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An Irishman who doesn't know what a golf tee is?  Now that's funny.  :rofl:     :)

Now go bury it i the back yard and dig it up this time next year.  Needs patina.  ;)

There's plenty of ranges around (ORSA, Norris, John Sevier, Windrock, Tactical Advantage, Sevier Indoor Range,.... ), but I can't immediately think of one that might let you run classes.  Worth a call at least.  If you shoot at home, why not do it there?

I worked at Sears through the 90's.  Not a bad job for a high school kid to make money to immediately be wasted on girlfriends.  Thankfully, I worked in the stock room unloading trucks and stocking the sales floor at 6am instead of having to be a salesman.  We certainly had some fun... like the time an armored truck guy nearly drew his gun on me...  :eek:   I do recall having a big meeting where the store manager told us that this was the first year in Sears history where they lost money.  At the time Sears also owned a big insurance company (Nationwide?) and a hurricane had blasted central Florida.  The insurance claims had put the company in the red.  Seems that was the first of many to come.    And I'll echo a few other folks sentiments...  Yes, they made most of their money off the credit card.  Yes, the Sears catalog seems like a piece of Americana and it's sad to see it go.  Yes, customer service has gone completely to shit in the last few years.

Sounds like a nice place. My wife has been cutting my hair (and our boys) for several years. I'll have to ask her about that massage and hot towel. :D

Sorry to hear this. One of my grandmothers had symptoms of both dementia and Alzheimer's. She was in a nursing home and it was rough, can't imagine having to deal with it 24/7. Thoughts and prayers for some peace during this difficult time.

Glad they didn't get or cause any further damage.

I got a shield 9 for my wife a year or so ago. Took a bit to get the trigger broken in, but it's good now. I'm sure the apex kit would make it even better but I just haven't gotten there yet. Been tempted to get one for myself too.

I'd get those teeth fixed sooner rather than later.  A friend's mom nearly died because of an abscessed tooth.  She developed a blood infection from the tooth.  The blood infection ruined a heart valve and led to a mild heart attack.  She had open heart surgery to replace the valve.  I think she was about 60 when that happened.  I'll freely admit that I don't like going to the dentist, but it sure beats the alternative.

    I believe the difference between a drone and a hobby RC aircraft is the capability for autonomous flight.  Anything that doesn't have to be under direct control of an operator 100% of the time is a considered a drone and the FAA wants to regulate them.  I don't think that's unreasonable.  As for being used for commercial purposes, the government just wants to tax that somehow and it's fallen into the FAA's lap.   I'm not sure why the media has made such a big deal over this, other than getting their peepee whacked for using them commercially.    http://www.faa.gov/uas/publications/model_aircraft_operators/

    No, a stand of trees does NOT make an adequate back stop.  I had bullets bounce off my house and my neighbor's house that were fired into a large brush pile about 1/4 mile away.  Dirt makes a good back stop.    I find the hunting guide somewhat confusing with regard to shotguns.  It says you can't use No. 4 or smaller shot, but doesn't say either way on bigger shot.  You can use slugs.      http://www.tn.gov/twra/pdfs/huntguide.pdf 

Think about which way your garage faces.  Will it be visible to anyone who drives by if the garage door is open?  If so, can you conceal it?  A friend just throws an old bed sheet over his, it helps keep dust out too.    I don't know how full your garage is, but it would sure be annoying to have to climb over and/or move stuff every time I wanted to open it.    If you put it in the house... can you put it somewhere house guests (or the UPS guy) won't immediately see it?  With that much weight, I'd definitely add some support to the sub-floor and put some sort of bearing plate under it to help distribute the load over a larger area.  What type of floors do you have and what condition are they in?  If you think the flooring/carpet might need to be replaced, you're going to have to move the safe to do it.  Just a few things to consider.

Man... that sucks.  Can you file a shipping damage claim?

Indeed.

It'll be fine. It's more acidic to dissolve the copper faster than the regular stuff. I don't think I'd use it anywhere but the bore.

    Thank you for thinking about the weight of the stuff inside the safe.    Controlling humidity inside the safe is easy, it's outside you need to think about.  I'd plan for some sort of vapor barrier between the concrete and the safe. 

    ... that's why I said "for adults" instead of "adult movie".  But yes, grown-ups would have been a better word.  And yes, Bad Santa is pretty darn funny.  Any time I think of that movie, one particular line always comes to mind first....

I have an acquaintance who's a federal marshal.  He was involved in apprehending a criminal who was shot in the forehead with a suppressed MP5 from about 10 ft away.  The bullet bounced off and didn't knock the guy down (big dude).   I recall seeing the guy's mug shot with a nasty bruise just to the left of dead center. 

People who would do such things don't deserve to be parents.  That problem has been fixed.  I hope they enjoy hell. That's all I'm gonna say. 

My wife got a DVD with a collection of all the old clay-mation Christmas movies. The kids have watched them several times already. Christmas Story is the best ever kids holiday movie. "The Ref" with Dennis Leary and Kevin Spacey is the best one for adults. It's hilarious.

We've used Slo Dea kennel for our lunatic dog for several years. They're super nice. The "kennel" is a converted house so each dog (or two if they're from the same owner) gets it's own room. Big fenced yard to run around too. http://www.slodeakennel.com

I don't have one, but all accounts I've read/heard say they're quite good.  No issues.

Wish he'd play around here.  I'm yet to see his Christmas show or TSO.   :yuck:    I'd liked him back from the Stray Cat's days. 

    I lived in that world for a number of years. TQM, 6 Sigma, Poka Yoke, Kaizan, VOC, T-tests, ad nasuem....   Those are a bunch of wonderful concepts that, when applied intelligently, can significantly improve a wide variety of processes.  Or what I like to call, the stuff any process engineer worth his salt had been doing long before the bosses paid the consultants an obsene amount of money to give it a fancy name.  I escaped for a while but unfortunately it's begun to invade my current world.  So far, the results have bordered on laughable.    If there are people involved, there will be mistakes.  Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.  Make something idiot-proof, they'll make a better idiot.

100% prevent when you're making millions? Not if you plan to make money at it. A statistician would tell you that it's physically impossible if you make more than one. There's an expontentially inverse relationship between scrap rate and cost to reduce it. The law of diminishing returns, if you will. In high volume work, there's a point at which it's cheaper to accept some amount of scrap than it is to reduce it.