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That is what I have lost so far and plan on being in the 150 range by my birthday in June.   Been eating ~700 calories a day and nearly zero carbs as well as limiting fats substantially. I can't exercise so it is diet only for me and seems to be working. I have also cut out all caffeine and any sort of processed foods. I cook fresh food for every meal.   After years of 230+ cholesterol and adding a few pounds a month it was time.

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Yep! Between the background checks for Hazmat endorsements and the ever-increasing medical card restrictions, being a truck driver is quickly turning into a giant pain in the ***.

  I like your message but I am not so sure of the broad brush.   I love my family but I am not killing and dragging retarded bodies off to the woods to move my family in.  I still have to look them in the eyes.  I live within the confines of a Golden Rule.    I agree the people in the prepor episode to be naive.   I am not striking a match that my loved ones will be ashamed of.  And I like to think my best friend will find another way than murdering my family in their sleep.  I'd really rather die.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/12/shoot-or-dont-shoot-police-scenarios-prove-eye-opening-for-civil-rights-leaders/     It was a split-second decision.     A distressed man with a baby in tow was pacing back and forth in a manic state and shouting incoherently. The responding police officer calmly addressed the man in an attempt to calm him down and defuse the situation, but the man suddenly pulled an object from his side and lunged toward the officer. Instinctively, the officer raised his Taser and squeezed the trigger. It turned out the man was armed with a knife, but the "officer," who was actually the firebrand African-American activist known as Quanell X, acknowledged he would have fired whether the assailant had a knife, a spoon or an empty hand. “I didn’t even see it,” said the leader of the Houston area Black Panther Party, who was taking part in a training scenario in an attempt to understand what police officers go through during high-pressure situations. “It could have been anything in his hand, and I still would have used force to stop him. “It all happened so fast," he added. "You don’t know what they could have in their hand.”   Quanell, a former Nation of Islam member, is one of at least two black activists to take the police training tests. Both he and Arizona activist the Rev. Jarrett Maupin came away from the experience with a newfound understanding of the pressure on police officers, not to mention a new message for black youth who come in contact with law enforcement officers. “I walked away with a few things,” Quanell said “Many of these officers do not have adequate training and they should not be patrolling by themselves. Having backup would stop them from being skittish and firing their weapon. “Also, we have to teach our community that, even if you disagree with the officer, do not try to litigate with them on the spot," he added. "Live to see another day. Don’t let our pride get in the way. Otherwise, you are setting yourself up.”   Quanell, who has been critical of police in Texas, as well as in Ferguson, Mo., where the shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer last August touched off rioting around the nation, took the test with the police department in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. In four scenarios, he had to instantly decide whether to use a [paintball] gun, a Taser or hold his fire. In another scenario, Quannel fired at a man during a routine traffic stop in which the suspect moved toward him, ignored an order to halt and reached behind his back  “I actually fired six times,” Quanell recalled. “I always questioned why officers fired so many shots in these situations. After going through the training, I think it’s very hard for an officer to know how many shots they fired when they are in the moment.” Quannel said he submitted to the test because he “felt it was the right thing to do.”  The same sense of obligation prompted Maupin to go through a series of real-world scenarios in January with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, as reported on by Fox 10 Phoenix. Maupin led protests in Phoenix after an incident there in which officers shot an unarmed man who allegedly fought with them.   Maupin was also surprised by what he learned during the exercise. “It was tense,” Maupin told FoxNews.com. “They had eliminated backup as an option. I tried to navigate it as best I could.” In one scenario, Maupin responded to a call of two men fighting. “What’s going on today, gentlemen?" Maupin said to the suspects in the live-action scenario. "What are you doing?" Despite his respectful greeting, one of the suspects rushed him, prompting the preacher to draw his weapon and open fire. “I had no intention of shooting them,” Maupin said later. “I can see how these situations occur. There is a level of fear that exists and the people who are often afraid are often the ones who are armed.”   Maupin said stressful situations still don't justify excessive force by police. But obeying cops is "a matter of survival," he said. “I walked away with a renewed sense of compliance in any situation,” he said. “There’s no shame in it. “I encourage all civil right leaders to take this training,” he added. “I know there’s truth to the other side." Law enforcement officials credited both men for taking the simulations and putting themselves in the shoes of police officers.   “I think it’s great,” Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said to FoxNews.com. “The leaders of many of these groups, people in general, those that are high profile, are always criticizing the police. Maupin proves the point when he went through the training that you would get a good idea of what officers go through.” Arpaio said he has extended a standing invitation to Rev. Al Sharpton to come to Maricopa County to complete the exercises. “I’ve only heard from his people, who said, ‘We’ll look into it,’” he said.

I have thought a lot about this as well, I sometimes have to go into bad areas. As much as I have thought as to what I would do I still do not know. I do keep my head on a swivel, drive around the building once to look for trouble and act on what I see. I have called the customer when I see what I think does not look right and let them know what is going on. It is a scary world, punks or thugs (what you call them) are my fear, some being so young and the group so large there is no way to tell what might happen. My advice, look close, drive around and look for "trouble". I wont get out of the car if I see more than 2 or 3 in a group. Leave the area as fast as you can, call me a scared y cat, I dont care, I want to wake up on this side of the grass.

I'm guessing it had these...

The only thing a 19 has over the 686 is it's blue.  As much as I love 19's I'd keep the 686....it's a better gun.

The Pig doesn't need a crush washer, since it doesn't need to time to a certain orientation like say a birdcage flash hider.   The only reason to use one is if you're anal enough to want the markings to line up in an exact certain place.   - OS

Some guy will really appreciate all their hard work. My forecast? Some man who was just like any other man, now finds himself with a deathly ill wife and two two starving children in a post apocalyptic hell on earth. He happens upon this group of wonderfully stocked and prepared dipsheets and armed with a simple little revolver and his his freshly seared conscience, he slaughters this entire family. Mops up the blood, drags their retarded carcasses off to the woods about a 1/4 mile down and moves his sick and starving family right on in. Now, that might be a bit of silly fiction BUT, these people are beyond deluded. They have obviously never considered a REAL man's resolve when his family is on the brink of death because a real man that loves his family will strike the match that sets his soul to burn in exchange for their well being. Never underestimate a man that loves his family. He might be the best friend you've ever had but he stab you in the throat while you sleep before his family starves and dies.

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What do you guys suggest. I have a Luger and a model 39 Smith and Wesson. These are all the 9s I own. Anybody have a CZ75? What do you think of it?     DON'T EVEN MENTION A GLOCK! :shake:   :D

I've only seen one mil-spec Springfield 1911 in .45 around $500 recently, and it was a private seller who has a dungeon full of guns that he doesn't even shoot.  Even then he had to be haggled down, and the deal ended up falling through.  I'm not trying to be argumentative.  I'm more curious, because if you know where I can find one like that I'd love it.

   I gotcha ! I put some on the inside but lots on the outside. I did this on my others and always use more on the outside . I know that the more you use the more it makes it flimsy/soft so I use it spariling.

Put it on the inside and you'll turn your holster into a dishrag.

Actually it doesn't cost any more than a "regular" meal.

I40 has become awful! It took me over an hour Wednesday to get to Hillsboro Pike off 440 from I40 at the Hermitage exit. I think I left at 7:15am and got there after 8:30am. I left a little earlier today and it was a bit faster, but still took around an hour. For reference, that's normally under a 30 minute drive in normal traffic for me. I hate driving in to town from here.

We can always set up a quick man vs. man.

EAA are nice guns as well patterned like the CZ75 but a lot cheaper. Every EAA I have owned has been 100% reliable and very accurate.

What was worse is that I was bragging about my new mag extion that I paid less the $20 for. Had about the same thing happen once with a cheap $4 surplus 1911 mag, the floor plate detached after the first shot and dumped all my rounds out the bottom, that would be a major bummer in a gun fight. Lesson learned, don't go too cheap.

Hey I shot that gun before...

  Why build a 9mm AR?  We slap him around with our pistols all the time.

cz75 is a solid pick.  They come in lots of flavors.  Like many DA/SA it has a somewhat wiggly SA trigger,  typical of the style.   Extremely accurate.   Wife has a clone as well, and its money very well spent, the eaa witness family, also very accurate and well made.   RIA 1911 in 9mm is a nice target gun.    beretta 92 is similar to the cz.    ruger p series are inexpensive, well made.    there are literally a couple of thousand more models... care to narrow it down beyond "not a glock" ?   Some sort of 38/357/9mm revolver can be fun.

Ouch.   Welding it would be my first choice, and I know a couple local welders who could do it.  It might need to be re-heat treated after welding to ensure strength.  That likely would require stripping the finish.  I'll have to look up the temp for the heat treatment to see if that would kill the finish.    There are structural epoxies available that work well with aluminum and applying them is pretty simple.  We do it all the time at work (I fix jet engine parts for a living).   You'd need to blast the area to remove the finish so the epoxy will stick.  Then you basically just mix the stuff, glob it in there, cure it (typically heat cure), and then machine it back to final dimensions.   That said, fixing it will cost more than just replacing it.  But since is a special one, you might not have a choice.  Talk to Mike at Lawenforcementsalestn here... He's got the machine capability to do the work properly and he's in Oak Ridge.  Getting another lower and having him re-do the engraving and the machine work might be the best option.  Or if you just want to fix it, that's fine too. 

  I'm 6'2", overweight at 225 or so, but certainly don't look defenseless either to most anyone I wouldn't think. But certainly, after the fact, your various ailments would almost certainly figure into the equation more than mine.   And btw, contrary to the "don't ever pull a gun unless you pull the trigger" talk, you don't have to do that. It's clear that many incidents are defused all the time by the mere presentation of a firearm. Though of course you should be mentally prepared to use it if you pull it, doesn't mean that actually pulling the trigger is always necessary.   - OS

too funny...when the last shot bounced off the goal and still hit him, I almost peed

Prize giveaways for all competitors in attendance is coming in nicely.  Hope to see a lot of new faces there.

it's bad when the holster looks nicer than the gun lol

Looks good. Maybe a touch long for it though, unless that's my Terminator Longslide 45 you got hidden in there. lol

This thread has me missing my AFO2 that I had a few years back, The next Non Protech automatics I pick up will be a pair of AFO2 knives One black and one satin, both plain edge

I got them today, THANK MUCH, so if anyone sees a little blue Isuzu P'up with a NRA and TGO decal on the back window in the Newport area that's me.

More likely .308 or 7.62x38. Heavy safari rounds are harder to come by over there than you might think... you have to go into heavily secured gun stores and present id. However, there's a crap ton of military surplus floating around. It'd be pretty trivial for a poacher to buy ammo off a soldier or the "police". One other note: the rhino that are left these days are pretty docile. Black rhino are very aggressive, but they are almost gone. The white rhino I've been around are about as aggressive as domestic cattle... pretty sure the poachers can get very close... they don't need to be terribly accurate.

One Second After by William Forstchen seemed like a very realistic book of that type.  There are some who argue that a massive EMP would not cause as widespread damage as it does in the book, but most of the story focuses on how one small town deals with suddenly having no electricity, few working cars, the massive refugees who were on the nearby interstate, etc.     I suppose if it was just the power grid going down, it would be less severe because your electronics could still be powered by alternative means, cars would still work, etc., but this book paints a realistic picture (which makes it scarier than a supernatural story) of life without power, and the subsequent human reaction.

I would stand 20 yards away and watch you shoot it.

The thing about the welfare state is that it has driven a huge amount of the economy underground, likely the largest  % in history. These "rich poor" folks that everyone cites aren't living that way on the various doles alone. The ones that aren't stealing are indeed working at something or other, for untaxed income. So you've got a double whammy with the various gummits paying more out with less coming in.   Half or more of the handymen, yard workers, mechanics,  flea marketers, eBayers, etc in this country are working off the books to supplement their "real" income from the dole. Hell, even the drug dealers are working, just off the books.   And of course the "gimmies" keep voting for the ones who promise the most to give them -- the worst things get from the absurd arithmetic of government largesse, the bigger the voter base for it, the vicious cycle of Big Brother Liberalism that strives to make everyone so frigging "equal" that you can't even see self-determinism and individual responsibility in the rear view mirror anymore.   - OS

I whole hardheartedly agree, if you draw benefits (other than disability, SS, SSI, etc...) for being unemployed/underemployed then you should have to work a minimum of ten hours a week of community service. I do think that everyone should be given a year though, total, across life. Because no one knows what tomorrow brings.   The only exception to that would be if you were currently attending a program for job training, or high school equivalency. 

  Sorry, I just don't live in that world.

  I drive almost an hour across the county, dlmeadows drives 2 1/2 hours and others drive as far or farther.  As for embarrassing yourself just sign up for squad 4 and you'll fit right in. I even promise we won't haz you into the group till your comfortable with us :D

Why not insist that people that are on government assistance do civil duty? There are many "jobs" they could do, but it is considered beneath them or insulting their dignity. Maybe they could help out in school and discipline their unruly children.

  Don't take this personal bro; but if ya don't want folks to look at ya funny or to laugh don't look funny... I ain't stereotypin ya; i don't know ya other than by your posts in this community...   You can look any way ya want... I can laugh or be polite at first meeting... You have the same option...     You may be the best manager ever, and have success in your profession; but i can assure you that in some professions, how you look is important... I retired from a very responsible job in engineering and project management in 2006... None of the people i worked with or interacted with; be they engineering, construction management, operations, legal, or accounting folks; who had to interact with other folks looked like you have described yourself... Some of the men and women had tattoos im sure; but none of them looked like they had fallen into a barrel of fish hooks or had been hung from their ear lobes...    Ya can think and believe what ya want; but folks doin the hiring have eyes and they can see very well... Don't believe for a moment that lookin like Quequeg in "Moby Dick" is the mainstream... It ain't... Further than that, there is no "inalienable right" for people you don't know to refrain from making decisions concerning you based on how you look... They may be polite and not laugh, but they aint blind...   You may find this reply a bit offensive... It ain't meant to be... Ya can also be assured first impressions matter... Physical appearances are part of that "first impression"...     You have the right to look any way ya want, just as i do... I (...and others...) have the right to make judgments based on those looks; and many do... You put yourself at a disadvantage when you make certain appearance choices... If you are willing to accept that disadvantage; im ok with that...    I would suggest that ya think a bit about this little epistle... There, in fact, are those who you might term "appearance bigots" that may hold your personal appearance against you... I won't hold against ya on a personal basis because i've got a bit of a history with ya reading (...and agreeing with...) some of your posts here in this community... Others don't know you; and may not want to know you based on your appearance... It's sad, but true...   leroy 

Shareholders are allowed to do all of these things as long as they follow the bylaws...   If you owned a minority share in a business shouldn't you be able to suggest to the other owners they change business practices?  Even if the change is something they've been doing for years or decades?   The Church is a minority owner in the company, and they have followed all the rules set by the companies bylaws to place an item of the shareholders meeting for a vote.  I think what they're asking for is stupid, and if I owned any WalMart stock I'd vote against it...   But they are within their rights, and WalMart is trying to violate it's own bylaws to prevent the vote from happening.  

Damn...what an abortion.

I just looked on their website, The AFOII is a fantastic knife and I had one a couple of years ago, that is the Black class so I assure you that the AFO2 anyway is made in america and a damn good knife. I wish they would have never started outsourcing to begin with, that is when these different classes of knives started, it use to be any Benchmade knife was made in the USA and their was no question of their quality    I plan on getting in touch with them sometime next month I will call and find out the facts as I would love to sell their products, but I will never sell anything aside from American made knives

In addition, any one on assistance who sports new tats or hog rings should be removed from assistance immediately.

Nobody wants to see me shoot. It's so bad I can't even get anyone to video it

Hard to beat at that price, you did good!

These are good for the price:   http://aliengearholsters.com/   I especially like the free shell trades for life in case you ever change weapons.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3sLhnDJJn0

Actually it sounds like an excellent idea I am all for it and I would propose that all criminals have their illegal firearms fitted with them. Really you cant fix stupid.

Nice set of wooden Rossi .38 grips, I bought them hoping to put them on my .357 but they are to small and since I got them really cheap I figured I would pass them on to anyone who wants them GONE