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  Age, overall health, and sobriety level can often have a deleterious effect on that wait ...

I don't know of any type of insert or unit ID that was ever placed in that spot by the Finns. I suspect it's a old splice that has separated over time, the Finn armories were known to use square splices on stocks, and that location is an area known for cracks and splits. Having said that, I would be quite happy to take that rifle as a gift, missing stock splice included. :)

  Yes, and the "accidentally" funny ones are always the best!

  You're obviously not familiar with daytime television talk shows, entertainment TV, most pop culture, the internet, social media in general, or Twitter ...

Yep.  Google "Lady Vols" ...

NLRB rulings don't apply to public universities, those schools are outside their jurisdiction.  This ruling only applies to private institutions, and will be appealed.  If it holds up, it may ultimately force the NCAA to create a separate division for privates, as these actions would violate many current NCAA regulations.

  Get yourself elected Sheriff of Podunkville, and the Feds will gladly give you all that stuff for your new tacticool mall SWAT team ...

  And if you put a new cam in your engine that has a lobe profile that results in coil bind of the original valve springs, you will learn another new term: rebuilt engine ....

Any milsurps there, or other interesting older guns?

Nope, this is the way most people display their Mosins Until they get serious about collecting, then this BTW, nice job on the new rack. :)

 Good advice, as apparently this link is no more ...

  Ukraine may need their ammo at home, but otherwise you are correct ...   Can "glow-in-the-dark" ammo be used as tracers?

Interesting concept, but there are probably a lot of issues left to work out.  As mentioned earlier, the Wankel engines had inherent problems sealing a single rotor, and normal engine wear exacerbated this accordingly, You have to wonder how the designers will handle what appears to be a more complex sealing problem in this engine.  With many newer designs, longevity becomes problematic as testing continues, I doubt if these are far enough along in the testing phase to answer that issue yet.  If it pans out, good for them, innovation and creativity are great things in engineering, but the conventional V-type piston engine has well over 100 years of real-world testing and development behind it and won't be unseated easily by newer designs.   As for light aircraft, it's unlikely this engine will ever see use in that industry.  Any certificated aircraft must undergo rigorous, lengthy and very expensive testing before the FAA will approve any new designs being installed in factory built aircraft, and the market is too small to justify the (literally) millions of dollars necessary to bring something like this to fruition.  Small piston-engined GA aircraft are still running 1940's era boxer engines, with magnetos and mechanical fuel injection for this very reason.  If it proves successful, you might see someone giving it a try in the experimental category.

Does this mean that a disproportionate number of Sam Adams drinkers are gay, or at maybe just still in the closet ...

They do, and much like us consume every round they produce as fast as it comes off the production line.  Prior to the Great Panic, I'm told that they were importing the stuff too ...

Speaking from a US airspace perspective only:   There are several valid reasons why the transponders have an "off" switch.  On the ground at or near busy airports, it's often done to reduce the noise and clutter which is inherent to the system.  General aviation aircraft often fly with the transponders off when flying "VFR" in order to not have the hassle of dealing with the ATC system for pleasure or low level flights, this is of course not applicable to airliner operations.  In addition, the system sometimes breaks down, the signals get confused on the radar screens, the altitude info is wrong or conflicting from the encoders, or maybe the transmitter just has a "crash" and needs resetting, this requires turning the power off and then back on, it's usually done at the request of the controllers but may be initiated by the pilots to clear up issues.   As for "blips" showing up on radar without the transponder functioning, the whole purpose of the transponder is to help identify, locate and follow the "blips".  Primary radar coverage is very spotty, targets are often hard to see and harder to follow, impossible to identify without the use of the transponder.  There are many areas right here in the US where radar coverage is spotty or non-existent, some of these areas are found in Tennessee as well, especially at lower flight levels.  Even with transponders working, pilots are sometimes asked to "ident", that's a switch which boosts the transponder output temporarily to help the controllers find an aircraft on their screens.  Every one of these examples has occurred to me while flying recreationally in Tennessee; over the oceans in less-developed areas those types of problems are probably worse.   Transponders, aviation radar, aircraft navigation and the aircraft traffic control system are poorly understood by the non-flying public, that's completely understandable.  What's different in this situation is that the newscasters don't understand it either, and seem willfully obtuse in their comprehension despite numerous attempts by knowledgeable people to answer questions like "why can the transponders be turned off"?  After a week, the same reporters are still asking the same questions on air, adding to the confusion of the listeners in their attempt to create controversies where none exist.

  Now, I'm truly concerned.  I actually agree with Ted on something ...

  Pretty standard on all school campuses, warrants aren't required to search any vehicle parked on campus.  While I definitely think there are many reasons to downgrade the charges against him, an illegal search is not one of them.

  Thanks TGO, I learned a new word today!

  And this is different, how?

If watching news coverage of this event doesn't leave you completely confused, this thread will ...

  Nagant revolvers were never as plentiful as Mosin 91/30's, and weren't regarded as highly as a "stop the capitalists' invasion" weapon as the trusty Mosin rifles were.  In addition, many of the Ukrainian depots are tapped out now, the primary exporter of 91/30's is now the Molot corporation in Russia, apparently they haven't entered the Nagant revolver business as yet.  It remains to be seen whether they will, and how much the current political tensions between the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the Western nations has any effect on future exports of ex-Soviet weapons.

In November of 2012 they were still readily available from AIM at $99, those were the last big shipment of Nagants I've heard of coming into this country.  It seems the available supply of surplus has finally dried up, the only ones I know of now are those listed on the secondary market.  You find them priced all over the place, but $150-250 seems to be the normal asking price now.  As usual, WWI models are significantly higher.

      Trying to knock that average down a bit?

"A" Mosin?  There's your answer.   Buy Mosins until you no longer have any available space left in your house, then move to a bigger house ...