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I just had one last night. Funny because I overheard someone talking about one in a gun store yesterday. I myself have 3 or 4 of them every year. I was in a situation in Florida where someone pulled a gun on my friend and I happened to be coming out of the woods undetected with an M1 Carbine. I didn't have to shoot, but it came very close. A scene in that book info I shared in a previous thread was modeled after the experience. That all means that when I DO have SD nightmares, they tend to be very realistic, both in content and feeling. Anyway, I learned a couple years ago from another message board that this is seldom talked about but actually fairly common among gun enthusiasts. I use to think most gun people are just a bunch of ego freaks and only pretending to actually worry about the real horrors of weapon usage and I still do to some extent, but after reading up on some of these nightmares, I've started to realize that many of us are really thinking seriously about this and are genuinely afraid being trapped in the situation of having to use a gun on someone in a real situation. So, I am curious which of you have had these sorts of nightmares and would like to hear your stories.

This country is going to hell in a hand basket.

The tweakers around here have burnt all their bridges. They've created for themselves an environment that genuinely can't wait for them to OD and die. Needless to say, no one will hire them and they've ripped off and hurt everyone they know, making it extremely difficult to get their drugs. Recycle centers are the one consistent that never goes away. So they make a big deal out of going around gathering and when necessary stealing metal to turn in. Fortunately, they are starting to crack down. I guess now they are looking at kicking people out of recycle centers indefinitely if they get caught turning in stolen property. As soon as South Carolina declared open season on home invaders the states tweaker population went in to decline. We need that policy out here. The druggies around here are usually on meth which more or less turns you in to a sociopath by making your body dependent on the chemicals that give you any sense of compassion. So they are good about being all nice to people so they can get in the door and then screwing them over. Every time I get a new neighbor, I warn them against these people. Some heed it, most don't. So I end up getting allot of them on my block, going through dumpsters and such. Had several things stolen off my patio when I wasn't looking. I'm always helpful to everyone around here but the harboring has gotten so bad that I've had little choice but to draw the line and start shunning and even partaking in class-actions against them. It's getting out of control.

The USSR produced subsonic ammo that had it's own built-in suppression system so that a silencer was not needed. I wonder if they're finally making an effort to tap in on and improve that old technology. http://world.guns.ru/ammunition/russian-special-cartridges-e.html The Chabot firing range (the one Mythbusters uses) Has a tin can range that's at the bottom of a slightly twisted slope. In a weird way it put anyone walking to that range in front of the firing line but in no danger. When walking towards that firing line, people shooting .22LR rifles have the blast shielded from the wall, allowing anyone walking towards the firing line to clearly hear the breaking of the sound barrier when .22s are fired. It sounds just like a model rocket or one of those launching fireworks but swifter and without the scratchiness.

Turkey's Carving is not a good day for me food wise since the main dish (Turkey) is something I'll choke on. For some reason, I am that way with any fowl and shredded meat. So if I am by myself, Turkey's Carving is just a typical day as far as food goes. Sometimes I'll be invited by family and if so, it depends upon what they're having. If with my my mother and her BF; who are meat crazy, I usually just have smashed potatoes (I'm potato crazy) some sort of bread, olives and sparkling cider and they sometimes make (or I bring) a small pizza to substitute the turkey. Once in a great while I'll join my sister who's a vegan. If with her, it's pretty much the same as above exceptionable great green been casserole and some great oil and vinegar based potato salad. Turkey's Carving is more of a social day for me.

I'm no expert but based on what I have read from people who've extensively tested these barrels, the real difference between the two lengths is not what distance you're shooting at but what kind of ammo you're putting through it. Standard and light loads from what I've read peak at 20 inch barrel, but an 18 inch barrel launches them at typically 20 to 70fps slower. In other words, you can probably throw the bullet at the speeds that make up the difference. Not worth the extra size and weight, hence why 18 inch barrels are so popular. However, heavier loads require longer barrels for maximum performance, peaking at 24 or 26 inch (I can't remember which. However, most of the heavier loads peak in a 20 to 22 inch barrel and most of the ones that peak in longer barrels; like the 18 and 20 incher relationship, get very little boost. However, loads that peak in an 18 or 20 inch barrel start to slow down in a 24 or 26, while 20 inch barrels don't impair them at all. In short, 18 inch is the ideal barrel length for light and standard loads. But for the absolute maximum in load versatility across the board, go with 20. I myself went with 20, but an 18 incher wouldn't have bothered me.

A fellow scratch-builder. That's awesome. Not too many of us left it seams. Welcome. I suspect we'll be good friends.

Reminds me of that real life incident when the cop shot himself in the foot teaching gun safety.

Tell her parents not to forget to squish her puffy little cheeks.

Writing an article about the butchering of the English language. Thought I'd take the time to share with you some words that have a different definition then what most people think. Definitions copied and pasted directly from online dictionary. Literal. Being in accordance with, conforming to, or upholding the exact or primary meaning of a word or words. Arcade. A series of arches supported by columns, piers, or pillars, either freestanding or attached to a wall to form a gallery. Official Authorized by a proper authority; authoritative: Plastic. Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling disgruntled. To make discontented. (Restlessly unhappy; malcontent.) Foreign words you THINK you know the meaning of. Roosky...... Russia (not Russian) Soviet...... Council Ninja........ Thug Transylvania...... trans-forest. Armageddon..... Highland of Megiddo And some words who's definitions have actually changed over time. Sniper....Originally someone who hunted snipes. Sculpture..... French word for engraving. Knight....... Norman cavalry Words and names that are mispronounced by Americans more often then pronounced correctly. Koch (kOk) English, (kOh) German Walther (vol-ter) Garand (ga-rand) Transylvania (tron-shEl-von-yo) Matthias (moth-E-osh) Neuschwanstein (noosh-von-shtIn) In case that's too confusing, I put up a quick audio clip for you, so you can hear them pronounced. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4OTFZbRV-s

That's AWESOME!! A word of advice though. For at least the metal parts, Testors flat model spray paint baked at 300f for 3 hours is the best bake-on finish for metal parts I've seen before durakote. Even better then Crylon and Rustolium. I would imagine it would work exceptionally well for the furniture as well, having been designed for plastic in the first place. You can get it in a huge variety of colors too.

I just went to your website hoping to find a MA-10 type upper receiver that fits the DPMS style lower since the lower receiver I chose to go with (the .308 version of this: https://www.addaxtactical.com/store/pc/ADDAX-TACTICAL-BILLET-AR15-MULTI-CAL-STRIPPED-LOWER-RECEIVER-184p1976.htm ) is a DPMS compatible lower. I, myself am probably just going to go look around elsewhere and consider a MA-10 set for a later build, but might I suggest considering some DPMS compatible receivers in the future.

Well, it IS true that people; in their actions, respond very little to preachers and almost entirely to role models.

Encouraging people to live that way has always been the point. Somehow, I don't think they will though. More then likely, readers will read it, see the truth in it, agree, and then get on with what they have been doing all along. That's how people usually behave anyway.

LOL. Honor and courage aside, there's a humorous element to this. This topic is giving me this almost "looney tunes" picture of nature raising hell with everyone only to get frustrated with those stubborn !@#$% soldiers who won't move no matter what. LOL.

Speaking in Mr. Robobot, maybe that's why everyone's on good behavior. Everyone knows that if they act up, he'll chase them down until their car flips over and will then walk up to them and kick em in the face. LOL.

Hello folks. I am not limiting this to just this board. I am asking pretty much everyone I know. I have been working on a saga literally since I was 19. That means almost half my life. It's about Christian prophecy. Basically, is a highly realistic and very biblically accurate example of the "antichrist" ordeal coming to fruition in the present day. However, a near death experience in conjunction with scientific research on the matter has caused me to not believe in afterlife anymore. I am really writing the book as a demonstration of moral principals about how to live life under any and all circumstances. These principals ARE very consistent with biblical teachings and are still completely unchanged. It's just the whole "Christianity and afterlife" aspects which are now completely gone. It's been about a year now since I've done any work on the book. I am just battling over whether or not to finish it in light of my change of beliefs. I want your opinions on whether or not to finish it. The file I attached to this post contains the beginning, middle and end of the story for your reference. It's not a Sunday school story. It's loaded with profanity, realistic violence and portrayals of the worst of human nature. Don't let your kids read it. Some of the chapters are outdated, but most of the newer changes are just spelling corrections, rewordings, etc. 5833_.zip

The admin probably isn't going to like this much, but I am really hoping this board stays around the same size it currently is. We've got some really great members here and that's becoming hard to find. It seams that just about every forum that gets real big does so by filling up with creeps and responds by taking on moderators who are no better. We on the other hand seam to have our own little cozy sanctuary here. You folks are awesome.

This is one of many good examples of what I was talking about. Hipocracy driven division and living and dieing by the sword. Arrogance cost them the election. Conservatives need to get straight what it means to be conservative if they want a chance of winning another election. BTW. I have friends on both sides. The ones I know who voted for Obama are not politically as astute as those who voted for right-wing candidates (Romney and Johnson) but otherwise not very different in their principals. The overbearing attitude really seams to be that they're screwed either way. I get the impression that some people I know rolled the dice on who to vote for. The line I get from almost everyone is, "Do I vote for someone who can't be trusted or a guy who messed up the country doing what he said he would?" When Obama won his first term, I predicted he would win his second and maintained this through the second election. And the reason I gave for this is exactly what happened. Conservatives are divided.

I'm not in to 1st person shooters at all. And especially not COD. Everything since Modern Warfare 1 was too paintball for me. But 1st person as a whole is something I can only take for a few minutes before getting claustrophobic. Kinda weird since I don't get claustrophobic in the real world. Only when playing 1st person video games.

That's who I voted for this time around. If you want change for the better, change the culture. Culture is the true driving force behind a nation's success, prosperity and happiness, not politics. Change the culture and the government will be forced to change by default.

The conservative principal is the hardest political philosophy in the world to live by. Not because of what's wrong with it but because of what's right with it. It completely conflicts with man's nature to be aggressive and forceful in his opinions. Likewise, the republicans have made a habit; which they defend as if sacred, crying about the oppression of the liberties they love while still oppressing the liberties they don't like upon others. When the liberals had the upper hand, it was largely a struggle between left and right. But now; with the republican philosophy more openly examined, conservatives are finding it increasingly harder to refrain from oppressing the liberties of even there own fellow conservatives. The libertarian party and now forming constitutional party exist because of it. Lack of respect for the rights of one and other and respect for the law of the land are the dividing factors among conservatives. In a nutshell, the republicans lived by the sword and by the hand of Obama; whom the republicans put in office through hipocracy driven division, they die by the sword. The republicans deserve another round of Obama as does the country as a whole. America is going to have to reach rock bottom to get it, and even then I doubt we will. We've been almost precisely following the same path as the Roman Empire since they day the American revolution began. If; in the future, we continue to follow the same historical pattern we have been, you and I will see some very dark days in our own lifetime. And again, those days will be created and deserved by the American people.

Normally I wouldn't bother, but given the subject matter, I chose to post this here. Previews: Trailer Gameplay preview Assassin's Creed 3 is great It's not perfect in any way but still very well balanced. I'll warn you though that it's much more involved in open combat then any of the previous titles. But my favorite NEW feature is the sea combat. At first sight I was highly skeptical but very quickly fell in love with it. Ubisoft needs to make an entire game around it! The game starts out from the bad guy's perspective and is very slow to get to the point where you are playing as the native and a full fledged Assassin. As one would expect from previous Assassin's Creed games, it doesn't just put you in touch with the very well known founders of America, but some of the much less known individuals as well. It also crosses paths with other well known people from the time outside of the revolution. Most notably is probably Daniel Boon. The one person I've been waiting to see who hasn't shown up yet (unless I missed him somehow) is Johnie Apple Seed. Anyway, this game starts decades before the revolution and slowly works it's way up to it. So far, it has taken you through almost everything, including but not limited to the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, night ride with Paul Revere, Battle of Lexington, Battle of Bunker Hill, signing of the Declaration of Independence, and I am currently running errands for George Washington in the Valley Forge dilemma. I knew from the start that the Valley Forge dilemma was going to get portrayed in this game. It' is too important and fits too well. But I was hoping they would do a good job on it. It's a sequence that has a great deal of potential yet can easily get messed up. They definitely could have done better, but I though they did a good job overall. If anything, they could have made it more populated and dirty, but it generally gives (at least weather and terrain wise) a decent insight in to the winter hell some of these guys were trapped in. Another thing I hoped and expected from Ubisoft which they delivered well was battle sequences that involved the same tactics of the time we all know about, but not in the clean and structured way that Hollywood has become grounded in showing us. If you've seen the movie, "Gods and Generals" (one of the few exceptions I can think of), then you probably know what I am talking about. The graphics are great, the realism is typical of the Assassin's Creed series and; as the game's makers promised, they seamed to have really done a thorough job of working out what kind of people our forefathers really were and portraying them as such. There were a few surprises, but it all makes sense when you really put everything known about them together. For instance, Paul Revere kinda reminds me of Chris Farley, with a calm, soft demeanor who can be taken for naive at first, but turns out to be a sharp and careful planner. Daniel Boon acts like he's been isolated from civilization too long. At first sight, he seams like a tweeker, but turns out to just hysterically tell it like it is. As one might expect, Sam Adams is a man's man. I haven't seen much of John Hancock but I though I was the only one joking about his last name until this game came out. LOL The story is like everything else in the Assassin's Creed series. You are living out a secret mission, woven in to the gaps of known history. From what I have gathered so far, the events surrounding the story seam to be accurate to history. Of course, the individual story is portrayed as that "missing from the record". Think of Saving Private Ryan. The individual story is fiction, but everything happening around it was real. Same thing. And of course, my favorite feature in the Assassin's Creed series, you are given a guided tour of Boston, New York and surrounding towns and villages, with the feature that allows you to read about the history of each notable building you come near and each historical individual you come across, both major and insignificant. For those of you who are seasoned Assassin's Creed players, you may have noticed over time that hte Templars are not just a group of rich men who want to take over the world for their own selfish ambitions, but a people wit a philosophy, morals of their own and a mission not dissimilar from the Assassins. You have only gotten glimpses of it in previous games but that comes out in the open in Assassin's Creed 3 and the "good guy, bad guy" distinction between the Assassins and Templars begins to fade, revealing that; even among the Templars, good and evil varies as much from person to person as in any other group. As another review of a previous Assassin's Creed title pointed out, the open world, interactive nature of the Assassin's Creed series and their painstaking effort to accurately recreate ancient cities as they were at the time, building for building, is proving that video games are the next frontier of historical education. If you have and use an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3, I highly recommend this game.

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Close. Actually, I've been living under a car. I'm trying to financially and work wise tie things up for the winter so I can get back to gun stuff for a bit.