Jonnin

  while I follow your sentiment, if everyone left 15 min earlier, there would be a rush hour snarl 15 min earlier.  It just moves the window.  You gotta stagger it... and businesses are not willing to truly stagger the primary "banker" shift of 9-5 by more than an hour or so...  the roads can't handle these cities that have 3+ million cars on the road all at once.   Traffic is just a mess in so many places.   Here in Chattanooga, if there is ONE minor accident ANYWHERE from 8 to 9 or 4 to 6 the whole city grinds to a halt.   And all day long, no matter what time of day, the roads are crowded.   There just are too many drivers on the roads at all hours.   The better solution is need more work at home jobs ... with todays tech, its doable for a sizeable chunk of the workforce. 

it sounds like one person is the problem and that he will probably soon be looking for a new job.

lol some idiot left you a *recording* of his voice, with threats, from a phone number that is probably still traceable from the phone company and cops even if he blocked caller ID .... call the police.

  You are hauling around a shotgun.  At that point, low profile is already out anyway, right?

  it looks like it was about rusted away before they dumped it.   Sad?  Sad is the end of my granddad's boat...  he was on it during the sub sinking & more, and rode with F JR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ulvert_M._Moore_(DE-442)

   looks like standard angle iron, or whatever metal? its a nice design.  now sure how it goes in the safe :P  but I like it for outdoor range time.  If need be you could do both sides, squeeze one more slot in there and get  10 guns on it.

Sad... but this right here is why you can't get the good ones anymore....   http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/maine-man-dies-launching-firework-top-head-article-1.2282157

heh.  I wish I could see the looks on the faces of folks that nab my "9mm" which have been cut down for my Makarov...  I know they didn't take it on purpose, but its a pain to bulk trim and this gives me a little "revenge" :)   Bullet won't really seat in it, and I imagine some head scratching.

I did just find in 3gun with some of those nylon things that you put on the butt of your shotgun that holds a few rounds in loops.  I had 3 of them, one on the gun, one on my wrist, and one on my belt.   I also used just my pockets a few times,  if you practice, pockets work just fine.     Gear helps, of course.  People had belts with 30 shells in some sort of magazine like feeder.   People had loading sticks that could reload their whole gun really fast.  People had magazine fed shotguns that reloaded like a rifle.    I doubt I was significantly slower than the guys with the belt feeders.  The mags and sticks were hands down 5 or more times faster to reload.

ideally a safe would be long-gun deep so you could just put a row on a shelf.   The safes are too shallow, and you can't do that.  A 5 foot deep safe would hold most and you could have instant access to something like what, 50 long guns?   I dunno if such a thing exists, would be near double the price at a guess...

I grew up in ga and it was 100% illegal there.  Being 5 min from tn, we did it anyway of course... who's going to arrest a kid celebrating the 4th?  No one, at least not back then :)   you can still get the real stuff caster, but it takes some sort of license because too many people blew off a hand, too many kids given stuff that was too potent for them.   Next time you go to a real fireworks store, look for the classes on them... at some point, you can't buy them without.     the days of buying a cherry bomb or m-80 etc were 40 years ago and more... 

Did it say anything about a ban?  All I saw was that it spikes pollution for a day or two and that folks who have breathing conditions should avoid the smoke.   Which probably cost about a million bucks to figure out in a "study" that restates common sense as its result.  

  anyone here ought to know that no one is ever unarmed.  You can draw and fire in fractions of a second, slightly longer if you are slow, but a well concealed gun is nearly invisible and the time to deploy is tiny.    Drawing first, getting the drop, there is a time to think that way.  You don't have to shoot, but give yourself the option when it makes sense to do so.  Driving off was the better choice HERE, granted.  But in general, no one is *ever* unarmed to me.   as for adrenaline ...  this can also be practiced.  you can do thrill type exercises to get a 'hit' and learn to enter the 5th ring, to be calm in spite of it.  Its a weird sensation, but you don't have to let it affect your rational thoughts, and with a little practice, it won't.   It helps if you already have worked on emotion control before this step, though. 

last night was, literally, like having a swimming pool dumped out on my house.  It rained so hard I had water come in from my outside AC unit and drip from a vent in the basement ... that has only happened maybe twice in close to 10 years.     its been a wet year here, generally. 

a sling should match its function.   This is effectively a sniper rifle, not a close combat gun.  So a 3-point makes little sense --- a classic battle-rifle sling that can be used as a fore-end grip if you had to shoot it standing up or from an odd position seems to fit, coupled with the basic need to comfortably transport the thing which looks very heavy.     as a side note, if it takes mags, loose ammo on the butt seems silly.  Find a way to attach a spare mag instead?   Ideally that stock would be tacticool and have room for one or two behind the shoulder pad or something?  Probably only fit one there...  also could use the flip-over double mags like some people do with AR mags?

but, the population centers will get more calls.   To 'randomly' sample your typical American ... well roughly 250 of 300 million people are in cities, and roughly half of those are in the gigantic for sure liberal bent cities (talking over 2 million pop cities here, most over 5 mil).  But almost all major cities lean left (only texas really has huge cities that might be relatively heavily conservative)  ... this would explain the current state of the country.   so out of 2000,  if random via population density, it would not at all be strange to see well over 2/3 of the responses to *anything* being leftist. If out of 2000 the sample was by geographic random selection,  the conservatives would win it hands down.   Neither one really "gets it" on the country's politics because sparse states still get a lot of say via the senate.

There are a handful of places that are nice to live, including gun rights and freedoms.  A small handful.  Most of the higher paying (cited) countries are police states though, with limited freedoms (most of Europe, for example), or "second world" where poverty is rampant but an educated person might do very well (india, for example).   Take your typical 25 year old liberal weenine in NY or CA.   What is he seeing? High as crap taxes and cost of living.  A basic home costs MILLIONS and that is without any property to go with it.   He loses what, 80% of his income to state, city, and federal taxes?   He isn't a gun owner and does not understand what he actually HAS here even in a hellhole like those states, he hasn't the worldly knowledge to understand the freedoms he HAS in hand.  All he sees is a chance to make a living and better himself --- which is perfectly available right here in the states once you get away from the 4 or 5 complete idiot states, but this type of person probably considers England or the like to be equal to moving to another state and on top of that, being a liberal, he thinks that foreign "culture" is superior to our own by default.     Can't blame him a bit, having seen what these people are brainwashed with from cradle to the grave....   it makes sense from his point of view.

down before across. weird format.

  The purpose of water?  In the words of one of my favorite authors' characters "Water?! I'm thirsty, not dirty"  ...

I would ignore common stuff you can loot.  After a short period where you use up a small amount of this stuff, you should be able to go find this sort of thing... examples include candles, matches,  axe, knife, basic tools (hammers, saws, etc) ... you will find abandoned homes and such with these things unless you booked out to private land far far away (not everyone will have this).    Focus on consumed items that are hard to come by and absolute necessity ... water purification method, medicine, food, clothing, defense, etc.  Once the sheep all starved,  you can always find an axe.

  Or lava!  It sounds like some of these wells go halfway to china...    absolutely get some high tech gizmo or something to find the water.  Just digging at random seems like a doomed to fail exercise?

they would probably make more if they taxed all the ppl watching free "adult" content and utoob.   And they get to play big brother too.  Some liberal moron wasn't thinking clearly when they picked Netflix, which is only used by the 5 or 10 honest ppl left in the world that don't know how to pirate a movie.

probably.   labor is expensive, and equipment / heavy stuff is expensive, and validation (hitting water and environmental implications) of some sort is involved, and you also have the hardware (pumps and power and whatever?) ... it can add up fast.    yardwork and heavy equipment == $$$ in a hurry these days.    That said, get a few quotes, don't stick to just one.  That one might be on the high side, you never know.   Last roof I put on, the difference between the most and least expensive was a factor of TWO ... which is huge.

something sounds fishy when brass, which is very, very soft, is scratching steel, which in the case of dies is usually hardened steel. I have nothing to add, but that don't sound right.   Squeaky clean might get it stuck but I cant see that being a source of a scratch either.   Somewhere, somehow, there is a little piece of something that is hard enough to scratch.  Where it came from, I cannot say...  could be a piece off their manufacturing process got stuck in a case, or once in a while they produce bronze or something hard instead of brass.... ???  

Well, I wasn't there, OK, but when someone is close enough to smack your car and it is rolling toward them, they MIGHT have a point....   I've had to do this twice in my life, where someone was rolling at me and did not seem to be aware.  They could have been, but a good slap makes the driver stop regardless.  They shouldn't have been that close (my situations only, again, I wasn't there for yours).   I didn't go over and pick a fight ...  I think  I yelled at one of them to watch where they were going, without profanity or hostility (yelling to be heard inside the car).   If they can touch your car, and you were moving toward them, it was too close for comfort.  If the guy moved toward you to hit it, he is an idiot (that means he could just, you know, move aside.... duh..)