Oh Shoot

It's true that I was involved in the 60's enough to not remember them very clearly. The 70's are relatively hazy in that aspect, too. - OS

What did I miss? - OS

Well, let me know when you find that "less expensive" ammo. Even bulk .22 is up to about 4¢/round. Cheap .223 around a quarter a pop. Maybe you should get a Mosin, even though it's not semi-auto. Under .20/round, plus you won't shoot much of it at a time. Maybe a HiPoint 995. Rifle is $250, 9mm not too pricey compared to much of it. - OS

Awesome responsibility, but I would make that sacrifice for the good of the nation. - OS

You could just use a $20 slip on Pachmayr Decelerator yourself. They are really really nice. - OS

Yah, all the US ammo makers maximize that profit by shorting us of that 9 grains of lead/jacketing per bullet on the range stuff. I guess it adds up for the bean counters. - OS

I'm afraid that is a common urban legend. Coral snake has fangs in the front. I can point you to any number of references but it's the fact. You're correct that they are shorter and grooved. They also are always erect, not folded back like pit viper fangs. The biggest difference is that the venom is not "pumped" but "secreted", and doesn't happen instantly as with pit vipers, so it must hold on for a little bit, rather than a lightening fast strike to deliver it. There is, but no coral snake antivenin has been produced in some time, and the current stocks all expire this year. There is no further production currently planned. And according to FDA, that current expiration date has been extended from the old stock that had a previous expiration date. Expiration Date Lot 4030026 - North American Coral Snake Antivenin (Micrurus fulvius) (Equine) Color me dubious on that one. - OS

Hard to turn down the company of the ever august group of Norrisites. DOES look like could be quite wet, though...if it doesn't look like constant rain around 11 I'll probably show... - OS

Few general tips, regardless of imaging program used. - Save original picture file, whatever format it is in, untouched. - Do NOT work with pic with multiple resaves in JPEG; use TIFF or PSD (PSD will often be significantly smaller). You can use compressed TIFF (LZW) but takes longer to open and may not open in some older editing programs). Everytime you close a JPEG, reopen, edit, and resave, you corrupt image more. JPEG should be a final output option only, and even then best only for onscreen use. (JPEG achieves smaller image size by throwing away information - and of course you can vary the JPEG quality setting, but it looses info at all settings). TIFF, PSD, even the clunky old BMP are non-lossy formats. Disk space is the cheapest part of computing. - Always resample (resize in pixels) DOWNward. You can't really upsize ("uprez") very much ... interpolated (made-up) pixels simply smooth but soften image. - Don't use sharpening/unsharp mask until last step at actual output size. Save your edited pic in TIFF or PSD unsharpened. Sharpening is an undoable function, and of course the same level of sharpening affects different size pics differently. Best to not use in-camera sharpening unless you expect to use image as is out of the cam. - For printing purposes, 220 ppi (pixels per inch at actual print size) is good guideline, though you may see improvements up to 300 ppi depending on printer. Printer rez is determined by total pixels in image constrained to whatever paper size. x number of total pixels achieve higher rez the smaller the area they are constrained to: (1200 x 800 pixel image = 100 ppi @ 12x8 inches, 150ppi @ 8x5 inches, 240ppi @ 5 x 3 inches) - Which should tell you that you need a higher rez image to begin with if you want to print larger sizes. - "inches" have no meaning to an onscreen image. Only pixels have meaning. A 1600 x 1200 pixel image is just that. It will appear as a different physical size on different monitors all depending on physical size of monitor and the pixel resolution set ON that monitor, but in all cases, the image is still 1600 x 1200 pixels. "Inches" only has meaning in printing to physical media. - OS

Funny you should ask: http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/handguns/39874-opinions-ruger-sp101-357-a.html - OS

General idea of range: Was walking through woods with some friends in the country out from Birmingham last summer, looking for John Henry's grave on a GeoCache, friend mentions their dogs had killed a coral snake before, I poo pooed the notion, then looked at a couple of maps later. See that spot in the center of 'Bama? - OS

Ba da BING. - OS

Weird to see one in winter. Maybe it just didn't hatch. At any rate, they are just botfly larvae (horsefly, deer fly, etc, not sure which one), and as ugly and big as they are, they only embed under the squirrel's skin, I've never noticed them affecting the meat at all. Seems like MOST of the spring squirrels I used to shoot as a kid/young man had them. - OS

If you're gonna settle for a center single attached model, the Sto n Go works as well or better than most. The leather is pretty gentle on the little Kahr also. I used the WalkAbout for a while, which is the Sto n Go with additional mag pouch: but the extra bulk/weight of the mag part wasn't as comfy or as stable as the Sto n Go alone, another of which I used pretty successfully for a while with the much heavier SP101 (also an old Charter wheelie shown): - OS

You can bare legs too. Is this a great country, or what? - OS

Scarlet Kingsnake often assumed to be coral snake, too. There are several milk snakes, sub species of king snake family, and the eastern one which we have here, looks coral snake-esque, also, although it's usually not nearly as bright. - OS

Not in Ft. Sanders. Unless they REALLY mark it - there were 15 pairs up there at one place on 15th St. (actually, James Agee St. now) Was back around xmas, figgered it was done during winter commencement. - OS

You'll generally see some over in Ft. Sanders area here in Knoxville after graduations, so I guess it's caught on with college kids too. - OS

Try the "Help>How To's" in the program menu. And comfort yourself that Elements is but a subset of the full program. - OS

Yeah, I remember that from reading other forums. Shows ya what's it's likely worth when Robert Cooper issues an opinion here, eh? - OS

Apparently, it's not illegal in Wisconsin, at least on state level. Indeed, it's listed as an "open carry friendly" state at opencarry.org. "Open carry permitted by state law without license, but either lacks preemption or does not allow unlicensed open carry inside a vehicle." - OS

But these go up to eleven. - OS

Well, he "became" a Christian, but never gave up pagan homages either. The consummate politician, the more gods the better. It was during his reign that dates of Christmas and Easter became set, which mainly incorporated Christianity into the existing pagan festival dates of the winter solstice and spring equinox. This allowed everyone, regardless of faith, to take the same days off from work. - OS

What is MFM? - OS

Wait a while, I'm sure you will. - OS