MacGyver

There are a lot better 1911s out there for that price.

The best deal that I'm going to get on Black Friday is another piece of pecan pie.  If I'm really lucky there will be some folks who I don't see very often still hanging around to share it with.

Is it in the sun at all?  Wrap it with some a couple of black trash bags and I bet it would absorb enough heat to keep it from freezing.   That said, you could probably also do sort of an inline solar water heater for about $25 in materials.  since you're not actually trying to use the hot water, you could likely get away with a 2x4 frame, some tubing and some black paint. 

Man, there are a lot of reasons to do an 80% lower.  I built a 10/22 from the ground up with an 80% receiver a couple of years ago and it was well worthwhile for several reasons:   1. The quality of a billet receiver is far better than the cast factory model (this applies to the 10/22 not necessarily the AR15 platform) 2. You gain an intricate appreciation for what it takes to put together a quality firearm - and I'd argue you learn a lot more about the platform than you would on a regular build 3. Because a clean receiver with no markings is nice looking 4. Because you can 5. Because sometimes things are worth doing by hand - at least once   I recognize that all of the above reasons may not mean anything to someone who looks at the value proposition of doing one themselves and then thinks, "a stripped lower costs about the same."  We're in a time where our economy has become dependent upon people thinking that everything is disposable and anything can be had at the click of a mouse with free 2-day shipping as a bonus.    Some things are just worth doing.

You can knock Martha Stewart for a lot of stuff, but the lady knows her eggnog:   http://www.marthastewart.com/317061/the-original-eggnog

I'm sure I'll be in.

Do something to break a sweat every day.   Good luck!

I've got several .22LR cans, including a Mite.  It's not a bad can, and will likely seem about as quiet as any .22 can to most ears.  That said, the major drawback to the Mite is disassembly and cleaning.  This can be tough with many .22 cans, but it's a bear with the Mite.  If you go with a Mite, make sure you're liberal in the application of anti-seize to the threads.  You're going to need all the help you can get in cracking that thing open.

My favorite thought of late on Facebook is something similar to, "if you're using a product that you don't pay for and wondering how they make money, it's likely you are the product."

Thanks for all the work on this, Steve!

Agreed. My wife took her dad several years ago. He was a huge fan. They left early because it was so bad. Edit to add: this could maybe be said for southern rock at large. We've got some great stuff coming out of Nashville these days, but is there anything that you can really say sets a standard?

Eat a Peach and Idlewild South were staples of my Georgia childhood.

Shoot, we ought to take up a collection to FedEx Mike his so he gets his first. He's been like a kid waiting for his birthday since he got on the wagon.

The ladies down at Swett's make the best chow chow in this town.  Doesn't do you a lot of good down south, but if you're ever in Nashville, it's worth checking out.   Most chow chow seems to be pickled.  I kind of like the fermented varieties.  I don't know that affects the heat of the mix, but it sure does seem to bring out the flavor.   One of these years when I get a bumper crop of peppers, I'm going to try fermenting some of my own hot sauce.

Not me.  We took the boat out Sunday after church with the kids and some friends.  Put in up by DLM37015's house and cruised around and fished for several hours.  Enjoyed every bit of the sun.  I threw some fleeces in the truck for the kids before church, but once we hit the water it was shorts and t-shirts all around.  The kids even swam some - even though the fish finder showed the water at 62 degrees.   This Georgia boy will never complain about an indian summer.  The cold will be here soon enough.

There is such a market for a print edition, local paper! There is intrinsic worth in sitting down with a paper and a cup of coffee that delivers exposure to the reader in a way that the Balkanized worlds that we create for ourselves online will simply have a hard time competing with. As a reader, I should be able to sit down with my local paper and see both stories that are of interest to me as well as a variety of stories that I have not been exposed to, yet. The problem with Gannett, E.W. Scripps, et al is that they've turned these local papers into financial instruments that are designed to deliver value to shareholders instead of delivering value to their readers. The reason I quit subscribing to the Tennessean when it was still $0.35 was that I realized I could pick up a copy of the Tennessean, The Jacksonville Sun-Times, The New Orleans Times Picayune, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, etc... and essentially read the same paper. The management of these papers mistakenly thought that they could become rebroadcast services for the Associated Press, Reuters and UPI and that no one would notice. They replaced local knowledge with syndicated content and fundamentally misjudged the value that they brought to their readers. It's probably too late for these companies. The newspaper of the future is going to have to support a business model that doesn't depend on classifieds, obituaries and ad circulars. Bruce Dobie is going to have to answer these questions with his experiment with the Nashville Banner. I hope some of the staff of the former Metro Pulse in Knoxville can find a vehicle to answer some of those questions as well. I spend several hundred dollars a year on a print subcription to the Wall Street Journal. I have online access as well, but that's not the primary method I use to interact with that publication. I would love nothing more than to replace that subscription with a daily local paper of value. I hope someone will take me up on that. Brian, I appreciated the voice that you and several others brought to the Tennessean, and I respect you guys for hanging on as long as you did. Good luck and Godspeed in you new endeavor. Don't be a stranger!

There's really not a better solution than Kilz.  You can try other stuff, but you'll wind up coming back to painting surfaces with Kilz.

That's the truth.  You'd be hard pressed to find a single place within Davidson county where you can't go a half mile in some direction and find yourself in a different place than you left.  That's the hazard of a big city, I guess.

That doesn't look like a joke. It looks like it was meant to hurt someone.

Where are our Memphis folks at?  Here's a great opportunity to pile on Nashville in a way that's usually reserved for our neighbors to the west.  And, in fact it is completely and totally deserved.  Whereas Memphis can claim several redeeming qualities, I can't think of a single one for Antioch.   Last person out of Antioch please turn out the lights.

In the Spectre, I've shot a fair number of 300 and 325gr. I've just got a bunch of 250gr SMKs. I'm guessing in the .338 Federal you could chuck some heavy stuff pretty well. I like the Spectre because it suppresses nicely out of a 9mm can. I expect the Federal is going to need a rifle can.

I've kind of got a project in the back of my mind to do some subsonic stuff for the .338 Federal - it does use .308Win brass.   I'm not sure what it get's me that my 338 Spectre doesn't - as 250gr at 1040FPS is the same regardless of the parent case.  But, .308 brass offers more space to work with, so in theory you might get a little wider selection of powders.

The Ruger P-series has to be one of the ugliest guns ever made. That said, their reliability seems to be inversely proportional to their beauty. I don't know that I've ever known anyone that's had one that has ever had a single problem. They seem to run like tops.

The shut one down on Abbott Martin Rd. in Green Hills earlier this year:   http://www.wsmv.com/story/24683503/police-raid-4-nashville-businesses-in-prositution-case

Surefire's batteries have historically been private labelled Duracell's. So, not only are they generally a decent price, they're also a great battery. You can probably find a cheaper battery, but I don't know that you'll find a quality battery any cheaper.