It's snark in here.

[TMHunt]

Mornin folks. Slept in today, just got woke up by a wet puppy tounge dragged across my face. I was hoping it was the wife at first. You can imagine my disappointment when I opened my eyes.:grumpy:
Just scanning through the last couple pages of snark. What sticks with me the most is the $100. For two raw steaks. I LOVE steak. But I don't give a damn if the cow lives a life of luxery and a inspector sticks his head and arm up the cows ass every week to massage the damn thing. A dead cow is a dead cow and paying that kind of money for raw meet just proves you got not good sense about you. I can definately appriciate two cooked to perfection with all the trimmings at a 5 star resturant on a special occassion. But raw. No way.

 

[Guyon]

I have a Suunto( not sure which model) that I bought in the Corps. Great compass, I honestly didn't start using it until I became a civilian though. I used the issued lensatic compass for all of our land nav and ops. A great compass, bit pricey maybe, but tough as hell.

In the two Maxped kits I showed the other day, top compass is a military-style lensatic; bottom one is a Suunto MC-2.

 

[TMHunt]

While I'm ranting about 100 buck steaks. I would even bet money those steaks still wouldn't be as good as the backstraps of a freshly killed deer. I know many deer hunters that are only concerned with how big of a buck they can get or how big the horns are. Screw that! I've killed many deer. My throphy is the bacstraps. YUM!

 

[GSO1962]

I think he meant the new guy that has been hanging around here GSO with some numbers. He is Weaponeer's friend I believe. Did a give away for a bunch of seasonings.

PLUS I think the GSO knives are actually by Survive Knives. Which are HORRIBLE in my opinion. Granted this was ONLY my opinion.

I think CB is correct...maybe I need to change my name. I'm a semi-competent gun nut and part time dealer/FFL holder, and Weaponeer is one of my chief customers/technical advisors/finder of cool stuff that I really should wait until later to buy....

 

[GSO1962]

imagine please:

a rib eye, that's over 2 inches thick, marbled to perfection, weight is around 20 ounces...

the chef, has trained for 20 years before being allowed to touch your steak.

it's cooked with such loving care, that all the cow ancestors feel honored and blessed

the perfect sear, the perfect color and temperature.

the absolutely perfect mouth feel

you become one with steak, your mouth has an orgasm, the after glow lasts for hours and hours

in the mean time, you have a baked potato soaked in bacon fat under a full moon by elves, hand rubbed with sacred sea salts

the butter was made that morning from the milk of virgin cow blessed with udderly good cream

everything else is perfectly sublime... the wine, the decore, the ambience

when you take a dump later, a choir of angels sing, and you orgasm once more, but not from the steak, but your body rejecting unclean proteins from your body

and ... you didn't pay for a dime of that

plus the service afterwards, yup, happy birthday to you

You had me until the "your body rejecting unclean proteins" part...then, pffffft, all the air got let out.

 

[Psyop]

I think CB is correct...maybe I need to change my name. I'm a semi-competent gun nut and part time dealer/FFL holder, and Weaponeer is one of my chief customers/technical advisors/finder of cool stuff that I really should wait until later to buy....

Well the bolt guy said he would send me another. I hope he uses a box this time. Sucks that a NOS Garand bolt is lost somewhere

 

[Guyon]

Mmmmmm... coffee.
Going to hit the pancake house and then do a hike over at one of my favorite loops. Sprayed my castrated (de-ramped) BK-9 with some Klean Strip this morning, and the paint has barely budged.

 

[Psyop]

Biscuit I have to admit the bag looks better than I thought. Its pretty tan not like the dog turd Coyote that the USMC uses.

 

[B.Mauser]

Mmmmmm... coffee.
Going to hit the pancake house and then do a hike over at one of my favorite loops. Sprayed my castrated (de-ramped) BK-9 with some Klean Strip this morning, and the paint has barely budged.

Sounds like a great day. It sucks stripping steel in the winter. So much easier on a hot summer day.

 

[Guyon]

Biscuit I have to admit the bag looks better than I thought. Its pretty tan not like the dog turd Coyote that the USMC uses.

It's darker than I expected, but in a good way. I'm taking it today and will snap a picture or two.

 

[Jonny1280]

... Sprayed my castrated (de-ramped) BK-9 with some Klean Strip this morning, and the paint has barely budged.

A halogen lamp will name that tune!
10 minutes...tops.

 

[The Warrior]

Looks like the Brute made it to town. Have I ever told you guys how much I love the USPS?

 

[Doc_Savage]

Thanks for the input fellas :thumbup:

They all look like good options. I may end up having to flip a dang coin

If you are just starting out using a compass, just get a regular old Boy Scout type compass.Like a silva explorer of polaris. It has the base plate to use with your quad maps.

The ranger models are better when you want to start using the sighting mirror, for navigation. The military lensatic compasses are good for that, too. Cammenga is the current government issue.

Unless you are going all over the world, you probably won't need a global needle, so no need to pay for that.
My field crews use the suunto sighting models, generally in bearings, but we do have a few in azimuths, too. They get a bit pricey, though.

you have to also decide on liquid filled, or the dry compass like the lensatic (electomagnetic dampening). Liquid filled dampens faster, but can develop a leak, and once it has a bubble, it wont work as well.

Bottom line, carry at least two compasses, just in case.

YMMV

Doc

 

[B.Mauser]

A halogen lamp will name that tune!
10 minutes...tops.

I remembered your halogen lamp tip when I was stripping a BK9 and 3 trail hawks a couple weeks ago. I think my detached garage is too cold even for that. Didn't seem to make a difference at 20 F. I even added an oil filled space heater after a couple hours of the halogen. Still took 4 days of soak, wait, scrape and repeat to strip the 9. Think I might want to look into renting it out as a meat locker in the winter.

 

[Guyon]

Getting geared up. We're the Camelbak Gang.

Liquid filled dampens faster, but can develop a leak, and once it has a bubble, it wont work as well.

Bottom line, carry at least two compasses, just in case.

I like my K&M match cases because they sport a good back-up. As for bubbles, I just sent back a Silva Polaris for replacement. If a bubble gets over 1/4", Silva will swap out the compass. In the same inexpensive, baseplate category, I have a couple of the Suunto A-10's, and they have been solid.

 

[Guyon]

I remembered your halogen lamp tip when I was stripping a BK9 and 3 trail hawks a couple weeks ago. I think my detached garage is too cold even for that. Didn't seem to make a difference at 20 F. I even added an oil filled space heater after a couple hours of the halogen. Still took 4 days of soak, wait, scrape and repeat to strip the 9. Think I might want to look into renting it out as a meat locker in the winter.

I don't recall this trick, but I assume it's about adding heat. I'm tempted to return this stuff to Home Despot. The last stripper I used would have paint bubbling under five minutes, no matter the temp. Need to go see if I still have that can. It's empty, but I may have saved it to remember the brand.

 

[Jonny1280]

I remembered your halogen lamp tip when I was stripping a BK9 and 3 trail hawks a couple weeks ago. I think my detached garage is too cold even for that. Didn't seem to make a difference at 20 F. I even added an oil filled space heater after a couple hours of the halogen. Still took 4 days of soak, wait, scrape and repeat to strip the 9. Think I might want to look into renting it out as a meat locker in the winter.

I don't recall this trick, but I assume it's about adding heat. I'm tempted to return this stuff to Home Despot. The last stripper I used would have paint bubbling under five minutes, no matter the temp. Need to go see if I still have that can. It's empty, but I may have saved it to remember the brand.

Yeah, whenever it's been cold in my garage and the stripper is acting sluggish, I've just hung the knife in the air and placed a halogen lamp about 10" away from it. The coating has always started bubbling within a minute. Granted, it may not get as cold here in the PNW as it does in your neck of the woods...

 

[Diez Knives]

Anybody using tapatalk? Is it acting up? I can't get anything to load, even backing out or starting over...

 

[zzyzzogeton]

This may be a dumb idea , but what if you "lightly" heated the blade an oven set to 125 deg F for 5 or 10 minutes to warm it up completely. Couldn't hurt the blade any more than leaving it in a vehicle in Texas in the Spring. (Summer, the temp can get up to 180 deg in a closed vehicle.)

 

[Psyop]

Use Kleen strip gel