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457 actions are as rare as hens teeth. Best bet is to get the cheapest 457 you can and resell the stock and barrel. I've had good luck doing so on eBay. I did this recently and the stock and barrel profited about $100 less than I gave for the whole rifle.

Stripper clip fed defensive pistols are a hard no for me.

Why do you have to be so far away?

Knife arrived today, absolutely beautiful. I have a handful GT knives now oldest I got about 8 years ago. I like them all, but it has been cool to see GT's progression as a knife maker over the years!

I'll take #2

Sorry I missed this

I picked up a GX4c a while back an have been very impressed despite it being one of the lower dollar guns in my collection. Shoots well and was under $300 OTD.

In ear foam is hard to beat, but you have to wear them correctly (roll and insert into ear canal), and almost no one does.

A 10" Griswold lives on our stove and a 6" and 8" stay close by, I have a few other random non skillet pieces as well. Just inherited 4 new pieces that need to be stripped and reseasoned, not sure what they are yet due to a lot of build up on the bottoms. I've been fortunate to have several nice vintage pieces passed down to me.

I really enjoy smoking and eating anything and everything. My wife hates the smoky flavor, and my son refuses to eat anything that isn't a dinosaur shaped chicken nugget. So I just don't get to smoke things often. I'll do a pork butt and eat pulled pork butt myself for a week straight every now and then. Some of my favorite less traditional things to smoke: - trout - cream cheese (with either hot honey and everything bagel seasoning, or mustard and dry rub) - Bologna - burgers

As a genealogy buff, I found this idea very intriguing but could not bring myself to do it because I did not want my DNA in a database such as this. Really glad I made that decision.

I don't typically like it much when people move here from other states and complain about the way we do things. But in this matter I agree with everything the OP stated 100%.

Sure enough! I'm not sure how that one got by me. Seems pretty silly in my opinion.

For that matter Tennessee doesn't even issue concealed carry.

The Buckmark is a fine pistol, as are the Ruger standards. I would not pass on the TX22 though. It will hold it's own against either of the previously mentioned at half the price. Amongst others I own a Ruger Standards and a Mark IV 22/45. The TX gets shot more than both Rugers combined. Additionally I wouldn't recommend a Standard or Mark series pistol, previous to the Mark IV due to damn near having to graduate gun smithing school to reassemble one. Once you know how it isn't bad, but it's not intuitive.