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Maybe not from the gun community, but one of my favorites: "An armed society is a polite society". Robert Heinlein

Lawless is a really good flick. I don't remember much gun play in that one though, other than the gunfight/roadblock at the covered bridge. Glad someone else saw and enjoyed the movie though.

Well done sir! I just got a Vsport last month, and from the same dealership! The drive home to mid-TN was quite enjoyable

I use a Harbor Freight rock tumbler (maybe $35) with stainless steel media (should be able to Google this), add some water, a couple drops of Dawn or similar dish detergent, and a pinch of LemiShine. Tumble for 3 hours or so, and they are clean and shiny as new.

Concealed is concealed. The only time I take mine off is when i have to get my kid from school, and it bothers me to do that, given recent history.

Step 1...file a police report. If things happen again, its on record, and this will be asked for. I know this because it's happened to me.

Yep.

Just lost my dad this April. He was an Lt. in Hotel Co. 2/5 USMC in country in various actions, and ended up critically wounded and med-evaced out of Hue City in Feb. 1968. Hell of a guy, but he had problems later, especially after The Wall opened up in DC and he started having reunions with guys he served with. I've never felt safer in my life... in a hotel room with a bunch of amped up Marine vets, telling war stories. You could scoop up the intensity in the room with a spoon.

Boy, that's the truth. If only I could go back in time and revisit a few things.....and just kept my mouth shut.

Definitely a lot cooler than what I expected. One of the neatest things I've ever seen. Watched it at my wife's office in Antioch.... you wouldn't belive the parade of private jets coming in to land at the airport in Nashville. Already making plans for 2024 with 4+ minutes of totality!

"Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." John Adams

Lange's animal hospital, Lovell Rd area. They rock. My family has been taking our dogs there since the 80s. Edit: may be worth a shot to try Cosequin...it was once only for horses, but now you can get it for dogs and cats. I used it for a few years with a cat I had. Look it up on 1 800 pet meds.

Follow up update to an earlier post I made in this thread. I went tonight and there are gunbuster stickers up now. Just FYI.

Are the ones you find with the bullets pushed back into the case yours, or someone else's? Crimping is a process used primarily to prevent that from happening. Opinions vary as to whether crimping is helpful or not. I do it- its not hard, and does not negatively affect my loads. Those HDY 55gr FMJ bullets have a cannelure to use for crimping. You won't 'mess up' your load by making a light crimp with the Lee FCD- just a light crimp is all you need though. Just a side note, I will only use my own brass for my handloads. I know I'm a bit picky about that, and others use range pick-up brass with no problem, but I want to know exactly how many time my brass has been fired, and each batch of my loads is color coded with a sharpie and separated by headstamp. I like to be in control of as many variables as I can. Especially when it comes to explosives next to my face. I don't want to grab a pocketful of brass from the range not knowing that the person who left it there had already loaded it a dozen times and then left it as trash.

My Dad is a Marine vet from Vietnam. When he handed me the first firearm he ever got me, he said "clean it and wipe it all down with Hoppes #9. It's all you need." I have followed the advice for years and all is well. Although, on some parts that get lots of friction, i will use just a dab of shotgun choke oil/lube.

I typically get velocities plus or minus 50 fps on my AR loads. I measure the powder on both the Chargemaster as well as an RCBS 505 beam scale. Some variation is bound to happen, and the extent to which you worry about it depends on the kind of shooting you do, and how anal you are about it I guess. And I did shoot my first chrono....it still amazes me how much it freaked everyone out at the range. Geez people, not like it was their chrono, or like it was ten thousand bucks.

I like Cabelas much better. I think I remember that BPS bought out Cabelas earlier in the year though.

Smokin deal.

Good advice already posted here. I'd really recommend lessons- you dont have to have a PhD in music theory to play, but knowing some basics will really help you enjoy it more. Also, learn to read tablature (tabs). Practice, practice, practice.......

That's how almost every build starts, I think.

I like it very much. It's all I use for loading for AR rounds. I sure thought it was in my manuals- at least one. Pretty sure its in the Hornady manual. If not, you can go to the Hodgdon website.

Nevermind, i just had to get rid of the tapatalk ad.

How do I get to my private messages ? I've clicked on every link I can find.

Thats the same gun my son uses on his high school trap team. I've never seen any problems with rhe Federal- it should be fine for your needs. What's a little more important might be shot details, like #7.5 or #8, and 7/8oz shot or maybe 1 1/8 oz shot. Its really what you prefer, but Google 'shotgun shot size' and you'll find charts that show the differences. For example, one of those has something like 150 more 'pellets', although they are smaller that the other option. Your call. May I suggest using the modified choke for trap?

Highlander is the movie.