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For one of my cancer surgeries I had to have a colonoscopy and have my colon filled with air and filled with barium (or something like that) for some picture takin. Imagine the thrill I felt when I walked into the dark colon room where I would lay on my side and have a funnel with an air line coupler attached to it stuck in yonder region to find a young women who was part of our Church deer hunting camp many years ago as a teenager.. She looked at the surprise on my face and said - Mr. B, if you are uncomfortable with me doing this procedure dont be afraid to say something, we can reschedule your procedure with a different Radiologist. I looked right at her and said EXACTLY those words Leroy!!

Yep, the issue with building 7 was that it did not get hit or make contact with Jet Fuel.. The steel in Building 7 was only exposed to fire from office material = no where close to 2500.. I TOTALLY hear ya DJ on the not having a sheepskin routine brother!! After I got married and we started our family (4 kids) it became apparent that more yearly income might come in handy. Tip was busy at home teaching/raising our kids (we home schooled em, she was a school teacher when we met - stayed home and taught them all the way thru high school = AMAZING WOMEN SHE IS) and I have always been the sole bread winner as it were. I had been in skilled trades for years in Machine Repair, tigging pipe for the BoilerMakers and a bunch of machine tool maintenance/electrical work and seen a really good paying Maintenance Management Job come to my attention. I applied for it and got told that I was actually the person with the best background experience but because I didnt have a College Education they could not hire me, THAT REALLY HURT!! This inspired me to go back to school as a non-traditional student (I was 39 years old. It was TOUGH working full time and going to night school full time but we managed and I ended up with a 4 year degree and a GPA of 3.96 (I graduated high school with a 2.5 - I took College WAYYY more seriously). Because of my degree and my work history I walked right into Managing 5 union departments (3 of them were skilled tradesmen) for a huge food distribution company. My income skyrocketed as did our families benefits (they even paid for some of my kids college education, as well as x4 Orthodonics care :mo money:and the all the other goodies, place was pretty cool - upper/mid management got 1.25 match for every dollar we stuck into our retirement funds - FREE MONEY ). I left there 6 years later and took on a Plant Superintendents position in a UAW shop that was a full op (including foundry) machining company that built Pumps and Pump accessories for the fuel station industry.. Ended up with a huge sign on bonus as well as doubling my income.. All because I had a sheepskin (and a good work ethic that earned me LOTS of experience thru the years). It was because of this job that I was able to aquire the :mo money:to start my bike dealership and walk off into fulfilling my life dream of owning/operating a bike dealership = I LOVE AMERICA, times have truly changed and I wish we could see it back on its feet!! Prayers Up for THAT to happen!!

Oh heck yea Leroy,, bicycling and even modding bikes was a way of life growing up as a kid in the mid 60's. We had no money (there were a couple rich kids in the area that had the luxury of owning something like a Schwinn factory Stingray with those really cool racing slicks on the back and even one who later got a Krate bike called an Orange Peel or something like that (us actual gear heads were already fooling with Mini Bikes by that time but my MO was more along the line of building em from junk - cutting the hollow tubes off a Huffy and hanging them on Schwinn solid tubes to make choppers ) so kids on junk bikes were very popular. Besides everyday transportation as a 9 year old, I would make a regular monthly or even a couple times a month to a place called "Strevel's Market" on Old Grand Haven Road from my house in Fruitport. It was about 12 miles from our home to the store front. This is gonna sound nuts but the entire reason for the trip was my hunt for horizontal shaft engines with great plans in my head for altering my bicycle into gas powered.. Even back then, gearheadedness as a way of life for myself and many others. The days were filled with an "I can make it go" attitude, another something that has been lost IMHO. Crazy as it sounds, I went to work at 14 years old at an old Sunoco gas station making 60 cents an hour. Pumping 260 into those early Muscle cars was pure BLISS!! I used to love smell the unburned fuel sneaking past the lumpy valve overlap idling cars as they sat there rockin and rolling in front of the pumps with dials on em - we are talking INTOXICATING here brother. I hadnt been there very long and my boss seen something special in me and invited me into the garage to help spinning wrenches. Occasionally he and I would actually get to play with one of those big block pavement rippers.. Sooo much fun!! A day and age when being a gearhead was not just respectable but a way of life.. Living the REAL American dream,, working for living and enjoying EVERY minute of it..

A Puc opinion: Though they are still a carb with similar design as their mechanical counterparts (low speed and main jets, metering rods, floats ect), CV's have a completely different operational method. Their dependence on vacuum and precision controlled environmental properties for proper function and the R&D put into all those operational parameters (everything from airboxes to exhaust systems) can never be overlooked. I hot rodded an 03 Anniversary 88 inch Twin Cam HD one time with a really neat 5 pounds of boost gear driven blower that I ended up using a CV carb on as a finished product. I specifically chose a cam profile for the build that showed no valve overlap in its design. The CV did pretty dog gone good with an 18 horse increase on the dyno and the bike looked and sounded great because I purposely stayed away from valve over lap which would have led to a need for scavanging on the pipes which would have increased the viable option for a Velocity stack to assist the Super Charger in its effort to stuff the fill on the chambers that were being scavenged upon. Sure, the build could have easily included a cam profile with some overlap in that would have required a mechanical carb and a stack with a set of drag pipes to allow for proper scavaging and in the end I could have squeezed another 20 horse out of her BUT to what detriment? It would have sounded good if ya like lumpy but would have not been much of an everyday rider IMHO. The sweetness of a CV is found in its delivery of linear, smooth power from the bottom of the R's to tapped out with all of the natural twitches of the riders wrist - much more forgiving for sure, the vacuum operated slides see to that. Probably not explaining myself here to well.. Let me try another example.. I have read lots of thoughts on altering the airboxes on our scoots by more than one person. Usually, not always but usually some very experienced and knowledgable V-4 tinkerer like zagger will join in and mention the need for placing restrictors in the top of the venturi's of each carb (washers?) to return the needed restriction that the airbox once provided to get the bike to run right. I have ALWAYS nodded in understanding whenever someone like our own Zag mentions such a thing because the CV carb, as tryed to describe above, needs to have those original design parameters maintained one way or the other in order to function properly. It may sound right or be right but thats my story and I am sticking to it,, unless someone much smarter than can learn me something:essen_018:

:missingtooth:Yeaa but OPEN FLAME is WAYYYYYYYY more fun to play with You are correct about one thing though my sweet brother,,, old guys DEFINITELY RULE!! !! Unless of course the love of his life is sitting next to him reading everything he writes, in that case the old guys dominion becomes questionable at best:crackup:

I do know there is a LOT to it all but I still think that over all, the greastest part of the failure concerning the bike trade is an economic one in nature. If we had the jobs back that were given away to help/support the globalist/socialist agenda and were vibrant and strong economically by the American worker being revived to a level that we were during and right after WW2 and up till when the Globalist took power, I think things could/would correct fairly quickly. Take away the give me it for "free" programs once the demand for a work force is re-established and the folks working two jobs for peanuts or living off the taxpayer have REAL jobs that pay REAL livable wages (it's called Capitalism,, completely the opposite of Socialism) it would be amazing how fast the demand for luxury items (like bikes) would sky rocket. Have you guys ever seen the show "Shark Tank"? I will never forget the first time I saw it.. Tip says to me: Honey, with your love for economics and the American way of life,, you have GOT to sit down and watch this - it is #1 on the charts. After watching that show one time, I looked at Tippy and said, outloud,, "THAT IS DISCUSTING"!! She said - what,, why?? I said, "think about it this way,, that show is based TOTALLY and SOLEY on what our U.S. way of life is suppose to be! To me - seeing that the dynamics of that show are so foreign and amazing to my fellow countrymen that they flocked to it on TV and are amazed at such a uncommon and amazing thing taking place was down right sickening. What that show represented to me was/is suppose to be an EVERYDAY occurrence and what our country is built on, not some marvel of Hollywood. Not something that any of us Americans should be shocked to see! Disconcerting to say the least,, at least from my old school, geezerly perspective.. I really truly think that if the younger generations had NO freebie handouts to rely on but had jobs that paid 6 digits for going in and WORKING,, they dont know it because of what they have been sold as a replacement way of life but I think they would be amazed at how rewarding working for a living truly is and would GLADLY turn their backs on the bill of goods they have been sold by dishonesty and trickery and they would kick the Socialist to the perverbial curb. I also think they would GLADLY be riding around on new Harleys, raising their kids in new homes and driving new cars if they had the cash.

Takes one to know one and moment by moment it appears that YOU have a pretty good start at knowing em all ya lop eared sneaky varmint Sly!! :rasberry:

I use to OWN Reading Railroad!! I loved playing Monopoly:big-grin-emoticon:!!

It's a simple rule,, America got sold out,, and in more ways then 1.. 1. The Globalist who have been in charge of the U.S. for decades now, thru trade agreements like NAFTA, have all but given our manufacturing jobs away. 2. I have actually seen this happen many times over and KNOW that its real. Thru weak International Trade Laws, foreign countries can (and DO) come here and steal our manufacturing (and I am sure even high tech Military secrets) technologies, copycat it and then bring in identical product. I watched this exact thing happen to a company called "BBR" with their PitBikes back in the early 80's. I was at a Dealer Expo, BBR was there with the new high end stuff (REALLY COOL), the Chinese were there looking for dealers for there fairly thin line of Mopeds but they were also DownStairs openly taking pictures of the BBR stuff. The very next year the Chinese had almost the whole upstairs COVERED with copy cat BBR pit bikes. 3. Public Education: When I was a kid our Public School taught history with pride and truth. We learned about WW2, Civil War, Revolutionary War. We actually said the Pledge of Allegiance and opened with Prayer.. I went thru 4 years of Hard Materials and Auto Shop, and Electronics in my high school years. Being "Blue Collar" back then was actually a thing of pride. I left school with a diploma and walked right into one of highest paying shops (and there were a TON of them) and began my Machining experience running Turret Lathe beside men who were successfully raising families. I was RICH,, bought a house bought the 1st 250 Elsinore in West Mich brand new - with cash, bought a new Jeep CJ5, lived high on the hog. Then when the Boiler Makers opened the apprentiship I jumped ship and tripled my income over night.. I LOVED working and learning. Today's Public education is lacking in some of this, they have to be because the Socialist idea of getting something for nothing that plagues our youth (and a lot of geezers too) has to be coming from somewhere. 4. The stupiding of the U.S. = Open dishonesty in Governing and in Business. It amazes me when I see otherwise intellengent people by into things and except things as fact when the powers that be make certain decisions for them. In other words,, critical thinking skills seem to have gone right out the window. Little things like when building 7 went down and the country was told that steel now melts at 700 degrees, nobody had a problem with it. Or when a company like Polaris buys out a brand name like Indian and then starts proclaiming that the Indian Motorcycle Company never went under and that they (Indian Motorcycle Company) is now producing again and that they are NOT Polaris Motorcycles.. I KNOW, sounds crazy, as in WHO CARES PUC - as long as they sell,, right? Well, to be honest with you,, I do.. I do because its another step away from truth and honesty AND its a business that I have been passionate about for years to come. Dishonest hurts us as a people and as a country.. The fingers on my right hand are aching (cant use my left anymore) so I gotta quit but that should be enough to get started with my response here.. Remember Casey,, you asked for this:hihi: Quick bottom line,, everything from work ethic to available decent paying jobs to a huge loss in personal respondsibility to the destruction of the family unit play into the deeper end of the answer of your question IMHO

OUTSTANDING BROTHER!! Hope you have a GREAT trip (you deserve it!!) out there!! Sorry to hear about the clutch but hey,, LOOK WHAT YOU PUT THAT POOR THING THRU :dancefool: All the best on the repairs!! As far as the Locomotor,, unlike these other superior intellengent lop eared varmints and being an old Boiler Maker I was gonna guess a boiler.. I guess I was sorta kinda right cause those Locos were all about steam and that is what a boiler is all about... Hey VAz,, you look down right natural sitting there at those controls! GREAT PICS!!

Now THAT is a good one Kretz!!:clap2::rotf::rotfl: Literally had me cry laughin brother!! What the heck,, went back to the early 1900's,, may as well go wayyyyyyyyyyy back

BEAUTIFUL shooter there Tuffy!! I like the original style A LOT but I am building one of the later M4 platforms (flat back). I chose the ModKey furniture for ease of hanging stuff on like a 27 inch retractable Bipod (I cant shoot prone anymore cause of health but sitting and kneeling are still doable) on.. I am also laying a 6-24 scope on it (got a 3-9 with BDC if that dont work out).. I picked up an old 1600 yard Range Finder for 40 bucks that works EXCELLENT, going take a perch over looking the swamp not far from here where you can see for MILES and pick me off some dead brances, leaves and the like wayyyyyyyyyyy out there . I cut my teeth shooting with guys who served in WW2 - the real deal stuff. One of them was my girlfriends dad who served in the Pacific theater and saw a lot of action. Because of him, I got involved with Turkey shoots and shooting dynamite at 200 yards for prize = TONS OF FUN!! The love of long range shooting is still in there brother:missingtooth:

There is definitely a difference between the two and ya dont wanna go shootin the NATO 556 in a shooter chambered for the 223.. 223 in a 556, good to go but not the other way around. You guys are right on target with the higher pressures. The 556 has a lightly deeper throat in the chamber that causes accuracy loss if shooting 223 in them though. Years ago a guy with the last name of "Wylde" developed a chamber that gives the best of both worlds - it will both rounds very well and the 223 gets its accuracy back and then some. That is why I sought out a Wylde Chambered barrel for this build I am doing.. One of the things I personally really LOVE about the AR is they are so stinking buildable and tunable, down right FUN for an old geezer wanna be shooter to tinker with.. I JUST finished putting mine together, sat down here for a few minutes and already found another Wylde chambered barrel that I want to pick up.. A 24 inch fluted stainless.. Only thing is,, now I see it is available in the 224 Valkerie - little more range, less effected by cross winds.. Seriously, I guy could have 9mm, 7.62x39, 224 Valk and on and on and on by using the same lower and upper reciever and only swap out barrels, bolt carrier groups and magazines... SO MUCH FUN!! Almost makes not being to ride long distance tolerable . I got some video but its late.. Here are some pics of my progress..

So the way works here @Condor is if your buying over the internet and having stuff shipped in everything has to be sent to an FFL.. This includes Handguns, Long guns and/or the parts where that have the serial numbers stamped on them if your buying parts - usually this means lower receivers. I have an FFL (Pawnshop - GREAT PEOPLE) that do ship ins for 20 bucks and that includes the background check. There is no break if you have a concealed carry, still gotta pay the 20 (CHEAP) and fill out the paper work - then the FFL runs a background and out the door ya go.. Owner to owner here is Michigan is still open (Socialist here call this the Gun Show Loophole cause literally you can be at a gun show, see a guy selling a long gun, hand em the money and walk out the door completely legal) and legal with no backgrounds BUT if we are talking handguns then you either have to go to the Sherrifs Dept, have them to a Background, wait a few days, get a purchase permit, take the permit to the owner of the shooter, he fills in his part(s), keeps his corner of the paper, take the rest back to the Sherrif, the Sherrif tears off a corner and gives it to you and charges 10 bucks. If you dont wanna wait, both you and the seller can go to the Pawn shop and have it all taken care of instantly for 20 bucks.. Make sense? Michigan is actually a really cool place to be a shooter. Here, we still consider State and Federal Lands to belong to "we the peoples". Unless otherwise posted, you can step out of your car parked on the edge of state land and go to shooting. Some things have changed over the years because of misuse like you cant purposely shoot a tree and you have to make sure your tossing real Clay Pigeons so they turn back to dirt. We ALWAYS make sure we take out what we bring in (like paper targets and pick up empties but there are some jerk wads that dont adhere to that decency. I know of LOTS of shooting spots where people have hauled in all kinds of stuff to shoot at and left it there = DISCUSTING IMHO.. Kind of stuff that ruins it for everyone in the long run. Usually there is at least 1 major clean up weekend where people get together and pickup after the loosers. Also, that land that belongs to we the people is OPEN CAMP! Deer season (and Duck, and Pheasant, and Rabbit now that I think about it) used to be HUGE here.. Schools would shut down as most Dads would drag their kids up north for a week or two of huntin and campin and romping and having fun.. Cause of Political nonsense those days are long gone BUT there still is the occasion camping happening cause there still is a few of us old people that enjoy it.. I know,, way to much again,, ohhh well,, hope I answered your question in all that mumbo jumbo

I am right there with you Tuffy!! I have owned many handguns thru the years, had a scoped Smith 29 6 inch in 44 mag I did a LOT of deer killing/hunting with which was another of my favorites but gotta tell ya, my 5 inch 1911 is by far,, my favorite to shoot and have around. I know it is wayyy old school and this probably dont mean much by todays standards but it has a Gen 2 hardened slide, adjustable trigger, National Match Barrel/bushing (stuff you military folks used back in the 60's for competition shooting - THANK YOU for your service by the way TuffTom!!), Signature Pachmyer grips and Bo-Mar adjustable sites on her. I have ran thousands of rounds thru it in everything from +P 230's to Hornady XTP Hollow points (for hunting) to 150 Grain flat nose reman's and it will gobble em all up like @Condor and I eatin ButterNut ice cream as long as it's tuned for em. Matter of fact, that is one awesome thing that I have ALWAYS loved about my 1911, it is super easy to tune and clean. Last couple thousand rounds (just ordered and received another 1000 rounds) its been spitting out cheapy 200 grain flat nose remans. Tuned to spit the cases out to 6 feet with a 12 pound recoil spring - the thing LOVES EM! I know the National Match stuff is a thing of days long gone by but I gotta tell ya, this thing will roll a 5 inch ground roller indestructable target ball out past 75 yards if ya practice with it a little - its deadly.. WHAT AN AMAZING OLD SHOOTER FOR SOMETHING DESIGNED/CREATED IN 1911!!!! @videoarizona,, David,, my AR15 upper parts are suppose to be here today if I am reading the tracker correctly (and if the Post guy can get thru all this white stuff that @Flyinfool left in my driveway)!! Keep an eye on this,, thing is gonna be AWESOME FUN!!

Not everyone is as fortunate as our good friend and my brother VentureFar when it comes to getting to test, write reviews and keep one of those really cool new riding Jackets like he just did a review on (GREAT READ NEAL!! THANK YOU!!), here is a Puc tip on keeping that old zipper zippin!!

GREAT FLYINFOOL,,, dont tell me your sending another one our way !! Talk about a fine tuned WWW - that thing is working GREAT!!! I TOTALLY agree with the take this ANY DAY over the 90+ BUT that only applies with the southern, HUMIDITY infested stuff! I have always held to that which I learned longggg ago,,, that being that the best riding, best weather is that of the desert regions! Yes it can get HOT but IMHO, there really is truth to it being a dry heat.. 105 in the desert is far more comfortable then even 90 degrees in 90 percent humidity.. I have always said that ya gotta get to the west side of the Rockies before real fun biking begins.. Weird eh..

Another most AWESOME review by the best of the best as far as I am concerned my riding in the winter, southern California brother!! VERY WELL DONE!! It is AMAZING what biker jackets have come to! While I am an old school fellow who really likes leather, I can clearly see the advantage to one of these modern wonder of wonder's jackets, ESPECIALLY in the rain/cold! I LOVED the pictures too, all except for the one where you failed to smile (didnt mom teach you nothin Neal? You are suppose to when your gettin your picture tooken ). Seriously though my brother, as always, VERY VERY WELL DONE!! Now,, how about sharing that new best friend neighbor of yours? I would even skip the clothes testing and go right for the bikes!! I LOVE that Honda:biker::guitarist 2: Lucky lop eared getting to ride all those new bikes varmint!! By the way,, keep an eye out in the Water Hole. I am in the process of doing a demo on how us not so fortunate lop eared's can keep our poor old worn out zippered leather jackets in use,,, the demo will be mostly for us less fortunate than that of yourself (not all of us are blest with a new best friend neighbor like you have ) but you can watch it too if you'ld like

Anything yet @Vickersguy? Hopefully that little cosmetic cup didnt end up getting used as an eyeball for one of @Flyinfool's Snowmen on its way to you!!

Oh yeah,, concerning what your sending over next week,,, ya missed us on that last attempt to freeze the planet,,, ya think ya may have the trajectory set on those nozzles correctly this time?

Yea right,, I can just imagine what my spot in the penalty box looks like Fool,,, probably got me sittin right next to "Frosty" :moon: Don't know where you been brother but I gotta remind you that that Duey,, he has been a Master club :witch_brew::witch_brew: FOREVER!!! Not at your level yet (he would have to invent a WWW or something to get to perfection) but hey,, Master is still pretty dog gone good for a lop eared Duey varmint I would say!!

You might be 100% right on the winter brain strain thing there Sly,, it has been -7 windchills here of late. Couple that with the FACT that Flyinfool's been fairly active for us - we are suppose to get another 2 to 4 inches of his White Wash tonight and another 8 inches on Monday,,,, well that definitely is a good foundation for cabin fever. On the 100 rd drum feed, in building this shooter from the ground up one of the basics is the need for some form of magazine. I know, for a few bucks I coulda grabbed a 10 rounder,,, or even a 20. Thing is though, all of my biken buddies here (Harley riding bunch, always carrying on and on about me riding a cheap ol beat up 1st Gen) are shooters just like you and I. I helped one of the build a brand new Dyna up to 117 Cubes cause he thought it would somehow be able to compete with my little 1000cc R1. It is sooooo much fun to run beside him on that big ol noise maker and then when we hit 100 mph with him in 4th gear to be able to grab 2nd and loft my front wheel = get it? The point of this 100 rounder is exactly that,,, a sort of being one step ahead of this bunch of lop eared geezer varmints I call my buddies. I no longer hunt. I used to be an avid deer harvester but those days are long gone. Now the shooting is all about fun. We are surrounded by thousands and thousands of acreage we own (here its called State Land). There is HUGE valley with a river flowing thru it that dumps into Muskegon Lake which dumps into Lake Michigan. That valley is about 5 miles wide in spots and it is all swamp land (lined with AWESOME climbing hills that, as kids we developed/earned our motorcycle hill climbing skills on). It is a RIOT to take a post on one of those hills and to be able to target shoot into the swamp/valley below. Clay Pigeon shooting is also allowed as long as you use real Clay Pigeons so they disenigrate (turn back to dirt) in the valley below. I just picked up a really cool Range Finder that is good for 1600 yards. The plan is to fill the mag, be able to walk to a comfortable edge over looking the valley, range out some pieces of bark in the swamp and blast away - OLD PEOPLES FUN!! One of the reasons I decided to stay with the 556 is that of which you speak - lighter to tote. Another is the VAST amound of cool ammo to try out (I used to reload and have no real interest in going back into that pain staking endeavor at this point). I know of at least one VERY good source for TRACERS at less then .30 a round!!! I have had numerous AK's in 7.62x39 and never really had a good long distance shooter in them. Back in the 80's, around here anyway, the gun shows had CASES and CASES of SKS's - brand new still in cosmoline for well under 100 bucks a pop including Bayonette and cleaning kit. I bought 5 of them at one time once to see if I could get a good shooter (something that would do sub MOA at 100 yards).. Just didnt happen. I even tryed Romanian and Russian AK's,, suckers wouldnt work for me. In the end, for the "fun hunt" (last deer of the season) I just ended up hunting with my 29 Smith or my 1911 and called it good. Another one now that really has my interest is this new a17 Savage semi that is chambered for the 17hmr! That round (the 17) has been really difficult for the manufactures to get to work properly in a semi (both Ruger and Remington took a shot at it and failed) cause of the higher pressures. I guess Savage figured it out and are now using a delayed blow back to make it work. I been hearing good things about them, think they would be fun shooters BUT WOWZY WOW WOW WOW, try to find one in the 200 dollar range (can buy a brand new 22 mag Ruger for that)! Suckers are selling for 4 bills and that is WAYYYY to much dollar for the fun we would have with one... WOWZY can I .. Sorry Sly,, guns is like motorcycles around this house..

Heyyyyy,,, look what da cat dragged in!! HI YA NEAL!! All the running around we be doing I almost missed this! Looks/sounds like all is well with my California brother!! Still getting spoiled by that new best friend neighbor of yours I see!! GOOD ON YA - nobody deserves it more!! Tip is well as am I! We both send our love and HUGE pair of 's!! Love ya! Puc

Here's the tube extender taking Tip's FX4 out to 8 rounds (7 in the tube and 1 in the pipe). I haven't grabbed one for her yet cause I figure if she cant hit a clay pigeon with 5 try's of 1 1/8th ounces of 7 1/2 shot hitting the sky at 1250 fps a couple more bangs aint gonna help her much.. Here's the extender Case:https://fedarm.com/product/fx3_fx4_mag_extension/ ,,, only 28 bucks,, maybe I will get it for her for Mothers Day

After taking my new ar15 out and running 50 rounds of ammo thru it, we decided that the AR platform did not fit her well (she needed the angular comb of the traditional shotgun but still LOVED the pistol grip design of the AR!). I actually planned on getting video of this TuffTom but, in the excitement of it all I forgot my camera. I PROMISE I will video a clay busting extravaganza in the very near future of both my AR15/FR98 and her FX4 in action! With the shooting experience under our belts of having shot the AR, we looked at several options (over unders, side by sides and so on), then I went to back to Gunbroker and came out of auction with this sweet little semi auto 12 for a measly 116 bucks!! We excitedly look forward to getting back out as a shooting team in the very near future (as soon as this -0 weather departs western Michigan!). @videoarizona, at the time of this writing 1/26/2019, I am still waiting for upper receiver parts for the 556/223 Wylde chambered AR15 I am building. I did manage to give you a little about the build in this vid though!! It looks like, not including the dual feed drum mag that cost me 89 bucks, the total build is going to come in well under 300 bucks! As soon as the rest of the parts get in I will post a video of that completed build and also of it's field testing. WHAT A FUN WINTER!!