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JD, thank you for the apology but it really was not needed, I for one am willing to take the beat down for moving south from my home of upstate NY to a place more conducive for good jobs/living for my 2 kids if thats what it takes to do. I have acheaved that goal in spades. I all so have stories I could tell and here is one. In the Catskill mountain region from where I grew up Hunting, fishing, Camping and dirt bike riding, a slow and steady infestation of city dwellers became the norm as you have now elaborated to a similar geographical effect. So much so that one import who ran for town supervisor and won (88 square mile district) wanted to put an ordnance in place that would make it illegal to mow your lawn on weekends because the NYC week enders didnt like the noise in their week end retreat from NYC filth. Thankfully, it was shot down along with her position in the next election. Over time, I have come to understand the sound bite term of Dam Yankee is misleading as to describing a certain American population. A more accurate but still flawed overview is found in folks who were raised within dense city populations/suburbs. You all have your own home raised dam Yankees right here in Davidson and Shelby counties regardless of their new arrivals. Over the years, the political race to enrich "diversity" of the populations readily took root in the cities as one part in the effort to eventually destroy this country from within. NY state has 12K more square miles than TN, yet the 13 square miles of its NYC population that is nearly double that of TN's pop. has dictated a annual Welfare cap of $46K to all those who qualify in the STATE. Its probably more by now. Despite the bastion of "diversity" that NYC is (34 percent white vs 66 percent other), its districts are some 84 percent democrat voters. You can refer to the ridiculous welfare payoff that includes percs like pet expenses added to have helped the political swing of the vote. Its the little things in life that matters to many of those folks to quote one of my past state incarcerated inmates.... " Ah gots mines". As a retired State Corrections Officer, I commend the past TN generations of yester year for their views to a certain degree more than most anyone here can possibly understand. Unfortunatly, the complete death of ingnorance only comes after our own physical demise. Untill then, the best way to sum up all this is a quote I use in my signature on another gun sight. " When we get piled upon one another in large CITIES as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe" Thomas Jefferson

^ exactly right. I would love to see actual statistics of a 4 click SAA that fire a cartridge from a fall onto the half cock position. Basically, I dout that has ever happened with any repeatability. Not to say its impossible but the strike to the back of the hammer would have to be very precise and with enough force to snap off the trigger sear tip that is buried in the half cock enclosed notch and still be sudden enough to light the primer. When I was a teen I tried to ignite a primed 06 casing in a number of ways with a nail,punch and any way you could think of outside of a real in the gun FP. Nothing worked except putting fire to the casing until the heat ignited it. I'll all ways remember how that fired primer looked sticking out of the wood paneling where it embedded its self after the "bang" scared the crap out of me!

Just bought this homely looking 40 last week and like the way it handles. So, I'm doing a stainless rebuild of the gun as I write this. Taurus PT940 PT-940 Comes with one magazine - Semi Auto Pistols at GunBroker.com : 927526269 I use a Kahr K40 as a in population carry when conditions are right and the problem with them in this cal is the left side of the web frame cut would stab the base thumb bone joint. The fix on my stainless gun was to just cut it away and resurface it. My son complained of the same hit in the web so a solution was needed. It looks suttle but made a big difference. I'm getting into loading Lehigh coppers soon. Should make the 40 a sizzler with a bit less recoil. I only buy 165's now.

Welcome to the forum. Funny thing is, I share your same exact sentiments about folks crowding into a nice ol layed back part of the country side. Difference is, I'v been being bit by that bug for the last 25 some odd years (before moving here) with a different line drawn around me on a map. One difference between this Yankee and some of the locals is I was hell bent on buying an existing home that ended up being about 27 years old back then instead of building a new local eye sore. Seems I'v left that new construction work to a good many locals with new found wealth! Go figure......

In some ways, your right. The vintage Winchester 1894, will have a smoother feel working the action and is a stronger action as far as about never building head space within its 40K psi ranged ammo. But for the average hunter with minimum mechanical skills, the Marlin walks away with the prize in simplicity of bolt removal and smallest number of action parts. Especially in the era of mercuric primers, A Marlin 1893,94,336 owner can pull the bolt with 1 lever screw removed and make a exceptionally easy job of cleaning the bore from the chamber end within seconds of picking up a screw driver. The Winchester is a 30 minute PITA to do a bolt removal unless you do it as an often practice. Also, I like the fully enclosed marlin underside over the drop floor Winchester and the sold top side ejection over the over your head ejection of the Winchesters. Who docent love the Winchester 92's fabulously slick actions? Its well deserved but an old 1893 Marlin wearing 26" tapered Octagon and crescent butt recalls glimpses of those frontier BP muzzle stuffers that had tamed the wilds of this great land............. and a cross bolt safety didnt have a dam thing to do with it!

There's only one way I carry a pocket knife these days. The German Linder rides in the everyday black sheath and the bigger Gerber International is my work in the woods / sawmill carry. I'm old school with lock backs. Back when I worked at Schrade in the 70's, lock backs were popular. They still are with me. Both of those knives have the thinnest of blade configurations for an easy razor edge to maintain. Its hard to find thin blade lock backs in the style I like. I was thinking of selling my BMW GS650 but the wife talked me out of it! When we first met in 1986, I had a bright metalic orange Honda 750 four. Back then she only weighed 109 lbs so the ol inline 4 banger didnt stagger too much with her on there when it was time to hear it howl its "lets get lost" song. It had hard boxes on it so packing a pic nic way up in the mountains was a no brainer. It was only 10 years earlier my older brother got killed on a bike when he hit a dump truck head on at night while passing another car. The dump truck was driving with no light on. Despite our backs not handling much more than an hour in the saddle at a time, Yeah, I'll keep the beemer.

Your Dad is a smart man. The SKS collectors go ape over them now as you may well know.

OMG, that top one is it in my tastes! The handle work with the shape and heavy rivets and white accent is soooo sleek and smooth but with a kick ass attitude blade. Do you still have that one?

Dito on hopes of your wife's full recovery. Clearly, your talent building knives surpasses any thing I'v ever seen! Just out of curiosity, did you ever build those 2 blades I grooved for you? Good luck on the home projects, I know the feelin very well.....

An important part of the snubby equation that newbs need to be aware of is 2 or 2.5 " barrel vs 3. Both my j frame guns wear 3" barrels simply due to the fact making a clean relatively fast ejection comes with the 3" barrel ejection rod. Not so much on a snub's short stroke ejection rod. Alot of folks that buy a snub nose go to smiths and want to know why they have to finger pick out the 38 casings half the time. My long nose snubs Rossi 88, Taurus 941, Taurus 94 w/ 9rd mag cylinder

You seem like a pretty handy guy with your stuff. Its not rocket science to do a little throat deepening. You start out renting this for 30 bucks, an extension and a stop ring on the extension. Cutter oil and you can bang it out by hand in a half hour tops. 22 Center Fire Throater - 4D Reamer Rentals (4drentals.com) I'm sure the guy does a nice job but those prices certainly are far more modern than what this ol 63 year old could bear to tell some one. I guess overhead is a killer theses days!

I think I got a pretty fair deal on this one in 25-36M (25-35 Win). The guy wanted 1K, I offered 8 and met in the middle at 900. The bore looks shootable but has fine pitting all threw it with the lands being on the some what shinny side. I have over 300 fired 30-30 brass so I'm looking to resize some into 25-35. Anyone here done that? It has original sights and the screw slots are only slightly worked. Now its the mate to my 1893 30-30 take down. Just can't put my finger on out of all the rifles out there, a nice original shape 1893 calls to me. Pick one up off a table and my brain turns to jelly with wants.....just crazy.....Must have spent alot of time with one in my hands in a past life!

back when I was a kid, I ended up with a Hoppins & Allen 12g Hammer DBL. It was old but had steel tubes rather than twist lamination's. Problem was, it had a big dent in one of the barrel and certainly wasnt safe to shoot that side. So I took it to a gun smith to see if he could fix it. He said the gun was not fixable but I really wanted to shoot that gun so I cut it down to below the dent. That put the tubes at just over 15 inches. I have to say, talk about kick! Shooting that rear trigger was a terror to the finger nail since the recoil would smash the front of your trigger finger into the joint where the front trigger met the trigger guard bow. No matter how you fired it, it would bloody the nail & skin joint every time. Only thing worse is if you made the mistake of putting both fingers in there to fire a barrel. It had 2 3/4" chambers so it wasnt like running shells threw a 2 5/8ths guns. Back in those days I wasnt worried about any laws on the books. Then I went to Gunsmith school and learned what a dent slug could do! Started not trusting gunsmiths that day..... I would have loved to have that gun fixed, but a guy at work wanted it more than me years latter so I ended up with a Scott stereo receiver out of a trade. So much for cutting down light weight DBL's

i had a VM motorini 2.8 Diesel in a 05 Jeep Liberty and after a number of upgrades to it, it was running great with solid 28mpg hard High way driving. The problems that started popping up on those engines were blown head gaskets and some breaking valve stems once you get to the 200K miles range. I sold it before any of that happend. Iv read the 3.0L ecodiesel is having mostly emissions problems in the Jeep. Apparently it has a number of emissions sensors in the exhaust flow and like cats, exhaust gas temps MUST be reached and maintained for a specific period of time to keep a CEL light from coming on. If the cel light is not cleared properly, Limp mode will result. So, basically, short trips to a dollar general and back home can find your self in limp mode before you know whats going on. Anyway, that was the gripping I had read about on the Jeep Gladiators. Same engine for the most part but how it translates to the Ram 3.0, Iv not done any reading on them specifically.

When my son wanted to try a first bike to take his Drivers license on, I settled on getting him this one about 11 years ago. It was $1,479 delivered in a crate. We did a basic assembly and I fleshed it out on the road. It did everything pretty good. It was a 200cc. He learned some good lessons riding it on the road. Then we sold it for a 84 Honda 450 Night Hawk. Now hes on a Yamaha 650 V Star Classic. I think the China bike was a great learner for him. I didnt know if he would like riding enough to stick with it. So in my book, New & cheap fit the bill just right. I was impressed enough with that deal that when my 7 year old Grandson wanted a dirt bike, I found a 110 automatic on Amazon and he likes riding it when ever we have him on those rare occasions. I see Amazon has fuel injected 250's now. Buying from them was a snap. It worked out well for us as starter throw aways if they got crashed.

I bought a complete 57M reciever off GB a number of months ago and a Marlin 917V SS barrel off Ebay for this project. I wanted to set it up with Marlin box mags since I at some point picked up a 15 rd Marlin box mag from a discount grab box some where. I modifyed an AK magazine catch and turned the Bull barrel down to sporter weight with a recrown since Marlin had terribly counter sunk the bore mouth center on a bore that was about .030 out of center to the OD. It should never have left the factory like that. Anyway, I looked for a stock for a long time only to by one off GB that was beat to snot on one side. I resold that one. I ended up with a Austin & Haleck 50 cal BP stock and figured it would make a nice stock for the 57M. I put the wide aluminum trigger in and cut off the safety tip since the stock originally had a thumb safety, I made a new safety control lever and hooked that up. It still locks the lever on safe. Found a Redfield base with a fold down peep on Ebay so I integrated that with a Globe multi post front target sight I had. The target was shot at 53 yards and let me say.... that 2" red dot is not very vivid in the lolly pop post! The high hit and far right were my sight in shots before I tweaked the peep to the left a tad. Usually I sand bag front and rear but I just rested the forend on a 6x6 so there is room for tightening this 17 up with a scope and sand bags. Looking at the group, it looks like the accuracy I get out of my Scoped 57M 22mag! You cant beat the little 17HMR for pin point targeting. Cant wait to find a nice 2-10 type power scope for the franken gun. Still gotta fill that bolt cut...... at some point.

If you are the type that keeps your rides for an extended number of years, it would be wise to buy a bike "model" that has high sale production numbers. Back in the 70's - 80's Honda was by far the largest warehouse parts distribution network in the US out of the 3 Jap manufacturers. I dont know who has the top sales figures for dual sport enduro's these days but thats one reason why Honda was a tad higher priced back then. My first bike for the road was a 73 Suzuki TS185. Back then, a 16 year old could get a bike license before a car endorsement. Every Suzuki dirt rider was proud as hell riding a zuki since Roger Decosta was invincible on the world Motocross champions. Then Honda bought him into the Honda camp and he put Honda in the Champion circle time and time again. Much of the Honda motocross track suspension designs were fleshed out with Decosta finger prints on the designs threw the 80's. Those were the days when you could tel a guy running Bardohl 2 stroke mix when he shot past you on the track. It was dirt perfume! A great spectators sport for sure. I had a Honda XL350 once that was a torquey thumper. Once you get used to a 350 and up torque generator that can launch you up a steep grade with a tickle of the throttle, It would be tough to buy a smaller displacement bike. But thats where weight and fuel injection comes in on modern bikes. Weight is a Huge, Huge part of the equation in all around performance and economy. Thats the conundrum. A 250 will usually all ways be lighter since the frame isnt going to be stressed with THAT much power making it more ideal for a new rider. Those would be the specs I would look at if ever buying a new Enduro. Thats what a "Dual Sport" used to be called. Its about weight and torque specs for dirt or some measure it HP per lb if its a bike mostly based on pavement for that kind of performance. Same principals for anything with wheels screwed on.

I had an Italian 1858 Remington 44 once. It was fun to shoot but it had a problem. After about 2 full cylinders of firing, the cylinder pin was a PITA to pull out. The mod that fixed it was I put the cylinders in the lathe and turned the face in about .070" except for where the cylinder pin comes threw. Then took the barrel off and turned the barrel shoulder back the same amount. That put the barrel back to where it had good cylinder barrel gap again. Now the BP fouling stayed pretty much off the cylinder pin. I could fire the gun as much as I wanted and the cylinder pin could be taped out without beating the snot out of it. Had a 1860 Army once also. I think if you are going to shoot it alot, a top strap framed gun like the rugers or 1858 hold up better. Saw alot of Italian Colts with loose cylinder axles. Only way to fix that is epoxy the axles back in the brass threads. For how long that holds up, I cant tell yah. It was all ways some one elses gun that just wanted it functional.

i had a Brother once that said if he ever dies, he hopes it would be on his motorbike. He got his wish in 1976. I saw him buy the farm and I can tell you, at least on a bike, he didn't suffer much as far as I could tell. The crotch rockets are IMO, way, way too easy to get in trouble with. More than likely the guy lost his head on one of those. Then there are the hog riders that can never ever....ever forget, they dont go around turns any faster than Granny on her way to Church. Iv been toying around with selling my bike latly. Between a not so great back and so little R&R time.... My wife says no, but IDK, Its a shame I dont ride so much any more. I did some neat mods to it tho. Can't complain on the 76 mpg with 50 hp in a 429 lb bike. Fuel injection IS the way to go on these scooters. Never scraped a peg or stand on this puppy.

Another over looked answer to this same issue is a gas cap that has a non working vent. Dont ask me how I know....

Sorry, I have waaay too many irons in the fire to bang out a AK mag machining job. That said, any "gun guy" machinist can do it. Just give em a copy of the instructions and see what they say.

9 times out of 10, the chamber is compromised "if" the extractor is in place....and functional. Hi vels will only eject at a faster speed. other than that, no difference. Standard vel should be the choice for plinking as stated. Alot of these old corrosive primed 22 eater's that have alot of use on them simply have over sized chambers. A hi vel can expand the casing to the point where a worn extractor (even a good one) just cant grab whats left of a minimized rim lip. Not so much with a standard vel pressure. Also, these guns have a wide extractor that if the action is slammed into battery ALOT without a cartridge going into battery, the extractor can peen an inward lip at the barrel extractor cut notch inward into the chamber creating a lip that will reduce the expanded cartridge cases ability to slide out of this inward protruded chamber wall. IMO, if the barrel's chamber in not in spec, I would reline it with a Redding liner and have it shooting along with the accuracy of 10/22's. I learned how to refinish guns to match factory cut steel finishes. From what I'v seen over the decades, 90 percent of the reblued guns I'v seen were buggared up abortions of wrong grit, wrong strike direction cut and mostly washed out screw holes, lettering and edges. It would make my stomach churn to see that gun be destroyed by some basement trained wana be gunsmith's blueing tanks. The wear on it, is years in service stripes. We used to call em french fries on class A duds. Why demoralize that ol gun? Sell it to one here above who will do it right and stand it upright next to its brethren!

A Remington 870 dosent have a dropped edge on the action arm like you see on this one. Maybe a Turk 870 semi clone.

Another thing you might want to keep in mind is a greenbelt property classification if you end up with 15 acres or more of forested land. This summer I added 17 acres to the 13 I had so I was eligible for it. Its a cheaper property classification that can save you a good nut of money every Feb.29th when tax is due. Pretty simple 1 form application process that you put with a forestry maintenance plan. For that, you contact the county forester guy and he comes out, does an assessment and Emails you a nicely written and mapped plan, for free, that you turn in with the application. When I was getting my plots squared away at the Registrars office, I started chatting with a newb there that bought a place in Crab Orchard. He was from a place 30 miles south of Seattle. He wanted a quit place to live after alot of looking and hes getting alot of that back up in there but still about 20 minutes to Crossville. Like Jeb, we moved here 7 years ago from near the Hudson Valley in NY and it was a great move. Pray every morning that unseen hands are guiding you to the place that suits you best. Now I have over 300 yards of boarder with Cumberland Mountain State park land. A God send. Our home kinda found us. We at first had no intention of Crossville but a home popped up the day we were supposed to sign for a different one. That home's price was lowered to where we could squeak into it. After all was said and signed, We found some coincidences that were super long shots. Crossville's main I-40 exit is 317. My birthday is the 3rd and wife's the 17th. In all of TN there is only one road that's route 419. Its only 4 miles long. For 18 years in State Prison, that was my call sign on my patrol post personal com. right up until I retired in 2013. My home is smack dab in the middle of that Rt 419. There are other strange coincidences also but the other part of any family move was the cost of college for my Daughter and jobs in general. We hit it out of the park there also. My daughter did 3 years in Roan state (TINY fraction of NY cost) community College for Radiography and at 25 years old will be running the Mammography department in a Hospital making some $30/hr or more. The Hospital solicited her for the position. She starts that tomorrow! My son worked a bunch of different jobs but ended up at the Putnam County Sheriffs Dep at the jail and is now a Court Officer with weekends and Holidays off. Loves the job. I fear he likes tazzing the non compliant AH's a bit more than might be normal. Politically, check voting records of any Republican you might vote for. Here in Cumberland its become rare to have any Democrat on a county ballot. The Dems hide as republicans to get elected so you need to keep an eye on that if you end up in rural hard red as Cumberland county is. Tennessee Bigger Cities (over 6000 residents) - Real Estate, Housing, Schools, Residents, Crime, Pollution, Demographics and More (city-data.com) is your friend for county/town stats, I used it ALOT for the move especially the POTUS vote counts. The Best of Luck to you & Be Well!

I wish the numbers could be construed as accurate also. But..... more than likely some fudging's going on. "An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation looked at average Medicare payments for hospital admissions for the existing diagnosis-related groups and noted that the “average Medicare payment for respiratory infections and inflammations with major comorbidities or complications in 2017 … was $13,297. For more severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for a respiratory system diagnosis with ventilator support for greater than 96 hours, which was $40,218.”It is true, however, that the government will pay more to hospitals for COVID-19 cases in two senses: By paying an additional 20% on top of traditional Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients during the public health emergency, and by reimbursing hospitals for treating the uninsured patients with the disease (at that enhanced Medicare rate).Both of those provisions stem from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act.The CARES Act created the 20% add-on to be paid for Medicare patients with COVID-19. The act further created a $100 billion fund that is being used to financially assist hospitals — a “portion” of which will be “used to reimburse healthcare providers, at Medicare rates, for COVID-related treatment of the uninsured,” according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services." Of course this fact checker of where that came from relies on the "fact" there is no evidence of hospitals tampering with their death due to numbers. Hospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count - FactCheck.org Even with my half brain, any time "No Evidence" is put under a Fact heading doesn't necessarily mean there is in fact, no evidence. It just means no one honest enough has been paid enough to uncover it in most cases. Just like there "WAS" no evidence of the DNC's Hillary campaign contriving the Trump Russia BS. And here the numbers are tied to specific money enhancements. People die all the time. The rub this society has entirly ignored is if you were a good honest person, you will be in a better place than this one. Untill that has been proven as fact to the world, society is like a 2 wheel drive truck in a snow storm.