nunya

175 acres, norcal... nice. Paying that mortgage should be easy with 175 acres of.... crops. 😉

Eh, unlikely, at least in large caps. I tried the "active" route the first half of the year. The steep V recovery kicked my ass. I'll stay in my indexing lane from now on.

I'm watching now. I look forward to that. 😆

14 year old must have game.

News says they're headed to Guam, but Guam staging doesn't make a lot of sense to me unless it's just for theatrics. Andersen-Tehran is only 800 miles less than Whiteman-Tehran and that's AFTER flying 6000nm to Guam. Maybe they avoid overflight dip issues in SEA vs Europe?

Probably wouldn't be hard for one of the 17Xs to build an entire ADS-B strike package and send it east. Or build two and send one east and one west. Watch the twitterverse explode.

That's ok. They can mouth off to locals back in Knoxville. Arkansas smoked them today by a lot more than 1 run.

Tile drill bit, little silicone, it'll work.

To do so would be blasphemous heresy. I 100% used an M8 bolt leftover from a ceiling fan to remove a truck brake rotor last week.

I'd even strike "once boarding is complete." Lots of problems happen during boarding and we have people for that, too. Some CAs feel the need to make a PA directly to the passengers in pursuit of some nebulous passenger satisfaction metric. Nah. Best case you get some attaboys on X. Worst case you say "Ladies and Gentlemen" and you lose your job for a while.

Being in NCR I really wouldn't worry about it. As you said, I think you'll be able to find something if you have to. With 4 years to play with (2 to pin on + 2 overgrade waiver), I'd go for it. Once you have completed your requisite mouth shut period, I'd start lobbying for them to change a billet or three to O-5.

Overgrade waivers are generally (always?) only good for 2 years, so I wouldn't count on that as your long term answer. In my experience, we always wrote positions for O-5s to avoid that exact problem. I thought writing for O-5 was standard... What do you know about the UMD vacancies of the unit you're looking to join? Is it all O-4 billets? Are all the O-5 billets already doubled?

I've seen multiple manufacturers, including Ranger Point and Magpul, list their buttstocks as 1894/1895/336.

Boyds does. No, it's the Trapper. SBL is 3" longer. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1006029530?pid=999284

Buddy's 45-70 Ruger-Lin Trapper. Wears a can and IER scope now.