
Reagan1k
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Great!!!! Please know that I’m not picking on you. I’ve been right where you are (and stayed there too long without knowing the truth) and I’ve watched others as well. This shit kills people who dick around with it so sometimes I may come across as harsh.
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“Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path….” I’m an alcoholic. I excel at planning, thinking, talking, and resolute convictions. Three frogs are on a log and one decides to jump off. How many are left….. three. Recovery is an action. Not a mental exercise. Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth and life is that fist… every day. From a missed stoplight to a death in the family. They’re all punches to an untreated alcoholic. My desire for you and others who struggle to get to a meeting isn’t for the meetings sake- but rather to identify and witness that there is a solution in the actions outlined in the steps of recovery. It’s an old saying but more relevant in my life with every day that passes… we don’t think our way into right action/living. We act/live our way into right thinking. The medicine to alleviate the suffering you’ve been describing is prescribed exactly in the big book. Get to some meetings, and then take the actions you’ll hear described there.
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Yeah - based on the arsenal I own and my working knowledge of guns, most casual observers would assume I'm a great shot. I'm not, especially relative to the company I keep. I'm a good instinctive or snap shooter, but put me on a bench or shooting for precision at range and I'm just not all that. A few years ago I was hunting with a buddy who'd just taken up the passion. We watched a goat at some distance and he asked if I could make that shot. "Yep...I could make that shot. It'd be nothing more than a warning shot but I can make it."
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Same - I've love collecting and hunting with (more like watching with) classic old rifles. I also like and buy plenty black guns. In fact, the same week I got the .22 Hornet mentioned upthread, I also got an AP5 with a brace and am working on a powered optic for it now. I have a mental blank spot for modern precision hunting rifles (thankfully I guess). I don't have the mental make-up to spend hours of time shooting in a disciplined fashion, nor do I trust myself to get into reloading. I wouldn't do such a rifle justice. I'd take a $10k modern rig and shoot the same mediocre groups that I can with my classic rifles so what's the point? My tipping point may be if I ever convince myself to take the time off to do a more extreme hunt that would require my sorry ass to lug a rifle up and down mountains for many days. In that case I'd lean more towards weight rather than single hole accuracy knowing I'd still never get the max potential out of the gun.
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Anonymity is an interesting topic and there are a lot of opinions. A core tennant is that we maintain anonymity at the level or press, radio, TV, etc.....That no member is "speaking for AA" or representing AA as a personality. That is one of our traditions and a founding principle that keeps us from mutually assured destruction. At the personal level, it serves a purpose in that newcomers can be alleviated of the fear that their problem will be broadcast in the social pages or spread in gossip. Many wouldn't ever come in the doors if they couldn't hang their hat on that. Inside the rooms, anonymity varies. Many (myself included) don't maintain much anonymity at all. People I meet in the rooms know exactly who I am and how to find me if they need me. My friends outside of the rooms also know I'm in the fellowship. If they ever need help or know someone who needs help I want to be a resource. I don't talk to them about AA or my drinking unless they ask, but they damn sure know it is part of my life and I pray to be a quiet example of what it can do for a struggling alcoholic. I respect others anonymity inside and outside the rooms and don't share anything about others I see there or what I hear. I'll break my anonymity on a personal level, but will protect that of others. Different people can and do have other opinions.
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I don't recall who said it on this site or maybe in a meeting somewhere but I was told that the body will sleep when it is ready and when it needs it. Maybe the healing process requires you to be awake at that time? Don't fight it. Get a copy of the Big Book. Put it beside your bed and if you wake and can't go back to sleep in 15 min or so, grab the book and start reading. You'll either dose off again or get some beneficial reading time in. Forced sleep isn't that rejuvenating anyway. It sucks - you're right! But don't fight it. This will pass in due time.
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Yeah - I think I recall your "experience" with the profession from that thread and I agree. Wasn't she the narcissistic reincarnation of Freud, Jung, and Tony Sporano? Having been through this and having a little perspective now, I'm drawn to counselors/therapists who know their limits as it relates to alcoholism. My experience is that even a great therapist can't CBT a drunk out of active or untreated alcoholism. Some do have insight or experience with it and can relate. Others know how to stay in their lane and turn it over to those better equipped to talk the talk. What I've also seen and lived is that any real progress with a therapist is fleeting at best until the patient is sober and can get honest about their life. And then there is what you lived......damn. Anyway - @YGIFS get to some meetings. Try to have an open mind and focus on the similarities in what you hear and how you feel. Get honest with a therapist. Listen to some AA speaker tapes from someone like Chuck Chamberlin, Clint Hodges, or Clancy Imislund. They are all over the web and apps like AudioJoy. Do it all and keep doing it even when it's uncomfortable. There is relief on the other side of the discomfort.
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Good for you. Counseling can be a beneficial piece to the puzzle for sure. It helps to the extent you can be honest with the counselor and there may be a lot of things they can help you unpack or just be a good sounding board if that’s what you need at the time. As an aside- little inside baseball here. MANY counselors have a Rolodex of AA members to which they refer patients who are interested in getting sober. Most realize that alcoholics can speak and understand a language that a nonalcoholic counselor can’t.
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Welcome @YGIFS . Glad you're here! It's a big deal getting to where you are. Stay for a while. I've been trying to play catch-up but here are a few of my experiences. I had to get comfortable with the idea of being uncomfortable for a while. Booze were running my life and when I sobered up my body had to recover and my mind had to heal. We drunks hammer our body with an incredibly powerful depressant for years and it takes a while for all those synapses and neurons to get reacquainted with themselves. The best time to fully grab recovery is now. I got out of the ring relatively (compared to many) unscathed but I don't get to decide if there is another recovery in me. If I climb back in the ring with the champ, he might not let me crawl out through the ropes again. He decides when I've had enough. I might not get another surrender. Meetings - I thought I could do it on my own until I couldn't. I finally broke down and went to a meeting even though they were contrary to every concept of self-reliance I'd ever had. If you're like me, it'll be the biggest letdown of negative expectations you've ever seen. I built it up to be all this stuff that it wasn't. What it was entailed some recovered drunks sitting around talking about solutions and a few others like me just sitting and listening. All had a right to a seat and there were no AA police, oaths to swear, or commitments to make. Meetings aren't where you work steps, spill your take it to the grave shit, or get baptized into a new religion. Meetings are a place where those who've found recovery share their experience and give hope to newcomers. It's a place with solutions. Try some. As has been said before, if someone invites you to share or speak, saw whatever you want or say nothing. "I'm just listening" is perfectly fine. Hell, I say that sometimes if I'm unwound about something. Some days I don't want to share and I don't. The only requirement to be there is having a desire to stop drinking - period. Godspeed my friend. It's a cool ride. Bumpy as hell at times but ever so worth it when you look back.
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@Shaddie Just take an Uber up to Oregon and get your converter back. Multi-State Bust
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Youth Football Coach Shot and Killed by Aquib Talib's Brother
Reagan1k replied to cmontexas's topic in Daily Texan
Parents suck in the aggregate. News reel at 10pm. The percentage of parents who vocalize or demonstrate their unhealthy emotional investment in their kids' athletics has increased. Hell, in the 70's and 80's some parents didn't even go to games. There were extreme cases back then too, but the volume of the entire room has been turned up at these events. It's a rising tide with even passive or uninvested (in the actual outcome) parents frequently showing their ass out of a sense of protection for their kid. There's a perceived social standing or status that a lot of these parents now strive to achieve based on the kid's/team's results. It feeds on itself, and social media certainly doesn't help. "Select-ball mom" and "travel-team dad" have become the Karen's of the sports world. My all-time favorite was the never-seen-a-baseball-game-dad...pocket protector in place-literally....wanted to fight me for telling my little league team that his kid sucked. It took his kid's coach and league admin about an hour to explain the game to him in enough detail that he understood "Get the easy out." didn't mean his kid sucked, but rather that my team had a force out at any base. -
Do you have any field reports on the CX yet with larger game (in the .270).
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I was looking at SGammo.com earlier this morning and they do have some Hornady CX in stock (Monolithic 130gr.) I've got to shoot some aoudad this year and will be letting some guests do the honors. I don't like chasing those f'ers and want both shoulders broken so I'm looking at those to get more penetration than my normal Nosler BT Federal Premiums.
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I’d get my family, her friends and co-workers to all chip in for a really nice shotgun- Kemen or Caesar Guerini. Slight chance she won’t love it. In that case you can borrow it and then take care of it for her if she changes her mind.
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Yes- you can put any firearms in a properly written gun trust. Guns, swords, ammo, other collectibles - as long as the wording of the trust is right for the item and you have the item listed in the document inventory. A lot of people do that to have one overriding document to handle distribution of guns at death. It's basically a revocable living trust. If you've got a lot of 'em or some real value tied up in them, the trust allows passing the assets outside of probate. Also prevents some kid or relative from raiding the safe during your funeral and telling everyone else that grandpa gave this to me last month, etc. Hardest part is keeping it up to date, inventory wise - or as your intentions for disposition at death change.
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Justin @ pre64win is my go to for all questions. He loves to get into the weeds and is meticulous. I've had him do some cool stuff for me and love his work. Thread derail - About as much of a derail as you can get from classic rifle discussions - Anyone else been following the development and commercialization of the 8.6 Blackout? I need that like I need a hole in my head but it is interesting, and seeing how it functioned in Africa on some big game at distance is amazing. Probably a solution looking for a problem, but that's never stopped me when it comes to firearms.
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Agreed - Auctions (not Gunbroker usually) are the way to go. You just have to stay patient and set limits. I try like hell not to get caught up on day-of bidding. I set my max bid and then don't look back or I'll get sucked in to the "what's another hundred" over and over in a bidding war. Just make sure you understand each auctioneer's terms and buyer's premium. Fees will add up fast on bigger ticket items. Pawn shop deals mostly died with the coming of the internet. It's too easy for them to find real market value on hard to find stuff and price accordingly. Some may discount if a particular item sits around too long, but i'm amazed at how accurately most guns are priced by and large. True deals are hard to come by.
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Two years ago I found one like that - only two bad photos and mis-categorized in the auction listing. Best I could tell it was going to be a holy grail......maybe a proto-type or lunch pail rifle that escaped from the factory. I took a flier and was like you; the only bidder. I was thrilled, but when I got it I couldn't figure it out. Didn't have any of the right markings. Turns out it was a 54 and not a 70. What fooled me was that unbeknownst to me - many years ago, you could buy a kit that transitioned the 54's original safety to a 70 style 3-position version. I had the sadzz for a few hours but in reality it's a cool rifle and good conversation piece.
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People will pay $750 for just an action if the rifle is a beater. Goes up from there. Hard to buy a functional rifle in even decent shape for less than $1500 all in if you're dealing at auction....especially if it is unmodified. Anything pre-war, supergrade, featherweight, or a cartridge beyond the standard '06 or .270 is likely past $2000 to get in your hands.
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Opened my big fat mouth at a nice gun shop while on an out of state trip. Lots of vintage shotguns but very few rifles behind the glass. Guy asked if I wanted to look at anything and I declined - saying I’m focused on old Model 70’s these days. None displayed- seemed like a harmless answer. Owner asks me…”Got a pre-64 .22 Hornet?” Sucker me- “Wish like hell I did!” Smiling owner- “Wait right here. I’m your huckleberry.” Comes out of the back with a REALLY nice ‘57 standard at 98% +. My last objection was that I couldn’t let my wife see it packed for the ride back- No problem- we’ll ship it and she’ll never know. $500 less than he’d just listed it on line. I’ve made worse decisions and can check that cartridge off the list now.
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They somehow figured out she went out on a flight from Newark to San Jose. Not reported yet what tipped them off to the Newark flight. Once they had her pinned to being in CR it probably wasn't too hard...just took some time to ask around all the yoga studios if a new crazy gringo had been showing up.
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Interview is scheduled for 3 weeks from now when I make a Batan style march across the country for the visit. In the meantime, a neighbor is doing the bare basics as a gesture of goodwill. I can’t wait until she wants to backcharge his ass for something he did “wrong”.
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No where else to put this…. My MIL - Her yard man is missing in action. She’s pissed. He hasn’t returned calls or texts in 3 weeks. Odds are currently even that he’s a) died or b) ghosting her bc she’s a miser and probably hasn’t ever paid him a reasonable wage and he’s had it. She’s treating it like a class B felony and doesn’t know how he sleeps at night bla bla bla. MIL asked her neighbor (a licensed landscape architect) for a recommendation and he referred her to his guy who has been doing the architect’s yard for 10 years. She called today to tell us that on our upcoming trip to see her, she wants me to sit in on the “2nd interview”. She’s “interviewed” him once but wants a follow-up with me there. The fact that he’s good enough for a landscape architect isn’t enough. I’m not sure what her interrogation methods will be and how far into his history we’ll dig, but I’m sure she’ll start any wage offer at somewhere below the net cost of the gas required to run the mower.
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I have a Schlage keypad deadbolt. Wife and I have our code and Set a code for the housekeeper or anyone else we need. Change it when not needed. Installed myself and I can barely change a light bulb. Durable and high quality. Has a key for back-up but batteries last a year and give plenty of warning when getting depleted.
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FYI on those who want to keep reliable stashes of 5.56x45. Reports are that the federal government is considering stopping Lake City from selling to public. The Feds own Lake City and lease it to an independent contractor (Olin) to make 5.55 green tip to supply governmental needs. The feds allow the excess to go out for sale. It’s a big chunk of the 5.56 fmj market and prohibiting the sale of surplus to civilians will dramatically drive down supply and increase price. Their reason doesn’t need to be explained. Whether this goes through or not, ammo prices are not heading down in the foreseeable future, with this under consideration.
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