INGO Christmas Countdown Contest - Swag Inside!

[Fenway]

Here is your chance to win an INGO Swag pack including

1 black INGunOwners.com Hat
1 black INGO Winter hat
Bacon Patches and INGO Stickers (not pictured)

The Details:

All registered members are eligible (except mods). Swag will be mailed USPS after Christmas


The Contest:

I have picked a time (down to the minute) on Christmas Eve when this thread will be locked. This time has been shared with all of the mods and obviously will be kept secret. The last person to post in this thread before the lock will be the winner. IBTICCCL

The Rules - Your first post in this thread must include two things:

1. Tell us how you found INGO (search engine, friend, INDY 1500 etc)

2. An image

Your subsequent posts to make it IBTICCCL can be anything.

Best of Luck and Merry Christmas

 

[Fenway]

Example Entry

I found INGO in my head back in February of 2008

 

[jblomenberg16]

How I found INGO: Was referred to the sight by Karlsgunbunker, who I had met on another forum, namely Survivor's SKS Boards.


Image: Bacon of course!

Here's hoping that my IBTL entry is the winner and the post closure time is 12:03 AM 12/24/09.

 

[Benny]

I don't think I'm going to be around enough tomorrow to be the last one that posts, but what the heck...

1. I made a thread on THR about forum members from Indiana and a link to this site popped up.

2.

^^^Good potential av IMO.

 

[MoparMan]

I found INGO earlier this year thru google while looking for a gun shop.

 

[Scutter01]

It's been so long that I don't think I can remember how I found INGO. I think it was probably mentioned on GT or something. I remember being ambivalent about joining, but eventually just figured "what the heck!"

My sugar glider hiding in my Christmas tree

 

[HandK]

I was told about this site by a freind.
My FNH PS 90

 

[esrice]

I was talking to 98GSR from IndyCarz about how he was going to start a gun forum. I told him I thought it was a GREAT idea. The rest is history.

 

[MoparMan]

Ok you can lock it after this post.

 

[Cat-Herder]

zoglog told me about the site while at the ECPR. I really enjoy the site, thanks Fenway!

here's a pic of my weekend project...

 

[Stove]

Found via a post on another forum, maybe ar15.com? One pic of my AR and another of a cantaloupe, or maybe a pair of lopes!

 

[ATM]

These guys are keeping my hands full ATM, but I'm still not ruling out getting one in the future.

(I appreciate you letting me know.)


1. I think I found INGO during a search of Indiana gun laws.

Vandals!

 

[bogus]

Found INGO Googling for online ammo and reviews on M&P's. Glad I did!

Is it just my eyes or does that little sucker have a red hat on? (Posted before Infantry added additional pics )

 

[Benny]

(I appreciate you letting me know.)


1. I think I found INGO during a search of Indiana gun laws.

Haha, no problem...I just like keeping my buddies informed.

Is it just my eyes or does that little sucker have a red hat on?

I have no idea what you are talking about, but I just noticed there is a suger glider in that picture.

 

[TopDog]

I'm in.

1. I was advised of this site by a great friend, forum user mhank.

2. The image is one of my favorites - GySgt Burghard, his story below.

Message The Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant in the picture is Michael Burghard, part of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team that is supporting2nd Brigade 28th Infantry Division (Pennsylvania Army National Guard).

Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as "Iron Mike" or just "Gunny". He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19 2005, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-visioned," he explains.

So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk", stepping gingerly into a 5ft deep and 8ft wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wireand used his 7in knife to probe the ground. "I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed."

Realising he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. "A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalls. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked offthey were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down."

His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. "My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralysed from the waist down," says Sgt Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a realsharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' " As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher." He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one.

It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week'." Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

 

[Scutter01]

Kinda threadjacked with the sugar glider talk, so I moved all the posts to this thread:

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/break_room/67041-sugar_glider_stuff.html

 

[Chefcook]

How did I hear about INGO???? Santa of course... DUH!...

 

[Benny]

I'm in.

1. I was advised of this site by a great friend, forum user mhank.

2. The image is one of my favorites - GySgt Burghard, his story below.

Message The Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant in the picture is Michael Burghard, part of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team that is supporting2nd Brigade 28th Infantry Division (Pennsylvania Army National Guard).

Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as "Iron Mike" or just "Gunny". He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19 2005, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-visioned," he explains.

So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk", stepping gingerly into a 5ft deep and 8ft wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wireand used his 7in knife to probe the ground. "I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed."

Realising he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. "A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalls. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked offthey were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down."

His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. "My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralysed from the waist down," says Sgt Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a realsharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' " As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher." He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one.

It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week'." Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

This story never fails to bring both goosebumps and LULZ.

 

[tv1217]

I post on another message board(non gun related), and one of the other posters and I like to frequently make threads about guns or discuss them on AIM or MSN Messenger. One time he found this site on a random Google search and decided to share, knowing that I live in IN.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v680/LiquidusSnakus/bender-doomed2copy.jpg

 

[spainy79]

A friend referred me to this site.

Should have an upper for this come January 16.