Sam1

I like composite guns, especially Springfields... But ordered an ATI Fatboy/ compact 1911 last year and you'd be hard pressed to find me carrying any other gun now. The main reason I stayed away from 1911s before was because of the low capacity, the fatboy holds 13 rounds in a really small frame because they double stack the mag. Stock, it was a little rough but I had T. Calhoun work it over and now I would put it up againt any Wesson or Baer any day of the week.

We've still got a few full trees, one of our biggest maples is holding on to the leaves like the darn bradford pear trees do.

  Last year I think he matched everyone up around the first part of December, as for a deadline to ship the stuff I don't think there was one

Looks like there may be a little bit of a price war starting up.  Seen an advertisement this morning for Verizon that you can get two phones with them now with 10gb of data (shared) for $110.   That's $50 less than what we pay and 3 times the bandwidth.     <edit>   Called Verizon to check on this and they are mirroring that "financing" scam Sprint started to do.  The $110 plan is ONLY if you make payments on your phone, you cannot buy the phone outright and then get the same rate.  So instead of getting a new phone for $199, you have to make 24 monthly payments of $25 and that $199 phone ends up costing you $600.  Two phones on that plan end up costing $160/month + taxes, not $110.

It'll definitely be interesting because that is a massive project, I just hope the guys aren't getting in over their heads as compared to what they are running now.   Hope they get something set up there because it will be awesome for us, but that's a multiple million dollar project and they have to compete with the Armory for a range & guns as well as Gander Mountain now for guns & supplies.

  Think Metalhead sent the username & actual to me, if not.. That's a definite need this year around cause most people only know who the main suspects on here are.

  That's definitely a problem.  Hopefully you get everything worked out and stop buying Glocks soon.

  Not sure about the generic gift idea, some of the guys last year spent some serious time digging through really old posts on the forum to see what the person could specifically use/needs.  That made for some very interesting gifts :)

I'd say leave everything as it has been, 'roughly' $25 limit.  Some people can afford more, some people need to be frugal... We all understand that here.   Everything had seemed to work out pretty well minus an isolated case or two, but I think even those were mitigated by others wanting to chip in and make things right.

driving an 850hp AWD 1965 Mustang   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIvTB_T7As   Not so sure I'm into chopping up a hotrod and converting it to AWD.

  Hopefully they're going to put more money into the range than they have into their website.

Love me some secret santa.  can I specifically have Gordon this year?  I've got a bunch of used stuff that needs a new home.   :rofl:

That would be great, the armory is over 30 minutes away now so we don't go shooting very much any more.

Hell fire this guy didn't waste a single day to get on top of this issue:   http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/05/Governor-Elect-Abbott-TX-I-ll-Sign-Open-Carry-Bill-As-Soon-As-It-Reaches-My-Desk

This was too funny not to share   http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c2_1415128140

It's from way back in the day, not because of where the polls were, but because the people running for election would buy everyone drinks and get them lubed up so they would vote for them.   <edit> I just did some checking and I guess it used to be so bad that some places passed an ordinance banning the sale of liquor up to a week in advance of an election.

    Since the gentle giant that would never hurt a flea (that had drugs in his system, just did a strong arm robbery then assaulted a cop and tried to grab his gun) or a 12 year old innocent school boy (that was on his way to get some ingredients to make a nice drug cocktail, was suspended form school for drugs, caught with stolen goods, tools and bragged about fighting and beating people up) stories have already been taken... The only thing that's left is for this guy to be a cheerleader from middle school that loves life, baby jesus and respects the law.

  I wouldn't have had to leave the room and come back, that's where they would've had a problem.

Glad the guy and his wife were ok.  Can't muster up any concern for the thug.

  Was with sprint up until until 2012, then they changed their discount policy - we were getting 25% from my work.  They dropped that to 20% then they dropped it to 20% of the voice lines only.  Then they dropped it to 20% of the voice line on the first phone on the account only.  So my 20% discount saved us a whopping $10 or so on a $160+/month phone bill   Sprint has always employed top notch bean counters to design their billing practices and could care less what the customers think.

  I don't actually mind a contract, the problem I have is that these cell phone bills have exploded is cost over the past few years.  Hopefully people will start participating in a mass exodus to the smaller companies piggy-backing on the same network and the big 3 will have to start dropping their price to get people on board.   Sprint has pretty much topped the chart on ways to pin people down now.  Have a great plan you can get 4 lines for $100; but you have to sign a contract and lease a phone from them for an extra $15 or $20/month on each line.  If you buy the phone outright or want to use your own phone, then they charge you a monthly connection fee of $15 per device JUST because you didn't lease a phone.  Want to tether the data that you already paid for?  that's an extra cost too.  So now you're looking at $160 for that service + the $20/month you contribute so the welfare crowd can have their free cell phones.   Can't wait until next month when our $150/month contract is up.  Will be switching to that freedompop $20 plan asap.

  PSA has AR10 kits for $629 right now - that one is about as cheap as you will ever find them.

demilled fully operational m1a1  cause everything else is meh   unfortunately I would have to hit a major powerball to even think about it   and yes, that's 100% serious

Glad he is home   What's sad is that this admin. has been so politically manipulative, that the first thing in everyone's mind is that everything that happens is because political posturing   What's funny would be is they thought this would actually help them somehow a few days before the election, after leaving the poor guy locked up for months while Mexican military helicopters were crossing the border and firing at federal agents and we told them just not to worry about it.

I don't much care for the snow, but we haven't seen a good one in 4-5 years now... would like to see one come through this year