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For turkeys, it's supposed to help. Their heads are nothing but beak and eyeballs. Every little advantage helps. That said, plenty of turkeys were taken before the advent of camo guns by simple black shottys or blued and wood ones. Those are pretty natural colors though. I wouldn't try to hunt a turkey with a Hello Kitty pink shotgun, even if it's in a tiger stripe pattern. If you decide to try turkey hunting and don't already have a shotgun that would work, you may as well get a camo pattern one.

This is too cool. Now when I feel the need to go to the range, I can tell my wife "it's for the children!" Seriously though, that has got to be some seriously hard stuff for those kids to go through.

Please tell me you 2 are kidding.... Not every critter sees only B&W. But a camo wallet is just a novelty. I like Caster's idea. Zip it all up inside a vest pocket. ETA: Specifically, many birds see colors. So ducks, geese, turkeys, etc. Anything you need to ambush that flies you need to be pretty much invisible until they're in your sights*. Upland birds like pheasant and chucker usually sit still in the grass. Who cares if they see you or not because they won't move until you or your dog just about step on them. Deer and other tasty things that don't see color still see patterns. That's why you'll see blaze orange camo patters. The lines break up the human shape, but the walking dinners don't notice the orange. *TWRA regs say 500 sq/in of blaze orange on the upper body for hunting big game except turkey and big game archery when there's no overlap with any other big game gun season. So for ducks and such, hunters wear the orange per TWRA requirement, then can hide in a blind.

Yeah, that's definitely the most defensible of all of them, but I wonder about long-term living. You could stash a large amount of supplies in there, but no good way to get fresh stuff. I wonder how folks in Sealand would fare. It's remote, difficult to get too, defensible, could support fishing, and could have wind/tidal power and desalination added if it doesn't already have it. But it's damp, cold, rusting and seems generally a miserable place to live. I guess that's why the island seemed nice. Fresh seafood and warm fresh air.

Some Nashville libraries do the same thing. White half-dollar sized gunbuster on a clear sticker on the inside of a tinted door. Brilliant. It's easy to spot on the way out, but near impossible to see on the way in. Regal theaters have a dime-sized gunbuster on the list of rules that's stuck behind tinted glass somewhere near the entrance doors at all their facilities.

I was at Bitburg from '92-'94 and was friends with a sergeant in the base alarm shop. He told me that a few years back he had been sent to strip out the sensitive equipment from a missle launch site before it was turned back over to the German gov't. One item was a retina scanner. It was sitting in the shop at Bitburg with no paperwork on it at all. Nobody knew what to do with it. He said something along the lines of "Morals and courtmarshal aside, who would want it that could afford to pay the black market price for it and would actually pay me for it and not shoot me and take it instead?" To my knowledge, it was sitting there when Bitburg was shut down. Now it's probably sitting in the Spangdahlem alarm shop tempting someone else. It would sure be ultra-cool to have, but how do you explain to someone that you have a military-grade retina scanner to get into your man-cave? [/tangent]

They roll this old mare out when news is slow with a few updates. I guess it's slow again. http://realestate.yahoo.com/news/anti-zombie-strongholds-for-sale.html?page=1 I know we have seen some of these before (like #1), but a few were new to me. I think I like #4 the best. Some good fishing out there and self sufficient on energy. I wonder what they do for fresh water. It would be cool if they have a desalinator, but I'm guessing they ran a water supply line. It's only 1/4 mile off the coast from Marathon, so they could have done that. On second thought, 1/4 mile may not be far enough away.

It depends on the use. For backpacking, JetBoils are very popular. I'm trying to decide between a Flash and a Sol/Sol Ti now. They're compact and light weight. Just boil the water, pour it into the pouch of dehydrated food, wait, eat. No need for pots/pans/plates. For EOTWAWKI, a multi-fuel burner would be much better.

Yes.

OS, how do you think the triggers compared on the Shield and the PM9?

You could have them install one of these while you're there. Seriously though, keep it clean. You do NOT want staph in your hand.

Thanks. I think I'll stay away from it. It's only a few dollars per thousand rounds difference with it and some more "normal" stuff. I don't plan on reloading, so would steel cased stuff be fine in pistols?

Has anyone tried the Pakistani 80s surplus 9mm ammo? It seems to be the cheapest non-reman'd brass cased stuff out there. I'm just looking for plinking ammo to run mostly in a 92FS. Blazer Brass and Aguila is only slightly more. I have been using the Winchester WB from Wally and it's fine and priced right. I'd just like to get a little more than a couple of hundred at a time.

This is why I don't ride. Also, there's a spider (or other bug) in his hospital bed. Watch the closeup of his ankle at around the 0:23 mark.

peejman, I was thinking the same thing.

Or their ammo inside the ammo cans inside the steel storage units.

I wouldn't worry about the ammo so much as the effect of the heat on the guns. I've never had any FTE/FTF issues from my Springfield XD except after leaving it in a hot car all day before going to the range.

Look out! He's got a knife!

$189. http://sport.woot.com/offers/rapid-reticle-33mm-red-dot-reflex-sight I don't know anything about the item, but firearms accessories (and knives) on Woot! are always a nice thing to see.

The stuff in a metal can shouldn't be allowed to be called kraut. It's nasty. Try some of the kraut found in plastic bags in your grocer's deli area, or near the hotdogs. It's much better. Sabrett brand is quite tart if you like that. I prefer Boar's Head. I was thinking about canning some later, but after looking at the effort in the recipes, waiting for the fermentation, etc., then remembered that I only eat the stuff a few times a year, I decided to stick with the deli stuff for my kraut fix.

I did 2 dozen pints of baby carrots yesterday with D3vo and my mom. We used a Presto that held 8 jars at a time. Like others said, follow the directions in the books. It was my first time doing any canning and it was easier, but took longer, than I thought.

Followed by the always popular "How to braid leg hair: Women only"

I love my Remora.

The Constitution limits the government, not private parties.

It's not ilegal for me to handle a firearm while the line is cold, but the privately owned range has every right to not allow that on their property.