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Guns, specifically Mosin Nagant varieties made in Poland after WWII are marked "11", while those from Hungary are marked "02". A s far as I know, there are no corresponding numbers on the Romanian varieties, rather that country marked its guns with a Romanian proof which looks similar to, but not exactly like the Izhevsk crest. I have no idea if a similar numbering system was applied to ammunition manufactured in those countries.

Since when has any conspiracy theorist ever been swayed by facts?

Except he's Turkish, with a captured M91 ...

Not your typical WWI era soldier ...

Not much more than a child's toy, compared to the 800 mm Schwerer Gustav "Dora" ...

GJ is good to go, nice work and easy to work with.

Flightaware tracks flights of aircraft in the ATC system, either IFR or VFR with flight following. If you perform a flight in VFR conditions, do not file any sort of flightplan, don't have an active transponder, and in many areas of the country fly outside of radar coverage (either due to altitude or lack of coverage) Flightaware never registers or tracks your flight. As an example, try looking up the tail numbers of most agricultural planes flying everyday, they don't show as having any active flights. As for registration, a plane will show as active until it's current certificate is declared void upon expiration, that takes a minimum of 3 years, and the FAA's databases are notoriously slow to update. It appears that N5343M's certificate was in fact voided in 2013, at which time that plane was assigned a new tail number, 145AW, according to the current FAA registration database (both tail numbers belong to a plane with the same serial number, unique transponder code, and manufacturer's number). As for why a new tail number was assigned, who knows, it's not something that occurs every day but is not unheard of, numbers are sometimes changed at the owner's request, expired tail numbers may have been reassigned by the FAA, and some have even been known to change tail numbers after accidents, to make tracing the history of the plane a bit more difficult for prospective buyers. As for the Volant corporation, a quick search shows dozens of "Volant" companies across the US, and many aircraft owners set up LLC's to register their aircraft with, most for tax purposes but there are other valid reasons as well. It's quite a stretch to make these facts into some kind of sinister terrorist plot, you can find hundreds of aircraft across the US with either inactive certificates, sitting neglected on ramps and no longer flying, numerous transfers of ownership, registered under corporate pseudonyms, and having had previous owners who have become somewhat famous (or infamous) for various reasons. Somewhere out there is a small plane once owned by Fred Smith, of Fed-ex fame, and an unknown TGO poster who is decidedly contemptuous of conspiracy theories ...

The only thing that first post proves is that the author is clueless on how Flightaware, and aircraft registration works ...

Albeit one of us more successfully than the other ...

He's going to put his eye out with that ...

Just one question. Why aren't you working on my sheath instead of bumping old dead threads ...

Not caring for strawberry is downright un-american, and shows a lack of appreciation for the finer things in life ... and Cracker Barrel is my all-time favorite restaurant while traveling ...

I hated those things. My father made me pick them up constantly, although we almost never bothered to shell them due to the bother and mess. Mostly I hauled them to a pile in the field outside the yard. Today, there are several black walnut trees growing in that field ...

My guess is yes on the switch, and that the object mounted on top of the gun is a light of some sort. While I have no first-hand knowledge of the subject, apparently they adapted some S&W Model 15's for use by the "tunnel rats" in Vietnam. These revolvers used reduced loads in .38 special and were fitted with a cylinder-barrel gap so tight they had to be rotated by hand and were known to lock up after just a few rounds fired. Not many were made and proved to be an unsuccessful experiment which was quickly abandoned. I'm guessing this soldier is outfitted with such equipment.

It's a Rambler. They were designed for Grandma, who never drove at 3000+ rpm ...

Was it this one that kicked the number over the top for you?

How else do you get a rusted out POS talked about on a Tennessee gun forum from Green Bay? Effective ad, no doubt ...

I don't know about paramotors, but the FAA has approved a few instructors to give instruction in experimental aircraft. A good example is the Van's Aircraft series of planes, there are currently about 3 or 4 instructors who can give transition training in different models of the series. Insurance can be a problem, and probably limits the number of instructors more so than the FAA at this point ...

Can't we all just get along? I know that we all can agree, 9mm is waaay better than 45acp ...

15" tires are hard to come by these days, other than new. I had to purchase new tires for both my trailers in the last year, no takeoffs or decent used tires were available in my area.

When they start paying advertising stipends for stickers, I might consider using my truck as a rolling billboard, depending on just how much they are willing to pay. This goes double for political stickers ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-05/can-millennials-save-the-motorcycle-industry An article that does a pretty good summary of what's going on in the motorcycle industry, sales are at 1/2 of the pre-recession peak, the riders themselves are aging rapidly, and the demographic with the most upside in the future isn't very interested nor can they currently afford the types of bikes that have been marketed over the last 20 years or so ...

A chain like Bass Pro has an army of lawyers and accountants who determine store policies. These policies are designed to protect the store, not you. Given the fact that we have often discussed here how ATF regulations are interpreted in various ways by their own agents, is it surprising that a corporate entity is erring on the extreme side of caution? In their situation, I would imagine many of us would do the same ...

You can, in 2024 anyway ...

Made my own mount from some scrap steel. Not as high as the one you are talking about, but works for my bench.