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Reagan1k

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  1. Holy shit - I've tried to quit saying that or using logic to make assumptions on anything related to air travel. Good luck - hope it goes well.
  2. Tanks fer nuttin...... Your question and my own answer now have me down a rabbit hole looking at stock and chassis options for building a guest gun (excuse for wife)....which of course I'd want to use. Bell and Carlson or chassis? Chassis with brace? Folder or extendable? Pistol grip or straight? LPVO or FP? This could get complicated. That was true in the past and remains so to the best of my knowledge.
  3. It took me a while to grasp that alcoholism is a family disease. Everyone is afflicted; even those that don't drink. Our spouses, kids, family, and friends have to adjust to a new normal and I for one didn't get that. I pretended that my disease existed in a vacuum and no one was affected. That's not true. It takes time and just like us, our loved ones have good days and bad, stub their toe, say stupid shit, and get overcome with fear and uncertainty. I was told to be gentle with not only myself, but with others. Take that for what it's worth.
  4. Understood. Was making a generalized comment.....not towards your post specifically.
  5. I think about the early AAs who were lucky if they had one meeting a week, or the guys who were doing this before the book was written and it was all in the passing of an experience from one drunk to the next. Sandy Beach talks about how they did it and it always makes me laugh (and remember that recovery isn't just hiding in a fellowship). SB says they'd look forward to the meeting all week, but mainly they talked one on one and just prayed like hell all day.
  6. Exactly - Nothing more complicated than that. If he's doing the real deal, he'll be ecstatic that you reached out. That phone is really heavy when you start, but once you exercise that muscle it becomes lighter. Makes my day when an new guy calls.
  7. Their rifles in general and the mini action are highly under-appreciated by the general public. Obviously Ruger, Savage and others have bigger name recognition and marketing budgets. In that class of rifle, Howa would be my choice every time, and I own all three so I've been able to compare.
  8. Wait a minute here.....I was told on the internet that the CM was a laser beam and I could kill an elk out to 1000 yards with no holdover or adjustment. (full disclosure - I shoot both the CM and the GR and they are great rounds). If I was buying a new 6.5 bolt gun for hunting in TX, I'd start my looking at the Howa Mini Action in 6.5 Grendel. Most TX hunting is a combination of riding in the truck and sitting in a blind and that Mini Action is a sweet little compact rifle that does everything you need and more. Buy the rifle and spend the rest of the money on a good scope and you're golden for TX whitetail hunting.
  9. Both are correct. The Alabama makes it because it is a "might-as-well" stop on I-10. 1000's of people pass by daily and if you siphon off a tiny percentage you end up with a model that could be feasible. Even if they don't give a shit about the history and they only stop to keep the kids from imploding on a long drive, the curators don't care. "Please daddy, can we stop?" and "If we don't let them out for a break I'm going to smother everyone in their sleep tonight." Think Bobby Petrino meme here. If the Alabama were 5 miles father south off I10 it would draw a fraction of what it does. Having it visible on I-10 from either direction, and having a couple of billboards 30 miles out each way makes it a destination. No significant amount of people will go 10+ minutes out of their way to see the Texas or the Alabama, but put it within sight of an interstate and there's a chance to maintain history without breaking the bank / relying on tax dollars. Ground it in the Lost/Old River basin or stick it in the Neches above the Port of Beaumont. Put in an RV Park and a playground with a dog park. That's the only chance it survives. Any other plan becomes a tax hell-hole IMO.
  10. If the legislature isn't going to fund it beyond the current allocation, it needs to be located within eyeshot of a Interstate like the Alabama so it can grab eyeballs. Done right, it could generate enough gate fees to pair with preservation foundation funds or corporate sponsors to keep it around. Would chew up someone's shoreline, so the right partner would be an entity looking to siphon off traffic into an area anyway; willing to trade shoreline for traffic.
  11. Yep - @Not that Bob is looking for (throw a dart) anywhere from Orange Beach to Panama City ..........and Sept. - Oct. is a lower season for pricing, but the weather and surf/beach are usually great.
  12. Found them.
  13. That'll do!
  14. A few years ago I made a donation to the restoration or a restoration project of the day - Got a commemorative set of 1911 wooden grips as a thank you. (Not special to me - part of the deal). Wood for the grips came from the original decking from the ship. Pretty cool. Nice, well made grips with a medallion embedded and inscriptions on the back. I should buy another 1911 to pair with them come to think of it.
  15. There's a Johnny Cash song that fits this home perfectly. It's as if it was the last home to be built and they used the construction scraps from all the previous builds.......Otherwise known as the Heinz 57 Mansion.
  16. Write whatever you want.........."Don't hit send."
  17. Nice- I put similar Altamonts on my 10mm/40sw Blackhawk. I need to shoot that gun! My plan was to hunt with it now that I’ve got skins on the wall with my G40 long slide. The grips make the gun for me aesthetically. Derail- Taylor Firearms has announced a case hardened TC9 classic revolver for those that like an SAA action and want to shoot bit cheaper ammo. Not many details and no drop on their website yet but the news is out.
  18. For her kids' sake I hope that the 8/30 or 9/1 payroll run has already been submitted. Unfortunately that means by 9/15, mom will have an Onlyfans account on which they must rely for income.
  19. @YGIFS Happy to see you keep coming back and are hitting all of those meetings. The one thing you can always take away from a meeting is hope. Being in a room with or on an internet feed with multiple sober alcoholics is a miracle in itself. We drink no matter what, and to have a gathering of us who've had a power come into our lives that relieved us from that is a miracle. There is hope in just seeing that; knowing it is there for us too if we do the whole deal. Grace is something I believe falls evenly around each of us. Our job is embrace that grace. God will provide the shovel if I'm willing to dig. Early sobriety is weird when all I've know is being drunk or planning on being drunk. Even when temporarily sober there was relief in knowing the next drink was minutes/hours away. Once you get used to that feeling of sobriety and start to experience the promises / benefits of it, the thought of being drunk becomes troubling. The tables will eventually turn for you too. What you're feeling now is life, and all the emotions that come with it. It's always been there, but I have to learn how to have those emotions and experiences without filtering them through the drink. It's riding a bike without training wheels for the first time. I wobble and wreck and cry and skin my knee, but if I keep doing it, I eventually gain some balance on my own instead of using alcohol as my training wheels and soon I'm more comfortable riding that bike. Godspeed. Keep doing and growing and experiencing.
  20. You don't play accounting poker with worker's comp or payroll taxes. Quick way to find yourself in a shitstorm of financial and legal trouble.
  21. Great!!!! Please know that I’m not picking on you. I’ve been right where you are (and stayed there too long without knowing the truth) and I’ve watched others as well. This shit kills people who dick around with it so sometimes I may come across as harsh.
  22. “Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path….” I’m an alcoholic. I excel at planning, thinking, talking, and resolute convictions. Three frogs are on a log and one decides to jump off. How many are left….. three. Recovery is an action. Not a mental exercise. Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth and life is that fist… every day. From a missed stoplight to a death in the family. They’re all punches to an untreated alcoholic. My desire for you and others who struggle to get to a meeting isn’t for the meetings sake- but rather to identify and witness that there is a solution in the actions outlined in the steps of recovery. It’s an old saying but more relevant in my life with every day that passes… we don’t think our way into right action/living. We act/live our way into right thinking. The medicine to alleviate the suffering you’ve been describing is prescribed exactly in the big book. Get to some meetings, and then take the actions you’ll hear described there.
  23. Yeah - based on the arsenal I own and my working knowledge of guns, most casual observers would assume I'm a great shot. I'm not, especially relative to the company I keep. I'm a good instinctive or snap shooter, but put me on a bench or shooting for precision at range and I'm just not all that. A few years ago I was hunting with a buddy who'd just taken up the passion. We watched a goat at some distance and he asked if I could make that shot. "Yep...I could make that shot. It'd be nothing more than a warning shot but I can make it."
  24. Same - I've love collecting and hunting with (more like watching with) classic old rifles. I also like and buy plenty black guns. In fact, the same week I got the .22 Hornet mentioned upthread, I also got an AP5 with a brace and am working on a powered optic for it now. I have a mental blank spot for modern precision hunting rifles (thankfully I guess). I don't have the mental make-up to spend hours of time shooting in a disciplined fashion, nor do I trust myself to get into reloading. I wouldn't do such a rifle justice. I'd take a $10k modern rig and shoot the same mediocre groups that I can with my classic rifles so what's the point? My tipping point may be if I ever convince myself to take the time off to do a more extreme hunt that would require my sorry ass to lug a rifle up and down mountains for many days. In that case I'd lean more towards weight rather than single hole accuracy knowing I'd still never get the max potential out of the gun.
  25. Anonymity is an interesting topic and there are a lot of opinions. A core tennant is that we maintain anonymity at the level or press, radio, TV, etc.....That no member is "speaking for AA" or representing AA as a personality. That is one of our traditions and a founding principle that keeps us from mutually assured destruction. At the personal level, it serves a purpose in that newcomers can be alleviated of the fear that their problem will be broadcast in the social pages or spread in gossip. Many wouldn't ever come in the doors if they couldn't hang their hat on that. Inside the rooms, anonymity varies. Many (myself included) don't maintain much anonymity at all. People I meet in the rooms know exactly who I am and how to find me if they need me. My friends outside of the rooms also know I'm in the fellowship. If they ever need help or know someone who needs help I want to be a resource. I don't talk to them about AA or my drinking unless they ask, but they damn sure know it is part of my life and I pray to be a quiet example of what it can do for a struggling alcoholic. I respect others anonymity inside and outside the rooms and don't share anything about others I see there or what I hear. I'll break my anonymity on a personal level, but will protect that of others. Different people can and do have other opinions.
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