Greetings and Salutations!
So an interesting thing happened.
Somewhat hairy to be perfectly frank.
I had to go to the local liquor store. It’s a small place up the street and in this case, it wasn’t for booze per se but for a dish I was cooking up that needed dry sherry (a nice roast BTW). Publix has sherry, but all they have are those BIG ole jugs and that’s WAAAY too much for what I needed. I went to the smol likker store as Bobby, the guy who owns it has smaller-ish bottles of stuff like that on hand. I also know Bobby and have pulled store security during some of the BLM/Hurricane stuff in exchange for goods so to speak…
I walked in, and at the counter were three urban Yoofs.
And OMG Cental Casting called, asking where the extras for their latest gangbanger movie were? Not kidding/wish I was… Dreds, grilled up teeth, sagging pants and no doubt packing guns with giggle switches… the guy behind the counter was trying to explain to the obviously getting agitated Yoofs that their card(s) (yes, MULTIPLE cards) had all been declined.
They had what looked like almost 3 or 4 cases of top end booze on the counter… like the literal top shelf stuff that Bobby literally keeps on the top shelf… they reeked of weed, and maaan…. I realized since this was a quick stop, and it’s almost impossible to bicycle while carrying, I had left my gat at home like a fucking dumbass.
Never. Fucking. Again.
It was starting to get that ‘pre-combat’ vibe and dude behind the counter was calling -someone- trying to get ANYONE who could do SOMETHING while the now-getting pissed off Yoofs who were starting to mutter angrily and sheeee-it.
Me?
I started maneuvering find cover when another guy walked in and OMG thanks be to Crom or -insert Deity of Choice here- as he was a BIG black dude who was with Allied armed security.
He had his Glock on his duty belt, which they saw, and this instantly changed the dynamic. Gun guy then positioned himself juuuust out of their reach, nodded at da Yoofs and stood off just -watching- them… their attitude suddenly flipped and got mellow just as quickly.
The counter-guy apologized again (as the first three or four times didn’t placate these dead-eyed fucks) and said there was nothing more he could do. Instead of things going pear shaped like it had looked like it was heading, they glared at counter-guy, looked at me, then the Guy-With-A-Gun and as a group stalked out of the store.
All three of us breathed a MAD sigh of relief.
Like literally a BIG loud sigh from all three of us…
The black guy was like “Man, I had good timing apparently!” I was all like, “Brother, you showed up like the Cav, right in the nick of time!” The counter-guy was like all “Maaaan they’d been declined on three or four cards multiple times and shit was about to get ugly when you two walked in!” I looked at the black guy and said “Maaaan no offense but holy shit that was looking pretty fucking bad for a minute…talk about “Da Boys in Da Hood!”
He was like “Man, niggers like that are why we have a nigger problem, not a Black problem.” I fist bumped him and told him I dug his POV and he was pretty based for a Black guy… he appreciated it. As far as my own stupid lack of carry? Needless to say, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore!” Lesson learned on the cheap.
This time.
I need to find something that’ll let me carry while bicycling… and I need either a more concealable weapon, as my smallest frame is that Smith 669 which I’d rather not carry as in IF I ever found myself needing it, I’d probably never get it back and they’re getting harder and harder to find them in like-new condition that she who must not be named found mine in:
I do have that itty-bitty Bond Derringer in .357 but it’s only two shots, and is the ‘last ditch’ car weapon, meaning that’s for emergency road rage use IF I ever have a ‘tard come at me while driving (it’s happened in the past unfortunately).
Money is too tight r/n to get anything new-ish.
And my preferred carry is my 1911, which is waaay to big to CC while on my bike. Le Sigh… decisions decisions… I will say I DID get a good bit of intel from the Gun Guy at the store.
He’s a guard for Allied but works at the new Coca Cola distribution center here in Tampa. The place is HUUUUGE and I’ve wanted and tried for years to get on with ‘Coke’ so to speak. Supposedly the company is a fantastic place to work… great bennies etc… hard as Hell to get onboard unless you have an ‘in’
It’s only a wee bit up the road, and the guy told me that the way to go about getting on with them is to apply online, and then show up and ask to speak to the HR folks upfront face-to-face and he told me that 80-90% of people get hired this way… that this’s the secret ‘cheat code’ to getting in the door with them.
So I’m applying tonight and I’m thinking about hitting them tomorrow… there’s a VP Slot open that I’m actually a great fit for, and I’ll take any offer on the table as no matter what, it’ll be two to three times my current rate at People’s Glorious Tractor Factory IF I get the gig…
I mean I did just get a fresh haircut and got the beard and eyebrows trimmed up… throw me in a suit and I clean up pretty damned well.
My only problem is my resume is like 4 pages long. It’s impossible to cover all the gigs I had in any sort of short form. Any suggestions?
And the last thing I want to do is run it through an AI…
Anywhooo
Now onto some interesting North of the Border news.
Seems a group of Canoeheads got busted for “…building up an ‘anti-government militia’ ” Seems some members of the Canadian DotMil and some DotMil cadets (I’m assuming these being cadets in whatever form the Canadians have for West Point or the Air Force Academy? Maybe JL or Glen can enlighten us) got hit with:
The RCMP made shocking allegations this week when they accused four men, including Canadian Armed Forces members, of amassing a trove of weapons and explosives as part of a scheme to take over land near Quebec’s capital.
Police called the plot an act of “ideologically motivated violent extremism.”
National security experts say it’s likely the first time that active members of the Canadian military have been charged with terrorism-related offences. The case is also unique due to the sheer scale of weapons and gear seized, and allegations some of the equipment was taken from the military.
The article is HERE
Essentially the reason it caught my eye is that it’s odd AF in my line of thinking. Now the article has pretty good coverage of the ins and outs of it, but there’s a few exceptionally weird aspects to it.
Like the claim “…a scheme to take over land near Quebec’s capital.” And do exactly what with it? 4 Dudes ‘taking over land near the capital’? What the fuck over? And do what? I mean seriously!?! That right there is some delusional weirdness. The whole thing in my eyes glows like Hell…
Like that ‘supposed’ Oklahoma “Veterans on Patrol” militia that’s supposedly ‘targeting weather radars in Oklahoma’ because OF COURSE weather radars control the weather…
Seems that Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer (hmmmn that last name…) who’s the Leader of said-militia is a full on whackadoo. Crazy AF. Glows like all get out. The story is HERE and the word is the nutjob who claims to be a Christian Nationalist (despite that last name) got given the handle “Screwy Louie” when he showed up, uninvited at the Bundy Ranch standoff back in 2018.
I mean it appears that there’s a couple of things going on… worldwide it would seem. Actually a LOT of things… One is that ALL of the DotGovs out there know –something– is coming.
There are so many crackdowns happening across so many places, it’s impossible to keep track. Germany has gone so hard and far Left, it’s done a full on 360 into Fascism. I mean when the Polizei spend more time chasing down and arresting 68 year old ladies for ‘liking’ something critical of a German Minister on Facebook, and fining her $2800 Euros instead of chasing down the Afghani Rape gangs plaguing like everywhere? Yeeeah thats a problem.
My haircutting girl at Supercuts is German-German… married and divorced a GI years ago… she said in Ansbach (where she’s from) the locals are terrified of going out at night… the town after dark is locked up tighter than a drum because of the ravening hordes of Hajjis…. and the fuzz do fuck-all about it. Her mother is/was pushing for her to come home, but she’s all like “Scheiß auf diesen Lärm” which loosely translated is “Fuck that noise!” Very telling there Aye?
And then, the bullshit spinning out of Great Britain and the massive recruitment drive among the migrant population (which has been going on since 2018) is supposedly because of the Great Big Russian Invasion That’s Coming We Promise! Pinkie Swear!!!”
In reality, it’s that the Brit honchos know that the general population is thiiiis close to snapping and going full on French Revolution… I mean they’re really not talking about Ireland AT ALL and the shenanigans that the Irish are up to… you barely hear anything. What I’m sure of is eventually, the IRA and Sinn Féin and all of the heads of those groups are going to lose control of their people…
I mean my own thoughts are that the reason the Armalites and stashed weapons have not ‘come out to play’ yet is that the Brits have more than likely paid off the various heads of the Irish Resistance to keep the lid on them… meaning “their people” in the “Movement”…. that’ll only work for so long however, and if they choose poorly, they’ll end up doing a “Danny Deever” at the hands of those they used to command… (see the poem by Kipling if you don’t get the reference on Deever)
ALL the DotGovs have lost the plot.
They’re ALL nervous right now…
They know that they’ve lost legitimacy.
Just like in Canoeheadland.
And here in the Untied Staatz.
There’s a whooole lot of ‘badness’ coming.
Hard times across ALL boards.
The whole ‘Epstein Didn’t Exist’ shtick?
I mean for all intents and purposes the guy may as well have not amiright? I mean the question then is where is Ghislaine Maxwell at and just who did she traffic those humans to?
Notice there’s been zero coverage of that broad… Used to see a LOT of profiles and articles in the Daily Mail of her behind bars, talking about how shitty she had it… but over the past year or so??? Notsomucho anymore. Any bets she’s sunning herself on the Red Sea with a new face next to whatever he’s calling himself now with HIS new face, after they evacc’d him out of that cell, and replaced him with a dead duplicate?
So much for any and all credibility that OrangeManBad had.
Controlled Opposition INDEED
Congratulations, you played yourself…
Lots of comments talking about how OMB is blackmailing the blackmailed who’ve been blackmailed by (probably) Israel… Seriously, IDGAF if he’s using the info/tapes or whatever to ‘push his agenda’… we’re talking about fucking child rapists.
FUCK YOUR AGENDA you fucking Orange Haired ASSHOLE!
Release the fucking files or kill. them. all.
Better yet, do BOTH
Fuck this supposed 4/5D Chess bullshit…
I mean it’s pretty obvious that Epstein was a Mossad agent of some form… I mean Ghislaine Maxwell’s father was a full on Mossad man… Until they killed him…
Supposedly
I say ‘supposedly’ because at this point?
I don’t believe anything anymore.
Not saying I don’t believe in ‘things’ per se…
Just it seems that almost everything we’ve ever been taught is a fucking lie. History is being re-written and erased in so many instances. The latest ‘thing’ on TikTok (Gah I hate that app I swear I do…) is that a certain people from a certain ethnic and geographic location are getting severely bent out of shape over the fact that people are translating 1940s Moustache Man Bad’s speeches and writings into English…
As the majority of them (the speeches) talk about the fact that the ethnic Germans were being replaced and edged out financially, and their culture being systematically dismantled via ‘questionable outside influences’ and that Usury and the Banking Cartels were robbing Germany of its rightful place in the world at large… That the majority were being held in thrall to a minority group that didn’t care one whit about Germany as a whole, and was flooding the country with degeneracy and porn…
Sound familiar?
LOTS of claims of doing such things are “Anti-Semitic”
Just as questioning the validity in NOT throwing pedophiles into woodchippers along with convicted rapists…
Truly… what an odd thing to say…
Go figure.
So yepper…
I’m going to have to say, things are getting a mite MOAR squirrelly-er out there. That the Urban Hip-Hop Yoofs were in my local packy? That’s a disturbance in the Force that I didn’t quite expect. This area used to be a seriously whyttebread Area of Operations. Methinks it might be time to unass this particular A.O…. I literally have nothing keeping me here anymore.
Which will be much to the consternation of my Feds who’ve been observing me for about two plus years now… and when I get to -wherever- I’m going, whomever they send to keep an eye on me, well, they’ll stick out like a wart on a pecker…
Not that’ll bother me much.
So More Later
Stay Alert, Stay Alive
BCE
BCE,
I’ll cut to the chase. The way (maybe not the best way, but it got me hired) is to take the job posting and break it down to the requirements. Use different color highlighting for each requirement. THEN comes the tedious part… go through the resume and insert each where it fits. Look to address as many requirements as you can in their verbiage. Civil resumes should be 2 pages ( I would google or youtube current practices). The initial cut is made by a machine which is going to screen out the less qualified. A useful site is https://www.askamanager.org/ for some insights. Read and re-read that job posting, it gives you the left/right lateral limits. Do not go beyond them. That is my two cents, and I wish you the sincerest best of luck.
Appreciate it Dood (to use the short line for brevity man) But yeah… the problem is ALLLLL them overseas gigs were my bread and butter and there’s no way to church it up/down to a two pager unless I put ONLY job titles and locations… and even then, the whole “Manager of Operations” for some of the most notorious companies/events in the current history (DynaCorp/CACI/KBR to name just a few) and add on the locations like Guantanamo Bay/Abu Ghraib/Camp Bucca… my shit reads like “Torturers R Us LOL”
maybe try to become the head honcho at the Alligator Alcatraz maybe?
BCE,
Given the unique nature of that employment (I know first hand, BTDT, maybe tell you about it over beers sometime), perhaps grouping categories of experience may be more useful. paying someone to write a resume is bullshit and expensive. Perhaps take what you have, depersonalize it (Company A, Company B, etc. so you are not training the LLM too much) and drop it into Grok or ChatGPT (whatever version of AI you feel comfy with). Check the outputs, because they can go off the rails.
May peace be with you, and success yours.
This. One other suggestion: make a word cloud of skills, certifications and such at the tail end of your resume. These will flag as hits when the machine blows across it at light speed. Good luck.
BCE,
Since it is machine reading to initially sort, consider the merits of placing the verbatim job description at the bottom, use the smallest font and change font color to white. You can also claim (if they ask) what race/demographic you feel you are… use Latino/Hispanic. If they try to check, they just did a hatecrime.
I am not in HR but due to my position, frequently wind up on hiring committees for midlevel-and-up jobs.
The “white font job ad text” thing is known now, and I and the others on hiring committees know to look for it. When someone tries that, and it’s found out, that someone goes on my permanent “never hire” list no matter how well qualified they are because we can never trust them.
It’s kind of passe now, but I still appreciate a good cover letter, written specifically for the position, that details the way the applicant matches the requirements. The higher the position the more likely a cover letter is to be read … up to the point where it’s a handshake and face-to-face deal from the start, but I don’t play at those levels.
I agree. Skills are transferable. You could then list jobs/postings with dates. You just need to get your foot in the door. You’ll probably get the gig if you can face to face with the hiring manager. Good Luck.
As to carry piece, you can do lots worse than a Taurus G3C or one of those Mossbergs compacts. Both are considered out of favor and have some level of Glock compatibility (sights, mags, etc.) that makes upgrading possible.
the Taurus G2.. i actually like shooting it. it’s accurate with a double stack mag and again, inexpensive.. never a malfunction after 7-8 years now
ask “gun girl” to fine you a nice stubby 38 or maybe ask one of your new friends about one.
my FIL got a nice 38 stubby from a old cop for 200 bucks. it was just sitting in his safe.
I got caught kind of like you did years ago. left my weapon on the fridge. ended up being a long night.
said asshole (bad guy) got shot and spent 3-4 hours at the police station ( in Philly) so, yeah. it gets fucked up real fast. I pickup a Ruger 38 LCR a few years ago. it was and is my winter coat left hand pocket gun. here the bitch about shooting bad guys. you NEVER get your gun back from the police.
never that I know of anyway. look at “city data” before you move. it will give you a good idea what a
area is like before you drive there. remember that things change. the “brothers” are starting to invade
this area as well. chances are if they had a bunch of ‘bad” cards, they stole them. and carjacking is getting to be a everyday thing anymore. like I warned others, it is a twofer for them. they get wheels
with gas in it. so they can travel to hunt, besides whatever they can get off the guy who lost his ride.
I always wear a loose shirt. but I carry a Sig 226 or SA-35 most of the time.
and how is Stella doing ?
I know you had a bad experience in the upper corner there, but I love my part of East TN. Cash transactions between private parties is 100% legal, too! No paperwork required. Just saying.
https://www.gunownersclub.com/
This site works great for me…
And you can delete this comment if you want.
Yes, see what she can find for you in the sub $400 range. This is a hint.
Cool article. Glad to see you back.
I wonder if the Senate castrating the suppressor part of the Big Bullshit Bill was related to the obvious shitstorm brewing just ahead?
Been making some upgrades lately. 4th of July got me motivated to get ready for fires. I know you’re busy with other concerns, but for those who can, I recommend checking and updating your fire preps. Fire extinguishers aren’t too bad right now. Fire blankets, too. Recent years, I’ve started to see some interesting alternatives, like little deodorant-sized spray cans and hang-in-place bottles that go off if they get too hot. Pretty cool.
Best to you and… you.
FWIW I talked to a guy doing security at the local Advent Hospital in Ocala. They run their own security now. He told me that HR there does an open recruiting every 1st Wednesday of the month and they are always looking for people with experience in the security world.
And the four page C.V. made me laugh. That’s like mine, except mine’s only three and a half pages, heh.
And the area up here is still a nice place to live. This from someone who remembers when St. Pete was a nice place to live. And Ybor was (safe)party central on the week end.
Ocala seems nice but don’t go North of there into the “People’s Republic of Gainesville” also known as “Berkley East”.
Not just Lefties but outright Marxists all over and run this town and county. SOLID fucking BLUE county EVERY election !
People in the county and not in Gainesville (where I live) are OK and even want to split into a new county called Springs County but the Lefty people from Gainesville run everything and tough shit if you don’t like it.
They also elect Lefty DAs, Judges and Police Chiefs.
It’s a revolving door of criminals being charged, getting a slap on the wrist and then let out to commit more crimes.
Meanwhile if you happen to ventilate one of these “fine citizens”, they’ll come after you big time.
If you can tell I can’t want until I can retire and move OUT of Alachua County.
And the older Smith 39 compacts(3912, 13, 14) are pretty thin. Only 8 rounds single stack, but if you need more then that, well, you chose your location poorly, heh, heh.
The whole notion that OMB is withholding the magic list for his own purposes (to somehow use as a cudgel against swamp things listed therein) is so much bullshit. How many times in his first term were us skeptics told by the 8orange man cocksuckers fan club that he was playing 5D chess and to “trust the plan”. And to what end? Sweet fuckall, that’s what. No more giving the benefit of the doubt for these true believer Q-tard “he’s a master strategist who’ll outwit them all” delusions.
Show me the evidence, have federal marshalls book ’em, and tell Blondie Bondi to fuck off on her hair and manicure sessions for the next couple of weeks, and start hauling these sonsabitches into court for indictments. Enough already. In the words of Judge Elihu Smails, “well, we’re waiting!” Even Dershowitz, a high level swamp thing himself, is calling bullshit on the newly revised official story of “Epstein did nothing wrong”.
I want to see some human sacks of dogshit swinging in the breeze. Yesterday. And if this batch of government flunkies won’t do it, we’ll make Alabama wind chimes out of them too, and find some who will do the job,or we’ll do it ourselves.
Make the trees bear ‘strange fruit’ again Aye
I agree. I would prefer they ALL are dealt with. But I ain’t running things.
I never gave a damn about the Q thing. Figured it was an op.
It is just odd that none of the repubs except the certain ones went against his big bogus bill.
There hasn’t been a huge turnover in congress, unfortunately. The same ones who were jerking him around in his first term are mostly still there.
Note how quickly they embraced the parliamentarian gutting some of it when she is an obvious dem shill. That way they didn’t stand against him directly.
That means he has something. Something he didn’t have in his hands the first time around.
And he is ruthless enough to use it.
Fascists didn’t bring niggers and sand niggers into Germany.
Or the U. S.
The Communists didn’t import any into Russia, East Germany, or Hungary either which is why they are still nominally based.
Knee jerk reaction for most Brother…
look around for used “cop guns’ as they used to be had for cheap. I picked up a used P220 for 350
a few years back. West German made one too. not a fan of Glocks, but I have seen a few of the smaller ones for under 400 in the past.
Here’s a less state funded article as CBC is like NPR/PBS https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-soldiers-alleged-anti-government-terror-plot
The non mil were aircadets, its basically like scounts for the military, or possibly ROTC for you guys in the US, forget what age you can join but its basically like roughly grades 6-12 off the top of my head. Headscratcher as to proposed locale of said new society, would have thouhgt theyd go for more rural or strategic locale. (above article talks about a previous group of canucks who worked on both sides of the border for a new world. That part of the maple empire has had some fussiness with the order of things check out the whole first time our war measures act was used, sadly was lady justins supposed daddy Pierre Trudope who pulled the trigger on that one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis as some quebecers didnt want to just voote harder for leaving the mapledome.
Carry the f-in Smith, it’s the tool for the job, and you’re going to feel pretty dumb wishing you had it as you are lying there bleeding out wishing you were home safe while your piece is instead. Lotta guys dead wishing they had something in their hands when the ball dropped and their shiny toys were at home.
Something happens to you, she’s getting it back anyway. Rather the cops have it than the ex.
When you were talking about the paid off top Irish guys “having a change in management”, I was reminded of this clip from Boardwalk Empire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdy_8f8bn8w
First generation Ruger LCP in .380 are probably pretty cheap. Got one for my wife – she’s _tiny_ and the little Sig in .380 was just a touch bulkier and hard to hide on4’11” and 98 lbs. not bad to rack the slide (a concern for her) but a long and creepy trigger press. Second gen was a lot better and they offered me $100 trade on the old one, which I kept. I’ll bet you could get one for not too much.
Good luck on your job search.
First rule of fight club shut your pie hole,,, a close second rule is go nowhere not strapped. That’s one pistol and at least one spare mag. I prefer two spare mags, but then I have this reoccurring dream I run out of ammo in the middle of a thing.
Third rule pistols are for unassing a gun fight. As they say fighting your way to a rifle.
For most of 27 years I carried a 1911 and at least three ten rounders. My back up was an AMT 45acp with two spare six round mags. AMT stands for “ All Most Trash”. The trigger on this thing is like 16 pound’s.
Many bench commandos were fond of telling me in the shit I’d never get the job done because of the 16 pound trigger pull. Which amused me. That how I know these fucking meat puppets have never been in a gun fight!
Well trained folks go to what they know,IE what they trained for. The draw, the front sight punch out, and press the trigger. IF you’ve been there you know that 16 pounds is like pulling a three pound trigger. It’s all happening at a physiological level. 16 pounds or three pounds don’t matter it’s about finishing first! Nothing else matters.
Dirk
RE: ‘canoehead news’
Hokay, so….first and foremost thing to remember is: this all took place in Quebec. Not sure how familiar you are with Quebec and their relations with other provinces within Canada and with Canada as a whole, but to sum it up: to say that fuckin place walks to the beat of its own drum would be a HUGE understatement. IF this group actually was/is an ‘anti-government militia’ of sorts, there is ZERO information on what their motivations are. Are they Quebec separatists/new FLQ (Front de Libération du Québec)? Are they anti-immigrant? Left Wing? Right Wing? Chicken Wing? Who the fuck knows…because the people in charge of this investigation, namely the RCMP in Quebec (which operates somewhat autonomously from other provinces in the country) aren’t saying much of anything. All we really know is that they were supposedly pissed off at the government. We don’t know if it is the Quebec provincial government, Ottawa, or all government altogether. We, meaning the general public and pretty much anyone else not on a need-to-know basis really don’t know jack shit because that’s precisely what they’ve told us.
Oh, and as for the ‘dot mil cadets’…that isn’t what you think. The cadet program up in Canada is a youth program, based on similar programs in the UK and other commonwealth nations. It does have military elements, such as drill/dress/deportment, rank structure etc., but it is more akin to the Scouting movement than anything else.
This cadet instructor that got pinched is part of what is called Cadet Instructor Cadre (CIC) – they are basically glorified camp counsellors. While they do gain a commission within the CAF, they do so nominally and only for the purposes of working within the cadet program. Generally speaking, within the CAF, CIC members are regarded as the immense fucking joke that they are. They would NEVER in a billion years find themselves in command of actual soldiers/sailors/airmen of the CAF, regardless of how high they climb the ladder within the CIC…thankfully.
Hopefully that clears things up a tad.
Dude… Awesome Intel Dump… GREATLY Appreciated… I’ll be reaching out via DM when my asshole catches up with my ass
Sounds like our Civil Air Patrol.
New job with 2-3x salary would be great. Eventually. Having a nice big salary before divorce terms are settled would be a tactical mistake. Not having a pot to piss in would be a better position — for now.
Run your resume through ChatGP. It will ask how you want your resume-I said “intelligent and inspired”. The result was a bang up resume. Sumdood really nails it on rewriting and reworking your resume. Have somewhere in the resume where the job description phrasing is reposted. Machines do the initial screening and they are programmed to see those words. Also-have ChatGP rewrite your cover letter. So, if you are looking for a security job, tell it to emphasize protection, safety, precautions, law, etc. This is the idiocy level that we are at now. In the old days, you would have talked to “Bob” who probably was in the military somewhere. He’d be able to figure out you know your stuff, and give you a start date. Now? You first have to regurgitate the job postings words back to a machine, then talk to Susie, who doesn’t know SH%$ about security, and then finally talk to someone else who doesn’t know security either but did stay at a Holiday Inn. Chances are, they are all big into equity, inclusion, and making people part of the “team”. A few of these idiots have advanced degrees in hair braiding. Until it all breaks down, here is where we are. So…….play the game and get a better job.
Texas is nice these days. Got a spare bed here if it comes to that.
What about a shoulder rig? I’ve seen pictures of you in a Hawaiian shirt. I’m sure you already look silly on a bike. There are also deep cover pants holsters that keep your piece next to your thigh. I use either/both on occasion when in highly non-permissive environments.
Hide-it Holsters are around 60 bucks. Amazon has shoulder rigs in all flavors and price ranges.
I use an LCR as a daily carry up in Hernando because it’s mostly chill where I go. I don’t go ANYWHERE unstrapped.
Have had five times so far where I was damn glad I was carrying, once in Ybor. Haven’t had to do anything but show metal and intent so far thank Crom.
The deep cover one I use is from Urban Carry. Amazon has one for 39.99 right now.
i carry the Ruger EC9 with loaded with hydra-shok. small enough to conceal with just enough BANG! to get the job done.. it’s inexpensive and very light and i really don’t care if i lose it..
My wifes Ruger Max 9 is, to me, a tiny double stack 9mm. It’s WAY smaller than a Glock 26 and has the same capacity. Comes with 10 and 12 round magazines. Accurate enough at 25 yards to get the job done. Not as cheap as a Taurus.
My advice, is get over your emotional thing with your Smith and make it your FULL time companion.
Those elastic belly band, hidy holsters work great, on regular folks, no idea how one might work on you.
Keep brainstorming and good fortune to you.
Ankle Holster.
Hey BC,
One of my mentors put me on to this one for CC. It’s “off the body” so not ideal. Really well made. I don’t have time right now but I think you can find a video commercial of a guy waking up, pulling his 1911 from this bag and doing a press check. The rear segment of the pack will hold a full sized pistol, no holster needed.
https://www.hillpeoplegear.com/Products/CategoryID/1/ProductID/183
Chewie
The S&W M&P Shield is a decent choice for CC. I am up in the PR of CT ande I saw one for sale at the local pawn shop for $249, it came with 2 magazines. I told my friend about it and he snagged it up quickly. He really likes it, it is light easily concealed and is ergonomically laid out.
You should have one of these https://www.maxpedition.com/collections/sling-packs
or something similar to take with you on your bike…
Wear it on chest which gives you a pretty quick way to draw from…
Put a side plate in it and you have protection over you heart…
Oh also relocating works pretty well too because if you did wind up having to ventilate one or three of them then your life probably sucks going forward anyways ..
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Couple thoughts here.
I have the same issue. My normal EDC is a Charter Arms Bulldog I got for $200. It’s light and powerful. Bad thing is finding .44 special ammo, locally anyhow. I got a Smith M&P shield, which I love, but I’m not used to it enough to carry. Besides, it’s hot AF here and I’m in shorts and a T-shirt most of the time.
You can get a bulldog cheap, as well as a snub .38. I had a friend that picked up a .38 from a dude he knew that needed money. He had a huge collection of some seriously nice hardware. So I asked him if someone broke into his place, what would he use. He said the .38 snub. He didn’t care if it was taken.
The other option is use your Smith. Why not? why did you buy it? to put it in a case and adore it? it’s a tool. Following that logic, I’m looking at a Smith M&P bodyguard in .380. The way I figure, if I need it, it’ll get the job done. It’s tiny, light, and fits in my mits.
Lastly – two words with the cheapest solution of all – Man Purse. Get a small messenger bag, carry what you want. You’re old enough to get away with it without looking like a homo. You’re riding a bike FFS.
FWIW, two page resumes are expected for experienced dudes. Have a section on skills, then maybe take the older gigs and bulletize them. For sure run it through AI. Keep the 4 pager for if they ask.