Ranger Archive
Thread: Christmas Gifts or Everyone else is doing it, so why not us?
JBMat
Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:35 am
#14
JB got -
More RAM, finally he upgraded to 1 Gig. After convincing the spousal unit she needed more to run her graphics card (do not tell her the card has built in RAM)
Movies
Gift cards for Home Depot and Best Buy.
JB would not like a 1911A1, he likes 9mm. Yeah yeah, 7 rounds are enough for 3 people, but what if there are lots of friends?
Oddly enough, this is the first year he did not get "Star Wars toys".
JB
Owen-Lars
Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:42 am
#16
JBMat Wrote:
"After convincing the spousal unit"
Haha
Makes me think of futurama for some reason, dont know why lol.
That has to be the phrase of the week.
Rancorrider4
Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:27 pm
#17
I got the Return of the King DVD set Calc got as well. Very cool. Also:
Star Wars action figures
Clothes
Star Wars Expanded Universe novels
Beard trimmer <much needed. I really look like a Ranger right now>
WIll have more money next year. This year was a little tight. My wife did well though lol
* edit: "Spousal Unit" rofl...good one JB
Calculus_Entropy
Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:01 pm
#18
JBMat wrote:
JB got -
More RAM, finally he upgraded to 1 Gig. After convincing the spousal unit she needed more to run her graphics card (do not tell her the card has built in RAM)
Movies
Gift cards for Home Depot and Best Buy.
JB would not like a 1911A1, he likes 9mm. Yeah yeah, 7 rounds are enough for 3 people, but what if there are lots of friends?
Oddly enough, this is the first year he did not get "Star Wars toys".
JB
I would argue thatthe .45 would drop 7 people (but I have an 8 round clip and they go at least as high as 10). Depends on where you shoot them, I suppose.
Vorpaks
Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:23 pm
#19
Deadtech wrote:
I got the usual lump of coal. Oh and a tremendous headache from my kid screaming all day from a nasty cold. Later on that night I treated myself to a nice christmas 8 pack of Guinness.
Phew! After pages of Iseult tracking I finally found it! Here:
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For you 
When you open it tell me what's inside!
JBMat
Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:13 pm
#20
excuse me Calc -
standard rule - One in the chest, One in the head, makesyour targetdead dead dead
Double tap. The first round may have hit body armor and made them fall down due to hydrostatic shock, or surprise. The second round ensures a target kill.
The standard story of why the .45 became issue is the .38 was not powerful enough to take down the Moro tribesmen in the Phillipines. Drugged, drunk, and withtheir testicles wrapped in wet leather (which was shrinking... owie) it took a larger round to drop them. But, if I want to ensure a one shot kill,I think I would invest in a Desert Eagle .50. And then get a lifetime membership to a chiropractic clinic, take about recoil.
Also, HRT uses a .40 or 10mm last I heard.
The stuff you learn on the History Channel.
JB
Calculus_Entropy
Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:36 pm
#21
JBMat wrote:
excuse me Calc -
standard rule - One in the chest, One in the head, makesyour targetdead dead dead
Double tap. The first round may have hit body armor and made them fall down due to hydrostatic shock, or surprise. The second round ensures a target kill.
The standard story of why the .45 became issue is the .38 was not powerful enough to take down the Moro tribesmen in the Phillipines. Drugged, drunk, and withtheir testicles wrapped in wet leather (which was shrinking... owie) it took a larger round to drop them. But, if I want to ensure a one shot kill,I think I would invest in a Desert Eagle .50. And then get a lifetime membership to a chiropractic clinic, take about recoil.
Also, HRT uses a .40 or 10mm last I heard.
The stuff you learn on the History Channel.
JB
/shifty...HRT? 
Yeah, I don't think I ever want anything to do with a Desert Eagle. I'd rather have a .50 cal Sniper Rifle...then I could be far away from the action. Plus, what's that newish Grizzly Killing Revolver the have now (maybe a .50)? That monster has chambers as thick as my finger, and I have big hands...oy!
For the record, I do not own guns for self defense, but for recreational shooting. So, I guess, caliber doesn't matter (I should have gotten a .22 pistol, but the .45 was a great price, $400 new, and I already had a .22 rifle).
And I forgot you were military JB (at least I think you were)...perhaps I am out of my league arguing with you, especially since I am a n00b! I have heard (rumors, I know) that the military is leaning towards the .45 again and the police recommend .40 cal Glocks, in some cases, but those same police still prefer their 9mm Baretta's. To each his own, I guess.
Vorpaks
Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:07 pm
#22
JBMat wrote: But, if I want to ensure a one shot kill, I think I would invest in a Desert Eagle .50.
The stuff you learn on the History Channel.
I learned about the Desert Eagle .50 from the movie Snatch.
Owen-Lars
Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:21 pm
#23
Snatch = Amazing film, got it on dvd for christmas.
Hehe bullet-tooth is the man hehe. Cant beat the bookies heist that went wrong though. He thinks he is trapped inside so sits down, takes his mask of and more or less gives in, the realises the door is a pull door not a push hah.
Great film
Creaturetaimer
Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:51 pm
#24
i got several things but it was all things i had to have for my apt. ya know pots, towels, ect ect.
Calculus_Entropy
Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:53 pm
#25
Creaturetaimer wrote:
i got several things but it was all things i had to have for my apt. ya know pots, towels, ect ect.
Those are the BEST gifts! Except for guns, of course.
Creaturetaimer
Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:01 pm
#26
True. I can make mac. and cheese that isn't runny or too goopy now lol.