thrasher1016

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  1. This is actually a good tip. I used to live on the southeastern coast of NC, and hurricane preparation in that area (and certainly all along the southern east coast) is no joke. We always kept a stash of water and batteries, and stocked up on non-perishables when hurricane season started. Good to fill up the tank in your car before a hurricane too -- We went about two weeks without being able to get to a gas station after one bad hurricane...Maybe Bertha or Fran. Came in handy having that gas in the tank when we ran out of supplies; recovery time in the area was supposed to be ~ 2 weeks but took longer. Yeah, it's totally an overlooked thing some days. Mom and I spent a lot of time in NC back in the day, and one winter on the OBX, and man was it miserable... I can only imagine less cold but no accessible food, gas, water, etc, and still windy and rainy, and with questionable shelter. Turns out Karla is a flub and is just going to drown our plants, but still, now we have water. Thanks - T
  2. More for humor than anything, but: Don't go to buy water the weekend before a hurricane is coming. There won't be any. Ask me how I know. Of all the stuff I have, and all the gear, and preparation and skills I have, and readiness my family espouses, WATER is the one thing we probably don't have enough of. DUMB mistake. So with Karla coming for possible landfall this Monday AM, I went to the store to get 10+ gallons of water, and there's not that much water in my entire city. Apparently everyone in FL forgot what storms are like in this 10 year lull and lost their minds. Thanks - T
  3. Since I've last posted... Sig Sauer P320 (full size), 9mm. Sig Sauer P320 Compact, 9mm. CZ-USA Scorpion EVO w/ Sig Brace, 9mm. S&W M&P 15 Sport (x2), 223 Rem. On Order: Sig Sauer P220 Tactical Hunter, 10mm. http://i.imgur.com/aolu0jz.jpg Ruger Precision Rifle, 6.5 Creedmoor. I'll be putting a nice Vortex scope on the last, and that will be my first truly long range rifle. I have my SPS Tac in 308, but let's be fair... there's no comparing those two. As for hunting, I don't have pics on this work laptop, but we've taken five gators, two hogs, and one Osceola longbeard since I was on here last. Almost all my wife's work, until she got herself pregnant again. I have no clue how that keeps happening... Thanks - T
  4. There's some new cartridges that are in the realm of *ancient* that I'm resurrecting in my collection, like 6.5x55 Swede and my new personal favorite, 9.3x62mm (Mouser). Both are hard to find modern arms chambered for, but CZ-USA makes one of each at least, as well as one my new pistols, the P-09 in 9mm. Also got my new LMT CQB MRP in 5.56/.223, and I have the 300 BLK barrel for that one on order. Have a new CZ mod. 97 coming, that's in 45 ACP... Also a Ruger Bisley Convertible SA revolver that sits 45 Long Colt and 45 ACP. I like this stuff! Thanks - T
  5. I know I'm necro'ing this thread, but I have a (step)daughter that got into NASP archery at school last year, and is now shooting so much she's eating the fletching off her 24 arrows, and my wife got to see all the cool bows and ladies' archery stuff, and now... Now I'm out a CRAP LOAD of money because she wanted into the archery world. Mathews Jewel, full custom rig, Gold Tip Ted Nugent Pink Zebra arrows, and field bags for targets (for now). Hilarious. :shock: I have my OMP recurve and Sevier short Stick Bow, so I'll never hunt, but it's exciting to see them get into it! I told my wife I'd be her tracker, spotter, and shot caller, and she could do the "taking" for us! Thanks - T
  6. Oh the "foot care" thing... Other than old tales of the stringency of the English and their foot care, I'd never given it a second thought, save the basic "preventative care" stuff in my backpacks and day packs when I was a kid, doing all that outdoor stuff... THEN. Cobra Down happened. That was a 30-day continuous training op my unit was a part of in the woods of the Eglin AFB range, AKA the largest continuous-use land tract attached to an active military base in the world. Then it decided to rain before, during, and after the tropical storm that rolled in, and they said "WELL! This is more realistic! KEEP AT IT, BOYS!" ...And we kept at the training op / sar-ex / EOD+UXO clear / camping trip for the duration of one of the heaviest rainfall periods in N> Florida's recent history... And I WISH I had permission to carry a camera then, because other than documenting a hell worse than Afghanistan EVER was (I loved what I did there), the insides of our uniforms and boots were just sickening. Our medic couldn't even look at his own feet, much less anyone elses'... It was psychotic. Dry, drier, driest! Good socks, and what some people cheap out on... GOOD BOOTS. Thanks - T
  7. @elloco999 - I have a "tool" knife, a partially visible yet still secure defensive / long bladed knife, and then a LD (last ditch) knife somewhere on my person at all times! SO at least the "threes" rule can apply there for me, if not other places... And yeah, that ghille suit was a PITA to make and dye properly (hence why there's only one), and now that we're talking about it, I may need to reassess that, because it was dyed for West Virginia, and I'm back in Florida now... Thanks - T
  8. This is not a single small tip like those, but something I've gotten in to the habit of, and it strikes me as rather pertinent for survival as well as many things in life! "Good things come in twos" is a great adage, and in personal defense we're always taught (and I teach others) that there's no possible way you can guarantee that your ONE gun will do the job all the time, or your ONE lock on the door will keep you safe, and this principle can be applied to anything. I apply this to firearms, yes, but it's rare that here in FL I can carry even ONE reasonable gun, much less two, given the heat for 11 months of the year... Sucks, but it's a fact of life! I have an alternative in this arena, and that's bladed weapons, and I have a minimum of three on me (or within reach) at ALL times, and only ONE would you ever see unless you were assaulting me. Only ONE is a tool. The others are weapons, and are only to be deployed as such. Take that mentality to survival preparedness now, and expand! Do you have a bug-out bag? Only one? Build another, and hide that sucker in a safe, dry place and tell NO ONE (not even your spouse) where it is. Do you have an emergency cache? Prepare another, and do the same. Make a third, if the money is there. Don't use time as an excuse, because when time runs out, what you didn't expend preparing before will shorten what you will have left because of bad preparation. There's several reasons for this, and the main one is simply redundancy. There's nothing wrong with having more than you need, and if one of your bags / caches / preps gets compromised or stolen, you always have that other one (or two) waiting for you! I have four total family sized caches with bags and tools for the whole family unit, as well as some clothing. Unfortunately, as the children grow, that becomes hard to maintain, but not impossible if you're serious. Heck, one of my BOBs has a hand-build ghille suit and a rebreather apparatus in it! What for, in God's name, you might ask??? I don't know. But isn't it better that I might never need to know than I have a need and be without? I'll pop out some one-line tips later too! Thanks - T
  9. which is the basic purpose of any firearm. 99.99999999% of the rounds fired from any firearm don't hurt anything. They hurt my wallet Oooh, tell me, brother... I stopped reloading and that wasn't a smart move! Back to what ya'll were saying: I bought my wife a nice Spikes AR-15 direct from the factory, with no coating but a bare primer dusting (we live in Orlando, they are in Apopka), and then I candy-striped it for her; pink, powder blue, faded yellow, and burnt orange! I love painting my guns, and she wanted something very different, but familiar and easy to shoot, and so this works, right? There's no implication to the "color" of guns, just like there's no implication to the color of a person's skin. It's not right to say that a man with black or brown or white skin is a "bad person" just because of the covering he wears, so apply that to the gun... I also have a pistol with gold appurtenances, but it doesn't mean I'm a drug dealer because I have a "pimped out" gun; it's just looks added to the already-in-place functionality. Thanks - T
  10. The .223 is the same as the Military's 5.56mm commonly used. I currently own a Ruger Gunsite Scout which is chambered in .308 WIN, a Glock 17 9mm, a Ruger Mark III Target, a Ruger 10/22, and a Remington 870 12 gauge. How do you like the Scout? I've been thinking about one of those as a "ranch gun" (even though my ranch is 1800 mi. away) for a while, and they are on sale at Impact... You might sway me! Thanks - T
  11. I've evolved my style over the years, mainly because I've moved around so much (4 states, 2 countries, two distinct regions in one of those states) in my life so far, but it's pretty simple these days! I'm a Florida resident again (born and raised here too), and we have a hog presence here, so I have a Marlin 1895GS with a custom large hoop lever and a short-range turkey scope on it, and that's about all I get to use on anything larger than a rabbit here in FL. When I do the varmint thing here, it's usually with a tried-and-true Ruger 10/22 camo'd out, scoped, with a custom trigger. Nothing small gets away from it provided it hasn't already gotten away... I still have my Colorado wet work gun, my baby, my beautiful horror: a Sako TRG 42 in 338 Lapua Magnum, custom painted (by me), flash hider, Harris CM bipod... Oh such a wonderful hunting gun, and obviously since it was built to hunt humans and not animals, people looked at me funny, but I always said, "Can you hit a Mule Deer at 1,000 yards with your Browning?" I mean... I couldn't hit anything at that range either, but the GUN could... and I was young and dumb, with more money than brains! Have a SCAR-H, desert tan, custom paint. Kel-Tec KSG in Green, not yet painted because it has not yet arrived... I guess other than my handguns, the most "normal" weapon I have is a Remington 700 SPS Tactical w/ the Hogue overmounded stock, custom painted, flash hider, medium-range Leupold scope... Great gun, if only I shot it more. I have a few other shotguns, namely a H&H break-open that is way too much fun for only costing $170 USD! I collect Mosin Nagants and their variants, so I have about 90 of those, but I don't do anything with any of them but two; One 91/30 and one M44 that I use to shoot on fun days. My all-time favorite handgun, no matter the new, awesome pistols or any of that jazz, is my Ruger Super Blackhawk (44 Magnum), 5 1/4" barrel, blued, with Ruger limited edition bone grip panels. LOVE THAT REVOLVER! I also indulge the insane hobby of traditional archery, namely longbow and horse bow, even though I don't ride. Call me crazy. I have several custom longbows, including a Japanese Yumi, which is a total *%$ to learn to shoot, and I still can't do it right... I have one Lynx II Hungarian horse bow, and that's going up for sale soon, because I just can't justify keeping something that I can't find a way to get into... Three of my four longbows are old English style, either Hawkwood or Visen, and the last is a new carbon-fiber backed ultra-long-distance longbow, made for raining feather and point from both short and loooong distances! If there were to be a want on here, I'd have to say a Barrett Barrett M107A1 CQ in .50 BMG, Flat Dark Earth. Yeah, one of those. Thanks - T