Caption: What does your daily carry firearm say about you? I’m riffing off Jules request for what your umbrella says about you. Some of us live in places where umbrellas aren’t carried or used (often). But you always need your daily-carry knife or handgun, regardless of the weather. Clasp knife, sheath knife, or a Leatherman, which is not a knife but can be used in a pinch.
Revolver or semi-auto? Suppressed?
Folding stock and a suppressor recessed into the foregrip of the stock? Caliber? .223, .300 Blackout, 9 mm, .45 ACP, .44 Magnum?
There are all sorts of options (almost as many as there are umbrellas), and because it’s the USA – does it speak to freedom?
They might not have the same reaction to the Sig Rattler Canebrake (above) in Old Blighty that they do in Arizona.
> Saturday at 11 a.m. (Pacific), I will be on EdB’s radio show. His special guest will be the irrepressible Katie Hopkins – British political activist and stand-up comedian. Please call in.
Identify the Ship
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1 is Oldenburg Braunschweig-class corvette German Navy.
2 probably USS Wisconsin Iowa-class battleship
… and 3 is Yamato or Musashi.
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– Kle.
Yes, BB-64 is the Wisconsin.
Daily Carry
While doing army payroll guard in the late 1970’s it was an F1 9 mm sub machine gun with two 32 round magazines. Mostly carried unloaded with magazines in pants pocket. Sometimes with empty mag in place.
The F1 was made in Australia at Lithgow factory that originally made the .303, then the FAL, later the F88 Styer. 650 round cyclic rate. Cross between the older Owen Gun and British Stirring.
Not a fan of the F1. I found it somewhat tinny and crude compared to the Owen and the Sterling and it was not, in my opinion, as reliable. Also I found, in a rain forest environment, where the chances of ingesting detritus were greater, it was not as robust as the other two and, if dropped in the mud, was more prone to jamming. Whilst I liked both the Owen and Sterling, if both were available, and I had the choice of one or the other, I would take the Owen every time.
I agree.
The F1 was fun on the range occasionally but clunky to carry. Too much design by committee or something.
Sir,
I hope you enjoy this:
Obi-Wan-Narobi
https://youtu.be/aap80QNPpGo?is=FnHDzQ77DHYX8HF2
What my daily carry says about me – mostly that I live in Rhode
Island, and am not nearly connected enough to be allowed
my Constitutional rights. There is a Leatherman, a funny little
rotary lockback knife, and a couple Swiss Armys, but those
are really just utility tools. In a crisis, everything’s a weapon,
of course.Best I usually have ready access to in public tends
to be a motor vehicle.
– Kle.
The Constitution does not give us our rights. The Founding Fathers pointed out that “our God given rights” and wrote the Constitution to put limits on what the government could do. The 2nd Amendment states “the RIGHT of the people” which is pretty clear that is a right not to be infringed upon. Sadly we the people have allowed the government to infringe upon, not only our rights, but ourselves.
Philosophically, I agree.
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In practice, the government gives and takes as it will, because they have an army
and I don’t. If push comes to shove, I am up for giving it a go, but they will beat
me, every time.
– Kle.
Whoa! NEXT Saturday! Not tomorrow.
Still pretty impressive you have Ms. Hopkins on…oh…and of course, our Intrepid VM host as well (who seems to becoming a regular guest…next thing you know LL will become an ‘influencer’ with a podcast).
LL is ahead of the rest of us, Ed. For him it is tomorrow.
I daily carry a Taurus G3C in 9mm with an Armalaser.
It’s in my pocket.
I’m not a quick draw artist, but it’s a tool I keep handy.
It’s accurate and reliable. And has double strike capability.
The stats say I’ll have time to get to it. Mostly.
Browning Hi-Power in fall and winter, SiG P365 late spring and summer and for those occasional when a barbecue gun is required, a Colt Bisley or some species of S&W N-frame.
My edc knife is currently a Buck 301 Stockman and normally a Ruger LCP .380 or sometimes a Colt 911 in .45.
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Sorry Jules… No umbrella. Don’t like carrying stuff in my hands. Hard to shove them pockets if carrying an umbrella.
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Don’t like the F1 with the removable wood pistol grip vs the Owen. The other issue is getting bit by the bolt if not paying attention. MikeW already noted they degraded the Owen’s ability to survive in mud and adverse weather. Not really sure why they took the simplicity and rugged Owen and mucked it up. But there it is. However, still a fun interesting weapon to fire as you tilt your head a bit to see the sight line.
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Got to hate that discone cage antenna for communications on the photo of the Wisconsin battleship bow. I get it needed out in the open to work but it’s just butt ugly there. I’d of never approved that.
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We have not had any food blog subsections lately. Favorite fall food? Bacon for me.
The theory for the F1 was to use the pistol grip, stock, bayonet lug and whatever else you could from the SLR version of the FAL.
I guess it made sense to accountants!
Updating the Owen would have been better.
Biscuits n Gravy season…about bloody time too, need a hearty meal on crisp Fall mornings to carry the day.
Oh, and Pumpkin Spice latte’s are now back in the news 😡
No biscuits, bacon and gravy season yet, here in Central Texas. Still in upper 90’s and no rain.
It’s always biscuits & gravy season. Over easy egg on top, bacon underneath (or anywhere else), cupacoffee on the side
Bacon year round.
A world without bacon is no world at all. 😏
❤️
Daily carry Para Ordinance LDA .45 Federal Hyda Shock 230 grain
And a Benchmade automatic
Dailey carry right now is a SIG 365X OWB. There’s a folding knife from CRKT clipped to my pocket, as well as a Leatherman also on my belt. This covers most situations.
EDC? A Stilleto framing hammer (a hint as to what I’m up too lately)…and bear spray, they are out and about stocking up for Winter, but not a nuisance…so far.
But mostly a classic Leatherman (same one I’ve had forever, the Gerber if I feel like it), and a RazorLite EDC pocket knife.
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EdB is a rockstar…maybe we should call him MotorCity Ed.
X2 on the boating C.C. star. Can’t wait to hear all the Blighty humor and Witt NEXT Saturday or if needed, catch the show on Spotify.
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We’ve been making kefir for almost a decade. So yesterday’s Sythian history sent me down a few trails.
We’ve been buying kefir for a few months. Is it easy?
EDC: I live right on the border of The People’s Republic of Jersey. Normally a Sig 365 stuffed with 124 gr. hollow points but I can’t cross the border with that. I carry an assisted-opening locking folder with a 3.5″ blade. It also has a seatbelt cutter and a window breaker. so if I’m questioned I can say it’s a rescue tool.
Daily carry; toothbrush and start everyday with at least 2-3 carpenter pencils. In honesty I only carry once in awhile while hiking in OR or seasonally for snakes in ” The big country ” ( Abilene TX area). We travel with both our pieces in the back of the Prius full time. I had a friend once that showed of his weighted bat. That got me started keeping my ball and glove under my pickup seat and bat behind, back when the BLM invaded our One Horse Cowboy town of 17k. P.S. I’ve taken note of our host’s input of legal carry hatchets or “camping axe.”
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Last night Mrs W made Borsch. We’ve had Mexican hot dogs twice in the last week. ( bacon wrapped and ALL the latino toppings.) Smoking Tuna is on today’s agenda.
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Q. What is your latest honey do’s? Routine winterizing? Or, major projects completed or future plans?
We’ll all be over for dinner! Sounds amazing. (If a bunch of pickups and one tricked out FJ roll up in the driveway…don’t shoot, we’re allies.)
> legal carry hatchets
Come to think of it, I have the late Weaponsman’s shingler’s hatchet (genuine Estwing), though I don’t keep it in the car, much less on me.
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Weirdly, what IS in the car right now is a long fur coat. I think it’s unshorn beaver [1], though the kid working at the thrift store thought it was otter. (In response to that I made an oblique comment about how an otter fur didn’t work out so well for Loki, fully expecting a blank look. Instead this kid beams and pulls out a pendant in the shape of Thor’s hammer, “You KNOW about that?!!!” We had a nice little chat about Dr Jackson Crawford, and Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen, and so forth.) Anyway, the presumptive beaver coat was only $40, owing to the lining inside needing much repair; apparently it had hung behind the counter in that Goodwill for months without takers so they marked it down and put it out on the main floor. I picked it up as a joke gift for Scottish Girl, a thrifting friend who was crowing about finding a mink hat, a la Julie Christie’s hat in Dr Zhivago, for $10CDN somewhere in rural Ontario. But given how things are going, maybe I should keep the coat, and pick up a tasteless “pimpin’ hat” to go with it. A person should always have an alternate job lined up in these uncertain economic times…
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[1] since you were a gentleman and did not make any jokes about “smoking tuna” I will attempt to rise to your standard and refrain from shaggy beaver jokes.
“keeping my ball and glove.. and bat” -Had my butt kicked in late 60’s for having long hair and did the same thing afterwards…thought the glove and ball gave me some deniability.
I carry a S & W J frame revolver, .32. It’s as much recoil as I can manage.
Here’s a story about how fast things can go south:
Helping a niece move into a new apartment. Four of us were standing at the base of a 2 story staircase. Niece brings out her (psycho) dog, on leash and wearing a muzzle, thank GOD for that. They come down the stairs and the dog hits the ground and IMMEDIATELY goes for me, the smallest person out of the four. If she had not had a muzzle on, she would have eaten my face. It happened in a millisecond. I never even remembered that I was armed until it was over.
>I never even remembered that I was armed until it was over.
Like pretty much any “normal” person, I’d guess. (As opposed to trained in responding to acute stress.) I’ve certainly been in situations where I didn’t have any meaningful response until it was over. (Unless freezing uselessly is a meaningful response — which sometimes is actually the best response, come to think of it.)
Anyway, glad The Niece had the dog muzzled.
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You reminded me of an incident decades ago. I was visiting my best friend from high school, at the time he was in med school and I was in grad school (this becomes relevant later). When I arrived and knocked on the front door he called out, “It’s open, come in!” So I opened the door and was confronted by a madly barking doberman charging toward the door, which I totally did not expect, since Friend and his wife owned no animals, much less a doberman. I froze, and fortunately the dog stopped on the threshold, but doubling the volume of his barking. Then a voice yelled out, “Oh, shit!” and someone scrambled, quite awkwardly, to grab the dog’s collar. It turned out that Friend’s sister-in-law was staying with them for the weekend and had brought her doberman (and useless, pot-smoking, soy bodied Japanese boyfriend — but that’s another tale). Fortunately for me, the dog was better trained than the boyfriend and I was not savaged.
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Now here’s the pathetic part. The thing that flashed through my brane was not fear, or even “I’m too pretty to get mauled” (though it’s true, he said modestly). I distinctly remember thinking, “Aw, shit. I don’t have time for a hospital stay.” I was preparing (poorly) for my PhD qualifying exams at the time. Later, when I got home, I thought about it and decided that there was something wrong and sick about being more concerned about a degree than getting my face bitten off. Never did get that PhD.
You described the situation and I immediately thought,
Arm up and takes its throat as it bites my arm.
I don’t think I’d have time for the gun.
I’ll never play the piano again.
Much can be learned reading John Farnam’s Quips. On this topic, scroll down at the link to 24 June, “Your “Lizard Brain””.
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https://defense-training.com/june-2003-quips/
My EDC — Hungarian surplus PA-63 in 9mm Makarov. Hornady makes an FTX load. What does it say about me?
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1) I’m a cheap bastid. Decades ago during my FFL days, my cost was $99. Yes, the blood of the Scotsman runs through my veins. We even live on Scotsview Ct.
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2) I’m old. Age forces compromise. I like the light weight. It rides in a Sticky brand pocket holster in the waist pocket of my cargo shorts. Doesn’t work in the cargo pocket because it swings like a pendulum. I carry a spare mag in a small knife belt pouch on my weak side.
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3) I like gunsmithing. In stock trim, PA-63’s come with two annoyances. 1) The double action trigger pull is horrendous, like around 22 lbs. worth. Easily cured by installing a lighter weight hammer spring, but must also be balanced with a bit beefier recoil spring. 2) Empty mags do not drop free. This requires a bit of internal tinkering. As I said, Hungarian surplus. No factory warranty, good luck finding parts. I have two, both still running.
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Back up riding in which ever vehicle I’m driving is my CANIK TP9SF. It is (so far) my only plastic fantastic Tactical Tupperware sidearm. I have found this little case quite handy to pack it around in along with a spare mag —
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Ruger GP100 in .38 Special. (Yes, I’ve heard it’s not a man’s caliber if it doesn’t begin with a 4!)
But it’s comfortable and I can hit what I aim at. I’ve shot 6 rounds of .357 with it and didn’t even hit the paper till the third one. Never again!
I possess a card that states I’m legal in many states. If I’m in a state that doesn’t accept that card (rare), but it does happen, I default to the second amendment. If I see a sign on a building with silhouette of a gun with a cross out red circle, I again default to the second amendment. Remember covid and all the sheeple. No one could tell I wasn’t vaxxed.
Yep.
Well, never anything Kimber to start with… :-) Usually a pistol, a Benchmade, and a Streamlight.
Kimber: Like I said on another site about a ’63 Stingray.
There’s a good reason I never bought one or will buy one.
Cost.
As an overweight octogenarian concealed carry is a problem. Before my unfortunate boating experience at Horsetooth Reservoir a NAA pocket revolver was my daily carry. In my car is an unfolded milsup entrenching tool in the passenger footwell. On the floor in the back is a small sledgehammer. With the recently enacted laws here in the Peoples Republic of Colofornia anything else is problematic, even the small canister of pepper gel close at hand.
Do I really need to worry? During his 7 1/2 years in office, our current AG and likely next Governor has championed gun control. Safety is his priority! Ignore when he assumed office the state was midpack safest state in the country. Now we are among the top five most dangerous. Soon, with a disarmed population, we will be Number One!
While still working, I kept a table leg in the back of my pickup. I only had to use it once, but the big, belligerent man with an attitude never stepped further than the door of his car, and only had some curse words in response.
I have an inexpensive Kershaw clipped to my pocket at all times. It opens with a push of my thumb, and is handy for just about anything. If it’s ever confiscated, I can replace it for less than fifty dollars. I learned a lesson about expensive pocket knives when some local cops decided to stop all traffic, and I made the mistake of telling them I drank a beer a few hours before. They arrested me, took me in for a breath test (which I passed), and somehow lost my pocket knife, which they confiscated when I was arrested. I always hoped whoever stole it cut their finger half off the first time they used the knife.
That’s true about EDC pistols. A Kimber is nice, but it’s not disposable.
It’s not a boating accident candidate.
Always, a 1-AAA streamlight in pocket. An NAA 5-round 22mag anytime I’m dressed. On occasion an M637 Smith, 5 round 38spl with home brew wadcutter load and a speed strip in pocket. If that’s not enough, I’m schrod.
Carried a P-38 in the 80’s. A 357 snubby in the 90’s. A lakeline modded G2C in the early oughts, and a 38 snubby now. Went back to the revolver because I didn’t
want one in the snout in the auto- realized I was too slow to ready, and now my snubby is ready always.
My daily carry is a little Byrd (Spiderco’s second-line) pocket knife. Living not only in Massachusetts, but in a town notoriously anti-gun (yeah, I know) even FOR Massholia, I don’t have an EDC firearm. I am instead accompanied everywhere by a diverse, stunning-and-brave, LGBTQIAA+ social worker of color who is trained to de-escalate muggers, crazed drug fiends, rabid animals, and other Real Victims of The Patriarchy.
Whatever works.
Taurus .38 snubby in the pocket in the summer with a 226 in 357sig for winter carry. I tried magnum rounds in the snubby once.
Of course I carry a knife. Rule 9 IIRC. My second prayer of the day is that I never have a reason to use them in defense
I also cure and smoke my own bacon and grow my own tomatoes.
It’s BLT season don’t ya know.
A Kimber K6 357 and a Buck auto 110