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Good Lord... https://www.autoblog.com/2018/10/30/1968-dodge-super-charger-426-hemi-hellephant-v8-7496vk8m/#slide-7458091

Oh Holy Sweet Llittle Tiny Baby Jesus... 1,000 hp crate engine. Dodge made the Hellcat engine into a real 426ci aluminum block crate engine... It's just a crate engine, but it can be this... read the info: https://www.foxnews.com/auto/1000-hp-dodge-hellephant-v8-is-ready-to-resurrect-your-classic-car

Yep, about 5 a year, over 6 years, if the inclusive dates are Jan 2010 to Dec 2015. Department weapons... We're down from 29 to 27 now - after they recovered 2 on this fuckbag... Where are the other 27, and what's the brakedown? How many were service pistols - but how many more are FA weapons? We know ONE was, and the jackass used it. Everything in that PIT video makes more sense now, when you watch it again. That guy was REALLY getting some rounds off - and so was everybody else - you can see the shiit flying out of their own windshields - and it works. This is going to become more common, these days, where any police-stop can become a high-risk, straight up gunfight. It's sad that it's come to this - but it has. This wasn't a "shootout..." It was a straight up gunfight, on a highly traveled major highway, during rush hour, in the 5th largest city in the US... This is scary shiit, in a society such as ours, that really understands what went down...

29 MCSO weapons went missing between 2010 and 2015... The real question now is... how many were full auto weapons? We know at least one was... The new Sheriff is pulling an Obama on this one, being "all Bush's fault..." He didn't directly state that, but he's "excusing himself" from all this,by stating the timeline, and that he had the foresight to change the way weapons accountability takes place... now... since he took over... He's gonna try to out this all at Sheriff Joe's feet... which it very well may land...

Welcome - start a tech thread on it, and we'll get right to it.

They're better again for a few years now. Permanent "emergency folder" on my go-bag is a Kershaw Tanto Blur, partial serration. Bad sumbitch, check one out. SHARP. AS. FUK...

Oh shiit... he didn't...

Pretty shocking update today - two of the weapons this dude had on him were stolen from Maricopa County Sheriff's Office... This is the written article, below - the one that just showed on local news stated that one of the weapons was full auto... Shiit gonna hit the fan here... https://www.azfamily.com/news/weapons-recovered-after-i--gunfight-in-phoenix-were-stolen/article_46bcf2f8-dd58-11e8-927a-972878f53a3f.html

Not really a pic of the day, but a story of the day. US Troops drink Iceland out of beer in one weekend. What did they expect?!... https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/u-s-troops-drink-iceland-capitals-entire-beer-supply-in-one-weekend

Quite a few, from what I've been able to find so far. Details on this stuff went radio-silent today. They had the highway shut down for 18 hours for the investigation, and reopened just before noon today. Details now are hard to come by, but I found this pic - it's from a news video linked below it. It's clear to see that those front DPS vehicles, and that undercover minivan, were firing right through their own windshields. Again, that passenger in the minivan was on it, and the driver was gettin' it done, too. That passenger, though - He was focused... on one thing. Here's that news vid:

You fucked up!... "HEY, ARE YOU A HIGH SPEED DEATH MACHINE TRAPPED IN A DOUCHEBAG'S BODY?!!?"

FUK YEAH!!! I love that vid...

Here's an update on the deceased shiitbag, and some background on what happened... https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2018/10/30/interstate-17-gunfight-phoenix-tempe-police-shootout-add-unprecedented-year/1820036002/ It was all GO as soon as they turned him. That unmarked minivan was a Mesa unit, according to that article,which makes sense. Whoever was in the passenger seat of that thing is a badass. He got it done. Last shot fired was from that minivan, after the truck went backwards into the jersey barriers. It's amazing that nobody reported any damage to their vehicles (that weren't part of this). That means that all the rounds went into the intended target vehicle. Unreal.

That damn thing is gorgeous!

YES!!!

That's excellent! Tucked away safely, in the drawer!

For Merle, and his C-17 history - we talked about this at his house... The CADILLAC of Paradrop Operations, right there. One thing I didn't mention - just thought about it when I watched that vid above... In '99 or 2000, I "got tasked" (read, volunteered, as the Sky Whore that I am) to "test" the static line extensions that we needed, to the standard parachute, in order to jump the C-17. Need a 5-foot extension to the parachute static line jump that Big Bitch... All expenses paid vacation to Airborne Test Force in Yuma, AZ, in order to do this, with the "guarantee" we'd get at least 4 jumps over the weekend. What a great trip... Static Jumpmaster says, "IF YOU CATCH A D-BAG TO THE FACE WHEN YOU EXIT, MAKE SURE YOU TELL THE DZSO WHEN YOU GET ON THE GROUND!!!......... GO!!!..." I was the door jumper on the first jump, when he yelled that, then the damn green light came on and I fucking LEFT... and I was thinking... WTF did he just say?!!?... Didn't take a Deployment Bag to the face, so it all worked out... We had to rotate through jump positions, and nobody ever ate a D-Bag, so it was declared "successful," and we were jumping the C-17 at Lewis before anyone else was... Those Airborne Test Force dudes had video cameras ALL OVER that aircraft, even outside the jump door (above and below), catching everything we did. After every damn jump we had to go back and watch all the videos, from all the angles - before we were released to go drinking that night... Phillips DZ, in Yuma. Pure sand, de-rocked a hundred times, so they said... That first jump I had no choice but to land, running with the wind... Normally, that would SUCK... and I tried to avoid it, but just couldn't... it was the softest fucking landing I've ever had - even running with the wind... I was bracing for it, just KNOWING it was goona SUCK BAD... and I hit, sunk, and slid... and I was laughing my entire ass off, all of it... Best DZ EVER...

And we, literally, just talked on the phone about this very specific scenario... Yesterday. The conversation was going somewhere, when you had to interrupt me with "I need to deal with this gunshot victim, gotta go..."

That's cool. That's what Mountain Lions usually do. They come back for it later. We have those, too, in AZ. You got Jaguars? We do. You can call it what you want, but when it's in my backyard, two feet from my backdoor, it's an issue, and not a small one. People lose pets to coyotes here all the time - and I've chased the mangy bastards down the street on a Mtn bike, to get them out of my neighborhood. I shoot then whenever I can - call those fuckers in, and get rid of them. I just did a search on "sierra foothills mountain lion killing spree" to see what you were talking about. I got nothing of significance, so please share some of your news: https://www.google.com/search?q=sierra+foothills+mountain+lion+killing+spree&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab

Which you and I absolutely ROCK at... We shoot well enough together, to break AR500 targets...

I'm not LE, but they had to pit that guy, for whatever their reasons were. I'm sure the details will be spilling out on this one, since they unloaded on him on a major highway, in traffic, in Phoenix. As soon as they turned him (the suspect), he was firing through his own windshield, back at them all. They unloaded on him. First shots fired were from the suspect vehicle, and as soon as he was facing them, he went after them. You see that damn undercover minivan roll in there at 0:28? Whoever the guy was in the passenger seat, he was ready - he had that door propped open, ROLLING, and firing back at that white truck. That guy deserves recognition, for certain. They rolled right in there with bullets flying, and that guy returned some accurate fire, from a moving vehicle... What the news here is saying is that the Trooper injuries were mostly from flying glass - which is good. No direct GSW. It just sucks that this center of uranus was good enough to do even that. He's where he needs to be now, though...

That dummy thinks he's me... 10 feet tall, three rows of teeth, two coats of hair, and bulletproof... He doesn't understand that he's 12 pounds and a foot tall. It's all 12 pounds of attitude, though... I respect the little fucker...

Loc-Tite 609 is what you're after, for this task. That's the one. It's description makes perfect sense, too. On the Grendel Forum, they advocate it on every barrel installation, as well as truing the upper receiver face. I've never done it, on any of them. Don't know if my accuracy would increase or not, but it's never been an issue, so I just haven't invested in the 609 or the receiver lapping tools.

Got 3 AZ State Troopers in the hospital after this one today. They had to PIT this jackass on the I-17, in traffic, and the shots started. The 3 Troopers are expected to be alright, but the details are still coming in... Flawless PIT, too, at pretty good speed.

"Hanksville" is excellent, brother!...