Trying a text post this time, but feel free to respond with GIFs like before if you’d like. Also taking suggestions for future posts. Emojis?
The weather around me is nice enough that I’m starting to run and bike again, which is nice. We had a few days of the worst sort of half-frozen sleet, but that’s finally over.
I also upgraded my desktop. Partially because I had been planning to, and partially because who knows how much we might shoot ourselves in the foot with tariffs 🤦
Finally found time to take the AR-15 to the range and work with the instructor I’ve been using for the handguns.
Aaaaand while handguns are nice and all, this thing is the most fun I’ve had in a LONG time.
Of course I now have to scramble and decide how much ammo to buy before tariffs screw that up making this super costly (most of the cheap but not shit ammo is from SK, BR, and CZ, and even US-based stuff is made with materials from not-here).
But on the bright side, I finally got myself properly medicated, and holy shit is that fucking amazing. I’ve known I’ve had ADHD my whole life, but due the lovely bonus of also being bipolar and having a really really awful reaction to any sort of stimulant (even something mild like caffiene) it’s always just kinda not been treated and ignored.
Yeah well, current pdoc wrote a script for guanfacine and it’s like my whole brain suddenly just decided to make sense and behave itself. Stopped shit like leg twitches, and biting my nails, and running through crowds dodging people instead of walking a normal pace.
Also started finishing projects, being able to go to the store without a list and not forgetting a bunch of stuff, and generally just being a normal person.
I’d say for most people 1000 rounds of your main rifle and pistol caliber is a good benchmark. Yep it’s a decent amount of money but once you have it you’re set for a while. It doesn’t take a crazy amount of space and you’ll have enough to get intentional training even if the ammo market gets weird for a bit
That’s the plan, basically. 1000 of 5.56, another 1000 of 9mm, but an absolutely stupid amount of .22LR for the Glock 44.
Shit’s cheap, and fun to shoot, so I might as well just buy a truckfull of it.