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<blockquote data-quote="StLPro2A" data-source="post: 3846614" data-attributes="member: 48052"><p>Interesting Bible collection. The Manual of manuals. Thanks for sharing. Camo one are really interesting. No atheists in foxholes or sinking ships. Sadly, soo many in good times today. I started collecting books on faith, Jesus, the Apostles, eternity, etc.........The Case For Christ, the classic by Moody Life After Life, Mark Cahill's One Heartbeat Away - Your Journey Into Eternity, More Than A Carpenter, Eben Alexander's Proof of Heaven, Bill Wiese's 23 Minutes in Hell, Ravi Zacharias' Jesus Among Other Gods, many, many more. Even books on Quantum Mechanics, explaining latest science understandings meshing with concepts of spiritual world, infinity, eternity, boundless space, time, matter, human comprehension with our limited capacities. Really facilitates the understanding, comprehension of science meshing with faith.</p><p></p><p>Another collection became movie DVDs. Enjoy perusing the likes of GoodWill thrift store......like hunting without the gun....never know what one will bag.....it's the hunt rather than the kill scenario. Wanted a collection to carry in my 45' DP tag motor coach for en route layovers, no TV reception, bad weather days, RV park entertaining, chillin' movie nights. Plan was to pull 75-100 for each road trip.....always fresh choices. With zero adult supervision in my life, I possibly have gone overboard a smidgen.....as I tend to do with guns, optics, cars, wild women, well everything, Pushing hard toward 5000 DVDs, needing ordered storage, cut the drywall between studs in a two-story boring long hallway, with rolling library style ladder, in one house where the coach is docked when in town. Developed focus on specific genres and actors.......McQueen (Bullitt, The Great Escape, Papillon,....) Eastwood (Dirty Harry series, spaghetti westerns, et el.....his last Cry Macho was painful to see his physical/acting decline), John Wayne (he's a terrible actor, but classic), Stallone (yeah, Rambo, Rocky,....), Gere (Pretty Woman, Officer and a Gentleman, Nights of the Rodente,...), Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis (Die Hard series....I actually have a friend a professional shooter from Las Vegas named John McClain...honest truth!!!), Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones series,....), Costner (Field of Dreams,....), DeNiro (Taxi Driver, did you know he did a version of Little Shop of Horrors...), Nicholson (The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Few Good Men,...), Steve Martin, John Candy (yeah, Planes, Trains and Automobiles,....), Cruise (Risky Business, Top Gun,...) Robin Williams (Good Morning Viet Nam, Mrs. Doubtfire,...), Hoffman (Tootsie, Rain Man,...), Hitchcock, Bond, James Bond (have all, save Connery's 1983 return Never Say Never Again, and the spoof Casino Royale with David Niven; watching evolution of special effects and story lines.....and errors is fun....Dr. No, Bond goes around same curve 3 times in car chase; another movie he exits cellar door flipping door back/leaving open with bad guys immediately passing door closed; Connery is holding guy with one hand to punch with other, view switches and hands are reversed as punch landed....fun finding, logging errors....really crude by 2022 expectations) classics (Godfather trilogy, Star Wars - I- VI, Deliverance, Casablanca, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Maltze Falcon, To Kill A Mockingbird, Twelve Angry Men, American Graffiti 1&2, American Pie series (yeah classic gross), Star Wars 1-6, .....), war genre (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, We Were Soliders, Apocalypse Now, Run Silent/Run Deep, ToraToraTora, D-Day, Bridges At Toko-Ri,...). and of course, girly/date night/tear jerker genre....I really do enjoy them on occasion. The problem is making selections for a road trip......lottery.</p><p></p><p>Next fetish, are my Barretts. Had no intention of getting a Barrett. My gun club has manufacturers day each year where local factory reps showcase their wares. On our 60 point 600yd range, points 1-20 are all types of guns, save Barrett M82 and big bore 338s-up are on points 56-60. All day long, every time the Barrett barked, everyone turned, looked that way with a big ****-eatin' grin. On way home, I had an epiphany.....It's un-American not to own a gun that brings that much joy to the world. Bought first M107A1 week later, and it's been a long slippery slope since....and the rest of the story is history. M107A1s, MRADs (including the MK22 Deployment Kit, REC7, REC10.....all the colors produced, some discontinued. All the calibers offered for the MRAD, literally got the last 7mmRM fluted. Been numerous times to Barrett in TN for training (spent week of 8/15 in M82/M107A1 and MRAD/MK22 Armorers training); several runs to NRA Whittington in NM for Barrett Long Range shooting M107A1 and MRAD.</p><p></p><p>Another unintended collection are the SKB and Beretta O/U and SxS shotguns. Got started in 70s with home-based FFL license. Good customer ordered a SKB, then didn't take it. I kept it, and as Paul Harvey said, "Now you know the rest of the story." Buying at retail really sucks!!! <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> Have SKB 485 28ga SxS in bound as I type. Payment for Beretta 687 EELL Classic 4 ga/5bbl outbound today. Gifts to Dad returned with his passing......NOTE: TODAY IS HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY!!! MISS YOU DAD....AND MOM!!!...she's 101, Dad married a cougar 3 days post Pearl Harbor....together 65yrs 21days when Dad passed. I hit God's lottery jackpot for parents.....see below.) Unintended consequence of collection........partnered with two friends to buy bank building for the HUGE vault.....and the man cave options. Gonna need a bigger bank with zero adult supervision. These other guys are no help!!! <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>But, my most prized collection........family and friends. Have been blessed with a fantastic unplanned, accidental collection of these treasures. Now, losing them, running sadly low on them. This year #16, 17, 18 in last 8 years. Once re-connected at friends' weddings; now funerals. I've been blessed in every way, but would give everything back if I had my only girl back again. Last year would have been our 50th; gone 21yrs now; together just shy 30yrs, car accident. God and I still have spats over that. Need to make peace there soon. Nothing else matters. Just a really, really old guy's ponderings. What did Glock 'em Down say....novella??....apologize.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StLPro2A, post: 3846614, member: 48052"] Interesting Bible collection. The Manual of manuals. Thanks for sharing. Camo one are really interesting. No atheists in foxholes or sinking ships. Sadly, soo many in good times today. I started collecting books on faith, Jesus, the Apostles, eternity, etc.........The Case For Christ, the classic by Moody Life After Life, Mark Cahill's One Heartbeat Away - Your Journey Into Eternity, More Than A Carpenter, Eben Alexander's Proof of Heaven, Bill Wiese's 23 Minutes in Hell, Ravi Zacharias' Jesus Among Other Gods, many, many more. Even books on Quantum Mechanics, explaining latest science understandings meshing with concepts of spiritual world, infinity, eternity, boundless space, time, matter, human comprehension with our limited capacities. Really facilitates the understanding, comprehension of science meshing with faith. Another collection became movie DVDs. Enjoy perusing the likes of GoodWill thrift store......like hunting without the gun....never know what one will bag.....it's the hunt rather than the kill scenario. Wanted a collection to carry in my 45' DP tag motor coach for en route layovers, no TV reception, bad weather days, RV park entertaining, chillin' movie nights. Plan was to pull 75-100 for each road trip.....always fresh choices. With zero adult supervision in my life, I possibly have gone overboard a smidgen.....as I tend to do with guns, optics, cars, wild women, well everything, Pushing hard toward 5000 DVDs, needing ordered storage, cut the drywall between studs in a two-story boring long hallway, with rolling library style ladder, in one house where the coach is docked when in town. Developed focus on specific genres and actors.......McQueen (Bullitt, The Great Escape, Papillon,....) Eastwood (Dirty Harry series, spaghetti westerns, et el.....his last Cry Macho was painful to see his physical/acting decline), John Wayne (he's a terrible actor, but classic), Stallone (yeah, Rambo, Rocky,....), Gere (Pretty Woman, Officer and a Gentleman, Nights of the Rodente,...), Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis (Die Hard series....I actually have a friend a professional shooter from Las Vegas named John McClain...honest truth!!!), Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones series,....), Costner (Field of Dreams,....), DeNiro (Taxi Driver, did you know he did a version of Little Shop of Horrors...), Nicholson (The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Few Good Men,...), Steve Martin, John Candy (yeah, Planes, Trains and Automobiles,....), Cruise (Risky Business, Top Gun,...) Robin Williams (Good Morning Viet Nam, Mrs. Doubtfire,...), Hoffman (Tootsie, Rain Man,...), Hitchcock, Bond, James Bond (have all, save Connery's 1983 return Never Say Never Again, and the spoof Casino Royale with David Niven; watching evolution of special effects and story lines.....and errors is fun....Dr. No, Bond goes around same curve 3 times in car chase; another movie he exits cellar door flipping door back/leaving open with bad guys immediately passing door closed; Connery is holding guy with one hand to punch with other, view switches and hands are reversed as punch landed....fun finding, logging errors....really crude by 2022 expectations) classics (Godfather trilogy, Star Wars - I- VI, Deliverance, Casablanca, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Maltze Falcon, To Kill A Mockingbird, Twelve Angry Men, American Graffiti 1&2, American Pie series (yeah classic gross), Star Wars 1-6, .....), war genre (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, We Were Soliders, Apocalypse Now, Run Silent/Run Deep, ToraToraTora, D-Day, Bridges At Toko-Ri,...). and of course, girly/date night/tear jerker genre....I really do enjoy them on occasion. The problem is making selections for a road trip......lottery. Next fetish, are my Barretts. Had no intention of getting a Barrett. My gun club has manufacturers day each year where local factory reps showcase their wares. On our 60 point 600yd range, points 1-20 are all types of guns, save Barrett M82 and big bore 338s-up are on points 56-60. All day long, every time the Barrett barked, everyone turned, looked that way with a big ****-eatin' grin. On way home, I had an epiphany.....It's un-American not to own a gun that brings that much joy to the world. Bought first M107A1 week later, and it's been a long slippery slope since....and the rest of the story is history. M107A1s, MRADs (including the MK22 Deployment Kit, REC7, REC10.....all the colors produced, some discontinued. All the calibers offered for the MRAD, literally got the last 7mmRM fluted. Been numerous times to Barrett in TN for training (spent week of 8/15 in M82/M107A1 and MRAD/MK22 Armorers training); several runs to NRA Whittington in NM for Barrett Long Range shooting M107A1 and MRAD. Another unintended collection are the SKB and Beretta O/U and SxS shotguns. Got started in 70s with home-based FFL license. Good customer ordered a SKB, then didn't take it. I kept it, and as Paul Harvey said, "Now you know the rest of the story." Buying at retail really sucks!!! :) :) :) Have SKB 485 28ga SxS in bound as I type. Payment for Beretta 687 EELL Classic 4 ga/5bbl outbound today. Gifts to Dad returned with his passing......NOTE: TODAY IS HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY!!! MISS YOU DAD....AND MOM!!!...she's 101, Dad married a cougar 3 days post Pearl Harbor....together 65yrs 21days when Dad passed. I hit God's lottery jackpot for parents.....see below.) Unintended consequence of collection........partnered with two friends to buy bank building for the HUGE vault.....and the man cave options. Gonna need a bigger bank with zero adult supervision. These other guys are no help!!! :) :) :) But, my most prized collection........family and friends. Have been blessed with a fantastic unplanned, accidental collection of these treasures. Now, losing them, running sadly low on them. This year #16, 17, 18 in last 8 years. Once re-connected at friends' weddings; now funerals. I've been blessed in every way, but would give everything back if I had my only girl back again. Last year would have been our 50th; gone 21yrs now; together just shy 30yrs, car accident. God and I still have spats over that. Need to make peace there soon. Nothing else matters. Just a really, really old guy's ponderings. What did Glock 'em Down say....novella??....apologize. [/QUOTE]
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