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Tony, I can somewhat understand your point of view in that, I have also contemplated killing birds, turtles, snakes, deer, etc. Here's the conclusions I've arrived at: 1. Game animals are all killed for the table. Deer, squirrels, ducks, doves, etc. are all tasting and all end up in my deep freeze. Money is tight and I'm trying to augment my grocery bill with wild game. Plus, as Jim points out, I'm depredating the land of animals who might not otherwise survive. If cars and hawks are going to kill, I may as well benefit from the humane death of a deer or squirrel. 2. Feral/nuisance animals are a pest and in most cases do not belong here. They damage the local ecology and should be humanely removed from the landscape e.g. feral hogs, fire ants, english sparrows, starlings, feral cats, stray dogs. 3. Wild animals such as snakes, turtles, songbirds, armadillos, coons, etc. all get a pass around my house unless they are threatening me, my livestock, or garden. They all have their place in God's wild kingdom and generally don't bother me. I get annoyed with people that chop up every snake they find and shoot every turtle they see on the pond. Likewise, I know several people that shoot owls and hawks on sight. Why? Cause they're bad luck and eat chickens...????. I miss old Fritz and his Turk Mausers and hogs. I hope his family are all well down there in Goliad.

I always knew firearms were an investment - I'm rich!!

Be cool man. Its been a long Monday; functional A/C and beer sound like a capital idea right about now...

I began preparing for the enivitable quite a while ago. My concern though is a great many have not.

After reading this, all I can say is wow. Click Here please. Thinking this might be true really knocked the wind out of my sails; I am honestly astonished at how this might be. Just proves an old adage I picked up somewhere many years ago: "Never say things can't get worse. Just when you think they won't, they do..."

A buddy of mine loaned me a copy of "The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible" a couple weeks ago. Doing that has had the same effect of giving a mischevious teenager a copy of the "The Anarchist's Cookbook"....its kinda got the wheels spinning. My dad makes wine as a hobby. I'll probably end up making some beer before everything's said and done. I'd really like to make some moonshine but I fear the BATFE enough to stick to brewing and stay away from distilling.

When I was a kid, if I could've found an albino corn snake in the shower and been able to keep it, I would've jumped at the chance to dive in. One more for my collection!

Or if you want some decent Texas beer, drink Shiner! http://www.shiner.com/main.php

Looks like someone tried to give the forearm the "round look" (not sure what thats called, but it looks beautiful on Mike's 30-06) and had a boo-boo and the only way to fix it is what you're looking at. Interesting looking, but not really my thing.

Probably have the UN send them a strong letter. The Lord Obama is more concerned with saving face and kissing ass internationally than he is anything else. He'd rather spend his time and energy making sure he's chasing after rich white Americans and propping up his cronies' constituents than he is anything else. Maybe the French will save Pakistan?

Looks like a bunch of baloney to me. Believe half what you see and nothing you hear. If there was really a massive gun confiscation on the horizon, don'tcha think the regular Internet gun rumor mills would be foaming at the mouth and screaming "to arms! to arms!"?

That's outstanding work Don. I'm glad things are settling out for you and things are getting back to normal. -Jason

Howdy sir! How'd you figure out the geometry to get a correctly shaped follower for a magnum cartridge? Copy something else?

We hope.

So, we had a shooting scare on the local university campus last week, on the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting. It seems that someone decided she'd rather not go to class and got creative with the xerox machine. And the 2009 Arsehat of the year award goes to:.... We all knew this was a hoax. I guess she can get her degree on TDC's time now. Idiot.

Comrad Karl, A couple things come to mind: 1. The armies of the late 19th and early 20th century Europe weren't very sophisticated and clung to their historic roots. For example, they fielded manually operated repeating rifles up till we clobbered them in 1945. As such, the prevailing wisdom of the day dictated that windage shall be set by the armourers by staking the front site in place. Once that was done, there should be no need for the soldiers to tinker with it. 2. The soldiers in the armies of the late 19th and early 20th century Europe had phenominal eyesight. If you don't believe me, take your glasses off and try and sight your Mauser in on a NRA 100 meter centerfire target. I'll be you can't; I'm 26 and I sure as heck can't. Clearly though, the soldier who originally carried the rifle did and so too did his brothers-in-arms - otherwise, how in the hell did the European powers manage to conquer so much of the planet with these implements of battle? That's why these fine European battle rifles come with such ergonomic sighting systems (or at least, that's my best guess).

Brad, The thing you have to keep in mind is Perry is a politician and being a conversative politician, I see him as taking advantage of the situation. Recent events play well for an elected man on the Republican ticket in a fairly conversative state. All he's got to do is publicly agree with his electorate and he looks good. Me, I'm with Tom on this, in that, Perry needs to be able to back up what he's saying if/when the time comes. Opera non verba - results, not rhetoric, are what impress me. I like what I'm hearing, but I'm not totally convinced yet. Hopefully he won't let his mouth write a check it can't cash. -Jason

Couldn't help myself...

Fair and balanced. We've been consistently electing politians who lean further and further to the left. As things tend to balance themselves, I'd suppose that means the rest of us have to lean further and further to the right to equal things out. I'm a bit concerned who'll win national elections after we've been electing actual socialists. The Far Right is a radical as the Far Left - I'd rather our representatives be moderates...

Here's a test I've done before - its pass/fail and won't tell you much. Take the spark plug out and get out a pair of thick gloves. Reconnect the spark plug wire and ground the spark plug out on the side of the jug. Have one of your buddy's pull the starter rope and see if it sparks. If it does, you've got fire. If is does not, toss the weed eater and buy a new one. This test won't tell you if its sparking reliably; it'll only tell you if you're getting a spark or not. -------------- Chances are, if your trimmer has a few hours on it and its not working correctly, its probably time to cemetary the thing and buy another one. $150 buys lots of Weed Eater.

Click here and read all about it: Dow Soars as the Big O's Administration Moves on Toxic Assets Looks like the ultimate Ponzi scheme to me. We're going to loan money that's already been borrowed from the lender's lenders. Kinda like a shell game, or house of cards. Keep workin' yall, the thousands of greedy buggers on Wall Street are depending on you!

I'll give you guys a hint: There are seven girls: 7 X 2 = 14 girls legs Each girl has seven backpacks and inside each backpack there are seven cats. Each of those seven cats has seven kittens a piece. Figure out what the total number of cats' legs is, then figure out what the total number of kittens' legs is and add both those together. Then, add the total number of girls' legs to that and you should have your answer.

I'm afraid that if I was the lad who'd been arrested for giving a presentation, the police would be after me for assualt after I used an open-carry fist to knock a couple teeth out of the stuffed shirt's head. The professor sounds like he needs a good dose of reality; namely, five knuckles to the face.

Nope. Try again.

On a bus, there are 7 girls. Each girl has seven backpacks. In each backpack are 7 cats. Each cat has 7 kittens. How many legs are on the bus?