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cOoTeR

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  1. Hot shells suck! Had one get pinned between my sling and the back of my neck one day..

    When I was in the academy the firing line was pretty crowded it was almost a daily occurrence to get hot brass dropped into your shirt. The course of fire was timed with turning targets so there wasn't much you could do about to try to get the brass out without lowering your score. The worst time it happened to me was when we were doing tactical rifle training with the M4. I had two spent casings drop down into my under shirt. When I flinched one of them fell down under my vest and just pressed against my back. That was a pretty good burn.

  2. In my younger dumber early days of riding I was on my friends bike doing triple digit speed and outta nowhere it felt like I got hit in the helmet with baseball bat. I don't know how I stayed on and kept the bike upright. My friend pulled up beside me after I stopped and I asked him WTF just happened. He said "you destroyed that fucking sparrow! Did you see it?" No I didn't but he told me it looked like it swallowed a lit stick of dynamite after it hit the top of the helmet. I could image a full size bird being like hitting a cinder block.

  3. Seems you must have been lucky? Maybe?

    I have taken guys on Dove hunts before that shoot 50 shells and never bring one down. Then all of a sudden it clicks. Then they start dropping them left and right.

    Very Good!

    It's all about learning to lead them. Or finding them sitting still on a branch.

  4. A friend of mine in Maine was saying riding those roads at night is real risky.....Moose's eyes do not reflect light like a deer's does, so you can be riding along and all of a sudden a moose is right in front of you! :eek:

    From what I've heard those things don't try to move either.

  5. haha well. Officer Cory, as I call him, decided to come over and of course took my gun apart and now cannot put it back together.

    Guns go together like I puzzle it should fit snug but if your forcing anything its wrong.

  6. At least its just deer there. Out here there is open range cattle and the areas that aren't open range they still get out onto the road. The big ones only worry me around blind curves they don't dart into the road or run when you get close. It's the young ones that are scary. They will be laying beside the road then as soon as you get close they get spooked and run right infront of you. One day I had 2 about 200 lbs. Each decide they wanted to run across the road when I was in my work truck. The first ones head hit on the bumper then it rolled down the drivers side denting the front fender and both doors. The second "t-boned" the side of the truck at the bed right under the gas fill tube. It really dented that in then rolled down the side of the bed and putting a dent behind the wheel. It was $5,000 in damage and that was fixed in house basically all they did was straighten the bumper and pop the dents out, no paint.

  7. When riding on leaves ride it like your riding on ice. Slow and steady on all controls. Keeping your visor clean is the biggest factor with fog + rain other than the weather. Even if it looks somewhat clean the oils and other road grime will make the rain smear instead of bead up. Cracking the visor barely open helps with fog but if you do it in the rain a lot your helmet may start to stink. To clear the rain I turn my head to the side a couple times and that normally works. Also if your visor is kind of old it may be more prone to rain smearing and fogging.

  8. I'm currently not allowed to visit my girlfriend where she teaches because I would not be able to control myself and would verbally assault several of the little soul-less children at her school

    Not to mention in that neighborhood I won't set foot in it without carrying and since I can't carry in the school I refuse to go there

    Lol. I dated a girl who worked on an old folks home and she would tell me how the old guys would punch her and stuff. We will just say I have different opinions on how to handle that then she did.

  9. almost every person I know who currently teaches SHOULD smoke weed. Kids are fucking awful these days and the stories I get from my teacher friends is ridiculous. Not to mention what teachers have to put up with administrations and what not. Its all garbage to blame the teachers, its the stupid fucking kids that are the problem

    It's kind of true if the kids weren't buying her husband wouldn't be selling.

  10. She's a teacher the broad was probably selling it at school.

    Denial is always the first defense. I pulled a guy over and as soon as I got to the drivers door all I could smell was air freshener and cheap cologne. I noticed about a dozen air fresheners strewn all over the car. I called the k-9 unit out and the dog alerted to the car. When we searched it we found 42.5lbs of pot wrapped in packaging tape hidden in the car. The guy claimed he didn't know it was there.

  11. Based on the information given, I'd imagine that the .380 was a small sized pistol, where the larger caliber weapons were in larger platforms and therefore better at absorbing recoil.

    Yes, larger caliber weapons will do more damage, but at the cost of more recoil and lower ammunition capacity. The damage done with a smaller round will be less, but it still can be stopping if put in the right place.

    Any round will have at least a somewhat rounded nose, which can deflect if it hits at the right angle. It has happened with small and large calibers.

    If someone is given a shoulder fired weapon with a long sight radius of course they will shoot better than with a pistol. A .410ga will do more damage than a pistol round, but it also has a much shorter effective range. A .410 also requires a heavier weapon to manage the recoil.

    If you give me a weapon and tell me to do something or you're going to punch me in the face, I'm going to shoot you.

    The fact that people were off paper means that they need way more practice. They should not have been qualified to carry that weapon.

    Kevlar vests are designed to stop pistol rounds. They will usually stop up to a .45ACP. A shot shell will not penetrate, and the spread will impart less energy into one location on the target. A slug will penetrate.

    The energy is still absorbed by the body, the vest just prevents penetration. A vest will save your life if your hit, but the impact puts you down hard. Two shots in the same place will penetrate.

    Plates will usually offer protection up to 7.62mm, but they are also used up after they are hit. The round still imparts enough force to put you on your ass as well.

    If your target is wearing a vest, unless you are in a combat zone, you're in the wrong place.

    My whole point is that the smaller round doesn't always mean the shooter will be more accurate. If you can be accurate with the small round you can be just as accurate with a large round. It boils down to practice hands down.

    The punching theory above was to add stress to the above situation to illustrate the point. Being punched in the face is a lot better then being shot. If you had one shot to defend your life with would you really choose a .38 over a larger caliber or shotgun round.

    You mentioned the .410 not having a good range. How much range do you need in a defence situation? The the PDX-1 round for the .410 should be more than sufficient for daily use.

    While shot typically won't penetrate it'll still put ya on your ass. The bigger the shot the better. I've seen a demonstration of a vest draped over a car door and shot with a 12 gauge slug. The slug punched a hole in the car door and stuffed the vest halfway thru the hole.

    You may be surprised with the things criminals can get their hands on nowadays. The world around us is getting more and more violent. Yet us as a society are becoming softer and softer. The guys my co-workers and I deal with can and do get their hands on vests. We have seized hand grenades out of cars driven by gang members.

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