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I don't think that rusty mosin you've been working on will need any of that ...

Interarms bought most of the surplus Enfields during the 50's and 60's. By the time the GCA act of 1968 was passed, they owned more Enfields than anyone else in the world. Even today, the primary market for these rifles is here in the USA ...

The problem with all of these cheap blasters is the nozzle and inserts they use. Any media which is even close to aggressive will wear the inserts out quickly, sometimes in minutes. Be prepared to either buy a lot of spares, or look at better blast systems with hardier nozzle materials.

I haven't bought anything from them in some time, since they purchased the last of the Burns M39's in fact. My limited dealings with them have all been good, however I always knew I was buying surplus milsurps and didn't expect pristine rifles. In fact, on several occasions I specifically requested wartime stocks, as the bumps and bruises acquired through the ages have always had greater appeal to me ...

While I agree that inflation has made the 60's era prices of old milsurps seem more attractive than they really are, I was curious if your comparison of $100 in the mid 60's equates to $1500 today. After doing the calculations, I found that your example yields an average inflation rate of 5.1% over the 54 year period from 1965 to 2019. Using the more widely accepted average rate of 3% per annum, $100 in 1965 would be equivalent to $493 today. Using those figures, the typical Garand bought in 1965 has more than kept up with inflation, but there are many investments that would have done better than the rifle over the same period ...

"Nazi and Nip" ... sometime before the PC era I think ...

The late 80's were about 30 years ago. If you figure $190 at 3% inflation over that time, it equates to $461 today, which is roughly what Yugo SKS's are going for now. It's not too late ...

Completely overcast here. No eclipse viewing tonight. Still plenty of snow left though ...

He probably didn't marry her for her brains ...

I'm not sure why this should be a sign of the imminent demise of western civilization. There's absolutely no need for teens or anyone else to know how to use a rotary phone, these were analog devices which are no longer functional, as the phone companies moved to digital transmissions years ago. Rotary phones are a technology that has no discernible use in the modern world, it's akin to expecting somebody to know how to make a mud and wattle hut ...

Me either, and the world is a better place because of that ...

"It's hard to remember that your main objective was to drain the swamp when you're up to your ass in alligators".

I don't know Florida laws, but here in Tennessee, Sheriffs are typically removed right after their first felony conviction ...

What gun?

By that standard, Clemson was the only good team in the nation this year ...

It's not often you see somebody put a whipping on Alabama like that ...

That's easy, the Cleveland Browns vs. the Chicago Cardinals ...

The earliest known hipsters ...

Guess these two never got the memo about the whole drinking and carrying thing ...

1. Have whoever's name is on the title now sign the back as the seller 2. Take signed title to your local County Clerk's office 3. Write a check for title fees and applicable sales tax If the sales price falls below what is known as "fair market" value, you will have to prove the actual selling price by some sort of affidavit, the folks at the Clerk's office can explain all that to you ...

I also had Tennessee History in 7th grade, circa 1973, but I'm pretty sure we didn't use the Blue Book as a textbook. Maybe it was used as a supplemental source for the section on the government of Tennessee, but not as the main text. That's been a few years ago, so my memories of the text are fairly vague, but our teacher was a retired career soldier, having served as a Command Sgt. Major. His class was the one we had directly prior to lunch, one of his duties was to take the class to the cafeteria before offloading us to whoever supervised there. Early in the year, he taught us to march, we made quite a sight and got a lot of stares marching to cadence into the lunchroom ...

I don't disagree, but that's always been true. Professional historians have always had disagreements in their interpretation of historical events and even what those events were; as new data, primary sources, written accounts, and previously unknown details are uncovered not only are interpretations and viewpoints constantly changing, but even accounts of what actually happened in one era or another change. Many of these same historians have been forced to revise and update their previous assertions regarding past events, often in relatively short time periods. This process is an integral part of the study of history now and has been in the past as well. This doesn't imply that historians, like all people, have not sometimes interjected their personal viewpoints, opinions, prejudices and beliefs into their professional work, but that characteristic is not unique to later scholars only ...

No idea, I just looked at the course offerings and what the state now considers as required standards. According to most on here, I spent 33 years indoctrinating unsuspecting minds with leftist ideology and communist principles all under the guise of teaching Algebra, Chemistry and Physics at the high school level so I have no current knowledge of how social studies classes operate ...

In Tennessee, all high school students are required to take a class in US history prior to graduation. In most schools in this area it's normally taken during the junior year. Middle school students used have classes in both Tennessee history and US history. I've not been directly involved with middle schools, if those requirements have changed I'm not aware of it ... Edit, after looking at the Tennessee State Standards website, I see now that Tennessee history is part of the 1st, 3rd and 5th curriculum, 7th graders now have World History and Geography rather than the old Tennessee history class, 8th grade is still a course in US history.