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  • J Jim SS

    I have a small collection also, but what is important is that you can use what you have effectively. A semi-auto with 30 rounds might be effective at holding off a bunch of thugs trying to hurt my family, but a bolt action larger bore with a scope might be more effective at providing dinner when the supermarkets run out of food.

    SS => Qualified in Submarines

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    Jim (SS) wrote:

    a bolt action larger bore with a scope might be more effective at providing dinner when the supermarkets run out of food.

    Maybe if you are going after elk or a bear. If an AR is good enough for people it should also be good enough for Bambi or smaller. Especially if I miss, then I've got 29 more chances. :)

    Play my game Gravity: IOS[^], Android[^], Windows Phone 7[^]

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    • R realJSOP

      I'm published! We're Not Hillbillies[^] (it's the 3rd letter down, and a link to the article I was responding to is in the letter)

      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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      "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

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      S Douglas
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      I find the editors comments pretty interesting, in the post just before yours 'Number crunching' Most of the proposed legislation they are talking about deals with Semi-Auto rifles, so a comparison of semi-auto rifles to say a hammer is valid. However, the editor some how managed to try skewing that direct analogy. [snip] the FBI data that states that all rifles, which would include hunting and semi-auto rifles, account for 323 murders a year. While 496 people are killed with hammers a year. Editor's note: For added perspective, 2011 FBI figures show firearms of all kinds were used in 8,583 murders; all other weapons and methods combined accounted for 4,081. [/snip] Even though the editor did not use a citation for their numbers, I found the FBI report. Expanded Homicide Data Table 8[^] interesting that they left vehicles of the list.


      Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.

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      • C Colin Mullikin

        Jim (SS) wrote:

        SS => Qualified in Submarines

        Is this so people don't think you are part of the Schutzstaffel? :laugh:

        The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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        Jim SS
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        Exactly. I have some Jewish ancestry, so that's kind of sensitive, but my pride of being a submariner trumps everything else.

        SS => Qualified in Submarines

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        • T thrakazog

          Jim (SS) wrote:

          a bolt action larger bore with a scope might be more effective at providing dinner when the supermarkets run out of food.

          Maybe if you are going after elk or a bear. If an AR is good enough for people it should also be good enough for Bambi or smaller. Especially if I miss, then I've got 29 more chances. :)

          Play my game Gravity: IOS[^], Android[^], Windows Phone 7[^]

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          Jim SS
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          Bambi tends to have a gamey flavor, elk is much more like beef. Plus the scope and longer distance round helps because I'm too noisy to get close.

          SS => Qualified in Submarines

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          • M Marco Bertschi

            It would more be a small inventory of small guns.

            cheers Marco Bertschi


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            Jorgen Andersson
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            I'm not considering Oerlikon as small guns, but ok, it's not howitzers.

            "The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise." Matthew Faithfull

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            • R realJSOP

              I'm published! We're Not Hillbillies[^] (it's the 3rd letter down, and a link to the article I was responding to is in the letter)

              ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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              You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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              "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

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              Roger Wright
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              Nice letter, John! You don't sound a bit like an inbred redneck... :-D

              Will Rogers never met me.

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              • R realJSOP

                I'm published! We're Not Hillbillies[^] (it's the 3rd letter down, and a link to the article I was responding to is in the letter)

                ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                -----
                "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

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                RJOberg
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                Not sure if it is just me or not, but when I try the link in your letter it pulls up an admin login asking for name and password.

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                • J Jim SS

                  Bambi tends to have a gamey flavor, elk is much more like beef. Plus the scope and longer distance round helps because I'm too noisy to get close.

                  SS => Qualified in Submarines

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                  thrakazog
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                  Oh yeah, I eat as much as I can of both. Freezer is full now.

                  Play my game Gravity: IOS[^], Android[^], Windows Phone 7[^]

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                  • R realJSOP

                    I'm published! We're Not Hillbillies[^] (it's the 3rd letter down, and a link to the article I was responding to is in the letter)

                    ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                    You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                    -----
                    "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

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                    lewax00
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                    You look a little out of place there, with nearly everyone else (I only noticed one other that wasn't) being from Colorado Springs ;P

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                    • J Jorgen Andersson

                      I'm not considering Oerlikon as small guns, but ok, it's not howitzers.

                      "The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise." Matthew Faithfull

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                      Marco Bertschi
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                      They were bought by some russian guys (as far as I can remember correctly)

                      cheers Marco Bertschi


                      Software Developer & Founder SMGT Web-Portal CP Profile | My Articles | Twitter | Facebook | SMGT Web-Portal UI experts know best, especially more than a mere user. - Wizzar

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                      • M Marco Bertschi

                        They were bought by some russian guys (as far as I can remember correctly)

                        cheers Marco Bertschi


                        Software Developer & Founder SMGT Web-Portal CP Profile | My Articles | Twitter | Facebook | SMGT Web-Portal UI experts know best, especially more than a mere user. - Wizzar

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                        Jorgen Andersson
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                        Rheinmetall actually.

                        "The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise." Matthew Faithfull

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