The only thing you get with a tbone is a very thin steak.
Sounds like you need to go to a better butcher. This is one of the reasons why I stopped buying meat at the grocery store, along with the crappy quality of meat and cost. The tbones I get are typically about 2 inches thick which is a good sized hunk of meat. Ribeye is good but it is really fatty (this is why it is so damn good) but when I get a critter I prefer to just get that area done up as bone on rib roasts.
Although this may not be an option for you as my family buys the live animals from farmers who are family friends or are wild game and gets them butchered how we want so we get lots of good cuts. For 6 households with 4-6 people in each this is 1 cow, 1 bison, and 2-4 deer. Last year the beef came out to $2.41/lb the bison was $2.74/lb and the venison was $0.93/lb and that was for everything including ground, all sorts of steaks and roasts, and they even will give us the soup bones back (great for making stock) if we ask.
That is why you need to have a porterhouse instead of a regular T-bone with its larger tenderloin. It is like having 2 different cuts with short loin being the main course and the tenderloin (same cut as filet mignon) being the dessert.
Two words: roller bag. Granted I don't know many people who go into a megachurch carrying one but if you have ever been to the Mall of America during the holiday shopping season then it wouldn't seem out of place. Besides that would highly effective against the mass of people standing in the TSA screening line especially if one added some ball bearings or nails to the mix. You wouldn't even have to get fancy with explosives as you could just use regular gun powder as that is easy to come by.
Which is why every time I am at the airport and they have the stupid TSA announcements I just expand TSA in my head to beTerrorists Suppressing Americans and it shows the absurdity of the statements they make. It is always good for a few chuckles
I always thought it was the pigeons from planet Zenu. Of course it could also be the squirrels. This is why you never see baby ones as each year they are all collected with their cache of data and new ones put in their place.
True to that even if it wasn't the showiest but sometimes that just doesn't fit. It has been a while since I have watched it I think I may need to watch it again now. All in all I thought it was a great movie when I watched it last which was about 10 years ago.
Sounds almost like the plot to the movie Heat. That movie also had the most accurate depiction of an automatic weapons battle I have ever seen with the bullets basically going everywhere in the general direction they were firing but not the super typical action hero movie where they all miss the heros and all hit the bad guys (roles reversed for the movie).
Surprisingly you don't really seem to understand the different types of bullets and their purposes. You have your standard military rounds which are full metal jackets, and various armor piercing rounds. The Geneva Convention makes it clear that expanding type bullets are not to be used against combatants. This basically bans the use of hollow point, soft point, and frangible ammunition but military forces. Now for hunting you want a round that will actually kill and not wound so there you need an expanding type of ammunition like a hollow point or soft point bullet. My state actually mandates that for taking big game you need to use an expanding type bullet (soft point or hollow point) with a minimum caliber of.22 using center-fire ignition (no.22lr) firing a single projectile (no buckshot or flechettes). These bullets are designed to kill as humanely as possible to prevent undue suffering to the animal. As far as using armor piercing ammo to hunt with it would be a very poor choice as those round just create a wound channel and not do much other damage and you would end up tracking your wounded game for a while. The problem is that there is a bunch of Chinese surplus 7.62x39 ammo on the market that has a steel core that has been classified as armor piercing even though the steel in the core is mild steel (think car door metal) and doesn't offer any additional penetration abilities but was included as a cost cutting measure. From what I can tell this is the ammo that all the noise was about as in states that allow non expanding type ammo for taking big game this would have been a legal cartridge. Also there has been a large amount of development in copper bonded bullets where the lead core is actually bonded to the copper jacket to prevent fragmentation but still allow expansion. My state DNR did a detailed study of lead in deer a couple of years ago and the worst things for producing lead fragments are muzzle loaders and shotgun slugs. High velocity soft point bullets produce substantially less and travel less far from the wound channel while hollow point round are even better. The best were copper bonded rounds (few if any) and some really fancy Hornady rounds which don't contain lead. When you are talking about ammo that liquifies flesh you are referring to frangible rounds which are typically lower power round used as breaching rounds (lets shoot the lock out of this door) or as self defense rounds for handguns. Both of which have an extremely short range and would make a really poor choice for a hunting round as they aren't very stable in flight and have very poor penetration.
while not stopping a massacre there was a story a few years back about a robbery where the 2 robbers were armed and one of them set down the handgun on the counter and the clerk shot and killed one of the robbers. The other robber was charged in the death of his fellow robber as they had brought a gun to commit a crime. I would love to see gun crimes prosecuted differently so instead of armed robbery the criminals are charged with robbery (attempted or not) as well as attempted first degree murder since there was planning and forethought to bring a gun to rob someone.
Personally I wouldn't get a carry permit for protection from other people but am considering getting one since it would allow me to carry a loaded handgun when walking on a road. The reason I have started thinking about this is because of a run in I had with some wolves where I hunt a few years back and the recent arrival of a cougar/mountain lion in the area I hunt. Currently one has to unload their firearm when walking on a road unless they posses a carry permit in which case they can have a loaded handgun. Granted these are remote dirt roads up in the north woods of Minnesota so the chances of being caught carrying a loaded long gun down a road are slim but are not zero as I have come across conservation officers up there a couple of times and had to show my license and equipment.
While pepper spray is fairly effective as a bear deterrent it usually requires very close range, unless you have a pepper spray loaded round for a shotgun (yes they exist and I have thought about getting some if I ever go hunting up in Alaska). The problem is that unless you have a very powerful round it will do little to a bear, even something like a.45 ACP isn't going to really do much more than just piss it off. For defending against a bear you need something more like a.357 magnum or bigger (.44 mag,.454 casull,.500 Winchester mag, etc) as those will stop a bear. Granted those aren't the type of handguns used in crimes as they are huge, heavy, hard to conceal, expensive, very limited capacity, and have a slow rate of fire.
There are several different gun cultures here in the US. The most visible ones are the criminals and gangster who use guns and view them as toys and cock extensions as well as the nut job who has 100+ rifles and shotguns with a million rounds of ammo in their fortified bunker and is just waiting to overthrow the government. Toss in the stupid owners who manage to shoot themselves or others while "cleaning" their firearm (seriously how fucking stupid are you that this can even happen) or leave it in the night stand loaded and the kid finds it and you have most of the people you hear about who own guns. The gun culture you rarely if ever hear about are the ones like myself who are responsible. The only time you ever hear about them is when they accomplish something incredible like when they finally bag the big one, but stories like that are extremely rare.
I can think of times in my life when I have needed a gun, one of which was actually in self defense. Now granted I do like to go big game hunting and the self defense case was one where I was coming in after hunting just after sunset and was being stalked by wolves and the one in front of me was trying to drive me back into the pack behind me. I ended up firing a shot in front of the wolf in front of me which made a loud enough noise and sprayed dirt up on the wolf and was enough to drive them off. As a responsible American gun owner I get sick of the gun nuts, criminals, and the owners who use a firearm as an extension of their cock as they give owners like myself who view them as a tool that requires a fair amount of respect because of how bad things can go when mishandled a bad reputation. I don't ever expect to use a firearm against another person, but have no problem using them against something like a coyote, deer, paper target, black bear, elk, empty cans, turkey, moose, pheasant, grouse, rabbit, etc. I have started to consider getting a handgun for protection from the more dangerous critters in the area that I hunt in as last year a cougar/mountain lion has moved into the area I hunt as well as the wolf population there is expanding.
I would hardly call gun heavy populations concentrated. I would think that comparatively few people legally own firearms in the large cities compared to those in more suburban and rural areas.
For me that sounds like about an hour with my SKS against some empty pop cans that I setup as targets. Also considering that I shoot steel cased rounds form my SKS and M91/30 I would imagine that it would wear down the microstamp faster. Also those steel cases are lacquered so they feed easier so I would imagine that they would get filled even faster.
Well if one of my firearms is stolen then I do have a responsibility to report it to police and I believe that it might actually be the law. This is one of the reasons I have a nice fireproof gun safe that is bolted to the basement floor. Granted they would most likely end up pawned as they are all long guns. The M91/30 wouldn't be of any use for a crime as it it huge and bolt action, the SKS with it's limited mag (yes I know there are AK style mags available for it) wouldn't be that useful, but the shotgun could at least be sawed off.
I do wonder how the amount of goods and services purchased with Bitconis compares to the amount of goods and services purchased with something that has a more intrinsic value like Tide liquid laundry detergent. Every time I see these various bitcoin articles I start to wonder if I should start hording laundry detergent, soap, rice, etc when it goes on sale.
Sounds a lot like the last bank that owned my mortgage. A few months before we refinanced they finally had an online payment system but for some bizarre reason they decided to have Western Union do the processing and it cost something like and additional $5 to run it through them.
You do have control over that but it generally requires that you are a pretty shitty person to begin with. The problem with that is that if you are a really shitty person there would end up being plenty of public info on you and they would end up picking up that. I didn't really expect my comment to even be taken seriously.
As far a comments being modded in strange ways I have had some very snaky comments get modded insightful even though I was going for funny so it doesn't surprise me much at all. The material in the good pan might be hard anodized aluminum which provides a decent non stick surface. I still prefer the cast iron and stainless steel ones that are nice and thick. My cast iron fry pans are easy to clean and can be rinsed clean of anything left in them and then I coat lightly with oil and heat until it start to smoke. This keeps the pan nice and non stick. The stainless steel ones are a bit more difficult but then using a Brillo pad works wonders for cleaning them.
For non stick I recommend a properly seasoned cast iron fry pan. For things where you want a bit of stick (pan fried chicken) or tasks like making gravy a nice stainless steel one.
From what I can tell there are anti corn states, at least from the perspective of ethanol, but those are the the coastal more urban states that don't really grow corn. You are correct in that corn states are key to the presidential election because of Iowa's first in the nation caucus so we end up with politicians falling over themselves to try and woo Iowan farmers. If one were a shoe in for re-election then they could stand on the bully pulpit of the Office of the President and work to change it but it would harm the parties next candidate.
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The only thing you get with a tbone is a very thin steak.
Sounds like you need to go to a better butcher. This is one of the reasons why I stopped buying meat at the grocery store, along with the crappy quality of meat and cost. The tbones I get are typically about 2 inches thick which is a good sized hunk of meat. Ribeye is good but it is really fatty (this is why it is so damn good) but when I get a critter I prefer to just get that area done up as bone on rib roasts.
Although this may not be an option for you as my family buys the live animals from farmers who are family friends or are wild game and gets them butchered how we want so we get lots of good cuts. For 6 households with 4-6 people in each this is 1 cow, 1 bison, and 2-4 deer. Last year the beef came out to $2.41/lb the bison was $2.74/lb and the venison was $0.93/lb and that was for everything including ground, all sorts of steaks and roasts, and they even will give us the soup bones back (great for making stock) if we ask.
I've had both, T-bone is over-rated.
That is why you need to have a porterhouse instead of a regular T-bone with its larger tenderloin. It is like having 2 different cuts with short loin being the main course and the tenderloin (same cut as filet mignon) being the dessert.
Two words: roller bag. Granted I don't know many people who go into a megachurch carrying one but if you have ever been to the Mall of America during the holiday shopping season then it wouldn't seem out of place. Besides that would highly effective against the mass of people standing in the TSA screening line especially if one added some ball bearings or nails to the mix. You wouldn't even have to get fancy with explosives as you could just use regular gun powder as that is easy to come by.
Which is why every time I am at the airport and they have the stupid TSA announcements I just expand TSA in my head to beTerrorists Suppressing Americans and it shows the absurdity of the statements they make. It is always good for a few chuckles
I always thought it was the pigeons from planet Zenu. Of course it could also be the squirrels. This is why you never see baby ones as each year they are all collected with their cache of data and new ones put in their place.
I am more impressed by what appears to be actual metal flatware. That and it looks better than anything I ever got served in k-12 school.
True to that even if it wasn't the showiest but sometimes that just doesn't fit. It has been a while since I have watched it I think I may need to watch it again now. All in all I thought it was a great movie when I watched it last which was about 10 years ago.
Sounds almost like the plot to the movie Heat. That movie also had the most accurate depiction of an automatic weapons battle I have ever seen with the bullets basically going everywhere in the general direction they were firing but not the super typical action hero movie where they all miss the heros and all hit the bad guys (roles reversed for the movie).
Sort of reminds me of the billboards I saw in Missouri. On one side of the highway signs stating "Jesus Saves" and on the other "Live XXX Nudes!"
That would be anything in .22lr and they already make bags for that.
Surprisingly you don't really seem to understand the different types of bullets and their purposes. You have your standard military rounds which are full metal jackets, and various armor piercing rounds. The Geneva Convention makes it clear that expanding type bullets are not to be used against combatants. This basically bans the use of hollow point, soft point, and frangible ammunition but military forces. Now for hunting you want a round that will actually kill and not wound so there you need an expanding type of ammunition like a hollow point or soft point bullet. My state actually mandates that for taking big game you need to use an expanding type bullet (soft point or hollow point) with a minimum caliber of .22 using center-fire ignition (no .22lr) firing a single projectile (no buckshot or flechettes). These bullets are designed to kill as humanely as possible to prevent undue suffering to the animal. As far as using armor piercing ammo to hunt with it would be a very poor choice as those round just create a wound channel and not do much other damage and you would end up tracking your wounded game for a while. The problem is that there is a bunch of Chinese surplus 7.62x39 ammo on the market that has a steel core that has been classified as armor piercing even though the steel in the core is mild steel (think car door metal) and doesn't offer any additional penetration abilities but was included as a cost cutting measure. From what I can tell this is the ammo that all the noise was about as in states that allow non expanding type ammo for taking big game this would have been a legal cartridge. Also there has been a large amount of development in copper bonded bullets where the lead core is actually bonded to the copper jacket to prevent fragmentation but still allow expansion. My state DNR did a detailed study of lead in deer a couple of years ago and the worst things for producing lead fragments are muzzle loaders and shotgun slugs. High velocity soft point bullets produce substantially less and travel less far from the wound channel while hollow point round are even better. The best were copper bonded rounds (few if any) and some really fancy Hornady rounds which don't contain lead. When you are talking about ammo that liquifies flesh you are referring to frangible rounds which are typically lower power round used as breaching rounds (lets shoot the lock out of this door) or as self defense rounds for handguns. Both of which have an extremely short range and would make a really poor choice for a hunting round as they aren't very stable in flight and have very poor penetration.
while not stopping a massacre there was a story a few years back about a robbery where the 2 robbers were armed and one of them set down the handgun on the counter and the clerk shot and killed one of the robbers. The other robber was charged in the death of his fellow robber as they had brought a gun to commit a crime. I would love to see gun crimes prosecuted differently so instead of armed robbery the criminals are charged with robbery (attempted or not) as well as attempted first degree murder since there was planning and forethought to bring a gun to rob someone.
Personally I wouldn't get a carry permit for protection from other people but am considering getting one since it would allow me to carry a loaded handgun when walking on a road. The reason I have started thinking about this is because of a run in I had with some wolves where I hunt a few years back and the recent arrival of a cougar/mountain lion in the area I hunt. Currently one has to unload their firearm when walking on a road unless they posses a carry permit in which case they can have a loaded handgun. Granted these are remote dirt roads up in the north woods of Minnesota so the chances of being caught carrying a loaded long gun down a road are slim but are not zero as I have come across conservation officers up there a couple of times and had to show my license and equipment.
While pepper spray is fairly effective as a bear deterrent it usually requires very close range, unless you have a pepper spray loaded round for a shotgun (yes they exist and I have thought about getting some if I ever go hunting up in Alaska). The problem is that unless you have a very powerful round it will do little to a bear, even something like a .45 ACP isn't going to really do much more than just piss it off. For defending against a bear you need something more like a .357 magnum or bigger (.44 mag, .454 casull, .500 Winchester mag, etc) as those will stop a bear. Granted those aren't the type of handguns used in crimes as they are huge, heavy, hard to conceal, expensive, very limited capacity, and have a slow rate of fire.
There are several different gun cultures here in the US. The most visible ones are the criminals and gangster who use guns and view them as toys and cock extensions as well as the nut job who has 100+ rifles and shotguns with a million rounds of ammo in their fortified bunker and is just waiting to overthrow the government. Toss in the stupid owners who manage to shoot themselves or others while "cleaning" their firearm (seriously how fucking stupid are you that this can even happen) or leave it in the night stand loaded and the kid finds it and you have most of the people you hear about who own guns. The gun culture you rarely if ever hear about are the ones like myself who are responsible. The only time you ever hear about them is when they accomplish something incredible like when they finally bag the big one, but stories like that are extremely rare.
I can think of times in my life when I have needed a gun, one of which was actually in self defense. Now granted I do like to go big game hunting and the self defense case was one where I was coming in after hunting just after sunset and was being stalked by wolves and the one in front of me was trying to drive me back into the pack behind me. I ended up firing a shot in front of the wolf in front of me which made a loud enough noise and sprayed dirt up on the wolf and was enough to drive them off. As a responsible American gun owner I get sick of the gun nuts, criminals, and the owners who use a firearm as an extension of their cock as they give owners like myself who view them as a tool that requires a fair amount of respect because of how bad things can go when mishandled a bad reputation. I don't ever expect to use a firearm against another person, but have no problem using them against something like a coyote, deer, paper target, black bear, elk, empty cans, turkey, moose, pheasant, grouse, rabbit, etc. I have started to consider getting a handgun for protection from the more dangerous critters in the area that I hunt in as last year a cougar/mountain lion has moved into the area I hunt as well as the wolf population there is expanding.
I would hardly call gun heavy populations concentrated. I would think that comparatively few people legally own firearms in the large cities compared to those in more suburban and rural areas.
For me that sounds like about an hour with my SKS against some empty pop cans that I setup as targets. Also considering that I shoot steel cased rounds form my SKS and M91/30 I would imagine that it would wear down the microstamp faster. Also those steel cases are lacquered so they feed easier so I would imagine that they would get filled even faster.
Well if one of my firearms is stolen then I do have a responsibility to report it to police and I believe that it might actually be the law. This is one of the reasons I have a nice fireproof gun safe that is bolted to the basement floor. Granted they would most likely end up pawned as they are all long guns. The M91/30 wouldn't be of any use for a crime as it it huge and bolt action, the SKS with it's limited mag (yes I know there are AK style mags available for it) wouldn't be that useful, but the shotgun could at least be sawed off.
I do wonder how the amount of goods and services purchased with Bitconis compares to the amount of goods and services purchased with something that has a more intrinsic value like Tide liquid laundry detergent. Every time I see these various bitcoin articles I start to wonder if I should start hording laundry detergent, soap, rice, etc when it goes on sale.
Sounds a lot like the last bank that owned my mortgage. A few months before we refinanced they finally had an online payment system but for some bizarre reason they decided to have Western Union do the processing and it cost something like and additional $5 to run it through them.
You do have control over that but it generally requires that you are a pretty shitty person to begin with. The problem with that is that if you are a really shitty person there would end up being plenty of public info on you and they would end up picking up that. I didn't really expect my comment to even be taken seriously.
As far a comments being modded in strange ways I have had some very snaky comments get modded insightful even though I was going for funny so it doesn't surprise me much at all. The material in the good pan might be hard anodized aluminum which provides a decent non stick surface. I still prefer the cast iron and stainless steel ones that are nice and thick. My cast iron fry pans are easy to clean and can be rinsed clean of anything left in them and then I coat lightly with oil and heat until it start to smoke. This keeps the pan nice and non stick. The stainless steel ones are a bit more difficult but then using a Brillo pad works wonders for cleaning them.
Just make sure that those it has info on are better than you and you should be in the clear.
For non stick I recommend a properly seasoned cast iron fry pan. For things where you want a bit of stick (pan fried chicken) or tasks like making gravy a nice stainless steel one.
From what I can tell there are anti corn states, at least from the perspective of ethanol, but those are the the coastal more urban states that don't really grow corn. You are correct in that corn states are key to the presidential election because of Iowa's first in the nation caucus so we end up with politicians falling over themselves to try and woo Iowan farmers. If one were a shoe in for re-election then they could stand on the bully pulpit of the Office of the President and work to change it but it would harm the parties next candidate.