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I've lost my only key to my 2011 Toyota Corolla. I've given it a month to show back up without any luck. It's time to go ahead and bite the bullet (see this thread is gun related!) and have one made. It's a chip key so it will have to be programmed. Any of you guys locksmiths by chance? If so, I'd prefer to give you my money instead of some random person. PM me if interested, at this point I'm in no hurry so you can do it at your leisure. I'm, in Lebanon.

I worked with a guy in college who had racked up several DUIs, so someone would usually take him home after work. I'm taking him home one night and he asks if we can stop by his friend's place so he can pick something up. As we get close he tells me not to go down the driveway, just wait in the street and he'll be right back. Sure enough, a couple of minutes later he comes running back with an arm load of beer that he "rescued" from a car port fridge. I have no idea if he even knew the people. I tried not to give him rides after that.

If there is one thing that I want to deal with less than a damaged house, it's a wife saying "I told you that was a bad idea."

What you are talking about here is the differences in a static (doesn't move) and dynamic load (moves). If the aquarium causes failure it very likely won't be instantaneous, it will be over a long period of time. Most likely the floor will hold the load for a year, or two, or five before it starts getting difficult to open and close windows and doors.

Only thing I have to add to that. Anytime that you buy a gun from an individual without going through an FFL you run the risk of buying a stolen gun. I have had an LEO run the serial number on my gun during a traffic stop to ensure that it was not stolen. Whether or not that is okay is a whole other topic. Just to be clear that has nothing to do with registration. All firearms that are reported stolen are entered into a database.

No. There is no registration in Tennessee.

I wouldn't do it without being able to determine what kind of shape and arrangement your joists are in. You are on the fringe of a safe weight. Also consider that when you determine the total weight it won't be as much as you think, if it's a 60 gallon tank you will not be putting 60 gallons of water in it. You want to subtract the water weight from area consumed by your rock and whatnot. The fact that you are placing it in a corner with both walls being load bearing helps, but if it's a long run on those joists I wouldn't do it. Figure out the dimensions of the upper level of your house, your joists will almost always run the shorter of those two numbers. What's the floor covering in the area? Can you remove a bit of it to look at the subfloor? You should be able to see nails in the subfloor where it is attached to the joists.

There are a ton of things to take into consideration. General rule of thumb is that you don't need to do anything structurally up to 55 gallons. It's all relative though. What kind of shape is the house in structurally? How long do the joists run? (The longer they are, the more deflection they will have) Assuming that your joists are on 16" centers I would figure out where they are and certainly center the aquarium over two of them. Actually, as a guy who has had many aquariums, I would find a nice video of an aquarium, stick a nice TV in that corner, and loop the video.

I had been working with fiberglass resin when I posted, thanks for helping me through that.

I'm sure there is a reason, but why only post pictures of his tattoos and no mugshot.?

Law abiding gun owners are being set up for failure. Someone who is attempting to lawfully carry needs to go somewhere that is posted they go put their gun in their vehicle, and lock the vehicle. Vehicle gets broken into and the gun is stolen. Suspect makes please deal and states that the car was unlocked. Like it or not these businesses that are posting are setting the wheels in motion for guns to get stolen. I'm certainly not saying they are responsible for the actions of others, but they create the potential for a gun to be left in a car when it otherwise would be on the person. [AND MY OWN RANT] How many people are leaving guns in unlocked cars that have gun related stickers on them? I just don't understand putting a gun related sticker on a vehicle. It screams "There is probably a gun in here, come take it!" And if there isn't, well, you just got your windows smashed so that the potential thief could find out.

The spacer is about the size of a washer and goes on the magazine time right under the cap AFTER the forearm had already been installed.

Scratching my head and banging it against the wall. I took this Winchester Ranger 140 (cheap version of the 1400) apart and refinished the wood. Apparently the forearm shrank up while it was off. I cleaned it good using citrus stripper and soaked it in hot water to get the old oils out. Then I refinished it with TruOil. I attempted to put it back together last night and the forearm is not even close to fitting. Sorry, the pictures don't do a great job of showing how it doesn't fit. The magazine ring on the barrel should slide right into the end of the forearm. It's not even close. Had I not taken it apart myself I would even think that it was the correct part. Gun had been apart for about 6 weeks. Anyone heard of wood shrinking up like that?

Coyote scat is pretty distinguishable. It will have lots of hair in it usually.

I still have the Knight that I got from you. It's a great gun, but it's long and heavy. The CVA is just easier to mess with.

I have a few different ones. My go to is a break action CVA. They are cheap, and just easy to mess with. They are also easy to clean. You want to make sure that you always get muzzle loaders really clean.

Not sure what the folks over at PBR are up to. A buddy sent me a picture from the local Walmart the other day of non-alcoholic PBR. I don't drink anymore but I enjoy a NA beer from time to time. Let's be real here, I never drank PBR for the taste, the idea alone of alcohol free PBR is enough to make me not want to try it (I image it taste like PBR, but worse). BTW if anyone is looking for a good NA beer try Wellbeing Brewing Company. (I like the Hellraiser) Closest thing to the taste of real beer that I've found. Their website can help you locate a distributor near you.

I recently went on a 10 hour charter out of Southwest, FL. While I'm down for catching just about any kind of fish at anytime, that will probably be the last charter on my dime. We got into some big Goliath grouper, but only managed to get one 250 pounder to the boat. Had a bunch of break offs that I blame on the tackle. Caught some red snapper that we took home that came out to about $200/pound. Honestly had more fun catching sharks and the Bonita that we cut up for bait than anything else. The seasons and size restrictions have made it to where you aren't going to be keeping much of anything. I'm at a point in life where I can manage to do some things that I've been wanting to do for a long time, and the money that is required for offshore fishing can go a long way towards other things.

LEO, first responders, and utility works are exempt.

I'll tell you what I think and it probably won't be popular. I spend a considerable amount of time in my car. A drive roughly 30k per year. I use my phone a lot in my car for both business and personal use. Now I'll knock on wood. I haven't had a speeding conviction in 13 years. I haven't been involved in an accident in 18 years. I drive in Nashville rush hour traffic several times per week. I have a perfect driving record. Do I talk on my phone while driving? Yes. Do I text while driving? Yes, but I do use voice to text. Do I look at my phone while driving? Yes. I also do these things judiciously so as not to endanger others. I actually don't mess with my phone at all when I am in rush hour traffic. Back roads with little traffic and stop lights are a different story, though I do pay attention to the light. I absolutely will not be that guy doesn't realize that the light turns green because I'm on my phone. I wonder just how many people who caused this law to come into effect drive the amount of miles without the violations and accidents that I do?

That's the saddest things I've read in months, just awful.

As a general rule of thumb in Tennessee, and generally any rural areas as well: the further you get from town the more likely you are to find thieves, drug addicts, etc. It's a trade off, but cities have rampant theft. Some suburbs are pretty void of that kind of thing, but I have no desire to live there. I take my chances in the country, lock my stuff up, use cameras as necessary, and attempt to have a reputation with that ilk of people that they are better off to mess around somewhere else.

$600 is high IMO. I'm paying less than that now to lease several thousands of acres. I could be wrong, but if be surprised if anyone is really interested in the deer. Fentress County holds deer in pockets, but the limits are so low in Fentress County that I wouldn't drive up there to hunt them for free. Pigs are going to be what people hunting that area are after. Please be judicious and careful when confronting trespassers, they tend to occasionally travel in large groups and will make your life miserable if they don't kill you. I would tell you to get to know others who live in the area, but that can go either way as well, there are a lot of people in that area who don't want anyone there who wasn't born there. Some of them don't have a lot of sense and don't have anything to lose.

If they are effectively keeping the riff raff run off I would keep them. The riff raff in that area is very riffy, or maybe raffy? Used to have a lease in that area, eventually left because of all of the undesirable people. A lot of people in that area that could care less about property lines and personal property. Think we were paying around $600/yr for 1500 acres up there.

Don't know, I liquated mine that I paid $70 for and bought a quality rifle.