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I was given this by an ex girlfriend about 6 years ago. It is a wooden tube about 1.5 inches wide and 5.5 inches tall. The labeling on the outside reads that the shipper was Amos R Flock in Jamestown, PA. It is from the Miles Medical Co. in Elkhart, IN. It is a free sample of medicine for something called "LaGrippe". I found it humorous that on the label it also says "To Postmaster: If unable to deliver to adress given hand to someone who has had or is having LaGrippe". I looked up the stamp to get an idea of how old this is. It is a Grant 5 cent stamp and it was available from 1898 to 1899. It just found this again and decided to post this here. Pretty interesting.

Yea, I got $375.00 cash plus the Rugar in the trade.

I don't have it is my hands yet, but Jonathan sent me these pics and I could not be happier. Those are the original wood grips that he cerakoted. I cannot wait to get it in my hands.

 Depends on how much cash you got with the Ruger.  And unless you just wanted the M4 22, I'd say you got a better gun out of the trade.

ANY live footage of black panthers must be submitted IMMEDIATELY.

What do they expect these kids to do when they get to college?   Maybe this is what the 2 years of free community college is all about? So they can begin to teach high shcool level?

I'd have been pissed too..........but I'd probably have deferred to the set the cars on fire option LOL

My Dad always told me growing up "Son, choose wisely the hill you decide to take your stand on"....parking would not have been one of those hills for me.

$200.1 million and still raking in the bacon, they've almost quadrupled the budget for it in 2 weekends.

  No telling, back then. Could have had opiate in it, even heroin.   - OS

If you got that Ruger and the $375 I'd say you came out ahead.

Are you willing to negotiate on the price at all?

Bloody Friday off Guadalcanal. More sailors died fighting the Japanese fleet, at night, with their big guns, than Marines fighting on the island.  So many ships were sunk off Guadalcanal that they named it Iron Bottom Sound. This was some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II. The Japanese chose to fight at night when the US Navy and Marine aircraft couldn't fly. The Japs had a secret weapon called the "Long Lance" Torpedo which ran on oxygen. The US Navy was out numbered, out gunned and out trained. The Japs underestimated our resolve and courage.

Someone mentioned the plethora of video content already out there for some of the subjects I mentioned.  While that is true, I believe there's a certain comfort level or "bona fides" that come along with material being presented by people you interact with on a regular basis.   I would also aim to keep the content realistic and practical, which means if we end up with training videos of some sort, the focus will be on informative and education content rather than the "edutainment" that I see in a lot of videos.  If you're entertained by it, that would be a happy by-product.  You won't find backflip, hatchet-throwing, Spetsnaz, black-ops type stuff.

So why does the NRA have politicians fill out surveys on where they stand, but not people running for the board? I want to know where people stand on constutional carry, repealing the NFA, etc. As a life member I am sick of people who are just interested in keeping guns for hunting or sporting purposes.

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john... I'll take the time to echo what other posters above have said...  I would get a good reloading manual (...hornady, speer, lyman...) and do some reading... I would recommend a single stage press to start on so ya can see how the various steps of reloading work (... and to see how they can go wrong...)...   Spend the money on a good powder scale and a good powder measure... I like redding (...the best i think...) dies and a good, sturdy single stage press (...i have an old RCBS Rockchucker...)... We load for everything (...pistol and rifle...) and work up all our loads on a single stage press... I think ya always need one to load a few rounds...   One final note on presses, dies, and reloading equipment in general... Don't buy the cheapest thing out there... Buy the best ya can at a price ya can afford... Presses and dies need to be manufactured to close tolerances and they need to be made of good stuff... Buy the best ya can afford...   As ive said before; i like RCBS presses, Lyman, and Redding single stages... I like their dies as well... I use Lee stuff from time to time; factory roll crimp dies, hand priming tools and that sort of thing... I do not use Lee presses or powder measures, but that's just me... There are bunches of folks here and other places in the reloading world who do...   As to the progressive presses... There is nothin better than a Dillon (....and Dillon dies, as well...)... Any flavor of a Dillon 550 up will do a great job on anything ya want to reload; but ya need to get the recipe figured out before ya start usin a progressive reloader...Changing things up on a Dillon is a pain, even with the dies set up... I would recommend buying one of these a bit later, after ya get the feel of reloading and see that ya really like the reloading thing... More than that, they are pricey (...and worth the $$$'s in my opinion...)...I would take the dollars that would have to be spent on these tools to load ammo and get the feel of the reloading craft, and gain valuable experience...   Finally, and most importantly, the reloading thing depends on doing a bunch of common sense things right and in the right order... There is nothin hard about reloading... The problem is that ya can get hurt or tear up something ya wouldn't rather tear up if ya do the wrong thing... The thing that immediately comes to mind with me is the use of "fast powders" (...Bullseye, WW231, Unique, AA2, AA5...) to load pistol rounds...   When ya use low charge weights for target loads (...and lots of people do...), ya have to be doubly careful not to double charge a case with powder... If ya do, ya run the risk of blowing up a perfectly good firearm and loosin maybee an eye or a digit off your hand... I know this sounds severe, but it's true...   There is one sure way to prevent this sort of thing; its to physically double-check and look into each case after the powder is charged to verify for sure that the powder charge is right...That is the real beauty of the single stage press... I look in every single case before i seat a bullet on a powder charge... I simply cannot stress this enough... I will not load low charge weight reloads on a progressive reloader because of this very issue...   What im taking about now is, in fact, the main objection to the progressive loader... It's hard to see into the cases as the loads move around to the next station...  I always try to use powder that fills the case up enough so that a double charge of powder will spill out with my Dillon progressive... There are some other things that work very well, like powder checking dies that alert you to this problem, but it's very real....   Reloading is a great hobby and a real money saver... I've been reloading since the middle seventies and have reloaded for every imaginable cartridge; from the tiny 32ACP to the mighty 458 Winchester Mag... I still have both my eyes (...such as they are...), thank God, and all my digits on my little fat fingers as well... None of the guns in the safe are damaged from over-loads nor blown up; but ive seen several handguns that were...   I ain't the smartest feller that ever was, so i am a testament to the "it can be done" thing... I am also very slow and very thorough... It's a good habit to get into...   Have fun and be careful... leroy

I really like the idea of the How-To videos, especially something that could be stickied to the top of the different sections.  Like building an AR-15, cleaning it, reassembly, etc.  Maybe the same for the other various types like the AK, 1911, and other common rifles/handguns.  Even better would be to get input from the different vendors and smiths on here.

I would like to see a movie about 12 shipwreked Swedish swimsuit models on a deserted island with 2 crates of tanning oil..... Oh wait, I already have that movie, nevermind.    :)

I would love to see Mitch Rapp come to the big screen.  Those books written by Vince Flynn are excellent books.

I'd like to see Old Yeller remade but this time I'd like to see the dog played by Jane Fonda.  Just because she's dared resurface to try and rewrite her own history.

An American Sniper-styled movie about Carlos Hathcock. 

Maybe Nashville is different than redneck-ville east TN, but I feel certain they're not going to stop teaching algebra and geometry.  They're just changing the names of the classes to something less scary sounding.  Kinda like Comcast changing it's name to Xfinity...   I've had conversations with my kid's teachers about the common core stuff and they all think it's stupid too.  They view it as nothing more than the current fad and are patiently waiting for it to pass. 

Good it's about time they did this!  We can't have the smart kids hurting the "feels" of the dumb kids!  Social Justice!!

The dumbing down of America continues.

Hmm I will teach these subjects in homeschooling of my kids and they could always be surveyors and not have any competition in their age group. Thanks for the heads-up Don't kid yourself JohnC, high school of the future is intermediate indoctrination and the 2 free years of college is Advanced Voter Training.

I don't know what they expect them to do, but I know what WILL happen. Americas children are fast becoming the laughing stock of the earth. Meanwhile, some 12 year old Chinese girl is solving some string theory equation before her violin lessons.

Why waste time educating kids at all? Why not just tell the truth, they want a daycare for propaganda programming. Stupid and severely dependent never fathom revolt against the system.

I don't always do things that are stupid and illegal but when I do I make sure to film it and hand a copy over to the authorities.

  Okay, but they flat out admitted that to KKing that they aren't lawyers.  And that raises all kinds of questions.    Will the attorney who drafted their trust template stand by the work if something comes to pass?  Coyote can't, they aren't lawyers.  Those of us who used the TGO venders that offer trust services have that benefit.   Do those who get a trust through Coyote have an attorney-client relationship with anybody?  Doubt it since the folks at Coyote aren't lawyers.  I have an attorney-client relationship (and all the legal protections therein) with John Wells.  Ditto for the folks who used Chip Cain.   Finally, how well versed are Coyote's lawyers in Tennessee law?  My trust attorney is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association.  How about Coyote's?  Is that even a valid question since we don't know how far their services extend beyond acquiring a template of a trust?   These are the things I sought out a professional and paid the extra bit of money for.

Saw it Friday. One of the best movies I've ever seen. Only Clint Eastwood could have made it. Incredible!!!! The theater was packed but very silent. Also, no one said a word when we were leaving.

Does he like cigars?

Greetings from big bear 44 in corryton.I work county maintenance and am 2 years into my gunsmith bussiness ,.SO guns ,ammo and range time are things of importance to me. Still have growing pains so those interested please bear with me. Education and safety fall right in there. Would like to grow with the community to learn and help all i can. look foward to hereing from many of you.

Very impressive. I usually prefer full stainless steel looks, but I like it.

That's purty

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David, I think you covered it all for the most part. :up:   But to be more specific...   I'd like to see: Local political and legal issues coverage pertaining to second amendment. Interviews with politicians putting them on the spot so we can see where they stand on 2A rights. Long range tactical shooting how-to's. Building and modifying firearms (like AR's) for specific purposes (long range, CQB, AR pistols, NFA, etc.) Filming of local shooting competitions, such as long range and 3 gun. Interviews with local gun manufacturers and manufacturing facility tours showing the inside workings, etc.. Then get more in depth with each firearm they make. Interviews with local gun celebrities such as Hickock45, etc... Getting inside interviews, Q & A's with gun rights organizations such as GOA, NRA and the TFA. It would be nice to have a direct line to these orgs so we can actually communicate and get them working on some side issues while the major 2A rights battles have calmed down (NFA, etc.). Reloading and bullet casting videos. Reloading products reviews. 

  Unless they are in uniform and i'm sure they are a LEO, I will do whatever I have to do to retain my weapon. An assualt along with trying to take my weapon is a threat to my life. They have to show that they are a city, county, or state LEO and not just claim they are. Many criminals have claimed they were a cop to get their victim to comply before they rob, assualt, or murder them. I wish the assualt victim would have laid there and claimed injury, not to sue Walmart, but to make sure the criminal attacker was charged with a felony assualt instead of a misdomenor assualt, and also have extra ammo for a future civil case against the attacker.

Got my pack back from RTDS and it shoots flawlessly now! Plus Jeff Walters (Ghillie from HKpro) did some tweaking on the sp89.   http://vid422.photobucket.com/albums/pp302/skasakevics/sp89%203shot%20burst%20slow%20mo_zpsgfvk9tam.mp4   http://vid422.photobucket.com/albums/pp302/skasakevics/sp89%20FA_zpstaghvrwu.mp4

Went to the Mammoth Sniper Challenge in Blakely, GA at Legion OTG Jan 7-11. Before I start going on this, keep in mind: -when I get to the rucking (running…) part I weighted my pack in at 75lbs before I left and had a 20lb gun. We had to ruck to every stage and campsite. Didn't go anywhere without walking there. -Each stage is 8 minutes long. You have that amount of time to both shoot your targets and get all the required events in the stage complete. Be it lifting the longs in the truck. pulling them up three flights of stairs, changing from the Tahoe to the car. Time was VERY limited. We get their wens night and its FREEZING. Literally 18 degrees and we didn't get a cabin. So, we scramble calling around trying to find a place to stay before the match starts friday so we don't die in the cold. Thankfully we found this amazing little farm 6 miles away with brand new cabins. White Oak Pastures. Let me tell ya, it was great. 150 year family history there and they did a great job with everything. All natural, range fed, all that stuff, it was there. We had to go into one of the pastures to our cabin tucked back in the woods and make sure the gate was locked because baby cows and chickens were roaming freely. It was what you'd think a farm was from the 1800's, legit. Anyways, so we registered Wednesday night for the range estimation, target detection and stalking on thursday morning. Went back to our cabin, unpacked a little, then went for some good local grub and drinks in the podunk town of Blakely, GA. Got back to the cabin and worked on our ghillies and gear a little for thursdays events, drank some more (best way to hydrate right?) and went to bed. Thursday: Stalking; we did great. Simply put. There was 20ish competitors and out of those we both passed. Only team to pass at that. 4 total passed including us. The closer you where to the guys looking for you in a spotting scope the better you did. I tied for 3rd and my buddy was 2nd. We were within I'd say 30-40 yards of each other. Now, the 1st place guy…….. in ACU's of all things, which SUCK. and I mean SUCKKKKKKK. So, he makes a ghille out of those right?… well, the area we did this in was starting in the woods, make it to tall grass thats about 100 yards long, and the graders are in cut grass past that 100ish yards, not even. This dude in ACU's crawled all the way to the edge of the grass probably not even 100 yards away and took his two shots and didnt get found. I mean, good luck on exfil buddy haha, but man that was impressive. Range estimation was great and simple. Target Detection was ran kinda crappy and wrong from how its suppose to be run, but whatever. It was a good day and we passed the stalk so thats all I cared about at that point. Friday: let the freezing cold fun begin! We stepped off at 7:30 in 28 degree weather. And I'll tell ya, I shoulda went down to a t-shirt and ditched the hoodie. 3.6 mile ruck run, timed, running over 11 burms for some of the bays as you go. They ranged from 10-20 feet tall. The last two I darn near crawled up. I still don't regret my choice to hydrate off Coors light though ;). We get to the first stage and here comes the problems. Not hitting a thing. And I mean we can't even see trace. Wasn't a good start. Actually lets get into the problems first. 1) I zeroed my gun after the events thursday and it was dead nuts on. So…… it might have fallen over leaning up against the wall that night, but there is no way it should have lost zero… well, it did. 2) Mikes PMII scope wouldn't allow my buddy to zero the gun. The internal slip ring wasn't set to allow him to go the .5mils down he needed to zero. And we didn't have the time to take the top turret apart and slip the internal disc. So, he played the "lets just factor that into the math as we go" game. 700 yards on the second stage, and man I wasn't hitting a thing still. Aaron kept making corrections and finally we just starting holding more and more and moreeeeee then some more to the right. initial wind call was 1.5 minutes right. NOPE. gun wasn't having that. ontop of that dial, I held two full MILS. yeah, big change huh? so we walked it on, got a couple hits and then after that stage we slipped my rings on the best possible guess we could have made to get it to what we figured zero was at that point. The last stage of the day was a buddy assist stage. Only allowed to touch hands and feet to the ground. NOTHING else. So people got creative. You'll see pics below, and some in further comments. Nothings in order with the pics so just take that for what it's worth. We did great at that stage. We both shot 3 of 4 targets pretty fast and were happy we made up for some points that were lost earlier in the day from figuring our guns out and making corrections to them. Sleep… what sleep? 28 degrees at night, wind, and all I brought was one poncho and it was suppose to rain. No liner for my sleeping bag so the cold wind at night went right under my hammock and kept me awake and violently shivering and shaking all night. 3 hours of sleep later, we started the next day. Saturday: First stage was the barb wire stage. Crawl on up, shoot the primary targets, crawl on down and shoot the secondary off the wood pile. Sounds simple right? Wrong. So cold my trigger finger wasn't happy about touching a freezing metal trigger. Didn't help much. But no excuses, so we pushed on. Didn't do so good on that stage. Trace was still hard to see at that point so making corrections was iffy at best. 3 people ripped their $600 down jackets on that barbed wire. They all had the exact same jacket, and let me tell ya, all were just as happy as the next it got tore up nice and good…. Moving along to the 2nd stage of the day, we had a nice ruck run to warm us up so that really helped. This stage we had to move a big steel sled with our rucks on it to a stake near the porch, shoot off a porch of the house for primary, move the sled to the 2.5 ton truck, climb in the truck with our gear above the stake in the truck so it was nice and up there to climb into it. Thankfully they had a rope you could lower yourself down the bed in. Then the secondary shooter takes his shots and boom, times called. The third stage was the high angle the video is off of. So thats pretty self explanatory. Primary shoots off the berm, both take all gear and run up 3 flights of stairs, hoist 2x 40lb logs up from the ground, primary has to hit one target before secondary can shoot (good to know what your target is and not look like an a$$ like myself) and then secondary shoots all the targets. Quick note on that stage. My buddy forgot to set his watch timer so we lost track of time. I didn't get a chance to engage my last target because he said move to soon, but whatever we hit all but that one target and did great. Remember, 8 minutes total per stage and we finished that in 5:30. Plenty of time…. Shoulda hit that last target. haha. Little ruck run back to a new camp site and we were done for the day. Bed at 6:30? yes please. My buddy remembered he had a spare poncho he never used the 1st night either so I lined my hammock with that to keep the cold wind out and what a difference! slept about 6 hours that night and felt amazing in the morning. Sunday fun day: two stages left, so lets do this! First stage, lift 3 massive longs into a 2.5 ton truck. Get your gear in there and shoot your targets. Primary then secondary like usual. We finished with 20 seconds left but didn't hit many targets. Hard stage for sure. Try hitting a ruler on a moving/falling apart truck bench at 400 something yards. The last stage we did amazing at. Move from 3 different barricades engaging your targets, then run back to the staging point and grab the secondaries grounded gun, run up and shoot the targets. Bonus stage: 12.5" suppressed rifle, H59 reticle, hold 2.8 mils and hit a 4" target at 418 yards. Aaron got a first round hit and I missed :angry:, but thats ok, he got us 5 bonus points for that and we already did good on the stage so heck yeah. He was the only one to do that too so we were happy! We seemed to always do good on the last stage every day. Darn near crushing it no problem…. if we could have only done that the entire match! Then we staged for the 5.2 mile ruck to the finish line. That was fun. Should have kept my phone in my ruck and not my pocket… Had to cross two streams, one being waist deep. Had to carry my cell the rest of that ruck. Only 3 something miles left but thats annoying to carry stuff when you're already carrying all that weight. Free hands are nice to say the least. Oh, did I mention if you don't pass the rucks you get dropped from the division and don't get to win anything fancy like we did? Yeah, motivation to pass, because the prizes rocked. http://youtu.be/S9bDiTyDVoY It was myself as the primary shooter and best friend growing up as the secondary shooter/spotter (couldn't have a better sniper buddy, trust me :D ). Rocking my Accuracy International AE MK3 and Aaron rocking my old Accuracy International AW that is now Mike's (Lawenforcementsales). Also, sporting Mikes company shirt because, well, Mikes a freakin awesome dude and let Aaron borrow his AW for this match. Can't thank him enough! This picture was also taken after the last 5.2 mile ruck run of the match at the finish line. We dropped out packs, took the pic, then proceeded to drink beer, smoke a cigar and take a shot of bourbon to celebrate an awesome match. This stage was designed so you have to throw three massive logs into the back of the truck, then climb in with all your gear before you can start. Shoot all your targets, get your secondary shooter to shoot theirs, and here is the kicker... If you don't get the three logs out of the truck before your time is up you loose your best shot per log that is still in the truck. So, you really needed to watch the clock on this one. My little camp site paradise while the sun was still out and I could eat my tasty maple sausage MRE. Little chicken pasta MRE anyone? Saturday nights camp site when we arrived before we set our hammocks up. Found some good trees so we were next to each other. High angle tower, waiting for our turn. Turned out to be t-shirt weather at high 30's that day. So hot from rucking, there was nothing more relaxing than being in a t-shirt and dry finally. Do you even Law Enforcement Sales bro? IF NOT YOU SHOULD! Staging for the ruck after the stage. We shot off this porch past the road into our targets. After the porch we climbed into this truck. Remember, above the stake on the side then lowering ourselves to the bottom. If your body was outside the bed your hits didn't count. So watch those feet! (definitely steeper than it looks, trust me. haha Barb wire stage. First nights camp site. If you're curious about the cooler, we were allowed a certain size cooler that was brought to us each night after we got to the camp site. 10x14x9. We put most our food in there. Some teams put gatorade or whatever in there but it had to be food and drink only. Another team figuring out what to do for the buddy assist stage. This dude…. he's a flippin machine. "I'm getting shin splints from going so slow, so I'm just going to run for a bit"…. ok, enjoy I'll be back here striding it out. haha. I was suckin, so I took a selfy. We finished 2nd on almost every ruck and 3rd on 2. For a lazy contractor that avoids going to work like the plague I'm pretty proud of myself for being able to still ruck run with that much weight for those distances from stage to stage. There is more in the comments below.

Wrong time of the year to go.  Lots of sick people in a confined space.  No thanks.  Don't need bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. :hiding:

Smokey and the Bandit 1 if they did it right

You sir made a pun and didn't even know it. :D

Technically, so does Century... :D I give them guff but they have tightened down on their QC in recent years.

Some truth right here. Norton is just one giant advertisement for itself with security as a secondary thought. If I had to wipe a drive, I wouldn't say the antivirus did its job. I use Avast, and while far from the be all, end all, it's kept my systems free of infection all the while I surf sites all over the spectrum.

Norton is by FAR one of the worst Anti-virus companies on the planet...way better options out there. Ever since Symantec bought Norton from the creator it has gone down hill. Love, A Systems Engineer

MK9 owner here, if you don't mind the extra weight, it's a dream to shoot and carry. I like the Kahr trigger, very smooth.

What does Walmart have to do with this and why should they have letters written?  They are not to blame for this nutcase attacking the guy, even if it was inside their doors.

[URL=http://s612.photobucket.com/user/gregintenn/media/IMG_4462_zpsbdc85229.jpg.html][/URL] Semi autos just aren't as sexy! :cool:

Hmm, I need to snag a few to test mag flipping for our box of truth...