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JB Weld is an epoxy glue.

I have mentioned, truthfully, that none of my guns cost as much as her engagement ring. In fact, all of them together didn't cost that much (well, I may have passed that benchmark in the last year or so). I get no grief. I'm a lucky man.

The great outdoor writer/humorist Patrick McManus wrote a column on this years ago. I only remember a couple of his suggestions now, including bringing home a new rifle with picture wire attached ("look, honey--I got a great wall hanging"), or a lampshade ("look at this great lamp"), but my favorite was the expandable gun cabinet. OK, this was back in the day when gun cabinets had glass fronts and sat in the den, like fine furniture. The theory was that wives noticed how many empty slots there were, so every time you brought home a new gun, you expanded the cabinet, to make sure those two empty slots on the end were never filled.

That's a drake...

Roundup is a herbicide, not implicated in honeybee deaths. You're thinking of the neonicotinoid insecticides, which may be implicated.

80's GI Joe was so very, very inferior to 60's GI Joe.

Headspaces on the case mouth, it appears... :-)

I've used Amazon for many years, and never encountered that. Which only goes to show to what extent NJ tax policies have driven the manufacturing base out-of-state.

There shouldn't be a mandated limit. I'd imagine production has been ramped up to the extent it was fairly easy and cheap to do so. The manufacturers all have to make their own predictions on what they think future demand will look like. If the current situation is viewed as a 'bubble' in demand, it wouldn't make good business sense to make big capital investments in new or expanded production lines that will be underutilized in the future. I've heard, but can't directly confiirm, that some of the issue we have finding reloading components is due to manufacturers diverting their own production of components into their ammo manufacturing business. They're still cranking out primers, bullets, etc...but if they have an ammo production line to feed, that line gets first dibs. Makes sense, actually.

Thanks, All, The suggestion to check the CMP forums eventually lead me to the wonderful http://www.garandgear.com website, where I found this: http://www.garandgear.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106:shooting-commercial-ammunition-in-your-m1-garand&catid=39 They didn't test the specific ammo I have at home, but the link will likely help others. I'll be either pulling the bullets of my Winchester ammo and reloading to M2 specs, or buying a ported gas plug for the M1.

When did being a captain of industry stop being manly?

That's cool. If only it were possible to find the two boxes of CCI rimfire! If you enter the link starting with the 'www.' into your browser, the link will work. The http's break it.

Sure. Who else has CCI Std Velocity in stock?

?? What are these misses, of which you speak?

Grand Island (Neb.) school district is forcing a 3-year-old deaf boy to change the way he signs his name, because they say his gestures violate their weapons policy. You'd hope this article was just a parody written for The Onion. You'd be wrong. http://now.msn.com/school-says-deaf-boys-name-sign-looks-too-much-like-a-gun Key quote inserted parenthetically into the story by the reporter: "that sound you just heard was our heads exploding from all the stupid"

Sophisticated little buggers. They can describe what you look like, and what you are wearing. Maybe critique your marksmanship as well! http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/researcher-decodes-praire-dog-language-discovers-theyve-been-calling-people-fat.html

He's got a nasty flinch--evident when the round doesn't fire--but that's probably the least of his problems.

I've got a very cool one-day-a-year (July 4) part-time job as a pyro crew chief for a local fireworks company. The mortars for the hand-fired shows top out at 6" diameter, shells lofted by black powder lift charges. The finales are chain-fused together, which I guess counts as 500+ mortars firing on full-auto.

Can you ride a Bloomberg Citibike to go get a large soda? Or is there something in the rental agreement that prohibits, er, protects you from doing so? And his name shouldn't be attached to the project (well, maybe if it fails...). Other cities have had these for some time; it's not like he came up with the concept.

Dad started me out when I was 7. I started my son at 7, under close supervision in both cases, but by the time I was 12 I was cleared to take the .22 or shotguns out on my own--though this was on a farm out west. I really wanted a BB gun when I was young, but Dad saw that my peers were getting into trouble with BB guns--they weren't taking them seriously. So when I was 12, I was given the .22 that my Grandpa had given my dad at that age. After I'd shown I could be responsible with the .22 for a year, Dad gave me a BB gun when I was 13. At the time, I thought that was completely backwards. Years later, I realized the genius of his plan. I was an extremely responsible/safe BB gun owner!

When my son was young, I gave him an RC truck for Christmas. Nothing fancy, just a 2 channel Radio Shack special--but I wrapped it up in a box with the wheels just sticking out through slots in the bottom. I pointed it out as the box he should open next, then stepped out of sight and picked up the control. Watching him chase the speeding giftwrapped box all through the house was the highlight of the holiday.

They won't miss them, then. Wait on the loading dock tomorrow, sign for the delivery yourself, then give me a couple as freebies (for thinking of this) when you get the box home. :-)

I'm an avid competitor in several shooting sports, and found I just wasn't competitive when I was throwing bullets downrange. I had to upgrade to firearms just to level the playing field. A few are family heirlooms. One or two I bought just because some government functionary said I shouldn't have that kind. If I really distrust the judgement of a government functionary, when they say I must do something, I find it a compelling reason to do the opposite. Some have distinguished themselves by being so consistently wrong, that choosing the opposite course of action is usually a pretty good bet.

For those who haven't already learned this lesson the hard way, twist drills tend to grab PVC pipe and whip the pieces around if you thought you could hold it by hand, or bust up the pipe (at least in smaller diameters). Spade bits (the flat, woodboring bits) work much better.