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    Look for Fox Farm nutrients. The stuff is top notch. It's kinda geared towards pot growers but I've been useing it exclusively this year and the little veggies I do have are producing way more than they ever have in years past and the only thing I have changed is the fertilizer

    Thanks for the tip!

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    Want do you grow in your garden? What do you use as fertilizer and pest control and why? I have a variety of lettuce, sweet and red onion, Garlic, chives, rosemary, parsley, snow peas, radishes, carrots, potatoes, strawberry, blueberry, wild raspberry. Soon I will add my tomatoes, bell peppers, cayenne and tabasco peppers. I also have 10 apple trees and 2 plum trees. I use garden tone general fertilizer along with I compost everything that I can and amend my soil with the compost also. I only use lady bugs and preying mantises for pest control.

     

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    We doubled our raised beds this year.  I might add a few more next year before I run a second irrigation circuit.  This picture is two weeks old.  On the far right side, the farthest bed in the rear is one of the tomato beds.  Those plants have grown so tall, they're taller than the trellis/support already.  That's 7' from the top of the soil in the bed.

     

    As far as what we grow, we typically have multiple varieties of beans and peas.  Lots of cucumbers and squashes (almost one bed of each).  There's an entire bed of bell peppers and two beds of tomatoes.  We also have blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries though for berries, we usually pick the wild canes on the land I lease for PX and haul a gallon of berries a day at the peak of each berry type.  We have an asparagus bed that we'll be able to harvest next year.  Broccoli, eggplant, cabbage, chinese cabbage, leeks, onions, garlic, potatoes, lettuce, kale, and a whole bunch of different herbs like rosemary, mint, and sage.  My wife pickles and cans a fair bit.

     

    For fertilizer, we use tomato-specific food for the tomatoes but everything else gets a fish-based fertilizer that is basically plant crack mixed with plant 'roids.  We also have a three bin compost "pile" which we use to dress the beds.  My wife also farms worms indoors and they produce some amazing compost.  Interestingly, the liquid that they generate isn't to be applied to plants that bear vegetables or fruit but does wonders on the lilies out front.  When they opened up this year, we had some that were nearly 6' tall and 8" across when they bloomed.  

     

    We don't have many pest issues as we companion plant so the plants typically protect themselves pretty well.  We do have a garter snake that is actively eating slugs.  The little guy started as an 8" worm and now he's about 2.5' long.  We also let the chickens (you can see the coop in the rear of the picture) free range the back half of the yard which helps keep pest numbers down.  I let them free range the front half when I'm out there as they like to eat the vegetable plants if I'm not watching.

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    I just wrapped up a three day Critical Carbine Employment course with Steve.  Think of CCE as using a Carbine 2 course as base material then pushing beyond that.  Steve, in my opinion, is filling the gap left by Pat's passing.  He's a fantastic teacher and he slew sacred cows left and right during those three days.  He gave the hows and the whys behind his material and it all makes good sense.  More importantly, it was translating to me (and the rest of the class) being a better gunfighter.  I won't go into too much detail but if he comes through your area, go to his class.  Learning will occur.

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    Is 8 months still considered "temporary" in the midwest?

     

     

    Geeze.... I could have built 5 stores by now from scratch. :)

     

     

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    What a ride it's been.  Multiple dev teams, multiple designers, a couple of attempted scams, and now, the only hold up is finishing the wholesale side of the cart.  All wholesale will be run through the online store which is a huge change from the previous cart.  Actually, there's just one aspect of the wholesale side that's holding us up and if it looks to be something that will take a lot of time to address, we'll launch as-is and worry about it later when it becomes an issue.

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    How many you want? A friend of a friend owns a bowling ally and is planning on replacing all the pins this fall. Last time he threw all the pins out. He said I can have as many as I can take. I plan on taking a truck load LOL

    Thanks but freight's gonna be a killer.  I'm going to hit up the local bowling alley and see if they have any to dump though.

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    I've had no problems with it. Shot in bolt guns, Saiga, and Garand. Shoots like M80. This ammo was bought in the last 6 months.

     

    Did you have these problems with recent or older ammo? Curious.

    Older.  Would be about two years now.  I bought it from a friend who had sold his last .308 and he was dumping any leftover ammo.

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    I'd refrain from shooting corrosive in a semiauto. You really need to clean the entire gun if you do. Not really an issue in a bolt gun.

     

    Haven't seen corrosive 308 in some time. SG Ammo has Tula steel case for 40 cents a round. It's not as accurate as the most of the other stuff out there and dirtier. The ZQI is great stuff at 50 cents a round and gives you boxer primed brass for reloading.

    I don't know if all ZQI .308 is loaded the way the stuff I received is but if it is, it's overpressure.  Blown primers and pierced primers with the last one taking the tip of my firing pin with it.  Brass was trashed due to primer pockets loosening up.

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    Cool basement.

     

     

    The oxygen tabs will and if sealed properly, kill any pests. ....

     

    Rice beans pastas....salt pepper flour will keep for many years. ...but not in a to sensitive garage or shed...basement is your friend

    Sugar is good too.  Can be used as a preservative as well as medicinally.

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    Or keep a set in the car in case you're trapped in traffic and an attack/gunfight takes place near you.  Throw the armor on and get clear of the area.

    This is the only situation in which I have even considered using steel plates.  The vibration and jostling of ceramic plates kept in a vehicle are rather concerning to me.  But I did away with the thought of having any plates in my car.  I don't condition with them so putting them on when I'm mobile would likely hinder me more than help.  I carry a SBR when I'm in the woods and not carrying a 10mm or .45 Super pistol and that weighs 8lbs.  After walking a couple miles with some elevation changes, I'm sweating and breathing heavy because I'm out of shape.  Now imagine three times that weight in the form of a PC with plates, mags, and support gear.  I have a SCAR 17 in the car with mags of AMAX and AP with a med kit and that's enough peace of mind for me.

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    Zeroing some rifles and confirming zeroes on others.  I have a three day carbine class coming up with Sentinel Concepts and the two 10.5" .223 SBRs on the right will be my primary and backup rifles.  I want to run the one with the CMR handguard as the primary to shake it out and see how well it performs as it's a parts gun that I assembled.  I know how well the LMT on the right runs as it's had over 20K rounds through it, mostly in classes over the last five years.

     

    Not pictured: SCAR 17 that I changed from a 100 yard zero to a 50 yard zero as the 50 yard zero of a 155gr AMAX at 2700fps is closer to the BDC calibration of the ACOG than the 100 yard zero.

  21. Posted

    almost positive that upper is reciprocating the handles look like they are screwed right into the BCG.   The design looks just like the old LAR upper (company sold to Remington).  Then same family opened Crosshill technologies and continues to make the same side charger upper.  I have one of those which i have no complaints about and is a bit cheaper.  

    Crosshill is out of business now.

  23. Posted

    Aholes....

    Some FFLs don't want to do transfers and there's usually a business reason behind it.  When PX was still a home-based operation, I discouraged transfers by setting my rates higher than 3/4 of the FFLs in town.  I still did some transfers and my typical transfer client was one who valued service and time more than the cost of the transfer.  They knew when they made an appointment for their transfer, I would be available at that time otherwise it would be a free transfer.  They knew that if they did a no-call, no-show without extraordinary circumstances, they would be on the hook for another 50% of the transfer fee because they understood time is money and when I blocked off a time to do their transfer, I wasn't doing other work which was an opportunity cost for me.  I would say more than 80% of transfer clients were repeat clients too.

     

    As things stand now, in our new location, we don't do transfers at all.  The location is too remote and most people around here would get lost trying to find the place.  When we first opened up, the UPS and FedEx drivers both called to find the location and between the two of them, had over 70 years of delivery experience on that route.  Now imagine how much time we'd spend on the phone helping people find the shop and time is money.

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  24. Posted

    For a little over 300 you can get their lvl 3+ plates which are pretty impressive and will never crack or make you worry about the integrity.

    Having listened to enough people who wear armor while in harm's way, I won't be wearing steel plates which is why I have ceramic level 4 standalones.

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