gunjunkie45 said:

I was in high-school in the 90s I had a buddy who's first car was a 75 Olds delta 88. That fool could drive!. He had 70's boats as long as I knew him after. At least 20 years.

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75 Olds 88 is the poster child of land barges.

Redmanss said:

The wife has an ‘18 Crosstrek, 135k on it, CVT with the little 2.0 engine, every bell and whistle, bought new straight off the truck. I replaced one rear hub at 90k or so, all else is just oil changes by me past warranty period every 6k, couple recalls done at the dealership. The little fucker just runs, same fuel mileage as new, but I do need to do plugs and trans fluid this spring. We only use top tier gas, Mobil 1 oil full synthetic, OEM filters. I did also change out the battery, -20*F was kicking its ass.

It’s not fast, but it’s fast enough. It’s not powerful, but powerful enough. It’s a Wyoming commuter car that gets her to work and home every blizzard. It’s cramped in the back, just as bad up front for me, is full to the brim on monthly city grocery runs, but it runs well and I’d fully say worth what we paid.

What it won’t do is everything a Subaru commercial says it will. The thing drags the ground off road with minor ruts, is gutless up steep hills with no 4L, limited on OEM size tire offerings to handle rocks, and aftermarket parts are difficult to nonexistent to find with OEM at times being just as hard.

Would we buy another? Yes, to do the same duty as a fuel efficient all weather commuter car on the prairie, but no more long road trips or mountain playing. A Lexus GX and probably a Taco is in our future for that, respectively.

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The absolute worst drivers in CO drive Crosstreks. Tailgating, speeding etc. I see one and expect the worst.

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I was in high-school in the 90s. I had a buddy who's first car was a 75 Olds delta 88. That fool could drive!. He had 70's boats as long as I knew him after. At least 20 years.

The D said:

What do you expect their reactions to be if they just learned there could be an additional 30% tax on raw materials?

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Give me all of their supply, of course!

I always dreamed of having a college student studying engineering, renting a room in exchange for reloading.

SilentStalkr said:

Well, a lot of the ammo people are of course saying that this is gonna dry up current supply, force them to pay mega increases the next time they purchase, out a lot of suppliers out of biz and so on. In other words, they are saying the sky is falling in the ammo market.

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I’ve seen ammo wholesale prices, and they were closer to 50% of retail at one of my local stores.

I saw it on their wholesale list on one of their computer screens, at least for Hornady.

Some of the online sellers might be running a business model on 5% margins, which is their prerogative.

I just see it as another scare tactic to generate sales, which has been a core marketing model in the firearms industry conditioned by the volatile legal framework set by anti-2A politicians.

These politicians have also been caught investing in firearms companies, then threatening legislation to drive sales. We get played big time in the firearms world by the lower-tier scumbags who can’t play in higher value industries.

I am from the general area originally but I got the hell out of there as soon as I could. My girlfriend keeps trying to convince me to move back. Hard no... She can jump back into that cesspool all by herself if that's what she wants. That state takes all of your money and in return they provide a North Korean lifestyle. Bad deal. Good luck with the search.

Old Man with Gun said:

Stock market took the biggest two day loss in the history of the stock market. At what point do you think we should show concern?

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This might be news to younger folks or older ones who never studied economics, but the stock market isn’t even an indicator you would look at for US economic health and future outlook.

Gross Domestic Product, Unemployment, Inflation, DTI, Consumer confidence/CPI, and Median Income to Median Home price ratio are what I look at and analyze regularly.

The stock market is a trader’s market that most Americans are not involved with. It was originally meant for businesses and banks to invest in, to help promote economic expansion and wealth-sharing among companies.

Any time traders see an opportunity for volatility, they will shake the trees and drop whatever known-performing investments they have, so they can pick up with larger yields on the up-curve in the largest market on earth.



US unemployment remains at historically-low rates, and will only get better as more industries are forced to relocate here. It was 5.6% in 1990, and is now 4%, on an overall downward trend over the past 35 years. The 2 main periods of outliers were the ’08 crash to 9.3%, and the COVID biowar crime in 2020, where it went to 8.1%.

CPI has been on an upward trend, which is really driven by inflation.

One major problem moving forward is nobody has really given a rip about our upcoming generations when it comes to housing, transportation, and household costs. With manufacturing, anyone could afford more than a decent home, transportation, and normal household expenses, while being able to have plenty of money left over for lifestyle improvements, vacations, plenty of children, and long-term stability.

These treasonous organized crime sell-outs in our Congress have cashed-out with foreign companies and lobbyists, selling our critical industrial base factories to the highest bidders and blackmailers. Both political parties have stepped on the gas to that end, as long as their candidates kept getting elected.

This is why they hate Trump so much. He represents and existential threat to their bribery schemes and personal profiteering at the expense of the Country. But somebody has to think of our future and the young Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and their posterity.

Congress already sold-out Gen X, but we were used to being abandoned by dual-income households with parents who were conditioned to chase material things instead of family-focus and the real American dream.

PNW_Steve said:

It only has one. it appears to be directly opposite from the gas port. I can mount the gas block using one screw in the dimple and use the second hole as a guide to drill a second dimple.

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I'd leave it with just one dimple. If you ever change gas blocks the hole centers may have different spacing.

Take my Cash.

Baron23 said:

Do you have Excel on a PC or laptop? The Garmin downloaded data is a csv file and are easily opened and manipulated in Excel.

What this does not support is shooting round robin during LD.

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How dare you even suggest such a work around on this thread! But you are correct, its easily done in Excel.

^^^ Yeah, the French think it runs through Paris, too ;-)

But looks like an interesting video.... thanks! I'll watch tonite!

Sirhr

rimfired said:

Full send left handed, it is the way.

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Yeah I’m in the process of finding a left handed setup. It’s pretty damn hard to come across one.

DFOOSKING said:

If shooting right handed guns being a lefty was a real advantage at all......you'd be seeing righties en masse using left handed guns. We don't. Because it sucks and its just a shitty bandaid mindfuck to pass off the real issue of LH gun availability. If the roles were reversed and 95% of guns were built LH and 85% of users were RH.... nobody would tolerate making due as a primary recourse. They'd bitch and moan and demand the product makers conform or fail.

If your lefty, get lefty guns whenever you can.

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Great point

Fun little static airframe kit of a Etrich Taube "Eindecker" plane from the Edwardian period. Tiny little thing. Fiddly rigging. But came out kind of cool. The 'kit' engine sucked, so I made one out of tiny pieces of aluminum, brass and copper.









Wingspan is about 18 inches... so it's really tiny and delicate. Putting all the rigging/guywires on without breaking or crushing it was... a lot of work! I need a set of magnifying glasses...

Sirhr

232593 said:

So if I said a good leftist is a dead leftist whilst walking down the street in the UK would I get in trouble?

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If it was in earshot of one of their millions of cameras and microphones (set up as part of anti-IRA defenses...) Yes.

And from what I understand, if you are a tourist there and post on networks or social media... that they can and do monitor... you can get busted too. No Constitutional protections there. Except for the filthy Muzzies and useless Ukranians who are there by the millions. The can rape girls and chop the heads off guardsmen because it's their 'cultural norm.'

Need some good old fashioned Thatcher-era Big-Boot London Soccer Thugs again. Sadly, they are all 70 and pensioners now... That said, they can probably kick the shit out of your average London Soy Boy now.

Sirhr