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As far as the first question, I'd have to do some actuarial digging, which I'm not inclined to do right now, so why don't you? The rest, can't debate the unknowables bro. Just using the TN Dept of Health daily stats and dividing by days; I periodically keep annotating that one stat that as deaths/day doesn't seem to be something they publish. Since I already evolved into semi-monkhood in my geezery, prolly abiding better than the average, as has changed my life much less than most I'd posit. Since many of the excuses for walks have vanished (I need a mission to prompt me to do it), started spending time wetting a line on the river, have turned into quite the consummate CarpMeister these days. - OS

Guys, I’m going to ask that this particular portion of the conversation be moved over to the thread @crake started in the politics thread. Appreciate y’all’s cooperation.

Bought 4 boxes of 100ct WWB at Rural King yesterday. $22 per , limit 4 (9mm 115 fmj)

Where have you been the whole time, lol. Not naming any names but there are a few laid back folks around here that may or may not be on The Dude level. I wouldn’t mess with them though, they have history, blades, firearms, and are old enough to be done with the bull####.

I watched The Big Lebowski a couple of years ago for the first time. I’ve been kicking myself ever since that I didn’t see it when it first came out. It is an American classic!

This is some of the craziest prices I have seen in literally decades. I was shooting at Point Blank this week and about the only handgun ammo on the shelves was .357 Sig, 10mm, 45 LC, and 44 spl/mag. They said when a pallet of 9mm hits the door it's gone within hours. I am so thankful I heeded the warnings and learned from experience to not get caught behind the eight ball. I handload and took advantage of last years Black Friday sales and have plenty of components to last me for a good while. But I'm still ordering more projectiles (affordably) from time to time. I should have another 1K of 9mm bullets from Everglades arriving Saturday. I can load these for about $0.12 - $0.14 per round depending on projectile cost and charge weight. If you cast it's about 1/2 that. I read folks are having a challenging times locating affordable powder and primers, but I personally covered that a few years back. That said, it's never too late to invest in the equipment and components and handloading is a rewarding process in and of itself imho. It may be the best option going down the road. Just my $0.02 worth

I got this article in a Guns America e-mail today. I guy in the UK modified a Ruger 96/44 into a belt fed,lever action bull-pup .44 magnum rifle. Amazing what people can come up with. I thought y'all might find it interesting. Belt fed lever action .44 Magnum Bull-pup

Anymore, really just bottom fishing, which means 99.2% carp in the stretches of river I can reach on foot. I started in late April at tail end of the spring stripe run, but after that, beat the water to death for bass, crappie, even a mess of bream, pretty much nada. So just settled into bottom fishing, which except for a couple of decent cats has been all El Carpo. Not even drum, which I kinda expected to in the mix. But it's cool with me, sit on the river bank, listen to stories on my Sansa (currently Saki and O Henry), catch a few big uns - 5-15 pounders of any species is still pretty groovy. - OS

I agree with your wife. You need at least 15 mags.

Nice looking out. Great item for the deals section. Good on RK !! They are making money at 220 per 1k. The big thing this tells us, contrary to what many retailers use to justify their current sky high prices, is that distributor prices are not thru the roof to where they have to pass it on to the consumer.

I was using the Warrior under my truck a few minutes ago and found another benefit, the magnetic tail. This will come in handy for me.

Yeah I have a little bit of a compelshion for that one...lol

Aren't the swarms of nascafarians upon you this weekend @Raoul ?

This is an interesting read. They wrote a follow up article which I have copied and pasted below. I will attempt to attach the link but given my level of technical proficiency..... well we will see. “ We understand that some people are citing our Perspective article (published on April 1 at NEJM.org)1 as support for discrediting widespread masking. In truth, the intent of our article was to push for more masking, not less. It is apparent that many people with SARS-CoV-2 infection are asymptomatic or presymptomatic yet highly contagious and that these people account for a substantial fraction of all transmissions.2,3 Universal masking helps to prevent such people from spreading virus-laden secretions, whether they recognize that they are infected or not.4 We did state in the article that “wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection,” but as the rest of the paragraph makes clear, we intended this statement to apply to passing encounters in public spaces, not sustained interactions within closed environments. A growing body of research shows that the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission is strongly correlated with the duration and intensity of contact: the risk of transmission among household members can be as high as 40%, whereas the risk of transmission from less intense and less sustained encounters is below 5%.5-7 This finding is also borne out by recent research associating mask wearing with less transmission of SARS-CoV-2, particularly in closed settings.8 We therefore strongly support the calls of public health agencies for all people to wear masks when circumstances compel them to be within 6 ft of others for sustained periods. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2020836

TN average daily deaths (updated 2PM daily): March (over last 11 days of month starting 3/21 with first death) 2.0 April 5.8 May 5.3 June 8.0 July (thru 17th) 12.4 - OS

Especially when you think about how completely opposite life is in depending on where you live in Georgia. Atlanta is pretty much a world unto itself, and some of their smaller cities are still so drastically different than the rural areas, that you really can't put a statewide block on anything if you're trying to be prudent.

That was about the going price during the zer0 years. Congrats!!

My experience in Sullivan county is that problems are usually neighbor driven. If you neighbors complain you've got a problem.

I shall never refer to a screwdriver by its proper name again.

Just wait until you start getting grey hair, lol.

Oh that is just way too cool!

Thanks Tiffany! If you PM me your information I'll float the idea by her. We live quite a ways a way so we would have to make it a trip.

Very wise words. I don't deny there is a virus. But I do strongly question the governmental and social bellowing and screaming going on as to the lethality of it.

Is it still considered open carry if you mount the AR to the buggy ?

Last wednesday. I started to go out but my wife suggested it wasn't a good idea to take an ar and 12 mags to Kroger......

I'm so happy to see your ocd in action. The dude abides, eh?

You stepped in what and slid how far?

I'm not saying my wife indulges my whimsical fantasies of Class but....... She bought me a set of 3, ACTUAL Westley Richards turnscrews for my birthday!