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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BARREL BREAK Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 July 2016 at 11:32pm
Woke up to find a napkin under my wiper asking to buy my car, waiting for the kid to confer with his dad and call back. Asking 8k non-negotiable, either I get paid or I keep driving my sweet car, win/win.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote procarbinefreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 July 2016 at 7:58pm
I'm getting unreasonably excited for my October trip to Texas.  We have a "free" (a few cases of beer and some sausage) place to stay for the week with some of my wife's favorite family members.  The guy... her 2nd cousin or something... is on a swat team down there and I'm hoping I can convince him to take me to a range... or drive a bearcat.  
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote impulse418 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 July 2016 at 10:43am
Dammmmmmmn it. I got impatient and ordered a gessiele trigger directly from them a few weeks back. But not mad, worth every penny and got a sweet swag bag.

Now I'm deciding whether I want to go mil or moa, and which scope. Leaning towards either the Vortex Razor HD II or Night Force ACTR. Also the math involved with calculating ballistics really makes me wish I had paid more attention in school, because I have always struggled with math :(

Another mod?! We need an uprising! Join me fellow plebs! ( I won't uprise if I get my third star Wink )
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote procarbinefreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 June 2016 at 10:25pm
I'm back after I locked myself out of the forum by trying to change my email address after I saw I was a mod.  Horray!  Thanks papa tallen.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Eville Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 June 2016 at 6:28pm
Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:



80% lower? I'm so sorry you live where you live that requires that. Speaking of...

Got some trigger time on my Sig MCX. They were right, the stock trigger is pretty horrendous. Have been looking at upgrading to a Geissele SD-C




Primary arms has all Geissele products 25% off through July 4th
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Eville Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 June 2016 at 1:43am
very nice
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6.5 😃
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What caliber, Impulse?



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Eville Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 June 2016 at 2:48am
Can I touch you?

Got some decent glass on my hunting rifle.  Went with a Leupold VX-R 4-14x40mm, 30mm tube, Ballistic Fire Dot reticle.  I don't know how spot on the ballistics markings will be since 300 WSM is not one of the calibers listed in the manual, but if it's way off, I've always been more of a Kentucky windage guy anyway.   

Here's my pickups from the last week

Taurus Model 65 .357

Tikka T3 300 WSM

Benelli Nova 12ga.

I also hiked Mt. Baldy here in Eagle River


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I went to an Andrew W. K. show. Absolutely amazing.
Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"

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I bought one of these..... Scope not included Tongue


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Eville Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 June 2016 at 12:17am
Tallen, sounds like a pretty cool project.  

I've been giving Sports Authority all of my money during their going out of business sale.   I picked up a new set of ski goggles, some base layers, a couple pairs of ski pants, a new pair of ski boots, a set of irons and a driver.  Oh yeah, and they have all guns and ammo at 20% off so I picked up 3 new ones.  Got a Tikka T3 Lite in 300WSM, a Taurus Model 65 in .357, and went back today for a Benelli Nova 12ga.  
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I bought a Smith and Wesson M&P 15 sport 2 on Friday.  Waited 30 minutes at Cabelas waiting to be helped by one of the gun counter guys and just while I was there I was the 6th person buying that AR.  Can't wait to get out to the range with it.  
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Originally posted by impulse418 impulse418 wrote:


Finally installed the Geisselle trigger on my Sig MCX. And I also found out yesterday the Orlando shooter used the same weapon system. That was kind of awkward... Usually I'm up to date on what those mass murderers use, but at this point it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it technically wasn't an AR-15.


But did that realization give you "temporary" PTSD? Because apparently they kick like a howitzer and sound like bombs going off if you're an uninformed reporter for a NY rag. Of course, I'd expect nothing less from the NY Daily News....

As for me, I spent the last week down in rural West Virginia with Appalachia Service Project repairing the homes of those most in need. We were assigned a simple sub-floor inspection and install, but what we got was a can of worms.

The house is from the 1920s or 30's and was built (due to the inexpensive nature of the method) using "post and beam" construction techniques. Of course, over the years, things have been added on here and there (you know, like electricity and running water) so it's tough to get a read on what you're dealing with until you open it up. At some point in the 60s, someone sheet-rocked the walls and by the 80s had installed vinyl siding over the original exterior. We didn't know all of this before hand. We took up the carpet in the laundry room where we were to do the job. One layer of shag (not tacked) over one layer of berber (not tacked) on top of 1/4" low density foam for a "pad" which was randomly stapled to the sub-floor. Except, the sub-floor wasn't really the sub-floor. It was 3/4" quarter-sawn white oak tongue-and-groove hardwood..... and it was destroyed by termites sometime in the past. That made me nervous from the get go. Demoed the affected areas to get a look at the joists underneath. More damage. What's more, the band-joist on one side of the room was at a 25* angle (meaning the wall was coming down) half of the foundation was gone (like, not farking there)and the other exterior wall was so termite damaged at the floor level that it would move 4" outward with the slightest push.

We now had to pour a footer and install a support pier for the double rim joist where the foundation was missing. We then had to "kick" the roof to prevent it from coming down on us while we removed the bad band joist piece by piece and replaced it with new pressure treated lumber. But! When we removed the old band joist, we had to saw through the exterior wall to get to it. Turns out that the exterior walls are just 1/2"x6" planks nailed to the box rafters at top and the box joists at the bottom (band and rim). There was then a thin piece of brown paper, and then the original interior walls which were 1/2" bead board. That's right. 1" thick walls with ZERO insulation. What's more, cutting the exterior planks meant that the wall that WAS stable was now no longer tied into the structure of the house. That meant we had to figure out some way to get it all tied back in. We then had to go in and replace the two bad joists with new ones, but all the "good" or reparable joists were all mill-sawn lumber, so they were completely out of dimension, even with each other, so crown-matching them was a real PITA. We finally got everything in and hung properly, laid the OSB for the sub floor, and put nailers around the bottom of the walls to tie them back into the structure with 2-1/2" screws. We then had to frame new interior walls in front of the nailers so that insulation could be added, and to give the structure more rigidity and support. Finally got everything framed and up by Friday with insulation in on most of it. So much for a simple floor job!

At least they won't fall through the floor when doing laundry anymore. They'll also have a warmer and dryer house thanks to us. Next crew to come in will do drywall and finish the floors most likely. Bastards don't know how lucky they are we got to that stuff before them.....

Might go back in late July to help with the "button up" weekend where they finish out unfinished projects. ASP is a pretty cool group. If you get a chance to join in on one of their projects, I highly recommend it.
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Came home early from work yesterday, wasn't sure if my town was going to be evacuated. Being born in Phoenix, this whole natural disaster thing is completely foreign to me Tongue

Finally installed the Geisselle trigger on my Sig MCX. And I also found out yesterday the Orlando shooter used the same weapon system. That was kind of awkward... Usually I'm up to date on what those mass murderers use, but at this point it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it technically wasn't an AR-15.
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Holy crap that's awful Whale. We had a few locals killed as well who I've probably bumped into around the area. 

I went to work today and not much else. I went hiking in the Whites over the weekend and managed to injure myself and enjoyed 10 hours of limping over very rough terrain after. I took a sick day yesterday. Here I am proud that I managed to not to gain weight over the winter as my body now seems to want to do and pulled a hip flexor on one side and jammed my knee on the other, just in time to go back to a summer of leading hikes. I suppose this should be good motivation to keep a decent fitness routine and not neglect flexibility exercise this summer. I also bought a new set of hiking boots since the ones I wore don't provide stability to my scrawny ankles or have a decent heel cup. I have the worst blister of my life and it's the easy painful issue I developed on the whole hike. 
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I found out a former coworker and his boyfriend were killed in the massacre in Orlando. 
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I'm piecing together a road trip from Milwaukee down to Dallas to visit some of the wife's family in October, and tossing around the idea of picking up an AR, which if I want to do now will probably mean selling my handgun.  

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Me too

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