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I am an engineer and have designed a few springs.... A properly designed spring will not weaken by being left compressed. And by "properly designed" I mean designed such that the stress in the spring when compressed to the max in its application is low enough that the material doesn't fatigue significantly over time/cycles. Sometimes it's not physically possible to do that. The requirements of packaging, rate, etc. may be such that you simply can't get there and the spring will eventually fail in one way or another. And while a spring may be designed for "infinite" life, sometimes they don't get made correctly. The temper may be off a bit or it may have some corrosion or something like that. When people disassemble anything with a spring in it, they tend to like mashing the spring completely flat into "coil bind". That's generally a really bad idea. If the spring doesn't go into coil bind in its application, it's likely you're over stressing it by doing that and causing permanent damage to the spring. The same thing goes with extension or torsion spring. Stretch or twist them too far and you'll ruin them.

I will test this soon.  Next time I go to Memphis and root through my Mom's attic I know there is a 20-round Colt M16 magazine fully loaded with blanks somewhere.  Got it when I was a kid and there's no telling how long it was loaded before I got it...at least 35 years.

A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw

So now I can not get three boxes of .22 instead of not getting only one.   - OS

    These two statements are really important, and provide some clarity in this argument that should be carefully considered.   As has been said many times here before, "statists are gonna state." It's the nature of the beast.  All three of our branches of government are guilty of power grabbing.  This isn't a new thing.  It's been happening since the very beginning of our country.  It's expanded under republican leadership.  It's expanded under democratic leadership.  It's expanded under non-partisan guises simply because it's the government thing to do.  People don't go to Washington to reign in the government.  Even if they talk "small government," they go to Washington because they think they know better than everyone else how to run it.  They're going to grab power where they can...all of them.   There are things that the average American should be concerned about.  Warrantless surveillance, drone strikes, no-knock raids and gun confiscation all qualify as things to be concerned about.  Some of them not simply because they violate our "rights", but also because we're better than that and ought to be asking harder questions instead of taking the easy way out.  BUT, there's still a gulf of separation between where we are now, and a drone killing someone without oversight on American soil or the government going door to door in Connecticut and grabbing peoples' guns.    Perspective matters, and we have to keep that in mind to avoid be marginalized as "tinfoil hatters."  There's a lot of distance between where we are today and needing load up our magazines.  Unfortunately, when our rhetoric focuses on hanging politicians from the yardarm we neglect the most basic action that our founding fathers gave us to take back control.    Vote.  Get out there and get involved.  Blog about it.  Speak about it in the media.  Talk to your neighbors in your community.  Don't let the big guys control the dialogue simple because of their size.  If the internet has given mankind one thing, it has given voice to the common man in ways it's never happened before.  Don't squander that voice.   The vast majority of our members on this forum are here because of their love of guns.  But remember, shots fired in anger will change this American experiment in ways that cannot be undone.  Your life will not be the same.  You won't go home to suburbia and get on with your life.  What follows won't resemble what was.   There may come a day when armed conflict comes again to our shores - even from within. But, we're a long way from that day.  And, our actions today can prevent that day from coming.    You have more power than any citizen in the world has ever had.  People are giving their lives worldwide right now for just a taste of the power that we take for granted.  Go out there and use it!

In defense if the shooter, I'm pretty sure I heard the moose refer to him as a creepy cracker before attacking. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Well, pretty much! This big feller was running down OHB close to the Nolensville Road intersection. My wife after a while and some burger bribing got him to get into her Rogue. She took him to the vet and had his toenails clipped and checked for a chip. He had one, and she got ahold of the previous owner. But she had sold the dog and had no contact info on the person she'd sold him to. We're putting ads up tomorrow and hopefully the rightful owner will get their dog back. I'm sure someone is worried sick. Well, I hope so, I hope he wasn't dropped somewhere! He is HUGE!! 129 pounds and for now he's not sure about me but loves the girls. Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of Mr. P. (My daughter said he's as big as a pony so Mr. Pony it is) :rofl:

Next thing you know, there will be no limit to the number of boxes you can't get!  Good to know that the shortage is coming to an end ...

Dang, you guys are harsh. It sounds like I have to be an unarmed moose expert, willing to risk being killed or injured by a wild animal in lieu of harming it, in order to go snowmobiling with you guys.

  I can assure , she was raise in a home that has high morals and she was an honor roll student all of her years in school. She dated many very nice respectable young men and because she is a beautiful young lady she could have had her choice of a lot good upstanding young men. When her mother saw her heading down a wrong path she tried many times to talk to her about some of the nice young men she dated. The only excise she gave her mother for not wanting to choose one of them was they were boring and she liked men that were exciting. Well I guess she is now learning just what exciting can do for her future. We as a family are going to take the steps necessary to protect her and her baby and when he decides that the paper means nothing to him and he will do as he pleases that may end up being the biggest mistake of his life because then he will deal with family which may be detrimental to his health and physical well being...............jmho  

  A real good example of this... read Jan Brewer's statement on her veto of the anti-gay bill in Arizona. One of her justifications was that the PEOPLE weren't asking for the law. It was dreamed up inside the legislative bubble. Politicians, in general, need to get in touch with their constituents, or be thrown out of office.

 May just be me but this situation seems to share some details of the Zimmerman/Martin fiasco. Both "to-be shooters" made a mistake in pursuing causing them to be attacked then shooting to get themselves out of it... 

I prefer the term OCD (Ordinance Collection Disorder). I'm in a 12 pistol program and am taking it one range visit at a time.

That is done in order to seat the rear of the cartridge against the rear of the mag housing. It's because when you're carrying your mags in your web gear, it can get knocked around quite a bit and the first round in the mag may shift forward, which will prevent proper seating of the mag when loading, as the front tip of the round is getting caught on the mag well. Not something you want to deal with when you're doing a mag change for real. Has nothing to do with springs though. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If it makes you feel any better, I've seen kids in places where they don't have access to violent music/TV/video games and they were more evil in their actions than any kid I've ever seen in the states; far worse than this story here. It may be hard to think back, but boys between the ages of 10-14 are some of the evilest little things out there. They are at an age where they're being hit with hormones that are out if control while trying to fit in to a social construct resembling a pack of wild chimpanzees, and their ability for empathy isn't quite developed. Really, if you want to see the true nature of what humans used to be before society was established, observe a group of boys that age who aren't being supervised. It is nothing new. The key here is having good parents who teach their kids right and wrong so they will make better choices. But peer pressure is a mofo. It ain't easy for a kid that age to overcome that and I think we forget what that was like. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Danes are funny, gentle giants. I hope you find the owners.

There's definitely at least some Dane in that pooch. Beautiful dog. I wish I could say that I'd take him if you don't find his owner, but the two we have are already a handful. 

Tim will be missed. Truly a nice guy. We saw him a few weeks ago. We talked and laughed for a while between shows. Edit: here's a pic of him and the wives. He didn't want our ugly mugs inthe pic. :) G

Okay, I'll try a couple more.   I'm assuming there is a small section of wrench left.  Can you use visegrips and clamp on the end of the wrench enough to use it as a makeshift allen wrench?   If so, choke up on the wrench as close to the end as you can so it's less likely to twist into again.   It's hard to tell in the picture but if there is enough threads exposed could you find two nuts that fit the threads and screw them on using one as a jam nut and then unscrew the set screw?

  It's almost certainly true that the cases won't. However, the bimetal bullets that are generally part and parcel with steel cased ammo will most definitely accelerate barrel wear.   Extractor wear and whatnot from steel cases is anecdotal only, but the barrel wear from the bimetal bullets has been empirically demonstrated.     - OS

Yes, I listened to many a morning radio show just to hear his bits.   He sure will be missed...by many, many people.

I have plenty of spare Magpul anti-tilt followers as I generally use aluminum mags and sometimes have to replace an outdated follower. If you want, PM me your address and I will throw one in the mail to you just to see if it helps the mag work better for ya.

I think the Tennessee Snowmobiling Association is a very small group. Knowing what a snowmobile is because you saw one on Discovery Channel doesn’t count for much.

What you are missing is metallurgy. You just discovered that not all springs are created equal. It depends on what the spring is made out of and how it is tempered. You can get bad springs, or bad heat treat. Any time you see someone making blanket statements about things involving metallurgy, physics or ballistics you should be skeptical. Is a magazine that has been in storage for thirty years good to go? No, but that doesn’t mean it won’t work when you try it. Here a couple of other blanket statements that I can assure you are false: Dry firing won’t hurt your gun. Steel case ammo won’t hurt your rifle.

I am using a Glock 21 with a 4.5" barrel, I am using a TMJ Hornady 230 gn bullet.  I clean my gun after every shoot (brush) and once every 5 or 6 shoots with a barrel cleaner (Billistol).  They don't seem to tumble as much once I upped the powder from 3.8gn to 4.1gn.  Thanks,

I agree that we need connection between the People and the politicians, but if you hold your breath waiting for 'them" to contact you (with the exception of when they want campaign donations) all you will get is blue.  As per the first two Articles of our State Constitution:   It is our (the People's) responsibility to make sure our employees know our interest and feelings about the business before them:  

I had someone try to doggy nap my Lilly. Had that happened they would have had a very, very bad day. Our road is a dead end road and they stopped on the way in and tried to get her into their truck. They took off when they seen that I had seen them. I can honestly say that when it comes to my dogs I will put their safety above most humans.   It infuriates me when I see how some people treat animals and wish domesticated animals, such as dogs and cats, had the same level of protection as people enjoy. I would love for the penalties for killing an animal, without justification, carried the same penalties as if they had killed a person without justification. Or if they decide to abuse an animal the penalties should be the same as if they abused a child. And if you abandon an animal you should be required to pay for all care and medical treatment until the animal is adopted.   Too many people consider animals disposable. And all animals want to do is please. No dog is born aggressive or mean, it is only after they have been exposed to awful people that they turn mean.

I do understand that it's a sacrifice but there is also home schooling. If there is anything I've learned in my life it's that, with rare exception, people can do and will find a way to do what's truly important to them.  Yes, private school is expensive and home schooling is not inexpensive either when you get right down to it but unless this family is on the bottom of the income ladder I suspect there are plenty of things they could give up that would free up enough $$$ resources to make private or homeschooling possible for their kids. How many of these stories do we have to hear before people wake up and realize that public schools today, even in good 'ol Tennessee are nothing but indoctrination centers to teach children how to bend the knee to government...to believe the exact opposite of true history?  We have a lot of conservatives/libertarians on this forum who scream about wanting personal liberty, freedom and small (or sometimes NO) government yet they seem just fine with the federal government dictating to TN schools what they must teach and how they must teach it using textbooks that are full of liberal BS and sometimes, outright lies...why aren't you storming the capital building demanding that TN get the federal government out of our TN classrooms and stop dictating?

  The emos have the depression part down. 

What about folks who are a$$ men? Lol

Might have to get one of those patches to sew on this

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Stupid hurts. Sometimes it kills. Darwin at work.

  Every now and then its fun to be the pisser instead of the pissee...

Magnum comes on every night at 8 pm if you have Encore Classic.  I grew up on it too and enjoy tuning in again to watch Higgins' haughtiness.

C&R is your answer.

  Which one? I went to Daytona Bike Week for a day once, but only because I was curious & happened to be living in Orlando at the time. Watching the Daytona 200 was neat, but that was about it for me. I'm not into bars or huge crowds in general, so it's not really my thing. I'd rather ride around with a small group of close friends than with a mob of strangers.

  I don't call it addiction. I call it obsession! Sounds tamer!!

Mixed feelings on this one, I could see where it could go either way.  Many older snow mobiles do not have a reverse, so he may not have been able to back out.   It looks like there may have been a path out of the area, but I don't know those woods that path may not have been passable to their machines.  There are a ton of what if's that could occur in this scenario, but without more information i'm not prepared to condemn the guy.

See I don't get it. They could sell some of that useless artwork for untold millions and maybe they wouldn't have to toss a bunch of good soldiers out in the cold with the coming military cuts.

This similar to the fight we as adults face every day. The law abiding citizens (good students) are constantly under fire, hopefully rendered helpless by these liberal bit&#es, while the criminals (young criminals) will have whatever they want with nobody complaining about it because it's racist! The difference is, kids should not have to deal with supposedly grown adults (teachers and people running the school) force their views on them.

A knife is a tool like any other tool and can be used for good or bad.  What is the difference between a knife, a tire iron, or a flashlight?  All can be used to hurt someone and all can be used to fix things.  99% of the time such objects are used as tools.    So are the rescue knives with the glass breakers also considered 'weapons' by the all knowing public school educators?   It seems like the schools are more concerned with turning young men into sissies and making the public afraid of ordinary objects than actually teaching school.  Do these schools not have Home Ec or shop anymore? 

And thats why I'm not brand loyal. I'd rather ride a cheap metric I can afford than look at pictures of Harley thats out of reach right now. Those lil motors are pretty peppy. Consdering how most people ride, 40 or more horsepower is usually plenty for cruising. That said, Id love to have one of the new Vmaxs. Nothing like rolling burnouts at 40 mph Tapatalk ate my spelling

It is the rare, and wise individual that can have contentment in this covetous,  over-marketed and uber-competitive World.

I did. And those prayers were answered because I fixed the car and traded a rifle tha I might use once a month, and hadn't been able to sell, for a motorcycle I can ride to work everyday. My truck averages 16 mpg. This averages 50 mpg. Insurance is cheap on it at less than $100 a year. So yes, when I have less than $150 (tags and insurance) in a new mode of transportation that will save me tons on gas and maintenance cost it was a good finacial decision. Its not like I went and burdened myself with a huge monthly payment or something else that will be a finacial burden. I can park this tomorrow and I'll never pay another dime on it. Tapatalk ate my spelling

Glad you took car of it. I would've told the parents what the kids did.

  Not a thing wrong with you. I am the same way - got everything I want. Haven't bought a gun in three years and haven't seen anything I gotta have.   It's called being content.

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