Comments on: Questions and Answers http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/ Gun info by shooters, for shooters Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:55:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ares'cuda http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-14028 Ares'cuda Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:26:41 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-14028 I have a few questions being pretty new to this whole 'Coffee Defense Culture Mindset'. What size serving do you recommend for HD? If I CCC (concealed carry coffee) should I also carry a Starbucks 'Short, 8oz' as a BUC? If I CCC, how do I keep the cup from printing? I'm thinking crotch carry....is this stupid? I tried tactical refills but I keep pouring the coffee all over the table, should I have a Barista custom funnel the lip? Should the lid be blueprinted and custom fitted tight or kept slightly loose? So is everyone now going to worship at the alter of Juan Valdez? Who makes the better hot cup? Solo or Dixie? "GRAWN-day Mf !!!! ______________ I found some quotes ___________ "Your coffee cup is something you can use to fight your way to your thermos, which you should not have left in the first place. ... Clint Cooper or Jeff Smith. "Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your coffee away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for employers, teachers, and parents, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians." -- from the novel Cope "It has often been said there are no rules in a coffee fight. Not true! The first rule of coffee fighting is 'have a coffee'. If you do not have a coffee, do not come to a coffee fight. Just having a coffee on your person when you need it is 90% of the fight. Everything else -Beverage size, caloric count, lightened or sweetened, decaf or regular - is way back in second place. Have a coffee." -- HOWARD SCHULTZ, founder of Starbucks "A free people ought . . . to be caffinated . . ." - George Washington I have a few questions being pretty new to this whole ‘Coffee Defense Culture Mindset’.

What size serving do you recommend for HD?

If I CCC (concealed carry coffee) should I also carry a Starbucks ‘Short, 8oz’ as a BUC?

If I CCC, how do I keep the cup from printing? I’m thinking crotch carry….is this stupid?

I tried tactical refills but I keep pouring the coffee all over the table, should I have a Barista custom funnel the lip?

Should the lid be blueprinted and custom fitted tight or kept slightly loose?

So is everyone now going to worship at the alter of Juan Valdez?

Who makes the better hot cup? Solo or Dixie?

“GRAWN-day Mf !!!!

______________ I found some quotes ___________

“Your coffee cup is something you can use to fight your way to your thermos, which you should not have left in the first place. … Clint Cooper or Jeff Smith.

“Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your coffee away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for employers, teachers, and parents, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.” — from the novel Cope

“It has often been said there are no rules in a coffee fight. Not true! The first rule of coffee fighting is ‘have a coffee’. If you do not have a coffee, do not come to a coffee fight. Just having a coffee on your person when you need it is 90% of the fight. Everything else -Beverage size, caloric count, lightened or sweetened, decaf or regular – is way back in second place. Have a coffee.” — HOWARD SCHULTZ, founder of Starbucks

“A free people ought . . . to be caffinated . . .” – George Washington

]]> By: Fred http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13866 Fred Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:23:26 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13866 Of course now you know you need to test various coffee cups to find which provides the best patterns and at what ranges. Of course now you know you need to test various coffee cups to find which provides the best patterns and at what ranges.

]]> By: Joshua http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13861 Joshua Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:27:03 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13861 I was in a physical altercation once. It didn't involve a firearm, and it was honestly pretty one-sided because the other guy was drunk and not very coordinated (but I didn't know that until after I started defending myself, so I still think my actions were justified). Like you, I don't have a continuous memory of the actual fight, just a series of slide-show images. I remember the guy's eyes, lit up by my tac-light as I blinked it at him. Then I remember feeling and seeing my palm against his face as I pushed it back. Then I saw and felt my foot sink into his stomach as I front-kicked him. Then contiguous time started again as he backed away. Except for the flashlight, which I had ready to use because 1) it was night-time and we were on a dark country road, and 2) he had been getting belligerent, and I thought he might try something, I don't remember consciously choosing any of my other actions. I had no idea what was going to happen after the flashlight. It was just like a switch flipped in my head and I said, "It's go time," and then my training took over. When your wife, or anybody else, asks, "Why the coffee?!" You can make a rationalization of that decision, and on some level, it might even be true, but in the moment, your conscious brain was probably not running your body, and any intellectual explanation for what happened is only a metaphor for the decisions that your reptile-brain made while trying to keep you alive. I told my martial-arts teacher about the incident, because it is the first time in my six years of jiu-jitsu training that I've ever actually had to use it. He jokingly said, "You front kicked him?! You? Mr. Jiu-jitsu? Ugh. Front kick is like the worst kick, and still, every fight I'm in, out comes the front kick." I was in a physical altercation once. It didn’t involve a firearm, and it was honestly pretty one-sided because the other guy was drunk and not very coordinated (but I didn’t know that until after I started defending myself, so I still think my actions were justified).

Like you, I don’t have a continuous memory of the actual fight, just a series of slide-show images. I remember the guy’s eyes, lit up by my tac-light as I blinked it at him. Then I remember feeling and seeing my palm against his face as I pushed it back. Then I saw and felt my foot sink into his stomach as I front-kicked him. Then contiguous time started again as he backed away.

Except for the flashlight, which I had ready to use because 1) it was night-time and we were on a dark country road, and 2) he had been getting belligerent, and I thought he might try something, I don’t remember consciously choosing any of my other actions. I had no idea what was going to happen after the flashlight. It was just like a switch flipped in my head and I said, “It’s go time,” and then my training took over. When your wife, or anybody else, asks, “Why the coffee?!” You can make a rationalization of that decision, and on some level, it might even be true, but in the moment, your conscious brain was probably not running your body, and any intellectual explanation for what happened is only a metaphor for the decisions that your reptile-brain made while trying to keep you alive.

I told my martial-arts teacher about the incident, because it is the first time in my six years of jiu-jitsu training that I’ve ever actually had to use it. He jokingly said, “You front kicked him?! You? Mr. Jiu-jitsu? Ugh. Front kick is like the worst kick, and still, every fight I’m in, out comes the front kick.”

]]> By: George http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13858 George Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:03:43 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13858 Just out of curiosity...what load do you carry for the Jetfire? Just out of curiosity…what load do you carry for the Jetfire?

]]> By: Rustmeister http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13853 Rustmeister Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:14:24 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13853 Loved your last bullet (statement). After verifying your system works, changing anything about your carry piece/method would be lunacy. Loved your last bullet (statement).

After verifying your system works, changing anything about your carry piece/method would be lunacy.

]]> By: Caleb http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13838 Caleb Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:11:56 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13838 j t - when I get my druthers about what I carry, I carry a 325 Nightguard in a Don Hume holster, or a commander sized 1911 in a Safariland. j t – when I get my druthers about what I carry, I carry a 325 Nightguard in a Don Hume holster, or a commander sized 1911 in a Safariland.

]]> By: eeyore http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13834 eeyore Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:22:24 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13834 This just in: ATF to begin requiring Starbucks to collect 4473's. This just in: ATF to begin requiring Starbucks to collect 4473′s.

]]> By: j t bolt http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13825 j t bolt Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:45:19 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13825 What rig do you carry when you AREN'T going to the office and opt for something a little beefier? That Para? What rig do you carry when you AREN’T going to the office and opt for something a little beefier? That Para?

]]> By: eeyore http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13824 eeyore Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:31:33 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13824 It's lucky you've been training in the "train-like-you-fight-and-fight-like-you-train" school. If you'd been training Old School, you probably would have been looking for a place to set your coffee down before you drew. It’s lucky you’ve been training in the “train-like-you-fight-and-fight-like-you-train” school. If you’d been training Old School, you probably would have been looking for a place to set your coffee down before you drew.

]]> By: Mad Saint Jack http://gunnuts.net/2009/10/27/questions-and-answers/#comment-13815 Mad Saint Jack Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:20:26 +0000 http://gunnuts.net/?p=4561#comment-13815 Also BOLO for a Beretta Alley Cat. My friend had one. Good shooter, I don't even hold a grudge from the scars it left in the web of my hand. Also BOLO for a Beretta Alley Cat. My friend had one. Good shooter, I don’t even hold a grudge from the scars it left in the web of my hand.

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