ng cavscout

Oh Pshaw, I have missed you so little....

I pity your brother Rune, Camp Shelby is the worst place the Army ever sent me, worse than Iraq by far. The 23rd is potentially, if this thing my wife has planned falls through like I think it will, good for me. Do you still have those bottles for Bugged and myself? If she doesn't make it, can I have hers? Can you put in a HMMVW with a bumper number of A35 and "Olivia" painted on the gunshield?

Happy Memorial Day to you as well Abbott, and all the other vets on the MBT. To fallen comrades

I missed it, got a link?

Me neither, the wife spent all my money, it makes me sad.

One issue some shooters have with Glocks is "limp wristing". If your grip isn't strong enough, or if you allow the pistol to "flip", there isn't enough resistance for the slide to go all the way back and you get failures to feed and failures to eject. Not saying that was it, but it could of been. Are you an experienced pistol shooter?

One issue some shooters have with Glocks is "limp wristing". If your grip isn't strong enough, or if you allow the pistol to "flip", there isn't enough resistance for the slide to go all the way back and you get failures to feed and failures to eject. Not saying that was it, but it could of been. Are you an experienced pistol shooter?

One issue some shooters have with Glocks is "limp wristing". If your grip isn't strong enough, or if you allow the pistol to "flip", there isn't enough resistance for the slide to go all the way back and you get failures to feed and failures to eject. Not saying that was it, but it could of been. Are you an experienced pistol shooter?

Are those crickets I hear? Kind of quiet in here lately

Never fired a Sig, so I can't really comment. All I know is my Glock has never, ever, ever, malfunctioned in any way. The finish doesn't rust, at least mine hasn't, and I can put 16 rounds of S&W .40 in a 6 inch circle at 8 yards in about 4-5 seconds. No hammers, or safeties, or decocking levers to worry about. I have a 22, 23, and 27 that all have the same manual of arms, and the smaller ones can use the mags from the bigger ones. and I didn't pay over $450.00 for any of them. Now the Beretta 92F (M-9) I carried over in the sandbox was a POS jammomatic that would never, ever, ever, successfully feed more than 4 rounds from the magazine unless I had cleaned the magazine within the last hour. Not that that mattered since after about 3 hours on the road, the light coating of dust on the pistol would lock up the slide after a shot or three. Not trying to talk bad about Kimbers, or Sigs, I don't have any first hand experience with them, but I don't feel any need at all to move away from what works, quite well, for me. Beretta's on the other hand, we hates them, we hates them forever!

Never fired a Sig, so I can't really comment. All I know is my Glock has never, ever, ever, malfunctioned in any way. The finish doesn't rust, at least mine hasn't, and I can put 16 rounds of S&W .40 in a 6 inch circle at 8 yards in about 4-5 seconds. No hammers, or safeties, or decocking levers to worry about. I have a 22, 23, and 27 that all have the same manual of arms, and the smaller ones can use the mags from the bigger ones. and I didn't pay over $450.00 for any of them. Now the Beretta 92F (M-9) I carried over in the sandbox was a POS jammomatic that would never, ever, ever, successfully feed more than 4 rounds from the magazine unless I had cleaned the magazine within the last hour. Not that that mattered since after about 3 hours on the road, the light coating of dust on the pistol would lock up the slide after a shot or three. Not trying to talk bad about Kimbers, or Sigs, I don't have any first hand experience with them, but I don't feel any need at all to move away from what works, quite well, for me. Beretta's on the other hand, we hates them, we hates them forever!

Never fired a Sig, so I can't really comment. All I know is my Glock has never, ever, ever, malfunctioned in any way. The finish doesn't rust, at least mine hasn't, and I can put 16 rounds of S&W .40 in a 6 inch circle at 8 yards in about 4-5 seconds. No hammers, or safeties, or decocking levers to worry about. I have a 22, 23, and 27 that all have the same manual of arms, and the smaller ones can use the mags from the bigger ones. and I didn't pay over $450.00 for any of them. Now the Beretta 92F (M-9) I carried over in the sandbox was a POS jammomatic that would never, ever, ever, successfully feed more than 4 rounds from the magazine unless I had cleaned the magazine within the last hour. Not that that mattered since after about 3 hours on the road, the light coating of dust on the pistol would lock up the slide after a shot or three. Not trying to talk bad about Kimbers, or Sigs, I don't have any first hand experience with them, but I don't feel any need at all to move away from what works, quite well, for me. Beretta's on the other hand, we hates them, we hates them forever!

I prefer, from the standpoint of being a cop, to own only Glocks, that way my muscle memory is only for Glocks. I do appreciate the beauty of high end 1911's, but from what I understand, Kimber's are mid range 1911's. Les Baer or Wilson Combat are high end guns. 1911's also require alot more TLC to keep running than my ugly, boxy, always reliable Glocks. I understand both points of view, for someone who is a collector, a hobby shooter, the outlook is different than someone who uses their weapons every day, as a tool of their trade.

I prefer, from the standpoint of being a cop, to own only Glocks, that way my muscle memory is only for Glocks. I do appreciate the beauty of high end 1911's, but from what I understand, Kimber's are mid range 1911's. Les Baer or Wilson Combat are high end guns. 1911's also require alot more TLC to keep running than my ugly, boxy, always reliable Glocks. I understand both points of view, for someone who is a collector, a hobby shooter, the outlook is different than someone who uses their weapons every day, as a tool of their trade.

I prefer, from the standpoint of being a cop, to own only Glocks, that way my muscle memory is only for Glocks. I do appreciate the beauty of high end 1911's, but from what I understand, Kimber's are mid range 1911's. Les Baer or Wilson Combat are high end guns. 1911's also require alot more TLC to keep running than my ugly, boxy, always reliable Glocks. I understand both points of view, for someone who is a collector, a hobby shooter, the outlook is different than someone who uses their weapons every day, as a tool of their trade.

Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol.

Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol.

Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol.

It would appear that Seanachai is hiding out in the south, the deep south, the scary deep south... Seanachai Sighting Mace, you old tosser. That is actually all I had for you, I just wanted to get that out in the open. Where is the Justicar? I step out for a couple of weeks and everything goes to hell!! Abbott, They probably suspect you of killing young Starbucks workers and feeding them to your dogs, it is just a preliminary investigation, they are at least 2-3 weeks away from the "Ruby Ridge" phase of the operation. I myself don't think you did it, you would of just shot the dogs. Stuka, still poking around in the sandbox? How many 140 degree (farenheit) days have you had this week? Nidan1, turn will be on the way today.

We were escorting a convoy northbound about 30 miles south of Tikrit at about 3 in the morning. There had been reports of small arms fire all up and down the MSR all night long, so we were a bit on edge. I was TC'ing the trail gun truck with a medic filling in as my driver and, lets call him P-Dizzle, my normal gunner. The lead gun truck called in small arms fire observed from the right side of the road, but not incoming, so I told P-Dizzle to cover that side. We come up by the area where the gunfire was spotted and no one else had called in anything else yet. Suddenly I see these little reddish-gold lights floating in front of my windshield from right to left, about 10-15 feet in front of the truck. I think there were about 6 of them. I realize they are tracers and I yell out "contact right" over the intercom and start reporting it up on the radio. I realize after about 2 seconds that I am not hearing our trusty 240C machine gun firing. I look up in the turret, and there is P-Dizzle looking down at me, hunkered down to about 3 feet from his normal 6'2", with eyes as big as saucers. "What the F*** are you doing?" I yell. "You wanted me to shoot?" he asks. I could of choked him. Of course at that point, whoever had emptied the magazine at us was about 2/10ths of a mile south, so, that was that. They didn't hit anything, probably just some scared kid stuck his AK over the berm at the side of the road and pulled the trigger. We just pressed on. That was the closest I ever came to being in a real fire fight with guns and bullets over there. [ March 09, 2007, 06:50 AM: Message edited by: NG cavscout ]

We were actually based in Kuwait, about 1/2 mile south of the Iraq/Kuwait border, we would do our pre combat inspections in the base, roll out to the marshalling yards, pick up our convoys, and then cross the border into Iraq. The Kuwaiti border guards liked to screw with us. Sometimes they would say some cars were stolen, or a girl was missing, and hold us up at the border while they searched the trailers of all 30 semis in the convoy and checked all the papers of the drivers. This would add about 2 hours to the mission. If it was just a "sustainment push", which was our bread and butter mission of pushing supplies up to the next base, it was 4 hours each way, with an hour or two at the target base, dropping off the full trucks and picking up empty ones to bring south. So, that was a standard 12-14 hour day, since it took an hour or two to get ready before the mission, and an hour or two to stand down after the mission, assuming no break downs, bombs, hijackings, attacks, or other mishaps during the mission itself. If the Kuwaiti guards wanted to screw with us, it then became about a 17 hour day, with another mission coming up the next day. The drivers were always twitchy after the border inspections too. They are "Haji's" or "TCN's" (for Third Country Nationals) from all over, the Phillipines, Egypt, the Ukraine, Sudan, India, Pakistan, etc. They didn't like the Kuwaiti's, because they would arrest them for having Maxim pictures up in their trucks, and you don't want to be arrested for moral crimes in a Muslim nation. They could also lose their jobs and get sent home if they pissed off us, or the Kuwaiti's, and sending some Sudanian home to his family after costing him a 600 dollar a month job is pretty much the worst thing you could do to him besides shooting him. These guys drove these trucks through 140 degree heat, with just 6 1 liter bottles of hot water, no AC, people shooting at them, their US guards screaming at them in a language they don't understand, maybe pointing guns at them, targeted by IED's. When they get to the base where they stay for the night, or the day, they get to sleep in their cabs and usually cook their own food. All for about 600 a month. One night, in Safwan, an Iraqi border city/town/ruin, some Iraqi bandits tried to hijack a truck, but our QRF was on them before they could get it away, the hijacker pushed the Pakistani driver out of the cab, put an AK 47 round in the back of his head, and jumped in the get away car. The QRF truck couldn't fire them up because there were about 15 Iraqi kids running around the get away car. It is like the wild west over there. [ March 08, 2007, 04:35 AM: Message edited by: NG cavscout ]

I think Elton John should come out with a song for Sturmy, "Don't let your son go down on me"

I remember the heat mainly. We wore the Individual Body Armor every time we went out the gate, and within 15 minutes, you could feel the sweat running down your rib cage. Sometimes, we would drink, on a 4 hour mission, 8-12 1/2 liter bottles of water per soldier in my truck, and we wouldn't have to piss once because we just sweat it all out. I remember looking at the face of a father, an Iraqi man, that was driving his family in some kind of blue van. He was driving like a bat out of hell towards the back of our convoy, and he ignored our signals to stop, must not of noticed us. We were reluctant to let Iraqi civilians too close to our convoys because of suicide bombers. I remember the look on his face as I pointed my M-4 at his windshield, and the squeal of his brakes as he slid to a stop about 75 meters behind my truck, about 5 meters from where we would of opened fire. We didn't really get the stand up fights like Nidan1 is talking about. Just IED's going off with no bad guys in sight, or an AK mag emptied at your truck from behind a berm at night while you are going 50 MPH. It could get pretty frustrating. One thing that always struck me as surreal was being out on a mission, in Iraq, with IED's going off, and donkey's being hit by semi trucks and thrown onto the hood of your HMMWV, and an hour later, I would be back in camp, showered, on the internet chatting with my wife or reading the MBT. [ March 07, 2007, 04:05 AM: Message edited by: NG cavscout ]

show me yours and I'll show you mine

And in the process perhaps you could remember that one of the reasons people are SENT to Coventry is due their forgetting one of the prime rules of the CessPool ... Sound Off Like Ya Got a Pair but Don't Sound Off ABOUT Your Pair. Or anyone else's ... while we are all (mostly) adults here, we really don't want to have BFC have to monitor us any more closely than they do. Joe </font>