mommommom4 wrote:
BuddyLars - if you are looking at a firearm for your wife, have you checked into a Smith & Wesson M&P shield? .
I'm heading to our local gun dealer today to window shop. I will look at the
Smith & Wesson M&P shield but it will be Inger's decision when her FOID card arrives and she can handle the handgun herself.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the accurate history lesson. The resolve these men possessed is admirable.
But Steve McQueen did a wicked job on the motorcycle.....
jon636 wrote:
Good morning Sarge and Buddylars firearm chitchat.. I must agree with both of you altho I was raised in TEXAS and hunted for food and livestock protection. I spent 10 years in the Airborne Rangers and 3 and one half years in Korea where I did what I had to to come home. After that I spent 24 years in the NYPD ending my career as a Sgt in Homicide. During that time I shot NO ONE and am proud of it. I found I was able to talk a few perps in to giving up.Nuff said
Thanks for your military service and for serving as a police officer.
Having a sidearm you were prepared. That's what the majority of law-abiding U.S. citizens want.
Photogdog wrote:
Why is it that someone can drive drunk & kill someone but the car is just a machine? The same person kills the same people with a gun and suddenly the gun takes on a life of it's own.
Around 1995 my wife would watch some kids after school whose parents would pick them up around 5:00pm. One boy was the son of of friends of ours. Fun kid, but was on medication for hyper activity, he was around 8-10. This family moves to North Carolina and we lost touch with, but their oldest son was friends with my son and daughter on facebook. We find out that the boy my wife watched was involved in an accident with him being drunk and underage. A few months later he had another car accident while being underage and again drunk but this time he killed a young lady. He served a few months in jail. I found out a little while ago he had moved back to Rockton/Roscoe area. I cannot imagine the grief the young lady's family was/is enduring. One, the senseless death of their loved one, Two the slap on the wrist for a repeat drunk driving offender.
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Bruce with a Canon wrote:
my $.02.
Personally I shoot 45acp and 40 cal. I have been shooting since 1966. I served 7 years in the Army and competed with the army pistol team shooting 45 acp.
For more petite folks I recommend 22 or 380.
I ensure those I train hit center mass under pressure, Wether it be a 22 or a 45, if you don't hit your target, you might as well be hurling rocks..
Better to hit an intruder with a 22 than to miss with a 45.
Our home uses a 12 and 20 guage pump shotguns for primary defence.
In NH I worked in a field that required concealed carry, I carried Detonics Combat master and S&W Chiefs special back up.
Never touched the weapons in the performance of my duties.
I had ocassion to use a shotgun in my home to prevent a burglery, racking a round did the trick, never had to level the shotgun.
I teach using the weapon you are most accurate with, not the biggest gun you can fire.
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Hi Bruce, I agree with everything you have written. At Bullet Stop Gun Shop in a town close to mine they offer a training session with multiple handguns of different calibers. Two people for the price of one. They supply the firearms and ammunition. My wife and daughter will take this class even though my daughter has her handgun already. I think my wife will be more comfortable with another female than with me. I am so undecided on 12.ga shotgun or the hi-point .45 carbine rifle. I am attracted to the .45 as it takes the same ammo as my handgun thus less variety of ammo needed, but as you stated about racking your shotgun, that sound is distinctive and anyone just hearing it would think twice. I've convinced myself, shotgun. I'll get the carbine later.
Thanks for your post.
Lars
Great site.
The praying mantis on the 3rd page kept looking at me.
welcome to the club
I bought my wife a dslr for christmas and it will be fun to shooting pictures together
welcome and thanks for your service
welcome and love the bear...oh yeah, I'm also a Chicago Bear Fan
dirtpusher wrote:
i would dearly love to forget like my bare hands trying to hold a guys guts from falling an touching dirt., don't think most of you have any idea know what that is like to be reinded of .
In 1997 I found out I had Multiple Myeloma an incurable cancer of the blood. I was 40 and I went after the most aggressive treatment available. 5 months of chem. followed by Autogolus Stem Cell Transplant, same procedure as a bone marrow transplant. Went in late January 1998, came home early March 1998, back to work full-time April 1998. I was on a Myeloma email discussion group and became someone that others could write to, eventually I was asked to run the group and have full rights to the website. During this time I wrote a newsletter called "Multiple Myeloma Crapola" and I sent it for free, some gave me stamps or bought T-shirts that my neighbor made for the cause. After 2 years of running this I had to back out. Not because of my cancer burden, but because members of this group were not as fortunate as I was to continue living. Like you I wanted to forget because it was/is painful. Since reading your post I have made a decision and that is I am going back into the Myeloma community and share about my experience's and how I conduct myself as a human being.
I have so much to be thankful for but most of the time I feel guilty of still being alive. After my transplant I asked the Dr. to give me something of a time frame. "Expect 3 to 5 years of quality of Life" I decided to shoot for 5. Well I'm way past that and the way I look at it is, if I wake up in the morning, I'm going to work, and I'll work my ass off. I always strive to do better than my co-workers, they think I'm some kind of kiss-ass, cause they don't know my story. I wish I could be there at my funeral when they find out I've been battling cancer all this time and they battle with their poor life choices.
RMM wrote:
imntrt1 wrote:
I don't care what anyone's views are regarding Viet Nam and that war, but the treatment of returning soldiers by the public at large was something that we as a nation should be most ashamed of.
i interviewed a Vietnam vet for a job, and one of our other managers also interviewed him. When he came back, he said the other manager had given him a hard time about his service. I hired him, and had a few words with the other guy. I was against the war, but not the people who served in it.
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Thanks for standing up for one of our military.