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I was an ASE Certified Auto Technician for 35 years before going 100% disabled. That was just a fancy name for a professional Auto mechanic / Grease monkey. Took up the hobby of making fishing baits for people and sold that to Chuckshoes and don't know how he is doing with it. I hope fine!!! Now I just piddle around staying out of trouble.....LOL

Retired after 26 years in the AF then worked as a trim carpenter for about 5 years and ended up owning the company myself. I had a real nice gig until the bottom fell out in 2008. Sold the business just in time... had a quad bypass 3 months later and ended up traveling to AZ with the missus as she finished up her AF career. Been retired ever since while the wife works from home part time since this covid crap hit. Now I'm just trying to lead a stress free life. So far so good.

Licensed Professional Counselor in TN & KY; I provide mental health therapy for a variety of issues for clients from adolescent through older adults. Also provide clinical supervision to LPC/MHSP candidates seeking their license to practice in TN. Been doing this over 40 years! COVID has changed the scene of what I do; more telehealth than in person which has worked well. I have some FTF clients, but the majority find telehealth easier since they don't have to fight Nashville traffic to come to our offices.

23 years as a Mechanical Designer. 7Yrs designing Package and Food handling systems, 3 years doing Signage and Landscape design and the last 13 working for DOE facilities designing Scientific experimental equipment for Light Source and Neutron Instrument Systems. Have dabbled in Woodworking on the side. Also Retired as Volunteer Fire Chief in NY after 20 Years of Service.

The rifle wasn't suppressed.

Very sad to hear. My sympathy to the victims. 15 year old with a handgun in a very restrictive state. No doubt they'll blame the gun.

I’ve done a little of everything. Loaded bags for southwest, Ford glass plant as a machine operator, correctional officer in metro jails. Currently 10 yrs as a firefighter/emt/ Narcan specialist in Antioch for Nashville Fire

I work from home selling computer networking components to major businesses for the major computer company that rhymes with hell. My job has its stressors, but it's better than other jobs that I have worked. I will probably have to work here until I'm 72 thanks to the economy tanking under Obama.

Lots of people have made this mistake. It is quiet. But phone camera mics are terrible and 16 inch pistol caliber rifles aren't loud to begin with.

Thanks Greg, that’s a heck of a deal for someone, the belt by itself is worth more than that. I placed an order with John at J.M Ross in Bulls Gap. After I emailed him, he called me, and we talked for about an hour and a half. He answered every question I had and gave me suggestions for the requirements of what I may want to use it for. His rigs are very popular in the SASS community. I’m stoked, I should have it in a couple of months.

30 years with TDOT as an inspector for an engineering field office. I’d get a set of plans, contract, and the low bidder, and we’d go build the road/bridge/whatever. Got my first pension check today.

US Army. Retired. tool & die 15 yrs, LEO 8 yrs. Totally retired now . I feel old.

Wasn't no deer today but dad got a big ole hog on public land in Scott County.

Brother in law was late getting to the dinner table today. Called about 1030 and asked for some help getting one out. He knocked down a nice 11 point. He has hunted this same deer for 2 years now and Im happy he finally got to see it through.

CHP traffic stop

From what I have read this mutation just might cause the chicom crap to go away, give everybody that gets it immunity.

Good job on those kids in the video who realized that was not the law at the door trying to get in.

She was killed in a traffic accident at the age of 56. She had over 200 people show up to her wake, and I only knew a handful of them. The rest were her clients and their families.

That’s pretty snazzy. I may look into that once I shoot it a bit and see how it does. I can’t imagine I’ll need any sort of recoil reduction from a brake but it would be cool to increase accuracy any little bit.

Ohhhhh, I get it. There's a recess inside the flash hider, before it engages the barrel threads. So you're actually only getting 3 or 4 turns before you run out of barrel thread. Gotcha. I'm not au-fait with the pressures created by a suppressor, so I cannot comment on whether or not that would be adequate. My thought would be to find a guy with a lathe (or a hacksaw & a steady hand) & cut the hex-nut off your muzzle device. Cheaper, quicker & simpler than turning down & rethreading the barrel. Is there an alternative QD attachment available for your suppressor?

Basically in the picture showing the threads, it is just started on the threads. One concern is that I won’t have many threads engaged. The other concern is that on the flip side of that those threads will be exposed inside of the flash hider.

My mother was a counselor for victims of child abuse in the Kansas City area ranging from the obscure cases to headline cases. She was a pretty tough person to listen to children tell their stories of abuse.

Your hobbies are so lovely, and you should do something related to your hobbies. What things do you love, you can try to do this. Your day is fantastic, not dull, but it's always fun if you start with your hobbies.

I don't know if I just got a diamond or you guys got the rough but my 509c's trigger isn't bad at all. It's obviously not a competition gun but for a carry piece its pretty good, averages about 4.75lbs stock on my pull gauge.

Thanks, Greg. Bought it to start shooting the SASS cowboy matches. Then my back decided I wasn't going to do that sort of thing anymore. Hoping someone else can put them to good use.

So much for that.It was, Tuesday morning, That's what I said, when I got up, I told myself I wasn't going this morning. Got up went to the bathroom and then made coffee. Opened the laptop checking some forums while having coffee. Then I get a shower and having another coffee I check the time. Heck I've got an hour or so before work so I fill the thermos and away I go. Not far, got a little hunting house right in the backyard overlooking an old hog lot. The neighbor just recently disced up and planted new grass. Been seeing deer out there the past week now, the grandson and I watched a couple sparring out there last Saturday. Ok, Ok, I've been out there maybe 30 mins. when a nice doe crosses, checking behind her as she does. About the time she's pretty much across a second doe starts across and when it's about half way I notice something else coming . Oh heck, buck grab the binos yep... one of the decent ones that has been on a couple different cameras. So I grab the ole 30-30, a Marlin Westerfield 30-30 made in '65, now he's about the middle of the field and around 100 yds. I put the scope on him and focused, eased the hammer back, and next thing is Bang. Tail flew up he jumped and hauled ass, I watched him hit the woods, then I looked back and the young doe was just still standing there like... What happened. I gave it a few mins walked down to where he was standing but no blood. I knew I hadn't missed, so I walked toward where he ran. Saw his white belly before I ever got to the woods. All together he might have gone a 100 yds. The load was a 170 gr Speer Hot Cor over 29.2 grs of imr 3031. Bought the rifle a couple years ago hadn't even shot it much till this past Summer. First time I've hunted with it or any 30-30 in 10-12 yrs. Inside spread 16", live weight was 185 lbs after gutting and head removal it still weighed 113.5 lbs. Game warden said it was 4.5 yrs. old, probably the nicest deer I've ever taken.

Heck of a deal if it’s what you’re after!

Here’s a one shot group I made just this morning. It went in through the shoulder on the far side. Looks like it works!

In the future you might find someone to loan you the gauges if you are doing a one off project like this. I have Go, No Go, and Field gauges for 6.5 but am over in Middle TN. If you cant find anyone to loan them to you you can always rent them. A bit cheaper than buying them outright. I have been leaning toward doing a similar project with the Savage Axis line since I don't buy Ruger.

So I have 458 SOCOM, 450 Bushmaster, and 50 Beo in an AR platform. I reload for all of those so availability is not a huge concern for me but for a someone who does not reload it makes a difference. 450 Bushmaster and 350 Legend are far more commercially available. If you are not limited to straight wall or never hunt in a straight wall state my heart would lean toward 458 SOCOM and stick with Tromix barrels and bolts. Don't bother going cheap on the barrel or bolt. You won't easily get it to feed, chamber, and extract smoothly without putting in work on the cheaper options. Reality and common sense says 450 Bushmaster though. A good bit of commercially available ammo including lots of hunting specific options. Good short range knock down power in a fun package. If you really like the round after shooting it in the AR there are more commercially available bolt action or conversion barrels available for a nice light brush/hunting bolt rifle. That is the route I ended up going. Now I don't shoot the 450 Bushmaster AR all that often and use my bolt gun in it instead.

I'm glad I was blessed with A+ role models growing up. Both being born in 1921 they went through a lot of sh!t growing up and that allowed me not to have to suck the tit that is the internet for daily guidance lol.

RP

Nothing is new. We simple cycle through them every so often and then rinse and repeat. What's different about these last couple years is the ability to easily brain wash people with rhetoric repeated through every media outlet available to us. The stark contrast being some poor old recluse bastard that doesn't own any modern technology that's living his daily life just like he has been. This is NOT specific to Covid I'm speaking in general.

*Note - distilling any amount of alcohol for consumption is illegal on a federal level without proper permits. This post is for educational purposes and discussion only. All activities are conducted legally and safely* If you haven't ever considered it a small still could be a life saver in a grid down situation. Using white table sugar, corn, mollases or any other edible sugar source can be turned into high proof alcohol suitable for drinking, disinfectant, small engine fuel, fire starter etc. The exact same still setup can be used to distill water for purification, distill essential oils, etc. Its a worthwhile skill to learn and the entry cost for a small, sub 10 gallon still with all the parts needed is usually less than $500. Just something to consider to help your preps.

The only correct answer is .458 socom.

Needs a quote!

To bad Popcorn Sutton not around he had the skill

Btw, I’m partial to BGEs if you can’t tell

Got 36yrs as a Pipe Welder, started when I was 18 working with my father doing Pipeline Maintenance on high pressure Natural Gas Lines in PA were I was raised. The last job I worked with him was a 36" line that stretched 68mi on our part, the rest went down into WVA. to a pumping station. I got out of that line of work for a little while. Moved here to TN and started welding for the Pipefitters Local 572 in Nashville, did that up until a year ago. I went in the hospital for some basic stents, but that turned out to me having heart surgery. Well 5 bypasses later while I was getting ready for the bypass surgery, I got digonased with stage 4 Colon and Liver Cancer. Been almost a year on Chemotherapy Treatments and they seem to be working. I had to take a disability retirement early (I'm 55yrs old) they gave me a 5yr window so hopefully I can beat this. But I can tell you this I enjoy being retired, just not this way but I don't miss crawling around in the dirt, or being 200' in the air welding.

Shoot I'm no expert on this. It's a mix of several things if I had to guess. We get way too much from China. We're basically seeing the delayed reaction to the quarantine. On a more local level, the shortage of workers here in the US is causing manufacturing gaps. I've also seen many manufacturers are being delayed because their vendors can't keep up. It just keeps trickling down. There is also really high demand for many products. Americans are doing a ton of online shopping. Another issue I've noticed is that a lot of manufacturers and distribution centers are using buildings that are old. When I worked at Keurig our goal was to produce 100 million kcups every week at a facility that only produced half that when it was designed. That's not a problem unique to them. Most of these companies try to run as lean as possible too. Demanding more and more from people. It only works for so long. People get burned out. A lot of these issues were present before covid and the supply chain was already stressed before this. We've barely been keeping up and covid/quarantine just unmasked the issue. The average truck driver is around 54 years old. It's only gonna get worse.

I was a Radio Broadcast engineering manager for most of my adult life, with the last 25 years in Nashville. Retired for a couple years now. For the first time in my adult life, I enjoy thunder storms.

I am retired USN. I was an Aviation Machinist Mate where I was relegated to turning wrenches on helicopters. I wanted to go fixed wing and in typical Navy fashion never got the opportunity. I retired in 05 and became a Dad in 06 and have been the house husband/stay at home Dad ever since.

Worked in the banking industry for close to 30 yrs, did most everything except make a loan. Got fed up with the BS in that field, and started working the hourly shift work. Retired around 2014 or so, like retirement much better.

I fix stuff, cars, trucks, boats, computers(way back), electrician, HVAC&R, just about anything mechanical, "If I can not fix it, it is destroyed". Restaurant equipment and refrigeration now.

Worked in a factory building Craftsman power tools / quality control inspector while in college. Then 41 years as a hospital lab tech. Retired twice. Looks like the second retirement is gonna take!