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  Ah, of course. I was thinking of some kind of stringed thing. Thanks.   - OS

What is a "plastic swab loop"?   - OS

  You were expecting Shakespeare in a shoot 'em up?   I liked Butler in the role, in pretty much same vein as Law Abiding Citizen.   - OS

  Yup, rollicking enjoyable actioner, especially on big screen, which I don't see much.   - OS

  Pick up some strapping, connector buckles and cinch buckle, couple of hooks to make your own? Probably only about $20. What's your time worth? ;)   These guys seems to have it all.   http://www.albest.com/   - OS

  Prolly 'bout same, have only used the Decelerator. A slip on, at that. Worked a treat on my Marlin .30-30. (yes, I'm a wimp). Maybe oddly though, I can tolerate my 870 shottie okay with just factory butt pad, as long as I hold it nice and tight. I do have some Nobel Sport buckshot that would make me add one though, if I shot that very much, or if I went to 3" shells I guess.   Opinion on the two seems about 50/50 too:   https://www.google.com/search?q=limbsaver+vs+decelerator&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a   - OS

  Protest in TN too:   http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/12/peta-other-groups-protesting-frog-gigging-fundraiser-in-tennessee/2512969/   - OS

  Oh, I doubt it. They're fine pistols, just a glitch that happens. I assume there will be some kind of strike mark on them to indicate the fix, which will make them same as the continuing run.   'Course I don't much believe in dumping one serviceable gun just to get another, I just add to them.   - OS

If easily available and affordable ammo doesn't free up,  I expect ARs to start selling for scrap steel prices at some point.   - OS

  Yeah, selling it in known potentially unsafe condition will surely get a higher price.   - OS

  Yes, I know. The bullet in the steel cased Monarch .223 is bi metal, guess I could have been more clear. Actually, I don't know of a Russian steel case offering that isn't.   - OS

  I've eaten four or five, cooked different ways, all were fine.  They're actually very lean, all that fat comes off attached to the skin, it's like a hard spongy suet. Lots of viscera best I remember too,  to process all that quantity of veggie matter they consume. You wind up with a lot less hog than you start with. :)   Whistle pig was a staple in poor Appalachia, actually all over the South at least, especially during the Depression. I know my Dad grew up eating them in south Georgia.   I never killed them myself when I lived out in the boonies,  our dogs did -- I just didn't let some them go to waste if I got em fresh from the kill. I've always liked them, and didn't begrudge them the garden spoils;  matter of fact they didn't ever seem to hit it very hard, and we seemed to have a pretty good population of them for the rather limited cleared areas we had.   Then again, our master gardening plan was planting a large one, taking very little care of it, and harvesting whatever survived, which was always plenty enough.   - OS

Ditto on handgunlaw. us   Direct to TN PDF is:   http://www.handgunlaw.us/states/tennessee.pdf   There is a 2010 sticky here onsite:   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/14294-where-am-i-forbidden-to-carry-my-firearm-as-a-permit-holder-in-tennessee/   Still accurate enough, I think.   Two things you may not find at either place is the fact that you may also, with a permit:   - carry a long gun in vehicle loaded, but not with one in chamber. - have or leave loaded firearm in your privately owned vehicle in any public or private parking lot, regardless of signage, as long as it it is not observable. This includes school property. However, this still does not specifically prevent your being fired or expelled for it.   - OS

  Been mentioned twice -- what was his stumble?   - OS

  Didn't see Monarch mentioned anywhere, but yeah, the .223 is bimetal like all the rest of the Russian steel. Not sure which factory actually makes it  lately (some say Barnaul ) but it's also the last lacquer coated steel I still see for sale anywhere. There's also a copper cased version too, dunno what the bullet is in those.   - OS

  I've used the razor knife blade for my three, seen on a YouTube vid when I tackled first one, works fine. Doubt if I would have thunk of that myself, at least right off the bat.   I've also used a large clear plastic bag working on stuff that can fly away. Most of the time, anyway. I did lose a buffer retainer spring somehow or another once. I mean, like gone forever, too.   - OS

  Taint so Mark, most of the funding for ACA would require amending or repealing the Act itself. The only thing that "defunding" can do is nuke some of the seed money from the discretionary fund to promote and support organizational stuff:   Ongoing funding of ACA is accomplished first of all, by the individual and employer mandate penalty, then: +.9% Increase in Medicare Tax Rate (plus next item…)   3.8% New Tax on unearned income for high-income taxpayers= $210.2 billion ($200,000 for individual and $250,000 for joint filers)  New Annual Fee on health insurance providers = $60 billion (For calculation - Sec 9010 ( B) of the PPACA.)[1] 40% New Tax on health insurance policies which cost more than $10,200 for an individual or $27,500 for a family, per year = $32 billion (inland tax as opposed to an importation tax) New Annual Fee on manufacturers and importers of branded drugs = $27 billion (For calculation - Sec 9008 ( B) of the PPACA)[2] 2.3% New Tax on manufacturers and importers of certain medical devices = $20 billion +2.5% Increase (7.5% to 10%) in the Adjusted Gross Income floor on medical expenses deduction = $15.2 billion Limit annual contributions to $2,500 on flexible spending arrangements in cafeteria plans (plans that allow employees to choose between different types of benefits) = $13 billion All other revenue sources = $14.9 billion (this is perhaps what could be cut in budgetary "defunding) 10% New Tax imposed on each individual for whom “indoor tanning services” are performed. 3.8% New Tax on investment income. Includes: gross income from interest, dividends, royalties, rents, and net capital gains. Investment income does not include interest on tax-exempt bonds, veterans’ benefits, excluded gain from the sale of a principle residence, distributions from retirement plans, or amounts subject to self-employment taxes. (The lesser of net investment income or the excess of modified Adjusted Gross Income over a the dollar amount at which the highest income tax bracket, typically $250,000 for married filing jointly and $200,000 filing as an individual).   Everything in that list would take amendments to the act itself and are not controlled by line items in the budget.   - OS

  Mossberg replaced my Plinkster 802 rifle with a new one with different serial number, shipped it to my door.   - OS

  The "Freedom to Fish Act" is a two year moratorium on actions the COE was implementing on the Cumberland River Basin  -- it's not permanent, so this issue is not necessarily a done deal, btw.     - OS

Well, Hussein's purple throbber turned into limp noodle overnight.   "I have the authority" has changed overnight to "I'll ask Congress". In another two weeks or so.   This man's fecklessness never ceases to amaze me. I guess Valerie Jarrett changed her mind.   - OS

  They've spent more on coaches since Phil than the state's yearly GDP.   - OS

  C'mon...Lamar will win big.   The last TN Senator to lose reelection bid in primary was Ross Bass in 1968, and the last to actually lose in the general was Sasser in '96. Both Dems.   Matter of fact the only Republican to ever lose reelection seems to have been Bill Brock in '78, in the general. Lamar ain't gonna be the first to lose the primary or the second to lose the general.   - OS

Put a Pachmayr Decelerator pad on it -- good as anything out there IMO.   - OS

  He just can't do it, ego won't allow it now. It doesn't much matter what the real objective is anymore, except BHO having to show his hard dick now that he's opened his loose mouth over and over.   And of course now that BHO has basically told the objective what we'll do, what we won't do, when we'll do it, how long we'll do it, and even what we'll use, it's obviously symbolic now. Except it'll of course kill a bunch of civilians, for just that much more propaganda and hatred from the entire Muslim world.   - OS

Seen the vid before.   Well, it doesn't much matter what the real objective is anymore, except BHO having to show his hard dick now that he's opened his loose mouth over and over. Of course, Dubya's dick was only reason for Iraq too.   And of course now that BHO has basically told the objective what we'll do, what we won't do, when we'll do it, how long we'll do it, and even what we'll use, it's obviously symbolic now. Except it'll of course kill a bunch of civilians, for just that much more propaganda and hatred from the entire Muslim world.   - OS