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If they wait until after the holiday weekend, the Battleship New Jersey will be available*, and would be an imposing addition to the fleet! Send Governor Gopher a message. *Due to decreased tourism, the battleship is being closed after this weekend. Temporarily, one would hope. But if you've been meaning to visit, now is the time.

I thought it was always beer. It must work, I'd never even heard of Kt tape until this thread.

It's too exclusive to associate with the common rabble in the list.

I went through a phase a month or two ago where I traded excess rifle primers for pistol primers, so that my supply better matched my demand (I overwhelmingly load pistol, but do use large and small rifle and pistol). I moved a lot of primers around, but I think my stash now meets my needs. If I find excess of something in the future, I'll put them up to trade. It's funny, I remember when 'rebalancing the portfolio' referred to trading stocks and bonds...

I'll bet you would be uncomfortable posting your username and password for your online accounts here. I think the only difference is that posting here would make your accounts visible now, while giving Experian the information won't make them visible until the next security breach.

Oooh, I know this one! It's ham!

Yeah, no. That's not gonna happen. I can't believe anyone would go for that--we've no basis for thinking Experian security is better than Equifax, and their competitor Equifax exposed the records of 145 million people just three years ago...and they didn't even realize it for two months.

It is a code. We're not sure what it means. All that is certain is that in this context, it doesn't mean meatloaf.

More members than usual met the Geiser truck this morning...probably 50 cars. Some of the high-volume shooters were picking up 20+ flats (of 10 boxes), which they'll do a couple of times a year...down to small orders of 2-3 flats. It was good to see that the prices haven't gone up at all this year. They're still selling a fair amount of components (they can't deliver powder or primers, just wads and shot). I saw one guy picking up 15 or so bags of shot...I can't see the return on reloading target loads right now, but i guess if you have a very high volume press it can work out.

That one still infuriates me. Because one of the perps had been picked up for illegal possession of a handgun 9 months earlier. He was found passed out on a lawn with a loaded handgun in his pocket. But he was released on bail, and subsequently found not guilty of the charge, because he had passed out due to an overdose of PCP. And so he walked because he was deemed by the court to have been too drugged up to be aware that he was carrying a loaded handgun. Which is the most convoluted, f*cked-up application of 'two wrongs somehow make a right' that I've ever encountered. And it's why Karif Ford was a free man when he entered the Short Hills Mall parking garage planning to carjack a Range Rover. Perp in deadly carjacking has walked on previous gun charges because he was too drugged up to know what he was doing

Well, you want to be really sure the propellant is gone, and you're not trying to puncture a pressurized can with a plugged nozzle. Not that plugged nozzles should be much of a problem with penetrating oil.

Who the hell notices the flip flops in the photo?

Couple of tubes of JB Weld and you'll be fine!

A few knots.... We've got JCP&L power, so we're toast. A few knots is all it takes to knock JCP&L customers offline.

I think NJ will again try to regulate things outside of their borders. California residents cannot buy ammo out of state and bring it back with them. Not since the background check law passed. There was a brief stay, but an appeals court upheld the law a few months ago. California residents can't drive across the border and buy ammo in Nevada. Which is why I'm concerned about what NJ might do. If they're willing to use police to stem the flow of roman candles from PA, I don't think they'll hesitate to be even more heavy handed when it comes to ammunition.

You can't buy ammo in California if you aren't a resident. When California implemented the background check requirement for buying ammunition, they specifically excluded non-residents from qualifying. CT and MA have permitting requirements for buying ammo, though it is possible to qualify as a non-resident. Still interference, though. Murphy has said he wants to make NJ the California of the east. He watches every bit of liberal wet-dream legislation they pass, and asks himself 'how can I do something similar, but even more stupid?'

NJ has used NJ police resources to stake out parking lots at PA fireworks stores near border crossings. I suspect they'll get even more stupid over something like this.

Counting boxes or cases seems like a lot of work. Much simpler to just to measure floor joist deflection under your ammo stash; when the floor isn't sagging sufficiently, it's time to buy more ammo. That won't work if you are storing it on a concrete slab, but in that case tracking the distance from the top of stash to the ceiling would probably be a decent metric.

Excel? No. Oracle RDBMS!

I'm sure it's a deterrent, and I'm sure that is by design. That said, not all towns bother calling the employer. For the last 20 years in which I lived in two different towns, my employer was never contacted. I know this because I always list my direct office number as my employer's number, figuring that if called I might be able to confirm my own employment, or worst case I transfer the call to HR. But they never called. Not once. So an applicant might get lucky, depending on where they live.

Ah. If that was the comparison, then yes, much easier to move, though not as good in very cold temperatures.

OOh, if we can submit requests to fix the language... Make them stop referring to 'bullets' as 'heads'. 'Bullet' is perfectly descriptive and widely understood. Cases already have a 'head' and it's on the opposite end from where the bullet goes.

To put a bit of a silver lining on it, "America out of Ammo" or "The Country is Literally out of Ammunition", as the linked story is titled, also means "Americans are in Possession of Record Amounts of Ammunition". It's the wholesale and retail channels that have dried up. Ammo consumption hasn't skyrocketed the way that ammo purchasing has, and as a result there is a lot more ammunition in private hands. It's not all good news. Wholesalers and retailers are suffering without adequate product to sell, and the many, many new gun owners are strapped for finding ammunition for their new purchases, largely due to greater purchasing volume (and/or outright hoarding) by gun owners who have been through cycles like this a time or two.

The weight issue is almost a wash, but may slightly favors gas. Tare weight on a 20 lb BBQ tank of propane is usually about 17 lbs, so a full tank is 37 lbs, a Blue Rhino refill is 32 lbs, since they only fill 15 lbs in a tank. 5 gallons of gas weighs 30 lbs, or maybe 32 lbs in a plastic gas can. Further up the thread, it was posted that a propane tank is equivalent to 4 gallons or 5 gallons of gas (the difference between the posts I suspect is due to fill amount in the propane tank). Each has advantages and disadvantages, but I went with gas to avoid buying a bunch of $35 propane tanks that have to be re-tested or scrapped every 10 years if you have them filled yourself. Blue Rhino will exchange the outdated tanks, so you can avoid the retest cost, but not the purchase cost or the 15 lb fill limitation. At present, gas locally costs a little more than half what an equivalent amount of propane costs

No, we started the morning at 5 stand, then archery. Didn't make it to the rimfire range till about 5 pm, then finished at pistol at 6. Sorry we missed you.