Picked up my NEW TOY today...always fun!!!

[Delija]

Picked up my new red dot sight today. Seems very cool, but I did not get a chance to try it yet.

I went to the gun show at West Palm today and by the time I got back to the store to pick up my gun, the range was closed. I left the gun there on Thursday for the gunsmith to zero the sight and make sure everything was okey-dokey (suggestion of the sales guy, who I do trust).

I feel like a kid at Christmas waiting to shoot the thing tomorrow!!!

The mount is a B-Square. The sight is a Hakko "MK III" ("BED 35"..whatever that means).

Seems like a lot of guys post pics of their guns with a knife in the picture, so to fit in I have my key-chain Swiss Army Knife included in one of the photos...LOL

I did pick up an all stainless auto (switchblade) knife at the gun show today. Seems pretty sturdy but for $5 I don't really expect much. But you never know. Last gun show I bought a pair of folding "nose hair" scissors for $3 and they've served me very well!!!

The only things that I really thought about at the gun show (in the way of guns) was a Makorov for $140, but I don't know which ones are worth what...this was a Polish version. They had plenty and there's always another gun show.

I have been thinking of getting a Kel-Tec .380 for convenience of carry, but the prices were pretty much the same as at the local gun store, so I'd rather buy from where I know.

I saw my first 9mm Rohrbaugh pistol which would also be an ideal carry piece, but it was a LOT more expensive than the Kel-Tec and I don't know anything about them (other than they are small....and now I also know they are expensive).

Peace,
D.

[one-eyed-fatman]

Delija... Your having to much fun. Send it to me so I can try it out.

[Delija]

Originally Posted by one-eyed-fatman

Delija... Your having to much fun. Send it to me so I can try it out.

OEFM....I keep telling you...we should hook up in NYC and do some shooting there!!!! LOL

My buddy I went to the gun show with mentioned to me that the knife I got today would get me some jail time in NYC if I were caught with it. His dad was a NYC cop.

In truth it probably would be trouble here too if I didn't have a CCW permit. They don't say anything about that when they sell the knives. They just take the money.

Anyway, I will give some serious consideration to sending you all my guns. It's probably true that I am having too much fun and you could help me out by taking the stuff off my hands. It would be sort of like me eating all your food and drinking all your beer....I'd do it to help you out and get you to be the One Eyed Skinny Man. LOL.

I'm having so much fun I'm sitting here posting to this forum on a Saturday night!!! Banished to the dog-house in the brain of my (looking now like) future ex-girlfriend.

Almost makes me sorry that I was a completely inconsiderate, selfish, immature, and whatever else she told me I was kind of guy the other day. I wish I knew what I did. But I don't. Which seems to be the problem. (Nothing new, same stuff from girls all my life).

Peace,
D.

[Delija]

How do we survive in the world economy?

I mentioned in the first post of this thread that I had bought a switchblade knife at a gun show today for $5.

$5 seems cheap. It appeared to be stainless steel, but you never know. I just looked closely at the blade and it doesn't say. But it does say "Min Sheng"...so I "Googled" up Min Sheng, and it's apparently a district of Taipei.

So is that where the knife was made? Can't be sure. Because on Google the search also came up with a "Min Sheng stainless steel knife". So I really can't be sure if it's a brand, a place, both, a style, or what.

Taipei stuff is more expensive than stuff from mainland China. A place it could possibly be from....who knows what "Min Sheng" means in Chinese? (not me).

My point is that this seemingly well made hunk of stainless steel comes from someplace very far away. It costs money to ship, it has raw material, workmanship (pretty nice looking workmanship) and it's profitable for someone to sell for $5. The web site I found that has the knife for sale is some kind of auction site. The starting price is $4. (The shipping is $5.95...LOL).

I guess we just are beyond being a country that can manufacture. Yet we somehow do. We make cars. We make a lot of tools....the tool industry would seem very vulnerable to foreign competition just judging by this little knife....I mean what can be more similar to tools than a knife?

Maybe I am easily impressed (if that's the right word)....but I am somewhat amazed that this knife can be manufactured elsewhere and transported and sold here for a profit so cheap.

It cost me $3 for a bottle of water at the gun show. Gasoline is over $2.50 a gallon but it's still a HUGE bargain compared to drinking water???

Will all our grandchildren have to be software designers and architects and physicians? Are factory workers in America going to be an extinct species?

Yeah...I am confused.

http://bladeauction.com/cgi-bin/osa/...mNumber=802400

Or maybe rather than being doctors and engineers and such, we should all be Ebay sellers:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...523503190&rd=1



Peace,
D.

[one-eyed-fatman]

Will all our grandchildren have to be software designers and architects and physicians?

Dam man, where you been? Illegal are getting those jobs.

[Delija]

Originally Posted by one-eyed-fatman

Dam man, where you been? Illegal are getting those jobs.

LOL....it seems that way sometimes. Must be easy to get into medical school in India.... that or the Indian people are smarter than us.

Either way, they aren't "illegals"...just immigrants. They may be "illegals" in the sense they are criminals for charging too much money, but I don't think that's what you meant.

About six months ago or so my son called me up and asked me to send him his birth certificate. He said he needed it to get a South Carolina driver's license and they needed proof of citizenship (or non citizenship...I guess they just want to know either way). So he couldn't just use his Florida license.

I said to him that he should just show them his military ID. He said that was useless....plenty of non American citizens in the US Navy. Then I said to him he should show them his top secret clearance badge. He said that he wasn't allowed to display it to anyone except Navy guards.

I sent him is birth certificate. By some miracle he didn't lose it. Brought it back to me Christmas. He also never bothered to get the driver's license. I understand him about as well as I understand women.

Peace,
D.

[one-eyed-fatman]

I was talking illegals from the south border. They need work you know. I can see corporate America hiring $8.00 an hour doctors. Corporate America is getting so cheap ass they are becoming embarrassing.

plenty of non American citizens in the US Navy.

Non American's earning their U.S. citizenship by serving in the military is mighty fine with me.

[Delija]

Originally Posted by one-eyed-fatman

Non American's earning their U.S. citizenship by serving in the military is mighty fine with me.

I wasn't aware that's how it worked. I thought that the military accepted some foreign nationals on more of an "exchange student" kind of deal. If they were from allied nations and wanted to serve I thought they could. I had no idea it earned them citizenship.

I guess I just never thought about it really. But what you say makes perfect sense and seems more than fair.

I do know that no matter what they can't get clearance in the nuke program like my kid. I wonder if naturalized citizens can get into the nuke program.

I'd ask my son, but he probably doesn't know.

I asked him who he was going to vote for for President last fall. He asked me who was running... (True).

Good to know my little space case is running a nuclear reactor.

As we say in New York....Oy Vay!!!

LOL

Peace,
D.

[one-eyed-fatman]

Geez... Did we get off topic? :P We bad.

[Delija]

Originally Posted by one-eyed-fatman

Geez... Did we get off topic? :P We bad.

Not the first time.

Tomorrow I will shoot with the new sight. Full range report to follow. Right back on topic!!!

I hope the battery lasts until then. I've been having a lot of fun playing with this thing all night. If nothing else, it is the ultimate night sight!!! (and a cool toy).

Peace,
D.