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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

TonyTheTiger
mtwarych said:
I had 5 partial slabs of granite fall over from the A frame and make my left leg do the same thing. I ended up breaking the knee joint portion off of my tibia.

The adrenaline along with the fight/flite thing allowed me to walk back into the shop before we decided we should go to the hospital.

I'll bet most of you out there know that when you don't feel any pain after something like this, you have hurt yourself BAD! I honestly believed that I got away with just a sprain or something like that.
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Did something similar in 2018 hand unloading a pallet of tractor parts off a gooseneck. One of the parts rolled to my corner and down went the pallet with my leg underneath. I felt a pop but for the first 30 seconds didn't feel anything. Then the nausea came on strong and I realized I wasn't walking this one off.

Last weekend at the park with the family.
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MEMORIAL DAY 2025

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MrSmith said:
The Picture,

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In Memory,
MrSmith
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I remember reading about this picture on the original hide. Someone come along and fill in more details as it's been years.

The man that took this photo I believe was at Arlington and just happened to see the eagle land on one of the headstones looking around in the morning sun, as if it was watching over the fallen. Couldn't pass up a perfect opportunity on a great picture.

I've reposted it in the past and saved it as a desktop background. Very fitting picture for the holiday
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Because “mines and shit…”

MrSmith
Not that big a deal, depending on what got torn up in the shaft. Same happened at one I worked in. Much smaller, only 1250 ft deep, 50 hands underground. Loading pocket didn't latch the north muck skip dump door correctly and it opened on the way up. Drug the shaft wall until it got to the 400 ft level when it had room and opened, dumping about a third of the 7.5 ton load. Hoistman got bells on both sides, shut down and called me. The shaft repair guys and I rode the top of the mancage up slow to inspect the shaft and find the wreck. Not much to do so we bled pressure off the air and water lines shut down electrical, declutched the muck hoist drums, rode the top of the south skip down and dumped the rest down the shaft. Put a come along on the the door and closed it enough to get it out the top to the mechanics for repair.

Ran a close shaft inspection, cleaned the steel, replaced one guide. Pressured up slow and went back to work. Never shut down mining. Took a shift to replace the bent up skip door to go back to mucking.

But a story like this does sell papers and clicks.

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MrSmith
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Am I just trash with an AR?

Jackomason
JR1200W3 said:
I've had really good luck with 77SMKs and Hornady 75gr BTHPs. Specifically in a WOA 20". I tried RMR 75gr and 69gr and they shot like shit in multiple guns. And to be honest, the only other bullet Ive tried that shot well has been the 60gr VMAX and 55gr Hornady SP. I had a CLE built 16" upper with a Bartlein barrel and CLE chamber. It would only shoot the SMK. It didn't like the 75 BTHP. I have found the Wylde chamber to be more forgiving for multiple bullets. I've heard from others about the CLE chamber that matches my experience.

As far as shooting an AR well, I've found my shooting hand grip matters a lot. I give my bipod a neutral load. I use a very firm heavy fill bag. I apply heavy cheek pressure. And then I pay a lot of attention to shoulder pressure and grip. I give light but firm shoulder pressure, focusing on giving a consistent amount each shot. For grip I use a full wrap of fingers and thumb but I use a light grip. I definitely won't aim the rifle with my grip. I use the rear bag and bipod placement to aim the rifle. I focus on trigger finger pressure pulling straight back to the web of my thumb on the rear of the pistol grip. These are the two points of pressure on the pistol grip. Like a contracting and opposing clamp. My palm and remaining 4 fingers are just resting on the grip. They don't apply pressure. So I have the rifle supported on it's own devices between the bipod and rear bag. I control recoil with cheek pressure from the top, firm bag from the bottom, and my shoulder is the rearward stop. I don't want my shooting hand grip to change the dynamic by introducing any other pressure or load other than what's required to press the trigger and hold it to the rear. I get pretty good results with a small frame and large frame this way. I think this isolates a lot of positional variables from the pure idea of the rifle shooting out of a natural point of aim. It is essentially aimed true at the center of the dot/ target via the bipod and rear bag, and it's my job to simply backstop the recoil and move the trigger shoe from front to rear with the absolute minimum of additional, extraneous side, oblique, lateral pressures, especially from a point of gun that isn't the best place to aim the rifle.
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I agree that the shooting hand can play a big roll. I've decided that I like having complete control of the gun with the thumb wrapped around the grip. Three fingers pulling back into the grip/shoulder can pretty quickly turn into slipping and dangling on a grip with any kind of angle. But I'd still prefer to get that tension from my firing hand than my bipod.

Thanks for the insightful comment. I'd like to spend some time on a large frame to iron these things out.
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