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As with other things, light is the enemy of darkness. I'd put powerful motion lights around the house and on the typical approach routes. I've never seen one with a strobe function.

That's the trick, most people don't leave their guns out in the sun all day.

Before she retired, mom used to have to honk the horn and flash the lights to get the deer to move off the driveway in the early morning. Now she just complains about them eating her flowers.

Awesome is as awesome does I always say. Very cool.

Looks like a cigar box. I've heard you can get those free from cigar stores.

My first pistol is also my only true full size, a Ruger P85. All the others are smaller. My current idea is for my next purchase to be a what I'd call a modern compact as it really isn't much smaller physically, it's just thinner and lighter than a full size.

There's an axiom that reads something like ... "code making technology will always lag behind code breaking technology".

Where is your finger relative to the hinge? I found that my natural finger position was right on the hinge pivot instead of below it. Sometimes it wouldn't pivot fully and caused me to jerk the trigger. I installed an Apex bladed safety trigger and the problem went away.

That's quite a blessed week.

I suspect we'll join them sooner than we'd like.

Same story nationwide. One of the reasons why the electoral college was created.

Basically the same. Wipe off residue with a minimal amount of solvent on a patch, wipe with a very lightly oiled patch, then dry with a clean patch. I like them clean and dry. Plastic followers shouldn't need any lubricant and it tends to attract grit. I've never had issues with corrosion.

Yep. And certs for the bolt, rope, bucket, measuring tape, scale, and calculator. And the Deionized water.

We do aircraft work. While slightly more precise, our calibration process is essentially the same.

Click type torque wrenches are easy to check... Clamp a bolt horizontally in a vice. Tie some cord to the handle and a bucket. Measure from the cord to the pivot. Add water to the bucket until it clicks. Weigh the bucket and do the math. Click wrenches should always be stored at zero. They should never be used for loosening. You should never continue to tighten after they click. Any/all of these will cause their accuracy to degrade.

I wish my mother-in-law would get that with her 93 yr old father. It bugs me.... He 93 and in better shape than she is, but she treats him like a kid. If anyone has earned it, he has.

Welcome! What part of Chattanooga?

Best of luck. Some friends adopted a baby boy recently. The legal process is arduous, but worth it.

Yes, mirror image photo prints were relatively common then. The musket looks like a small punt gun to me. Seems big to be a "normal" musket.

I got some for my boys but darned if I can remember where. I plan to get more as they need some in grandpa's workshop. Best place I've found is Amazon.

An interesting tactic. I'd assume they'll be reserve or volunteer officers. I've thought about doing that myself.

The Hiawassee WMA is a popular rest stop for their migration. I've seen hundreds of them gather there in Jan-Feb. https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/twra/wildlife/viewing-area/east-tennessee/hiwassee-refuge.html

Several years ago we needed a new water line connection for a new piece of equipment at work. It's a typical metal industrial building with 25ft ceilings and all the wiring and plumbing overhead. So the maintenance guy figures out which 2" water line he's going to T into, finds the upstream valve, closes it, and moves to the spot for the T commences cutting the pvc line. A moment later there's water spraying everywhere and he's 20ft up on a lift hollering for help. Another maintenance guy goes and gets another lift and finds the next upstream valve to close. He's Intentionally not moving real fast as we're all laughing hysterically. The lift gets about halfway up to the valve, beep, and comes back down. Dead battery. O So he goes and gets the only other lift, which is twice as big, and takes several minutes to maneuver into place and close the valve. During the 10 minutes or so for all that to happen, the first guy has wrapped his shirt around the pipe to control the spray and couldn't be any wetter if he'd jumped in the lake. After cleaning up the couple hundred gallons of water in the floor, the maintenance guys go look at the first valve. When doing the initial plumbing, someone ran out of unions and used a ball valve to join 2 lengths of pipe. Except they knocked the ball out of the valve so turning the handle did nothing. And who did the initial plumbing? The first maintenance guy as he worked for the contractor who built the building before being hired.

First place I'd ask is @LawEnforcementSalesTN He doesn't post much but I think he's still around.