musicman

I have no problem getting something really nice... "collector grade", if you will... and using/shooting the crap out of it. I don't mean abuse or neglect, but use as intended. Stuff was engineered and made to be used.

We went for a cruz to the polls. No line, in and out in under five minutes. Perfect.

Wifey and I are going tonight. :-)

I dunno about all this Tuffy stuff. I keep a couple guns in my Volvo, and it did a pretty good job protecting them from whoever the clown was that did this while I was inside. My review is that the Volvo S80 makes an excellent portable safe.

My $.02... if you're worried about weight, think about a slim keymod rail. Quad rails are heavy. Much lighter to just put a couple rail pieces where you need them. I like the look of a longer rail, and the newer slim stuff allows that without a lot of weight. I'm about to dump a 13" YHM quad rail for a slim keymod on an older build I have from back when quad rails were all the rage.

Nevermind :-)

Just to jump in the fray with my $.02 Wifey and I are 33 years old and blessed by our parents with debt free four year degrees. We were married and bought our house in 2007 on a standard 30 year mortgage. 2008 and 2009 were crummy years, but by 2013 were back on better footing financially and we refinanced to a 15 year mortgage. We have no other debt, and our cars are both 8 years old with 130k and 142k miles right now. I'll keep them until they become money pits, at which point they wouod be replaced with another reasonable 3-4 year old vehicle. We try to take a balanced approach. We add to Roth IRAs, but not at tge max amount right now. I am just starting a little stash of precious metals as a small hedge. We have some funds in a general money market kind of thing, and our standard emergency fund as well. We add between $100 and $200 a month to our principal. We're not going to break our backs to pay off the mortgage ASAP (interest is tax deductible at least) but we'd like to be done with it 7-8 years from now. The plan is at that point to save for another couple years, buy land, and build the place we'll ride out the rest of our earthly time. Dunno if that means anything to you, but that's our plan and we're stickin to it.

This is maybe even more important than who our next president will be. I don't even want to think about the implications and what will be coming. Prayers for his family.

$20-$25 range. Hs6, Titegroup, and a few other I don't remember. Primers around $33/k

So they DID make a good one, haha!

Great article! Thanks for posting. :-)

Wow. Lotta info there... to be honest, I started out reading intently, but pretty quickly my eyes glazed over and I scrolled to the inevitable... problems with the gun. I hope it gets to working reliably for you. My very first .22 was a 597. After a few months of being terribly frustrated with it I unloaded the thing... then I got a 10/22. I'll never be without one again. I hope your story goes differently.

Guns 'N More in Smyrna has started with a few handgun powders and primers at very reasonable prices. Swing by and check 'em out!

On second thought: retracted. It's going to be quite awhile until I build my next AR pistol. This should go to someone who could use it now. :-)

AA5 is my favorite by far. I also use Titegroup. I started with Winchester Super Target a decade ago and it always worked well, just doesn't seem to be very popular. I have a couple pounds put back, but I kinda doubt I'll ever go back to it unless I run out of AA5 and TG.

Yea, milspec (I'm assuming that's what was in the PSA kit) triggers' gotta go in a 308, imho. I put a CMC 3.5lb single stage with a flat face on mine and love it. They can usualy be found around $175ish. I recently got the ALG coated trigger and put in another rifle with a 4lb spring, and I gotta say I'm impressed for a $60 trigger. It has just a little movement, but that movement is VERY smooth, and the break is very clean. As much as I am impressed with it for the cost, I wouldn't, however, recommend it for the .308. A crisp trigger with NO movement will really help shrink those groups.

I echo the last couple statements. I've never put a bumper sticker or emblem on my vehicle and never will.

Very nice! That thing barely twitched!

Dang! I should get a job at a carnival! Haha!

Hard to tell without knowing his height. I'd guess maybe 220-230? What a weird question, lol!

In.

Listen to more metal. Loudly. Soon you'll begin to think a volley of fire is just the applause of some far off admirers. Works for me, anyways. :-)

I thought it was pretty good. I got a stromboli, a slice, and a bit of Wifey's ziti, and some cheese bread. All of it was very good, not spectacular, but good. I like a really thin pizza, and they got pretty close to ideal.

OH MY GOODNESS! WE'RE GOING TO A PIZZA JOINT! IT CAN'T TAKE HALF AN HOUR TO PICK A PAIR OF DADBLASTED SHOES TO WEAR!!! Anybody else married?

Hittin' Nick's in Franklin around 2 today. If it's anything like Joey's I'll be happy. Anybody else up for an impromptu TGO lunch? Revision: will be there around 2:30