monkeylizard

Just like in 2016 . . . and 2012 . . . and 2008 . . . and 2004 . . . I'm beginning to think that a good cyclical approach is to buy stock in gun/ammo companies at the midterms, and sell it on the Presidential years.

^^ I wish I could Like that post twice. It's also why most officers now carry less-than-lethal* weapons such as pepper spray, tasers, and batons. If they can't justify using lethal force, that's what those other tools on the Batbelt are for. *Yeah, I know in certain cases those can be lethal too, but you get the point.

Had plenty last year. I put the feeder up about a month ago, and had nothing for several weeks. I took and down, cleaned it, and put it away with plans to put it out again in mid June. Today Mrs. 'lizard saw a blue one in my vegetable garden so I refilled the feeder and put it out. Hopefully they'll find it and start hitting it. Maybe they're just a little later than usual moving back North.

I had the same problem on my AR pistol build, The buffer tube extended too far in and the upper caught on it. No castle nut on this build so, what to do? I couldn't figure it out until finally I pulled a buffer tube off a rifle and found that the threaded portion of both were exactly the same length. Hmmm....maybe it's not the buffer tube. Maybe it's the end plate. BINGO! The end plate for my pistol build was significantly thinner than the one on my rifle. I replaced the end plate with a better one and everything mated up perfectly.

Nashville Public Library wins the Internet for today. Well played, indeed. https://youtu.be/rnk4qeu9WZY

It's also missing the gravy.

I suspect that once we get through this latest round of panic buying, we'll see a drop off in prices. Hopefully by Thanksgiving we'll get some great Black Friday deals. Still, $0.175/rd works out to just $8.75/box. That's pretty cheap, and about as good as I can recall seeing in the past 10 years aside from some extra good BF/close-out deals.

I watched. Nobody noticed. Nobody even looked his way except the clerk who gave him the cursory head nod and "did you find everything you needed?" then continued with his mind-numbing job of scanning and bagging. It's possible he noticed and didn't care, but I don't think so.

I for one like that our permits work for CC or OC. It should be a personal choice and I don't begrudge anyone for making a different choice than me. I don't think it's "stupid" to OC. It would be "stupid" to OC and expect to never be hassled about it, but if someone has decided that the hassle is worth it to them, by all means go for it. (Note, this is about OC/CC normal firearms, not a jackass making a political statement thinking it will "help the cause" but only serves to paint us all with the nut-job brush strokes). First, always remember that a person's physical limitations mean OC works better for them. If the choice is OC or no-carry, I'd take OC all day every day. I suppose from a tactical perspective it makes for a faster draw if you don't have to get a shirt/jacket out of the way. That very slight advantage can be mitigated with training/practice. It of course comes at the possible disadvantage of being targeted first. I say "possible" because I suspect that a perp won't usually notice. I've watched a guy OC in a CVS with a full old-west leather gun belt complete with the extra boolits in the loops and a .44 hog leg revolver. I'm convinced nobody noticed it but me. Add in the adrenaline and tunnel vision that has to come with committing an armed robbery and in my non-professional and purely anecdotal opinion, they're probably too focused on the cash register and clerk to notice details like an OC'd gun. But that's only my opinion and it could be wrong and the OCer could be targeted first. I guess that's the long way of saying that I don't think CC or OC makes much difference at all if things go bad but I'm not a professional gunslinger and didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night so I may be wrong. In the end, OC comes with no real davantage but has the disadvantage of possibly being hassled by management/scared customer/police so I don't see the point. From a strategic perspective, OC can sort of make sense if you bend some logic just right. In theory, it's used to change the way others view firearm possession specifically, and ownership generally. The more often people see a thing which is scary to them, the less scary it becomes. That's likely a true statement in general, but in this case I don't think there are enough people OC'ing to make a difference in the way non-gun owners see firearms. That infrequently seen scary thing remains an infrequently seen scary thing. In some specific cases, OC can be used as a deterrent. That's why banks and other high-value places have visibly armed guards. After the 2010 flood I intentionally OC'd at my home for months afterward. We had dozens upon dozens of volunteers and contractors in and out of the house doing cleanup and repairs. If any of them had plans for an easy target, I wanted them to know they needed to keep looking. Honestly, I was a new gun owner at the time and most of it was driven by what was ultimately an unwarranted fear of looters, having seen it on TV following most major disasters. We had very little looting/theft around here after the flood and a I did my leg work checking out contractors as best I could. In the end, we had great people doing great work.

Not gun related, but I really like that saw. My father in-law has one. It's an excellent balance of power and weight and one I can run all day. Sure I'd wake up the next day and know I'd been working a saw all day, but it's manageable. If you change the bar out for a shorter 16" it will cut even better as long as you can get away with the shorter bar.

I know it's an older post, but @bersaguy that law is there for folks without permits. It's not about carrying an unloaded firearm. It allows them to lawfully transport their firearms to places like the gun range, gunsmith, etc. or as someone else pointed out, to carry it home from the gun store after buying it.

I don't know . . . car wash strippers can be pretty cheap.

You have my condolences.

Today I watched Rambo: Last Blood That movie was pretty bad. It wasn't The Rhythm Section bad, but it wasn't much better.

Before the officer goes back to the shop to open the door he's fidgeting with something on his belt. I thought it was a remote door popper to release the furry fury but clearly it wasn't. Does anyone know if those are in use by K-9 officers anywhere? I'd think it would be a very useful thing for them.

Narrator on the vid: "Why did he come by himself? He should have brought backup" Me: "Officer RuffNStuff looks like pretty good backup."

I couldn't agree more. Not only is it a WHOLE lot easier to employ some simple bio-mechanics to reposition the handgun instead of trying to remove genetic dominance reinforced by decades of life, most handguns are configured for right-handed shooters and can't easily be converted to lefty models. Forcing left-handed shooting will severely limit the choices of handguns and to me, would take all the fun out of it. It's no fun to keep doing something over and over again and still suck at it. I don't think after years of shooting lefty I'd every get as good as I am shooting righty with a shift to my left eye. I'm no Hickock45, but I do alright. Switching hands might work well for some, especially someone who has some reasonable coordination in their off-hand, but someone who insists shooting off-hand is the first and only solution should be forced to sit down and transcribe the Encyclopedia Britannica using only their off-hand. By the time they get to volume D they might write mostly legibly, but it will never look as good as their dominant-handed writing. Or maybe play piano but reverse the octaves played by each hand. Good luck with that. I'm not a doctor, neuroscientist, or an instructor but I know what works for me. If someone hadn't told me about cross-dominance I never would have figured it out.

^^^ This x 1,000. Most people have never heard of eye-dominance, much less cross-eye dominance. The standard mechanics often taught to shooters are for right-handed, right-eyed shooters. If I followed the common instruction like keeping both eyes open, squared shoulders, eyes straight ahead then I'd basically be playing Spray N Pray. When I first started shooting I was closing my left eye to get a clear sight picture. then I was reading here on TGO that I should shoot with both eyes opened. I kept trying it but I was sooooo bad that way. I eventually went back to closing my dominant left eye. then I took a shotgun class out at the clay range off Briley Pkwy and the instructor did the triangle hands eye-test as shown in the OP. Sure enough....cross dominance. He put a sticker on my left lens and it has been super-helpful. After that I was able to figure out a way to make an adjustment on handguns too to get the sights in front of my left eye while keeping both eyes open. It's waaaaay more noticeable on rifle/shotgun to me, and more challenging. The image entering my left eye is the frame, fore grip, and barrel of the left side of the rifle/gun. Compensating on a long gun is basically impossible with both eyes open and unobstructed. If I don't close my dominant left eye or use glasses with a sticker on the left lens I have to really pay attention and align my sights and target using the weaker image coming in to my brain from my right eye. I can usually manage that when bench shooting a rifle at a static target to get me to within minute-of-badguy inside say 100 yards, but it's too slow for action shots like clays or anything longer or smaller than a 2'x4' target inside 100 yards. When shooting scoped, it's like I have two completely different images and I have to pay attention to the one with the cross-hairs but my brain fights me the whole time. For a cis-vision ( ) shooter, get on your rifle and notice how you can see the left side of your rifle with both eyes opened, but it's not what you're focused on. It sort of just disappears and you mostly see the sights and targets unless you pay attention and actually try to focus on the left side image. It's the reverse for cross-dominant shooters.

Correct. Closing an eye, whether it's the dominant eye or the other one, THEN aiming will result in a true aim with either left-handed or right-handed shooting. Parallax, our eyes seeing the same object from two different angles, is removed when we go one-eyed. To rephrase what CLH added above, aim first with BOTH eyes open then close one eye, then the other. One will remain aligned with the sights and target, and the other will not. It's a demonstration of what the cross-dominant shooter experiences when not compensating by moving the firearm and/or head to align the sights with the dominant eye.

I have a 6.5Kw set now. If I was careful about what was on I think I could run the whole house except the stove, clothes dryer, and A/C. I've had it almost 10 years now and it has never not once no never not ever been started except for regular maintenance checks. I'm in Nashville. When the power occasionally drops, it's for a short period of time. Sometimes long enough to be inconvenient, but never long enough to think the food in the fridge/freezer will be going bad or to be worth the hassle of getting it out of the garage, wheeling it to the back yard, chaining it to the deck, running extension cords (I know, a transfer box is what I need), and plugging crap inside the house into the cords. It came close once and after several hours I said "30 more minutes and I'm getting the genny". It came back on a few minutes later. It takes up space in my garage and it's way too freakin' heavy to really be truly portable. It has wheels for moving around the garage/yard, but if I ever need it to travel with me like with a storm clean-up crew or to take to a friend/family member in need it's not happening. I like having a generator but this one's too big for my needs if I'm honest about what I really need. I'll probably sell it once all this mayhem passes and buy a much smaller one like a Honda EU2000i or EU2200i or the Yamaha equivalent. Then it can sit on a shelf up high and out of the way and will be enough to power a TV, the PC, some lights, the fridge, and recharge batteries as needed. If that's not enough power, I think I'd rather have two EU2000/2200's chained together instead of one larger system. The portability is often underappreciated. I'd be losing the 240v outlet, but I don't think I'd really miss that.

Do it. I have a natural gas grill plumbed directly to the house supply lines. I'll never deal with tanks again.

Thanks. Now that you mention it, I do drop my chin down and right towards my right shoulder too which brings my left eye over a bit.

Strong right handed, strong left eye. I can't hit the broad side of a barn left handed and have trouble manipulating the firearm so I shoot right handed but push my right shoulder out and bring my right arm across to center the handgun in front of my left eye. I suppose if I practiced shooting lefty a LOT I could eventually get better at it, but my current method works for me. @Cruel Hand Luke, is that what you mean by "getting the gun in front of the dominant eye"? Rifle and shotgun are a whole different animal. I shoot right handed, but have to close my left eye or wear glasses with a sticker over my left eye.

That price is the panic-price. Normally they run about $20 each. Mark A's post is still valid though. A small supply on hand with a filtration system to handle more is the way to go as long as you have access to unfiltered water to send through your system. Rain barrels for watering a garden are a great way to store unfiltered water and use it regularly until the zombies come a knockin'.

Generally, we're staying at home but still get out a few times a week. I'm 100% work from home now and Mrs. 'lizard is a teacher. I've made a few Home Depot runs over the past two weeks for some materials to rebuild my vegetable garden raised beds (cedar was finally rotting out after 6+ years) but I finished that up last weekend. We went to the greenhouse (an independent place in the middle of nowhere) today to get some plants for it. We've grabbed a few curbside meals to help out some local restaurants. We still make our weekly grocery store run, but if we had to stop that or go every other week that's fine. We're pretty set with frozen, canned, and dry goods for a while but it's nice to keep fresh produce, meats, and dairy while we can. I always keep plenty of paper towels and toilet paper on hand, so that wasn't really a concern. Most of my driving now is for mental health. I love getting the convertible out of the garage on these warm afternoons and driving down the Natchez Trace or some rural back road. It's going to suck if that has to stop. My septuagenarian in-laws live about 10 minutes away and we've stopped by there a couple of times and sat 10+ feet away out in the driveway and visited for a while. Now we have them on Zoom and that seems to be working well.