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The rant thread...

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, Feb 3, 2013.

  1. oldnotdead

    oldnotdead Legendary Woodsman

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    Now in NY your charged with a federal cruelty to animals and they tend to hang your azz. It's also a good gun grabbed for them So all authorities have gotten tired of my calling them, they finally started going after the owners.
     
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    Well now I need a 10, still going to keep the judge loaded the buck shot and brass discs seem pretty effective.
     
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    I own a 454 casull. I just own it, I dont shoot it...
     
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    So, it pretty much owns you...
     
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    dnoodles Legendary Woodsman

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    you will never catch me using one of these- in a high-stress situation, waaayyyy too easy to initiate a UD right into your thigh or even torso if you chest rig carry.

    Never had it happen to me, but I've had to tourniquet someone it did happen to. My SERPA went from the "retired" bin into the trash can that night.
     
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    Sota Legendary Woodsman

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    Sure it was not a boating accident? I mean how you disposed of the firearm.
     
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    dnoodles Legendary Woodsman

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    Shot a very magnaported 6" .500SW for the first time last fall. The recoil was actually not bad. Similar to a 10" .44mag.
    The concussion from the ports however...ugh. Told the owner I thought I'd rather be shot by it than shoot it.
     
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    dnoodles Legendary Woodsman

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    well, that's why the SERPA holster it was in the "retired" bin to begin with. I lost all my guns years ago. I was hanging on to the holster just in case I found them. But seeing a thigh wound starting just below someone's groin right next to their balls, exiting just above the kneecap and running alongside but somehow not damaging the guy's femoral changed my mind about that real quick. I'd just as soon Mexican carry. If I happen to find a pistol laying around, that is.
     
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    I taken the lords name in vane everytime I've shot it.
     
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    That has happened around here.

    We now subscribe to the SSS plan dnoodles mentioned
     
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    Mod-it Die Hard Bowhunter

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    I have a friend that has one in a Taurus Raging Bull. He is one of those "bigger is better" types, so he runs reloads that are max in his reloading manual. It recoils so hard that after shooting a cylinder of them the front of your trigger finger hurts from the trigger guard smashing into it.
    It is much more pleasant to run .45 Long Colts through it.
     
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    Huh. I love them. I have one for a Glock Model 22. Love that it latches to the trigger guard. Love how it releases. Long before I ever got one I always drew a pistol from its holster with my trigger finger straight and as the gun clears I keep my finger pointing like that along side of the trigger guard / gun frame until the muzzle is well clear. A Serpa holster only reinforces that for me.
     
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    hey man, do you. But in an oh poop moment, your trigger finger is actuating the release and your brain is telling you to get that pistol out and up ASAP- can be a recipe for disaster.



    if you don't have time to watch the whole video, start at the 2:30 mark.

    I originally retired mine b/c it got sand in it and gritty. Never failed outright and locked up, but last thing I wanted was a brick on my hip.
     
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    think that was @LittleChief.
    I don't live out in the sticks where I could even get away with something like that.
    ...yet.
     
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    I'm pretty lucky. I live out in the sticks and everyone of my neighbors has a dog(s). Granted, my neighbors are pretty far away and apart, but I've never had someone's dog come on my property. From what I've seen the dogs seem to stay on their own property. I know that a couple of people use an under ground electric fence which seems to work.
     
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    Backhoes are the handiest piece of equipement when you do move out into the sticks. That with a bag of lime. Remove" neck decoration " to a different spot though, just a thought...Hhhmmmm. I've buried many an animal here. Our dogs, cats, some goats ...etc,etc .....
     
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    All these fancy holsters and I'm still using a loop of shoestring on my beltloop... Oh, and I've removed my sights on my 1911.
     
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    Serpas are frowned upon at work bc of the amount of NDs there are. Mostly run safari lands holsters.


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    cls74 Legendary Woodsman

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    Not my rant, but :lol:

    Friend on Facebook posted this. He just got done with a patio pour on a lake house, then the ducks tooks over

    FB_IMG_1628185108307.jpg
     
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    Probably would have cost him a lot to have that stamped into the concrete. I love it!
     

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