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    Advice please: Cataract surgery vs iron sights

    Thanks again, Gents!
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    Advice please: Cataract surgery vs iron sights

    Thanks very much for all your responses, Gents! I'll report when the second patch is removed (sometime after Xmas). Two LR lenses it is!
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    Advice please: Cataract surgery vs iron sights

    Hey Guys, In a couple weeks I'm gonna have surgery on both eyes (two weeks apart one eye each visit). I've been told that they're gonna insert a lens in each eye, and that I have a choice of whether I want near-sighted or far-sighted lenses installed. My eyes are bad enough now that I can't...
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    Trade Colt Commander for Vickers Master Class?

    I'm a BIG 1911 fan. I've gone through my share, from a WWII Remington (that I sometimes wished I'd kept, but it wasn't an heirloom and had no sentimental value) to OEM Colts (including a nickeled 70s Commander) to SA, Kimbers, Baers, Browns, a multitude of Wilson Combats to Ted Yosts, Heirloom...
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    The "We All Started Somewhere" thread...

    Daayuumm.... old memories. I paid 'way more than I should have for a Ruger No.1 in .308. Mounted a used Weaver 3x-10x on it with Banner(?) rings it came with and had the requisite Harris bipod. Why Ruger No 1? Because as you said, there was no internet around yet, and I wanted to see if I really...
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    Movie Theater Don't watch movies thread

    Zardoz. Cain't bleeve this ain't the first mentioned. And I hate to admit I fall in with Maser. Shit. But I was never a fan of John Twang... a box office draw and well-known movie star since what, 1935, but avoided service with a hardship deferment? "Sands of Iwo Jima", "Flying Tigers", and...
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    Maggie’s Socially UNacceptable Humor

    Wrong. "nigglet": Me and 28 other nigglets
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    Which Firearm Did You Buy And Couldn't Wait To Get Rid Of?

    Les Baer Premier II (?). A real piece of made-on-Friday shit. This was back in the days when I lived in CA; hadda buy it on the blind because no stores had them for sale (or inspection). The fit and finish was worse than some of the chineee imitation 1911s--Norincos, et al. Milling marks on the...
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    Which Firearm Did You Regret Selling

    OUCH!! Mine would be a pre-WWII German-made Walther PPK/s "L" Dural in .22LR. Ass that I was, I sold it because I made a significant profit. A 99%+ aluminum-framed PPK/s... frustrates me just thinking about it. Th'only consolation is, at the time, I needed the money the gun sales at the time...
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    What are you listening to?

    I prefer the symphonic video, but for them what get bored quickly, there's this version which I'll post as the hook: the symphony video:
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    Anybody running mini split ac units ?

    Mitsubishi. Nothing but smiles. I bought mine after extensive internet research/reading and multiple trips to Japan. A/C tech/practices are different there than here. Here in the USA, we're mostly central heating and A/C. In Japan, every home has a split unit in each and every room (except...
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    Anybody use PODS type moving service?

    3 PODS for ~$6000. We moved from Gulf Coast to Missouri. Delivery, pickup, and delivery again were on time within 15 minutes each time. All three PODS delivered and re-delivered simultaneously--a big point if you don't keep track of which POD has your necessities (which I'm told is sometimes a...
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    White supremacy is the reason for all racism

    What a fuckin' crock of Ho shit... Listen to me: my last name ends in "... O-N-G". My father was a significant player in the Bing Kong Tong (org) in San Francisco's Chinatown. I grew up in SF (and Chinatown) until I was 10 and we moved to Berkeley. I left Berkeley when I was 30, and finally...
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    Suggestions for a CCW, but has to be .45ACP

    Like the OP, I "grew up" on 1911s. I'd suggest to the OP to consider another 1911. Years ago I finally settled on a SigSauer GSR. I had three reasons for staying with the 1911 platform: 1) Most importantly, I trained for years exclusively with a 1911; muscle memory has me thumbing for the...
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    Dave Ramsey Financial Peace

    I'd never heard of Dave Ramsey til I was in my late 40s; by then I had recovered from a credit card hammering in my late 20s. I've been "debt free" except for the mortgage since I was ~32 years old. (Yeah, I financed the first car.) Got my financial strategy from the school of hard knocks...
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    Lawnmowers

    Zero-turn is cooler in the summer because you're sitting in front of the engine, "fleeing" from the heat it disperses as you ride. Ifn your in humid/hot weather state, that could be something to consider. Zero-turns take a little longer to learn to drive but it's nothing that can't be learned...
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    Out of Stock

    Two days ago, our new refrigerator was finally delivered. I ordered it on Sept 10 last year, and they warned me outright--"we have no way to estimate a delivery date. Covid has decimated the assembly line process and supply chain." Sooo... 5 months and a day is what it took to get a GE...
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    Maggie’s Sports stories...

    Not a sports story, but a genuine sports question for ya'll... It is indirectly related to Pat Summerall... I was watching an old Super Bowl game and John Madden commenting with Pat Summerall about a Cincinnati coach named "Dick Mojeleski". I didn't know the correct spelling for the last name...
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    Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

    Can't help ya... I dunno who played. ;)
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    Pick your favorite Hollywood celebrity.

    Tom Selleck, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart (who tried to enlist when he was 42 years old unlike John Twang who didn't serve), Martha Raye, Jimmy Stewart, Charles Durning. Yeah, I know... only Tom is alive today. As for the rest of MSM's "Hollywood celebrities", FUCK'em.
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