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Cool. I bet that was a lot of fun.

The general consensus between the two is that s30v will be harder to sharpen, but will hold a good working edge longer than vg10. Some users report that the vg10 blade will hold a hair splitting edge a little longer than the s30v, but that has never been my experience. My experience has been that if you maintain the edge on a s30v blade, it is easy to keep factory sharp - which for a Spyderco is pretty sharp out of the box. The military and endura are both great knives. I have owned and used both for several years. You will likely be happy with either choice - so long as you don't hold both of them at the same time. For me, there is no comparison between the two. The military is at least twice the knife of the endura.

So the president of Anheuser-Busch, the president of Molson Coors, and the president of Guinness Brewery all go out to lunch one day to discuss the state of the beer industry. The waiter comes to take their order, and the president of Anheuser-Busch orders a Bud Light. The president of Molson Coors orders a Coors light. Finally, the waiter turns to the president of Guinness Brewery who orders a glass of water. The waiter leaves, and the two presidents of Anheuser-Busch and Molson Coors look at the president of Guiness Brewery with a dumbfounded look. The president of Guiness Brewery looks back at them and says, "What? I figured if you guys weren't drinking, I shouldn't either."

Nice blade. I like it with the plain edge.

EESE-5. One of the best blades on the market in my opinion. I have no doubt that I can trust it to perform however I need it, whenever I need it. The linen micarta scales are great, too.

Hey, congratulations. That's huge!

You could get a good start on a race dragon 10/22 build. Or, you could get one of the Bond Arms - Texas Defender derringers. It would pay for the tax stamp and your pick of .22 suppressors

Welcome back. Sorry to hear about your mom. Glad everything is settling down.

It certainly does look like he who shall not be named.

Those Edge Pro kits are super nice!

Let me know what you think of it. I'm thinking about taking my girls up there to check it out, and would love some imput from someone who isn't overly influenced by a seven story slide. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you.

I love my Spyderco Tri-Angle sharpener for everyday maintenance use. It puts a wicked edge on a knife pretty quickly, and is great for easy, less than 30 second maintenance. The Boy Scout in me also loves the process of sharpening on a couple of old Arkansas stones. I don't find myself doing it much anymore since the sticks are so efficient, but if I pull them out to sharpen a plane or something, I'll definitely sharpen my knives at the same time as well.

So, I have a friend that is an engineer like me. He is one of the quietest guys I know, and just completely laid back. He recently came back from St. Louis raving about the City Museum. Apparently it sits in a 600,000 sq/ft old shoe factory and is kind of half museum/half playground. He said it would be worth the drive to St. Louis just to go there. I wouldn't discredit the recommendation coming from someone else, but because this guy is so laid back about everything, this got my attention. Have fun. Roger Waters should be a good show. Here's a link - http://www.citymuseum.org/planning.html

A throwaway account would work fine. Likewise, your father-in-law who originally raised the concern could certainly report it as well.

Facebook does take reported posts seriously, especially when it comes to a minors. Click on the post, flag it, and then give the reasoning as intimidation of a minor. They should remove it pretty quickly, and hopefully ban his account. There are some other options, especially if you are getting counsel involved. If reporting the post doesn't work out, let me know and I'll get you a compliance contact so your counsel can send them a takedown request. Sorry you've got to deal with this.

Pick up a copy of Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilema. It will change your views about your responsibility inside the food chain. In all reality, hunting done ethically, and by follow on humanely is much less brutal than the typical beef cow's last year on a CAFO or the entire 56 days of it's life a broiler chicken spends in a cage. It may also be a lot less brutal than nature itself. Death in nature is usually cruel, and slow. An animal either gets sick and suffers, or it gets consumed by something higher up the food chain while it may still be alive. At least with a hunter that deer spends its days as a deer should right until it becomes meat for the table. I grew up around guns, but not hunting. No one in my immediate family was against it, however my dad was a sniper in Vietnam, and his view was that he had "hunted enough", and was fortunate enough to be able to buy meat at the store on a regular basis. As I really think about it though, I think Whiskey's statement is right. And as such, I've taken up some hunting. If you eat meat, fine. I do, and enjoy it. But, if you eat meat, you need to be fully aware of where it comes from, and what's involved in getting that ground beef into your cheeseburger at $2.69/lb. Once you think that all the way through, you'll realize that you have blood on your hands regardless of whether you hunt or not. And, the blood you get on your hand from being an active participant in the food chain is likely a lot less ethically tainted than the blood you get on your hands by simply picking up meat at Kroger. For me, it's not a matter of hunting or not hunting, loving animals or not loving animals. I love animals, and as such I eat a little bit less meat today than I did before I went through this thought process. I can choose to participate in where my meat comes from - whether I hunt it, raise it, or buy it from a source where I know that their cows, chickens and pigs got to spend their days as the good Lord intended them to spend them. There's a caveat, though. It's more expensive - and thus you realize the true cost of your consumption. But, as they say, good things aren't cheap. Maybe our meat wasn't meant to be industrialized in the first place.

The Netherlands are beautiful - in a flat kind of way. Have fun out there. Be safe.

I was curious about how much it cost to shoot at the facility posted in the video above. Think country club. I don't think I would make it out every weekend, but if I'm ever in the area, I'm definitely going to blow a couple hundred bucks there. Preise | MSZU - Müller Schießzentrum Ulm

I was sitting outside after church this morning enjoying the sun and commented to some friends that it would be a great day for flying or surfing - or both. Good job. Well played.

Joe's guy up at Hero Gear did a spectacular job threading mine.

Welcome back!

I am certainly in as well.

In the words of the immortal Lewis Grizzard, "Brother, I don't believe I'd have told that!" Just kidding. Enjoy whatever the heck you want. Shoot, if they added a pecan pie latte to their seasonal mix, I might even be tempted to partake.

North Face makes some great stuff, but generally their shells are just that - shells. I'm pretty skinny, and if I wore just my gore-tex shell in the winter, it would be a good thing my shell is yellow - because it would make it easier to find my body to recover. If you've already got a lighter shell of some type - you didn't mention what type of fall jackets you've got - one option would be to layer it with a down vest. Again North Face makes a great one, but REI's house brand is pretty good for about a third of the cost. One of my friends just got a super light down vest from LL Bean for pretty cheap as well. If I'm in the field, then I love technical fabrics in layers. For running around town and daily stuff, it's hard to beat a good peacoat.

Best coffee I've ever had was whole beans that came in a brown paper lunch bag from a guy outside the airport in the Dominican Republic