The 3G Ramblings & General Discussion Thread (Trois)
It's one thing if it's a request. It's another if it's part of their repertoir. I love seeing these 40+ year old guys that claim to be DJs, but all they do is select songs from itunes and press play on their laptop. Such skills! Much impressive!
Even in war, my father and others have told me that guys get gun shy in the field. I think that's the reason they drill infantry much more these days, although it's not shared among all armed forces. I've taken out plenty of friends who are in the service but haven't fired a gun since boot. They had the jitters because boot was their first experience shooting, so it's not a skill they continued.
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The better your audio equipment, the easier it is to tell a crappy quality file from a higher quality one. I have a good amount of money into my set up and it's always finely tuned for each event individually - why put my repuation/future business on the line for a 128kbps Chicken Dance?
I want to buy high-end audio. But my ears are so burned out.. probably waste of money. I did take NPR's test with tidal samples on several songs. I first listened to a pure output on my laptop through my Sony XBRs, scored 1 out of 10 on uncompressed, but guessed 9/10 on the 320kbps.. then I put on AT M50x through a DAC.. got 8/10 uncompressed, 2/10 320. obamanotbad.jpg
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I'll teach again once I move back to da aina. I still keep my membership active non-teaching status. Shiett.. I'll teach you how to shoot guns underwater tho. I still have my bang stick. I had some bros fab a bang stick for a 12-gauge shell.. they dumb AF.
A bullet doesn't travel very far underwater, so you need to get close to your target (fish). If you shoot a fish with 12-gauge buck / birdshot at close range, you're going to blow it the fuck up. I never saw how it ended for them, buttt was like.. good luck.
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It's funny you bring that up- I remember seeing stats for soldiers using their weapons in WWI vs WWII. I don't remember the numbers (although I'm sure they can be easily found online), but the soldiers in WWI rarely fired when given a chance. At the end of the war, the big boys looked into it, realized the soldiers needed more training, confidence, etc. The numbers of bullets used per soldier in WWII went up signifcantly.
Everybody should learn to shoot. Shit, I think everyone should carry. Can't go back, might as well go forward. Once you start carrying, it goes from.. I wonder if people know I'm carrying? This shit feels weird at my hip... to feeling naked without carrying, almost forgetting you packin' heat. I laughed at Chad's notion that I'd drop his fucking ass, because getting in a fight while I have my pistol on me is the last thing I want to do. I'm way more inclined to not get into some shit when I have my burner cuhhzzz...
I chuckled at Chad too because I'd be surprised if you pulled a gun on him.
Where is the love?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc
It was terrible.
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Definitely don't mean every single person.. but I also meant south of your border. There's more guns than people here. Taking guns away is not going to happen.. might as well get more people to carry. In cases where some nut job pulled out a gun and someone was nearby who was carrying, they either disrupted a massacre by drawing fire away, scared the nut job away completely, or dropped said nut job. It's completely effed,
I haven't taught diving in over a decade cuhhz. But I'll teach you how to deep sea dive (dis butt).
I'll teach again once I move back to da aina. I still keep my membership active non-teaching status. Shiett.. I'll teach you how to shoot guns underwater tho. I still have my bang stick. I had some bros fab a bang stick for a 12-gauge shell.. they dumb AF.
A bullet doesn't travel very far underwater, so you need to get close to your target (fish). If you shoot a fish with 12-gauge buck / birdshot at close range, you're going to blow it the fuck up. I never saw how it ended for them, buttt was like.. good luck.
I'll teach again once I move back to da aina. I still keep my membership active non-teaching status. Shiett.. I'll teach you how to shoot guns underwater tho. I still have my bang stick. I had some bros fab a bang stick for a 12-gauge shell.. they dumb AF.
A bullet doesn't travel very far underwater, so you need to get close to your target (fish). If you shoot a fish with 12-gauge buck / birdshot at close range, you're going to blow it the fuck up. I never saw how it ended for them, buttt was like.. good luck.
LOL at blowing up fish though I can only imagine
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Definitely don't mean every single person.. but I also meant south of your border. There's more guns than people here. Taking guns away is not going to happen.. might as well get more people to carry. In cases where some nut job pulled out a gun and someone was nearby who was carrying, they either disrupted a massacre by drawing fire away, scared the nut job away completely, or dropped said nut job. It's completely effed,
I haven't taught diving in over a decade cuhhz. But I'll teach you how to deep sea dive (dis butt).
I'll teach again once I move back to da aina. I still keep my membership active non-teaching status. Shiett.. I'll teach you how to shoot guns underwater tho. I still have my bang stick. I had some bros fab a bang stick for a 12-gauge shell.. they dumb AF.
A bullet doesn't travel very far underwater, so you need to get close to your target (fish). If you shoot a fish with 12-gauge buck / birdshot at close range, you're going to blow it the fuck up. I never saw how it ended for them, buttt was like.. good luck.
I'll teach again once I move back to da aina. I still keep my membership active non-teaching status. Shiett.. I'll teach you how to shoot guns underwater tho. I still have my bang stick. I had some bros fab a bang stick for a 12-gauge shell.. they dumb AF.
A bullet doesn't travel very far underwater, so you need to get close to your target (fish). If you shoot a fish with 12-gauge buck / birdshot at close range, you're going to blow it the fuck up. I never saw how it ended for them, buttt was like.. good luck.
There's no reason why it would blow out your ear drums more than from not being in water. Sound does travel faster and sound is less attenuated than in air but not to a discernible difference. Speculation though.
Energy is carried much differently through a fluid than through air.
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Sound travels a lot faster underwater (4x), but water is not as compressible as air, so there's not really a shocking effect to it. You can hear the powder going off but that's about it. Plus the shot is taken at a distance away from you usually (spear tip).. not close up like holding a shotgun / rifle / pistol.
I should reiterate- and I knew you'd give me a ribbing, lol.
What I meant to say is that air is compressible, unlike water. I figured the wave created at the barrel end would continue outwards by the shooters ear, since nothing is getting compressed. But, if I'm not mistaken, water causes the energy to "die" out faster, doesn't it? It's been so long, lol...
What I meant to say is that air is compressible, unlike water. I figured the wave created at the barrel end would continue outwards by the shooters ear, since nothing is getting compressed. But, if I'm not mistaken, water causes the energy to "die" out faster, doesn't it? It's been so long, lol...
Otherwise, yes read the crowd and don't just play stuff to play it. This goes for any function or venue
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I want to buy high-end audio. But my ears are so burned out.. probably waste of money. I did take NPR's test with tidal samples on several songs. I first listened to a pure output on my laptop through my Sony XBRs, scored 1 out of 10 on uncompressed, but guessed 9/10 on the 320kbps.. then I put on AT M50x through a DAC.. got 8/10 uncompressed, 2/10 320. obamanotbad.jpg
I want to buy high-end audio. But my ears are so burned out.. probably waste of money. I did take NPR's test with tidal samples on several songs. I first listened to a pure output on my laptop through my Sony XBRs, scored 1 out of 10 on uncompressed, but guessed 9/10 on the 320kbps.. then I put on AT M50x through a DAC.. got 8/10 uncompressed, 2/10 320. obamanotbad.jpg
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You can fast forward to the 1:10ish mark.. bang!
This guy is using a powerhead.. more sophisticated than some of the redneck bangsticks we created. Also not very sporty to scuba + powerhead.. it's like shooting deer from a hut from 20 yards while luring them with a feeder.
It'll give you a sense of what it's like though..
This guy is using a powerhead.. more sophisticated than some of the redneck bangsticks we created. Also not very sporty to scuba + powerhead.. it's like shooting deer from a hut from 20 yards while luring them with a feeder.
It'll give you a sense of what it's like though..
You can fast forward to the 1:10ish mark.. bang!
This guy is using a powerhead.. more sophisticated than some of the redneck bangsticks we created. Also not very sporty to scuba + powerhead.. it's like shooting deer from a hut from 20 yards while luring them with a feeder.
It'll give you a sense of what it's like though..
This guy is using a powerhead.. more sophisticated than some of the redneck bangsticks we created. Also not very sporty to scuba + powerhead.. it's like shooting deer from a hut from 20 yards while luring them with a feeder.
It'll give you a sense of what it's like though..
I always thought that was a joke until moving to TX and learning that is how people "hunt" around here. Like, that's not hunting. That's just killing. But whatevs.
So that spearfishing thingy. Is that just using a blank charge to generate the propulsive force to push the spear? Or is there some sort of energy capturing device that catches the projectile and pulls the spear? Seems like it would be the former...