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I've not lapped a 1911, but that's how you lap stuff. I'd clean it up and look with magnification pretty frequently to confirm the progress.

Points #1 and #2 are why I'm looking for a pistol with a red dot. I don't have strong enough eye dominance to shoot with both eyes open, I get double vision when I try. I also wear contacts and I'm old enough that reading glasses have become a thing. I've always liked irons but I've got to be practical.

I think those are metric pattern. That matters for mags and furniture. $1500 seems ok provided its like new.

When I was a kid, our subdivision had split roads with a median. They tried to keep the medians pretty with various flowers and shrubs. A couple local nitwits kept driving through them at night. Dad and a neighbor got annoyed and bought some 2" black iron pipe. They stuck 4' lengths of it half in the ground inside a few of the bushes. A few nights later they heard some unfortunate noises. The next morning they found fresh tire tracks in the median. They followed the trail of oil and coolant around the corner and called in the license plate number of the truck. The judge sentenced the guys to community service, redoing all the landscaping in the medians.

There has been some major over-reach with regard to wildlife enforcement in the last few years. Look up "open field doctrine". That said, I agree with @Omega in that a few bad apples will certainly spoil it for the rest of us. Look up why there's no hog season in TN. You are permitted to manage some nuisance wildlife (small game) on your property provided they're causing damage to property or crops. Some animals (deer in particular) require a nuisance permit issued by TWRA to cull them.

Along this idea.... If you're redoing everything in pex, do it in a manifold style system. That way all the shut-off valves for both hot and cold lines are together, and you can isolate things so you don't have to shut off water to the whole house to fix 1 minor thing.

AC/DC is most excellent as well. Foundational.

⁹Heilung has a unique vibe, I bet it's quite the experience live. I really enjoy live music, been trying to go to more shows. Experiences rather than things as my wife says. I'd really like to take my kids to a big rock show at some point ... fire, lasers, ground shaking power, the full monte. Only recently have the big shows started coming back to Knoxville. Ticket prices sure have shot up. We saw Gaelic Storm a while back, they're a lot of fun. Going to see Joe Bonanmasaa in a couple months. Really looking forward to that.

Christmas #1 at our house was good. Sausage balls for breakfast. Minor flaw in that the neat R/C Willys jeep my son got didn't come with a battery. Oops. Then to Christmas #2 across town at the in-laws, which was good too. Lunch was great and I ate way too much of it. The kids got to play with their cousins, even if it was rainy and ugly most of the day. Off to Christmas #3 with my parents tomorrow. Hope everyone had a good day.

Our boys are teenagers now, so we've told them that the childhood idea of Santa Claus becomes the spirit of Santa Claus as you get older. The joy of giving is the spirit of Santa. I'm not sure they get that, but they probably won't until they have kids of their own.

Hard stop for me when they pulled corn pudding from the menu a while back. It's just really expensive bbq these days. And not great bbq at that.

Double tap

Yes, once my generation started having kids, we all pretty quickly concluded there were simply too many people. We did a name draw for a few years so that everyone bought and received only 1 gift. Life schedules being how they are, that only lasted a few years because it became impossible to get everyone in the same place at the same time to exchange them. Mailing cards is easier and not a financial burden for anyone. Our gifts are the time we spend together.

I'm there too. The excessive consumerism is very stressful. Add to that the inherent family stresses and it gets hard sometimes. Both mine and my wife's family are big, way too big to get gifts for everyone. We dropped back to gifts for immediate family and just cards for everyone else. We haven't seen most of my mom's in person family in 25 years even though they're 3-4 hrs away. Like Jamie, I try to keep the reason for the season at the front of my mind. Easier said than done, but it helps. I'm a music person so I like that too, though largely not the mainstream stuff. Working retail in high school cured me of that. A few good Christmas movies help too. Die Hard, A Christmas Story, and of course... The Ref.

So the top players think they've got a high enough stock price that one more opportunity to shine won't wag the needle. The flip side is that gives the backup a chance to showcase, but also means bowl games outside of the playoffs are largely meaningless for the school. Gotta go to at least 12 teams in the playoffs. Every round on consecutive weekends, whole thing done by Jan 1.

Look at all the players opting out of bowl games now. That was unheard of 10 years ago and speaks to the (lack of) loyalty and commitment to the school.

Very sad. The "business" used to be educating students. The big sports schools have transitioned to focusing on entertaining sports fans on the weekends. To me, it's becoming a choice.... do you want an education or sports titles? I know they all claim to be excellent educational institutions, but the bigger they get, the easier it gets to slip through the cracks. I don't blame the athletes for wanting their piece of the pie, but the implementation of that will be very messy.

The transfer portal and NIL will change it forever. The days of commitment and loyalty are quickly ending. The players are inevitably moving to mercenary status, just like the pros.

Just keep it clean. The only slam fires I've ever heard of were either filthy or Bubba'd.

Just like the SKS itself, you can't kill it.

And now its magically fixed. I restarted my phone the other day but that didn't fix it at that moment.

I primarily browse on my phone... android, chrome. Starting maybe yesterday, I can't do anything other than view and "like" posts. I can't reply, quote, etc. I've shut down chrome, deleted the TGO cookies, and restarted, and logged back in to no effect. The "accept cookies" button shows up when I visit the site now, but hitting accept has no effect, it pops right back up repeatedly. The 3 horizontal bars in the top right to access the notifications, profile, etc., doesn't respond either. I'm not sure what else to try, suggestions?

True, but I also wonder how much additional credit card debit was accrued as a result. Short term economic gain, long term economic loss. Big live shows have gotten really expensive in the last few years.

Look mom, a pair of boots and a purse just walked in!

The Daisy powerline models at the big box store are perfectly fine for a kid. Plenty accurate. You can move up to competition rifles that'll put 5 shots in the same hole. The 4H teams use the Daisy 499 and 599.