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Cool rifle, shame its been modified. If you were closer, I would be happy to handle the chamber and bolt face measurements.

The common mistake made with the scientific method is the motivation behind the experiment(s) is to disprove the hypothesis. And you keep experimenting until you can't disprove it. Else its too easy to end up with a self fulfilling result, which is what the funding agency typically wants. Quick answers, not exhaustive research in our instant gratification society.

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Technique is important... https://www.corneredcat.com/article/running-the-gun/rack-the-slide/

You have your opinion, I have mine. I'm not kicking this dead horse anymore.

The rest of the story.... We were told at closing by the prior owners that they had placed the rebar. One of my friends tripped over one of the posts while helping us move in and got a nice gash in his shin, which highlighted the problem. We considered a fence, but having just bought the house, and spending 2 months paying rent and a mortgage while repainting and replacing floors in the evenings, we didn't have the cash. And I don't really like fences anyway. I offered to swap the rebar for PVC and he refused. I covered the rebar with PVC, he sawed the PVC in half and left it in my mailbox. Through the course of all this, he never even asked what my name was. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, mine is that using 5 rebar posts to mark a straight, 100 ft residential property line that's otherwise identified by electrical boxes is stupid. I don't have a lot of tolerance for stupid, particularly when my kids' safety is involved. If that makes me a gun grabbing Karen, so be it.

Keep in mind that a typical homeowner's policy has a $2500 limit for guns. If you want to buy up to a higher limit, they usually require you to document what you've got and its value. Same for art, jewelry, musical instruments, etc..

I didn't have to deal with cranky old neighbors as a kid, but I have as an adult. My previous next door neighbor was a hateful old bastard. When we moved into the subdivision, he had the property line marked with several rebar posts sticking about 24" out of the ground. My oldest was a toddler so the idea of rusty rebar posts in the grass at my son's eye level was totally not acceptable, so I pulled them up. He came charging out of the house yelling at me that those were his posts. I explained (politely at first) that they were a danger to my child and its not my problem if he can't remember where the property line is after 15 years in the same house. Its not like I'm going to leave a 12" strip of unmowed grass down the line. We had a couple subsequent conversations about it and I eventually told him to ask his lawyer friends if they think a jury would side with a toddler who lost and eye or a mean old man? We never spoke again. Thankfully they moved away a few years later and a really nice couple moved in.

You've stepped on a 2x4 full of nails that someone else hid in a place you might walk? If left untreated, say by a kid who got hurt somewhere they knew they shouldn't have been but was afraid to tell a parent because they knew they'd get in trouble, tetanus can be fatal.

UPS trucks have a steel frame and cast iron engine block, plenty for a magnetic based sensor system. Booby traps are illegal. A motion sensor light/alarm would have the desired effect.

Vaccines do nothing to prevent the spread of a virus. All they do is prevent you from developing symptoms. The anti-vax crowd has repeatedly proven that viruses like measles, whooping cough, and polio are still around.

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In my experience, grade school IT has been terrible since its inception. Our teachers asked us to fix stuff 30 years ago because the IT people were useless or unavailable. We used to live in Church Hill 15-20 years ago. At that time we were planned to move into Sullivan County for the schools when we started a family, but job changes nixed that. Interesting how things change.

About 4" in murvul. Power was out for about 2 hrs last night and then blinked off several more times until about 3am. Very thankful for the guys out working in the snow early Christmas morning to fix it.

That's interesting. We lived near there 15 years ago and Kingsport schools were considered some of the best around.

What type of unit? I had a gas furnace at a prior house that randomly wouldn't light on cold mornings. Several HVAC guys couldn't figure it out. It took me 2 years to find a cracked igniter relay solder joint on the circuit board. Took less than 5 minutes to fix.

We saw it last night as well, pretty cool. Our window is fairly narrow as there's a tree covered hill directly southwest of our house. It disappears behind the hill pretty early.

Agreed, it's fine. I've shot plenty of HV ammo through dads Ruger MKI. I suppose muzzle erosion is a possibility eventually, but I think that would take a lot of shooting.

The Tesla Model 3 ($40k) is anywhere from 2-4 times the cost of a Corolla ($20k) or Sentra ($15k), assuming you can find one. Jet engine companies improve fuel efficiency because their customers (the airlines) demand it. Jet fuel is the airline's single biggest expense. There are currently no federal fuel efficiency requirements for commercial aircraft.

This guy is awesome.

They usually have several Sevier County deputies on site.

That's new. In the past its been purely security theater.

Indeed, good movie.

Hang in there. It'll get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.