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Hard to avoid all the anti-gun corporation sellouts but Levi's and dockers I can avoid. Never been a label minded consumer anyway. Wranglers are cheaper and do the job as well as other no-names. These unicorn and fairydust utopian anti-gun.......Make me want to vomit

Public land.... one of the things I really miss about living in Oregon although I always avoided shooting into Trees and cleaned up after shooting. Here in TN no good places to shoot for free but no one is trying to take away your gun rights... There in the PNW, the gun rights are disappearing fast but still plenty of free shooting spots...... I guess there is no utopia unless you have a time machine.

Bullets penetrating in the water more than possible if I remember right. Can't remember what movie but it was a Sick/horror flick. Some guys were tormenting a girl who jumped in the river to escape and was swimming further and furthur away. Sick evil dude had a handgun and it took many shots before he got her. Average shooter, moving target long range.... Not easy to make contact.

Mine looks like an ancient sewer pipe. I'm suddenly interested in them now for some reason though. I'll be looking for another if this one won't shoot decent.

This brings up a topic I've always wondered about. I've heard others express concern over using oversized brushes. Although nothing I would do regularly, I have on occasion with used them on cruddy neglected bores. Doesn't firing a round cause much more wear than an oversized brush? Anyway here's an update. Took furniture off so I could really get messy with the cleaning. Almost have a bit of shine first 3 inches!, then rough and pitted badly for a few inches with no discernable grooves gradually improving towards muzzle to an acceptable possible safe to shoot rough bore. Took your advice and will overnight it with liberal amounts of CLP before proceeding.

I finally ran a .45 brush through it a half dozen times as well as tons of patches and that revealed the rifling. I'm kinda thinkin shooting it might help. Any secret solvent anyone knows besides the usual?

I hope your bore isn't rusted out like mine. I got this a looooong time ago and never looked down the barrel or shot it. Just put it away and "stored" for many years. Storage was in a dry climate controled place so damage might have beeen present all along. all other metal is nice. Have been trying to clean it and I now think it's a two groove rifling. Hard to tell with all the crud.

Yeah, I should have said "if it was in a theater of war" or stayed in Canada.

Trying to figure out if my 1942 Canadian Enfield possibly saw WWII or Korean combat? If mine was "over there", how might it have made it's way back over here? Don't know details but my Dad first had it in the 1980s at least if not earlier. BTW, it's not mint but it doesn't look like it was in a war either.

Wouldn't this need a transformer at the phone to make it ring?

We had cable, internet and phone bundle and now ooma that works with WiFi. No way to make that work. What I'd like to do is hook up two old rotary phones with each other and have a way to make them ring.

Will it ring? Trying to figure out how to set mine up.

I've started to collect rotary phones many years ago and have a couple sitting around as decoration. Yes I'm a nerd! They will never be worth a fortune because of the huge amount produced but you would be surprised by what price good examples fetch. I got all mine at thrift stores before people started collecting them. I've also toyed with the Idea of collecting old transistor radios, film cameras or similar bygone tech. Ever look at the quality, craftsmanship and style that went into a 8mm 1950s film projector? I'm sure there are museums that focus on this stuff. Gotta have some place where teens can see what it was like back then. P.S. Typewriters as well!

Fin was a bit large on the first ones. Even though I never noticed while shooting either I just thought it was excessive. Never handled a newer one with smaller fin, or the budget version with a viewing slot. Another safety feature was the mag disconnect. I read where dry fire will damage gun because of it, but it was easily removed thanks to a youtube vid. Again I feel it was/is a fine weapon.

Love my SR9 because it feels right in my hand. Because of that I shoot it well but... I dislike the loaded chamber indicator. I have an early model and it's like a big fin sticking up. Also the trigger has the feel of a staple gun. They came out with a simplified version without the "fin" and I plan on acquiring one someday. No rush and until then my older SR9 suits my needs fine. It's been a good gun. Ruger should have kept it unless sales were bad.

Statistics, especially gun statistics....... They might know some of the transfers/sales stats and concealed permits but that doesn't begin to scratch the surface.

I reposted that music vid not as a dig against Cops so much but more of a dig at those who say only Cops should have guns. Police as a group probably have fewer bad apples than the general population but they do have bad apples. I saw a new term (to me) in the article. "unintentional discharge of his firearm." kinda diminishes the situation a bit, makes his stupid handling of the firearm sound less his fault. Call it what it is, Negligent.

I recently found this out and tried doing that on this change out. Time will tell if it helps.

Welcome, as stated earlier an AR is not an assault rifle. That's anti gun speak. And while on the subject don't forget the underappreciated mini14.

Greetings!

Is it just me or do headlight bulbs burn out faster than they used to? My 2014 Outback is a major PITA to change them. I got 7 months out of the last ones. SYLVANIA seems to be the only ones easily available. I bought the next step up from the basic ones last time. This time I bought the cheapest. My Hyundai went through bulbs 3 times a year but they were a snap to change. One reason is my wife drives with lights on in daytime for safety but 7 months?? My 07 Focus has the original lights!! I swear it's such a pain on the outback I'd pay 4× the price if I could guarantee a couple of years out of them.

The one they passed in Oregon had a very narrow definition of Relative if I remember right. And it didn't make anything easier because you used to be able to transfer without going through an FFL for anybody but a minor. Don't remember much about the Manchin Toomy law but it didn't make it.

I have my Dad's old 1932/33 Remington model 33 now. It's as old as him and was his Father's. Bore is pristine, action is smooth. Barrel and receiver has average pitting for an antique and bluing is nearly gone. Just a kid's single shot depression era rifle with little value but pretty cool. I'm pretty sure it took down it's share of squirrels and small critters back then.

That wouldn't be good enough for the anti-gun Democrats. It would ever so slightly decrease bad hombres getting guns but not help any with their real goal of disarming honest citizens. It would be nice though for me to have an easy way to see if a person you are selling to is legal to buy. As you say, no serial numbers or make model. Just input buyers name to see if he's a go or no go. I'd even be o.k. if it cost me 5 or so Dollars. And of course it should be Voluntary.

The thing that stinks about this kind of law besides making transfers between friends and family a pita, a secret gun registry and and an expense is.... Lets say you have a situation where your family member/spouse is getting suicidal/ homicidal or just acting crazy suddenly and you want to quickly remove a gun or two from the home. You can't just drop them off at a friends anymore. That would be illegal. What about a gun owner who travels for work or is in the Military and wants to leave guns with a family member? The gun grabbers don't give a crap about that, they just want the public disarmed at any cost. More laws, more hassle and threat of legal problems =less and less people wanting guns every year.