TGO David

They use a really weak spray paint for the "stainless" finish on their rifles. I ended up spraying mine with stainless Norrell's Moly Resin. The receiver is just aluminum, so if you leave it like that it will oxidize over time.

KJ4### /AG I hit 34 or 33 out of 35. I can't remember what they told me, but they were strongly encouraging me to go ahead and take Amateur Extra. I may go back and do that later. I don't even have an HF rig right now and I'm feeling like complete and utter crap with allergies and doped up on Mucinex, so I just wasn't feeling like sitting in for another test this morning. Seriously, someone needs to buy my HK45 so that I can put an HF rig in at the hacienda.

I know where the Jabberwocky sleeps. I'll try to surprise it soon and see if I can barter your post count back.

Maybe you mentioned your post count one too many times and the TGO Jabberwocky ate it.

Keep going dude.... you'll be at 100 again before you know it.

I think this thread has served its purpose. Folks, please do our Vendors a favor and give them a chance to earn your business. I don't mind people stating that they got good service somewhere else but I do hope that our Vendors are being thought of as well. Thanks.

FWIW, I pass cops all the time if they are driving under the speed limit. I don't go racing by them but I'll definitely do the legal limit +/- to get to where I'm going.

Understood. I'm pretty good at 1" one-shot groups myself.

Time for you to learn the same lesson some other folks did last night.

So does this imply that you are capable of performing this feat yourself, or are you just calling out everyone else?

Guys there was an awful lot of chatter in this thread prior to it becoming topical. I'd suggest you let me take the useful threads and turn them into a better thread solely for this purpose.

I had the B&J 500 for a while. Sent it back. Its strength and weaknesses lie in its flexibility.

I have no problem provided the TGO member-owned businesses do not conflict with any of our Vendor partners. Firearms-related goods or services should be off-limits. Anything beyond that will be up to my discretion, but chances are as long as they steer clear of things our vendors pay to promote, it won't be a problem.

You hammer and dowel guys have no idea how much better life is with the correct tools.

I happen to have a SIG sight tool (MGW brand) that I could easily be persuaded to sell. It's been used... once maybe. They sell for about $120 shipped. I'd sell it for about $80.

I've tried to have patience with you, the same as I did TMMT. Unfortunately both of you have a knack for finding the limit of how patient I can be. You're welcome to come back in 30 days. Until then, goodbye.

Just a few notes... 1. 60m has reportedly opened up nicely as of late. 2. I'm sitting for my General test this Saturday. Should have no problems as I've been acing them on HamTestsOnline this week. 3. If someone would buy my damned HK 45 (for sale in the Trading Post) soon, I'll buy a HF rig for the house and be able to put my upgraded ticket to use.

That's a pretty childish angle to take, in my opinion. It equates to having two children, one of whom can't behave and the other of whom is just minding his business. When the misbehaving child starts causing a fuss, do you ground both or do you act decisively and fairly? Grounding both because you don't care to sort out the specifics is lazy and ... well ... sort of how Socialists think. Equal distribution of blame, rather than to each according to his works. It's not like we have a preponderance of pro-LEO threads on TGO so getting rid of this nonsense restores equilibrium. It's not setting us up for going to the other extreme; and so what if it does? Is it going to paint TGO as being friendly to Law Enforcement? Is that a bad thing? Honestly if a person doesn't want to be on TGO because there are too many cops, they sound like the kind of person who has something they're worried about and I wouldn't want them here anyway.

At the end of the day it really doesn't matter if anyone agrees with or disagrees with the decisions that I make as long as I sleep well having made them. This may sound like a smart-ass reply but I assure you it isn't. It's just the fact that once the die are cast, the only person who has to live with the decision is me. This issue has been boiling for so long now that it was well beyond time to do something about it. The moderators have been struggling with which direction to take, and I've been pushing for weeks now to just let heads roll. Suffice it to say the moderators are largely more patient than I am. We have a very good moderating team. Four factors need to be considered: 1. As I stated in my announcement on the issue, we have members here who are in Law Enforcement and they have gotten tired of the cop bashing. Particularly from someone, like TMMT, who purportedly is in the Internal Affairs business and seemed to be showing a serious hard-on for maligning them every chance he got. Cops expect IA people to be fair and just, but this guy clearly had a predisposed bias against. 2. TGO is not a media clearing house for anti-cop materials. Frankly we're not a media clearing house for anti-anything materials. We're a forum about firearms and firearms ownership. There's no justification for someone posting that many negative things about a particular profession that has very little to do with firearms ownership, over and over and over. He had beaten that dead horse long enough. 3. We have vendor partners who's livelihood depends partially on sales to Law Enforcement agencies and officers. How hard do you think it is for cops to support a vendor that supports a site that doesn't support them? Before some incredibly bright individual pops off with an "Ah hah! It's all about the money!" let me remind everyone that it takes money to keep a site of this size online and we all should value the participation and support of our vendors. 4. Last but not least, my actions were certainly not "severe" (as has been suggested privately) considering not only the above but also the fact that I've been more than patient and provided an overabundance of opportunities for TMMT and others to cut it out. Actually I provided them too many opportunities. In hindsight, my patience just prolonged the inevitable. So no, it wasn't severe. It was long in coming. The avatar change? Oh... yeah... well, if you piss me off enough you never know what might happen to an avatar.

Thanks.

You've never read about William Wallace needing Gold Bond, now have you.

Air circulation. Keeps them dry. (enjoy that mental image)

Guess not. /thread

What... no one else? Come on... thread's just ripe for it. Go ahead and see if I meant it when I said I was sick and tired of the LEO bashing. Step right up!

TMMT will not be rejoining us. TNFF319 may rejoin us in 7-days, proving him some time to reflect. Anyone else? I'll keep the thread open a bit longer in case more people want to test me tonight. PS: Anyone know what cops and firefighters have in common? They both wanted to grow up and be cops when they were kids.