Decembers Deceptive, Defer, Deviate Free for all.

[Bawanna]

A few days early but I don't want to forget. These free for all threads seem to go well and cover alot of ground that don't fit any place else.
For any of you new guys looking for a diving board to jump in, perhaps this is a good place to hum a few bars about yourself. If your pondering a new Kahr and don't own one, no matter, this is a good place to come on in and we'll talk about it. Many of us lacking funds for the next one enjoy spending other peoples money very much.

Good place to talk about both kinds of guns Kahrs and 1911's and both calibers 45 and 30-06. Kind of like both kinds of music Country and Western.
I gest.

I'm also curious how others new and old discovered Kahrtalk in the first place. I know when it first started I was invited to join, got the free hat for signing up and then kind of shoved it to the back burner. Decided they gave me a free hat I best take a look see about what all this forum stuff is about and as the say the rest is history.

Maybe this question is worthy of a thread all it's own. Maybe I'll do that. I don't start many threads, guess I'm too busy jacking other peoples. I gotta work on that.

Enjoy and let the games begin.

[OldLincoln]

Hmmm, "Decembers Deceptive, Defer, Deviate Free for all." So, which are you? The chief "deceiver", "deferer" (procrastinator), or "deviant" this month? Now don't answer that until 12/1!

[dusty10]

so we get hats? xtra large please.

[gb6491]

Good place to talk about both kinds of guns Kahrs and 1911's and both calibers 45 and 30-06.

I'm a fan of the 1911 and .45 caliber handguns in general. I guess that's why my first Kahr was a CW45. I went through some teething pains with it, but it's chugging right along now and I carry it quite often when going well-heeled. Here are my current favorite 45s:



Sadly, I don't own a 30-06. I've nothing against the caliber; I just haven't stumbled across something chambered for it that has struck my fancy (though I do like the look of the various M1903s). I have other .30 caliber rifles and find that I have started carrying them more often in my vehicles. Actually, I've started carrying a rifle when out a foot in the desert. Anybody else keeping a long arm close at hand these days?
Here's my "walk the dogs in the desert" gun:


Regards,
Greg

[jlottmc]

I do when I'm not in town. Go to the country, and my 308, 8mm Mauser or Nagant goes as well. Sometimes my shot gun as well, but always a pistol on the hip too.

[Bawanna]

Your dogs well protected it appears.

[gb6491]

Your dogs well protected it appears.

LOL, I guess so It was actually an incident that occurred when I was out with my dogs that made me rethink my equipment choices for certain areas.

I do when I'm not in town. Go to the country, and my 308, 8mm Mauser or Nagant goes as well. Sometimes my shot gun as well, but always a pistol on the hip too.

I'm a fan of Nagants. I have a 1922 hex receiver Ishy that is perhaps my favorite rifle to shoot. I picked up a Mojo sight for it, but haven't installed it yet. I'm curious how it will turn out.

I'd love to have this one:
Finnish M28/76 7.62X54R 27in Target Rifle. Very good condition


Regards,
Greg

[jocko]

u can sure tell those aren't FRENCH WAR rifles as these gun have certainly seen ACTION.

[Bawanna]

Our local sporting goods store ,Big 5, not sure how wide spread they are have Mosin Nagant rifles on sale for 89 bucks. I'm hoping to get my wheels back so I can go take a look. I got the M44 short rifle a few years ago from the same place and it was in prime shape. I have the rifle, it's pretty rough but still cool. I'm hoping they have some that are as nice as that M44.
They had Garands a few years ago but they were about as rough as I've ever seen and still wanting top dollar.

[Pender1]

I'm still mad about the hats, it wasn't but October when I joined, I want one too.

[OldLincoln]

Bawanna, did you find your missing Mosin Nagant rifle?

[Bawanna]

Bawanna, did you find your missing Mosin Nagant rifle?

Yup I found her. I put it in a different case for some unknown reason. I scheduled an appointment for an ahlzeimers test but now can't remember when it was.

My wife saw me looking at the sales add for the Big 5 sale on them and she asked if I wanted one. I told her yes. I thought maybe she'd hid it to see if I would notice it missing. Didn't occur to me that she wouldn't know the difference between a Mosin Nagant and a Abram tank which is quite handy sometimes now that I ponder it.

[Bawanna]

Badest and toughest dude I ever saw.

YouTube - Michael shoots his .45 with his feet

This guy laughs in the face of physical challenges. Unbelievable. This guy is my hero, except for the ponytail and the hippie bandanna. Am I close to a line here.

He rocks.

[Bawanna]

Another worth sharing essay just in.

The Gun is Civilization

by Maj.. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation.. and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

[gb6491]

Maj. Caudill put that rather well (of course, he is a Marine and we are widely known to be eloquent speakers ) Thanks for sharing Bawanna.
Regards,
Greg