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Very nice, but from title, "Duracoated Myself", I expected to see something like this: - OS

Went to the woods yesterday with my Son for a morning Bow Hunt and the following pictures were taken; Bow hanging in tree... Selfie....about five minutes before deer walks with 10 yards of my Son's stand. Deer was so close, he couldn't draw his bow because the stabilizer kept hitting his stand. He was about 20 foot up a tree and had to shoot near straight down. He wound up having to lean sideways out of his stand to get a shot. 6 minutes after selfie....Meat on the ground! Congrats Son...Awesome deer! Memories made... This deer will be fine eating for sure. Congrats to my Son Rob for his first bow kill (besides squirrels) of the season. The heats on this old man now! Dave

I don't believe the myth that poor folks are fat because they can't afford non-fattening foods. I believe this for two reasons: 1. I come from the Honey Boo Boo culture. My parents didn't have much money when I was growing up, but we were all skinny. We didn't keep sodas or fattening snacks in the house. Those things cost more money. When I see the poverty level folks filling their carts, they're filling it with crap I can't even afford. I buy the cheapest stuff I can find, yet somehow everyone in my household is thin. We don't have personal trainers, nutritionists or a gym membership. We've both got a bunch of overweight people in our families, so I deny that we are thin due to some magic metabolism ability that 1/3 of Americans don't have. Most of the people I grew up with are tipping their trailer over when they walk around. They don't have a pot to piss in, yet they can mainline Mountain Dew like it's cool. Not that I care about someone's life choices, I like jolly people; what bugs me are folks who are doing it on my dime, or look at me like I have some magical secret to not being obese that they aren't capable of tapping into. My wife an I put effort into it, and I'm sick of hearing whiny ass Americans complain that they can't achieve the same due to circumstances beyond their control. 2. I've been around the world; to countries without a gluttonous culture and countries where people are so damn poor they can't afford food. There aren't a bunch of fat people there. So unless Americans are genetically different than everyone outside our borders (they aren't), a whole bunch of people are full of crap. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I went down a rabbit hole earlier after clicking a conspiracy theory link regarding Ebola. While west-Africans may be ignorant due to superstitions and lack of education, Americans can be just plain stupid with the level of access to information that we have. There is a lot of misinformation being circulated right now by people looking to profit off this scare... a lot of "don't trust the government; buy my book to learn the REAL secrets to surviving the Ebola outbreak." Needless to say, my fellow Americans are eating this up, because they never hesitate to turn a crisis into something that fits their narrative, whether it be left/right/straight lunatic.

Your doctor is wrong. Sitting on our butts and getting food from a drive thru are all choices. I'm not saying that I never indulge in the flame broiled goodness of a whopper, but if I had a weight problem I wouldn't touch the stuff. I don't farm or have an outdoor, physically demanding job. My wife is a stay at home mom. We have every excuse to be overweight, but we aren't. We choose not to be. The reason obesity in America is such a problem has nothing to do with the existence of unhealthy crap at every turn. It has everything to do with our culture of blaming others for our woes and REFUSING TO TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for anything. It has become so bad that folks like me who encourage people to take responsibility for their station in life are called "victim blamers/shamers". How crazy is that??? Of course the "victim" is to blame when they are the sole person able to make the choices, good or bad, which lead to their station in life. Americans complain about things they have complete control of. It drives me nuts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't understand why everybody is so worried about this virus from Africa.  He only has a little over a year left on his term.

Quick way to fix the EBT issues in this country...  Create military style mess halls, if you're on welfare and need a free meal, you go to the 'mess hall' and they feed you.  No TV's, just like it was in boot camp.   Lots of people will get sick of that quick and find themselves a job to feed themselves.

  I don't think my fat tax paying azz would know an EBT card from a debit cart.....

The problem with food assistance is there are few stipulations on what they can purchase. Red Bull? Really? All food assistance should be modeled on the WIC program. Red Bull and soda are not a valid use of my tax dollars.

Hopefully my 10 year old will get him this year. That'd be a great first deer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, I am glad someone can tell them apart. I was watching a car commercial on TV the other night and they had a Mercedes, a Mazda and a BMW in the commercial and it turned out to be a VW Jetta commercial and I had to wait till they told what car they were talking about to know who was paying for the commercial................jmho 

Looks like you've got a nice stand of trees. Most of mine has a bit to much under brush in the form of briars and seems much worse over the last 3 year or so. I have a lot of mature trees, in fact most of them are old growth but for some reason the undergrowth still thrives. Be sure to post the video when you get the footage!

He is going to be a big boy if he survives another year or two.

AH...that's what that spot looks like from the nose bleed section! J/K...nice view. Dave

“The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the facts in controversy.” — John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

I refuse to attend the Nashville fairgrounds because I won't pay to park and pay admission. So I guess gun shows are out for me. Haven't seen any great deals at one in a very long time anyway.

I thought he left because he saw the sign that said "You must be this tall to ride this ride".

I did an experiment today. I walked out in my front yard with a lawn chair and a pair of binoculars. I sat down with Binoculars in my lap and I was going to see how many cars I could recognize and call by name brand at about 35 feet from road to chair. I had a list of the 12 most popular cars of today. I would guess what brand it was and check mark next to name. Then I would us binoculars to verify my guess. I guessed at almost 250 cars on my two lane road in 3 hours.     Out of all of my guesses I got 11 correct and there was 17 that I never got to see the manufacturers emblem so didn't have a clue what they were. The reason I did this was I have been listening to the local news recently and when a crime is committed and there are witnesses over the last 2 months also doing a survey on this of all the witnesses that saw the get away car which was a total of 42 in 3 month not 1 person could tell you a make or a model.     They could only said it was a white 2 door or 4 door or a dark colored sedan. The only four that the witnesses could identify completely was a Chevy pick up 2 Dodge pick ups and 1 Ford pickup. i have also noticed over the last several years that I cannot tell a Mercedes from a Hyundai or a Toyota from a Nissan.     Does anyone else have these problems identifying different brands of automobiles or is it just folks like me that have not been new car shopping in the last 30 years? Have the auto makers just decided it is easier to copy the competition than it is to employ actual designing engineers to design cars and trucks for them so they can stand out in a crowd?   I use to look forward to the Fall of the year when the new car models would get released for the up coming year. They don't do that any more. They come out with new body styles or new car information all year long now. Now each Fall they all run big money off sales to try and unload the previous  year model cars before what they call the new cars hit the dealerships.     More crimes might get solved if folks drove cars that looked like Fords, Chevie's and Chrysler's of the 50's and 60's. You could at least tell one car brand from another   Ok done with my soap box.....................Someone else's turn.....................JMHO         

I'm standing in line this morning watching the fat girl with 3 kids scan the buggy full of meat, red bull, and soda pop when I get a call from my accountant. I always wind up extending because the banks I work for typically do not get their 1099's to me early. So my accountant asks what I'm doing and I tell her grocery shopping, She says to pick up some petroleum jelly because my taxes are ready. Then the fat girl swipes her EBT card to pay for her groceries. $629.66. I'm happy.  

File this rash of abusing welfare benefits in the folder marked "nothing new under the sun."    Hell, even back when foot stamps were printed and looked like Monopoly money, I remember my mother would try to sneak in her cigarettes with the milk and bread at the corner store.  This isn't a recent problem that came about when we put the benefits onto a card to make the system more efficient.   The abuses of EBT/SNAP are as much a legislative failure as individual ones.  WTF do we expect to happen when we set up a system that is so fast and loose?  You would think with damn near every store using a digital scanning system to tabulate how much you owe, we could put what food items are EBT/SNAP acceptable and which aren't into the programing code.  You can use the EBT card to pay what you are authorized with it.  Everything else, on you.  Old country store doesn't do it that way?  Tough.  Call this an unfunded mandate to upgrade your tech or you loose out on getting that money from your customers.   Dairy products, real juice, baby food, formula, meal ingredients, anything fresh, ect... should be allowed.  With the sheer amount of processed heat and serve stuff in the stores today, I don't think you could get rid of having it on the EBT card, but I would like to see the amount of it capped at no more than 50% of what you get to spend per month.  Arguing on what is healthy or not would be a chore in and of itself.   It's also worth noting that the states have a lot of discretionary power over these programs.  Some use that ability more than others.  Tennessee's program is light years apart from California's.  But even our Republican trifecta knows that any major changes would have those EBT card holders casting ballots en masse. 

If Ebola doesn't kill us, stupid mothers not vaccinating their kids will get us w polio, tuberculosis and more.

Erik88 - I'm with ya on the single stack 9mm, if they come out with it, my 42 is GONE!! However, for the time being it is by far the sweetest shooting 380 I've ever shot. And with a pierce grip extension the fit in my hand is perfect (and my hands ain't small)

I got to fondle a 42 last weekend. I'm not a 380 fan, but really like that gun. i doubt that the single stack 9 will be that small and light

It's not airborne, but the nurse in Spain was wearing full protective garb from head to toe & only went into this guy's room 2 times, but she still caught it.   http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/07/after-nurse-contracts-ebola-spanish-health-workers-raise-concerns-about-protective-equipment/

I got mine about 1 1/2 months ago and must say have been thoroughly impressed. I've run PMC, Fioochi, WWB, Freemdom remans, Golden Sabers, Critical Defense and a couple of others without a single malfunction............until Saturday. Took my wife and mother-in-law to the range, both of them had failures to feed with the PMC but it was on the second round out of the mag (was loading 5 at a time) and I don't think they were slingshoting the slide on intial loading, kinda limp wristing the release if you get my point. Both times they had it happen, I ejected the mag, got the round to chamber properly and proceeded to finish off the rest of the mag with no problem. I then loaded up five more and proceeded to shoot it myself with no problems. We were using the same mag at all times so I'm going to attribute it to the shooter, not the gun for now. Only other thing I could think of is that I had shot it about 2 weeks earlier (about 100 rounds) and did not clean it before takng it out again, but again I could not get the failure to duplicate when I was shooting it that they were experiencing. We put about 300 rounds through it on Saturday and other than those two failures, nada! Still love the gun no complaints here!

It's clear that by now, OP's decision will be clear and not confusing in the least. ;)   FWIW, I like leather for everything except pocket carry, where Kydex excels due to its thinness and rigidity.   - OS

Well, part of that is teaching youngster to have a victim mentality. "It's not your fault you're poor; it's the fault of your opressors. You deserve to be compensated."

When food stamps were still in paper form and not on EBT card they had much tougher rules as to what you could purchase on them. You could not purchase any prepared food, no alcohol, tobacco, laundry soap, dish soap, bar soap, Toilet paper or paper towels. It had to be just strictly food products that you took home and prepared. But do you folks honestly think that is how it worked? People were out there buying food stamps from FS recipients for a 1/4 on the dollar with cash. That went on more and more so they decided they could fix that by putting your funds on  the EBT cards but that didn't help anything because people would go shopping for the money people and buy everything on a list given to them and when they delivered the groceries they would receive 1/4 of the amount of the receipt in cash. I know this to be fact because I had a dead beat step son and his wife  that were sellers and I knew the buyers. Anonymous phone call got all that stopped and everyone did some jail time. I think my step son blamed me for it but he never called me out on it. But we have not spoke since his mother passed away either back in 1997. I do know that it was stupid to make it possible to buy just about anything except Alcohol and tobacco on the cards. I think you can even use them in places like McDonald's but don't know that for sure because I don't got to those places very often. Can't afford them. Once a month I splurge and have KFC and live like a king for a day........ :up: ........................jmho      

The last time I waddled into my doctor's office, he explained why it's easy to put on weight and hard to get off.  In the golden days of America, people used to have to exert exercise to get their food--farming, manual labor, and other jobs with lots of moving around.  Now we mostly sit on our butts, typing on computers and get our food from a drive-thru window.  If we went back to making a living with more physical effort, we could be drinking our beer while showing off six pack abs.

The IRS isn't to blame in this case. It's our elected "representatives" who buy votes by promising the fruits of our labor to others with no strings attached. Yea, there are people out there that legitimately need help. Hell, I've been broke as a joke before and I know full well how bad it sucks. If you've never been there, trust me, it blows. BUT, I have also seen tons of people leeching off the system with absolutely no intention on ever changing. In my opinion, we should end ALL government handouts  - that means to big corporations, farmers, pretend farmers, etc. - and let charity take care of the folks who legitimately need the help. As we all have seen on this board, Americans can be some damn generous folks when someone needs a hand, but most of just don't like having our money taken to ensure that Billy Bob Republicrat gets re-elected in the next mid-terms. 

I believe the relevance of the weight of the person in question is that our tax money is paying for more of the processed junk that is contributing to her being overweight.  With being overweight comes health problems.  It's reasonable to assume that if she's leeching off the government to buy junk food for herself and her family, she's leeching off the government for everything else, including health care as well.  Because she's overweight, the health care costs increase.   Correct me if I am wrong, Raoul.   I wish the government bought my food.  Costs me twice as much if not more since I gave all that processed garbage up years ago.

Whatever you pick (I prefer the Smiths, but the Ruger makes a great revolver too), be prepared to find more in your safe.   Revolvers are addictive.  I bought one... a year later I had half a dozen.  :up:

congrats on the recent and upcoming purchase!   while you'll illicit many opinions..............you probably can't go wrong with the integrity of any of the lower parts from any of those companies, sans the trigger.  of the three you'd mention, if you want a ranking, i'd go:   1 BCM 2 Spikes 3 PSA

Raven Concealment. I have 2. I cover with a shirt but that's optional.

I was thinking a spray on tan might be a little less permanent but who am I to judge... I have one of those kits with slightly different stencils waiting on me to finish my 308 sbr build. I need to get that thing done and clean up my work area for a while... I think it looks great, Mark

I don't know wether I should shake your hand or do quite the opposite! Thanks for posting that, I was able to order 2, as I was riding down the road swerving punching in my credit card numbers lol

Sorry for a bit of thread drift folks... :pleased:   I picked up one of these Dusty..best $100.00 I've ever spent. http://www.midwayusa.com/product/852429/competition-electronics-prochrono-digital-chronograph

If its a range gun go with a RUGER Blackhawk Convertible in 9MM P/.357 Magnum, you'll love it and discover just how accurate a good SA revolver can be as well. Should you desire a DA/SA revolver and want to stick with new or near new then go with a GP-100 with the 6" barrel as its added sight radius is a huge plus. This is why one of my favorite revolvers is a 1970 vintage S&W M-27 6" Barrel. Should you desire a .22LR then I recommend a RUGER Single Six convertible in 22LR/22 Magnum, but if you really want a fun gun go with the RUGER Bearcat in 22 LR, I love mine.

You're not alone Dusty...and everyone else. We've had Unique on backorder for several months as well.   It seems that when any pistol, or rifle, powder comes in, it goes out just a bit faster than immediately.

Scenes from my duck blind last year Wind was really blowin' the dekes around Bunch of birds flying in that Arkansas sky

I was bored Saturday afternoon, so I snapped some pics of my bow while I was in the stand, lol. (I'm much higher than it looks) I have a GoPro mounted on it, but haven't got to record any shots on animals yet

If you are going to cast I would look at powder coating the bullets. Makes the alloy less critical. Powder coated bullets run cleaner than plain cast or jacketed. You can push them as hard as jacketed in most calibers, definitely in 357 magnum, and the best part is you can color coordinate your bullets to what you are wearing that day.

Another vote for a 686. 1982 here.

I am partial to S&W but there are several other brands worth owning. IMO, 22lr/22mag and 38/357 are the most practical to start with for many reasons. If I could own only one revolver it would be a S&W 65 in the 3" flavoring.

S&W 586

Luke E. First time wind was right this year. Have a few good bucks on cam. Plenty of does. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Man, that was tough... Of course I was mental mess the whole day so, I did terrible.  Fun match though, very difficult, and dang cold.  Thanks for working the match everyone!  Maybe Morgan will post a video and make it look all awesome, but if you want to relive my pain - here you go: http://youtu.be/l3ZbEzb6uWo

Guys, I am going to do my absolute best to get these delivered to you all  sooner than expected. NO Promises but if all goes well they will be to your door steps before the end of this month!

If the socket is to tall, grind it shorter. It is a do able job, just a PIA.

They will only confiscate from law abiding gun owners. The gangs will be untouched plus they have stuff way beyond what the silly kalifornia laws allow. Either way it's gonna get ugly.