10-Ring

Here you go. I haven't heard of the cigarette guns before. Sounds like those guns would have been made for the GIs directly and not issued as German service pistols. My wife's grandfather, as the story goes, captured this pistol and the rifle from the German soldier who attempted to use it on him.

I've played with AI a bit and I'm actually starting to find it useful as opposed to a gimmick. Amazingly, just a couple of months ago I asked AI to write a program for work. It spit out a very generic program that would have required a lot of tweaking to be useful. I asked the same of it yesterday and what it produced would really only need vital things like the company name added. The technology is developing so fast that just two months ago it was rather useless, while I could complete what would normally be 4 hours of work in 20 minutes today. For those who use Excel, I used Chat GPT today to modify a very robust formula. The formula in question recognized and performed a function with the character "x", I needed it to perform the same function for "o" as it did for "x". Although it seems that would be simple to modify manually, it was not. I entered the formula into Chat GPT. Chat GPT accurately told me what the formula would do, then I simply instructed it to "modify the formula so that "o" yields the same result as "x". It took all of 3 seconds to return a formula that worked. I would have likely spent most of my workday tomorrow trying (probably unsuccessfully) to modify that formula. AI is quickly becoming part of my arsenal that I use to be more efficient and portray the illusion that I'm intelligent. Don't be scared of this stuff. I can certainly see how it could potentially be harmful. But it doesn't have to be. Use it for good and make your life easier.

Yes. Being a late war production I'm lead to believe this is the case. Also the finish is consistent everywhere on the pistol. I though that if someone had attempted to strip it they wouldn't have given that much attention to the hard to get to spots. Really glad I didn't decide to go ahead and refinish.

Taking the plunge. Picked up a 301 with red dot for $242 shipped. 10 rounds of TSS at $50 stung a bit though.

Headed to Memphis this week.

You mean some people just get new guns and then let their old guns go instead of hoarding them? Weird.

15 years ago I worked asset protection for a Walmart in a small town. The manager of the photo department was a busy body who thought everyone was up to something. She calls me in a panic one afternoon and frantically says "help, there's a man with a gun over here". Mind you this was before public mass shootings were as prevalent as they are today, and I lacked the desire of self preservation that I have today. Knowing how the photo manager was, I decided to check things out for myself instead of calling 911 as she wanted me to. I stroll over to her department and low and behold I saw an off duty police officer that I knew. I told him "you aren't going to believe this, but..." He had just gotten off duty and has taken off his uniform shirt and had an Under Armor type shirt on. He apologized and explained that he had pulled his shirt over his gun, but it had ridden up. (He wasn't wearing a duty belt, just a regular OWB holster). I laughed and told him I thought that it was funny. The photo manager called me in disgust because she thought that he was one of my friends and I was allowing him to bring a gun into the store. She quit talking rather quickly when I explained who he was.

I've given up everything but enjoyable food and coffee. I'm done being a quitter.

Reading through this old thread and was thinking the same. Honestly, I think the last time I fired my AR was around 2019. My 15-22 sees much more action, if that counts. I do most of my work with levers and bolts. I don't use that AR, but it wouldn't be wise to attempt to deny me of it. My 80 year old neighbor bought an AR last year. Says he "hates the POS, but not as much as those "******* Democrats hate him having it" (his words, he's a character)

I got a recall notice from Amazon last night and told my wife that if humans that eat batteries are messing with the optic on my gun we have bigger problems.

This is what you seek. I have many shotguns, most much more expensive than a Maverick, but the Mavericks are great guns. I like them because I can beat on them and not worry about it and they get the job done. The combo would meet your needs well and is very affordable at just over $300.

IIRC they accept fishing licenses there as well.

I bought two at once at Academy, and that I think that is the only time I've bought a firearm there. I had to sign my name, using my finger, on an electronic pad and they were not satisfied until they could read every letter. They said that the ATF gets grumpy if they can't clearly read the signatures. I suspect this to be the truth, because the guys behind the counter trash talked the ATF and cut up with me while I waited.

I've heard a lot of bad stories about buying firearms from BP. Makes me appreciate the pawn shop I use for my transfers. I'm rarely there for more than 15 minutes when I'm picking something up, but I get using your gift cards. There was a guy I know , A couple of years ago I, I mean he, was buying a new shotgun. He had recently moved and though he had updated his address with the state, he had not gotten a new license that reflected his new address. This is totally legal, and you are required to change your address with the state within 30 days of moving, but they do not issue a new license. Though the state doesn't require you to obtain a license reflecting your address change, (supposedly) an FFL can not use your DL for the transaction if the address is not correct. My friend asked if his hunting/fishing license could be used as his ID and the FFL said that it could. My friend then went into the TWRA app, updated his address, and showed the FFL a PDF of the license on his phone and got his shotgun. Gotta love government bureaucracy. Fun fact: a passport can not be used as ID to purchase a firearm because it doesn't list your address. Travel most anywhere in the world? Sure. Just not good enough for ID to buy a gun, unlike a state issued fishing license that can be updated on the fly.

Yeah, it's not horrible. Just not something that I would get excited about or go out of my way for. I would eat it over McDs or Burger King for sure.