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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:36:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Monterey is great because the Defense Language Institute is right there. They have almost 100% native instructors, and they usually have brought over their whole family. And the families often start restaurants, so there are restaurants all over the area offering very authentic cuisine from all over the world. It’s...amazing. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. I found a few Mediterranean restaurants within about 30 minutes so when they open I play to give em a whirl. Never considered going to Monterey, CA but I was just looking at Israel  Monterey is great because the Defense Language Institute is right there. They have almost 100% native instructors, and they usually have brought over their whole family. And the families often start restaurants, so there are restaurants all over the area offering very authentic cuisine from all over the world. It’s...amazing. Ah, so that's why you were there
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:40:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Paid leave? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Employer gives union workers the choice to take a leave of absence. 800 choose to do so. Employer asks salary employees to work production while they’re out. ha_ha.puck Paid leave? Doubt it. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:46:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Employer gives union workers the choice to take a leave of absence. 800 choose to do so. Employer asks salary employees to work production while they’re out. ha_ha.puck Scabs unite! |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:46:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Like the email I responded to 15 minutes ago? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 10,000 For post 10,000, I’m going to tell y’all about my granddad and my M1 carbine. Kinda long but whatever. I briefly told y’all about it when I first came to this thread but I don’t think I put up any pics. Uh, yeah, usually we just post tit gifs for this sort of thing. Great story  And I promise you aren't missing out on any paperwork  Curious that the bayonet lug's gone. ETA: heh, durrr, no it isn't. I shouldn't be paying so much attention to this conference call. You should be spending more time on my problem  Like the email I responded to 15 minutes ago? Well, I have about 6 pictures to send to you. So, get to looking at them and respond before I even send them, dammit! |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:47:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bazinga But no bazongas 
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:48:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you’re gonna get a Jeep, get a Jeep. Not some homogay soccer mom bastard love child of a truck and a Jeep dreamed up by an emasculated boy named Judy. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Nope Sticker scared some sense into me.  If you’re gonna get a Jeep, get a Jeep. Not some homogay soccer mom bastard love child of a truck and a Jeep dreamed up by an emasculated boy named Judy. 
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:49:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Crown & Anchor, Britannia Arms, or the British Bulldog? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. Just went there on Google Maps, first restaurant I saw was a British pub Crown & Anchor, Britannia Arms, or the British Bulldog? London Bridge pub, but I also found and checked out the menu at the Crown & Anchor and the Britannia
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:49:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And speaking of chinesium... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/CCCA64CA-D881-40A5-B7B3-956236DE7DC8_jpe-1390745.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/133277AF-2C82-4D14-9D22-4B11709CAC98_jpe-1390746.JPG Cheap way for aj to get into 6.5 grundel NOPE NOPE NOPE 6.5G is so far down on the list I doubt it will ever happen. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:52:36 PM EDT
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Just made an appointment for a Covid antibody test tomorrow, supposedly it's 100% specific and 99.5% accurate and takes 2 days to get results.
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:59:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just made an appointment for a Covid antibody test tomorrow, supposedly it's 100% specific and 99.5% accurate and takes 2 days to get results. Neat |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 3:59:45 PM EDT
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@kalahnikid
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:00:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Doubt it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Employer gives union workers the choice to take a leave of absence. 800 choose to do so. Employer asks salary employees to work production while they’re out. ha_ha.puck Paid leave? Doubt it. We were told we didn't have to work. No pay if you took that option. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:01:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ah, so that's why you were there Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. I found a few Mediterranean restaurants within about 30 minutes so when they open I play to give em a whirl. Never considered going to Monterey, CA but I was just looking at Israel Monterey is great because the Defense Language Institute is right there. They have almost 100% native instructors, and they usually have brought over their whole family. And the families often start restaurants, so there are restaurants all over the area offering very authentic cuisine from all over the world. It’s...amazing. Ah, so that's why you were there For a total of about 5 years. It was beautiful. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:15:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: For a total of about 5 years. It was beautiful. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. I found a few Mediterranean restaurants within about 30 minutes so when they open I play to give em a whirl. Never considered going to Monterey, CA but I was just looking at Israel Monterey is great because the Defense Language Institute is right there. They have almost 100% native instructors, and they usually have brought over their whole family. And the families often start restaurants, so there are restaurants all over the area offering very authentic cuisine from all over the world. It’s...amazing. Ah, so that's why you were there For a total of about 5 years. It was beautiful. CA is a beautiful State. Shame about the laws, taxes, illegals, and politicians. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:16:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: CA is a beautiful State. Shame about the laws, taxes, illegals, and politicians. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I have a weird desire to try falafels and Mediterranean foods. In general, pretty delicious when made right. Also, I was incredibly spoiled when discovering and exploring Mediterranean foods. If trying new international cuisine is a thing for you, but your budget doesn’t support a jetset lifestyle, you need to take a trip to Monterey, CA. I found a few Mediterranean restaurants within about 30 minutes so when they open I play to give em a whirl. Never considered going to Monterey, CA but I was just looking at Israel Monterey is great because the Defense Language Institute is right there. They have almost 100% native instructors, and they usually have brought over their whole family. And the families often start restaurants, so there are restaurants all over the area offering very authentic cuisine from all over the world. It’s...amazing. Ah, so that's why you were there For a total of about 5 years. It was beautiful. CA is a beautiful State. Shame about the laws, taxes, illegals, and politicians.   
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:26:36 PM EDT
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OMG!!! OMG!! OMG!!
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:28:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryYep, I plan on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail before I die, part of it is the John Muir Trail in the high Sierra. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:29:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: OMG!!! OMG!! OMG!! You touched yourself again. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:30:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 10,000 For post 10,000, I’m going to tell y’all about my granddad and my M1 carbine. Kinda long but whatever. I briefly told y’all about it when I first came to this thread but I don’t think I put up any pics. My granddaddy left home in his mid teens, I can’t accurately describe his relationship with his dad without painting one of them as a “bad”, which neither of them were, but they both were hard people, which led to head butting. His dad came through the depression, as well as other hard times, so he was not very forgiving or patient. My granddad put the mules up one night and they stated fighting, so to keep one of them from getting hurt (mules were their livelihood) granddaddy departed them by putting one out to pasture. When his dad came home and saw one of the mules out, he got mad (at a fault) and wouldn’t let my grandad explain, so instead of arguing, my grandad left, went up the road to his uncles and lived for a short while. His dad told him that he would come home when he got hungry. A few months later, his brother was sent up the road to tell my grandad to come back home. Granddaddy said, “tell him I’m not hungry yet”. Both were too stubborn to reconcile at the time, which they did a little later fortunately. During this, Pearl Harbor happened and granddaddy joined the Navy at 17 and was assigned to the USS Downes, which was sunk at PH and rebuilt and recommissioned in California. He always said he felt lucky bc most of his ship were veterans, he was one of a few new guys. He was also one of the only southerners, so his Navy nickname was “Reb”. I don’t know much about his Navy time but he was a “torpedo man”. ?? I believe he was in the ship from 43-45, fighting in Eniwetok, Truk, Iwo Jima, Guam, Anatahan, Sargihan, the Philippines, and other places. After the war, he went back home to S. Ga, farmed and owned a general store, then started the contracting business I own today with my brother. As a kid in the early 90s, I would go to his house, and he would tell me about the war. “Son, a boy your age ought not to hear these sorta things, but I’m gonna tell you anyway.” He told me about bodies being hung up in propellers, islands going from post card beautiful one day to smoking ash pits over night, a storm that scared him more than any battle, whales, picking up crashed pilots in the ocean, and drinking beer on Jap islands after battles. So onto my rifle. Dad was born in 50’. So sometime around 58-62, daddy says they were home, and my grandads mom called, asking if she could throw away a duffle bag that had been in a barn or building or whatever. Daddy says granddaddy screamed “No” into the phone and hung up. He and my dad went over to her house and he got the duffle bag, unpacked it, and this carbine was in there. I don’t know if it was assembled or not, but it was packed away in the bag. He started subtly crying and daddy, being very young and naive, asked what was wrong. Granddaddy replied, “son, the man that had this rifle didn’t need it anymore”. Daddy knew his dad for 46 years and says it may possibly be the only time he ever saw him emotional. I don’t know why granddaddy forgot about the rifle at the time or how he actually obtained it. I do know it was on a beach somewhere, and sometimes granddaddy would have to run a small boat onto these beaches after a battle, but I don’t know much about this, I just have to assume that’s how he got it. So daddy had the rifle all of my life and last year he came by the house and said “here, put this in your safe”. So I guess it’s mine now. It’s a Saginaw receiver with Saginaw S’G’ on the receiver, which is supposed to be slightly more rare than others. Serial number puts it prior to May 43’. It has an Inland barrel and RMC Rock-Ola stock. It’s been shot some by my dad and by me as a kid, but it just sits in the safe now. I don’t know if there’s any paper work on it or not, if there is, my dads lying, thieving, definition of evil brother has it, along with any and all other military records or information that I’ll never see. And being he doesn’t have children, he’ll probably set all my grandads stuff on fire before he dies just so no one else will get it. Whatever. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/8F6B2BAA-2AB5-4000-AB24-F9BE44BE26CA_jpe-1390584.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/FB4ED4D8-BFF8-43FF-827C-991FE8EF7D36_jpe-1390586.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/A8B37301-6C8C-40AD-94EE-AE631532FEE6_jpe-1390587.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/22B622DB-DE93-4688-8012-6E2E2807F048_jpe-1390588.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/3612DF91-6693-4C58-9C9F-651D894E5C8D_jpe-1390589.JPG TL;DR and all that, I still love you guys! Read it. All. We Saginaw SG Bros!!!! 
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:31:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:31:44 PM EDT
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Back to the
OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! It showed up today!!!!!!!! 
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:32:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep, I plan on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail before I die, part of it is the John Muir Trail in the high Sierra. Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep, I plan on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail before I die, part of it is the John Muir Trail in the high Sierra. I saw a bunch of signs for the JMT but never got on it. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:32:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you’re gonna get a Jeep, get a Jeep. Not some homogay soccer mom bastard love child of a truck and a Jeep dreamed up by an emasculated boy named Judy. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Nope Sticker scared some sense into me. If you’re gonna get a Jeep, get a Jeep. Not some homogay soccer mom bastard love child of a truck and a Jeep dreamed up by an emasculated boy named Judy. That was a bit harsh.
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:32:37 PM EDT
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Do.you still Love me Moe???
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:33:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Back to the OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! It showed up today!!!!!!!! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/317376/20200428_162519-1390856.jpg Short boomy boi. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:33:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That was a bit harsh. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Nope Sticker scared some sense into me. If you’re gonna get a Jeep, get a Jeep. Not some homogay soccer mom bastard love child of a truck and a Jeep dreamed up by an emasculated boy named Judy. That was a bit harsh. You new here? |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:34:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That was a bit harsh. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Nope Sticker scared some sense into me. If you’re gonna get a Jeep, get a Jeep. Not some homogay soccer mom bastard love child of a truck and a Jeep dreamed up by an emasculated boy named Judy. That was a bit harsh. Tough love and all that. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:34:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Do.you still Love me Moe??? I'm debating. Give me a minute. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:34:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You new here? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Nope Sticker scared some sense into me. If you’re gonna get a Jeep, get a Jeep. Not some homogay soccer mom bastard love child of a truck and a Jeep dreamed up by an emasculated boy named Judy. That was a bit harsh. You new here? I’m mostly gentle. Usually. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:35:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tough love and all that. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Nope Sticker scared some sense into me. If you’re gonna get a Jeep, get a Jeep. Not some homogay soccer mom bastard love child of a truck and a Jeep dreamed up by an emasculated boy named Judy. That was a bit harsh. Tough love and all that. Is that like rough sex? 
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:35:33 PM EDT
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Tool box is in the new spot.
And I start Monday. Annnnnd....The deal fell through with the sale of my old franchise... Oh well..... NMP. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:35:48 PM EDT
[#32]
A'ight... we're cool.
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:37:46 PM EDT
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Tight squeezy boi in there...
 And a pretty good job on the front pedestal and bead... 
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:38:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A'ight... we're cool. Yay!!!!! |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:38:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tool box is in the new spot. And I start Monday. Annnnnd....The deal fell through with the sale of my old franchise... Oh well..... NMP. Sucks for them. At least you were able to hitch your wagon to a not-dead horse. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:39:08 PM EDT
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Who did the work on the scatter gat?
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:40:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Who did the work on the scatter gat? Rose Action Sports. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:41:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Rose Action Sports. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Who did the work on the scatter gat? Rose Action Sports. Excellent. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:45:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Who did the work on the scatter gat? Guy said he couldn't use Rem chokes because the barrel was too thin where it was cut. Told me I wouldn't be able to suppress it with the Carlson chokes he used. It's an A-5 with a 12" barrel....how am I going to suppress that???? |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:45:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Back to the OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! It showed up today!!!!!!!! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/317376/20200428_162519-1390856.jpg Fuck yes. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:46:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tight squeezy boi in there... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/317376/20200428_163628-1390869.jpg And a pretty good job on the front pedestal and bead... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/317376/20200428_163636-1390871.jpg Who did it? |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:47:24 PM EDT
[#42]
I kept readn'
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:48:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Guy said he couldn't use Rem chokes because the barrel was too thin where it was cut. Told me I wouldn't be able to suppress it with the Carlson chokes he used. It's an A-5 with a 12" barrel....how am I going to suppress that???? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Who did the work on the scatter gat? Guy said he couldn't use Rem chokes because the barrel was too thin where it was cut. Told me I wouldn't be able to suppress it with the Carlson chokes he used. It's an A-5 with a 12" barrel....how am I going to suppress that???? Can you suppress any long recoil gun? |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:49:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: JFC, I was just perusing audible and saw that War and Peace is 60 something hours long. That's a no from me dawg. The longest audiobooks in my audible account are Atlas Shrugged at 52h 20m, Anathem at 32h 26m (somehow felt even longer than AS), The Fountainhead at 32h 2m. I'm currently on book 6 of the Expeditionary Force series, and those weigh in at about 17 hours each. It's been taking me 5-7 days on average to get through each book. Audiobooks are great during mindless tasks like working out, cleaning, working, etc. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:50:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like her, too. But she really needed to cut out about 25% of Atlas Shrugged. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: JFC, I was just perusing audible and saw that War and Peace is 60 something hours long. That's a no from me dawg. I...uh...I liked Ayn Rand. So maybe War and Peace will be a fun romp through classic Russian literature? What, you mean the dinner speech didn't need to be 60 pages long? |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:52:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:52:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just made an appointment for a Covid antibody test tomorrow, supposedly it's 100% specific and 99.5% accurate and takes 2 days to get results. Gonna get your papers? |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:53:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The longest audiobooks in my audible account are Atlas Shrugged at 52h 20m, Anathem at 32h 26m (somehow felt even longer than AS), The Fountainhead at 32h 2m. I'm currently on book 6 of the Expeditionary Force series, and those weigh in at about 17 hours each. It's been taking me 5-7 days on average to get through each book. Audiobooks are great during mindless tasks like working out, cleaning, working, etc. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: JFC, I was just perusing audible and saw that War and Peace is 60 something hours long. That's a no from me dawg. The longest audiobooks in my audible account are Atlas Shrugged at 52h 20m, Anathem at 32h 26m (somehow felt even longer than AS), The Fountainhead at 32h 2m. I'm currently on book 6 of the Expeditionary Force series, and those weigh in at about 17 hours each. It's been taking me 5-7 days on average to get through each book. Audiobooks are great during mindless tasks like working out, cleaning, working, etc. I contemplated AS for like 0.87 seconds then remembered I never finished 1984. |
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Posted: 4/28/2020 4:55:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Read it. All. We Saginaw SG Bros!!!! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/317376/20171218_190036-394669.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 10,000 For post 10,000, I’m going to tell y’all about my granddad and my M1 carbine. Kinda long but whatever. I briefly told y’all about it when I first came to this thread but I don’t think I put up any pics. My granddaddy left home in his mid teens, I can’t accurately describe his relationship with his dad without painting one of them as a “bad”, which neither of them were, but they both were hard people, which led to head butting. His dad came through the depression, as well as other hard times, so he was not very forgiving or patient. My granddad put the mules up one night and they stated fighting, so to keep one of them from getting hurt (mules were their livelihood) granddaddy departed them by putting one out to pasture. When his dad came home and saw one of the mules out, he got mad (at a fault) and wouldn’t let my grandad explain, so instead of arguing, my grandad left, went up the road to his uncles and lived for a short while. His dad told him that he would come home when he got hungry. A few months later, his brother was sent up the road to tell my grandad to come back home. Granddaddy said, “tell him I’m not hungry yet”. Both were too stubborn to reconcile at the time, which they did a little later fortunately. During this, Pearl Harbor happened and granddaddy joined the Navy at 17 and was assigned to the USS Downes, which was sunk at PH and rebuilt and recommissioned in California. He always said he felt lucky bc most of his ship were veterans, he was one of a few new guys. He was also one of the only southerners, so his Navy nickname was “Reb”. I don’t know much about his Navy time but he was a “torpedo man”. ?? I believe he was in the ship from 43-45, fighting in Eniwetok, Truk, Iwo Jima, Guam, Anatahan, Sargihan, the Philippines, and other places. After the war, he went back home to S. Ga, farmed and owned a general store, then started the contracting business I own today with my brother. As a kid in the early 90s, I would go to his house, and he would tell me about the war. “Son, a boy your age ought not to hear these sorta things, but I’m gonna tell you anyway.” He told me about bodies being hung up in propellers, islands going from post card beautiful one day to smoking ash pits over night, a storm that scared him more than any battle, whales, picking up crashed pilots in the ocean, and drinking beer on Jap islands after battles. So onto my rifle. Dad was born in 50’. So sometime around 58-62, daddy says they were home, and my grandads mom called, asking if she could throw away a duffle bag that had been in a barn or building or whatever. Daddy says granddaddy screamed “No” into the phone and hung up. He and my dad went over to her house and he got the duffle bag, unpacked it, and this carbine was in there. I don’t know if it was assembled or not, but it was packed away in the bag. He started subtly crying and daddy, being very young and naive, asked what was wrong. Granddaddy replied, “son, the man that had this rifle didn’t need it anymore”. Daddy knew his dad for 46 years and says it may possibly be the only time he ever saw him emotional. I don’t know why granddaddy forgot about the rifle at the time or how he actually obtained it. I do know it was on a beach somewhere, and sometimes granddaddy would have to run a small boat onto these beaches after a battle, but I don’t know much about this, I just have to assume that’s how he got it. So daddy had the rifle all of my life and last year he came by the house and said “here, put this in your safe”. So I guess it’s mine now. It’s a Saginaw receiver with Saginaw S’G’ on the receiver, which is supposed to be slightly more rare than others. Serial number puts it prior to May 43’. It has an Inland barrel and RMC Rock-Ola stock. It’s been shot some by my dad and by me as a kid, but it just sits in the safe now. I don’t know if there’s any paper work on it or not, if there is, my dads lying, thieving, definition of evil brother has it, along with any and all other military records or information that I’ll never see. And being he doesn’t have children, he’ll probably set all my grandads stuff on fire before he dies just so no one else will get it. Whatever. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/8F6B2BAA-2AB5-4000-AB24-F9BE44BE26CA_jpe-1390584.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/FB4ED4D8-BFF8-43FF-827C-991FE8EF7D36_jpe-1390586.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/A8B37301-6C8C-40AD-94EE-AE631532FEE6_jpe-1390587.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/22B622DB-DE93-4688-8012-6E2E2807F048_jpe-1390588.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/439986/3612DF91-6693-4C58-9C9F-651D894E5C8D_jpe-1390589.JPG TL;DR and all that, I still love you guys! Read it. All. We Saginaw SG Bros!!!! https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/317376/20171218_190036-394669.jpg Didn’t we determine we are already bro’s? What was the other thing? Oh the colt HBAR elite |
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I contemplated AS for like 0.87 seconds then remembered I never finished 1984. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: JFC, I was just perusing audible and saw that War and Peace is 60 something hours long. That's a no from me dawg. The longest audiobooks in my audible account are Atlas Shrugged at 52h 20m, Anathem at 32h 26m (somehow felt even longer than AS), The Fountainhead at 32h 2m. I'm currently on book 6 of the Expeditionary Force series, and those weigh in at about 17 hours each. It's been taking me 5-7 days on average to get through each book. Audiobooks are great during mindless tasks like working out, cleaning, working, etc. I contemplated AS for like 0.87 seconds then remembered I never finished 1984. 1984 isn't even that long. It is, however, terrible. |
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