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The glut in 22lr is probably as great as its ever been. Now is the time to stock up on those bricks in anticipation of the next time people panic and start paying $75/brick again ...

From prior SCOTUS decisions, pretty much all of the restrictions placed on firearms transfers by the Federal government rely on the interstate commerce clause as the basis for their legality. SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that intrastate transfer remain the province of the individual states. Given the makeup of the current court, these proposals are DOA. This is disregarding the extreme unlikeliness of any such bill passing the Senate ...

From Oldride.com: As for unitized construction, Citroen introduced the first back in 1934, other played around with it for years before Chrysler moved a significant portion of their production over to unibodies in 1960. Iacocca's influence on the Mustang remains controversial. While there's no question the Iacocca was quick to take credit for the car after it's initial success, a number of biographers and historians have questioned his actual involvement and support for the development of the Mustang, insisting that the car was primarily conceptualized, devloped and marketed by Don Frey instead. As in most of these controversies, the true story probably lies somewhere in the middle ...

And it's amazing that a $2000 car, built to be pretty much disposable, still commands so much attention and interest as the early Mustangs do today. The originator of the term "pony car" ...

Does TGO count as social media? I don't have any Facetime, Snapgrams, or anything like that ...

Betamax was a vastly superior recording system to VHS, with a better tape transport mechanism and much higher recording quality possible. Sony erred in insisting on relatively high licensing fees, while VHS was essentially open-source, so companies could reduce cost by adopting VHS over Beta. The increased recording time of VHS was due to the lower resolution, as both formats began producing tapes with longer recording times this advantage proved negligible. It wasn't until the advent of "Super VHS" that the JVC format could rival the quality of Beta, but by that time the Beta format was already doomed to failure due to poor marketing decisions by Sony ...

I was referring more to the what, 75? votes that the house made during the Obama years, knowing it was all a waste of time. This noise about "gun reform", or whatever the current term is will be pretty much the same .. .

This will have about as much effect as all that noise that the Republicans made about repealing the ACA after they took control of Congress a few years ago. I have no doubt that the House will conduct a bunch of symbolic votes on the subject, knowing all along that they are destined to fail in the Senate ...

If you have a rare one, post it. Even though I can never afford them, I still like to see pics ...

Auction companies almost never identify the truly rare rifles correctly. The auction was for the estate of a well-known collector, and the collection was available for viewing and inspection for several weeks ahead of the auction. The number of collectors of high-end Russian weapons is fairly small, and very interconnected, so word travels fast when the unique pieces become available. The buyer was present at the auction, as was the second highest bidder, if I remember correctly the third was a telephone bidder. There are a couple other buyers of these types of rifles that had recently made other expensive purchases and sat this auction out, or it might have gone even higher. As for what these people knew, the information is out there, if anyone takes the time to avail themselves of it,. but the time involved is measured in years of study, not something you can get out of a Wiki article. However, if you read the auction description carefully, there are a couple of clues: "K A 3" means it had the Cossack marking (it's actually the Cyrillic characters for "kaz", meaning "kos"), the stock is an early dragoon length (no recoil crossbolt), the rear site is the early "flat type" and the handguard is the "type 1", which wraps around the rear site and is virtually never found intact. I saved this particular auction in my watchlist solely on those clues, I had no idea if the rifle was a completely original, all-matching example or not, but those characteristics meant it would go high in any case ...

If that were a consideration, it would have been much better if you had started with a different rifle

One sold at auction last year for $14500, so this one's not likely to hold that distinction anytime soon ... And the one mentioned above is just the highest-known public price - there are others out there that have gone higher still, in private sales ...

They're kind of expensive, but they make scotchbrite wheels that you can put on a grinder, come in different grades and won't scratch and gouge the metal like a wire brush. Much easier to polish out the resulting finish. Just an idea ...

Facts just get in the way of a good rant ...

It is a show about zombies, you know ...

Had a collision with some rebar, perforated abdomen, spent the rest of the show having flashbacks/hallucinations and reuniting with dead people from the past, while leading the zombie hoard away from (somewhere?), blew up the bridge he's been obsessed with this season, zombies fried and washed away. Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth by remaining survivors, who are unaware that Rick landed on the riverbank ( a la Glen and the dumpster ), where he's kind of kidnapped/rescued by the Trash Lady and somebody in helos. Sequels/guest appearances implied, and another time jump to later, where apparently somebody or something called whisperers make an entry ... No flashback to the Carl kid, who is still pissed over being fired from the show last year, I guess ...

Talking Dead was on but I didn't pay much attention to it. I have no doubt that AMC wants to milk what they can out of TWD, but I personally doubt that they will ever be able to duplicate the success of the original. Zombie shows have always had a limited audience and TWD is old. It's still a profitable show for AMC but not likely to sustain that for many more years. Plus, proliferation doesn't always equate success in spinoffs and sequels, even Disney managed to lose money on their latest iteration of the Star Wars franchise, which is mind-boggling in and of itself, not to mention that the Star Wars universe is orders of magnitude larger than that of TWD ...

I guess I don't pay enough attention to what guns everybody's using, didn't Rick have a .357 Python?

So what's next for this show? Rick is gone, or maybe not, the little girl becomes the world's youngest gunslinger, and Morgan is wandering around out west somewhere. Where is all this going ...

Understood. Good luck with your project.

Sounds expensive, for a $100 rifle. You did realize that you can find examples of wartime, refurb Mosins on Armslist and similar sites for $200 or so, right? Not as common as in the past, but I still see ads for them in this price range weekly ...

A show with ratings dropping even faster than TWD. It's been renewed again for next year, but I'm not sure it will ever make it as long as the original has ...

AMC says they have plans for 10 more seasons, although personally I doubt it goes on anywhere near that long. Viewership is less than half what it was at the show's peak, and the "buzz" over the show is mostly gone. Having said all that, it's still a major success in today's cable world and remain's AMC's highest draw by far. Cable is suffering a slow death and the show is old, but 6 million weekly viewers is a formidable number by today's standards and has been for several years. As an example, "Breaking Bad" never exceeded 3 million and plodded along mostly in the 1-2 million range, "Mad Men" only rarely got to 3 million viewers during it's run, and both of these were considered highly successful shows even before cable-cutting became so widespread. Nine years is a long time for any show and the fact that TWD has kept it's relatively high rate of viewership for that long is impressive, however, a serialized show with no discernible endgame in which the characters seem to mostly wander around rather aimlessly is likely to eventually wither and die despite the show's popularity. Few shows continuously gain ratings throughout the entire series run, and those that do always have some sort of "goal" or known endpoint, ala "Game of Thrones" (which will conclude next year BTW). I I couldn't find a complete ratings chart for TWD any later than this one, here's a GOT chart for comparison:

A lot of folks swear by a 50/50 mix of acetone and ATF for penetrating oil. Several online tests have shown it to be superior to all the currently available concoctions for removing rusty fasteners. Soak the offending part, let it sit overnight, with an occasional drop or 2 added is the usual recipe ...