posted on December 20, 2000 02:11:19 PM
It's not cheap with a good rifle, Jim, and money spent as you propose would as much as be down the drain. You'd get the same experience that you seek, in spades, with a good base. You really can't tell how you're progressing if you're using an inaccurate (by competition standards) rifle. One barrel will cost as much as a new ADL if you aren't equipped to thread, chamber, and fit one.
And just think---buy a rifle from one of the benchrest builders and you get a gunsmith along with it.
Do this: get one of those drafting templates and a sharp pencil, draw a 1/4" circle, then draw another one overlapping the first but .100" off aligned, then draw three more on top of those. Color them in. Pretty good five shot group, eh? .100" C to C. BR rifles set up right do that all the time at 100 yards if YOU can and the wind plays fair.
posted on December 20, 2000 03:00:31 PM
Humm according to Time "Man Of The Year" is to designate the person, group, or thing that has most affected the course of history for he past 12 months. I guess that explains how, US Scientists (1960), Americans Under 25 (1966), American Women (1975), The Personal Computer (1982) all made it. It would also explain how FDR is the only person to make it three times.
I question George Bush for this years edition because with the exception of being selected President he hasn't done anything to affect history in 2000. Now next year his compassionate conservatisim might make him a shoo in. Humm can we say setting him up to be the second back to back winner.
posted on December 20, 2000 03:08:35 PM
On a slightly different note, I am always tuned to NPR (National Public Radio) news. If I hear Mr. Bush say one more time how "humbled" he is to have been named President Elect, to have met President Clinton, then VP Gore, then to have Col. Powell accept the post offered, then to be interviewed, I shall surely be very ill...
He learned a one-liner very well..."I am humbled"...and will serve it over and opver...ad nauseum...Like "watch my lips", babybush will be remembered as the "humbled man"....
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posted on December 21, 2000 02:28:35 PM
Perhaps Bush will have as good a run as Time's last man of the year - Jeff Bezos of Amazon- Amazon probably will be belly up after the xmas sales are tabulated.
posted on December 22, 2000 01:51:40 AM
reamon - naaa they won't go belly up some random pundit with a few extra millon lying around will provide a cash infusion. The cash infusion will serve to lift the net stocks so he can make it all back on the gains in other holdings plus a few extra 100 million or so.
