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Mighty handy of your the Dad and have to change the diaper. BTDT. Right difficult to change a diaper on a sink. Also handy to strap the kid on when you gotta go.

If you are having a bad day, remember it could always be worse.

I have worked out various bends in trigger guards using a piece of round bar stock and a hammer. The shorter guards are harder to find than the regular ones, but they are still available. I have had guards that looked worse than that and fixed them up, so it can be done. It just takes a little time.

I will second Gun nuttys sentements. I have used a few synthetic stocks and they are OK, but the wood and laminants look much better. For the price, you can't beat a Boyds stock. The laminants will hold up just as well as the synthetics. I have used the Midway /Fajen, Butler creek, Hogue, and Ramline synthetics. The Buttler creek and the Hogue are my favorites, but for the money, the Fajen is a better buy. I will not get another Ramline. I have seen the Choate, but am not a fan of the blind magazine. That would be a good choice if you don't have bottom metal. I prefer a wood stock.

It is a midwest thing. I think the international pull basically pulls in part of Canada. Liam said some of the pullers were from Vermont. Mostly around the Minnesota/Dakota/Iowa area. You can tel the difference between the farm kids and the city kids. Some of the scrawny city kids that qualified at an urban venue didn't stand a chance against some of these farm kids. Liam is a big kid. He is 5' 4" weighs 165# and wears a size 12 wide mens shoe and he is in 5th grade. He doesn't look out of place next to some of these kids.

My oldest boy Liam (10) just took first place in the National pedal tractor pull in Mitchel SD. He won with 2 full pulls. The last 2 years he has placed 2nd. He qualified at our local town festival (Paul Bunyan Days) and then took first place in his age group at the state pull. He won in another way too. He was shaking hands with the other pullers and the kid he beat wouldn't even shake his hand. That is the same kid who beat him the last 2 years. He is now qualified for and is planning on pulling in the international pull in southern Iowa. I think that will be next summer.

I have had mixed results with PA's. One has about the worst bed side manner and attitude of any medical person I have met, others are great. One of my class mates from chiropractic college is in the Army and worked as a corpsman. He went on and got his PA and is now finishing off his MD. He has been doing rotations in the VA hospitals. He has some good stories to tell. I don't recall any experience with NP's

There is a demand in both fields. Our population is getting older so the gerontology field will definitely expand. Family practice has been short handed in many areas. Look at the area in which you want to practice and see what the biggest demand is. If you are going to practice in Arizona or Florida, the geriatric population will be growing.

The 22lr used with a silencer is pretty quiet. CIA, Massad, and other covert agents usually get a point blank head shot if they need to dispatch someone, so that would be quite effective. Personally a 9mm is marginal for a running body shot. The 380 is available in a slim, more easily concealable pistol than say a 44 mag. An 88mag will shoot through schools. (Johnny Dangerously)

If anyone would like to join the reamer coop but does not have a reamer to donate, I have a deal for you. I already have several reamers in the coop. I would like to sell one of these reamers (the 458 Lott) and donate the procedes to the forum. With shipping and everything, I paid over $100 for the reamer. I used it once and donated it to the coop. If you will donate $75 to the forum, you will be vested in the coop and be the owner of a reamer. You do not have to build a 458 Lott to do this. You will have access to any of the reamers that we have.

Looking at the recently added topics box, once again I am noticing some disturbing stuff. "Hit again by semi nut". I wasn't sure if a nut fell off a semi and hit someone, or if Semi nut was turning into a bully. If you read the way these things are posted, some of the topics look quite humorous.

Rod (Tanglewood) does great work. I don't know how busy he is right now. I'm sure there are others here who do them as well.

I agree that they should just be sent to Rod since he is the only one who seems to be on the ballot so far. I would prefer that my reamers were sent to him (or whoever gets elected) directly. A big savings in postage all around not having to ship them on to him after you send them to me. I just finished up with the 270 reamer and will get it sent back to you ASAP. Maybe Tony could send an email notice to everyone and get them to check in. Some people may not be watching this forum closely.

I wouldn't mind having a garage full of his tools.

I will throw my vote to Rod.

If you are going with a sporter build, don't bother with all the little bits and pieces of that trigger guard and just get a commercial style hinged one. Addams and Bennett makes a decent threaded short chambered barrel for less than $100. You can get them from Midway. If you get a bolt with a straight handle it is less work to forge a scope friendly handle. Look into the fund raising auction that Tanglewood is trying and just get a bolt from him. He has done several for me and he does great work. You will probably also want to look into an aftermarket trigger. If you get your stock from Boyds, they also have about the best price on the Bold triggers. Good luck on your project.

You can also use the threaded tube from a lamp if you don't have a ferrule available. Go to a thrift store and find a tall lamp and you will have a lifetime supply. If you are glass bedding the pillars, the treads will give the bedding a place to bite.

I always drill out the stock and reinstall the ferrule. You need something to keep the proper spacing.

I would prefer that mine stay with the coop. The way it is you can get both the reamer and the gauges. If they are sent back it would probably require more chasing around to get all the stuff you need. My vote is to keep the coop as is with a new Mike.

That sounds like a good idea. I do NOT want the job at this time because I have too many things going on already. I also would like to thank Mike for the great job he has done the past few years.

How can we fast track that idea so they can vote in November? (sarcastic)

A Mauser is definitely easier to work on. You will still have a bit of money tied up in tools, but if you do one, you will want to do several. Doing one is like just trying crack or eating just one Lays potato chip. You should also be able to recoup some of your money by selling your tools if you ever can break the addiction.

I have several reamers in the coop and I have used several others. I have no complaints. I did just request the 270 reamer from Mike, so if someone else is running things, please let me know.

Everything has been working fine for me. Mike may not be manning his computer 24/7 but has always gotten back to me in a timely manner. That reminds me, I need to get the 270 reamer.

E.R.Shaw will make you a contoured pre threaded short chambered barrel for pretty reasonable. The P14 and Model 17 are notorious for being hard to get barrels off without cracking the receiver. They are also really hard metal and difficult to recontour the receiver bridge and drill and tap for scope mounts, but if yours is already sporterized, that part may be already done. I'm sure much of the cost quoted is liability in the event that your receiver would get tweaked and need to be replaced. It cost me a bunch to drill and tap mine doing it myself. Carbide bits are not cheap.