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Went to the Oak Ridge WM last night, and the shelves definitely looked bare. They did have a few boxes of Blazer 9mm, which they had been out of for a long time, so I grabbed a few of them. They were still out of the 550 value packs of .22 shells. I got the last few of the 50 count boxes. My wife is taking her carry permit class in two weeks. She is planning on using the .22 Ruger since it is such a tack driver and easy for her to shoot. I never thought I'd have trouble finding ammo for it. Salesperson told me that their shipments have been getting longer an dlonger in between deliveries, and when they do get stuff it is of limited quantities, like one case of any particular round.

A few years ago, we converted our fireplace to gas logs. I highly recommend this, especially if you already have gas service. We got "ventless" logs which burn 100% of the gas, so the flue can be closed and all of the heat stays in the house instead of going up the chimney. Plus it's on instantly, and best of all no smoky smells in the house. Our chimney didn't draft very well. I think the logs cost about $125 and the hookup was about $100. You'll probably pay $100 for calling someone out to sweep your chimney.

BK, You said earlier you were young and single. Your best asset is free time. Use it to get a second job, and use every penny of it to pay off debt. You have no responsibilites to a wife or kids, so work as much as you can. I know it may be for less than what you want to make, but it will help speed up the process. And it's only temporary. One day you'll be debt free. Set up a schedule for how long you need a second job. When you reach your goal, quit. Sell some stuff. Everyone has junk laying around they never use, that someone else wants to buy and keep in their house. Use every penny to pay off debt. Look at your bills and see if there is something you can do without. Really need 50000 minutes on your cell plan? Really need 500 channels of cable? Really need to eat out 8 nights a week? You get the idea, look for ways to cut back. Every penny you save, pay off debt. Get yourself on a tight budget. Here's how I do it ala Dave Ramsey. Sit down and list out everything you pay for, rent, utilities, gasoline, food, insurance, medical, credit cards, everything. Think about extra stuff too like car repairs, things that come once a year or infrequently like dues or HCP renewal and add a little in the budget for them. Then, on paper "spend" every single dollar you earn. What I mean is, account and pre-assign every dollar you get. If you list all your bills and assign money to them and you still have $20 left over, find a place to put that $20. Now force yourself to stay on that budget. We use cash and envelopes. I have an envelope for eating out. Every month we decide how much $$$ we need to eat out. When I get paid, I take that much money out in cash and fill the envelope. When I want to eat out I grap the envelope. If there is $50 in it I go where ever I want. If there is $10 left in it I go to McD's. If there is nothing in it, I fix a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at home. It sucks sometimes if there is nothing left, but I realized that I'm a big boy now and somtimes big boys have to do the hard things. Also, in your budget, allways give yourself a little "blow" money. Not a lot, but some. This is for you to spend any way you want. I've found if you put yourself on a budget that is so restrictive and you never get to blow some money on stuff, you'll just give up. These ideas are not original. My wife and I teach the Dave Ramsey course. If it sounds interesting to you, I'd be happy to sit down with you personally one evening and give you some more info. Also, if you're interested, I can email you a sample budget that is in Excel format. It is one that I use and works great. But whatever you do, don't go to Cali. I really think you'll be better off her in TN. Financially, and emotionally.

What happens if Dems all vote for him, and Repubs are split? Not sure if they would do that or not, but it could also be a show-stopper.

Had me fooled!

If you really want to have a discussion with the owner about an improperly posted sign, why not pretend that it is correctly posted and try to convince them to remove it. You can find lots of info on this forum to help support your position on why posting is a bad idea. Otherwise, I agree. Just keep quiet.

At one of our local gun shops (Frontier Firearms) they always check for one in the chamber before handing a gun to a customer, AND upon the customer handing it back. Even if they have been watching the customer like a hawk. They do this every time, without fail. I really respect that. I went to them when I was looking for my first gun. The first time they handed me a pistol, I stupidly grabed it and put my finger on the trigger and started talking to the clerk. He very politely mentioned that I may want to hold it with my finger off the trigger, just to get in the habit. I'll never forget that, and that first experience with the gun is now burned into my brain and my finger never goes to the trigger unless I'm ready to pull it. Like others have said, I consider every gun loaded, and just out of principal I would never point it at someone while shopping.

Well then, they'll have to pony up the lions share of the tax themselves then, because most of the BS in this country comes from Washington!

Just heard on the news that Sea Ice is at levels we had 29 years ago, and the earth this year has experienced the fastest growth of sea ice ever on record. OMG! We must have overcompensated for global warming and now we have started some sort of cooling death spiral. We're doomed!

I did have an occurance one time where I didn't grip my XD quite right and it wouldn't go bang. I was at the range and practicing drawing and shooting from concealed under a shirt. However, I looked at it as a good thing. It made me evaluate my draw, and I found that I was doing some things seriously wrong. Now that I have made some corrections, I've not had any more problems. I will say though, that when you pull the trigger and the gun does not go bang, it is very disorienting. You sit there looking at it wondering what is going on. Now, it is burned into my brain that if it doesn't fire, check my grip. It's kind of like one of those classes where they make you turn around and someone does something to disable your gun, and you have to figure out what it is.

Went to the Oak Ridge Wallmart yesterday and the shelves looked pretty bare. They had no Blazer 9mm, but had one or two boxes of WWB 100 pack. They were also out of all .22 shells. Clerk said they got a case of .22 in the day before and it all sold in one day. He also said it would be a few weeks before they got any new stuff. I'm hoping that lots of people just got some new toys for Christmas and had to feed them. If so, I'm sure the shelves will fill back up once the newness wears off.

I think I'll send in my request now for my own trillion dollars. Seems like these days, all you have to do is ask.

I heard of a report a while back where global warming was causing some glacier to melt at an allarmingly high rate. Some scientists went to investigate, and found all kinds of artifacts from a civilization that lived there hundreds of years ago. Under the ice. Before carbon emmissions. I guess it was warm enough way back then for these people to live there. So that means that the current condition of being iced over is "abnormal".

I was going to go, but then I found out that there will be a Jeffersons marathon on TV, which I think is way more important.

You can take the class with any handgun. It doesn't have to be the on eyou plan to carry. Find and borrow a friend's handgun with a more readily available round. Heck, you can even bring a .22 if you want. In fact, my class rented out .22's for the test if you didn't have a gun.

For a small town like Oak Ridge, it's a way to make money almost entirely off the backs of it's citizens. In larger towns like Knoxville, you have lots of out of towners that may be unfamiliar with the intersections. You ticket them, and it doesn't piss of the people that do the electing of the local officials. Now, Oak Ridge has a serious problem with not being able to attract out of towners for shopping, restaurants, etc. If you live half way between Oak Ridge and another town without cameras, where you going to go? Most likely the other way, especially if you or someone you know got a ticket. Then what I think will happen is most locals will know where the cameras are, and either avoid the intersection, or just be very careful when traveling through. So you end up will limited revenue from the cameras, and no out of town retail traffic, which means less sales tax revenue. That means raised taxes for local citizens again! As far as running red lights, I never do it. What really concerns me though is the Yahoo in front of me that got ticketed recently, and is now gun-shy, so he slams on his brakes at a yellow, and I run into the back of him, when all along both of us could have made it safely through.

For me, it's like a double edged sword. When I'm in the store browsing, I really appreciate that the store owners aren't yakking it up with every person that calls in. It makes me feel like since I took the trouble to actually drive down here, I'm more important than the guy on the phone. However, when I'm ready to buy something, I already know what it is and I have the money ready to go, so I'm just looking for availability and price, so I call around. We have two gun shops nearby to me, one of them's standard phone answer is "no we don't have any, try the gunshow", and the other is, "yeah we have them, but they are aaaalllll the waaaay over there in the other case and I can't get to it". If they can't take one minute to tell me the price, I'll just move along.

I recently bought an AK and want to add a scope to it. On the left side of the reciever there is a bracket with two pins with heads that stick out on it that look like it should be for mounting purposes. I assume you can get something that wraps around to the top of the rifle with a scope rail. Can someone tell me what the name of this bracket and pin device is called, and what to look for for a rail? Thanks

The last time I moved a web site to a new host, it was annoyingly frustrating waiting for the DNS records to propogate to all the providers. I thought that if we knew the new IP address, we could update our hosts file and keep on trucking. Thoughts??

I plan on picking up a Keltek P3AT or Ruger LCP. Been wanting a pocket gun.

I had to improvise like this one time. We found a mouse in the house and we had no traps, and it was too late to go to the store. I couldn't stand the thought of going to sleep with him running around, so I found a large 5 gallon bucket, covered the top with a towel and put some cheese and peanut butter on top of the towel. The towel could hold the cheese, but the weight of the mouse was too much and he fell into the bucket. Of course, I had made no such promises to my family, so I filled the bucket with about 6 inches of water. Woke up in the morning to find a dead, wet mouse.

Do some research on proper grip and stance techniques. When I started shooting, I was surprized at how much I was doing wrong. Of course I got my primary gun education from TV, which is all wrong. Once I started using proper technique, my aim improved tremendously.

I don't even pretend to understand what this may do to our economy, but here is something that has been bugging me. Using totally made up numbers, lets just say there are 60 million new cars sold in the US each year. The big three, Toyota, Nissan and VW each sell 10 million. If the Big three go under, won't 60 million people still want new cars, and wont the rest of the manufacturers just step up production to handle the demand. If so, then won't that put back the workers and suppliers? Secondly, don't the big three have plants and sell cars all over the world? Why aren't they asking some of these other countries to pony up some money. Won't it affect them as well? Why does the US allways have to be everyone's Suggar Daddy?

Well, I did ask the last time I went in, and sure enough, they had it. Turns out it's a smidge cheaper than WWB too. Since it comes in boxes of 50, it makes buying a box even easier on the wallet. Think I'm definitely putting myself on the "Buy a box every week plan".

I had to show my birth certificate to get my carry permit. He doesn't need one and has his finger on a much wider selection of weapons.