Hello. My name is Alan (username is just my most common internet pseudonym). I Live in the DFW metroplex (15 minutes due north of DFW international airport practically). I found this forum after doing some google searching and being tired of most of my local firearms talk coming with as much politics as anything else. I have a degree in criminal justice, and after a few training sessions with a glock 19 I bought one and got my commissioned guard license. I now own 4 firearms but i don't get much use out of them outside of indoor paper punching. I came here hoping to expand the number of people I could talk shop with, make a few friends, and maybe finally do something more interesting than punch holes in paper at 25 yards (sports shooting or longer range rifle shooting).
PS: the question mark in the title is because I know at least a few people who call the panhandle north Texas.
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2punching paper is much more fun outdoors. most indoor ranges remind me of dungeons. deep, dank, dark, dingy dungeons. cramped, bad air, lousy company, you name it. ...
i'm retired. what's your excuse?
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3Howdy from Gettysburg!
(Note that “Howdy” is not my usual parlance. I guess I am becoming multilingual. )
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5Howdy from Houston!
Damn glad to have you.
As for as the "North Texas" is concerned, anybody north of I-10 is a Yankee!
Damn glad to have you.
As for as the "North Texas" is concerned, anybody north of I-10 is a Yankee!
Never confuse knowledge with intelligence.
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8Howdy Allen...lived in Texas for 20+ years and in The DFW area as well.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
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9Welcome from Houston! The Texas Chapter invites you to join us to shoot and eat BBQ! We have a Dallas Fort Worth area contingent as well. Again welcome!
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10definitely need to look into it. Although i think my rifle needs some work first. Bought an AR15 on the cheap but now I'm dealing with a busted crush washer on the muzzle, a thread-locked buffer tube, no zero on the ironsights,and the ever popular gas in the face. I already had to take a mallet to a cheap metal handstop(was there when i got it) that had its screws stripped to loosen it enough that i could pull them out by hand (would have drilled them out but someone hid all of the drill bits and i don't have ready access to a vise to keep it steady anyways).sikacz wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:24 pm Welcome from Houston! The Texas Chapter invites you to join us to shoot and eat BBQ! We have a Dallas Fort Worth area contingent as well. Again welcome!
So far my experience has been that cheap firearms just aren't.
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12Howdy and Welcome from the crazy part of North Texas, Denton.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,
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13Crazy low speed limits for sure. I think this whole country is in a knock down drag out brawl to the death over who can be the craziest sometimes. I graduated from UNT.TrueTexan wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:50 pm Howdy and Welcome from the crazy part of North Texas, Denton.
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14Welcome from the Houston area!
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. --Molly Ivins
if they give you lined paper, write sideways.--Juan Ramon Jimenez
if they give you lined paper, write sideways.--Juan Ramon Jimenez
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15hey from Big D. I added you to the TX subforum.
Puffing up is no substitute for smarts but it's a common home remedy
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16 Hi Alan
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi
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17Buy used classics, you'll be happier.BillMcD wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:39 pmdefinitely need to look into it. Although i think my rifle needs some work first. Bought an AR15 on the cheap but now I'm dealing with a busted crush washer on the muzzle, a thread-locked buffer tube, no zero on the ironsights,and the ever popular gas in the face. I already had to take a mallet to a cheap metal handstop(was there when i got it) that had its screws stripped to loosen it enough that i could pull them out by hand (would have drilled them out but someone hid all of the drill bits and i don't have ready access to a vise to keep it steady anyways).sikacz wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:24 pm Welcome from Houston! The Texas Chapter invites you to join us to shoot and eat BBQ! We have a Dallas Fort Worth area contingent as well. Again welcome!
So far my experience has been that cheap firearms just aren't.
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18Howdy right back at ya! Great to have you on board, especially since we'r almost neighbors. We live in Highland Village, which is maybe thirty minutes north of DFW Airport. I looked at your profile, and I'm also a bit of WWII buff, as well as gun nut!
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19we might just be neighbors okay not quite but you get the idea. Bunch of suburb towns packed together and only so many ranges to go to.flynt wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:30 pm Howdy right back at ya! Great to have you on board, especially since we'r almost neighbors. We live in Highland Village, which is maybe thirty minutes north of DFW Airport. I looked at your profile, and I'm also a bit of WWII buff, as well as gun nut!
At this point I've taken the cheap rifle as a challenge to my determination but I get what you're saying. That said, the used classics keep going up in price as well. Well at least they do if the seller has a lick of sense or the buyer has integrity. I saw my LGS turn down someone bringing in a bunch of high quality antiques because he couldn't pay what they were worth and basically advised the guy to avoid the pawn and gun shop circuit and try a collector's association.sikacz wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:07 amBuy used classics, you'll be happier.BillMcD wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:39 pmdefinitely need to look into it. Although i think my rifle needs some work first. Bought an AR15 on the cheap but now I'm dealing with a busted crush washer on the muzzle, a thread-locked buffer tube, no zero on the ironsights,and the ever popular gas in the face. I already had to take a mallet to a cheap metal handstop(was there when i got it) that had its screws stripped to loosen it enough that i could pull them out by hand (would have drilled them out but someone hid all of the drill bits and i don't have ready access to a vise to keep it steady anyways).sikacz wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:24 pm Welcome from Houston! The Texas Chapter invites you to join us to shoot and eat BBQ! We have a Dallas Fort Worth area contingent as well. Again welcome!
So far my experience has been that cheap firearms just aren't.
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20Hiya from Noo Joisey, where if you don't like the weather, wait a few hours.... Snowed last night--55degrees this afternoon.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."
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21I hear that about most places that aren't California, a desert, tundra, or some other extreme.YankeeTarheel wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 7:59 pm Hiya from Noo Joisey, where if you don't like the weather, wait a few hours.... Snowed last night--55degrees this afternoon.
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23That's new for this part of the world. Normally, summer is hot, autumn it cools down, winter is cold and snowy, spring starts cold and windy, and gets warmer.BillMcD wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:05 pmI hear that about most places that aren't California, a desert, tundra, or some other extreme.YankeeTarheel wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 7:59 pm Hiya from Noo Joisey, where if you don't like the weather, wait a few hours.... Snowed last night--55degrees this afternoon.
Not anymore, apparently.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."
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24More greetings from the DFW area. Welcome.
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