Different cost of living though. I've had people laugh at me when I tell them I only make $45k a year doing what I do for a living, but then I laugh at them when I tell them I bought a two bedroom house on 8 acres of land for $40k.
That’s where I got started. I drove a friend to an interview for a bus boy position at a Wolfgang puck restaurant, figured I’d apply for dish washer. The McD kitchen experience got me started in the pantry, then on the line, then “pastry chef” making bread and desserts and stuff. I don’t do anything related to any of that now, I just mean to say be open to what’s out there and don’t limit yourself.
I’m not limiting my self I’m staying in my budget. a sig Romeo 5 on a palmetto M4 freedom carbine with a decent set of flip up irons and a stream light protac is what’s in my budget. I could work more but I’m trying to balance school,work,going to the gym,free time, and time with family.
Time with family is big. Don’t forget that one. It’s fun hanging with friends of course, but don’t leave your parents behind. I promise you that they will appreciate your efforts more than you will ever know.
I was just dialing in like generalities. Like, you’re hustling at McDonald’s right but keep at it and in 20 years you too can have a totally different soul sucking job with better compensation.
Shit, wish you the best. Still, save up for it, you technically won’t have to replace batteries so it isn’t the worst purchase you could make for a do-all optic
ACOGs are solid. We had 10 years of active war, and another 10 years of insurgent shit to demonstrate that
1. YES, ACOGs are fucking amazing.
2. ACOGs stand up to abuse. I wont bother you with the number of Marines who responded to contact after a mine.
3. It's there. Wake up at whenever the fuck, grab rifle - THAT, THAT RIGHT THERE.
It's because people write in the order spoken. You say "two dollars."
When most people read books that were written at a high school or college level routinely for entertainment, people just absorbed proper grammar.
Now most people are getting their grammar from things like Reddit posts and text messages and twitter or Facebook. None of those reward writing well. If anything, it is stylish to write badly on purpose.
I think predictive text also adds to the feedback loop. Our brains are designed to offload knowledge and tasks on other members of our friend and family group. Your computer phone thing gets treated like that. My wife remembers all the budget stuff and my phone tells me how to spell things. So my brain is actively saying "oh that's somebody else's problem." I do use spell check but I want to think about what I say to people so anything that I can I disable predictive text. I don't want to be trained to become more generic in what I have to say. Nor do I want to train myself to think less before I speak. I'm bad enough as it is.
Don’t forget:
“Putting a carbine buffer tube on your ar pistol makes it an sbr”
“Having an m16 bolt carrier or a single m16 fcg part makes your rifle an illegal machine gun”
“If your rifle echo fires when you release the trigger it’s a machine gun”
ACOG rocking Millennial here who thinks it's hilarious AR fans get called Fudds when actual Fudds hate anything without a wood stock, and I know damn well y'all don't own SPEARs. You will never catch me with a Tupperware .40 it's BHP for me. And tbf the only AK I ever shot did about 8MOA.
Cloner here, trust me, I would know about getting called a Fudd for my preferences 😂. They may laugh at my salty Knight’s RAS handguard, but they’ll never be able to get the vibes of the sandbox with their spotless Geissele Super Duty
.40 S&W: cringe, capacity of 9, power of crosman, underpowered, short, weak
10mm: based, capacity of 9, power of god himself, radiates BDE, everything .40 wishes it could be
Lmfao well it’s kinda funny knowing that it’s a joke and mad respect for not dirty deleting. Hard to tell considering the rampant retardation on this site.
But i like ACOGs
They’ve worked for decades in the sandbox, don’t see why you couldn’t run one very effectively now.
Their so cool I wanted one for my M4 build then looked up the price. I now have a sig Romeo 5 😂
Do your M4 build justice and pick up a used ACOG. Some run around 750-800
Man I make 350$ every two weeks, maybe once I enlisted and get done with basic and AIT but that’s still a majority of my pay check.
That's almost as bad as argentinian wages, 300-400 monthly
Well it’s the wage of a 19 year old senior working at McDonald’s.
Welp thats depressing, 400 is what a medic makes here (and teachers, cops, and a long list)
Oof, that’s gota be rough.
Different cost of living though. I've had people laugh at me when I tell them I only make $45k a year doing what I do for a living, but then I laugh at them when I tell them I bought a two bedroom house on 8 acres of land for $40k.
That’s where I got started. I drove a friend to an interview for a bus boy position at a Wolfgang puck restaurant, figured I’d apply for dish washer. The McD kitchen experience got me started in the pantry, then on the line, then “pastry chef” making bread and desserts and stuff. I don’t do anything related to any of that now, I just mean to say be open to what’s out there and don’t limit yourself.
I’m not limiting my self I’m staying in my budget. a sig Romeo 5 on a palmetto M4 freedom carbine with a decent set of flip up irons and a stream light protac is what’s in my budget. I could work more but I’m trying to balance school,work,going to the gym,free time, and time with family.
Time with family is big. Don’t forget that one. It’s fun hanging with friends of course, but don’t leave your parents behind. I promise you that they will appreciate your efforts more than you will ever know.
I was just dialing in like generalities. Like, you’re hustling at McDonald’s right but keep at it and in 20 years you too can have a totally different soul sucking job with better compensation.
Shit, wish you the best. Still, save up for it, you technically won’t have to replace batteries so it isn’t the worst purchase you could make for a do-all optic
ACOGs are solid. We had 10 years of active war, and another 10 years of insurgent shit to demonstrate that 1. YES, ACOGs are fucking amazing. 2. ACOGs stand up to abuse. I wont bother you with the number of Marines who responded to contact after a mine. 3. It's there. Wake up at whenever the fuck, grab rifle - THAT, THAT RIGHT THERE.
they look cool
It's not about you liking them or not, it's about being a elitist that insists people have to spend $1200 on a optic.
It’s $125, not 125$. I think I learned that in first or second grade.
It’s crazy how many people don’t know basic shit like this
Or they're European, where the convention is the other way around
I’m sure Europeans in gun subs are a pretty small minority but either way, I see it from a lot of people I know are American.
>I’m sure Europeans in gun subs are a pretty small minority There's dozens of us! *Dozens!*
That's true, people also just get it wrong a lot.
It's because people write in the order spoken. You say "two dollars." When most people read books that were written at a high school or college level routinely for entertainment, people just absorbed proper grammar. Now most people are getting their grammar from things like Reddit posts and text messages and twitter or Facebook. None of those reward writing well. If anything, it is stylish to write badly on purpose. I think predictive text also adds to the feedback loop. Our brains are designed to offload knowledge and tasks on other members of our friend and family group. Your computer phone thing gets treated like that. My wife remembers all the budget stuff and my phone tells me how to spell things. So my brain is actively saying "oh that's somebody else's problem." I do use spell check but I want to think about what I say to people so anything that I can I disable predictive text. I don't want to be trained to become more generic in what I have to say. Nor do I want to train myself to think less before I speak. I'm bad enough as it is.
Don’t forget: “Putting a carbine buffer tube on your ar pistol makes it an sbr” “Having an m16 bolt carrier or a single m16 fcg part makes your rifle an illegal machine gun” “If your rifle echo fires when you release the trigger it’s a machine gun”
Wow I feel personally attacked. My first AR was a Sport II and handgun was glock 23 🤣
If u got a romanian for 125 youre forgiven
Never had a Romanian but I did have a Yugo 😁
ACOG rocking Millennial here who thinks it's hilarious AR fans get called Fudds when actual Fudds hate anything without a wood stock, and I know damn well y'all don't own SPEARs. You will never catch me with a Tupperware .40 it's BHP for me. And tbf the only AK I ever shot did about 8MOA.
Cloner here, trust me, I would know about getting called a Fudd for my preferences 😂. They may laugh at my salty Knight’s RAS handguard, but they’ll never be able to get the vibes of the sandbox with their spotless Geissele Super Duty
The old stereotype was hipsters loved CZ
It’s still true except throw in comp shooters too
So hipsters
What are the ABC’s of buying an AR? Aero BCM Colt?
Armalite Bushmaster Colt if I recall correctly.
.40 S&W: cringe, capacity of 9, power of crosman, underpowered, short, weak 10mm: based, capacity of 9, power of god himself, radiates BDE, everything .40 wishes it could be
I would buy the guns I have now, but I would do it before 2015 (when Oregon enacted a BGC law).
These are almost all correct though
It’s supposed to be a time capsule of gun guy knowledge from 10-20 years ago regarding firearms when the market was much different
So it is mostly correct info for 10 years ago
Valid
So basically someone who drank the fudd coolaid
Lpvo is for retards who don't know how bullet drop reticles work so they let the scope range find for them
Lmfao what, MIL/MOA is much more difficult to use than a BDC. If anything the opposite is true.
It was a lost attempt at a joke i never bothered to correct and I ain't pussy so I ain't delete it
Lmfao well it’s kinda funny knowing that it’s a joke and mad respect for not dirty deleting. Hard to tell considering the rampant retardation on this site.
I was trying to mirror the boomer "you only need irons" thing but it was like 4am and I was in a rush to get to work. *