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Doing it is important, but letting them know why, and being very public about it, is critical.

A fine thing. I can't think of anyone that deserves a raise less than the clowns in congress. (With the possible exception of Joey B) I think they should work exactly the opposite from a "real job" The highest pay they ever make would be in their first year. It goes down from there. If they run for re-election and win, the second term pay scale starts at 50% of the final year of the first term. It continues to go down until they work for zero. If they stay beyond working for zero, they begin paying it back. Actually, i can't think of a better time for the people to begin circulation of a Constitutional Amendment addressing term limits for all elected offices at the federal level.

She will be re-elected as long as she desires to be re-elected. The FSA in southern California and the "intelligentsia" who reside in that other bastion of socialism, The S.F. bay area, will see to it. The rest of California, those poor folks in the central valley, the Sac. Valley, up in the Sierras and out in the deserts don't have enough votes to stop her. I have friends in Cal who want to split the state to a "east Ca. and a "West Ca." to regain some control over their political destiny. The West can have feenstien, boxer, SF and LA, and the East will take the mountains, desert, Sacramento, and all the water and agricultural industry. I don't think they will ever pull it off, but kudos for trying. I do not believe the legislation as written will ever see the presidents desk. Feensteen is a 79 year old socialist nut who is so far out of touch with the real world in the U.S. she wouldn't know an average American if she tripped over one. She is, however, were much representative of the socialist movement we are going to be fighting. Scary as hell.

If you read the comments under the video shepp posted it looks like a few people are waking up. This has to be a good thing.

GREAT thread. I am ashamed to admit that only in the last 4-5 years have I gotten into grilling. Yes, the wife usually does it. Cook I am not, no skills. But there is one exception. I have the ultimate poor mans grill. It started life as a 55 gallon drum. With a lid. Here is how it works. A friend of mine turned me on to this, makes the best dang tri-tip ever. Take a cleanish 55 gallon drum with a decent lid and a solid bottom. Find yourself a 14 inch steel car wheel. Get a chunk of steel plate at least 1/8" thick. Get yourself a big sledge hammer and beat it into a shape that looks like a bowl, and that fits in the deep side of the wheel. It doesn't have to be more than 2 inches deep, just shape it to hold a full large bag of your favorite charcol. Weld it into place in the wheel. Get some 1 inch or so steel rod or even rebar, make yourself a couple of handels that allow you to place and remove the wheel in the bottom of the drum without bending too far over. Weld them to the inner edge of the wheel. Go around the bottom of the drum with a large holesaw or other implement and make half a dozen or so holes 2 inches or so in diameter around the perimeter of the barrel to allow air in to the drum. Now, get a couple of pieces of steel tube, perhaps 3/4 diameter, and place them about 6 inches apart across the top of the drum. What you are going to want to do is drill holes in the sides of the drum, about 3 inches from the top, to slide these pieces of steel through and out the other side. You want these parallel to each other and about 10 inches apart. Then drill just 2 holes perpendicular to the rod-holes around the upper outside of the drum like you did on the bottom these holes can be 1 inch or less, (or not at all if you make the holes big enough for the rods) Then, go to the local welding supply and get some of the largest dia. food grade stainless steel welding rod you can buy. Get enough of it to make 8-10 "S" shaped hooks. where the "S" is about 8 inches from top of the outside curve to the bottom of the outside curve. Bend the hooks into shape. I welded a couple of eye hooks into the lid so I can slide a steel bar through it to remove. It gets hotter than a mofo. Do not touch with hands. Process your tri-tip in your favorite marinade, and run the hooks through one end, I try to run through the small end to keep the majority of the meat nearest the heat source. Go buy a bag of your favorite charcoal briquets, and a bag of your favorite wood chip flavoring chips for a smoker. Dump the entire bag of charcoal onto/into the "bowl" shape in the wheel you have installed in your barrel. Light it off and let it cook down as you normally would, just to where there is no flame. This normally take about an hour for us. Scatter about 1/2 the bag of smoke chips on top of the charcoal, then right away hang your tri tip along the tubes inside the drum, the meat is never going to touch the flame or charcoal. ;D Put the lid on the drum. Soon, you'll see smoke leaking outta the hols at the top. This slow-cooks and smokes the tri-tip at the same time. It take bewteen 2 and 3 hours depending on how you want them cooked and how they are cut. About halfway through, you can dump another bag of flavor chips carefully past the hanging, now tantalizing meat onto the coals. Don't take the lid off any more often than you must to add chips. Guesstimate about 30 minutes before you think they'll be done and dump another bag of flavor chips on the charcoal. Try not to drool over the smell and view of the meat. We've fed 50 people on the output of 2 drums through one cycle, so you can put a lot of meat in there. We call this the "barrel BBQ" and have done Tri-Tip, a big roast, etc. in it. No style of cooking comes close to the flavor and the simplicity is wonderful. When our gang of friends hear we are gonna do it it is party on. We do it in the spring, then the 4th of July, and an end of summer get together. We have an electric knife and a cutting board ready and when I pull them off the hooks I can't get it cut up before people are hovering like meat bees. Two things...Don't put the barrel on any surface that you worry about. It will heat concrete and stain it, and grass..well.. I have 6 or 8 bricks I use under it. Don't plan on moving the barrel for several hours after the cooking. I don't mess with it until the next day. It is hot, hot, hot. I can dig this thing out and shoot some pics if someone is confused or wants to see it. Easy to build, finding a good drum is the only work involved.

Boy that is truly a thing of beauty. I have never seen a completely dolled-up EBR, that is stunning. The woodwork coupled with the rest of the rifle....wow.

That is the best possible outcome. Let their heritage be reborn.

I am sure that anti-constitution socialist reporter isn't the only scumbag on that side of the river of his ilk to think of this. Frankly, I thought of it when CG started gobbling up the industry standard bearers. Let's take his plan a few steps further. Soros and Bloomberg, aka "Socialism United" does find a way to sneak in under the rug and buy these companies. And they as they begin to follow this traitor's plan word leaks out and America finds out who is actually controlling these companies, some of whom have a heritage that goes back over a century and a half. And Americans stop buying. (Of course the directors of the company stop producing everything but single shot .22 rifles) So all of the people who work at theses companies are faced with lay offs. Thousands of jobs are gonna go away. And the Owners of Socialism United turn to their good friends in the White House, and ask for a bail out. Like GM did. (If I am not mistaken many of the jobs at these manufacturers are UAW, but don't hold me to that...) Well, not really like GM's. More like a buy in. And they sell controlling interest in the companies of Freedom Group to the White Hou.. er.. the "people of the United States" And the whole thing is shut down. Can you see a nightmare here? I'll tell ya what, if this crap happens it'll be prime time for a small start up to get in the business for all the right reasons...sorta like the story behind Windham Weaponry...there might be some $$$ to be made. Of course my tin-fol hat could be on too tight... but then again

Yup. didja read my last post, LOL?

Public hanging. We need to re-introduce the concept of "responsibility begets accountability" in every walk of life. If we start with it at "keep yer paws outta the cookie jar" we can start re-directing the next generation.

flyer I am with you on Clancy. Since Red October he has been the one. Vince Flynn is another. Are you old enough to remember the Ra Expeditions movie that Hyerdahl did, or had done, about his first voyages? I was a teenager and it mesmerized me. I read most of Cooper's stuff years ago when I was running the FTO team. He and Ayoob both. If you want a video that will teach the unteachable about edged weapons, get ahold of the training video "Surviving Edged Weapons" Very much to the point. Sounds like I need to get America BC. That subject matter intrigues me.

Excuse my ignorance, but which one of these will work in an Armalite Ar-10? Between my son and I we have lots of cleaning stuff, but not for the .308 I like the idea of a bore guide for the semi-auto.

I have been a reader since I was introduced to the "Tom Swift Jr." series as a grade school kid. Read all the westerns, read all the time. Always have three or four books going. Some of the best stuff I've read ,lately.. "Chickenhawk" by Robert Mason. He was a slick pilot in Vietnam, went in with the Cav when they went over for the first time. Great book if you are into flying or real life type stuff. "Cigars, Whiskey, and Winning;Leadership Lessons with Ulysses S. Grant" by Al Kaltman Outstanding dissection of the journals and notes from U.S. Grant's personal journals and notebooks, some amazing conclusions and very revealing about the thought process of the man who lead the Union Troops in the Civil War. I read it for the first time when prepping for the Lieutenant's Oral Board 10 years ago. Seems like I read it once a year now. Great read for LEO types or those interested in history and leadership in general. Killing Lincoln..Bill Oreilly...really a different look. "The Iranian Rescue Mission, why it failed" Paul B. Ryan. An older book that details the attempt undertaken by order of Pres. Jimmy Carter. Ryan was a retired Navy Captain who basically took apart that mission piece by piece and laid away the problems, faults, etc. I believe our military infrastructure learned a lot from that debacle, I just wish our the memory of our political power structure was better at retaining these lessons. Reading it will give you a real insight as to where we were, and how far we have come.

Let me get this straight. The shooter at Sandy hook used two handguns, not a magazine fed semi-automatic rifle when he committed mass murder? If this is true, then heads need to roll. FWIW I have worked with small town medical examiners, many times. So are the LEO investigators who should be working with him and should be trained in homicide school wtf wounds look like. I was. They are able to tell the difference between a rifle bullet and a pistol bullet when removing a round from a body, or, in most cases, when examining a wound cavity and bullet path. There is someone much higher up the food chain running the media show than the ME. He may be the designated fall guy if they are trying to hide this, but he knew. Very interested in the follow-up on this.

I just saw this, most of the advertisers here are in my favorites, but I will always go there from here, from now on. This is now my home for all things involving the AR 10 platform, and general B.S.'ing. I like the people and the place, fer what it is worth...

BigP Welcome from one AR-10 rookie to another. Sounds like we have similar rifles, we bought an AR-10BTNF recently too. This was a long planned purchase that was accelerated by the conditions in the country. There is a TON of information here, I am pretty proud of my google-fu, and I spent a lot of time looking and educating myself before we chose this exact rifle. So yeah, you've stepped into the right place when it comes to info on your new Armalite. Tell us about your rifle, is it scoped, barrel type/length, etc. The recpt. from your purchase should at least give you the exact model number info, you will need to find that out anyway when you send in the warranty card to Armalite. It is that orange card that should be blown in to the "owners manual", which, in my case, was a bunch of papers stapled together with a yellow cover.

Came out very nice. Looks sweet.

I've reached a point with the USPS that I won't allow anything time sensitive to be shipped by there "flat rate" box. That line of crap "on time or it is free" is serious B.S. I live in a small town, very small, and everyone knows the postmaster by first name, and he us. It ain't his fault he has to ride for the brand, but they are a joke. Apparently, once it arrive at the P.O. their clock stops...even if it doesn't make it into the P.O. box, or they don't put out a pickup slip for 3-4 days after that. The problem is everyone is using the USPS to ship stuff cause it is cheap. Even if you put down your street address and ask for UPS or FEDEX if they USPS can handle it that is how it goes. Frustrating as heck.

Makes you wonder how today's society would react in a real, or perceived emergency...you choose which...then ponder it. People are about 24 hours from genuine panic. Other than that, the dang credit cards got a workout these past 10 days or so, didn't they?

Does not speak well for the future of our country when we have people who pull the handle for a complete loser Marxist-socialist like that.

I have a cheapo one of these and want a good one very badly...but I know me, and if I go through this door there will be no end to it. 5 years from now I will have a ton of money tied up in them and there will be no end in sight. So I resist...for now...

Finest combat handgun in the world, IMHO. Welcome to the fanclub...

Well I might as well say my g'byes too. Freakin' Reynolds Wrap never got back to me. I did some measurin' around the old homestead and figured that a 200' by 300' roll of (heavy duty, oven grade) aluminum foil would be just about right. I could slide a chain through the roll and just start rolling it over the house, barn, shop and such. I wrote em and told 'em of my plans, but the jerks ignored me. <dontknow> So I guess it will be into the bunker tonight. <laughs>

Planeflyer I don't rangermaster any more in an official capacity because my cert is for LEO only from the state peace officers commission. Insurance and all that. I am not really interested in going to an NRA class at this point in life. I've trained (informally of course ;)) a number of close friends over the years, even a couple of their kids as time has gone by. I have seen a bunch of guys forcing big guns on people who ain't ready, and I actually have a couple of friends who's wives I have taught to shoot because, "My husband gets all wigged out, can you help me?" Like I said in the training post...put a weapon in their hand they like and can hit with and train the hell out of them. Dust collectors won't protect anyone. Matt; Cindy has fired my large frame Sigs, .40 and .45...and while she can hitwith them and doesn't have a weak wrist problem, she doesn't like them. That is all I needed to hear. Of course, looking down the snout of any of them, big, small, in the middle.. in the hands of a female trained and ready to use it is going to make stains on the pants of all but the craziest of men anyway.. I will let you guys know how this goes. She is telling me that we ain't buying anything til spring, and that we are going to have to decide what comes first, her pistol or the scope for the Father son AR project. While I want a scope real bad, I am gonna get her sorted out first. If I have to I will buy a cheap scope and upgrade later.

Ma I'd have a helluva time classifying that moron as a hunter. Sounds like another idiot that got a hold of a gun. He sure as heck ain't helping our cause. On the subject of ground squirrels, I fought a problem with them for a number of years. The solution came in the form of an RWS Diana 460 sidecocker air rifle, scoped, launching .22 caliber pellets. Freakin' think is fun, and deadly at 40 yards. ;D