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Re: Off Topic: thanks for keeping me sane
By:ChrisO
Date: 12/9/2003, 10:42 am
In Response To: Re: Off Topic: thanks for keeping me sane (mike loriz)

Mike,

You rent out your property to a nastier group of riflemen from the next county over and let them shoot errant rounds at each other. Soon enough the Sherrif will do something about it and the land is yours again in peace.

My best friend had a nice piece of land in the California desert where he homesteaded a cabin. The dudes on the next five acres loved to shoot up his airspace while aiming at "varmints".

We borrowed a .50 caliber sniper rifle from a weapons geek, buddy and hiked out to the mountains surrounding the property some 1500 yards away and put some well-placed shots into the ground near their trucks. When we returned to the cabin with the rifle the shooting ended after we apologized for missing the coyote we were aiming at.

Nothing like the thumping sound of a heavy slug as it whistles over your head in the direction of a $35,000 truck.

I'm not advocating vigilantism as we didn't shoot directly at the good old boys with their 7mm varmint guns. The message was unmistakable, though, and the sheer size of the .50 was sobering enough to give them pause.

Now it's, once again, a great place to visit on the weekends.

Best of Luck

Chris

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Off Topic: thanks for keeping me sane *LINK* *Pic*
mike loriz -- 12/8/2003, 8:16 pm
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mike allen -- 12/10/2003, 8:19 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 8:52 pm
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chuck -- 12/10/2003, 7:30 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 8:50 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/10/2003, 2:39 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 3:00 pm
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John Monroe -- 12/10/2003, 3:07 am
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 11:10 am
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Bruce -- 12/10/2003, 1:01 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 2:49 pm
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Roger Tulk -- 12/9/2003, 7:54 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 11:06 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 12/9/2003, 1:27 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/9/2003, 2:34 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 12/10/2003, 1:36 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 2:39 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 12/9/2003, 3:26 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/10/2003, 9:18 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 12/10/2003, 1:38 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 11:04 am
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Charles Leach -- 12/10/2003, 10:43 am
Re: Off Topic: lead shot & Clean Water Act *LINK*
Brian Wegener -- 12/10/2003, 8:52 am
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mike loriz -- 12/10/2003, 10:57 am
Mike, I'm so bummed!
Bill Cruz -- 12/9/2003, 1:15 pm
Re: Mike, I'm so bummed!
mike loriz -- 12/9/2003, 2:28 pm
Re: Off Topic: thanks for keeping me sane
Chip Sandresky -- 12/9/2003, 1:11 pm
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mike loriz -- 12/9/2003, 2:26 pm
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Richard Kohlström -- 12/9/2003, 5:20 am
Re: Off Topic: thanks for keeping me sane
mike loriz -- 12/9/2003, 8:52 am
Re: Off Topic: thanks for keeping me sane
ChrisO -- 12/9/2003, 10:42 am
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mike loriz -- 12/9/2003, 11:00 am
Better Idea
Paul Probus -- 12/9/2003, 12:04 pm
Re: Better Idea
mike loriz -- 12/9/2003, 2:20 pm
My Heaven Was A Shooting Range. *Pic*
John Monroe -- 12/9/2003, 3:37 am
Re: My Heaven Was A Shooting Range.
mike loriz -- 12/9/2003, 8:48 am
Can you take it to the Supreme Cout?
Robert N Pruden -- 12/9/2003, 3:14 am
Re: Can you take it to the Supreme Cout?
mike loriz -- 12/9/2003, 8:45 am