Revenge of the Nerds part 5

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Re: Need some starting points for .25-06

Postby infidel on Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:20 am

FJ540 wrote:
infidel wrote:
dtapper2 wrote:This just goes to show that a few bad guys can really bring down a whole group. Thanks to those of you that PM'd me offering to give some advise or words of wisdom.

There are some genuinely good people out there. Just not all in this thread...thanks again to those who responded positively.


I should let this go, but I cant. First of all you are a NOOB. You are also a NOOB at reloading. Your actions speak volumes. Do you always call people with more knowledge than you an @sshole? Grow the **** up. It is not the people who have been here for years that are ruining this forum. Look in the ******** mirror. You should put me on ignore also.


Someone who's been here 2 years is a noob?

He might not be a post whore like some folks, but I'm looking at the time in grade and having difficulty stripping rank for it.


My apologies, I got him confused with the sock puppet.
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Re: Need some starting points for .25-06

Postby FJ540 on Thu Jun 13, 2013 12:38 am

JTapper?

Bad news there too - I've known Jeff longer than I've even known this board existed. He's good people.
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Re: Need some starting points for .25-06

Postby Seismic Sam on Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:59 am

Well, I know FJ540 personally, and he's fine, so I'm at a bit of a loss on this one, if he says JTapper is good people. If he's been around that long, and he's seen some of the downright dangerous n00bs we've had through here, then he should understand my general M.O. and reason for doing it. If he didn't like what I said, he could have just told me the background of the situation, and then cheerily wished that I'd go back to the EFFEN Gopher Bar, and stare at the STFU t-shirts on the wall for a while. I'm at a complete loss as to where all that rage and indignation came from, and the comment about me bringing the board down lately is completely false, as anyone can see from the first post date that's listed below the poster's name. Oh well. life goes on...
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Re: Revenge of the Nerds part 5

Postby dtapper2 on Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:19 am

Changed the name of the thread to more appropriately depict what is being discussed here. Maybe this should be moved to the basement?...
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Re: Revenge of the Nerds part 5

Postby FJ540 on Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:49 am

Jeff's a very safety conscious guy. Dave's his brother, whom I've never met (at least I'm not aware of it if we did). Between the two of them, I'm pretty sure that if their buddy is loading for them, he's like if any of us had Oldman make us ammo, or Pete (RIP), or, or... There's lots of people who've had an 06 FFL at one point in time who might not have it now and don't make dangerous loads.

Sam, I do understand where you're coming from, and I do know why you go off like you do. I didn't see this thread go south until I got an email from Jeff yesterday asking what crawled up everyone's butts.

I really like my .25-06. It's a wonderful cartridge with lots of potential. Notice I updated my first post to 4831 - I was mistaken on the last digit. If you want a good load, use that and the game kings (John at Gun Stop hooked me up with this combo) with some lower/minimum power loads and it'll surprise you how well they shoot.
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Re: Revenge of the Nerds part 5

Postby Seismic Sam on Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:42 am

Well, as far as where I come from, it's actually unimaginably worse than a normal person can comprehend. Bethesda is THE critical injury/brain injury rehab hospital in Minnesota, and the only place that can compare might be Mayo. We get the worst of the worst, that are barely still living, from any impossibly horrible and unlikely car wreck, 1 in a million accident, or downright dumb decisions. Had a young guy who was going 20 MPH in his pickup, had a brand new $20 hat he really liked, and it blew out of his pickup window. So he opens he door and jumps out of his pickup to get it, and seeing as he's doing 20 when his feet hit the ground he goes straight backwards and COMPLETELY shatters the right/rear side of his skull. I estimate a loss in total skull volume of about 10%, and his face was definitely lopsided on the right. He had 5 buddies who were giving him unmerciful **** when I showed up with Sasha, which was good therapy, but the fact of the matter was that his life was going to be changed forever, and it hadn't even sunk in yet while he was there. And what I see every day is the haunting, omnipresent, regret, pain, and desire to just somehow get back in time before those 3 or 4 seconds of disaster, and have the ability to choose a different path. It eats away at the patients and pretty much their entire families, but you can never go back. Some get past it, some don't, and are haunted by it for the rest of their lives.

So what seems like a ridiculous, asinine, totally improbable assumption about what COULD go wrong in this forum or the rest of the world to normal folks is what I see three times a week for the last 30 months, and the number of destroyed and totally altered lives that we have gotten up close and personal with is probably closing in on 3,000 patients, and that's not even counting family members. Making a mistake with reloading is probably one of the fastest express routes into the world that I work in, and total transit time is probably something like 20 milliseconds. Haven't seen one of those yet that I know of, but I can never ask any questions about any particular situation. So scoff all you want, and feel free about having a cow over how that could NEVER happen to you and I'm a butthead for saying it could. I can say with certainty that 99% of the people Sasha and I see felt that way at one point in their lives that they will NEVER get back.
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