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R_Bert,   My stock came.  It looks great - very high quality.  The gun is taken apart, though in putting on what I could, fit was perfect.  i will absolutely order from them again.   Two notes:     1. I got the regular finish that is included.  It's fine, though certainly not perfect.  Not sure if you have seen my posts, I like re-finishing stocks and am funny about them.  If I had it to do again, I would pay the extra $10 to come with no finish.  I'll either remove the finish or smooth it out with 0000 steel wool.   Is your Howa a really nice gun that you are proud of?  If so, you might plan on finishing it yourself or paying to upgrade to a nicer finish.   Here is how I would rate the one that came on it.  Better than what Ruger put on my 10/22 but not as good as Savage put on my 110.   2. Remember, your order will show a status on 'backordered' on their website, when they really mean that they are making it.

Bersaguy,  You and see see things exactly the same.

Completely senseless.  I read an article different from this one, which indicated that the shooters weren't charged.   Based on the article I read, the gun shop owners handled it poorly.  The customer paid $25 up front to get the gun that day.   Testosterone then got in the way.  The wife tried to get her husband and son to go to another room to de-escalate and they wouldn't go.   I wonder how it would have turned out if they owners said, 'Gee Mr. Customer, we told you the gun would be ready today and it isn't.  Can we make it up to you by waiving the $25?"  or offering a box of ammo or something. or, "We had the ticket marked for next Saturday.  Looks like we mis-communicated.  We want you to be happy.  Let us give you a box of range ammo."   Much of my career has been spent getting ass chewings from customers.  Not only have I never been shot, I usually don't lose the customer.  Though, I'll have to say that one guy threatened to cut my head off with an axe.  

Yeah, that little slick talking lizard is a real Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.  

All carriers aren't the same.  Part of evaluating them is using Google to evaluate customer satisfaction with their claims.   Years ago I fell for the slimy little Geico lizard.  They were fine until something went wrong.  Then, they went past being rude and uncooperative to being totally disrespectful. 

That sucks.  I can work from home when needed, though many don't have that choice.

Regarding a license, I don't think you'll have a problem as you meet the criteria.    Dolomite also makes a good point.  My experience matches what he said.  My second marriage fell apart when she decided that she didn't need to take her meds any longer.  Of course, you have to decide what is right for you.     Depression and bi-polar are the two biggies driving suicide.

I don't the common people for spewing this BS.  I fault the lying liars that tells lies and fill their heads with lies.

Welcome!  I like your taste in guns!

You are correct.  I'll be the screws I put in it are for a sling mount from another gun.

So, over the holidays I took apart cleaned and put back together most of my military C&R guns. So, I put the K98 back together and had a tiny pin left - got that properly installed. Put the Enfield Jungle back together and had an extra pin - got that properly installed. Thought about doing a trigger job on my 91/30, but was worried that I might turn it into a full auto. ;) After all of this, the screw pictured below is left. I simply haven't been able to figure out what it belongs to. The paint looks like the paint from the Enfield No.5 Jungle. It isn't the screw that attaches the buttstock to the gun. Can you help?

It's always a good time to buy an SKS, Mosin, anything C&R from Finland or some variant of the K98.

One of the funniest parts is how the voice talking to men is a cave man voice and the one for women is a refined English woman.

That sucks.  Drama aside, I hate to see anyone get hit that hard.

  Heck, it would probably taste ok if you put it in the microwave for 10 seconds - a true testament to artificial preservatives.

Honeybun yes,   Plastic wrap was invented in 1953.  I'm going with 1962.

Glad to have you.  You didn't mention where in MA you are.  You may want to be close to one of the bigger cities - Nashville, Chattanooga or Knoxville - if you are used to city type amenities.   I'm on the edge of Nashville and love it here.     I would definitely avoid Memphis, or as we think of it, 'Mogadishu on the Mississippi'.  Memphis is a sad story.

While I don't think it would be a good idea, I appreciate the politician's intent.  Journalists are mighty concerned about their rights, though their concern doesn't extend to others.  

good one

Glad to have you.

FBI official: 'Perfect storm' imperiling gun background checks Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY7:49 p.m. EST January 19, 2016 (Photo: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY) 1822CONNECTTWEET 4LINKEDIN 123COMMENTEMAILMORE CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — The surge of criminal background checks required of new gun purchasers has been so unrelenting in recent months that the FBI had been forced to temporarily halt the processing of thousands of appeals from prospective buyers whose firearm purchase attempts have been denied. Since October, the bureau’s entire cadre of appeal examiners— about 70 analysts — was redeployed here to help keep pace with waves of incoming background investigations that continued through December when a record 3.3 million firearm sales were processed. The transfer of examiners, which had left a backlog of 7,100 appeals, is only part of a makeshift reorganization that FBI Assistant Director Stephen Morris said has become necessary to handle a burgeoning workload that expands in the wake of every mass shooting and call for increased gun control that invariably prompt firearms sales binges across the country. “The last several months, we've kind of found ourselves in a perfect storm,’’ Morris said in an interview with USA TODAY. In each of the last six months, the number of background checks has risen steadily, according to FBI records, ending with December's record with more than a half-million over the previous monthly high posted in the aftermath of the 2012 Newtown, Conn., school massacre. USA TODAY After San Bernardino attacks, concealed gun requests skyrocket in area Since before Thanksgiving weekend, all annual leave for the more than 400 employees of the bureau’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System has been canceled. That Black Friday, the system was swamped with 185,345 background check requests on new firearm sales, a new single-day record. Morris said temporary background check examiners also are being pulled from internal construction projects and bureau divisions that oversee the gathering of crime statistics across the nation. The near-constant frenzy of activity within the FBI’s sprawling complex, four hours away from the nation’s capital, may represent the most compelling argument in favor of at least part of President Obama’s recent executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence: the addition of 230 examiners to the NICS operation and 200 more agents for nation's chief gun enforcement agency, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms. USA TODAY Millions of firearms records languish at National Tracing Center The new positions are desperately needed, authorities said, to support the seriously stressed NICS system and to prepare for an even heavier workload as a consequence of the central provision of the administration's executive actions. That directive would require an increasing number of private firearms dealers to be licensed, subjecting their customers to scrutiny under the federal background check system. Some of the administration's most vocal opponents on gun policy, including those who offered initial skepticism or outright opposition when the executive actions were unveiled earlier this month, now appear open to potentially adding the hundreds of requested positions that would require congressional approval. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, acknowledged in a written statement to USA TODAY that more NICS examiners “might be necessary.’’ USA TODAY Obama announces gun actions in emotional plea for congressional action Even the National Rifle Association, which assailed the administration's overall gun plan as "political exploitation,'' said that they would "have no objection'' to proposals that would both bolster the ranks of the ATF and the NICS system. The group, however, remained critical of the plan's call for private gun sellers to obtain federal licenses so that buyers would go through background checks. Handguns are seen at a gun show hosted by Florida Gun Shows in Miami on Jan. 9, 2016. (Photo: Lynne Sladky, AP) "If the addition of these agents are used to apprehend criminals — not to harass law-abiding gun owners — and (the examiners are used) to improve the broken NICS system, we would have no objection,'' NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker told USA TODAY. 'Delay queue is growing' Burrowed in the rolling hills of the West Virginia countryside, the idyllic setting for the NICS operation masks the fraught, politically charged debate that has engulfed national gun policy. The NICS system, mandated by Congress as part of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, has for nearly 20 years been a centerpiece of the government's effort to block criminals from obtaining firearms. Yet the operation has largely struggled to keep pace with a steadily increasing number of firearm transfers, while maintaining databases of criminal and mental health records that rely solely on voluntary contributions from state and local authorities. Those records are crucial to determining whether prospective gun buyers are eligible to purchase firearms. "We live off those records,'' Morris said. "That is our bread and butter. ...The misnomer is that FBI has everything that exists on criminal history records in some big repository, and that's simply not true. A lot of data sits out in state and local systems. Being able to reach out and get that information can be very, very challenging.'' Morris said it is impossible to estimate how many records could be missing from the system. "You don't know what you don't know, right?'' FBI Assistant Director Stephen Morris oversees the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. (Photo: Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY) Earlier this month, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in letters to the nation's governors as part of the administration's executive actions, urged states to provide additional information, saying the existing NICS databases were "far from complete.'' The letters also contained subtle warnings that the FBI intended to publish each state's contribution in the coming months. "The NICS is a critical tool in keeping firearms out of the hands of prohibited persons,'' Lynch wrote, "but it is only as effective as the information entered into the databases upon which it relies.'' While slightly more than 70% of firearms transactions are allowed to proceed within minutes after buyers appear at the counters of licensed dealers, according to the FBI, the records are especially key to quickly reconciling the remaining transfers that require deeper reviews of state and local data before decisions can be issued on whether guns can be sold. USA TODAY Gun license applicants get priority over federal compliance inspections Depending on the volume of gun sales, at any one time the queue of pending cases — which by law must be resolved within three business days — generally ranges in the several thousand. Recently, those numbers have ballooned as high as 13,000. If the cases, some of which depend on local law enforcement agencies finding paper records to satisfy an examiner's search, cannot be resolved within the three-day period, gun dealers are generally free to complete the sales. "Some (cases) aren't being looked at until the third day,'' Morris said, referring to the increasing volume and limited staffing. "That delay queue has grown ... that meter is running.'' Morris said that he would like to limit examiners' caseloads to two reviews per hour to ensure accuracy. But that number has nearly doubled to nearly four cases per hour. Roof serves as cautionary tale The enormous stakes are not always apparent, until the first reports of a new mass shooting echo across social media or cable television. No one recent case underscores the sobering nature of the work here more, officials said, more than an April transaction in South Carolina, reviewed by a veteran examiner at the West Virginia facility. In that case, which could not be resolved within the three-day period, Dylann Roof was mistakenly allowed to walk away with the .45-caliber handgun allegedly used two months later to kill nine people during an evening Bible study session at the iconic Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston. Dylann Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C., in this June 2015 photo. (Photo: Chuck Burton, AP) During the background check, Roof's March arrest on felony drug charges was mistakenly attributed to the Lexington County, S.C., Sheriff's Department, not theColumbia, S.C., Police Department, which actually made the arrest. The sheriff's department operates the jail where Roof had been detained. The Columbia police report included information that Roof admitted to drug possession, which would have triggered an immediate denial by NICS, according to bureau guidelines. But that information was never seen by the reviewer because the FBI's database did not include Columbia police contacts in its list of agency contacts for Lexington County purchase reviews. The reviewer did attempt to reach the Lexington County prosecutor's office, which was handling the drug case at the time, but received no response. "We are all sick about what happened,'' FBI Director James Comey said during a July briefing when the error was disclosed. Morris said the Roof case continually "humanizes the process,'' which mostly churns on far outside the public spotlight. "These are people who are making life-and-death decisions,'' Morris said, adding that analyst in the Roof case remains on the job working new cases every day. Given the information available at the time, authorities have said the examiner did everything possible to appropriately vet the purchase. "She's a great examiner, too. I'd love to have 230 more of them.''

Guys, there are several ways to do this. Sunfish, It sounds like you have gotten the photo's into Photobucket. Below are screen shots from Photobucket. The first one shows a folder that has pics of my SKS. Next, click on one of the pics and it will open the second photo below. The the right of the screen you can click on 'Direct'. You know it has been copied because it will briefly changed colors and say, 'copied' The second and third photos show this. Now, go to TGO, the appropriate forum and 'Start New Topic'. You can put in the title, verbiage, etc... Once you are ready to add the picture, put the cursor where you want the picture to go. Now, look at the fourth and fifth pics below. Click on the little green icon in the post and a little window will open. (one of the pic shows my cursor on the little green box) Paste the url you copied from photobucket in there. (the next photo shows what the box looks like when you paste the photo. Click on 'OK' and repeat as necessary. Then, once complete, click on the button to save and post. (Pic shows this also)

I just got an email from Boyd's that my stock shipped.  Their site says that it usually takes 11-14 business days and today is day #11.   Be aware that their website may show your stock as back ordered.  It probably should say 'in production'.    The only thing they order is the wood, laminate or other stock material.  I think they manufacture the actual stock.

I hate this.     He was great with the Eagles, but also did well on his own.  I still like 'Smuggler's Blues'.   So many of my favorites have passed away in the past year.

I would tend to not get involved unless I feared for my life or the life of someone close to me.   Any time you shoot someone, you are risking 20-30 years in prison and bankruptcy.     TN is a gun friendly state.  Here in Nashville, one of the Assistant District Attorneys worked at an ice cream shop in high school and was arm robbed.  She is very much against guns.  Even if she didn't get a conviction of you, she would bankrupt you.   Also, TN specifies that a person who intervenes on behalf of someone else accepts the risk that they know everything about the situation.  Example, you see someone chase down a woman, tackle her and hit her a few times.  You shoot him.  Turns out that he was law enforcement and she was a drug dealer or prostitute and law enforcement was doing their job.   By TN law, you knowingly shot a law enforcement officer.  Sounds crazy, but that is how it is written.   Adults have the option to protect themselves with deadly force.  I'm not willing to risk ruining my life because someone else chose not to defend themselves.  There could be exceptions, though it would have to be a big one.