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Reagan1k

Certifiably Surly
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  1. I have a trifecta from the CMP. Luckily got drawn in the 1911 lottery very early.
  2. The old ads in the back of Field and Stream, or later in Shotgun News still haunt me to this day.......they were begging you to buy all that old surplus to clean out the cluttered warehouses.
  3. Edit - opposite of action
  4. Surrender is not the opposite of inaction for me. Quite different things as I understand my program. Surrender frees me to act without obsession over outcomes. It enables me to take the next right step without fear (or with less fear), and not presuppose the outcome. By surrendering, I am taking my "feelings" out of the mix; removing doubt and worry from the equation. The adage of acting our way into right thinking vs. thinking our way into right action works through this. By taking right actions without fear over the outcome (through surrender of that which I can't control) I get to divorce myself from the results business. If in the morning I simply say to my higher power...."Whatever!?!" and at night say "Oh well" - I'm unchained from the regret, remorse, and resentments to which I naturally default. I guess the long and short of it is that surrender inspires action......right action if I'm spiritually fit and eliminates doubt, worry, and the propensity to act outside of my values to achieve a result I want.
  5. Oh, and on that Model 70.....If you want to have the gun looked at - Pre64win.com Guy is a model 70 wizard with an OCD complex to do it RIGHT - the only thing he'll work on is a Pre64 70...period - he'll clean it...inspect part by part, can repair or replace anything down to original springs and screws, will give you barrel and throat grades. Will even do a complete restoration or modification if you want. He'll maximize the usability and / or value of the gun to your wants/needs. Worth a look.
  6. Those are all excellent firearms to pass along. The older LT20s like yours and mine are great bird guns, along with the 410s they have quite the following with enthusiasts - very pricey!
  7. Is the '84 1100 a LT20 or standard sized gun. Those LT20's are sweet little guns and often selected as a 1st bird gun for kids. I'd love to have an 1100 in 410 too. Very jealous. Oh, and lets see a picture of the 1940 Model 70. Don't get rid of that.......But if you do, I'm your huckleberry. Edit: Remington 42 or Winchester 42?
  8. Typical subs don't open up that well, but I've had great success shooting hogs with Lehigh's Maximum Expansion .300BO loads. Very good performance and fast kills.
  9. In all seriousness- if you love shooting a .308 a can will make it even more enjoyable but you’ll be shooting supers in almost all cases so it won’t be truly “quiet”. if you want quiet, the BO subs give you that and then you can run supers when you want to reach out a bit farther. The BO was born to run suppressed. That said, I run cans on 5.56, 300bo, grendel, creedmoor, and .308 and enjoy them more with a can than without.
  10. Yes is always the right answer.
  11. I was critical of her up-thread and certainly thought there might be something fishy going on with her defense and subsequent actions based on how it was portrayed in the documentary. However, I am willing to concede that my tin foil hat may have been a little too tight on my head and entertain the above as well. My only close experience with a criminal trial involved a similar situation with the roles reversed. The defendant was clearly guilty, the defense threw a hail Mary strategy that was absurd to anyone with the IQ of a potato and the prosecutor got cocky. They didn't destroy that defense; I guess assuming the jury would be laughing at it during deliberations and the jury ended up hung instead. My connection to the case (victim was a relative) had to endure another trial where justice was ultimately served. I can see how she might have thought the investigation was so poor and the evidence so weak that she didn't need to hammer away and she got sideswiped by the jury. Her prior relationship with the McCarty family may or may not have played a role in how she handled that or how vigorously she pushed....thinking "I don't need to even go there and hurt another family". Right or wrong, none of us will ever know short of her doing some mea culpa down the line. The whole thing is sad, fucked up, and a huge black eye for the LEOs involved. It should also be a warning to everyone that a successful prosecution vs. the truth is far, far too often the end goal.
  12. Call around to Goodwill locations. They often have used medical supplies like crutches and chairs.
  13. Mascara = moccasin Vertical = venom-free
  14. Take it for a covid test - appears the thermostat is running a fever.
  15. That's my go-to when I need to calm down my mind and fall asleep. I pretend I won the lottery and bought a certain ranch I know well - then I start at the gate with my new hydro-axe and start to clean it. Puts me right to sleep.
  16. That's a very good price. Below what the big on-line sellers would ask IF they even had it. S&B makes nice pills. Reliable and consistent quality. Someone give this man his $$.
  17. Sig dropped the P938 SAS P938 SAS No front sight -
  18. Worst I ever was involved with was a company who made burn care for emergency station kits placed around factories. Some kid they hired in their fledgling IT dept. built their fancy website and I guess it got rave reviews, so they decided to leverage that, changed their name and went 100% into website design and tried to become a dot com incubator like CMGi (olds here will remember those days). They'd design websites for cheap and take equity as payment. Went from pennies to $80+ and then evaporated overnight when the bubble burst and rational adults realized that their stakes in pimentocheese.com and castoroil.com were worthless. That was a stonky stonk for sure.
  19. Your business adventures would be a great idea for a TV series - get in bed with the cartel, then build what appears to be a much needed marina/boat rental outlet to wash their money. Follow that up with a hotel and casino after you get active in state politics. Hire some street smart local cons to help your family run it.
  20. If you want to see how your customers will fare operating your boat and how your boat will be used, follow The Qualified Captain on Instagram.
  21. Most gun shops are keeping some 9/5.56/45 under the counter so that they can sell it with new gun purchases. excellent reason to buy a new gun. Just tell your wife you bought the Ammo you needed to protect the family and the gun was thrown in for free.
  22. Yeah- this will be quickly resolved by changing a few menus and recipes. In 10 years we’ll be talking about the good old days when snails were cheap before the Hipsters made them the new fad food.
  23. Well done. It's sort of a shame that they rolled out when they did. Had they hit the market in late '19, '20's craziness might have been a springboard since everything is selling. Not sure if they weren't capitalized properly or were just mismanaged, but today's market could cover up for a lot of sins in the short term while the kinks are worked out. I hate seeing anyone swing and miss at a dream.
  24. Revolutionary or Civil?
  25. Let's play safe trivia......Anyone want to call their shot on naming this one?
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