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Also not real close to you but fun. My wife and I have ridden a couple times. Plan to take the boys when they're a little older. Great Smoky Mountains Railroad: Bryson City, NC

I'd never heard of it, though google has educated me. Neato.

One of my favorites. OOOOOH YEEEEEAH!!

Interesting. The "Club Special" on the web site is buy 6, get 6 free.... 12 sharpeners for $70 (+ shipping, I assume). That's about $6 each. I'm sitting here thinking about how many of these I could give as gifts to justify it...

Gun and spare mag on belt when possible, Leatherman always on belt. Keys and single AAA flashlight in left front pocket chapstick and cell phone in right front pocket wallet and handkerchief in back pockets Watch, sunglasses ...and I have a man purse in the works for when I'm out with my kids (diapers, wipes, first aid kit, snacks, etc.)

Funny, but not entirely true... snopes.com: Stabbed Marine

Flimsy railed receiver covers seem quite problematic. They have to be quite tight to hold zero, but they bind up the bolt/carrier when too tight. Check to make sure the iron sights are reasonably close to zero before using the red dot. Irons that are way off can be indicative of other problems.

Amen. I can't see the videos, but what I read sounds highly suspect. Did the drug dog indicate the presence of residue on the money? Wait... there wasn't a drug dog? An owner/operator trucker could very well have large amounts of cash on hand. I'd think they'd have receipts for it too, but I don't know if that's required by law. Trucks come and go from my place of employment with up to $10M in freight aboard.

Holy thread revival Batman! I like my PT145 too.

All you could ever want to know is here.... The FAL Files Forums In a nutshell... yes, quality on those can be hit or miss. It's a battle rifle, not a tack driver. Is it a "new" Century built gun or a kit someone else built? My Imbel kit is (finally) nearing completion.

I've used all manner of things. Purple power works fine.

I had my share of BB gun war wounds, though nothing real exciting. The best story I've got I was only a witness to.... A friend and I were having a BB gun war with his older brother and another friend. Our "safety gear" consisted of pants and long sleeves (in the summer) and bandanas wrapped around our heads such that only a slit for our eyes was exposed. My friend and I had run from behind one set of bushes to another to get closer to the other guys. We ran through a hail of BB's and dove behind this bush. My friend had a CO2 pistol and (in classic TV/movie style) stuck his hand up and fired a few shots from his back in the other guys general direction. We heard his brother holler so we called "time-out" and went to see what happened. One of the BB's hit his brother directly between the eyes. A quarter inch to either side would have blinded if not killed him. So we rooted through the garage, found some safety goggles and kept playing...

I might sound a little less "know it all" too if I'd said Ti alloys are readily heat treated in a vacuum furnace. You can't just heat it with a torch and dunk it in a bucket of oil like you can with some steels. I'll assume you mean HRC 70 ... yeah, that's quite hard. The most common Ti alloy, Ti-6Al-4V, can be hardened to about HRC 40. Not bad, but not tool steel either. It's very tough though, low material removal rates and it eats up tools. Commerically pure titanium (CPTi) is quite soft and gummy. Kinda like copper. As for the hammer... I agree. If the hammer was that soft, the hardened firing pin would wear a dent in it in no time.

I work on Ti alloy parts all the time. Caster is correct in that the primary benefits are strength to weight ratio, high temperature strength, and corrosion resistance. The drawback are cost and machinability. However he's not correct about heat treatment - Ti alloys are readily heat treated. They cannot achieve the same hardness level as steel, but do come close. Seems like a lighter bolt/carrier would just get whacked around because the AR gas system is tuned for steel parts. I don't understand the comment about a hammer being destroyed from hitting the Ti BCG. Only if the hammer is low grade steel. A hardened steel hammer will wear out the titanium.

Interesting. What if you believe the person trying to detain you or gain entry is impersonating an officer? I guess I'd take my chances on the resisting charge rather than risk letting some waco in my house.

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Reloading saves money right up until you blow up a $900 rifle. He'll have to reload for a long time to recoup that cost.

Pull the plugs and check the condition. It'll be obvious if they're misfiring. Check the connection between the coil and plug and the wires to the coil itself.

Details, details.... it's smooth, has good flavor, and produces the desired effect. I've been getting the small 375ml bottles of various things just to see what's out there. That way it's not a big deal if I don't like something (I poured out a bottle of Johnny Walker Red... ). It doesn't seem The Macallan comes in small bottles.

If you don't have full coverage, fixing hail damage is a losing proposition, IMO. If the glass is cracked/broken, that must be replaced but otherwise, I'd just drive it. All the local body shops are buried with work, so it may be a while before anyone can get to it. If you want to get it fixed, a coworker does body work in his basement. He does good work and would likely charge much less than a body shop.

sk8rdie man. Those were the good 'ole days. We also had various ramps in various places and one guy had a half-pipe in his back yard. I'll never forget the first time I got air on the pipe and didn't crash. We'd skate all over several adjacent subdivisions and routinely be gone morning 'till night. All we wore was knee pads, I can't figure out how one of us didn't get killed. I think my old board is still at my parents' house. Dad uses it to move big stuff around.

Better out than in, I always say.

Crown Royal, Bushmills, Courvoisier. I'd like to try The Macallan but can't find a bottle under $50.