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What did you get for Christmas?
« on: December 26, 2008, 12:37:00 PM »
As far as gun related, I got a Wilderness Titanium CSM belt, some CCW hidin' appropriate clothes, and gun cleaning stuff from my wife.  Due to the NW snow situation, several of my presents are stuck at my MILs, but I suspect I'll be getting some magazines, and ammo from her family.

Anybody get anything cool, gun related or not?  =)
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2008, 12:46:17 PM »
Wife got me a deer cart and 007 DVD collection.

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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2008, 12:53:34 PM »
Got a few smaller things that were neat, but the biggie from the wife was a nice LG 22" widescreen monitor for the comp.  :)
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2008, 02:05:51 PM »
They gave me a warm shirt for outdoor work and a piggy bank. And I'm more or less flat broke, thinking of selling a couple of competition rifles...
 
I get the feeling that she thinks her daddy just got another low-wage apprentice electrician...
 
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2008, 02:24:52 PM »
Received a couple DVD's and books (investing for dummies, etc.).  The big (and totaly unexpected) present was a new computer.  The only gun related item was a cool mouse pad covered in bullets.
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2008, 02:55:21 PM »
$150 gift card to Ikea, which we will use to purchase a safer tv stand.  The old one is too small and was instrumentla in dumping the tv on kiddo last week.

Box of Godiva chocolate

The most cool thing was the Trucker's Atlas my cousin gave us--very complete roads info, many more city maps than your standard book of maps, and laminated pages for plotting routes with dry-erase marker.  It is awesome.
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2008, 02:57:49 PM »
Not gun related but I got a helicopter for christmas. One of the ones from Radio Shack, the Mosquito. Cool thing is my buddy also has one and he's a teacher, with access to his school 24/7. Were going to go fly them around the gym this weekend  =D
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2008, 02:59:07 PM »
New jacket and a wall clock for my garage. Kind of lean this year, but that's the way "the fam" decided to go.
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2008, 03:10:51 PM »
Quote from: eyebrows on December 26, 2008, 02:57:49 PM
Not gun related but I got a helicopter for christmas. One of the ones from Radio Shack, the Mosquito. Cool thing is my buddy also has one and he's a teacher, with access to his school 24/7. Were going to go fly them around the gym this weekend  =D


I got one (Air Hogs Havoc) for my daughter. Guess who ended up playing with it... :laugh:
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2008, 03:18:31 PM »
W00T!  I got a steelheading fly rod and reel! 

Now I just need to find a place I can access a river and try to pull in some salmon or steelhead.
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2008, 04:21:56 PM »
I got three pairs of wool socks and a cap with ear flaps.  My wife got a root canal and a crown.  :laugh:  (all bought before xmas - no unwrapping).

We had some neighbors over for dinner last night (xmas day).  I did get a bottle of (blended) Scotch.  =)

Oh, and we got another six inches of snow overnight ...  ;/
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2008, 04:42:19 PM »
A new bible from SWMBO, with text that is actually big enough to read.  :)
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2008, 04:48:24 PM »
I received a lot of candy, cash (which will go straight towards purchasing next semester's textbooks), a nice stocking hat, gloves, and several music books I wanted.
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2008, 04:49:53 PM »
some fancy soap and lotions i probably won't use, some gift cards and chocolete, a container of my aunt's cheese balls and a bowl of liptower cheese (which i am eating right now) and some recipes that belonged to my great aunt.

and the best so far, season one of House.  
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2008, 04:50:03 PM »
Some of this stuff I bought for my self and some of this stuff was given to me.

Ruger Security Six .357 revolver, 4 inch barrel, stainless steel

Extraction of wisdom teeth two weeks ago

Kenwood 2 meter amateur radio plus a Diamond antenna for installing at home

A coin jar that counts the coins as you insert them. Found out I had $67 in change in my old jar. This will be going to a VLTOR CASV-EL for my AR-15...

$80 in cash

$20 Subway gift card

Used Aimpoint 5000
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #15 on: December 26, 2008, 05:56:51 PM »
Gun-related?

I got the entire Firefly series on DVD, plus the Serenity movie.

Mrs. G-98 put a Winchester Model 94 Big-Bore in the oddball .375 Winchester on layaway for me, too.   =D
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #16 on: December 26, 2008, 06:03:12 PM »
My wife and I have an agreement to not exchange gifts, but I bought her a chrome grille for her PT Cruiser. She completely took me by surprise by getting me the first two seasons of "The Untouchables" on DVD.
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #17 on: December 26, 2008, 06:56:37 PM »
just spent the gift cards.

found a Happy Bunny Day Planner. Awesome. gonna have to thank mumma for that one.  =D
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #18 on: December 26, 2008, 07:02:33 PM »
The only gun stuff I got was John Taffin's "Book of the 44".  My grandparents gave me money since the have no idea what to get for the grandkids anymore.  I used that money to buy the rims I need for a set of bike wheels I'm going to build (650B SS MTB wheels).  The in-laws gave me two nice suits (got fitted for them around Thanksgiving, so it was hardly a surprise yesterday morning).  I got more clothes from other family members, a book on the beers of the world from my BIL and his wife, some gift cards, and a new cog for my fixed gear bike.

I got Salt by Kurlansky and his book about oysters (title escapes me) from our resident curmudgeon.  I read his book on Cod earlier this year.  So far Salt is very interesting.

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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #19 on: December 26, 2008, 07:26:17 PM »
Quote from: Gewehr98 on December 26, 2008, 05:56:51 PM

Mrs. G-98 put a Winchester Model 94 Big-Bore in the oddball .375 Winchester on layaway for me, too.   =D

Nice I'm thinking about using my Christmas cash towards a .30-06 Remington 760 I saw in a gun shop.

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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #20 on: December 26, 2008, 07:32:30 PM »
Basic set of Calphalon pots and pans. Made an omelet first thing off in the fryer, niiice...

Gun related? A double barrled SG butane lighter that flames out both barrels when you pull the hammer back, for lighting the grill. I put it on the mantle. :laugh:

Do you see a pattern forming here?   =D
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #21 on: December 26, 2008, 08:25:20 PM »
Quote from: grislyatoms on December 26, 2008, 03:10:51 PM
I got one (Air Hogs Havoc) for my daughter. Guess who ended up playing with it... :laugh:

I got my 8 yo son a pair of the fighting ones......Dad can still kick butt..... =D
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #22 on: December 26, 2008, 08:35:34 PM »
cheap mp3 player to replace old one that broke, and brass and bullets for loading for my Mauser 71/84. Still have $135 in cash that I haven't decided what to do with yet.
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
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Re: What did you get for Christmas?
« Reply #24 on: December 26, 2008, 08:56:15 PM »
A boat.  I think its my christmas present for a few years......

I did score some BPS gift cards, and some Dick's gift cards.  And a new electric razor, before Christmas without any pomp and circumstance.  Its really about the kiddos anymore for us. 
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