Random Thought Thread

Wishfulthinker580 said:
Sadly, yes. That and a few years after was the time frame I went in there.

Just looked it up and the store closed 11 years ago. They also haven’t sold guns since 2024…….
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When I first moved there, CTD actually had good prices (bought a couple cases of ammo) and a decent selection of mil-surp stuff. I even bought my Benchmade 630 Skirmish there because it was a good deal!

But even by '07, they were markedly going downhill.
 
SpyderPhreak said:
When I first moved there, CTD actually had good prices (bought a couple cases of ammo) and a decent selection of mil-surp stuff. I even bought my Benchmade 630 Skirmish there because it was a good deal!

But even by '07, they were markedly going downhill.
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Sad. Was looking and apparently there were some issues unfortunately
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
That's actually a little less accurate than a good 50s vintage Soviet SKS. (Which is more powerful, durable and reliable)

We managed some pretty good groups with those back then.

Everybody should have an SKS. Wildly underrated piece of kit.

I remember buying them, as a kid, for less than a Benjamin

FOR A GOOD FUNCTIONING SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE, that's crazy!

I still have some!

Get the SKS not the AK. IMO. They're a little quieter, a little more powerful and more accurate too. Also a better trigger (on some of them). You can't easily mount optics on one (similar klusterfuk as the M1A) but there are ways to do it if that's important to you.

And a crate of a thousand rounds

Which was actually something like 960 rounds or something? I don't know, is that like 1,000 rounds metric? Idunno.

Anyways you could buy a heavy case of ammo for 89 bucks at the Dixie gun and knife classic in Raleigh back in the 90s. To a young college student in Raleigh in the mid 90s, this was like blade show, but with guns. It was so awesome. My buddy Dale and I used to shoot down trees and stuff, as kids.

You could also get a Benchmade knife for around a hundred bucks, no joke.

That place was so awesome

They had 12.7 by 99 NATO (50 BMG) for 12 for $10. I almost bought some just for the novelty factor.

What a glorious time to be alive

You could get a real Dragunov for less than a grand.

But I was 19, I didn't have a grand.

But I had 39 bucks and you could get a mosin nagant for that. Ammo was less than .10 cents a pop. I'm wanting to say it was around 5 cents a pop in some places. Idunno

What a glorious time to be alive

What an unfortunate time to not quite have enough money to actually participate in much of this glorious era

I was making and delivering pizzas in that time frame

Jo was in the passenger seat helping me navigate because I always got lost

No complaints though. The 90s were awesome. You kids that missed out on the '90s. I'm sorry, I really am. It was so cool.

Did you know that music sucks today? I think it has something to do with autotune.

Go buy an SKS rifle

Unless it's $1,000

And then, never mind.

Wait, what was talking about?
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Lots to like on this post…….😍

Cheap guns
Cheap ammo
SKS
Round count by the thousands!! 🤩 (960)
$100 BENCHMADE’s??? Seems like a local legend!! 🤣
Pizza
Nostalgia……


That’s it, I’m changing my avatar back to 90s theme. How’s THAT for a statement?? 🤣😃😃
 
Wishfulthinker580 said:
Overheard some high schoolers talking at the gym earlier. One was telling a couple of others he had been watching Lord of the Rings. Neither knew what it was. I kinda teared up
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Pretty crazy that they’d never even heard of the movies or book(s). I don’t even remember when I first read the books (but I was most definitely a bookworm lol).
 
clinton1 said:
I brought up the Grateful Dead to two under 22 year old coworkers of mine……neither one had ever heard of them…… 🥲
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Another one that confuses me.

I’ve encountered two types of Gen Z and Gen Alpha; the ones who love ‘old school’ music that they grew up hearing because their parents listened to it, and the type who “doesn’t know anything that came out before they were born”.

Did the second type’s parents never listen to music? I know music that came out before I was born, because my parents played it when I was growing up.

I know music from before my parents were born, because they remembered listening to what their parents played while they were growing up, then played those too, when I was growing up. I don’t get it.
 
I sold my Tengen Tetris about a decade ago on eBay for some $$$.

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bluemax_1 said:
Another one that confuses me.

I’ve encountered two types of Gen Z and Gen Alpha; the ones who love ‘old school’ music that they grew up hearing because their parents listened to it, and the type who “doesn’t know anything that came out before they were born”.

Did the second type’s parents never listen to music? I know music that came out before I was born, because my parents played it when I was growing up.

I know music from before my parents were born, because they remembered listening to what their parents played while they were growing up, then played those too, when I was growing up. I don’t get it.
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Yeah, I don’t know and agree with your statements!

To have never even HEARD of a band that big and influential threw me for a loop!

(For the record, they are brothers, with parents in their 40’s)
 
bluemax_1 said:
Pretty crazy that they’d never even heard of the movies or book(s). I don’t even remember when I first read the books (but I was most definitely a bookworm lol).
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I know. I read them multiple times in my youth. Probably 3-4 times. Practically had the movies on a loop for a while.

One of them had it confused with Game of Thrones.
 
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