monkeylizard

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$100 for a year at a range as developed and maintained as SRHEC is actually pretty reasonable. Especially when you consider that all of the rifle stations have real rifle benches with adjustable height seats, all areas where you walk are paved so no muddy boots, it's clean, has real indoor toilets, and you have RSOs and an inspection station to try to keep safety levels high. It's just $5.50 a trip, so 18 trips is your break-even point. 18 or less, pay as you go. 19 or more, get the annual. I think you'll still have to wait in line if there is a wait, but I don't think there is a 2-hour limit on annual members. You can collect your own brass. They ask that you not collect from other shooters that aren't in your party, and anything that goes in their buckets stays in their buckets. The RSOs don't get paid. They sell the brass for their odds-and-ends expenses that don't get covered by the state, and maybe for a few pizzas or something. I don't know if it's true or not, but I have been told that only annual members may use the two 200-yard lanes. My membership is at CHMR. It's the same hour drive each way for me but it has much better hours, unrestricted target subject matter, some clay launchers for shottys, and clays allowed on the berms. I would like to see more rifle benches there since those get squatted first, and I'm not crazy about the way the pistol pit operates (people reloading behind active shooters). For $60 a year, it's worth it, even if I do bring home a pound of mud on my boots if it has rained in the last few days. I would pay more for more range improvements though.

I'm still not sure why there are some un-zombified dead bodies, like in some cars on the highway. OK, so maybe they died before being infected, so they didn't resurrect. That would explain someone who died early in the outbreak from anything other than being attacked by a zombie. But what caused these un-zombies to die sitting in their cars?

I'm pretty sure that's true, but I'm far from being an expert on these guns. Beretta opened a factory in Brazil to make arms for the Brazilian military. When the contract ended (late 70's or early 80's, IIRC), Taurus bought the plant, tools, and licensing rights for the designs and kept the work force. Over time, Taurus made some changes to the 92 design, resulting in the slight differences seen today. some of the designs are an improvement over the Beretta, but it's sometimes a matter of opinion on which ones those are. Shortly before that time (mid 70's) Taurus was affiliated with Smith & Wesson in some way. They had the same parent company I think. They sold off Taurus to whoever owns it now before the Beretta factory deal.

Congrats on picking up a good gun. Take a note that your PT92AFS has an accessory rail (that's the "A"). It will make a difference when finding a holster. Most made for the Beretta 92 won't fit right. Like D3vo said, I have a blued Beretta 92FS and a stainless Taurus PT-92. The Beretta is better built, but costs more. The fit is really good on my Taurus, but it's great on the Beretta. The trigger is fine on the Taurus, but smoother on the Beretta. I like both of them for different reasons, and I trust both to work when needed. The Beretta is better, but not by a lot. The Taurus is usually considerably cheaper and is a great value. There are also non-quality things that are different. The Taurus has the safety/decocker on the slide and up is fire. When cocked, flipping it down from "fire" will both safe AND decock the firearm. The Taurus has its lever on the frame and is a 3-position lever. Up is safe, middle is fire, and all the way down is decock (which IIRC springs back up to the middle position after decocking). (It has been a while since I shot them, so these details may be slightly off. I don't feel like getting them out of the safe to check them.) This difference in position means that grips are not usually interchangeable. The rear sights are also different, but right now I don't recall which is which and what the exact difference is. I don't recall if the Taurus ones are adjustable or not, but I think they are. In my opinion, the Beretta has a cleaner look, mostly because I don't like Taurus' need to emblazon gigantic TAURUS lettering on every slide/barrel they produce. I do like the Taurus stainless over the Beretta Inox, but that's preference. I want my "silver" guns to shine. Blasphemy, I know.

I took that to mean the officer saw the gun at the restaurant parking lot.

I was wondering the same thing. The rest of the brain stayed dead. It was just the brain stem showing activity. My guess is ease of story telling. They'd never make it if every shot had to blow out that little brain stem, magic 40 round shotgun or not.

Idiocracy, anyone? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

October has been the usual starting point for the series. I don't look for that to change wil season 3. It will probably run longer in Spring 2013 to bring in the extra episodes.

Thanks cflatt. I think TGOer nicemac built that for Charlie. It looks much better than the old site. I couldn't remember the URL for it.

A great Calvin&Hobbes meets The Walking Dead mashup.

The U.S. Mint is part of the Dept of the Treasury. They have banned melting coins. I assume that the Treasury, and therefore the Mint, has the power to enact regulations.

As for the range question: Charlie Haffner Memorial Range (CHMR) is in (beside?) Spring Hill. The website data is a little bit dated. The membership fee is now $60/year. In addition to being closed the first full weekend of each month, they are now closed every Thursday. http://www.ridethatb...m/CHMR/CHMR.htm

Well played KahrMan. I almost spit Coke all over my desk.

I've seen some bad officiating, but I think the refs had money on Wisconsin.

Welcome to the Internet.

Even if you did have either of those in stock, that douchenozzle was probably ready to tell you your price was too high and that he heard about one on gunbroker for $10 less. Then...."how much are your FFL transfer fees?"

I think I need wins from Louisville and Marquette to stay in this.

The great thing about bracketology is that you don't really need to know a lot about basketball. If you know the statistics behind the rankings, you can make some pretty good guesses. A #1 has never lost in the first round. Before today, only four #2 teams have ever lost in the first round. Upsets will usually happen to a few of the 3,4, and 5 teams, but it's a crapshoot picking which ones. After that, the teams are fairly evenly matched so it's a coin toss for those too unless you actually do know something about the teams. Even then, I don't think it improves the odds that much. For picking a tie-breaker score for the final game: always remember that this isn't the NBA. College games usually fall in the upper 50's to low 80's in points per team.

Why did I give bonus points for seeds? FJ, enjoy those extra 15 points.

Another "trick" on the scoring is that the first 2 rounds award bonus points equal to the winner's "seeding". So if you pick a #2 to beat a #15 and they do, you get 1 point for the win, and 2 points for the seed for a total of 3 points. But if you picked Norfolk State or Lehigh, both #15's that beat #2's today, you would have received 16 points each, 1 for the win + 15 for the seed ranking. I did that to reward people who went out on a limb and picked unexpected upsets. So 2 people with the same number of correct picks could have different scores based on those seed bonuses. That only applies for the first 2 rounds. After that, it's back to normal. If you check my Opening Post, you'll see the details of how each round is scored.

Lumber_Jack is correct. For proof, you can read the TCA found here http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/tncode/ 39-17-13-59 is what we're discussing. B3a and B3b discuss the wording of the sign B3c says the circle-slash is good enough.

That's good to know. I thought Nashville was grandfathered in too.

Well, FSU pulled it off by 3....and barring a total collapse by the Hoyas, Belmont is coming home early.

I'm starting to fall apart in the Midwest region.