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I need someone to teach me this again
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Blonde and sweet or hot and black?
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Evening all boys and girls included. Great day here.....nobody died. See you pot heads tomorrow.
Have you ever seen a California legal AR 15? Manufacturers make them without the pistol grip and a few other features that will get you killed using it defensively (mag cap, etc,) how silly.
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not all ground up and in the freezer I hope!
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Fargin rabbits are munching on everything!! I put down some coyote sent last night at dusk and this morning there was one laying right in the middle of where I sprayed!! Will try a different brand today. If that doesn't work I will move to plan B.....
Cotton tails or Jacks? Cotton tails are pretty tasty..............
My only AR-15 was an SP-1 from the land of CA, and was complete except it had no flash suppressor. That early model also didn't have a forward assist so although it shot well, I subsequently traded it off anyway.
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I have eaten bird's nest soup. It is made from the spit of swifts. They glue the straw together with it. Taste: Meh.
Also was given some 100-year old soup. Many famous and historic soups were lost due to WWII. A big cauldron is continually kept full by adding more stuff as portions were taken out. Most Amerkins never heard of the concept. Taste: Nice soup.
Some other challenges for ya to catch up wiv yer Unca:
Duck head (sliced in half vertically) Taste: OK.
Chicken feet (bright orange) Taste: None.
Sea Cucumber (looks like sliced turd) Taste: Now I know what a sliced turd tastes like.
Sea Urchin (you scrape and eat the guts clinging to the inside) Taste: Yummy, actually!
Rocky Mountain oysters (you know) Taste: Meh.
Fried earthworms (bigger = better) Taste: Mild, crunchy.
Birds nest soup. That's nasty. 
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I forgot one other thing. A genuine delicacy -- as in yum-yummy, and not "I can get it down" -- is unborn chickums. Before you go "eeewwww" with cultural bias, think of this:Birds nest soup. That's nasty.
You eat the egg. You eat the chicken. But you do not eat the in-between.
Why? 'Cause you... don't. Thass why.
They are cooked a coupla ways. My fave was deep fried. The teensy bones are yummy-crunchy like stringed potato, and the rest is... well... fried chicken.
One more chickum thing: If you have ever gutted a hen, you will have noticed about 8 inches of forming eggs in a "sleeve". They look sorta like ravioli. These are perfectly edible, and have a really nice flavor when fried or used in soups.
Ah. Thought of another: Dog onna stick. Tasty.
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Birds nest soup. That's nasty.
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GW, my first AR was an SP1. Paid $235 for it, brand new in a box with a sling and two 20 round mags, at a gun show at the NG Armory in Lapeer. Still got it and a few more. Favorite is one I built, an XM177E2. Shorter, and weighs as much with a full mag of 30 as the SP1 weighs empty.
Not sure why but I always build them with forward assist, that said I have never used one! I like the "door" too, feels wrong, but every other semi auto seem to function fine without it. Just don't care for the slick side lowers. Don't go in for the side chargers either....dig into back, and just isnt kosher AR 15 to me. Love these guns, everyone should have one.
Lots of fun taking people to shoot them, (the gun not the people!) you see that same look on their face that you had the first time you shot a semi auto .22 LR. It IS the .22 rifle of the millennium.
I think I have backwards california reasoning, They want to "de ugly" the AR15, by removing these "appearance of assault weapon" parts, while I want it to look as scary as possible, as that irritates anti gunners.
Its a very practical, light weight, very accurate, easy to put together rifle. I have personally built all of mine, and I've owned quite a few in various calibers of 5.56, 300 Black Out and .458 SOCOM.
The absolute weirdest thing I've seen in the flesh was in some sort of international antique place. This guy had all sorts of stuff collected from all over the world. I was looking at some rather large stone columns, and commented to him about the difficulty of getting such a large object here. This conversation led to sore back talk, and his eyes lit up...."let me show you something." Back room, 3 large jars, maybe 1/2 gallon each.
Inside these glass jars was a type of alcohol as preservative, and it was preserving snakes! (one was white as snow, albino) These were the famed (by viet nam vets) a "three step snake." So named as a bite from one of these, you get about 3 steps. Mamba. These antique jars were assembled to leach the venom out of the snakes. A certain level was desired, beyond was fatal. According to the story, these liquids were given to prisoners sentenced to death, and when it was no longer fatal, it was the desired medicinal product.
He said the venom, in this "milder" form was not lethal, but served as an excellent muscle relaxer. He said when he first tried it, it caused all sorts of flashing lights and so forth and offered it up.....No thanks, I'll stick to flexaril.
Sea Cucumber Ewww. Among my Vietnamese friends, it is a delicacy served at special occasions. It's nothing more than a big giant caterpillar bug. Ewwww. Not gonna eat a bug, not yet anyway.
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@Bubba -- "These were the famed (by viet nam vets) a "three step snake." So named as a bite from one of these, you get about 3 steps."
You musta found a less lethal variety. The Bamboo Viper was known as the "2-Step Charlie". They are not large, but they are bitter ugly even from a snake POV. Their venom is a neuro-toxin (the worstiest kind). Member of the Krait fambly.
To be fair, IIRC, the name came from the In-Country guys to the cherries to make sure they paid attention. There ain't no such thing as a snake that can bite you and kill you like that.
Although, I saw Crocodile Dundee tell some guys in a bar that there was a spider in Owstrilia that could kill you just by lookin' at you.
Bamboo viper:
Snakes On A Chopper Stories:
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2021/...vietnam-vets-tell-harrowing-serpentine-tales/
An excerpt from the link:
It may not have been the most lethal, but the two step was the most popular biological weapon wielded by North Vietnamese Army troops and Viet Cong guerillas, who would hang them in the ceilings of tunnels in Củ Chi and elsewhere. They’d rig them to a contraption that, once tripped, would drop the snake onto the head or back of a crawling American soldier, whose unenviable job was to kill whoever was at the other end of the underground corridor.
You musta found a less lethal variety. The Bamboo Viper was known as the "2-Step Charlie". They are not large, but they are bitter ugly even from a snake POV. Their venom is a neuro-toxin (the worstiest kind). Member of the Krait fambly.
To be fair, IIRC, the name came from the In-Country guys to the cherries to make sure they paid attention. There ain't no such thing as a snake that can bite you and kill you like that.
Although, I saw Crocodile Dundee tell some guys in a bar that there was a spider in Owstrilia that could kill you just by lookin' at you.
Bamboo viper:
Snakes On A Chopper Stories:
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2021/...vietnam-vets-tell-harrowing-serpentine-tales/
An excerpt from the link:
It may not have been the most lethal, but the two step was the most popular biological weapon wielded by North Vietnamese Army troops and Viet Cong guerillas, who would hang them in the ceilings of tunnels in Củ Chi and elsewhere. They’d rig them to a contraption that, once tripped, would drop the snake onto the head or back of a crawling American soldier, whose unenviable job was to kill whoever was at the other end of the underground corridor.
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I believe the banded krait was the biggest killer of humans in 'nam. Buddies called 'em the "Asian two step". In all honesty, you had about a half hour to take your last breath.
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Yup, same with the Fer de Lance, only worse. Check out the Brazilian walking spider. Way venomous and has a bent for revenge. It will raise up at you, then its on. It will follow you around trying to bite you. Many are bitten while sweeping. The mean spirited thing, if disturbed will scale up the broom handle and give a bite.
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Evening OFC. Another day in the books. Watching b.Born On The 4th Of July......now I'm pissed ..... enough said. Good night
Oh. I thought this was quilting and now it turns out its about weed! Quilting had my interest, as I thought everyone sitting in a square around it must mean they are fooling around under there. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I learned that they are actually trying to make some sort of flipping rug! How embarrassing.
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