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pisgahrifle

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  1. If fuel-efficient cars were comfortable, I would still be driving one as my daily driver.

    I dunno- go try a few out. The new Beetles are actually a lot roomier than they look, but they don't have a trunk at all. I've actually gotten pretty used to driving my wife's little Focus- and at 6'3" and 230 lbs, one would assume that looks alot like a monkey f***ing a football. Drove it to Breckenridge, CO and back with no discomfort at all. I've also personally never owned anything with a four-banger in it- hell, the 300 straight six that I've got now is the smallest plant I've ever run- and never owned less than a full size car, much less one of those toy trucks. But on long trips I'm glad that Focus is both comfortable AND equipped with a weedeater motor!!

  2. I've actually been on the lookout for something like this for a friend of mine back home. He's got an A-5 that's about 54-55" OAL, and I think he was looking for a hardcase. Neither one of us have found one.

    BTW- Don't mean to hijack your thread, Bruce.

  3. Don't fear the little Wilson chute. I've used one for a while with a S&A arched housing with no problems insofar as fit is concerned. I think the key may be inletting the stocks just as little as possible so they hold the ears tight. Of course I use wood stocks, so this makes the process a bit easier. YMMV.

  4. I used to be able to at least get out and practice during the summer. The $ that used to go to ammo and range fees now goes to gas for everyday driving. I'm sure once the semester statrs and more starts rolling in I'll be able to start shooting more regularly again, but I still won't be able to shoot as much as I did when we were still back home- at least not until I get to reloading up here. The thing that sucks the most about all this is that we don't get to go home as often, and when we do there's no way in hell we can take the truck. The last time we did it cost us around $160 down and back. That's hard to stomach on one faculty and one staff salary (Guess which one is higher! :angry: ). Even with Kelly's car we spend around $80, and that was almost a month ago.

  5. We are now at $2.71-$2.82 PG here in the DC area. I was further south towards Woodbridge today and filled up down thataway for $2.59. Never thought I'd call that cheap.

  6. I think that is exactly why everyone must classify at least once a year now instead of the people that classified once three years ago.

    Because nobody ever sandbags the classifier...

    The only way to make folk classify straight is to have a classifier stage within a match ala USPSA. You make people shoot their best or lose than it fixes some of these things.

  7. Over the next year or so I'm going to try to put together enough parts for a new single stack. I've got a pretty good idea what I want, and I'm going to be buying according to that plan. Does anyone have any recomendations for a smith I can go to and say, "This is what I have, this is where I want to go with it" and have them be able to build it? I wish I could just send it off to someone and have it done all at one time, but on a teacher's salary that just ain't gonna happen. Suggestions?

  8. The station down the road posted $2.59 a gallon for regular today. My truck is officially GROUNDED until the semester starts and paychecks start rolling in. I am displeased.

  9. I've been using a 16# for carry and a 13# for competition with a Shok-buff behind both. Like several other folks, had I never gotten into the sport (and had good influences :D ) I'd still be shooting a heavy-a@@ed spring. My carry load is a 230 Speer GDHP and my match load is a 200 HCSWC with 3.9 of Bullseye. Eerily enough, the recoil impulse tends to be about the same with both setups, though I do notice the buffer gets a bit cut-up with the 13. I may be switching to a 14 or 16 for the 200 before too long.

  10. Any sticker letting us know how great things are up North, but not why you chose to burden us with your presense indefinately.  Note: I know you New Yorkers hate California.  And You know they hate NY. What you fail to realize is that the entire rest of the country hates BOTH OF YOU!!!

    YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. BA! Church's, Popeye's, KFC- none of 'em get up early enough in the morning to make chicken or biscuits as good as Bojangles. I realized when we came up to this Godforsaken place that no one seems to have heard of them north of Richmond.

  12. Somewhere, there's gotta be a tutorial on "How to shoot a high-recoil firearm without dropping it like an asshat" ???

    Actually, I have one here. I'll transcribe it below.

    3 STEPS TO OVERCOMING THE RECOIL IMPULSE

    1. Hold on.

    3. Grow a pair- don't be afraid of the thing! It can smart a little, true; but it only hurts if you mind it. 99.9% of felt recoil gets the shooter between the ears, not in the shoulder.

    2. If you have stick-arms, a bird-chest and a fragile constitution, realize that you might just not be physically capable of #1. Do not be deluded! :D

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