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It's good to war game and come up with a general reaction plan, but trying to get super specific is counterproductive. Just identify priorities of work and what primary role one serves; for example, I'm primarily responsible for physical defense, while my wife is responsible for securing and evacuating the children. A scenario may occur where those roles need to be reversed, but at least we have identified what the priorities are so we can focus on those no matter the circumstances. It isn't like a movie, and no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Just identify what the priorities are, who is generally responsible for what, and have an evacuation plan as well as a link up plan.

I can shoot sub MOA groups with a sub MOA rifle and the correct ammo at 100m. That is a true test of the capabilities. A sub MOA rifle at 1000m though, I have roughly a 40% chance of getting a first round hit (based on history). This is due to varying winds over the course of a kilometer. There is absolutely no way to accurately account for it, which is why a spotter utilizes trace. I've been on a 1000m range, where the instructors popped smoke grenades every 200m. The wind was different at each distance, sometimes going the opposite direction as wind at different distances. The best one can do is make a call based on the mirage and guesstimate based on experience. But he'll never get it correct the first time; at least not often. The only way to judge the performance of a rifle at that distance is if you have a kilometer long vacuum.

There are too many factors going on at 1000m to determine accuracy of the rifle. I'd be more interested in how it groups at 100 or 200m.

I understand the context just fine. But an honest man may have to use a military style weapon at some point, and that includes civilians. Anyone who paid attention in history class should know that. Not being in the military and owning a military style weapon with standard capacity doesn't qualify someone as dishonest. Screw his legacy.

  He never fought during WWII, so the men that had the salt to face the enemy must not have been honest men.  I guess the real men were back in the states, looking into various war profiteering opportunities.

  I started on wine making before I moved to beer.  It takes more time, but it's actually a lot easier.  I have some recipes for cheapo wine that turns out really, really well.  Just takes about 5-6 weeks.

This is why I practice making all my batches outside the continental United States. Just like Hawkeye and Trapper.

I have a buddy who is part owner of one out in Colorado, though he went the more upscale route. I'd love to do the same thing, but it does take a while to start turning a profit, and in Florida the big beer companies are lobbying to shut down the site served microbrews.

Get yourself one of these. Changed my life:

The first picture is my recipe for my yeast starter. The second picture is my mash tun/fermentation vessel. I recommend using distiller's yeast, and buying it in large quantities. I keep it refrigerated and it lasts much longer than folks say it does. I order most of this on Amazon, and I believe it is available under prime for free two day shipping. The sugar there is corn sugar, which I also use for priming when bottling beer. I buy it in 4lb bags, and it's super cheap that way.

  Yep, I've gotten to the point where I know whether or not my first few days of fermentation will be active enough to blow my airlock, and in those cases I just run a blow off tube to a bucket.  I don't like doing that because it isn't tidy, and takes up more room in the gun closet (yes, I have an entire closet dedicated to guns, beer and wine).    But for the purposes of distilling, you don't have to worry about keeping oxygen out.  Some distillers will ferment in large plastic garbage cans and leave the lid off completely. 

  Nope.  Just allow for enough air to escape so that the top of the vessel doesn't explode off.  On a vessel such as this, if too much pressure built up from having the lid on tight, it would just pop it off.

  You can absolutely use this as a fermenter.  And no, you don't need to airlock it.   I use a 15 gallon mash tun (cooler) as my fermenter for this.  I leave the lid slightly ajar to allow oxygen into it, however, they aren't air tight anyway, so it's up to you on that.  Unlike beer, you don't need to worry about having your fermentation vessel air locked.  Think about it, none of the major distillers do this.  In fact, when you go to the distillery at Jack Daniel's, they have the lid open on the giant fermentation vessel where you can stick your head right in there and smell it.  Not so with beer breweries.   The reason you want to airlock your fermentation vessel for wines and beers is because you don't want it to have much exposure to oxygen (which there are still theories on allowing exposure during fermentation), as well as not allowing wild yeasts and bacteria into what you're fermenting which could throw off the taste.  If the plan is to distill it, then you don't have to worry about any of this.  In fact, most people will argue that allowing wild yeasts and bacteria into your fermentation vessel will potentially add complexity in your flavor.    Since you're only fermenting for about a week before distilling, it just isn't enough time for the stuff to get funky or ruined.  I leave my mash tun on the back porch for a week, with the lid slightly ajar.  This means it is fermenting at a high temperature (around 80 - 85 degrees) and the yeast is super active.  It also means that everything can get in there.  I can promise you it doesn't matter.  You're distilling it.   And to add clarity, the airlock doesn't allow it to "breathe".  It just allows a blowoff tube for the CO2 to escape, because otherwise, the top of the vessel will blow off from the pressure.  It doesn't allow anything in.  In fact, I've had one of my very active worts blow my airlock off when I was brewing beer.  Huge mess there.

Guess I'll be putting some Pmags up for sale in February.

I have a Beretta 96.  Used to be my HD weapon, but I just shoot better with the G19, and I like having a few extra rounds.  Now my .40 is a safe queen for the most part.

  Really?  Did this just happen?  Just two weeks ago I was getting emails from Primary Arms selling Pmags at $12. 

  I have a feeling that if someone started an abortion thread, it would get heated very quick.  However, that's not what this thread is about.

  Yes, a solution to poor trigger finger discipline is to have a trigger pull which is ridiculously heavy... kind of like a childproof lid on a medicine bottle.  So what I gather is, we can't trust police and their departments to be grown ups and display very basic firearms handling procedures.  For me, the solution would be to immediately fire any officer who has a negligent discharge.  Done.  The problem will correct itself, because the officers that are too stupid to be an adult will be fired, and the ones who are too lazy to follow procedures will damn sure pay attention to what they're doing when they know their job is on the line.   Stupid should be punished, not blamed on inanimate objects.

From the article:   "Adding to the problem was some deputies violating a basic firearms safety rule by placing their finger on the trigger prior to making the conscious decision to fire, the report states."   No, not adding to the problem; that IS the problem.  The guns don't go off by themselves, and if they had their finger on the trigger, that meant they should have been pointing the weapon at someone or something they intended to shoot.  Since no one has been shot yet, except for the user, the logical conclusion is they either can't aim for crap or they have no trigger discipline.  An 8 hour class in order to switch to a new weapon will not solve this problem.  This problem occurs due to very basic firearms handling procedures, which the idiots involved have completely abandoned.  Of course, in today's blame culture, where everyone else other than the person responsible is subject to blame, I'm not surprised they're focusing on the pistol and not the idiots. 

  I know the one you're talking about, with the gate and all.  I would go past there when taking the back way to/from Chick-fil-A.  I always wondered why people would live there, since I assume the rent was high enough that the tenants could afford to live someplace that wasn't in the meth whore capital of Montgomery County.

  And this is how I explain it to people on the fence.  I honestly don't have an issue with background checks.  I know that may make me unpopular, but if there was a quick and easy way to do background checks during private sales, I don't see there being a negative to that.  However, since the government could screw up a wet dream, we know it wouldn't be quick and easy.  In the end, we'd get screwed for sure, because whatever they set up will be inefficient, and likely add costs onto us.   While added ass pain is enough for me to be against it, the main problem I have is this being part of the master plan for registration and confiscation; and this is how I explain it.  They can't create a law which makes private transfers illegal and be able to enforce it; at all.  It would be impossible.  What would end up happening is the law would pass, and then the liberals would argue that it isn't enforceable, and the only way to enforce it would be a national gun registration.  By that point it would already be too late.  Once a law is made, there is no going back, and liberals would be able to sell a national registration at that point.  So no, the libs can shove it on this one.  I don't trust them because they lie, and have already made their plans very clear.  They don't care about gun crime; they care about disarming those who are not responsible for gun crime.  There is no other logical conclusion for their rhetoric.

My vote is also for Jade Helm.  It predicted that we would be in FEMA camps by now, and since we're all currently posting from the inside of FEMA camps, we now know how reliable that information was.

  Good God, I always wondered why people lived in there.  That's a whole lotta nope nope nope.

  Obviously that is the next logical step.  Once they pass a law which makes private transfers illegal, they'll have their argument for national registration.

  Good God, who gave her a gun???  I tell ya, if some mouthbreather like that gets issued a badge and "accidentally" takes a shot at me, I'm going to own that police department.  How do idiots like that get hired?