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The houses on Mud Island are too close together in my opinion. You could just about reach out your kitchen window and touch the next one. And no offense 323 but that roundabout is a traffic nightmare, least it used to be. (I used to go over there a lot but haven't been in a couple years.) I always felt like I was about to get in a wreck as I drove around it. Also, it's not really an island, is it? I think it's more like a peninsula. People sometimes just refer to it as "The Island," like it's in the Bahamas or something, and I think to myself, "You're a tool."
No offense at all. It is a weird thing and people have no idea how to navigate it. Also it's hard to go around it when people come off the Auction street bridge at 70 mph. But it does allow traffic to flow better than the previous intersection.
And to all, it is a peninsula, not an island. If you drive to the north end, you hang a sharp right and that will take you to the "mainland". It used to be an island before the Wolf River was rerouted years ago.
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I spent 20 years in Memphis and all I'll say is that there is a reason northern Mississippi is one of the fastest growing areas in the country. Plus if you live anywhere near the city limits you will be paying taxes like you wouldn't believe. Unless you have tax shelters in Zürich, the taxes alone would break you.
Hence the reason that I just bought a house in Marshall County. Close enough to Memphis where my family and my wife's family are, but far enough away that I can relax, plus where else could I buy an acre and half and a 1900+ square foot house for $125,000?
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I hadn't heard about this shotgun. Is it supposed to replace the Browning Gold?
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Harbor town which is the area on Mud Island is very nice. The houses are a little pricy but the proximity to downtown is nice. However, the northern part of downtown, known as the Pinch district is in decline. It's the area around the Pyramid. Downtown Memphis is moving south around the Fed Ex forum, not north. Also, once you get off Mud Island you find yourself in not too great an area. A good friend of mine's girlfriend has a house down there and she likes it, but is moving out to east shelby county, if that tells you anything. If you do decide to move to mud island, I hope you like the round about that is at the end of Auction street on Mud Island...my engineering firm designed it....
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YES!!! I have four pistols in 357 Sig, the two primary are my Glock 31 which I alternate as my primary carry with my G19, and my wife :)carries a Sig P239 in this wonderful hard hitting, mild recoiling caliber.
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This is an email that my father just sent me.
A fascinating
report. From friends who are the parents of a Navy
Seal. Subject: More SEAL Rescue
Details
This was received from a very high-placed source. His name is
redacted at his request.
Subject: The real story from active duty contacts
First though, let me orient you to familiarize you with the
"terrain."
In Africa from Djibouti at the southern end of the Red Sea eastward
through the Gulf of Aden to around Cape Guardafui at the easternmost tip
of Africa (also known as "The Horn of Africa") is about a 600 nm transit
before you stand out into the Indian Ocean. That transit is comparable
in distance to that from the mouth of the Mississippi at New Orleans to
the tip of Florida at Key West-- except that 600 nm over there is
infested with Somalia pirates.
Ships turning southward at the Horn of Africa transit the SLOC (Sea
Lane of Commerce) along the east coast of Somalia because of the
prevailing southerly currents there. It's about 1,500 nm on to Mombassa,
which is just south of the equator in Kenya. Comparably, that's about
the transit distance from Portland Maine down the east coast of the US
to Miami Florida. In other words, the ocean area being patrolled by our
naval forces off the coast of Somalia is comparable to that in the Gulf
of Mexico from the Mississippi River east to Miami then up the eastern
seaboard to Maine.
Second, let me globally orient you from our Naval Operating Base in
Norfolk, VA, east across the Atlantic to North Africa, thence across the
Med to Suez in Egypt, thence southward down the Red Sea to Djibouti at
the Gulf of Aden, thence eastward to round Cape Guardafui at the
easternmost tip of Africa, and thence southerly some 300 miles down the
east cost of Somali out into the high seas of the Indian Ocean to the
position of MV ALABAMA is a little more than 7,000 nm, and plus-nine
time-zones ahead of EST.
Hold that thought, in that, a C-17 transport averaging a little
better than 400 kts (SOG) takes the best part of 18 hours to make that
trip. In the evening darkness late Thursday night, a team of Navy SEALs
from Norfolk parachuted from such a C-17 into the black waters (no
refraction of light) of the Indian Ocean-- close-aboard to our 40,000
ton amphibious assault ship, USS BOXER (LHD 4), the flagship of our ESG
(Expeditionary Strike Group) in the AOR (Area Of Responsibility, the
Gulf of Aden). They not only parachuted in with all of their
"equipment," they had their own inflatable boats, RHIB's (Rigid Hull,
Inflatable Boats) with them for over-water transport. They went into
BOXER's landing dock, debarked, and staged for the rescue-- Thursday
night.
And, let me comment on time-late: In that the SEAL's quick
response-- departing ready-alert in less than 4 hours from Norfolk--
supposedly surprised POTUS's (President of the United States) staff,
whereas President Obama was miffed not to get his "cops" there before
the Navy. He reportedly questioned his staff, "Will 'my' FBI people get
there before the Navy does?" It took the FBI almost 12 hours to put
together a team and get them packed-up-- for an "at sea" rescue. The FBI
was trying to tell him that they are not practiced to do this-- Navy
SEALs are. But, BHO wanted the FBI there "to help," that is, carry out
the Attorney General's (his) orders to negotiate the release of Captain
Phillips peacefully-- because apparently he doesn't trust the military
to carry out his "political guidance."
The flight of the FBI's passenger jet took a little less than 14
hours at 500-some knots to get to Djibouti. BOXER'S helos picked them up
and transported them out to the ship. The Navy SEALs were already there,
staged, and ready to act by the time the FBI arrived on board later that
evening. Notably, the first request by the OSC (On Scene Commander) that
early Friday morning to take them out and save Captain Phillips was
denied, to wit: "No, wait until 'my' FBI people get there."
Third, please consider a candid assessment of ability that finds
that the FBI snipers had never practiced shooting from a rolling,
pitching, yawing, surging, swaying, heaving platform-- and, target--
such as a ship and a lifeboat on the high seas. Navies have been doing
since Admiral Nelson who had trained "Marines" to shoot muskets from the
ship's rigging-- ironically, he was killed at sea in HMS VICTORY at the
Battle of Trafalgar by a French Marine rifleman that shot him from the
rigging of the French ship that they were grappling alongside.
Notably, when I was first training at USNA many years ago, the Navy
was doing it with a SATU, Small Arms Training Unit, based at our Little
Creek amphib base. Now, Navy SEALs, in particular SEAL Team SIX, do that
training now, and hone their skills professionally-- daily. Shooting
small arms from a ship is more of an accomplished "Art Form" than it is
a practiced skill. When you are "in the bubble" and "in tune" with the
harmonic motion you find, through practice, that you are "able to put
three .308 slugs inside the head of a quarter at 100 meters, in day or
night-- or, behind a camouflaged net or a thin enclosure, such as a
superstructure bulkhead. Yes, we have the monocular scopes that can
"see" heat-- and, draw a bead on it. SEALs are absolutely expert at it--
with the movie clips to prove it.
Okay, now try to imagine patrolling among the boats fishing everyday
out on the Grand Banks off our New England coast, and then responding to
a distress call from down around the waters between Florida and the
Bahamas. Three points for you to consider here: (1) Time-Distance-Speed
relationships for ships on the high seas, for instance, at a 25-knot SOA
(Speed Of Advance) it takes 24 hours to make good 600 nm-- BAINBRIDGE
did. (2) Fishermen work on the high seas, and (3) The best place to hide
as a "fisherman" pirate is among other fishermen
Early Wednesday morning, 4/8/2009, MV ALABAMA is at sea in the IO
about 300 miles off the (east) coast of Somalia en route to Mombassa
Kenya.
Pirates in small boat start harassing her, and threatening her with
weapons. MV ALABAMA's captain sent out the distress call by radio, and
ordered his Engineer to shut down the engines as well as the
ship-service electrical generators-- in our lingo, "Go dark and cold."
He informed his crew by radio what was happening, and ordered them to go
to an out-of-the-way compartment and lock themselves in it-- from the
inside. He would stay in the pilot house to "negotiate" with the
pirates.
The pirates boarded, captured the Captain, and ordered him to start
the engines. He said he would order his Engineer to do so, and he called
down to Engine Control on the internal communication system, but got no
answer. The lead pirate ordered two of his four men to go down and find
him and get the engines started.
Inside a ship without any lights is like the definition of dark. The
advantage goes to the people who work and live there. They jumped the
two pirates in a dark passageway. Both pirates lost their weapons, but
one managed to scramble and get away. The other they tied up, put tape
over his mouth and a knife at his throat.
Other members of the crew opened the drain cocks on the pirates boat
and cast it adrift. It foundered and sunk. The scrambling pirate made it
back to the pilot house and told of his demise. The pirates took the
Captain at gun point, and told him to launch one of his rescue boats
(not a life boat, per se). As he was lowering the boat for them, the
crew appeared with the other pirate to negotiate a trade. The crew let
their hostage go to soon, and the pirates kept the captain. But, he
purposefully had lowered the boat so it would jam.
With the rescue boat jammed, the pirates jumped over to a lifeboat
and released it as the captain jumped in the water. They fired at him,
made him stop, and grabbed him out of the water. Now, as night falls in
the vastness of the Indian Ocean, we have the classic "Mexican"
standoff, to wit: A life-boat that is just that, a life-boat adrift
without any means of propulsion except oars and paddles; and, a huge (by
comparison) Motor Vessel Container Ship adrift with a crew that is not
going to leave their captain behind. The pirates are enclosed under its
shelter-covering, holding the captain as their hostage. The crew is
hunkered down in their ship waiting for the "posse" to arrive.
After receiving MV ALABAMA'S distress call, USS BAINBRIDGE (DDG 96)
was dispatched by the ESG commander to respond to ALABAMA's distress
call.
At best sustainable speed, she arrived on scene the day after-- that
is, in the dark of that early Thursday morning. As BAINBRIDGE quietly
and slowly, at darkened-ship without any lights to give her away,
arrived on scene, please consider a recorded interview with the Chief
Engineer of MV ALABAMA describing BAINBRIDGE's arrival. He said it was
something else "... to see the Navy slide in there like a greyhound!" He
then said as she slipped in closer he could see the "Stars and Stripes"
flying from her masthead. He got choked up saying it was the
"...proudest moment of my life."
Phew! Let that sink in.
Earlier in the day, one of the U.S. Navy's Maritime Patrol Aircraft,
a fixed wing P3C, flew over to recon the scene. It dropped a buoy with a
radio to the pirates so that the Navy's interpreter could talk with the
pirates. When BAINBRIDGE arrived, the pirates thought the radio to be a
beaconing device, and threw it overboard. They wanted a satellite
telephone so that they could call home for help. Remember now, they are
fishermen, not "Rocket Scientists," in that, they don't know that we can
intercept the phone transmission also.
MV ALABAMA provided them with a satellite phone. They called home
back to "somebody" in Eyl Somalia (so that we now know where you live)
to come out and get them. The "somebody" in Eyl said they would be out
right away with other hostages, like 54 of them from other countries,
and that they would be coming out in two of their pirated ships. Right--
and, the tooth fairy will let you have sex with her. Yea, in paradise.
The "somebody" in Eyl just chalked up four more expendables as overhead
for "the cost of operation." Next page.
Anyway, ESG will continue to "watch" Eyl for any ships standing out.
The Navy SEAL team briefed the OSC (Commander Castellano, CO
BAINBRIDGE) on how they could rescue the captain from the life boat with
swimmers-- "Combat Swimmers," per se. That plan was denied by POTUS
because it put the captain in danger-- and, involved killing the
pirates.
The FBI negotiators arrived on scene, and talked the pirates into
sending their wounded man over for treatment Saturday morning. Later
that afternoon, the SEALs sent over their RHIB with food and water to
recon the life boat but the pirates shot at it. They could have taken
them out then (from being fired upon) but were denied again being told
that the captain was not in "imminent danger." The FBI negotiators
calmed the situation by informing the pirates of threatening weather as
they could see storm clouds closing from the horizon, and offered to tow
the life boat. The pirates agreed, and BAINBRIDGE took them under tow in
their wake at 30 meters-- exactly 30 meters, which is exactly the
distance the SEALs practice their shooting skills.
With the lifeboat under tow, riding comfortably bow-down on
BAINBRIDGE's wake-wave ("rooster tail"), had a 17-second period of
harmonic motion, and at the end of every half-period (8.5 seconds) was
steady on. The light-enhanced (infra-red heat) monocular scopes on the
SEAL's .308 caliber Mark 11 Mod 0 H&K suppressor-fitted sniper
rifles easily imaged their target very clearly. Pirates in a life boat
at 30-meters could be compared to fish in a barrel. All that was
necessary was to take out the plexiglass window so that it would not
deflect the trajectory of the high velocity .308 round. So, a sniper
(one of four) with a wad-cutter round (a flaxen sabot) would take out
the window a split second before the kill-shot-- no change in
sight-picture, just the window blowing out, clean.
Now, here's the part BHO's "whiz kids" knew as well as the Navy
hierarchy, including CO BAINBRIDGE and CO SEAL TEAM SIX. It's the law in
Article 19 of Appendix L in the "Convention of the High Seas" that the
Commanding Officer of a US Ship on the high seas is obligated to respond
to distress signals from any flagged ship (US or otherwise), and protect
the life and property thereof when deemed to be in IMMINENT DANGER. So,
in the final analysis, it would be Captain Castellano call as to
"Imminent Danger," and that he alone was obligated (duty bound) to act
accordingly. Got the picture?
After medically attending to the wounded pirated, and feeding him,
come first light (from the east) on Easter Sunday morning and the
pirates saw they were being towed further out to sea (instead of
westward toward land), the wounded pirate demanded to be returned to the
lifeboat. There would BE NO more negotiations-- and, the four Navy SEAL
snipers "in the bubble" went "Unlock." The pirate holding Captain
Philips raised the gun to his head, and IMMINENT DANGER was so observed
and noted in the Log as CO BAINBRIDGE gave the classic order: WEAPONS
RELEASED! I can hear the echo in my earpiece now, "On my count (from 8.5
seconds), 3, 2, 1, !" POP, BANG! Out went the window, followed by three
simultaneous shots. The scoreboard flashed: "GAME OVER, GAME OVER-- NAVY
3, PIRATES
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Since the elction I've bought, 2 stripped AR lowers, a Moisin Nagant, a Steyr M95, Beretta 96D, Ruger PC 9, Remington 742 30-06, Marlin 30-30, Henry Golden Boy .357 mag., Ruger M77 Alaskan in 375 Ruger, and I'm sure there is something that I can't think of off the top of my head. But
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I have YET to be able to get out and hunt turkey this year. Cross your fingers, I might be able to squeeze in a morning hunt on Sunday. Maybe it's my penance for all the deer hunting I got to do.
I have only been hunting turkey a few years and have had limited success, but I do use an owl locator call and generally get a response if its first thing in the morning, also it works better as the season goes on.
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Hey...it's all done in the name of love, man.
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Can we text him or punch him?...either way I'm in.
I vote for punching him!
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I was just telling my wife about all the guns you had for sale, and then I found this thread. Sorry Glen. But like you said, at least you invested in guns not the stock market. Now, if you have any precision weapons or optics for sale PM me, specifically 308's, Leupolds or Nightforces.
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It is crazy isn't it. I was looking for a companion to a Ruger PC-9 that I'm in the process of buying and I came across THAT!?!?!
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this. However, someone SERIOUSLY hit the crack pipe a little too hard before they listed this
Ruger P89 Double Action SS 9mm 2-15, 2 - 20 rd : Semi-auto at GunBroker.com -
I have my safe in the garage. I use both a golden rod and dessicant packs and have never had a problem. I keep mine off the floor with a couple of two by fours and then ran the bolts through those into the concrete. I also have a motion detector for my alarm in the garage. If someone is motivated enough to get my safe after all of that they can have it, I have insurance. But hell, the safe itself weighs almost 1000 pounds. Add to that the numerous guns and other stuff in there and we're looking at almost a ton. I keep mine covered with a UT throw blanket, so for the casual observer that might peek into my garage it just looks like I'm supporting my wife's favorite team.
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Thanks guys. I have been keeping tabs on prices for a year or so. Even got my C&R license so I could just order one from CMP. Then my buddy spotted this one. The price was well below what I would have invested in a CMP rifle counting the membership for with a affiliate group but I can use my C&R for discounts other places and to order a Nagant 1895.
Now the only question that remains is "Will it stop a llama?"
Hey, it's got 15 rounds of llama stopping power. Maybe with this new toy you can help end those mad attacks.....
Good score:up:
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Why do I always find these threads AFTER David has deleted all the inflamatory remarks.......I too like reading retarded and "holier than thou" posts:popcorn:
Oh well, back to work.
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Hey dude, the most accurate 9mm I ever owned was a Ruger P89, and I've owned som top shelf nines. Wish I had never sold it. One of these days I'll pick up another. Just don't tell the wife.
BTW..Nice guns.
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What kills me about threads sort of like this and others, is that people split so many hairs that they fail to see the big picture. They also fail to give the people who serve, myself, Joe, R1100R and many others, any credit for intelligence. If there is some crazy cult held up in the woods and they are randomly killing people and the pres. ordes my sniper unit out to deal with them, then we will deal with them. However, if my sniper unit is called out to privide counter sniper support while local law enforcement go house to house confiscating guns......I and all of the members of my unit would give the great middle finger saalute and "forget" how to load our rifles.
Semantics.
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This massive tub of s**t really pisses me off. I HATE hearing that he was ever a Marine. We all believe in Semper Fi, he believes in nothing but Semper I. I hope this bastard is struck down by a lightening bolt, or a 175 grain sierra matching 7.62 round in the very near future.
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R1100R....Good luck to you man. Stay small and fast. And keep in touch when you can.
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justme...
First, I want to thank you for the very mature and professional manner in which you have conducted yourself in this thread. I thank you for the kind words you have said for myself, R100R and others. I can see that you are a patriot, and you do care about your country. Sometimes, a little fervor is a good thing. I believe in this situation we just have to agree to disagree with regards to the treatment o possible punishment of the soldiers involved. But, sir, again, I thank you for your honesty and love of our great country.
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The only problem I had with his highness doing the brackets is he DIDN'T PICK MEMPHIS TO WIN
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We actually ordered pizza, and watched the game online in our conference room at work. One of the pluses of having the vast majority of our engineers be both sports nuts and U of M grads. It was definately tense there for a few minutes. Hell, at one time they showed our three point stat was 8 for 23. What the hell. Oh well, we won.
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justme..
First, let me qualify myself by saying that I have served in the military for just shy of 10 years now. I am an E6, Staff Sergeant. I am a school trained marine scout sniper, and am the chief scout and platoon sergeant for my sniper platoon.
Now, you say you are not tin foil hatting it, but to even try to make a comparison beyween a dozen or so Military Police officers responding to a request, be it legal or not, and anihalting millions of jews is....well......its out there. You are correct about the use of the military on US soil. However, I doubt at the time that the local commanders or the cops who had no idea what was occuring at the time gave a second thought to that. They needed help, and called on a vast pool, read probably hundreds,of trained police officers that were just down the road.
To think that this is some attempt at a "trial run" at "occupying" the US is
Since you have stated it's only yours and God's business as to whether you served then you might or might not be familiar with the reprecussions for some E2 private to refuse an order such as this. He would more than likely end up confined to quarters waiting for an NJP, Non Judicial Punishment, or at worst a court martial. It would be then and only then that he could successfully, but more likely unsuccessfully, defend his reason for disobeying an order. In this situation, non of that was warranted.
My unit is in New Orleans. If something happened and my friends on NOPD asked me to bring my guys out to help control traffic, I would probably do it without a second thought. Now AS TO DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION. I know, to a man, my unit would NOT follow any order that would require us to occupy, detain or confiscate ANYTHING fom the civilians of this great country. And, after having served so many years and dealt with MANY other units, I can confidently state that my sentiment is shared by the VAST MAJORITY of others serving.
You seem like an intelligent individual, but you are paranoid and need to realize that this one incident is not the catalyst for government confiscation, or death squads or any such other lunatic fringe ideas. Take two of these
and call me in the morning.
my wife doesn't know about all of them..
Ruger is doing something secret again...Whole new platform in the works...Again
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HeHe..... I don't know which model it will be, but last year I did some consulting for them on two different designs, either one of them should be LOVED by all.