Murgatroy

I like Troy rails, I think Viking is the one I really like. If I were to do a new rail, that would be it.

Glad things are looking up man.

This was a tragic event.   I can not even imagine how the parents of the school children feel. Victim and survivor.   I came home and hugged my daughter, it took me ten minutes to let go.   I am abhorred that it has already turned into a gun argument.    I read it somewhere in this thread already:   "Too many folks mistake coffins for soapboxes."   That is what sickens me the most.

Game cam and rape alarm.    Those little 135dB alarms made for hotel rooms or whatever set on a trip wire, with a game cam.   I doubt they will come back, and if they do, you have pictures to give to the police.

Three quarters of my class used Glocks.   No one shot smaller than a .380.

Magnum research still imports them. Just called the Baby Desert Eagle now.

He was hell with a gun.   He will be missed.

I work for a large company that has many positions, from white collar no sweat, to blue collar nothing but sweat. Anywhere in between.   I have worked since I was old enough to understand the world revolved around money. I delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, got older, carried lumber and picked up nails. Got a little older and swung a hammer or run a saw. When I was old enough to work 'on paper,' I bagged groceries and flipped burgers. As soon as I was old enough I went to work in the sewing mills in the cut-room.   I worked my way out of a dead end town and into college. I never cared about school, I didn't do poorly, but I was always interested in other things. I stayed in more than my fair share of trouble.   A lot more.   I have been with my company for almost a decade now. I hired in dead dick bottom of the totem pole and worked my way up to a nice corner office where I get to tell a whole lot of folks what to do. Part of that comes from the fact that if it needs done, and I can't find someone to do it, I get up off of my ass and do it myself. I haven't missed a day, and I have worked more than my fair share of twenty-four hour shifts.   I used to supervise the night shift. It was the most menial labor position in the company. Anyone that has worked in the beverage industry knows how hard pulling orders and loading trucks can be. I used to ask my interviewees "Can you lift fifty pounds? Can you lift it over your head? Can you lift it over your head non stop for fourteen hours?" I wasn't kidding.   I tried it all. I would hire kids with stamina. They quit after their first night. I hire adults with a family to feed, they quit after their first night.   Even with the recession going on, we have bloomed. Americans are fat and lazy, and they will be damned if they give up their soft drinks. Thank God for it. We are nearly always hiring. Why? Because everyone is afraid to work.    "What do you mean my hours aren't set, can you explain to me 'work until the job is done?"   "You said a plenty of overtime, not a sixty hour work week!"   "I'm tired!"   "I worked my eight and I want out."   "Hey, how come I am working hard than him?"   I grew up poor. Welfare holes in shoes Appalachia poor. Momma never worked a lick in her life, I ain't seen my daddy since I was five poor. I am the oldest of six. Anyone that has followed my posts knows what has come of those lazy good for nothing handout hunting bastards.   I have a family now. My wife drives a pretty truck she ain't ashamed of and my daughter wears the fancy shoes to school. That is why I work. I never had the fancy shoes.         Every time I hire or interview a lazy, dimwitted, unable to enunciate, dirty freeloader I am reminded of my family. How much easier it is to draw a check from someone else than to work for it yourself. And every time they prove me right and leave halfway through a shift before they have even gotten their first check, I am glad that I moved out that little bitty dead end town in the middle of nowhere.         However, I am opinionated and stubborn. I got to where I am by the sweat of my brow and my own broken bones. I am comfortable with who I am, and what I have done to get here.   I ain't claiming I am right.

It is embarrassing. Most of the time they walk in and ask for an application, in a group of three or more. You will have Mommy, wife and applicant. We do everything on computer now, most places do. I feel kinda bad about it, cause 90% of the time, they just turn and walk out. Sometimes they sit and it takes them an hour to complete it. When I was the one doing interviews I would call them back because I had too, but I never hired them. Even after Mommy or Wifey filled it out, you still couldn't understand half of it, and the interview always bombed. We had one mother that called me, asked if we were hiring, came down and got the application (this was five or more years ago when we still had paper) filled it out, turned it in and then called on a daily basis to ask why we hadn't hired her son.

My wife and I both EDC Tinkers. We got them at SMKW with a little LED flashlight for $20. Haven't thought twice about them. They do what needs done.

My favorite one is when the wife/mother/sister/girlfriend/roommate comes in with them to fill the application out.

It will transmit, yes. It is years since I have been into mobile audio, but fifteen to twenty years ago I was very heavy into it. Ideally you want your signal as clean as possible. That means digital (CD versus Cassette or Broadcast) MP3s are the way now. By using a patch cable and a dedicated input you don't have loss. I think most FM s/n is somewhere around 80, but for a digital media, like a CD, a quality receiver can run 105+ s/n. Think of when you are listening to the radio, and you switch to a CD and it is louder, though you didn't change the volume. Cleaner signal, more power. Then you start going crazy and you put sound deadener everywhere, run crossovers to all your speakers to control the frequencies, you are measuring mounting distances and adjusting fade and balance... It becomes a sickness.

You will never have decent sound quality with an FM transmitter. The signal to noise ratio on FM modulation is abysmal.

Beckett.com is what Steve told me he uses. They have a paid subscription service, My Collection or something. If you have that much in cards, it would be well worth it to sell them yourself instead of taking them in and appraising/selling as a group.

My boss is obsessed with cards. He spends more time than he should buying and selling them. To the point I am sure you were looking at some of his auctions on eBay. I have never met someone that knows as much as he does. He uses a computer program to price, appraise and inventory what he has. If I can remember this afternoon I will send him an email and ask him what he uses. It is good that you looked at completed auctions. I talk with him about this on occasion, not that I am interested, but that he is that into it. He will often sell cards at a third to half of their assumed value on eBay, but move them in quantity. The way he normally does it is he will buy a collection, cherry pick anything worth more than $20 out and then list them all on eBay and accept offers for a third of the book value. He then takes what he has left (in bulk) which are normally <$5 cards, with an itemized list and donates them to charity to tax the tax write off to offset his sales profit from eBay. If your daughter's boyfriend has $12k in one binder at sold prices, that could easily be a $50k+ collection. The problem is getting someone to buy it. An offer for the whole collection is going to be a third of the sale value, maybe a fifth of the book value. The card shop is then going to piecemeal the collection out. It takes a lot of time. I know that my boss spends a good thirty hours or more a week with his cards to the point his wife hates them, regardless of the money he brings it. However, if you, or your daughter, or her boyfriend were to do the legwork of selling the collection, it could easily bring it $50k+ from individual sales on eBay. I will PM you my work email, and if you are interested, just let me know and I will forward it to my boss and have him explain a few things.

[quote name='fauklin' timestamp='1355117404' post='857665'] Clinton Walmart usually has double the ammo on hand that oak ridge does. They also sell out of 22lr pretty quickly. Might be worth a shot to look there. Also, they usually keep the 100rd federal champion ammo in for most popular calibers. Bionic Post [/quote]There is a good chance they sell through a good bit of ammo there. I used to stop and grab a brick and targets a couple times a month when I was on my way to the Norris Watershed.

Very informative.

Hell, I remember being told on many occasions that my mother brought me into this world, she would take me out of it. I don't know how any of us made it if you believe what they tell us today.

I make a point of checking the shelves every time I go in. Last night they had 75+ boxes of .223/5.56 in various flavors, 50+ boxes of 9mm, even more of .40 and a similar amount of .45 and .380. 100+ boxes of 7.62x39mm and of course, all the other hunting rounds. The case was full. Same story at Rural King across town. I keep hearing all the 'Sky is Falling' talk, but I have yet to see a legit shortage.

And this is exactly why gun buy backs shouldn't happen. That could have been a rare piece of history that could have netted the woman $30k, and some tree hugging pants pissing anti feels all warm and fuzzy for taking it off the street for a $50 gift card.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Thompson/Center_Arms_Company Good read. Happened in 1992. TC was selling a kit of the gun that included pistol and rifle components. The BATF sent them a cease and desist.

What about the Dickson Cider Stand?

That was spectacular.

Wow. I love the show and all, but I don't see two years worth of episodes left.

Chibs will move to the left, Tig will be back at the right. I thought it was clean how it all came together. Almost too perfect. I have a feeling next season will be the last.