I'm not an expert but I can Google and I can read and it's important to be accurate when you're taking about firearms. Stop moaning and move on.
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You said, "wilderness types" which suggests that anyone who is in the wilderness can get an ATC. That is absolutely untrue. Your being in the wilderness must be a requirement of your job for you to even apply for an ATC.
And yet mass murders and military and murder fetishists prefer military style weapons. Why is that? Why do those types choose guns based on how they look instead of how they work?
82% of Canadians supported the changes to the firearms regulations. 66% currently want stronger gun control. I'm not, "gatekeeping" anything. I'm discussing the reasons for what's going on. Labeling anyone who says anything you don't like a, "gatekeeper" or a Fudd diminishes the value of anything you have to say.
Why don't you instead try to explain why you need the prohibited version of a firearm instead of the functionally identical non-restricted version?
Or try to explain why you don't want to use the exact same prohibited firearm if it's coated hot pink?
The gun lobby makes such a big deal about banning firearms based on their looks. Explain why looks are your criteria for selecting a firearm.
It’s highly unlikely that most people will ever encounter any scenario like that. That’s true. But that doesn’t make it a bad idea to be prepared.
It is an EXTREMELY bad idea. The chances that you're going to kill someone you love goes up dramatically when you have a gun in your home. You're not making yourself and your family safer you're making it FAR more likely that they will be a victim of gun violence.
Do you grind up your hotdogs so that you won't choke on them? Do you wear a life jacket in the bathtub? Have you stripped your bed of bedsheets? Do you wear a bee suit when you go outside? It's highly unlikely that any of those things are going to happen to you, too.
This is a riduclous argument. Literally worthy of ridicule.
If you think you need a gun for self-defense in Canada you shouldn't have a gun. You're more likely to choke to death on a hotdog, to drown in your own bathtub, to die from entanglement in your own bedsheets, from being stung by a bee, or by being trampled by a cow than you are to be killed with a gun by someone you don't know if you're not involved in the drug trade or organized crime. In fact, you're FAR more likely to be killed by or to kill someone you love if you have a gun than you are to be killed by a stranger.
...assault...
Did I say the word, "assault"?
... do the same thing with a wooden stock...
And yet they don't. That's because responsible, non delusional gun owners don't load a bunch of guns and thousands of rounds of ammo into a trailer and take it to a "peaceful" protest.
If you're buying a gun for how it makes you feel then you shouldn't be buying a gun. I've owned guns continuously for 40 years. My 15 year old son just completed his CFSC with an overall score of 98 out of 100. We are gun people. I'm not anti gun by any stretch of the imagination. I'm very much anti the wrong people owning guns and people who stockpile military style weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition are the wrong people.
Gun ownership in Canada is a privilege, not a right. That privilege can be modified at any time. Automatic firearms were made illegal. High capacity magazines were made illegal. The government responds to the will of the people and most Canadians support the banning of handguns and military style weapons.
The guns aren't being banned for the way they look but because of the type of people who buy them for the way that they look and the fantasies that they have about using them like the assholes who took a trailer load of military style weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition to a "peaceful" protest because the UN and/or China were going to invade Canada.
If you want to have fantasies of rising up against the gubment or shooting Liberals just substitute an oak stocked hunting rifle into that fantasy.
Trappers and other wilderness types can apply for a license to carry them for self defence from predators while in the wild from what I recall, but you need to actually get the license not just decide to tote it around, which is very much how it should be.
Not just any wilderness type.
You must also:
- be a licensed professional trapper or
- need protection from wild animals while working at your lawful occupation, most often in a remote wilderness location
It does make one wonder why, when the police lay out the range of firearms that a bunch of Gravy Seal terrorists bring to the beginning of their war against the government, it is never a table of Smith and Wesson oak stocked hunting rifles. It's because they watch too many movies made in the US and play too many shoot-em-up video games and want to play soldier. THAT is the reason that this type of firearm is being banned. It's not because of how they look but because of the type of people who want to own them and why they want to own them. I have absolutely zero concern that the government is ever going to come for my guns because I didn't buy them to feed into my part of the collective murder fantasies of the anti-government nutjobs.
I don't if they know any songs. The squirrel baffle keeps the hens from getting in the top of the feeder and keeps them from pooping into it from above.
We've had these same nesting boxes for about 10 years. They are holding up very well. These 8 boxes nicely serve our flock of between 40 and 50 hens (between you and me I actually have no idea how many are out there.)
EDIT: 45 hens and 3 roosters. I counted this morning.
We had a few hens taken by raccoons early in the season. They were taken outside but when you tighten up security the raccoons tend to get more aggressive so I built a stronger summer door from the main house.
Turkey day is September 22. These guys are coming along nicely. We have a mix of straight run Bronze Orlopps and Mini Whites. The turkeys are you big for my picket and most of them are sold so they are going to the abattoir.
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I was bored this morning and decided to tie a few hooks. I did trebles a few days ago. Today I'm doing Circle Seas. The cover photo is a homemade 0.5 oz inline spinner with a No. 5 blade. The body is all stainless steel and nickel plated marine brass. The hook is an Eagle Claw Size 6/0 Circle Sea. The dressing is bright yellow bucktail.
Circles are harder to hook up but they do the fish a lot less damage so I try to use them as much as possible. I will often pinch down the barb as well.
This one is the same 0.5 oz inline spinner but they hook is an Eagle Claw Size 3/0 Circle Sea. The dressing is an inner splash of red with bright yellow over top and a collar of dark yellow. I like the splash or red on the inside.
This is an Eagle Claw Size 6/0 Circle Sea with a splash of red surrounded by bright white with a back stripe of bright yellow.
This is an Eagle Claw Size 6/0 Circle Sea with a splash of red surrounded by bright white with a collar of dark yellow.
We normally target Northern Pike so that's what we're going to be using these for.
I hope they like them.
The hooks are Size 2/0 VMC O'Shaughnessy Permasteel 4x Trebles. They are highly corrosion resistant and intended for salt water use. They can take a beating.
They are dressed with yellow bucktail. I sometimes add a splash of red on the inside or outside of the dressing and occasionally add stripes for interest.
We target Northern Pike. I often pinch down the barbs. The dressing generally lasts for one day before it is chewed off and has to be replaced.
These 2/0 hooks generally ride a 1/2 ounce to 3/4 ounce inline spinner. We use hooks as big as 5/0 attached to 1 ounce to 1 1/2 ounce inline spinners. We make all of the lures ourselves.
This is a 1 1/2 oz inline spinner wearing a dressed Eagle Claw 5/0 hook. The lure is over 6" long from the tip of the eye to the tip of the bucktail. This one caught three nice Northerns in the St. Lawrence River before it was used up and had to be redressed.
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I know it sounds dumb that the butter chicken kit contains neither butter nor chicken but trust me, they're awesome.
The box contains diced organic tomatoes, organic coconut milk, two packs of spices one for the beginning and one for the end, and a sheet of instructions for cooking it in an instant pot and on the stovetop.
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I know it sounds dumb that the butter chicken kit contains neither butter nor chicken but trust me, they're awesome.
Our fall batch of Cornish X meaties arrived this morning. We do a batch in the spring and a batch in the fall. We had 60 birds ordered for two weeks from now but I have to be in Atlanta and my wife and daughter will be in Toronto. We moved the delivery earlier but couldn't get an earlier date at the abattoir so we reduced the order to 40 (they always send extra) just what we need and will process them ourselves.
I've posted a few videos now of myself soldering header strips and some SMDs with my good quality soldering tools and with an inexpensive soldering iron that I bought at Walmart. I sent a link to the friends, the hardware designed and programmer, who I often work with. One designs the boards, the other programs them. I do some of their fine soldering work for them.
They were amused by the Walmart soldering iron videos and remarked that they were surprised that soldering QFPs was even possible with that iron.
That got us to talking and me to thinking. What is the difference between the tools and materials and the technique used by someone who makes it look easy and the tools and materials and the technique used by beginners who struggle?
I would like to propose that the biggest issue that beginners have is flux management.
Electronic solder isn't a solid metal wire. The solder we use for electronics most often includes flux. The flux is included in one or more cores inside the solder wire.
Multicore solder, which I use, even has these cores in their logo.
Here is the Multicore solder I have sitting on my desk.
I believe that many of the problems beginners run into involve not understanding the role of flux or how short lived it is. If you apply solder to your soldering iron the flux is gone in a second or two. The solder will them oxidize and refuse to stick to anything. Effective soldering, soldering that looks easy, involves getting the heat into the parts, applying the right amount of solder quickly and smoothly, then removing the heat before the flux has burned off. This is my going back and touching up your joints causes so many problems. The solder is dry (no flux) and oxidized and doesn't cooperate.
If you've watched my SOIC-8 or QFP-32 soldering videos you will see that I apply liquid flux. This is because I apply the solder to my soldering iron then drag solder the pins. The flux has all burned off of the solder and it will not stick to the pins without the liquid flux. I also used liquid flux in the Fixing Bad Solder video.
So...I believe that a good understanding of the role and short lifespan of solder will help beginners to make better solder joints.
Which is why the government is banning then.