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Paid $599 shipped for a "blem" PSA AK-47 "Moekov". Regularly $730.

Well, you guys are bad influences. Or good, depending on whether you talk to me or my wife first. This is on it's way to me: http://palmettostatearmory.com/psak-47-gb2-liberty-moekov-rifle-516446444.html

Why do I need an AK-47? It's a pretty simple question, really. I think I want one, but I am not really sure why. I have always owned AR platform rifles. All of my gear is for the AR platform. I have been tempted by the AK many times over the years but never dipped my toes into those waters. I have only shot a handful of them over the past two decades. But, again, I think that maybe I want one. Like a lot of folks, I was ready to buy one last October as we ran up toward the election, but then I breathed a sigh of relief when Hillary was kept out of office. Talk me into or out of this.

Welcome to TGO and thanks for becoming a Benefactor right off the bat! That's awesome!

It's even better than you described it the other day. Absolutely beautiful.

Update 7/18/17 -- Thanks to the generosity of another member, we have added TWO MORE memberships!

Keep it coming, folks! Great way to get a Benefactor membership and be able to sell things!

So, I dipped my toes into the "pistol with a red dot sight" waters with the Ruger Mark IV and Vortex Venom RDS. It is about as weird and foreign to me as I expected it to be based on limited use with other people's pistols with RDS. It's fun, but I am undoubtedly faster without the RDS for now. One thing it does very well is to provide immediate feedback when you pull a shot. I called a few flyers today purely based on what I saw in the reticle of that thing, before even looking at the target. It's going to be a good training tool to polish the rough edges on my trigger manipulation. And, frankly, I wouldn't have thought I had many rough edges some 30 years into shooting, 20 of them seriously. They say that adversity introduces a man to himself, and I would add that so does using an RDS on a pistol.

I am normally not much on decorative special edition pistols, but that one could stay if it ever made its way into my house.

Fellas, it's Sunday. I'm sure they were just in town for church.

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Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous TGOer, we are celebrating Christmas in July. This TGOer is gifting a total of TWELVE (12) 1-year TGO Benefactor subscriptions. Amazing, right? Very awesome!!! RULES: You must have a minimum of 30 posts prior to the creation of this giveaway. OR You must have a minimum of one positive TGO iTrader feedback prior to the creation of this giveaway. If you have ANY negative feedback, you are not eligible to participate. Current Benefactors are not eligible to participate. If you meet the criteria above, simply post "Merry Christmas" to this thread for your chance to win. Ten (10) random winners will be chosen on Sunday, July 23, 2017. Merry Christmas in July, and good luck to all! ***If anyone would like to add any 1-year, or Lifetime Benefactor subscriptions to this giveaway, please let me know.*** Update 7/18/17 -- Thanks to the generosity of another member, we have added TWO MORE memberships!

I am not even positive I caught all of the posts in here where you folks work in some manner of law enforcement or another, but thank you. You guys have a very necessary and often thankless job. I cannot imagine pinning on a badge these days. My grandfather was career law-enforcement and things were just so much different for them than what you guys have to deal with now. Ya'll are definitely that "thin veneer" that keeps civilized folks separated from total chaos.

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Gunbroker.com is a good place to get an idea of what your mid- to high- end pricing is going to be on a used firearm. Once you are ready to sell them here, pick up a Benefactor membership and I am sure you won't have much trouble selling as long as they are priced fairly.

I would agree with @Sam1 on those points. If the CEO is bothered enough to comment on it and make your raise contingent upon it, then it is a big enough deal to get it done. CEOs don't normally worry about such things. So either the CEO has nothing better going on, or this is really a sore issue with him, and as a result it's something you need to get fixed. Always keep the C-People happy.

Indeed.

I wouldn't feel inadequate with the life-experiences you have had. There are foks who spend their entire adulthood trapped behind a desk and never experience anything else that the world has to offer. Chasing the hot rod car scene? I mean, seriously, that is a dream for a lot of office-dwellers! I have come to realize that any time a door closed unexpectedly on me, no matter how much I disliked it at the time, later on I realized that I was so glad that it had. God's always taken care of me just as it seems he has you. There's a lot to be thankful for right there.

Ruger Mark IV 22/45 Tactical. Post-recall build. Added a Vortex Venom 3MOA red dot to it. Buying a Dead Air Mask-HD rimfire suppressor for it soon.

I sure hope it doesn't! One of the things I really enjoy doing is watching people, especially people who are good at and passionate about their jobs - no matter what that job is. I've sat and chatted with CEOs, policemen, doctors, engineers, groundskeepers, nannies, custodians, boat captains and all manner of people in between, just because I could tell that they were very good at what they did and loved their job. Learning about why they loved their job and seeing how they poured themselves into doing it at the best of their abilities was and IS inspiring to me. There is no such thing as a job beneath any other. We all rely upon each other for various services, whether it is the kid who totes your groceries to your car at the store, the dad delivering pizzas to make ends meet, or the surgeon about to wheel you into the OR for a heart valve replacement. I love it when those people are inspired by the work they do, no matter what that work is.

I bet we work for the same company.

Great replies so far! I hope more folks pile onto this and tell us about themselves. I think it's really neat to see not only the diversity of things that TGO members do and have done but also the really interesting paths their lives have taken. If nothing else, perhaps this thread will help anyone who is currently in a rut or just not sure what their life holds in store, to rest assured that not every GOOD thing in life came with a pre-defined plan attached to it. At least, not a human plan. Divine plans are often so far above our comprehension that they look like serendipitous accidents when they finally reveal themselves to us.

I'll start... I am in Healthcare IT. I manage an operational support team that takes care of the final tier of support for approximately 10,000 Windows Servers and over 1,000 VMware hosts. We also do special projects and lifecycle work. Basically, if it comes to my team of 12 engineers, it has generally exhausted everyone else's abilities to fix it or get it done. My guys are the "special operations" of IT nerds and I have much respect and love for them. They work some ridiculously long hours and make miracles happen every single day to ensure that doctors, nurses and our patients have reliable infrastructure serving them. I used to be one of those engineers until the company decided that I could either do less damage or accomplish more as a member of management. Not sure which. Probably both.

I think we had one of these threads in the past but we have enough new members and I think the other thread was done years ago, so I thought this would be fun. Basically, just to get to know each other a little better, reply back to the thread and tell us what you "do". Business, retirement, school, homemaker, etc.

Got to do this again tonight, 7/12/17. Trying to fix some things in the Classifieds again.