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I'm sad that CWW is not more inclusive and doesn't get much turnout.

Have the organizers considered making it a separate run category of a larger, more established event?

Maybe some more extensive rules will help tighten things up?

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I'm sad that CWW is not more inclusive and doesn't get much turnout.

Have the organizers considered making it a separate run category of a larger, more established event?

Maybe some more extensive rules will help tighten things up?

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Maybe some more extensive rules will help tighten things up?

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Doesn't get better then that. Just weird hearing something besides stop being fat or slow through the megaphone.

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Is that you with your avatar on your shirt?    Great idea.

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First off, I love that the first structure built at this site was a flag pole.  It tells you a lot about the owner and the people he associates with.

https://s20.postimg.org/5iwuf76fh/17492321_10107131463981045_7902001856463565356_o.jpg


I took time off from work, a full week, to drag my ass across the continent and hang out with weirdos from the internet.
Who does that?  

https://s20.postimg.org/6gqp45hsd/17505229_10107131464495015_1321774305199443986_o.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/qcmojoytp/17505374_10107131465143715_7795126575172765178_o.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/wrlpgd5jh/17545290_10107131479440065_5524993099025418380_o.jpg

Seriously, who would spend that much money, take time off work, expend that much energy, sleep in the dirt out in the desert... who's dumb enough to do that?

Idiots.  That's who.

https://s20.postimg.org/bvq8dmukt/17436070_10107131477314325_4180993428519916457_o.jpg




But the best kind.  We were wondering while watching and heckling from the sidelines, who's here?
Attorney, Navy Corpsman, a newly-graduated student, a combat medic, a pair of geologists, firefighters, a recently-completed doctoral candidate, a State Trooper, police officer, mechanical engineer, housewife, sheet metal worker, master electrician... but I thought we were all fucking idiots?

No.  No, not really.

Everyone was polite, most... to a fault.  Everyone had a good time, even the new-comers.  If it wasn't their first time, it was amazing reuniting with old friends from a past War.  Trading new stories, catching up, remembering old wagers, paying old debts, and making new bets.

The obstacles this year were pretty standard, not much could be done about making them harder this year.  It's an hour from the nearest piece of pavement and the land-owner had a very small crew.
But the shooting course and terrain more than made up for it.

Synopsis:
1. flip a 250-ish pound tractor tire about 25 feet up a slight incline, pass some flags, then reset it where you found it.   Pretty simple, but it's a gasser.  A few couldn't budge it, but most folks muscled through it.

https://s20.postimg.org/4elmc5ufh/17504388_10107131451171715_6066841655474606814_o.jpg

2. grab an empty 55-gallon dry-storage drum and carry it while you step through tires, then reset it.  Pretty easy, but I was pretty sure someone was gonna bust their face on a can after tripping on a tire bead.  It didn't happen and I came away disappointed as a result.

https://s20.postimg.org/otdi9ho3x/17545526_10107131450917225_2463377820821688375_o.jpg

3. Dagny Taggart; move a legit piece of railroad track.  i.e. a metal section of track, not a fucking wooden tie.  It had to move over a short wooden wall.  Thankfully, it was low enough and strong enough to lever, otherwise... I think maybe one or two people could have actually carried it.  It was pretty heavy
https://s20.postimg.org/4i690xl59/17458424_676907772481146_4095002600054837944_n.jpg


4. traverse a pullup bar, one side to the next.  this one was quick

https://s20.postimg.org/fj1e5yde5/17545501_10107131451136785_8946678679798833819_o.jpg

5. beer keg low crawl.  push an empty beer keg under a web of 550 cord.  sounds easy?  this one killed people.

https://s20.postimg.org/vion38ytp/17458067_1336528046390754_5650977016309474526_n.jpg

There were cans suspended from "S" hooks, and staff randomly moved them throughout each day.  it didn't take much movement to bounce a can off a cord.
a lot of people earned penalties from cans.  The beer keg also took part of an incisor, which ended up being spit out on the run route.

https://s20.postimg.org/ch5jyvtxp/17504609_10107131464814375_7110070458447050303_o.jpg

AK.  the donated rifle was fucking abused.  straight up.  the rear of the dust cover was beat so bad from previous years, it basically split and refused to seat.  ever.  again.
the trash was an apt home for it

peep.  yeah... how do you describe pure hatred in physical form?

https://s20.postimg.org/ftdi31he5/17436116_10107131450128805_4400726829816716241_o.jpg

the run.  Most folks just think "oh, it's just a half-mile".  

at elevation.  in the sand.  with an awesome incline at the end.  with a metric fuck-ton of plants that are quite literally spearing you as you run by.  You grab a stuffed animal and run down the dirt road to a cage strapped to a Joshua Tree with a different colored stuffed animal, trade stuffed animals, then run back.  The rest of the run is a gentle upward grade... until it turns into a steep uphill.  uphill sand, with stabby plants.

The shooting is typically straightforward, except it isn't.  An estimated third of the targets were reactive steel.
Yeah, someone brought a Texas Star for pistol at 25 yards, pretty standard.


But they also brought another Texas Star for the 100-yard rifle.  Not very standard.
In fact, it was so not-standard, that it didn't need to get reset very often.

https://s20.postimg.org/v1yu32lot/d8ec6d962e43a056c4ef55be451cb6563f0fe7bf1c7e5723.gif

The rifle targets were spread out a little more than last year, and up to 500 yards too.  Our current High Woman actually made her first shot out to 500 during competition.  But she's a little beast in a pony tail.  'nuff said.

https://s20.postimg.org/euiwc5iz1/17504251_10107131479180585_4470781770050430700_o.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/e54pdj7t9/17545414_10107131450682695_5681078354443006064_o.jpg

Pounding 72 ounces of your favorite non-alcoholic carbonated beverage sounds easy on the internet, but it makes you feel pretty damned uncomfortable.
You reconsider life choices, you wonder if it's too late in life to change religions.

https://s20.postimg.org/7u957z2a5/17359417_10107131463951105_3192302249449922390_o.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/ixjkm38st/17546859_10107131465592815_1370579583048716278_o.jpg

The night vision dudes were hilarious.  You couldn't see them, but you'd hear random talking, cursing, and laughing in different locations in the darkness... and the random rifle or pistol shot... or M203 round hitting a steel target.

After awards, there was the traditional "shooting a sheet cake with a grenade full of sprinkles" and general fun with M203 rounds packed for anti-stripper operations.

https://s20.postimg.org/56oabcyml/17504638_10107131479769405_6965989751148662183_o.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-w5oab4-9g

https://s20.postimg.org/p3fyvpwel/17545293_10107131465687625_5593676193483311617_o.jpg

You'd never know it at first glance, but this bro was a classically-trained chef before he was a trucker.  No, seriously.  He's also a really cool dude, I love him like a brother, a lot of us do.

Long story short, it's a blast.  You'll find a lost reality, actual people that aren't scared to hang their ass out a little and have fun.  

https://s20.postimg.org/3z5r5ej4d/17434553_10107131453781485_4831563300339596753_o.jpg



"But, but, but... it's stupid!"  Yeah, sure you think it's dumb, until you get there and find that it's a seriously good time.
"It's dangerous!"  Not really, it's no more dangerous than what you'd find at a typical Fourth of July celebration.
We're safe, with plenty of emergency personnel either in attendance or ready to call in (not everyone gets drunk at these events).  The coordination looks slip-shod, but it's really not, we don't skip the important stuff, but what you see is the aftereffects of running on donations for years and accepting whatever we can to keep this thing moving down the road.  The land was bought damn-near specifically for the event, all the work and gear is donated, time, energy, money for food, beer, even trash bags... it's all donated.

Yeah, the sponsors are AMAZING and we fucking adore them for their support.  Without them we wouldn't have the voice we have now.  
They get it, they understand us.  And we love them the more for it.

https://s20.postimg.org/rak7jn1ot/17545436_10107131431226685_73732471275289623_o.jpg

With that aside, the people there are legitimately grass-roots motherfuckers, ridiculous and gritty, really down-to-earth.  Not afraid to make an additional effort to get out there and connect with other good people.  
Like-minded people, willing to travel distances to do it, pay to do it, to get out there and taste and touch and feel as much as a man can before he has to repent.

For those that don't understand why it's there, you're probably the ones that need it the most.
It's a way to fill that hole in yourself, to connect, get yourself better, be good, stay strong, to quit wasting your time on the planet and just fucking be
You weren't meant to spend your life doing small things, to remain static, to be meek, to become food
You are the result of over five billion years of successful evolutionary processes, you're not supposed to meet a weak end
This kinda stuff kills that sickness in a person's soul, that stuff that makes a person placid when they're not supposed to be

Go get it. It's there for you

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Wear shirt of you with goggles while wearing googles.

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This is the closest I've gotten. I'll have to have a shirt made.

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Send me the original image of your avatar.

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Who adds peeps to avatars?

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I am honored to have served with all my peeps at CWW3 and I look forward to seeing all you crazy guys and gals in the future. Big thanks to all our sponsors who seem to understand what this thing is all about and to those who put forth the time and effort to make this things happen. Special thanks to P2, Tweeter, Mitch, Stoner, SigChef, Matt, Mudcat, Baja, Andy...ok this list could go on forever honestly. I love you guys and hope to see you soon!

CWW2 - 21. JohnConnor 63:21
CWW3 - 11. JohnConnor 22:48

Maybe I can finish top ten next year

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I was really hoping for top 20 this year, fucking penalties

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I am honored to have served with all my peeps at CWW3 and I look forward to seeing all you crazy guys and gals in the future. Big thanks to all our sponsors who seem to understand what this thing is all about and to those who put forth the time and effort to make this things happen. Special thanks to P2, Tweeter, Mitch, Stoner, SigChef, Matt, Mudcat, Baja, Andy...ok this list could go on forever honestly. I love you guys and hope to see you soon!

CWW2 - 21. JohnConnor 63:21
CWW3 - 11. JohnConnor 22:48

Maybe I can finish top ten next year

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That girl was splat2013 (Lauren)



You have no idea man. I've finally moved on from denial/anger and I'm fully in bargaining mode.

Top 5 for next year sounds like a plan to me. I just need to stop sucking.

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I had to get 4 new tires to go to southeast. And then my battery and alternator went out before I went to prepare for classic last week.

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The time between the 3 of us was 17 seconds. So, battle royale next year between us for 5th?

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Deal!  There's some tough competition ahead of us, though.  Training starts now.  Your last easy day was yesterday!

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@p2tharizo, I finally made it out!  I still remember you asking if I had minnie ears you could borrow for the first CWW pic like it was yesterday.   Can't thank you enough for inviting me the years, sorry it took me so long, but I'm glad I finally made it  and this definitely won't be my last.  

I have to admit, I was totally unprepared and didn't know what to expect.  Big thanks to everybody who peer pressured me into running the course and a special thanks for everybody who threw their gear at me so I could participate.  Codzilla and bmwbikr and the girl who let me use her glock, thank you so much!  Really big thanks to the anonymous person who built my new upper!      

I could go on, but it's late and I just drove 11 hours to get home, so how about a couple pics.  

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/dubnine/9519986A-8D58-46F1-B821-E5350A9B32A0_zpsonuep115.jpg

My official first chug!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/dubnine/385E7052-A2ED-4FDC-ADBA-9E81965C89CD_zps1mo9fgtc.jpg

I've had this lower sitting around for the last couple years, been trying to save up to build an upper for it, just haven't been able to pull it off.    Thought about getting rid of it a few times, but something kept telling me to hold on to it and now I know why, I couldn't be anymore appreciative!   I am now accepting optics suggestions for the next CWW.

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There are 3 more Cola Warriors this year.

Go, thats the only cure.

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I am having post cola warrior depression today.  Anyone else?

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I'd have to complete the Wife Warrior Challenge first at this point.. and stage one is a doosie LOL.

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the wife has always wanted a vacation to Appomattox virginia

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I am having post cola warrior depression today.  Anyone else?

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Finally got a chance to wash and look at my car...
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/111675/20170327-094255-175225.JPG

That crumpled and rolled up piece of steel is my front subframe. Oh well, it was worth it.

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Placeholder for when BigMel and I get home.

We stayed at that creepy clown motel last night.

We did not die.

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/79922/IMG-2896-175131.JPG

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First off, I love that the first structure built at this site was a flag pole.  It tells you a lot about the owner and the people he associates with.

https://s20.postimg.org/5iwuf76fh/17492321_10107131463981045_7902001856463565356_o.jpg


I took time off from work, a full week, to drag my ass across the continent and hang out with weirdos from the internet.
Who does that?  

https://s20.postimg.org/6gqp45hsd/17505229_10107131464495015_1321774305199443986_o.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/qcmojoytp/17505374_10107131465143715_7795126575172765178_o.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/wrlpgd5jh/17545290_10107131479440065_5524993099025418380_o.jpg

Seriously, who would spend that much money, take time off work, expend that much energy, sleep in the dirt out in the desert... who's dumb enough to do that?

Idiots.  That's who.

https://s20.postimg.org/bvq8dmukt/17436070_10107131477314325_4180993428519916457_o.jpg




But the best kind.  We were wondering while watching and heckling from the sidelines, who's here?
Attorney, Navy Corpsman, a newly-graduated student, a combat medic, a pair of geologists, firefighters, a recently-completed doctoral candidate, a State Trooper, police officer, mechanical engineer, housewife, sheet metal worker, master electrician... but I thought we were all fucking idiots?

No.  No, not really.

Everyone was polite, most... to a fault.  Everyone had a good time, even the new-comers.  If it wasn't their first time, it was amazing reuniting with old friends from a past War.  Trading new stories, catching up, remembering old wagers, paying old debts, and making new bets.

The obstacles this year were pretty standard, not much could be done about making them harder this year.  It's an hour from the nearest piece of pavement and the land-owner had a very small crew.
But the shooting course and terrain more than made up for it.

Synopsis:
1. flip a 250-ish pound tractor tire about 25 feet up a slight incline, pass some flags, then reset it where you found it.   Pretty simple, but it's a gasser.  A few couldn't budge it, but most folks muscled through it.

https://s20.postimg.org/4elmc5ufh/17504388_10107131451171715_6066841655474606814_o.jpg

2. grab an empty 55-gallon dry-storage drum and carry it while you step through tires, then reset it.  Pretty easy, but I was pretty sure someone was gonna bust their face on a can after tripping on a tire bead.  It didn't happen and I came away disappointed as a result.

https://s20.postimg.org/otdi9ho3x/17545526_10107131450917225_2463377820821688375_o.jpg

3. Dagny Taggart; move a legit piece of railroad track.  i.e. a metal section of track, not a fucking wooden tie.  It had to move over a short wooden wall.  Thankfully, it was low enough and strong enough to lever, otherwise... I think maybe one or two people could have actually carried it.  It was pretty heavy
https://s20.postimg.org/4i690xl59/17458424_676907772481146_4095002600054837944_n.jpg


4. traverse a pullup bar, one side to the next.  this one was quick

https://s20.postimg.org/fj1e5yde5/17545501_10107131451136785_8946678679798833819_o.jpg

5. beer keg low crawl.  push an empty beer keg under a web of 550 cord.  sounds easy?  this one killed people.

https://s20.postimg.org/vion38ytp/17458067_1336528046390754_5650977016309474526_n.jpg

There were cans suspended from "S" hooks, and staff randomly moved them throughout each day.  it didn't take much movement to bounce a can off a cord.
a lot of people earned penalties from cans.  The beer keg also took part of an incisor, which ended up being spit out on the run route.

https://s20.postimg.org/ch5jyvtxp/17504609_10107131464814375_7110070458447050303_o.jpg

AK.  the donated rifle was fucking abused.  straight up.  the rear of the dust cover was beat so bad from previous years, it basically split and refused to seat.  ever.  again.
the trash was an apt home for it

peep.  yeah... how do you describe pure hatred in physical form?

https://s20.postimg.org/ftdi31he5/17436116_10107131450128805_4400726829816716241_o.jpg

the run.  Most folks just think "oh, it's just a half-mile".  

at elevation.  in the sand.  with an awesome incline at the end.  with a metric fuck-ton of plants that are quite literally spearing you as you run by.  You grab a stuffed animal and run down the dirt road to a cage strapped to a Joshua Tree with a different colored stuffed animal, trade stuffed animals, then run back.  The rest of the run is a gentle upward grade... until it turns into a steep uphill.  uphill sand, with stabby plants.

The shooting is typically straightforward, except it isn't.  An estimated third of the targets were reactive steel.
Yeah, someone brought a Texas Star for pistol at 25 yards, pretty standard.


But they also brought another Texas Star for the 100-yard rifle.  Not very standard.
In fact, it was so not-standard, that it didn't need to get reset very often.

https://s20.postimg.org/v1yu32lot/d8ec6d962e43a056c4ef55be451cb6563f0fe7bf1c7e5723.gif

The rifle targets were spread out a little more than last year, and up to 500 yards too.  Our current High Woman actually made her first shot out to 500 during competition.  But she's a little beast in a pony tail.  'nuff said.

https://s20.postimg.org/euiwc5iz1/17504251_10107131479180585_4470781770050430700_o.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/e54pdj7t9/17545414_10107131450682695_5681078354443006064_o.jpg

Pounding 72 ounces of your favorite non-alcoholic carbonated beverage sounds easy on the internet, but it makes you feel pretty damned uncomfortable.
You reconsider life choices, you wonder if it's too late in life to change religions.

https://s20.postimg.org/7u957z2a5/17359417_10107131463951105_3192302249449922390_o.jpg

https://s20.postimg.org/ixjkm38st/17546859_10107131465592815_1370579583048716278_o.jpg

The night vision dudes were hilarious.  You couldn't see them, but you'd hear random talking, cursing, and laughing in different locations in the darkness... and the random rifle or pistol shot... or M203 round hitting a steel target.

After awards, there was the traditional "shooting a sheet cake with a grenade full of sprinkles" and general fun with M203 rounds packed for anti-stripper operations.

https://s20.postimg.org/56oabcyml/17504638_10107131479769405_6965989751148662183_o.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-w5oab4-9g

https://s20.postimg.org/p3fyvpwel/17545293_10107131465687625_5593676193483311617_o.jpg

You'd never know it at first glance, but this bro was a classically-trained chef before he was a trucker.  No, seriously.  He's also a really cool dude, I love him like a brother, a lot of us do.

Long story short, it's a blast.  You'll find a lost reality, actual people that aren't scared to hang their ass out a little and have fun.  

https://s20.postimg.org/3z5r5ej4d/17434553_10107131453781485_4831563300339596753_o.jpg



"But, but, but... it's stupid!"  Yeah, sure you think it's dumb, until you get there and find that it's a seriously good time.
"It's dangerous!"  Not really, it's no more dangerous than what you'd find at a typical Fourth of July celebration.
We're safe, with plenty of emergency personnel either in attendance or ready to call in (not everyone gets drunk at these events).  The coordination looks slip-shod, but it's really not, we don't skip the important stuff, but what you see is the aftereffects of running on donations for years and accepting whatever we can to keep this thing moving down the road.  The land was bought damn-near specifically for the event, all the work and gear is donated, time, energy, money for food, beer, even trash bags... it's all donated.

Yeah, the sponsors are AMAZING and we fucking adore them for their support.  Without them we wouldn't have the voice we have now.  
They get it, they understand us.  And we love them the more for it.

https://s20.postimg.org/rak7jn1ot/17545436_10107131431226685_73732471275289623_o.jpg

With that aside, the people there are legitimately grass-roots motherfuckers, ridiculous and gritty, really down-to-earth.  Not afraid to make an additional effort to get out there and connect with other good people.  
Like-minded people, willing to travel distances to do it, pay to do it, to get out there and taste and touch and feel as much as a man can before he has to repent.

For those that don't understand why it's there, you're probably the ones that need it the most.
It's a way to fill that hole in yourself, to connect, get yourself better, be good, stay strong, to quit wasting your time on the planet and just fucking be
You weren't meant to spend your life doing small things, to remain static, to be meek, to become food
You are the result of over five billion years of successful evolutionary processes, you're not supposed to meet a weak end
This kinda stuff kills that sickness in a person's soul, that stuff that makes a person placid when they're not supposed to be

Go get it. It's there for you

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There are 3 more Cola Warriors this year.

Go, that's the only cure.

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I mentioned yesterday that I had a few high-res photographs to share. We’ll see how well they come through the upload process (since I had to convert them to .jpg as the original .nef files are like 60 megs each).

First up is, I believe, NVGeologist’s neighbor. This guy was a hoot to hang around with, and I even let him talk me into riding shotgun in the side by side he had never before driven; at some point in the rapid descent from the target range back to "base camp," as he’s cranking hard on the throttle, he yelled out, in no particular order, that most of his offroad experience was with motorcycles, he really had to get one of these, and they were a lot more fun than something to do with hookers; again, I was just holding on for dear life at that point, and I’m fairly certain that’s the point of the trip where I lost my Klean Kanteen.

In any event, he is living proof that most of the excuses people have come up with for not attending a Cola Warrior event are pure bullshit.

Here he is after having removed his ACOG in favor of his iron sights:

http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g382/4Mudcat/_D8E7002.jpg

Getting encouragement from NVG during the transition to pistol:

http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g382/4Mudcat/_D8E7003.jpg

And taking aim at all them fandangled targets (note the ejected shell casing aft of the Glock):

http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g382/4Mudcat/_D8E7006.jpg

I've got a few more to share but it will have to wait until tomorrow.

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, he is living proof that most of the excuses people have come up with for not attending a Cola Warrior event are pure bullshit.

Here he is after having removed his ACOG in favor of his iron sights:

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I mentioned yesterday that I had a few high-res photographs to share. We’ll see how well they come through the upload process (since I had to convert them to .jpg as the original .nef files are like 60 megs each).

First up is, I believe, NVGeologist’s neighbor. This guy was a hoot to hang around with, 

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Dreams DO come true.  

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/417834/IMG-5407-176247.JPG

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I still say it's awesome that his colabros gave his phone, as he said, an apoplectic fit, on his birthday.