Your favorite bits of gunboard macho posturing?

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"Legal advice you get from the internet is worth exactly what you paid for it, NOTHING."


You're right, advising someone to consult an attorney who specializes in a particular field of the law pertaining to their particular problem is worthless advice... :D
 
Cortland thanks! That was the one!!! :D

hello friends,
Last year I made the decision to trust
my life on the street to Second Chance body
armor. I got the level IIa because it stops
the most rounds. plus I got the Trauma Plate
for the front.

What scares me is that, although I can fit an extra trauma plate in the front, I cannot fit a second one in back. As of late I have taken to duct-taping a second trauma plate to the area of my back where the heart and vital organs are located. Then I put my vest on.

Here is the questions. The ducttape "solution, although tactically sound, is hot and painful to remove. I would like to go
to the single-plate solution in back. What I am worried about is repeated hits to that area with .308 ammunition. I have a high-risk security job and I fear that I would be the target for repeated long-distance shots to my back.

Are any of you aware of a thicker plate that could stop, say, .338 Lapua or something like that? Is there a better way to do the second plate?

BTW, I am, of course, usually carrying a pair of ceramic plates in my briefcase so that I can shield my head. My SO (we work as a team when necessary) has a similar accessory containing a breakdown NEF single-shot 300 WinMag with an 18" bbl. The plan is that I shield us with my body and "catch the rounds" while she assembles the NEF. I lay down covering fire with my 23 (Bar-Sto .357 Sig barrel) and she makes the long shots. I will then throw smoke grenades to obscure the area while continuing to lay covering fire. The problem, of course, is when I have to turn my back to run, and then the problem crops up.
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Yeah, the mall ninja threads are pretty good.
Check out mallninja.com sometime.

Anyhow, I think for fictional macho stories Nightcrawlers is one of the best I've read... it ranks up there with Mack Bolan and The Deathlands(post-nuke america etc) series that I read years ago in highschool. Yes I freely admit it! Infact I still recall that my favorite character in Deathlands was "The Armorer" a TRUE gun nut.:D:D

I wouldnt touch the books now, but they really served to spark my interest in firearms...

Many SHTF posts bring out good material. Gotta love SHTF threads. :)
 
I couldn't find any posts by "GunKid" on TFL or THR. But I found this by "Hardin"
Unless the guy is more than 10 ft away, and has no gun, you are going to be LUCKY, to get more than 50% hits on his chest,, and many of those chest hits may well be without immediate effect, if shock doesnt become an issue, because he can continue to operate just FINE for over 5 secs with his heart blown apart. Enough have done so after 12 ga hits for us to know this. One lung being hit means nothing, until he drowns in his own blood, which could take MINUTES. liver or spleen hit, or blood vessel hit can take MANY seconds to bleed him out, while he is shooting or stabbing you at the rate of 4x per sec. So GOOD hits mostlycome from LOTS of shots being fired, by skilled shottists, using low recoil loads, easily controled guns. Trouble, is, sometimes even good hits dont stop the guy. If you can hit the 4" heart, you can also hit the 4" brain, so why not go with what is a LOT more likely to have the instant result needed (if you TRULY think that you can hit the heart, that is.)
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Balog .... hehe! yep - you got it buddy .. no mistake. :rolleyes: :D Oh and sometimes not just arrogant and egotistic but, if wound up a bit by someone ... downright abusive! Wonder why people wind him up?? Could be just thru his repetition. :p

The ''classic'' single long paragraph ....... abreviations and caps. I have challenged him many a time as to how all his experience of ''bleeding out'' and apparent general appraisal knowledge of bullet impact sequele .... but never to this day have been told it was from experience .. guess he just reads a lot!:p

Or is it ... ''Walter Mitty'' fertile imagination ..... :)

Tell ya what .. if I had a Dollar for every word he's spewed on forums thoughout cyberspace . I would be a Multi BILLIONAIRE ... I kid you not (no pun intended):)
 
And don't forget the immortal riposte!

The immortal riposte to the original mall ninja post:



If plan A is for you to take multiple rounds of .308 in your back, I would come up with a plan B.

Good luck.
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Mack Bolan was all fake?
Can't take multiple .308 hits and still function?

Thanks loads everybody for ruining this year so early in it's infancy.
BTW cobwebs make excellent body armor. Stop .50 BMG with just a little tingle.
 
Re: GunKid

I knew John (his real name) at several boards and used to correspond with him by email from time to time. I consider him one of the most entertaining people on the web. To "get" his posts, which are almost all tongue-in-cheek, you have to understand that he finds nothing as entertaining as infuriating the subset of the gunboard population that is obsessed with M-14's and 1911's to the point where they think anybody who owns anything else has junk. To a microscopically smaller extent, he enjoys infuriating bolt-action afficianados who picture themselves as post-SHTF snipers.
Because he is such an effective gadfly, much of what he has simply said it might be possible for someone to do has been attributed as somethig he said he would do.
The famous "assault wheelbarrow" thread, unfortunately lost in one of Hard Core Talk's many crashes also falls into that category. What GunKid actually said at the time IIRC was something along the lines of, in a SHTF situation, he could mount a piece of thick sheet steel on a wheelbarrow and use it as mobile cover to approach someone in a pillbox type of fortification. It was, as much of his posts were, just something tossed off as an idle speculation. It sounds silly, but so does the idea of moving military materiel on old bicycles, until you remember that a certain group of Southeast Asians did just that. The usual crowd at HCT, many of were little more than blowhards, took it and ran with it far past more than GunKid ever said he would do.
 
My favorite bit of gunboard macho posturing?

The guys who blather on at length about their plans for after all of Western Society bans guns, and how they plan to be all Mr. Snipermilitiaguy, but won't ever open up a copy of Microsoft Word and write a letter or three to a congressthing. And forget about actually picking up the phone!
 
I like all the 'buy-American' patriotic chest thumping when it comes to Eagle vs Blackhawk, esp when you come across it on an HK or Beretta forum :D
 
I think people are especially sore about Blackhawk since their factory is in Vietnam.

My biggest beef with Blackhawk is that their ad department is sesemingly run by a 13 year old Counter-Strike players that seem to also be fans of John Woo Movies.

Don't know what I mean?

Observe. They're not just gloves. Oh no, they're HELLSTORM TACTICAL GLOVES! Everything in the Blackhawk catalog has names like HELL-this or STRIKE that, or something-STORM.

I think this sums it up nicely.
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PLOOIE! BOOM! WHOOSH! Who'd have thought that there'd be so many plumes of flame in the typical day of your average Elite Most Tactical Operator? (This pic is especially funny since it looks like the guy ate too much chili...)

Anyway, I like the guys on these boards that get all huffy if you don't like exactly what they like. If Glocks or 1911s aren't best, then you're just WRONG, 'cause ELITE SHOOTERS choose Glocks and 1911s.

Or if you don't like the AR-15 for whatever, you're a bigot of some sort who's living off of internet rumor based on stories from Vietnam. (I think it's a pain in the rear to clean and I don't really dig .223 rifles.)

Or sometimes legal and political type threads turn into a big match, with each poster trying to be MORE libertarian than the previous; by the end you have the diciples of Ayn Rand getting all indignant at those that disagree ('cause then you're a statist/facist/communist/UN-lover, you see).

I also like how sometimes people think their gun of choice is double-plus-good-better because it looks similar to something our military or SOCOM types use.

I find it amusing when someone said "If Glocks are good enough for the majority of police, aren't they good enough for us?"

I chuckle when someone calls someone else a fool for not carrying a tactical-enough gun (usually your die-hard-tactical-auto-guy blasting a guy that packs a sixgun).

I especially have to laugh whenever that guy Nightcrawler starts typing. I think he's a full-of-himself jerk! :uhoh: LOL :D
 
"you have to understand that he finds nothing as entertaining as infuriating the subset of the gunboard population that is obsessed with M-14's and 1911's..."

Ah. He's a TROLL with a capital T.

Somehow we knew that.

He pissed me off and I don't even have an M-14, nor am I obsessed with my 1911...
 
There I was, 40 thousand feet, no parachute, a naked blonde under each arm and no rounds left for my trusty combat masterpiece. I whipped out my mc-1a issue switchblade and managed to stab myself to death before I hit the ground and was killed.
 
Just read the "Mall Ninja" posts. Classic. ROTFLMAO. I came onto the gun boards a little late, and thought that it was just a generic term that was made up. Never realized there was such a great story behind it.

Thank you!
 
To me, the mall ninja thread wasn't funny because of the guy that posted it, it was the responses.
The thing about the choo choo train had me laughing out loud the next day at work when I thought about it. Luckily my partner is as big a simpleton as I am; I told him as much of the story as I could remember and he died laughing and even brings it up now and then; having never been on an internet gun forum in his life.

I can't classify that as macho however because I am sure that he, along with most of these other people are just pulling people's chains. And, it usually works. They get a laugh in writing it, and get a laugh when people tip over about it.
 
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