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I've de-registered from the Neighborhood Watch.  I've got two Pakistani flags raised in my front lawn, one at each corner  and the black flag of ISIS in the center. The local police, Homeland Security, FBI, CIA and the other intelligence services are all watching my house 24/7. I've never felt safer.    :rofl: 

I let my last AK (I know, I know) get away from me over 10 years ago, and never regretted the decision to go all AR pattern, all the time. A few weeks ago, I noticed a deal at Palmetto State Armory offering a VZ2008 with 5 mags, mag pouch, bayonet/sheath, sling and cleaning kit for $399.00. How could I go wrong? Well, according to any number of interweb commandos, I could go very wrong indeed. The list was long - glacial service from PSA, canted front sight bases, mutant FCGs that would be unreliable, corroded barrels, handguard temps approaching that of the surface of the sun, a couple of well-documented "gremlins" resulting in dead triggers, folding stocks that required sandblasting and the hammer of Thor to release, virulent strains of ebola virus impregnated in the beaver barf stock...OK, just kidding about that last one, but you get the idea. The phrase "the monkeys at Century Arms" was repeated often.   Well, I am happy to report a very, very, satisfying buying experience. First, PSA took exactly 4 business days to ship my rifle. When I opened the box at my FFL's place, I found a rifle in immaculate condition. 3 of the 5 mags were new and unused, 2 were only slightly used. Bayonet/sheath was new, sling was all leather and entirely serviceable with some scuffs. The mag pouch was as nice a piece of leather as has ever come out of an Eastern bloc nation. Thick, supple leather you could sew a strap on and sell to some hipster for serious ammo money. The folding stock was stiff, but a shot of Breakfree and some ooomph had it working in a couple of minutes. I took it home quite pleased with myself. But how would it shoot?   After a bit of a shocker finding reasonably priced 7.62 x 39 (have I made a mistake?), I cleaned and lubed the VZ and headed for the rifle club. I put up an enormous "Vote For XXXX" sign at 50 yards, in case I had one of the dreaded canted front sight rifles. With any of my ARs, I could hit this sign from NE Alabama on a clear day. I then plopped myslef down behind my range bag and fired 5 shots. The trigger was kinda long, kinda heavy, but smooth. It allowed good shooting if I did my part. Downrange, I discovered a tidy group about 2.5" with 3 round sinto almost exactly 1 inch! In my experience, few rifles have iron sights this well regulated from the factory. I was thrilled. Remember, this is a $399.00 rifle shooting Tula. a rifle that, by all accounts, should have spontaneously combusted somewhere between the factory and my FFL.   Over 2 nights of enthusiastic shooting, I have put 440 rounds of Tula through my new acquisition. Function has been 100% with no cleaning or lubrication. The sights are rough for my 50+ year-old eyes and the trigger is nothing to write home about, BUT they are perfectly functional and good enough to allow some pretty precise shooting. Rapid mag dumps are nothing, though the handguards do get pretty warm.   I bought this VZ because:   A. It was cheap B. The Hildabeast will not want me to have it a couple years from now. 3. I can throw it in my trunk and not bury my head in my hands and weep openly if it were stolen - as I would if it were my Noveske, my DD, my BCM, my Colt, or my M&Ps.   I'm keeping it because its a damn good firearm, and it will never be worth less than what I paid for it.   Get one while the gettin's good.

  Imagine a Liberian citizen that jumps on a plane to the US, then blows chunks all over a Dallas hospital. Because of the incubation period, this virus is gonna sneak in. I agree. That doesn't mean that restricting travel can't be effective. Again, the big danger with ebola is system overload. EVERY case takes lots of resources. It's hard to cheat a ban with a Liberian passport. It's pretty easy to beat ANY screening process if you're not showing symptoms yet, and are willing to lie. Patient zero proved that.   They need to be hitting on all cylinders. If you have a drivers license from ebola central, you need to stay there. It's not the only measure. It's just one that should be there.

    I disagree. If you are going to post inane things like beating up your Grandma on the internet, in a thread where you list in explicit detail how you lost your job, you slander all your former coworkers, then you detail how you are going to steal company documents, I think you should full well be expected to explain yourself.   But that is just me.   I don't have a problem with sharing. I love being detailed if someone asks, but there are certain things that I keep to myself.   So my advice is, if you want to keep something in the closet, don't open the door. ;)

When it comes to Social Security, only two things are certain:  Math.  At some point, a large portion of the population is going to get screwed.  You can try to push it off, but a day of reckoning is coming. All main-party politicians - Republican or Democrat will do anything possible to avoid having to be the responsible voice in the room.  They'll hold hands and sing campfire songs before they admit that we'd send people to jail in any private sector business for doing what they've done with Social Security. So either you're going to have the political class grow up and do the responsible thing (which is not ever going to happen) or you're going to have the political class pretend to look away and feign surprise as we skip towards a European-style socialist state that consumes a growing percentage of the wealth that it claims to help create.    We've got the consumption part pretty well squared away in this country. We probably also have a moral responsibility to ensure that those who are currently of retirement age (or close to it) don't have to eat dog-food during their golden years.  I'd much rather see local communities, churches and families step up to fill this gap.  But, without sane voices in the government and a plan to wean the people off of the government teat, there's no incentive for anyone to have those conversations.   Strange place we find ourselves in.  Empires are hard. 

    When people are incompetent, they normally react defensively because they don't have the foresight to understand what can and should happen.  Ebola wasn't going to happen and we shouldn't worry about it, but it did happen and now they are reacting in a horrendously bad fashion.   This has been the way almost every event has been addressed for the past few years he's been around.

Things like work and school wouldn't be calculated into the plan if it was that bad. Quite simply, I wouldn't leave my house and would survive on what I have stored for as long as possible. All entry points would be barricaded appropriately and there would be signage warning people not to enter my property or deadly force would be used. In a pandemic scenario, things like that may be common. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just got my Ruger super Redhawk back from Ruger. The hammer was worn and could be pushed forward with your thumb. Ruger fixed the gun, adjusted the barrel gap and headspace, gave me new grips and sent the gun back in a new box. All of this cost be a grand total of 0$. Probably one of the best experiences I've had with any company

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc18Q0F51WE

At 40, I'd happily sign up today to let them keep what they've squandered so far and to let me out of the deal.   But, that's the very problem.  They simply cannot even consider letting anyone out, because then they pyramid that they've got resting on our heads tips over.   Mac, it's certainly not relevant here, but your Weimer Republic comment brought this to mind:   [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k[/media]

I could go my whole life never smoking a cigarette and still get lung cancer. Of course, if I chain smoke my whole life, I greatly increase my risk. The more people we let in from infected countries, the higher the risk to the U.S. It's simple math. I don't understand the theory that "well, it's gonna get here anyway so let's not take common sense measures." That is ridiculous. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would agree with all of this except one very important thing. The original premise regarding SS is faulty. Governments are completely incapable of "growing the economy". Governments can only have negative effects on the economy by retarding growth through taxation. The smaller the government and the less it removes from the economy, the less negative its effects are. Every dollar the government spends was previously removed from legitimate economic activity and carries with it and exponentially large cumulative economic loss due to its absence.

Do not buy wet bleach for storage. It turns into salt water pretty quickly.   Go to a pool supply store and buy calcium hypochlorite in dry form. It lasts so much longer and once added to water becomes bleach.

  You're obviously a menace to society.        Sounds like a damn good dog. And you'll have him back tomorrow and all of this talk will be forgotten. 

I do understand what you guys that live in the rural areas are saying about it being a little different there, which I agree with.   I have lived with dogs and many other pets for more than 40 years in everything from tiny apartments in crowded downtown areas to small and large subdivisions to farms to remote mountain camps in the middle of nowhere, even places that had no electricity or phone or roads. I have seen friends and family members that had inside pets that were treated better than even their kids, and I have seen a lot of older guys that basically chained their dogs up to wooden huts in harsh winter climates and gave them barely enough to survive, sometimes just shooting a rabbit or some small game now and then and tossing the entire raw carcass to the dogs. And I have known many country folks that did what you are describing, basically letting their pets run loose outdoors whenever they wanted because they felt it was reasonably safe to do so in their area.   I still standby everything I said above, though, because letting your pet run loose is still risky to the health and well being of the pet, and it could be detrimental to your more distant neighbors or even just to strangers that are passing through the area. Sure, if you own a huge farm from 350 to 5000 acres or more then some of the risks such as being hit by a car are reduced, however most of the risks are still there and some risks increase such as being shot by hunters or attacked by natural predators. But at the end of the day each pet owner has to decide for themselves how to control their pets, which is a good thing that we are all free to decide how to live.   All I am saying is that if you opt to let them run loose off your property (which is still illegal) then don't be surprised or upset if they don't come home one day, they get injured or sick, or they cause some other problems that you have to deal with. And I certainly wouldn't be complaining about anyone finding your loose dog and taking it in or dropping it off at a shelter. That is fully legal and is the most humane thing to do, unless you know for sure that the pet is well cared for and is on his own land. What the OP described to start this thread is that someone found his loose dog approximately 800 feet away from his own land, which means that the dog was not on his home property and to the passing stranger must have appeared to be an abandoned or lost animal. A stranger would have no way of knowing about your family and neighbors or all the local dogs and their reputations, and your dog was obviously in an area where the stranger was able to pass by and see and collect the dog without being noticed, so I still call that an unsafe situation for the dog. By choosing to allow the dog to run loose off your land, you took those risks and in this case it cost you the companionship of a dear friend for 6 months, plus all the time and money you will have spent to get him back, and you actually came out of this quite lucky in that the dog is still alive and you are getting him back.   I currently live on more than 23 wooded acres which is surrounded by many much larger farms, in a fairly rural area, yet I love my dog enough and I respect my neighbors (and any passing strangers) enough not to let him run free. When he was younger and quick enough to rush out the door before I could close it, he did escape about a half dozen times and each time it was a hectic nerve-wracking experience for me to chase him down and bring him back before he got hurt or killed. On at least one occasion he nearly got hit by a car, on another he almost bit a local farmer, and on another he was jumped by a pack of larger dogs and I saved him just in time. That is when I built a large 100' x 30' fenced outdoor area for him and attached it to the house via a computerized pet door, so now he can go in and out all he pleases but he can't run away and other animals can't get to him or come inside. This was the best money I ever spent, wish I had done it a long time ago. I will never own another dog again without a similar setup. It sure beats the cost of wanted posters, trips to the shelters and vets, vet bills, re-homing fees, or the premature loss of a pet which I consider my most loyal best friend.   But to each his own, and I wish you and your pets all the best no matter how you handle them. Unless you abuse them then I wish you nothing but a life in hell.  :pleased:

Ok, I asked a friend of mine that is very connected. Here, at length, is some clarification: -------------------------------- Yes I believe I can help.  1.) The current system of gubernatorial judicial appointments "beyond the unexpired term," is unconstitutional. Article VII Section 5  The principal issue surrounding Amendment 2 is whether Judges of the Supreme Court, and the intermediate appellate Courts (29 judges), should be appointed by the Governor or elected in "contested elections," (running against an opponent) like it says to do in the TN Constitution. currently Article VI Sections 3. ["The Judges of the Supreme Court shall be "elected by the qualified voters of the State..."] --- This is language they are proposing to DELETE. 2.) The system where the Governor has appointed one of 3 Nominees is known as the (unconstitutional) "Retention-election Statue", which is at the core of this controversy.  However, that nominating system which was sunsetted (terminated) by members of the Legislature this past year, resulted in the bizarre appointment of 2 of the five Supreme Court judge, Bivens and Kirby, who bypassed this past August judicial election altogether. Get it? They BYPASSED the Election... and this is the USA. 3.) While the proposed Amendment 2 has a provision for approval by both Houses of the Legislature, there is NO mandatory system for vetting the Governor's candidates and so... long after the appointees are lobbied through the Legislature, subjecting the 132 members of the General Assembly to any large special interest financed Lobbying, the People, with a duration as long as 8 years, will get an opportunity to have an UNCONTESTED (no opposition candidate) -(means no equal incentive to dissent), "Retention-Election" (retain/replace), public-referendum on that incumbent gubernatorial appointee.  If, as has happened ONE time (Penny White) in the past 43 years (after some 1200 judicial years on the bench), during these unconstitutional retention-elections, the judicial appointee is ultimately rejected by the voters, the Governor is then to free to appoint his/her next uncontested Judge and we'll begin the entire process again. In the final analysis it is fair to say that there is NOTHING, resembling public accountability remaining under this proposed Amendment's system.  In essence the People will be PERMANENTLY surrendering their Right to Vote for the judges of the State's highest Courts.  That is why I am recommending Vote No on 2, and retain our right to vote for the Judges who judge us. I hope that helps -tg

I used to live in a very rural area. I learned my lesson about letting my dog run loose when I had to tell my wife and kids that he was run over. He was a Great Dane so it could happen to any dog. I also had a beagle get loose and got a call 3 years later from a vet clinic saying they had him. I drove 500 miles to get him and gladly paid his vet bill. I guess according to some people here I should have just called the cops and claimed my property? Personally, so long as the rescue appeared on the up and up, I would pay the fee and thank the guy for taking care of my dog for the summer and go home. Then keep him contained to prevent much worse things from happening.

I'm totally in the dark on what is necessary to legally own a suppressor. I would like to have one for my Ruger 22/45 with thread barrel. Do you submit paper work to register and get stamp prior to buying a suppressor or are they done thru suppressor seller?  I know you have to submit finger prints with application and it takes 2-6 months to get approval. I assume you cannot take possession of suppressor until you have paper work back w/stamp. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks

He had that blank stare of "Oh yeah?? Well I'll tell you what I'd change on you!" LOL I'd love to know how that ride home conversation went  :popcorn:

Oh no mark, ol' stew bear and myself will be there. Stew will be my spotter. Going to have that uber professional doing all the leg work. I'm just the trigger puller. I have the easy job :) As a matter of fact I fly out at 7:30am to Arizona tomorrow for two more sniper schools. One just wasn't enough.... :)

He got what he deserved. He was at a convenience store and confronted a car load of teens because he doesn't like thug music. Why does there always have to be more to the story when some gun owing Jack wad does something stupid? He made a bad decision and several families will be left to suffer for years.

I'm not torn about it. It isn't the place of the government to be picking winners and losers in the market.

That broad would be walking home.

  All points valid, but the government will never run out of money. It's just that at some point, it'll likely become Weimer Republic bucks, a nation of hungry billionaires.   - OS

  Perhaps. But it can't not go away (or at least continue to exist substantially as it is currently). So that leaves us in an interesting place.   Unless there's a wide-scale collapse, I strongly suspect that the taxpayer of the future is likely to turn around and say "Enough. We're not paying you any more. You should have solved this problem before you came to rely on it. This is your problem, not ours" and you'll see a lot of people in their retirement years in an awful lot of trouble.

Every proxy layer that is introduced, reduces the likelihood that it will be transmitted. Why put a fence on the southern border if the fence itself can be climbed over? Because it makes it harder for illegals to enter. It's not a be all end all solution just like the travel ban, they're both just single parts of a layered or collaborative strategy.

Aviation has the concept of a chain of errors   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_events_%28aeronautics%29   Which basically states that when things go wrong, it is not usually one thing that causes the problem but many small things that contribute. Things like allowing people from problem areas to travel to areas without problems, incorrectly handling those people when they do arrive and then having those who have been in close contact with that person to fly to weddings and go on cruises.   The point being that if you get one or more of these items right, you break the chain and disaster fails to happen even when things fuck up elsewhere. You stop travel, you train the nurses, you restrict them and monitor them after contact.   No doubt there is a whole litany of stuff in Liberia itself but let's concentrate on the US where we are supposed to have at least a modicum of understanding of good hygiene practices and (we hope) run with science over superstition when it counts.   This is reading like a bad novel, including the "let's not do anything in order to try and prevent panic" idiocy. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is much stupider too.

Yep shoulder stock a recommended plus and you need a VFG. Only problem is the gun is so violent I don't like my hand being that close to something that is held on by a polymer rail that was intended to hang a weapon light. In fact go to YouTube there's a guy shooing a FA glock VFG breaks and he puts 3 rnds into his hand.

It's a real bitch to get told that you got taken, isn't it? When you find out that thing you thought was a good deal was really just a scam. Luke, you should be concerned with those SCOTUS cases for the simple reason that they explain the truth of what SS really is, and it isn't what you've think you've bought. When I speak of "no accrued property rights", I am not talking about an account somewhere marked with your name on it that you will draw from. I mean that the government can change the criteria for receiving the welfare portion of SS tomorrow, making you ineligible to get it, and you would have absolutely zero legal grounds to contest it. You would have to accept your lumps and move on without it. Mike, nope. The fund is, and always has been nothing more than an accounting trick. Nothing more than a line item on the ledger that could be (and was!) shifted one place or another as needed.

Well we can definitely make the sear option happen. :o)

Pay the fee for crying out loud. They fed and boarded your dog for several months. My dog eats way more than $80 in chow in that amount of time. If anything, these people have saved you money. Get your dog chipped. My wife and I rescue strays all the time. We've had it happen on three occasions that people were pissed that we picked their dog out of the road and brought it home. They had the attitude that it would have returned home if we'd left it alone. How the **** am I supposed to know that??? When I see a dog running loose, I assume it has broken out, and I consider that the owner would be devastated if their dog ran away or was hit by a car. I always try to recover the animal. In two of the cases cited above, the dog had no tag and the other had the wrong address AND wrong phone number on their tag. We sheltered these animals, contacted the humane society and put ads online. We looked into ads posted online for missing animals. The owners in two of these cases were not so much as thankful, and seemed pissed that we recovered their pet. I should've thought to charge them a "rehoming" fee! At a standard rate which an animal boarder charges. Micro chip your pet if you're gonna let him run loose. Make sure he has rabies tags and accurate owner tags. I've tracked down owners by calling the vet and having them look up the rabies tag on the animal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wanted a new bow so bad I couldn't stand it this spring. My bow is probably 30 years old and no where near as cool as the new ones. So, I shopped all over and decided on the features I had to have, like string stops and peep sights with tubing, and the newest cams, and all. Then I walked into the archery shop where I get my bow worked on and he more or less talked me out of it. My conclusion based on his advice and some soul-search: my bow is pretty (albeit not as cool), I know how it shoots, it's damn accurate, and 50 more fps won't make me a better shooter. I still want a new one, but I'm glad I put it off a little longer.

  Well...., AIR-F***ING-BORNE!  :tough:   But don't count on This Guy low crawling around Georgia as your spotter.  I'll be back at the house drinking Hot Toddies with the Delightful & Wonderful Mrs Kari.  :love:   Yet it does sound like something that a former Ranger Regiment buddy of ours might think is fun!  :dirty:

I have shot many belt feds from .223 to 40mm in the military. I appreciate the info and you may end up correct. Even if I do hate it, I still want to do it. I would even settle for a sear gun if the opportunity presents itself...

I like the concept of the G18 ... back in the day one of our entry lead guys had one ... I always saw it more as a defensive weapon though... those "Man I stepped into a big old pile of sheot... better back out" guns.  2 pulls of the trigger I don't care how quick you are to come off it and you're empty.  They're crazy like 1800+rnds/min.   As far as being practical or fun to shoot - neither.. not trying to knock anything off your bucket list but I'd push a beltfed or something else in front .. something that is going to put a big ole grin on your face.  The 18, even with a 33rd clip is a burp and it's gone ;o)  I can say for me, one who has got to shoot just about anything it was a big let down ... 2 minutes on the range and I was done .. for life.. never had the desire to shoot another and that's been 15 years ago.   As 173rdABN said most rentals are sears ... the G18 even for us who can get one are costly ... $3-$4k where a glock WITH a sear $500-$600 ... so probably going to be a stretch finding one as a shooter.  A glock sear will also work on most any model Glock where the G18 is only 9mm.  I like the sear approach and do make and sell a few to local egencies.   I feel the sear is also easier for the operator to see what position the selector is in ... the G18 design was neat but it's a cumbersome pistol in my opinon to manipulate under any stress. 

Going FA above the line would get expensive quick!

Do they come in colors other than pink?  They shouldn't. :yuck:

No offense and I do hope none taken but I think a lot of what you said here does depend on location about 95% and 5% type of dog. I grew up most of my life on a ranch of almost 5000 acres and we always had at least 8 to 10 dogs, Some hunting dogs and some stock working dogs and a few house dogs and were never chained but beagle hounds were fenced in a kennel area about 50 by 50 feet and all had insulated dog houses. Stock dogs ran loose all the time and Coon hounds ran loose all the time. Now with that said.   People that do not live in an area where a dog can have sufficient room to run and remain on their property should not have an out side dog or should have a large fenced area. ..............................jmho

The notion of letting a pet run loose is sometimes viewed as natural or traditional, especially around more rural areas. Some owners feel it is only right to let them have their freedom, and some folks enjoy having stray pets come to visit once in a while. These folks may have been raised in a culture that pets were only outside animals, not much different than birds or squirrels that you enjoy seeing and occasionally feed but otherwise don't do much about. Other folks have a romantic vision of their pets going out to play, making friends, visiting neighbors, communicating with other animals, and generally having a great time and then always finding their way home at the end of the day to rejoin their loving family after a fun day of adventure, similar to the crap that you see in the Disney movies. But the harsh reality is that a loose pet will usually just be searching for food or sex, or most often just looking for some loving attention from other animals or humans that are willing to pet and play with it. And if you leave a pet outside during rain or hot/cold weather then he is often just looking for better shelter.   So if you really care about your pet (and your neighbors and their pets) then you would never let your pet run loose at large. Doing so exposes them to many, many hazards including being hit by a car, attacked by other pets or predators, shot at when trespassing on other properties, poisoned by all manner of toxic things he might eat or drink, chased or tortured by kids or twisted people, pelted with rocks or BBs or whatever, exposed to ticks and fleas and other diseases, injured by crossing dangerous areas such as steep hills, broken glass, becoming permanently lost, getting picked up by Animal Control or adopted by someone else that sees him as homeless, etc. And it can also cause a lot of inconvenience for your neighbors if your pet harasses their livestock or pets, craps in their yard, barks at night, bites one of their kids or pets, etc.   Most pet owners who let their pets run loose are either ignorant of the facts above or they just don't care enough about the pets or their neighbors to do any different, and in my opinion these folks shouldn't have pets, which is why I fully support the legal capture of strays and placement in shelters where the pet will at least have a chance of being placed in a better home. Other pet owners aren't willing to go to the expense of properly tagging, chipping, and containing the pet to their properties, in which case I think they should only have inside pets that are only let out in a fenced area or on a run or leash.

Here's my buddy. Been 6+ months. He's gonna have a big burger and a bonfire waiting on him Saturday night.

I understand.   Unless I was pretty sure it was a scam, I'd gladly give the money and be glad to have my dog back.   Sometimes even people with good intentions make bad decisions. You'll likely be happier in the long run if you stick with that theory.

For $80, just pay it and don't even worry about it.  You will have your dog back and that is what matters.  I would pay multiple times that if my dog went missing, whether it was purposeful or not.   You don't have to like the guy, but at least your dog is alive.

Just sold the lady's 637. She took it to the range 3 or 4 times and always ended up with a sore hand, most of the time with broken skin. She carries a Ruger LC9 now. I prefer my Kahr CM9. Both have been 100% reliable.

A republican would have shot them instead of exchanging shots with them.

I saw an interview with him several years ago. He said he didn't consider it dangerous because it's so big under those spans with plenty of room to fly through.

I wanted to let everyone know which gun I chose. It was the Smith & Wesson 442. It was a tough choice. I really liked the Ruger but the 442 has a slight advantage as far as being concealable. I like the look of the stainless version but felt the darkness of the 442 was a plus for keeping it hidden. Shot 50 rounds at the gun range and was pleased with the gun .

Yup, the lapping tool.   Also, anti-seize grease (or another high-quality grease) on the threads.  Plus another trick that gunsmiths use to seat threads:  After applying the grease, tighten, then loosen, then tighten, then loosen, then tighten one more time.  You'll be surprised how much further the nut (or barrel, or whatever) will go.

Mom's Demand Action is kicking our ass right now. The idiots carrying AR-15's are not helping us though.

Based on what I've read this guy is toast. Laying on the ground with a 17 year old bashing your head into the concrete is a great deal different then a 17 year old mouthing off to you from inside a vehicle. Absent the presence of a gun being displayed, this cat had no threat to him. He should have walked away. Of course the defense is going to parade a bunch of witnesses in front of the jury who all say what a great and calm guy he is, but it doesn't change the facts.