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In the Ear? Really???
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snox801
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Am I the only one concerned with pacs safety. I mean **** now that his eyes are fixed and he can see what he really looks like to the rest of us I'm afraid he may walk out into traffic. Lol
im not overly concerned. he looked like that before he went blind so hes well aware of his situation. his parents had to tie bones around his neck to get the dogs to play with him. hes been taking 'ugly management' therapy for most of his life and i think it has helped.
OK, now that I can see again, the fog finally clearing up, what i feared has happened. The last time I saw a head like djones's, it was still attached to the Horse, except at the back end. I know he can't help being ugly, but at least he could stay home so no one else has to look at him. I actually believe the hogs look better in the pictures than he does.
Will play a little catch-up and reply in reverse order from the posts:
Snox,
I should have to listen to this from a guy that was embarrassed, and rightly so, about posting his picture on the thread?
Galveston,
Glad you found a place to shoot where you didn't have to wear a life vest while hunting....Now go get some pictures!
Scmblr,
Am going to break a rule i made to myself and Post a picture. While I have never broken a bone, it's pretty surprising with the Skydiving, Down hill Slalom racing, Hang gliding and all the other stuff I used to do. Closest I ever came to being hurt seriously (at least in civilian life) came about as the result of the picture I have posted.
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The picture is over 40 plus years old, but the Photographer was tracking across from left to right and moving slightly forward and he snagged my drogue chute, just coming out of my backpack. By time he got untangled he had fouled my main chute and I had to cut it away at about 1000' and get a reserve ride on a 24' reserve parachute. Since they don't steer real well, I ended up coming down in the Westbound lane of I-90 (to my right) and almost got hit by a Semi trying to get stopped. The trailer just missed snagging my reserve chute by about a foot and dragging me down the freeway and possibly under the trailer wheels.Tightened my pucker strings right up. East is to the top of the picture and the location is just out of Issaquah, WA. Anyone trying to place the location, the Costco Corporate office complex is now located over my Right shoulder and the airfield is no longer there! BTW, the lines on the picture are from it being rolled and then getting squashed a bit. After all the trouble he caused (the Photographer) he still got the picture out of focus.
OK, djones there's finally a picture of the genuine Packrat so go ahead and have some fun with it!
Packrat
Will play a little catch-up and reply in reverse order from the posts:
Snox,
I should have to listen to this from a guy that was embarrassed, and rightly so, about posting his picture on the thread?
Galveston,
Glad you found a place to shoot where you didn't have to wear a life vest while hunting....Now go get some pictures!
Scmblr,
Am going to break a rule i made to myself and Post a picture. While I have never broken a bone, it's pretty surprising with the Skydiving, Down hill Slalom racing, Hang gliding and all the other stuff I used to do. Closest I ever came to being hurt seriously (at least in civilian life) came about as the result of the picture I have posted.
Click to enlarge
The picture is over 40 plus years old, but the Photographer was tracking across from left to right and moving slightly forward and he snagged my drogue chute, just coming out of my backpack. By time he got untangled he had fouled my main chute and I had to cut it away at about 1000' and get a reserve ride on a 24' reserve parachute. Since they don't steer real well, I ended up coming down in the Westbound lane of I-90 (to my right) and almost got hit by a Semi trying to get stopped. The trailer just missed snagging my reserve chute by about a foot and dragging me down the freeway and possibly under the trailer wheels.Tightened my pucker strings right up. East is to the top of the picture and the location is just out of Issaquah, WA. Anyone trying to place the location, the Costco Corporate office complex is now located over my Right shoulder and the airfield is no longer there! BTW, the lines on the picture are from it being rolled and then getting squashed a bit. After all the trouble he caused (the Photographer) he still got the picture out of focus.
OK, djones there's finally a picture of the genuine Packrat so go ahead and have some fun with it!
Packrat
snox801
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Whoever said I was embarrassed, well I was until you guys posted my real hunting gear photo.
Brother left today, heading back to Houston because there may be a hurricane headed his way and he wanted to get home so he could get the screens up over the windows and everything cleared out of the yard and into the garage. Sure appreciate him coming and my sister in law taking care of my wife while I went to the VA.
Anyway sure looks like they may have cleared up my eye problem, as evidenced by my comments on djones looks, now that I can see him clearly. Probably not something I would willing do again, but been posting here too long, so had to see what he looked like with both eyes unclouded. Again, not something I want to willingly do again!
Was told not to do any shooting for a couple of weeks so as not to potentially jar the new lens out of place until totally healed, but can see that it's going to be great when I can finally go shoot again. Was getting bored with the Paper clip and rubber band slingshot and shooting salt at flies.
Will check back later, got to prepare dinner.
Packrat
Anyway sure looks like they may have cleared up my eye problem, as evidenced by my comments on djones looks, now that I can see him clearly. Probably not something I would willing do again, but been posting here too long, so had to see what he looked like with both eyes unclouded. Again, not something I want to willingly do again!
Was told not to do any shooting for a couple of weeks so as not to potentially jar the new lens out of place until totally healed, but can see that it's going to be great when I can finally go shoot again. Was getting bored with the Paper clip and rubber band slingshot and shooting salt at flies.
Will check back later, got to prepare dinner.
Packrat
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DO IT!
Packrat
Picked this up in "The shooters Forum". There is a link there where you can make comments to the Government regarding this action.
DO IT!
Packrat
djones,
Did anyone ever tell you that as far as diplomacy, you should work in a sewage plant? That comment wasn't even nice!
Packrat
That takes "grandes piedras" to jump from a plane and cut a chute!
Scrmblr,
You don't really "Cut" the chute, you have two Red handles up on either side of your shoulders called "Bartwells" that release the main risers and canopy. Then you just pull the reserve Rip cord located just above your groin (you can see it in the picture at my lower belly). Just give it a second or two to clear and determine where the main is going and pull the reserve parachute when you are clear of the main. There have been instances where the main fouled the reserve. That makes it a quick trip down.
The problem is that when jumping the older, round parachutes, as opposed to 'Wings" (Which were just barely coming into use) there are Panels cut out in the main that direct air out the back giving you momentum, usually forward. You can steer the chutes somewhat by pulling on the right or left risers (550 cord connecting you to the actual parachute canopy). My main chute was 31' diameter, with a 7TU cutout configuration, but the reserve is only 24' and the cutouts are much smaller so in addition to falling faster, and landing harder, they are a lot less steerable, but they do get you down somewhat safely, but pretty hard. Even with a mild wind, they don't always have enough oomph to push you in the direction you want to go and you can find yourself going backwards. In that case, all you can do is turn in the direction you have to go and try to pick a good area to land. In my case all I had was the freeway, although I was trying to steer towards the shoulder or maybe, with a little luck, the center divider. The truck was more of a problem than the reserve ride or cutting the main chute.
When you either foul your main or it isn't functioning safely, the alternative to the reserve ride is a real good sensation of flying, at least until you hit! What happens is you run out of altitude, airspeed and idea's simultaneously.
I can look back at it objectively now, but back then I can only thank that trucker that he tried to miss me and did, just barely.
Packrat
I've got Meniere's, so I avoid airplanes unless I'm wearing my vertigo patch. Whoever invented the patch should get a Nobel prize. The thought of spinning wildly through the air should something go wrong with the chute has kept me from trying sky diving. I can't do merry-go-rounds, roller coasters, or video games. Meniere's is not a manly affliction, since the vertigo can be awful when it kicks in.
The shows with helicopter hog hunting are very cool. IMO, Helicopters are the work of the devil. I tried riding in one once. That was the last time I will get in one of those **** things. Vertigo kicked in and basically emptied out my entire digestive track and was covered in inches of my own barf from my chest to my knees. I threw out my entire outfit after recovering from a 30 hour hangover.
The shows with helicopter hog hunting are very cool. IMO, Helicopters are the work of the devil. I tried riding in one once. That was the last time I will get in one of those **** things. Vertigo kicked in and basically emptied out my entire digestive track and was covered in inches of my own barf from my chest to my knees. I threw out my entire outfit after recovering from a 30 hour hangover.
cool!!! i don't consider the party to have really kicked in until i've thrown up 2 or 3 times.scrmblr1982cj8 said:
pakrat has had ample practice simulating gliding thru the air with wings spread. nobody puts packrat in a corner!!
he's definitely a candidate for a permanent helmet
See, i told you he'd go wild with the pictures.......Quite a picture supposedly of me in a dress flying .....Not going to comment on the rest of it!
scrmblr....Heck you haven't lived until you are sitting in the door of a Huey with your legs and feet out in the slipstream, or standing on the landing struts, coming into a hot LZ and watching the tracers floating slowly up towards you and swearing that every one of them is aimed right at you. Kind of the pits though when the door gunner is firing the M-60 MG on the left side and the hot brass keeps bouncing off of you and your helmet. **** shells are HOT!
This really wasn't that common though, only happened maybe 3 or 4 times. What was more common was sitting in a Chinook and watching bullets come up through the floor and exit through the top and the only thing you can do then is sit there on your flak vest and steel helmet and hope they didn't get any closer or hit the transmissions so you lost a rotor or two.
During a 1 year tour, I had 2 Helicopters and an Army WAC shot out from under me!
Maybe one of these days I'll figure out how I got hooked on adrenaline.
True story that is kind of coincidental. A CIA pilot was flying a C-130 or Caribou for Air America and suddenly fell over sideways. The flight engineer pulled him out of his seat and couldn't find where he'd been hit but they called it in and had an ambulance waiting when they landed. The surgeons had him xray'd and found that he'd taken a bullet straight up the rectum and he'd almost bled to death internally before they figured out what was wrong. The coincidental part is that he had to go through the rest of his employment with the nickname "No entry Jones".......True story!
Now I've heard that djones was a Pilot in his younger days and it took some searching to find out that what he was, was a Pile it, working on a Chicken Ranch with a shovel and wheelbarrow. His job was to clean out under the Chicken coops and "Pile it" here and "Pile it" there! So if he seems a little CS sometimes, he comes by it as a byproduct of his youth!
Packrat
scrmblr....Heck you haven't lived until you are sitting in the door of a Huey with your legs and feet out in the slipstream, or standing on the landing struts, coming into a hot LZ and watching the tracers floating slowly up towards you and swearing that every one of them is aimed right at you. Kind of the pits though when the door gunner is firing the M-60 MG on the left side and the hot brass keeps bouncing off of you and your helmet. **** shells are HOT!
This really wasn't that common though, only happened maybe 3 or 4 times. What was more common was sitting in a Chinook and watching bullets come up through the floor and exit through the top and the only thing you can do then is sit there on your flak vest and steel helmet and hope they didn't get any closer or hit the transmissions so you lost a rotor or two.
During a 1 year tour, I had 2 Helicopters and an Army WAC shot out from under me!
Maybe one of these days I'll figure out how I got hooked on adrenaline.
True story that is kind of coincidental. A CIA pilot was flying a C-130 or Caribou for Air America and suddenly fell over sideways. The flight engineer pulled him out of his seat and couldn't find where he'd been hit but they called it in and had an ambulance waiting when they landed. The surgeons had him xray'd and found that he'd taken a bullet straight up the rectum and he'd almost bled to death internally before they figured out what was wrong. The coincidental part is that he had to go through the rest of his employment with the nickname "No entry Jones".......True story!
Now I've heard that djones was a Pilot in his younger days and it took some searching to find out that what he was, was a Pile it, working on a Chicken Ranch with a shovel and wheelbarrow. His job was to clean out under the Chicken coops and "Pile it" here and "Pile it" there! So if he seems a little CS sometimes, he comes by it as a byproduct of his youth!
Packrat
