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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Yupper, short block we went back to using an old Dewalt 12" saw after that. 2 at a time was enough compared to scaring the crap out of everyone and making holes in the walls. But that 16 rig would take 4 soaking wet yellow pine 2x10's and make a 3 foot long cut for a bottom chord angle all day long. Wicked!
 

Pistolero

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Back to Mike and Draco, Ian. Mike talks about not doing Beta in fwd flight, and I understand his concern, but
it can be done safely, and is actually a procedure.

This video is nuts. As to Beta in forward flight, years ago I was getting a right seat ride in a USN T-44 (Twin turboprop Beech)
and we did a max rate of descent, a real procedure for a cabin pressurization loss event. This involved slowing to flap speed, dropping full
flaps and gear, and then bringing engines to idle, then going to Beta pitch (reverse) and then bringing up the power on
the turbines. The ROC was pegged well beyond 6,000 fpm down! Here is an image of a Japanese one, basically a military
twin engine trainer, pretty much a King Air. Nice flying aircraft, too.

T-44.jpg

But the Draco video is about guys in wing suits flying formation on him. A wing suit has a L/D of maybe 3 or so, (3 ft forward for each foot
down), a VERY poor glide ratio. So, to get Draco to do that took lots of drag and Beta pitch. Wild stuff.


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Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Well they finally caught the absconder:


In today's news:

 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
I was nearby hunting when a friend was attacked by 6 feral dogs. Because she was hunting that day with a Colt 1911 10mm, and was a skilled IPSC competitor she was able to shoot very quickly at two dogs, hitting at least one, which I saw running off, bloody. The others bailed out, she was fine. In her opinion, with her Rem 700, she would have had them on her after one shot.
Since that day, going into the woods AT ALL unarmed has been off of my list.
 

wquiles

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Wow, close one!

We go camping with the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts almost every month, and of course the Boy Scouts don't allow any firearms, but I always worry and wish to have at least a handgun with me, "just in case".
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
When I was a Scout and Scouter, the leaders carried guns, the boy carried guns...heck, I knew a den Mother that had one in her handbag most of the time. Scouting ain't what it was.
 

wquiles

Well-Known Member
Not in today's Scouting ....

Just this week us adults got the updated guidelines ... (emphasis below is my own):
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
It's very sad what modern society has done to scouting.

Our oldest grandson was working toward Eagle, but got sidetracked with school and swimming. He graduated high school with honors, and was awarded an academic scholarship from a Pennsylvania college. He is a senior, this year, and has been on the swim team all four years.
 

wquiles

Well-Known Member
so how do you get a shooting badge?
Thank God, our scouts "still" can shoot firearms for their rifle shooting badge, and same for the shotgun badge (my son already has both).

Out troop does a once a year campout on private land where we ONLY do shooting sports: rifle and shotgun. Modesty aside, both kids and adults had the best time so far when I showed up with my daughters tricked-out 10/22 with the suppressor, scope, and of course suppressed ammo. Everyone who shot my daughters rifle couldn't help but giggle :)
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
When I was in Scouting I never heard of anything approaching any of what we read about today. Never saw a Scouter taking a drink or smelling of it outside of District meetings and dinners, never even dreamed any of them were pervs, never knew of any drug use whatsoever. The closest I came to seeing or hearing of any of that was one adult leader I saw smacking the boys around. It was bad enough that he had 200 lbs of very, very fit recently discharged United States Marine put him up against a tree by the throat and advise him that such "rough housing" would cease immediately. Scouting went down hill when the emphasis switched from the original ideals of Baden-Powell, Dan Beard and Ernest Thompson Seton and tried to become a PC/urban oriented/big tent type organization that valued $$$ more than character.
 

Hawk

North Central Texas
I received shooting badges as a boy scout, back in the 1950s and 1960s.
My wife was a Senior Girl Scout troop leader with my daughter, in the 1990's.
We made sure the Girls in the troop did a lot of camping and shooting.
My daughter lost more than one boyfriend after they found out she could shoot better than they could.
 

wquiles

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Same thing happened to my daughter last year. She and a boy became friends/boyfriends for a couple of weeks when they met at the Junior ROTC when they were getting ready to qualify for the two air rifle shooting teams: sporter and precision (I think that is what they are called: one is basic/entry level, and the other is for the experienced, better shooters). The boy does a lot of hunting with the dad (so he claimed), and was bragging as to how he was going to help my daughter.

Well, my daughter made the precision team on her first try - the "boyfriend" didn't. He broke it off a few weeks later. Good riddance!

This year, second year, she is already 2nd in command for the air rifle team, and next year (11th grade) she will be in charge of the whole team. You can tell I am pretty proud of her ;)