peejman

Coworker has one of those and said it worked reasonably well. A Dutch oven is certainly better, but much less portable, if that matters.

Trail mix.   And I don't have any in the house now for that very reason.  I try not to snack at all, but a handful (or 2, or 3... ) of peanuts or almonds usually hits the spot.  I have a birthday of significant coming up and I'm trying to reach a weight goal by then, though I seem to have stalled out over the last couple weeks.  Kid's birthday cake followed by a gifted cheesecake didn't help I'm sure. 

I'll agree that the pocket clip is really stiff.  It takes a pretty firm grip and a tug to get it on/off.  Maybe it'll loosen up with some use.  If not, I'll take it off.    The fasteners on the clip are mini torx...  T4 or T6, I think.  Hardware stores should have a set in that size. 

    Right.  People get all would up about barrels... cold hammer forged, chrome vanadium, ...   Is a hunk of chrome vanadium steel that gets cold hammer forged into a barrel really significantly better than a hunk of chrome vanadium steel that gets extruded into seamless tubing?  Functionally, probably not.  They both go through similar initial cold forming processes to turn that big hunk of metal into something resembling a barrel and then similar final processes to ream the barrel and cut the rifling.  One gets the bore rough drilled while the other has it extruded.  The directional properties of the steel do end up a little different.  Does that matter with regard to surface wear?  Maybe a little.  Something that a national match or F-class shooter might care about, but completely meaningless to the average shooter. 

    Nah.... needs more black.  Black forks, black mirrors, black valve covers... :)

Best chicken livers I've ever had came from The Beacon in Spartanburg.    But as has been stated, given that it's the body's filter and retains all the bad stuff, I consider chicken livers to be a very rare treat. 

    Yep.   Try this with your belt....    Pinch/squeeze it across it's width with your thumb and forefinger as hard as you can.  Does it collapse?  Unless you've got vice grips for hands, it shouldn't.  My 8 year old, daily worn Beltman belt barely does... less than 1/8".    Most dress belts will fold completely in half with relative ease.  That's the difference. 

Cool looking pig sticker!   Educate me on the purpose of the cut on the spine running toward the tip.  It looks neat and I see that on lots of knives but don't know why its there. 

Oh. Hail. Yeah. And what's especially nice is it came on a very rare day where I got home before my wife and got the mail. So no long explanation required. :)

heh.... I got one of these.... http://www.amazon.com/Caldwell-Super-Plus-Recoil-Shield/dp/B001C5XOJQ   Between the 91/30, M48, and K31... those metal butt pads are rough.  I typically do fine until that one shot where I don't have it pulled in quite tight enough.  Once it bites you the first time, every shot after that just freakin' hurts. 

        Yep.  A good gun belt that's reasonably snug.  If the butt of the gun is flopping out, your belt isn't stiff enough.  If your pants are falling off, it's not tight enough.

Nice!

Welcome!

Cool.  I'd like to add an Enfield to my meager collection.  Has availability of .303 ammo improved?  Last I looked what little was out there was $1/shot.  Perhaps that's the new norm... 

    Month or so ago.   The prior version was due to expire this month.  I just looked at it and the expiration date is mid-march 2019 (not my b'day), so +4 years just like before.  My DL expires on my b'day this year.  :shrug:

My thought is that the "cocked and locked" comes from several (old) things...   - The exposed hammer and the idea that the gun could discharge if dropped on the exposed hammer.    - Single action guns (revolvers) that simply wouldn't fire at all until the hammer was manually cocked (in addition to the drop issue)   - History with lots of botched trigger jobs that made 1911's unsafe.  Its pretty easy to screw one up if you don't know what you're doing.    - Carrying a gun with the exposed hammer in the full cock position just looks dangerous and sexy.    The XD has a trigger safety in addition to the grip safety and no exposed hammer.  The nature of the striker fired design is such that he gun is half cocked anytime a round is in the chamber so there's no DA/SA trigger pull difference that some folks get so excited about. 

Nice pics and thanks for the processing info. I wondered how you got such sharp images from a phone. Hand held or do you have a gorilla pod type base?

Lots of brands do that now, some made here and some made in China. Be curious to know the source of the steel in the US made versions.

Interesting. I wrote a check for $50 and they cashed it.

Yes, Dollywood was Silver Dollar City. She bought it in 1986. I didn't realize it's been there since 1961. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollywood

I did the free trial thing a few years ago.  Got my Dad's side of the family back 9 generations to the generation that was born in England and came across the pond in the mid 1700's.  That was pretty interesting.  Got basically zip on my Mom's side of the family, less than what people currently living knew.  I think the majority of the info on my Dad's family was dug up by one of my aunts a number of years ago.  

I also want to be left the hell alone while at the range.  It's my "me time" and I don't get much of that.  A little friendly conversation is fine, otherwise piss off.  :)     At the same, given the number of mouth breathing imbeciles I've seen, I'd much prefer they not be handling their weapons while I'm down range.  You never know who's hunting rifle has a home spun "2lb" trigger job with negative engagement so severe it'll discharge if the snail under the bench farts.           This is genius.  :clap:

I see mine in that pic.  :woohoo:      

This weekend was fantastic.  We spend the entire afternoon yesterday playing with the kids and we all got nicely sun burned as a result.  :)  Looks like we've got a whole week of rain to recover.  :-\

Noise will be your biggest issue.  An adequate backstop will be the next most important.   My parents live in Soddy Daisy.  It's a nice little suburb of Chattanooga, and the sound of gun fire on a nice weekend isn't exactly unusual.  But as with most any area, you'll have to be outside the city limits to do any shooting.