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I can’t help with the getting up part, but a pair of volleyball knee pads worn under your pants make a world of difference when dropping down to kneeling on a concrete range floor. I hope they accommodate you in some fashion.

Kinda non-selective. That’ll also take out any cats in the area…maybe other mammals as well, but cats reportedly love antifreeze

The OP was looking for a quiet way to dispatch the ‘chuck in a HavaHart trap .22 shorts also work well, but are harder to find. A bolt action rifle will be a little quieter than a semi

I never had an issue with incandescents, but I really like LEDs, as long as I get the 'warm' ones (which mimic incandescent light), not the 'daylight' ones. I've never, ever had one fail, so they do last a lot longer than the alternatives. I tend to believe the energy efficiency claims, since they're not wasting energy as heat, but I've never made a direct measurement. I do wish they were more dimmable...even the ones marketed as dimmable don't have nearly the range of incandescents when used with a dimmer. Mostly I'm happy that they've pushed the CFLs out of the market. I hated those things.

I'm afraid I don't know. It's not something I do, for liability reasons. The closest I come is letting my nephew reload to his heart's content on my presses, for just the cost of components.

After decades of wanting to go, this week I finally was able to attend the Experimental Aviation Association AirVenture fly-in--known to most people simply as Oshkosh. It's a beast of a show...now in its' 70th year, 10,000 aircraft fly in, and they generally get about 650,000 people through the gate over the 7 days of the event. Daily airshows, night airshows twice during the week, thousands of vendors and seminars, and oh, so many aircraft to look at. I got a ride with another pilot at Morristown; in his Piper Aztec (6 seat twin) the flight time was a little under 5 hours, though we did stop for breakfast near Flint, MI. Sunday afternoon was peak arrivals time, and even with them landing planes at the rate of 4 a minute, we entered the conga line of incoming traffic over 50 miles from Oshkosh. They land on two runways and one taxiway, and have colored dots painted at various distances down the runways so they can clear 2 or 3 planes to land simultaneously, by assigning each one a different dot as the touchdown point. Coming back, we had a painful 3 1/4 hour taxi time just to get to the runway--a lot of planes were leaving that morning--then we flew first to Ithaca, NY to drop off a passenger . That route took us over lakes Michigan and parts of Huron, and Erie, plus a bit of Canada. We were pinned down by weather for a few hours in Ithaca, but eventually got to Morristown 12 1/2 hours after engine start in Wisconsin. Tragically, today there were two accidents resulting in 4 fatalities...a rarity at Oshkosh. A T6 Texan went down with two on board in the lake near the Oshkosh seaplane base, and three hours later at the ultralight runway an ultralight helicopter had a mid-air with a gyrocopter, killing two in the helicopter and injuring two in the gyrocopter, while also destroying a Mooney on the ground close to where we had been camped with the Aztec two days earlier. I've attached pics of the traffic pattern when we were on the approach, of the grounds when we were in the landing pattern, of NASA's SuperGuppy transport which landed shortly after we did, a Ford Trimotor that was giving rides all week, an Osprey, Boeing Dreamlifter, and the C47 (DC-3) we taxied behind on departure. Not shown were hundreds of other warbirds, past and present, including more Mustangs than I could count, a surprising number of Migs of various vintages, 14 Corsairs (over half of the remaining airworthy Corsairs left in the US), great classic planes from the 1920's onward, and lots of videos from the airshows. We had a U2 show up, one of the two flying B29's, F22's doing demos of what they can do with thrust vectoring, formation flybys with up to 40 old warbirds, lots of night airshow video with aerobatic aircraft firing fireworks from the wings and fuselage while flying in front of a very impressive ground-based fireworks show...the list goes on and on. I'll mention only one of the seminars I attended...I got to hear the pilot who flew the very last flight of the SR71 Blackbird...the one that was donated to the Smithsonian Institution at the end of the flight. They got permission for a supersonic transcontinental flight, to set a new record for a coast to coast flight. They made it from LA to Dulles in one hour and 7 minutes. Damn...

The state should have issued a major disaster declaration the day he was elected.

Also, a belated update to my June 21 post above. We won! Best Ribs. $100 gift certificate to Porter Road Meats.

Bump! And I've also got some 9 mm, .308, .357, and .44 jacketed bullets for sale. Details on request.

Phildo will probably name someone from Moms Demand Action as the 2A representative.

They are. A lot of police departments just hand you the 8 1/2 x 11 sheet that comes off of whatever crappy inkjet printer they have. Folding and trimming mine aggressively only got it down to 2-5/16 x 3-5/8" before laminating, and even trimming the laminated copy fairly aggressively it added another 3/16" on each side. So it is inconveniently large, probably by design. Some folks make a reduced-size copy so that it can be laminated and still fit in a credit card slot, but since the photo is glued onto the original printout, you can both see and feel (through the lamination) that it isn't an original with the glued-on photo.

No, it's laminated. Not a reduced-size photocopy, either, it's the inconvenient, oversized permit the state stuck us with. But it drops into the bill compartment of my trifold wallet with only about 3/16" of the clear plastic sticking out the top...barely visible in the photo below.

Not a great solution, but I keep mine in the bill compartment of my wallet...long axis facing up, so it doesn't get folded with the billfold, and only a little bit of it sticks out the top of the wallet and gets crinkled in my pocket.

Expanding on this, Collectibles Insurance Services (much less expensive than NRA firearms insurance) wanted a basement safe raised 6" above the floor. I think that was due to a combination of no sump pump, and home within several hundred yards of a stream...being a hundred feet above the stream didn't seem to matter.

It'll depend mostly on the diameter of the stumps, and a little on how accessible they are, and if you want the chips left in place, or removed. It's been awhile since I've had any done, and like Griz said, the quotes were generally folded into the cost of removing the trees. It has been a lot of years since I've had a service out just to grind stumps. It wasn't inexpensive... If they leave the chips, check under them...I had one crew leave the stumps slightly above ground level, hidden under the huge pile of chips. I had to call them back to finish the job. If you want to plant grass over the stumps, you'll have to specify that you want them ground down at least 4 inches below ground level.

This got me wondering how the French media is handling the reporting, so I checked out the English versions of Le Monde, France24, and Le Figaro. Interestingly, they aren't pulling any punches...endless references to violence, arson, looting, attacks on police, impending breakdown of society... Worlds apart from the 'mostly peaceful protests' crap the US media was reporting during the BLM/Antifa riots.

I smoked a small (10.5 lb) packer brisket for a family dinner today. I trimmed, injected, and rubbed yesterday afternoon--I really like the Loot N' Booty Jolly Roger Jalapeño Garlic Black Rub as the base rub, though I applied a light coat of a flavoring rub over it. The brisket went on over oak and mesquite smoke about 12:30 this morning, I wrapped it around 4:30 am, and it was ready about noon today. I separated the point from the flat and smoked them unwrapped for the last two hours, to firm up the bark, which softens while wrapped. I've taken to cutting the entire point into cubes and lightly saucing before putting them back on the smoker to make burnt ends. These were excellent. I sliced the flat and served it unsauced; it was a bit overdone, but the flavor profile was good. I realized my brisket knife is seriously in need of sharpening...

We rented a late-model Pacifica out west last month. They'd made some odd design choices. There was a cluster of intermingled and indistinguishable overhead switches for dome lights and to open both sliding doors and the rear hatch, so in the dark you never quite knew what was going to happen when you reached for a switch. And the selector for the automatic transmission was a rotary dial on the center panel...turn clockwise to go from P=>R=>N=>D. That rotary dial was right next to an almost identical rotary dial for radio volume...

Read the label on the bottle; it will tell you if it's kosher or not. (I figured it was time for some actual snark to appear in this thread)

I'll take it! PM to follow.

I smoked a lot of ribs over the weekend…4 lbs of beef short ribs (the 4-rib plate weighed 4 lbs), and 6 ½ lbs of baby back ribs. I went with a somewhat spicy rub and thin BBQ sauce glaze on the short ribs, and a ‘more sweet than heat’ flavor profile for the rub and sauce on the baby back ribs. Since the beef ribs needed a three hour head-start, they were smoked over oak with a little mesquite, then I switched to cherry when the baby backs went on. Part of the rationale for the ribs was an online BBQ contest I’m entering. I’ve won a bit of money with these in the past. The current contest is for rib entries. Only a single photo, and no more than two sentences of cook description, can be entered, so it’s largely a competition on plating and photography. Still, cooks put a lot of effort into making the food taste great, even if that won’t be judged. Anyway, the last photo is my entry: both types of ribs, plus fresh corn and tomato/cucumber salad. I won’t know how it places until the third week of July. But the ribs were great, especially the beef ribs. That is a very decadent cut of meat when smoked properly. Belated update on July 28: We won, best ribs! $100 gift certificate to Porter Road Meats.