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I checked my eBay history, looks like he's not selling them anymore. Here is the seller's profile if you want to try to contact him. https://www.ebay.com/usr/colts24_7

I have/had the Generac cellular version. It provides very limited feedback, zero control and is subscription based = $$$. Now I'm running GenMon on a Raspberry Pi. I bought a pre-built one off of eBay since I knew next to nothing about Pi/Linux etc... at the time. I know a little bit more now. https://github.com/jgyates/genmon MUCH more feedback and I can control it remotely as well. No subscriptions to worry about. Provides email and/or SMS notifications and uses a web interface. I use OpenVPN to connect when away from home. I just haven't figured out why I can't get OpenVPN to work with my new Router yet. The Pi runs off of the Genset battery so it always has power and I have my networking components on a battery UPS, so as long as FiOS stays up it has connectivity. The problem I've been working on is the Pi keeps dropping off of my Wifi network. If your Generac is newer and gets firmware updates via Wifi, this might not be an option since Generac has decided to encrypt the communication on the controller. I have not followed the progress of any workarounds with that, my Genset is older and does not have that ability/issue. https://github.com/jgyates/genmon/issues/374 My power was out from 1230 Tuesday to 1520 yesterday, my Generac ran the entire time. Somehow FiOS stayed up as well, I read complaints where Cablevision/Optimum/whatever they are calling themselves now was/is down. My guess is that FiOS is better at finding other paths to keep the service up, while cable does not have the same redundancy. During other outages I would see Cablevision with the small Honda generators connected to the amplifiers on the utility poles to keep the service going. Did not see that this time, too much line damage, or cuts in the budget?

Are you talking about a second class, or moving the Aug 29 class?

@Zeke^^^^^

Does he want to wear them or does he want to see us in them?

Right this moment, I have the least amount of bullets. Once this order comes in I'll have the least amount of primers. Cheyenne only had powder as of last Friday.

Thanks for the lead. I just placed an order. They say they're currently working on a four week backlog, but they haven't raised prices. 3000 rounds of 145gr 9mm for $241.00 to my door.

I have the original Fireboard. Wi-fi or blue-tooth based on the range you need. I can get alerts via SMS/eMail and/or the App. Alerts for each probe individually, High/Low and/or loss of communication. Monitor on phone or browser. Cloud connected, so I can monitor from anyplace I have internet access. Can also store log of my cooks for future reference, I believe they recently added the ability to add photos as well. I don't rely on that feature much; I use OneNote for my logs. Support is very good. American company, Made in America; possibly/probably with sourced parts. https://www.fireboard.com/

Reminds me of a conversation I had with my brother the other day. We were discussing his upcoming first trip the range with me and I was giving him a run down of the guns I had he could test. His response was something along the line of "you have all of those, I thought you just had the one?!" Just one, HA!

I'm no expert, but it looks to be in pretty good condition to me.

Briskets stay nekid on the Smoker, get wrapped for the rest period. No fancy injections or brines, basic dry rub gets applied 12-24hr before the cook, then a second lighter coating just before going in. Brisket cooks avg 15hrs for a 14 pounder. Shortest was just under five hrs for a couple of three pounder flats, longest was 19hr for 17.5# Packer. Never had a complaint. Ribs don't get wrapped at all; they go 4-6hrs. Pre-Smoker days the wife would drag me out to Chili's when she wanted Ribs; haven't been back since. Too bad I don't have some defrosted Ribs right now......

I don't have one to offload, so can't help you there. But... If you find one that is beyond a distance you're willing to travel with your truck, shoot me a PM, maybe we can work something out. Also, I've been addicted to home-made BBQ on my MAK Pellet Smoker for sometime now, and willing to answer any questions. amazingribs.com was a wealth of info for me.

I'm kicking myself for not buying more reloading components when it was in stock. My idea at the time was to buy small qty as a test, then stock-up. Boy was that a stupid plan. I should've stocked up then, could've always sold if reloading didn't work out for me.

Welcome & Congrats. Fair warning if you stick around here and follow LGS fb sites it will be far from the last. I just, as in minutes ago, bought another (used) pistol from a fb ad. Bad part is I've got a three week wait for my 30 days to be up. Please consider following and joining/supporting one or all of the 2A Orgs we have in NJ that fight the good fight on a daily basis.

Insane speed increases too. Wi-fi, same devices, same location, roughly the same time of day and same other network traffic. Using speedtest.net, results went from ~40 down & ~60 up to low-to-mid 200s down & low 100s up. Considering I'm on a 200/200 FiOS plan, I'm very pleased with those numbers on Wi-fi. Can't get OpenVPN to connect yet, must be missing something. Will need to play with it more later. While I'm at it.... any Raspberry Pi gurus here?

Howell Gun Works was selling a case of American Eagle 124gr FMJ for ~$200 before this mess started. Last time I was in there (~2 months ago) it was ~$250. I think you'd be lucky at that price now, if you could find it.

I'd guessed that you'd retired from the firearms industry based on your encyclopedic knowledge.

I am typing this reply while connected to my new ASUS. Setup in minutes, with my 172.16.10 LAN, as it should be. Still need to fine tune a few things and see what new features this one has over the old.

I asked him again yesterday when he was getting something so we could go to the range. He gave his typical weak excuse, but then said he was thinking about getting a shotgun. It's a start. I didn't mention this in the original post, his (adult) daughter has talked about wanting to shoot. I've of course offered to take her. She just missed out on one of the WOT events. This morning, she texts him to ask if her boyfriend (almost fiance) can use him as a reference for his FID. She's not getting hers yet she said, just him. I think he wants it to make it easier for them to go to ranges and rent. Then he starts talking about who he can use as a second reference for a P2P.

See the hand/eye dominate thing was something I had not thought about. I'm aware of it, but I had not thought of it for this case. I had thought of only loading one round in a semi-auto at first if that is what he picked.

After numerous years of "working" on them, I've gotten my good friend and brother both working on or about to start the process of getting their FID & first firearms. For those that saw my thread about introducing my nephew to target shooting, that's my other brother. He's a Former Marine and had a firearm long before I did (I have multiples more than he now though). A good friend / co-worker got his FID before I knew him, but never got a firearm due to some concerns his son had at the time. Since his son has moved out, I've been working on him to get something. He's not anti-gun, if anything he's more right-wing than I and his father is a retired Newark cop. I'm not sure what his reason for the delay is now. I'd like to see my parents armed/protected but they have zero interest/concerns. I haven't given up though.

Another question. Start off standing or bench rest?

I did not come up with exact answers from a search here, and Google initially brought up too many lefty anti-gun BS for me to sift through when I have a wealth of information right here. My 14 year old (next month) nephew has expressed interest in doing some target shooting. His father (my brother) thinks he (the son) will be less stressed/pressured if I take him. My brother thinks my nephew would be too nervous about impressing him. I know there are some programs geared towards this, but like so many kids these days he has a busy schedule with many other activities. He was signed up for the Youth Day at CJR&PC this year, but the bat flu had other plans and it was cancelled. I'm looking at this as an introduction, if he likes it and wants to advance that will be a discussion with his parents on fitting it in or dropping something else. My nephew is intelligent and a voracious reader (thankfully) so I was thinking about getting him a book geared towards his age that covered the basics and safety that I could send him ahead of time. That's my first question, any suggestions? No matter what we will be doing a safety briefing at home, then again at the range. I'm confident covering all of that, but I still figured a book wouldn't be a bad thing and he can reference it at anytime and share it with his younger sister; she hasn't yet decided if she wants to shoot a gun or not. My next questions, thoughts on if I should start him on pistol or rifle? Of course it will be a .22 no matter what. I have a Marlin 60 rifle and Henry lever action rifle. In pistol I have a single action only revolver and a M&P. My thoughts were to start him on the revolver or lever action. If all goes well he can shoot all four. I figure it'd be good to get him exposure to the different platforms, but I also do not want to put too much there at once and overwhelm him. I can judge that on the day. Last question, what am I not thinking of that I should be?

Their support dept responded to my email while I was typing the previous reply. Rehashed what was covered over the phone on Friday.... SIGH....

I deal with stupid network issues at work, I don't wish to do the same at home. Perfect example... two weeks ago a device that had been communicating with no issues stopped communicating. The resolution... set the speed from auto-detect to 100mbps full duplex. Worked fine for the rest of the week, then sat idle for two weeks, as I was on vaca, then working with different devices. Today, no comms again. Set it back to auto-detect and it communicates again. Bad news, wasted hours on it three weeks ago. "Good" news, it only cost me 5-10 mins today mostly from the reboot time. And I'm not officially an IT guy, but we have to handle out own network in our training center, luckily I have a coworker more knowledgeable that I on networks.