Cypress Sun
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
Berry's was what I was thinking of. Got an email from them today with a link to their website and their big sale, and I always go look. To see what they might have new. But I don't buy from them. It's cheaper from just about anywhere else.
Starline, on the other hand, is about the same price each. But you can buy a package of 100 from Midway and the smallest amount you can buy directly from Starline is 500. So you have to decide if you want 200 pieces, and get them for 2x amount of money, and pay shipping. Or go ahead and get the 500 pieces, and pay 5x amount of money, but they ship free. You save a little bit per piece, but you had to spend more to begin with. Ehh.
As you know, shipping these days is outrageous. Buy more of the product to save money...that's why people pay a membership fee to Sam's Club, Costco, BJ's and other "membership" clubs. The merchandise is always packaged in large quantities and sold at a discounted price over other retailers. Buy in bulk, save money...nothing new.
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41 minutes ago, Texas Joker said:
I would sell it to whoever created the most profit margin.
This ^^^^
I've noticed the price difference , higher at the manufacturer than the retailer, with Berry's and other manufactures also, like RCBS or Hodgdon for instance. The probable reason for the price difference is most likely in labor and the fact that they want you to buy from the retailer and the higher price is actually a deterrent. The labor required to ship a couple of boxes of bullets only slightly less than loading 200 boxes of bullets on a pallet and waiting for the semi to arrive to ship therefore smaller sales make the profit level much smaller.
The retailer gets a break on price and even with the retailer markup it is still cheaper than buying it direct. The retailer also figures that you'll purchase other items also and I'm reasonably sure that many retailers also mark up shipping prices
The manufacture gives the retailer a price break to order in bulk because the labor involved less which makes the profit level higher.
Right or wrong, that's my theory.
If I were the manufacture, I would concentrate on the retailer, not the individual consumer.
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Alliant Powder made an announcement last fall (2024) that they were suspending retail powder shipments until further notice. So far, there's been no further notice and there doesn't appear any shipments anytime soon. If you really want Bullseye powder, it is available on Gunbroker @ $350 for an 8 lb jug + $38 shipping and probably + HazMat.
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
What.... The guy didn't have a dog?
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During the Burger King rotisserie days, I liked the double cheeseburger.
Biff Burger had the same type rotisserie type cooked burgers. When I was an pre-teen and then teenager, Biff Burger was the place I'd go for the treat of a double cheeseburger...two or three if I had the money. The last Biff Burger around here, probably in the entire country, closed a few years ago. I miss that place.
Burger King sucks these days, rather go to Culver's.
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I thought the purpose of the best man was to get the groom to the ceremony on time and somewhat sober.
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54 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I remember when the Big Mac came along. I was in Boy Scouts. 12, maybe 13.
It came in a paper ring - a thin fiberboard ring. And it was wrapped in red foil. The hamburger came in white wax paper and the cheeseburger came in yellow wax paper. But these have that thick paper ring circling them to keep it from getting squished accidentally. And wrapped in red foil. It was really something special. And it cost 50 cents. That was a lot of money. I think minimum was about a dollar and a quarter at the time, so 50 cents was a heap of money for a damn sandwich.
I remember the rings, hamburger in the white paper, cheeseburger in the yellow paper. I think the hamburger was 15 cents and cheeseburger was 25 cents but I could be wrong on the prices. Back then, they actually tasted good. It was a big treat then to go to the McDonalds on Gulf to Bay Blvd (Hwy 60) in Clearwater, Fl., directly across from Frisch's Big Boy. There is still a McD's there at the same location but it's not the original one, of course. The Frisch's got torn down 30 years ago or so and the property has surprisingly remained vacant since.
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28 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
I include this solely for laughs….
http://www.grouprecipes.com/116905/family-friendly-budget-spam-lasagna.html
- 1/4 large carrot
- 2 cups tomato ketchup or BBQ sauce
- 1 pound spam (roughly chopped)shopping list
- 12 lasagna sheets
- 15 kraft single cheese slices (budget sandwich cheese or eqiv)
- 1 cup kraft mayonaise
That's just disgustingly nasty.
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From what I've read about California, Florida is just as bad or worse.
Property insurance used to be fairly low to moderate in Florida until 2004 when four hurricanes struck Florida within six weeks of each other. Three of the four covered a large area of Florida with some pretty bad damage in a couple of areas. All of a sudden, the insurers that had been raking in the money for decades with minimal payout, had substantial claims to payout.
Prior to 2004 there hadn't been hurricanes that caused large areas of damage in many, many years. That includes Hurricane Andrew in 1992 which caused extreme localized damage in the Homestead area but stayed over the Everglades for the most part and gators don't carry insurance.
Insurance premiums started to rise rapidly and substantially after 2004 and have kept climbing since.
One of the big problems was that the major insurers like State Farm, Allstate and others pulled out of Florida or dropped coverage for most coastal areas. That left the door open for the "no name" companies to start raping homeowners for premiums, but when it came time to pay out....whoops, we don't have any money for your claims, tough luck. Even today, the major insurers will rarely insure any property in the coastal counties or, if they do, they cherry pick which ones and it comes with a very hefty price tag. Yet, the "no name" companies still flourish and are permitted to issue policies.
Somehow, a company named Citizens became the "insurer of last resort". What that means is that if you can't find someone to insure you, they will for a high price. Problem is that all of the prices are now outrageous and almost all of the companies that will insure the coastal counties or anywhere near the coast are mostly all "no name" companies that claim payouts are iffy at best. Citizens is right in there with the high prices plus Citizens now REQUIRES flood insurance regardless of home elevation or coastal location. After the last three recent hurricanes, even Citizens had a high non-payout and denial rate at about 50%.
We just received our renewal for the year of $4900 + another $1,400 for flood insurance (separate company), about the same as last year. Our "All other perils" deductible is $2,500, Sinkhole deductible is $37,000 (10%) and hurricane deductible is $7,400 (2%) for coverage that would never rebuild the house/cover the contents/pay for another place to live in the meantime, if this house was destroyed by any means. This is the first year that the premiums didn't rise substantially. Our house is only 1,100 square feet, 8 miles from the coast, 12' above the flood benchmark and a CMU built house. Folks with bigger houses or closer to the coast have much larger premiums than I.
Every voting cycle, the candidates, both new and incumbents, run on "We're going to straighten out the insurance crisis". They never do, I don't think they even try, too much money coming in from the side. The insurance companies claim they aren't making any money yet somehow have millions for the company execs and those at their shady subsidiary (satellite) companies. I don't know what the solution to the insurance crisis is, but I know this sure as hell isn't the solution.
Personally, I'm tired of getting raped (no lube either) by the insurance companies (auto insurance included), as are ALL of the people that live in Florida and everywhere in the United States.
Suffice to say, I damn sure feel your pain Hardpan...and it doesn't feel good.
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9 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I doubt that ATF has any authority over migratory game birds. More likely a federal game and fish department.
These people.
And FWS does NOT have a sense of humor...on this, or anything else for that matter....trust me on this!
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2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
There are many local styles of lasagna primarily developed before transportation became so common. What we are accustomed to is I think from Naples. In Europe, not Italy, I was often served the following. Basically noodles, meat, in a thin tomato sauce, a thin layer of cheese, repeat. I haven’t found a recipe for it and am wondering if anyone knows. I suspect that it comes from a very northern district. Does anyone know. Books that I have don’t branch out much.
As an expert Italian food eater I'd say....Damn, that looks a good!
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Dang it, my conception month already passed. I guess I'll have to buy two guns to make up for my belatedness.
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8 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:
Those that died in the blast were not the only victims. A good friend was an ATF agent at the time, assigned to picking out bits of evidence from body parts. It affected him so deeply that he had to take an early medical retirement, and eventually became an elementary school teacher. The kind you wish your kid had in the classroom.
I know it's unusual to sympathize with government employees, but most are pretty normal human beings. Thank goodness for the professionalism of the agents who constructed the case against Timothy McVeigh.
I was surprised, and glad, that McVeigh's sentence was carried out relatively quickly in a little over six years from the date of the murders. Many times, murderers sit on "death row" for 25 - 30 years until sentence is carried out, if it's ever carried out.
IMO, Nichols should have received the same sentence.
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Didn't end up with any holes in ya or leak any blood and yer guns went home with you intact for the most part.
I'd say it wasn't THAT bad of a day after all.
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Will the wind ever remember, the names it has blown in the past....
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1 hour ago, Chantry said:
Must be Mike Tyson's kid.
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9 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:
Maybe a few folks would have loved the .357 Mag, but I suspect most would not have seen any need for the additional noise and recoil.
The .38 Special Heavy Duty, created by S&W in 1930, and the ancestor of the (1935) Magnum, was created because bad guys were in steel capsules called cars. LEOs wanted a bullet that would pierce steel in the 1930s. No cars in 1974. So I suspect most LEOs would have continued to use less powerful cartridges.
US Cavalry soldiers complained about the recoil of the original blackpowder .45 Colt, so much so that the lower powered .45 Schofield became the Army's standard ammunition. Hard to imagine they would embrace the snappy loud .357 either.
Yeah....but can you imagine what an original 1874 Colt Python would be worth now?!!!
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I worked as a cook with a waitress named Glada. She had a 4th grade education and could (or wouldn't) write legibly or spell. She would verbally tell us the order and expect us to get it right. She was probably the best waitress I ever saw and a pleasure to work with. She never got an order wrong and don't get her order wrong, she'd let you know if you did.
Haven't thought about her for years, that was 50 years ago now.
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14 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
Yeah, we should ban railroads. They’re so bad.
What!!!!
How else are kids supposed to create 'pieces of silver' with a quarter?
Silver quarters on the rail...naw, I never did that. Nor did I do pennies, nickels or dimes. We didn't always get them back.
When I was growing up, the train tracks were 200 yds from the house...right next to the woods.
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48 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
When the hot brass gets caught in cleavage, I’m first to offer help.
Seen that quite a few times over 25 years of timing for the SASS matches. Cleavage and lever rifles are, for some reason or another, not a good combination of the two.
It's amazing how fast a gal can remove a button down shirt.
A few of them even unbuttoned the shirt first.
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1 hour ago, Still hand Bill said:
Probably like with rifles, most are 16 1/4. Add just a little bit extra to make sure. The shockwave is interesting as it’s really built to fit in a loophole. Hence the forward strap to ensure it’s a two handed weapon, not a pistol. Also oal is long enough that it’s not a sbs, yet it’s not a shotgun as it’s not shoulder fired. Someone really read the regulations and then built something to fit.
My understanding is that the forend strap is so that your hand doesn't slip off the forend while cycling the gun and possibly get your hand in front of the muzzle while firing, which would be an undesirable situation to say the least.
I watched a guy do exactly that while cycling dummy rounds through his Shockwave. Good thing it was just dummy rounds.
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I wonder if the elephants were thinking that the ground was shaking due to a head of rival/enemy elephants attacking and they were protecting their young from the rival/enemy herd.
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I've turned green and yellow before, it wasn't good. 🤢
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Is There An Echo?
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Actually, you're the winner!
I got to 9 seconds.