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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: locnload on February 22, 2013, 10:04:26 PM
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Hi folks, new guy in the Cafe, just wanted to stop by and introduce myself. I live in the Northern Colorado Front Range, and snuck in the back door through Mr. Bane's Blog page. I recently started reading Micheal Banes blog and have been impressed by the work he has done in fighting the curent attacks on the Second Ammendment. I'm an a bit of a "seasoned citizen", married, with three heallthy, self supporting, non-criminal, adult offspring and one Grandson that has his own brand new Henry 22 Lever gun in my safe waiting for him to get big enough tp shoot it. I am a Viet Nam vet, and my wife also served in the Army Medical Corp during the war. We like to spend time in our RV, fishing, and archery. I enjoy hunting, and shooting from plinking to IDPA, and I am a Certified NRA Pistol instructor. My wife is not that much into guns, but I think I'm starting to wear her down. ;D
Looking forward to jumping in with both feet and getting to know ya. :)
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Welcome to the forum and thank you and your wife for your service
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Welcom! And don't be scared of the local wild life. The only rule here is that its all in good fun, every technical question will be answered and the political stuff never interferes with helping a guy out on gun issues.
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Thank you very much for both of your services. This place gets a little tumultuous but all and all I think there is always something to be learned.
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Welcome... we're glad you're here. It's a good place to be. :)
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Obstreperous, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, intransigent, opinionated, do any of these fit you? If so, you'll fit right in. Oh yeah, we lean a bit to the right here. Unapologeticaly. Except for the 'Quaker', he's one of them perfesser types. His bubble's off to the left a bit it seems. ;D Thick skin and a sense of humor help too. From one Vet to another, thanks.
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Welcome, LocNLoad.
All topics tend to digress towards beer. (Not as much as my stagecraft forum, where they actually track that statistic.)
Don't be shy about your shooting exploits.
Here too is a 'Nam era veteran. USAF. Didn't make it in-country, but the AF managed to get me to all the other hotspots that didn't qualify for combat pay back in the '70s. Of course they also managed to get me there without haz-duty pay or flight pay. And sometimes they got me back home.
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Welcome to the zoo.
We can always use another 'Nam vet. I'm Navy, but have full respect for the other branches. After all, not everyone can be in the senior service. And those lessor branches do have their place.
I went back to 'Nam in 2008 just to see what lasting damage we had done. You'll be pleased to note little if any harm remains. Saigon is much larger and motorbikes are everywhere. The Aussie base south of Vung Tau is now a well manicured golf course. Loads of Aussies have hooked up with local gals and you can see lots of gray beards with sweet young things on their arms.
Anyway, welcome.
Crusader Rabbit
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,<snip>, with three heallthy, self supporting, non-criminal, adult offspring and<snip>
Oh my! No wonder you are here...you made it on Obama's list too.
See you in the re-education camps if we make it that far.....I had no idea we were supposed to raise victims to support "THE PARTY"....it's not my fault!!!!
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Did someone say beer?
Welcome aboard and as was already stated, thanks for yours and the brides service as well! I'm a tweener, blackshoe squid (75-81) who never set foot on a floaty thing let alone a combat zone but don't hold it against me! From a family of squids with 42 years of active duty service combined..
We're a bunch of miscreants but we don't throw our poop...........any more! ;D
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One Army guy to an Army family - Welcome to the forum.
Good people here.. While I fly far and wide on gun web sites, I have always thought of DownRange as my home.
Hope you get to feeling that way also.
Welcome.
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Indeed, welcome locnload, to the gun nut's insane asylum. We are all crazy (about guns mostly) but we mean well. Like most asylums, however, once you are an inmate you have to be declared sane to get out. None of us wants that and we hope you won't either. OBTW, I'm really the only crazy one in here, the others just play at it.
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Hi!
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Welcome.....locnload, glad to have you.
This is indeed a rare forum on the interweb...... once you get to know everyone, you'll find we are more like family than anything else....... we can get mad enough to poke each other in the eye about differing opinions, but a minute later offer a word of encouragement or a prayer when needed.
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Welcome.....locnload, glad to have you.
This is indeed a rare forum on the interweb...... once you get to know everyone, you'll find we are more like family than anything else....... we can get mad enough to poke each other in the eye about differing opinions, but a minute later offer a word of encouragement or a prayer when needed.
Yes, we are just exactly like a family.
Dysfunctional ;D
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Thanks for all the kind welcomes guys. To clarify a few things, Fatbaldguy, I am certified in all five disciiplins you mentioned. RTFM, I was actually Navy, the wife was Army but I love her anyway. Crusader Rabbit, I was Navy Seabees so was landlocked in VN. The only time I spent on a ship was five days on a Merchant Marine cargo ship coming back from Antartica with Operation Deepfreeze". Would love to hear stories and see pictures of your 2008 trip back to the "Happy Valley", have wanted to do that too. Maybe when I retire if Obama ever lets me. :-\