and had an old crotchety E8 tell me, if you are just standing around you should be sitting, if you are just sitting around you should be laying down, if you are laying down you just as well be sleeping... not sure what he was getting at really, but we were in a relatively docile training box... so I decided to take a nap while my battle kept an eye out... only to awake four minutes later getting my face ripped off because my battle had clocked out too... I should have known better...  I tried to relay the story the master sgt had relayed but he couldn't hear me because he was still screaming too loud...

Or more realistically, you'd have the experienced guys sleeping, some individuals would be smoking, the LTs would be messing around with some thing or another IOT appear important, some people would be standing around with their hands in their "air force gloves", and the NEW guys wouldn't know what to do..


That little saying means rest when you can because in combat, you don't know when you will get more.

Those 20 minute cat naps work wonders don't they..
The LT's are developing a new PT belt reflectivity test as a mitigation for their risk assessment matrix, which they will undoubtedly be given a bronze star for!

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Self Defense and Tactics / Re: A few notes on light discipline
« on: May 18, 2015, 02:19:55 PM »
That little saying means rest when you can because in combat, you don't know when you will get more.

Right- more importantly however- you should always take an available opportunity to squat on an e tool because it's hard to fight with diaper rash...

I understand the saying now- but then, it was just one of those things someone told you once...

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Self Defense and Tactics / Re: A few notes on light discipline
« on: May 18, 2015, 02:23:12 AM »
if you told a grunt, we are moving out in 45 minutes, after our eyes get accustomed to the darkness, you would have literally 50% of your platoon asleep while the other half stood guard for the first 22.5 minutes and then they would swap.... I was once a wee private and had an old crotchety E8 tell me, if you are just standing around you should be sitting, if you are just sitting around you should be laying down, if you are laying down you just as well be sleeping... not sure what he was getting at really, but we were in a relatively docile training box... so I decided to take a nap while my battle kept an eye out... only to awake four minutes later getting my face ripped off because my battle had clocked out too... I should have known better...  I tried to relay the story the master sgt had relayed but he couldn't hear me because he was still screaming too loud...

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Self Defense and Tactics / A few notes on light discipline
« on: May 17, 2015, 01:16:59 PM »
Add solid knowledge or experience as you see fit

Light discipline

-Bright stationary lights will conceal your movement behind them or at least obscure the enemies view of you.
-a bright burst of light will immediately remove the enemies acquired night vision by constricting their pupils.
-When moving about at night I use a small key chain light if anything for movement and a bright WML or torch for illuminating an adversary.
-during tactical night movement if you must illuminate your scene. Stop, cast your light at an azimuth contradictory to your intended path for a short burst and immediately move. You will use the ambient light created to guide you, but won't give away your intended route.
-never find yourself backlit or backlight a friendly. If you find yourself backlit, use your own torch or WML to replace the light your shadow has cast.
-don't shine your torch in your buddies eyes jacking around immediately before moving in to darkness.
-avoid the temptation to focus on distant lights, headlights, or others lights.
-avoid using light for convenience
-if time is not critical, allow four-six minutes for your eyes to adjust to darkness before movements.

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / The Art of Manliness
« on: May 17, 2015, 12:38:48 PM »
I normally wouldn't push another site, but I stumbled across this today while browsing the interwebz

A piece from his about section-
Many men today feel adrift and have lost the confidence, focus, skills, and virtues that men of the past embodied. In an increasingly androgynous society, modern men are confused about their role and what it means to be an honorable, well-rounded man.


http://www.artofmanliness.com/category/a-mans-life/

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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 15, 2015, 06:41:14 AM »
The whole fam damily from Easter!

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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 15, 2015, 06:40:27 AM »
All I can say is Thank God the kids take after your wife.  What a beautiful crew you have there.  May the Lord continue to bless you.
Why thank you sir! (I guess that's a compliment?!?) ;) they are definitely the best thing about being me!

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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 15, 2015, 02:30:23 AM »
Beautiful land, my wife would crazy over a frog or toad (she does have me).

I here lots of good about Mahindra, wondered about the. It does sound Indian. Wish I had something to use it on.

They run about 22 in road gear... And you can clutch and shift on the fly on high side... Convertible, faux leather upholstery... Four wheel drive... DOT lighting... No real reason not to use it for daily driving! I took a girl to prom on my old Massey in HS...

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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 14, 2015, 10:51:12 PM »
You do realize your JD was built and exported from India as well right? The only JD made here anymore are combines, t series and headers??

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Hide Site / Re: The HC spread!
« on: May 14, 2015, 01:54:17 PM »
What kinda chinaman lookin tractor is that?

You have thistles, I have honey suckle, wild roses and poison ivy.

Place looks awesome!

This is a Mahindra. The number one selling tractor in the world. This is the 4035 model. Will work all day long next to your larger John Deere, cost me half as much, with customer service that's twice as good. ;) I have had JD's, Kubotas, and MF's, and by far I am more impressed with this guy. The company is based in India but they manufacture and assemble world wide and most importantly here in the USA.

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Hide Site / Re: Hide/bugout site build thread
« on: May 14, 2015, 02:03:24 AM »

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Question: Shingles or steel roof?
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Quick comment here... It's not the steel roofs that fail, it's the fasteners. The rubber grommets blow out sometimes in very short periods of time, especially if they are too tight. So prepare to climb up there and swap the screws out every five years or so...

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Hide Site / Re: Groundbreaking Day
« on: May 14, 2015, 12:45:25 AM »
Saved this little fella from meeting his maker... The girls offered up a smorgasbord of banana, tomatoes, lettuce and even a few flowers out of mommas Mother's Day bouquet!

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Firearms / How to... Scribble- Monty Python quotes and stuff
« on: May 14, 2015, 12:40:01 AM »
I'm a high gripper, as a matter of fact I bevel out my trigger guard to get the highest grip possible... So this is basically the constant state of my right thumb knuckle...  :-\ :)

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Hide Site / Re: Groundbreaking Day
« on: May 14, 2015, 12:28:00 AM »
Time to put a new floor on the trailer... Wonder if the concrete guys will miss some of those Crete treated form boards from their trailer??

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Hide Site / Re: Groundbreaking Day
« on: May 14, 2015, 12:25:20 AM »
View toward house from the pond

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Hide Site / Re: Groundbreaking Day
« on: May 14, 2015, 12:23:29 AM »
thistle eradication today- phase one, knock them down before they bloom!
Why did God make thistles anyhow?

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Hide Site / Re: Groundbreaking Day
« on: May 13, 2015, 06:23:04 PM »
My little personal spot of heaven

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Hide Site / Re: Groundbreaking Day
« on: May 13, 2015, 06:17:01 PM »
That nice dual axle trailer looks looks lost in there. You can have an indoor range!!

Can't think of any reason not to train outside really!

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Hide Site / Re: Groundbreaking Day
« on: May 12, 2015, 10:04:27 PM »
Got the footings formed up today. Prolly be pouring mud in them tomorrow... One issue found- with the rain it appears a bit of a spring has found its way through the natural voids in the rocks. Could be such a thing when we fill the water will A. find a new route and push out down hill where it's supposed to, B. Make its way around in the drain pipe we are installing or, C. Find its way into the basement. In the event C occurs I've opted to build a sump pit. Luckily the new spring is in an area of the basement which will be un-finished!
Progress pic

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Faith Discussion / Re: Small prayer request
« on: May 12, 2015, 09:52:37 PM »
Thanks a lot guys! Been rough! Crazy part is I think the 16 year old step son and I really had a bonding moment over the whole ordeal... Big tough kid he is actually let me put my arms around him. Was never like that even when he was little!

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Faith Discussion / Small prayer request
« on: May 11, 2015, 05:34:27 PM »
Our beloved mut "buddy", resting in peace now. Full of cancer and just wouldn't be in his best interest to do anything other than put him down... Sad day :.(

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Hide Site / Re: Hide/bugout site build thread
« on: May 10, 2015, 09:32:21 AM »
Does that trailer give you better fuel mileage pointing down hill like it does? Seems like it would just push you along!
;)

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