Clod Stomper

[quote name='Chucktshoes' timestamp='1354296918' post='852884'] Think how scary it would be to be in mid coitus, look down, and have Clint's eyes looking back at you. *shudder* [/quote] As long as the eyes are attached to her, no problem.

[quote name='Oh Shoot' timestamp='1354166328' post='852301'] Well, it's to use as a, you know, pick. Pick and shovel. [img]http://www.survivalcampingstore.com/assets/images/stansportpickshovel.jpg[/img] - OS [/quote] Well, yeah. I guess so. But I never found a good use for it. I would rather have the saw edge. I might need the pick if I was digging foxholes, to loosen rocks and such. But for digging fireline, I just need to get TO the soil. Will

The good ol' E-tool. The US Forest Circus put a longer handle on them and called them a combi-tool for fighting fires. They don't have the saw edge (but they should), the can opener or the nail puller. But they do have a nifty pick or spike opposite the shovel blade. Why? I don't know. Actually, those appear to be engineered better than ours. The nut would constantly loosen and need retightening. That might be handy enough to keep in my truck.

Honestly, I don't care who I offend. If one if the things I mention happens to fit you, then you need to learn how to drive. If you can't keep your vehicle from randomly crossing the center line, you're a moron. If you tailgate me when I'm not the one slowing traffic, you're a moron. If you tailgate me just because you're too dense to get in the left lane and pass me, you're a moron. If you hang out in the left lane right beside someone who is in the right lane, you're a moron. If you pass me in the left lane and dart in front of me when it would have been easier for both of us if you had just gotten in behind me, you're a moron. If you make a left turn from the right lane (or primary lane, when there is a turn lane), you're a moron. Same goes for right turns from the left. I've only scratched the surface of the idiocy that I see on the road. We on this forum constantly harp and chide others for doing stupid things with firearms, and rightly so. But far too often poor, dangerous driving just elicits a "meh". I speak of the public in general and not necessarily here. But cars carry far more killing potential than do even the most powerful firearms. Put it this way... If a cop spots me carrying a gun in my hand while I'm strolling down the sidewalk in town, he's going to at least stop and see what I'm up to. However, if he spots someone 5 feet from my bumper on I-40 at 60 mph, chances are he'll ignore it. Speeding, on the other hand, which isn't necessarily dangerous in and of itself, is often grounds for a blue light. Society tends to dismiss road deaths as the "cost of doing business". Or lawmakers try to idiot-proof vehicles instead of taking the idiots out of them. We wouldn't even need to wear seatbelts if everyone would just drive like they have half a brain. Can you tell this a sore subject for me?

He shouldn't be in jail. He should be in the morgue. The woman and/or her husband should have ventilated him in self-defense. Stupid sonofa... I don't think I would have kept my cool enough to blue light him. If he shot at my wife, I'd be doing my best to "stop" him whether it be with my car or gun.

Troy makes one as well. http://troyind.com/%20/rail-systemsaccessories/rails/ar15m16-rails/free-float-rails/troy-alpha-rail®-9″-no-sight I haven't used it, but it will probably be next one I use. Edit: Oops, it's not a two piece, so it will only work if you have a low-profile gas block.

I doubt you'll see much velocity gain in a 24" versus a 20" barrel. It is a handgun round after all and designed for a handgun length barrel. Were it me, I'd go with a 16" barrel. Much handier. The advantages of the longer barrel are sight radius and ammo capacity, assuming it has a full-length tube. The advantages of a shorter barrel are weight and handiness. I wouldn't factor in velocity. I do like longer barrels in full size rifle cartridges. If I were considering a .308 Win., I'd go with a 20" or longer barrel. But not with a .45 Colt.

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1353436799' post='848798'] That's an authorization to deputize United States Attorney personnel; not politicians. People have been driving for over a hundred years and we don't have a Federal Vehicle Code because the states can't agree. They won't agree on handgun carry either. [/quote] True, but I can legally drive the vehicle that is parked in my driveway in any city of any state in the U.S. with my TN DL. As far as I know, anyway.

I doubt that he loses much business, if any. If I sold Twinkies... no, bad example. If I sold coal furnaces and coal... oops, 'nother bad example. Ok, ok. If I sold big screen HDTVs and beer, I would consider that a bad business move. But not a gun store. Honestly, I would not sell a gun or ammo to an Obama voter, either. They have clearly demonstrated a considerable lack of judgement.

Like others, I hope the CGI isn't too OTT. In movies, I can usually tell if the zombies are real or not.

Your thinking process is right on. I read an article a while back where the author compared the accuracy of soft point bullets with proper tips and deformed tips. The messed up tips really did affect accuracy. I don't remember if he polished some to perfection and compared those to factory. IIRC, when he cut off the deformed tips, the accuracy returned. As far as small dimples and dings, I think if you were a world class shooter shooting at 600+ yards, you would see a difference in accuracy between out-of-the-box and polished tips. But then you wouldn't be using soft tips anyway. I'm a bit OCD myself about some things, so I understand. If it makes you feel better, by all means do it. Disclaimer: I have done absolutely NO personal testing to determine if what I'm saying is true. I'm going mostly by what I read in that article. But if it were a big issue, we'd have heard more about it, I think. Perhaps that would be a good experiment for someone (besides me) to do and report on here. Good luck, Will

You're probably not the ONLY one, but one of a very few. Probably no negative side-effects. But no positive effects either, unless you enjoy looking at your ammo more than you enjoy shooting it. Why doesn't the factory do it? They do to an extent. They polish off the color from annealing. If they really went overboard, ammo would cost that much more. And I'd rather not pay extra for pretty ammo. As far as soft-points, a few small dings and dimples won't affect much. If the nose is all out of kilter, it can affect accuracy. If the rounds are loaded through a repeating rifle, especially an autoloader, it's going to get all banged up again before it's fired anyway. But if you enjoy it, go for it.

[quote name='Westwindmike' timestamp='1352765186' post='844533'] The hammer type is good for a few mistakes, but if you ever want to pull a bunch (like 500), get a collet type puller. I pulled over 500 in just a few hours one time. [/quote] This ^^^ for sure. They're not expensive either. I just recently broke my RCBS kinetic bullet puller that I bought sometime in the early '90's. As long as you use it on wood, it'll last a long time. I have a couple friends that bragged (yes, bragged) that they had broken several bullet pullers. They were using them on concrete or steel. I guess they thought that they were exceptionally strong. But after I bought my collet puller, I only use the hammer puller if I don't have the correct collet. And if you have a few hundred, or even ONE hundred, rounds to pull, you won't regret buying the collet puller. Will

Yeah, I didn't know PIF either. As for the crown, if it doesn't shoot well now, try evening it like this.... Chuck a small, slotted round-head brass screw in a hand drill. Apply some grinding compound to the screw head. Press the screw head to the muzzle and run the drill at relatively slow speed. Move the drill body in small circles as the head turns. Start with coarser compound first to get some depth, then clean it all out of the bore and screw head and use some fine compound to clean it up. If your crown is square with the bore, this will give you an even, angled crown that will be harder to damage. I've done it to some dinged and recut crowns with decent results. Edit: I just re-read your post. You already did the brass screw method. My bad. If you have a friend with a lathe, it shouldn't take him more than a few minutes to set up and [u]perfectly[/u] square the muzzle to the bore. Then redo the brass screw muzzle treatment. If the barrel has any accuracy in it, that should bring it out.

I do remember the build-up to the passage of the '94 AWB. I bought plenty of mags for what I had even though I was in college at the time. I really didn't expect the law to pass (as I said in another thread), but I do believe in prudent caution. I was in Sports Unlimited, or whatever its name was at the time, in the Windsor Square shopping center in West Knox when the clerk told me that the AWB had been passed. I was flabbergasted. It was right then that I bought several Mec-Gar mags for my Taurus PT-99. They hadn't even had time to mark them up yet. It took a lot of deal-making, arm-twisting and probably even fellating to get the bill through, even in the Dem controlled House. But it did pass. I have no doubts as to the possibility of another, worse, bill getting through this time. And this time there will be no sunset clause. A grandfather clause was one of the compromises that allowed its passage LAST time. Without that, thousands of American citizens would have become criminals without any action on their part. I knew that I would. Even as a youngster, I wasn't about to turn my guns in to anyone. How easy would it be to omit a grandfather clause this time? Anyone thinking that it won't happen hasn't been paying attention. It HAS happened. Government's sole purpose is to get larger and stronger. In order for it to do that we have to be weaker. Study history, it's the story of the world since governments have existed. Oops, I got off on a tangent from the OP's question... Primers went up in cost significantly and still haven't come back down to "normal" prices. Tula was the closest to old prices, but I don't know where it is now since the election. Ammo in the most common rounds (5.56, .308/7.62, 7.62 Russian short and even .22 LR) was hard to find and marked up to ridiculous prices by the same unscrupulous dealers that Dolomite mentioned. This was for a couple years. One thing that I like to point out to people who want a gun to shoot "the most common rounds, because they are the ones that will be easiest to find" is that those are the ones that disappear during a panic. Will

[quote name='cardcutter' timestamp='1352747794' post='844374'] That right was stripped from them as the price for them to be readmitted to the union after the war. It is no longer in effect. [/quote] Thanks, didn't know that.

Winning a war does not determine rights vs. non-rights. If you beat me up and take my lunch money, did you determine that I had no right to that money? As far as Texas secession, I'm not so sure that they need a petition. I'll have to look into it further, but wasn't a right of secession a part of their treaty with the US when they joined the union? Not sure, but I'm curious.

How I wish we could make it. It's so close to where we live. Hope this won't be the last in Knox. Will

[quote name='Batman' timestamp='1352463662' post='842356'] I wish the conservative members of the house and senate would counteract this nonsense by starting to introduce their own far-right legislation. Keep the liberals on the defensive instead of offense. let's start with term limits. When that gets debated and eventually shot down, have something else to introduce... maybe introduce the fair tax. None of this stuff would actually pass, but it would promote gridlock (the best we can hope for at this point). We need to keep the liberals busy for the next 4 years by actually introducing worth while bills. Edit to add: on second thought, a worth-while bill may be just what they need to attach an AWB to. I'm just not sure how our problem gets fixed from here. [/quote] That would be awesome. Won't happen, but it would be great. Why do we need to be the ones always on defensive? Put THEM on defensive. Unfortunately too many Republican [u]politicians[/u] are just watered-down versions of democrats. Not all, but too many. In addition to what you mentioned, remove suppressors from the NFA, then short barreled rifles, then shotguns. Fair Tax (I'd wet my pants if that passed). Start removing fees from one thing or another. Keep a constant barrage of riders attached to bills that the left wants. Battles cannot be won by being constantly on the defensive side.

[quote name='mcurrier' timestamp='1352421666' post='842138'] Senator Dianne Feinstein Moves To Ban ALL Assault Rifles, High Capacity Magazines and Pistol Grips - http://marketdailynews.com/2012/11/07/senator-dianne-feinstein-moves-to-ban-all-assault-rifles-high-capacity-magazines-and-pistol-grips/ [/quote] Of course that will never happen. Want to know how I know? Because I KNEW it would never happen back in 1994. I KNEW that socialized medicine would never pass. And I KNEW that there was NO WAY that the populous would re-elect an obvious marxist to the highest office in the republic. See how much I know?

I rarely see concealed carry, unless it prints or is exposed inadvertently. I have seen quite a few open carriers. Even one on a motorcycle that passed me on Alcoa Hwy. My eyes are drawn to certain things. I'm a gun nut and a bit OCD. I see exposed firearms and misspellings without looking for them. My wife, on the other hand, can tell you the color of clothes a person was wearing but not if they had a handgun or not. Whereas I usually don't even know what SHE is wearing. Weird, but that's how we're wired. As an aside, I did once spot an obvious carrier wearing a fanny pack. I was working in the Smokies and asked him what he was carrying. I never thought that blood draining from someone's face actually happened, but it sure did with him. This was before concealed carry was legal in National Parks. Turns out he was a cop from Chicago (still not legal). He made it a quick point to show me his LE credentials. Like I cared anyway. I just wanted to talk guns. I pointed out that he was in a free(er) state and not that big a deal. But being from IL, he sure thought it was. I just hope that he will return the consideration if he encounters someone from outside the state who is carrying for their protection. But I doubt it somehow. Will

[quote name='maroonandwhite' timestamp='1352321854' post='841296'] Anyone ever seen the movie "The Village"? I wonder how hard it would be to pull that off. [/quote] Don't think it would be possible. The Feds aren't going to leave ANYONE alone no matter how isolated they are. Must tax 'em. Can't sell food (to each other) without USDA inspection. Heaven forbid they dam a creek to run a mill. Only way to escape will be outside the borders.

I wish it had only been a couple months last time. IIRC, it was 2010 before supply/demand started to stabilize. The good thing was all the AR lowers that had been stockpiled were suddenly back on the market. And the manufacturers ended up cranking out more and more, even to this day. That's why we can get lowers at such good prices today, I think.

We still have the House, so it's unlikely any new gun laws could get through Congress. Now, UN treaties and Executive Orders are another issue. As an aside, it looks as if a 3rd party candidate may have cost a Senate seat in MT. Doesn't sound like he's a BAD democrat, but still adds a number to the party. [quote][color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3] Dan Cox, a Libertarian candidate, may also have hurt the Republican, Parker said.[/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3] "The spoiler may have been Dan Cox," Parker said, noting that Cox was drawing about 6% of the vote and was especially strong in rural areas that are normally heavily Republican.[/size][/font][/color] [/quote] [url="http://www.cnbc.com/id/49722867"]http://www.cnbc.com/id/49722867[/url]

I guess I'm one of the ones eating crow. I've heard they're pretty good if they've been in the corn field for a while. I honestly thought that there were enough people with 2 brain cells left in the country. Guess not.