MacGyver

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.

There is really only one thing that matters in the case of identity theft. That is "fully managed recovery". Anyone considering coverage should ask their provider if they requrie a limited power of attorney in the case of a breach. If not, you're going to be the one doing the heavy lifting, and are going to be disappointed when you suffer an event. Note that monitoring is a lot like a smoke alarm - it doesn't prevent identity theft, and really isn't that responsive to identity theft, but if it goes off, you're on fire. Take control of your life. As someone who deals with this stuff from a forensic perspective, consider at least the following: 1. Be religous about opening your bank statements and credit card statements. You're protected by federal law against losses so long as you notify within a certain period of time. 2. Check your credit several times a year. You're entitled to one free report per year from each of the three major bureaus. Go to annualcreditreport.com (not freecreditreport.com like on the commercials) and access one every few months. 3. Consider putting a credit freeze on your accounts with the bureaus. It's free to place one, there's a small fee to remove it. With this, no one can access your credit without you personally removing the freeze. 4. Forget the do not call registry. Use their system against them. Place the Special Information Tones at the beginning of your answering machine for a few weeks. Everytime they make a phone call it costs them money. If you answer, it costs them money. If your answering machine answers, it costs them money. They only way to make them quit calling is to make them think they are wasting money. The above link is to the SIT (Special Information Tone) for a disconnected number. If one of your friends calls you, they are going to hear the tone, and then your voice on the answering machine. They'll think - "that's weird" and leave their message. A computer will think differently. As soon as it hears that tone, it thinks - "uh oh, my data is corrupt. This number is not in service." It will delete your record from it's database. That's not the best part. At the end of the day, most of these companies share data through a couple of different providers, so once the auto-dialer marks you as an error, they report that back to the main computer, which will delete your record from their database. You get deleted from the Matrix if you will. 5. Know that there are no magic bullets when you get breached. Deal with someone who requires a limited power of attorney to recover your identity. That is the only way that you can tell if they're going to be sitting on the phone instead of you. 6. Forget the "guarantees" that providers use. There has not been $1,000,000 payed out to a victim yet. In fact, you can take the combined payouts to all victims of identity theft so far, and you still won't reach $1,000,000. The reputable companies that recover identities get you back to a pre-event status and guarantee their service. Thus, no losses. The "guarantees" are all smoke and mirrors. 7. Once you have been breached. PAY ATTENTION. Continue to be vigilent. Talking to a friend of mine not to long ago who runs an identity recovery firm, they revisit half of all their cases within 18 months. Think about it. A criminal has stolen your data. They're going to misuse it, sit on it for a while and then resell it. If you've been breached once, it's likely to happen again. 8. Create a 'burn file" for yourself. Take the contents of your wallet and dump it out on a copier once a year or so. Copy front and back of cards. Give it to someone you trust to secure. This way, if you get compromised by the loss or theft of your wallet, it's a phone call and a two minute process to have that person burn your identity. You can cancel the cards quickly instead of fumbling around to gather information while someone is using your card at Best Buy. Criminals these days are applying JIT management principles to identity theft. You have to act fast - because they sure are. Hope this helps.

I've got some good friends in New Market, AL that lost their house this morning. They were in it, and it collapsed on them. Luckily they got out with only minor injuries. Hopefully we'll be able to get down there to help secure livestock and clean up in the next day or so. They could definitely use your prayers.

Nice review. I love my HEST and use it all the time. I've been meaning to pick up an Izula II. I do wish they would have kept the hollowed out handles like on the HEST. That was convenient for a mischmetal rod and a couple of firestraws.

Seeing as they use approximately 60mL of potassium iodate to iodise a ton of salt, you'd get more than enough iodine from either water purification tablets or a cheap bottle of iodine crystals used to purify water like PolarPure. Note that the iodine content in salt dissipates via a couple of different processes over time.

Nice. Looks like they had a good time.

Well...when we finally dredge Mississippi, we'll see who's laughing then...

There's a good piece at the end of Michael Polan's Omnivore's Dilema where he talks about cultivating salt from locally sourced ocean water. Basically, in the 2012 version, the end result was so contaminated by other metals/chemicals/whatever else in the salt water that the end product was awful tasting and smelling and essentially useless..

That's nice!

Real torture is when I try to drink out of mine straight out of the freezer. Just like the kid in A Christmas Story - you'd think I'd have learned my lesson by now. That's a cool video.

I'm going to go ahead and close this thread. As nothing good has occured in 3 pages, it's doubtful that it'll start now. I am kind of surprised that this has gone on for three pages. Really? Any third grader knows the right thing to do. Anything else is just rationalizing a wrong, and hurts the company you were so excited about doing business with in the process.

You can pick up a a 442 or 642 all day on here in the $300 to $350 range. They're .38 Special +P rated. It's been a while since I've seen a 340 or 640 come across. You're right on the Walther. It's going to be tough to find one in that range - though one just sold on here last week in 9mm with three mags at the upper end of his range. http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/44661-fs-walther-pps-9mm/page__hl__%2Bwalther+%2Bpps__fromsearch__1

A J-frame makes a nice pocket gun. .357 is no slouch when stacked up against .45. I pocket carry a Walther PPS on occasion. They make that in a .40 - though it does rely on the safety that's located between your ears.

Unscrew the pump housing and check in there. These stoves typically had spare gaskets and jet assemblies included. Your milage may vary on the leather gasket. I've had success soaking them for a while in a light oil. That said, unless you've got a particular sentimental reason for using the stove, there are some really great stoves out there that are less than a quarter of the weight of the M1950 that will likely cost less than the repair parts.

I've got the first one they sold to the public. Picked it up the day of the great flood back in 2010. Jeff does great work, and you get a truly custom gun at a great price. I've got a couple thousand rounds through my commander-sized bobtail with no issues whatsoever. It shoots at least as well as any of the high end 1911s I've owned or shot. If you're going to sell it later, I'd probably buy the Wilson or Nighthawk. If you're going to shoot it, enjoy it and pass it down, I'd go with the hero.

Yeah, look at the coupons from Target the next time they come in the mail. They're custom printing per customer at this point - not just the pregnant ones. I flipped through them the other day before tossing them in the recycle bin with all the other junk mail. Page for page, it was products my wife buys. Creepy as it is, I applaud them for actually doing something useful with all that data they collect.

You know, I thought of the Guy Clark song when you posted earlier.

I think it's a classic case of supply and demand. The supply is purposefully limited, and the demand is high. Add in the quasi-sentimental value many people place on them, and he can charge whatever he wants.

At the end of the day, it's a Noveske - and a custom one at that. They're definitely not cheap. But, if you want to set the standard for quality, they're it.

Noveske makes rifles for leftys. They're not cheap, but they are some of the best out there. lefthandrifles.com

HSTs are officially a "Law Enforcement Only" round. There isn't a law concerning this in Tennessee - rather, it's ATK's policy with their dealers. Thus, you'll be hard pressed to ever see it in a store. AmmunitionToGo has it in stock right now - which is really rare. Two other good online sources are Tactical Defense Solutions and Kyle's Gunshop. I've ordered from both of the latter with great prices and great customer service. The 147gr P9HST2 is my carry round of choice.

If it's a contact point when you're wearing it, your clothes/body is the likely culprit. I've got a Kimber Warrior that I absolutely don't baby.  Carrying it in kydex, it's got some significant wear.  Interestingly, though my worst wear is right on the beavertail, just like yours.