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God bless my home state of Texas and my team the Rangers!

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Isaac......the OSP gets an award called the ACE for catching 5 stolen cars, which is displayed on their cruisers. The top award winner is called the Blue Max. They find alot of stolen cars in rest areas, thus why they like to run plates there.

Was just curious if anyone was planning on going......

http://www.brandywinfieldrun.org/

Fazer, Troopers also don't like to have to get out of their cruisers to check cars backed into spaces at the rest areas either.

This thread reminds me of the Seinfeld episode and George's overstuffed wallet.

I vote for front plates for motorcycles! Now THAT would be interesting.

Been in the LE business for quite some time and my thought is whatever the state decides doesn't make that big of a difference to a motivated cop. I was an officer in Texas years ago and they changed the vehicle registration from the rear plate to the front window (like in New York and New Jersey), but still kept the front plate. We all whined and moaned about how the number of stops for expired registration would go down, but after a while, we adapted to it. In as far as the catching criminals, if I'm looking for a suspect vehicle and it's near the area it was reported in, the chances of another like vehicle around will be minimal, so I better start making the u-turn at that point.

MJ, Good luck! Hopefully the weather will hold out!

Hey OSUMJ, I'll see ya there as mine is at the same time. Hoping that the weather is dry so I can ride the sled down and just air dry the mud all the way home.

Bienevidos!!

Prayers!

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Two words - G and lock.

well, the gasoline mostly worked. Still somewhat on there. I then tried wheel cleaner, which helped a little more. Will keep working on it. Thanks everyone!

Will it harm my chrome though?

A plastic grocery bag hit my chrome pipes while they were hot and it melted on there. Any advice on what can get it off? I tried regular turtle wax and then wd-40 with no luck.

Welcome! Grammar and spelling are optional.

They don't have to cite you for the primary reason for the stop.

Sorry Flounder. They still don't get old.

I carry a Glock 19 in a Blackhawk (level 2) holster. It has on the belt or inside the belt adapatability, is sturdy and affordable. My 31 also fits in it.

Never let someone or thing that threatens you get inside arm’s length and never say "I’ve got a gun". If you feel you need to use deadly force for heaven’s sake let the "first sound they hear be the safety clicking off", and they shouldn't have time to hear anything after that if you are doing your job.

'The average response time of a 911 call is over 23 minutes… the response time of a .44 magnum is 1400 feet per second.'

Clint Smith, Director of Thunder Ranch, is a drill instructor (Thunder Ranch is a firearms training facility in Arizona ). Here are a few of his observations on tactics, firearms, self-defense and life as we know it in the civilized world.

"The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win and cheat if necessary."

"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.."

"Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. You may get killed with your own gun, but he'll have to beat you to death with it, cause it's going to be empty."

"If you're not shooting', you should be loading'. If you're not loading', you should be moving', if you're not moving', someone's going to cut your head off and put it on a stick."

"When you reload in low light encounters, don't put your flashlight in your back pocket.. If you light yourself up, you'll look like an angel or the tooth fairy... and you're going to be one of 'em pretty soon."

"Do something. It may be wrong, but do something."

"Shoot what's available, as long as it's available, until something else becomes available."

"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If you have a gun, what in the hell do you have to be paranoid for?"

"Don't shoot fast, unless you also shoot good."

"You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work, but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language."

"You have the rest of your life to solve your problems.. How long you live depends on how well you do it."

"You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family."

"Thunder Ranch will be here as long as you'll have us or until someone makes us go away, and either way, it will be exciting."

More Excellent Gun Wisdom…

The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

1. Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

2. If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

3. I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

4. When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

5. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'

6. An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

7. The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. 'Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?' 'No ma'am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle.'

8. Beware of the woman who only has one gun, because she probably knows how to use it very well.

'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.