TomInMN

Congratulations to you and your family. I'm glad you're able to take your struggles in stride.

I enjoy those videos. "Although some people think... it's a floor wax and also a dessert topping..."

It just occurred to me that they may not be out of the AR business, so much as out of the AR *marketing* business. Isn't that what the suit is about? Their marketing practices?

Sharp looking rifle. What caliber?

In the scenarios you guys train for, do you plan on using backup burgers or mustard? What if your primary mustard goes down? Weak side reload? Do you default to tap and rack regardless, or try to visually diagnose the failure to feed and proceed accordingly?

What about quiet? Not being obvious while shooting can provide advantages both for self defense and hunting. How well does something like an SKS suppress?

One guy in the back row looks to have a Thompson strapped to his chest. Couple of the guys maybe have anti tank weapons? They look like they could be WW2 resistance fighters? A movie set is a good guess, wouldn't surprise me at all. ETA: The three guys with mystery weapons look to have PIATs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIAT Looks like maybe they were Polish: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/85427724154124199/

Pew-pew in the pew, now everyone's sitting in the pew wondering who made the pew-pew.

Indeed.

He used to be a sheriff?!

Nah, live a little! Plug one, skip two, plug two. Then close it without looking at where the live rounds are...

The hollowed book might be a good idea for a static gun/ gun handling situation (like at home, on a shelf) but I think church might be too dynamic for it to be safe. Finding the next hymn, going up to take communion, passing a tythe plate or basket are all opportunities to shift that book in your hands and potentially drop it. And I don't think you'd want to leave it in the hymnal/ Bible pocket, either.

I suspect his three came from the Federal limit for waterfowl hunting. Shotgun magazine tubes are plugged to fit only two rounds at most, plus one in the chamber.

Beats the heck outta duck lips...

Ohh, man. Very nice group! Reminds me of the last time I brought a trio of Italian honeys home! Let's see, that was, uhh, never ago... Probably for the best, I'd have no idea what to do...

Nice looking setup. I always like watching them, but I'm not willing to put in the work. A good saltwater tank is generally the highlight of my trip to the doctor, dentist, or whatever.

Aww, c'mon! Who ever regrets impulse buys?

And now I've seen a picture of pure awesomeness. Thanks @Jeb48!

Either caliber will do for anything he's likely to run into, the 7-08 will just do it with a bit less recoil in full-power loads. It will shoot a bit flatter than .308 and (while not as ubiquitous as .308) does have whitetail-appropriate commercial low-recoil loads available. That said, there are many more commercial loads available for .308 as well options for relatively inexpensive plinking/ practice rounds. Among those options are multiple low-recoil rounds which will still do for deer out to about 100 yards or so. If his dad or hunting party already have one of those two calibers, give him that gun. I'm a proponent of interchangeability.

That would be great! One of my favorites from Jesus is Matthew 7:1-5.

One of the challenges for pilots learning IFR (instrument- rather than vision-based flying) is actually learning to believe what the instruments, like an artificial horizon or altimeter, are telling you rather than what your body and intuition are telling you.

I enjoy history, and reading about archeological digs, what they're turning up, and what that tells them about the society and sometimes even the individual people they're studying. In 1,000 years, they're going to discover the home of someone who's obviously very high status judging by the fact that he had a basement, and the only local example of this big heavy shiny thing that obviously required lots of skill to create and seems to have served no practical purpose. However, it may have had some religious significance, since it was inscribed with a lightning bolt and the word "Zenith".

So, art rather than documentary. Interesting.

There are plenty of kids on every side of every war.

This is a gun you plan to carry, right? I hope it never comes to it, but potentially this is a gun that could be used to kill someone, right? In that event, do you think the serial number isn't going to be run? Then what? Assuming you, your wife, and your father in law can all talk your way out of the criminal exposure, you've given the plaintiffs in a civil case one more way to paint you as the bad guys. (They're running illegal guns across state lines!!) Spend the $50 or whatever to do the transfer correctly, chalk it up to a small CYA/ law abiding gun owner cost.