MacGyver

Every single thing seems like it has some sort of fundraiser these days. I'd happily support something like this.

This is a tough question. I definitely appreciate your persistence. A holster is a part of a system, and for most a good gun belt is critical. Is either of those options shoulder-type carry? Without a good belt, I question whether any holster will provide a good experience along the belt line. You could maybe try one of the trigger-cover “Mexican carry” type devices - but even these might be questionable for day-to-day regular use.

I've never heard anyone have complaints about Sloan's. They seem to be good people.

Greg, I’m certain I’m not the first to tell you, but you may have out kicked your coverage in the spousal selection department. I mean, we are talking frog gigging, but you’ve somehow still managed to marry up.

I’m pretty supportive of pro Soccer in Nashville. It has already been great for our community at large - pulling together our Kurdish and Latino communities as well as the rest of the population. The stadium deal has been less than transparent. I think that has as much to do with the chaos in the mayors office as anything. It’ll make money for the city in the long run. Certainly more than the current fairgrounds do.

Where in the world are you shopping in Lafayette to find that sort of abomination?

It seems to work okay for me.

You're going to need a transformer. All of my experience is with 12V marine strips. Academy sports usually has light strips of different colors up by the kayaks. They're less than $10 and pretty good quality. I think they're probably all made in the same place. You just have to make sure that if you're going to cut it, you cut where it's indicated on the PCB. My kids and I have done a lot of projects with cheap LED strips like these and have never been disappointed: https://www.amazon.com/LED-Waterproof-RGB-Controller-DotStone/dp/B06Y15YVFN/ref=asc_df_B06Y15YVFN/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=241940266558&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11522917711748930246&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9013085&hvtargid=pla-438333531342&psc=1 Here's a white version of the same: https://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Non-waterproof-Christmas-Decoration-Daylight/dp/B00HSF65MC/ref=sr_1_5?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1534861457&sr=1-5&keywords=white+led+strip

What's pricing look like on a box like that?

I like those frag pattern grips.

It ultimately destroyed their family, too. It's haunted me for almost 40 years.

Be careful. I had a friend in the first grade killed when his dad hit a nest with gas and the explosion came up from under him 20 feet away and engulfed him in flames. He lived a couple of years, but ultimately the infections from the burns killed him. I’ll leave this here. I just saw this the other day and filed it away:

E.R. Shaw actually makes a barrel kit for a Savage 110.

I’ve got No. 1s in some safari calibers - .458 win mag, 375 H&H. I think it would be a great rifle in 35 Whelen depending on your use case. I considered doing a Savage bolt action in .358 Winchester, but went a different direction. That might be an option for this caliber, too if you wanted to have a barrel made.

300BLK was designed to achieve full powder burn in 8.5”. No real reason to go much longer.

I wonder if the game warden would take Issue with the removable insert? Maybe okay so long as you didn’t have shells on your person?

That’s a neat idea. It was a fun project - and is loads of fun to shoot. It was a good barrel beforehand, and retained its accuracy. I’d be plenty comfortable with a shot out to 200 meters. It could probably go farther - I’ve just not stretched its legs. Truthfully, I tried it first on a handi rifle planning on working my way up to doing the same on a Ruger No. 1. But, the handi rifle shoots so well, I just stopped there.

Yep, the price tag was the single best feature of the handi rifles. That and the fact that they served a great utilitarian purpose well. Sometimes you don’t need a lot of junk, you just need a rifle to get the job done. I converted a 45-70 to smokeless muzzleloader a couple of years back. It’s great for that purpose. But - now that they’re not sub-$200 anymore, unless you’re just filling out a collection - I don’t know that there’s a ton of appeal.

H&R wanted them back to fit - I expect for liability reasons. I’ve bought several second hand over the years that all checked out fine. But, yeah. If you don’t know what you’re looking at - it might be good to enlist someone who can be sure.

Barrels are generally interchangeable among a particular generation frame - with some exceptions. Since Remington killed off New England Firearms and H&R, rarer barrels are getting increasingly hard to find.

I love Handi Rifles, but they’re not known for their triggers. I’ve only ever had one that I would say had a great trigger out of the box. But, they’re great rifles.

Do you need a special ribbon for that? What about correction tape? Want to make sure I get it right the first time.

Auto insurers refuse individual risks all the time. Get three DUI’s and try to find coverage. This isn’t about that, though. I deal with commercial insurance daily. This is about carriers expecting to see liabilities at an organizational level - probably followed by years of litigation, and they just want off the risk. Insurance carriers are by their very nature risk averse when they don’t have data that lets them price a risk. I might not like it, but I totally understand why they’d take a pass.

At the end of the day, insurance is about transferring risk. Insurance carriers tell toxic companies that they will not write their risk at any price all the time. If there’s a relationship with a broker, or they think everybody else is taking a hard pass you may have a carrier throw a really high number out there just to see how desperate they are. But, underwriting insurance policy is making a subjective decision on the toxicity of a business at the end of the day. It certainly affects your ability to do business. You can’t get access to some financial products or markets without it. You can’t raise debt. Certain liabilities may pass through to the directors and officers. It’s a big deal. At the end of the day - while you may not like it, this is how our capitalist system works. You have private organizations telling other private organizations that “we collectively” think you are too toxic to work with and so we aren’t going to take this risk. They are claiming this was spurred on by the regulatory action on Carry Guard, but this really is close to Adam Smith’s invisible hand at work.

The NRA finds themselves increasingly cut off from being able to access insurance markets and financial services as carriers and banks seek to cut ties. Couple this with the fact that they overspent by $46M in 2016, and they're in deep financial trouble - enough that they claim that they may be "unable to continue to exist." in a recent court filing. A lot of this stems from the Carry Guard Insurance being declared invalid by a recent regulatory action. Couple that with the optics of recent shootings and now their General Liability carrier won't renew their coverage either. Court filing below, followed by an article from Rolling Stone describing the same: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Ld2KEw6SqsvhOYgKUl3SXFTDoz4J3IA/view https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nra-financial-trouble-706371/