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I'll take the Stoeger, pm inbound

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.

I'll be that guy. I think Bucee's brisket is extremely overrated.

This one is still available and taking up valuable safe space. See updates description as I am doing quite a bit of traveling this month.

I hate to say it, I bought that combo 10 years ago and I don't think I've ever put the TCM barrel on.

Me as well. In my experience it isn't cost effective to have barrels threaded. I'm sure there are instances where it makes sense but I'm just not that serious. I replaced the barrel on my 10/22 with a stock threaded barrel that I paid about $150 for. I wanted a threaded barrel for my 15-22 and wound up buying one with a threaded barrel and selling mine. I recall coming out even or within $50 of even on that deal.

If only this were threaded I'd be on it like flies on garbage.

Avid coffee drinker here who recently began a mission for the perfect cup. I began my coffee drinking career 20+ years ago not caring about brands and would drink about anything. (Applied to more than coffee in those days) but when I began drinking coffee I consciously stayed away from cream and sugar and took it straight, my logic was there would be times that those things wouldn't be available. A drip coffee maker and pre ground slightly fancier than Maxwell or Folgers have always been my go to. The past several months I was using Costco Kirkland's Columbian coffee. Pretty good at $16ish dollars (3lb) with a bonus old school metal can. I recently got a French press and quickly after got a grinder. I'm actually on my first bag of whole bean, I went with Kirkland's Columbian Supreme. Very mellow, not bitter at all. I intend to branch out and explore other coffees as well, it's somewhat of a hobby at this point. It's also pretty much my only remaining vice other than junkfood as I gave up nicotine, alcohol, and green tobacco years ago. There is something about the ritual of preparing the cup of coffee I find enjoyable, just as someone may enjoy making a mixed drink. I recall Pre COVID, World Market in Murfreesboro has a variety of store branded whole bean coffee and you could grind it in store, it was pretty cheap but I can't recall how much it was. I may swing over there sometime a grab a bag or two. As you can see in the picture below of our coffee bar, my household takes our coffee pretty seriously. I got my wife the Nespresso machine a while back. I don't need with it much other than when I'm lagging and need an espresso to pick me up. She uses it about daily making her fancy coffee drinks.

I do, and it's in pretty good shape.

I'm speaking of money kept on hand for day to day purchases. For me that's a few thousand and wouldn't be life changing if it disappeared. I would be much more concerned about investment accounts and long term savings, which would be subject to the same risks and most of us probably have these types of accounts. The only way to get around that is to keep your money in a mattress or buried out back in a mayonnaise jar. Which brings on a whole other set of risks.

I find myself using cash less and less. And as time goes on, I find that the cash that I do acquire piles up because I don't use it day to day. Which is fine because the easiest way to get rid of that cash is to buy a gun. For day to day purchases I have an Amazon Chase credit card that gives me cash back on most purchases and discounts on a lot of Amazon purchases. I pay it off each month. I carry my debit card as well just in case something happens with my credit card. I've accepted and made electronic payments via Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, etc. for items I've bought and sold here, as well as Marketplace. As a seller I like this option better than cash because it eliminates the possibility of counterfeit money. The buyer transfers the money to me via the app, I get notification that the payment was made, and we're done. I also remember making a few trips to buy vehicles 20+ years ago with an envelope full of cash and hopes of not getting robbed. Electronic payment drastically reduces those chances. I dabble in crypto, but haven't used it to buy anything person to person, and honestly couldn't tell you exactly how to do that. But it's attractive to me. Say I buy $1,000 worth of "TGO coin" (I made that up) last week and it's now valued at $1,250 (this scenario happens all the time, and yes, it also goes the other way). If I buy a widget someone is selling and pay them in that TGO coin I bought last week, I basically just got a 25% discount. Truth is that cash is inconvenient. It's much quicker to simply tap that card on the card reader and be done than pay in cash and hope to God that the cashier is capable of counting back change. It's easier than waking into the gas station and standing in line to pay to fill up. It's safer because you have recourse if you are robbed, lose it, or it's otherwise destroyed. Truth of the matter is cash has very minimal advantage over electronic payment. Thank you for attending my TED talk on electronic transactions.