mineralman55

Most pointy-headed fools In the media can't even begin to understand the details involved in these things. First, surface runoff will not affect the tectonic plates. The plates are too big, deep and remote. Second, we have known from the 1940s and 1950s what might, might happen around very deep disposal/injector wells and extremely large dams. It's documented and in peer reviewed papers. It happened in Rangely, Colorado, it happened in the Ramapo Mountains in N.J., it happened in various major dam construction projects around the world. If they are not sealing faults, there is sometimes fluid seepage from deep injector wells into preexisting faults and joints. The fluids lubricate these potential slippage planes and cause many micro-earthquakes by releasing built up strain along the faults. No big earthquakes, nothing catastrophic, no Kalifornia slipping into the Pacific (damn it.) Surface runoff from these spillways isn't going to do a thing other than cause extensive surface erosion. These fools should go back to their finger painting and leave any science reporting to people who actually know something.

Pics didn't come thru the first time.

My thread under Tennessee Arms build has some pics of the installed mini comp. https://forum.308ar.com/topic/12597-tennessee-arms-build/ The SLR mini comp is just that... small, compact, lightweight. Weighs ~ 2oz, ~1.9" long. I'm not an expert, but follow up shots with it are very quick. Have this on two 308ARs now, and will put it on an AR15 that's in the works. I can't say enough good about this mini comp. The one I replaced was a combination compensator/flash hider. Weighs 4oz, 2.47" long. It was a beautiful piece of machining, but it didn't work for me.

We are hosting our 2nd annual 5k fundraiser on March 11. Last year at our first 5k we raised $15k. This year we're hoping to raise $30k. The research we're funding at the Kenneth Peak Center in Houston is truly incredible. Nanotechnology and molecular science is the wave of the future in oncology.

I want to give a big shout out to Todd at SLR Rifleworks, and their great products and service. I recently wanted to try out their .308 comp/flash hider on my MATEN. The original install of a PWS Triad muzzle device had great accuracy. Unfortunately, when I installed the SLR the accuracy went down. WTF??? I wrote SLR, and Todd said send it in, he'd swap it out. I asked if I could swap it for their mini-comp, as that had worked great on my 16" 308AR. he said sure. Results, fantastic. Minimal muzzle rise, and the accuracy was restored. I really like their equipment. Thanks Todd. BTW, that's 100 yds., iron sights, five shots in each group. I probably couldn't do it again.

" Oroville is America’s tallest dam and experts predicted that if it failed, water could reach Oroville within an hour, and within eight to 12 hours it would be in Yuba City. They say the flood could be 10 feet deep at that point." Well, I guess you'd better learn to swim. We never learn. Hurricane Katrina did the same thing here in 2005. Good people (not Chicken Little greentards) had been warning for years that the levees were in poor condition and needed maintenance. Didn't matter. Politicos won't put money into the infrastructure that they're actually responsible for unless they are forced to. Better to spend taxpayer money on useless projects and buy a few votes.

I dunno. Is it for real?

Hardened Arms is back vending 308AR parts again. I have one of their complete phosphated BCG in my Mega Arms 308AR, it is very nice. http://www.hardenedarms.com/ecCat_33

That dam was written up 12 years ago for needing improvements and hardening. Yeah, it was environmental weenies who did most of the complaining, but the state and the feds ignored it. Higher priority must be given to spending tax payer money on illegals, sex change operations and hounding honest gun owners. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago/

My prayers for you and your family. She's in Paradise now, my friend.

How many rounds through it? Whose BCG and was it heavily lubed with oil? There may not be a problem. These take 100-200 rounds to break in. Patience.

They don't say how much, just "thousands". Any redneck will have more than that in their house. But like you I am troubled. Storing it in a Crater Lake building? As you said, more like squirreled away. Well, twenty years from now we can buy it as surplus.

So you never had a boil over? That's almost a right of passage for coffee drinkers.

There is something comforting about a percolator... the aroma, the sound. They require a lot of attention, but they're worth it.

Oops. If we were to believe our former POSOTUS, that's 10.5 stores per state

He sold out quickly. 600 stores? That's only 12 stores per state. Hope his business blossoms.

Sometimes things just happen. Monday night, I was invited to a friendly pistol competition an hour and a half away. It's been 30 years since I competed in IPSC, but I figured, what the heck. Showed up, eight of us, good guys, a couple of SWAT guys, few other LEOs, one grand master pistol shooter. Every one had a serious race gun with all the high-end equipment to go along with it. I showed up with my off the rack M&P9c. No, I wasn't competitive, but I had fun. Certainly showed me what I need to work on. Then yesterday at work we got tornado warnings about 10:30AM. A friend I was going to have lunch with called me to say let's put it off. I asked if he could see anything. He said yeah, the tornado is across the street from my complex and headed east! Sure enough, it was. Passed right over my office. Sometimes it's just better to be lucky...

Welcome. I went to Lehigh, and worked in Pittsburgh and the coal mines in southwestern PA for years. Where ya' at?

Didn't watch. Stood for the anthem, which was followed by a commercial using an American patriotic song sung in Spanish. Turned it off, never saw a play because I figured worse was to come. I love football, but I despise the NFL, I despise the people who run it, I despise the leftist trash who sponsor it, I despise the simpering, talking-head has-beens/never-was fools who make ignorant comments all game long, I despise those whiney players who complain of "unfairness" while making unearthly sums of money to play a f'king game! Okay, rant off. Back to our regularly scheduled indoctrination from TV.

Read about those a while back. Fascinating on many levels. As a geologist, metallic meteorites are cooler than anything. Possibly old planet core pieces. As an amateur machinist, they spent man-weeks just figuring out how to cut each piece with the minimum of wastage. As a gun guy, they are just f'ing amazing!

Two boxes of Federal Hydro Shock 9mm 124gr standard, and two of the 147gr standard. Want to see how they work in my Shields.

One of the local ranges (well, 40 miles away) had this setup on silhouettes and gongs. Somehow, the knuckleheads managed to sever them as well. Mother Mary and Joseph! Can't these clowns squarely hit a silhouette from 200 yds?

I'm sure it would. Just not my cup of tea. Besides, there are so many other well designed Walthers that I wouldn't bother with the CCP unless it had a killer price.

Doc, I looked one over at a local range, very nice fit and finish, felt right in the hand. But the deal breaker was the key necessary to field strip it. I don't want any weapon that requires a special tool to take down. Just my opinion.

No where, is there any outcry that this piece of human debris, a cocaine distributor, was freed by Obummer? I guess justice prevailed anyway.