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CZ455. Full stop. There’s not a better production gun out there today. I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a Savage bolt gun in .22 mag. Cooper rifles are gorgeous - and are great shooters - but you could by 5 CZ’s for the cost of a Cooper.

My kids can eat cherry tomatoes like they're candy. We generally put three plants out - and they consume all of them as soon as they come off the plant.

Zero malfunctions is normal. The reason we run a bunch of rounds through a gun is so that we have confidence in them - and our ability with them. I'd argue that once you've had the failures, you probably know all you need to know about that particular weapon. You might smooth it out and run hundreds of rounds through it flawlessly. But you'll still have that question in the back of your head. You can talk yourself into it - but why?

It's a great show - especially if you're interested in meeting and getting to know some of your favorite makers. One of the things that has impressed me about the knife community at large is how genuinely friendly and willing to share knowledge the community remains. It's a great place to go and see some true art - it's also a great place to go and just spend a fun afternoon and maybe come away with a couple of cool blades.

Oh, I like that. It’s a great looking blade. That site will get you in some trouble.

REI now carries a premixed Permethrin spray for anyone who doesn’t want to roll their own. https://www.rei.com/product/768970/sawyer-permethrin-pump-spray-24-oz I also learned recently that a tick needs to be attached for a couple of days in order to transfer Lyme bacteria. That’s a significant window to allow for fully checking yourself.

I’m so sorry to hear this. Know that your family is in my prayers and that you’ll find peace amongst family and friends in the coming days.

Refitting the recoil pad is sort of an art form - but isn’t particularly hard. You just need some tape, a decent sander, and some patience.

Yeah, it’s typical for a replacement pad to be put on a drum sander for fit. But, I expect it’s going to take more than a half inch or so to really make it fit. A coach gun is going to have quite a bit of recoil - hence the thicker pad. It might be worth having the stock shortened up a bit and then having the recoil pad reinstalled. All that’s assuming you can get it to fit your frame. As mentioned above, it might be worth looking at a youth shotgun for a better fit.

I've got a 1946 model in .300 Savage that's been through a few folks here. It a great running, great looking rifle.

Man. A whole lot of lives changed in one stupid, avoidable incident. You owe it to society at large to keep your weapon secure.

Nice. Congrats!

I was afraid to open this thread - thinking they were somehow marketing a new membership level to evangelicals. At least it wasn’t that. I’m to the point that I really believe that the NRA may simply have too much baggage to continue to represent gun owners without spending at least as much time defending themselves. This wouldn’t be a terrible situation if there were other groups that could muster the resources to fight court cases while the NRA takes the heat. It’s clear that what got the NRA to this point won’t get them where they need to be in the future. I’d love to see an advocacy organization that’s as diverse as the gun community is. But, it’s also clear that anyone that wants to boot LaPierre and the current leadership structure better get up pretty early in the morning. Oliver North just found that out the hard way. There’s still a lot of money - and a lot of power at stake. They care about that more than they do the second amendment or anything else. They’re not going to give it up without a bloody fight.

While I’d personally probably give them a bit of time to make it right, if it’s recent, you’ve probably got options with your ban or credit card company.

A million dollars won’t come close to opening a modern range. The HVAC and air filtration alone run more than that.

Those are some pretty sweet specs for the price. Looking forward to a review.

Apparently the building that Shoot Point Blank is in is for sale as well: https://www.crexi.com/properties/155057/memphis-tn-shoot-point-blank This is curious - though I expect it's a pretty smart corporate play to recoup development expenses while locking in a low lease rate for the next 15 years.

Even the major players here in middle Tennessee have had a tough time making a go of it. The gun business is hard. You’re a brick and mortar showroom for people to go handle stuff that they’re then going to buy online. Inventory cost is high. Margins are low. Zoning restrictions abound. Someone walks into your range and shoots themself. It’s hard to do well. There ought to be a “basic gun store finance” class for anyone looking to open a shop. It ought to go into the horror stories in detail - because they happen more often than they don’t. I’ve seen more retirement accounts cleaned out than I care to think about. Even the big boys have looked at hemorrhaging bank accounts and tried to enter mergers to stop the losses. We need good shops. We need to support good shops. It’s a shame that there are so many bad ones.

I’d love to see the details on this - and especially know if their employees found out the same way the public did. But, I expect it’s a iteration on the theme of, “running a business is hard - and so are finances and taxes.” Expand your business in boom times and make dumb choices - it’s easy to run into the ground when things turn.

Yeah, it’s hard to say. I’ve increasingly thought that LaPierre should step down over the last few years. But it’s a hard call on who should replace him. It’s sure not Chris Cox. I’ve got some thoughts on what advocacy should look like in 2019, but I just don’t know that the NRA is ready to change much from what they already are.

He probably should have studied up a little bit on how Wayne and his friends engineered the original takeover of the NRA. It is interesting to consider that Oliver North is probably far more popular amongst the NRA faithful than is Wayne LaPierre or Chris Cox. I don’t see this settling down soon. Not do I see it being particularly helpful to the organization at large or the 2nd Amendment in the near term.

Oh, I like that.

It’s crazy that they’re airing their political grudge match in open at the convention: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/nras-wayne-lapierre-says-he-is-being-extorted-pressured-to-resign-11556314763 They don’t even need to anti-gun crowd to run it into the ground.

All of the above said, having the ejector on the mag is an issue for me. If you want to drop a magazine with rounds still in it and render the weapon safe, you're going to have to rack the bolt and manually remove the round that's still going to be attached to the bolt face. That's less than ideal.

I've got a Glock-pattern lower for exactly the reasons above. But, the weakness in all of those platforms is the jankiness of the bolt hold open - it's less than ideal on all of them. You should never have to read in a manual - "if it doesn't work, bend it until it works better." The fact that the BHO works as designed on this one is a big draw. Couple in the fact that you can use your same mag pouches, and mag changes, etc are the same as on 5.56 - it's a compelling feature set. If I was looking to move to the platform - I'd at least give this a hard look. At $30, I'll probably pick one up at some point just to test and play around with.