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REALLY unfortunate name….

I have been using Chewy autoship for about 2 years. My girl goes through about 40lb a month and I have been getting a 50lb bag shipped each month. I now have 7 months supply on hand and the latest shipment got dropped off last Saturday. I have a longer supply for her than I do for the people in my house.

Rabbits, squirrels and the internet are your friends.

RBT has the ATF crawling up their azz, And yet they produce a third position Giggle switch.

None... I use Firefox on my laptop with AdBlocker Plus. Go up to "Store" on the top, and pay the fee.

Why bother negotiating? Like you said it's only money, can't take it with you.

Epic. Bet a lot of shorts got squeezed if they didn't cash out mid-session. If you're really good you cashed out and went long, but that takes brass balls.

So first some background to aid in understanding. When you join the NRA, you have contributed basically nothing to the legal and political fight for RKBA. That entity isn't legally allowed to do much in that arena. That falls to NRA-ILA, and if you want to donate money to he NRA to affect political change, you should be donating there. The main good the membership part of the NRA does is helping shooting ranges operate. Either via expert input on how to get one built, grants, or access to insurance. Regardless of which of those things you might be donating to, don't reactively donate. Go find the donate button and make a donation. If someone asked you first, it is pretty much guaranteed less of your dollars make it to where you want it to go. Outside of having run the organization so poorly as to put it at peril while mismanaging everyone's contributions, the NRA basically operates on the model of mitigating damage. You don't launch a lawsuit that might set bad precedent. You don't say no to legislation, you ride it into the ground trying to make it less bad. This has worked like shit. So who else is worth donating to? Nationally, the two biggies are the second amendment foundation, and the firerarms policy coalition with gun owners of america stumbling in at third place. The SAF is pretty much focused only on court cases, and seems to be very, very conservative about the cases they initiate, but seems to be seem to be more productive in usefully joining onto suits that didn't originate with them that have some legs. They seem to largely be beating their head against the 9th circuit for a while though. So unless that is a longer term strategy I don't understand, I'm not terribly pleased with the performance in the last few years. Then there is FPC. They seem to be a bit light on lobbying, but appear to still engage in it. They also are a lot more aggressive in pursuing litigation. They may not have won us anything huge yet, but they also haven't screwed us yet. They seem to exercise some decent judgement about the cases they take and they seem to be willing to back multiple horses on a given issue rather than waiting for an ideal case/defendant. As time goes on, they don't seem to be stupid, and they seem to grasp that you can't make the shots you don't take. Also if you read their mission statement, it seems pretty sound and non partisan. GOA is more about lobbying and making headlines. They are brash and kind of annoying at times, but they get attention. It's hard to tell if they carry any weight lobbying or if they are just running around me-tooing everything and sending out press releases when the winds blow their way. They do seem to be shaping up to being the most agile in terms mustering coordinated group yelling at congress, so that's something in their favor. The major downside for them is that they are effectively owned by an individual, which isn't the best plan for a durable and robust organization. There are no real membership benefits to the above, and I suspect they don't ever remove anyone from the rolls kind of like the gun grabbers don't. I've also never gotten a membership renewal request from any of them. the SAF does seem to waste the most money on sending me junk mail. So I haven't bothered to renew my membership to any of them. My general strategy is that I have a budget for donating money for RKBA activism, and at a minimum they all get a Christmas gift of $25. I then make smaller additional donations throughout the year as rewards. If I see a lawsuit I like the looks of and it was launched by FPC, they get another donation. Same for SAF. GOA tends to not get media based donations from me, but occasionally earns some extra cash by getting me useful information fast on federal actions. Locally, we have had a ton of groups stumble through. Many of them absolutely awful and they go away. ANJRPC is the state NRA affiliate. The kindest thing I can say about them is I think they finally got the message that the gun owners of NJ weren't impressed by how they were doing things. They seem to have departed a bit from the mother ship's playbook of focusing on legislation and mitigating harm, and have joined in poking the bear to generate legal challenges. But there's a lot of bad blood between ANJRPC and NJ gunowners as for a very long period, there wasn't much evidence they existed outside of their association with a single gun range and official legal filings. Then there is NJ2AS, which as far as I can tell spearheaded the shift to organized legal challenges in NJ to try and make something actionable happen to challenge the law. It appears to consist largely of Alex, and his traffic accident underscores my concern about any group that is basically owned and operated by an individual. There also always seems to be a perpetual churn of the designated fudd group that only cares about guns and hunting. That seems to currently be the NJOA, but they can't even keep a website up at the moment it seems. While some of the more prominent ones in the past got big enough to generate proof that stupid people in larger groups are dangerous, I'm not sure that these groups aren't just shills for whomever. Then there is the CNJFO. Which seems to have come on the scene to promote community outreach and to try and get the various other organizations to play nice with each other. Their appearance seems to coincide with NJ2AS and ANJRPC starting to appear to have some strategies in common. Here I don't have a good answer. CNJFO got my money this last year, but that is in part because they are the newest face in town and I know some of the people involved. The rest of my state activism budget went to crowdfunding specific lawsuits. I always make sure my amazon smile is always pointing at something pro 2a, and make a point to donate at least the market rate for a case of ammo each year to a variety of groups. The NRA made it clear that not having a plan B is a shit plan.

And screwing up trucking between the US and Canada and Mexico over vaccines likely added to the mess. Seems like the flowchart is: Will this make things worse? Yes: Do it. No: Find something that will.

There are plenty of commercial open parking lots in town. I can probably also come up with a visitor residential parking pass for you so you can park anywhere south of Broad. https://www.bringfido.com/restaurant/city/charleston_sc_us/ You might want to check out The Barrel, outdoor place towards Folly Beach where the dogs can run around.

thx and agree as the whole package is less than what cmp is currently selling just the surplus ammo for TTT

While Halls is awesome and we highly recommend it, at the end of the day it's a classic steakhouse and you can get that anywhere. This is where they have the gospel brunch. For a true Charleston dining experience, these are our favorites: Magnolias Anson High Cotton (owned by Halls) SNOB (owned by Halls) Fig (Mike Lata - very hard to get resy) The Ordinary (also Mike Lata) Hank's Seafood Bowens Island (classic "fish camp") Rodney Scott's barbecue (James Beard winner) Home Team barbecue (3 locations) Lenoir (Vivan Howard) Rutledge Cab (Bill Murray - good for burgers) Leon's Little Jack's Tavern

Here's the list I keep that I share with anyone visiting us: Walkable/Downtown Self-guided walk around downtown (any of the spots below) Carriage Tour of Downtown Charleston Museum Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon City Market (9:30 am - 5:00 pm) Night Market (Fri-Sat/Mar-Dec) Art Galleries (King/Meeting/Broad) King Street walk (shops, restaurants bars) Battery / Whitepoint Garden / Rainbow Row walk 2nd Sunday on King (street fair) Marion Square Saturday Farmers Market Powder Magazine Confederate Museum Harbor Cruise Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor Aquarium Ghost tour (night) Old Jail tour (night) College of Charleston Must drive to Folly Beach / fossils, shark teeth Charles Towne landing historic site and museum Fort Moultrie Shem Creek area (restaurants on the water) Patriots Point / USS Yorktown aircraft carrier Sullivans Island beach / Poe’s Tavern - yes Edgar Allan Poe! USS Hunley civil war submarine (weekends) Plantation tours: Boone Hall, Magnolia, Drayton Hall Fishing, Crabbing - various locations Firefly Distillery tour Tea Plantation tour Kayaking / Paddle boarding Fire Museum Antiques Shooting (indoor/outdoor ranges) Golf

FYI - Chewy.com has 20% off Bil-Jac dog food. We just ordered two 30 pound bags. We use the "auto-ship" feature so not sure if that is required. We are constantly adjusting the shipping schedule and my wife saw the 20%. So figured why not order two bags so don't need to worry about it for some time. We just receive a bag in about 2 weeks ago so we should be set for a while. Will throw it in a plastic storage container in the basement.

This was target. I usually go to petsmart but they were pretty bare too. I have about 2 months supply, maybe a lil more but I'm trying to push that to about 4 to 6 months. Petsmart was telling me they just unloaded pet Halloween costumes a week or two ago. That should give you some perspective of how much crap is on ships.

It looks like we're safe... for now.... they can't even get a SMART gun to fire two rounds in a row... "Smart gun" can't fire two rounds consecutively ....."However, there are problems with these kinds of firearms. We all know it. I’ve talked about a few of them. One of the big ones is reliability. The more whizzbangs you put in a device, the higher the likelihood of failure becomes. Last week, we lambasted reports of a new “smart gun” that Reuters raved about in a glowing “exclusive.” Reuters reporter Daniel Trotta wrote that the third-generation prototype fired “without issue” during a live-fire demonstration for investors and the media. Now though, additional footage of the event has since surfaced that shows the LodeStar Works gun couldn’t manage to fire two rounds without an issue during one of the exercises. Whoops. We can clearly see the shooter state he’s going to fire two rounds. He fires one, then pulls the trigger several more times, only the weapon doesn't fire. Yeah, that’s the reliability thing we were talking about. https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2022/01/21/smart-gun-cant-fire-n54682

This includes 76 clips. They are running 2-5.00 EACH!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had the cash I would take this! Super deal.

I was shooting last month and ran into board members. Also, we need more piss on hanoi jane stickers for urinals!!! Its a good thing. We don't need money and lets keep it small and friendly

Get in now, talk of halting new apps

i think it was burning. no evidence of leaks. not even the oil cooler....which is super common on these engines. the van's got 107k..... back in the 80's guy in the bay next to me did a oil change on a duster with the 225 slant6. the shop was in stratford. customer lived in barrington. customer called saying his car was making a funny noise. boss told him to drive it back. other guy was gone for the day, so i got to check it. dude changed the filter, never added oil. so this customer drove from stratford to barrington and back. i put oil in it, fired it up, and after about 3 minutes it quieted down.

Just above every maker that made a .22 rifle years ago offered a semi-automatic with a tubular magazine that became ostracized by NJ law years later. Savage, Ithaca, Marlin, Remington, Winchester, Browning all made some cool guns that were squirreled away when they became “illegal.”

2024 is a LONG way off....

What a bargain!!

oh that one's a fun one. the driver(who's actually a pretty nice guy) drove the thing not telling dispatcher or owner that the oil light was coming on and off. then the dispatcher used it to do some extra work. noted the oil light, took it back and parked it. driver dude told him that it's normal for that oil light, and not to worry about it. he jumped in it again and drove it till oil light came on steady, and the thing started knocking its brains out. they had it towed in to the shop. i put 4.5 quarts of oil in it. and of course it still was knocking. and yes. the owner's pissed.