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Actually , all kidding aside..I can't wear belted pants right now. When I did the USPSA intro I wore a tactical belt cinched tight and it worked fine..but it is well above my hipbones ( picture Urkel with a belt and holster ) Is that going to be a regulation problem ?

Unless being in a hair band is your real job.

She moved somewhere , nobody knows where . Her family probably sent her to Ohio to be with other relatives or something. Ultimately they wanted nothing to do with the boy that was the father . My brother , had he turned out to be the father , would have fought that. Who knows how it would have turned out. He had been casually seeing another girl at the time , and got her pregnant at the same time ( yes , we wanted to kill him , he gave us a few gray hairs that one) . It is a small rural community so he went to the first prenatal with one girl..then the next week showed up at the same office with a different girl for the first prenatal. According to him , when he showed up with girl number two , the OB took him into his office and said " son , what is going on here? " lol That was a long time ago. He is married to the one girl and they have 2 kids ( she lost that first one early) . I tell you it was good to see that boy turn into a good man lol I was in their neck of the woods all the time since my dad lived there with my little siblings ( Quarryville PA) and I hung out with a lot of Amish kids. They lead a pretty free existence until after their Rumspinga , from what I saw. We had dirtbikes ( they did not obviously) they had rifles . We always went riding out into the woods and feild and shot cans . They could really throw back the mash too. They had no problem drinking and drunk buggying . Then after Rumspringa most would settle down and stay , have a family. A lot did not. Funny , my brother can't buy a handgun in PA because of an incident with an Amish kid . He and his Amish buddy raided another buddies liquor cabinet when they were 14 and 15 , then they took off on my Kawasaki KX80 that was in the garage. The Amish kid was driving and he put it into a ditch. He said he was wound out in the top gear , so he was probably doing 50 to 60 mph. Multiple broken bones for the both of them. Well , my brother freaked out in the hospital . He had a bad reaction to the pain killers and he told his mother he wanted to die and had wished he died in the accident . Teen drama on a morphine drip ..but his mother took it seriously , and she is one of those nuts who thrives on things like this ( we have the same dad , different mothers) . So she had him commited to the psychiatric ward Stupid , he was fine as soon as he started healing up. He was probably acting nuts because his mother was there and she always rewarded that kind of stuff. I'm sure you all know the type. Anyway , fast forward 15 years ..he is a responsible grown up ( never got into trouble again after that , except for the near miss on the Rumspringa offspringa ) . Went to go buy a handgun...denied . He had gone to get a pistol because he heard I had picked up the hobby and thought it would be a fun thing for us to do together ( in PA) He looked into and it will cost him about 1500 to get a new psychiatric eval to clear him. They just had a new baby , so that is out of reach right now. I offered to help him out with it,but his wife will freak if money like that goes towards a hobby . He does need to sort it out eventually though , in case he ever needs to do a background check for a job. I really liked spending time out in Lancaster Country ,and I liked the Amish. There was a time when they government tried to force them to mainstream educate their kids. Glad that fell through . Plenty people in PA homeschool now,Amish or not. Also when I was in the security industry I use to sell wind up CO detectors .Since they used wood stoves and such they had a lot of problems with Carbon Monoxide poisoning , especially as they got better at insulating their homes. Interesting people for sure.

So , what if you are wearing yoga pants and a paddle hostler ?? Can I wear Thunderwear? ( j/k ) Any difference in the rules from the USPSA intro we did 2 weeks ago are contained in the PDF Mike mailed us , correct?

My brother almost had a rumspringa baby. Wasn't his though after all. Phew!

Cool , thanks for the info.

My issue is trigger reach. I need like 10 or 12 inch trigger pull . The only one I see with that kind of reach is the 505 youth or the Little Slugster lol

How does it handle? I was thinking of a tactical shotgun. Or a CX 4 Storm . Betwixt Between.

We're in unless the sitters get the mumps or something. I have a paddle holster ( Fobus) for my 1911 ful size .45 . I know they are not ideal , but if nothing fits your 2 inch belt , this will.

Separation Of Church and State actually has nothing to do with keeping the mention of religion out of schools. It is an ideal set forth by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptists basically stating that Government needs to stay out of religion , not the other way around. It is not a law , nor is it in the Constitution. I find that a good majority of Americans are not clear on Separation Of Church and state , where the term comes from and what it means. Which you could interpet as the schools are run by the government and they should not teach religion. And I agree . They should not teach or advise HOW to practice or which religion they feel is right . However, I am all for covering all religions briefly and equally in school for educational purposes only. How else can you teach World History without having a basic knowledge of all the religions and how they practice? How could you cover current events in our world ? They should also cover and respect athiesm , they often do not . This past December my daughter's school covered Christmas , Hanuka , ..a few others ,in a " how the different people in our class celebrate this season " type way. Nothing very religious , it was light on the info , kept fun , dealing more with the traditions in celebrating rather than getting into the religious reasons. Each kid got to talk about their traditions for this month .Age appropriate. I don't think they need more than that until they get into World History.

What's that? It looks awesome.

That has been my experience as well. I have not traveled extensively through Europe ( have only been to Ireland) but I have done a lot of International Business trade and am friends with a lot of Europeans. Oh yeah , and I'm married to one. he a'ight though And my kids have dual citizenship. I find that they just don't like Americans. I asked a French friend of mine once why the French can't stand American tourists. He said they talk too much , tell you their life story ( oh , you mean friendly) , dress down for meals , etc. But then here in America we don't want someone in line at a bank wearing a full Burka , and France is lit up over how unaccepting we are. The same guy tells me this info. Kills me! I'm sure visiting American tourists offer a bit of culture when they are traveling abroad and may do things that are considered rude there but not here ..I just find it ironic that USA is held by the World to these PC standards when it comes to who we let live in OUR country. We are expected to help everyone , let everyone in , accept everyone's cultural differences , when nowhere else in the world is that practiced. If someone here wanted to move to France and live and work , good luck. But then in the news over there you see coverage of how cruel we are to lob people back over the border. And on the topic of immigration I know good hard working educated people that have no shot of getting in here because of current immigration policies ( which are quite strict , but only if you try to get in legally) , meanwhile undocumented people have more of a chance of getting to stay for doing the process illegally. Boggles the mind. My heart bleeds for those people that are so desperate that they risk life and limb to get here , and I know what it says on the foot of the Statue Of Liberty , but we are just no longer socially or financially equipped to take in Central American refugees without limit. No easy answers I guess :/

I was just talking to my daughter about a vacation we took with her to Jamaica so I had it on my mind. Earthquake was in Haiti lol My bad , I know.

I would +1 you if I could ( )

@Ray - it is hard to read about for sure. I love children and hate to hear of them having to go through any physical dangers ( and birth at 10 is dangerous) or work harder than they need to at such a young age. There are just so many horrors in this world , especially for children. If this girl was impregnated by a grown man it would be horrific and should not be allowed to be hidden behind the "culture" wall of protection. Fortunately it looks like that was not the case. But , you know how our media is. Who knows ? As for the whole intervening in other Cultures and other cultures being able to "practice " here , here is my take on it : There was a time when I was all for sending foreign aid and intervening when severe human rights crimes were being committed in other countries. Then the more places I travel to and the more foreigners I meet I realize they despise us , ridicule us , and resent us for all we do . They focus on the negative impact they claim we have on the world , while forgetting all of the help we lend . I find many ( not all of course) immigrants to be constantly spouting complaints about this country despite being perfectly happy to either be on our government's assistance or earning money here. I'm the first American born on my mom's side , 2nd on my dad's side. My family is not and never was like that. They embraced this country and became Americans , and they did not have to give up their own ethnic traditions ( none of which involved beating women for showing their faces or anything like that). They were proud to become American though. When I was abroad visiting I actually had one guy from Scotland corner me at a party and say " what gives the US the right to tell Iran they can't have nukes when the USA is the only one who has ever dropped them" . All I was doing was standing there . I had not engaged in anything but light hearted conversation with anyone up until that point. I controlled myself because it was a social gathering and simply stated that A) anyone who decided to drop that bomb is either not with us anymore , or quite senile. B) you will be the one sucking in way more fallout than we would if Iran decides to vaporize a particular small slip of land on your side of the globe there , and we will be the ones expected to send lots and lots and lots of help. And then I guy in a pub I did not even know was giving me a bunch , and I mean a bunch , of crap about the same topic and about our support of Israel, and about who the hell did they think we were for policing the world , yada yada . Considering their undying support for the PLO stems solely from illegal arms trading( see what happens when you deny civilians guns? They get them from fringe operations anyway) , I took it for what it was - extremely subjective.And hey , you're welcome for that whole Good Friday Accords thing. The clincher though was when he told me on the tail end of all of that , that his son went to work in the USA .He met a girl , and was going to be able to stay , and he himself was hoping to somehow immigrate and join his son there ( here) as well. Fortunately one of us was smart enough to enter a heated debate while on 3rd and 4th pints. That is 2 incidents in a sea of conversations I have had with people from all walks of life who either do not live here or live here but did not originate here , who choose to come here for opportunity or gladly take US aid for their country , yet complain an absolute blue streak about us. Makes me want to say go home and don't take our dollars then. Not to say all are like that . Of course they're not. But enough that I have encountered are , and it has molded my opinions on this topic somewhat. AND , I also have a friend who had a sick baby born in Ole' Miss . She works for the army corps of Engineers. Her baby had a 20% chance to live , if she got life saving heart surgery . They got her , at 4 days old , stable enough to get the heart surgery and they increased her chances of survival .But, she needed to be life flighted to a children's cardiology center somewhere. Well , there was that earthquake in Jamaica . The administrative doctors at the hospital determined little Ellie was stable enough to wait another few days for her surgery . They chose to send her life flight chopper to Jamaica to assist instead. 2 days later she filled up with fluid and went into heart failure. She could no longer get the surgery , and she died. The surgery would have prevented the congestive heart failure that killed her . I really hope that chopper saved somebody good in Jamaica. My friend chose not to sue. I would have. And people from Jamaica hate the USA! Unless you are in the resort , then they fake it. When we asked for cruise ships from the Caribbean resort countries and the Gulfside Mexican Resort areas to help house the victims of Katrina..they said no. So , that in a nutshell is why I don't agree with the majority of foreign aid unless it is to prevent the truly horrific Human Rights crimes , or unless it is of direct benefit to us. As for practicing Sharia here . No . Sorry. We have a Constitution that protects all of our citizens civil rights . And yes , religious freedom is one them . But you can't hide behind your Religious rights to commit crimes against other individuals. Not in this country. All of the amendments are subject to restrictions ( look at what we have to go through to exercise the 2nd Amendment) to keep them from being a barrier to overall justice and to keep us out of a state of anarchy. We have enough issues with some of our own cults committing crimes against women and children who try to evoke First Amendment to shield themselves from the law. We don't need any new situations here , thanks. We're good.

I have a shotgun , but I am not familiar with it. I plan to try and shoot it soon . It is too big for me , so it would be more something Pete would shoot with frequency. Funny , I was going to post about this today anyway. I am actually torn between a CX Storm 45 ACP or a Tacticool shotgun for HD. ( I don't want to derail Ray's thread , I'll post an opinion thread later - so no need to help me choose on this thread ) Whichever of those two I get , it will come to the range with me each trip because I like to always run a few rounds through the guns I would use for HD , to stay current.

Yes , and in the article they said the guy had armor piercing .223 ammo. Very glad all the officers and the babies are ok.

yeah that is the basic idea. That is why it is important the tone or the command comes first . Eventually you can drop the physical correction.

It can be used for all types of commands and is not as cruel as electronic collars IMO . It is for hard cases when you fear safety. Dogs that bolt benefit from these collars. It is a normal breed thing , but not always as safe in town as in the feild Basically , there is a citronella cartridge on the collar. You have a remote control that will work up to 100 feet. I use a command "freeze" because it does not sound like other commands . When he bolts yell freeze and then spray a split second later . He'll get it eventually and you'll find the word alone makes him stop in his tracks. The minute he "gets it " without the spray , act like he just won the Iditarod or something Dried liver are the best treats for training I find.

He is adorable Most fox hunting and treeing breeds have that quality. They are not bred to walk by your side or retrieve , they are bred to track and take off with you following , preferably on horseback. I had a Jack Russel . Once they are on target ( squirrel!) they are usually off and fully expecting you to follow. Teaching this type of dog to listen to the command "come" once they are off for the horizon is a tough task. I wound up using a citronella collar for my JRT. Worked!

If you read up on that tribe most couples are married before they both reach puberty , to avoid birth out of wedlock. So the father would be a child too. The more typical age of the extremely young parents would be 12 and up. But , like the rest of the world this tribe does not seem to be immune from the increasingly early onset of puberty for girls. Puts an interesting spin on the prevailing opinion that hormones in our cows and chicken are causing it. Unless our cows and chickens are imported from Columbia. Funny , people never accept that evolution continues around us. If something is changing they need to blame something. Anyway , I digress. Yes , children having children rings sad to me. But I don't hold it on the same level as child brides to adult males like some of the cults here practice. That tribe has been existing with that type of family structure for long before we were even a country or a named continent for that matter. Because this girl is particularly young , and for whatever reason she had to go to a mainstream hospital ( probably because she was so young , pelvic cavity is not developed until around age 12 , the typical age for puberty) , it made OUR headlines. And you know what our media does with headlines. Look , there is a whole movement , backed by the American Academy Of Pediatrics , who think our practice of routine male infant circumcision is cruel , unnecessary , and unfair to the boy who should be the one to make decisions about alterations of his body when he is older. What seems perfectly rational and normal to one cultural group can appear to be barbaric in the eyes of another. If you walked into a bar in the UK and say your baby son just got circumcised , they would react as if you stuck him arse first in a hay baler. Just sayin'

Good first gun for a woman too!!!

Another shot of Bo . He got skunked 2 weeks ago and has been dog non gratis since lol

GSDs are my favorite breed. Grew up with them , haven't had one for a few years now. Next two dogs I get will probably be a hunting breed and a GSD. Rescues would be my first choice . I trained 2 GSDs to Schutzhund ( 1 and 2) in my younger years , I would love for my kids to have the same opportunity.

Not my country , not my business. If that was going on here with an autonomous tribe , and they are using the public assistance healthcare system , it would be our problem. It is physically dangerous for a child that age to procreate. Birth defects and dangers to the mother go way up when the mother is very old or very young. It is equal on both ends of the scale . A 10 year old mother is as risky as a 55 year old mother . From a medical standpoint. I don't like it one bit , but I don't think it is a big enough of an abuse for the World Police to step in.