you: 30 may 2011: Never happening. I'm not even allowed to buy a gun and keep it locked at a range. Here's the conversation.
Me: "Do you mind if I purchase a gun?"
Mother: "No, but you can't keep it in the house."
Me: "Then is it alright if I keep it locked up at a range?"
Mother: "No! You're not having a gun!"
I purchased a stiletto dagger that afternoon.
you today at 11:33 am (you should have been in class)
efinitely. The first gun I owned was an AK in 7.62 It never had a single issue no matter what I did to it. I remember once having to leave it in a ditch on a cold January day during a downpour. I came back for its 4 days later, pulled open the bolt, and fired through the drum mag without an issue. The ergos and pretty dang nice; they make sense if you don't treat it like an AR, G3, or any other gun of the sort where you're supposed to operate the thing with your left hand. I'll finish this post after brunch (I haven't eaten in 48 hours).
in july you posted this about the ak47 you "left in a ditch for 4 days":
I loved my AK so much. Granted, the sights were not so great, it weighed a ton with a drum magazine in it, and there wasn't much modding I could do to it. I actually had an accurate AK-103 type, so I purposefully let it shoot high.
july 21st:
Due to parental moaning, I have gotten a crossbow for HD. It is nearly silent and definitely nasty enough to stop someone quickly. Anyway, firing a gun, period, will do some hearing damage. If you fire away over several decades, the damage will accrue, but otherwise, a few rounds once in your life ought to not do anything too severe, although your ears will ring later.
july 23rd:
I'm not at all looking for accuracy. So long as I have fun, hit my target, and learn, I consider that to be enough. I tried the accuracy thing and going for long distance marksmanship is definitely not my game. Skeet, however, is.
ahhh....now your a skeet shooter....cool
on August 4th...probably before classes started, that will be easy to determine, you were "nearly robbed":
Nearly Robbed Today
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Today, I employed some of the situational awareness tactics that you at THR have talked about. They allowed me to escape a dangerous situation.
What happened was that I was practicing tactical awareness of my surroundings. I left a building I had been in for a class and began going back to the car. The car was at the far end of a wide open lot blocked from street view by a combination of hedgerows and trees. As I was crossing, I noticed a man following me from the building exit wearing large, baggy clothes- too big and hot for wearing in the summer at midday. His pocket seemed to hang rather distinctly, as if there was something heavy in there like a gun or a knife. To top it all off, he was going at a fairly moderate pace and wearing shades. I turned on my phone and got ready to hit the 9-1-1 speed dial.
He kept his eyes fixed on me the whole time and made a beeline at me. Since I didn't want to fight (and I wasn't carrying anything, and even if I was, it would have been my last resort), I ran into a garage because he hadn't started following me until I was going down the stairs to leave And therefore, I figured I could lose him. The moment I escaped his line of sight, I sprinted to behind the cars and kept low. Eventually, I made it to a staircase and got up ASAP. I was lucky that I managed to get to my car when I did, because I saw him running towards me from the top of an elevator shaft about a good 40 meters away. I slammed the doors, locked everything, and drove off.
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The point is, that were it not for all the strategies that this section and THR have taught me, I would almost certainly have been robbed or mugged. Thanks for all the advice. I hope I handled this properly.
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im sorry...this is the HIGH ROAD but something stinks..
