MacGyver

I have used several. I like the Surefire X300 the best, and even though it's a little more expensive, it's the only light I'll even consider these days.

I have no brass, trash, or live ammunition... Oh wait... Never mind.

You'll never be sorry you bought a Pelican 1750.

External hard drives are great for getting stuff off of your primary machine, but really aren't that responsive to total loss events. If you have a fire, theft or whatever your external hard drive may burn up alongside your computer. You can do several things to address this. One, get the external drive offsite once you're done copying your stuff to it. Give it to a friend, put it in a safety depsoit box, whatever... Better yet, big drives are cheap enough now that you can realistically have two if you shop around. Keep one onsite and rotate it out with your friend or family member once a month or so. Best yet, consider an online service like Carbonite. That way your house can burn up and you can focus on grabbing something more important than your computer.

How terrible!

You need to shoot a Benelli M4. 9 of the smoothest rounds you'll ever shoot out of a shotgun. Be careful, though. Once you shoot one, you'll judge every other shotgun you shoot against it.

I bet it's Waffle House and Cracker Barrel's busiest Sunday of the year with everyone pulling into the church parking lot and realizing they're an hour early.

The Saudis have guaranteed them safe passage and radio silence.

That is an interesting thought. We've bribed Israel to sit on their hands for the better part of 20 years. We get asked to leave Iraq. Untie Israel and you definitely stay in Iraq one way or the other. To what end - I don't even want to imagine. I'm not sure I buy the news coming out today, but that said, I've been sleeping lightly on new moon days for years kind of expecting it. November 25th is the next one.

One of our Jet's Pizza drivers here in Nashville was in a similar situation last year, and shot one of two people robbing him. Not only did he avoid being fired, but from what I understand from speaking with the owner they really supported the guy after the fact and encourage their employees to protect themselves appropriately. I'm glad their pizza's good, because it is now where we buy all of ours.

Yeah, that's why I kept the magazines.

You can request a type 0500 hunter safety card online from the TWRA for $5.00. It's a laminated card.

I remember being in school in the early 90's and being able, per university policy to check my weapons with my dorm's head resident. I'd check the weapon and keep the magazine.

Yeah, that's a great site for ID'ing movie firearms.

I've got one on a 700 LTR in .308. It's held up just fine after a couple of hundred rounds. All you need to do is simply holding a Mark AR scope to know it's overbuilt for .223

I've been holding up posting pictures while I'm waiting for a suppressor. I'll try and take some pictures of my light shorty in the next day or so. The 10.5" barrel tames it a bit, but with the CTR stock I've got on it right now it's still a handful.

MTBF isn't what it used to be. As a forensics firm, we go throught dozens, if not hundreds of hard drives a year. Though it pains me to say it, they really don't make them like they used to anymore. Nothing makes me madder than having a pretty new drive fail. Since ours generally contain evidence we can't just send them back - it's off to the shredder (which in and of itself is some consolation).

If I'm reading your description correctly, you've likely got a hard drive starting to go bad. This is a great time to make sure you've taken the time to back everything up. You're probably going to need them pretty soon.

I'd love to see them get this straightened out soon, but in the meantime, this hog hunter is going to Alabama.

I don't even know what to say. I'd love to see their client list.

RWS subsonics are the best, most accurate that I've found. They're lubed, and very quiet. CCIs are good. I don't really have any major complaints with the Remington's except that they're not quite as accurate or quiet. CBs and shorts are both super quiet, and shorts have more punch than you'd expect. Neither will cycle the action in a rifle.

Lowes carries Surefire CR123s in pairs for less than $5.00. They're right up by the checkout.

I really like it. It's not particularly cheap, and it does ignite best with a magnum primer which can be tough to source locally, but I find it really consistent, and surprisingly clean. Cleaning the rifle after shooting it is really a breeze. You do have to be careful when first using it, as they measure in "volumetric equivalents" as opposed to grain weight, so substituting 100gr for 100 volumetric equivalents would overcharge your rifle by a third and could be dangerous. You've got to use a 0.70 conversion factor. I've been shooting 300gr TC shockwaves over 70gr(100vu) and it seems to thread the needle and have plenty of power.

This will be my first muzzleloader season. I'm looking forward to it. Going to be using a Traditions Tracker 209 that I picked up on here in order to test the waters. I've been shooting 300gr sabots using Blackhorn209. I'm pretty impressed with the stuff so far.

Wolf has a bad reputation from the days when their cases were lacquered. They were rumored to cause a lot of problems, though I expect in reality, it was one of those "I know a guy" things. So long as you don't plan to reload, shooting steel cased ammo shouldn't cause any problems other than maybe some accelerated extractor wear.