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Reagan1k

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  1. www.bulkammo.com has some 9mm but it’s $.40/rd in a 1000 round case and is brass FMJ.
  2. If she can personally borrow at the Fed funds rate, why would would you think she'd be required to make any principal payment?
  3. Buddy's wife is telling everyone she knows that since interest rates are now 0%, she's looking to borrow $1mil to buy vacation property to VRBO She "saw it on the news" and can't be persuaded otherwise. He's decided to tell her to go for it as long as she can get it at 0% and is going to let her go see their banker.
  4. Yep - and the worst part about this is that as ammo mfgs ramp up to fill needs / restock, they'll move production away from less popular calibers and then all of a sudden supply of that stuff will drop causing those prices to rise along the demand curve as well.
  5. You dog! That's a beauty and on my list. Such clean lines.
  6. I LOVE shooting pistol caliber carbines, but I have to hold my nose when it comes to the aesthetics. There's something about the large mag-well and the skinny magazine that makes me cringe. Doesn't stop me from using them, but for selfish reasons I wish the mag wells extended so the appearance was more like the traditional rifle caliber versions. I'm sure I'll get over it but I love the function while hating the looks. I guess it's my OCD wanting clean lines and consistent dimensions after handling the larger rifles for so many years.
  7. All January and February my wife and I had been marveling at how busy our spring was going to be starting this week....weddings, trips, conferences, parties - we were booked solid through June....we had things to do, people to see, and places to go. Hahahahahahah. In my few minutes of meditation this AM as I walked the dog, I was reminded of what some old timers told me when i first came in. Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans. All I can do is take things one day at a time, be kind, seek out ways to be of service, and remember that I'm just a passenger on this journey. When I feel anxiety about the future, my business, the markets, the virus.....all I can do and all that I need to do is pause and ask my higher power to remove those feelings. That anxiety, just like any other character defect, is something I have to ask my higher power to work on. Alone, I can't bear down and correct it. I ask my higher power to remove those things that are objectionable or cause me dis-ease. That's my goal for today - every time one of those thoughts pops up and my hamster wheels starts to turn I'm going to ask my higher power to take it from me...it's his to deal with and not mine. All I can control are my actions and reactions in the course of living life on life's terms.
  8. CheaperThanDirt.com gonna do their thing. What they have left in 5.56 is $0.75 a pop or more. 40 S&W at $0.65 and .22 at $0.09 They've never been scared to jack up pricing when demand skyrockets.....They seem to be able to ignore the backlash and generate enough business to offset the customers they piss off. They'll be a good 50% higher than anyone else during this. To each their own i guess. Edit - I don't see much of anything in stock in 5.56 for less than half a buck per round plus shipping......that's more than twice what I paid for bulk on the 8th of this month from SGAmmo. Plenty of searches on the pricing compilers show prices still below $0.30 but there's an update lag and its not really in stock. Strange times......
  9. There are some pretty amazing studies that show what happens if you miss the best days in a rebound / recovery. The odds of picking the bottom are so slim and the cost of missing out on the best days is so high that if you have the proper time horizon then staying invested makes mathematical sense. Even missing the best 5 or 10 days has dramatically decreased performance for long term investors.
  10. I don't think you are wrong that the trigger would be the weak link, but there are plenty of precision AR trigger groups. These bolt action uppers (to me) seem to be able to squeeze the last bit of inherent accuracy out of a lower. The more precision the lower, the more precision the platform. They're guaranteeing sub MOA accuracy fwiw. I don't have a dog in the fight but I find the concept intriguing and the next logical step in the evolution of the platform.
  11. Customer of mine left Sunday for a week. Just heard through his partner they're packing up tonight and heading home tomorrow now that CR has declared a state of emergency. Were told to leave in an orderly fashion..... Not sure what they thought was going to happen when they got over there with all this going on, but I guess he's lucky he's avoiding a 14 day quarantine.
  12. If the accuracy is there as it appears to be , it'll be an alternative to the RPR style rifles and give a user the option of having two uppers and one lower for easily matching the weapon to changing circumstances in the field.....or just be cool to have especially to take advantage of the ballistics in the .224 Val and 6/6.5CM.
  13. Pretty interesting concept here. Turn an AR lower into a precision bolt gun by pinning a new upper - no mods needed...same mags, etc. https://uintahprecision.com/ Options for both the AR-15 and 10 platforms in various calibers.
  14. Another vote for SGAmmo. They manage expectations on their website and always beat their time to ship. Those 9k rounds ordered Sunday night arrived at my office about an hour ago, even though their website said it would take up to a week to ship.
  15. Last week I added 9000 rounds of various calibers to my inventory using some specials. The ammo mfgs have been slammed with slow markets since the last election and I have no doubt they'll use the coming cycle to try and bump prices to induce/ make it seem like there is some more panic buying like pre-'16. I think as soon as we see some price increases, the buying will start. Right now shooters and preppers have been lulled into some complacency. Stuff's still hovering around 12 year lows but I don't think that will last.
  16. Where do BP, XOM, Chevron. the XLE open tomorrow?
  17. I found a forgotten gold coin - Not sure why I thought it was a good idea at the time but I have it. What's it worth - 2008 Buffalo G $50 MS69 still in the NGC plastic pack?
  18. Make and model? Got a picture?
  19. Third-ed! And they have other great options as well if someone wants an alternative. Stop in at James H Cohen while she's shopping on Royal.
  20. Last night I saw that companies are now selling pork rind crumbs in large containers to use as low-carb breading....for well over $1.00 per ounce.
  21. Having broad heads in the "magazine" might pose a problem unless they were properly spaced or lined up so as not to interfere with each other during cycling.
  22. I judge no man for taking a picture to have a record of making a +1000 yard shot on a target that small. Does it make you chuckle a little until you wrap your head around the skill and precision involved...maybe. But that's some serious, skilled shooting, and it a benefit to the rancher. Good for them.
  23. Buddy of mine did a trip. Took portable shooting benches and gear - basically drove out into a field, set up a make-shift rifle range, and sat for a while shooting, then would move to another spot, rinse and repeat. Best way he could describe it was Lubbock's version of an Argentinian dove hunt.
  24. Your cost basis was the value of the house on the date of death (plus any capital improvements you made to it). Any tax would be on your gain above that cost basis.
  25. Correct - The poster in reference probably should have been given an option to roll it to an inherited IRA or cash it out. Good chance that was poorly explained or buried in legalese from the paperwork. As to the bigger question of the Secure Act change, we are just now getting into the "season" of a generation starting to die with IRA's as their predominate retirement vehicle . Previous generations who have reached mortality did so with defined benefit pension plans and the monthly income was gone when they died. IRA's weren't "invented" until ERISA in 1974 and the 401(k) followed later in the decade. This generation of retirees who are starting to kick the bucket en masse is the first that had the opportunity to amass sizable qualified retirement dollars instead of relying on monthly pension check. There are about $20 Trillion dollars held in IRA and 401k or defined contribution assets now based on what I can see from the research, and that number only continues to grow with the demise of the defined benefit pension. While a large percentage of beneficiaries probably wouldn't choose to stretch out inherited plans beyond 10 years, many would have; especially since their own retirement plans are typically lacking. And, if they aren't, then the beneficiaries are probably already savers and don't need the cash now (or could see the benefit of leaving the money alone). It wasn't an accident that this tax spigot was opened wider by the new 10yr rule. The feds could see the trend and wanted their share sooner rather than later.
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