MacGyver

Nice turkey!

Before 6:00 you can just walk right in. After 6:00 you may be waiting hours.

It's amazing what you can bang out of an old volkswagen bumper.

Peter's in Brentwood before 6:00.

A guy I grew up with, but who was a couple years older than me enlisted in the Army straight out of high school. He had some mental issues, and about halfway through basic decided to end his time here on this earth. His method of choice, however ill informed was to cut the tops off of several dozen chemlights and consume the contents while they were out on a field exercise. He failed to kill himself, but the horrific vomiting that ensued over the next 36 hours glowed in the dark.

You can only clean the living room with a shop vac for so long.

We use ours on carpet, hardwood, tile and vinyl. I don't know how a vacuum would be too aggressive, but to me that would involve some form of damage to the flooring. I would expect that this would be most prevalent on carpet, but I can say that when I empty ours, I don't ever notice any carpet fibers in the cannister. Maybe on older carpet this would be more of a problem.

It looks like you're shooting Atomic Fireballs! Let us know how they work. Seems like a fun idea.

We've got a DC-10 Animal that we've had for about 7 years. After going through 3 ~$200 vacuums in a year, we decided to bite the bullet and get a good one. We've had no issues with it, and like the above poster, ours is subject to daily use. The clear cannister will surprise you. Even when vacumming every day, it's like we sucked up a whole other dog.

There's a good old mythbusters episode where they go shooting a bunch of different calibers into a pool, trying to determine how deep you need to be if someone is shooting at you to avoid injury. The handgun calibers perform better in water because they're moving slower. I seem to recall them being surprised when they shoot the 5.56, .308 and .50BMG and don't do anything but pick up pieces of the bullet off the bottom of the pool. Slow it down, and that's a different story, though.

Here's a piece by James Taranto, one of the editorial staff at the WSJ. He got some attention for a similar hypothesis a couple of years ago. The Roe Effect

Sooner or later Wynn Duffy is going to get tired of being his yes man.

MiniMags are .22LR rounds. As a general rule, a .22LR revolver will be capable of shooting .22LR and .22 short rounds, but not .22WMR. There are plenty of .22WRM revolvers that include or make available .22LR cylinders.

I vote for the S&W. I got to shoot one with an 8" barrel recently that was very manageable.

If you ever want a good read, pick up a copy of Craig Ryan's "The Pre-Astronauts" detailing Joe Kittinger and some of the other men who participated in the manned ballon flights to the edge of space. On one of his test jumps from 76,000 feet, he passed out and woke up on the desert floor. When he jumped from 103,000 feet, he became the first and only person to ever break the speed of sound without any vehicular aid.

I don't have a Mark II, but I do have a couple of other Savage rimfires with the Accutrigger. On average, they're only about 3" longer than the 10/22 carbine, but they feel like much more "grown up" rifles. I know several kids who love to shoot my 10/22 who have problems getting behing my 93R17 without shooting prone. The AccuTrigger is great, and the bolt action is great for teaching fundamentals. But, like Mac said above, one of the joys of the 10/22 is getting a 25 round magazine (or one of the old Eagle Industries 30 rounders) and just blasting the heck out of a target.

Everyone needs a 10/22 in their collection. They're relatively inexpensive, a good size for young shooters and have a decent set of iron sights for teaching fundamentals. I've got several, including one race dragon that was made from a billet 80% receiver and designed specifically to shoot Aguila SSSs. But, the one that I got under the Christmas tree as a kid is a cherished possession that I love to shoot to this day. There's no telling how many 10's of thousands of rounds that rifle has seen, and still continues to run like a champ. A coke can has never met a more formidable enemy.

Bet you find 'em every time, too. Just have to fight off the Green Hills crowd to get them.

I miss bronker. He was a good leveling voice.

There is one cold, hard fact about identity theft. Your bank, credit card company and the merchants involved don't care about your issue. Their losses to identity theft are just numbers at this point. So long as their losses don't exceed a certain amount, they've transferred the risk via insurance and they don't care. One of the most frustrating parts of my job is walking into a courtroom in an identity theft case. A victim walks into the courtroom with everything they've had to go through fully documented, and regardless of what happens in that courtroom that day, they walk out of the courtroom a victim.

There is really only one thing that matters in the case of identity theft. That is "fully managed recovery". Anyone considering coverage should ask their provider if they requrie a limited power of attorney in the case of a breach. If not, you're going to be the one doing the heavy lifting, and are going to be disappointed when you suffer an event. Note that monitoring is a lot like a smoke alarm - it doesn't prevent identity theft, and really isn't that responsive to identity theft, but if it goes off, you're on fire. Take control of your life. As someone who deals with this stuff from a forensic perspective, consider at least the following: 1. Be religous about opening your bank statements and credit card statements. You're protected by federal law against losses so long as you notify within a certain period of time. 2. Check your credit several times a year. You're entitled to one free report per year from each of the three major bureaus. Go to annualcreditreport.com (not freecreditreport.com like on the commercials) and access one every few months. 3. Consider putting a credit freeze on your accounts with the bureaus. It's free to place one, there's a small fee to remove it. With this, no one can access your credit without you personally removing the freeze. 4. Forget the do not call registry. Use their system against them. Place the Special Information Tones at the beginning of your answering machine for a few weeks. Everytime they make a phone call it costs them money. If you answer, it costs them money. If your answering machine answers, it costs them money. They only way to make them quit calling is to make them think they are wasting money. The above link is to the SIT (Special Information Tone) for a disconnected number. If one of your friends calls you, they are going to hear the tone, and then your voice on the answering machine. They'll think - "that's weird" and leave their message. A computer will think differently. As soon as it hears that tone, it thinks - "uh oh, my data is corrupt. This number is not in service." It will delete your record from it's database. That's not the best part. At the end of the day, most of these companies share data through a couple of different providers, so once the auto-dialer marks you as an error, they report that back to the main computer, which will delete your record from their database. You get deleted from the Matrix if you will. 5. Know that there are no magic bullets when you get breached. Deal with someone who requires a limited power of attorney to recover your identity. That is the only way that you can tell if they're going to be sitting on the phone instead of you. 6. Forget the "guarantees" that providers use. There has not been $1,000,000 payed out to a victim yet. In fact, you can take the combined payouts to all victims of identity theft so far, and you still won't reach $1,000,000. The reputable companies that recover identities get you back to a pre-event status and guarantee their service. Thus, no losses. The "guarantees" are all smoke and mirrors. 7. Once you have been breached. PAY ATTENTION. Continue to be vigilent. Talking to a friend of mine not to long ago who runs an identity recovery firm, they revisit half of all their cases within 18 months. Think about it. A criminal has stolen your data. They're going to misuse it, sit on it for a while and then resell it. If you've been breached once, it's likely to happen again. 8. Create a 'burn file" for yourself. Take the contents of your wallet and dump it out on a copier once a year or so. Copy front and back of cards. Give it to someone you trust to secure. This way, if you get compromised by the loss or theft of your wallet, it's a phone call and a two minute process to have that person burn your identity. You can cancel the cards quickly instead of fumbling around to gather information while someone is using your card at Best Buy. Criminals these days are applying JIT management principles to identity theft. You have to act fast - because they sure are. Hope this helps.

I've got some good friends in New Market, AL that lost their house this morning. They were in it, and it collapsed on them. Luckily they got out with only minor injuries. Hopefully we'll be able to get down there to help secure livestock and clean up in the next day or so. They could definitely use your prayers.

Nice review. I love my HEST and use it all the time. I've been meaning to pick up an Izula II. I do wish they would have kept the hollowed out handles like on the HEST. That was convenient for a mischmetal rod and a couple of firestraws.

Seeing as they use approximately 60mL of potassium iodate to iodise a ton of salt, you'd get more than enough iodine from either water purification tablets or a cheap bottle of iodine crystals used to purify water like PolarPure. Note that the iodine content in salt dissipates via a couple of different processes over time.

Nice. Looks like they had a good time.