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move out west of the rockies, you'll get more two gun. East coast, it's 3 gun unless there is some kind of limitation. OB only puts on 2 gun matches when the days are short and time is an issue.

That's cause you don't know how it works. So, dealer pays the manufacturer invoice plus delivery for a vehicle. This is likely financed. To ensure their dealer network can function, the car manufacturers have what is called dealer holdback. This ranges from 2-3% of vehicle invoice or MSRP. It depends on the manufacturer. When the car is actually sold, the manufacturer gives that to the dealer. THEN you have the incentives. These come out of manufacturer profits. Some of them are dealer cash. We have too many of model X, we want them sold, here's some secret cash or the promise of same. SOme of them are competitive or goal based delaer cash. Either for outperforming other dealers ina region, or for meeting volume requirements. That means for those dealers, the cars effectively cost even less. There's also the consumer cash incentives. These are incentives paid to the buyer, but in reality we almost all hand them directly back to the dealer when buying a car. So lets say we have a $20,000 beige toaster on wheels. The invoice of the toaster is $17,500. Dealer holdback is 2% of MSRP. That means they make $400 on that car sold even at invoice. Maybe they get another $200 if they hit volume numbers. You qualify for a competitive cash incentive because of the vehicle you currently drive. There's $500 more. Then maybe there's a regional adjustment because your market isn't going to buy at MSRP or even invoice. Maybe get another $750 there. Now you are discounting to invoice, and You have $1850 of margin. Discount it $500 more and the customer is happy. Push him to the finance office, and you get another $100 finders fee, or if you can sell it to them at a higher rate than the bank is willing to give you on their behalf, you keep even more. Then you shove the warranties at them and maybe make some cash off of the arbitrage business. And that's not even getting into the scum baggery of $600 dealer installed stickers, fake warranties, NOT paying off your old loans on vehicles right away, etc. The invoice is the actual invoice. The dealer will have to hand that much cash to the manufacturer at some point. But the business isn't that simple.

There;s a very good reason why the list of rules matches that of large vendors. Costco doesn't sell guns or magazines. No rules for them. The rules are a copy of wal-mart's so no problem there. Etc. They will take a bunch of small cuts, they jsut don't want any gushers.

We had significant turn out back when the original AWB was passed. I was but a youth and not there, but it was happily ignored then. They give not a shit what numbers show up. THe place has been gerrymandered to death and the voters' asses are not the ones they are kissing. I don't know what will actually make it. We might get lucky seeing how there's a bunch of minor stuff there as well as stuff that is full on bat shit crazy. Some of the more legally insane stuff may be quashed not by us, but by the serious gun grabbers. Mainly because it imperils their bullshit in the courts. Kind of like DC and Chicago. They were prepared to try stupid shit until the cows came home, someone told them to quit it, likely because it would start getting too specific and imperil shit that existed elsewhere.

head-fi forums is a good place to find info hard to find stuff for headphones, or ask people what interchanges with what. https://www.head-fi.org/forums/

I punched out of fear the walking dead already. TWD may be next.

what model? Ear cushions are consumables, and after market replacements are a thing. It's not like cans are usually a bunch of funny shapes, so they aren't necessarily model specific. Leather would actually work worse than what is used. They are desiged for comfort over durability. Hence being a consumable. It is extremely likely you can just order something for the ear cushions. As for the headband, make and model and possibly a pic would help. This may or may not screw you depending on the headphones.

Actually according to law age is handled differently. Best I have been able to find is that age receives protected class status via the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. For which the protected class begins at age 40. The suit was brought up in the state it was because state law there expands it to people under 20 as well. Also sexual orientation does not make one a protected class as of yet. Although they have been working on legislation for it for a while.

Thanks for the link. I lost my twist-o-grip when I moved. This looks like a better version of that.

It's ORM-D, not hazmat, you can ship it to yourself as well.

Lets see if anyone who has used a conversion kit is happy long term. Everyone I have seen claim such has really converted an upper into a dedicated host with a 22lr specific barrel. I have a nordic .22 upper. My experience is that from a training standpoint there is fairly small area of use it covers that it really represents an economic savings compared to just shooting .223 or doing dry fire with your .223 rig. Manual of arms and weapon manipulation are not 100% the same. Feel under recoil is not remotely the same. If you set it up to come close in weight, transitions are meaningful practice. All the marksmanship skills up to breaking the shot are the same. Practicing positions, control manipulation, etc can be really close or even 100%, but so can dry fire or padding out live fire with dry fire runs. If you are shooting irons or a cheap optic and mount, it might be worth it. If you are shooting a quality optic, you may be better off just buying more ammo, coming up with a solid practice plan, and padding your live fire with dry drills to get reps in.

It's a good article and pretty fair. I think it waits until way too far in to discuss two distinct risks 1) The energy cost. It's environmentally bad for no good reason. It also locks out many regions form being competitive in mining. For all the reasons block chain is attractive, you will see a crypto currency arise that is not based on accelerating the heat death of the universe as rapidly as you can. This will be disruptive to existing block chain products. 2) The bubbleness of the market. They discuss good points, but don't get close enough to discussing that one of the primary risks you face is how dishonest the current valuation of any given blockchain product is. I also agree that ICO's are risky, scammy bullshit, and that block chain is not a ponzi scheme. If you get screwed, the mechanics of that will be entirely different from a ponzi scheme.

Doubt it. They would then have to explain them self in court when you appeal it. Let them deny. It establishes a pattern of harassment. They wont though. If they threaten you, schedule an appointment with the chief and the mayor. Make shit roll downhill. Nobody is going to officially cop to mandated harassment, so it’ll all be the fault of the schmuck on the phone.

My $0.02 if someone called with this quesiton, I'd simply ask them under what statute they are conducting this investigation and requiring my answer, and if I can have their contact information once I run it past my lawyer. It's either a legitimate quesiton (we know it isn't), or it is harassment, in which case you want their identifying information.

It's shit. It's poor at corrosion protection, and not a particularly good lube. The sample I had, I would even argue promoted corrosion. There's tons of corrosion tests online with carbon steel bits. In every one of the militec-1 performs like shit, which mirrors my experience. My $0.02 cents on gun care products. 1) Don't rely on CLP type products to protect much. They peak at mediocre at everything except maybe lube, and IMO you need at LEAST an additional C product for cleaning. Once you do that, there are better performing products at lubing, protecting, and both at once than CLP products. My main objection to them as lubes is that if you are going to put anything up for a month or more, many of them are essentially gone when you pull them out, and there are a ton of price competitive products that won't be. 2) The one's I warn people about. -Boeshield T-9. This, IMO is a P and only a P unless you are cleaning before and after range trips. While initially it is a decent lube, left in the safe it gets quite gummy. Not horribly sticky, but almost resin like. KEEP IT AWAY from fire control bits. I used it in the trigger group of my 1911 and it gummed stuff up enough that it caused safety issues. IT does still get used on my blued guns when they get put up for a while, but only externally as a protectant. It's a decent protectant for the off season, and much easier to clean off than some others. -militec-1 As stated above. Crap lube, appears to cause or assist corrosion in my case. Hate it. -froglube. The paste, which I wanted to like, just doesn't work well. It's either a paste not providing much lube, or it's gone after things heat up. The liquid is less objectionable, but is a poor P and a marginal C. As a lube it is ok, but the price is stupid for the level of perfromance. Don't waste your money. Breakfree CLP does a better all around job. Well old breakfree did. Post 2006, it seems to be crappier. -eezox. This stuff is not a very good lube. As a protectant, it has issues. Yes it works. No it doesn't protect for long durations. It's kind of pricey, and the main use I put it to now that I have some is as a quick wipe down on the way out to the range in warm weather, and when I come back. It keeps the corrosion from sweat to a minimum. As a lube it is just too darn thin to stay put in any quantity. And as an L and P, it's too volatile for the thin film left behind to last very long. 3) Cleaners. I have yet to run into one that is really shitty. Do read the warnings about what surfaces the cleaner is safe for though. Most do a decent job and those advertised as carbon cutters do tend to work a bit better on carbon buildup. Those that advertise as copper solvents do work better at that. Usually I pick up some butches bore shine locally. I got some m-pro 7 cleaner for free, and it seems to be a decent less smelly option. 4) Things I replace when I run out. FP-10 It's a nice thick oil. Not too pricey. Good L, ok P, marginal C. Smells OK too. dri-slide. It's a decent dry film moly lube. This is not for people who like their guns to always be shiny clean and makes field stripping your AR a bit of a mess. slide-glide lite. The slide glides are very nice greases. The lite will work down to about 20F in most guns and still stay reasonably greasy up to about 100F (probably higher, that's jsut the range I have personally used it in). It's an L. No C other than it tends to trap carbon particles and keep it off your gun's surfaces where it is applied, and no P other than being a physical barrier where applied. If I put this on one of my novelty/curiosity range toys, and it sits in the safe for a year, it'll be there doing it's job when it comes out.

IMO it was boring, and WTF would you go back to the hill people yet again. It's not really entertaining to watch people make stupid ass decisions in a circle over and over. I'm more than ready for this negan arc to end. It had some dynamic range before, but now it's pretty much comitted to pushing the vegetables around the plate.

My list is based on effectiveness of penetration and if it'll make a big enough hole to bleed out of. It's more or less pass/fail with some marginal budget rounds included. Bonded is bonded. It'll penetrate more, but it'll work well at expanding and retaining weight. You recommended 64gr TRU. Which from the LEO catalog looks a heck of a lot like it is bonded based on the remnants, although that may just be the lower velocity they are pushing it at from a 14.5" barrel. Or it's using the cannelure to act as an interlock design. My personal favorite on paper is the nosler 60 gr varmint. The 55gr BT TRU ammo seems to be the 55gr version since it appears to have an orange tip. The 60 grain increases the size of the solid copper portion at the back and can be had with cannelure like the TRU ammo. Getting ahold of the 55gr with cannelure is random industry lottery of if nosler has a contract overrun. It can be had relatively affordably so it is possible to practice with it without an insane budget if you roll your own. It's preferred envelope is at .223 pressures, said envelope is pretty generous velocity wise, and the SD and BC are such that at those .223 pressures, you keep it in a pretty happy zone. It'll also likely stay in the bad guy, or lose most of the velocity there. It's just kind of picky on barrel and powder for accuracy. The 55gr is less dramatic in that regard and the v-max and z-max 55gr ammo even more so. Construction between them is similar. But with all of them except maybe the lightweight bulk soft point, you miss, it's going to send a decent chunk of bullet through standard construction material, and a fair amount of it.

Apparantly the nosler 64gr bonded bullet is also loaded in the freedom munitions boar buster round for a little over a buck a piece. Whcih isn't bad given that I ahve never found the bullets for less than $0.39 a piece ever. Usually $0.42.

Uggh. too many acronyms. Brain misapplying them. Have ALS holsters. Mounted on ELS or teklok. Also using a GLS for 3gun on ELS. MY $0.02 is the GLS is awesome for 3-gun, but THe ALS holsters are better overall. Better build, better retention, just a bit slower.

I cut the cord so no more DVR, and the show's stupidity these last couple of episodes is so much more painful when you spend 52% of the time watching commercials.

Sexual orientation is a protected class. Age is much less so. Depending on where you live the protected class is 40-50+ and the protection is pretty much only for employment discrimination.

I'm using ALS, even for the pistol holster. I like it.

IMO, projectiles I like. Cheap DIY - hornady 55gr jsp going about 2800 fps. hornady 62gr OTM about the same speed is nice, and the higher BC means the lower velocity works out for you over a wider range. People have been liking them as cheap fodder for nuisance hogs. You can also score 55gr fusion and gold dot bullets in bulk for very reasonable prices on occasion. The 62Gr version of both seems to be less bitchy to load. For 64gr stuff you can go with the nosler bonded performance bullets new and pristine. They do have a pretty flat point though. Hornady z-max 55gr and v-max 55gr bullets are nice and accurate, and have a thick cooper portion at the base of the projectile. Nosler 55gr varmint (orange tip, the pricier stuff) and 60gr varmint bullets are constructed similarly. I find the nosler 60gr to be more picky about loading. If you want expensive, the barnes TSX product line and 77gr OTM from either sierra or nosler work well. Non diy I haven't seen the 62gr OTM anywhere. As far as I know only midsouth sells the heads. So no pre packaged stuff I have been able to find. The hronady 55gr jsp is availabel in 50 round bulk boxes labeled training. It also gets recommended for hogs by some vendors. Item 80255, however might be a litle faster than I would like for the bullet. The hornady bonded sutff is available as the fusion hunting line and the TRU defensive line. Hornady vmax and zmax stuff is available in their z amax line and tap products. The speer bullets are of course in the gold dot rifle ammo. the nosler bullet is in the winchester powermax hunting ammo, 64gr winchester ranger bonded solid base, and nosler defense ammo. Barnes TSX is available from black hills or their own vor-tx line. The 77gr OTM bullets are cheapest loaded in IMI razor core ammo.

I'm not sure why anyone is that bothered by this other than the media looking for anything to upset Trump's presidency. So the unlimited range nuclear powered cruise missile. Odds are real high this doesn't exist as a functional item. If there is funding and will to make it field ready, the applied use won't be nuclear anyway because using it that way would be stupid. The weapon in terms of evaluating military might would be the engine, because you could deploy and unlimited range/indefinite loiter drone and/or sub orbital satellite. It still doesn't put an end to MAD. It could radically escalate proxy wars and police actions though. To that I say good. Then there will be a much higher barrier to engaging in the stupid things. You have the dirty bomb sub drone. Frankly I'm shocked this is news. The concept is literally being fielded by universities on a regular basis. Why every coastal nation state with nuclear powered anything doesn't have something like this is the question. The answer probably lies in the fact that unless you strap a nuclear cruise missile to one, all you are asking for is to have ICBMs launched at you. Do that and it's probably the size of a real sub, and loses a lot of it's lurking ability. For the moment, it's tactically stupid outside of a lurking spoilsport weapon. To have an idea where they are going to be, you likely just have to watch where any of their vessels that can launch a deep sea recovery submersible are going. Hypersonic missile. It appears to just be a plane launched ICBM. OK, welcome to the club. Not expecting Russia or China to reach parity with us with something this simple is absurd. It just means our questionable missile defense technologies are that much more questionable. And once again... MAD. The boost ICBM. It's a small but not insignificant step up from MIRVs. It'll just cause us to do the same. And we'll go right back to the cold war era arms race and MAD. Nothing new. Proliferation of shit you can't afford to use isn't the scary stuff. Look at drones for land, sea, and air with long loiter times and adding machine intelligence to them so that they can't be cut off. Stuff that looks on paper like you cna use it without ending the world. THAT's going to be the dangerous stuff.

Dear god this last episode was stupid. Carl didn't get bit accidentally, he was just joining the smarter team.