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I've got a pic somewhere of three of them sitting on chairs next to my pool(well before I owned the house, likely before I was born). It sure looked like it was a good time.

We are in agreement, this is a great target, especially for rifles, go back and look at the article you posted on defensive accuracy. THAT is what I took issue with. Figure 3 in that(at the top of page 4) is incorrect with a lower powered round IMHO the circles should move down the chest slightly, there is NO viable explanation as to why "RyanM" feels the descending aorta and the inferior vena cava(orange on the leftmost diagram) are not a viable target for service pistols and "mouseguns". This diagram should be IMO emphasizing how a slightly lower center of mass can make a difference in caliber much less relevant by making use of softer targets, instead he just calls the kidneys "pretty far back" so unattainable with a pistol. The liver which is missing on the rightmost diagram for instance sits less than an inch under the skin where the lobes are exposed just under the xiphoid process.

Bought our washer, dryer, and fridge there. Happy with transactions all around. They beat home depot, lowes, and best buy's pricing saved quite a bit, and they gave up on the warrantees when I said no firmly the first time.   I'll never buy appliances from best buy again. They delivered our new fridge to the last house after a kitchen renovation and managed to do several hundred dollars of damage to the brand new hardwood floors. It took weeks of back and forth to get them to cover the repair bill.

From my secret santa I got a sweet primary arms shooting mat and 200 rounds of 22lr! I used the mat this morning to keep the dew/frost off! Untitled by systemdelete, on Flickr

An HK USP Expert in .45 was the first handgun to break my grandfather's 40ish year long 1911 streak. He absolutely loved that thing, I'm actually surprised he left it to me rather than take it to the grave! I like it but prefer the USP compacts.

There is no problem with the scale only the area he's instructing you to take aim. The heart, be it big or small, is always well protected by the rib cage, same with the lungs. I saw a thoracic surgeon stop and have to take a brief break after the patient's sternum stopped a pneumatic bone saw cold in the OR recently. That was in a controlled environment where we had every tool required and the knowledge to cut and spread the patient's rib cage. Thinking a pistol round is going to blow right through that with any regularity is a questionable at best. In the diagram below if you draw a triangle around the upper 3 "9"s you are shooting in the most efficient area for a pistol caliber bullet to take down an unarmored human target. I see many trainers try and move this area up further to nearly fully cover the sternum which puts the bullet in to what is essentially one of the best naturally protected spots on the human body, when there are completely unprotected ALSO VERY CRITICAL bits just a few inches lower on the torso. The silhouette target below has COM correctly designated as it should be for handgun rounds. Where the bullseye "X" is you could put a scalpel straight through to the spine with minimal resistance, making it an excellent target for handgun rounds.

  Medically his diagrams on penetration vs. weapon caliber are incorrect, at least as he explains them. Trying to punch through the sternum to get at the heart/lungs is NOT the most efficient way to incapacitate a threat with a sub-rifle caliber, especially a lower power one. Though he cites a forum poster from THR as his "source" so they may have been prepared by someone with little or no experience in clinical anatomy.  :2cents:

While I don't crack safes or anything I've always assumed that the electronics and actuators are all inside the safe where they would be reasonably protected. All that sits outside the safe are the batteries and the simple keypad.

I aim for an invisible triangle formed by the location of the kidneys, and the xiphoid process(base of the sternum).  It's a nice soft spot with a good chance of taking out the thoracic aorta, vena cava, or spine where they are least protected. Hitting the liver where it peeks from under the rib cage isn't a terrible byproduct either. I used to aim higher as that was how my grandfather instructed me, but have changed the pattern slightly lower after seeing just how tough the sternum can be in the OR.

I'm gonna grab a p238 for carry, I miss my old colt mustang and I've heard if I take good care of it and feed it right it might one day grow up to be a 1911. :pleased:

I no more want TN to band together in an attempt to change your state's laws than I want CT "and friends" to band together to attempt to change TN's laws.

After taking in the whole page, reading the linked stories, opinions, and watching all the profile videos. . . That may be the first news coverage of firearms I've seen in the last decade that I considered reasonably balanced outside the very few and far between minor stories here and there. It's certainly the best I've seen from CNN in a long while.

I'll occasionally carry a .22 if I want a lighter firearm for the day. I have 22lr models of several of my favorite carry guns with my favorites being a j-frame followed closely by a p229. I love that they both use the same holsters as my typical carry pistols and both are dead nuts reliable and accurate with quality ammo.

I have a stihl for larger stuff and an echo for smaller jobs, the echo is an older cs-340 and generally stays in my truck. I can't count the number of trees it has cleared over the years. I would highly recommend either to a friend.

Music City Pawn does $25 transfers and has locations off Hwy 96 and Hillsboro Road near Del Rio pk. Everything Weapons is $35 and is off Moores Ln. in Cool Springs. If your up that way Guns and leather are great to deal with as well.     Welcome!

  I have a small one in each of our personal vehicles for my carry pistol to be able to lock my pistol up when in areas I can't carry. I did change out the lock cylinders to better ones and cut new locking bars for mine as well as bolting them in a space where you cant get at them with a long pry bar. The one I use in dealer/rental cars is just the simple cable, around the seat frame but I never really drive most of those anywhere remotely sketchy.

The j frame is not for the lazy, it takes practice to be good with a short barreled revolver. I would guess I put 5000 rounds through mine after inheriting them before I was happy with my accuracy with them, and I still take them to the range more often than anything else. I would bet I have more trigger time on them than any other gun short of the Marlin rifle that was my first and only gun for a decade or so.

Since the range rover vs.motorcyclists incident in NY I've moved to carrying a spare AR and a dozen mags in my primary vehicle just in case. The more videos I see of "protesters" surrounding and beating on vehicles traveling along public roadways the more I fear I might actually someday need it.

  Some of the payoff depends on how long you are out of the home daily for it to use "away" mode, with my and the wife's long work hours we saved a bundle. I'm sure if one of us were working from home frequently it would be quite different.

Stormtrooper, though I might be biased.

I guess it depends on how secure your vehicle/storage is.  My long gun, when in my vehicle, is not subject to a a "smash and grab" type theft. They are secure enough that it would have to be a "smash, grind, pry, beat, ect. . ." type theft. which is less than likely with where I park the vehicle.

Completely satisfied with all of our nest thermostats(5 total), not that there aren't other viable similar options these days. I can control the temps at home and both our rental properties from my phone as well as monitor energy usage. I did have to wire in a few additional relays to get the nest to control a window air conditioner and an electric baseboard heater in one of our zones at home but since it's learned our habits it has been flawless and saved us nearly 50% in hvac costs the first year installed.

CBSN "aired" a piece this morning about the one in Louisiana. It wouldn't surprise me if some local affiliates also ran it as filler.   http://cbsn.cbsnews.com/

Jig only cost me the time I spent making it and some scrap, and mine is MUCH simpler than some commercially marketed with intent to make machining a lower with a hand drill or drill press easier. I technically don't need a jig with the mill, but it simplifies repeat setup (especially depth) of a few of the steps with my mill which helps consistency.    If I was a better machinist and had more free time I'd just start with a block of aluminum and the mill.    I don't reload, machine, or build my own rifles to save any money but when one hobby can help save a little here or there on another hobby it gives me something to tell the wife I "saved money" on.  :pleased: (I need all the help I can get)   I also occasionally wear costumes around to raise money for children's charities and someone in that group questioned my 3d printing of a component for one of my costumes stating "It's only $20 to buy one" So what, I spent around $2 in ABS printing it with machine I've already got and had fun doing it. :up: 

I bought a few from anderson who often has sales on them with them getting down as low as $35. Once you have the jigs, you save transfer fees which add up if you're buying/building a few.   http://www.andersonrifles.com/product/80-machined-lower/