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Once upon a time there was a king who wanted to go fishing. > > He called the royal weather forecaster and inquired as to the weather forecast for the next few hours. The weatherman assured him that there was no chance of rain in the coming days. > > So the king went fishing with his wife, the queen.  On the way he met a farmer on his donkey. Upon seeing the king the farmer said, "Your Majesty, you should return to the palace at once because in just a short time I expect a huge amount of rain to fall in this area". > > The king was polite and considerate, he replied: "I hold the palace meteorologist in high regard. He is an extensively educated and experienced professional.  And besides, I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him and I will continue on my way."  So he continued on his way. > > However, a short time later a torrential rain fell from the sky.  The King and Queen were totally soaked and their entourage chuckled upon seeing them in such a shameful condition. > > Furious, the king returned to the palace and gave the order to fire the professional. Then he summoned the farmer and offered him the prestigious and high paying role of royal forecaster. > > The farmer said, "Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting.  I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see my donkey's ears drooping, it means with certainty that it will rain." > > So the king hired the donkey. > > And thus began the practice of hiring dumb asses to work in the government and occupy its highest and most influential positions. > > And the practice is unbroken to this date..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z31F895EjGQ

I was the lucky winner of this Egyptian Rasheed off gunbroker, and I picked it up today! Just need a sling, and then a Hakim to go with it

Looks like the collector he screwed ratted him out. Karma

I've seen Wile E. Coyote use leverage to move a giant boulder. He usually ends up under it. :biglol:

I mentioned doing a build thread in the PSA AR10 thread so here it is: I own several AR's and wanted something different, so I got a wild hair and decided to do one in 308. I want this to be a budget build, but it needs to be reliable and accurate enough to make hits on a 12" gong at 600yds.....something that the 308 is more than capable of. I decided on Aero receivers as they seem to be good quality...not the best, but not the worst. From my reading, they seemed to be a better choice than PSA so I caught one on sale at Brownells for $150. I'll put the price breakdown later but here are the receivers. [URL=http://s107.photobucket.com/user/samson7x/media/DSC_0595_zpsct3fxa66.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s107.photobucket.com/user/samson7x/media/DSC_0596_zpsbxvh0bp1.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s107.photobucket.com/user/samson7x/media/DSC_0597_zpszugp767g.jpg.html][/URL] I actually ordered them from different places so they weren't a matched set or anything. However, they fit great and the finish is the same on both and everything seems good to go. There are a few rough marks on the inside of the upper where the BCG rides. Hopefully it won't cause any issues, but we shall see. I had some parts laying around, so that will help with overall cost. Here is what I have on order: Ballistic advantage 16" premium barrel - guaranteed 1moa or less using match ammo AIM nitride bcg - all my research says this is a great bcg for the money 308 buffer and spring receiver extension and endplate Aero pins - these are longer than a standard LPK midlength gas tube Forward assist kit Parts I had on hand: Kies adjustable gas block BCM gunfighter grip LPK Magpul ACS-L stock specwar muzzle brake Still need to order: handguard - not sure what I want to go with yet. Thinking either MI or SLR in 14" or 15" geissele trigger Optic Raptor charging handle Here is what I've got so far: [URL=http://s107.photobucket.com/user/samson7x/media/DSC_0602_zpsh57osrn4.jpg.html][/URL]

Some badly formed, but chuckle worthy comics on the above topics. I cant take credit for all of them. The ATF Conformity Santa and Dip And this last one is a PSA for any of us on active/disgruntled vets who still pack a dip. Dont try this without consulting your doctor... Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

I like it. I agree with you, although I'm a bit more of an Ahole about. Hating a man cause of how he was born? Lunacy. You hate a man cause he's a effin idiot, not for the saturation of skin pigment. You look down on a man for his choices in life. I don't recall being consulted before I was born and no one else has either. The people who perpetuate this nonsense need to grasp their racism firmly in both hands and shove it up their azz.

I couldn't  care less about the douche.  What's that tart Paige up to these days?

Just goes to show you that flying around in private helicopter with a bag of cash buying guns does not go unnoticed by Uncle Sugar

Dave Ramsey's baby steps really do work. Some like to trash his ideas saying that the math doesn't work, that you should pay off debt based on the higher interest rates, keep the house payments for the mortgage deduction, etc... Those people confuse personal finance with math. Personal finance is rarely more complicated than 8th grade math. How often have you had to do anything more complicated than simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and the occasional percentage? I don't expect anyone to be using calculus to balance the checking account.   It's about human behavior far more than it's about math. The smallest-to-largest gives people a sense of accomplishment by paying off that small debt. That gives encouragement to keep going and get the next one. As each one falls, it frees up more money each month to attack the next one in line. This gives a double sense of winning because the person sees both the debts disappearing and their cash flow growing. If you take on the one with the biggest interest rate and that happens to be a big nut to crack, you can lose hope when after years of effort it seems like you're going nowhere and those little (lower interest rate) debts keep sucking more of your blood along the way.   If it was all about math, we wouldn't have a debt problem.

How about some visitation rights Caster;

Couldn't have happened to nicer Dbag.

I suspected that we would spend the next few episodes learning to really hate the guy's on the bikes before they got any payback

Hindsight for C'arrrl is actually just 20.

Just came back from TN Gun Country were they had a unfired 4 inch Colt Python. And they only wanted $3200 for it. Edit there this one.

Not all of us are like that. Unfortunately a large percentage are.

    No, because they get to go to school free.   

  cept the top of the meters say NADC on em or something lol great tip though for sure!!! 

You did touch on a point that people tend to get bent outta shape over. People naturally gravitate toward one thing or another. Naturally occurring segregation is not altogether a bad thing. If ever it is even suggested, let alone forced upon people it immediately becomes bad. People have a right to choose who the associate with but the liberal left would have you beleive that there's somthing wrong with you unless you have a balanced number of races in your friends list.

Awesome video!

Make your business model comparable to what I can buy off the internet.  You might have an advantage about haz fees, and carry powders that are hard to find.    Now of you prey upon the misinformed, so be it.  But for us that research and scour the net for deals, and you want to snare customers like us, just be comparable to what we find.  You will have to have a niche.   

She's been busy: http://thebrigade.com/2015/03/09/paige-wyatt-and-her-guns-37-photos/

Enjoy your vids as always...getting rid of the General Lee? Lol

Better question is who cares.

Well said. Thanks for sharing.

Great commentary.

Can't wait for the bad guy to show up. For any Supernatural fans out there.....here comes John Winchester. Jeffery Dean Morgan is a good actor.

That was how our dogs were but they loved Daisy. Once I saw that, I went full steam ahead. ;-) spoiled dogs are happy dogs and that's all that matters to me. Molly is lucky! I just sat in the puppy pen for 30 minutes. It's the most calming place in the world. How can you get mad surrounded by fuzz? Personalities are starting to develop, it's amazing to watch!

Its gonna take at least one episode just to clean up all those zeds

Wow. Good timing. I got the approval email this morning. I e-filed 11/7, approval received 2/16

If the antis made him continue to stock firearms in his non-FFL store, went in to buy them, convinced him to write them up as "miscellaneous sales" and send them over to a neighboring store with a valid FFL for the transfer, then yeah...maybe they staged it. That seems awful implausible to me. I'm betting he's guilty as sin and simply thought he could get away with it.   Maybe we'll see some of the evidence presented during the trial. I'm not expecting a lot of coverage on this, but maybe someone will publish some info.

This is how we did it.  No debt at all and we were under 50.  And I count my blessings every day.  

I hate it when folks chastise me for not stripping naked, wearing face paint, listening to Gregorian chants, sitting cross legged on a purple velvet rug under a statue of the holy virgin, with candles and incense burning to intensely and religiously clean my Glock, with my cleaning kit arrayed like nuclear warhead maintenance tools or a hospital surgical suite.  (I was a janitor while going to college on the GI Bill where I had to clean the hospital surgical suites at night, then when I went back into the Army I was a nuclear warhead maintenance supervisor for a couple of years).     When I do clean my Glock I try to keep it to 5 minutes or less usually using brake or carb cleaner, a gun cleaning double ended tooth brush and an air compressor.  I lube it with whatever is closest at hand that says lubrication on the container, except for WD 40.   (Lastly - do not spray carb or brake cleaner on a black Lorcin/Bryco or Raven - it won't be black no mo.)  A friend asked me to fix his Lorcin .380 one time (it jammed - duh...) so when I got it running I thought "I'll clean it for ....."  Lesson learned - Do not clean a Lorcin like I clean a Glock.  I ended up taking all the paint off, which was easy with Carb cleaner, then buffed that pot metal to a chrome like finish on my buffing wheel.  ..... thought I had given him a new gun - he was a happy man.

I'm partial to the duller finish of the top garand and the Johnson. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hold a security clearance, cleared through all the alphabet agencies, a couple of key strokes could have verified me.  I doubt it's all expenses and fees.

I've worked on the SA Garand and the Underwood Carbine a fair amount.  The HRA Garand, the Johnson and the Win Carbine just got low gloss tung oil after a good cleaning with Old Tom's mix.

There you go with them new fangled words again ... now I have to look up "steam punk".   :shrug:

Look at it this way. If your home was paid for, would you take out a home equity line of credit at a low rate and put that money in the stock market?   If not, then pay off the mortgage. One thing your boss is forgetting is that when you no longer have a mortgage, you'll have the entire monthly payment as free cash flow for yourself to do with whatever you choose.   Besides that, anyone who would advise me that walking away is a good option doesn't have the moral foundation to give me advice on anything.

  The proper tool for that part of the job is man hands.

Pro tip: go to the pawn shops around NADC on Gallatin rd. All of the students that drop out sell their multimeters. Don't buy new before checking those places first. I should ad that the required multimeter for NADC is Fluke.

What we did. Paid off the lowest payment first. Added that money to the next lowest payment until it was paid off. Added that to the next and so forth. It was not long before all we had left was the house. The key is to not add any more dept during this process. Doing it this way we were living off the same money. A earlier post was correct. 1 extra payment a year on a 30 year mortgage will save you 13 years worth of interest. If your house payment is $500 a month that would save you $78,000 worth of interest. Once you have your house paid for you can get a home equity line of credit for emergencies. We also have a car savings account so each month we put what would be a car payment in that account. When it is time to buy a car that is what we use. We have not had a car payment in 25 years.

  Tell me I'm wrong!  They use some of the nastiest petroleum and additives possible for that.  Couple it with being churned around in a relatively airtight space for tens of thousands of miles and usually having clutch-pack friction material stirred up in it for a that entire time... MMMMMM MMMMM MMMMMM that's some good smelling stuff.   Most friends who have had me help them set up gears on Jeeps or Mustangs have literally gagged a bit the first time they've cracked open the pumpkin on a differential and inhaled all of that possumy-butthole goodness.   Makes your eyes water sometimes!  :D

if you have a 30 year fixed rate mortgage and make one extra payment a year toward principle, it will shave off 12 years of payments. I had a friend show me this on paper many years ago and have applied it to my mortgages. In my opinion it makes sense to do even if you don't plan on staying in the home forever.    That is my recommendation and you are in good financial shape for a reason, congrats! I would do more homework and weigh out the pros and cons and make your decision. 

I see them like that all the time. I've seen them run a long time with no issues. I've seen them blow out at the most inopportune of times. Is it gonna be okay to drive on? Flip a coin. It either will or it won't. The BETTER question, what's the cost of a tire? If you like 50/50 odds then bet your life on it...bet other people's lives on it. Tires aren't important...until they are. Tires seem expensive...until they're really not by comparison.

I have one in x39 as well.  I even used it for almost a year when I started 3-gun.  Obviously I would not have done that if it was not reliable.  C Products Defense mags are the best, ASC work fine.  I have a Liberty bolt, but there are several other options.  I had the extractor break once, but they replaced it (eventually) for free.  No other issues.  I also added the extended Red-X firing pin even though the Liberty is supposed to be cut to use the mil-spec pin.  I had a couple fail-to-fires during matches before, but not since I changed it.  I have a CMC trigger, so no way to increase hammer spring weight.  I also only used Wolf and Tula steel case ammo.  I did drill out the gas port, but am not sure I actually needed to.  It was something I read on the internet.   The only reason I changed from 7.62x39 to .223 for 3-gun was because I could see a difference in follow up shot speed.  7.62x39 actually has recoil!   Anyone who says the 7.62x39 AR is not reliable is wrong.  Maybe 10 years ago the mags and bolts were problematic, but that is absolutely not the case now.  Some people without recent actual experience just repeat stuff they read on the interwebs.  As you continue researching, look for the current real world experience and you'll only find good things, just like any other AR caliber.

  Every donation, no matter the size ALWAYS helps! Thank you so much, I appreciate it!!       Technically this has been a group effort.  :clap:     When we decided to put Daisy up for adoption after fully vetting her, she went to an amazing home that truly loves her. Being a person who helped facilitate that was an amazing feeling. Then, we sadly lost both of our girls and that feeling gutted me to the core. I felt empty. I immediately wanted Daisy back. I thought I made a mistake. I didn't get much. Then, the rescue that helped me find Daisy her home reached out one day and said hey can you transport a dog today? I ended up with 3 puppies coming home after I dropped that dog off. NEVER intended on that happening. Then the next day when I went to get my intended foster we went through intake and saw Cooper in his hopeless situation and I couldn't leave him there. I NEVER in my wildest dreams thought that I would end up with 10 dogs in our home. I don't think Monkey did either but luckily for me, he is a saint.  :angel: Glamora (The shelter named her) leaves us tomorrow and that leaves us with the 4 babies and our 5. Once Cooper is healed and recuperated enough to join the other 3 pups it will be much easier. God knows it isn't always relaxing but it is rewarding beyond anything I could have imagined. It will be hard to see Glamora go tomorrow, but I am happy because she has a foster waiting and a potential adopter coming to meet her when she arrives.   The generosity and outpouring of help has been amazing. I never predicted what I was going to do as I picked these pups up. It was just reacting to the scenarios as they happened. Once I was home I realized that Daisy's adoption fee was not going to cover all of the vetting for the pups. A rescue I know in Anna, Texas uses YouCaring because they take the least amount of money from the donations. So I started it, never dreaming that it would reach what it has. I thought $400 per puppy was enough to fully vet because we get discounts through the rescue. But then Cooper developed Kennel Cough and things just started to snowball. LOL I have learned that as I go, I might not tackle 5 at a time again. Especially the 4 puppies with a neurotic Border Collie mix.    At the end of the day I just owe you all a HUGE thank you and I plan to do that once the weather is warmer. We'll have a BBQ and Shoot day or something. From the bottom of my heart, I promise you these pups will all be healthy and fully vetted and we will find them the best homes EVER. Thank you!!

You're welcome, I'm glad that Coop is gaining. Years ago a buddy rescued a retired sled dog (Siberian husky) that had been neglected and was nearly starved. It took several weeks for him to even be able to keep food down in any quantity because he was so messed up. But with a little love he recuperated and was dragging kids up the sledding hill just for fun and love of running. I don't know that he ever got over being hungry! Fritz could go through dog food by the pallet! Sadly he passed away in his sleep after about 5 years but his last years were incredibly happy and he was loved. You are doing good work!

We are blessed to have room in our home and a great place for puppies to run. Around this area the is a huge amount of animal neglect and I hope we can continue to take them in and help them find great homes. And yes she's a winner, she gets me puppies and guns! :)

I purposely left my first post short to add this now.   I would take that chance to engage an active shooter whether I or my family were in danger or not.  But I have a bit more training than the average gun carriers and have enough confidence in my training to feel that I would make a good decision on whether to take the shot or not.     This is not to say I am an expert door kicking Seal Team, Delta force, Ninja or anything, but I've been lucky enough to get some good training and have had the unfortunate opportunity to exchange gunfire in combat which gave me the knowledge of how I would react in certain life and death circumstances.  You would be surprised at how some react in SHTF situations, even combat vets.   But threads like this do give me something to consider, and should be considered by all of us; if you choose to engage you may just be on your own!