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And just like that, this thread is done. But I bet it goes on for three pages with arguing.

There is a Jeep Commander (I think) for sale on the south side of Chino Valley. My wife asked me if I wanted it. Yes...and no.

If you decide to make your own, this guy shows how. https://www.youtube.com/@Everythingblackpowder

As a member of the GOA, it is supposed to apply to me. I guess I'll see what happens. I would like a suppressor for my Ruger 10-22.

I was from Minnesota, and having never been on a carnival ride, didn't know what seasickness was until I found out the hard way.

I pretty much keep something in it at all times and add any deformed bullets and sprues from the last session when it's still cold to prevent any damp lead from releasing the tinsel fairy.

I am slowly reading a book from the early 1980s. In it, he says that some shooters were trying Teflon tape patching instead of paper patching bullets. I have never heard of this, so I assume it never took off. Has anyone done this? @The Original Lumpy Gritz

When I was in, the USCG was part of the Department of Transportation. We mostly got the Navy leftovers. The four years I was in, they NEVER had my size uniforms in stock. I had those that I was issued at basic training, and then I had to buy Dickies uniforms at Kmart, or bid on them when they were cleaning out lockers from folks who went AWOL and never came back. I used to joke that the drug cartels had a bigger budget than the USCG. and that wasn't far from the mark. Me in 1983 and the throttle platform I stood watch for 2.5 years.

When you said yard sale, I had to look at where you live... Missouri is a tad too far to drive.

Are you running for any public office? I would donate to your campaign.

...We eliminated waiting periods, background checks, and FFLs, and we could ship handguns using the USPS. Or have we been so programmed to think they are part of the process that we think we should keep them? Waiting periods started with the Brady bill in 1994. Background checks were a fast way around the waiting periods. (1994). FFLs became a thing in 1968. The USPS prohibition on handguns began in 1927. A relative said he felt the background check was a good thing, except for him...

Maybe he was the type of seal that likes fish as a reward and balances a ball on his nose. Either way, I would say he's retired from being a seal of any kind.

Yep. PV for Prescott Valley. Chino for Chino Valley, but that confuses Californians because they think Chino, CA. We call the whole area the "Quad Cities", not to be confused with the Quad Cities in Iowa and Illinois.

I am with you. My daughter shot with me once. My SIL a few times. They have two boys (toddlers). Now, they moved 2200 miles away, so everything I was saving has been or will be sold.

The hard, cold reality is you can't expect your kin to love and cherish the things you do. My father spent a lifetime collecting things that may have value someday. (He grew up in the Great Depression.) When he passed, I kept a few things, and in the last decade I have thinned those things even more. Children have different lives, different experiences, different treasures. I am under no disillusion that my daughter and her family would treasure what I do beyond the cash value so that she/they could buy the things she wants.