Jonnin

Any feedback on "best" and "all around"? What do you really want it for?

Its not hard to use a series of stones to do it right, it just takes *forever* to do it that way. Its more about patience than skill, but if your knife is of any value, this is the way to do it. If its just a work knife, cheap & fast & good enough work. The reason it takes forever though is that I put a razor edge on mine, a decent edge can be done is much less time, the finer stones polish the edge, not grind it, and they do this slowly. Very thick blades will not work in the V shaped sharpeners as all you do is grind on the middle of the blade where it is stuck, not on the actual edge. If the edge of the blade is hitting the sharpening surface, it will work. I use one of these once in a while, it has 2 ceremaic bars in a V shape and you just drag the knife thru it. It does a poor job on the tip and any curved areas, but the main flat blade area is decent and it does it pretty fast. The most common victim here is my swiss army knife, which has a softish blade and dulls fast.

They do in general cost much more. I do not have extensive experience with them, but I will say that like normal mags, some are more reliable than others... I do not know which brands are best as I borrowed the few I have tried and my memory is pretty bad. I do not care for this sort of thing. The extra weight just is not worth it to me, and the only justification I can find for such a thing is for a toy. If you want a toy, they can be a lot of fun. Try this: put 100 rounds of whatever ammo in a box, and pick your gun up with that box to get a feel for the weight..

Well, good point. I only kill anything if it needs killing though, not any sort of "hunting" (I certainly do not go looking for things to shoot at). If that copperhead is about to gnaw on my leg, I will risk the fine. Unless starving, I am not going to kill any animal apart from defense (of my person, property, family, etc). If it is chewing up the house, about to kill me, etc. I will risk the game warden... For the most part, I live and let live. I like to see critters at play in the yard or a blacksnake on the porch or whatever, and will not bother most animals. **I am not against hunting, I just do not care for it personally, and have no problem with those who enjoy it.

I was not offended, its all good. Maybe Yorkie will spill the beans for us. Wheedle wheedle....

I know this seems selfish or whatever, but I want her to recover rapidly so she can see what is being done in her name and maybe put a stop to some of it. I think she would be against anti-gun bills in her name, whether she had a gun on her or not at that time. I wish her a rapid recovery anyway(and would do the same no matter who it was), but there is that political motivation for her recovery on top of the humanitarian one. It would not have made any difference to her being shot: no normal person can react to an assassin in time. The guy knew his target and had all the advantages, the victim did not even know there was a threat in the area until the last second. In that sense, it would not have mattered/helped if she had had a gun in her pocket or something. So, I agree with your thoughts but her voice is the key here, not whether she had a gun on her or not. What matters is if she will be willing to fight the anti gun bills that came from this horrible event. Honestly, I doubt she recovers in time to do that, but given her progress so far, its possible. She is amazingly lucky, given the circumstances. I mean, luck would be not being shot at all... but you know.

Not directed at anyone, just throwing my experiences in there to evaluate for whatever its worth. I did read the whole thread. I have no stake in it, but I may ask one of my friends there to see if I can get the story, or get them to post the rationale up on their site, so they can explain what the deal is. Seems odd to alienate such a large supplier.

I use shooter's depo a lot and they seem to be honest. I have transferred to them (but not from bud's) something they could not get and it was no problem, no questions asked. You do have to ask if you want something ordered, they do not usually offer as their supply lines seem to be a bit strained and, from what I can tell, if its not something off their online davidson's page or in stock they have to call around for an hour or more trying to find what you need, sometimes they can, sometimes they cannot. Their sales folks are not pushy, to the point that if you want something, you have to say it, "I want this, can you get me one?" etc. I can see very easily how it may seem as if they do not care if they sell you a gun or not, they err on the side of leaving the customer alone unless asked a question rather than come down as a pushy seller. Its much, much better after you talk to their people a few times and get to know them. As for honesty, I sold them several guns in bulk and, after buying them and the deal was done, the owner came back and said one of them turned out to be a rare item worth more than originally expected. He agreed to split the difference with me when it sells. He did not have to do that, and I would never have known. While I have become a regular there (I use their range a lot), at that time, I was just another customer, this was one of my first transactions with them. I do not think anything shady is going on. If they were just worried about being undercut, they would not take any transfers, and that is not the case at all.

Heh. There is a short story by donaldson (the thomas covenent series author) along those lines as well, some nut scientist bio-engineered hands and smarts on animals & gave them guns. Pretty good read, but you may never go hunting again if you do...

Prentice Cooper Shooting Range It is not "manned" its a free outdoor range open to all from daylight to dusk, at your own risk. Therefore a 13 year old is more than welcome, as is anyone else. I used to go there a bit when I lived closer to it.

It should be ok to do that. I am still a little confused at the setup. Can you not just plug it all into the router, if you are going to do that, and sell your switch back since you do not need it? I don't get why you need the switch, I guess, though it sounds like it will work. Oh, and the idea of breaking up your big file sounds great to me. If you could split it somehow into smaller files, the performance of your computers that use the file(s) would improve drastically.

I am sure you could kill a small animal with it. If you have one and ammo, put it in your survival pack, sure. Can't hurt. If you do not have one, I wouldnt run out to get one though, pack an extra box of .22 or something instead.

Wait, do you need a liscense to pot a coyote? I thought they were outside the "game" or "sporting" animals, not something you hunt, sort of like a rat or snake or other pest. Also, for pests, wouldnt those be "outside" the rules for type of gun and equipment? I am confused now!

Do you modify this file a lot? If it does not change much, you might consider having one person in charge of modifications and everyone else get a local copy of the file once a day/week/month/year or something. If your network only exists to modify this file, the internet does not matter, as you are using different hardware for each network they may as well be different machines. If your computers are hot enough, you can compress the file and access it from inside a zip file directly, which uses more local CPU and less networking, it will transfer faster compressed and probably compress to 50% or less original size. There may be other things you could do depending on what is really going on.

Hard drives dont have an IP address. The router may, the switch may, and every computer does. You can use one of 3 sets for a LAN: 10.XXX.XXX.XXX 172.XXX.XXX.XXX 192.XXX.XXX.XXX Pick one and use it. For example, use 192.1.1.1, 192.1.1.2, 192.1.1.3, ... for each item. Keep the first 3 numbers the same and vary the last one unless you have more than 256 computers. Edit: oops, the second value is defined as well in the standard LAN ones. 10.anything 172.16.anything (16 to 31 are ok for second value) 192.168.anything (168 ONLY). Its been a long time for me.

If the router is slower, you want to just plug everything into the switch with static IP. If you put the router in the loop and it is slower, the extra speed from the switch is not used! If they are windows computers, its not hard to change to static IP address. Hit the checkbox to change it from automatically assigned to manual, then enter the IP address, and there is built in help for it if you need it. If unix, you hax on the text files that do the same thing, you need to get someone who knows which files to change and how or look it up in your help or online, its not hard but you have to have some know-how to do it. I do not remember it off the top of my head, I have about 20 unix books I have to dig thru when this stuff comes up. Its usually a bad plan to plug a router into a switch: the switch, unless very powerful than most, cannot handle this (I am not up on modern switches though, they may be able to do this, or not, I do not know!). Its ok to plug a switch into a router however. Routers are fairly smart and can handle this, switches are fairly dumb and cannot (or the old ones I have cannot).

Well, you carry an unloaded gun to transport it which is a different set of legal rules (in TN): anyone may transport an unloaded firearm (well if they are legal to own it) but only permit carriers may carry one loaded. Read the rest of the post, I clearly said that it was pointless to do so for self defense purposes. The only reason to do this is if you have no permit and bought the gun to defend your home, hunt, target practice, or something. BP or modern, if you do that you may take it too and from the range, the store where you bought it, etc. without penalty by having it unloaded.

If you have enough trees around, you can sometimes find a decent hook naturally. But I also would not want to make them by hand! If I were really, honestly going to fight with a stick, give me one with a 6 inch blade on each end, about 4 feet long total. If that counts. If it could not have any metal, make it more like a police baton, but a little longer, with the handgrip a little more central. If its just a cane, make it pretty and I will just shoot anyone that aggravates me.

In the muzzle loading hunter's info online for the state of TN, a black powder weapon is considered UNLOADED if there is no cap installed due to the difficult nature of removing a ball and powder from these guns to fully unload them, and the inability to fire them without a cap installed. So, you probably CAN carry them with no caps, be considered UNLOADED, and avoid any major problems. The gun, carried in this manner, will NOT help you one bit when you get jumped by an armed criminal, however. This is my useless interpetation of the law, do this at your own risk or research it yourself.

Wife's is something called "diamond willow" which is nice looking & strong, not too heavy. Used it just this week, to help walk over the ice.

A gun is a gun, there is no distinction about the type in any of the wording.

Depends on who is asking. In other countries, all americans are yankees.

I like the part about throwing things at the shooter. Its missing a line: "Draw your gun and blow the shooter away"

Most switches these days are toys for teens. They work, but the handles are so sorry if you hit something with it, you will just have the blade left. The military ones are more sturdy, the ones that shoot the blade out the front instead of the side. Ive got a "damascus" steel one thats pretty good, but I still wouldnt want to have to fight with it, even that one has only a "decent" handle, as opposed to "poor". Fun, but of no practical value and illegal outside the home to boot.

It was ok, but what next? I did not even see all the episodes and it was starting to get that boring vibe. I cannot see it lasting another season, there is not much more to be said. Snow, trees, cold, wildlife, ocean, done. Its all about the money -- and this show was not going to pull in a bigger audience each season, it really could/should have been a mini-series.