Trends You Simply Can't Stand...Feel Free To Vent Here

[bph9]

Is that a fact?
Speaks volumes about you.

Not volumes about me but you.

Each year irresponsible adults let Unchained Dogs kill children every year and bite untold thousands of innocent adults. There is an old adage "The only good dog is a chained dog and the unchained dog is good only if he is dead". A good rule to live by even if it means being sued by the dog's owner because in the end it's the dog owner who goes to prison and loses the court case and often in the thousands of dollars which unfortunately does the dead children little good.

I might add I saw my next door neighbors little 5 year old girl sitting on her porch got half her face bitten off by an unchained dog that came clear from the other side of town. Yes we found out who owned the dog and he got sued for thousands but it did the little girl little good except pay and pay for her medical bills and if that makes me a bad person for hating unchained dogs then again that says volumes about you not me.

 

[JiminMaine]

Third (and I'll stop), are those that as soon as they get a new gun, they start changing things and adding "bling" to them to the point where the gun no longer functions. Then they ask why their gun doesn't work. Simply put, people that think that they are smarter than the engineers that designed them.

I feel the same way about trucks.

 

[bph9]

Small cartridges effective? My late sister in law was an xray tech in SF and one day they brought in a guy who had been badly beaten about the head. She said that after the X rays, they discovered that the guy had been shot 5 times in the head with a .25 automatic. Not dead, they didn't even work on the guy that much. Apparently just left them in the guys head.

All the talk about effective stuff is pure conjecture. If you are shot and it hits a major blood vessel, you bleed out and die. Soldiers die from shock without major gunshot wounds. It is where you shoot someone that makes it effective or not. Col. Dave Hackworth had 8 purple hearts died of cancer.

Actually shooting someone in the head is a bad example because practically all calibers have been known to glance off or partially penetrate the skull when they hit at an angle and remember the skull is hard and made of bone.

In my area a guy was jumped by 3 guys when he came out of a bar and he killed all 3 with just one shot a piece from a .25acp.

In another instance a lady cab driver was kidnapped by a serial killer who took her to a remote spot to rape and murder her and he even took her glasses so she could not see. He forgot to find a .25 automatic on her and she pulled it out and shot him dead with it.

A friend of mine once told me he shot into various things including blocks of wood with his .25 acp and was amazed at its penetration. Let's face facts if a .25 acp can zip through a block of wood it will have no trouble penetrating to the heart assuming it does not hit a rib and get deflected which can happen with any caliber.

Seeing is believing and all you have to do is watch the video tapes when President Reagan was shot. Three big grown men were blown right off their feet with nothing more than a revolver shooting a .22 rimfire bullet. As a matter of fact the shot that hit Reagan stopped just short of his heart as Reagan was hit in his side, if he had been hit from the front and hit in the heart he would not have survived.

I might add in the infamous Miami/FBI shootout the felon was hit in the side with a 9mm 115 grain bullet which did expand and had to go through his arm and then into his chest and again the bullet stopped just short of his heart. With the 125 grain bullet he would have been killed. Every shoot out is different and when people like Jeff Cooper constantly bad mouthed the 9mm he failed to also quote how many times his favorite caliber the .45 acp also also failed in shootouts, it all depends on many factors beside just the diameter of the bullet.

 

[ralph7]

Not volumes about me but you.

Each year irresponsible adults let Unchained Dogs kill children every year and bite untold thousands of innocent adults. There is an old adage "The only good dog is a chained dog and the unchained dog is good only if he is dead". A good rule to live by even if it means being sued by the dog's owner because in the end it's the dog owner who goes to prison and loses the court case and often in the thousands of dollars which unfortunately does the dead children little good.

I might add I saw my next door neighbors little 5 year old girl sitting on her porch got half her face bitten off by an unchained dog that came clear from the other side of town. Yes we found out who owned the dog and he got sued for thousands but it did the little girl little good except pay and pay for her medical bills and if that makes me a bad person for hating unchained dogs then again that says volumes about you not me.

Big difference between someone's beloved pet that chases a bicycle and a rampant killer dog, yet you
voiced the desire to shoot the former no matter how you try and crawfish.
And you made it sound like a pastime you would enjoy.

 

[budhall]

IMHO See-thru scope rings are the silliest idea out there. They put your backup sights(iron sights) in line with your good cheek weld and mount the scope so high you can't see thru it if you have a cheek weld. You have to raise your head and search for the cross hairs of your scope. Your scope needs to be down where your eye lines up with the cross hairs when your cheek hits the comb of the stock.

 

[Warren Sear]

I wish shooting dogs with the .32 velo dog cartridge was still legal. If it was I could start riding my bike for exercise again.

KOOK ALERT.

 

[Equipoise]

Carry a sidearm you are familiar with.
If you are ever assaulted it will likely be a violent surprise assault at very close range.
Learn point shooting because your assailant, likely untrained, will open fire immediately and a fast response will be your only hope of survival. Looking for the front sight or a red dot only wastes time. A laser may help but only if you practice.
Just my humble opinion.

 

[OutAtTheEdge]

IMHO See-thru scope rings are the silliest idea out there. They put your backup sights(iron sights) in line with your good cheek weld and mount the scope so high you can't see thru it if you have a cheek weld. You have to raise your head and search for the cross hairs of your scope. Your scope needs to be down where your eye lines up with the cross hairs when your cheek hits the comb of the stock.

Working here in Wisconsin, I've mounted 100s of scopes for customers over the years, and the number who asked for "them over/under" rings is depressing. Whenever I asked why in the world they wanted them, the answers were invariably either "in case my scope breaks" or "it's faster for running deer up close." I always tried to convince them to get a high-quality low-power variable scope, keep the magnification turned down, and practice close-range rapid target acquisition. Still, in some circles it's almost a cult thing.

 

[eku82]

So, what part of the North are you from?

Not stepping into that.

 

[Telecaster]

The Chiappa Rhino's ugliness kind of fascinates me. I've never held one, let alone shot one, but it's like a train wreck I can't look away from. Kind of like those winners of the ugliest dog competitions, there's still a dog inside that needs scritches.

Hi Points, on the other hand, are ugly like cockroaches.

 

[sniper]

Gun writers that say anygun "spoke softly". Never met a gun that did that...even the "lowly" >22 Long rifle, Gunzines that print articles claiming "full snort" handgun loads> Finally, tattoos, nose rings or studs on any human.

 

[65-2x2]

Small cartridges effective? My late sister in law was an xray tech in SF and one day they brought in a guy who had been badly beaten about the head. She said that after the X rays, they discovered that the guy had been shot 5 times in the head with a .25 automatic. Not dead, they didn't even work on the guy that much. Apparently just left them in the guys head.

All the talk about effective stuff is pure conjecture. If you are shot and it hits a major blood vessel, you bleed out and die. Soldiers die from shock without major gunshot wounds. It is where you shoot someone that makes it effective or not. Col. Dave Hackworth had 8 purple hearts died of cancer.

I still consider the .25 round deadly. (although I would certainly not carry one for SD) The .25 and its equally damned cousin, the .32, has killed a lot of folks graveyard dead. My father in law raised and slaughtered his own beef for family consumption. To dispatch a fully grow cow, he used a single shot .22 rifle, loaded with short rounds. One shot, placed properly drops the cow like a sack of bricks. It is all about shot placement.

 

[OutAtTheEdge]

The Chiappa Rhino's ugliness kind of fascinates me. I've never held one, let alone shot one, but it's like a train wreck I can't look away from. Kind of like those winners of the ugliest dog competitions, there's still a dog inside that needs scritches.

I've always rather thought that the Rhino looks like a DA revolver designed by an engineer who had never seen one, working off a rudimentary verbal description of how they work.

 

[pomonapete]

how would you like to be a retired English teacher? (no, I don't capitalize first words of sentences in this WTF/LOL e-world: I learned to type on clunkers in the 1960s and have evolved...so there.)

"tactical" -- this sales-fluff word means nothing. the closest I can figure is that it means 'combat against another human.' this is why I always buy pants with tactical zippers.

"mayhem" -- this means 'causing the loss of a body part.' an eye, a finger, a testicle. it isn't just another swap word for riotous violence.

"pristine" -- means 'untouched by human hands.' a lake. a meadow. a beach. nothing manufactured can be 'pristine.' (manos: hands)

"price point" -- this is found on a business graph with a long downward-sloping line: if we put the price at this point, we'll sell more product than if we put it somewhere else on the graph line. every moron alive today says 'price point' when s/he means PRICE, apparently because more syllables indicates higher intelligence (as in, 'had done, had said, had went, etc).

"few vs less" -- 90% of the time when you hear 'less' it should be 'fewer': you'll have less headaches. no, you'll have fewer, goddam it.

"democrats care about people" -- hoo boy, you just ain't trying.

 

[Mark IV]

There is one other firearm I just really can't stand looking at; a Chiappa Rhino revolver. They are uglier than my M1895 Nagant.

Agreed. Recently someone ran one of those by me as a trade offer, on our big statewide classified site. I had to Google the thing, and then could barely wrap my head around what I was seeing ! It looks like a movie prop from Firefly, something that would be marketed to adolescent boys that are trying to learn Klingon, LOL !!

 

[pomonapete]

Once again, that is my opinion. You have yours, and I have mine.

("Once again, that is my opinion. You have yours, and I have mine.")

dude, you missed his point.

if you desire to insult others, that's fine. but to inadvertently insult others because your level of awareness is too low to allow for consideration of such things is a shame.

 

[Jay Hall]

I'm glad I don't participate with any on line forums other than this one. Facebook I have anything to do with, so whatever they speak about I an unaware, (and gald of it).

Since this Forum has had its upgrade it has become my favorite BY FAR!

 

[Jay Hall]

My ZTR mower is Bad Boy . https://www.badboycountry.com/mowers

I am thinking about buying the BB HD in 54 but the 2 year warranty makes me concerned....

 

[Dave Haynes]

The subject of house pets and killer dogs: This was in the 70s, Around here there are a lot of ranches, dairies, and livestock operations. Out by Pt Reyes in Marin county one rancher was losing his sheep at an alarming rate. Dead, chewed up but not eaten animals. Several friends spent some night time watching and snooping. Out in that part of the National Sea Shore Park most dogs are allowed to go unleashed around the properties they protect. The sheep were being killed by a pack of pets and working dogs that gathered each night and became a killer pack no different than wolves. German shepherds, Labs, Golden retrievers etc. They never identified an Alpha dog but one of them was the leader. This "Pack" gathered almost every night when the owners slept, had their fun chasing and killing until morning and then returned to being a house pet. There was no fix for this and the offending dogs were shot by hunter friends of the ranchers on a single night/hunt. Some of the larger dogs were very tough in their wild/wolf attitude and required a couple of shots to end. They were shot with powerful deer rifles 30-30s '06 etc. I never found out how many dogs were involved but nobody found it to be fun to have to end the pack, but once the dogs get into the pack mode you are not going to stop it. Great Dane, Poodle, they are all wolves inside.

 

[jjfitch]

Not from Texas......Like Lyle Lovett's "That's Right"... you're not from Texas.. He had a couple of concerts here about two years ago. Delbert used to come to Cotati pretty frequently..them Texas boys like Sonoma County, we got hills, lots of hills and it ain't hot. My 2nd ex wife and I are both from here. I've watched Calif turn from the tip of the arrow into a third world dumpster fire. Don't let those people wreck Texas like they did Oregon and WA. We are already too far gone to save..

Colorado is just about gone too!