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Seems easy enough to me. Call Beretta, send it in for repair.

I've seen WWB at the 411 Walmart in Maryville on occasion. Don't recall the price.

Wish a good sized rat snake would pay my yard a visit. Or an owl. Or a red-tailed hawk. I'm sick of the rabbits & field mice. The one resident Cooper's Hawk just can't keep up.

Min size - I'd say it depends on the terrain. If it's steep, you could get away with a smaller area for rifle hunting. If it's flat, must be bigger. My folks have 12 acres of dense woods, kinda steep. You've got a lot more options with a bow, but it can be hunted with a rifle from a few specific locations. I've never leased hunting land, but coworkers seem to pay anywhere from $100 - $400 for deer & turkey seasons. The $400 one is a huge area, 300+ acres. If you really intend to live off the land, I'd think creek or spring fed pond would be a must-have.

You'd be surprised how easily a kid can operate a gun. I brought home a new rifle a while back. My 4 yr old ran up and begged to hold it. I knelt down and held it across my knee for him to see. The first thing he did was grab the trigger and squeeze. The 2nd thing he did was grab the bolt handle and rotate it open, pull it back, push it back forward, and start to rotate it back down. I've never shown him how to operate a bolt gun, he just grabbed the handle and did it. My wife and I were both amazed. She claims it's inherent in boy DNA.

You can reload berdan primed cases, just do it before they've been fired. Pull the bullet, dump the powder, and reload with your powder and bullet du jour. Milsurp spam can ammo is cheaper than new boxer brass.

What condition is the rifle in? Chamber/muzzle erosion, bore pitting, bolt fit and lock-up, etc.? For typical rifle in pretty good shape (for a 70 year old rifle) 2-3 MOA seems typical. You might get less than 2 if you dial in a hand load. Note that some rifles shoot better with the bayonet attached.

Small town politics, alive and well. A very interesting legal precedent indeed. Is VA an "at will" employment state like TN?

I didn't degrade anyone's profession. Sorry if you took it that way.

Nice grips. fyi... just about every size you can think of, typically $6-$10 per hundred. http://www.mcmaster.com/#socket-head-cap-screws/=iscds7

What they said.... call 911, drive in circles until the cops get there.

Right. As long as the FFL in TX will accept a firearm from a non-FFL holder (some do, some don't. call to verify), then you just ship it to them. Having a copy of their FFL is mostly CYA for you in the event something happens.

Walther PPK or PK380, M&P9C, XD9SC, Kahr CW9, PM9, P380, ...

This is a pretty good book that addresses this topic.... http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Armed-America-Mark-Walters/dp/0982248768

That 2-3 months off is more like 2-3 weeks. Between in-service, summer school, training classes, preparing for the next year, etc., it isn't much of a break. 60-70 hrs/wk for 9 months is still more total hours than 40 hrs/wk for 12 months. Mom never complained about the pay. She complained about the long hours, incompetent administrators, and useless parents.

Mom was a teacher for nearly 30 years. She routinely spent 2-3x more on stuff for her classroom as she did for me and my sister. As for the mechanic analogy... Do you give away the tools you bought because someone else doesn't have one? Do you get paid overtime? Do you work 2-4 hrs every day at home for free? Do you spend nights and weekends at work related functions?

Well that's a bummer. They have lots of cool stuff.

You'd lose.

Nice work! I want one.

Wideners. http://www.wideners.com/ Mahoney's. http://www.mahoneysports.com/ Gunslingers in Kingsport.

Greetings!

Speaking of this... My mortgage is on auto pay. I'm also in a plan where I pay every 2 weeks instead of monthly. That works out to 1 extra (monthly) payment per year, which reduces the term of the loan considerably (~5-6 yrs, I think). I also refinanced mine recently. While waiting for the auto pay to be set up, I made the first payment by check. Surprisingly quickly after the payment was due, I got a rather nasty note in the mail saying my mortgage was past due. I called and discovered that my mortgage holder (Chase) had decided to apply the entire payment to escrow. That was corrected relatively quickly and easily, but I was shocked by how fast the past due notice showed up and how strongly worded it was. Not real fun, but at the end of the day, not a huge deal either. Regarding getting a loan.... Figure out what you want to pay monthly and stick to it. Be sure there's some wiggle room and you still have a little play money every month. Don't be tempted by that house that'll only be $150 more per month. It's no fun being "house poor". If you have good credit, the banks will typically loan you way more than you really can afford.

Not a jackhammer, a masonry wet saw. Cut out the outline and few whacks with a sledge. Then lots of digging. Be sure there's no plumbing under the slab. Stay well away from outside walls or support posts. Make sure you've got good drainage, backfill with gravel.

I've searched long and hard for any relatively simple and straightforward way to compare candidates. So far, I haven't found it. You can look up an incumbent's voting record, but beyond that it's hard to tell. The senator's and some representatives have newsletters you can subscribe to. As you mentioned, the NRA has some information. Politics being politics, you must consider the source of anything you find and decide how much of it (if any) to believe. It gets really tough at the local level. Heck, I'd be thrilled if I could get a sample ballot a week before the election so I'd at least know who I was voting for.