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Hate to be “that guy” if this doesn’t apply to you, I’m sure it will to someone else...are you out of debt? Do you have 3-6 months worth of expensives saved up in an emergency fund? For most of us, these things should take priority over a new firearm purchase. If you are in good shape then awesome! Buy night vision!

I'm on day 6 of employment and finally got my computer working. Also, I'm happy to report we put our house on the market Friday and had a full price offer accepted within 24 hours. We then disinfected anything people may have touched. I'm honestly shocked people are still buying houses but I guess the rates are too good for some to pass up..

Including being in the business at just the right time and getting out early enough to walk away a success.

I agree the smart thing would have been to cancel but I also and way more concerned about the possible prosecuting. We are starting to slide on a very slippery slope. As stated earlier the "Essential" business listing is a relative joke. We either need to shut down everything or just deal with the consequences. After reading 3 or 4 essential business list from states, counties, etc I just shook my head.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/03/30/river-church-pastor-rodney-howard-browne-arrrest-warrant-coronavirus-social-distancing/ I think this fits in well in the cure vs the disease question. The smart thing absolutely would have been to cancel services. I also suspect that hubris and self aggrandizement were strong motives in holding the services. At the same time, prosecuting someone for holding religious services makes me very, very uncomfortable. That’s dangerous territory to be treading into.

Just because it’s funny, doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

I sell Ethernet switches and Software-Defined WAN devices. Neither would really help with VPN bandwidth into the businesses from increased number of WFH employees. The latter could with load-balancing multiple MPLS and broadband connections to their VPN concentrators, but understandably, now is not the time for business to do something radical to their infrastructure unless they were absolutely incapable of sustaining it now. And I couldn't stomach Pelosi and Schumer's BS either.

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It's the part at the end that should be the most shocking to folks. Just how much they touch their face and how its almost involuntary. It's why wearing gloves through the store doesn't help. Sure your hand was protected from the germs on the shopping cart but then you touched the glove to your face without even realizing it.

My Cub Scouts are working on the same requirement. Well, we were a few weeks ago... Brim and bluegill are easy to catch and fight just enough to be fun for kids. My best advice is KISS.... live worms, small hooks, a bobber, and go find a local fishing pier or just stand on the bank where the water isn't moving fast and there isn't much debris to get hung up on. Go when it's warm and the fish will be more active near the surface. We've caught bunches of them standing on the bank near any of the multitude of boat ramps. If you've got more than one kid, don't plan to do much fishing yourself. You'll be busy helping them the whole time. Edit... this is a great way to teach kids patience in a world of instant gratification. If you're not having luck, change your depth, move 100 yds down the bank... or just wait longer. You can spend an hour with without a nibble, and then all of a sudden you can't bait the hooks fast enough. That's just how it is.

Not going to think about my check until it is in my Bank account.

I think I'm still in shock we just printed $2 trillion dollars, most of which is going to save corporations. Somehow, the rich will get richer in all this and we will get our $1,200... There is apparently no spending limit our government will not cross. The only rep that spoke out against it was Massie and he got raped by Trump and the press. Amazing times.

I don’t know that there’s ever been another gun store in Tennessee that understood marketing as well as Joe did. Man that’s a hard business.

There is no BLM land like out west. There is public land and ranges along with WMA land available to hunt on near Nashville. Go to Twra.com and you can pull up all the of the information.

Hey Tom, take about 3 or so inches of the turkey quill, either tail or wing feathers, trim any fuzzy feather off. Take 2 pieces of either surgical tubing smaller diameter that the quill. Thread fishing line thru the tubing and roll over the quill and slide it to desired depth. You can also use the small rubber bands that orthandontist's use. Doug aka Bersaguy is ok.

We need to start sending them over to the west side where ChuckT lives. All kinds of open space out there in the boonies. We’re at saturation point here.

I agree with Slappy. I think its best to hang on to that money. No telling what will happen in the next few months. When this thing is over, spend it any way you like. But for now, better safe than sorry.

Erick, ya gave me a ha ha, but I was actually serious. - OS

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/coronavirus-remington-arms-offers-build-ventilators-hospital-supplies/PETYRGHILVDI5OEFZRGJNAMMYQ/ Please, just don’t let the folks who worked on the R51 near anything.

Mine got into Tupperware. I have been courted for many a "business" which I have turned down when I realized that the business model was nothing more than a pyramid scheme. Any deal which has you making money off the people you bring in is destined to lose you money in the end.

I heard from him last week - holed up wherever he is these days. Seems to be doing alright. Don't know what his connectivity looks like out there.

Yep @BimmerFreak still visits from time to time. He sold the Battlemug company a few years ago, though.

Forster Coax

That’s a ridiculous theory.

I plan on just sending it back to Uncle Sam, since they may just tax me for it later I may as well just pay my taxes with it now.

Cut off the booze and there would be riots. - OS

I had to go into work earlier today and you would hardly know anything was different. People were out and about everywhere. I'm not advocating for anything in particular but the list of "essential" businesses is too long to have any meaningful impact. Even liquor stores are open.

I'm throwing a bunch of money in the stocks. A buddy dropped over 100k in a week ago. He's made a bit, but that and real estate is all he does.

Yeah, I use a Lee Auto Prime. works great, and had it for at least 30+ years.

I know. But seems we have at least a year more to go to see if this 100K estimate is accurate. - OS

I got suckered into that crap by my high school music teacher when I was 18.

Yes, you would have to handle each primer. You could use a hand primer if you so choose. I didn't really care for the hand press thing. The co-ax seats them the correct dept each time, no room for error ( unless you put it in upside down, LOL ). Your choice, good luck.

We’ve been very fortunate on that front. I believe the membership of this place is to thank for that.

Pretty cool. I have seen those around but never knew we had the inventor on the board.

For those of you think the government shouldn’t send money to workers or help business stay afloat; there are some other options. 1. Do nothing and watch the economy collapse as over half the population stays home. 2. Send everyone back to work and don’t worry about the death toll. 3. Give financial help only to the workers and not to the businesses, so that when they are ready to go back to work, their job is gone. Personally, I don’t think our economy can stand another month of this shutdown. But we will see. If it does survive it will be because of what the Federal government is doing.

Forster Co-Ax single stage press. You won't need all that extra Hornady stuff. You only need 2 shell holders, which covers anything out there. I load anything from 9mm to 45/70. one holder comes with the press. I bought the bigger one for the 45/70 also. Wish I had bought one years ago. Much easier to operate.

Hi all, At first, I thought a lot of this COVID-19 hype by the politicos and media was just a bunch of hysteria and it couldn't possibly spread this easily. Well, a friend sent me this video, and after watching it, I'm going to be a whole lot more careful about hand washing and social distancing. Ed

I own a PCR not much different than the P-01 or the CZ75 compact and I think it kicks ass,its the same size as the P07 PCR no rail,alum frame is the variation ...I added grips ,sights and a trigger..I can hit targets/groups with CZs that make me look like I know what Im doing..

Canned corn and tiny marshmallows work well for trout inn the Caney Fork and Obey rivers.

+1 on the CZ75 compact. Good size and high round count. I usuall carry a PM40 Kahr but currently I'm carrying the CZ due to the higher round count.

My fav 9MM pistols are all CZs...... I would suggest a P07 or CZ75 compact over a RAMI which is not really a big seller Keep in mind ammo is 50% more today than just a month ago due to panic buying

I'm not worried about throwing $60 away. I am worried about throwing 60+ months away!

Fishing is a hit or miss proposition. One day you’ll catch a truckload and the next day not get a bite.

Thats sad for sure. He was only 61. Wonder if he had any underlying complications? Smoker? Not that any of that really matters just helps understand. As someone with a chronic lung condition (asthma) I really don't want to test my luck with this

Thanks Leroy, I don't have any more to load right now. I shot some Yesterday that I had loaded with 5 gr. Herco. They shot a little better. It might help with .357 cases too.

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I'm considered essential. I got 1 day of HR orientation. They gave me a laptop and sent me home after saying they would "train me the best they can"... And I can't even log into the laptop they gave me. At least I'm getting paid though.

I’d be thrilled to have anyone tell me I was wrong 2 weeks from now. Just do me a favor and make sure you’ve got a little bit of extra food in your pantry for when you’re right.

Your post reminded me of my experience, but I was a DIY kinda of guy, here is one of my older posts from 2012, BTW my gun still looks brand new:    http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/47369-my-gunkote-tale-a-tale-of-priceless-wisdom-kids-in-the-garage/?hl=%2Bp226+%2Bsandblasting

They say that mistakes come from a lack of experience, experience comes from mistakes, good judgment comes from experience, and wisdom comes from good judgments. I must admit, that I am now wise beyond my years from my 1st ever gunkote job on a Sig P226. Let me set it up. I purchased the cheapest and lowest grade of a West German Sig P226 9mm from Sarco in Pennsylvania a few months back. If you search this site, I likely have a topic on my Sarco Sig. Well I was pleased with the gun purchase, after all it was a West German Sig!!! A great shooter, very smooth, but well worn holster warn. After a few friends ragged on the cosmetic appearance, and my own barber made fun of the worn out gun (they don’t respect the Sig), I decided after reading a few message board posts, hey I can Cerekote a gun, I am a do it your self kind of person. I have re-built engines, painted (actually primmered) whole cars before, and can even change the oil in my vehicles without guessing what socket size to use. I am a do it yourself kind of person. Heck I replaced a hot water heater and sweated copper pipes from using videos on Youtube. Didn’t need a plumber, saved hundreds of dollars. Surely I can paint a gun using the gun coating products out there, and all of the informational videos and posts. This will be a piece of cake. I started my research on the process. Read many message boards, TGO, Glock Talk, Sig Forum, Sig Talk, Ar-15, Daisy BB Talk, and blah, blah, blah. Likely read over 100 different detailed posts. Considered Cerekote, Durakote, Durabake, and finally settled on Gunkote. Gunkote appeared to rise to the top at least when you google and read most posts. So Gunkote it is. Just buy it from Brownells and be done. Now to sandblasting. Read about sand blasting, bead blast vs. silicone blast vs. aluminum oxide. It was almost unanimous that aluminum oxide 120 grit was the way to go. Read about the cheap blast cabinets, but almost nothing about hand held sand blasters. In the end, I settled for a hand held sand blaster. Actually found a deal on a 25 year old plus Sears Craftsman sandblast gun that resembles a full size paint sprayer. Hardly used and in the box with instructions, and built very sturdy. You can buy a new cheap gun at Harbor Freight, it just lacks the sturdiness (I know I broke one while in the store)! Lets see, ordered 4 oz of the Gunkote (everyone says 4 oz will do 2+ guns), ordered Gunkote recommended phosphate coating, bought 25# of aluminum oxide from Northern Tool, bought one can of brake cleaner spray from Wal-Mart, bought a box of latex gloves, bought a spool of hanging wire from Northern Tool, and even bought a $6 toaster over from the local Habitat for Humanity store. I already had a large air compressor and an older spray paint gun. I also bought a couple of air drier filters to make sure there was no moisture in the compressed air. DO DRAIN YOUR AIR COMPRESSOR before beginning any type of paint work. I probably should have drained mine the first time, but eventually did, about a gallon or more of rusty water drained out. So I am set, ready to go, or least I thought. Disassembled my Sig as per Youtube. Simple, straight forward, nothing major to report. Starting sandblasting, I had a cheap dust mask, one of those military boonie hats and a clear face shield like the one Duckie wears on NCIS. I considered the KKK type hood, but didn’t want to spend the $20-$60 since my contraption of the face shield and boonie hat should work. Like I stated earlier, I did consider the cheap $150 sandblast cabinet (Harbor Freight or Amazon), but decided that this might be my only gun to Gunkote, and in my 44 years, never did need a sandblast unit, so I decided to buy. So I had no concern about catching or re-using my sandblast media. So I started sandblasting the gun parts in the driveway. The sandblasting worked great and I had a large pile of media piling up outside my garage in the driveway. My gun and parts were now fully sandblasted, frosty and looked good. My vehicles had a light dusting of media (that was bad), and my driveway was just ugly with sand. I do live in a sub-division with curb streets, so sand in the driveway wasn’t too good. OH, DO NOT USE water to wash away the media in the driveway, its bad idea. It clumps and just does nothing, and goes into the street. DO USE the leaf blower on both the driveway and vehicles. DO NOT WIPE YOUR CAR WITH A CLOTH with sandblast media on your car. Fortunately, I was wise enough not to do this. BTW wear long sleeve shirts. If you spray sandblast media in the bright sun, your arms will sweat and the media will stick to your arms until you take a shower. Your air compressor blow nozzle will not remove the dust from your arms. I tried, and it does not work. Still with me? Following? Okay, now I put on the latex gloves, and begin the degreasing process. I read a post and saw on Youtube, that an aqueous solution of 50/50 water and Simple Green works best vs. the brake cleaner. Simply place your parts into a pot, add the 50/50 solution and boil for 15 minutes. OH, DO NOT DO THIS in the kitchen. The odor from the boiling solution caused me to sleep on the couch for two nights, because the wife was very ill from the smelling of the concoction. Nasty stuff! Once boiled, wearing the gloves and using pliers I removed each part and blow dried using the air compressor. Then I baked the parts on 220F for about 10 minutes. Used 220F because I know that water will evaporate or boil away @ 212F. Perfect, now I am ready for the phosphate. Using gloves and the hanging wire, made pretty decorations of gun parts worthy of a Christmas tree. Now I am ready for the phosphate. The instructions with the phosphate says simply coat or dip. That’s it, no other instructions. So I hesitated, and decided to use my spray gun, which I thought was a good decision. Prepared the solution, just dumped ½ bottle into my aluminum cup and started spraying. Since the instructions says dip or coat, so I started coating, and coating until the parts were shiny. DO NOT SPRAY THE PARTS UNTIL SHINY! When the parts dried, I had a very frosty white color and green appearance. Started googling the phosphate frost and phosphate spray, and found a hit that says DO NOT SPRAY PARTS UNTIL SHINY! A little to late! Too much phosphate will cause a frost. Great, why didn’t I find this before. So I decided that I needed to sandblast again to remove the phosphate. Still with me? Are you asleep by now. Remember, I thought I was going to sandblast 1 time, by now I have about 1/3 of my media left in the bucket. So this time, I figured I needed to recover the media because I knew I did not have enough. So I used a 5 gallon bucket turned about 30 degrees to catch my media, I am now concerned that I do not have a enough media and I need to sandblast my whole gun. WOW, I believe I retained 90% of the remaining media and it still looked pristine. I learned how to spray at lower air pressures and half trigger, and hardly to no back splatter. I still recommend the face mask. By now my paper air respirators are trash, and don’t really work. But my redneck sandblast unit works great. Now I am ready for the aqueous solution boiling again. This time, I used a portable stove that I used for camping and boiled my parts outside in the garage. Yea, no more couch. However, this time, I must not have got a true 50/50 solution, because within minutes after the parts were boiled and then dried, my parts developed a light orange frosty rust. Thank goodness I recovered my sandblast media, or I would be out. So back to the sand blast I went. I am a pro now at sandblasting, and I have an ad on Craigslist will sandblast for small parts for a small fee (just kidding). After sandblasting, this time, instead of boiling the parts with simple green, I went straight to using compressed air to blow the parts free from media and using Acetone. Now I am ready for the phosphate again. This time, after googling how to apply phosphate, found a good hit at AR15 forum, that said light mist is all that you need. So about 24†away, proceeded with a light mist. The parts, when dried had a funky pattern like a splatter. Read some posts that gunkote hides the patterns, so I didn’t sweat it. Finally I am ready for the paint. Thank goodness. Cleaned the spray gun using Acetone, check. Shook the Gunkote can for 5 minutes, check. Parts ready for paint, check. Spray…….Well I must be tremendously rusty with spraying, because I believe I dumped my 4 oz of Gunkote in manner of seconds. Yep, gone! I am out of Gunkote and my Sig and little parts are about 50% painted. GOOD GRIEF!!! Well some of the smaller parts are coated, and the Gunkote did not cover up the phosphate pattern!!!! I can still see the phosphate splatter pattern. Oh yea, the color I chose was Satin Black after reading several posts that said the Sig P226 and Gunkote Satin Black was an exact match. Of the parts that were coated, they appeared to look very shiny and glossy, not like my other newer Sigs. GOOD GRIEF!!!! Maybe this do it your self kind of buy needs just to quit!!! What to do? Well I am a stubborn do it your selfer regardless of cost, so how else will I master this task. Read many more forum posts, and re-ordered the Gunkote, but did not order any phosphate this time. I did order 4 oz satin black and 4 oz flat black, found a post of a guy who had the same shiny problem that I did, and said that mixing the two colors 50/50 works great. Ordered a cheap airbrush gun from Amazon for $9 delivered. Ordered more media, just in case, this time found a vendor on Ebay that sold it for $20 less than northern tool. They actually shipped it by air from Washington state to East Tennessee at no additional cost, what a deal. Are you with me? Are you still there? Sand blasted the gun again to remove the previous paint. If you are keeping up, this is sandblast #4. The markings are still legible, the serial number deep, so no problem yet. This time cleaned the gun using acetone only. Oh by the way, DO NOT LEAVE PARTS LYING AROUND FOR KIDS TO TOUCH, OH LOOK DADDY YOUR PART. Good grief, now I have to clean again!!!! Its important once sandblasted, no human hands touch the parts due to skin oil residue. Oh if I haven’t mentioned it, DO NOT SAND BLAST THE INSIDE OF YOUR GUN BARRELL. Fortunately, I did not, but I did find a post or two that other brainiacs like me did, and the gun never shot accurate again. I discovered on my own if you use ear plugs, the $0.99 per pack ear plugs, the ones you roll up in to a cone works great. Just roll and insert in each end of the barrel. You can even run the hanging wire through the barrel and use the ear plugs to close off the barrel and it does not effect the wire in any way. The parts are ready for paint. I am going to skip the phosphate this time. I decided its just not for me or this gun. I will tackle phosphate on the next gun. Using my new airbrush gun, 50/50 satin and flat black paint, I started spraying. WOW! The color does look good and what wanders an airbrush gun has over a large traditional automotive spray gun. And yes, 4 oz is enough and then some. The parts look great, no runs and the color is very close match to my one of my new P220 Sig. Now the oven. Oh by the way, I probably know why my toaster over was at the Habitat store. It will not recognize 325 degrees. If you set it at 325, it keeps going and going. I did buy one of those independent temperature gages since most people say you can not trust the temp setting. Well you can’t trust my little habitat oven, it may say 325, but my handy independent gage says 600 degrees. GOOD GREIF!!! Anyway, I had to monitor the temp and open and close the door to keep it between 325 and 400. One hour later, you heard of Glock Perfection, Now I have Sigfection, the way it ought to be done. Maybe I need to copyright that or make a T Shirt!!! Now I am going to let it cool for 24 hours, then its assembly time. Oh, during the assembly process, I ended up with a part missing. After looking for the part for an hour, did I lose it in the sandblast storm? Well finally found it under my workbench. Remember, Daddy I like your gun parts. One of the kids must have picked up a part and dropped it on the floor. Good grief, I have to get the paint, airbrush, and paint a pin. Then bake a pin. Good grief. The morale of the story, if you are a do it yourself kind of guy, and you lack sound judgment and wisdom, maybe this tale will discourage you from Gunkoting your gun, or just maybe I will save you much agony with my own experience. Looking back, the process was very challenging and fun. I admit my gun turned out 110% better than I thought it would. I did test my wife to pick it out form a line up of guns. Of course she is not a gun person, and she actually failed the test. I had two like new Sigs, P220 and P229, and this newly painted Sig P226, she chose the P220 because she said it looked a little flatter than mine. Wow I fooled someone. Maybe Gaston Glock gurus will pick out the flaws, but for my first, it was a great seriously looking new kinda of gun. I now consider myself a wise gunkoter. I will never re-coop the cost of this 1st gun coating in terms of cost and labor, but the experience is PRICELESS! I will paint again, my next goal is a P6 or P225, in poor shape. The kids will not be allowed in the garage next time.