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You, and I mean this deep in my heart brother... are missed. For this year's shoot, you are the glue that was bringing @sketch and @Magwa down this time. You are all missed. Believe me, we will raise a toast specifically to you guys, and get the evidence in here.

Bro, here's the shortcut...

You still have a box, brother, I'll get photographic evidence of it... I need to just move it upstairs already, into that ammo-closet, but last time I tried it, the bottom broke out. So I put it back down, right then. I need to brave this task, and tape that heavy fucker, and just do it...

It's okay - Mikey will never find this and trigger it into another tractor-porn thread...

I somehow manage to pull that off, spectacularly... Then again, I'm 10-feet tall, 3 rows of teeth and 2 coats of hair, and I'M BULLETPROOF!!!

You are missed around these parts here, Pat. Hope you're doing well, brother. Get your ass back in here already...

^^^ Legit answer... That's my next Large Frame AR, right there, too... Because that's the one I'm missing, based on the .308 Win parent case... I honestly don't think I can build any Large Frame AR that will smoke my .260 Rem gun. That thing is ridiculous...

Seems premature, I know, but let me explain. Fall Shoot is always a Thursday-to-Monday event. I always take off the day before, and the day after. It's to get people from the airport that are flying in, to accept people in that drive here the day prior... and to get them all out the day after. Plus, recovery. Recovery is necessary. So, I left work tonight, crushed my last job right at the last minute... and I'm officially on a one week vacation, to shoot with my brothers. To start the AAR out proper, I'd like to offer some pics of the MOUNTAIN of stash that @Matt.Cross piled up here this summer. The green ammo cans and the boots have been here for awhile, those are always here. But all the boxes are new! Somewhere in all that, there's a brand new 6 ARC badass rifle, all in pieces, and a Metric Shiit-Ton of ammo... Well played, brother, very well played.

It was unreal, surreal. We did the funeral detail for the first female killed in Desert Storm - her dad was some bigwig Air Force guy from the area. I just see this old guy walking up to me after completion of the ceremony, with a big white handlebar mustache - and a fucking Congressional Medal of Honor as his top ribbon. Mind blown. Snapped a FASTASS salute to him, RIGHT AWAY. I was blown away. He approached me, because of the Ranger Tab. We were talking Ranger to Ranger, right then. I was the NCOIC of the funeral detail. We talked for 15 minutes, and my fucking complete idiot Lieutenant (funeral detail OIC) comes right up to me and says "SGT Hartley, we need to go, come on..." Didn't even realize he interrupted a CMH recipient that was engaged in conversation, speaking, telling his story. I quickly told that LT that I'd "be along" as soon as this conversation was finished. When it was finished, I turned towards the others that were waiting, and I tore that motherfucker a new center of uranus. In front of all the soldiers on the detail. Fucking moron. Lewis Millet is the only enlisted man to ever be Court Martialed for Desertion (found guilty), then immediately be given a Direct Commission to 2nd Lieutenant.

If it was 1/2" diameter, that's buffer weights, right there. If you could build a steel sleeve to accept that 1/4" up to 1/2", it's still buffer weights.

I've met this man, personally. I think I've told the story here before, but it's appropriate for here. I was on a Funeral Detail in Riverside, CA in 1991, and he was at the cemetary laying flowers on his son's grave. He watched our detail, and approached me after completion. What an amazing person. Unreal human, right there.

^^^ This is the bottom line, right here.

Don't know what you guys are doing, but it's working. He's 204K views right now... I blasted this three times on my FB, just to make sure it got out. It's working, keep the push going.

Don't leave this one out - this was in there, too...

FUK those water mocs. I hate those assheads...

Part 2 is gonna be about road-trip music... THIS is the first song on the "mystery CDs" that kicked it off... I swear...

One of the local buddies just bought this from me a few weeks ago, and I built it all up for him. It literally had 7 miles on it before this dune trip.

Okay, here we go. It came up in conversation maybe once or twice with @Moon Boots, and then it spilled over onto the board here. I have a great group of local friends that I hang out with often, UFC Fight Nights, or just breaking in someone's new bar that they built in their house - crazy shiit like that. Well, most of them have side-by-sides. They NEVER take them to a dealership. I fix them, in their own garages. That's what friends do. So, initially, they were all planning a dune trip the same weekend WE are doing the Fall Shoot - told them, I'm out, love to, can't do it. For whatever reason, then changed their dates (wasn't because of me) to last weekend. They brought it up again, I'd already spoken to @Moon Boots about this, and she was in. We were initially only gonna do a day-trip out in Saturday. That turned into staying out there Saturday night, BUT!!! WE HAVE TO LEAVE EARLY SUNDAY!!!... She had to be in a wedding on Sunday at 4pm. Long story short - we made it back in PLENTY of time, and she made the wedding. So, more conversation about this, how long will it take to get out there, that sort of thing. She says, "Should we leave Friday night?" I. AM. IN. I nuked all my work on Friday by 2:45pm, asked the boss if I could jet, and he just says, "Get out of here, have a great time..." He offered a '21 2-seat RZR to take out there, but she and I already talked about it and decided - with a hard timeline to be back, it's better to just rock out there in the Mitsu car, because I know that's gonna get us back in time. No Big Dodge, no trailer, no dealing with alot of gear coming back - blast out there in the car and blast bank ON TIME... Whilst out there, we were offered driving a buddy's RZR 900 with an Alba Racing big-bore engine, so I'm all about that. Car-trip it is... The decision to leave Friday right after work was made, I jetted from work early at 3pm, gather up all my stuff, pick up @Moon Boots around 6-ish, load her stuff into the Mitsu, leave at 6:30pm. We get out there at 10pm. Man, I'm talking like IMMEDIATELY, get out of the car, and the whole group mobs Sarah... So, Priorities of Work, in the Patrol Base - get cooler out of car. We start it right then, fire it up. I arrived, knowing we had a rig to rip, and wanted to get out on a night ride. Now. Well, everybody is loving up on Sarah, all the other ladies in camp take her over to the fire and sit in chairs, and the bullshiitting starts - with the ladies! It was crazy. Finally, I convince those that want to make a night ride, GO on a night ride... We leave around 11pm for the hill. We didn't sand-highway it, we went through the dunes, over to Olds Hill. Right up the hill, on top, park, and watch the craziness. We left the hill around 12:30 and dune back to camp. Got back 20 or 30 minutes later, and it's only the ladies that are at the fire (that didn't go on the ride)... So, Sarah goes straight to the fire, to continue the conversations that I rudely interrupted with a night ride wish... The guys all go to bed, so I'm at the fire with Sarah, Jeni, and Jenn... and me... FML. This went on until 3:15am... and the decision was made that we need to get some sleep, or tomorrow is gonna JUST SUCK... To Be Continued...

Here's another thread with some info that directly pertains to what's going on with your gun:

@Moon Boots got me hooked on this one. I love it!...

Ah Shiit...

Fer FUK'S SAKE men... Blow this guy up already. He has 198k views on this video. He should have a bajillion views on this song. I actually logged back into my FB account just to post this guy, and his video. His message. Post this shiit everywhere you can, forward it, link it, whatever. Get this dude going, based on his message. I post alot of songs, I get it - but help me help HIM get this message out. HIS message out... Let's see something way more than 198k view on this one, in a few days. Pimp this message...

I see what you did there...

Stick around, man - we can sort your gun out. Post up the details, and we'll work on it.

We aim to please. You Aim, too, please. Good work, man.