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If you don't mind me asking, who do you use for your transfer? I want to grab one of these, but to be completely honest, I have never bought anything and had it transferred from the internet.

I might get out on Black Friday just to watch this.

I may or may not skip cleaning on my regular firearms for a week or two at the range. My Mosin I would clean, as it is the only thing that I shoot corrosive ammo through. To be honest though, I have skipped it a time or two as well, and it didn't have any damage. I have a pair of Heritage Rough Riders that I shoot a brick through every time I go to the range, I don't think I have cleaned either of them in a month. I think I have put a good 1000 rounds through my Glock since I last cleaned it too. I find that cleaning my guns is good for relaxation. As I normally go to the range on Sundays, it is a nice finish to my weekend to sit and and clean my guns while watching my TV shows. Nothing like a zombie show and a western to get you into the gun cleaning mood.

I like the dark version. I find that darker backgrounds and white text is easier on the eyes.

Good find, I have something to discuss with the wife now.

I will admit a weakness for the DW pistols. I would say that you got a pretty good trade.

Holy sh**!

Thank you. There are a lot of folks that love their animals, and well, that is the truest test of a human in my opinion. Not how he treats other humans, because there can always be a selfish reason behind that, but how he treats animals, because in the end, that is as selfless as a man can be.

I was raised on powdered milk and eggs. You kinda get used to it after a while.

It has always been said around our house, if we have a choice of how to come back, it would be as one of our pets. They are family, through and through.

I have some land way out in the sticks. A popular hunting area. We have had a few dogs just 'show up.' We generally ask around and we have gotten several of them home where they belong. There have been a few odd ones though. I eventually came to the conclusion that my mother has garnered a reputation as being a caring person. As she seems to get a 'new' animal weekly. Dogs, cats, even a ferret once. One that showed up out o the blue was a Dalmation. Best I could tell full blooded. Showed up without a collar and just made herself at home. Dozens upon dozens of cats. I am certain that a fair percentage of these animals are abandoned. Doesn't make a whit to my mother. She has become the proverbial Crazy Cat Lady. She spends the majority of her money on pet food. One dog in particular that stands out was a fellow we came to call 'Tick.' Tick was a redbone that just showed up when I was bout thirteen. He was a little malnourished, but not bad. He was a friendly sort, always met me at the end of the road when I got off the school bus. He had a loud deep bark that just carried and carried. I asked around for a while, and never could find where he came from. He made it clear though, he lived with me. Tick was there till I moved out a handful of years later, and did well. He filled out well and was a very very polite dog. Whenever he saw me come out of the house with a rifle, well, let's just say my five year old daughter reminds me Tick around Christmas time. He would chase anything that moved. Even miles away. He would come home smelling like skunk a lot. When I moved out, it always warmed my heart when I came back to visit, and Tick would come running to meet me at the driveway. I always greeted him the same way, 'Whatcha say ol' Tick?' Over the years it came out as 'Tao Tick!' I could stand on my back porch and holler 'Tao Tick' and hear him braying a mile away. Tick never was an indoor dog. He didn't care for it. He loved to be outside. Didn't care a lick to get wet. That old bastard was a traveler too. After I moved out, the plot of land across from ours was bought, a couple from Michigan moved in. Tick took right too 'em. He was just as oft found there as he was at my cousin's house, a few miles down the road. Come to find out, Tick had a good dozen houses up our holler where he would find food, and a scratch behind the ear. He was well known. Well liked. I guess I was about twenty-two or twenty-three the last time I saw Tick. He was getting on in years. After all he was a full grown and filled adult by the time he found me. He was rather grey around the edges, had an obvious bit of age on him. I came home to visit one day and it didn't matter how loud I yelled, I never heard that bray. I am sure that is how Tick would have wanted to go out. As suddenly and abruptly as he arrived. I just wish I would have known so I could say good bye. That damned old cur was the best dog I ever had. And a damn fine friend at that.

That is the worst part of this whole ordeal. That these mindless heathens would say this over an over in interviews, do they not even realize the pain and suffering they are putting on this child while trying to make her father look like a hero?He was a criminal, and obviously a career criminal if he was in his early twenties with a record described. He was not a hero. He was a drain on society. Do not make a martyr of a useless piece of trash. The officer that shot him and his daughter are the victims here.

I understand completely.I am the guy that stubs them out on his boot, then tosses them in the ashtray, or trashcan. I am standing at the far end of a parking lot to ensure that no one has to walk past my, or my smoke. I try to stand downwind. Even use the ashtray in my car. I choose to smoke, and I make sure that anyone that is offended must go out of their way to be.

I think a lot of folks are trying to make a martyr out of a thief. There is a lot of fuss about how many shots were fired, claiming the officer 'emptied' his gun into the suspect 'after he had been tazed.' Yet there is no official statement about how many shots were fired, including whether or not the suspect fired his gun. I love my daughter with all my heart. She is my reason for getting up. However, there is no way in hell I would go to Wal-Mart and steal Christmas lights or otherwise for her. I go out and work, hard, and legally to provide for her. So that I can teach her what honesty is. That these people would try to paint him as a saint that loves his daughter and was doing it for her is bull****. It makes me sick that folks would even attempt to lay this thief's death at the feet of his daughter. From what I have read about the incident, I believe that the officers acted properly.

That is why I quoted it, too much work went into that for it to be lost.

Wow.

There are lots of options for natural tobacco.

I think I need to pick up an extra cigarette holder. It is so easy to make them I just cranked out a carton, but I can only carry eighteen in my case. Time to go get another case I guess.

Family and friends. Hershel has already said that he hopes that a cure is found.

If I were a doomsayer, I would say that this is the end of times... Of course, I am watching Star Wars Episode III right now, so I might just be reading more into it than there is...

I tried the snus, I find the Marlboro Snus is the smoothest short of the boutique brands. One of my customers owns a cigar shop in Farragut, I have stopped in there a time or two and picked up some nice stuff that he has, it is very smooth and mild. I actually find that when I use that, I don't smoke. However, with Camel or Marlboro Snus, I still want a smoke. Even though his shop isn't that far from where I live, it is out of the way for any direction I normally go, so it is very rare that I stop in to grab some. I too find that the snus will last me a couple of days.

That is actually exactly what I got.

I just did a preliminary search on growing and curing my own tobacco. Yeah. Don't think so.

When I first started smoking, I tried that route. I was proficient with rolling, but I didn't have the patience to stop and roll one up every time I wanted one. I always liked Drum.

This is not a debate for the health risks. I am well aware. However, I choose to smoke. Mainly because it is a major pain in my rump to try and quit. What is worse than trying to quit though is the rising cost of cigarettes. Today I found a solution, of sorts. While quitting would be best, both for health and finances, I would leave a trail of corpses. I purchased one of those home roller kits tonight. Bought a couple or cartons of tubes, and spent a relaxing hour making my own cigarettes. I got a pound of the higher quality tobacco, as opposed to the cheap stuff they had all over the shop. Even went so far as to buy one of those fancy stainless cigarette holders. The chunk was the machine. That was the lion's share. $36.99. The pound of tobacco was $15. 200 tubes was $1.99. Based on what I was told, and what I have rolled, I will get a two and a half cartons from the pound of tobacco. Thus 2lbs($30) and 5 boxes of tubes ($10) comes out to be 5 cartons of cigarettes. That comes out to $8 a carton. The tobacco I got is decent quality. I was concerned about getting cuts and shake, and voiced this when I was buying the tobacco. I smoke Camels. I have for the fifteen years that I have smoked. While I wanted to save money, I didn't want a cut rate product to do so. 4 Aces was the tobacco that was suggested to me, and it is not half bad. Better than the stuff the guy at work that rolls his own uses. I smoke a pack a day. At $5 a pack that is $150+ a month. This will save me an easy $130 a month. Out the gate, with just the two cartons worth of tubes I got today, I am already ahead. Maybe I will smoke less since I have to make my own. So has anyone else gone this route?