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I'm glad for him, truly. But I know you know that it was bad to worse for a lot of others.

A little while back I posted about obtaining this pair of rifles. I know we have some 22 guys that will appreciate these. These are consecutive serial numbered Remington 40xb's from the CMP. What's somewhat rare about these is 1) They are part of a small Air Force run towards the end of the government contract for 40x's and 2) they are as close to new as you will find out of the CMP. In one case there is zero wear on the lugs or the lug raceways. The other has so little I bet it hasn't been cycled 100 times. The only real downside is the bolt's don't match the guns, but that's basically the way it is with CMP guns. Anyway, I found a pair of excellent condition 20x Unertl's to go on them. I have had mounts on order for 8 weeks and they finally came in yesterday. Headed to a buddies this afternoon to shoot these. I love shooting my custom 22's, but something about shooting these old guns is so satisfying.

I just left bass pro in Memphis at Sycamore view they have lots of 308 and .223 but they also had five boxes of small rifle primers. One of them was regular small rifle the others were magnum. They were selling them for $54 a box per 1000. If you get there quick there may be two left.

Hell, there was a SCOTUS decision in 1922 upholding vac requirements in public schools. As far as Boston and MA, just to cite a couple: https://www.wired.com/2009/12/dec-15-1827-boston-schools-require-vaccination/ CDC PDF: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjeuZabmOPwAhULWs0KHYOQAXMQFnoECCgQAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fvaccines%2Fimz-managers%2Fguides-pubs%2Fdownloads%2Fvacc_mandates_chptr13.pdf&usg=AOvVaw26Js62ZbiqZNFftQCffJY0 - OS

The key word from the above is "urging"; not "requiring" like some colleges are doing. If I had youngsters it would depend on their overall health. If our kid had asthma or some other condition that would put him/her at risk then hell ya I would get them vaccinated. My wife and I didn't get vaccines for other people's sake; we got it for ours, and that would have been extended to our children when they were young.

If you separate your kids from the community they inhabit - then it’s unlikely to be a priority. Kids generally have strong immune systems and are low risk for serious disease. But, for most of us, we can’t separate them from the community around us - and don’t want to. We go to church around older people. They go to school with older teachers. They take piano lessons. We hang out with friends who are immunocompromised. We’re a part of a larger community. So we vaccinate because while it’s low risk to our kids, we care about the community around us.

Howdy and Welcome from another military retire guy!

I enjoy a revolver at the range but still prefer a semi-auto should I need to defend myself.

Beautiful 22s. I shot a 40x on a rifle team and loved it. It just did everything right. I know you're enjoying these lovelies.

Yeah, 8 or 9 people have us all convinced.

Does anyone have anything new or different to offer after 3,180 posts of the same people saying the same thing?

ReeferMac, I just want you to know that I share every concern and feel the same as you. These mRNA vaccines were developed in 90 days, maybe less. Pfizer, for example, started their COVID vaccine program in January 2020, announced clinical trials in March and gave the first worldwide doses to four Germans on April 29, 2020. In June 2020, we will have a database of exactly 36 people worldwide who have had the Pfizer vaccine for one year. My concern is that you cannot look at short term side effects and extrapolate what the long term side effects will be. It's a guess... a roll of the dice with the lives of hundreds of millions of people on the line. Let's hope there are no long term side effects. The 1984-like Newspeak from public health leadership turns me off.

Okay I will share my recipe, NOTE: use at your own risk. I shoot mine out of a Taurus 65, .357. This can be used in both .38 special and .357 revolvers. I use .357 brass and because there isn't a bullet protruding from end it will cycle in both. Take a dozen or more brass and remove the primers then open up the primer pocket flash hole to about twice as big.This will help prevent primer setback. I use 5.8 gr. Bullseye with 2 wads over powder, about 88 gr. of shot I use #8 because I didn't have #12, 1 wad over shot and either seal with hot glue gun or wax. I make my wads from thin cardboard like the type used in Federal primer packaging, I use my lubrisizer and make up a bunch. This is good for about 10 feet, but make up some and test them as YMMV. I also mark the bases of this brass to keep separate just for this application. You can use 3.5 gr. of Bullseye and substitute uncooked rice for the shot and make bee/hornet loads. They are a hoot!! Yes if there was a rednecks anonymous I would probably be at most meetings!! LOL

I have one better than that, "I have had the CHICOM FLU so F&%K OFF!!!

I can point to it, but there is an adapter that make the Maverick and 500 feed the mini shells. It is easy to install and fairly cheap. As I recall you have to take it out to feed full size shells.

Some folks weren't as lucky. Unfortunately, the politics around this thing were probably more toxic than the disease. I am not real concerned about the safety of the vaccine. And, I'm not all that scared of Covid, even though it would probably kill me. The main reason I got vaccinated was so I can use the Kat Timpf quote, "I'm vaccinated, so f#ck off".

Cancer and the common cold don't shut down commerce, or overwhelm the medical system like unchecked COVID threatened to do. The economic motivator was to get this virus to controllable levels where life could get back to normal so businesses could get back to it without restrictions, and tax coffers can start to get their cut as well.

Would you believe me if I told you the speed in developing these vaccines was due to cutting bureaucratic red tape and removing the funding delays that typically slow things down? That’s how we got it from an average of 12 years down to 11 months. I’m not a public health person - but I am a scientist - and I can say confidently that there’s not been a vaccine developed since they started blowing dried pustules from cows into open lacerations on people that has been done in a more open and public manner. These are literally the most advanced vaccines that have ever been made. And with the success of the mRNA technology that Moderna and Pfizer have brought to market - if you pay attention over the next ten years you’re going to see advancements against diseases that have plagued humanity for hundreds of years. Moderna has already gotten good phase I results from a malaria vaccine. That has the potential to change the world for the better. Now to testing, I get the hesitancy over the EUA. It was a trade off to combat a disease that went from zero to a top 3 cause of death in a year. Is there risk there? Yes. But it’s a measured (and closely monitored) risk with limit stops in place. You saw the J&J vaccine get paused to study the risk of certain blood clots. That’s the system working as designed. The process to full FDA approval can’t be shortcut. There is data required that has path dependencies that are time based. We need six to nine months to collect those samples. On the plus side, we’ve got a huge pool to draw from - so that path should be shorter rather than longer. I know there are talking heads who are saying these were rushed, not designed well, and not tested. Of course there was a rush - but there is a robust testing process that is working. You can see evidence of that by the vaccine candidates that didn’t move forward.

Well I ended up picking up a Maverick 88. Haven't got to shoot it yet but seems like it will be okay once worked in a little. This will be a new anti SOB nightstick for our home. Hopefully it never has to be used as such.

And bucking the trend as usual: I've always thought six in a revolver is plenty, and revolvers are darned near jamb-proof. And I often carry a .45ACP with 7. I've always thought that THE perfect self-defense weapon is a pump-action 12g. Anyone who hears that distinctive ker-chunk and keeps on coming deserves what will happen next. Hard to conceal, though.....

$600 isn't much money these days when talking firearms. That is the unfortunate truth.

If he gets into a fire fight, and lives to wish he had one more round, then he'll be a believer.

“Stupid is as stupid does.”

Nope!

Aliens. From Space

So you think we’ve sufficiently covered “It’s a scam” and “Everybody’s gonna die”?

Still cooking I reckon! That IS the best coozie ever! I'm interedted to see where this goes. I was a charcoal man until my wife got tired of waiting and bought a gas grill. I used to be particular about the charcoal, its kind of an art. Be at least 3-4 beers, I mean an hour or so, before the heat was just right for the meat. Can't rush perfection M'Dear! (Twists valve, twists second valve, click, click, WHOMP!) "Beans are almost done, get off your ass, lets go." She's a peach!!!

Call them what? I am running out of words.