TrickyNicky
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Sorry for your loss Joe
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I ordered a weaver base for my newly shortened and threaded 597. It was supposed to come in last week, still waiting on my LGS to call.
I have a $96. Credit with them and I'll be dipped if I can find anything I really want or need for a C-note. Will probably buy a little ammo, but $100 doesn't go very far these days
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I would do pretty much everything you mentioned on the OP.
Make de a reasonable offer, if he takes it great, if he counters on the premise that the auction price is climbing tell him your suspicions in a courteous but straight forward manner and let him know you're offer stands.
From there if he is immovable, send eBay a letter with your suspicions and findings, then go find another RV to plunk coin on.
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If Jeff is still at guns'n leather Greenbriar he would be my first call followed by the fellas at lock stock n barrel.
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1 hour ago, dcloudy777 said:
Grrrr......!!!
Where's the 3" LCR-X in .22LR, Ruger?
1 hour ago, hipower said:Yes. Where is it?
I'd be happier with .357 or 9mm, but can I get on this bandwagon?
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9 hours ago, JAB said:
I don't think there are many manufacturers of 1911s claiming that the pistols they build are an 'all new, innovative design' like Ruger did when, for instance, they copied Kel Tec's P3AT and acted as if the Little Copied Pistol was an 'all new design that started from a blank sheet of paper.' I mean, they were going so far as to claim they had invented something brand new that was going to 'revolutionize' personal handgun carry and even got many of the gun rags to go along with the lie. Most gun designs are, in one way or another, derivative of others. That is to be expected. It is directly ripping off another company's design and then claiming that they, Ruger, came up with the design from scratch that is annoying. Ruger builds good firearms and I am a fan of some of those firearms but when they insult gun buyer's intelligence with such obvious lies then it makes you kind of wonder what kind of company they are running.
Think of it this way: if you knew that musician A composed an original piece of music and later heard musician B performing or having recorded that piece of music, maybe with one or two minor changes that didn't really make it significantly different from musician A's version, and musician B was presenting it as their original work, not a cover of musician A or even a 're-imagining' of musician A then should people who know what musician B has done not be annoyed? Should they simply 'get over it'?
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Cant really tell anything from that pic.
My brother is Italian and American Indian, he can and has passed for either of those, plus various Hispanic nationalities, Indian from India, black Irish, and middle eastern.
Now, that's not to say I don't have my suspicions, just merely that I don't think anyone in the media, or possibly even eye witnesses would be reliable at this point.
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I am very saddened to read this Randall. It sounds like you lost not only a son, but a friend as well.
I am proud of your boy, proud of his service and proud of the man it sounds like he was, proud of the man he should have lived to be.
Mental illness is no joke, the demons are in there I think for everybody and it is a shame when folks cannot overcome through their own or get the help they need to do so. It is DISGUSTING that what should be our nations most sacred asset, our veterans, cannot get a fighting chance with their lesser half, the government.
I wish you peace in this trying time and urge you to open your heart to those who will help support and lessen even a trivial amount of your pain.
I wish I had something better to say, words never are enough.
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So if someone owns 17 guns they're a "super owner"?
I always thought anything below that was 'cute' and 20 was 'a good start'
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From L-R:
Homebrew tele, Homebrew strat, Tokia "Les Paul", Carvin DLC126, Homebrew '54 "Lesa Paul", Gibson SG, Gibson SG, 1965 Epiphone Olympic, Gibson Melody Maker.
And just for you Mikey
Magnatone lap steel.
Next up, amps!
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And you didn't even need to use your AK. As the warrior poet ice cube has it, today was, in fact, a good day
Great build and congratulations on the DD!
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I use my phone as a watch these days when I'm not at my desk using the PC.
Sadly as a working stiff with a seldom varied schedule, I can about tell you the time of day down to the quarter hour based entirely on what chore I happen to be in the midst of
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31 minutes ago, gregintenn said:
Maybe that'll be enough to keep liberals from relocating to here.
I wish it were so Greg, I really do.
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Thats it. We need another guitar thread in show and tell. Tonight, I'm on it for my part.
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On September 10, 2016 at 8:41 PM, hipower said:
They are very...slimming. Yea...slimming. And comfy.
It is a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, I laughed so hard it would have come out my nose! I'm double glad it wasn't soda, don't ask me how I know carbonated beverages feel especially weird making a nasal egress.
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Friedman is a freak of nature, but Mustaine is an absolute monster in his own right. Keep in mind he plays some fairly complex stuff and does it while singing, often in different time signatures for vocals and guitars.
I always preferred Hammet though, people like to rag on him now, but people forget at the time he was doing some real cool stuff and incorporating techniques that lots of people saw as mutually exclusive. I have heard it posited (and I agree) that if you can learn the first three albums you are well set for learning anything from classic rock, classical, country et al. Not that you would be PROFICIENT in them, but it would be pretty easy to build off that skill set in many directions musically.
Hetfield, dude is a machine, writing and playing. His rhythm is scary good for someone who never learned alternate picking
. I kid, any rock band would be thankful to have someone help hold things down the way he can, plus he can write, plus he can sing. Dude is an MVP IMO.
MettalicA was the first band I actually thought spoke to me musically and lyrically, everything else up to then was just bubble gum, not that theres anything wrong with that either, but they opened the door for me and showed me music was much more than just background noise.
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I love SMKW, but not sure I've ever bought more than a cheap assisted opening knife my mom wanted for her glove box there. For the amount she uses it, it's perfect, could have spent more on a kershaw and had a better knife, but it wouldn't have a blue dragon on the handle and that seemed more important to her.
I like to go and look, the knife museum is great and the 'country bear jamboree' type deal they have reminds me of being a kid and being fascinated by animatronic singing animals.
I like the vibe and the feel of the place with the waterfall, mounted animas and all. places like this just don't get built anymore so I try to enjoy them before they all go out of business and get replaced by walmarts.
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3 minutes ago, JAB said:
Besides that, isn't TICS basically just NICS with an unnecessary $10 fee appended?
I had always been charged some fee or another until moving to GA. I asked the guy at the LGS what the charge for background check was and he looked at me like I just popped off the short bus
Down here I pay sales tax and that's negotiable.
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1 minute ago, JAB said:
I numbered the above statements for clarity in my response.
1. That is my point - you could have people who are stoned out of their gourd but who claim, "That's showing up from where I smoked a little last weekend." Conversely, you could have people who are sober at the time but who are charged because it shows up in their system where they smoked a little last weekend. See, I'm not just talking about people who are seriously impaired while driving, carrying a handgun in public, etc. getting away with it. I am also talking about people who really are not under the influence at the time being charged with DUI or carrying while impaired because they smoked some three days ago. With alcohol there is not much room for doubt - you show a significant BAL then you are intoxicated (yeah, some hardcore alcoholics can have pretty high BALs and not really be impaired but they are a minority exception.)
2. Do we really want 'was he stoned or not' to be determined in a court of law by a cop? Sure, observed behavior can give probable cause to stop, search and so on but the opinion of a cop or a few cops being the sole determining factor - once it is determined that, yes, this guy smoked pot sometime in the last, two weeks - in whether or not a person is convicted of DUI from smoking pot? Being able to say, "He was showing signs of..." in court is one thing and is valid as a reason to stop someone, etc. and maybe even as evidence to corroborate a definitive blood test and so on but when it can only be known that the person has smoked pot sometime in the last, two weeks or so to use that testimony as, basically, the main evidence upon which to convict someone isn't something I'd want to see. Now, if the officer or another witness actually saw the guy smoking a joint, the joint was recovered at the scene of the arrest and a cloud of cannabis smoke issued from the car when the driver rolled his window down that would be different. However, if the dude toked up at home and then decided he needed more potato chips and Hershey bars so immediately got in his car then the only, real evidence he had been smoking that night would be the officer's testimony that he was 'acting stoned'. I have known people who pretty much acted stoned most of the time - and some of them didn't do any drugs.
As I said, before, I am not against legalizing pot. Heck, people are going to get it, anyway and I don't believe the government should tell them they can't so rather than wasting money fighting a 'war' on pot that will never end legalize it, license it, tax it and turn it into an incoming revenue stream rather than an outgoing one. Legalize private growing for personal use, as well (I also believe it should be legal to make 'shine for personal use - and I would be all over that.) I just think that, unlike testing for being intoxicated with alcohol specifically at inappropriate times (like when driving), testing for being intoxicated with marijuana specifically at inappropriate times isn't really possible - or at the very least not as clear cut - at the present time and that would create many legal issues which could work for or against any given defendant.
I think a large part of that is that there isn't really much point at this point to a more sophisticated drug test. As things sit now the time frame of consumption is fairly immaterial. You have it in your system or you don't. Case closed.
I believe that through legalization a demand for a better mouse trap, or in this case drug test would result in some money being spent on producing one. Don't forget too the difficulties that would currently arise due to the difficulties of procuring materials for valid data collection because of it's classification.
A company would have to find subjects willing to be monitored and tested through their consumption and after and bend over backwards to receive permission to even do the trial. And who knows if they would even be able to finish. Our government has a habit of pulling funding or flat out ignoring anything that goes against their current propaganda.
All that for a product no one really needs at this juncture and here we are using testing methods 30 + years old with no eye to the future.
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2 hours ago, gjohnsoniv said:
Tell that to people of my generation.
I don't see the problem as being limited at all to our generation. In fact, most people our age are to young to be qualified as data given in many cases they have only been in the work force for a decade or so.
When was the last time you had someone over 40 take your order at Mickey Dees? I see it all the time. Down in East Nashville there is a Subway where the best sandwich maker is a +/- 60 year old lady. She is very nice and makes a hell of a sandwich with what they give her to work with, but in talking to her it's like it never occurred to her that if she didn't want to make $7 an hour, she should set her sights higher.
Kinda sad.
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It was a state court in Oregon, but it reads as though the court ruled, it went to appeals, and they upheld their ruling OK of the carry permit and the MMJ.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-gun-permit-and-a-medical-marijuana-card-2375446.php
Like Dave, I would have no problem marking the correct box and moving on with my day. As mentioned by others, thats a no-no.
Stupid laws get ignored, I think I read that here...
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Interesting. A court ruling already ruled it a violation to not issue a carry permit to an otherwise qualified applicant maybe 5-8 years ago IIRC. One more reason I shake my head at MMJ databases. It isn't a prescribed medication*, it is a recommended treatment, none of anyone's business beyond the doctor, the dealer(provider) and the consumer.
Not for 98.9% of the people I knew with MMJ
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2 hours ago, Patton said:
I ordered using a McDonald's kiosk a few weeks ago in South Georgia and it was excellent.
2 hours ago, gjohnsoniv said:It probably didn't mess your order up either.
Yup, I ordered with one at Hardies last year and it was great! They offered me a small discount for trying it out and I threw a 'complicated' order at it just to see how accurate it was.
Everything came out perfect. I would use one anytime the option presents itself.
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Recommendations and experrience with 22 lr small double action revolvers and semiauto pistols
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I really like my sp101 in .22lr it would be a bit heavy and large for a pocket gun though. might be that a good smith could chop the barrel down to the length of the ejection rod shroud and reattach the front sight, but you'd have to buy the ruger at a real steal to make that make more sense than the lcr option, unless the D/A trigger on the later was an absolute deal breaker.