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Sorry for the quality but I snapped this just before sunrise and found out it's Venus, the moon and then Jupiter. I knew when I looked up in the sky it seemed different which caused me to snap the photo. Anyway...there it is.

Many thanks to @alleycat72 for the lower! All told, I have receipts totaling $376 including the 2 mags, scope, mount & foregrip Lots of judicious shopping around, waiting for deals & eBay netted me this & I'm tickled pink!

Well...OK. Though this little tale isn't nearly as embarrassing nor foolish as some of the childish stunts my same age cousin and I pulled back then. We were about 9 years old, and like kids of the late 50s were fond of doing. We were playing army of some sort. So my Dad comes in from work and hands me a really, really HUGE package of Black Cat Firecrackers. (You know this isn't going to end well...don't you.) So my cousin Carson and I tore into them and very quickly tired of just lighting and throwing them. You see what's coming, right? Yep, that's it. We started throwing them at each other. But that just really wasn't satisfying enough. Not enough, make-believe blood, guts and gore for us. Being all American red-blooded little soldiers. It degraded quickly thereafter. We hit upon the idea of making hand grenades to toss. You know just for fun. Sure. We made I don't know how many mud grenades, used a stick to make a hole in them, and set them out to dry. But as it was late, we had to postpone the war until the next day. Come morning, Carson and I snuck out with a cigarette each and a bunch of the aforementioned firecrackers. We each had a flour sack. Some of you older geezers remember those I guess. Sat down and put a firecracker in each one, and loaded up our flour sacks. Then proceeded to light the cigs and commence trying to kill each other. Dried mud balls didn't react quite how we thought they would, especially after all that time to harden. They did "explode" to a degree. Mostly just into small, shrapnel-like pieces. But being to energetic and foolish to stop, we ran around the trees throwing them. all the while trying to find cover so as not to get hit too much. Now...remember that little shed from the start of this tale? That's right. That one. I proceeded to run inside and hide, throwing those dried mud grenades thru the open side of the shed. Well, those hornets didn't like the noise and pieces of dirt hitting the walls. A few started buzzing around and checking out the situation. About that time...Carson did a double up on me. Threw 2 inside. And of course the hit near that nest, and went off. That set off the whole nest, I think. I ran. They flew out with me. I ran for Carson, wanting to share the fun. lol We both got stung several times before getting into the house, where we spent most of the day. Now wasn't that long version better than just saying I got stung while in the shed? lol

Gone to a new home is this feather knife. Now that I know the things I have to do I'll probably make a few more in the future. It has Purple Leaf Plum handles from a tree I cut down in my yard last year. It has True-Stone ( http://masecraftsupply-com.3dcartstores.com/Recon-Stone-Tru-Stone_c_310.html ), SS, black and white G10 accents with white G10 liners and SS pins and lanyard tube. It's made from 1/8" thick 1084 carbon steel and has an OAL of 9 1/4", 5 1/4" from handle to tip but only a 3" cutting edge. It came with the combo kydex/leather sheath shown.

Yes they will be able to repair more easily. But they can’t provide it. You’d still have to send it to them and they do the repairs.

I have a long memory. This spell of chill isn't in the top 5. It'll pass.

Now that sounds like fun!

For Single Shot or Bolt...guess how many people are gonna slap those on an AR10/similar and then complain when it has premature failure lol.

That's pretty cool! I feel like this knife is crying out for an old school beaded leather sheath.

Benn colder, lots colder. Dress for the weather.

My thoughts exactly.

They are both nice places. I have shot at both and like Royal Range better. To me it seems to have a better atmosphere than the Armory. Plus RR has a 70 yard rifle range which comes in handy.

They arent what they used to be thats for sure. I'll tell ya who I miss, WIDENER'S.

We used to take pop cans and punch a hole in the center of the can to drain the soda (that's right...no pop top). Let it dry and fill it full of home made black powder. Then stick a sparkler in the hole. Set that sucker on a stand made of rocks, light the sparkler and stand back and wait. If we had made a good batch that puppy would ignite, fly about 20 feet up in the air and explode. Hillbilly terrorists......lol

Ehh, it's January.

There you go. Sometimes, over-engineering, even if unnecessary leads to advancements that we couldn't have seen otherwise. Plus, from the design and way that they wrote the article, I'm thinking that is designed more with an eye towards .mil applications with belt feds. If it manages to mitigate heat, even back to the barrel, it keeps that gun in the fight longer.

I am aweful short on both these days

That thing is awesome, but seriously the pump does add a small margin of safety...I can see this easily getting away from someone not paying attention and there goes your hand...MP5k thumb comes to mind.

Not only did Andrew Pollack lose his daughter in the Parkland shooting, but Pollack also learns that the guard at the school had been suspended for sexual comments that the guard had made to Pollack's daughter. Disgusting. https://www.nratv.com/videos/stinchfield-andrew-pollack-at-the-end-of-every-failure-theres-an-unethical-democrat?utm_source=nratv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_20190131_b&utm_content=secondary