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Postby mattyb on Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:19 pm

Hi everyone. My name is Matt and I'm from New Prague.

This site was recommended to me by one of the guys in guns at Gander Mountain. Been snooping around reading posts and it seems like there are a lot of very knowledgable people here!

I have been around various types of guns my whole life (my father taught me to hunt when I was very little). Most of my experience has been with shotguns/rifles, but since serving in the military I have a new found appreciation for handguns. Qualified expert pistol shot with the M9 and it blossomed from there. I just recently got out of the Navy but while I was active I purchased two of my own (a S&W and a Glock, not an M9...).

I look forward to gaining a lot of insight from everyone and sharing my experiences!

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Re: Greetings

Postby hammAR on Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:33 pm

Welcome and thanks for your service...... :salute:

seems like you will fit in well with the rest of the squids, we have a whole school of them...... :cheers:
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Re: Greetings

Postby bstrawse on Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:19 pm

Welcome!

Thank you for your service -- what did you do the in Navy? I come from a family full of Navy veterans ;)
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Re: Greetings

Postby Belgiboy on Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:39 pm

Welcome, there is indeed a wealth of knowledge here together and some certified village idiots that drop by from time to time. Try to make it to one of the steel shoots and we'll ween you off that Glock :evil:
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Re: Greetings

Postby westhope on Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:51 pm

Hi Matt.

I graduated from High School in New Prague (1969). GO TROJANS! Live south of Owatonna now.

What are your shooting interests?
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Re: Greetings

Postby bullets on Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:53 pm

Welcome to the Forum!
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Re: Greetings

Postby Pat Cannon on Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:06 pm

The Gander Mountain guy was nicer to us than we usually are to Gander Mountain! :)

Welcome!
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Re: Greetings

Postby gman1868 on Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:53 pm

mattyb wrote:Hi everyone. My name is Matt and I'm from New Prague.

This site was recommended to me by one of the guys in guns at Gander Mountain.


Welcome!

Gander Mountain??

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Hehe ;)
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Re: Greetings

Postby Belgiboy on Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:04 pm

Pat Cannon wrote:The Gander Mountain guy was nicer to us than we usually are to Gander Mountain! :)

Welcome!

Yeah, that was what I was thinking too.
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Re: Greetings

Postby plblark on Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:21 pm

as with most companies, there's the Gander Mtn guy and Gander corp. Some people hereabouts have issues with GM Corp. Not much the guys behind the counter can generally do to affect corp level bad choices.
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Re: Greetings

Postby Eghead on Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:14 am

Hey, that Gander Mountain guy is me! Welcome to the boards.
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Re: Greetings

Postby mattyb on Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:24 am

bstrawse wrote:Welcome!

Thank you for your service -- what did you do the in Navy? I come from a family full of Navy veterans ;)
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I was an HM. Actually a DT but they merged the two ratings a number of years back. Those of us that were DT's before the merger though still considered ourselves DT's (for the non-navy in the forum, HM is a corpsman and DT is a dental tech...).
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Re: Greetings

Postby mattyb on Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:27 am

Eghead wrote:Hey, that Gander Mountain guy is me! Welcome to the boards.


Thanks for the tip! Already gotten a lot of good info! I wouldn't let the GM bashers in the forum get to you :lol: I've always been a Cabela's guy myself but found I can't afford most of their stuff anymore.
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Re: Greetings

Postby mattyb on Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:36 am

westhope wrote:Hi Matt.

I graduated from High School in New Prague (1969). GO TROJANS! Live south of Owatonna now.

What are your shooting interests?


In high school it was mostly hunting related, and mainly shotguns (duck and deer hunting) but lately I've been doing less and less of that. The last few years its been handguns. My first handgun purchase was a S&W Sigma .40 (I know, I know... but it was inexpensive and a good entry into the handgun world). Now the proud owner of a Glock 19 thanks to the military thing and I love it. Its simple and reliable enough for the wife to use if she were ever to need it. Also a bit of a history buff, so like probably everyone else I'd someday like to get my hands on a genuine 1911 military issue. We all have to have goals, right?
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Re: Greetings

Postby kevbey on Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:16 pm

Hey Matt - Welcome and thank you for your service!! My son is an MA in the Navy looking forward to a career in law enforcement when he returns to civilian life.

ps - He, too, is a big fan of the M9.
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