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    We were planning a family vacation to the area expressly because of the museum and around the Blue Angles practice schedule.  Maybe next year.  :-\

    Which means it won't get this far east until late tonite.  Which means my very storm anxious wife will likely keep me awake until the wee hours.  :-\ Hopefully it'll wear itself out before it gets there. 

  Gee, and all this time I thought GTMO was supposed to be closed....    (sarcasm).

The whole problem is still the batteries.  People call electric cars "green" because they don't emit CO2.  Ever looked into the manufacturing processes for the Li-ion batteries?  They use some pretty nasty stuff.  They're very difficult to recycle.  They're very expensive.  And as Boeing recently learned, they're not especially stable.  The technology still has a long way to go before it's viable for the masses, IMO. 

Most of the time I pocket carry a P3AT because its easy, convenient, and functionally invisible.  Occasionally I carry my PT145 IWB in a crossbreed supertuck.  I should carry it more often and have been considering a leather OWB holster for it.  On rare occasions I carry my wife's S&W 9mm in a Galco OWB leather holster.  Also on rare occasions, I'll carry my PT145 in my 5.11 "murse".  Mostly I depends on what else I have to carry.

Depends on your budget and your wants/needs.    At the lower end.... PTR-91, Saiga, kit FAL.  Mid range...  M1A, AR10, DSA FAL.  Higher end.... SCAR, HK91

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  I thought about water balloons or just putting a little flour in balloons.  But since it wouldn't penetrate a milk jug with relatively flat sides, I have serious doubts it'll pop round balloons reliably. 

I really need to get a good pair of impact rated sunglasses for shooting. I'm kinda helpless in the bright sunlight without sunglasses. And on this topic... My 5 yr old tried out his new bb gun yesterday afternoon. Notice he's wearing glasses. I was shocked that ye ole Red Ryder couldn't achieve reliable penetration on a milk jug at about 6 ft. Yep, the bb's bounced off. Eye protection.... yep, that's why. Now Dad has to find some better targets. Just like me, he got bored pretty quick just making perforated paper.

Certainly an over-reaction on the administration's part.  Sure the boy's classmates will think it's neat today.  By tomorrow, it'll be normal and they won't care anymore.    That said, there's no direction given in that policy what constitutes "disruptive", it otherwise meets all the criteria they list.  I'd get pretty pissy with the administration if my kid got suspended from kindergarten over a hair cut.  But then, you never know what may have constituted the conversations before the suspension and any other prior history with this kid and his parents. 

I really miss airshows.  Haven't been a real good one in years. 

  And down your shirt, front and back.  I've seen brass melt hair from bouncing off the top of someone's head.    I also wear safety glasses (or at least sunglasses) when running the mower and weedeater.  I had a very small piece of metal get embedded in the cornea of my left eye when I was a teenager.  Only cause we could determine was from the mower.  I had been mowing a neighbors very rocky and generally terribly maintained yard the day before.  I now have a slight astigmatism in that eye.  Coincidence?    I've also had the weedeater fling a rock (I think) and hit me in the face.  It knocked my sunglasses off, cracked the lens and cut my cheek.  I never saw a thing, just BANG and my glasses are gone and my cheek is stinging.  And yes, the guard was attached.  People that run them without the guard are just asking for it. 

Hornets, wasps, yellow jackets, and carpenter bees, ... they gotta go.  But as with all things shooting, identify your target.  There's several types of beneficial insects that looks like bees but are harmless.

    True, but you can't effectively carburize titanium in a home forge, it's typically done in a vacuum.  Titanium oxidizes very quickly at high temperatures.  It forms a very thin and very brittle oxide layer commonly called alpha case when heated in the presence of oxygen.  It doesn't take lots of heat, if your angle grinder is throwing sparks, you're likely making alpha case on the surface.  Since alpha case is brittle, it cracks easily.  Small cracks in the alpha case on the surface can propagate into the base metal.  

The main risk.... um, being blind for the rest of your life?  Last I checked, they don't have artificial eyes yet.

Welcome!

It's baaaaaack.  Making the rounds again apparently.  And yes, still funny.  :)

Here you go...     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acX10jcyaLg&feature=youtu.be       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiY_oEY2-Ns&feature=youtu.be       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut-5IWCJ-D4&feature=youtu.be     :)     ....  edit... ok, dunno why the 3rd one won't embed...

Seems I only took a couple pics... But here's the good stuff you wanted.... :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acX10jcyaLg&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiY_oEY2-Ns&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut-5IWCJ-D4&feature=youtu.be

If it's just full and needs to be pumped, that shouldn't be a big deal. I assume the whole thing is buried and they'll install the access tunnel for it when they dig it up to pump it. We had ours pumped when I was about 10. The tank was unusually deep, at about 8 ft down. I recall the septic guys scratching their heads and re-re-checking the plans as to it's location. Then when they finally found it, I recall one of the guys falling in.... Thigh deep on one leg.... eeeeewww. In the future, use this stuff... it works. Modern antibacterial soaps work quite well for disinfecting your hands and such. Problem is, they also kill the good bacteria in your septic system.

    Pay close attention to the head spacing portion.  FAL's don't headspace like other rifles.  There's a quite a list of ruined hardware because some "gunsmith" built one for someone and didn't head space it correctly (or at all).    Go here and read lots. These folks can tell you all the stuff you never wanted to know...  http://www.falfiles.com/forums/index.php

I'm also very confused by the y-axis label...   % growth since 1970 and 1972 is at 90%.  So everything grew 90% in 2 years?    Or should that 90 be 0 since all the other labels end with 90 (590, 1090, etc.)?  If so, that means it grew 500% in 23 years (~1993) and another 500% in the following 10 yrs (2003)?  I'm not an economist nor did I sleep at Holiday Inn last night, but I'm not sure I believe that.    That said, I agree with the assessment that the Dow has become decoupled with reality.  Personally, I blame it on the Dow itself and modern communication technology.  Its a vicious cycle that progressed to where publicly held companies have to do their financial reporting quarterly, and that information is available nearly instantly.  A "long term" plan these days is 12 months.  That's madness.  The system has become hypersensitive to the slightest fluctuation...  the butterfly effect. 

    A cookie.  They have them at Kroger...

    Depends on what type of Ti you've got.  There's several different alloys with noticeably different properties.  Generally, I don't think Ti wouldn't make good punches, its too soft and can't be hardened easily (or at all, depending on the alloy).          Regarding the heat treatment... again, it depends on the specific alloy.  You can't heat treat any of them in air, but it's routinely done in a vacuum furnace.            More like Ti dust.  It would take some real effort (or stupidity) to get shavings/chips of any size to catch fire while machining.  We turn Ti dry routinely.  You've just got to go slow.    If it does catch fire, it's best to just get away from it and let it burn.  You can't really put it out without big equipment.

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