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Everyone loves to frame this as an either/or situation. That’s the wrong way to go about it. It’s an all of the above situation. We should absolutely be encouraging ramping up fossil fuel production for the short term. At the same time we need to be building nuclear plants and securing raw material rights around the world along with investing in technology improvements for battery production. These aren’t solutions that will fix anything over the next month year or even 10. This is about long-term energy independence. The problem is that the people making these decisions have no desire nor incentive to think past the next election cycle. A pox on all of them. TLDR:if you are against immediate increased fossil fuel production, eff you. If you’re against fullbore investment in electric and renewables, eff you too. Both camps are more interested in scoring wins or their own personal vendetta is actually accomplishing anything of merit.

This is a political problem that can be solved easily if there was enough political will to do it. These bureaucratic roadblocks were intentionally erected when we stupidly decided to move away from nuclear power. Than can be removed in the same bit of legislation that funds plants. It’s all a choice that has to be made.

gas is $4.09 in Kingston today my question, how is the normal ever day person going to afford a $70,000 electric car when they cant afford bread and milk . and which electric vehicle will pull my horse trailer

Don’t forget that our Banquet and Auction is tomorrow night. If you are not going to be there in person you can still bid on the auction items. The link to the auction is: https://www.onlinehuntingauctions.com/Music-City-SCI-Banquet-and-Auction-2022_as80147 There are a lot of great items up for auction: Helicopter hog hunt in Texas 1 day guided Quail Hunt in Dunlap, TN Mountain Lion Hunt Gator/Hog Hunt in Florida Firearms Vacations There is a little bit of everything. Check out everything available in the live auction and silent auction sections at the above link. If you have any questions send me a pm.

Personally, I am willing to go nuclear power. However, there are problems in long term spent fuel rod storage. Transport of spent rods to Yucca Mtn can is suseptible to exposure due to accident of misshandling. It's the same in every country that uses nuclear, what to do with the spent fuel, That's what the worry is right now at Chernobyl with the power being cut off. idle rant: I just heard some 'ss hole who claimed to be a nuclear expert say if the waste water boils off at Chernobyl just add more water. Yeah, but where does that radioactive steam go to? Don't get me wrong a CIVILIZED nation should be able to handle nuclear power. The Ruskies have repeatedly demonstrated they are not of that ilk.

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I've had a Pietta 1860 for a fair few years & several other models before this one. I always preferred the look of the round barrel over the octagonal of the 1851 & the partridge front sight rather than the pin. The '58 Remmys are a far stronger design with the top strap & the traditional sights are far, far better than the hammer notch on the Colt clones. Unfortunately they just don't point as well (honestly, nothing does) or fit my hand like the Colts. On that note, the Colt copies will shoot around 30-36" high at 15yds. Damn things are TOO faithful! The originals were regulated (for some damn silly reason) at 100yds. The absolute first & most essential thing you absolutely MUST do is switch out the standard nipples for No.11s. No.10 caps have been incredibly hard to find for a very long time. 11s are slightly longer & don't work reliably on the standard nips. A common problem that seems to be universal: caps bursting & falling into the rear of the cylinder. That'll jam it up REAL quick. You kinda have to 'flick' the pistol to the right as you recock it to make sure the spent caps clear. Clean it like you were letting a newborn lick it. Literally as soon as you get home from the range. You don't need funky chemicals, just warm tap water & dawn, a nylon bore brush, toothbrush & about an hour free of distractions. Anti-sieze on the nipples (don't be sparing. A stuck, broken or jacked up nip is almost fatal) oil on the hand & springs, grease on the base pin. If you're going to store it empty, a super light coat of bore-butter or muzzleloader specific patch lube can be wiped down the bore & each chamber. I use the blue triple 7 stuff myself. Conical bullets are fun, but far less accurate than you'd imagine & several times the price of round balls. If you're not using wads (hint: just buy the damn wads) you'll need to cap the muzzle end of each cylinder with lube. As far as loading goes, using the actual loading lever will loosen the action far quicker than shooting it ever will. Buy a cylinder loading press. NOT cheap one. If you insist on using the lever (perfectly fine on steel frame guns, ok occasionally on brass frames) Buy or build a loading stand. Completely load each cylinder in turn too. Powder, wad, ball. Then move to the next. Otherwise you just end up with spilt powder all over the place (learned that the hard way!) If you're going topless ('51, '60, '61) 20-28gn (volume) of Pyrodex P, Trip7 or FFFg is plenty. It ain't a .44mag, think of it as a very mild .38 special with big bullets. In a '58, you can bump up to 35gn but you start to run out of cylinder room beyond that. If you've got nuts like King Kong, wrists like beer barrels & really dislike yourself as a person & end up with a Walker or Dragoon, you literally can't get enough powder in there to damage anything on the gun. 60gn would be an average, I know a guy who hunts with one loaded with 75. It's a very, very legitimate deer killer at 80yds. But you also have to carry a 6lb pistol that's longer than your leg. Although you could reenact the barroom scene from Lonesome Dove to great applause......

Problem is Pravda or whatever it's now called is feeding Russian citizens garbage. My sister spent part of a summer over in Ukraine years ago as a guest teacher. She ate supper with one of her students one night because her parents wanted to meet a real, live American. They peppered her with questions like "Why did you kill Indians? Wasn't it terrifying living under the reign of the horrible Ronald Reagan? What was it like standing for hours in line for bread?" They were educated before the end of the Soviet Union and my sister quickly realized that it involved some serious propaganda. That was years ago, but I bet much of the Russian press is pretty similar today.

Pull it with the horses, of course.

From here to Wyoming in 2 days.....

…and no one talks about this painfully obvious irony. I have to wonder if the end game is no cars for the unwashed masses. I have gradually come to the conclusion that certain politicians would prefer to see us riding in double decker buses instead of driving places. Cars = freedom and that just doesn’t sit well with some folks.

I'd embrace the electric vehicle idea more if I didn't have the 1st hand knowledge that our local electric grid is currently running foot to the floor as it is. The local power company had a dog and pony show all about EV but sidestepped the question about how everyone is going to charge these at home easy peasy. Its pretty plain to me your nuclear suggestion and EV should walk hand in hand if we intend to make it work on a large scale.

I agree. What I see is politicians and pushing electric cars and no one pushing to beef up the electric grid to support them. The former will be a disaster without the latter. I’m not against electric cars as long as we can use them.

You have this backwards I think. Oil prices and oil production decreased after the pandemic started. By mid 2020 oil refineries in the US were laying people off because of decreased demand. It makes sense that they slashed production because you aren't going to just keep pumping oil you can't sell. Then in 2021 demand started to increase and so did prices. That production doesn't always ramp back up at the same pace. I'm sure much like every other industry facing a worker shortage, some of those employees went to new industries outside oil and gas.

Hey everyone! Another west coast escapee here, I was able to get out of the Democratic People's Republic of Kalifornia (aka the DPRK) back in September and recently found this board. I'm not a man of many words but I will look to jump in and contribute where I can! As the name suggests, I do have a classic '67 Mustang that once belonged to my grandmother. Interesting backstory; after she passed the family was cleaning out her garage and lo and behold, the Mustang everyone thought she sold was hiding under a pile of boxes. Thousands of dollars later, I have an *almost* restored Mustang that now sits under a car cover in my garage. Haha.

Gas in Europe has always been high. When I was a young troop in Germany way back in 74-75, gas was about $2.00 gallon then. We could have easily bought our own cars to use while there. But couldn't afford the gas.

I last heard 30 years, but its too long to help out anyway.

The big issue with electric cars always has and always will be the batteries. Cost, size. weight. run time, available recharging and disposal. Until these things are corrected, electric cars just ain't practical. Meantime, we're stuck with the high cost of gas and there really ain't much we can do about it.

I have an older Citori that has many 10's of thousands of rounds through it and only 2 miss fires and zero mechanical issues ( I know I just totally jinx'd it ). My father has a new Krieghoff K80 and a Beretta that have both had a lot of mechanical issues, but he shoots 2-3 times a week. Both are beautiful guns, but he has to have backups and spare parts. The Citori will easily be passed down to my kids.

From Wikipedia: TransCanada Keystone Pipeline GP Ltd,[14] abbreviated here as Keystone, operates four phases of the project. In 2013, the first two phases had the capacity to deliver up to 590,000 barrels (94,000 m3) per day of oil into the Midwest refineries.[15] Phase III has capacity to deliver up to 700,000 barrels (110,000 m3) per day to the Texas refineries.[16] By comparison, production of petroleum in the United States averaged 9.4 million barrels (1.5 million cubic meters) per day in first-half 2015, with gross exports of 500,000 barrels (79,000 m3) per day through July 2015.[17] The proposed Phase IV, Keystone XL (sometimes abbreviated KXL, with XL standing for "export limited"[18]) Pipeline, would have connected the Phase I-pipeline terminals in Hardisty, Alberta, and Steele City, Nebraska, by a shorter route and a larger-diameter pipe.[19] It would have run through Baker, Montana, where American-produced light crude oil from the Williston Basin (Bakken formation) of Montana and North Dakota would have been added[12] to the Keystone's throughput of synthetic crude oil (syncrude) and diluted bitumen (dilbit) from the oil sands of Canada.

I do not. I sold it to a friend of mine in Athens.

See if ChuckTshoes still has his NVG set up for sale, it was a solid deal.

This is true, but there's another factor in play here that's also complicating the process of ramping up oil production. For several years now, oil companies' stock prices have been falling, in some part due to investors demanding more returns from the companies in the form of stock buybacks and higher dividends. As these prices fell, oil companies reverted from a pro-growth stance to one of buying back stock and paying out higher dividends to investors. Exploration and development budgets have been slashed, less profitable fields curtailed or abandoned, and equipment leases allowed to expire. All this complicates the "drill baby, drill" philosophy from taking hold again. Thus far, most companies are reticent to pivot from this stance, as the wildly fluctuating prices and supply issues in the past decade have made many of them skittish. Even now, with oil prices rising rapidly and world production and availability falling, most of these companies have adopted more of a wait and see attitude towards increasing expenditure for exploration and development. In addition, investors and lenders aren't providing new capital to oil companies that aren't paying out a high percentage of cash to investors, thereby choking off a ready means of increasing production capacity ...

Hey I ride an old chopper. Any group rides around Middle TN?

No, but they were both like new bikes. Actually the KLX above and a 2020 CRF 250L with like 57 miles on it. It isn't so much a matter of looking at them as just agreeing on a price or having a conversation about it. I am not driving an hour and a half to just look at something :). I let them know it's cash and I am flexible on potential meet times. I don't mind a response like you say, but it's at least a response. Just not responding at all is a bit annoying.

Not unlike our media today. I remember Russia Today being a more reliable news source than what we currently have available.

I've got a few Manix 2's and have to agree with you on this. I prefer the ambidextrous locking mechanism on the Manix. I bought my wife and oldest daughter each a Manix 2 in CruWear and purple Micarta a year or two ago when DLT Trading had them in as a sprint run.

I don't have a problem with electric cars. That is if the power grid can support it, and the dang batteries are mostly made in China. That bothers me too.

This.

Everything was cheaper before the pandemic.

Would a boost in supply from new US production not theoretically reduce the price? Assuming the Saudis or somebody didn’t respond by reducing production.

Thank you. People seem to forget that the POTUS doesn't set gas and oil prices. In 2020, global demand for oil plummeted as people stayed home during the beginning of the pandemic. Production was slashed. Then as the economy opened back up and started firing on all cylinders, demand for oil outpaced production and we started seeing big price increases. Now add in the Russia mess and it gets worse. I read we only get around 7% of our oil from Russia.

The price of oil is set globally. Doesn’t matter if we pump it here or not. You would have to use legislation to disconnect the oil drilled and refined here from the global market to have an appreciable effect.

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I’m beginning to think that site is a money laundering operation. I wish I had a better opinion of mankind.

Again, I would suggest a call/drive up to Gamaliel Shooting Supply in Gamaliel, Kentucky. No idea if they have the exact model you seek, but it wouldn't hurt to call and ask.

As stupid high as fuel prices are right now, I'm willing to pay more if the US will quit buying Russian oil altogether. Every dime that goes to Russia from energy sales is helping to finance the murder of innocent Ukrainians right now. And I would sure like to see the US pumping as much oil as possible to offset that a bit.

The first time I paid $1 per gallon for gas (technically 99.9 cents, but rounded to $1) was in the spring of 1980 in Memphis. Using an inflation rate of 3%, that totals to $3.46 per gallon today. At the time I was in college and for me, money was a lot tighter then than now. As I remember, gas prices went up some more over the summer before falling back later, however it's that first episode of $1 gas that stands out in my memory. This was after the hostage crisis in Iran and during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, so world tensions were high and gas prices rose quickly, much as we're seeing now. Inflation was also running rampant at that time as well. There's no real point to this anecdote, other than to say that gas prices have always been volatile, and geopolitical issues often have a marked influence on them. I expect that at some point prices will fall again, much as they have done before, but regardless the increases we're seeing today are not unprecedented and, accounting for inflation, aren't higher than in prior, similar episodes ... Another data point, in the aftermath of the Katrina hurricane local gas prices hit $4 per gallon (and were reportedly well over $5 in many parts of the country). Inflation over the 17 year interval since then has been rather tame compared to the 3% rate commonly used for historical estimates. Using only a 1.5% rate, that $4 gas of 2005 equates to $5.15 today, so we have a ways to go to match that year's gas prices ...

My neighbor seems be driving their electric plug in a lot more now.

This week is the single most important of the session with regard to 2nd Amendment restorative bills, as well as gun control initiatives. We as a populace have the opportunity to advance the return to Right to keep, bear and wear arms as intended by our Founders, or sit on the sidelines and let the Department of Safety have their way. Every good piece of legislation is being opposed by them. If you want to join 39 other States that allows long guns to be legally carried (Grills' HB 1898), then now is the time to call every member of the Civil Justice Sub committee, and the one that makes operators responsible for your safety if they deny you the ability to carry a legal firearm on their property (HB 2770). We can measure the friends we have on that sub committee by their votes this Week. Todd's 1735 lowering the age for permits to 18 (HB 1735) is up in Full Civil Committee and appears to be going down due to Department of Safety obfuscating facts, telling committee members we will lose reciprocity with 21 State if it passes, which is a complete falsehood, and anyone who can read and do math on an 8th grade level can see that from looking at their website. I called all of the full committee members offices yesterday with a summary of the facts of that. why Safety feels the need to interject itself into our Constitutional Rights is beyond me... The flow chart is the People in charge, who hire legislators to pass laws that the various tax payer paid departments are supposed to enforce, The Sheriffs, Chiefs, TBI, DAs and Department of Safety are simply our employees, given power to enforce laws by the People, they are NOT hired to be our rulers. With this being an election year, and every Representative with a new district, we have the best chance in a long time to be effective in contacting them. Honor your Article 1 Section 23 obligation to instruct your Representatives and contact them now.

AH! And there's the rub. We are NOT LEOs. I have no desire to be a de facto LEO. I don't see how our 2nd Amendment rights can over rule a property owner's rights. Schools, government buildings and such, yes. But if a private property owner chooses to post their property, No. Their house, they make the rules. Frankly, I don't see any way in hell this will pass.

There’s a solution. Don’t use Google products.

I grew up( assuming I ever did), with an old Crescent Arms double, rabbit ear hammers, both bbls wide open. My Pa bought it used to bird hunt with, had my other Pa saw a couple inches off the bbls, hence no choke. I've killed lots of rabbits, squirrels with it, still have it, shoots good. Now, a safe Queen. Think it was made back in the 1930s.

Hard to beat a beretta 68X series. Just decide how nice of wood you can afford and go from there. I’ve shot a few 686 and 687 and they are my preference.