RooK
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They might have been "loaners". Also, don't be surprised if you see random firearms being used. Seems a lot of abandoned arms ranging from old Russian stuff to FALs is being found and redistributed.
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Any of you tankers in the military: How hard is it to blow a track? I know it happens with roadside bombs in Iraq, but how big of an explosion is needed to disable a track on a modern tank?
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G. What kind of rifle is that? Certainly not something an SF sniper uses. The chrome bolt is also really, really odd.
See my above quote:
I guarantee you it's an off the shelf stainless Sako hunting rifle. Our military uses the Rem 700 action almost exclusively for bolt rifles I believe.
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Want to see how a National ID can be abused? Look no further than South Africa and their passbooks under colonial rule.
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All lethal injection? I think my state and some of the older ones still use electricution. Other places offer choices to the inmate, including firing squad.
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What's with the sporter Sako?
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Wow you guys appear not to have an education, JFK was loved because he worked hard
Work ethic is to be commended, but is it really that great of a thing? I can point a majority of blue collar workers who did just as much. He was mainly noted for being handsome, which is why people who saw the television debate said he won and people who listened to it on radio said Nixon won. He gets points for charisma and good looks, hardly something to be immortalized though.
and played hard (Marilyn Monroe will we ever know?)Since when was cheating on your wife a thing to be commended?
he stopped the world from ending with the cuban missile crisis.Was that before or after nukes were placed in Turkey?
I'd rather not rely on Hollywood for (mis)information. Good ol' books work fine. I can only come to the conclusion that he was an "old" Bill Clinton that was somehow idealized after his assasination.
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Everyone talks about how much JFK was loved etc... mind telling me what makes him so great? Only thing that stands out is his fueling of NASA, otherwise he was essentially a gigolo who kept us constantly on the brink of war with Cuba and Russia.
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It's "Canadian Bacon", cut into circular rolls like hams. Then they cut it into slices for sandwiches, bagels, etc.
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It's certainly in bad taste, but is it really any worse than running around shooting a bunch of nameless commies in some game? The only difference is you know who JFK is.
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DS, you live in KY for crying out loud... they do carry the thick sliced stuff at most local places if you care to look.
Heck, I'm sure you could even find some real butchers still exist around here. Manchester even has a nice local bakery that turns out fresh, home cooked breads and pastries.Anyway, I like bacon thin and crispy with fried eggs.
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I've never been there, but from what I understand, here's the run down:
Knob Creek is a shooting range somewhere north of where I am in Kentucky. Every year they host the two largest machinegun shoots/gatherings in the US. People from all around the country, shooters and retailers, gather their toys and wares and meet. Think of it like a commercial LAN party with MGs as the focus. There you can buy MGs, shoot your stuff and try out other people's toys, and rent MGs to shoot. Everything from micro uzis, to stens, to a minigun can usually be found there. One guy showed up with a Humvee sporting a full-auto M2 on the roof at one of the past meetings.
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That would be Knob Creek.
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I fail to aknowledge what you have said until you start using proper American English.
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Went out again this morning, spent about 3hrs out in the woods, didn't see a darn thing. Guess that's how it goes sometimes. Might have to be content with just a small buck this year.
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Ah... come over to the US, you can own the 'real deal' for $10k. If that's a bit too rich, you can own a semi-auto version for $750 or so.
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That's exactly what the rabbits are here, there's tens of thousands of them. It's basically like killing mice here, just that you've got a .22. They're almost as big of a problem as mice sometimes.
You're forgiven then.
Australia is having similar problems, people were even whacking them with clubs over there. Still, rabbit is good eating.And he totes a Glock 20 and takes rabbits on the run with it... Definately gained Glocks (and the 10mm) a bit of fame.
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Oh Blimey!.........just heard a story from a colleague who killed a deer on Saturday night. He shot 'her' from a stand and went over to get her about half an hour later.
Imagine his surprise when he grabbed it by its legs and it started kicking out big time. The doe had been lying there bleeding to death all that time. He managed to wrestle hold of her and slit its throat
Proper bullet placement goes a long ways towards preventing suffering, then again some animals are really tough. That young buck I took yesterday did a couple of hops after I shot only to stop and stare at me with a hole the size of a softball behind his front legs (heart/lung area). I then proceeded to shoot him again and he ran about 25 yards and then fell over. Despite this, the guy helping me skin it commented that he'd never seen a bullet do so much damage and he skins upwards 30 deer each season.
I eat meat, could even live without it, but I certainly don't want to see my meal killed in front of me. Where I live, I have that choice!Someone made a comment once that if people were required to kill their food, most people these days would be vegitarians. I believe it. Commercial chickens are electrocuted and cows are shot in the head with nail guns. Just because someone else killed it doesn't change the fact that the animal has to be dead before you can eat it.
Hunting rabbits is pretty fun here in Utah. There's so many of them, it's legal to shoot them whenever. Semi-auto .22s and dogs, a real blast. Can't really eat them though.The deer hunt, I'm a little sketchy on. I've gone a couple of times, and you just sit there for a long time the way the locals do it. The only deer meat I've ever eaten is jerky, and it was pretty nasty. I know you can make steaks and roasts from deer, but no one does around here. Just dog food and jerky.
If the locals were doing it right, you should be sitting near a major path the deer take between bedding and eating or drinking. I personally prefer to sit a little and stalk a little, no stands for me. Roasts are by far my favorite meal from deer, though I'm not one to turn down steaks. You can also make burgers (better if mixed with store-bought hamburger) and sausage, which is essentially a blend of ground deer meat and spices.
I'm sorry, but I look down on anyone who hunts and doesn't eat their game. Only exceptions to this rule are predators or vermin (coyotes, pararie dogs, etc.). There is no reason to be just wasteful running around shooting stuff, they could even donate the meat to places that fix food for the homeless or to others who enjoy it.
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I think hunting in the states is mostly conservation related, seeing as seasons/bag limits change depending on wildlife surveys. The money spent on hunting licenses also go right back into the wildlife department funding the conservation services.
Laws are strictly state by state. Here in Kentucky, seasons and bag limits depend on counties which are catagorized into zones. In my county you can take two deer, buck or doe, during the seasons. We have other seasons beyond modern-gun, but they're at different times. You can also obtain another permit to take two additional antlerless deer. They also released Elk here a few years back, so if you see one outside the designated counties they're free to take during deer season. We require blaze orange front, back, and head. Any centerfire handgun or rifle is legal for taking game.
DS, when you go to the supermarket you're paying to let someone else kill an animal for you and feed it growth hormones. Wild meat taste different (better), is leaner, and you gain some sense of accomplishment. Plus, for the price of a deer permit ($25) you can end up with well over $100 worth of quality meat. Even with the small deer I recently took, I have enough meat to fix four roasts and some jerky.
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You get an adrenline rush when trying to take a deer. It's slow going as well if you're trying to get in range and not spook them. Most of the time though you spend hours just wondering the woods enjoying nature.
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Just a warning to anyone who digs these and is thinking of getting an airsoft one for Xmas - I have it on good anecdotal Authority (an airsoft geek here in HK whom I trust) that the Marui P90 has magazine feed problems (over and above those of typical hi-cap wheel mags) and could give you some serious headaches in a firefight.
Just like the real thing, eh? Seriously though, I've head that if you drop a partially full mag it will wreck the thing knocking cartridges every which way in it. You can only fix it when you have time to strip the mag and unjam it. They also have accuracy problems beyond a short distance due to the purposefully unstable bullet design.
Thanks guys does gives me a sort of idea of how it works. (Anyways that new m4 looks like something from sci fi action movie
)Nah, they stole all the looks from genuine AR15 addons. The front sight is a PRI backup imitation while the hanguard and rails is a knockoff of the ARMS SIR. Everything else seems to be standard issue.
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Well, it's that time of the year again in many parts of the US: modern-gun deer season. I went early this morning and froze my ass off for a couple hours and just saw a buck running over ridge. Yet late this evening I happened to get small antlerless buck basically out my backdoor in a matter of seconds; it'll make some good, tender roast. Hopefully, later this week I'll get something a bit more impressive with antlers. Anyone else had a chance to go out and do some hunting yet?
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I'm glad you're using personal opinion/emotion rather than fact. Either way, you suffer and your dead.
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Reason I asked is I'm attending a history course about Africa, right now were focusing on the south. My professor wrote a book we're having to read called Laduma! about soccer's early years in some of towns around there, namely Cape Town, Johannesburg, Soweto (Orlando, Meadowlands), Sophiatown, and Durban. I saw your location and thought I'd ask.
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Finished my last final yesterday as well. Feels good!