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  1. A 200 foot AM radio tower doesn't fit in a pickup. It isn't a snatch & grab, LOL. So they would have been off air a while...and they didn't notice? LOL It's typical for the transmitter to be located a distance away from the broadcast studio. The transmitter is fed remotely by a microwave or internet/phone type. I suppose they could put a radio tuned to their freq in the engineer's booth, but you wouldn't want it in the studio itself because--> feedback. Probably cheaper to just monitor the outgoing signal.
  2. The practices a government employs in game/animal/natural resource management correlate directly to how they would treat people. Interesting, don't you think? Having already seen how this government treats its citizens, it shouldn't be a surprise they manage game this way.
  3. Good broad spectrum of videos from Sea To Shining Sea. I find it quite refreshing that a typically backward, stodgy, bunch of stick-in-the-muds like "cops" would actually embrace modern marketing and recruitment plans such as this to attract qualified applicants. I spent my entire adult life in the business. Forward thinking, progressive weren't terms I saw on a daily basis from the Command Staff. What I see in these videos are young minds, fresh ideas. Even the one from SFPD. That mirrors the values of the department, as do the others.
  4. Well stated, Phantom! The dreaded cost of doing business. Merchant fee? You mean a shop has to, in addition to other things, pay a power bill along with banking fees, business licenses, etc?!?? First time I saw the bank bill when I was working for my buddy floored me. Which is why I use cash almost everywhere. Especially to businesses I like. I remember when you couldn't find "import" lugers or Mausers because there weren't any. All bringbacks. Then the GOPA-1986 changed all that. Pretty much every military rifle used since the Spanish-American War became available....at a price. Bira guns out of Nepal. Or Mountain pack howitzers from the same region. Snider rifles. Lugers. P-38's. Mausers of every description. Any European/Com bloc out there, SKS's. Things people hadn't seen in decades. All for cheap. I remember buying 98k Mausers by the case at just about 50 bucks each. SKS rifles I think my best price in the crate was 69 each. Could be wrong. Lugers with grips, no mags, not matching, 200 bucks. Or, no grips no mags, 169. Sold every one. Only thing sold hotter than the Lugers was the P-38's. Even the post-war al-U-minium frames, LOL. Had me a Grey ghost for a hot minute, because the dealer who had it didn't know. Wanted 125 IIRC which I paid without protest. LOL. Of course that went off to fund others so the cycle could continue. I remember when a S&W model 10 was a 100 dollar gun. First 1911 I bought, WWII surplus was 175 bucks. Used Colt 1911's were 400 bucks. Ish. Bought a S&W 629 when they first came out, paid the egregious price of 369. The other day, looked at a 629 Mountain gun, 5" used but not clapped out by any means. Probably go for 900. Pretty much any "vintage" S&W revolver goes for what most of us call stupid money. But that's what they go for. Priced a new one lately? Taken a hard look at what passes for "quality" coming out of some of the manufacturers? They use "efficient" manufacturing to keep costs down. I just took in a Winchester Model 50. Semi-auto, recoil, delayed blowback with a floating chamber made somewhere about 1950-something. Built of blued steel and GORGEOUS American Walnut. Like a bank vault. Yeah. Got to shoot that. Keepin' it too. Unless you live under a rock, we all know why prices are what they are. Not just guns. Houses, food, everdang thing. Shootin' irons ain't no different but auction sites just make it worse because people can't just say enough. the bug git'em and that 400 dollar gun's now six. Then eight. Enough of that affects the whole market. Yes you can game the system. I encourage you to do so, actually. Otherwise you'll never get lucky, LOL.
  5. Good for ya! Know what you mean, last few years been sorta rough on Cimarron & I. Betwixt silly stuff and medical stuff that wasn't so silly, neither of us have done much shooting. Hoping to turn that corner here real soon, we'll see. I can tell you from personal experience, you'll do just fine. Like riding a bike.
  6. LOL, almost made it! That's the second one of those I've seen, other one was a Browning HP owned by a guy wo started a uniform shop here in Phoenix, John's Uniforms. Bullet was just barely in the barrel. Ol' John kept it as a souvenir, bought another HP LOL
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