FlSwampRat
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I'd have tipped the person. Nowadays, if that happened, I'd suggest a good optometrist.
What's the oddest thing you've heard someone say in regards to firearms, ammunition, etc.?
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.308 Norma
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Ha,ha,ha,ha! Reminds me of the time I took my wife to a bar on her 21st birthday. I was 24 (many years ago) and I had to sneak over and ask the waitress to come back and card my wife because my wife's feelings were hurt when she didn't get asked for her ID. But nowadays, +40+ years later, my wife laughs when some "kid" asks her for ID when she buys a six pack of beer.
I was in college when I turned 18, in a state was (legally), at the time, 18 for beer, 21 for liquor, but (practically) tall enough to stand at the bar and enough money to pay. Fraternity brothers took me to one of our regular bars to celebrate, and, likewise, told the waitress to card me. That meant I had to have a celebratory beer, instead of the scotch & water I normally ordered there.Ha,ha,ha,ha! Reminds me of the time I took my wife to a bar on her 21st birthday. I was 24 (many years ago) and I had to sneak over and ask the waitress to come back and card my wife because my wife's feelings were hurt when she didn't get asked for her ID. But nowadays, +40+ years later, my wife laughs when some "kid" asks her for ID when she buys a six pack of beer.
theotherwaldo
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At 18 I had shoulder-length, graying hair and a salt-and-pepper beard.
No one ever carded me, even when I was buying ammo... .
I had already pretty much quit drinking not long after that disastrous cast party when I was an extra in "Animal House", back when I was almost 16.
Note: It turned out to be a really bad idea to try to match John Belushi drink-for-drink.
No one ever carded me, even when I was buying ammo... .
I had already pretty much quit drinking not long after that disastrous cast party when I was an extra in "Animal House", back when I was almost 16.
Note: It turned out to be a really bad idea to try to match John Belushi drink-for-drink.
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I find it interesting you think four lines of text is "long and rambling". What "list" are you referring to? If all guns are ALWAYS loaded, how do you clean or maintain it? I will add your response to the oddest thing I've read on THR.
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I am guessing that it was started about the time the Army adopted the M16. Because the appearance of it was so futuristic, people naturally assumed it came with superpowers. Any wild idea they made up about the weapon naturally stuck.
Any way, that's my take on it...
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Poper
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My son and I hunt with electronic sound cancelling ear muffs. He is a sound engineer for a performing arts venue and his ears are his livelihood. Me? I've already lost most of my hearing and don't want to lose any more if I can avoid it.
The amplification feature allows us to speak in low / whisper voices to each other.
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Poper
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Funny you should say that.
Years ago I had a Ruger M77R in .270 I loaded for. Using Federal cases and a powder drop tube, I was not able to get enough IMR4831 in a case equal to the maximum charge in my loading manual using Nosler 140 gr. Balistic Tips. It would shoot less than 1" at 100 yards with a compressed load of IMR4831 under the 140 gr. BT, tho.
I don't recall for sure, but it seems like the Federal cases were thicker than the Winchester ones I had. Maybe that was the difference.
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Poper
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But are often Darwin Award winners.....
burrhead
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I've hunted with plugs for years. This year I'm planning on using a Contender pistol in 7-30 Waters so I'll be adding muffs. It's EXTRA loud. For me ear pro is a no brainier 'cause I'm so deaf already, without my hearing aids I can't hear a deer anyway.
You youngsters protect your hearing; deafness sucks.
CapnMac
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And tinnitus is not much better.
Amen to that Captain.
Poper
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Yes.
I have both hearing loss and tinnitus. My ears have rung since I was12 or 13 y.o. The hearing loss is at least partially due to genetics and working in noisy auto shops in the 70's. What little hearing remains will have to do, but that also means I must do what I can to limit additional loss, so I try.
I pity those young people that think they are somehow immune or less vulnerable.
In a quiet place it is maddening.
I had it from a young age. I wondered till I was a teen why people found cicadas maddening. Sounded just like normal to me.
That's the truth! It's constant, it's a pitch I can no longer hear, it's LOUD.
CapnMac
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Mine varies, both naturally, and from a ton of bio-feedback training. There's a note just over G that comes and goes; another just under F (which seems to have a F# complement); the most constant one is right at E.
I don't have a lot of tolerance above 80dB or so. Get one of those freqs above 105dB and it's like nails through the skull.
Poper
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A soft spoken woman's voice is almost impossible for me to hear. In a noisy place with hard surfaces, there is no chance of me understanding anything she would say.
jonnyc
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I have the same problem, but it's just as bad in quiet places with soft surfaces...and the level of my woman's voice is generally irrelevant.
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Somewhat reminds me of my cousin.
He, a young Marine, had just returned home from Nam. Believe it or not, one of the things he wanted to do was go to Disneyland. Fine by us.
We go there and they would not let him in - he had a mustache. Honest to goodness.
My uncle raised hell and asked them what was that thing on Walt Disney's upper lip?
They replied that Mr Disney didn't have a "hippie" mustache.
Sorry if off topic - but just one of those things you can't forget.
Yea we've strayed a bit, but it does show the state of things during our youth.
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