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I'd trade the packaged entrees and rice meals for hot dogs and smores. No bacon and eggs for breakfast? Assuming you'll have a campfire, can't go camping w/o smores... No liquid fuel? Any reason for that? All my stuff is old and runs on Coleman fuel.

I've noticed the same thing. I think the biggest cause is a lack of personal accountability for mistakes. The areas where you're likely to find good craftsmanship, you're also likely to find personal accountability. Automation and cost pressures have changed a lot of things. Working used to be about doing a good job with one's hands. With automation, the ability to have any personal influence over the outcome of the job is largely removed. Which means you change from a skilled craftsman to an unskilled operator. I'm thankful to work at a place that still requires personal accountability. Folks with little pride in their work and/or poor craftsmanship typically don't last long.

Good review and lots of excellent tips here: Backpacker Magazine: Outdoor Gear, Tents, Backpacks, Boots, Sleeping Bags, and more. If you don't expect to do lots of camping... the lower price scale stuff will suffice. And don't forget the toilet paper.

+1 I also bought the cheapo Outers kit. I got some Hoppes #9 when I used up the solvent that came with the kit. I also got a can of CLP for when I don't have time, or just don't feel like taking stuff apart. I use the oil that came with the kit on stuff that needs oil. I use dielectric silicone spark plug boot grease on stuff that needs grease.

Changing an address is easy, takes less than 5 minutes online and you don't have to get new cards unless you just want them. Print off the receipt with your new address and keep it with your DL & HCP. Since your new bride is legally changing her name, then I believe new cards are required and she'll have to process that through the DMV and Social Security office. I'd expect that would take a month or two, and I also expect there would be no issue with her carrying in the interim, provided she can produce documents that show she's done her part and is waiting on the state.

An interesting study, though I'm suspicious of some conclusions that might appear obvious... Don't jump to the conclusion that your barrel will look like that 2 weeks after shooting Wolf ammo. There is no "control" identified in the study. Perhaps that's what the Wolf (a known non-corrosive primer) represents. If you do assume the Wolf is the control, then it is the baseline against which all the others should be evaluated. I think the fact that the Wolf showed some corrosion is due to the method of application, which has little correlation to actual use. You don't blast a flat plate with combusted primer products inside a barrel. The size, velocity, and hardness of the combusted primer particles likely has as much influence on the apparent amount of corrosion as anything else. When those particles hit the flat plate, they may create micro-pits in the surface due to impact. Those micro-pits are where corrosion begins. The presence of corrosive residue would accelerate the pitting, but the impact gave it a big head start. A primer that produces very hard particles will pit the surface more heavily and may show more corrosion for that reason alone and have little to do with how corrosive the residue is. It's also hard to tell if the plates themselves have corroded or if its the impacted residue on the surface. You'd have to look at the plates with a magnifier and clean them to tell what's really happening.

That's not a holster, that's an anti-printing device. None for me, thanks.

Welcome!

Renewed mine a couple months ago, about a month before it expired. Same date + 4 years.

It takes more than just an upper... http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/long-guns/59443-ar-7-62x39-russian-round.html

I dispatched many, many squirrels with CB shorts growing up. They make little more noise than a high-powered air rifle.

15 acres. I believe 0.5 acre is ineligible if a dwelling is on the property. My parents have 12.5 acres and have been trying for years to buy a small piece of neighboring property to push theirs up to 15.5 so they'd qualify. Hamilton County Assessor of Property - Agriculture, Forest and Open Space Act http://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/op/2009/op/op09-171.pdf http://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/op/2010/op/op10-71.pdf

It actually wasn't gut shot, just the heart/lung area was badly mangled. I assume the bullet bounced around off the ribs a couple times.

Welcome! TTU grad here.

That's up for debate?

As I recall (its been many years ago)... it looked like the chest cavity innards had been in a blender. And it took several hours to find.

Who was it that posted the thread about his feet on the desk being disrespectful?

3 weeks later you guys are still arguing about this? Good grief.

Wow. I've no idea how my son would react to that. I guess you'd just have to make them think it's fun. Personally, I've only helped dress 2 deer. I made it through the first one without gagging, but the smell was over-powering on the 2nd one and I had to "get some air" for a few minutes. Smaller stuff has never been a problem.

As a father myself, there's no way I'd be able to display Mr. Thomas's composure.

Perhaps someone already suggested it and I just missed it somewhere .... however, I'm surprised no one has suggested simply getting the MAC and partitioning the hard drive. Run the MAC OS on one partition and Windows on the other. That's the trick I've heard from several people. Perhaps that's changed... Oh, and CAD/CAM work on a MAC?

Good stuff. My 3 yr old is getting to that point as well. Though he'd much rather watch Veggie Tales than Shooting USA.

I have an old, beat up P85 with eleventy gillion rounds down the barrel that shoots better groups than I can. The CZ RAMI comes in both a polymer frame and steel frame version. A friend has the steel frame RAMI and likes it.