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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Hmmm... I am under orders to do lots and lots of dry firing my XD9 while I’m practicing for the CCW permit test. I sometimes use snap caps but more often nothing. We haven’t really done any dry fire of our AR15s though that would be cheaper than the ammo for them!
A snap cap is okay, but this dry fire device seems better, IMHO. No moving parts hit any other parts. The firing pin never moves, and the hammer is gently stopped short of hitting anything metallic. When you recock the weapon, there's no snap cap to be ejected and rechambered.
Morning Winmag - a great read, as usual. The dryfire device, interesting, I’ve used snap caps, especially in the rimfire weaponries, never seen it before. Cool, thanks for posting this info.
Excellent point made.......Brownells or Midway have em or Creedmore or Sinclair ????
Probably all of them. But I know Midway has them in both black and orange.
Afternoon Sir - a most excellent post. That picture is literallly worth a thousand words. hmmm, wonder what all the accesories would cost?
Hey, some of us ladies like those too...
What's poking fun? That's all good stuff, unless you try to hang it all on the weapon at the same time.
I still have not been able to identify all the carp in that picture, although I'm pretty certain there's an M4 in the middle.
Just catching up here...sorry about Abbycat...
Mrsnad
Thanks. How’s Stinky holdin’ up?
Shudder...13...Thegirl will be there in November, but she doesn’t order pizza...they don’t deliver this far out. :-)
Mrsnad
Mrsnad
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The soccer players (obviously, this is somewhere in America, which is the only country on earth that uses the correct term, "soccer) get to play their game, and archers get a live-fire exercise.
y’all remain in our prayers
Looks like some of the cover photos of magazines I see with names like “Weapons and Tactics for Military and Law Enforcement”.
And I remind myself that they are planning on using those on me.
And I am not pleased.
It takes so little to make me happy.
That’s great!! From what little I’ve read, it’s not that easy raising garlic around here. You done good.
I guess the vampires won’t bother you, then...
I don't know who "they" are, but I've crossed paths with lots of "donut cops". Their heart is in the right place, but someone in the chain of command is trying to stuff their heads with a "us vs. everyone else" attitude. They personally don't have anything planned except their retirement.
There's an old saying I take comfort in. "Police make bad soldiers, and soldiers make bad police." I've seen both sides of the saying in action, and it's true. I'd make an awful cop, because I probably couldn't go one day without seeing someone who "needed killin'".
The cop's handgun is first a badge of authority. Second, it's a means of defense. It comes in a very poor third as a weapon to take down a bad guy. In Michigan, most CCW holders put in more trigger time with their handguns than police are required to do to maintain their rating.
I will be the first to admit that I just fart around with handguns. I believe in Jeff Cooper's saying, "a handgun is what you use to fight your way back to the rifle you should have never left behind". I try to live my life by three sayings, in decreasing order of important. The Lord's Prayer. The Pledge of Allegiance. The Marine Rifleman's Creed.
The first two require increased spiritual effort on my part. The third just requires that I work on my skills, and my equipment. With that as my philosophy, I really don't worry much. I just get annoyed that I helped pay for a lot of those toys, and they are bestowed upon people who don't have the training or the mindset to use them properly.
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