Man, pool halls are dangerous

Benelli said:
Not to derail the Concealed Carry thread but I have learned that this was in fact NOT gang related as previously reported in the thread.

It was in fact the pool halls Friday night BCA league attempting to convince the Wednesday night APA league to "relocate" because of spilled drinks and food on the tables...
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So what, now you are trying to say leagues aren't gangs?(grin)

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
I was reading down before posting but my guess was the red cloth too. Almost justified, that crap will make you go blind!

Hu
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I remember that hollywood billiards changed all of their tables to red cloth right before either the seminole tour event or the swannee memorial event and required everyone to use red chaulk... Pissed off a lot of players.
 
Jaden said:
I remember that hollywood billiards changed all of their tables to red cloth right before either the seminole tour event or the swannee memorial event and required everyone to use red chaulk... Pissed off a lot of players.
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We had much the same happen but worse. The hall even put it in the tournament flier that red chalk must be used. By local peons that is. They ignored traveling players using whatever color they pleased. Was supposed to be a DQ. Total horse caca when one player at a table had to use red chalk and the other player didn't. To add insult to injury the red crap the hall furnished was some junk off brand.

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
I see you are still around so I will respond to this old post, I don't think I ever did directly. My history around glocks goes back around forty years. I have seen them refuse to function, break too. Have to admit I have seen 1911's fail to function too but never a Hubilt one. They are famous for running like seven day clocks.

They have probably tinkered with plastic formulas since then but glocks were breaking, the plastic breaking, in New York City. There are colder places than NYC in the US and I would hate to be betting my ass on those glocks. The design of those glocks pretty much sucked too. My Colt Commander still has the series 80 parts in it and hasn't had any issues ever, decades now.

My nephew has two or three commissions and toted a glock as his duty piece. Another brother, not his father, and I were at the nephew's house. We were talking pistols a bit and my nephew said a 1911 wasn't accurate. My brother didn't even look at me. We were in my truck so he knew where the Commander was. "Get the Commander." It was in rock and roll mode, loaded to the brim with 230 grain Hydro-Shoks. There was a little berm rolled up, a heavy truck tire track. We put a sixteen ounce coke bottle in front of it and my nephew set up at about twenty to twenty-five yards out. First shot made the bottle fly and the lid came off. Second shot, the coke bottle flew out of sight behind the little berm. I figured point proven but my brother had no mercy. "You can still see the cap." Third shot got the cap. No more crap about a 1911 not being accurate.

When I was in tune I could put fifteen shots in a hole it was hard to point your fingers and force your hand through, rapid fire, ten yards. Happened to be a federal agent on the lane next to me when I did my usual finish to a day's shooting, fifteen center, fifteen head of a B-27 police silhouette. Draw, fifteen rounds, reload, fifteen more, somewhere between ten and twelve seconds total. I happened to notice the fed. He was literally white as a sheet. Only a few times in my life I have seen someone that pale. He started coming out once or twice a week and got pretty good himself. He toted a Sig. P-220? preplastic fantastic.

I am not slapping glocks in particular, I wouldn't want to carry anything plastic to bet my life on.

Hu
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My .40 Glock surprisingly failed after 4-5 hundred rounds at the range, but it was a metal component. Still, I love its consistent trigger action & higher capacity, so my Commander became history for personal defense. Myths re: 1911 inaccuracy unfortunately prevail. It’s single-action trigger configuration dominates target shooting.
 
loggerhead12 said:
I love Glocks. You can hammer with them, they're dishwasher-safe, and they absolutely shoot well enough for self defense.

Also, no one is allowed in the house with anything but 9mm or 5.56/.223. For sentimental reasons I do keep a .357 but it's not part of the regular rotation.
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The feds in Miami learned the hard way re: 9mm over-penetration. 357 maybe also. Stopping force wasted.
 
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loggerhead12 said:
I love Glocks. You can hammer with them, they're dishwasher-safe, and they absolutely shoot well enough for self defense.

Also, no one is allowed in the house with anything but 9mm or 5.56/.223. For sentimental reasons I do keep a .357 but it's not part of the regular rotation.
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I prefer a Cz and an Hk over a Glock. Not appealing for me. There's really no point on using a higher caliber rifle for practical reasons. I'd rather have a high cap pistol over high caliber. Ease of use, accuracy and cap. Not exactly going to war against a paper target. 10mm would be my magic number. 9mm for everything else.
 
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ShootingArts said:
A common designation to indicate going into disputed territory in vietnam among other places. I have heard the term used to describe hostile territory in the mideast too. Wasn't an uncommon term in the old westerns I was and am a fan of. "Indian Country" is hostile territory. The designation has been being used from at least the eighteen hundreds to today. This originated in the last century or before and proceeded into this one. All of NO and much of the surrounding area was "Indian Country". I can also say the term started in the last millennium and continues in use in this one.

A chuckle, I was often mistaken for an American Indian and got along great with the peoples of the Southwest for the most part. There is one tribe that is still extremely hostile to anyone but purebloods. They publicly ran all halfbreeds off of the reservation a few decades ago. That reservation was and is "Indian Country". A threat to life and limb to enter it and it isn't marked off in any manner on much of it's perimeter. Enter at your own peril! Trespass and you may find you entered the old west.

Hu
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How would they determine a pure blood from a half-breed? Are they like the Indian Mafia?
 
manwon said:
I conceal carried for approximately 40 years and I carry the same pistol never changed it up. I carried a Walther PPK 380 auto nickel plated, I like the size of it. Because one could tell I was carrying when I carried that weapon. I had a simple philosophy for conceal carry never pull a gun. Never let anyone see the gun unless you're gonna shoot someone. Mid 1990s in a restaurant in Tacoma Washington I was faced with a situation where I had to pull my gun. My wife and I were having dinner when a very large guy came into the restaurant and stabbed the customer three tables down from us, and I clearly saw the whole thing.

I jumped up and immediately told him to stop, at that point, the guy started coming after me. Again I told him to stop twice but he just kept coming, so I double tapped his ass dead center of mass. To make a longer story short, the prosecutor for Tacoma Washington decided after viewing video and witness statements that I was justified in shooting this guy so no charges were pressed against me. Approximately a month later, I went down to the Tacoma police station and picked up my pistol. That's the end of the story. 😎
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I love to get that Walther and been eyeing it for a longtime. The only experience I had with shooting another person would be seeing my dad at close range shooting at armed robbers. I saw the discipline on how he discharged his weapon unlike the clearly inexperienced ICE agents. My dad anyway is a former national guard.
 
Hungarian said:
You have zero clue what you are talking about.
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He kind of does. The term "third world country" is no longer an official designation. Now they call them developing nations.

Either way, Ecuador is definitely behind. I lived there a couple of years. It has stunning natural beauty and loads of natural resources, but the extreme poverty leads to extreme violence.
 
loggerhead12 said:
He kind of does. The term "third world country" is no longer an official designation. Now they call them developing nations.

Either way, Ecuador is definitely behind. I lived there a couple of years. It has stunning natural beauty and loads of natural resources, but the extreme poverty leads to extreme violence.
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Semantics. It’s a shit hole. How about that?
 
Hail Mary Shot said:
I prefer a Cz and an Hk over a Glock. Not appealing for me. There's really no point on using a higher caliber rifle for practical reasons. I'd rather have a high cap pistol over high caliber. Ease of use, accuracy and cap. Not exactly going to war against a paper target. 10mm would be my magic number. 9mm for everything else.
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I prefer any hammer fired pistol over striker fired. I liked my glock but I preferred my 92fs.

To the over penetration, use suppressed subsonic and you don't have to worry about overpenetration.
 
Jaden said:
I prefer any hammer fired pistol over striker fired. I liked my glock but I preferred my 92fs.

To the over penetration, use suppressed subsonic and you don't have to worry about overpenetration.
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Suppressors make concealed carry problematic though.
Like choosing the best wine or motor oil, the best pistol model, caliber, & projectile selection involves myriad issues/circumstances, and everyone has his favorite regardless of evidence.
 
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