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If nothing else we are seeing how the manipulation of numbers can be applied to show anything you like. Just like they do with violence involving guns or the Presidential poll numbers.

The double sided clip may be the greatest addition to flashlights since the LED.

Wanted to provide an update: Decided to let Willis68 work his magic and man, did he do a great job! I’ve never had an edge this sharp! He also recommended a strop to maintain the edge, which is currently on order. So happy with the work done and his efforts to get it back to me so quickly! Very much appreciated!!!!!

It's amazing how fact situations are almost always vastly different. Years ago, in ILLannoy, I got caught up in a stock certificate counterfeiting sting operation with the FBI, and some real bad guys that were running that operation out of about a dozen cities. When the bad guys found out I was involved, they started hanging out around my house, among other things. Time after time, I would call the local cops and they would show up and the bad guys would leave. It was a regular thing. Then one time they showed up , and the cops were not available, for a long time. The bad guys called my phone (which new number I had gotten only that day, but somehow they had it) and they said "Whatcha gonna do now?" And I yelled, "Watch your 6 a**holes" and charged around the house and up behind that car with my 12 gauge, screaming like a maniac. They got the hell outta there at warp speed. No, that wasn't the last of them, but I did get their license # , and the FBI paid them a visit and told them to NEVER show up around our house again, and they didn't. There were other crazy repercussions, phone threats against my kids, even my dog! ---but they never showed up at my house again. The local cops and the FBI agents were spectacular in the way they handled this months-long investigation. Eventually It was a major multi-city bust. When I was asked for my sentencing recommendation, I said, "Death penalty, maybe?" Yeah, maybe it was nuts to charge out there that night, but I was ready to blast them. It's amazing what adrenalin can do. Would I advise anyone to do that? NO! But I was young and stupid. Now I'm just old and stupid! So that's my self-defense encounter story.

In Nature things change according to what is happening at that point in time and Mother Nature does what she needs to do to make things work right. May have been something different last year that is different this year....JMHO

That’s the question with opening the schools. Can the kid transmit it to parents or grandparents. There are those that argue both ways; they can/can’t. I’ve not seen anything that leads me to believe they know how or where anyone picked up the virus. Without knowing that, they can’t answer the question. Those of you that lived through the AIDS virus remember that for YEARS they said how the virus CAN and CAN’T be transmitted. They didn’t know then and I don’t think they know enough about this virus or how its transmitted to know now. It was political then (kids in school, and first responders) and its political now.

I received a F1 stamp on June 30th, the wait time was 5 weeks. I went the solvent kit route for a .22 build. Used a drill press to drill the seven baffles. I'm very pleased with the final result. It's definitely quieter than my commercial .22 suppressor, but it's twice the size too, so it's no surprise. The drilling took less than an hour, and then I checked the coincentricity with a guide rod. I had the tube engraving done by Tennessee Suppressor Shop on their laser engraver.

Quality instructor. You will enjoy your time and investment.

Go Mom

Decided to skip the 12-month queue with the ATF's turn-around times on retail cans, and am making my own suppressor. 8" x 1.65" tube Dedicated 300 BLK subs Cherry Bomb muzzle adapter Titanium, grade 9 w/ SS blast baffle Anyone else make their own cans? Have any inputs on baffle spacing, distal chamber size, etc? I've been working with a machinist or two to get the right stuff. Using a Sieg X2D mini-mill for doing the holes and clips, gonna also start an 80% build with it [Judas Priest noises intensify]

True. It was pretty weird at first. I carry a compact CZ 75 so there's a long DA pull, and I can also rest my thumb of the hammer during reholstering. Practiced the draw really slow and deliberate in dry fire for a while and then slowly brought up the speed over time. Now I don't worry about it at all. It's all muscle memory now.

When you have it in hand, it should be stamped on the barrel.

Yup-there is a sucker born every minute-actually I am stuck in a time loop-every time someone posts on this topic I get a notice-gonna have to fix that I suppose.

Just wait until you start getting grey hair, lol.

There are two types of tests. Viral test: people who have active case test positive, then later negative when they've kicked it. Antibody test: Detected from a past case, and from an active case also, if the antibody levels have already built up enough to register. The relative accuracy of the viral test seems the more problematic regarding both false positives and negatives. - OS

I think still relavant. I don't for one second believe that every item we buy that is even remotely connected to firearms isn't cataloged in some system. Company records, Credit card and debit card logs, even cash purchases logged in on some sort of purchase recording systems. Banking records and such aren't private any, if they ever have been. Oh...it's only for my company sales records. No one else will ever see it. BOVINE SCATOLOGY! For the last 20+years at least...Big Brother, aka our own government officials have kept track of our actions. Phone taps, online devices recording key words and phrases, our neighbors even! We are watched from cradle to grave. With records to match every action. Mobile cameras, traffic cams, insurance devices to monitor your car AND your movements. Police cams. Heck supposedly our own smartphones, laptops, and dinosaurish PCs. All can be watched and recorded. The camera links on these devices, the data millions of us willing send out in stupid, insipid photos, tweets, and whatever other method is in vogue today. Not trying to be argumentative, I just don't believe the privacy we think we have actually exists anymore. Ok. Emotionally spent. No more today. Ranting done. Maybe.

Sage Dynamics posted their 507K review. Looks like it stood up to his tests the same as the 507C. Looks like a winner to me.

I am thrilled to announce Barrett has just signed on as a major sponsor and donated an MRAD to be given away at this year's match. This is a $6,600 rifle and is especially fitting because it's the civilian version of SOCOM's new M22 Advanced Sniper Rifle. More to come as I nail down a few last details, but you will have an incredibly unique opportunity at this year's match because of this partnership. I suggest bringing lots of cash (to be donated to SFA as a part of this opportunity), brushing up on your wind reading skills, lowering your heart rate, and stabilizing your breathing while pulling the trigger smoothly. If you're coming to the Legion Match for the prizes you're there for the wrong reasons - so I don't want this to start the wrong kind of hype for this match. But it is just such a perfect fit I can't help but share the good news! Be sure to thank Barrett for their support of this match, but more importantly for creating awesome weapons that help our guys crush the souls of their enemies! https://barrett.net/

He convinced me to buy the same one. Mine is arriving today. I'm excited!

a lot depends on the gun you're trying to conceal, body type...etc. Shorts and a t-shirt along with my glock 23 in a Veder AIWB fits comfortably all day. I also sacrifice some comfort to be able to draw quicker. I like to time myself and see what my time to first shot is with various configurations and adjust from there. If you're in church and most people know you're carrying anyway why not just do OWB with long tee or if youre dressed up just put a sport coat on over it. if it prints or people get a peek then it might not matter. edit: I should also say that if you're working security then how quickly you can get the gun out in various positions, sitting..etc, should be a large driver in your decision.

I got in on the initial order and got the M2R Pro Warrior. Willis got the order processed and shipped very quickly. I received the light last night and man, I couldn't be more pleased with light. Superb build quality, features, and performance for an excellent cost. I highly recommend the M2R Pro Warrior. If that model doesn't fit your needs, don't be afraid to order something else, you won't be sorry.

And you keep opening posts about it to read them? LOL.

Yea, never had any equipment issues with Lee when reloading regular rounds. It wasn't until I started doing 300Blk and 277WLV that I had to size-turn-size and even took a bit off the shell holder. Like I said, it worked, but had to tweak my process a little. Honestly I don't know why I started going RCBS with all my dies lately, maybe because a bunch of them were available at a discounted price, and they are "supposed" to be better than Lee.

It's definitely real and definitely bad ... for those in the danger zone: elderly and underlying health issues - typically both together. The cases vs. hospitalization still remains extremely low. Death rate is now below .05% overall and the death rate for 29 yrs and younger is lower than the standard flu. In fact, for those bemoaning schools reopening and economy reopening and then claim we (US) are handling worse than the rest of the world, the rest of the world is open and has been open for a while. School in Europe has been open for months at this point and the numbers continue to decline. There is zero correlation with closed economies/schools and reduction in viral transmission. NY is a great case for what happens when you do everything wrong.They did not flatten anything. 35000 dead, but the cases are now in decline and some precincts are reporting an estimated 50% herd immunity now. Essential the virus killed off those susceptible and those left are now naturally immunizing. More could have survived if they had handled things like most other states, but it is an indicator that a second "wave" is not just highly unlikely, at least the way it's pitched in the media and by a couple folks here, but also not how viruses and the immune system work.

My understanding is that a person who has had a virus will have the virus in their system (basically indefinitely?), even though the strain will be dead. Antibodies did their job. The test will be positive since the test only test for presence of the virus strain. So the test only test for the virus strain, not whether it is active or dead. Symptoms are the indicator of a live strain. I'm sure I'm missing some things but that is how the medical specialist I've talked to explained it to me. I will add for the conspiracy desire in us, I've also been told they can tell whether a virus strain is active or dead if they want, but the basic test simply test for presence not status.

Hearing Protection Act.

Dave Thanks , Got an e-mail back from Mike said he would be happy to help. Price is very good and is about two week out on small jobs like threading. He is located about 120 miles away.Hope I can make the trip and drop it off.

Might try something like this https://amzn.to/32oCvbJ Or like this and mount a golf umbrella to it https://amzn.to/3h2hK9X Unless you can run across a stroller dirt cheap. Might look at the kind where the car-seat attaches to the stroller frame because the car seat is too old to use for safety at a point and the frame might be useless alone to someone. Looks like this used to be a thing, but says discontinued https://www.opticsplanet.com/do-all-outdoors-gun-buggy.html Found this too, but that is a lot and still no umbrella https://rangetacticalgear.com/product/sc-003-range-runner-gun-cart-12-inch/

I actually would like to see a requirement that all FFL holders (not just pawn shops) run the serial number of used firearms in their inventory through a stolen firearms database, and report any that are flagged. It wouldn't be a perfect solution, but it might help get some stolen firearms back to their owners.

On any given day the Feds could go in and arrest and seize the assets of anyone selling pot. That’s not a legal precedent I want to see applied to guns.

??? We DO have flu vaccines. About 50-75% effective each year, depending. I wouldn't expect a Covid vaccine to do any better than that at least initially. Maybe over time it would due to better refinement, IF the virus doesn't mutate like the influenza strains do. Of course, wait for the AntiVax movement to get cranking also. After all, we're already being mind controlled by the many decades of fluoride in the water, right? Looking like maybe not, as current indications are that folks are getting infected more than once. Seems that the antibodies from having a case may not be particularly long lived and/or vary according to severity of the case. Even if so, herd immunity would take about a 70% infection saturation, which will mean many millions of deaths just in US. - OS

Could be. I thought it wasn’t normal. Didn’t happen last year as I remember.

That's just grossly innacurate. Percentage of test to positive had remained neutral if not negative, death rate continues to drop to less than .05%. In over three months of reopening levels stayed dormant until the heat hit. NY, NJ, Boston have huge death numbers that the current numbers of FL, TX, and GA don't even combine to come close to, even with a "surge". Total numbers in every group with the exception of 20-29 year old continue the steady decline. As to reopening, less heat hit states like Colorado (opened with Georgia) are at a -43% increase even with more testing. Children and young adults still have a death rate so low it doesn't even show. There are two ways this ends. Vaccine, we still don't even have one for the flu, or herd immunity. The latter is most likely and realistic. The objective with flattening a curve is not to eradicate it but to manage the herd immunity through the natural spread. Context and numbers have to be looked at together.

If anyone has any doubts about the intentions of the democratic party or if anyone is still holding on to the notions that the party today resembles ANYTHING at all the party that their grandparents voted for then it is time for a reality check. The election this fall largely is a referendum on the America that we grew up in and whether people want to continue to live in the most prosperous country in the history of mankind or whether you want to blow it all up and try a form of government (socialism/communism) that has failed and led to misery and genocide everywhere it has been instituted. The choice is yours.

A repeal of all of them would be a start.

If she's in the market for a female instructor who shoots shotguns from the shoulder, I volunteer! We'd love to have her train with us over in Murfreesboro. Happy to work with her on handguns too if that's her preference.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. The only way out of this is through.

That was a great video.

interesting info if you are interested in cutting vs tearing grass when trimming.

That is ridiculous I completely agree with @DaveTN that it’s the wrong gun if you can’t use the sights. This is coming from an active female shooter who has had to put down 20+ different guns cause they don’t work for one reason or another. If she can confidently shoot the gun from the shoulder and even if the recoil is a lot but she can handle it I don’t see a problem. But if she thinks it is that big of a problem then there are other guns... To win this debate rather than print out our comments and give a PowerPoint at a family dinner I would buy them a training session with a younger female instructor who will set the record straight.

They'll do, but really the carbide will make your life much easier.

Sometimes it’s the simple little things in life that clear your mind. Like driving downtown to pick up a delicious pizza then going back home and they play one of the most overplayed songs from the greatest rock band ever. All windows down and the radio blaring for everyone to hear.

I just ordered two HE507C V2 Elite Green. Waiting on the 508T V2 Green to come along now.

I don’t like IWB either, a quality OWB with a shirt over it works fine for me.

For some reason the image that came to mind with the title was a shirt that said “I’m concealing” or has an arrow pointing to my hip with “gun” on it. Lol, now i need that shirt for the irony.

That sounds as uncomfortable as hell.

Coyotes are the single biggest factor in fawn survival in this area, so they do make an impact on deer.....