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It's a good fit for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They've been around since the early days of the internet. https://www.eff.org/

Nicely done!

I wasn't running the extension cords to power strips running all kinds of crap. I said one short cord to the furnace and another to the fridge. Nothing else plugged in. Very modest loads on the 12g conductors When you referred to an illegal backfeed, that usually means wiring up a suicide plug, plugging it into the nearest 15 amp outlet, and maybe remembering to turn off the main breaker. The problems with that setup is that the conductor from the outlet to the panel isn't sized to handle the output of the generator (which can overheat wiring buried in the wall) and there is nothing to force you to throw the main breaker, or prevent another person from throwing it back. If what you did avoids those problems, great. Otherwise, transfer and interlock switches are cheap and easy to install. It's a no-brainer.

Shooting the new Dillon catalog, are we?

Got one back today. 'Instant'** in my case meant 18 calendar days. **"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Inigo Montoya

Most of the humans to ever inhabit the planet were born and raised without benefit of electricity. So it can be done. It's just inconvenient... :-)

That's a great link. Also, the front section of most reloading manuals (I favor the Speer manuals) have a ton of information on cartridges and components--useful stuff, even if you never use the load data for anything.

We were out 9 days with Sandy, 8 days for Irene. Neither time did it strike me as a 'push comes to shove' situation...more of an inconvenience. Hardly worth endangering the house wiring or the linemen working to restore power. The family got through the first one with an ice chest, the gas grill on the porch, and a couple of propane lanterns. Got through the second one with 4 hours a day of borrowed generator, and short, heavy gauge extension cords to the oil furnace and the fridge.

I don't know if that used to be the case, but current rules specify 32 cal as the minimum for the centerfire stages in Bullseye shooting. Cal 32 also offers a huge advantage in terms of reduced recoil relative the the .45, but there aren't many accurate options made for it.

Ah--I misread. Yep, the Honda is an absolutely primo generator.

Yeah, prices have been insane since Sandy Hook. Everybody's worried about the legislation that would reduce their capacity from AA to AAA.

I could see where installation of the transfer switch and associated wiring would run up the cost...but the Generac GP 6500 itself is only $800 on Amazon. The higher end XG6500 is a little over $1000. You can buy a transfer switch for $300-$400 and install it yourself (I do recommend pulling a permit, since you're working on the panel, but a look at the Reliance Controls website will take you to videos showing how to install).

Generac 5500 here; great reviews, best price via Amazon (no tax and free delivery). Still deciding between an interlock switch (easier and cheaper, but I don't have two free breaker slots in the panel) or a transfer panel, but eventually I'll have an outside plug and can quickly get furnace, fridge, septic lift pump, and a few lights running.

I saw this earlier on one of the pilot bulletin boards. The pilot would have planned to climb out at maximum angle of climb (which is steeper than the more-commonly used maximum rate of climb) for reasons already described. It's hard to tell what the deck angle really is from the perspective of the dash cam, but it does look impossibly steep--which is the case if you exceed maximum angle due to load shifting or control malfunction or whatever. There simply isn't enough power available to prevent the airspeed from decaying, leading to an aerodynamic stall, often followed (as was the case here) by a spin entry. Light planes don't have a very good track record of recovering from stall/spin scenarios at low altitude; I can't imagine how hard it would be in a plane as large as a 747. It does look like they recovered from the spin entry (the first step), but didn't have enough altitude to recover from the stall. RIP.

So a 10 round SOCOM mag (which one might think would be NJ legal) would look an awful lot like a 30 round 5.56 mag?

Very nice! I just started looking for extra mags for my 10-22T...and even they seem to have evaporated! Anyone have leads on local or mailorder sources? I'm just looking for plain vanilla 10 round factory-style 10-22 mags.

Probably not even that...I'm sure her vote will continue to be cast. One of the many hallmarks of Chicago politics that is spilling over here.

Yep--and if they find you also have an RCBS Rock Chucker press in your posession, the talking heads would be all over the media claiming they had busted an operation for reloading LAWs, probably for shooting down airliners. This is such a weird state...

Agreed--a very good infographic, and much more useful because it does cite sources for everything (not that I've checked the sources yet).

I hear you. A nonprofit flying club is a good way to bring down costs, if you fly enough to amortize the buy-in and dues. There are a number of them around. I can fly an hour in a Skyhawk or Cardinal for less than the cost of shooting 3, maybe 4 boxes of commercial .45 in an hour.

I almost never watch videos without a reason given. Took a chance on this one--it's a very well done pro-gun testimony given at a gun violence prevention public hearing (I didn't catch where it took place) Edit: Connecticut

Doesn't anybody play outside anymore? Here's a shot of me crossing the Verazzano Narrows bridge on my way into the Hudson River Corridor. Plenty of bogies on this flight, although the Cessna doesn't have guns. Not a screen shot, sorry. :-)

Yeepers. Glad you weren't hurt. I've read that it's good practice to occasionally wash out the insides of the primer feed tubes, to remove the small amounts of priming compound dust that may build up in there. You've reminded me that I'm years overdue for doing that.

True, but based on the prices a couple of those dealers are charging, the services should include a car wash and oil change. Or maybe a second transfer at no charge.

You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly (another scientist here)