leroy

Like DaddyO said.  You cant beat Benchmade, Spyderco, or Kershaw.  They are all good.   leroy

I think it's interesting how all this is comming out just before the 2014 election cycle.   Everyone with even a casual amount of insight about big city machine politics knows full well that whoever sits at the top manipulates the whole machine and does what he wants --- he rewards his friends and punishes his enemies.     I think the political insiders in both parties are getting ready to crucify Obama; that's why all these "scandals" are being leaked at once.   The democrats have to "re-brand" themselves to fool the next bunch of "children" into voting for them.  The republicans are finally going to have to tell the truth and "get even" for democrat excesses in order to bevn be thought of as a remotely viable political counter-balance to the idiocy currently taking place at the federal level.    I see all this as being good for the country.  Remember; when polititians are in-fighting they arent passing more foolish, repressive laws and robbing the citizenry with a pencil.  I say "...let em butcher each other on tv and everywhere else...".  When america's enemies are fightin each other, its always good for america.  Let the recriminations, reviews, hearings, revelations, and accusations begin!!   isolationist libertarian leroy

kieffer:____________   Your point is well taken.  I've never seen anything like this administration before either; and there is some real "low information" hero worship and some "get even" cheering surrounding the great Obama.  Havin said all that; there are some interesting things going on that cause me to believe the Dems are gonna have to "rebrand themselves" and distance themselves from the extremists in their party; and Obama is certainly an extremist by anyone's yardstick.    One of them is the Benghazi thing that wont go away (....interesting read here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/12/curl-watch-out-petraeus-benghazi-scandal/   ...) and the IRS thing this thread is about.   The third is the loss on the "expanded background check" thing in the senate; along with the absolute thrashing on the Barbara Boxer/Schumer gun grab provisions in spite of the administration's very visible support for them.   Surely the "smart" democrat strategists know they cant keep up the mantra that this current administration is using.  It's very possible that they may loose the Senate majority after the 2014 elections.   In summary, i believe the Obama administration has lied so much, mistreated so many (...the IRS even bothered Jewish organizations -- a real "sacred cow" to the democrats...), and been so high-handed in doing so (...ALA Lincoln...) that they have offended most everybody in the country.     Here's hopin   leroy

I predict that by this time next year Obama will be "Satan".  He will be sacrificed on the altar of democrat political expediency by the leftist media and the democrate party for the sake of the party.   The democrats will have to re-invent themselves somehow to distance themselves from the scandals, treachery, thuggery, etc., etc.. that the present regieme is attached to; and to prepare to fool us "delightful rustics" for the next election cycle.  The democrats will have to do the Bill Clinton-Al Gore thing and say "...we aint like them leftist democrats in power now.... We are the new "...fill in the blank here...democrats ".  I cant wait to see how this next campaign season develops.   leroy the isolationist libertarian political toad

  It's true!!!  Elections have consequences!!   All this proves points up a couple of things.  Chicago stye politics is alive and well thanks to Team Obama and those who "serve in public service" like their jobs so well that they will do clearly unlawful things to keep the favor of their masters.    By the way, this aint a purely Democrat activity.   Lamar used a "scorched earth" policy against the pesky democrats in his first term as governor of the great state of Tennessee.   leroy

Thanks again golf:____________   Got a box from my Fed EX guy today. Ordered em May 4 th.   leroy

Thanks golf!  Just ordered a can.   Thanks again, leroy

We always used magnum primers (...CCI....) with the 300 grain spitzer boat tails and IMR 4350.  They would shoot a cloverleaf at about 60 or so yards out of an iron sighted remington 700 safari shooting prone off a roll if ya could see and hold it steady.  Look for some older (...70's to early 80's lyman reloading handbooks for the "accuracy load"....) handbooks for load details.  The 375 is very accurate if you can stand the "other end" of it.   leroy

Ya may want to pick up a can of Kroil Penetrating Oil (...i would get the can, not the spray ....im cheap!!....) the next time ya see any.  Ive used it on pistols, revolvers, and rifles for several years.  Swab the barrel withthe Kroil and let it sit.  After several hours, swab it out with a dry patch and oil the barrel down.  Kroil is just a high quality kerosene (...i think...) marketed as a "penetrating oil"; with it does very well.  It will lift any lead type deposits out of a barrel as well as anything ive used.  I use kroil to clean and CLP to oil the barrels down in all our firearms.   leroy

It looks great!!  Great design and workmanship!!   leroy

As other posters have opined, i think it's interesting that the "history revisionist intellegencia" hates european-american technology and political decisionmaking so much (...the a bomb and it's use...); and overlooks this other little uniquely japanese scientific study and military actions called biological warfare and it's experimental use on captured chinese peoples.  Google "Japanese Army Unit 731" and do a bit of selective reading.  Anyone with a shred of empathy for his fellow man will wonder just as mike did why we didnt drop another bomb for good measure.   Japanese Unit 731 used mainland china as their laboratory and humans as lab subjects.   They (...the japanese army...) were as barbaric and monstrous as Joseph Mengele (...who everybody knows about...).  They were also very much more successful.  The commander of unit 731 is, in fact, the "father of biological warfare".  It is rumored that he traded research results and notes to the allies for amnesty.   It is srongly suspected (...and i believe it is true...) that the US biological weapons program has its genesis from these heinous monsters.    We need to submit this one to the "revisionist history review board" for review and inclusion in their syllabus.  I bet they wont be intested in this little bit of history.  It doesnt fit the narrative of white capitalist oppression against the poor, defenseless yellow man via the demonic, extremely white atomic bomb.   atomic leroy, amateur historian

The "tolerance for all beliefs" police have conditioned everyone to believe that any ideology other than the judeo-christian one is acceptable.  They cant afford to admit that radical islam is a fantastic interpertation of islam that is unacceptable (...and unthinkable...) to a nation such as ours (...or any other one for that matter...).  Here, we have the Bill of Rights   (...Freedom of religion thing....) that mandates that you can believe anything  (...or nothing...) you wantr; and not be punished by the government, as long as you dont go around blowing up and killing others.    Islamic countries do not have such religious protections; islam and government is integrated into a fascist governmental-religious system ALA Iran and the "Arab Spring Egypt".   The fact is that radical islam will not coexist with other belief systems; but the "tolerance police" cant afford to accept that fact.   That's why they can't afford to call jhaidists "terrorists"; much less call their beliefs into question.   I wonder myself what it will take to break this breathtakingly stupid view of the world and cause us to call this evil what it really is.   leroy

This may stir up a hornet's nest; but i think the "defensive ammo" thing is another way to hose the consumer and create a "defensive ammo"  classification that allows the ammo makers (...and other very austitute capitalist types like the Buffalo Bore guys...) to sell what ought to cost $.50 max for $2.00......  A great deal, indeed.   It also gives the Aboobs of the world a job.   This is another proof that america is a great place, and the P. T. Barnum wuz right.    Food for thought.   reloadin leroy

  Very well could be.  Wuz this near the barge slip?   leroy

My guess is it wont pass constitutional muster.  Doctors are not judges.  They may try this one; but  my guess is that when they get a "fortunate son" with some dollars; this one will be struck down too.  In the old days a judge had to review this sort of thing to get ya committed.   leroy

My guess is that the officer walked up on a dope meet (...or somethin equally dangerous and highly illegal...) with a real bad guy.  Boat to boat most likely.  If it's a bunch of professionals, they will never sort it out or catch the guy.   leroy

Elections have consequences.  If the "children" in the socialist utopia of MA and Boston like the high handed, jack-booted thing; i say; let 'em keep on likin it..  I could care less what they do up in the "Sour Lands" and you can bet they dont care what is goin on down here where we delightful rustics reside.   Dont worry about them; let em reap the harvest up there; and work hard down here to keep it from happening in your neighborhood. As the great Tip Oneil (...a real MA yankee...) used to say:  "...all politics is local...".   non-caring leroy

Interestin stuff indeed.  Aint it interestin that these guys got visas to the good ole usa???...  Check this link out:http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ap-sources-boston-bomb-suspects-from-russia-region-near-chechnya-lived-in-us-at-least-1-year/2013/04/19/761ede36-a8dd-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html   leroy

Typical elitist tantrum.  Us delightful rustics just dont understand just how smart these folks like Giffords, Obama, McCain, and Bloomberg are.  We should just bow down, pay them homage, and do what they say. I remember Gabby's dad saying that we tea party type gun nuts were responsible for that anyway.  I can give the old man's frustration and sadness because he is a grieving father.   I wont give any of the others a thing.  I say they have reaped the whirlwind in public opinion and they will feel the heat from it.    Lots of people can be fooled about monetary policy shennanigans, health insurance scams, and crony capitalism with the big bankers.  The most humble of us an read and understand the text of the Second Amendment.   People are a lot more informed than they were in 1968 when the gun control act was passed.  I count that a good thing.  I could care less what Giffords or any of that other bunch thinks about anything.   leroy

A bigger (...but very similar...) ammonium nitrate explosion happened at the port of Texas City, TX.  There must be something about water and burning ammonium nitrate in large quantities that touches off the explosions.  Check this link here for the Texas City report: http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/pdf/texascity.pdf   Ammonium nitrate is powerful stuff.  Our prayers go out to the affected families.   leroy

Got one of those myself.  It's a great tool.  I picked up mine to sharpen a couple of pretty good machetes that came to the house "so so" sharp.  Mine came from Northern Tool.   A few passes thru this little jewel, and they are pretty much shaving sharp.  They will cut thru the woody stuff with ease.  I havent tried mine on any household type knives, but im sure it will do a great job sharpening most anything.  Thanks for posting the review.   leroy

Here is an interesting post from Atlas Shrugged:  http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/04/saudi-national-in-boston-bombing-being-deported-on-national-security-grounds.html   I think everyone who is remotely interested in the direction of this country has taken in recent times should carefully read and think about what could be going on here.    By the way; i found the original link here :http://moonbattery.com/?p=28910     leroy

Smokeless powder is a flamable solid.  Black powder is "low expolsive" (...i think...) or a "permissable" (...from the old coal mining days...).  Black powder is already "regulated" as an explosive.   leroy

Suprise!!!!....  Interesting article on the new U S District Attorney: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/oct/31/us-attorney-william-c-killian-promises-fairness/ ....   He just happens to be a democrat appointed by the obama administration.  Interesting to think about aint it??   wonderin leroy

I have no doubt that this is a "political message" to the Haslams from the Obama administration.  It's my belief that this is completely partisan.  Remember, the gubmt doesnt have to prove there is any wrongdoing here.  They just have to "suspect" there is some.     If the "investigation" goes no where, all the gubmt needs to say is "sorry for your trouble". Their company is stuck with the expense of defending themselves legally, the disruption to business, and the "stigma" be being under investigation. Additionally, if the law hasnt changed, the company will be barred from bidding and delivering on any gubmt contracts while the investigation is ongoing.    This will turn out, i believe, as others have--- "a dry hole" for gubmt.   Remember, that aint the idea.... The idea is to make those investigated and those looking on afraid.  After all, that's "the Chicago way".     I cant wait to see where this one goes and who it touches next.   leroy