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Thanks! I cant take much credit though other than for providing the real estate.

I made it pretty for ya <thumbsup>

Welcome! It's ok to run a link to your forum in your signature. Im ok with that. <thumbsup>

By Kirsti Marohn, USA TODAY ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Louise Neeser was doing yard work outside her home here last May when something struck her in the face. Dazed and bleeding, she crawled into the house, where a relative took her to the hospital. Doctors told her something had torn through the side of her face. She was left with permanent jaw and eye damage and debilitating headaches, and says she lives in fear of letting her three children play outdoors. "It's changed every bit of our life," Neeser said. Neeser and her husband, Mark, believe she was hit by a stray bullet from the Del-Tone/Luth Gun Club, an outdoor shooting range half a mile away. The incident sparked an investigation and legal action by Sherburne County, which ordered the gun club to make safety improvements before it can reopen for pistol shooting. Outdoor shooting ranges across the nation face opposition because of concerns about safety, noise and the environmental effects of lead contamination. Some are embroiled in legal battles with neighboring residents or local governments. Others have had to close. "Are they under threat? Absolutely they are," said Andrew Arulandandam, spokesman for the National Rifle Association. The NRA offers technical expertise and legal assistance to shooting ranges and has helped pass range protection laws in 47 states. Del-Tone owner Randy Luth has made the required improvements but is frustrated that the range still can't allow pistol shooting until it passes a final certification, which he hopes will happen in the next few months. He says his club has lost tournaments and classes that boosted the local economy. "Luckily, I can afford to fight for our rights," he said. "A lot of gun clubs can't, and they ultimately go bankrupt because they can't afford to fight allegations." The Neesers are concerned the changes don't go far enough. "I just want to live here and be safe," Mark Neeser said. "That should be the right everybody has on their property." Elsewhere: •In Idaho, the Farragut State Park shooting range shut down in 2007 after neighbors sued over noise and stray bullets. A judge ordered it to remain closed pending safety improvements. A review is expected this winter, said Dave Leptich of Idaho Fish and Game. •In Garden Ridge, Texas, northeast of San Antonio, residents of a subdivision near the Bracken Rifle and Pistol Range have reported finding bullets on their roof, Mayor Jay Feibelman said. No legal action was taken, but the range has been cooperative and made safety improvements, he said. Feibelman is sympathetic to residents' concerns, but says, to some degree, the conflict has to do with housing location. "It's like building your house at the end of an airport runway but saying, 'I didn't know they fly airplanes out of there,' " he said. Some gun clubs are drawing criticism because they've evolved from small, neighborhood ranges to big businesses hosting national tournaments and attracting larger weaponry. The Kitsap County Rifle and Revolver Club near Bremerton, Wash., was established in the mid-1920s. Kitsap County sued the range in September for being a public nuisance and a safety hazard. The trial will be in March. Deputy Prosecutor Neil Wachter said in recent years, the club has expanded its hours and allowed high-powered, automatic weapons. Close neighbor Terry Allison was a longtime club member. But in recent years, he said the amount of shooting has increased dramatically. "The noise is so loud that you literally cannot hear a conversation next to you," he said. Marcus Carter, the club's executive officer, acknowledged that the range's use has changed over time, but he said the range also has been made safer with higher beams, increased lighting and a safety orientation for new users. Carter said his and other ranges are willing to move, but finding a location would be hard. "Getting a new one established is virtually unheard of unless you have thousands of acres of property," he said. Outdoor shooting ranges have also been scrutinized for the environmental impact of the lead in bullets and shell casings. "There's a real possibility that lead could seep into the ground water," said Alex Formuzis, spokesman for the non-profit Environmental Working Group. In October, the Marine Corps announced that a civilian shooting range on the Miramar military base in San Diego, which closed two years ago because of concern about lead contamination, will remain shut down.

Careful TacBlade, like I said in an earlier post. Reloading can become just as much as an obsession as the weapons themselves. Dillon is the worst because they offer the most crack for the habit. Before you know it will cost you $5 per round to shoot <laughs> In a past life I new I had an issue when I was starting to add air cylinders, encoders, sensors and servo's to my reloading process. I was buying stuff and modding it before use.

DPMS is blowing out various barrels. Who knows delivery time though

nice <thumbsup>

welcome

what a beauty <thumbsup>

By The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Gun maker Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. reported a fiscal second-quarter loss Wednesday as it sold fewer guns and recorded a charge for the falling value of a company it bought last year. Its shares fell more than 7 percent in after-hours trading. For the quarter that ended Oct. 31, Smith & Wesson reported a loss of $37.3 million, or 62 cents per share. That compares with a profit of $14.4 million, or 22 cents per share, a year earlier. Its earnings beat the average expectation of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters for no improvement from a year ago, excluding one-time items. On that basis, the company earned 5 cents per share. But the gun maker's revenue missed analyst expectations for $99.8 million. It fell 12.2 percent to $96.3 million from $109.7 million. Smith & Wesson said revenue from its firearms division sank nearly 11 percent to $83.6 million, offset in part by a rise in sales of "personal protection handguns." Revenue from the company's perimeter security unit fell 22 percent to $12.8 million. Smith & Wesson reported a $39.5 million impairment charge in relation to USR, which the company bought last year. Part of the drop in USR's value resulted from changes in government and corporate purchases of firearms. For the third quarter, Smith & Wesson predicted revenue of $94 million to $99 million. Analysts were expecting $108.2 million. For the full fiscal year, the company expects $405 million to $425 million in revenue. Analysts are hoping for $429.5 million. Smith & Wesson shares dropped 30 cents, or 7.4 percent, to $3.75 in after-hours trading. The stock finished regular trading down 6 cents at $4.05.

Good to know <thumbsup>

welcome Mark <thumbsup>

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How can you not recognize the "Stencil" font <laughs> btw a png or gif with a transparent background would eliminate the black box

Ha!!!! I have no stinking idea but thats a start. Thanks......and go easy on my truck <laughs>

you know it's funny but there's hardly a week where I don't have some sort of incident within the area of the two buildings that share my parking lot. I almost forgot my backup

Im in an active part of the city myself. Loaded 870 ready to go at all times, S&W 642 on my alarm clock at bed time. Cold Steel Recon Tanto 180 degrees behind my computer chair. Katana behind the seat of my truck. Hickory axe handle hidden on my deck. Axe under the tarp with my lawn mower and snow blower.....and many more :) I like being prepared

Thanks This place is only as good as it's members. <thumbsup>

nice stuff man. Whats the little white thing curled up in a ball?

i look forward to the pictures. Ive been contemplating a 10mm 1911 for some time. Mind if I ask who's doing the work?

The Shooting Wire published this today NEWS Freedom Group Closing Bushmaster, S&W Wesson Closing T/C Effective March 31, 2011, Bushmaster Firearms International's manufacturing facilities in Windham, Maine will be closed and manufacturing of all Bushmaster products moved to other Freedom Group facilities. Smith & Wesson, meanwhile, has announced that the Thompson/Center manufacturing facilities in Rochester, New Hampshire will also be closing. Complete details in the feature below. Final Week of Voting in Sportsman Choice Awards This is the final week of voting for Sportsman Channel's 2010 Sportsman Choice Awards! Let your voice be heard in the final round of voting in the following categories: Best Hunt Show, Best Shoot Show, Best Fish Show, Best Combination (hunting and fishing) Show, Best New Series and Best Show Host(s). FEATURE Closures Signal Economic Tightening? Both Freedom Group and Smith & Wesson Holdings broke bad news for employees last week. Late Friday afternoon, Freedom Group issued a news release announcing the March 31, 2011 closure of the Wyndham, Maine facilities of Bushmaster Firearms International. Simultaneously, Smith & Wesson's announcement of the decision to close Thompson/Center's manufacturing facilities in Rochester, New Hampshire, initially announced in the company's second quarter financial results, was front-page news there. Thompson/Center employees got the news of the closure on Wednesday. Both closures have been the subject of industry conjecture for some time, but the formal announcements have once again raised the question of the overall economy's recovery. While the firearms industry ran at a near-frantic pace through the first eighteen months of the current economic downturn, sales numbers seem to indicate that the doldrums of the rest of the nation's businesses has finally arrived. Manufacturers, distributors and retailers report even the most-scarce categories of firearms and ammunition only months ago are sitting on their shelves in a critical retail season. At the same time, new products are being rolled into a marketplace that is said to still be receptive to new gear. In the Freedom Group's Bushmaster announcement Chairman John Blystone said "We are continuing to adjust our operations in order to remain competitive and continue to grow. Given increasing costs and pricing pressures affecting the entire firearms industry, this action is clearly necessary and responsible." The explanation offered by Smith & Wesson CEO Michael Golden was similar, describing the Thompson/Center closure as a move to "streamline our firearms manufacturing processes and improve our margins." No word on the disposition of Bushmaster's Wyndham, Maine facilities, but Smith and Wesson says they're looking for a buyer for the New Hampshire foundry that will be among the T/C facilities shuttered "sometime next year". Some Thompson employees are being offered relocation packages to Smith and Wesson's headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts; the remainder will be given severance packages. Acquired three years ago - at what appears to have been peak profitability- T/C has been hit hard by a change in purchasing by the firearms consumers. Bushmaster, one of the hard-charging companies during last year's boom in "black rifles" seems to be another smaller facility being phased out by Freedom Group's unrelenting drive to achieve manufacturing and distribution efficiencies. From a business efficiencies standpoint, absorption of Bushmaster into the Freedom Group's overall manufacturing facilities and Thompson/Center's rolling into Smith's Massachusetts facilities both make sense. That's small consolation, however, for the employees who will find themselves unemployed in what is a tough job market nationwide. That job market is even more challenging in the northeast where high taxes, operating costs and employee compensation packages have already driven other companies to more friendly locales. Bushmaster joins Marlin Firearms in the ranks of purchased/consolidated brands of the Freedom Group. In March of this year, Freedom Group announced they would close the North Haven, Connecticut facilities that for 140 years had been that brand's home. The Freedom Group consolidations aren't new. Beginning in 2008 with the closure of the Remington manufacturing facility in Gardner, Massachusetts, the company has continued to consolidate its holdings. The Smith & Wesson closure of Thompson/Center will also bring product lines to a central facility with sufficient space and capacity to accommodate the additions. While smaller "boutique" facilities continue in the firearms industry, it is no longer realistic to believe that acquisition targets will remain in their current locations when folded into larger portfolios.

If the drawings look sexy I cant wait to see the real deal. Great find buddy

Cerberus has the power to devastate the shooting industry. Who knows with Colt teetering on the brink maybe the FG can snatch them up too. Imagine that a loser like Bloomberg could buy the Freeedom Group from Cerberus and effectively kill a major portion of the gun industry.

Found em I would never have dreamed this stuff was sewn by hand http://www.king5.com/news/Suburban-sweatshop-reveals-regions-labor-underground-108772619.html http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/KING-5-traces-surburban-sweatshop-goods-to-reputable-businesses-109029759.html

anyone have experience with these guys?