deerslayer

Darth Vader shoots an Open gun at a USPSA match...

I have seen Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Nothing else. My nephew loses his mind every time I remind him of this.

I got a shot yesterday and my shoulder is sore but I have no other symptoms. Not a Covid shot, a cortisone shot for a lingering rotator cuff problem. At least that's what they said...........................

I suspect that some of the victims of the riots in the past year might not agree with your first sentence. The problem is that nobody truly knows what situation to expect whenever they walk out the front door. Anything can happen anywhere, anytime.

A little off topic, but somewhat related. Lawlessness in Memphis has increased in the past year, especially on the interstate. Just about every time I am on the interstate, I get the paint blown off my doors by someone (in cars, not on crotch rockets) doing WAY over 100 mph, probably 120-130. I am used to drivers occasionally blowing by me even though I'm doing 75-80, but this is something new and completely over the top. The cops' hands are tied due to no-pursuit policies. I'm not sure what flavor of d-bag thinks he can stop interstate traffic for a bunch of 4-wheelers, but I imagine anyone who ran afoul of this group would want more than a revolver. https://wreg.com/news/dangerous-reckless-driver-records-what-he-calls-wild-funeral-procession-on-i-55/

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I don’t doubt it, but sometimes it sure looks like it has picked up a LOT of contaminants.

I’ve changed my own oil since the 90s after a dealership left my oil filler cap on top of the engine. I change approximately every 5k and have used nothing but synthetic on my 06 Tacoma and the wife’s 13 4runner. Maybe overkill, but boy the oil is blacker after 5k than after 2k. I guess I’m just too old school to let it go 10k. The Taco is a joy to change the oil; the filter on the 4runner is a royal PITA. $89 for a 5 qt oil change sounds like robbery. The local Toyota dealership wants $72 for a 6.5 qt synthetic oil change on the 4runner, and even that sounds expensive to me.

My favorite scene:

I have to replace some fence at my mother’s house soon and shopped lumber this weekend. I was pleasantly surprised. Treated 2x4x8s were only $7.50 or so and a 4x4x8 post was $15. They had some 6 foot treated pickets that looked a lot better than any other treated pickets I’ve seen in the last 15 years and they were $2.67 each. I was happy with what I found overall because a friend told me to expect $10 2x4s and another friend told me to expect an empty lumber section. The job will cost about $600, which is twice what it would have been not too long ago, but it could be worse.

A couple questions— What kind of gun are you shooting? Polymer auto? Stock trigger? Can you track the front sight throughout the recoil impulse? Could be a couple things going on. If possible, post a pic of your grip. How do you press the trigger? We need to press straight back and a lefty pressing at even a slight angle (left-front to right-rear) can send shots right. Too little trigger finger can sometimes exacerbate this. Does it get worse with increased target distance? A quick trick is to put some weak-side thumb pressure on the frame. Does this help? If so, it may indicate a not-quite-straight-back trigger press. You may have developed a slight flinch. Do you shoot right when shooting a slow group or does this problem show up when you start shooting faster? Can you follow the front sight as it lifts and settles back in the rear notch? Most people can’t. If not, do you quickly re-acquire front sight as it settles? A drill to help avert a flinch is to fire a precise shot and follow or re-acquire the front sight as it settles, prep the trigger, focus on the sight picture, but don’t fire a second shot. Some would describe this whole process as simply firing a shot, because follow through and setting up a second shot is all part of the firing cycle. Whatever we call it, it can gradually train away flinches.

so sh*tburgers will be even more expensive?

A friend builds and maintains fast food restaurants. He explained (dumbed it down for me) that much of the shake-machine-is-down problem is due to lack of mandatory routine maintenance. It’s not that hard, but the $10/hr don’t-give-a-crap kids don’t bother and the machine shuts itself down after X doesn’t happen. I feel like I’ve been in a car wreck two hours after eating McDonald’s. Nowadays, if my cholesterol gets too low, I like Popeye’s.

And one more thing—a small town was specifically chosen to keep the cost of the experiment lower. The government aka the rest of the population (who didn’t win the sweepstakes) funded it, so who would pay the bill if this were implemented on a large scale? I think it was Margaret Thatcher who said the problem with communism is that sooner or later you run out of someone else’s money.

It's been a couple decades and a half since I've read drivel from a bunch of sociologists, but I see much hasn't changed. A temporary experiment in an obscure rural prairie town in another country almost half a century ago can hardly be cited as evidence that massive economic redistribution would miraculously solve our problems today. The cost of living where this took place is almost certainly a fraction (percentage wise) of what would be encountered if this practice were introduced all over America and even more so if introduced in urban areas (where I suspect some would suggest it exclusively belongs)--in other words, it wouldn't have nearly the effect in say, LA, as it would in rural Canada. The experiment was only two years--hardly enough time to make meaningful measurements of long-term effects of free money (decline of work ethic, less motivation to obtain education/life skills) The experiment was funded for only two years and the ramifications of income confiscation and redistribution on the rest of the population hardly had time to take effect Not to generalize, but I suspect that small-town rural people in 1970s Western Canada would be more satisfied and receptive to the idea that their needs were being met than the folks targeted for UBI today--in other words, they were probably small-town salt-of-the-earth types and were less likely to adopt an "ok what's next" attitude that I suspect those expecting entitlements today would quickly develop It was an entertaining read, however.

Gotcha.

Assuming he qualified for red flag festivities. The cops investigated and for all we know may have decided the mother’s claim that he wanted to commit suicide by cop was BS.

Have any links to this research? I’m fresh out of entertaining reading material.

I don’t see how getting people more permanently hooked on the government tit will solve anything.

I wouldn’t doubt it and I bet Shelby County would be one of them. Oddly, Memphis has much less restrictive guns laws than Chicago, but both are rampant with crime. Gun control is irrelevant.

Obviously, Democrats will use this event to argue for more gun control. Meanwhile, they ignore the weekly mayhem in Chicago, where strict gun laws are the rule. A friend showed me this Chicago crime tracker website yesterday. Memphis needs something similar. http://heyjackass.com/