A little OT

**Hooks** · 07-20-2010 09:40 AM

Living in NW Florida, watching the BP live feed of crude oil belching in the pristine Gulf of Mexico (has been caped for now), listening to the bad news around the world, I find reading the Carbine forum is like taking valium to ease the depression. How wonderful it is to have a hobby of collecting and learning about a little rifle can have such a settling effect on the mind. I am not really depressed, just angry that things are happening around the world that we seem to have little or no control of. Sure hope our government leaders will not take our guns and we lose these forums to talk about them.

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**Highly Recommended** · 07-20-2010 09:40 AM

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**JimF4M1s (Deceased)** · 07-20-2010 11:26 AM

I see you live in NW Florida. The wife and I went there in 2004, Crystal River, and got to swim with the Manatee's. It was a dream of hers, we finally got to do at age 55. Great fun.

**GCK** · 07-20-2010 07:50 PM

I spent a number of years stationed at Ft Rucker and my kids grew up swimming in the Gulf at Panama City. The though of oil on those beautiful white beaches makes me sick. I would love to visit there again some day so I hope they can get it cleaned up.

**Hooks** · 07-20-2010 09:29 PM

The main part of the slick is far off shore right now. The beaches from Pensacola, Destin and Panama City for the most part are clean. Some oil can be found by digging below the sand surface in the areas from Gulf Shores Alabama to Pensacola Beach. The sugar white sand beaches run from Gulf Shores Alabama to Mexico Beach Florida. On either side of those points the texture seems to take on more of a grainy yellowish color/feel. Louisiana is much more a marshy land area with a lot of grasses.

My son-in-law has a large boat and is part of the “vessels of opportunity" cleanup effort in the Gulf. Some of their group has reported seeing (with their fish finding equipment) what they believe to be large under sea plums of oil and there is no way to skim/collect it. Sorry to ramble, got to get back to thinking Carbines.

GCK, dad worked at Rucker after he retired from the AF.

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