Penguin

Bro you just need a Chinese made turbo off eBay, some PVC pipe, JBWeld, and ..... I forget what else. You’ll be ripping off 11’s in the quarter in no time. You’ll be all like “Do you even vape brah?” at every stop light, as you smash 5.0 Stangs. Car is gonna run like a raped ape on bath salts!

I just joined, what’s this all about?

My dad was 69 years old. Like I said you don't get the time back, spend time with him if you can, make sure if you have kids that he gets to spend time with them. When my dad was 63 I though he'd have more time too, but he declined pretty rapidly the last 5 years or so.

OK, 15 years ago I might have agreed, now we’re way too PC and concerned about not hurting people’s feels. Well I’m sick of people’s feelings.

Wake me up when there is a poonDemic. I’ll take care of as many as I can.

Don’t be sorry for my loss, I loved my dad but he chose to not address his medical issues. I made peace with him dying about 5 years before he did. I’d suggest Pleiades does the same, and doesn’t avoid his dad because of COVID-19. You won’t get that time back, and chances are good he’s not going to live into his 80’s anyway. As for being rude, guilty as charged, frankly as a society we need to harden the **** up and stop being a bunch of pussies ruled by feelings.

Worried about your diabetic dad that smokes. Spare me. My dad was super worried about COVID-19, almost never left the house, masked up, took it very seriously. He ran a microbiology lab before he retired so he was well versed in PPE procedures for infectious diseases. He died on October 26th this year of a massive heart attack. He smoked, his diet was horrible, he was on opiate pain meds because he refused to get back surgery, he had circulation issues, and sleep apnea. Of course since he thought most doctors were morons in his professional experience dealing with them, he shared none of these things with his doctor. So he died anyway just not from COVID-19, he died from all the other self inflicted bad health decisions he made instead. Enjoy time with your dad while you can, sounds like he won’t be around much longer regardless of COVID-19.

My grandmother got it at 88 years of age, recovered just fine. Her 2nd husband is 84, he’s recovered now but due to his diabetes had a harder time. My aunt died of complications, but had been hospitalized 3 times this year for other illnesses and was extremely weak. Tons of my coworkers have had it, almost unavoidable in my industry since the RR gives zero shits about safety, sanitation, or health of employees. No one died, most had shitty cold symptoms and just got caught up on projects around the house while quarantined. One of them fished a tournament by himself for example, another one cut firewood for the winter, a few of them got properly sick (both diabetics).

Man this thread is disappointing most of the time. I check in hoping that one of you has gotten the Rona vaccine and has some exciting anecdote like your dick fell off for a couple weeks, or your asshole developed taste buds and olfactory senses for 72 hours. Maybe once you guys get the vaccine those things will happen? One can hope. Then once the vaccine is available to me I can decide if possibly being a dickless shit tasting fart sniffer for awhile outweighs the risk of getting Rona.

I also want a Manurhin MR 73, or a Korth. Cannot decide which to go after first.

I’d like to find a Walther P88, a Steyr GB, and an HK P7 to have the full collection of 1980’s German/Austrian super over engineered 9X19 pistols made to a standard with price more or less ignored.

P99.

You have a PPK yet?

You live in the Seattle area, just claim she’s an emotional support animal because you feel anxiety because you self identify as a lesbian female Native American carrot cake that has ancestors who were slaves. The owners of the building will be so terrified of offending you that you will be able to bring your dog to work. Tell that to your boss and you will get a sweet “safety coordinator job” with a raise, a company vehicle, and be allowed to work from home. At least that is what happens when a BNSF employee has BNSF by the short and curly hairs and needs to be bought off.

You did good. Walther PPQ is a solid platform with a well made well proven magazine. The heart of any auto loading firearm is the magazine and the PPQ has a good one. Standardized pistols for both of you is smart to start out with because there are no handguns in the house that will be strange for either of you to use.

My collection has recently expanded. Inherited some of my dad's guns since my mom didn't want them in the house. You know because it's a good idea for a 66 year old woman living by herself in a rural area where the sheriffs deputies are 10 minutes or more away to be unarmed and defenseless. My brother and I split up the firearms, and I elected to keep: 1.) Colt King Cobra (new model) 3" bbl in .357 Magnum with fixed sights, this is the last firearm my dad purchased and he had just had a tritium front sight installed before he passed away. I also have the original brass bead front sight. The trigger is excellent and the sights put bullets where they are looking, although I do wish the rear sight was more pronounced and useful. I'll probably get a good holster for this one and use it as a carry gun when I travel via air and there is even a remote risk of touching down in a state that is anti-gun and would put me in jail for having high capacity magazines or hollow points. I can stoke it with hot 158gr jacketed soft points or semi wad-cutters and it will be legal to possess in all 50 states and D.C. even if I can't conceal it in some of those areas at least I won't get arrested for claiming my luggage if I was on a flight that got diverted to shit ass New Jersey for example. I sure as hell wouldn't want to get shot with a hot loaded 158gr .357 Magnum loaded with JSP's or SWC's. 2.) Smith & Wesson 986 Pro with a 5" match slab sided bbl in 9X19 Luger, seven shot L frame gun. Got a bunch of TK Customs moon clips, and moon clip unloading tool. He bought this at my suggestion and it's a nice range gun, I will probably get the trigger and action worked over to make it really nice. Might also look into mounting an RDS on it. 3.) Ruger Singe Six convertible, .22LR and .22 Magnum (two cylinders). I grew up on this revolver and have a sentimental attachment to it, my son will now get his basic handgun marksmanship instruction with this little gem. I'll probably have some trigger work done on it as well. Gun was made approximately 1990 or so. 4.) Taurus 669 .357 Magnum 6" bbl, blued. Made in the early 1990's if memory serves. The first centerfire handgun I ever shot and my dad put so many rounds through it he shot the gun loose and out of time. Sent it back to Taurus and they fixed it, it has the most disgustingly smooth DA trigger I've even encountered on a Taurus from all the shooting it's seen. Still pretty heavy DA, but glass smooth. I'm not a big Taurus fan, but this one stays; sentimental value. 5.) Polish made Mosin-Nagant M-44 Carbine in 7.62X54R, probably made in the late 1940's or early 1950's. Un-issued, metal condition and bore are perfect. Stock looks like crude hammered out dog shit in the manner of all things Communist and Slav. Still has the original sling, and spike bayonet (aka Mr. Stabby). Interestingly the spike bayonet is beautifully polished and blued. I guess if you have to stab up some capitalist pigs, or enemies of the state you must do it in some style. Trigger is hot garbage, wood to metal fit is truly atrocious, but it works. Not pleasant to shoot given the sharp cornered metal butt plate, because you need a metal butt plate to smash dissidents teeth out before they are sent to the Gulag. Da Comrade! 6.) BONUS GUN! S&W Shield in 9X19 Luger. Found it in a large ammo box from the ammo my brother and I split up. LOL, has one standard magazine and one extended magazine that makes the grip almost useful. This one will be getting some Trijicon HD's installed, AIWB holster procured and will be going into carry rotation for those days I don't want to or can't practically carry and full size duty gun. My brother traded off or sold everything he decided to take except for one, the only one of which I disagreed with was a numbers matching Norinco SKS, mostly due to sentimental value. Otherwise he took a couple of junker Taurus revolvers, a Bersa .380, and Ruger LCP in .380, the aforementioned SKS, a Ruger American Rifle in .22LR (which he did keep I think), and a CZ 527 in 7.62X39. We did refuse to allow my mom to become defenseless so we forced her to shoot all the handguns my dad owned, for score at approximately the same distance as the longest shot she would have in the house. Despite her small hands she managed 7 "A" zone hits, no "C"s, "D"s or "M"s with a CZ 75 in 9X19 Luger. So she is currently armed with a CZ 75 and she can run the slide and controls as well as can be expected. I also insisted she keep my old Ruger 10/22 for pest control on the property.

OK. All of my guns were recently lost in a tragic boating accident. Nothing to see here ATF.

He should have shot it to begin with.

Sadly about 25 yards to my east. Just on the opposite side of the state from Sioux Falls, I can be in Wyoming in about 30 minutes for reference.

Dude, I’m over 300 miles away from that shit.

Factor in her age to the equation. She was smoking freaking hot when she was my age and younger. Either way she saw opportunity in the chaos, and my state has benefited. Good for her.

Hunkered down, and the wealthy people in lock down dystopian hell hole states are leaving those states driving markets in places like the Black Hills. The market around here is insane, and the buyers we are seeing are paying cash. I just hope the dumb bastards consider the political decisions that lead to them fleeing their previous states of residence.

This comes down to the differences between free states, and states that went all totalitarian. Not just a Wall Street vs the rest of ‘Murcia. States that stayed open and allowed all businesses to stay open will be in much better shape economically.

Canadians are the free loading scum of North America, what with their politeness and love for maple trees. Plus they elected Justin Trudeau, who might be the stupidest national leader in office today, which reflects poorly on Canukistan.

Economic destruction from idiotic lock downs and forced closures of business will be far worse than the deaths of mostly very old and/or unhealthy people dying of COVID. Lots of small businesses folding is a horrible outcome, and it could have been largely avoided by staying open and allowing free adults to make decisions. Instead many states, and their idiot “leaders” elected by their idiot citizens decided to go the totalitarian route and destroy their economies. Ironically states that stayed open are not very hard hit and we didn’t all die. One of my coworkers and his wife own a Mexican restaurant in a tourist town in the Black Hills, South Dakota stayed open, their business stayed open. They had their best year to date this year, and he said the net profits blew away the previous 2 years. Now it did come with some ass pain, they all got COVID (whole family tested positive) and were sick for about a week, but they lived. My coworker even got to experience COVID after he managed to cut through two of his metacarpals on his left hand with a log splitter. (Hell of a neat photo by the way) He had a good time being off for a few months and doing one handed dishes at the restaurant because the RR wouldn’t release him back to work. Minnesota also stayed open, the week before my dad died of a heart attack my wife and I had been going over the books on a condo on Lake Superior we were considering purchasing. The place grossed $54K in 2019 in rentals, and we asked for the latest numbers for 2020 to see what a bad year would look like. The realtor got in contact and reluctantly sent the information to us and said that it’s not representative of a typical year. The condo had grossed over $15K in the month of August alone. The resort managing had stayed open as had most of northern MN. Too bad every year isn’t that good up there or the ridiculous 50/50 gross profit split the resort charges to manage the property would easily result in a tidy profit every year, based on 2019 numbers minus expenses and servicing a mortgage it would cost me $172/month on average with $200K down to cash flow the other $200K on a loan. Not sure I want to tie up that much capital in something that doesn’t return cash profit on a semi regular basis in addition to gaining value as a property over time. Probably kick myself in the ass 20 years from now for not pulling the trigger LOL. Still on the hunt though!