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But ... in actual hunting, single shot is the only way to go. A good scope is worth it, too.

In Canada we were trained to fire bursts, no limiter on our weapon sets, so it's not the mechanical cut out on the US versions, but we actually were more able to fire better bursts than US soldiers, because we "thought" about how the burst would be and compensated for it.

The only thing I can think that might be an exception is a Grizzly. A single shot from a 30.06 is unlikely to stop one of those, unless you get the difficult front on head shot that I would never try. Head shots are fine when sniping humans, but only because they uparmor the rest of their bodies. And only when you have clear surprise.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:34:25 -0800 The Stranger
@58 Come over to Bob's Country Bunker. We've got both kinds: Country AND Western!
http://www.theliberalgunclub.com/phpBB3/…
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:56:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Friendstastegood]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:09:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:09:48 -0800 The Stranger
I am getting very tired of the Right ignoring the first half of that Amendment and the Left ignoring the second half.


Posted by DonServo]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:51:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:38:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Big Matt G]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:04:05 -0800 The Stranger
@53: Smoking tobacco should indeed be banned everywhere, what people stick into their own bodies should be their business, but when they poison the air around them they make their choice everyone's choice.
Posted by Friendstastegood]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 02:16:53 -0800 The Stranger
If everybody commented on every comment that made them grin, the comments would be mostly comments commending comments. A comment's commendations would command considerable space, confounding continued consideration of the conservatives' confabulation.
Posted by ScrawnyKayaker]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:43:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ken Mehlman]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:21:27 -0800 The Stranger
So you want to wish death on those who exercise their Constitutionally enumerated natural right?

You will be doing us all a favor when you die of AIDS commie shit stain!
Posted by Cascadian Bacon]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:51:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by DonServo]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:59:24 -0800 The Stranger
Be careful what you ask for.
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:38:22 -0800 The Stranger I agree, in fact I think my gun club is far more diverse than the strangers readership.

@32
FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!

I doubt you want to be the one doing confiscations, you would send someone else to do your dirty work you authoritarian piece of shit.
Posted by Cascadian Bacon]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:08:00 -0800 The Stranger
English teachers have done a great disservice to students by instilling all sorts of wrongheaded nitpicks that enable to both empower the nitpicker to impede conversation ("well surely you mean _____") and to make condescending attempts at some sort of class distinction.
Posted by Q*bert H. Humphrey]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:15:25 -0800 The Stranger bunch of us got it but were just too busy shaking our heads (sadly) at those who didn't to bother chiming in... I'm tempted to start nitpicking about the misuse of the adjective "proven" as a past participle (in lieu of the correct "proved"), but it's widespread enough in American usage that I wouldn't get much sympathy.
Posted by PCM]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:05:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Anon7]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:03:14 -0800 The Stranger
*Yes, I'm one of those Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Obama-is-not-the-lesser-evil-but-the-more-effective-evil guys, but don't bother jumping on me; Washington was not a swing state. But hey, a hard-core socialist getting over 27% of the vote in the absence of a Republican greater evil -- Kshama Sawant vs. Frank Chopp in the 43rd LD -- is certainly interesting.
Posted by PCM]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:52:56 -0800 The Stranger
You do not win a fight by running away from your opponent's strengths. You win a fight by transforming an opponent's strength into a weakness. Political jiujitsu.

you claim the NRA is too strong to take on. Your fear of the NRA therefore amplifies their perceived strength. They punch above their weight, having a much smaller membership and less of a campaign warchest than most people see them as having. And the reason why this overblown image of the NRA as being too mighty to fight (kind of like the Great Oz) is so persistent is because liberals and progressives run from the NRA at the mere mention of their name.

The NRA is like a cat that puffs itself up to make itself seem larger than it is. I'm not claiming that kitty can't fight, but I am suggesting that you should stop describing it as a mountain lion when its really just a tabby.

Fly right at the NRA, take the fight to its doorstep and kick it in the jaw. You want to see just how small the NRA membership really is? Find someone who works for the organization as a paid member and get some snapshots of them in some kind of sexual imbroglio or smoking a joint. Within hours, every politician on the Hill will claim they've never been an NRA member.

it took one not very talented kid with a videocamera and a girlfriend who dresses in cheap furs to destroy ACORN. I won't deny that ACORN had its own problems (Wade Rathke robbed the organization and then the leadership refused to allow unions to organize their workers), but it was a political force to be reckoned with. And if all it took was this kid who still to this day lives in his parents' basement, that shows that nobody is too big. The NRA isn't too big, either. And if you had any real desire to win, you'd grab your videocamera and tell your bf to put on a cheap fur outfit, and then head over to NRA headquarters to put together a show.

Fight, you wussies, fight!
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:19:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by subwlf]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:14:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:34:55 -0800 The Stranger
Your argument consists of two parts.

1) The GOP is the Party of Death (POD). They endorse zero restrictions on high caliber assault rifles, rape, deregulation of everything including Public Health, the death penalty, constant warfare, and police brutality.

2) The Democrats must therefore compromise with the Party of Death, because not compromising with the POD would mean the POD would win the next election cycle.

The fact that one major party can endorse pro-Death politics and not have the argument framed in those terms by their opposition is a sign of where we have come as a country. The GOP has no problem using hyperbole to cast the Democrats in an unappealing light, but the Democrats have a hard time locating their spinal column when asked to do the same. This is like having a boxing match where one boxer has a club to beat the other with and the other just sort of stands there and whines about how juvenile his opponent is.

Do you want to know an even faster way to lose the White House to the GOP/POD? Insist on playing by the rules when your opposition doesn't have any rules.

You see this clown in AZ, the gun shop owner? You think he has any problem at all with the way he describes us? You think hes afraid he m,ight lose votes for his party if he calls for arming every US citizen, man woman and child, and declaring war on Canada? No, he's not afraid of losing votes for saying that kind of crazy bullshit, because he's likely to win votes for saying that kind of crazy bullshit. he doesn't compromise, and that's why he wins.

But you want to compromise. You want restraint. You want to appeal to the voters sense of reason rather than their viscera. he wins by talking to their emotions, their fears, their feelings, and you lose by talking to their reason.

You know what? Fuck the Far Right. I don't just want legal pot, I want Municipal Marijuana, growing out of a planter in front of City Hall. The Far Right is afraid of abortion? Fine, lets have it available at a drive thru at McDonalds. Fight hyperbole with hyperbole. Show them that if they want to play crazy, then two of us can play that game. They think Michelle Bachman is a serious politician? Then let's elect Roseanne Barr to the Senate.
Posted by Tacoma Traveler]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:01:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Minneapolitan on November 16, 2012 at 2:07 PM

You're kidding, right? "add" should be "ad" and the "your" in the ad was correct. you're the last person that should be making corrections.

you're = YOU ARE......so "you are business" is what you think they should have used?


Posted by JoshNelson]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:43:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by OppsSpagetts]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:42:52 -0800 The Stranger
It took a month and ten different gun shops before I found one that wasn't plastered with rightwing bullshit, owned/staffed by nasty little would-be Rambos and John Waynes, and/or had a history of "losing" stock out the back door.

I finally did find one that was polite, professional, ran their business strictly to the law, and didn't cater to crazies. (I often brought my own targets when using their firing range, and the rangemaster always insisted on inpecting them before I went on the line. I found out why when a first-timer turned up with a variety pack of targets featuring the Clintons and Bin Laden, among others; they bounced the guy and barred him for life on the spot.)

Weirdly, the gun shops I've been in the Northwest don't seem to trowel on the teabagger craziness to any extent at all.
Posted by DonServo]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:19:41 -0800 The Stranger