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On 1/24/2025 at 11:09 AM, davidg said:

I built a trauma kit for my truck after watching a drugged up guy in a brodozer run over the front of a small suv smashing the dash into the legs of the passenger. It was right in front of a hospital and a first responder was gloving up and climbing in the driver side as I was trying to use a old towel I had grabbed from my truck to stop an arterial bleed. She didn’t have anything with her and the towel was it until EMTs arrived. I was involved with scouts at that time and decided I needed to be better prepared for a trauma type situation.


I got a small tactical pouch and added:

1x CAT tourniquet
2x Israeli compression bandage
1x Halo chest seal
2x 5x5 gauze
2x packing gauze
2x gauze wrap
2x sets nitrile gloves
1x Coban wrap
1x emt shears


This separate from a basic IFAK also kept in the truck.

This is really impressive and I’m going to copy you. I was a witness to a horrible  crash that became the subject of a major lawsuit a few years later and the first person to arrive and render aid to the victims (one died, the other probably wishes they had). As I ran up to the truck, empty handed, I realized that I had no plan and nothing to offer other than a limited capacity to keep the area clear until actual help arrived. I don’t want to be in that situation again. 

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On 1/18/2025 at 12:51 PM, Handcruser said:

Eagle peak sucks massive donkey dick. All those guys there are fucking complete assholes. All of them. I’ll never step foot in that place again.

Try lonestar range and academy on 183n by Florence.

great recommendation

Tried it this past weekend and all had a great time

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On 2/1/2025 at 9:37 AM, deft said:

Nice looks like a lot of fun actually. How’s your dumpling recipe?

 

10 hours ago, RMac5 said:

Tree rats do make good dumplins.

My grandfather grew up in East Texas during the depression and went to work picking cotton when he was about 7 years old. Like a lot of people in those days they didn’t have enough to eat and often lived on small game, especially squirrels, and he developed a real taste for it. 
When he came back from WWII he met my grandmother in Dallas where she had grown up, and when they got married she put a stop to the whole squirrel business because she found it repulsive, not to mention trashy. 
I think I’ve mentioned here before that he was a crack shot, even into old age. She died in January of 2000, and when I went to visit him a couple months later, he had squirrels in the freezer. Starting about a week after she passed and until a few weeks before he died 22 years later at 100, he would walk around his neighborhood in Oak Cliff early in the morning, shooting squirrels out of pecan trees with the single shot, smoothbore Diana 25 he “liberated” from a house during the Battle of the Bulge.

I’ve got it in my safe today, in good working order.
This machine kills squirrels. 
 

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My grandpa was a crack shot too. 
When rheumatic fever caused him to be bed-ridden for a whole year in the late 1890s, his dad gave him a .22 rifle to target shoot out his bedroom window.
He became quite proficient, but did get a month time out after his parents came home on their wagon from shopping in town and caught him shooting tin cans off his sister’s head. 
In his teen years he was banned from the carnival shooting galleries whenever they came to his county periodically because the barkers quickly learned that gangly kid would clean them out of prizes.

Anyway, here he is with his last .22 - a Reminigton semiauto that was chambered for shorts only. Lots of squirrels were put on the dinner table:

 

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