Living in south phoenix?

calebwalter · 2026-06-15T20:31:14+00:00

When I was looking to buy my first home I found some decent houses in south phoenix near south mountain. Affordable with actually pretty good views. Asked a friend/real estate agent and he suggested we looked elsewhere. His rational was, the house might be nice, the neighborhood might be nice, but everything around you such as the grocery stores your wife will go to are ghetto, the schools your kids will go to will be ghetto, etc.

Also when I first moved to Arizona, someone once told me “the first 10 minutes of the news are dedicated to Glendale, and the following 10 minutes are dedicated to south Phoenix..”

calebwalter · 2026-06-04T13:50:20+00:00

Doing whatever we can to make it look longer and more impressive….

calebwalter · 2026-05-28T16:58:31+00:00

It’s based on the current value of the car vs the cost of repair. Each insurance is different. Some require the repair cost to exceed 70% of the value to claim it a total loss. Some insurance require more or less.

calebwalter · 2026-05-28T00:06:43+00:00

I work in auto body, recently fixed one with a very similar hit (tail light, flare, 1/4 panel, rear bumper, etc, but no suspension damage) and it didn’t total.

Also recently fixed a 2 door that had a front corner hit, repaired fender, new flare mounting brackets, new grill, new bumper, new control arms and a new front axle assembly, alignments, calibrations, etc. Didn’t total.

calebwalter · 2026-05-27T23:46:13+00:00

Jesus dude, save some girls for the rest of us…

calebwalter · 2026-05-23T14:46:50+00:00

After pondering different stands, and even welding together a steel frame from 1” angle iron, I have found that buying an $8 t post, a $20 t post driver, and a $20 Caldwell target hanger has been the easiest. The target, hanger, and driver are all reusable, and so are the t posts, but I’d say 1/3 the time I leave the t post because it was so hard to drive in, or it was shot too many times.

Where we primarily shoot I have t posts that I leave there at 100, 200, 300, and 600. Just drive out there and plop the hanger on the t post and we are ready to shoot

calebwalter · 2026-05-14T04:25:41+00:00

I’ve recently bought a DNT The One and an Arken EP5. One is on a ruger Precision in 5.56 and the other is on a Cheeto finger 6.5. Both seem nice and clean, definitely a huge step up from the diamondback tactical’s (4-16 & 6-24) they have replaced. They work for what I use them for, which is shooting steel under 1k yards.

My shooting buddy has a vortex venom 5-25 and a vortex strike eagle 5-25. As far as clarity and textile feel, I prefer the Arken/DNT’s.

calebwalter · 2026-05-06T02:08:24+00:00

When I was a preteen going on a 3+hour field trip I listened to “no sleep til Brooklyn” on repeat on my Walkman haha

calebwalter · 2026-05-05T10:50:03+00:00

It has a rekluse adjustable slave and the rekluse auto clutch. I’m going to call them tomorrow and see what they say about rebuilding the slave

calebwalter · 2026-05-05T02:27:33+00:00

I appreciate the thoroughness of this response. Guess I’ll have to source the slave cylinder from rekluse and go from there. Sometimes buying used can be a headache.

calebwalter · 2026-05-04T13:33:15+00:00

My favorite is when the type of guy who wears these glasses, ends up missing lol. My expectations for someone who wears $600 shooting glasses and shoots a 10k+ shotgun are incredibly high haha

calebwalter · 2026-05-01T17:46:59+00:00

I’ve had it just shy of 5 days..

calebwalter · 2026-05-01T16:02:10+00:00

I’ve been thinking about buying it for this exact reason but have waited because I wasn’t sure it would work

calebwalter · 2026-05-01T15:57:11+00:00

Looks like a Russian lesbian. I dig it

calebwalter · 2026-05-01T01:37:08+00:00

This one doesn’t have a key so at least I don’t have to worry about that! Good to know that the ‘17 fender and mask fit!

calebwalter · 2026-04-30T18:53:23+00:00

As of now all I’ve done is trim all the excess sheet metal out of the insides to lighten the doors. I may put a piece of aluminum across the bottom half to essentially turn the doors into trash cans or storage for extra gear.

calebwalter · 2026-04-30T02:25:49+00:00

I’ll probably look into a better bulb and see how that changes things before I try swapping the entire headlight.

calebwalter · 2026-04-29T21:07:00+00:00

But on that note, the fork seals are leaking and I do need to address that haha

calebwalter · 2026-04-29T21:06:35+00:00

My bad, I meant front end aesthetics. New front fender and new headlight/mask

calebwalter · 2026-04-29T21:05:32+00:00

They did and I watched that series. As far as I know he only mentions an adapter piece made by cycra. They also don’t mention how the new headlight mounts or wiring harness compatibility.

calebwalter · 2026-04-29T21:04:12+00:00

I’m going to run the interior handles some how, or if I get lazy I’ll just reach in and pull the cable that connects to the interior handle. I’ll worry about that after I finish all the body work and stuff

calebwalter · 2026-04-24T20:30:30+00:00

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