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Still there. She is 10 by the way.

I bought a air soft pistol for my daughter last year to teach her the firearms fundamentals. She liked it and did well with the safety concerns so I picked her up a SR22 this week off Arms List. The first shot was dead center from 15 ft. You could not wipe the smile off her face. After the first mag. she said " wow that was fun" we spent the next half hour working on stance and the trigger reset. She is hooked.

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You tube worked for me. I pick up a lot more by watching than reading. You can learn more than you need to know in just a few videos.

With out pictures it didn't happen.:)

Food prices have been on the rise for the last couple of years. Meat is usually the most expensive items. I like other shop at SAMs. Not just for price but all they sell is "choice" beef. Most everybody else sells a grade below which is "select" beef. So SAMs is less expensive and sell better quality than most other stores. Walmart does not cut meat at their stores so theirs is injected with a saline solution(salt water) to preserve the meat for transport. You are paying for salt water. One of the things you can do to help save some money. If you use ground beef look for sales on roast or whole primales that can be ground. I used to buy whole sirloin tips for $1.49 an pound and have them ground to use for ground beef. They are at lest 90 present lean and with the help of a small home scale I can package it for what we need it for. SAMs will not grind them for you but everybody else will. Chuck roast, shoulder roast make good ground beef. Look for the sales and buy. Ingles has roast on sell this week you can save 50 to 75 cent a pound by have it ground up.

I love mine, broke it in as recommended by others and it is a lot of fun to shoot.

I get hit up all the time with the latest, "been big in Europe for years, just making it to the US" great program. I have developed a good response to those folks. I tell them "I will let you be the guinea pig on this. If a year from now you are still in it I will take a closer look at your program." This takes care of a couple of things. 1. You are not saying no, I am all for people trying to better their life and I do not want to discourage them. 2.I have yet to hear back from anybody a year later. Most do not stay in those programs that long. No to a MLM'er just means you need more information. So you will continue to hear more about it. Just something that works for me.

On the way to the beach one year in NC we passed a sign the was placed a little before an exit ramp that said "drug enforcement stop ahead" there was not one but they would pull you over if you took the exit. I pity the guy that just needed to take that exit for another reason. You never know what they are trying to accomplish with these signs.

Been borderline for several years now. I have stopped(er,cutback) eating anything white. Pasta,bread,chips,crackers and so on, all the good stuff. Carbs turn to sugar and park right around the belly. I work out regular and also take cinnamon, 1000mg. So far I have been able to stay off the meds. My wake up was when the doc said your options are diet and exercise or a shot every day. Easy call for me. Look up sermorelin on YouTube. There is a doc explaining how it works. I have been taking it for almost a year. I am 53, 6ft2 and weigh 204.

21 pellet buckshot.

The boy talking about his dad(sniff). The picture of him visiting his dads grave(sniff).

I do not feel attacked. I do not choose a car based on its color, I could care less. For some reason when I pick out my clothes it does not occur to me what statement I am making or a desire to express myself. It is usually based on weather and what I am doing for the day. If you asked those that I do business with they would tell you that I run my business how I see fit, I have been called a rebel by some. If you think looking different is an advantage you are seriously mistaken. If you are successful it is because of what you do not because you look different. If one follows someone in part or because they look different I would say they are following for the wrong reason. If one thinks because they look different they are leadership material I wonder why you do not see any Fortune 500 CEO's with body piercing and spiked hear. No need to try and rationalize your look. You have every right to look however you want and I have the right to think some look like a freak show. I think children that are born left handed and someone choosing to have a certain look are two completely different things, unless you were born with all those body modifications.

      The point that I am making is that it is dangerous to judge a person, much less an entire generation on a brief cut clip of a single moment. You might be seeing a person at their best, or their worst.[/quote] I never said I was judging someone by a brief clip. More like years of seeing a steady downward spiral. Can't really see how body piercings and such is a form of expression but it's your body can do what you want with it. Glad we still live in a country that we are free to do such things.

I did not live in the south when I was a teenager. I guess we all assume stereotypes. It may have started in the 70's but it sure was not as popular as it now. I wonder if you had a different home life if you would have wanted to mutilate your body the way you do/did. We all have challenges in life. My home life growing up was far from what I consider normal. We can allow our past to drag us down or we can us it as motivation to make sure the abuse does not get passed on to our children. It is good to hear about the relationship with your daughter.

I sure long for the day when what one does in ones bedroom is kept there.

I am certain that every generation looks at a few generations down the road and say similar, "Would you look at them kids with their hair slicked back, and their loud rock and roll music racing their V8s up and down the road, it is a shame, back in my day we only had a horse and buggy, and you were home by dark..."[/quote] Not sure where you were in the 70's but I was 15 in 1975 and NEVER saw anything close to what is out there now. The malls where I lived were not a place to go and hang out. I NEVER saw someone with purple spiked hair and black makup on. Sorry not buying that this has been going on since the 70's.

Try going to the mall on Friday or Sat. night. When I was growing up you wanted to fit in, look like the crowd. These days it is who can look like the biggest freak show. Between the spiked colored hair, body piercings and clothes that I would not leave the house. The total lack of respect for others. I fear for the future.

All I can afford.

I use an oil tri-stone to sharpen my knives.  I use a metal steel with very fine ridges that is magnetized for feathering the edge.  When I am using the oil stone I stand with the stone in the middle of my body with both feet square. This is important so you get consistent pressure through each stroke along the whole blade.  The oil serves to help keep the knife from heating up while sharpening and it also shows me the angle of the last stroke when I turn the knife over to sharpen the other side. I try to sharpen the last 8th of an inch of the blade. Turning the blade after every stroke. So my bevel is about an 8th of an inch on each side. The reason for this is you maintain a v shape on the metal and not end up with a u shape. This keeps you from having to spend a lot of time working the u into a v all at one time. Be careful using electric sharpener as it will be very easy to heat up the metal and ruin the temper and the knife will never hold an edge again. It may get sharp but will not stay sharp. There are many good ways to sharpen a knife. I recommend being consistent. If someone ever sharpened my knife I could tell, and it took me a while to get my edge back. As you wear the metal down wear it in a consistent way.  They always told me "you never cut yourself with a sharp knife" the idea is if your knife is sharp you need less force to cut something giving you more control over the knife. The more force you have to use the less control over the blade the more you will end up cutting something not intended. It took me several years of sharpening my knives a few minutes everyday to get a good consistent edge.   My first job was in an old fashioned butcher shop. The 72 year old owner on the 1st day walked up to me and handed me my 1st knife and said “ there are 2 things you do not mess with, my wife and my knife” I still have that knife 33 years later.

A dull knife hurts a lot more than a sharp knife. You can cut someone with a very sharp knife and they will not feel it. A real clean slice will bleed more and not hurt as much, but a dull knife will tear the skin more damaging more nerves. Razor blades are a good example, I know people that have cut themselves with a razor blade and not know it until they see the blood.

I cannot ever see myself using one of these. As a meat cutter for 15 years I was able to learn how to not only sharpen a knife but to keep it sharp. 2 different things by the way. Keep in mind what you may use your knife for. If you are processing a deer you will want a very sharp knife, for personal protection you want a dull knife. A good idea is after you sharpen your knife dull the tip.

I have a sign that I would post if I ever took the time to figure out how, so you will have to take my word for it. On the post between my garage doors I have a sign that reads " Prayer the best way to meet with GOD, trespassing a lot faster".

By then the damage has been done. The court of public opinion has already found them guilty. I have seen cases where the accused is plastered all over the news, but very little is said when the charges are dropped or reduced. The newspapers around here seem to be the propaganda arm of LE. They may not have a criminal record but it will still be very expensive.

  This ones easy. Maybe there was a change in the speed limit that you did not notice. Are you telling me you have never passed a speed limit sign, looked down a realized you were going a few miles over?  Here in Bluff City with the speed cameras on the 4 lane they had to move the 45mph 2 miles from the camera in each direction. So what has been 55mph for as long as I can remember is now 45. Guess were LEO set up their radar? Also there is a place were you merge from one 4 lane to another 4 lane. Not much traffic or activity along this stretch of road. I have found myself going 55 and above many times even though the limit is 45 for several miles before it moves to 55.   Anybody that tells me they have never realized that they were speeding "accidentally" either does not drive, has never driven or is not being honest.