Harsh Truths I've arrived at

[Grand58742]

I think the scariest thing in life was going up to a trailer and getting confronted by a Latin chick cursing at me holding a butcher knife. The knife looked like a Wu Tang sword. I drew down on her telling her to stop and BTFO perfect Spanish. How I didn’t have to shoot her vexes me. It was a misunderstanding. Wrong address. Then she tries to leave me fried chicken with the front desk the next day.

But at that moment it felt like that Chopper Sic Balls scene in Stand By Me. Everything went slow motion and I felt as if I were narrating how I was gonna die.

So yeah. It’s like moth to flame man. It’s aaaallll good.

[Firefly]

-You’re never too old to join the Liftwaffe
-Never drink the hemlock
-Ride the tiger
-Never buy what you can get through suffering
-It takes more muscles to frown than to smile. So FROWN and grow stronger!
-Ulysses should be taught in schools
-Remember Swatches? They were sweet.
-Skateboards never go out of style

[tgizzard]

-It takes more muscles to frown than to smile. So FROWN and grow stronger!

Showing my wife this quote next time she tells me to stop scowling all the time.


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[Diamondback]

-It takes more muscles to frown than to smile. So FROWN and grow stronger!

"43 muscles to frown, 23 to smile, 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling."--Unknown

[Jellybean]

I agree with you that optics are better. I wasn't really speaking of that, but more to the "chasing the dragon" that tends to happen resulting in accrual of tons of fancy carbine stuff.

I meant absolutely no dig at your comment- what you just said is exactly how I took it.
But this is a "harsh truths" thread and I wanted to rant about "those people" and irons.
I actually still believe in having BUIS on a serious gun, I'm just over how great people still think they are.
They're not.

NongShim said something in a thread that resonated with me. Paraphrasing but “KISS doesn’t mean poor”....

Why have Jay Lenos garage when you could have TWO Toyotas and money to spare?

I’d rather have something that works all day than something that looks cool or impresses people.

I don’t regret some of the toys I’ve had but I enjoy my necessities more.

Fixed the Leno thing
Otherwise, this.

Find good shit, consolidate on it, roll on until the next worthwhile advance in tech comes along.

[Buncheong]

“Gun people” will ruin guns forever.

Just a few minutes spent on YouTube will drive the above truth, home.

I’ve come to accept it as an axiom.

[Pi3]

-762x51 is also pointless.

I always thought the whole point was cheap ammo in cheap rifles.
About ten years back a freind on a tight budget was shooting his Mosin at 500 yds.
Cheap thrills.
Once the ammo and rifles are no longer cheap, then yes, what's the point.

[SteyrAUG]

-762x51 is also pointless.

I always thought the whole point was cheap ammo in cheap rifles.
About ten years back a freind on a tight budget was shooting his Mosin at 500 yds.
Cheap thrills.
Once the ammo and rifles are no longer cheap, then yes, what's the point.

It's not just 7.62x51. All ammo prices went up dramatically about 10 years ago. Even 9mm and 5.56 have doubled in the last 10 years. The days of high quality milsurp at 1000 rounds for 100 shipped are over.

[Straight Shooter]

It's not just 7.62x51. All ammo prices went up dramatically about 10 years ago. Even 9mm and 5.56 have doubled in the last 10 years. The days of high quality milsurp at 1000 rounds for 100 shipped are over.

From what Ive read/heard & been told by industry people, Sandy Hook pretty much wiped out all cheap Mil surplus everywhere, both guns & ammo. Also- the Kenyan getting elected the first & second time speeded things up considerably too. And...we all thought Killary was getting elected and that too ate up the little remaining.

[Firefly]

It's not just 7.62x51. All ammo prices went up dramatically about 10 years ago. Even 9mm and 5.56 have doubled in the last 10 years. The days of high quality milsurp at 1000 rounds for 100 shipped are over.

Yep. It wasn’t gonna last forever. Lots of Eastern block countries dumping AK74 parts, Latin countries dumping FALs, Germans dumping UZIs, and selling off so much ammo. The real heyday was juuust before 9/11. No Bush Barrel Ban, ammo was crazy cheap, and I mean lotsa places were dumping pistols. Walther P1s were cheaper than hi points.

It was just a different time. Now you have African countries and Latin Countries with more modern stuff.

It ain’t coming back