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I have a Konus Sight-Pro MR 7246 that's new in the box. I'm asking $60

I happened to catch it on the recent topics sideboard on the main forum page. Honest!

Mecgar is the OEM for these. My SP01 came with 15 round Mecgar mags when I bought it, and I picked up a few more at the CZ online store for $25 each.

When I bought my SP01 it came with factory 15 round magazines. You can get more from the CZ online store for only $25. https://shop.cz-usa.com/P-11100/Mag-Cz-75b-9mm-15rd-Mecgar.aspx I'm voting SP01, since I'm biased.

Here's a generic shot of the BK-7. I used to have a Busse FFBM, but it was just too big to be really usable. This one is a much more useful size to carry, plus it can still split wood in a pinch. It's also exponentially cheaper, they're anywhere between $55-70, depending on where you look. The only downside is that the sheath is really cheap. There are some nice kydex options out there though.

Speaking of KaBar, look into the Becker-KaBar collaboration knives like the BK-7. I just picked one up last week, and it's fantastic.

I've had a pile of mechanical watches over the last few years, but, like with guns, I tend to buy and sell them after about a year. Right now I have a large hand wind Victorinox pilot's watch. Of all the watches I've sold, I probably miss my Ball Engineer Master II Diver. Bright green bezel and glowing tritium tubes were pretty unique.

The only two I don't consider shooting often are my 12ga Ithaca Flues side by side from 1915, and the Walther P38 that my Grandfather brought back himself from WWII. Everything else is fair game.

It's 7.62.

I really hope the store in Sayreville pans out.

You should sell one of those top of the line pistols and buy a keyboard that has a functional caps lock key.

Yeah, I didn't get into the technical aspects of cycling a tank, since it seems like the process of cycling was completely new to him anyway. If he decided to go ahead with a tank, I'd hope he would do the research and find out how to do that properly. Although, I prefer cycling tanks by adding pure ammonia, a few drops per day to get the cycle started. Beats stressing out a fish, or throwing rotting shrimp in your tank.

Setting up a viable salt water tank takes weeks, and careful monitoring. Plus, the parameters for maintaining a smaller tank are more stringent, because the water's chemistry are magnified in a smaller space. In all honesty, you're looking at $50 or so for a tank, $20 for a heater, $100 for a light, $50-100 for sand and live rock, $50 for a hang on the back filter, $30 for a test kit, $20 for a refractometer, $30 for salt (which you'll need to buy regularly), a spare bucket for mixing saltwater at home, with its own heater and possibly a powerhead to mix the water, plus the cost of fish. All fish tanks go through a process called cycling, where you have to basically allow beneficial bacteria to grow in the water. This involves the creation of ammonia, which is processed into nitrite, and then finally into nitrate. This cycle takes weeks, and if you add fish beforehand, they will become stressed and usually die, as ammonia is toxic. Plus, a tank that size can't hold more than two or three fish before being overstocked. Another matter is maintenance. Salt water requires regular water changes, even more so if they're smaller tanks. That adds to the cost when you factor salt. It's not something you can throw together in a day, unfortunately. If you want to find good information to get you started, head over to www.reefcentral.com

Oh the humanity!

I like my SP01 for what it is, mainly for range shooting and keeping at home, if I ever need it. It's not light by any means, but it fits like a glove and I've never had a failure with it.

Here are some oldies.

I used to go all the time before you stopped calling! Actually I'm heading up to my cabin this Friday, and I'm bringing a few guns that I haven't had a chance to fiddle with yet. He's not an OT guy, just someone I've played poker with a few times. Friend of a friend of a friend.

Why can't I get any reception on this shoe? The guy is a regular at our poker games, I'll talk to him again before he wants to go shoot to gauge his experience. I wouldn't mind teaching him, but if that was the case, I'd rather do it one on one and not with four other novice shooters.

At first I was suspecting that, but in reality, he's kind of a stupid guy. He pretends to be an expert on pretty much every topic, and everyone just takes him with a grain of salt.

I think I'll be busy that day. I also don't really want to have to babysit three lanes full of first time shooters, all using my guns.

I was at a BBQ over the weekend with some friends and a few other people that I've met, but don't know too well. Apparently they were planning an indoor range trip, as most of them have no firearms experience, and as it turns out, I'm the only one who actually owns guns. The one guy that's talking about organizing the outing is talking my ear off about how much he shoots .40 at the range. I ask him if he's into reloading, and he assumes I'm talking about loading the gun himself. Then, when he finally understands what I'm asking him, he tells me no, that you need a permit to reload your own ammo. That's when he tells me he only shoots rentals at the range, and only shoots revolvers because he says pistols shoot gas in his face. He also tells me that left handed pistol shooters have to find left handed pistols because otherwise the brass will eject into their face, and that he has friends that have gone to gunsmiths to have their right handed pistols converted. Yeah. Now I don't really want to go to the range with this guy. He also couldn't stop talking about how he works for the government, pretending to be some kind of secret agent.

My uncle has a few others, including a Ruger Bearcat, a 1911 from the 1920's, and a few others. Dad bought, sold and traded all the time.

Yeah, I did a lot of reading about the Flues last night, mainly because I didn't know how to separate the barrels from the receiver. Then I found out it's as simple as pulling the hand guard straight down. I do know that my Dad fired it before, and I want to say it was with 2 3/4" shells, but it was so long ago that I can't really remember.

Ithaca Flues Field Grade side by side 12ga from 1915 Now I need to stock up on some new calibers.

Remington 700 ADL Synthetic .270 H&R Topper 88 .410 single shot Winchester Ranger Model 70 .270