Ozark Huckleberry

The bow never had a string -- it's California compliant.

Saw the video elsewhere. Level 1 stupid: Guy was pocket carrying, standing at a convenience store counter with the gun exposed in his hip pocket. Level 2 stupid: He paid no attention to a pair of hoodies that walked in. One of the hoodies just walked up and took the gun. Stupid (terminal level): He followed them outside to try to get his gun back. The guy getting ended was Darwin taking his fee. The worst part is the potential innocent victims that wind up on the wrong end of the stolen gun.

The argument that pennies should be eliminated because it costs 3.7 cents to produce a 1 cent coin is specious. The mint isn't producing money when it mints coins -- it is producing a representation of value to be used in a transaction. The question to be answered is how many times does that coin have to be used in a transaction during its lifespan to produce enough revenue to make it worthwhile for the government to mint it. Depending on where you look, pennies last from 20 to 40 years. ETA -- so if a penny is used in (hypothetically) 20 transaction a year, and last for 30 years, it goes through 600 transactions. 3.7 cents divided into 600 transactions means the penny only has to generate an average of .0062 cents per transaction to be worth minting. Round up/round down? Sure -- a lot of the kids manning the counters now have a hard enough time counting out change. What do they think will happen when the kid has to make a decision about whether to add or subtract based on what the register readout says? Some POS systems would be updated to automatically round (the major chains), but certainly not all. And cashing out the drawer at the end of the clerk's stint at the check-out? Figuring how much over/under is within limits for the transactions? Have fun.

Cocked, locked, and topped.

Blackwater — you’re right. I went back and found I’d missed the commentator’s intro that said the guy in the Mercedes had passed the truck in the residential area. But in the review, I heard the truck driver tell the Mercedes driver those three little words that let every parent and NFL referee know they missed an important first part of the conflict — ‘You started it.’

Tough to say, especially given that only a brief bit at the end of the encounter is shown. The Mercedes driver is clearly in the wrong, as far as the video goes,. and he deserves whatever the law brings to him for ratcheting a road rage incident up to an armed confrontation. But I don't give the truck driver a pass, either. I think it takes two active participants for road rage to get to where this one went, and for the truck driver to wind up in the situation he found himself was more likely from being a player than a victim. The truck is stopped behind the Mercedes in a neighborhood. I don't know, but I get the sense that most road rages start somewhere other than in a residential area. So I infer that the incident started somewhere else, with higher traffic activity. To get to the point of the incident, the truck had to have followed the Mercedes, until that driver decided to stop and escalate the issue. How many opportunities did the truck driver have to let the Mercedes go, to take a different turn, to get out from behind the guy without escalating the confrontation? I doubt that 'none' is a truthful answer. For myself -- I find that carrying concealed makes me incredibly more polite on the road, much more de-escalatory, and very willing to let the other guy 'win the day' without the need for gestures or drama when another driver and I don't see eye-to-eye on who should yield to whom. I don't look at this and think, 'What would I have done?' I think, 'How could I have avoided it?' But for the record -- I'm not going to let someone walk up to me gun in hand, especially with family in the car. From the point at which he blocked my vehicle, I'd be armed, ready, and giving warnings. ETA: Generally, both people have cellphones. Why not have 9-1-1- on one while video recording with the other? I'd think it would be a whole 'nother level of 'calm-the-f-down' for the other driver to join a 9-1-1 chat when he walks up.

Didn't think I would care much for a violin solo for the Anthem, but it was very well done. The color guard, however, needs to get honed up a bit.

I’ve loaded a bunch of ammunition on a 550 that was just fastened with wing nuts on a piece of 2 inch pine mounted to studs in the back wall of the garage, so I comprende the value of a make-shift loading bench. At the end of the reloading session I unfastened it and stashed it in a nearby cabinet. Your idea with clamps looks like it would work, if you can stabilize the back end of the board you’re mounting the press on. An added benefit of your set-up is you have the ability to fairly easily set it up at the range to develop loads, if that would be something you chose to try.

Your flag, your choice. There’s a website — halfstaff.org, IIRC — that will email you when the flag should be at half staff. State flags generally follow the protocol for the national flag. I put my U.S flag back up for the first time in almost four years. I didn’t put it to half staff.

I was thinking either Kyle Rittenhouse or Hikok45.

Sounds like a good idea -- would a roll pin stand up to the punishment (does the firing pin bottom out in its hole in the hammer, or does the retaining pin have to absorb the impact)?

My firing pin retainer pin worked out while I was dry firing with snap caps. In a pistol I had never dry fired without snap caps. And I replace my snap caps regularly. Sometimes, it IS the gun.

BTDT. Fixed it IAW with this: SASS Forum, 2/15/2022

At a school where I taught, the language arts teachers taught a unit on Anne Frank. The history teachers taught a parallel unit on the Holocaust at an 8th grade level. One of the things I worked to get across to the students what '6 million' represented, without the time and tedium of linking paper clips or making paper chains. This is what I came up with. When we started the unit, the kids came in to a sheet of paper on their desks, with some simple little math problems for them, and instructions not to turn the paper over. These were the problems: 1. If a sheet of paper listed names in four columns, with six lines per inch and one inch margins, how many names would be listed on the paper? The answer was 216. 2. How many names would be listed on 25 sheets of paper? The answer: 5,400 3. If a ream of paper had 500 sheets of paper, how many names would be listed in a ream of paper? The answer: 108,000 4.If a case of paper held 10 reams, how many names would be listed in a case of paper? The answer: 1,080,000. 5. How many cases of paper would it take to list 6,000,000 names? The answer: 5.56. I'd direct their attention to the front corner of the room, where I had 6 cardboard cases that paper had come in, then tell them to turn their papers over. On their papers, in four columns, 54 lines per column, were a number of simple statements: - This was someone's brother. - This was someone's sister. - This was someone's child. - This was someone's father. - This was someone's mother. - This was someone's cousin. - This was someone's wife. - This was someone's husband. . . . and so on. Then I'd collect their papers so they could see how small the little stack was, and walk over to drop it into the top box. Then we would start the first lesson.

Never had a cord wear out before the machine.