Rsquared

Finally had to break down and get myself a new bag for work related purposes. The current one that I've been using for years (Propper) had it's straps pulling apart at the stitching from wear and tear. So I've got myself an Eberlestock "Romad" pack coming since they were running a decent sale last week. I was watching these for a while. So when they dropped the price by 50 bucks, I went ahead and pulled the trigger.

I heard earlier that another Trek vet has taken the trip to Valhalla. Sir Patrick Stewart, aka...Captain Jean Luc Picard has passed at the age of 86. An excellent actor, with an unmistakable strong baritone voice while in command throughout the 80's, 90's and early 00's. He commanded respect and was the symbol of authority on the bridge of "His" Enterprise. Sleep well Captain. All systems are online....Helm is answering. Steady as she goes Sir. Farewell.

Just because.

Fear not my friends. My state of Marylandstan will never let you down when it comes to being retarded. They're the best at contradicting themselves. Well, that and common sense. Try not to point and laugh too hard when reading this nonsense. I can't wait until I can finally punch out of this state (the state of confusion). Advisory LD-FRU-26-001 (NFA transfer guidance) - NONSENSE.pdf

OUT-FUKIN-STANDING! Professional.

She was one funny, DRUNK woman. She just kept insisting that I was gonna like her eventually. And I just kept saying Nope, and laughing. I'll give her an A for effort though. She never gave up.

Well, for this time, I have already filed and received my 5320's back from the ATF. That being said. I do believe that this was the fastest turn around time I've ever experienced. I even had a slight error on 2 of the forms of not putting the length of the suppressors on the form. An ATF guy reached out through email stating that, and asked for me to update the forms and send them back to him directly so that he could process them without me going to the back of the line. That was to HIS email and not the generic address that we all use to start with. By far, one of the friendliest ATF interactions that I think I've ever had. I had them in my hands about a week later. All in total: Forms originally sent on 9/13/26. Updated forms sent on 9/21/26. Forms in hand on 9/29/26. Not too shabby.

I concur with my esteemed constituents.

NICE!

I'm fine with bailing at altitude. Just something you gotta do sometimes.

Out-Fuking-Standing Doc!

That's Fukin hilarious! But I thought the question was "Is a bear Catholic?"

A whole generation of kids just went into shock!

All of my stuff, at least what wasn't lost in the great boating accident, was built prior to a lot of the state nonsense that resides around here these days. But a lot of it was also done using the ATF 'Form 1' NFA method.

I can neither confirm or deny any statements that have been made on this thread.

Yeah, last week got pretty tough towards the end of it. I've been working on a small roof-top mounted boiler system that's used for re-heat coils throughout the small 4 story building. These boilers (2 small Lochinvar's) are mounted and housed inside the equivalent of a 20' trailer with no ventilation except a feeble little 12" exhaust fan. That fuker reminded of the old "Cool hand Luke" movie. Get outta line......spend a night in the box. It got breath taking at time because we were hovering around 95 degrees with well over 90% RH. Oh, and the boilers didn't help anything while maintaining a 140 degree water setpoint. I FUKING HATE THE DC REGION!

Welcome aboard from the peoples republic of Marylandstan. The light wallet is a by-product of the enablers around here. Thank god I've never been one of them.

You may be on to something there Doc.

Oh my. That looks.........................................very interesting.

Like any other diagnostic. Keep disconnecting $hit until it stops blowing the breaker. Then start re-connecting $hit! Or, like Shepp said, you can always throw a meter on it and ring it out. Not quite as exciting as blowing the breaker every time. Not as many potential sparks and arcs that way.

Yep. Nothing but facts there. Maryland and Virginia keep trying to one up each other to see who can get to be like California or Illinois sooner. I can't wait to finally punch out of this place.

That's looking pretty sexy with that Leupold on it. ACOG's are nice (durable as $hit), but I prefer the modern LPVO over them. Though they do look cool on top of a rifle. Uggh! I hate cleaning rifles. I'd almost rather build another one.

Welcome aboard from the peoples republic of Marylandstan. Nice looking rifle you've got there my man. As others have said, collectively, the brain-trust around here can get just about any rifle running right.

In the hood section of PG County. Outside of the beltway, but still considered as part of the hood. It's in an area that's in between the Redskins stadium and Fort Meade, as a point of reference. And yes, I'm just waiting to punch out of here. It's too convenient for work purposes. That's the only reason that I keep that house these days. The old lady and I have another place over in Martinsburg WV. Much better atmosphere over there.

Welcome aboard from Maryland. It's always good to hear that a rifle is running properly. Keep it up brother. We love happy endings around here.