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So guys...anyone remember that guy btq96r? He hasn't posted in ages! I kid I kid. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If I cared about the opinions of zoo animals I'd just tune in to MSNBC.

Well at least Koko didn't say anything about gun control.... :shhh:

Personally I wish animals who are abused could receive restitution of some sort. The abuser should pay for ALL medical bills related to the care and treatment. If the abuse caused ANY permanent injuries then the abuser should be required to pay a reasonable amount for food and lodging for the remainder of the animal's life or until the animal is adopted. If the animal never gets adopted then they would pay for the remainder of the animal's life. And along with that they would have to pay those who manage the animal's care and housing. Maybe when abusers have cash money taken out of their pockets they will think twice before abusing another animal.   And also I believe criminal penalties should be similar to that if they did the same to a human but at a reduced rate. Get 10 years for aggravated assault on a human then aggravated assault on an animal should be a percentage of that. And that percentage doubles with each separate, subsequent offense.   People think animals do not feel or think but I can assure you they do. My Lilly can tell when I am not feeling well and she does to comfort me. If I do something she does not like she tells me too. And she gets sad as well and I can see it in her eyes when she it. Just like when Gus is not feeling good he does get a little cranky too and you can tell.   People who intentionally hurt animals for no good reason have probably been abused themselves at some point in their life. And we all know that those who have been abused generally go on to abuse their own families in some way and animal abuse is a precursor to that. I would be willing to bet there are some on here who can bear witness to that.

I am probably not alone when I say, that is exactly what I am saying. My dog comes before anyone. I am not saying he should for anyone else, but for me he does. It basically goes Family (my dog included), very close friends, all other dogs, all other people. In that order.

I don't know about dogs but I'm definitely allergic to babies which is why I strongly encourage my wife to stay on the pill. :)

The solution is a bullet. I have no respect for anyone who hurts a kid or animal period. And I do put my animals above most humans. You hurt my dog or horse, your best bet is to go to jail and end up on this list. Because I'm an easy natured person but I can be a mean sonofabitch when I'm pushed Sent from behind the anvil

Thanks.. I am that Eurotrash..!!! Asshole!!

I have a Talo edition and love it .....

Will I Live to see 80? Here's something to think about. I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits and exhaustive Lab tests, He said I was doing fairly well for my age. A little concerned about that comment, I couldn't resist asking him, 'Do you think I'll live to be 80?' He asked, 'Do you smoke tobacco, or drink beer, wine or hard liquor?' 'Oh no,' I replied. 'I'm not doing drugs, either!' Then He asked, 'Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?' 'I said, 'Not much... My former doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!' 'Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, boating, sailing, hiking, or bicycling?' 'No, I don't,' I said. He asked, 'Do you gamble, drive motor-cycles, drive fast cars, or have a lot of sex?' 'No,' I said... He looked at me and said,.. 'Then, why do you even give a shit?' :rock:

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MRE dinner date - the following is a story from a young Marine.   I had a date the other night at my place. On the phone the day before, the girl asked me to "Cook her something she's never had before" for dinner.  After many minutes of scratching my head over what to make, I finally settled on something she has DEFINITELY never eaten before.   I got out my trusty case of MRE's (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) Field rations that when eaten in their entirety contain 3000+ calories in each meal. Here's what I made: I took three of the Ham Slices out of their plastic packets, took out three of the Pork Chops, three packets of Chicken-a-la-king and eight packets of dehydrated butter noodles and some dehydrated/rehydrated rice. I cooked the Ham Slices and Pork Chops in one pan, sauteed in shaved garlic and olive oil.  In another pot, I blended the Chicken a-la-king, noodles, and rice together to make a sort of mush that looked suspiciously like succotash. I added some spices, and blended everything together in a glass pan that I then cooked in the oven for about 35 minutes at 450 degrees. When I took it out, it looked like, well, ham slices, pork chops, and a bed of yellow poop.  I covered the tops of the meat in the MRE cheese (kinda like Velveeta) and added some green sprinkly things from one of my spice cans (hey, if it has green sprinkly things on it, it looks fancy right?) For dessert, I took four MRE Pound Cakes, mashed 'em up, added five packets of cocoa powder, powdered coffee cream, and some water.  I heated it up and stirred it until it looked like a sort of chunky gelatinous xxxxxxx, and I sprinkled powdered sugar on top of it.  Voilaanger Pudding! For dinner drinks, I took the rest of my bottle of Military Special Vodka (yes, they DO make a type of liquor named "Military Special"...it sells for $4.35 per fifth at the Class Six) and mixed in four packets of "Electrolytes - 1 each - Cherry flavored" (I swear, the packet says that).  It looked like an eerie Kool-Aid with sparkles in it (that was the electrolytes I guess... but could've been leftover sand from Egypt ). I lit two candles, put a vase of wildflowers in the middle, and set the table with my best set of Ralph Lauren Academy-series China (that stuff is EXPENSIVE... My set of 8 place settings cost me over $600 on sale at the Lejeune PX), and put the alcoholic drink in a crystal wine decanter. She came over, and I had some appetizers already made, of MRE spaghetti-with-meatballs, set in small cups.  She saw the dinner, saw the food, and said "This looks INCREDIBLE!!!" We dug in, and she loved the food. Throughout the meal, she kept asking me how long it took me to make it, and kept remarking that I obviously knew a thing or two about cooking fine meals. She kind of balked at the make-shift "wine" I had set out, but after she tried it I guess she liked it because she drank four glasses during dinner. At the end of the main course, when I served the dessert, she squealed with delight at the "Chocolate mousse" I had made.  Huh? Chocolate what?  Okay... Yeah... Its Chocolate Moose.  Took me HOURS to make... Yup! Later on, as we were watching a movie, she excused herself to use my rest room.  While she was in there, I heard her say softly to herself "uh oh" and a resounding but petite fart punctuated her utterance of dismay. Let the games begin.  She sprayed about half a can of air freshener (Air Freshener, 1 each, Orange scent.  Yup.  The military even makes smell-good) and returned to the couch, this time with an obvious pained look.  After 10 more minutes she excused herself again, and retreated to the bathroom for the second time, I could hear her say, "What the hell is WRONG with me???" as she again send flatulent shock waves into the porcelain bowl.  This time, they sounded kinda wet, and I heard the toilet paper roll being employed, and again, LOTS more air freshener. Back to the couch.  She smiles meekly as she decides to sit on the chair instead of next to me.  She sits on my chair, knees pulled up to her chest, kind of rocking back and forth slightly.  Suddenly, without a word, she ROCKETED up and FLEW to the bathroom, slammed the door, and didn't come out for 30 minutes.  I turned the movie up because I didn't want her to hear me laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my cheeks. She came out with a slightly gray pallor to her face, and said "I am SOOOOOO sorry.  I have NO idea what is wrong with me.  I am so embarrassed; I can't believe I keep running to your bathroom!!" I gave her an Imodium AD, and she finally settled down and relaxed.  Later on, she asked me again what I had made for dinner, because she had enjoyed it so much.  I calmly took her into the kitchen and showed her all the used MRE bags and packets in the trash can.  After explaining to her that she had eaten roughly 9,000 calories of "Marine Corps Field Rations" she turned stark white, looked at me incredulously, and said "I ate 9,000 calories of dehydrated food that was made 3 years ago?" After I admitted it, she grabbed her coat and keys, and took off without a word.  She called me yesterday.  Seems she couldn't shit for 5 days, and when she finally did, the smell was so bad, her roommate could smell it from down the hall.  She also told me she had been working out nonstop to combat the high caloric intake, and that she never wanted me to cook dinner for her again, unless she was PERSONALLY present and supervising. It was a fun date.  She laughed about it eventually and said that that was the first time she'd ever crapped in a guy's house on a date.  She'd been so upset by it she was in tears in the bathroom while I had been in tears on the couch.

Science project in progress. Its not any of the common things yet. He is getting super annoyed Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

All kidding aside, I think it's more likely that the dog is allergic to something you're giving/putting on the baby.   Our husky has never had a problem around babies or kids.

I can imagine.. :) we have 2 dogs 2 cats and 2 rats and a horse.. Gus.. our Alapaha blue Blood Bulldog is really big jerk.. most of the time..lol but we love him and the rest of the brood.. Here is Gus and is usual facial expression. he does not like getting his picture taken at all.I think the red pre- light and flash irritates his eyes. We dont care.He is rather photogenic,so take every opportunity to piss him off..lol

I'll be the proud Ameritrash. My concern for animals far outweighs that of most humans. 

I dryfired mine thousands of times. Smoothed up the trigger and good exercise for trigger fingers.

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Not intelligent eh? My Doberman figured out how to turn a door knob just by watching me and the wife. That is problem solving.

I don't know about a monster, but definitely looking like it could make the top 10 for "best of 2016".

Jeff Quinn NEVER doesn't like anything. He never has anything negative to say.

I'll take it, Steve.

I guess the take away from this thread is that the demise of  the.40S&W has been greatly exaggerated. 

Mine as well. Take the idiot who gave our Dolly to Reefer with the threat of digging hole out back and shooting her if reefer didn't keep her. That guy needs a hole dug for himself. She's been nothing short of amazing here and I'm so glad I never met the backwoods idiot myself. But he belongs in a list like this. Screw the thought of public humiliation. It's a warning system for people to protect themselves and their pets from people who clearly have no respect for animals. What irks me is this is only being listed for a few years, so what? They can repeat again once they're clear? Tennessee has had so many responses from ARC in regards to hoarding cases and dog fighting cases it is disgusting. EVERYTIME they respond here it makes me ashamed. Our "punishments" are not hard enough for these cases. To me this is a start but the solution is stiffer sentencing, steeper court fees and community service cleaning kennels at local shelters.

Oh how I love thee. Said much better and shorter than I.

I ain't never gonna watch it. I'm done with the azzhole.

MRE, fecal test after 21 days? It's going to take longer than that to produce a sample.

Feel free to add your own insight. This is not a debate but rather opinions that will not be changed but name calling and belittlement of others.    Unfortunately for members of the next generation, it appears they won’t be living in the same sort of America where I had the good fortune of growing up. Of course, there’s still time for a course correction, but it better happen quick. These three short sentences do a pretty darn good job of showing us where we’ve got it all wrong.   We are told not to judge all muslims by the actions of a "few terrorists" but we are encouraged or even belittled to judge all gun owners by the actions a few lunatics or felons that aren't even supposed to legally own a gun in the first place? Funny how that works.   We constantly hear about social security running out of money. How is it we never hear about welfare and food stamps running out of money? The first group worked for their money while the second...not so much. Think about it for a second and let that soak in.   Why are we cutting benefits to veterans and cutting back the size of our military to pre-WWII levels but are not stopping payments/benefits to illegal aliens or whatever we are supposed to call the now? Am I the only one missing something?   Anyway...have fun with this and feel free to add your own ideas without belittling your fellow TGO members.

says the gorilla locked in a cage.

It would impress me more if she would of came up with it herself instead of proded by these bleeding heart liberals pushing global warm...I mean climate change.

They always leave us 40 guys out. They must figure with the shear devastation of the mighty 40; we don’t need any extra rounds.

  So it's OK if they erode our rights gradually, in your mind.  Surely there is some leftist Liberal hell-hole you could move to that better aligns with your views.

If you don't like the way it feels or fits, why not just buy a gun you DO like the fit and feel of? There are lots of choices.   I don't understand all this melting/whittling/grinding/etc. crap. Just buy a gun that fits YOU, instead of bastardizing one. :screwy:

That's right...like Snake Plissken, I escaped from Murder City.   The move was a nightmare and I have a tremendous amount of unpacking to do, but I am happy to be here. :)      A little history...I am the guy who originally built www.migunowners.com several years ago.  It was a favor to a friend who paid me back by having a top cop give me the basics on proper pistol usage for a couple of hours.  I have been around guns all my life, but was hooked after being shown the right way to use them.  After that, I bought my first one...and then somehow multiplied many times over.   :)  I am sure you all know how it goes.  I am a MI concealed pistol licensee, soon to be a TN licensee as well.  I have trained in the shoot house in force-on-force scenarios at Close Quarters Tactical in Shelby Township, MI and I am a proud NRA lifetime member.   In short...again, happy to be here and hope to make new friends!

I have been reloading for quite a while and know the "rules of the road" per se for reloading.  I have been working on load testing my Sako TRG using WC846 as I have 16lbs of it I bought from David.  Most say that WC846 is very similar to BLC2 so I based my starting loads off on the very conservative side of BLC2.   To make a long story short.  I had some signs of pressure on my higher load tests (still well below the BLC2 max), but I wasn't really sure how close (or potentially even over) to max pressure I may have been.  I actually stopped after shooting one round of my highest load as I didn't like the looks of the brass afterwards.  I am glad I did as after figuring out what my pressures were, I was pushing 63,000psi when max pressure in a 308 is 62000 psi.  According to the books, I was supposed to be well below max pressure with what I was loading.   I decided to finally order Quickload and really get down to some specific measurements.  That was how I determined my pressures (I had all measurements, plus velocities to compare to the output in Quickloads).  Needless to say, I have now been able to determine that the specific jug of WC846 I am using loads basically identical to H4895, quite a bit hotter than BLC2.  I don't say this to tell anyone they should use H4895 load data, but simply to re-iterate what most of us already know and that is reloading is not to be taken lightly.     Moral of the story, if you reload for rifle (even if you have been doing it forever), do yourself a favor and BUY Quickloads.  I don't think I will load another target round without first checking it in Quickloads.  I am mostly looking for the most accurate loads out of any of my rifles, so I do a lot of load testing, but this program makes a huge difference in my confidence in my loads.   I know Mike Gideon has used it for a long time and I had thought about getting it for a long time, but never did.  I can now say "why did I wait so long!"   It isn't super cheap (~$150), but it is worth every penny.  I just wanted to bring it up to those of you who may not know about it as I think everyone should have it if you reload.   http://www.neconos.com/details3.htm

I think I'll keep buying non-American made pistols just to get under your skin Dave. :) All kidding aside I really do like a lot of Ruger products. I love my LCR and my 10/22 and someday I'll get a GP100 and a nice leather holster to accompany it, but this new pistol does nothing for me. I'm sure Ruger will sell a butt load of these simply because of Ruger's outstanding reputation and the fact that it may likely be priced lower than the competition. Also, salesman like Steelharp will steer people towards these simply because he likes them. ;)

As much as I like Jeff Quinn and Gunblast he is still sponsored by dealers and manufacturers. You're not going to find a bad review of anything from someone who is being paid.  The printed gun rags are notorious for this.

So maybe a good deal if you are in the market for a shotgun, if it is almost new, but not a steal by any means. Exactly what I was looking for. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just can't justify the cost.  I don't really experiment outside published reliable recipes though so never needed to ask "what if".  I think if you work wildcats or non published powders then it may be worth it, but just not for me.

I'm just happy I made the cut.

Yep, 2. STI 2011 Eagle, Gen4 G35. I also have 10's for the haters. I like .40 as a reloader. Less fuss than 9mm, more bullet weight variation if needed. Favorite load(and my competition load) is 200grn WFN bullets at 850fps. Makes the .40 a pussycat but makes major power. This needs pics...

He's beautiful I've only ever seen one in person, she was blue and white. Simply gorgeous!

It's working now. It took a while to load the cache apparently. Thanks

Greebriar Guns and Leather was always my favorite LGS when we lived in Nashville! It wasn't a short drive from Crieve Hall but the guys there was so awesome it was always the store we hit up!!

The snag free direction needs to be on the DRAW, not on the reholster direction. The new Honor Guard pistols have got an edge here, where they should be. This would help if you had to rack using a table edge, etc.

  Yes, a solution to poor trigger finger discipline is to have a trigger pull which is ridiculously heavy... kind of like a childproof lid on a medicine bottle.  So what I gather is, we can't trust police and their departments to be grown ups and display very basic firearms handling procedures.  For me, the solution would be to immediately fire any officer who has a negligent discharge.  Done.  The problem will correct itself, because the officers that are too stupid to be an adult will be fired, and the ones who are too lazy to follow procedures will damn sure pay attention to what they're doing when they know their job is on the line.   Stupid should be punished, not blamed on inanimate objects.

a filthy ape

Heck this place is so much fun and resourceful I decided to become a lifetime member. never done that for any board anywhere. TGO is an awesome community!!

I heard Kokos first words were don't buy a Glock

I'm not quite fat enough to pull that off, but I'm working on it.