I now own a Taurus 85 View!

[dk]

Mr 22 if you see this I was wondering if you have shot your taurus view yet.If you have any information would be appreciated. Thanks .

[G50AE]

Good advice, 2GJ. And thanks, Joe.

I THINK cooked tomatoes might be getting me. The last couple of times I've had tomato sauces, it's taken me a few days to feel good again. I've been working on cutting most processed sugars, no more soda (arggh, that kills me!), and I'm trying to eat lots of natural fruits and veggies. It's a processed diet that I think is killing me.

You might want get tested for Celiac disease.  Tomato sauces are typically found on pasta and pizza, both of which contain gluten.  If you are diagnosed as Celiac, then you must avoid gluten which is a protein in wheat, rye, and barley.  Gluten is also found in oats due to field contamination.

[MR_22]

You might want get tested for Celiac disease.  Tomato sauces are typically found on pasta and pizza, both of which contain gluten.  If you are diagnosed as Celiac, then you must avoid gluten which is a protein in wheat, rye, and barley.  Gluten is also found in oats due to field contamination.

That's an interesting possibility. I have greatly reduced my carb intake over the past couple of years, but I LOVE my pasta. Don't care much for pizza, tho. I'll watch that.

[Uncle_Lee]

Mr. 22,
Have you had your blood sugar checked?
I have reactive hypoglycemia (shows up as low blood sugar).
If I take in more than 20 grams of sugar (no matter the source) in a 4 hour period, I get a really high sugar rush for about an hour and a half.
Then the plunge. The blood sugar goes from 225 or so down to around 45 in just 20 to 30 minutes and I go to sleep for 12 to 16 hours.
Then for 3 or 4 days it feels like I have the flu just no fever. Whole body hurts. This would happen 4 or 5 times a year.
I went to the doctors for over 20 years trying to find what was wrong with me and none could find it.
In my physical sheets it would say "low blood sugar" but no doctor caught it.
Finally my wife took me to an old, old, (in his late 80's) doctor.
He said "Heck Lee you just have low blood sugar."
He took me off all refined sugar and limited fruit and carbs.
There is some sugar in anything you buy at the store. So I read the labels. No more than 20 grams in a 4 hour period and I stay feeling good.
That was in 89 and I haven't felt bad since.
Well the cold once in a while.

Most doctors and no nurses know about reactive hypoglycemia and will tell you that you can control your blood sugar with sugar.
You can't do it....
Get your blood sugar checked.
Then have your doctor give you a GTT (glucose tolerance test).
That will tell you if you have reactive hypoglycemia.   

[redhawk4]

Another thing to watch for is the Vitamin E they use as a preservative in many products. I only found out over a period of time and certain circumstances that made it clear to me what it was. Cereals I ate with this in would make my stomach churn and I'd get some pain. One in particular with a very high level of it actually gave me the squirts, this is when I finally realized what was causing it. My stomach's always been cast iron and I can usually belch and fart my way out of anything in next to no time, but that vitamin E really effected me. Certainly the Tomato products can also be an issue, as you get older your digestive system seems to get more sensitive  and I've found there are some products like that, that don't agree with me these days. I'm not sure if it's just getting old or they're just trying harder these days to kill us with all the additives.

[TwoGunJayne]

Does Vitamin E bother your on your skin? It's in most lotions and other skin products such as sunblock and some insect repellents. It's hard to get away from it, actually.

[MR_22]

Hey Uncle Lee. I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia in about 1982, when I started high school. I'm not sure what the "reactive" part of the term means, tho. I don't consume a lot of sugar, and my hypoglycemia has waned in the past few decades. I can tell I still have it when I do consume sugar, but I don't consciously regulate it any more, like I used to have to do. I couldn't skip meals for years and had to eat regularly, but that's no longer the case.

Eventually, my hypoglycemia may turn into hyperglycemia (diabetes), bug it hasn't yet. (I think that's what happened with my mom, who had hypoglycemia for years, until she got older, too.)

[MR_22]

I've had low Vitamin D, for which I've taken supplements to the point where it's gotten almost to a toxic level and maxed out my calcium, but I haven't ever looked at my Vitamin E state. Low Vitamin D levels can cause many symptoms, from low moods, to swelling and inflammation, to lots of other problems. I think LOTS of people have problems with low Vitamin D, but don't know about it. I'm not as educated about Vitamin E.

[TwoGunJayne]

I've had low Vitamin D, for which I've taken supplements to the point where it's gotten almost to a toxic level and maxed out my calcium, but I haven't ever looked at my Vitamin E state. Low Vitamin D levels can cause many symptoms, from low moods, to swelling and inflammation, to lots of other problems. I think LOTS of people have problems with low Vitamin D, but don't know about it. I'm not as educated about Vitamin E.

A lot of mushrooms will max your Vitamin D without worrying too much about chemicals. There are many who highly doubt the efficacy of supplements. Many elements of nutrition seem contradictory.

Example: Drinking milk blocks calcium uptake. Eating calcium carbonate based antacids SHOULD dose you up with calcium pretty well, but in fact the antacid nature blocks the body's absorption of the calcium. Lots of quality leafy greens (zero iceberg lettuce) are showing to promote more usable calcium in the system. There are many who discourage the use of vitamin supplement pills, as some of them have even been proven not to dissolve in the digestive system. What good is that?

Anyway, get some sun with your shirt off if you want some Vitamin D. You get it free from the sun. 15 minutes a day or more should do you (Source: US Airman's Manual)

[MR_22]

I originally began taking Vitamin D supplements during the winter to boost my Vitamin D when I wasn't getting enough sun. It worked great and I could tell my body was assimilating the Vitamin D. In fact, I was getting too much Vitamin D, according to a blood test, and the additional Vitamin D had maxed out my calcium, according to the same test.

My body has a difficult time assimilating ANY vitamins and minerals, so I usually take liquid forms, which was the case with the Vitamin D. It DID help in boosting my moods and reduced inflammation in my lungs (which were the two primary reasons I began taking it). I could actually tell a difference with my breathing and it greatly reduced my reliance upon my asthma medications. It's hard to know when you get too much, though.

[OV-1D]

I originally began taking Vitamin D supplements during the winter to boost my Vitamin D when I wasn't getting enough sun. It worked great and I could tell my body was assimilating the Vitamin D. In fact, I was getting too much Vitamin D, according to a blood test, and the additional Vitamin D had maxed out my calcium, according to the same test.

My body has a difficult time assimilating ANY vitamins and minerals, so I usually take liquid forms, which was the case with the Vitamin D. It DID help in boosting my moods and reduced inflammation in my lungs (which were the two primary reasons I began taking it). I could actually tell a difference with my breathing and it greatly reduced my reliance upon my asthma medications. It's hard to know when you get too much, though.
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   Well MR_22 you start spitting kidney stones when its maxed out and you hadn't had problems till they start coming , OH BOY !!!! For anybody out there who's had them can I get a BIG OUCH !!!!!! 

[redhawk4]

Does Vitamin E bother your on your skin? It's in most lotions and other skin products such as sunblock and some insect repellents. It's hard to get away from it, actually.

No just the type they use as a food preservative, I think it's some kind of synthetic vitamin E, when I realized this certain cereal was to blame, I researched the ingredients and stomach pains and the squirts were side effects listed for the type of Vitamin E used. Then I was able to see what other foods contained it including another cereal which I'd previously identified as something better not to eat although I didn't know why.

[Uncle_Lee]

Hey Uncle Lee. I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia in about 1982, when I started high school. I'm not sure what the "reactive" part of the term means, tho. I don't consume a lot of sugar, and my hypoglycemia has waned in the past few decades. I can tell I still have it when I do consume sugar, but I don't consciously regulate it any more, like I used to have to do. I couldn't skip meals for years and had to eat regularly, but that's no longer the case.

Eventually, my hypoglycemia may turn into hyperglycemia (diabetes), bug it hasn't yet. (I think that's what happened with my mom, who had hypoglycemia for years, until she got older, too.)

If you don't take care of it, hypo becomes hyper.
You go to bed hypo and get up hyper. That is what the old doc said.
I still watch what I eat.  If it don't move I eat it.

[TwoGunJayne]

Another thing to consider about the Paleo diet is that it is highly concerned with the glycemic index of foods. It takes further research to do the diet correctly and can't be something you "force" yourself to do or you'll never stick with it. It's got to become a habit.

I hear it's actually pretty good for regulating sugar issues.

[MR_22]

I have found that your body's reaction to things you eat can actually change your habits. For example, for years when I was younger, eating sweets would make me sick, so I stopped eating them. Thus my habit matched what my body liked. This behavior doesn't always result in GOOD habits, but for me, it did.

Unfortunately, when I was having problems with blood sugar, my body REALLY liked a juicy burger and fries, which prompted not-so-good habits. LOL.

[TwoGunJayne]

Sweet potato fries have a lower glycemic index than white.

The only thing bad for you on a quality burger is the bun and perhaps sugar sauces (like ketchup.)

Fast food burgs are 8-12% meat with over half of the weight being water/gelatin filler. There are only two places near here that use 100% ground beef, the only other option is to do one yourself.

I eat about a pound of ground beef every 2 days.

The lack of sharp onset and withdrawal of high glycemic index foods keeps your energy levels constant and there's no counting calories... eat when you get hungry.

It's pretty elegant, really. I miss corn and corn products. Seems like almost every packaged food has HFC syrup, modified corn starch, or something like that.

As Americans, a diet high in high-glycemic foods and sugar in absolutely everything is killing us. Obesity rates have horrifyingly skyrocketed, heart disease is one of our biggest real-world threats, and diabetes is going through the roof.

It's what we're eating as a country! Other countries adopting our habits are beginning to look and die just like us, proof enough for me. Look at high school class photos from the 1940s. Look at them in 2010. A lot changed in those decades, none for the better when it comes to "fast food" and "prepacks." We've seen the rise of the "empty calorie." We're fat and malnourished at the same time, a puzzling contradiction.

Blood vessel calcification is starting to look like it's linked to a diet too high in high-glycemic foods. We don't drink water, we drink soda. Even fruit juice isn't particularly good for you as far as glycemic index. Sugar water, it's just happens to be fructose instead of sucrose... it all becomes glucose in your body. Sharp spike of onset, sharp withdrawal; these qualities lead to addiction when in medicine or drugs.

Sugar and carbs: Addictive substances.

With paleo, you get bacon. Dark chocolate. Eat a steak. Eat an entire pack of hot dogs or bologna, go for it. Your nails begin to grow differently, your hair improves, your teeth get cleaner... no joke! I used to be scared of "high fat" avocados until I found out that they're good for you.

I've seen people drop 20-50 lbs on this plan, fix their triglycerides, improve the good cholesterol, and destroy the bad.

Counting calories is for people who eat carbs.

[MR_22]

Curious that you mention corn--I have almost concluded that some strains of corn (possibly the genetically modified ones, which are everywhere) are causing many of my digestion problems. I recently have found two products (an antacid chew and a Fiber One fruit snack) that contain corn syrup that make me nauseated. I just eat a piece of two of either of these and I'm nauseous for the rest of the day.

I was clued into a corn link by a friend and I've been researching it and my symptoms match what other people are saying who have developed an allergy to corn products. So, I'm in the process of eliminating all corn from my diet, which is no easy thing to do. So many products contain corn, including those that use corn syrup as a sweetener.

I'm not sure if it's the corn itself, or a pesticide they use on the corn, which the genetically-engineered corn is made to resist. Either way, the corn products seem to be making me ill. I'm being poisoned by food products available at a local grocery store. That's scary.

[TwoGunJayne]

Curious that you mention corn--I have almost concluded that some strains of corn (possibly the genetically modified ones, which are everywhere) are causing many of my digestion problems. I recently have found two products (an antacid chew and a Fiber One fruit snack) that contain corn syrup that make me nauseated. I just eat a piece of two of either of these and I'm nauseous for the rest of the day.

I was clued into a corn link by a friend and I've been researching it and my symptoms match what other people are saying who have developed an allergy to corn products. So, I'm in the process of eliminating all corn from my diet, which is no easy thing to do. So many products contain corn, including those that use corn syrup as a sweetener.

I'm not sure if it's the corn itself, or a pesticide they use on the corn, which the genetically-engineered corn is made to resist. Either way, the corn products seem to be making me ill. I'm being poisoned by food products available at a local grocery store. That's scary.

It sounds like you're quoting Paleo literature. Even people who have no corn allergy are finding that the body doesn't deal well with what we now call "corn."

Remember, what we've got now bears almost zero resemblence to the original maize. The ears were tiny, tiny... finger sized. Yields were small, nutrition was higher.

Current selectively bred and GM corn is for max production only. They don't care if it's barely digestible and it's killing you. Nutrition took a major nose dive. Corn stalks went from 0-3 tiny ears to over 12 huge ones! It rapidly depletes the soil, requiring chemical fertilizers. They're pumped full of all kinds of nasty chemicals. They're tweaked and modified to try to resist insects and blight with little concern to what it does to you.

Avoid all corn products. As far as Paleo goes, it's pretty much enemy number 1. Just about anything that could be wrong with it is so.

Choose life. Eat meat.

[redhawk4]

I have found that your body's reaction to things you eat can actually change your habits. For example, for years when I was younger, eating sweets would make me sick, so I stopped eating them. Thus my habit matched what my body liked. This behavior doesn't always result in GOOD habits, but for me, it did.

Unfortunately, when I was having problems with blood sugar, my body REALLY liked a juicy burger and fries, which prompted not-so-good habits. LOL.

We are all different in what are bodies like and can tolerate. There are few foods I don't like, but those I don't are ones that have an adverse effect when I eat them meaning it's not just the taste I don't like, but my body telling me not to eat them. It irritates me no end when some one lectures me on how much of something I should be eating when it's something that I don't like and it doesn't like me. Unfortunately as you say this doesn't always equate to healthy eating as it seems many things that are "theoretically" bad for you taste great and don't cause immediate side effects. The old saying "a little bit of what you fancy, does you good" does sometimes apply, you get the urge for a certain type of food and it really makes you feel good.

Thinking of food has your Taurus View digested any ammo yet?

[MR_22]

Yeah, there are about as many suggestions for what we should be eating as there are people who suggest them.

And, I LIKE MEAT! I don't get enough!

The 85 View has been starved lately, sorry. I've been planning to buy a yearly membership to a local shooting range near my work, but was holding off until taxes were due, because I thought I was going to have to pay a lot again this year. (I didn't! Yay!) And it's been cold and windy outside--which is not an excuse to not go shooting, I know.

[redhawk4]

What was that song about the "Witch Queen of New Orleans? this is starting to sound like the "Safe Queen of Eagle Mountain" or where ever it is you live - How do you feel about her going out with other men? maybe I could break it in for you?

[MR_22]

Haha, I don't know that song. It's ain't no safe queen, tho!

[G50AE]

Haha, I don't know that song. It's ain't no safe queen, tho!

Closer to a Dancing Queen for the ABBA fans? 

[MR_22]

I finally shot my Taurus 85 View. Ho-Lee-Crap! That's a little hand spanker! Even with the pink girly light-weight ammo from Hornady, it hurts pretty good, especially in the webbing of my thumb. I had decided that I was going to make a new grip for it and now I'm fully convinced it needs a bigger one.

I've also carried it for a few days in a Blackhawk Size #3 pocket holster, which fits it nicely, even though it's designed for small autos, like a .380 or .32. I've carried it in the holster in an inside vest pocket and inside the front pocket of my jeans--and in both cases the tiny .38 revolver almost completely disappears.

So, I'm fully confident in the little revolver now. It seems fairly accurate for such of a short barrel. I do have to do something about the tiny grip, tho. Yes, it DOES hurt, but I can manage it--and in an emergency, I doubt I will feel the pain in shooting it. It's certainly a keeper and I'm going to start carrying it every day now, sometimes as a backup and sometimes as a primary.

[TwoGunJayne]

Gets dirty fast in the window, doesn't it?

With all of that lightening, can't be a surprise that it stings like a scorpion on firing.

[MR_22]

Gets dirty fast in the window, doesn't it?

Yes, it does. When it gets oil, powder residue, and solvent in the works, the clear panel is not going to be so clear after all. I wonder if Taurus thought about that.

With all of that lightening, can't be a surprise that it stings like a scorpion on firing.

Yup, it stings pretty good. This is the only gun I've shot where that sting is concentrated in the webbing of your thumb, though. That's a painful spot to hurt.

[TwoGunJayne]

Gets dirty fast in the window, doesn't it?

Yes, it does. When it gets oil, powder residue, and solvent in the works, the clear panel is not going to be so clear after all. I wonder if Taurus thought about that.

I wonder if that's a still-born attempt at forensics? Not everybody fires less than a box of ammo through the only gun they own for their entire life.

[dk]

Mr.22 thanks for the feedback it has been helpfull. How is the trigger on this thing and is the grip hard to to hold on to with the recoil.

[MR_22]

Mr.22 thanks for the feedback it has been helpfull. How is the trigger on this thing and is the grip hard to to hold on to with the recoil.

The trigger pull isn't too bad. Typical of a double-action-only revolver. Not too hard, good and long, but not too long. Holding onto the tiny grip reminded me a LOT of first shooting a .22Magnum NAA mini. It's a bit of a challenge holding onto it. It's not fun to shoot at all, but it seemed fairly accurate, even with a 1-inch barrel.

I am definitely interested in a larger grip.

[RogueTS1]

I think it will look pretty cool with a larger grip attached. Photos please after the transformation.

[MR_22]

I think it will look pretty cool with a larger grip attached. Photos please after the transformation.

Certainly!

I have to design one and then print it out. Won't be tomorrow!

[RogueTS1]

Speaking of printing; in regards to your SBR Glock project, please keep me advised as to what you come/ can come up with in regards to printed upgrades. I just may be able to use some of them if you would be kind enough to allow me to do so.

[TwoGunJayne]

How is the strength and durability of your prints?

[OV-1D]

I think it will look pretty cool with a larger grip attached. Photos please after the transformation.

Certainly!

I have to design one and then print it out. Won't be tomorrow!

Heck I almost forgot MR_22 remember those spacer pieces for making these grips in both l.r. and mag. frame size , still willing to punch out a dozen of each for trial ?  Black material would be grand no more than a 1/16th thick but kinda hard so it doesn't start to disfigure from shooting shock rubbing against the interior frame . Let me know I'll send address .Thanks .

[MR_22]

I haven't decided if I want to print my Glock SBR conversion kit or if I want to buy one. It would be cool to print my own and register it. I could customized to exactly what I want!

The durability of the plastic is pretty good. My printer uses ABS plastic, which is pretty hard once it cools, but still a little flexible and not as brittle as some plastics. The spacers on my magazines seem to be working well. I've sold a number of them already.

As for the NAA grips--that's still in my plan. I have so many things I want to design and I need to prioritize my designs. I'll get to it.