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Those limits are only for you young bucks. Old farts like me get an additional upward limit on 401's, etc. In fact, if I go back into schools, I can sock away something like $59k, using both a 401 and a 457 plan as well as an IRA. Of course there are income limits for these, and that additional $30k might very well bring the income caps into play, but if you have the right kind of job you can defer a lot of money ...

This thread might yet be fun ...

I would take the money, sock the extra away on top of whatever else I was already putting in a 401, 403, 457 or whatever plan, and move my prospective retirement date up. The bonus would effectively shorten my obligation to work fulltime, giving me more options as to whether continue working in that job, another, or not at all ...

The OP's gun seems to be missing the firing pin, and maybe other parts as well. From what I was able to find on these, it seems a lot of them were imported into this country with missing firing pins, probably as a result of being demilled by Egypt, or whatever country these came from. I suppose you could replace the missing parts, although I'm also sure that it would be a long and arduous process to locate whatever you needed to make it usable again. I do know that ammo and components for loading, while expensive and rare, is available ...

I think it took them about 6 years originally. Today, with requisite environmental studies and all the other regulatory hassles, it would be a miracle if they could beat their old time, even with modern advances in technology and engineering ...

When I'm driving over it, it seems way too small. I would prefer 24x30 feet ...

Cable mount. The pin holding the cable is pretty substantial. As Chuck pointed out above, there's no load on the cotter pin, it just keeps the pin from moving. With the tension on the cable, the sideloading on the pin will be virtually nil ...

It depends. If you're selling it to me, then yes. If I'm selling it to you, then no, it's just capitalism at work ...

As long as there's any chance such research might evolve into a weapon of any sort, somewhere, somebody will be conducting it. We can enact all the bans, laws and regulations we want, but the research will go on surreptitiously, either funded and conducted directly by one of our alphabet agencies, or indirectly through foreign proxies ... Exactly. Its much easier, and even cheaper, to have other nations do the "illegal" stuff we want done but don't want known ...

We have a future Darwin Award winner here ...

What, both of them, already ?

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/britishmilitariaforums/egyptian-police-snider-i-think-t23350.html Another link where these guns are discussed. Its obvious I have way too much time on my hands, but I like really old and obscure rifles and their variants ...

Looks like a modified Snider-Enfield rifle. At some point it lost its original rear sight and a few other bits. I suspect that its either Egyptian or Pakistani from the markings. Edit: There's one on Gunbroker that looks very similar, according to that listing its a shotgun conversion of an old Snider-Enfield and used by the Egyptian police. In any case, its a cool old gun ... https://www.gunbroker.com/item/896481015

JB Weld will fix that right up ...

European countries have designated the barrel as the part of a gun that makes it a "firearm" for many years ...

You act as if hoarding were something bad ...

Maybe, I have no idea what caused the final failure though. Of course it was a '66 Ranchero with its original 289. This was circa 1982, I was using it as a daily driver at the time. Nice old car, somebody before me had done a decent restoration/renewal of the paint and interior, but the engine was old and tired. As I recall, it was showing 20 something thousand on the odometer when it wheezed and died of old age. Admittedly, I have no idea of the actual mileage, but I'm satisfied it had turned over at least once. I doubt that the type, brand or condition of the oil and filter had much to do with it's death ... I'm not including the various drag car motors I grenaded while full of oil ...

This conjures up a lot of possible snide remarks, all of which I'll refrain from making right now ...

This topic reminds me of similar discussions on aircraft oil. Get a group of GA pilots together and mention "oil" and they'll talk/argue the relative merits of their particular choice for hours on end. Interestingly, although it doesn't apply to automotive oils, probably the most exhaustive independent study ever done on aircraft engine oils concluded that "oil is oil" when it comes to engine longevity, adding that, for airplanes, the single best factor in determining engine longevity was how often the planes are flown ...

M91's are probably my favorite variant, at least I think I have more of them than any other. The oldest is an 1895 Tula, which came packaged with an Austrian made bayonet (kind of rare). The US made M91's are cool as well, albeit I only own one, a New England Westinghouse that came back here via Finland ...

Or like this guy ...

The M44 is one of the shorter Mosin variants. If you want long, find an original M91 with bayonet ...