The Czickness LIII….CZing into the summer with friends near and far.

[DadSmith]

Morning all...



Prayers for the surgery to go well and for a speedy recovery.

Getting closer to being ready.

Thank you all for your prayers and recovery wishes.

 

[patience0830]

My mother had a cure for selective hearing.
It always worked. All natural, and made of cow hide.

Did she use it on your dad?
That's kinda kinky.

 

[patience0830]

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Getting closer to being ready.

Thank you all for your prayers and recovery wishes.

Prayers for a quick and useful conclusion, as well as an uneventful recovery. Your new nickname may be Rush ( Limbaugh) .

 

[patience0830]

Coffee soon. Number 9 ass panda in the books. Starting to look like we're going for the record.

 

[Leadeye]

Hearing problem for me as I've gotten older is sorting out words over background noise. In the woods where there is no noise, I hear very well.

The gardener refers to that as selective hearing.

 

[ChrisK]

I have hearing loss along with tinnitus. Left ear is worse than the right. There is nothing out there that helps with the tinnitus. 24 years of jet engines along with helicopter transmission noise did my hearing in. The majority of VA compensation is hearing loss and tinnitus.

 

[rkwhyte2]

Morning
I also suffer from tinnitus and have issues hearing with background noise. Motorcycles, shooting and 2 decades in an industrial environment don't help. Well all that and getting older.

 

[Bennettjh]

I've noticed I can't hear very well if there's background noise. Seems to have gotten worse in the last couple years. My sweet wife talks quiet and a lot of times I can't hear her. One would think it's selective hearing but I don't really think so.

 

[WebSnyper]

Hearing problem for me as I've gotten older is sorting out words over background noise. In the woods where there is no noise, I hear very well.

The gardener refers to that as selective hearing.

Same for me. Background noise definitely screws with my hearing. Loud restaurant for example, especially with the open ceiling stuff they do these days and I can't hear anything the person I'm with is saying.

 

[Haven]

Ok, question for the guys that use HBI parts (I'm looking at some stuff for the Scorpion). Did you order direct from HBI or were you finding better deals (shipping, price, etc) somewhere else for the HBI stuff?

@wtburnette @Haven @mcapo and others

I ordered direct from HBI.

 

[Haven]

I've noticed I can't hear very well if there's background noise. Seems to have gotten worse in the last couple years. My sweet wife talks quiet and a lot of times I can't hear her. One would think it's selective hearing but I don't really think so.

Same here. I blame it on 30+ years of IT working out of Datacenters. Too many loud fans (servers, network gear, heating and cooling, etc), and no thought to hearing protection.

 

[patience0830]

Same here. I blame it on 30+ years of IT working out of Datacenters. Too many loud fans (servers, network gear, heating and cooling, etc), and no thought to hearing protection.

50+ yrs of chainsaws, tractors, tracked vehicles, gen sets and rifles. First 30 or so with no thought to hearing protection

 

[llh1956]

My last 1911 45 acp sold this past weekend. I did pick up a Colt 9 mm 1911 awhile back. I will keep my CZ 97 long enough to shoot up all my 45 ammo! Depending on what reloading components will cost by the end of the year, the 97 my go up for sale. I will be down to 1 AR by this weekend. Kathy is no longer able to work due to all her medical issues so I am reducing my collection down to help pay the bills until her Soc Sec starts Jan 2025. Checking out disability also but I do not think you can apply for both and the later could take longer than I could afford.

 

[mcapo]

50+ yrs of chainsaws, tractors, tracked vehicles, gen sets and rifles. First 30 or so with no thought to hearing protection

People of our age and older, I believe, have complacency as a contributing factor. We just didn't give it any thought decades ago.

My two boys (26 and 36) that work around equipment wear eye and hearing protection all the time.

 

[mcapo]

My last 1911 45 acp sold this past weekend. I did pick up a Colt 9 mm 1911 awhile back. I will keep my CZ 97 long enough to shoot up all my 45 ammo! Depending on what reloading components will cost by the end of the year, the 97 my go up for sale. I will be down to 1 AR by this weekend. Kathy is no longer able to work due to all her medical issues so I am reducing my collection down to help pay the bills until her Soc Sec starts Jan 2025. Checking out disability also but I do not think you can apply for both and the later could take longer than I could afford.

Sorry to "hear" that.

I have some experience with getting my stepmother on disability when my father died. All I can say is that it is a process....consider hiring a professional. I didn't....

 

[gmcttr]

My last 1911 45 acp sold this past weekend. I did pick up a Colt 9 mm 1911 awhile back. I will keep my CZ 97 long enough to shoot up all my 45 ammo! Depending on what reloading components will cost by the end of the year, the 97 my go up for sale. I will be down to 1 AR by this weekend. Kathy is no longer able to work due to all her medical issues so I am reducing my collection down to help pay the bills until her Soc Sec starts Jan 2025. Checking out disability also but I do not think you can apply for both and the later could take longer than I could afford.

Talk to me when you're looking for 45 acp reloading supplies. I will likely be able to help with that.

 

[WebSnyper]

My last 1911 45 acp sold this past weekend. I did pick up a Colt 9 mm 1911 awhile back. I will keep my CZ 97 long enough to shoot up all my 45 ammo! Depending on what reloading components will cost by the end of the year, the 97 my go up for sale. I will be down to 1 AR by this weekend. Kathy is no longer able to work due to all her medical issues so I am reducing my collection down to help pay the bills until her Soc Sec starts Jan 2025. Checking out disability also but I do not think you can apply for both and the later could take longer than I could afford.

Sorry to hear that. Not sure about both, but there may be a chance to get it retroactively for a period of time leading up to retirement. If she gets denied there are attorneys who take up those cases but they do so on a contingency basis and will take a significant part of the award (but in this case it might be better than not or having to lay out $$ for the attorney yourself). Been a while since I've been involved in that situation but that's what I remember.

 

[WebSnyper]

I ordered direct from HBI.

Cool, I'm about $8 or so short of free shipping with everything they have I need from a Scorpion perspective. I may just double up on the trigger pack refresh kit and make it 2 as that seems like something that would be handy to have around and that would get my order to free shipping.

 

[mcapo]

Cool, I'm about $8 or so short of free shipping with everything they have I need from a Scorpion perspective. I may just double up on the trigger pack refresh kit and make it 2 as that seems like something that would be handy to have around and that would get my order to free shipping.

Do you have a p10 series? If not, buy a trigger. An extra part is reason enough to buy a gun.

 

[DadSmith]

Headed home now.
Surgery went well.
Cochlear activation is June 27th.
Dr said I'll be hearing good within a month.