SFsc616171
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Happy New Year to all THR, and a thank you to the mods, who have worked to place all these posts in their propective, and sequential place.
I have been reading the archives of "The Rifle Country". Notes follow:
1. For a 'carry much, shoot little' rifle, from a man that spoke glowing things about lever actions, and with the 'spec' of a target 200kg/440 lbs., might have done better to stay with some company's, or advertised gunsmith's lever action model in the .45-70 Government range. (Re: Sandy Hook test report)
2. SHTF ... Hurricane Katrina and Metairie did not mix very well. I've got screwed up skin problems from sloshing around in that water, for three days. I can tell you that the next time that anyone spends time within a FEMA shelter, the out-of-state National Guard with their shoulder arm, chest holster arm, belted arm, and ankle arm, will not treat you well. (The mayor of Baton Rouge called us "thugs"!) And yes, they did a gun grab, and that NRA video on utube is correct. I've since moved to higher, further inland ground. It has been 8 years since then, but the 'gimme-gimme's' never learn. Complacency kills.
3. Screaming about what to do with the next coming ban on your m4/ar15/sks/ak**, and NOT screaming about protecting your neighbor's single shot rifle, is like that preacher that said, when they came for me, there was no one left to say anything. If some of us 'go down', we ALL go down!
Besides, with the darn fools in Illinois as an example, folks today are not as wise about their foundation as we once were.
4. "Platform"??? Calling a rifle a 'platform' is somebody's idea of smarting up something that used to be just plain simple. A McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Wild Weasel Phantom aircraft, is a platform, because you mount something to it, or it is carried aloft in the airframe, to carry out a mission, elsewhere. A rifle, is an assembly of fitted parts and fasteners and springs, of steel, wood and or composite material, with the end design, to chamber, to fire, shoot, discharge, a specific weight and physical size projectile, to an aimed point, at either a measured, or 'known' distance, in front of the firearm, for the purpose of testing personal marksmanship skills, or for the purpose of downing a particular beast of the woods or field - for food or safety, or lastly, to end aggression by other human beings, who were performing in a combat environment, or a criminal environment. It is a machine, not a platform. It's efficiency has been engineered to be greater than the human utilizing it, even unto a flintlock rifle, which were all handmade, down to the striker's spring.
5. The respect, adoration, whim, and desire to know all about our nation's past military equipment, especially the venerable 1903a3 Springfield, the M1 Garand, and it's cousin, the M14, is refreshing. All of these can, and do, still get things done, period. Remember ... it was The Washington Times, Sept. 03, 2010, that reported that Obama bespoke an innate fear of the M1 Garand!
Lastly, as a first-generation 'geek', having 'cut my teeth' on the Univac 1050-II Data Processor, a 'you're just gonna get fried' GI brat living on an air defense airbase during the Cuban Missile Crisis, member of the prestigious "Linebacker II" ground support crew/perimeter security group, I wish you folks a very Happy New Year!
I have been reading the archives of "The Rifle Country". Notes follow:
1. For a 'carry much, shoot little' rifle, from a man that spoke glowing things about lever actions, and with the 'spec' of a target 200kg/440 lbs., might have done better to stay with some company's, or advertised gunsmith's lever action model in the .45-70 Government range. (Re: Sandy Hook test report)
2. SHTF ... Hurricane Katrina and Metairie did not mix very well. I've got screwed up skin problems from sloshing around in that water, for three days. I can tell you that the next time that anyone spends time within a FEMA shelter, the out-of-state National Guard with their shoulder arm, chest holster arm, belted arm, and ankle arm, will not treat you well. (The mayor of Baton Rouge called us "thugs"!) And yes, they did a gun grab, and that NRA video on utube is correct. I've since moved to higher, further inland ground. It has been 8 years since then, but the 'gimme-gimme's' never learn. Complacency kills.
3. Screaming about what to do with the next coming ban on your m4/ar15/sks/ak**, and NOT screaming about protecting your neighbor's single shot rifle, is like that preacher that said, when they came for me, there was no one left to say anything. If some of us 'go down', we ALL go down!
Besides, with the darn fools in Illinois as an example, folks today are not as wise about their foundation as we once were.
4. "Platform"??? Calling a rifle a 'platform' is somebody's idea of smarting up something that used to be just plain simple. A McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Wild Weasel Phantom aircraft, is a platform, because you mount something to it, or it is carried aloft in the airframe, to carry out a mission, elsewhere. A rifle, is an assembly of fitted parts and fasteners and springs, of steel, wood and or composite material, with the end design, to chamber, to fire, shoot, discharge, a specific weight and physical size projectile, to an aimed point, at either a measured, or 'known' distance, in front of the firearm, for the purpose of testing personal marksmanship skills, or for the purpose of downing a particular beast of the woods or field - for food or safety, or lastly, to end aggression by other human beings, who were performing in a combat environment, or a criminal environment. It is a machine, not a platform. It's efficiency has been engineered to be greater than the human utilizing it, even unto a flintlock rifle, which were all handmade, down to the striker's spring.
5. The respect, adoration, whim, and desire to know all about our nation's past military equipment, especially the venerable 1903a3 Springfield, the M1 Garand, and it's cousin, the M14, is refreshing. All of these can, and do, still get things done, period. Remember ... it was The Washington Times, Sept. 03, 2010, that reported that Obama bespoke an innate fear of the M1 Garand!
Lastly, as a first-generation 'geek', having 'cut my teeth' on the Univac 1050-II Data Processor, a 'you're just gonna get fried' GI brat living on an air defense airbase during the Cuban Missile Crisis, member of the prestigious "Linebacker II" ground support crew/perimeter security group, I wish you folks a very Happy New Year!
