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Sounds to me like abuse of authority. The officer was clearly angered by being honked at and decided to "make an example" out of the other person. I don't know all the facts, but from what I have seen from officers in my home town here, I believe it. I know the local traffic nazi's here have written tickets for 48 in a 45 on a 4 lane highway. Granted the judge threw it out, but you are still out a days work and court costs. I don't want to be a cop hater, I have met some really good ones and they are just humans too, but goons that do this stuff do nothing for their image.

Well, like I said; It's yours. Do with it what you like.

That's not a worn finish! That gun has character and personality. It's your gun, you can use it for a deep sea fishing sinker if it makes you happy, but if it were mine, that's how it would stay. Find an original or quality reproduction holster, and gently and lovingly shoot the crap out of it. Take extra care and enjoy it for the rest of your life. Those freckle marks mean nothing. If you were selling it, they wouldn't mean much if anything. If I were buying one, I wouldn't be concerned by them in the least. Like I said, do whatever makes you happy, but if you chrome or nickel plate it please if you care about us at all, don't show it.

Classifieds? I didn't know I clicked on classifieds. Sorry. IDIOT!!!

I bet no one in the state has one like yours.

I was looking at an AR15 pistol today and I was just wondering about the buffer extension. Now it would be an SBR if it had a stock on it I understand, but the buffer tube could easily reach a shoulder too. Would that be a no no to shoot an AR pistol like that, or is it just taboo to talk about this. I've been thinking of getting one some day and was curious.

I'M LOVING THAT!

I do crimp with a Lee Factory Crimp die. Like has already been said though, Your Mileage May Vary.

YES!!!!! Me too, I have all available seasons on DVD. great show.

Yeah? That's life man. I didn't get a hand out the last time I rebuilt an engine. I spent a lot of time and did everything right, but a component failure caused me to lose the entire engine.[stupid Volkswagen] So what? There's honest to goodness volunteers that spend a lot of time doing, but get NOTHING tangible in return. That's a choice, but that's life. This shouldn't be so hard to explain and it should be even easier to understand. I dunno.

Why? Why is it that 40 hours labor grants you access to these things? Let's watch a rerun of Little House on the Prairie. How long and how hard did Charles Ingalls work for a shack cabin of rough cut lumber, a bag of flour meal and oil, some caps and BP for his muzzle loader [he couldn't afford a cartridge gun] so they could have meat, and what? Once a year the kids could have a penny sack of candy and Caroline could have bottle of Lemon Verbena so she could smell nice??? He worked sun up to sun down, rain or shine, snow and ice. I figure 12-14 hours a day he was a God fearing man and kept a sabbath day so that puts him at 72-84 hours a week, and many a time he worked well on into the night so figure he averaged 75-100 hours a week. I doubt he got time and a half for anything over 40 and he was just happy old man Hanson had some work at the mill for him. Dr. Baker didn't take Tenncare that would cost him real cash or a basket of eggs. Why is it any different now? Because we are SOOOOO [sarcasm dripping] much more advanced as a civilization. PPpfffttt, that's buffalo bagels. We're worse off now than we ever were then. I know we have several here that don't like mixing religion into these discussions, but I bet even the nonbeliever can appreciate - You live by the sweat of your brow.

That's the God's honest truth as well.

I want a reproduction Patterson. I'd like to make a Supernatural replica.

Caster brand bullets don't lead either:p

People have been working hard for thousands of years only to fail and die. The effort you put into a days labor is not a measure of what is owed to you. A ditch digger works harder in a day than neurosurgeon works in a month. That doesn't mean anything. Just because you work hard {and I'll bet you do ab28} doesn't mean ANYTHING. It doesn't mean you should have what you need to survive and it doesn't mean you should be prosperous. I'm not directing this next part at ANYONE, but I'd like to quote a person from a children's movie. "Sentimental children forever whining about how bitterly unfair your lives have been, well, it may have escaped your notice but life isn't fair."

No. It feels as bad to type as it does to read, but no. The cold truth that none of us like; No one owes me a living. The world doesn't owe me squat. It's so coldhearted but the world doesn't owe me food and if I starve and die, it isn't the world's fault as long as I am a free man and un-imprisoned. The "I shouldn't have to choose" attitude is quite understandable but it is the seed from which entitlement grows.

Actually my father used to keep a spray bottle in his hunting pack for that very reason. You can start misting the ground and find very small traces of blood when tracking a animal you shot.

Well, that is your right to do so, and obviously you have survived despite it so...High five for moral fiber. {No, that wasn't sarcasm:up:}

Who the heck wants income equality? I for one LIKE the fact that a heart surgeon with a god complex makes sooooo much money. The last thing I want in the OR is a level pay grade. Since when did it become wrong to have something? When did it become illegal to stop buying? If you don't like the price someone charges, don't buy it. Yes it is that simple, it's a free market [sort of] If I want to sell popcorn for $100 a bag, no one has the right to tell me I can't. I won't be selling much popcorn, but if I sold millions worth, people would cry how unfair it was. Well boo hoo. I tell you all what it boils down to and it ain't the economy. It's natural selection. We've disrupted it from taking course and now idiots, weaklings, cowards and lazy folk are allowed to breed rampant. There was a day when they couldn't, not because it was illegal, but because they didn't live long enough. We need that system to come back. Desperately.

Bajabuc is right on that, it's just simple trigonometry. An few thousandths here can be inches over just a short distance.

The difference is, what you get in return. If you're not getting a perk for your effort, then your approach of treat as treated is how it works for me.

Well, in all fairness, this is a southern gun forum. It's ALWAYS going to be season for a good game of democrat whack-a-mole.

...and the entire collective gasp from the ghettos could be heard as far as the Yukon.

What weight bullet, what twist barrel and what distance? My favorite AR is a 1/7 twist. It will do fair with 55g FMJ at 25-50, but at 100 yards they are all over the map. Put the same ammo in one of my other AR's w/ a 1/9 twist and you can write your name on the target with it. Same for the 1/7 but i have to feed it a longer 75g bullet. May or may not be your issue, but it's worth checking. 1/7 barrels have had a popularity spurt the last few years.

Well, if it were just one...no, no man could be too big. It's not ONE goliath, but many. You can be a killer of giants and your reward will be a price on your head. I understand that it sounds as though I advocate being on the right side of the devil as opposed to being in his path, but I AM NOT. The rich man is no the enemy. I have found from my dealings with the wealthy, that most wealthy people like to be treated a touch better than the rest but they understand that those beneath them are not being completely honest. They know we [poorer] talk about them behind their backs, they're not stupid, if they were stupid, they wouldn't be wealthy [or won't be for long] they just want recognition for they have and others don't. I worked for man like that once. He loved to be the only one around who had anything, had any common sense, or was generally worth anything. I played his game. He paid. And then paid some more. Was happy to. Paid me way more than I was worth. I just had to remember who he was. That's fine by me, because after I went home for the day, the facade was over and it was big smiles when I opened my wallet. If that's the game I have to play to scratch out a life here on earth, have bills paid, wife happy, beer cold and rifle barrel hot....I have no shame, I'm going to play that game. So will anyone else who isn't a fool.