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Because of the way they are made they have the potential to last much longer than other brands, plus the overall craftsmanship is just better. Most campers will have a rubber membrane roof with 1/4 OSB underneath. The sun reeks havoc on the rubber and eventually it leaks. The airstreams are built out of aluminum panels and riveted together. I would almost say they won't leak unless sustain serious damage by being hit by something. I've shopped some older Airstreams with the thought of building one out the way I want but even shells are often $10k. A used newer Airstream will run twice what you can buy a new "comparable" model for. To really answer your question I think it depends on what you are looking for, how much you want to spend, and whether or not you want a project. Expect to pay $40k+ for a 5ish year old Airstream that is ready to go. There is a nice looking 1973 model on Marketplace now for $12k. It's not uncommon to see Airstreams from the 50s, 60s, and 70s still in use, that can't be said for many brands. Personally, I would probably take a 30 year old Airstream over a 10 year old anything else.

Rare as hens teeth because everyone wants a 457 action. It worth asking, but if you don't find one just grab whatever you can find and sell the barrel and stock. I recently did this with a Lux on eBay and the barrel and stock brought about $550. eBay took what was IMO more than their fair share.

I can't recommend any particular models other than the ones that say "Airstream" on them, but I totally understand why you don't want to go the Airstream route. I'm probably going to offend someone by saying this, but they are all junk. Most all are manufactured by Thor Industries in Elkhart, Indiana. This is what I would suggest if not buying new: - if it hadn't at least been stored in a car port and preferably indoors I don't want it. - if it has the slightest hint of mold/mildew, or the smallest hint of a leak run the opposite way as fast as you can. Don't let anyone tell you that it has or had a minor leak and it's fixed. The only way to fix a roof leak in these things the proper way is to peel back the roof membrane, remove all affected decking, insulation, and ceiling material, replace/rebuild all of it. By the time you know there is a leak there is almost always extensive damage at that point. - turn everything on and make sure it operates properly. Run off of the house battery and connected to shore power. - make sure all of the slide outs work properly and don't have water damage on the floors and ceilings. - as someone else suggested hire your own inspector. If you thick you can DIY print out a check list of things to look at. - of anything doesn't look 100% right, run. - stay away from Camper World, I have no dealings with them but have talked with enough people who had horror stories that I will never go there. To sum it up, these things are rolling garbage and poorly made. Scrutinize everything. Keep in mind these are also expensive to work on. Best bang for your buck is buy one that is a couple of years old, keep it for a couple years and sell it. Rinse and repeat. You won't lose too awful much doing that and will always be in a relatively new unit. I've had one in the past. Rebuilt it twice and sold it after the 3rd leak. About to buy another to live in while we build. Wife suggested keeping it, I have less than zero interest.

Yeah Memphis is different for sure. Haven't spent much time there until recently. But the driving is wild.

1) I'm not above a white lie to keep a West Coaster away. And 2) there is an alligator population in West Tennessee.

There weren't near as many bad drivers here until the residents of every flippin state in the Union decided to move to Tennessee. Some of them I welcome and most of them I wish would go back to where they came from. People used to get under my skin when they talked about how Tennesseans were back woods rednecks. Now I just add that living amongst the mosquitoes, ticket, chiggers, poison ivy, rattlesnakes, copperheads, and alligators makes us that way because they are literally everywhere.

I'm finding myself in the need for a backhoe sooner than I thought. Also finding myself in need of a tractor. I have a good bit of sorry to move around and I've found that a tractor with a backhoe attachment won't have the power of a backhoe. So I'm currently in the market for a good dependable used backhoe. Once I get my backhoe work done I'm studying on selling the backhoe and buying a tracked skid steer instead of a tractor. Some of my land is very steep and the lower center of gravity of the skid steer would be advantageous. Plus, as long as you aren't doing row crops and have the right attachment a skid steer will do most anything a tractor will do and more.

Someone buy this please. I let one just like it get away several years ago and have regretted it since. Plus I have a thing for JM Marlins. But I'm about to start building a house and I'm unable to merge unnecessary purchases at the moment.

Ah, that sounds about right, just another way for them to weasel their way onto private land. Thank you for the explanation.

Can you elaborate on how it will give TWRA inspection rights? I didn't see anything that eluded to that in the bill. With the recent changes in the wild of regulations TWRA now has to visit the property and establish that there is damage before issuing a permit to shoot wild hogs on private property. It is believed in the hog hunting community that this is T-Dubs backdoor method to gain access to poke around on private property. As a landowner they can pound sand as I will not ask permission to eradicate an invasive species on my own property.

At first I was in favor of this, reason being is that most of this state is over run with deer. I figured that it isn't going to hurt anything to bait them in and take more deer out of the population. Then a friend of mine changed my thinking, reason being is that it takes challenge out of hunting big bucks and turns that challenge into a shooting fish in a barrel scenario. My proposed solution that makes way too much sense for the Tennessee Wasting Resources Agency to ever consider? Bring back the week long anterless season in January and allow baiting during that season. Also propose a one week pause between the end of the regular season and opening of antlerless. I feed deer in the off season and they will find corn piles typically in 1-3 days. Deer in heavily pressured areas may be more skittish, but I'm not really sure what else can reasonably be done to get them in front of a gun during daylight hours? Maybe that's where the spotlight permit comes in?

I have that same pistol. Had to send it back to RIA because it would not feed anything but FMJs reliably. They worked it over and sent it back, it's been so long now I can't remember exactly what they did but it performed great afterwards. My only complaint is my trigger is really clunky, but if it really bothered me I would fix it.

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I'll disagree with you on the small statement. A wise man once told me "you can do little jobs with big machines, but you can't do big jobs with little machines." I've found that holds true pretty well. My neighbor has an 18HP Kubota tractor with a backhoe attachment. I've used it a good bit. The little tractor is pretty limited on what it can do, primarily because of its light weight. I've tried digging stumps with it, mostly unsuccessfully. I'll soon be in the market for a piece of machinery, I'm thinking I'm going to go the tractor with BH attachment route, because I need a tractor anyway. I plan to buy the biggest one I can afford. Probably going to forego a hydrostatic transmission, I'd say that alone would get you a lot more machine for the money.

As far as using it for a search engine, Google would be like asking a crackhead for directions, while AI would be like asking a friendly police officer. I get the privacy thing, I'm not worried about it in the least for work purposes. My employer encourages us to use it and I'm not doing anything that's sensitive. Basically, developing training programs that every decent size company has or should have, which basically meant that AI produces a program for me based on a bunch of other stuff that's floating around out there and then I tailor it to be specific to our company. As for Excel, I use one worksheet to track progress across the company and have various formulas within that worksheet. At least one of them i would never have been able to write on my own.

Friday at work I used AI to write a particular training program from me. We aren't to the point that it produces a polished finished product in the format that I need, but it churned out a nice outline that needed minimum polishing and I was able to copy and paste a good deal of the material into PPT. I find this especially useful for double checking that I haven't forgotten tidbits of information that should have been included. This task alone, AI saved me several hours had I just built the same program from scratch on my on. On another project, I had been asked to produce a SOP for a project that I've been working on. I was basically able to copy and paste from an email that had most of the important details of the project with instructions to "write a SOP on this material". Once again, it took me a few minutes to polish it up, but probably saved me a couple of hours had I just generated the document on my own. So AI saved me at least 5-6 hours in one work day. Honestly, I'm pretty overwhelmed by my workload most of the time. I'm not sure how I would keep my head above the water without AI. I use it on more projects than not.

There are always naysayers, just worth the horseless carriage, telephone, and home computer. I have to ask the reason for those not wanting to use it? Gave you researched it, or do you just not like it because it's new? Personally, I use AI almost daily. I've found it extremely useful for complex excel formulas, one in particular Chat GPT churned out in seconds what would have taken me days to accomplish. I've also used it to write policies. More and more I'm using it as a search engine. I'm my experience Chat GPT has worked much better as a search engine than Google.

I think I tractor with a backhoe attachment or the way to go. A much cheaper option, that honestly I'm not crazy about at all, are the Harbor Freight tow behind backhoes. I didn't like the thought of having to get off the machine and reposition it with a truck every time it needs to be moved. Plus there is no way that thing has enough ass to dig anything other than soft dirt. All that said there is a Facebook page dedicated to them and they get great reviews by people who actually own them. Another option is a Chinese mini excavator. I know basically nothing about them other than they can be had for about $5k. But I imagine that with most any Chinese clone equipment you are rolling the dice, best case scenario.

Probably want to put a price on these.

I got a ticket from a camera in Oak Ridge 15+ years ago. I was on my way from the electric company to the gas company paying utility bills. I don't guess they thought they weren't getting enough of my money that day already. I do believe that most places that have tried them have gotten away from using them. They just don't seem to be popular with the people. Side note. The one that I got years ago in Oak Ridge, I paid and went along my way, I was indeed speeding. However, the way they had it set up the fine was $50 and if you were assessed with a fine $50 or under the city would not let you appeal the fine. I heard rumors that the city was being sued to change the policy, not sure whatever actually happened.

Dragontargets.com 4", 6", and 8" AR500 1/2" targets for $29.99. I bought a set of these last week and they arrived quickly and seem to be your run of the mill steel targets. They also have several other good deals right now. Shipping was $15. Can't go wrong if you are in the market for steel targets.

I got mine through Silencer Shop, but you pretty much have to have a local shop to facilitate the purchase. I happened to have a great local shop that works with Silencer Shop and it was relatively hassle free. Palmetto State is now selling suppressors and they advertise that they ship to your door, I'm unsure on how that works legally. I did an individual trust and the ATF typically completes those much more quickly.

FYI KYgunco has them for $230 right now.

When I first tried them I promised myself if I felt an urge to drink real beer after drinking NAs I would. I was never tempted.

I could have written a lot of that myself. Looking at 8 years sober. It's not for everyone, but I really enjoy NA beers. They have come a long way since O'Douls was the standard. Athletic Brewing Co makes several good craft beers and they are available at most grocery stores, never had a bad one from them. I prefer Budweiser Zero as a "yard beer" and they really hit the spot for that hot afternoon beer. I was hesitant when I first tried them that I would slip back to real beer, but I've been drinking them for about 7 years now without issue. Also, I'll have one or maybe 2 NAs in a given evening, and not every evening. As opposed to the 8-30 beers per night I was consuming before I quit. There are NA whiskeys out there. I've tried 2 of them (can't remember the name of either) they were both pretty unenjoyable, one moreso than the other.