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Following update from Dave Spaulding/Handgun Combatives......Mr. Dickens fired his 1st shot at a distance of 43 yds from a kneeling position from cover and the active shooter was hit and also hit by 2nd shot. Dropped immediately. Never expected to meet resistance. Did not point or fire towards Dickens. Follow-up shots continued because of continued movement. Federal headstamps on pistol rounds.

I think it's a shame that hydrogen was never considered as an alternative energy source. From what I understand, it produces as much horsepower as the gasoline powered internal combustion engine with zero carbon emissions.

Conservation of energy. Using a powered positive drive item to drive a generator takes power that is other wise used to drive the vehicle forward. It’s the opposite of what’s going on in regenerative braking. Think of it as opening your fridge to cool the room. No free lunch that isn’t naturally occurring. The wind turbine concept has scaling problems. External turbines of any size to matter would induce aerodynamic drag and weight that would take extra power to overcome, same deal. Anything in a duct that isn’t ‘external’ would be too small to matter and impede flow taking away from that systems purpose.

They’re right. It’s why Hank wrote that song about us.

Sale pending meet.

That top item and cost, is far too true. The second piece, the one most will refuse to recognize, is there is a large degree of designed obsolescence at work. Not the batteries as such , more the overall operating system. There is no corporate imperative to design and build to last, the profitability lacks in that model. The fact that American manufactures will not offer a factory extended warranty past 8 years tells you exactly how long they think you’ll make it, or when they will start to discontinue parts to squeek by the 10 year federal requirement. As someone that just bought a new vehicle, I struggled this time, haven’t really had that in the past. The frightening thing with cost is the increasing rate of change over a relatively short time, with an inflection point starting between the 2014-2015 MY. When you look at industry news around focus group studies specific to cost, features, and subscription services it will make you really fear what’s to come along with all the improvements and positives in new tech.

Brand new never fired chambers in 45 acp price 1500.00 firm trades 1911 in 9mm compact preferred or equal value trades if not equal boot will be excepted

In the interest of TGO policy and not wanting to rile his snowflake supporters on here I will only say

Saw this too late, but if it helps someone else. I’ve got them from Mixglo a few years ago. I had a couple govt 96G slides with dead fixed night sights. Originally beretta sent slides off to trijicon to get lamped. When I called Trijicon to replace them, they would not, they only provide that service for conventional removable sights and their products. However would lamp them if the old vials were already removed…. somehow. Bizarre as that sounds.

A lot of opposition is emotional but much of it does have some basis in reality, depending on the source. EV’s have definitely come a long way in a very short time but are constantly evolving. We have seen the same with computers, communications, phones, etc. over the past 20-30 years if not longer but everyone knows those are disposable and relatively inexpensive in the grand scheme of things depending on need. While combustion engine vehicles are pretty much disposable, they can still be made to run for decades, as long as they don’t have a bunch of complicated electronics, or at least replacement part cannot be found for. EV’s are expensive. Regular vehicles are expensive. Not everyone can just run out and buy a rolling iPhone and expect to keep it forever. That battery is going to go bad at some point… and it’s going to be expensive to replace. Many older people who are retired or are soon to be there simply cannot afford to go out and buy a fancy new EV, much less have to repair it a few years down the road. I’d say many of them are set with the vehicle they’d got and may have planned it that way. There are tremendous amounts of people these days that can barely afford rent. No way they are going to find cheap transportation in an EV world. And all those people that live out in the boonies with no charging solutions are going to be screwed until they buy their own and pay the electric bill…or hope the local government and some business puts in charging stations for them. I see a lot of backwoods communities resisting that with a passion…because emotions.

I saw a guy on the Tundra forum pay $30,000 for a used Tundra and then needed an engine replacement not long after for $10,000. A friend had a used Lexus he paid around $8,000 for and his engine blew while on a road trip. Anytime you have to fork out thousands of dollars on a vehicle it sucks. People who hate EV's are using that story(which was mentioned above your comment) to validate their existing opinions.

I have a hankering to get an Old Steel SW 10mm.. If you have one you’d sell, please shoot me a PM or text/call me at 731*six17*seven388. I think the models were 1006-1026-1066-1076. I don’t care about box/books etc.. just want one to shoot. Thanks in advance

Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0 10MM 4" Barrel Optics Ready (plate included Comes with all paperwork, case, 2 (15 round) magazines Pistol is as new, with only couple mags through it. $550 $525 $500 CASH ONLY - NO TRADES Buyer MUST show valid TN ID and meet in Lenoir City area

To much fist bumping Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has 'very mild symptoms' (msn.com)

Available is a HK45 from the motherland. This BG date coded HK45 comes with everything it left the factory with, case, manual extra backstrap, barrel orings and of course sticker. Pistol also comes with meprolight night sights and 3 mags. I'm not the original owner so round count is unknown. Pistol has some wear as seen in the picture, but is in good shape. Asking $780 ftf in and around the Murfreesboro area. Must be a Tennessee resident legally able to own a firearm, HCP preferred, may ask for bill of sale if you're new. Buyer also has first opportunity at a factory threaded barrel, 2 extra mags and a small HK embroidered range case. Asking $170 if purchased with pistol.

So my all-time favorite Arnold movie may not be too far-fetched?

Great gun, great price. I already have one otherwise.... GLWS

I see a future where nobody but us hillbillies out in the sticks owns a car. I picture an Uber like service that utilizes self driving automobiles. They come pick you up and drop you off for a fee, and go charge themselves when the battery gets low. I’d like to invest in the front end of this technology. . Gov can track, tax, and control where you go. It’ll be awesome!

"...Mr. Dickens fired his 1st shot at a distance of 43 yds from a kneeling position from cover and the active shooter was hit and also hit by 2nd shot...." Surprise, surprise, surprise !!! Pvt. Gomer Pyle

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Brand new never fired kimber raptor pro II I am asking 1100.00

But those lose the trunk (or most of it) to get the frunk. EVs have both. I was mostly referring to future design possibilities that the buying public isn't ready for yet. There are some pretty wild ways to design a transportation device when the motors are in the wheels and the energy storage (aka "battery) can be incorporated into the structure of the car. There are some very cool lab-only inventions in the works now with carbon lattices storing electrons. Think of parts like the frame of the seats, the steering column, the door panels, the headliner panels, etc doing double duty as batteries. You can't do that with gasoline. Tech like that is lab-only now, and will be terribly expensive in its first applications outside the lab, but some day we'll see some amazingly cool takes on how to design a car using these coming technologies.

They did a similar thing for the Berettas. Using a loop I could see their was a covered hole vs it being a blind hole. They counterbored for final diameter. So i used the pilot hole with my mill to drill / punch them out. All of them broke. To the horror of the safety patrol!! I’m kidding, but it wasn’t quite the joker’s origin story of falling into a vat of toxic waste that it’s occasionally made out to be.

...and that is a biotch. Years ago, I tried to get the vials out of some old Trij iron sights just to see if I could. Trijicon puts I believe a sapphire in front of the vial to protect it. Can't drill it out or lift it out to get to the vial. Everything I tried would destroy the sights. So I wrote it off as a failed experiment.

They were good to go for me. Vials were tight for my application. They break easily so don’t force them if they don’t go right in

Never heard of it. Marginally afraid to Google it.....

That was the old premise and yes, it was a lie in the total cost of ownership but not in the daily/monthly expenses. The cost of electrons to go a mile is lower than the cost of gasoline to go a mile. Plus regular maintenance is cheaper (no oil changes, brakes last a lot longer, coolant lasts a lot longer, etc.). We're getting closer to them being basically break even. You'll pay more up front for a comparable EV, but cost of ownership is lower. You'll pay less for an ICE, but cost of ownership is higher. For now the total is still higher for the EV vs a comparable ICE. The new premise is instant torque, amazing performance, convenience of "filling up" at home, less localized air pollution in high-density urban areas, and they still have the lower cost of maintenance vs ICE cars. Over the next decade we're going to see big growth in the charging station availability and charging speeds. It's going to take a quantum leap in battery tech to be able to charge one from 5% to 100% in 5 minutes or less the way we can fill a gasoline tank now, but the gap will close. We'll also see new designs that the EV platform makes possible by the removal of the engine (we already have "frunk" storage) which could never be done with an ICE engine. The eco-friendliness is at best misleading and at worst a lie. It depends a lot on where your electricity comes from. Here in TN we get a lot from nuclear, coal, and NG fired plants. Many of our older fossil-fuel plants have been updated with way more efficient processes and air scrubbers so they're less polluting than they used to be. Out west, there's more solar which does make less CO emission during energy production. But the solar panel production is pretty unfriendly to the environment. Then again, so is building a coal plant, mining coal, and storing the coal ash so pick your poison.

That may have been tongue in cheek, but it turns out its really a thing! Good case of demographics matter. I've been spending some time on the truck forums where the Lightening is a favorite target for those opposed. To hear Lightening buyers responses, you get some good insights about their specific situations. A significant number of EV buyers do have solar and or added more solar. In many areas new homes for the last several years come with solar and surplus is sold back to the grid at times. Those are the demos that you will see more adoption of EV, in some cases multiple EVs in a household. While the solar addition to a home is not free, if its part of lifestyle choices amortized over several years and vehicles, there are places it can make sense if you are so inclined. The 22 F150 hybrid powerboost I ordered (as '21) finally came last month. When I picked it up, they wouldn't let me leave until I drove their demo Lightening. I have zero interesting in a full EV, not out here especially. They were insistent it was really fast. 30 years on sportbikes, looking at a big heavy truck, thinking not so much. Gotta tell ya, it surprised me. Its was stupid quick. Had a ball taking it for a spin, laughing to myself a couple times. I did not know its specs but afterward I found it has 775 ft-lbs of torque, so it made much more sense. While I wouldn't want one, I appreciate they can offer it and things like this will only improve the breed going forward. I am more opposed to some monitoring features they are building in. And the advent of subscription based features and services as they look for recurring revenue streams beyond initial sale. Have the take the good with the bad if you like new toys.

Hemingway on Safari - Winchester model 62 - .22 ??

What is old is new again…and killing it. RIP Dusty.

Just saw a story on the evening news about the down side of EVs. One item that caught my attention was they said that the EV owners on average use more electricity charging their car over a week than their entire house uses in the same time. Yep, and we need to cut back out A/C because the power grid is overloaded.

Make sure you're well versed on safety protocols on handling tritium lamps. You don't want to be wondering what needs to be done once you've broken one.

People who pronounce the word Suite as "suit" and not like "sweet". A bedroom "suit" are my PJ's, a bedroom "sweet" is what I put my PJ's in

People who think that I'm obligated to accommodate them.

Sure, but it would be a lot easier to bring them a can of gas than a can of electricity.

To be fair, I've seen those evacuation lines full of cars that ran out of gas too.

There’s not a word you type that I would disagree with. I am a proponent of moving toward EVs. That said, I do not in anyway think that the infrastructure is there to support a total changeover at this time. Rural areas will be using ICE vehicles for decades to come. I understand how long it took to electrify the rural areas of this country and I don’t believe that any other new infrastructure will take less time. Hell, just look at the thread we have regarding Internet access in certain areas, as well as the fact that providing POTS lines to the entirety of the country took up into the 70s or 80s. I just see a vast difference between looking at a technology that is obviously the future, being excited and hopeful for what it portends and writing it off as crap because it isn’t everything we want or need to be in this moment. So if somebody is at or nearing retirement age, and especially if they live in a rural area, an EV probably isn’t in their future. There’s a good chance it will be in their children’s or grandchildren’s, and their lives will be better for it.

I heard it was a G17. His girlfriend is also a bad ass. She used her jacket to make a tourniquet on the leg of one of the injured.

Your charging times are grossly outdated. For example, Tesla superchargers will charge a vehicle from 0 to 80% in 30 minutes, and to 100% in 90.

Not that I hate them but their obvious lying about its advantages only to find that there are no advantages. Just heard on WTN 99.7 them telling of an instance where parent's bought a used E-vehicle for $14,000. A couple of months later it needed it's batteries replace. They wanted $14,000 for the batteries. That would piss me off.

I bought another deer rifle. I have been on a lever gun kick for awhile. One lever gun I did not have was a Winchester 94. I came across this Winchester 94ae and kinda fell in love with it. This was a banquet gun for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. It has gorgeous wood and really nice engravings. It also just happened to be in a caliber I did not have, .356 Winchester. I don't have a lot of lever guns but the one caliber I do not have is a .30-30. I have levers in .22, .357, .338 Win, .348 Win, .356 Win, .375 Win, .44 mag, .45 Colt, .45-70 and .500 S&W Mag(on order).

20 inches turns target ammo into battle ammo

Anytime I deal with the government, I consider it a hassle. I wish I could go ahead and purchase a lifetime drivers license to go with my lifetime gun permit. Then I would never have to set foot in the DMV again.

I guess I'm the only person who still likes it and and is willing to throw out 308win. The furthest I have ever shot is 650m but the 308 did that just fine. It is my deer rifle (18" AR308) of choice and I got four deer this past season all in the 160-200m range and 3 didn't move 10' from where I shot them. The 4th was just a bad shot on my end. I tripped on a root and dropped my rifle, startled a young antler-less buck, I picked up the rifle and waited for him to pause, he did and in my haste to make up for dropping the rifle and nearly busting my..... cheeks.... I forgot basic marksman ship and didn't utilize a hold over so instead of a good hit I gut shot the poor guy. He took off. but all the others plopped right down.