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C'mon! You know what I'm talking about. Anyone else think we need to work on Star Trek beaming-product ability? Jon

That's funny Magwa! We'll be hiking or shooting and our daughter gets pissed when I stuff some plant in her face and say "Eat this!" It is best to know what the stuff looks like and tastes like, as well as to have a tolerance for it, than it is to go out and try from scratch. Learn your area, learn where you're going what plants you can eat and then eat them. Jon

9th Edition, 2nd printing. I'm sure what they have now doesn't have anything about trapping or improvised weapons. I should ask the next time we do a firearms qual for them. Tom, I'm on so many lists now does it even matter anymore? Bible-reading, Ron Paul supporting, sovereign constitutionalist veteran that eats bacon while shooting and says we need to hang anyone with or seeking a job in Washington D.C., or who has bosses there. <thumbsup> Since they don't believe the constitution is relavant anymore, does that mean we can give them gunnite enemas? Jon

One thing Obama has done is be willfully negligent of our troops at every level. Those in his cabinet have a public record of despising those in uniform, willing to lay down their lives for our nation's ideals (though often times it is for less worthy causes). Benghazi appears it may have been the final straw: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/11/03/ambassador-stephens-death-and-the-coming-military-coup/ I can honestly say, at this point in time I trust leaders of a military coup far more than I trust fork-tongued politicos from either major party. Jon

<laughs> Lucky! What we need here in the desert, a picatinny mountable oil-tank with thumb squirter, similar to what is on chainsaws. To help with extreme dust control. Blaaaaaa-m blaaaaaaa-m blaaaaaaa-m <pump pump pump> blamblamblamblamblam!!!! <thumbsup> Jon

Sure as hell did! Twice! <lmao> Did I mention it is on the way? <laughs> Jon

See? And that is from some other study with different ammo. Back in one of the early '80s Gun Digests, there was an extensive article comparing .30-06 and 7.62x51 NATO. Surplus or issue ammo only (at the time...choices are much greater today for the little brother) and fired in a variety of then-fielded bolt-action rifles. After 22" the 7.62x51 started losing steam quite a bit, with 20" determined to be optimal (think Remington's fat barrelled bolts these days). The .30-06 however kept gaining steam to an optimal length of the tested 26" barrel. However, other factors such as barrel length and weight had them rule that the optimum for .30-06 barrel length should be 24". I used to be on the poo-poo-the-16"-.308 bandwagon...until I got one. Many things had me questioning old school "knowledge" rattling around my brainpan. Besides everyone and their mothers making 16" barrels, there was some Mini14 tweakers that were chopping barrels fro 18.5" down to 16". Reports were even old Minis that "patterned" at 100 yards were now shooting between 1-1.5 or 2 MOA, due to the increased rigidity or the shorter barrel (maybe there is something to the "size doesn't matter" argument). The same effects of more favorable harmonics were noticed by those shortening the barrels on leverguns from 20" or longer down to 16" or so. Then, when Ruger came out with their M77 Compact, people were getting match-grade accuracy from this tiny rifle with a 16" barrel. Less barrel, less whipping around. Another factor was learning more and more about reloading/hand loading ammo. The ability to tune a load for an optimal exit from your barrel, while burning all the fuel and maximizing gas expansion in a shorter distance is awesome! Now if I could just do that with Mexican food. You'll have fun with your Colt! Jon

Another thing about the Boy Scout Hand Book. When Big Brother goes rummaging through your poop, what sets off more flags...BSHB or "Special Forces Survival Manual: Including Improvised Weapons!"? Disinformation is a powerful tool for us brethren! Jon

Dude...I am NOT carrying around a fuckin' field pack on top of all my other gear! <laughs> My first aid philosophy goes hand-in-hand with my rations philosophy: if the Boy Scout Handbook covers doing it in the wild with minimalist provisions, I don't need to hump it. Don't believe me? Look at my gut. <lmao> When I first had combat first aid (I think that's what it was called in the mid '80s) in the Navy, there was little that hadn't been covered in Boy Scouts' first aid. My daughter and I use that hand book for reference quite a bit. Jon

Lapping tools and compound. And a scope!! Jon

Lapped it shall be! Did I mention the scope is on the way? Jon

Drainage...who'd a thunk it! Never experience hole drainage so I didn't think about it. <thumbsup> Jon

A new Marlin stock. And the scope!! And a multi-tool! Jon

Not that I agree with this one brand wise but... "If Remington 870 is in the question, Remington 870 is the answer." Jon

"9mm may expand but with .45 you have a nice starting point." Unknown Jon

Welcome bgdv1! Those AR10s are nice! Got the same as brother unforgiven though, RRA. Love 'em! Jon

Mernickle has a stellar reputation! I have a Kirkpatrick for an XD-m and it is nice also. Quite a wait for those. Jon

For awhile a 20" barrel was optional. Then it was 18". Long ago it was 22". Depends upon powder used, bullet, system, etc. I forget what the loss is between 20" and 16" in .308 Winchester but it is negligible at the muzzle. I wouldn't worry about. Find what your rifle likes and blast away! Jon

I surely don't know blue. Thinking about it, the sides of my buffers have reliefs on them that give a very slight triangular shape, when looking at them from the end that makes contact with the carrier. Hhmmm.... Jon

I will. Time to buy a lathe! Jon

There is a highway (not a path, not a road...like the Ho Chi Minh Highway, a network of two-track dirt roads heading north) through the Tohono O'Odham nation/reservation (which is on BOTH sides of the US/Mexico border), through Pima County (unenforced by Sheriff "My State Is Racist and So Is All Of America" Dupnik) for a short distance before entering Ironwood National Forest. Ironwood goes north and into Pinal County, then Maricopa County where Phoenix is located...and I-8, I-10, and I-17. While there are various small, rocky mountain ranges in this stretch of land, most is fairly flat terrain with rocky upcrops that form decent sized hills or small mountains. It is these highpoints that smugglers (coyotes with a spanish accent) pay observers to man. From these vantage points you can see sometimes 100 miles or more. Equipped with binoculars, telescopes, radios, and night vision, they can sound warnings to those smugglers that are traversing this corridor. Even with the naked eye while on these perches, a person can see a vehicle raising a dust cloud 20 or 30 miles away. Smuggler X gets a radio advisory that two vehicles are on an intercept course to their location. He can change trails or, if nearing entrapment, abandon the vehicle. Many times Border Patrol or others will find a bunch of mexicans/otm just sitting in the desert "They dropped us off and said they would be back in an hour," or just an abandoned vehicle with a few hundred pounds of drugs/marijuana. For every abandoned vehicle or catch that is made, hundreds and hundreds get through. I know a guy that knows an archer that was hunting and found a couple of hundred pound bail of pot just left there. Dude said BP was like "Oh, another one." What is by far the most important for us as We the People, is to purge our government of these one-worlder kumbiyah hand-holding pansies and take our nation back. Jon

Or you could say "Guns are changing faster than Robo's pink lady gun." <thumbsup> Jon

Next trip out we should work some hilltops. :o We could re-enact Porkchop Hill. Jon

Squished that Loctite juicy dude! <lmao> What Brownell's packaged as a "buttstock extender" fits over the buffer tube and legos into the receiver extension at the front, and the PRS to its rear and the front of the PRS. There is then a round spacer inlet at the front to nest against the rear of the buffer tube and the inside of the stock. The tube spacer has an unthreaded hole through it for the new retainer screw. Rene bro, take the butt pad and slide it down all the way. When your upper and lower are separated, with the buffer removed also, look at the screw head under the butt pad with light behind the buffer tube. You will see a hole through the center of the buttstock retainer screw about 3/64ths in diameter. poop! Did I mention my scope is on the way!??!!?!?!?!?!?! Jon

The tunnel system they still build on and find one here and there so often? I have a friend that was raised in Nogales, Arizona. For those of you not from this area, Nogales, AZ is basically a small suburb separated by an international border fence from a huge metropolis, Nogales, Sonora, Estados Unidos de Mexico. Anyway, he was saying one day back in the 1970s, US Customs had a dog working cars coming into the US. It was kind of rare to have dogs then. Traffic wasn't heavy. Suddenly, from one of the hills over in Sonora, out rang a rifle shot <yelp!> and down goes the dog. In five minutes there was a back log of hundreds of vehicles that just needed to "pop over" to Arizona for a few minutes. Nogales, AZ is the LARGEST customs station for produce entering the USA. Daily, hundreds of thousands of tons of fruits and vegetables come through this checkpoint. What does your Federal government think is better? Stopping drugs by stopping produce or stop a little here, a little there, but business as usual? Since the 1970s, accounting for inflation, the price of marijuana and cocaine has dropped significantly. Hell of a war we're spending billions of dollars to fight. Could they seal our border? Tightly and cheaply, .50 BMG Ma Deuces every 200 yards with infrared and thermal imaging...nothing would get through. Zip. So why aren't they sealing it? Jon