Erich

That's a great new toy. Is your wife trying to tell you you're slackin?? Gifts where everybody wins are the best. I'm waiting for a Rosey the robot. Soon enough hopefully.

Equating full size with magazine size? If so, what is that minimum capacity to qualify? That would put out a 1911 or 629 for example. Both full size buy only a laughable (the bad guy will laugh at you) 6 to 8 rounds. What about those carry only compacts (not suited to defend your home) like a G19, M&P, or P01 that can carry their larger gripped "full size" brothers mags with its whopping 2 extra rounds. Are they out? Or is it just the mag that makes one feel safe or gets the job done. If mag size is what helps one sleep at night, it seems its not about what fits in the nightstand, rather its the AR pistol under the bed with its 100 round drum. Compacts are issued by PD's and .gov, making them service pistols. G19 being a good example. I'd have to say a G45 is really a compact given its using the compact barrel. I'll reiterate this should be defined since folks are blending service and full size without any parameters leaving it subjective. And a service pistol is not necessarily what most think of as full sized.

Guess the question is what is midsize? Acreage being cheaper with larger sections, you have to probably spend more than the average person would in today's market. Around here, only developers are buying big pieces in the 1 to 3 million range to get acreage at lower cost. Smaller sections are being sold by speculators around here. @ 30 mins out. Ranges from 4k to 7k on the low end to 10k an acre depending on desirability and amount purchased. Up to 10k - 20k for premium smaller lots (less than 5 acres). I figure I dont know enough to buy land and knowing the developers and speculators already snapped up all the reasonable prices, whats left if seems sketchy up to 45 minutes away. Middle TN over 1 hour out seems to have some good value. But then you are back to having to get resources and any improvements. That's where you need Dave's kinda money again Since that's not me, back to waiting for a market correction.

Y'all may not have noticed the story or follow the links that discussed the history. The last 10 years its been a drone training facility, before that there wasnt an airfield or roads to link the cleared areas where they added buildings. If you look at the satellite image you can see how they spoked out. The linked roads were to both working sites and mock building structures (stacked storage containers) that drone pilots in training would take practice runs on. May well have been owned by paper companies years before, but probably just forested area. Looks like it hasnt been stripped for quite some time. Wish all acreage was that cheap! Great for hunting, but man would it be expensive to develop. Historical info indicted the base power was supplied by on-site generators, that I guess they did not leave behind. Not for a paltry 9 million. "https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1760093,-88.0220308,3694m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!7m1!2e1"

Merry Christmas all. May your hearts be full and stockings heavy.

the price is posted in the link. Its on sale! I dont think you have to win the lotto, from Davids posted pics of toys, I am sure he'll cover the first 8 million or so. Decided military style lookouts and decor. Similar to the towers they put up around hardended ordinance bunkers on bases. No fuel tanks, so great thing is no messy toxic clean up. Not form that anyway.

So equally too far away from everywhere. Both good and bad?

Ok, now you're just showing off. Once you get a shooter like that, you'd never want to get rid of it. I remember when CDNN was liquidating the SAR's...looks like the buyers showed just how smart they were about appreciating those gems.

It would be polarizing. Folks appreciating the execution and work vs having a coronary about seeing an Imbel with holes drilled in it.

If you are looking at the conversion bolt mentioned, they do work. Last time I fired one was in the early 80's in an M16 on an air force base range the few years uncle sam was using them. They havent changed since them.

Some mad skills. I am sure your SAR48 is now pretty much second class with that uber optic setup on frankenFL. I would be more than happy to give that poor SAR a home so it does not feel neglected.

Reminiscing is tough. I think the thing gets me about current things we pass on, is asking if we learned anything from regrets of the past. Some of these things in the past seemed common and inexpensive, making them less of a bad decision in the moment. Time changed that. Its those things we know at the time, I'm going to regret this if I don't do it. With looking back, 2 things always come to mind. The main west coast surplus dealer of M1 carbines had a retail storefront in my town thru the 80's. He kept three 55 gallon barrels full of M1 carbines, with most being in pretty nice shape. Several times I went in during lunch and picked thru and set 1 or 2 to the side intending to come back when they went on sale for $79. I just didnt want to spend the full $89 to $99 for one of them and they went on sale often enough. But never made it a priority when the day would come. 20 year old me just thought they'd be around forever since they had them in the thousands. Today I dont have a real excuse other than it wasnt cheap. But unless they get banned, no way it would go down in value. 30+ years later I guess I have not learned much.

Now see, you shouldnt let folks know that...or they will come! I thought it was inflated everywhere, but now I know where to look given Knoxville's outskirts are getting slammed. Don't worry, I'll fix it yet. FWIW, I have not contributed to the artificial inflation. I refuse to pay current scalping prices. Problem was it took me 3 years of non stop working on the wife to get her to agree to move from liberal central and it was to late to beat the insanity. So we are renting waiting for a good correction. Hate burning a pile of money every month. Sounds like we all want to see that day come soon!

That's pretty much our setup and had the same realization. And I suspect that savings will decrease going forward as alternative service providers rates are showing a bit of upward creep. In the end, being able to toggle services on and off may be the only benefit provided they dont start adding contracts (if they feel they have enough market share)

Hey now..... Just think what they (we?) have done for your property values. If its any consolation, its just as painful to us. I think you should be suspicious of anyone who lives in Nashville. If you want to be in the big city, you might really be one of them, they just havent found the pods yet. How nice would it be if their was criteria. Such as prior Southern state residence and family being a requisite. And should have political motivation, not just financial. One can dream.

Wow. I love learning about things I was clueless about. That is some serious kit that you folks are into. I don't think I could ever get something that serious as it would take away all my usual excuses.

Most of the hitch on Gen 3 smiths is their firing pin block safety letting you know its there. The parts tend to be roughly machined and they have a generous spring rate. They will inprove with use, but removing the block, alternate spring if you can find it and polishing will pretty much make that go away. As this is not a new gun, you may want to also get a new recoil spring so you have a known baseline given it had failure to battery. Being dirty makes it worse of course, but its cheap and the symptom suggests its prudent on a new to you gun.

I've picked up several conversion kits along the way, subscribing to that philosophy of training. It really helps with getting you to recognize lapses in trigger discipline, especially if you have any anticipation or flinch with the full boat rounds when you have not been keeping current. I've got a couple Sig 1911 kits (they work on all standard 1911's), P229, Glock large frame, and Beretta 92. As with the Glock thread, I dont understand the need for a dedicated 22 pistol unless it brings something else to the party. My only 22 pistol is a Ruger Single 10, because I thought it was interesting and I'd never had a single action wheel gun (need to try to make it free spinning now). I would be inclined to pick up a Ruger Mark IV. Interestingly as much as I loved these early on, I find I almost never use them. I hope if we find a place with some land where I can have my own range, I'll get back to enjoying the pleasures of 22 again.

We hope to get further out when we find what we're looking for. We're luck enough with the little bits of remaining forest we have around us, we get deer thru here a lot more than I expected. Caught this guy a couple months back having a snack across the street.

Come on, someone has to have a recent fishing story

It makes it more real to say out loud. But, a pic they say is worth a thousand words. I have a couple 'real' cut receivers with the go fast switch...and maybe one day if its meant to be it'll be complete like this one....

And it will end up being smaller house than the building plans since part of your loan had to go toward paying for the damn thing.

My last purchase was an HK45CT, but it was to go with its big brother 45 Expert. While they may have differing intended purposes, overtime I have gravitated toward more compacts with barrels around the 4" range. For me, I find them better balanced and comfortable all around shooters (when I am not trying to fit a specific purpose). With typical pistol distances, I don't see a significant sacrifice to accuracy that is due to the average gun itself. Its more shooter discipline and training with shorter sight radius or site types. Alot of folks they are quick to equate full size with more accuracy over smaller versions before considering or adjusting for difference due to features, so it may not be an apples to apples comparison. An inch more barrel doesn't mean much on its own. I think its fair to say "full size" are easier to shoot for most casual situations. Sight radius and reduced flip reducing your having to pay attention or being in practice. That said, for me to consider a full size now, it should have a purpose and be more geared toward competition or accuracy, otherwise it's just wasting steel.

I so relate to that! Its a malady in search of a support group. Problem here is that it seems to feed the addiction.