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I'm interested in it, but I live pretty far from Chapmansboro. If you happen to head east along I-40 one day, or have a friend coming east, please let me know.

Pravda (and Tass) are available in English on-line. Go take a look. It's hard for me to imagine that people actually believe all of that, but then they are taught from the time they're in preschool that the US is horrible. Same thing in N. Korea where TV's and radios receive a single, fixed frequency, so they receive only the government propaganda organs. This morning Pravda has an article about the US-funded bio-labs, all located on the Russian borders, and another about the US plans to get a nuke into Ukraine for the Ukrainians to use. (But we don't want to try to enforce a no-fly zone because of fear of escalation, go figure.) Yesterday there were gloating articles about Russia's success with hypersonic weapons and the US's failures and the surfacing of a Russian boomer with 160 nuclear warheads off the east coast of the US. And yes, our MSM have serious political leanings, too. There's a CNN article this morning about why gasoline prices are so high. They mention Ukraine and other reasons, but don't mention closed pipelines or decreased pumping and exploration here.

Did you make those offers in-person? One of my pet peeves is people making an email offer without ever seeing the item for sale. I will only negotiate face-to-face, but I surely would have replied to your emailed offer (if that's what it was) and invited you to come and see the bike.

I have two Ruger Old Army .44 revolvers, and really like them. I bought a double holster rig, though I keep one unfired. Lots of fun to cast ball or bullets, load em up, smear a little Crisco over the cylinders and let them rip. I also have a Pietta 1862 Police revolver in .36 caliber. The quality of that revolver is suspect, the mainspring broke just sitting in the safe after no more than 60 rounds, but it's still a hoot. The replacement spring seems to be fine, so maybe the original had a defect. Heck, no maybe about it, it DID have a defect to break so soon. I also shoot a couple of BP rifles, including a flintlock Pedersoli Kentucky Rifle in .32 that's very accurate and very hard to sight due to it's long barrel. I have one that my grandfather owned, but I'll never shoot it.

I had both of those, and a DT-400, too, along with a ton of others. It's hard to beat a 175cc two-stroke "enduro" bike.

Filled my truck with diesel this morning at $4.80 a stinking gallon. Almost $100 for 20 gallons. I guess my truck is going to be used sparingly for a while.

I tell my wife that if I die on my bike she'll know I was grinning and maybe singing in my helmet 10 seconds before I bit the dust. I spent 25 years as a volunteer fireman / EMT and saw a lot lost limbs and grievous head injuries at car wrecks. It happens.

Suzuki, Kawasaki, and Honda all make small (200-250cc) dual sports that yield about 70 mpg. I might "need" one myself.

Buy a Ducati, then the goal is easily attainable!

I love bikes and have been riding for a LONG time, but be careful as you start out. A lot of drivers won't see you, so you need to expect them to behave as if you aren't there. Bikes generally get pretty good fuel economy, my 1200cc BMW averages right around 50mpg. But my 1100cc Ducati gets about half that, so ymmv! Buy the very best helmet you can afford and don't go cheap on tires.

Welcome to the jungle! Lots of good folks on here with a lot of knowledge. I'm pretty new to TN having moved here just three years ago, but I consider myself "from" here now.

As stupid high as fuel prices are right now, I'm willing to pay more if the US will quit buying Russian oil altogether. Every dime that goes to Russia from energy sales is helping to finance the murder of innocent Ukrainians right now. And I would sure like to see the US pumping as much oil as possible to offset that a bit.

I absolutely hated my first gen Glock 17, so I rarely fired it, and when I did I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was "collectable". I had the tuperware box and paper work. I sold that pistol and bought a really nice one with the proceeds and I can actually hit a target with it!

I almost, but not quite, wish I had one!

$4.60 for diesel in Crossville. But we can't open more pipelines or drilling, fer gosh sake!

I've seen several articles on-line about how bad theft is in San Francisco. There are areas of the city where the residents leave the cars open so that the thieves won't break the windows to get in. Which is my way of saying that I wouldn't leave my firearm inside an unattended car there. Several years ago I had to go to San Diego for a few months and I took a handgun with me. I found out later that I'd violated their laws by not declaring it! Turns out that after a fairly short period, 60 days) one must register a firearm if it's in California. This is a pretty good site that runs down California's laws: https://www.californiacarry.org/visitors.html

I'm re-reading one of James Fennimore Cooper's novels, "The Prairie", written in 1827,, and in it one of the characters makes a comment about his time spent with a military unit: "I made a forage or two among the Cherokees, when I was a lad myself; and I followed Mad Anthony,[10] one season, through the beeches; but there was altogether too much tatooing and regulating among his troops for me" At that time, 1827, "regulated" didn't mean what it means today. More important, I think, is Scalia's analysis that the first clause of the amendment simply stated one of the reasons for the second clause. Had the first clause been the entire reason for the amendment, there would have been no need for the second at all.

Sheesh! No kidding!

Is there public land in Alabama (or GA), or do you have a lease you hunt?

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Everything except primers are readily available. Bullets, brass and powder are all out there, but it takes some searching. Expect to pay about $100 / thousand for primers IF you can find them, more if you find them at a gun show, where things were once less expensive. And even a press and dies are MUCH harder to find than they were a short time ago. If you're only going to load 9mm then you should be able to set up pretty inexpensively. Good luck! Oh, I like the Lee reloading manual. There's a lot of drumming for Lee products, but there's also a whole lot of information to be had.

I'd like to go, just to see what's there, but the only thing that's on my "really want" list is primers, and I'm still not ready to pay the high prices. One of the on-line vendors I like has small rifle primers for sale right now for $500 / 5000 (including shipping and hazmat). And they're a brand, Murom, that I'd never heard of before.

Right. The tar on the car was on far. Y'all.

One sets the cam belt tension of a Ducati by strumming the belt and testing the frequency. Something like tuning a guitar, I guess, but the belt is heavier. Anyway, I set the tension of my cam belts this morning, and this is the result. But they should be good for five years.

Running gas with ethanol is no problem, but letting ethanol sit in a carburetor is bad news. If you're riding regularly, every day-ish, then ethanol will give you no grief at all. If the bike has a petcock it's a good idea to close it and run the fuel out of the float bowl. Plus one on peejman's comment about the vacuum leak. My experience with HD's is that they do pop and sputter through the exhaust during off-throttle deceleration. True backfire through the carb is worrisome.