My dad was born in 1902. He never went to work without a hat, long sleeves, long pants and in Kentucky where we lived he wore high top shoes or boots to keep the copper heads from getting him.
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The first time I got a pass and went to town after basic, I felt sorry for this beggar and gave him some money. A cop happened to see it and came over and gave me a major chewing out. The guy was just going to go on a drunk. Since then I don't give to street beggars. A couple of years ago though in front of the post office, a guy who said he was a marine vet and had been cheated out of pay for a job he did. Said he hadn't eaten in a couple of days, so I gave him some cash since he was a vet. Who knows, maybe he was scamming to?
I saw an interview with a Memphis resident and they are praying for very bad weather. They want sleet, ice and freezing temperatures for the next few days in hopes this will blow over.
Bad weather would be nice for Memphis, but I can see people in other cities taking advantage of this situation to disrupt. I hope I'm wrong. But there are those out there that will use any situation to cause trouble and use it as an excuse to go out and loot and destroy. I hope I'm wrong.
Georgia called out 1,000 National Guard just in case.
Early rock n roll........
I heard that on the radio. How sad is that?
KIds in school used to make fun of me when I took these for lunch........until they tasted them........I also like sardines in mustard sauce......Enjoyed some King Oscar Royal Fillets Mackerel in olive oil for lunch. Mackerel contains very high amounts of Omega-3 DHA and EPA. Delicious. Honestly, I never knew what I'd been missing.
The media is doing their best to fan the flames in regards to it. CNN is blaming it on racism, even though the five cops were all black.
.22's are fun to shoot. You can shoot them a lot and it won't break the bank.On the subject of ancestry, according to DNA testing I am 76.8% Scot Irish. With a last name that starts with Mc, who knew?
Now on to the gun range yesterday. Daughter struggled to hit the target (10 yards out) until I noticed she was shooting high. I ask if she was shooting at the head of the silhouette on the target and she said yes. I told her to shoot center of mass because her shot was hitting high on the target above the head. While she was still hitting the target high, it was not off of the silhouette when she aimed center of mass. I then told her to adjust her aim to accommodate and she started hitting it around the mid-section level. Her shot groups can improve, but she at least was hitting it around the area she was aiming.
She was using a Taurus .22 cal pistol since it was her first time but later moved on to a Ruger .380 and then her mother's Taurus Millenium 9mm in which she shot better with a better shot group. Surprising since it had more kick than the earlier pistols. But she said she was beginning to feel more comfortable shooting and not as nervous as she was to start. In fact, she said she liked it and wants to go again soon. Yesssssssss!
- We won below New Orleans if that was land and not swamp. And technically it wasn't "in" the war since the peace treaty had already been agreed/signed.
We were always taught center mass. As I have stated before, I have always been pretty average at most things. I reckon I'd beat the average person off the street, but among cops, I was an average shot. We had to qualify now and then, but not as much as you'd think.On the subject of ancestry, according to DNA testing I am 76.8% Scot Irish. With a last name that starts with Mc, who knew?
Now on to the gun range yesterday. Daughter struggled to hit the target (10 yards out) until I noticed she was shooting high. I ask if she was shooting at the head of the silhouette on the target and she said yes. I told her to shoot center of mass because her shot was hitting high on the target above the head. While she was still hitting the target high, it was not off of the silhouette when she aimed center of mass. I then told her to adjust her aim to accommodate and she started hitting it around the mid-section level. Her shot groups can improve, but she at least was hitting it around the area she was aiming.
She was using a Taurus .22 cal pistol since it was her first time but later moved on to a Ruger .380 and then her mother's Taurus Millenium 9mm in which she shot better with a better shot group. Surprising since it had more kick than the earlier pistols. But she said she was beginning to feel more comfortable shooting and not as nervous as she was to start. In fact, she said she liked it and wants to go again soon. Yesssssssss!
I am better with rifles and automatic weapons than with pistols. While my shot group yesterday was decent, I would not have won any trophies. I did notice however the moment I shortened the time between shots my groupings were better. I learned that years ago when shooting rifles, don't aim for to long. Trust your ability to focus and align quickly and then, as soon as you see the target, fire away.
Yes, I was always better with what I call "point and shoot" weapons than aim and shoot. I had my first shotgun at 11 and didn't have a handgun till cop school. I loved an M-60 because you could point, start shooting and let the tracers or debris guide you to the target. I was good with it.
You struck a sweet memory. When I was a boy we had a long building with a pitched roof that I used. It was similar to a tobacco barn you find in Kentucky. You could buy a rubber ball the same size as a baseball and it even had the 'stitches" like a real baseball. I would throw the ball on the roof at an angle and make it go high in the air. I would run under the ball and catch it. If I got it high enough I made the Willie Mays basket catch that was so popular in those days. I probably had to run 50' or 60' to catch it. I would do this for hours. It sharpened up my reflexes and I became a pretty good fielder.
Yeah, I started out with rubber balls and tennis balls. They'd wear out way to quickly, plus the golf balls came at me harder. I was prepared for anything that anyone hit at me. Hard hit baseballs were a can of corn after golf balls.
Yep and soft hands. Dick Stuart was a power hitting first baseman when I was young. He was sometimes called Clank. Players said that was the sound the ball made as the ball bounced off his glove.
