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Oh my god! 51 miles? How can anybody make such a trip?

Yeah, once again. Not surprised. But on the good side, my daughter is about to move to just outside the Houston area. So we'll have yet one more that's against the weirdo, history changing bastards that want to change you're great upstanding state. AND......her and Susan can get together more often to make fun of me.

I have to say....................I hate you pappy! That is one SEXY Thompson.

God DAMN I cant wait to see you guys in October.

Yeah. Unfortunately, douchebags are selling their homes in Cali for ungodly prices and moving to the free states. Only to bring their bull$hit views and opinions with them. As usual........the cancer spreads.

Aww....that's easy. That was probably Larry on vacation. After all.....the thing was stalking a moose right?

Why am I not surprised that Doc found this?

That guy is straight on his talking points Larry. That's a great find. It's refreshing to hear a perspective like that. He ROCKS.

Ahhhh.....you think that we're the a$$holes?

Hell....that's not even a decent load-out for a night shoot at the fall meet-up. That fuker would be Waaayyyyyy outgunned by this crowd. And that's even after we've already been drinking............for hours.

It's about Fukin time that you're startin to see it my way. Ya bastard. Do you think that I'd steer a brother wrong? It's GREAT being a hermit! You only come out for sex when you're good and ready.

Just where the hell did our country go? Fuk! I can feel that vein starting to pulse in my temples again. Where's my beer for christ's sake?

I'm not sure whether I should be ashamed or proud of that statement.

Looks like Matt went over the top on this one. You're an artist brother.

Welcome from Maryland.

Welcome from Maryland.

Hadn't read any of that yet. Keep in mind, I'm a hermit. I only poke my head up above ground every couple of weeks or so. Being right on top of the political nonsense that IS Washington DC, I can only stomach so much "news" at any given time. I'll have to go read up on that.

And a nod goes to the gentleman from Wisconsin.

Welcome from Maryland

I'll ride the fence when it comes to Elon Musk. I mean, the guy can be a complete arrogant douchebag. Why? Because he's a billionaire. It's easy to be a self serving, high and mighty savior when you have the backing of BILLIONS of American greenbacks. It's easy to get lost within yourself and your ideas (ideals). After all, guys like this don't live in the same world that we do. Now that being said. The guy is all about pushing boundaries. Even pushing the ideas of boundaries, forcing others into either thinking his way, adapting a similar approach, or coming up with their own "new" ideas on how to resolve engineering limitations. The guy is kind of a visionary. If you ever stop and watch some of his presentations. You'll see that he's one of those guys that has trouble just trying to put sentences together to get his thoughts across to the people that he's speaking to. He's literally thinking about a thousand miles an hour and in about a hundred different directions all at the same time. Whether it's talking about his solar energy ideas, his electric vehicles (all of them, not just cars), his hyperloop theories on transportation, to finally his goal for his SpaceX venture (the part I'm actually a big fan of). Any guy that gives the largest rocket ever built by humans a codename of "BFR" has definitely got a sense of humor. Anyway, These guys don't even think on the same plane that we do. True revolutionary (evolutionary) guys. From Sir Isaac Newton, to Eli Whitney, to Dr Richard Gatling (the gatling gun), to Henry Ford, to John Browing, to Neil DeGrasse Tyson (a physicist), to Steven Hawking (another physicist), to Gordon Moore (one of Intel's founders), to Steve Jobs (and I'm not an apple guy)..........you get the point. These type of guys don't even think the way that we do. Now....can they be douchebags at some point? What human can't be? Most humans are.

Welcome from Maryland

Now THAT'S FUKIN FUNNY!

Perfect example. Last fall, I think during the night shoot, Tom and Matt headed off up onto the hill to check targets. Me, Robo, GREG, Sketch and my daughter continued to blast away at some targets on another smaller hill at approximately a 70 degree (maybe less) counter clockwise bearing from their position on the larger hill. When they returned, they asked that we all gather up for a moment, and asked that moving forward we hold off firing when people are on the hill. They said how they heard ricochets coming close to their position. Without any hesitation, we all agreed that we could keep it in our pants for the 10 or so minutes that it took for ANYBODY to be (in any form) downrange. No arguments. No nothing. Just common sense, no nonsense rules. And we didn't have any problems. This is just the kind of example that I think needs to be stated here. Big boy rules. Like Tom said. We don't need the range masters screaming at people or waving paddles or flags. We all know what we're doing. And we all know the consequences for doing something stupid. And adding alcohol is no excuse. Even after drinking 50 beers, I don't think that I'm doing anything stupid or dangerous. Well....maybe stupid. But not dangerous. Hell, why do you think that I was feeding GREG and Kate mag after mag after mag on the MK18. It's so I could laugh along with them.........while still drinking of course. All in all, all joking aside, I think that we all have a pretty good handle on what we're doing when we're out there. I couldn't feel any safer with any other bunch of guys.

I got cut off with the fat fumble finger hitting the enter button.

I'm glad to hear the consensus on not going TOO organized with the range rules $hit. After all, we all know what's safe and what's not. We all know NOT to be a fukin dumbass. Smartass, yes. But dumbass, no. We all know that all we have to do, is to have a quick group huddle if something wants to be brought up, and then...........it's done. Like Tom said, big boy rules. Common sense rules. The real common sense.....not the bull$hit that every other dumbass in this world talks about. Next thing you know.......someone would be asking me to put down my beer an hour before shooting something. And THAT's DEFINITELY NOT GONNA HAPPEN! That would be like asking GREG to not drink tequila.