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  1. I’m getting the itch to bowl more frequently.

    I was in a league years ago with friends and had a 150 average. I’m currently a mostly straight bowler with a baby hook, but I want to develop my hook a little more. YouTube has a fuckton of videos on trying to show the right way to bowl. I feel like I’m in the weeds.

    Living in pflugerville, Spare time is my closest but the oil really seems to prevent much of a hook. And the league seems to eat up all the lanes on Wednesday nights. I’d join but the league is full. So I only get to bowl about half the time I show up. It’s kind of frustrating. Apparently there are lanes at Bass Pro and Austin Park and Pizza I could try but I don’t expect much better conditions for either of those.

    I even tried tried to get a lane at Pinstack(?) on tech ridge but it also had a huge wait on a weeknight. I feel like my best bet is to drive a little further back into town at Highland Lanes.

    How easy is it to get into the leagues at Highland as a solo?

  2. I shot a Sig 1911 and forgot how fun the 1911 is to shoot.   I've been focusing on 9mm guns for a while.  An all metal 1911 is just such a thing of beauty.

    They do make 9mm 1911. Sounds like blasphemy to the 1911 purists, but 9mm is a whole lot cheaper than .45.

    I have a Rock Island model that I have bought, sold and bought again. And there are higher end 9mm models like the DW here.
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    Speaking of CZ Brat, you can get replacement grips to gussy up the gifts this summer. The green ones are aluminum but there are plenty out there.

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  3. Ever buy any scales from this guy in Germany? I love to just look at his gallery.

    https://cuscadi.de

    I bought one for a grip and one for a PM II. I found out that I love how micarta looks when new, but not how dirty looking it becomes if you handle the knife a lot. All the oils in the hands. It’s a shame because they were very high quality.

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    Yes. I did. When I started scale swapping there were only a couple people doing it (cuscadi, DoaT, and Keyman). Slowly found others that were cheaper than Cuscadi.

    I bought a used set off a BF member at some point. They always looked really good.

    Ultimately sold them because they were easy to get good money for them. I regret it now.
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  4. any of you ever dye your scales? I'm down a rabbit hole right now I hate this thread

    I have on a couple occasions. I got a clearance yellow spyderco and used dye to make it orange. Similarly took a clearance pink to purple/black. Twice was enough for me.

    I moved on to buying custom scales from users on bladeforums, flytanium, AWT and others.
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  5.  
    Do you have a Tagged Out? The size is slightly larger than my Bugout but it's still a featherweight which I like. They've got a new model with S45vn, G10 and a thumb stud. Fucking $270 though, Jesus H.
     
     
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    No on the tagged out. I’m not really interested in that one. My wallet agrees.

    Give it a few months and I might change my mind.


  6. I was skeptical as the bugout seemed like the evolution of another Benchmade with flat scales. It felt cheap and flexed tops much. Whatever they changed made them feel like a more quality product.

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    The knife I was thinking of was the 530 / 531 Pardue. Zero ergonomics, just two flat slabs and not much grip.

    The 535 Bugout doesn’t feel premium but it doesn’t feel cheap and the scales have decent grip.
  7. I finally picked up a banter. I can see how many think this is a perfect EDC knife. Very, very nice. Only complaint is access to the liner lock is not ideal. You kind of have to dig around with your thumb a bit to disengage it. But overall, excellent knife. If it was priced at $90 they would sell a bazillion of them. I got mine for $108.

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    I have the dark green version. You’re right it’s almost perfect. It was designed by a former blade hq staffer that used to do their YouTube talks “what is up guys”.

    Which is why if find it bizarre they did not sculpt out some of the g10 opposite the liner lock to allow easier access. It’s the only drawback to the knife.
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  8. How is the mini grip vs the full size griptilian and mini grip vs the bugout? Thanks.

    The mini grip was my go-to for a long time. At my peak I had 8 or 9 of them. Some with custom scales, and I had all the blade shapes. My favorite blade shape is the one with the spyder hole, just slightly better than the Ritter style. I think they have discontinued both which is annoying. Doug Ritter has taken his blade shape over to Hogue.

    The mini grips are great for a daily carry. I forget I have one until I need it. The full size grip feels substantially larger but still lighter than say a buck knife. I notice the full size grip when I carry it mainly because it hits my keys in my pocket.

    Most of my knife use is opening boxes so a mini grip is enough for me. If I were really having to work the knife, the full size would be better.

    Comparing the mini grip to the bugouts I find that I like the shape of the mini grip in hand. The scales on the bugout are flatter and less ergonomic. With the flat scales they absolutely disappear in the pocket. I was skeptical as the bugout seemed like the evolution of another Benchmade with flat scales. It felt cheap and flexed tops much. Whatever they changed made them feel like a more quality product.

    I like both. The mini bugout probably gets carried most out of those.
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  9. I guess the latest fads are axis and button locks. I like axis ok, not my favorite, but for whatever reason I have an aversion to button locks. Likely irrationally. Anyone else?

    Thinking I should finally get a banter and was considering a Kizer Drop Dog and/or SOG Terminus XR. Any experience with those?

    No experience with those, but for a button lock, the Kizer Original comes in a lot of options and is a good option. I have a copper one. I got it during a Mojave Outdoors sales that come up every few months. It was cheap. 5f0010040b83ea2128f4f6cee89e3ba7.jpg
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  10. A newer hi power, made in Belgium, but assembled in Portugal. But, I’m a big fan of the platform. I absolutely love how it sets up in your hand. 
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    My next purchase will be the Springfield SA-35.

    I regret selling my surplus hi power every time I look at the safe.
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  11. My wife (43, 5’2”, no pics) had a Bersa Thunder .380 with a laser grip for a while. It was what we settled on after some full size S$W .38 revolvers, Ruger pocket revolvers, and some other options. The bersa was hers for years but was so lightweight, the snappy nature annoyed her. Range trips were short.

    I brought home a Glock g48 9mm for myself.

    At our next range trip, she tried the Glock. She was able to rack the slide easier than the bersa. The snap was easier. She was able to get a comfortable grip, better than any of my other pistols.

    The Glock is now hers.

    Everyone has their best option. Rent, rent, rent. Then buy. It’s cheaper.

  12. It's a none issue.   I looked at the 34 earlier and the stock release switch is better than the 17's.   But, I also looked at the Walther, Springfield and several others.   I liked something about everyone of them but the Walther and Echelon were my favorites.   The shop closest to home has a used Sig 226 for $500.   HPD officer turned it in and they think it might have 200-300 rounds through it.   I was not going to spend what a 226 should cost new but that used one is making me really think about it.  

    Sig 226 for $500 Is a great deal.

    PDs will issue sides and there are officers that only qualify when they have to. Sidearms will go months without firing according to my retired APD cousin. Believe it or not, some cops are not gun nuts or care very little about range time. He never carried what he was issued. Instead he opted to carry a Glock G21 .45.

    That being said, every used pistol I got off TGT “only had 250 rounds through it”. Right.

    Also could have been an end of contract situation. A cop may have gotten a Sig P320 as part of a new contract so he sold his old carry.

    The departments will also sell whole batches of unissued firearms if they change primary contracts. The first few Glock G22s I bought at GT distributors were department inventory that still had the manufacturer bronze paste or whatever that stuff was. Never fired, never cleaned.

    Again, It’s a good buy. I have a 226 and it’s a great gun.

    If I didn’t have a CZ I would shoot it a lot more than I do.
  13. No regrets here. It’s a lot of money for a pocket knife especially when I have dozens of really good knives already. It’s not better at opening boxes than my others and it won’t be the end of my knife habit.

    It is a good looking knife and I really like the blue stud and spacer.

    I knew it was a big knife but it does not eat as much pocket space as I thought it would. It takes up about the same space as a Griptillian and less than a spyderco shaman.

    It’s pretty stiff so I’m bruising my thumb trying to break it in.

    Similar to my small Sebenza you can tell it’s a quality knife.

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  14. After years of hemming and hawing, this arrived today: Chris Reeve Large Sebenza 31

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    The small Sebenza I bought used a few years ago used on bladeforums so I knew I’d get a large Sebenza eventually.

    They seem impossible to find retail and sell out on the bf exchange immediately.

    Thankfully, CRK changed the design on their inlays so I didn’t form over an extra $150 for the micarta version.

    Ultimately found an authorized dealer on eBay Action Concepts based in ….. Austin.


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  15. A fuckton....seriously people don't understand physics and just how much water they have in their pool.  Put it this way, if you got say a 20K gallon pool you have about 170K pounds of water in there aand are gonna need 8000+ pounds of ice to drop that bitch 10 degrees.  

    Physics involves the science of motion.

    Thermodynamics involves the science of a change in temperature.

    I think. Actually I have no idea. I was a math major.
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