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If you haven't been able to tell yet, I love my wheel guns! And the wheel gun that I first fell in love with was the Ruger Single Six! Have quite a few of these, but these are my favorites. This is a 1958. And this is a pair of 50's vintage. The one on the left is a flatgate 1956 and the other is a 1958. Another of the flatgate. Frame is starting to "plum". Anyone else a Single Six fan?

OK, this post if for your information and is only to help you make a choice between the available options. I don't promise that my recipe will not cause skin cancer or turn you into a zombie after prolonged use. Do the research for yourself, or use a commercial mix. Always follow the manufacture's instructions and precautions. Permethrin is a popular and well known treatment for ticks, chiggers, mites and other biting insects. It is often marketed as a mosquito repellent, but it doesn't actually repel any insect. What it does do is kill insects that come into contact with the treated fabric. IT IS NOT APPROVED TO PUT ON YOUR SKIN! This is intended to be applied to your clothes or gear prior to use and allowed to fully dry before contacting your skin. There are several commercially available options that are directly marketed towards outdoor sportsmen. Here are the most popular options: REPEL brand sold "Permanone Tick Repellent" aerosol for year in an orange and blue can. Now they sell it as "Mosquito Stop", but it is basically the same stuff. Coulston's Duranon Tick Repellent is a similar aerosol spray with the same percentage of permethrin. This can often be found at your local Co-Op or hunting supply store. Sawyer's Tick Repellent is a newer popular option. It is available at some Wal-Marts and some Dick's and other big box stores. It is supposed to be FDA approved for use on clothing for human. The first "Homemade Permethrin" recipe I tried was using DurationTM 10% Permethrin mixed with water to make a .5% concentration which I poured into spray bottles. This was a much cheaper option than the 3 listed above. However, Duration got more expensive and harder to find so I moved to my current brand. It used to claim to be the "ONLY" FDA approved 10% concentrate approved for use on clothing for humans. Currently, and for the past 2 years I have used Martin's 10% Permethrin to mix with water and make a spray treatment for my hunting and hiking clothes. I buy Martin's online. Usually it is available on Amazon for a decent price. Martin's is not FDA approved for a clothing treatment for humans. DID YOU READ THAT STATEMENT? With that said, I have done quite a bit of research into the various permethrin mixtures available. Most are marketed toward treatment of ticks and mites on Cattle, Dogs and other Livestock. Many of these are not suitable for clothing treatments because they contain a percentage of petroleum to aid in the sticking on cattle and other livestock. This is the same for the permethrin lawn treatment products that are available at Home Depot and Lowes. Lot's of people have used these, but from what I have read it's safer to avoid the products that list petroleum in the ingredients. I buy the 16oz bottle of Martin's 10% Permethrin and mix it with 2.5 gallons of water in a 5 gallon bucket. The mix to get to .5% is 6.4 ounces per gallon of water or 1oz to 20 oz of water. Lots of folks use 1oz to 15oz of water, that gives you .625% and is stronger than needed, but fits nicely in a 16oz spray bottle. My mix makes it just less than .5%, but I can tell you from experience that it is completely effective at killing ticks. I have found many dead ticks on my treated clothing. After I mix up a bucket, I dip my clothes in, wearing gloves, I wring out the clothes back into the bucket. I dipped 5 pairs of pants, 5 shirts and a couple sets of base layers this years. I still had enough left in the bucket to fill 3 16oz spray bottles for reapplications. In the past 3 years I have had ZERO tick bites. I have found a few on me, both dead and alive. No seed tick attacks, no chigger attacks, and it does kill mosquitoes if they stay in contact with the fabric. I also use Martin's to mix up a tick dip for my dogs. I follow the instructions provided with the bottle to make the dog dip. I used it on both my dogs and have not seen any sign of skin irritation. I left a tick on my dog and sprayed it with the dog dip and the next day the tick had fallen off. I assume it died. There are no fleas or ticks on my dogs so I am a believer that the dip works. BTW, the dog dip mix is many times weaker than the .5% that I use for clothing. Don't use the .5% mix on your dogs and don't use it in any mixture on cats. Please remember this is a poison. Do not use the mix bucket for any other purpose. Do not use the spray bottles for any other purpose. Make sure you take care to prevent contamination to unintended areas. Do a little research and you will find that Permethrin is a very versatile insecticide and has lots of useful applications around the house and farm.

I found a good deal on a Beretta 92-FS Compact from Gunprime, so I ordered a pair of them. They shipped out quickly, and my FFL got them in just a couple of days. I've been looking for a 92 Compact for a while. But most of the places around here were either out of stock, or else they flat out wanted too much. I got these for $428.99 each, brand new in the box. A hell of a deal. They shipped with 2, 13 round magazines, and are Italian made guns. I replaced the plastic grips with the factory Beretta Walnut grips that I picked up from Gnarly Gorilla. The Walnut grips really richen up the looks of these Beretta's. I also got a few of the X-Grip Magazine Adapters from Greg Cote. They allow the use of the full size 15 and 17 round magazines in the compact's without sticking out of the bottom of the gun. And they're not much longer than the 13 round magazines supplied with the pinky rest. Now both my wife and I will each have our own. So all in all it was a good day. These are some pictures of them as they came from the factory. And with the Walnut grips and magazine adapters installed. https://gunprime.com/product/beretta-92fs-compact-92-fs-js92f850m/ https://gnarlygorilla.com/beretta-factory-replacement-part-beretta-92-96-compact-wood-grips-drop-in-replacement-walnut/ http://gregcotellc.com/cart/xgrip-adapter-by-fdi-c-142/xgrip-beretta-92fs-compact-xgrip-xgbr92c-p-1555.html

DJI Spark here. My first real UAS and didn't want to throw a lot of $$$ into something I knew I would crash. Heck yeah I've crashed it but just because I was having a momentary bout of stupidity. Nothing major, maybe a slightly scuffed wall while flying indoors or a close encounter with a tree or two. It does everything I need or want to do at the moment and initially I was go to obtain a part 107 certificate. I'm not planning any commercial use so I've decided against it but all of this is subject to change at any time. Until the LAANC system is actually implemented for everyone there's really no way to determine how good or bad it's going to be.

I got my FAA number for my little drone back when it was "mandatory" and read up on the part 107 rules. That seems rather pricey, almost a pilots license, and not what a hobby flyer should have to deal with. I flew mine on my property, inspecting fence lines, but staying within visual range was dang near impossible. I think they need to control the airspace in some areas such as airports, downtown etc, but flying on private property, at reasonable altitudes, should be totally within hobby rules, whether you have visual or not. Some people have acres of land that due to terrain and vegetation there is no way to stay legal, that should be remedied.

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Not yet. I’m live within five miles of the Olive Branch airport, and the edge of Memphis International, so until the updated rules for recreational flyers come out I’ll have to pay $25 per year to fly in Shelby Farms. I believe the new rules should be out before August. From my understanding, the rules will be similar to those who fly for profit.

Did you order from Sig directly? A while back Brownells had a killer sale on Sig mags, but not right now, alas...

We bought it new without trying one. The only time I can get it to jam is when I tried to make some low power hand loads (but haven't had that problem with loads in the mid to upper range of the reload data), and when I deliberately weakly held the gun one handed (but that was actually failure to fire because the grip safety was not engaged). I could watch her get multiple problems on one magazine, then I would load the same ammo in the same magazine and shoot the entire mag with no problem. After our last range session, I came back with two boxes of the cheapest ammo I could buy to see if it would jam on me. I had one failure to feed on the last round in one mag with Monarch ammo. When I look at her grip, her hand is too thin to push up tight against the beavertail. By that I mean I have a bunch of flesh that squishes up against the beavertail, but she has a little bit of space visible at the top. I think that lack of meat jammed up high is part of the problem, but she can't grip any higher. If she wore a glove, it would fill the space and make it tighter, I think.

7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun in an Italian town, 1943

well it's a vintage gun in a pic.

I too, use the iTarget, not as much as I should. No excuses since I've many DA/SA semi and wheelies

I don't read the Blaze but while on the way to Gatlinburg last Wednesday I was listening to Michael DelGiorno on WTN who went on a long diatribe about what Memorial Day was really about and that most have no idea what it's about. Since I was taking the entire family on vacation I had a captive audience so I decided to remind my children and teach my grandchildren EXACTLY what Memorial Day was for and what others gave up so that my family could have. I made all of my grandchildren think about what their first job would be; what their career would be like; what would their husband or wife be like; what would their children be like; and finally what would their grandchildren be like? Then I told them about the people who would experience none of those things because they gave their lives to protect my family's dreams and experiences. I told them to think about that on Memorial Day. It was a pretty somber experience but I think it got through to them. It certainly had my children's support.

Have three 686 shotguns (one 12, two 20's). Great shotguns that I use for dove hunting.

  That put a grin on my face, especially the +P+.

If your wife doesn't have a medical condition, then racking the slide is only a matter of training.

It's a matter of technique. Women tend to be tentative with guns and that's absolutely the wrong thing to do when trying to rack a small semi auto. http://www.corneredcat.com/article/running-the-gun/rack-the-slide/ My 5'2" wife can easily rack my .45 compact when using the above method.

Thanks for helping send my kids to college.