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Too rich for my blood.

Bump. Maybe someone has some of these oddities taking up space in the reloading room.

I just ran the snowblower over the drive again to clean up the few inches we got yesterday. Unfortunately when my wife walked the dog yesterday morning she left the poop bag somewhere and it got covered in snow. Ran it through the snowblower this morning. Until today, 'shit hit the fan' had only been an abstract expression. Not as bad as when I was working on a neighbor's ranch while in high school and the foreman ran a skunk through the hay bailer, but still bad.

No worries. Bashing Biden is always a worthwhile hijack!

We're likely to hear from Mars first. The rover is packing a small helicopter. For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that radio-controlled aircraft couldn't be used to explore Mars, since the atmosphere was too thin to support flight. Then, a few years ago, a team went ahead and built one and was able to get it to fly just fine in a low pressure room simulating the Martian atmosphere. Looking forward to seeing what they manage to do with the chopper.

Now awaiting radio transmission confirming it is still in one piece.

Minor correction, Bullseye is pretty fast, as smokeless propellants go. And dirty.

Depending on the circumstances of the accident, perhaps the brother should be on the hook for buying the replacement for the SUV.

I didn't know you were a wreck diver! I've spent a lot of time exploring the shipwrecks of NJ and NY. It's amazing how much underwater history is out there. Seafood, too. I was never tempted to get my own boat, though. Spent a lot of days and more than a few nights on the local dive boats. It's a shame so many of them stopped running...Seeker, John Jack, Wahoo, Diversion, Blue Fathoms, Outlaw...all gone.

There is a process for expelling members of congress. Only two members of the house have been thrown out in the last 45 years, and no Senators have been expelled since the civil war. A year or two ago we had high hopes for getting rid of NJ's elected pedophile/medicare fraud enabler, but it was not to be.

It IS ok. Perfectly legal. The problem is, Palmetto and a few other out-of-state vendors simply choose not to ship to NJ. I think it is mostly due to fear of not keeping up with the changing gun laws in a state known for crazy, then getting jammed up for non-compliance.

The employment question is inappropriate i always listed my company name but gave my direct phone number; figured if I got the call I might be able to verify my own employment. Worst case I’d transfer the call to HR in 20 years, the police never called. But some departments do.

No idea...I'm not nearly brave enough to run off to a gun show on Valentine's Day. Edit: Uh oh, just realized I'll be away at a match in the morning...

Unless the state gets their cut. States will claim that gambling is either a horrible societal evil, or fun and exciting entertainment for all! Which side of their mouth they are talking out of depends entirely on who is getting the vig.

I haven't heard, but they are made on separate non-convertible production lines, with no commonality of components, so I wouldn't expect 22 production to cease. Unless there are bottlenecks in supply of brass or lead ingots, or they don't physically have enough employees anymore to run all of the lines.

There are a lot of 38 super shooters on the competition forum Brian Enos forum. You might have success listing it there. And it's a great general source of info for the gun games. It's free to post sale ads, and they get a lot of views, but you need to have 50 posts on the forum to establish yourself before you can post in the classifieds section.

If only there were a readily-available, free training program that should be shared with all families to prevent such tragedies! Oh, wait...Eddie Eagle

I think they have tremendous potential to replace one car in two-car families. That's what we're seeing now. Electrics work great as a daily driver for almost any commute. Their weakness is as a real go-places car. You need a gas powered Family Truckster if you want to haul the family to Wally World.

I used to fly RC--really enjoyed it. Mostly .40-size glow fuel models, starting with a kit built Eagle 2 (beautiful plane, but it couldn't be salvaged after it's second crash), then one of the partially-built Big Stick variants (lost in a mid-air collision at the Somerset RC field). I've got a few kits in various stages of assembly in the shop, but haven't touched any of them in over a decade; partly due to lack of time, largely due to not having any RC flying fields in this part of NJ. I do have one electric, a Zagi, which is flyable in a large park...I really should dust that off. I was never at the level where I was ready for, or even tempted by, turbine models. It was cheaper to get my PPL than it would have been to start from scratch with a turbine hobby. But somebody is going to get a great deal when they snap up Texan's turbine gear. I did pick up one new flying toy last year...a V911S electric helicopter (my first RC copter). It's not a big-boy RC chopper by any means, but it is a 4 channel, 6-axis gyro stabilized copter, ready to fly for under $60 with transmitter. V911S copter It's a hoot; easy to fly, challenging to fly well, fast, durable (it only weighs a few ounces so crashes tend not to bother it) and it will fly about 10 minutes before you have to swap in another battery pack.

I think we got an honest 16" where I live in Morris County, with another inch or three expected later today. There were large areas with deeper drifts; much of our deck has over 3', and last night when I finished snowblowing, there was a section of driveway that I hadn't already done once at lunchtime and it was all over 20"...a few inches taller than the mouth of the snowblower. That was fun. I finished just after 11 pm, and we only got a light dusting after that. One more easy pass late this afternoon should wrap it up...and then I get to meet the flying club at the airport, and go through the whole exercise again to dig out the airplane and the tie-down spot. I mostly like snow, but there are times....

If you want a low mileage S&W 915, look no further! Details on request.

Similar here in Morris county. We have a little under a foot, some drifting, but in the hour I spent with the snowblower and shovel at lunchtime, we got another two inches. It's picking up...

It's doable, if you can get the starting materials, but you'd be working with things that are frighteningly toxic, as well as shock-, heat-, and friction-sensitive. I think trying to turn it into a cottage industry would make the safety record of trailer park meth labs look extremely good by comparison. And I can't imagine trying to reload primers, starting with a crushed cup and separate anvil. But, desperate times, and all that. Now, if you want to go all the way back to a flintlock or matchlock with homemade black powder, that's comparatively simple...though getting homemade black powder up to commercial standards still takes some effort.

The dies aren't the problem. Nor the bullets. Dies and molds can be made by any competent machine shop. Priming the cases, on the other hand...

If you are shooting below the horizon, with a good backstop, the rifles/carbines already mentioned would work fine. If you might hunt birds on the farm, want to keep nuisance woodpeckers from wrecking the barn, or won't always have a good backstop between you and the neighbors, a shotgun makes more sense. Buckshot for coyotes, birdshot for birds, bigger birdshot for woodchucks. A 28 gauge is a thing, smaller, lighter in recoil than a 20 gauge, but still bigger than a .410. But they're rare and ammo is expensive and no one stocks it--you could get it by mail. If you think a shotgun is the way to go, try to test fire a 20 gauge semiautomatic; they tend to kick less than a single shot, and often the stocks are more ergonomic which makes the recoil less noticeable as well. Shotgun shoots are organized on this board from time to time, held at wildlife management areas in the state, with a few members bringing clay pigeon throwers, and folks more than willing to let others test fire whatever shotguns they brought.