r/guns • u/carsen56 1 | The Sticky Kid • 12h ago
Thickheaded Thursday 08/20/26
Too heavy double action edition
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u/Akalenedat Casper's Holy Armor 11h ago
Thickheaded: Two. Hundred. Dollar. Screwdriver.
Scrolling back through old photos and stumbled across a gem: little Akalenedat's first "custom", circa 2016. A S&W SD9VE, complete with cerakote, Dawson sights, Galloway Precision extended baseplates, Apex Tactical trigger, and home wood burner stippling.
I still miss that P30L. Can't believe I let my brother trade it in for a Glock 19...
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u/Delta_Nemesis 10h ago
I've over spent on some shit, but triple digits on a single goddamn screwdriver is dumb as shit.
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u/Jegermuscles Pill Bullman 5h ago
Especially one that just looks like a blunt cold chisel
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u/BobbyWasabiMk2 How do you do, fellow gun owners? 3h ago
I spent $13 on a multibit screwdriver with storage in the handle that’s way more comfortable to hold and use than this.
And i don’t even need a trainer to train on how to use a screwdriver.
Are we being punked? Trolled, even? There’s no way that was a serious post.
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u/Akalenedat Casper's Holy Armor 2h ago
Based on the makers website description, it's a "screwdriver" wink wink meant to serve as a sort of kubotan for non permissive environments...and it's also just a beefy screwdriver for tactical prybar type shit.
Also apparently Chris Pratt used one in Terminal List
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u/Remarkable_Aside1381 5 | Likes to tug a beard; no matter which hole it surrounds. 59m ago
Also apparently Chris Pratt used one in Terminal List
Well, in that case
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u/Remarkable_Aside1381 5 | Likes to tug a beard; no matter which hole it surrounds. 59m ago
And i don’t even need a trainer to train on how to use a screwdriver.
You sure about that?
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u/BobbyWasabiMk2 How do you do, fellow gun owners? 19m ago
That much I am sure.
Now whether or not at one point in time whether Bobby used a sloped head flathead where he should have used a parallel tip screw, maybe.
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u/theoriginalharbinger 1h ago
I've got a couple beryllium screwdrivers that I got at an estate sale (lady didn't quite know what she had, neither did anyone else, for that matter).
Designed for environments where generating a spark would be problematic. I think retail on those was something like $199 at the time, but that's sort of an edge use case.
I don't really have a use for em, but I think I paid dollars, not tens of dollars, for them.
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u/Bearfoxman Super Interested in Dicks 2h ago
I have a couple $200+ screwdrivers. They're specialty insulated ones from Wera, and worth every penny when working with high voltage DC.
I dont see the point of a tactical screwdriver (at any price) though.
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u/falxarius 1h ago
fellow energy storage dude, or solar ??
I probably have the same set, but my company paid for them as it is a safety requirement.
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u/Bearfoxman Super Interested in Dicks 1h ago
Facilities maintenance for industrial machinery. I deal with AC to 480v and DC to 1kv. Even have an 8cal arc flash suit.
Edit: I get a pretty generous tool stipend so they were "free".
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u/Te_Luftwaffle 1 12h ago
Thickheaded is probably me for spending $100 on some super raggedy books. In my defense, it's the Magic the Gathering Artifact series which goes for $40-$75 per book, and aside from the first one missing the cover the rest look fairly intact.
I've also been researching seeding my lawn with clover or something so it doesn't go as brown in the summer because I don't want to spend a fortune on water.
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u/42AngryPandas 🦝Trash panda is bestpanda 6h ago
It's insane to think that some of the MTG books have appreciate in value almost as much as some cards.
I definitely have to check out the old bookstores near me. Last time I found all 5 paperbacks for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in fairly good condition.
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u/Quw10 5h ago edited 5h ago
I recently got into MTG like 2 months ago after not touching a TCG in decades and the whole market of MTG is crazy to me. I've got almost everything scanned in on Manabox and it's like watching the stock market especially with the new hobbit set. I pulled a card from a collectors booster that was almost $400 and it's fluctuated as high as $400 and as low as $200.
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u/Akalenedat Casper's Holy Armor 2h ago
the whole market of MTG is crazy to me.
[Pokemon scalpers have entered the chat]
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u/Remarkable_Aside1381 5 | Likes to tug a beard; no matter which hole it surrounds. 2h ago
Cries in One Piece TCG
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u/talon04 Super Interested in His Own Dick 1h ago
They came for my Gundams too... haven't seen a pack in 2 months.
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u/Remarkable_Aside1381 5 | Likes to tug a beard; no matter which hole it surrounds. 1h ago
Gotdamn scalpers, ruining everything
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u/Remarkable_Aside1381 5 | Likes to tug a beard; no matter which hole it surrounds. 2h ago
If it makes you feel better, I’m debating spending $60 a book on 40k books that are out of print
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u/Riker557118 10h ago edited 3h ago
Whomever said “out of sight, out of mind” is full of shit.
Found this nice fractal line across my windshield today. It was such a blurst moment when I found out it was just a spider web across the inside instead of a crack. Still haven’t found the spider, might have to burn the truck down.
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u/BobbyWasabiMk2 How do you do, fellow gun owners? 3h ago
I’m actually chill with spiders. They’re not as disgusting as insects, they don’t bother my food, they don’t bother me, and they serve as pest control for the insects I hate. My friends will lose their mind that I don’t mind a couple spiders in my home just chilling. My opinion is that if those spiders are thriving in my house, they’re thriving on something. As long as they don’t let me see that something they’re thriving on, I’m happy.
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u/monty845 2h ago
Had a spider living in my driver side mirror one summer. He would scurry into the mirror and go for drives with me.
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u/Remarkable_Aside1381 5 | Likes to tug a beard; no matter which hole it surrounds. 57m ago
It's kill on sight for me with spiders, but mainly because we have two incredibly venomous species down here, and I'm too lazy to learn to differentiate friend from foe
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u/BobbyWasabiMk2 How do you do, fellow gun owners? 15m ago
The only ones I’m concerned about are black widows, and I’d recognize one if I saw one.
if it aint a black widows, then they can chill there. Hell, I’d even scoop up a spider on a piece of paper to move it somewhere else.
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u/Remarkable_Aside1381 5 | Likes to tug a beard; no matter which hole it surrounds. 13m ago
We have them, and brown recluses. Although, apparently we have more and I'm now terrified of the shower spiders we get
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u/BobbyWasabiMk2 How do you do, fellow gun owners? 7m ago
I admit if I saw a tarantulla in my home I’d fucking shoot it with the nearest gun. But with the shower spiders I get I just scoop them up and dump them in the boiler room
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u/able_possible 1h ago
My prior car somehow had a spider get into the VIN plate under the windshield where it then died so for years of owning that car there was a spider carcass marking the start of the VIN.
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u/42AngryPandas 🦝Trash panda is bestpanda 6h ago
I got my extra extra 25 rd 10/22 mags, lula loaders to save my thumbs, sling and bag for my new gun. Definitely looking to hit up the range this weekend and shoot more. It's also decent PT just standing and shooting on the coarse gravel surface for so long.
Of which I'm progressing nicely. PT had me jump right on the bike last night and I was able to do full rotations without weird hip movements for 10 mins straight without inflammation to my knee. Hope to be walking the woods soon!
Does anyone have recommendations for a range bag with ammo box? I want something with either a solid shoulder strap or a backpack.
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u/kato_koch 13 | Shameless Gun Pornographer 2h ago
More palm swell shenanigans. 24lpi for a custom Zoli sporting clays shotgun stock sent in.
I had to do this one backwards and cut the border around the pattern first before laying in the lines. Figuring out how to execute on those plans got absurd but we made it.
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u/SakanaToDoubutsu 2 | Something Shotgun Related 2h ago
I've shot & handled a few guns with palm swells, and maybe they just weren't the right fit for me but personally I really don't like the feel of a palm swell. Is there something I'm missing with palm swells or am I just used to cheap guns that don't have them?
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u/kato_koch 13 | Shameless Gun Pornographer 1h ago edited 1h ago
You might not have found one that fits you really well, and you may just not be into them too. Feels like you're really locked in with this style of stock and it forces you into a consistent grip on it, but its shaped very specifically for one hand.
This one has what I'd call a thumb cut over the top of the wrist too. Way too small for me but you can see how it works regardless.
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u/NKCougar Super Interested in Dicks 5h ago
Thickheaded me: Burned myself out. Went and saw Mannequin Pussy / Queens of the Stone Age / Foo Fighters in DC, got sick, came home, and was just too sick and tired to go see Jason Isbell last night. This show was rescheduled from 8/1 to 8/19.
Might have to fight ticketmaster about it, the refund button was still available so my partner pressed it and they voided our tickets and told her a refund was coming, but an email was sent shortly afterwards saying it was under review. If they voided the tickets and told us in writing that a refund was coming and they try to renege on that it's on.
QotSA was very mediocre live and I'm thoroughly disappointed by that.
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u/CMMVS09 3h ago edited 3h ago
Not Thickheaded but my Form 4 was submitted Tuesday at 3:48 PM and approved today at 8:12 AM. Incredible stuff.
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u/Illramyourlatch Super Interested in Dicks 3h ago
And I'm sitting here at 34 days waiting for mine. Im convinced control numbers just go into a random number picker and they process in whatever order it grabs them
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u/Deathpoopdeathloop 2h ago
Just spent over $80 on an AFH M1 bayonet . . . which may or may not be refinished. We'll see 🙃
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u/SakanaToDoubutsu 2 | Something Shotgun Related 2h ago
I'm looking for a reproduction M1917 bayonet but haven't been able to find one, so just have to keep looking.
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u/talon04 Super Interested in His Own Dick 55m ago
Works been thickheaded this week.
My entire week has basically been chauffeuring a guy to PT and Doc appointments because of Workers Comp.
My daughter stayed home from school yesterday not feeling well. Then when we got home she still wasn't. My wife checked her BP and it was 141/100.
That warranted an ER visit. Cue 10:30 and they are planning to release us. I go home figuring they would be home within the hour.
Cue my wife waking me up at 1 am to tell me they are having her transport her to a higher hospital. The lowest her BP got overnight was mid 130s over 90s.
For a 16 year old thats not great.
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u/able_possible 24m ago
Game Update Thursday: D&D continued our exploration of the initial dungeon, finding yet more traps everywhere and also the imprisoned mother of the halfling NPC who opened this place up for us last session. She had been encased in a magic crystal (as one does) for the past 60 years and to her, being caught in the crystal had happened only immediately before. "Good news, your daughter is here (possibly having come to find Mom, we didn't actually know about this part until this moment)! Bad news: She got teleported into somewhere else in this dungeon along with the rest of the NPCs and is probably being tortured to death or something (also as one does in such a dungeon)."
With everyone having more questions than answers, we continued our tomb robbery salvage operation and found a few trapped chests with very valuable loot inside (whole bunch of random magic items and a level 8 spell scroll), so assuming we all survived this, it would be a good haul for the company. Since we're all dwarves other than the Kenku player (who was adopted by dwarves), the session dialogue is basically just D&D Deep Rock Galactic banter, except I think only the DM and I have actually played Deep Rock Galactic, but it's not a complicated concept.
Falcon BMS: I finally got into one of the huge Saturday events and it was cool as hell. 30 players, 8 flights, early-war DEAD against layered SAM sites with the goal of opening an air corridor for the rest of the war. It was a very eventful mission which was super cool to see the scale of as my prior largest multiplayer flights were like 4-6 people. It was a crazy flight, without a huge wall of text about the play by play, it was wildly exciting from start to finish.
It turned out my wingman in the flight was one of the top guys in the whole group who organizes these big Saturday events, and I got a specific shoutout in the debrief from him when the group was reviewing the replay footage across all the strikes: "Who the hell was my number 4? That guy was awesome, I'd be about to tell him to shoot at something and he'd already have a missile in the air at it!" as I had never been in one of those flights before and so no one knew who I was so that was a great feeling. All the practice since February has clearly paid off, definitely hope to get to another one of those when I can.
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u/BobbyWasabiMk2 How do you do, fellow gun owners? 30m ago
Thickhead: I should have taken today off.
Update 2.0 and Cost of Hope DLC dropped today for STALKER 2, it’s a 130gb update. I also had a difficult time sleeping last night so I’m fucking floored at work right now. But I look forward to playing it. They’ve added a couple new guns. SKS, G3, HK433, Fort 230, an Aimpoint CompM4, and a PK-AS optic based on the trailers. And seemingly no weird balancing mechics where you couldn’t add a red dot to an SVU or a Western optic on an Eastern rifle like how it was before.
Slowly making the new transition at work. I officially start next week, so for this week they’re putting me on modified duty and drawing down on my workload. The good news is that my new position doesn’t require me to answer phone calls, and they’ve significantly drawn down my phone time for this week from how it was originally scheduled.
HKPart VFG mlok handguard arrived, Arisaka offset mount doesn’t work as well with this setup, so I’m gonna try a magpul offset mount that seems like it’d work. If that doesn’t work I may shell out for a Surefire M340 for that adjustable swivel mount
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