Pat Riot

A great new wave rock band. Image from http://rockclip.blogspot.com/2012/05/b-52s.html?m=1

Yes. I keep about a dozen bottles of water in the fridge as well as a couple of cases in the pantry / laundry room. I drink iced bottled water daily. Nearly a gallon. Sometimes more.

I’d be concerned about my AC units.

I found this simple explanation of the game. https://pooljourney.blogspot.com/2018/01/betting-on-roomba.html?m=1 Some interesting info on Roomba on pool tables. https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/questions-and-answers/gambling/40090-roomba-on-a-pool-table-bet/ Some info on one game on Facebook. I don’t use FB, but I can see the first page. If you hate FB or can’t see FB please don’t whine about it. . https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=545989088606884&vanity=StickysSocialLounge Another Roomba Pool Game video

That’s funny! I am guessing that to play the pool balls are all positioned on the table, one picks a ball and lays out an ante. If the roomba bumps your ball and it goes into a pocket you win the cash. I am wondering if your selected ball is hit by the roomba then the impact of your ball into another ball causes the other ball to go into the pocket do you and the other person split the pot? It looks like a fun. I’d give it a try.

Bill Burr was much nicer than I would have been. Then again, I am not a dancing clown.

If I were stuck in traffic and found out that’s why I was stuck there I would be perfectly fine with it. I hope Boo pulls thru just fine.

Good on you, Yul. Not everyone in need is a conman, but it sure is hard to know who is and who isn’t sometimes. If that hearse is sitting there tomorrow…

Thanks Joe. That worked.

I liked how they felt in my hands, but I didn’t like firing them. I also didn’t like the controls. It just didn’t fit me.

Jees H…WTH is wrong with that website? It’s all ads.

@Alpo I saw a video years ago of two police officers trying to unload a German pistol, not sure of the make, but it had a butt heel mag release. It was pretty funny to watch. Eventually they gave up and asked the owner to unload it. The look on their faces was priceless when he dropped the mag.

Good article. Thank you, Chantry. One thing I do miss from other places I have lived are ranges that rents guns for people to try out. One range 14 miles from me will rent guns that they happen to have in their used guns displays. That’s all well and good IF they have a decent selection but often they may only have guns that are not suited for concealed carry or they’ll have numerous guns from one manufacturer and not many others. At a range I belonged to in Huntington Beach, CA had a pretty decent selection of guns. Every once in a while I would pick a couple to try out, even though I had no intention of buying a new model of that gun just to see how it worked and possibly find an Easter Egg I wasn’t aware I might like. Renting guns was how I discovered that I really didn’t like 2 beloved examples most gun people are Ga-Ga over. The Browning Hi Power and the CZ75, BUT I now now how to operate them should the need arise and I know not to be distracted by the Browning’s hammer bite. This range also had a nice selection of revolvers. There were a number of ranges that also rented guns within a 50 mile radius of me in SoCal. Here the closest range that I am aware that has a decent inventory of gun rentals is 70 miles away.

Something I saw an instructor do at a tactical training class years ago that just floored me was he defeated a revolver shooter with a very simple move. He grabbed the gun around the cylinder and frame with one hand and held on tight while he wielded a plastic knife with the other stabbing his victim repeatedly. As long as he held on to the revolver the revolver was completely useless to the person that drew it. It was a mock attack staged for demonstration purposes. As soon as that demo was over several Johnny Know-it-alls started their banter railing against revolvers. The instructor picked one of them to “volunteer” for the next scenario. In this scenario the victim, Johnny K., was given one of the instructor’s Glocks and was told to draw and shoot the instructor (no live ammo involved). As soon as the volunteer drew his gun the instructor grabbed the front of the gun pushing backwards on the slide taking the gun out of battery making it unfireable. He proceeded to use his rubber knife to stab the “victim” numerous times. Johnny K. was very surprised and very humble as he took his seat. This demonstration was done to show that a savvy bad guy can be a problem to a revolver carrier or a semiauto carrier. I posted this to say, it doesn’t matter what you carry. Learn how to use it and learn how to keep it from being used against you.

Ahem…Really? https://www.marlinowners.com/threads/fine-tuning-the-1894.378786/ https://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?t=29386 http://marauder.homestead.com/files/Widdermatic_Marlin.htm https://www.marlinowners.com/threads/1894-will-feed-anything-widdermatic-widdermajik-mod.61517/ There are other sites but they contain info other than the magic of Widder.

No, it mounts in the scope holes on the receiver. The sights on my gun are XS Sights for Winchester rifles and carbines. I love the front sights by XS. They have a white stripe up the center. They really stand out through the rear peep / ghost ring sight. https://xssights.com/products/winchester-ghost-ring-sight-sets-lever-action-.html

My Dad taught me very little about guns. I began learning about guns at the local library as a kid. I was a gun nut from the get go. In the Navy I was a Gunner’s Mate - Missile. All GMs have the same “A” school where we learn about gun and missile systems and, most pertinent to this thread, we learned about small arms (firearms). After that I went to “C” school where I was trained to work on and operate missile launchers but I volunteered to do work in the armory aboard ship and did so every chance I got. After the Navy I got into shooting Bullseye matches then tactical shooting and also target shooting. This led to learning about my guns and I started buying books on gunsmithing and working on my own guns. And again I would go to the library to find books on guns and gunsmithing. I used to get several gun magazines a month. I still get a couple of magazines, but the internet is my gun magazine now. I have learned a great deal in my internet searches and my time in forums. One does have to be careful with info from the internet. Always double and triple check information. No offense to anyone here but if I learn something anywhere on the internet, including here, I always double and triple check info, especially on reloading and firearms mods. Did I mention the library? You would be surprised how much info you can find there b

This ^^^^ …and yes, If introducing yourself is mandatory or encouraged I do it.

That’s how I judge areas. I pick one minor thing and derive my opinion of everyone and everything there from that. Sarcasm

I was going to do that but wanted to try Cerakote. I liked it and wouldn’t hesitate to do it again.

I have yet to meet a woman that carries a gun carrying a revolver. Yet husbands and men in their lives have foisted revolvers upon them only for the ladies to dump the revolver for a semiauto.

The most “hick” place I have lived is in the county of my birth, Greene County, PA. There’s some funky-a**ed stuff that goes on there with odd and taboo relationships. Anyway, after I moved to WV I had some PA folks making fun of West Virginia and making ignorant low class comments like “Hey, now you can marry your sister” or jokes about farm animal sex. I always ask if they’ve seen the movie “Deliverance”. If they say “yes” I say something like “You should come visit. I got buddies that’ll make you squeal like a pig as I am sure you would be into that.” or “West Virginia is nothing like Greene County, but I can understand your confusion, seeing as how you ain’t all that bright.” Those people don’t talk to me any more. Must be something I inferred. And, for the record, I lived in Arkansas for my entire 7th grade year. It’s a wonderful state with some really great people.

In my moly-coated lead bullet testing my test data is all gone or somewhere I haven’t looked yet. Having moved many times over the years I have lost a lot of information. Typically what I do is I un ladder tests on loads and create index cards for the most accurate of all my tests. Here are 2 load cards that I tested in my old Winchester 94 30-30 Carbine. I no longer own the gun, but I had a lot of fun with it. These loads were developed and tested for accuracy in the early 00’s. I did not chronograph them. Gratuitous photo of my old 94. Yes, the metal is green. I had it Cerakoted in 2012 after an idiot ex-friend’s “cooler that doesn’t leak” did leak in the back of my Suburban thus causing my 94’s gun case to become saturated. I figure it was like that for 7 days. My gun was covered in rust. I had it Cerakoted. EDIT: I forgot to add that I tested these loads at 125 yards. After paper testing of ladder loads I tested the “Whack of these loads on several 25# 4”x6”x12” solid steel blocks at 125 yards. The results were impressive in that the sound these bullets made on the steel and the movement of the blocks was quite gratifying.