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Thanks Doc. I've got a lot of catching up to do. Still sorting things out from my pop passing. Financial wise that is.

I get it.

Just as a follow up. This is my daily bag that I have for work. It goes everywhere with me for most of the time throughout the day. I have a similar setup on a separate bag that gets thrown in the truck for personal time. As I said before, being in a commie leaning state, nothing goes bang. It makes the comrades over in Annapolis very sad that we're even "allowed" to still own things that go bang.

Yes. An old friend of mine used to work for the Smithsonian restoring aircraft. He got me and some other buddies into the old Garber facility over a weekend one time. We were able to just wonder around at out own pace and actually crawl around inside a bunch of their old warbirds. We even got to go through their environmentally controlled vault storing the old Apollo space suits. He said that they called that room the morgue cause the way it looked with the suits laid out on slabs. A very cool day.

Being in the peoples republic of Marylandstan, plus working in DC a lot, nothing on me goes bang at all. Nothing in the ride goes bang. Now that being said. On me, I always have a cold steel folder, multiple flashlights, water bottle, an oversized version of an IFAK packed into one of those velcro tear away style BDS Tactical first-aid pouches attached to the backpack. Then the standard electronics that just about everybody (except Tom) carries. Phone, laptop and such. I figure, worst case (if you've ever seen some of the armed guards in federal buildings), I can spin one of them around and use them as a human shield while pulling their service weapon as I drag them backwards until I find better cover and re-assess. But I never put any thought into it. (grin)

Cooler than cool. That is, still today, a very impressive aircraft.

Outstanding.

40's and 50's all week. Rained all day yesterday and a good portion of this morning.

That's great to hear. We love a happy ending around here.

Yep. Aviation being in it's infancy is pretty interesting in general. But yeah, you're flying machine could easily turn into a flying roman candle. Between the cloth and the dope that they used to seal it. FLAME ON!

Started this week in the high 30's. Right now @ around 1700 it's still showing 74. Some goofy weather for sure. It's supposed to be back in the 40's on Monday. Which that'll work for me since I've got to work on some rooftop air-cooled chillers that day. So the pressure to get them online and running won't be there. As you were ladies.

Looks like a great time was had. I'm looking forward to the fall shoot this year.

AP rail is in. Now I've got to dig through the gun boxes and find the receiver set to use. Then to decide on a barrel to use. I was looking at this Noveske barrel since a good number of the rifles that I've built have used their barrels (18"). But, of course, that's gonna be another 750. So that's not happening anytime soon. I've still got other obligations that take a higher priority at the time. But some time later this year probably. Maybe mid to late summer. Probably not in time for the fall shoot though. After all, I've gotta hump that other AR-10 SASS back out to Tom's place to get the tiger stripe paint job put on it now that the coast is clear. https://noveske.com/products/stainless-lo-pro-ddf-barrel-5-56/

So for another rotation around this giant rock. A BIG ol salute to the original Captain of the USS Enterprise. William Shatner.....slinging dick throughout the galaxy for 94 years today. All ahead full Sir! Steady as she goes.

I was thinking the same thing.

We're all over the map here in the DC region. We go anywhere from the high 20's to low 70's. All you can do is layer up in the AM and slowly peel it off throughout the day.

I'll have my people contact your people for scheduling.

Does that mean that I can get back on the schedule to have my 10 SASS tiger striped?

So was I brother. But here we go. Oh......and Mr Silverback.

Fine, Fine you Fuker. I'll get the rail for crying out loud. I'm at work at the moment, so I'll look into ordering it when I get back to the house. It's showing back ordered for a couple weeks at the minimum through Optics Planet. Right around 250 (ish) for 15". I think I've got a couple black rain lower receivers siting around somewhere that I could build off of one of these. I suppose I could get another 18" MK12 (556) barrel and try to make it a decent mid-range distance gun. Maybe. FUKER!

Now just pump the brakes a little bit there big boy. None of us forced you to go out and buy a complete upper. More or less a 700 dollar completed upper with no BCG or CH. Who do they think they are, PSA? Where I would normally fall on the grenade for the rest of the team. It ain't gonna be this 700 dollar grenade. I mean, it's not even an Armalite.

Yep. I use phase tape around my mags to differentiate them. Red for the hotter (faster) 5.56, and blue for the slower 300 blk. My Grendel uses different mags than Pmags.

Close. I grew up in MD by the main lines (bottom of my street) going between DC and New York. It was inevitable that I would become a train nerd. As well as the other nerdoms that I have.

That's a nice looking build there. I love suppressed rifles.

Yep. Most definitely. Buy once, cry once.