MacGyver

First engineering job I ever had, I didn't have a stamp, so all my drawings had to be checked by someone else. Since that was a pain, I also ran their shipping and receiving warehouse. I had a tow motor driver whose name was Superchicken Jones. I didn't believe it until I signed his paycheck.

That's pretty dang cool. I don't know who over there's going to make it, though. Elves? Guys who can hack it on the 1911 line?

I'd definitely start on the jon boat side of things. Being, a good used jon boat and 10hp motor will barely set you back $1000. It will meet your requirements to get out on the water, and you can see if you really like it. If you do, and want to move up, there's always a market for jon boats with 10hp motors. The same can't necessarily always be said for old bass boats.

There's some amazing ultralight gear being made these days. We did a winter backpacking trip up at Savage Gulf with less than 15lbs. That said, we did a float trip up in big south fork last fall over three days frog leatherwood ford up to blue heron mine. 27 total miles. Great fishing. Totally under pressured. Floating a turkey is sure better than carrying one.

That says a lot.

Nice turkey!

Before 6:00 you can just walk right in. After 6:00 you may be waiting hours.

It's amazing what you can bang out of an old volkswagen bumper.

Peter's in Brentwood before 6:00.

A guy I grew up with, but who was a couple years older than me enlisted in the Army straight out of high school. He had some mental issues, and about halfway through basic decided to end his time here on this earth. His method of choice, however ill informed was to cut the tops off of several dozen chemlights and consume the contents while they were out on a field exercise. He failed to kill himself, but the horrific vomiting that ensued over the next 36 hours glowed in the dark.

You can only clean the living room with a shop vac for so long.

We use ours on carpet, hardwood, tile and vinyl. I don't know how a vacuum would be too aggressive, but to me that would involve some form of damage to the flooring. I would expect that this would be most prevalent on carpet, but I can say that when I empty ours, I don't ever notice any carpet fibers in the cannister. Maybe on older carpet this would be more of a problem.

It looks like you're shooting Atomic Fireballs! Let us know how they work. Seems like a fun idea.

We've got a DC-10 Animal that we've had for about 7 years. After going through 3 ~$200 vacuums in a year, we decided to bite the bullet and get a good one. We've had no issues with it, and like the above poster, ours is subject to daily use. The clear cannister will surprise you. Even when vacumming every day, it's like we sucked up a whole other dog.

There's a good old mythbusters episode where they go shooting a bunch of different calibers into a pool, trying to determine how deep you need to be if someone is shooting at you to avoid injury. The handgun calibers perform better in water because they're moving slower. I seem to recall them being surprised when they shoot the 5.56, .308 and .50BMG and don't do anything but pick up pieces of the bullet off the bottom of the pool. Slow it down, and that's a different story, though.

Here's a piece by James Taranto, one of the editorial staff at the WSJ. He got some attention for a similar hypothesis a couple of years ago. The Roe Effect

Sooner or later Wynn Duffy is going to get tired of being his yes man.

MiniMags are .22LR rounds. As a general rule, a .22LR revolver will be capable of shooting .22LR and .22 short rounds, but not .22WMR. There are plenty of .22WRM revolvers that include or make available .22LR cylinders.

I vote for the S&W. I got to shoot one with an 8" barrel recently that was very manageable.

If you ever want a good read, pick up a copy of Craig Ryan's "The Pre-Astronauts" detailing Joe Kittinger and some of the other men who participated in the manned ballon flights to the edge of space. On one of his test jumps from 76,000 feet, he passed out and woke up on the desert floor. When he jumped from 103,000 feet, he became the first and only person to ever break the speed of sound without any vehicular aid.

I don't have a Mark II, but I do have a couple of other Savage rimfires with the Accutrigger. On average, they're only about 3" longer than the 10/22 carbine, but they feel like much more "grown up" rifles. I know several kids who love to shoot my 10/22 who have problems getting behing my 93R17 without shooting prone. The AccuTrigger is great, and the bolt action is great for teaching fundamentals. But, like Mac said above, one of the joys of the 10/22 is getting a 25 round magazine (or one of the old Eagle Industries 30 rounders) and just blasting the heck out of a target.

Everyone needs a 10/22 in their collection. They're relatively inexpensive, a good size for young shooters and have a decent set of iron sights for teaching fundamentals. I've got several, including one race dragon that was made from a billet 80% receiver and designed specifically to shoot Aguila SSSs. But, the one that I got under the Christmas tree as a kid is a cherished possession that I love to shoot to this day. There's no telling how many 10's of thousands of rounds that rifle has seen, and still continues to run like a champ. A coke can has never met a more formidable enemy.

Bet you find 'em every time, too. Just have to fight off the Green Hills crowd to get them.

I miss bronker. He was a good leveling voice.

There is one cold, hard fact about identity theft. Your bank, credit card company and the merchants involved don't care about your issue. Their losses to identity theft are just numbers at this point. So long as their losses don't exceed a certain amount, they've transferred the risk via insurance and they don't care. One of the most frustrating parts of my job is walking into a courtroom in an identity theft case. A victim walks into the courtroom with everything they've had to go through fully documented, and regardless of what happens in that courtroom that day, they walk out of the courtroom a victim.