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I'm not sure you are right to say you can't be a pro-choice catholic. You certainly can't be pro-abortion. Biden is making a distinction between what he claims to believe, anti-abortion, and whether the government should decide the issue for everyone who doesn't share his beliefs. As an individual, ...

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The 400K retreat sounds bad. It sounds bad when they were doing OK, and it sounds worse now, though it was probably all set up before the roof fell in on them. The ongoing question is who is running AIG now that the government banks it and has some ownership potential there. The Government is now fr...

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I like the idea of the 475, but my feeling is that as a pig gun the 45-70 is everything you could ever need. For Africa, and what Turnbull designed his for, I would far rather have the 50 Alaskan, or 50-110. I know that the Alaskan doesn't actually make the ballistic package the dangerous game guys ...

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US exec compensation has been crazy for decades. My favorite stat was that in @ the last 10 years exec compensation gobbled up 10 % of the S&P, or dow, forget which. Meaning their options actually paid out 10 percent of the market value to them. But to be real: - Many of the problems like excess...

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I was working on some CAD, and so I heard it mostly, and only watched the last few minutes. McCain sounded like he knew what he was talking about and Obama like he was well briefed but couldn't find the men's washroom without a map, on his own. I thought with the visuals, Obama did better than McCai...

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What's the fine for littering in Cali?

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Do any pivot or engagement points have to be hardened? It could be so for a commercial product where one doesn't know how much use a product will get. One might not need to on a personal loop.

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The bottom line about governments is that they have the monopoly on violence in a particular area. Not the monopoly on comon sense, or a chrystal ball.

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This was proposed but rejected in Ontario, Canada. Many people don't understand what an arbitration is. If you have an arbitration act and the parties to a dispute agree to abide by a set of agreed rules, then the act makes it enforceable under law. It's vaguely similar to agreeing not to charge wit...

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"The Williams sights are a great product - but I don't like the "bulk" on the side of the receiver. The XS and Skinner sights are clean and compact." I just wish there was a way to get the XS sights lower. I think they can be machined lower, there was a custom instalation in a gu...

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Stihl always was the way to go. I haven't had to buy one in a while. I have an 090, and an 026. Like the others say buy something large enough to be used by city crews and trimmers, like the 026. Stihl starts on the first or second pull every time if one pays attention to the choke sequence. My Dad ...

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I'm not sure about the Glock part though. It was invented in Austria, and caught on over here, but it can hardly claim a link in manufacture with american arms that demostrates a return to sanity. It seems largely to have been designed to provide peace officers (non-shooter, particularly keeping in ...

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What was he thinking? He was thinking he would like to nominate Liberman as his VP choice, but no mater how they ran the numbers he couldn't get a pass on the poling. Unlike everyone else out there, and particularly the media who make a lot out of the VP pick because it is something they can make a ...

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Though I can certainly see why this would be done, I wouldn't do it. 30-30 gets it done as is, has fabulolus ammo availability. Most important though is it is one of those old cartridges that feeds like a greased eel. I don't imagine that maters that much, but then neither does a few grs more powder...

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Love the 30/30. Actually up here we get the odd 94 in 303, and that babby has dumped a lot of elephant, though I am not sure whether the loads are the same for the Lee Enfield and the 94. While the grizzly was walking perpendicular with a pal in open ground, not clossing, Art Young's grizzly with a ...

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My kids, girls, can all swing from monkee bar to monkee bar. Not many adults can do that... When I was a kid, my parents let me go on a camping/rock climbing (the real thing) trip. I had a cotton rope from the hardware store, and a bunch of other gear I didn't know how to use. I eventually got prett...

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Opening on the hornet was laughable. That thing may never be big, but it is constantly being rediscovered and adopted in some gun or other. His rational that the .223 was higher velocity applies to the 22LR also. might as well say "why do we have dogs - my cat is better at catching mice than my...

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The idea the buckhorn is slow is based on traversing shots, but I don't see any reason why it should be slow on the basic straight away shot. I don't really see the advantage though and would prefer to cut it down.

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How much glass we talking, pathetic drywall, boatglass, or real archery stuff. In first two cases you can go either way, but normally one tillers the bow and backs it afterwards. These kinds of backing don't add much or any draw weight, they hold fibers down from lifting which can make the bow a lot...

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Freedom of religion is the big picture key. But at another level an increase in non-co-religionists is a potential problem down the road. At some point you reach a tipping point where the country is unrecognizeable. I'm not living that long, but it won't take that long to come. An example would be n...

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On the one hand I believe one should probably only practice with snap caps in place. On the other hand, the caps I have are machined aluminum, and the material that resists the firing pin travle is a soft polymer in the end of the shell. I just don't believe that stuff is doing anything. It develops...

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The old poly sci definition of a state is the entity with a monopoly on violence in a given geographic area. It's the impact on their monopoly position that concerns people like mueller.

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Obviously 400 yards is a bit crazy. A good rifleman would be pushed to shoot iron sight from field positions within 3 minutes of angle. That pretty much uses up the whole cushion on deer without factoring in any other sources of eror, like range misestimation, wind, etc... The thing with rifles is d...

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My video and parts are on their way. I just picked up my new Rossi 92 in stainless, 357 mag. I was surprised to see that the safety has been eliminated. At first I thought it might be stranded stock, but it turns out the gun is "fresh". Good news for all who disliked the old safety. One th...

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Just as a different way of looking at it, what about a big city somewhere? There are places with cheap housing, city based bowhunting, river fishing, hospitals etc... Pittsburg comes to mind though I suppose it's expensive. I used to travel there a lot when my sister lived there, and it was depresse...

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"I'm thinking of it as a blade that cuts rather than a projectile that hammers" I doubt that. They by all accounts kill really well, but a cutting wound is a very different thing, some good things some bad. For example, while modern practice would dictate a much heavier bow, elephant have ...

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HC, PMd you. I'm no expert on cats, in close the most marked feature of a cheatah in a photo might be the black contour line that runs from the tear ducts down around the jaw. If one see the leopard and cheetah moving around there are lots of obvious differences. Also, I may be wrong to suggest a le...

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We dumped the FN-FAL in 308 for something in the M16 vain. I wonder how happy they are about that in the open spaces of Afghanistan. On the other hand, for all this roaring around in "armoured" vehicles, and searching houses, something small probably fits the bill, it depends on what the m...

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"It's the American traitors who are starving our economy." I'm not sure that is helping. Oil pricing went through a long period recently of being at or near historic lows. Now it is real high, and the status quo looks bad so all of a sudden what worked only a few years ago looks like treas...

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"Yep, they have to have a reason to justify their existance. Govt's "job" is to expand it's power and authority and increase the public's dependence on them, and thereby guarantee it's continued existance. It is not there to serve us, and certainly not there to solve any problems.&quo...

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Awesome, as always. Some time I would like to hear a little about the prospecting side of all this gun talk. I always thought prospecting would be a cool way to spend some time. OK so one isn't getting rich mostly, but how much more expensive could it be than fishing for trout! I would like a reason...

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HC, if he shot either a lion or a leopard, he would have beat Vince Lupo to a Big Five, by many years.

Old Ironsights, who sells 600 grain bullets for the 45-70.

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"[quoteOne of the worst forms of child abuse - and now one of the most common - is the failure of parents to teach their kids self discipline through external discipline - which sometimes must include, to be effective, corporal punishment. A child that knows no bounds growing up just becomes a ...

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budliteguy, not an easy sell, but some of these guys who practice high efficiency driving are doubling gas mileage in their cairs, maybe you could find something that would help you at least a little:

http://cheapmpg.com/

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Old Ironsights That chart is what it feels like. All the BS about China and so forth don't account for the near vertical rise since 2002. Whatever the cause that rise isn't sustainable. Keeping the faith means believing the price will go down, and finding alternatives to save gas, as simple as drivi...

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I think Lupo got a lot of people thinking. Still doesn't do much for the proposition of a real stopping rifle. The cartridge is close but no cigar. 50 AK is the real deal. Even over on the accuracy forum they seem willing to bow to the 50 AK. The 475 turnbull hits the numbers. Even with the right ca...

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Sounds like you actually prefer him.

Protest votes are funny, we got a 3rd party in one time here in Ontario. The first and second party voters thought they would really show those guys!

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" I think we need to get rid of the spiders..." I guess it's a mater of whether electing a guy who has been a politician in training his whole life, a senator, has the most pro government voting record in the senate, and actually seems to have a gift for playing the game, is the right prot...

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They fatten up on seals snatched through holes in the ice. Other than that they are a lot like teens hanging around at the mall. The fear is modest changes in temperature will affect available ice cover and they will starve, or better yet move south and start feeding on deer and ground hogs. The spo...

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"Does everything costs more? Yep" You want to know how much it is up? I can tell you, at least for Canada. 1.7% over the last year. Food doubles, housing is still on a tear up here, gas doubled, over the last few years. Cost of living is up 1.7%. And the cost of money is nice and low too. ...

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How about these Crater 2s? Designed for your rifle, though a little on the heavy side!

http://www.competitor-pistol.com/jb%20home.html

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Sadly at least one of those is BS, or should I say ES.

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Nice.

How would you deal with a wildlife officer? It's not like steel shot where they could be tested with a magnet, or like copper where they look a lot different.

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If they figure out there is a blood sausage in those shells, it's all over. Whales will joist with your yacht, if they get excited.

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"Not to mention that now that we have shown we will pay for it, it is exceedingly unlikely that the price will ever come down much!" That could be true, but we have been down this path before and the price fell so hard and far the oil projects of the day were stranded for 20 years. There a...

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This does raise a question, should one at least for private viewing be watching stuff on TVs across the room. There are reasons for the projection format of the theater, but is a 20" screen at a few feet a better deal? There were theoretical X-ray reasons for not sitting too close to the TV whe...

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I'm going through the same thing with a lot of How-to videos. I was wondering the same thing. One of these videos has always given trouble. I played it once when I got it, and thereafter it always refused to rewind, and then about 8 years after that it started working again, and then yesterday it bu...

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"I can't remember what site it was i was viewing but one hunter said using a 45-70 to hunt large dangerous game was a stunt." You can certainly have that discusion at the accurate reloading forum any time you want. I think the negative view makes sense if you are: - Talking about stopping ...

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Sounds like a job for a freebie from the civil liberties union. Crank out an opinion that it somehow violates speech or privacy rights and let them have a go at it.

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"Don't think so. Levers are fast, but a AR15 is faster."

Why, are the sights faster to acquire?

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