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OrcFace_McStompYou

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About OrcFace_McStompYou

  • Birthday 11/28/1983

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    ArmA, CoH
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  1. I did, then I lol'd harder. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
  2. So apparently, some reporter thought that some ARMA II fan footage was actually filmed by the IRA in 1988. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/37480/ITV_Uses_Arma_II_Clip_In_IRA_Documentary_Bohemia_Very_Surprised.php How's that for realism.
  3. It's not that it's impossible for birdshot to disable an attacker, and it's great for making really nasty looking flesh wounds, but it lacks the mass to reliably penetrate deep enough to be effective. Why put yourself at a disadvantage? See rule 11 below.
  4. Given the massive number of 870s out there, there are bound to be a couple of duds. Once you get yours, go shoot it a bunch and figure out if you got one of the few bad ones. If so, don't hesitate to send it back. Remington CS is great and will make it right. One common complaint I've heard and personally witnessed is that the Winchester AA shells will cause jams. Avoid those, there are plenty of other good shells out there for busting clays/birds. For HD/self defense, find some good buckshot, #4 or larger. Birdshot is for birds.
  5. I'd pass. I played through just to finish it and immediately uninstalled. There are a lot of bad design choices. In a game that is largely about sneaking around, having invisble walls and inconsistent geometry is a killer. Imagine seeing a great hide and spending 15 minutes avoiding guards to get there, only to realize that it's 'out of bounds' and you can't actually reach it. Tack on a couple of points where the game auto-kills you if you don't do the 'right' thing, but also doesn't tell you what the right thing is and a couple of poorly done run-n-gun levels and you end up with something I wish I hadn't wasted $10 on.
  6. I’m going to combine several posts into one, so here goes: Medic, nice choice on the 870, they are great guns. Mine’s an Express too, although it’s older, probably 1980s or so. I really need to take some pictures of the arsenal and post them up. I put way more rounds through my trap guns than this one though, so I kept the standard style stock. Specifically I put a Speedfeed on there, it’s a regular stock that holds 4 extra rounds, because I’m not a big fan of side saddles. ( http://www.speedfeedinc.com/productsmain.html look for the Speedfeed I stock about halfway down.) I've got 6 rounds of 00 in the tube, plus 1 in the chamber. The only reason I want extra ammo on the gun is so I can have slugs handy, and if I need more than 4 I'm in some really deep shit. I also went with the Surefire fore-end, although I will warn you that many swivel plates require so reworking to keep them from interfering with the light. Other than that, the Surefire is awesome. I’ve never used a bandoleer, but I’ve heard that they tend to not stay very tight and getting shells out of them is tricky. I’ll recommend the Federal Tactical buckshot if you’re looking for tight patterns, it shoots sub 3” at 25 yards out of my 18” barrel. SkeleTele, 1100’s are nice guns, but you’ll be able to find an 870 much cheaper. Pumps tend to be less finicky with ammo than semi’s and you can work it fast enough for skeet. I would definitely recommend a 12 gauge, it’s way more versatile for clay games than 20. Most people I know shoot a 26” barrel in any autoloader (pump, semi or Mossberg's crazy bolt action shotgun). Double or single barrel guns tend to have longer barrels but the overall length of the gun is pretty similar since you don’t have any appreciable action length. While barrel length does have some effect on pattern, the choke is the primary contributor. Get a barrel with screw-in chokes and you’ll be fine. Skeet is typically shot with a cylinder or improved cylinder choke while trap is shot with improved modified or even full chokes. Yankee’s advice about holding the gun before you buy is critical, you want to make sure it feels comfortable and ideally puts about 2” between your nose and the thumb of your shooting hand. His advice about shooting is also great; most new shooters don’t follow through. Make sure the gun is moving smoothly through the target before, during and after your trigger pull. You’ll be dusting them in no time.
  7. Uggghhhhhh. At first I just laughed at the magazine fumble that they had about 5 seconds in. Then you get to 1:30 and realized that these idiots are going to kill someone; probably sooner rather than later.
  8. Why run, fighting is WAY too mainstream for hipsters. They'll just curl up in a ball and cry for a while. Plus, your average padlock weighs just as much as a hipster, so chances are good that they won't be able to get up.
  9. Wow, I really hope you're joking. Especially since more than half of the ND's and other mistakes in that video were made by men. Add to that the fact that most of the mistakes made by women were due to their inexperience and some ass-hat giving them a gun that was way too powerful for a new shooter and not instructing them on proper stance/grip/etc and I fail to see how you draw that conclusion. I guess xkcd sums it up well: As far as I'm concerned, guys that give girls shotguns and laugh when they get hurt are no better than wife-beaters. ETA: Here's at leats one woman who can out-shoot all of us.
  10. I'll offer another set of answers, out of order. 2) Burial at sea is an accetpable Muslim tradition and it denies his followers a monument of any kind. Not to mention the fact that no one wanted his body on their soil. 3) See above. I agree that releasing photos of him would have inflamed anti-Western sentiments in many parts of the Middle East. 1) Here's the big one. Because shooting him is quick. Ideally, I would have loved to see him dragged back to the US, tried in NY and then executed. But that's a terrible idea for several reasons: i) As long as he was being held there would be a huge incentive for his followers to take hostages or commit other acts of terrorism to get him released. ii) It would take FOREVER to have him actually executed. Death row inmates stay there for years as it is and the higher-profile the case, the longer it lasts. iii) It would be impossible to find an impartial jury anywhere in the US or Europe. Ultimately, keeping him alive that long would dilute the sense of satisfaction and closure that his swift death brought us. Very smart, VERY political move.
  11. No offense to our friends across the pond, but I LOL'd when I saw this:
  12. From my understanding, it used to be that steering a tank was controlled by two brake levers, one for each track. Brake the left track, go left, etc. Now, steering is done through a wheel similar to a car with computerized control system handling the braking of the tracks. Anyone know when this change was made or which tank was the first one with the new system? Google has failed me on the matter.
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