jmwildi

Sad to see the Mossberg 500 hardly got any love in this whole discussion, never mind the fact that the 500 and the 870 are basically the same shotgun. I've owned both for home deffense, have a 500 and a severely chopped down Mossberg 1500 now but I'd also own another 870. Both good shotguns for the money.

My only problem with the weapon since I tend to collect Soviet weapons. Good luck with the sale though.

A few years ago the Army Times did a deployment study and came up with 30 or 40% (if I remember the article right) of all soldiers in the Army (active and reserves) had not deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The rest just kept getting rotated through the Pentagon's deployment schedule.

I was at Ft Campbell, KY in the company area with about 15 other soldiers waiting for one of the trucks that was shuttling my company out to the qualification firing range. We heard it on the radio first and then we all went into the day room to watch it on tv. Within an hour the entire post was locked down and no one came on or left for about 3 days. After that only the main gate was open and the other gates all had armed infantry fireteams from my battalion stationed at them. A few months later, I was stepping off a transport plane at Kandahar Army Airfield, Afghanistan with the rest of my company to meet up with the batalion and division, ready to go find the bad guys in the caves and mountains.

Still interested but Saturdays are no good for me for the forseeable future. I work third shift so I get off work Saturday morning and I have to be back at work Saturday night, can't afford to take any days off either. If that changes I'll let you know though.

Cool, the Big Ten get's its two confrences or divisions or whatever, and the rivavlry stays in tact. Nice.

I'll be there for a bit in the afternoon / evening.

I'm not the praying kind but I'll keep them in my thoughts. I used to drive drunk alot, that's how I got so pretty in my avatar pic. That was a big wake up call and I don't do it anymore but it always gets me to see stories like this. I hope their condition improves and they have a fast and full recovery.

Agreed that this is good advice. I might have the devil's own luck but I don't want to test it any more than I already do. For the forseeable future Mondays always work for me so maybe we could set something up for this comming Monday or the following. This saturday's no good, going shooting with a friend I havn't seen in a while. Sounds like a fun ride though, sorry to miss it.

Huh, right on. I don't know if a Bonneville is considered a cruiser but it's deffinatly not a sport bike and I don't try to ride it like one. I'm a big fan of riding within your limits. These assholes just sound stupid. I think I went over the line in a turn once or twice when I was first learning to ride. After that I backed off and prcticed until I gradually expanded my limits to a level of riding that I'm comfortable and safe with. To each their own with riding styles and bikes but you need to know what the hell you're doing no matter what you ride. +1 to you sir for your anger

Awesome, I'd be down for a little road trip sometime next week. Maybe sunday if I don't make it over to the rodeo at Jimbo's down in the hocking hills or monday. I'll drop you a pm later this week when I figure out what I'm doing for the weekend.

I never said a helmet would cause me to veg out, I think a helmet would keep me alive but paralized in some crashes. Becomming a carrot doesn't worry me because in that case, I'll never know what happened anyway. It's being concious and aware and having bits and pieces of my life or my body taken away that I can't or won't accept or deal with. I could always be afraid that the worst will happen and not ride my bike but it's silly to live in fear of things that may or may not happen. That'd be like refusing to walk down to the corrner store because a bus might jump the curb and kill me. Unlike the riders that say, "well I just just don't fall off or lay my bike down," I know and accept the possible outcomes and concequences of not wearing a helmet when I ride. I have no illusions that I might crash due to my own mistake or someone elses mistake or negligence and that's okay with me. If it kills me at least I had some measure input as to how I went out. We should all be lucky enough to meet our end on our own terms. Besides, what's life without free choice?

I just had Hooters wings again after a long time without and I have to say they're just as good as I remember them and better than most of the pizza places I've gotten wings from. If it says anything, the last time I had Hooters wings the only flavors they had were mild, medium, and hot. I also so found a place called Buffalo Wings and Rings that has amazing wings, a good selection of sauces and you can choose how hot you want each sauce. I deffinatly recomend checking them out.

Nope, I got your point very clearly but I think you may have missed mine. Allow me to reiterate. It's my head so what are you, or anyone else, worried about? (read "head" as "life") I've come within a breath of dying several times now both in the sates and durring deployments overseas. Everyone has to go sometime and I look at it as an all or nothing kind of deal. I think Aerik summed it up nicely with this. Some people call it stupid, I call it free choice. If I'm not bothering or infringing on someone else's rights and freedoms, then why should anyone else care what I do? Provided what I'm doing is inside the bounds of the law.

Wow, where you riding today?