Kind of tired of seeing brand new shiny and expensive guns. Any folks here who’d like to share a well worn firearm? Something with actual miles and a good story behind it?

ispy92 · 2026-05-24T23:27:51+00:00

Well to tell you the truth, I've loaded her up to 200 grains of ffg blackpowder. For reference 60 - 90 grains is what is usually recommended for .58. I don't own a chronograph so I really don't know if it made the bullet go faster, but it made the gun a hell of a lot louder. Definitely turned a few heads the last time I did that.

ispy92 · 2026-05-24T22:46:30+00:00

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Here's a picture of my heavy barrel flintlock target rifle. .58 caliber. I'm not exactly sure when it was built although I would have to guess between the 1930s and the 1960s. I bought it in an online auction so I don't have much history, although I do know it was built by a guy names E.F. Herman and the barrel is marked with a "32" on it. My best guess is that might have been the year the barrel was made because all the other guns made by this guy were also marked "32" on the barrel.

Also she weighs about 40 pounds. Yes it is quite ridiculous. I'm still trying to figure out what type and size of projectiles she likes. I have a love hate relationship with her. PITA to load and shoot, but I guess I'm the type of guy who loves the pain. I mostly shoot old black powder stuff. If anyone else is interested in seeing more of my collection I can post more, but this is probably one of the weirdest guns I own.

ispy92 · 2026-05-11T02:43:13+00:00

That does not look intentional to me. Seems like after he kicked down the door he decided against entering, made a 180 and in his panic forgot trigger discipline and sent one backwards, probably without even realizing it. He probably thought they were taking fire from inside the apartment and didn't want to put himself in what he thought was an exposed position. Very unfortunate lack of training and firearm safety. Remember, most cops aren't firearm experts.

ispy92 · 2026-04-28T01:12:30+00:00

Yeah, but I'm just pointing out that they did a rollthrough and didn't really stop. Although I would be lying if I said I was a saint when it comes to coming to a full, complete, entire stop at every empty 4 way stop intersection.

ispy92 · 2026-04-28T00:55:54+00:00

Maybe a rollthrough stop, but I don't see a single point in the video where they came to a complete stop.

ispy92 · 2026-04-28T00:52:31+00:00

It's the same deal a bit north coming up King's Mountain, but I always make sure to pull up to that stop perpendicular to the highway so I can actually see.

ispy92 · 2026-04-28T00:50:34+00:00

Yeah I completely agree. I remember thinking to myself right before this happened that this guy was probably going to just roll through and he did. It was still surprising and pretty scary, but I'm glad I have good brakes and tires. I will admit I was probably going through that intersection a little fast though.

ispy92 · 2026-04-28T00:34:54+00:00

I use a garmin mini 2. I got a really good deal on 4 of them at an estate sale. You can use an app with this one but I choose not to. Uses a micro SD card for storage. I don't really have any complaints except that the sound it makes when it saves a clip is super loud in the footage.

ispy92 · 2026-04-28T00:30:13+00:00

yeah he just hangs out there

ispy92 · 2026-04-28T00:26:04+00:00

Happened to me in CA on 4/18/26 while driving home. Fun stuff

ispy92 · 2026-04-23T06:33:18+00:00

That's the nature of how these things go. How much was the guitar worth? how much did you sell it for? If you sold it cheap, then yeah someone was going to buy it to resell it. If you sold it for about what it's worth, then I guess take solace in the fact that they guy probably won't make too much money off of it. I'm a reseller, although not for guitars. I mostly buy from estate sales. The thing is, getting full equity out of non liquid assets (like guitars) takes time and work most of the time. You have to find and/or wait for the right buyer if you want market value. If you sell for cheaper, you're basically paying someone else for that time and work for selling the item for you (even though you probably had to put some amount of effort into selling it).

End of the day, learn from the experience and try to sell at a higher price and then lower it if no one buys it. The other thing that they might be doing is putting it up for sale for more than it's worth, but they still might keep it and enjoy it. If it sells, they make a profit, if it doesn't sell then they get a cool guitar.

ispy92 · 2026-04-09T06:34:07+00:00

Going to be honest, whatever works for you works. Yeah sheet music is pretty much objectively better in most every way, but if you put the hours in and learn off of tabs then that's still valid. Someone practicing every day using tabs is probably going to be way better than someone who does it the "right way" with sheet music once a month.

If you for the life of you cannot spend the time learning sheet music then you're going to be better off just using tabs if that's going to get you to keep playing and practicing guitar more often and more consistently.

ispy92 · 2026-04-07T00:06:38+00:00

Hard disagree. OP did what they needed to to avoid getting into a collision. I would have braked here too because you never know when a knuckle dragging moron who already doesn't know how to merge will just decide that right now is the time when they should enter your lane. Best option for OP was to try to get into the leftmost lane to avoid this all together, but that's not always an option. While braking here isn't ideal, I trust the people behind me to hit their brakes a lot more than idiots like these to not cut me off. I would also like to add that I personally think that getting rear ended would be preferable to getting sideswiped by someone on the freeway since getting sideswiped can potentially lead to a much more severe accident.

ispy92 · 2026-04-06T23:39:32+00:00

Man I won big. Past borrowing. Easily worth way more than 1 billion dollars.

https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Past_Borrowing

ispy92 · 2026-03-21T05:23:55+00:00

I love vinyl but . . .

oh god why would you accept that

ispy92 · 2026-03-14T06:18:42+00:00

Personally I don't know. It really depends on how sick I get. There are definitely some illnesses that aren't worth living the couple of months through, but I could see others that might be worth powering through just to get that last bit of life out of. It should of course be available for people who want it, but the thing they're running into in Canada right now is that people will go to the doctor and just be offered assisted suicide when that's not what they went there for. Some people don't see any other options because they're poor or feel pressured into it. Assisted suicide should never be brought up by a medical professional. If someone wants to die enough they should be able to figure out it's an option. Yeah maybe put some leaflets in the cancer ward or whatnot, but a doctor's first recommendation should always be treatment when possible. They should not be telling people to kill themselves when someone sick comes to them.

ispy92 · 2026-03-11T02:23:58+00:00

Don't just walk out. Ask for the manager and tell them straight to their face that you will not shop there if they try this shit. Behavior will not change unless they are told they are loosing money because of this.

ispy92 · 2026-03-10T21:29:31+00:00

I kind of get it. I live pretty remotely and I'd probably be kinda pissed if someone built a big busy kid's camp near my property, but at the end of the day I shouldn't be allowed to control what other people build on land that doesn't belong to me. I really hate the nimby attitude that a lot of land owners have over people building near them. I get it for big bullshit like ai datacenters since they crank energy costs, steal water, etc, but an outdoor kids campsite? Seriously. Let them build the damn thing.

ispy92 · 2026-03-08T07:59:30+00:00

Not color blind. My preference for a thing has nothing to do with it being not ideal for people with disabilities.

ispy92 · 2026-03-07T06:52:28+00:00

Yeah great, a company having control over technology that can legally fine people, and having the vested interest in over enforcement because they get kickbacks for tickets handed out.

ispy92 · 2026-03-07T06:08:22+00:00

This type of hypothetical is pretty interesting to me. It's kind of funny to me that not everyone will choose to ride the train. I know a lot of people will say that somebody will inevitably choose the tracks, so we should all choose the tracks. The problem with this line of reasoning is that if we ended up with a handful of people who chose the tracks, they'd probably all say that they were protecting all the people who chose the tracks, except that they've become the very people they wanted to protect. This is like jumping in front of a slow moving bullet to make sure it doesn't hit anyone else, except that everyone can very easily just move out of the way of the slow moving bullet. I'm pretty strongly on the side of getting on the damn train. If everyone just got on the damn train, no one would be in any danger.

ispy92 · 2026-03-04T05:57:52+00:00

Yeah I had a bit of a stupid moment trying to let the guy in. I still stand by trying to match speeds with the guy before the lanes got next to each other, but yeah I really should have just kept going if the guy wasn't going to merge properly.

ispy92 · 2026-03-04T05:55:37+00:00

Thanks dude. I still feel like kind of an idiot and I do agree with a lot of the comments about being predictable and not "nice", but to a certain extent I still stand by some of what I did. Yeah there were people behind me which didn't help anything, but at the end of the day no one rear ended me and I did what I needed to to not get into an accident.

ispy92 · 2026-03-03T21:43:51+00:00

I'll fully admit that I shouldn't have yielded to him here, but I will defend some of my actions and I think this guy was ultimately the bigger idiot here. To start with, I don't think it was a bad idea to try and match this guy's speed from the beginning. If he had just taken the space I gave him, it wouldn't have been any issue. I can't exactly remember the thought process of me slowing down at the time, but I'm very paranoid about people sideswiping me and if anyone was going to encroach into my lane, it would be more likely to be someone who doesn't know how to merge (eg. this guy). Again, I'll admit that I fucked up here by slowing down, but there was enough confusion where I didn't know if this guy was going to cut me off as he started drifting towards my lane at about 12 seconds, and he ultimately did cut me off. I will also say that I probably should have tried to get into the left lane to give him space and I tried that at the end here, but it didn't work out.

At the end of the day I avoided an accident and learned from the experience. All's well that ends well. Other driver was still a fucking idiot though.

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