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By chance, do you happen to know the date on the receiver?

Did they ever give an interpretation of the duck quote?

Good choices. Now you need a Sako or 2, straight stock, then onto M28/30's, etc

The flaw in your logic is assuming that everyone has a credit card. I happen to know at least one person who has never bothered with one of the things ...

Except of course his knowledge level of milsurp firearms is so rudimentary he has no concrete knowledge of the relative collectibility of the arms he destroys, and the results are trivial in nature. In any case, what does his idiotic experiments really show? As for his funding, all that proves is that there are many uninformed youtube watchers ...

As for Iraq_Veteran_8888, please don't emulate anything that idiot does with collector firearms ...

The absolute best emergency kit is to keep a few spare $100 bills in your wallet ...

Next time you get in a runaway situation with the bucket loaded, just drop the bucket. Depending on speed, ease it down slowly. Keep the loaded bucket as close to the ground as applicable helps as well. Back down steep hills with heavy front end loads. I learned every one of the suggestions the same way you learned about the lack of front brakes on tractors ...

Easy, commissions ...

It's strictly on a need to know basis, and you sir, don't need to know ...

My new(er) ride has cooled seats. I never thought I needed or wanted such a thing, now I'll never own another vehicle that doesn't have them. It's amazing what we don't miss until we know such things exist ...

Any vehicle with no AC needs scrapping ...

I've visited the Dayton and Columbus area many times, been to the Museum 3 or 4 times over the last 15 years. I still don't feel like I've adequately seen and done all there is to do there. There's also an access to the old Huffman Prairie field on the base, and a downtown tour of old Dayton which includes several sites having to do with the Wrights. The airport south of town ( too lazy to look up the name now) has a replica of a Wright model B flyer which is periodically available for rides, or used to be. If you also happen to be into cars, particularly Fords, the Mid-Ohio Ford club hosts the world's largest all-Ford swap meet in Columbus twice per year, Columbus is about an hour from Dayton.

Every aircraft has a "best glide speed" which maximizes horizontal distance traveled vs. the rate of descent. This speed varies by configuration changes (gear, flaps, slats, spoilers, etc), weight distribution and several other factors, but is always well below "max speed". The procedure is to immediately bring the aircraft to whatever best glide speed is for a particular configuration, however that is complicated for the SR71 by the minimum airspeeds required to prevent stalling at various altitudes and will necessarily change on the way down. One source I found says the "glide distance" of an SR71, traveling at Mach 3.0 at 70000 ft. would be about 77 nautical miles. By comparison, the known glide distance of the earlier U-2 from the same altitude was in excess of 225 nm. The SR71 did many things well, but it was not an efficient glider, pilot anecdotes often include the word "brick" in their description of it's gliding qualities ...

Another one, from a former ATC controller, about a short exchange between an SR71 and younger controller: In another famous SR-71 story, Los Angeles Center reported receiving a request for clearance to FL 600 (60,000ft). The incredulous controller, with some disdain in his voice, asked: “How do you plan to get up to 60,000 feet?” The pilot (obviously a sled driver), responded: “We don’t plan to go up to it, we plan to come down to it…” After a long pause, the now chastened controller replied: "Cleared for FL 600" ...

I knew it. After all, I'm something of a tech guru. I know how to set the date and time on my VCR ...

Let me guess - you tripped over the cord to the dial-up modem again, except this time you managed to break the cable jack too ...

Spent a little time perusing the "deals", reminded me a lot of Amazon Warehouse ads, just moved to the main forum. A lot of hype to push out some of the stuff they can't sell ...

I would hazard a guess this is some of the Samco guns that Century picked up in their buyout a couple of months ago. Although they had several crates and pallets of random Mosins in their warehouse, the story was that many of the guns were in terrible condition and would be parts guns at best. I'm sure these that AIM has will be some of the better ones, as those typically get sent out first. I understand that Classic got some of these as well. Look for the "U-fix-em's" to show up fairly soon on the Century, SOG and other sites ...

Murg, a cursory search shows the Derby City Motorcycle School has openings for their Aug. 5th class, it's also a good idea to check with the instructors at the dealerships as they sometimes have last minute cancellations and will also sometimes take on an extra or two for the classes. Good luck with your riding.

Not as much as you think. Just an example, a full crate (880 rounds) of 7.62x54r weighs roughly 60 lbs. At 13000 lbs. (6.5 tons) that's about 217 crates, or approximately 2 pallets. There are a lot of people who stockpile those amounts and more ...

Since both the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong were armed by the Communist regimes, yes the SKS was widely used, along with the other arms available in the Comm-block world, including AK's and older Mosin Nagants.

Give this thread some time, some are showing promise ...

Murg, since when has not being a lawyer stopped any of us from dispensing legal advice? Loudly proclaiming our opinions as facts is a time-honored TGO tradition, except for Chip of course, who has a bad habit of ruining entertaining threads with actual facts ...

You might be driving it for a while then. 1997 Dodge 1500 4x4 5.2l, 360000 and counting ...