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I started wearing glasses at about age 10. Uncorrected, my vision is about 20/400. I'm left handed and grew up shooting left handed. A minor astigmatism formed in my left eye 6-8 years ago. I hate wearing glasses and contacts that correct astigmatism aren't cheap, so I switched and started shooting right handed simply because I see better out of my right eye. It sounds like the problem you describe is simply eye fatigue. Your eye is working hard trying to see the sights and the bright sunlight is making the eye work that much harder. There's various exercises you can do to help strengthen the muscles. One I do occasionally is to sit where there's something close in to focus on and something far away very close to one another. For example, put a picture on a window sill. A fast as you can, change your focus from the picture to a tree or something far out the window. I'm sure you'll feel your eyes get tired pretty quickly. Similarly, sit in a chair and, without moving your eyes, note what you can see at the edges of your peripheral vision. Then, without moving your head, shift your eyes from one side to another to quickly pick up those objects.

Quite a collection. The cords hanging from the ceiling would imply that they're all on battery tenders. I hope that means he drives them. Like the token Merc daily driver. Right, it's basically a kit car. Likely worth less than the sum of the parts. Still cool though.

Reminds me of something some friends and I did early in college... Another friend was a very annoying drunk. He got loud and belligerent, but thankfully not violent. After one particular saturday night of drinking, we decided to teach him a lesson. We were taking him home at about 4am and dropped him off a couple doors down from his parents' house. He was completely hammered, stumbled out of the car, took a few steps and paused, realizing he wasn't sure where he was. We took off and left him to figure it out. We were hungry and headed to the nearest Waffle House. After eating and sobering up a tad, we felt a little guilty and went back to find him. The sun was just coming up and we found him passed out in his next door neighbors yard. The thought of his parents' neighbors coming out in their robe to get their Sunday paper and finding him passed out in the yard, covered with dew was too good to pass up, so we left him here. He never told us what happened, but he also never got hammered again. After reading the OP... I'm glad he didn't get shot.

I have Hi-Tec boots that I've been quite happy with. I've found that the biggest thing for comfort with hiking boots is the footbeds/insoles. My guess is that most all hiking boot makers put the cheapest insoles in their boots, assuming that everyone will replace them with good ones anyway. The second biggest thing I learned was to get boots at least a half size bigger than normal and wear 2 pair of socks. I wear the fancy supportive, wicking socks with a 2nd pair of cheap cotton socks over those. I'm also a day hiker, though I typically have at least 30 lbs of young'un on my back. My suggestion is to visit an outfitter place like Gander Mtn or BassPro and try out a bunch of stuff. There's so many options, it's difficult to figure out what's best. Here's a good database of reviews. http://www.backpacker.com/gear/

The national forests are only places I can think of that have what you want... Joyce Kilmer/Slickrock, Nantahala, Cherokee and Pisgah. http://www.main.nc.us/graham/hiking/rangerhq.html http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/cherokee/maps-pubs http://www.hikewnc.info/trailheads/pisgah/

This, mostly because of the effect is has on my wife.

In theory, all photos are reviewed by an officer before the ticket is issued. While I agree philosophically that these things are far too "big brother" and why not employ an actual person and so on... but as others have said, if you don't break the law, you don't get a ticket. The problem is easy to solve.... If no one speeds and no tickets are issued, there's no revenue stream to pay the lease on the cameras and the cameras will come down.

So you'd prefer higher taxes to pay that extra cop?

So a Haversack holds food, a Shooting bag holds shooting stuff, and a Possibles Bag holds all of that plus whatever else you need. It's the Swiss army knife of bags.

Care to clear up the confusion? Google tells me that a Possibles Bag holds whatever you need it to hold for a day (or three) in the field (food, utensils, shooting stuff, etc.). A Haversack holds primarily food. A Shooting Bag holds, go figure... shooting stuff. Personally, I like the term possibles bag. Sounds a lot better than man purse.

Amen to that. And that.

Actually, the majority of the revenue goes to the camera company, not the municipality. The cameras are leased, not purchased. The lease agreement typically requires a significant percentage of the revenue be paid to the leasing company.

Agreed. But the launch angle when zeroed would necessarily be different because of the different trajectory of the bullets. I assume a long range shooter would have recorded zero setting for different loads.

My wife and I really enjoy visiting the Williamsburg area. Looking forward to taking our boys in a few years. I'm not especially knowledgeable, but I find that kinds of historic stuff very interesting.

I took that flag photo at Yorktown National Battlefield Cemetery. Been to Pearl Harbor too, humbling experience.

If you're reading this, thank a teacher. If you're reading this in English, thank a soldier.

Not a new idea...

A friend hit a deer with his wife and 2 young daughters in the car. The deer wasn't killed and was suffering terribly in the ditch. Their car was mashed pretty good and once he confirmed everyone was ok and called the law, the wife and kids got real upset over the deer. He didn't have a firearm with him, so he found a big rock with which to end it's suffering. A truck pulled up on the scene and a guy got out. The guy saw the big rock and said... don't do that, I've got a better way. He pulled a gun out of his glove box and shot the deer. The cop showed up a minute or two later and noticed the deer had been shot. All the cop said to the guy was ... thanks, you saved me a lot of paperwork if I'd had to shoot it. If you don't want it, I'll call TWRA to come get it.

C'mon... you just can't go and ruin the stereotype like that! How can we make fun of others without stereotypes? Buzzkiller.

Welcome!

Really think it'd be worth the aggravation? She looks really high maintenance to me.

... and aerodynamics. The above is true when both are fired from a level barrel. As most rifles are "zero'd" at a range beyond 1" from the muzzle, the angle of the barrel and the trajectory of the bullet factor in. The combined effect of both velocity, mass, and aerodynamics are directly proportional to the distance traveled. Differences become greater further downrange.

Based on this... The muzzle energies differ by less than 1%. The "cheap stuff" retains 60% of it's muzzle energy at 300 yds. The "good stuff" retains 65% of it's muzzle energy at 300 yds. At 300 yds, the "good stuff" has 7.5% more energy. That tells me the "good stuff" has a better designed bullet. You also have to consider the aerodynamics of the bullet itself (referred to as the ballistic coefficient). Some bullets have very low drag and hence retain their velocity further down range. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_coefficient

Your nearest junk yard should have one.

I used masking tape, and a small-ish piece. Don't cover the whole lens, just block the forward vision. When I practice regularly, I find it helps. When I go for a while without practicing, I have to start over.