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Topic: Great day at the gun show
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted February 04, 2018 11:05 AM
Looked out the window this morning at 6:10 and the wind was blowing at about 20 mph. Rolled over and said to hell with hunting (getting easier to do that, ya know). Woke again at 8-ish and damned if the wind wasn't howling now, at 30+ and there was snow falling sideways. I have seven empty cages out for cats that don't exists around here anymore but I figured I'd better get them checked so out I went. Wind howling around the door seals on the old Jimmy. Gate going in - made from schedule 40 pipe - had taken a beating from the wind last night and one side was on the ground after the welds holding it to the makeshift hinge at the end post gave way. One trap had blown shut. Otherwise empty. Big surprise.
Anyway, I headed over to the gun show where yesterday I had been looking for booluts and toys. I stumbled upon a couple buddies whose serious gun/ car nut brother had passed this year and they had a table or six full of good stuff. Found two ziplock bags full of bullets that looked strangely similar to the spitzers I use. They weren't marked as to quantity or weight, so I told them I'd be back with a scale today to weigh them and make an offer. Walked in today, put my little scale down and powered it up. Stuck my finger in the bag of bullets and stuck it in my mouth. "Oops, wrong product". We laughed and laughed, as did the brother in law drug task force member standing next to me. Bullets are 55 grain. We dickered back and forth and I bought both baggies - about 600 bullets - for $55, maybe half price for ordering them. Picked up a new quad rail for my AR for $40, retail on that piece is about $78. I'm pretty happy and I headed for the door to go home and hide out from the Ice Monsters when I look up and there's John, my friendly neighborhood state representative.
Now, John is a lot like LB, or LB's a lot like John. Anyone who knows John knows where he stands on issues because he says what he means, means what he says, and if that offends you, fuck off. Old seargent major from his Army days and I've known him since my days with the SO. He has played a pivotal role in our ongoing battle with the state for minimal benefits for our son's problems and, as always, he asked me how he was doing. I told him he's in jail awaiting bond revocation and probably sixty days in the state pen for violating his probation. Told him I saw him yesterday for the first time in 2 weeks and then he interrupted me and said, "He looks better, doesn't he?" I just smiled and said yes. It's amazing how a month away from your meth source can give your body a chance to start healing. Anyway, we talked about the drug problem, the failed efforts by authorities to deal with it, what the state was thinking of doing this session, and the like. I told him that my experiences with my son and in conversations with other parents of adult addicts had prompted me to develop a plan of how I think they could be better dealt with and that I was planning to write it up and send it to him. He told me he had time now to hear a brief version and that he was interested. While we stood there, I gave him an overview of my idea as he shook his head up and down. When I was done, he looked at me, told me he thought that it might be a better and more workable solution than anything they had under consideration right now, and told me to get it to him ASAP and he would personally hand deliver it to the Secretary of Corrections for his consideration and input. He said if my proposal was how he understood it, he could see a pilot program somewhere in the state to see if it works.
In the past few months, I've come to terms with his addiction. And I've learned that I'm not responsible for his choices, the consequences, or for finding the solution. That's all on him and my past efforts to direct him have only interfered with him getting to a point where he would decide to stop digging the hole he's in. But, in that time, I've offered him counsel as to how to deal with the problems he faces, many, if not all of which are of his own making, and the same thing always comes to mind. As I told him, bad shit happens to everyone, but a real man stands for it and asks/ answers the same simple question: What am I gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about it? Sitting on my ass isn't an option, so if I need to do something, let's go big. Don't try to fix my son alone. Fix THE PROBLEM. So,that's what I'm doing. It's very inspiring to know that his initial reaction to my idea is "get it to me yesterday". The state is very interested in getting a handle on our meth problem because we know that heroin and fentanyl are coming. The local SO stopped a car on the Interstate last week and found 2.5# of pure fentanyl worth $1.3 million. That's a lot of lives saved right there.
Was a good day at the gun show.
[ February 04, 2018, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
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Leonard
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posted February 04, 2018 12:07 PM
Geez, Lance. I thought I had problems. But the only thing between me and my son is that he owes me a lot of money.
Did you ever see that Judge Judy episode where she pins down the lady that sued her friend for a bunch of money. She was told, hey, the way these people think, if you didn't expressly tell the person it was a shot term loan and when it should be paid back; it was reasonable to assume that it was a GIFT, with no strings attached.
Now, I never thought when somebody needed money and asked me for it, that I was making a gift. But, there are people out there that think others are willing and able to fork over thousands of dollars, and even if you specify that it's a loan, they don't think it needs to be repaid.
In fact, that's what he said to another family member; "He don't need it." Can you imagine that sort of justification? You don't need to pay it back because, HE DON'T NEED IT ! Is that the extent of morals and integrity existing among today's generations?
That's what I believe, somewhere along the line, there is a generational gap. They don't have the same values and don't think the same way as older mature people think. Is it because weed ain't drugs and a blow job ain't sex? Thanks, Bubba!
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted February 04, 2018 12:20 PM
Wow..............all I got at our gun show was a hundred rounds of .41 mag.
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Leonard
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posted February 04, 2018 01:38 PM
41 Magnum. That's a cartridge I never understood? Especially stacking it up against the 44 Remington Magnum, which is a wonderful cartridge. And, it chambers the nice mild 44 Special for plinking, ya know?
What you got, ko ko? A Ruger?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted February 04, 2018 02:09 PM
Yeah, a Ruger.
.41 Mag. A lot of the advantages of the .44 but felt recoil closer to .357 Mag.
If I shot handguns more I would reload and have quite a few ammo options.
I may set a goal of folding up a coyote this year with it just to say I done it with rifle, shotgun, bow & pistol.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted March 03, 2018 08:03 PM
Time for my monthly check in. Son is in Lansing Correctional Facility - a hop and a skip down the road from the vaunted Leavenworth. Lansing is where Kansas' death row is located, and I hope that has some impact on him. Talked to him this evening - he sounds good. No anger, no agitation, no F bombs. Just my son and me talking. Prison isn't a good place, but for him, it's what he needs right now so I am comfortable (as I can be) with knowing he's there.
LB,
My sister and her husband were the moochy types and didn't thinik our granbdmother needed the money back that she loaned them. But, dear sweet ol' Grandma had a sly streak. Every Christmas, each of us grandkids would get an envelope with 600-1000 bucks in it from Gma so she could gift some of her income and avoid paying taxes on it. I knew that sis owed her money, but I waws a bit surprised when I opened my envelope full of Benjamins, and my sister sitting next to me opened her's that contained a single small slip of paper upon which dear sweet Gma had written, "I will consider your Christmas gift as a downpayment on the money you owe me." My brother was her Power of Attorney and told me about that note. I knew something was up when she went pale as fresh snow when she opened her "gift", and I can guarentee you she and her husband already had it spent. Oops.
Karma's a bitch. (and no, I don't like her or speak to her)
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Leonard
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posted March 04, 2018 08:49 AM
Well, Lance. Just figuring out the moral decadence of this once great Nation? Just the simple thing of honoring a monetary debt. How did that get so twisted?
I know one thing, and thank Liberals for it. That there are instances of government assistance to immigrants that far exceed my paltry (but earned) pension.
I don't think I can afford a Mercedes, but there is a black family just down the street that shows no visible means of support but they have two in their driveway.
I'll fix him! I will make his younger sister executor of my estate, and already told her to make sure he pays it back in the form of a receipt of paid in full on past debt.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Wiley E
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posted March 04, 2018 09:51 AM
Lance,
Not sure what to say but I appreciate your attitude in dealing with this and the fact that you are there for him.
Some parents in a similar situation get to the point of feeling like it is hopeless which in turn makes it hopeless.
For me, if you give me the choice between a young man or woman who has strayed from the straight and narrow and found his way back and a young man or woman who has never strayed, I'll take the former every time.
Life is about choices and none of us can change the bad ones we make, we can only learn from them and apply what we learned. Bad choices and bad times give us a real appreciation for good choices and good times that many folks can't relate to.
Hang in there Lance!
Funny story about the powder scale.
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Paul Melching
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posted March 06, 2018 06:20 AM
I understand fully Lance there was a time I was your son !
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Leonard
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posted March 06, 2018 12:38 PM
Aha! I somehow knew that Paul speaks from experience! Yeah, I have a son that learns lessons, but he always learns the hard way. Until then, you can't tell him a damned thing. As I tell everybody, this guy has never lost an argument. Wouldn't things be so much simpler if we learned to take well intended advice? And yet, some people are KNOWERS, without a shred of evidence to support their convictions. (not in the legal sense of the word)
So, getting back to my purchase. The Springfield XP does get good reviews. Explain negatives for me. It's too late to change.
By the way, another thing about this fucked up state. They require all firearm purchases to be by credit card, funds upfront, no downpayment, which used to be a policy. While we aren't paying attention, the fucking Democrats have really backed us into a corner. And now, there is no alternative, no room for dissent. Did anybody notice that in the last general election for US Senator, there were two Democrats on the ballot? No Republican? Welcome Kamala Harris, as radical a socialist to ever come down the pike. She's the female Obama, without the charm. but lots of drama.
Good hunting. El Bee
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