God Ive gone through so many different phases of knives in the last 30 something years.
Carried a knife EVERY day since I was 6. One classic Kens a fucking retard moment was pulling out a switch blade aftee class in science to cut something for my science teacher( who looking back Im 97 percent sure she was down to fuck but I digress) and being like ughhhh this is awkward my bad. Lets just put that away…
Ive had a little bit of everything, up to Sebenzas, Chris Reeves stuff etc etc.
Now for folders its generally a spyderco or something from Zero Tolerance or Kershaw.
I try and keep everything in the 200 and under range because ya boy loses some fucking knives. I actually stopped carrying anything over 75ish bucks for years because of that.
Then I did great for years, and started carrying nicer knives again… Ooops. Down a couple of good knives in the last 18 months and Im reminded of why I went back to sub 100 dollar blades lol.
One or two of these are generally what gets the most pocket time. Historically its not been uncommon for me to carry something more sleek and subdued that I dont look like a whack job pulling out to cut a steak or hand someone a knife, and something for more hard use task lol.
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You reminded me that I never lost a knife but have lost 3-4 Gerbers over the years at work.
Since I was a bravo, I never carried a fixed or folder on mission. Gerbers can solve 80% of your problems on an M2 .50.
Plus there was that rad scene in Proof of Life.
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I absolutely love my Pit Boss. It’s funny that I had zero problem getting up at 0200 on the 4th to cook an 11 lbs pork butt, but I would have been mad as hell if I had to get up at that time for anything else. Lol
If you haven’t made burgers in there yet, you’re wrong. Use 80/20 ground chuck. Make them into about 1/3 lb patties. Throw them on at 225 until they reach about 137. Add cheese and let them sit another couple to 3 mimutes. Now they’ll be about 142. Take them off and let rest a few minutes while your toasting you bun. Enjoy
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I’m am somewhat similar in somehow never losing my EDC (Leatherman Skeletool), but I prefer a multi tool.
Had my first one from the mid 2000’s until some prick baggage handler at a Barcelona train station went thru my suitcase and took it in 2019. Immediately bought another one, and despite finding it on the ground outside my truck a couple times, it’s hopefully gonna last as long as the last one.
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I have an issued Leatherman in a box somewhere.
I wasn’t going to risk losing it, given my track record.
Sometime this year I have to go turn in all the shit I’ve been issued for the past 20 years and it’s going to be a nightmare.
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The club may have had this discussion before. But its always crazy to me looking from the outside, the wild differences from service branches and I suppose command to command in regards to issued gear and how its managed.
Chuck Ps story about the pile of shit he wanted to keep starting off at 20 something K he would have had to shell out getting whittled down to around 8k in shit always makes me laugh lol.
Until that point I didnt know it was a command by command, unit by unit thing, even at the SOCOM level.
Then you have the Navy and Airforce SOF dudes, and everyone apperantly ending up with a shit ton of “free” gear from deployments and issued gear that no ond seemed to care about after it was issued it lol.
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Unfortunately the only thing that they lost track of for me was my gortex jacket. They issued me ome with the rest of my shit in Beaufort (when the Marines were running it) and told me that I had to take it to Japan on deployment. When I got back to Beaufort they issued me another one (when civilians ran it). So I got to keep the 1st one. Honestly, it was probably the most useful thing that I could have procured from the Corps. Lol. I actually ise it all the time still.
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My buddy just sent me this. It pretty much sums up my time in since I was nasty airwing. Lol
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Basic Training Issue
First Duty Station Issue
Organizational Issue (SF Group)
Company Issue
Yeah I probably do have $50k worth of shit. About 1/10th of it stays with you (stuff that touches your skin, like gloves, base layer etc.)
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“If you want it dead, broken, or pregnant, send in the Marines”
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Odd timing or funny timing.
Just eating lunch and wearing a dark brown ball cap from an Indian tribe.
The hat does have a pretty kick ass logo on it and I kind of got it for fun a while back as doing some work that involved the outfit and some of the places they owned. I always liked showing up when going to meet some of the people wearing that hat front and center.
Anyway this young guy cleaning tables asked me about my “Army hat” and asked what I did in the Army. I told him "wrong Army. "
I was trying to get a little read on if he was all there or not so was just quiet and nice (after saying “wrong Army” )
The fella then goes on to say " I was going to thank you for your service".
Then he told me he is trying to get into the Air Force.
Not sure why but for some reason I did not follow up, usually encourage people, but I was just kind of quiet, maybe thinking people are going to pick on this guy. Dunnow.
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I used to work with a guy who was a Marine.
We called Fuck Up because every thing, whether it was intended to be or not, was a single use item.
Nippers for cutting? Somehow, he would break them.
Auto syringe for vaccinations? It’d be found six months later, put together wrong with all of the seals blown.
Plastic “trays” for processing? lol, it’s in pieces in a room that he had no business in.
He was damn reliable and fairly quick at the job but he would break literally anything you gave him.
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Pork belly tacos for the win.
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Leatherman supertool model is my favorite. Got original gerber MT issued and was meh. Couple year later they issued us the supertool, the the model with the crimper…LOL, WE COMMO, WE AINT CRIMPING DETONATORS🤣
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I have probably told this silly tid bit before but once got a speeding ticket from this really dedicated cop in the Beaufort area.
It was just a basic ticket so not sure what I was thinking on the next part.
So I take the court date and drive 500 plus miles one way for the court date.
The judge was this classic southern play dumb but smart fella with long hair and a mustache that could be in civil war movies.
I was prepared by a very experienced representative of the state on what to say, and what to ask for and as I watched all the idiots before me I had a thought that this should be easy because the judge is used to dealing with these idiots.
So I take my shot ( I believe I asked to pay the fine and any other needed fines but asked for “deferred adjudication” ). Told him I drove back 500 miles one way because it was important to me and did not want any marks on driving record.
This judge looked at me with his long hair and cool guy mustache (and for fun and not far from the truth think of an accent like the Captain in Cool Hand Luke ) he replies
" Mr WilliePep they may have these things in your more metropolitan areas (he really stressed this word like with disdain to the point I thought he was just in character and effing with me) but we don’t have them around here."
So l left without a victory and thought that guy handed it to me in short order did not waste anytime. But the cool thing is that ticket never showed up on my driving record or any other record or history of.
Either a mistake happened or he figured after he had his fun with me he kept it off.
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Good sermon at church this morning. LOL pastor used bullshido ki KOs vids as example of false teachers teacing fakse dictrines and leading people astray.
Gunrange after to testfire new M9 mags. And practice with my 5.7…I love that thing.
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@Theken206
The little air weight 32 H&R Magnum.
It should go boom every time right ?
Reading some review a guy mentioned having a few problems with some magtech ammo (believe it was magtech).
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i read sometime weak spring on the airweights.
Im gonna have to send mine fir them to tighten the damn .22wmr model barrel😖
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Woa, tell me more please.
I know I can look this up but am I reading this correctly the 22 Airweight has a 22 and 22 magnum option ?
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I have the 351c in .22 WMR…it is what it is. 10-15yd gun and in. Rides my coat pocket in winter and offhand pants in warmer months or appendix in shorts if I not carrying the 9mm Shield.
My aggressive practice lobbing 200rds of Gold Dot and 100-200 CCI HV seems to have loosened the shrouded barrel and I can’t frind the wierd socket wrench to tighten and use some vibra tight, so I gotta send it to S&W.
The only reason I didnt go for the 32 mag was becasue I wanted a nice common round like .22WMR, and the Gold Dot loading is pretty easy to get too.
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