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most of the quotes I had gotten where well past $1k for a pair of 4 footers. Common wisdom aside, someone knows how to do it. Else 1045 tg&p rod wouldn't be under $200 per pair for what I'm after... it just doesn't have the turn downs / end caps.

Upfront: I don't care if you are male or female. Just using 'guy' as a generic placeholder. Farm girls, don't hurt me! :-P     I'm looking for someone with a big ole lathe and knows how to use it. I need a handful of 4' long or better steel precision rollers cut. Raw stock will likely be 2" DOM tube or pipe at your preference. I'll need the first inch or so of both ends bored true to a center line and then the entire outside turned true and parallel to said center line. Precision is a rough term in all this. I only need it to hold a few thousands over any given foot. Plus end caps.   Any clue where I might find someone to do this that won't try and take my first born? Most everyone I've talked to seems to want more money than a nice kimber costs. I presume it's just a we-dont-want-the-work price..

if you care... generally, the 'lizard skin' is actually a shark or sting ray skin. its meant to feel sand-papery to improve grip when wet or bloodied. the 'hidden' style sword was a backlash by the samurai after they were banned from openly carrying swords at the end of the edo period. So, they made them look like wooden walking canes. It wasn't used for storage. If your dating of the sword maker is correct then the blade originated at the beginning of the same period. Whats all that mean? Edo started early 1600's, ended late 1800's. If it was made around 1640 then that blade was probably refurbished around 1870 into the hidden, walking-cane style. No one was really making them that way before the ban as there was no reason to. Do not try and restore the blade yourself. the steel is open grained and differentially tempered. in all likelyhood you'd only manage to trash it. You can however prevent further deteroration by not storing it in that scabbard, and putting a decent coat of gun oil or 40 weight motor oil on it. Do not touch the blade with bare hands! open grain steel rusts just glancing at moisture, much less finger oils. the scabbard was generally not used as a storage unit as it would collect moisture and rust up in it. IE, it was fine to carry it that way day-to-day, but the scabbard was usually dried out daily, the blade reoiled, and left in warm, dry air to avoid condensation. As for the short one, its probably one of the mass-produced ones from the war peroid. the cross guard looks appropriately crummy, and i'm not spotting any temper line along the cutting edge from the picture you posted. If you look at the pommel, you may see a hole that passes clear through. Most of the war-production blades had a brass loop that went through the pommel hole and was some times used as a laynard.. the short one is generally considered war-junk, and generally go for 1-300 depending on details. the bayonet i wouldn't care to guess on. the stamped one can be worth a large chunk of change; you'll have to seek out some one who deals in them specifically to get a valid ball park value on it.

punk-ass slut: Dislike #2 is common to them. Lutz's does the same thing. For that matter, I've seen that issue / 'design feature' with all the mossburgs. My 1300 does it occasionally, but its more the pump-linkage flexing outwards than a feature.. maybe some day I'll manage to fix mine.

yea well, they were on wheels now that you mention it... took two of us to lift them over the lip.

Back when I moonlighted as an athetlic trainer at local university, we used rubbermaid 55 gallon trashcans to mix up gatoraide. did some checking, turns out most plastic is already food safe.. if it has anything toxic (lead etc) in it, it'll have that obnoxious state of California warning label that comes on most xmas lights. So instead of spending $20 on a thin plastic bladder you can use once and can't move, get some cheap trashcans. toss 'em in the shower, turn the head on and wander off. Seal it with some saran wrap if you are worried about evaporation.

If you intend to handload, stay off the glock. They tend to eat brass (and are unsafe to reload for in some calibers and certain model numbers). Personally i'd get another sig 220. If you don't like that idea, CZ makes a steel-framed 45 as well that occasionally turns up. Very nice quality piece. 1911's are nice, and if its what you are used to then nothing else will suit. However, if you are just getting on the bandwagon they are bulky, they have a unique field strip manual, and limited capacity. on the same level as the glock you also have the s&w m&p's which can get you up to 10 rounds and may or may not have a thumb safety on frame. If it was me, I'd pick an action type. DA/SA : sig 220, maybe the cz. SAO : if capacity matters, XD-45. Else, taurus PT1911. Sig 220 SAO's are just too expensive for what they are these days. DAO : s&w m&p.

When I first got my sks, the gas tube was mis-sized for the gas block that was installed. That or the gas block had rusted and been brushed clean.. repeatedly. First few days it was a bolt action. All the gas was escaping around the block/gas tube connection. Never even felt the escaping gas.. my hand never wandered that far forward. I've done it without the piston a few times too, never had an ill effects from it. With the receiver-side plug still in place and a tight gas tube I'd imagine the tube would just pressurize, then release back through the barrel as the bullet passed. IE, do what it does with the piston there just without any motion. Its not like the piston makes any sort of seal inside the tube..

Thank you gents. Where is G&L anyway? Can't say that I've ever set foot in the shop..

I've been poking around and I can't seem to find any place that carries much in the way of ruger redhawks in the area. Any one got any tips? A friend is trying to tempt me with a deal I could-still-refuse, but I need to have some clue on a replacement bigbore..

Starting from the top... We aren't a free market. We bust monopolies. We do have regulation, in the interest of the people (some times) We already sell common resource to companies (FCC electromagnetic spectrum auctions) The market is *NOT* efficient. Individuals have been screaming about the risk, legislation was repeatedly brought up to prevent it and... these commodities and practices continued to record financial sector stock prices. The knowledge was there, but no one cared because the right voices said it was safe. So in short, we aren't a free market economy, haven't been for over a century and the reason you aren't mentally retarded from lead paint is largely because this isn't a free market economy. This debt market was snake oil, plain and simple. Lack of regulation allowed it, and the inherit risk taking 5-10 years to become actualized loss blinded the market. 1,000's of people have already taken their profit from this and ran. It won't be coming back. So what happens if we just let these things fail, let them fall on the ground? Right now US debt is heavily owned by overseas, national banks. They'd be writing off 1/3 or more of their reserves if we let it fail. Several foreign federal banks would fail. We'd end up causing another global depression. Like it or not, this is civic responsibility. Some one has stolen all the food from the orphanage. Do we cough up the cash to see the orphans fed, or let 'em all rot? People, companies, and national banks bought US debt, that was supposedly backed by our willingness to pay what we owe AND insured against a reasonable level of defaults. It was universally proclaimed as being safe. It was a pyramid scheme created and administered by our own people. Are we a nation that cleans up after itself, or are we going to whine, flip the world the bird and watch every thing burn? Are we responsible for our gov and its actions; or is it responsible for us?

Its all absolutely hilarious. Lavergne had a plain clothes with lights spinning at the one station that had any gas left. I'm not sure I'm buying that they went through quite this much volume. Is some one claiming the hoarding capacity of the general population is three (3) times their nominal use rate? Across the entire midstate? Come on. If the supply was this rigid we'd be seeing this happen every time it was predicted to snow or heck.. even the titan games. I know too many people who didn't go get any, or couldn't get any. I know its a bad sample size and all, but of the 7 people I asked only one got gas today. Then again, maybe I don't associate with enough crazy people any more. Can't quite see these stupid trends coming any more. **Country Gents** Don't worry, the escaping masses will wreck your decentralized supply infrastructure just as surely as the cities that were meant to handle 'em. Lesson is, city, country, suburbs.. keep your own stockpile to buffer out market stupidities.

definitely wasn't talking business. I had recently grown out my hair to about shoulder length. I'm an iT goon, and tend to keep it pulled back. He remarked I needed a hair cut, and that he thought I was an artsy type. I responded that I was an IT goon as a day job, and as a hobby tinker with mechanics from cars to gunsmithing. I didn't mention having a HCP. Nor did I remark on owning anything. His next statement was "Yeah, but I've always got my gun with me!". His remark seemed oddly off context when the last thing I had done was admit to being an indiscriminate gear head. Maybe its all me and I should just shave my head. Perhaps the long hair turned me into a liberal and going from social talking about family and who has had babies lately w/ others, to introducing me, to.. I'm armed, and you arent is just dandy. or maybe I'm just cranky. edit: I definitely don't hold it against cops in general. The clearly on-duty ones I've always seen be very professional. The more social situation ones has been a very mixed bag.

Howdy; I'm not quite 30, and have worked in a few jobs that were state/fed employment. These were life & death support (healthcare) that was public-facing. We were constantly coached on being respectful and polite, despite getting death and bomb threats on a regular basis because some one didnt like an outcome and blamed us. The last few times I've been introduced to police (not official business, purely social) by people whom already knew them, I've ended up feeling... discontent. I was being introduced by someone they already knew, and my attempts at finding common ground / conversation with them were rebuffed. Typically the rebuffing has been highlighting that they have more influence, or expanded 'rights' above me. My openers had been of the 'How about that?' or 'What do you think on this?' lines. Frequently I have been (badly and inaccurately) stereotyped. All of the gentlemen where over 40, and had fewer than 3 stripes on their arms. My question is, having been in public service of a different type.. whats going on?? Why the devisiveness? I had the impression that PD's where supposed to be about community and not just armed guards. My public service experience was the opposite.. build bridges, find common ground.. not saying we all did, just that it was coached and the worest offenders got repremanded frequently on it. Am I unlucky? Is it this common? Or is it the good cops get promoted out of the public contact roles and into vice/drug/investigation? I'm not meaning to be rude or insulting. I'm just honestly curious if its seen from the inside or am I just nutts?

A brief history of Bob Pope's show... It used to be the biggest, badest, bestest show in TN.. and drew people from other states. It used to completely fill the symrna expo center. No, not the old walmart. The Expo center. Which is now a mac truck dealership. What happened? Well, Bob Pope is getting on in his years.. and at some point the expo center changed hands and the new owners didn't much like gunshows. After being interrupted from their schedule for 2 cycles I think it was (they were having a show about 4 times a year back then) things weren't lookin so hot. They relocated to the old walmart in smyrna for a few shows, and the attendance picked back up. But the location just wasn't big enough. I think they used it for maybe a year before moving on to its current roost, the ag center. The goodman show had always been a competitor.. but not much of one. Too much riff-raff, too many mediocore vendors. Pope's show had a few good runs at the ag center. But it slowly reduced the number of shows per year. Much of the staff who used to run it got too old to partake any more.. and didnt have much interest in doing more than 2 a year. RK shows took over at smyrna, and did more of them. While it has alot of milsurp gear to it, it was consistent and frequent. Slowly, it attracted more of Pope's vendors who wanted to show more often than once per 6 months. Eventually Goodman and RK set their schedules to go head-to-head with Pope. That was about 3 shows ago. And the vendors left in droves for the other shows. And thats how we got here.