Your favorite bits of gunboard macho posturing?

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My favorite is the discussion of what gun to wear in the shower.

Next would be the one where folks lament the fact that Nixon took us off the gold standard, and the US Economy has been going down hill ever since.
Folks who start that discussion always claim to expert economists, and further claim that if we went back on the gold standard it would fix all our woes and return us to the position of world leadership we once enjoyed.

But one of the best was that thread 12 pages long on Glock Talk, where some Lawyer from Texas and his friend brag about how he choked the crap out of a vendor at a gunshow. Then every one chimes in and congradulates him for how smart and macho he was to do it. :eek:
 
But one of the best was that thread 12 pages long on Glock Talk, where some Lawyer from Texas and his friend brag about how he choked the crap out of a vendor at a gunshow. Then every one chimes in and congradulates him for how smart and macho he was to do it
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I saw that thread on AR-15.com (I'm NOT a member there) ... and that is part of the mentality there, along with the huge doses of gutter language, which is just another reason why THR is such a nice, civil forum and so much more interesting ...
 
But are we expecting High Roaders to loot our homes anyway? What are the chances?

My point, exactly.
 
OK, my side hurts and i think i am going to throw up all
those cookies i was eating while reading!

i was at gun school a couple years ago trying to learn to shoot pistols better.
during one of the breaks two fellow students asked the instructors about
a technique they learned at another school, seemingly to engage them in a discussion
about tactics. it seems these two students (an accountant
and computer programer if memory serves) had done well in the dot.com
boom; after quitting their jobs they went about the country taking classes
at gun schools --enviable no doubt.
well, they had just completed a "EP" class elsewhere and during this state-of-the-art "EP" course
they had been taught to 'push the principle toward cover'
and then engage the BGs bent fully over at the waist
(imagine trying to touch your toes with your feet more than shoulder width apart)
shooting at the BG's with head and pistol inverted, between their legs.
the instructors could barely contain themselves.
after the ensuing moment of enlightment i couldn't help but ask what "EP" meant.
i was told disdainfully, "Executive Protection"
i couldn't keep my mouth shut, i tried, REALLY, i tried!
i said, 'oh, well if your are the protective detail, you are expendable.
shoot any way you want.'
 
All the above and more...

I think there are plenty of the mouthy ones with little real experience in all walks of life. However, the ones that really upset me are those who insult what I use just because it isn't like theirs.

If it does the job, why argue about it?
 
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I'd have to say that The Mall Ninja along with the Gunkid Armored Wheelbarrow assault vehicle were amongst the most humorous stories I have read on the net.

I had forgotten about Gunkid after all this time. He was over on HCT at the time.
It really is too bad the thread with Gunkid was lost. It was funny as all get out! :D

I believe he may be one of the "Jesters" that used to frequent many gunsites! :what: :D
 
But one of the best was that thread 12 pages long on Glock Talk, where some Lawyer from Texas and his friend brag about how he choked the crap out of a vendor at a gunshow. Then every one chimes in and congradulates him for how smart and macho he was to do it
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I saw that thread on AR-15.com (I'm NOT a member there) ... and that is part of the mentality there, along with the huge doses of gutter language, which is just another reason why THR is such a nice, civil forum and so much more interesting ...
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I didn't see huge doses of gutter talk- I don't mind an fword here and an sword there and a mofo here and a bastich there. Then again, some people are just wimps. :p

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=remedial+reading+comprehension+classes

Maybe you didn't really get a good look at that thread.:

After the Glock guy with the cigar handed the M&A goatee guy his credit card, the M&A guy screwed around for awhile and told the Glock guy that it wouldn't read his card. Why he didn't just punch the numbers in manually, I'll never know. That's not hard to do. The Glock guy had this annoyed look on his face and the M&A guy with the goatee told him "ITS NOT MY FAULT IT WON'T READ YOUR CARD!"

The Glock guy took his card back and asked the M&A Goatee guy if they took checks. The M&A guy responded in that same condescending tone of voice that they didn't. The Glock guy told him fine, he could keep his merchandise then and started to walk away. At no time did the glock guy get rude or say anything that was out of line to the M&A parts guy.

This is where it started to go bad. The M&A guy made a comment to the Glock guy about his attitude (which I had not seen a bad attitude from the Glock guy yet).

The glock guy stopped walking away and told the M&A goatee guy that he was the one with the crappy attitude and proceeded to detail each instance of his bad attitude and poor customer service from start to finish.

The M&A Goatee guy told the glock guy with the cigar that he could take his bad attitude somewhere else (which I thought the glock guy was trying to do) and then the Glock guy told him "**** You" and turned and walked down the aisle toward Lone Star Gun safe's booth.

The M&A goatee guy started yelling "SIR" SIR" "SIR" "SIR" "SIR" after the Glock guy like a little girl whose feelings were hurt and then ran out into the aisle after his former customer.

This is where I decided that the M&A guy with the goatee was proving that not only was he stupid, but that he was trying to become a candidate for the Darwinism award.

The M&A Goatee guy grabbed the glock guy's shoulder (1st mistake), spun him around, put his face into the Glock guys face & yelled "???? YOU" in his face. there faces where inches apart. I think the M&A guy actually stuck his eye onto the end of the Glock guy's cigar. Luckily for the M&A Goatee guy the Glock guy was only chewing the cigar and it wasn't lit.

The M&A Goatee guy then proceeded to try to swat the Glock guy’s cigar out of his mouth. He hit the cigar.

The Glock guy grabbed the M&AQ guy's collar and pushed him back. The M&A Goatee guy made a grab for the Glock guy's collar at which time the Glock guy finished the fight:

The Glock guy grabbed the M&A guy by the THROAT & squeezed. It looked like he squeezed it real hard. The M&A guy suddenly stopped running his mouth and talking smack tothe Glock guy with the cigar!

I thought to myself, the Glock guy with the cigar just went Darth Vader on M&A guy: fingers around the adams apple, squeezed hard enough for the M&A Goatee boy's eyes to pop out (looked like one of those dolls that have the pop out eyes that pop out when you squeeze them. Looked him in the eyes and told him in a very loud voice that he was going to kill him right there and squeezed his throat even harder.

It was amazing. It looked like Darth Vader had come to Houston. The M&A Guy's face was turning red, eyes popping out and the Glock guy was just standing there, fingers inserted into the guy's adams apple and wind pipe, chewing on his cigar, holding his bag of stuff with the most chilling look I have ever seen on a guys face. I thought the Glock guy wasn't going to let go of the M&A Guy's throat until he was dead.

Some other people intervened and the Glock guy let the M&A goatee guy go and started to walk off. The M&A guy apparently wanted to be embarrassed some more and decided that having his throat almost ripped out once that day wasn't enough and followed after the Glock guy a second time. I thought the glock guy was going to test out his new night sights on this moron, but he didn't. Four or five really big guys came out of nowhere and stopped the M&A guy from getting embarrassed a second time.

I was shocked that my two boys had to witness any of this. The way the M&A Parts guy with the goatee talked to the guy with the Glock and then the attack. At least my boys saw one way to stop a stupid bully. Grab his throat and choke the life out of him. BUT, they should not have to see this stuff at a gun show
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And if you read the thread, you will see that the guy who got choked was even more out of line than that description said. I've seen people come on THR and brag about doing something with less justification than Darth Vader over there did and get praised up one side and down the other, BTW, and I think he did EXACTLY what I would have done.
 
I didn't see huge doses of gutter talk- I don't mind an fword here and an sword there and a mofo here and a bastich there. Then again, some people are just wimps
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If the fact that I don't like reading posts that include the F-word in almost every sentence makes me a wimp, I guess I am one.

I read that entire thread about the lawyer "going all Darth Vader" on the gunshow vendor ... and still don't see how that event, even if accurately described for posterity, merited a few hundred congratulatory posts in response.
 
This one always amuses me:

“I know how to deploy a folding knife in half a nanosecond/smuggle weapons through airport security/defeat the mind-control rays, but I won’t tell you because I don’t want the criminals/terrorists/MIBs to find out.â€

~G. Fink
 
One of the best features of the original Mall Ninja thread was seeing the incontrovertible evidence that both Tamara and Sean Smith, a.k.a CastleBravo, were/are? regulars there and that the former was actually a moderator.

I somehow can't imagine that was true of them, but there it is in print. :p
 
Boats,

One of the best features of the original Mall Ninja thread was seeing the incontrovertible evidence that both Tamara and Sean Smith, a.k.a CastleBravo, were/are? regulars there and that the former was actually a moderator.
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The Original Mall Ninja Thread has become a sort of "Hell, I Was There" of the internet gun board world. ;)
 
Not long after I first discovered gun boards, I recall a cat at 1911forum.com who went by the tag of "Wild Romanian" who was good for a few laughs. He still owes me the phone numbers of some wild Romanian girls :evil:
 
I'm impressed at how much gear people seem to carry in their everyday lives.

ie:
1. Main carry gun
2. 2 spare magazines for their carry gun
3. Backup gun w/ maybe spare reloads
4. Some sort of surefire (whatever tactical flashlight if the flavor of the month.
5. Some type of combat folder.
6. Spare gun/rifle in their vehicle.

People carrying a 9mm pistol with 46 rds. plus backup in a civilian role? Come on, how many shootouts have they been to? I've known people in shootouts and they do not brag about it since someone got killed, but it usually ended with less then 5 shots fired and parties disengaging.

Kenneth Lew

PS, what is the deal with listing people's firearm collections in their signature lines?
 
mushrooms, try PCP!

Im new to the internet gun board world, but after becomming interested in CZ-52's recently i began to look around the net for information on them. I quickly discovered "Clark" and his uber-proofing. I became interested enough that i tried to track down as many of his posts as possible. At first i was somewhat taken a-back (sp?) and decidedly skeptical. However after reading this im 99% for him having a bad sense of humor, or some axe to grind and 1% for him being stupid and insane, and definately on a steroid PCP cocktail. He also made a post on one forum or another about having his kids help him load a trailer (i think) up with guns he was going to blow up after a gun show, although ill admit that im not 100% on the content of the latter posting. Anyway heres what im talking about...

"Shooting 460 Rowland loads in a Patriot gave me a flinch in April 2000.
I would punch my right shoulder forward every time I pulled the trigger, of any pistolSad

I built up a 42 pound triple spring recoil spring assembly. That stopped the firing pin retainer from shaking off the slide and it stopped my flinch.

But the chamber would come up empty.
The light slide was accelerated by the three springs so fast it passed up the magazine before the next round could be pushed up.
So I put two magazine springs in the magazine. I interleaved them. The extra spring takes up the room of one 45acp round, so the mag holds one less.

An interesting asside, is that I may be able to push up 585 pounds with the shoulder lift in the gym, but I can barely pull back a 42 pound slide. The grip on the slide must be very tight or it will slip. Most men cannot do it, and I am sure few teen agers or women could.
Also, putting ammo in the magazine requires strong fingers and determination.

So now I have this little pistol that belches out 44 mag power, the recoil is ok now, but loading the mag and chambering a round takes some effort.


0) 45 acp................. 185 gr 7.6 gr AA#5 jams w/stock Patriot spring
1) 45 acp..................185 gr 10.2 gr AA#5 1100 fps 18,000psi
2) 45 acp +P...............185 gr 10.8 gr AA#5 1200 fps 21,700 psi
3) 45 Super................185 gr 12.4 gr AA#5 1312 fps 28,000 cup
4) 460 Rowland............ 185 gr 14.5 gr AA#5 1500 fps 38,800 cup
5) Hottest load I shot in Patriot..185 gr 14.8 gr AA#5
6) Hottest load I shot in a rifle ..185 gr 16.5 gr AA#5 pirmer falls out

Also Patriot triggers are from Hell.
My guess is 12 or 15 pounds.
It would make good carry gun for bear country."

@http://www.ktog.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=101;action=display;num=1097855562;start=9#9
 
Nonsense - welcome ... but, IIRC Clark is a member here!!
99% for him having a bad sense of humor, or some axe to grind and 1% for him being stupid and insane, and definately on a steroid PCP cocktail.
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I am not sure how much of that is said tongue in cheek or with seriousness but it is a tad strong for a first post IMO.

Clark is - hmmm ... ''extreme'' but explores the outer envelopes ... and AFAIK is putting only himself at risk. It would be useful as well as interesting if he could respond to your ''appraisal''.
 
context...

:scrutiny: Just so you know i wasnt questioning his overloading the gun/cartridge; i just dont think you understand how much 585lbs is. I can barely squat that much (and ive never had the nuts to try more than a 45lb bar and 6 45lb weights on both sides, and the one time i did try it i had TWO spotters in case i destroyed one or both of my knees), although im no body builder.

Im sure everyone knows what clean and jerk is. Any guesses as to the world record?

Since im not one for suspense ill tell you, its 579.7lbs or 263.5kg. :what:

sorry if i offended anyone (except clark), but after that doozie i dont believe anything the guy says. And my PCP comment was a joke, although there might be a small chance its true. (btw i am aware he is a member here, but thank you for trying to keep me from what i assume you percieved as me looking like a fool again.)
 
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nonsense,

Welcome to THR.

I would remind you again of the Rules of Conduct , we strongly suggest NOT attacking folks.

There is a wealth of knowledge here, over a wide spectrum of subjects. These folks will share and educate ... if you allow them to.
 
ready to eat crow

sorry if you guys feel i personally attacked clark, or violated the forum rules.

All i really wanted to point out was that the guy has a 4 year long, and running, streak of posts listing various creative loadings and all sorts of things he's blown up. This in and of itself does not seem to lend itself to being posted on this thread, unless the guy claims to still have all his fingers and no shrapnel wounds. However his claiming to be able to shoulder press 585lbs, even once, seems above, even the aforementioned condition, on the scale of irrationality. Now i wont discard the possibility of me being wrong, its there. However on the same note i wont discard the possibility of some reclusive survivalist with an wireless internet connection that can consistantly shot .1 MOA with his garand and make head shots on moving deer at 300m more than 50% of the time.

Maybe one day ill win the lottery and set up a way to safely test the pressure limits of the CZ-52 in various conditions and configurations in order to see if it will handle anything more than a 17% overload.

But as the title of my post says, im willing to admit im wrong and eat crow if im proven as such. Hopefully this post wont sour me to the membership overly much.
 
Nonsense ........ I think the deal here is - tact, subtlety, courtesy etc. No real problem with a slight insinuation that something might be seeming exaggerated, hard to believe etc ..... many folks post things that can be hard to take on board and I daresay could be labelled exaggeration!

Beyond this tho - the board is very sensitive to what can be construed as a personal attack (or seeming defamation) - either direct or oblique. That may seem excessive to some but for the most part folks like it here simply because it is a very civil place but at the same time too - very public.

I don't think there will have been too much ''souring'' ... just a case of slightly ''off on the wrong foot''. Chew that crow carefully .. it's very indigestible!
:)
 
poor gunkid

i just hope gunkid is not driven to attempt suicide by his unfavorable mention on this thread :D

subtle enough? :cool:

but now its bedtime
 
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i just hope gunkid is not driven to attempt suicide by his unfavorable mention on this thread
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Whatever your opinion of GK may be, one thing I absolutely guarantee you about him is that no matter how many people may have an unfavorable opinion of him, it won't bother him.
Hate him? He won't care.
Call him names? ("Felon' is one that gets used a lot) He still won't care.
Criticize his ideas? You won't ever change his mind by yelling "you're a convict and you're wrong!" over and over.

Lots of folks on the errornet have wasted truly appalling amounts of time and energy trying to shout GK down.

If you are one of the many gunboard readers out there who dislikes GK, my advice to you is just skip over his threads at other boards. You'll be happier in the long run.
 
I'm impressed at how much gear people seem to carry in their everyday lives.
1. Main carry gun
2. 2 spare magazines for their carry gun
3. Backup gun w/ maybe spare reloads
4. Some sort of surefire (whatever tactical flashlight if the flavor of the month.
5. Some type of combat folder.
6. Spare gun/rifle in their vehicle.

Kenneth Lew

Ken: This is getting serious here.

Except for the rifle in the truck, some of us do carry that stuff and have you seen a successful Red Chinese invasion from Mexico or gay marriage sweeping the country? That's because we are ready.

Now, let's be real:

1. Carrying the gun and extra ammo is common sense. One cannot assume that you will always face the one mugger attack that the J frame is good for.

2. Backup gun is fine for cops and might be for us but carrying two full guns is extreme. My carrying a small backup is NOT!

3. The flashlight is useful when:

a. the lights go out in the can at work when some eco freak turns them off when you are in the stall.
b. Checking what the heck is going on with the car - many times.
c. Walking on a hike in TX where we meet very weird stuff. Last night, we came home and there was a serious critter parked on the front porch. It is nice to take a look at it. We meet critters on the trail too.

4. The knife - a reasonable tool for opening things. Yesterday it opened a pack of flourescent lights. Today, it opened up a CD package that was shrink wrapped. It also opened up a piece of Swiss Tilster cheese that I bought at the gourmet cheese section. As my old Polish mother in law said - A man should carry a knife. So that's crazy. I also have a leatherman wave in the truck in case, I am attacked by Red Chinese gay robots and need to take them apart.

5. Rifle in the truck - a little extreme unless you live in the LA riots. However, my wife won't let me and I don't trust to leave it the trunk in a parking lot. So if the Red Chinese get through TX to you, it's your fault for mocking me.

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Ok - I think the most ridiculous posts are the:

1. Red Chinese invasion (got me to quit TFL as I was rude to the loon who posted it, chastized and had a hissy fit).

2. Shall we fight? (The nut in his house surrounding by Hillary and ATF)

3. My choice of caliber (for a handgun) is a one shot guaranteed stopper.

Gunkid is back on GT as Iffy. He is adding to the V Creed threads which is a combo you can't believe.
 
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