Dennis1209

I might be wrong but, I think it was created to get more production out of the nation as a whole under the theory of people are more productive during day light. Without researching it, wasn't it created during WW II for that purpose?   But yea I'm all for it but it would create more headaches if states selectively opted out of it. Example: Counties in Indiana opted out of it at one time. How inconvenient would it be to live in one bordering state / time zone and work in another that opted out? Can you imagine the leading cause of highway car crashes changing from texting and driving to... Adjusting wrist watches and automobile radio clocks :ugh:     Yea I'm all for it, and while we're at it let's do away with time zones to! That would take a lot of guessing out of what "time" my favorite programs came on TV when they flash 8:00 EST, 7:00 CST, 6:00 PST, 2:00 A.M. yesterday International Date Line, 1:00 P.M. North Pole time...   I say we adopt Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in addition to retiring DST so we're all singing off the same sheet of music.

Regardless of the law, we like our snakes around here. Unless it's a cotton mouth defending it's territory around my pond and runs me off. Then I have a serious talk with it about who pays the property taxes around here.

That maybe but... How do you adjust it for inflation, after all, paper is paper :pleased:

I'm going through the exact same dilemma! I'm also wanting to do it on the cheap but...   After watching a Hickock45 Youtube reloading video where he compares the Rock Chunker to a Dillon progressive, I'm leaning towards spending the extra $100.00 or so for the Dillon?   I can just see myself down the road reloading 9mm / .45 and thinking, "why didn't you spend a little extra money on what you wanted the first time"?   That's just me.

With my brother recently committing suicide with a handgun. He not having life insurance or a will, living in Missouri, being divorced and our parents long deceased. I don't have to imagine what Tanker experienced and it's not over yet.   Speaking strictly on my feelings of the event(s) not taking into account the emotional roller coaster. I felt, and still do, how selfish it was for him to decide to take his own life, not have life insurance, not even a will for his assets. Without consideration he made the few of his remaining family members emotionally, legally and financially responsible for his affairs.   I can understand if someone can't afford life insurance, I can understand someone up to their eye balls in debt. For what it costs and the time it takes, I can't understand an adult not having a will to simplify the process and know their wishes, assets, copy of military DD 214 if a veteran and other helpful information and documents.   The only good thing that came out of the whole affair was, when I got back home I immediately got out my will and reviewed it. It was so outdated I immediately created a new one and had it witnessed and notarized at the Tennessee Farm Bureau for free with additional copies the following day. Mailed a copy to each of my children the same day, as you just never know. That was how important I thought a will is.   Sorry for your loss TankerHC and my thoughts and prayers are with you.

  Hey Buddy :pleased: 

I guess I'm gifted and acquired temporary ESP for a moment, but...   As the man was giving his well thought out oratory and the camera's panned some of the council members square in the face. I could visibly see inward anger and ridicule, Democrats by choice, liberals at heart, and a tirade and berating being forcibly held back.   Meh thinks a handful of conservatives in attendance armed with six inch plastic straws, some paper napkins in wee bits soaked in saliva and launched at subsonic speeds at the council libertards would open their ears a bit.

A very subjective question indeed.   Well over a year ago prior to the "crunch" I maintained what I thought was a good inventory of ammunition for my activities. A one year supply of the calibers / gage I most often shoot for IDPA, trap and practice (.45, 9mm, 12 ga.). I don't shoot much .22LR so I didn't even consider that, my bad.   My reasoning for a one year supply was I would never worry or be affected by another short temporary ammo caliber shortage. Well, as the months passed and I was continuing with my monthly shooting activities, it got to the point I had to cut back my shooting or completely run out of ammo. Fortunately, the .45 / 9mm shortage eased up and I am able to slowly start restocking another supply.   Fourteen months ago whoever would have thought we would have a very long term .22LR shortage and prepared for it? After all, you could find it anywhere on the cheap.   In a free society supply and demand will always prevail eventually. The problem seems to be government laws / actions making it difficult for production and business and causing panic buying and hoarding.   Seems like most problems in our lives can be directly or indirectly traced back to the government in one form or another.   So, to answer the OP's original question, it was a year's worth. Now it's ...  dot dot dot (mathematical symbol for infinity.)   A new song has been written, it goes something like this:   A hoarding I will go A hoarding I will go Hi ho the dairy - O A hoarding I will go  :rofl:

  Will we recognize you this Sunday at 8:00 P.M. on the AMC channel :ugh:

I've already bought two pocket holsters for my LCP, a Uncle Mike's #3 I think and a Galco leather. The leather Galco will not stretch at all after days of trying to stretch it wrapped in plastic wrap. Both holsters continue to stay on the LCP when drawn, so...   Did a little experiment. I like the Uncle Mike's so I went out and bought some sticky Velcro, cut it to length to wrap the entire center portion of the pocket holster, and super glued it on.   LCP come out each and every time without the holster. The Alabama holster Hickock45 uses looks like it works but, I'm not spending another dime for an occasional pocket carry holster. I already have more holsters than the wife has shoes and purse's :rofl:

This thread sure brought back almost disastrous memories!   Back in the 70's I was a private pilot doing my cross country as one of my final steps to obtain my commercial pilots license, I was not "instrument" rated. One of the airports I had to get my log book signed off at and refueled was the Nashville airport. I thought I would spring the bucks and fly my favorite rental, a Cardinal RG high performance jobber.   If memory serves, the cloud ceiling dropped to about 1,200 ft. with about three miles visibility as I was approaching Nashville air space and I was flying just below the cloud ceiling, when all of a sudden... These huge hills (little mountains) were in front of me, with some tall towers on the top of some of them that I could not see all of. The airport gave me my altitude and vector to enter a downwind to the runway.   Problem was, it put me well into the cloud ceiling and I was not IFR rated, had no IFR charts, never been to that airport before, had only about 80 total logged hours and scared sheetless and sweating bullets. The control tower kept asking me if I had the runway in sight and I though it was a joke, only gray white on all sides of the windows.   I finally told the control tower my experience and trouble I was having and fortunately got some "special" attention and landed safely. I really though there was a real possibility I would become a small little blob on the side of one of those little mountains that surrounded the airport.   I won't even mention the severe thunderstorm I flew through on my last leg from Little Rock back to my home base at Parks Cahokia Airfield in Cahokia, IL. Couldn't actually make out where the storm was because it was dusk and lots of scud clouds at the base. The overhead wings were flexing 90 degrees, I was bouncing around violently and couldn't even read any ADF / VOR (old technology) frequencies to dial in and go to my alternate airport(s).   Moral of the story: I was very inexperienced and "lucked out" big time. I refused to fly again for several weeks but eventually got back into the saddle again. So I can really relate on how aircraft accidents occur and what spacecial disorder, icing and bad judgment does.

  It pains me to have to say I agree with you.

  Was going to say never heard of him until I opened the attachment and seen his face. Yea, seen him in a number of films and thought he was a good actor.   I thought it odd at his age he died via drug injection. Most don't live that long?

Seems they're not for everyone. I too installed them on my G19 and replaced them with TFO sights. For a up close self defense scenario, IMO you can't beat them    I use my G19 shooting IDPA matches and at some of the longer targets I like the three dot system much better. Watching Youtube videos some people out there can hit small targets at 100 yards with them, not me. Maybe it takes practice getting use to them at distance or most likely it's I can't / won't adapt.   The Big Dot covers what you're trying to see and aim at.

    Dr. Dennis1209 stands ready to administer help to all Big Feet and boogieman basket cases :up:

I'm starting to feel like a popsicle around here lately, but not today...   Today as you know, it made it to 64 degrees here in my neck of the woods in the Southern-Antarctic. And what do normal people do when they get a break while the permafrost is thawing? They grab a buddy and go to the shooting range of course!   Shot my new generation three Glock 26 for the first time and it shot flawlessly naturally. Really like the Talon grip I installed on it so much, going to put one on my G19. In fact, the Kimber Pro Raptor II and the Ruger LCP went bang each and every time, and that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside despite the impending 4 degree lows for the next couple of days. Now I have a bunch of guns to clean tomorrow in my igloo to keep me busy while eye balling the glacier making it my way and global warming.   A buddy got a new Colt Defender that I got to shoot, that's one sweet shooter and perfect for self defense. I don't believe I would use it for my IDPA matches at the distances we shoot. At my age my eyes aren't what they use to be but, not only could I not pick up the sights, I couldn't even find them :ugh:   Igloo fever in Tennessee, who would have thunk?

I don't get it? "The right to keep and flying animal arms"? :rofl:

I guess it takes some people time to learn their lesson.   Last summer I was on my tractor bush hogging one of my back fields. In some places the weeds and thorns were 7 feet tall and loaded with all kinds of crap being stirred into the air.   During one pass I got two sharp pains on my back I though were thorns. Turn around and on the next pass got those thorns in the neck, next pass a couple through my jeans and on the neck and ankle, ouch. Turn around for another pass into the wind where I could see pretty well ahead of me and the sun was just right. Saw what I initially thought was a large swarm of mosquito's hovering a foot or so above the ground ahead of me and now to the left.   I'm here to tell ya, when you finally find out those be no thorns, it hurts worse. After the fifth pass the thorns left me alone :rant:

In addition to the above, common courtesy goes a long way. On occasion I'll get company over that wants to shoot and I don't feel like driving all the way to the range. I'll call my two closest neighbors 1/4 & 1/2 mile away respectively, and inform them I plan on shooting today so don't be alarmed, and if they know of anyone on their property hunting or out and about, as I don't want to disrupt a hunt or risk an errant bullet by a guest. I'll limit the shooting to an hour or two maximum.   They appreciate it and I get along well with the neighbors.

When you shoot a match out in the rain, you then really appreciate the granulate grip you get and it's not going to slip on you.

  We do our grocery shopping once a month for 95% of our food as well, it's almost a whole day event.   The Kroger's in Murray, Ky. puts any Walmart Super Center grocery to shame IMO. It's huge, very clean and has a much better selection of anything you want. Leaving Kroger's and going to Walmart is like visiting the old time confectionary's. :pleased:   Sounds like you might live close to me, I'm also about 15 miles from the Hazel, KY. state line.

  Actually I thought it was a pretty good movie. It's rare for Hollywood to come out with a good western movie anymore like The Sackets, Quigley Down Under, LD, etc. Those new renditions of Wyatt Earp were just mediocre.   Duvall is not only a gifted actor, he's one of the very few Hollywood actors these days I'd list in the same sentence as John Wayne. From everything I've ever read, he goes against the grain of Hollywood liberals.   When I read the title my heart skipped a beat. I though oh no, I'd be reading an obituary. He's one of my favorite actors.

Yea that's a bummer! In addition, there's a high tax rate on food here and if I drive the short distance to Murray, KY., there's no sales tax on grocery food. It was worth the trip, now I'll have to weigh any savings.

I have the same thoughts and feelings as most of y'all.   Let me ask this... Is all this wonderful technology actually worth it, helping us or hurting us? I just lost my Weather Channel from Direct TV because of a financial dispute, so, my commentary isn't going to be pretty. As previously alluded to, 95% of the channels are garbage, packaged to get the most profit from you and shoved down your throat.   Physical theft, that is robbing a bank, robbing you in your home or on the street and / or robbing you of your property has always been with us. Enter this new age of cyber space, where you can be robbed and cleaned out without even knowing it until it's to late, in addition to old school methods still used. A person with values, always pays his bills on time and has always been responsible can become an outcast and rejected for loans, credit, employment, etc. because he / she got cyber hacked. His / her banks accounts, credit cards and credit can be destroyed instantly these days.   Y'all probably have heard of many instances that's destroyed lives and the long periods it takes to prove your innocence.   My Direct TV bill is normally as much as my electric bill. For my part, it won't take a heck of a lot more for me to drop the Internet and satellite TV and replace all this wasted time doing something that is tangible and productive, like the old days. Think about this, it doesn't take a lot of imagination watching television compared to reading a book, agreed?   Like all of you, I enjoy satellite TV, the Internet forums, email and all the conveniences but, at what price?   Hello all the ghosts tracking me and reading my tirades, give me the Weather Channel back :rant:

There's so many possibilities that could effect the local or regional water supply, from rail road tankers derailing toxic chemicals to industrial accidents, flooding, earthquake, terrorism, or unusual acts of nature.   As been quoted so many times, "you don't realize how much you need and use clean water until you are rationed or have none". It would be great if a person had some prior warning to fill up all their containers that can hold water but, how often does that happen? Even if people had a few hours prior warning before something like a dangerous toxic chemical spill was headed their way. If it was a major spill and / or something extremely deadly / toxic with a very long clean up time. What's your alternative's?   There's no way the government is going to be able to haul in enough water for flushing toilets, supplying your washing machine and your bathing needs, even in the long term. It's a miserable experience to get caught off guard and think I'll make some preparations maybe next week.