We need to get Fresh on here to tell us some Aussie rappel or angel jumping stories. Helicopter + rope stories are always interesting........ In an "Oh sh!t" kind of way.
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Its all fun until ya get in a ambush, and the blink of eye it will change you, bullets flying , mass confusion, everybody just firing at something, maybe nothing, its not so bad in the day, but, at night its crazy, if ya use Tracers then they will know where ya are, you got to carry both kinds of ammo, them little guys were slicker than Owlshit, you never forget the 1st one, you grow up fast and it dongs on you they are trying to kill your ass.
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I don't think it dongs on you as much as it probably dawned on you---- but I get your drift. Stranger, because you're starting to get up there in years, and I said these same words to my grandpa when I was younger, have you thought about writing down your experiences in Vietnam so they are documented after you shuffle loose this mortal coil? I understand what may seem mundane to you in retrospect, could possibly be life altering to some of the youth in this country, were they given the opportunity to read your first hand accounts. It may not become a best selling memoir, but that's not the point. The point is to share your experiences for posterity if only to influence or inform just a few people, and obviously, hopefully more.Its all fun until ya get in a ambush, and the blink of eye it will change you, bullets flying , mass confusion, everybody just firing at something, maybe nothing, its not so bad in the day, but, at night its crazy, if ya use Tracers then they will know where ya are, you got to carry both kinds of ammo, them little guys were slicker than Owlshit, you never forget the 1st one, you grow up fast and it dongs on you they are trying to kill your ass.
Couple that with, and this is my experience, sharing an important part of your life with your family or friends, that may not have that insight into such experiences.
Obviously many combat veterans have experienced negative emotional impacts in re-telling those stories because of reasons that most will never fully grasp, but the first step in the general public trying to at least understand a perspective, is sharing that perspective through stories.
Lets just say, I didn't do anything I was proud of over there..had a friend at My Lai, them kids killed everything in sight, men, women, kids, dogs, cats etc and people shout foul, what can you expect from giving a weapon and other stuff and a pound of smoke to a buncha 17 and 18 yrs old? The US reaped what they sewed on that stuff, young guys came home and could not turn it off and kept on, others went to the Mountains to live, they was fed up,others lived on the street or worst , Prison, it was the time that the VA was a real piece of shit, it denied Agent Orange after the US sprayed the shit outa the troops with Round Up, same with Gulf War, all the depleted Uranium tank and Arty shells that guys got Cancer from and died from. the list goes on...Its the same in every War, same shit, diff players..I gotta lots of stories, that really you wouldn't want the future kids to hear, I am probably the same as Fresh, Been there, Done it and thats it! Believe me there are no winners!
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ok...I just talked to my son about the Walther PPQ....The next time y'all get to thinking Clob is full of sh*t....he was dead on with this info. Almost word for word what my son told me.He said the Walther is a very good gun...but it requires more care than a Glock. Great for civilians.....but he has to know that when he pulls the trigger that the damned thing will without fail , shoot.
So, good job Clob. You nailed this one.
yes, thanks for that confirmation, I’ll consider this info next time I decide to go crawl around in the desert with my Walther.
I've been doing a lot of research on top end AR-15s and there is a company out of Houston called F1 Firearms. I am pretty sure that is going to be my next purchase.
Pulled the trigger on this beauty. I was told it will ship to my local gun shop in SA in about 30 days.
Beauty.Pulled the trigger on this beauty. I was told it will ship to my local gun shop in SA in about 30 days.
Do yourself a favor-- save up and buy the Trijicon SRS-02 reflex sight. I know @GuaranteedFresh! And his boys got to play with that long before us normies got to, and I'm curious if he's ever used one, but that bad boy, to me, makes the EOTECH sight look like a tinker toy.
I'm likely going to upgrade the scope and the grip, Osprey makes a good scope at a budget price, but for this guy I'm looking hard at Vortex high def scopes, but I need to recover after buying this guy, it took almost my whole stimulus check. So I'm going to go without electricity for a while.
What scope is that? I have EOTECHPulled the trigger on this beauty. I was told it will ship to my local gun shop in SA in about 30 days.
I'm telling you--- I loved the EOTECH like a fat kid loves candy. Nothing better 200m and in than an EOTECH with a 4x magnifier that shifts to the side (sts) for close quarters on scurrying pigs. But that Trijicon SRS is some next level sh!t. It's almost not fair. I've never had a problem identifying, finding and staying on target with my EOTECH or my Trijicon ACOG. Transitioning with the ACOG at close range provided challenges, which is why I mounted a red dot at a 45 degree down the right side of my rifle (offset sight). Slight tilt of the rifle to the left and I'm on target out past a hundy. But that SRS optic is like strippers and balloons and cotton candy to my right eye. I can't miss.
Well this seems apropos for this thread. I might know someone who has a son who just scored an entry level AR. Front post sight but the rail is clear to the rear. What entry level optics would y'all recommend? I was thinking just a Ruger or Magpul rear iron sight that could later be co-witnessed to an EOTech or something like. It's been sometime since I was in the "business" and since moving to God's Country, I've had no trigger time and haven't really kept up with the shooting world. All opinions greatly appreciated and considered.....er.....for my friend.....
I'm a huge Vortex fan Also Osprey makes good low cost optics. If low cost is $200 then the Vortex Sparc AR Red Dot is a pretty good scope for an entry level AR.
Troy folding iron sight. Magpul is ok. Durable. But tell him to go on YouTube and circle saw that front post off. A flat top is the way to go. Both my front and rear sights are fold down Troy on all my rigs and they are all spot on. I've used Magpul and they are solid-- but I prefer the Troy.
