planeflyer21

Plenty of old folks here in Arizona when I was a youngin', with many rural areas not having electricity.

Welcome CMMG308! Check her trigger group for a stray primer. Other than that...others will be along shortly.

Hhmmm...

Jeez...we had two per unit at the prison complex. If anything, they're running on empty.

Welcome! No. The LAR-8 is proprietary. I have two of them. If you want to standardize pick either the DPMS pattern or LAR-8. I'm supposed to be building a DPMS-pattern rifle...been too busy.

Ouch!

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I like it! What's the no-name of that forearm?

Wow...never seen that before. How about you Rene?

That's SWEET!

Pffftt...good luck with that! Even stuff where I had information on declassified missions, Dad wouldn't talk about it...said he didn't know what was and wasn't declassified. Dad first went '65. At that time they were doing the 180-day deployments, to avoid paying "overseas pay" or some such.

Only after his death did I become convinced that what he did in Vietnam secured his slot into the U-2 program. He was USAF liason to USArmy artillery...for several deployments over three years. Pretty sure a lot of that time was working with coordinated intelligence...and photo interpretation.

Thought it would be cool to post a few videos of the aircraft Dad was assigned to fly. Kicking it off with the Republic RF-84F Thunderflash, he flew in West Germany though: Followed by the McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo: He said this was one of his favorite, which I found odd...because his next assigned flight duty was the McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II: While he flew the RF-4C in the early mid-60s, the RF-4 is still in front line use with Germany now. His most hated flying assignment was the Lockheed C-141A Starlifter...endless roundtrips to Vietnam with materials, soldiers going in and coming back: Not long afterwards, he received orders to report to Lovelace for astronaut screening, for his final assignment of Lockheed U-2 Dragonladys. He was one of the few pilots to be assigned checked out on both the early U-2A/B/C/E/G models and the later U-2R/S/TR-1 ("A whole new aircraft," he said): This guy that did the aircraft carrier trials is a legend among the U-2 community.

California at #50? Never would've guessed...

Arizona is #10 on the list (coupled with the G&A's "Best Gun State" two years in a row...I'll take it!) http://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/patriotic-states-map/

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The SOG tomahawks look well made. Lots of people like the Cold Steel shovel, even though it doesn't fold. There also seems to be a general consensus that the "tri-fold" shovels SUCK. Get a rigid handle at a minimum.

How much do pirates pay for corn? A buck-an-ear!

Welcome from AZ Jon!

Portable solar oven is the way to go: http://www.amazon.com/Sunflair-Portable-Solar-Cookware-Included/dp/B008S47I8M You can build them pretty darn efficiently too. How much S is HTF? May be best to sit tight where you are.

Or is there no friction in their big, gaping, over-lubed chamber?

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Okay...hammer setup configuration: WTF?!? Who the hell paid to use the Detonics name to make that caca?! Striker fired configuration: meh

"If everyone did open carry..." Swiss study shows that the USA has enough firearms to arm 9 out of every 10 residents (men, women, and children). The latest figures show ownership of firearms at about 65% of the population.

First aid, water, water filter, ammo, firearms.