Hey Gang, thanks for the welcome! Nevada Paul, I like your dream, but at the SASS matches I’ve witnessed, they positively abuse those guns! They thrash them in the name of competitive speed! Best enter with Italian repros, unless you plan on being slow moving traffic, like I am. Nothing wrong with that, by the way. Just imagine that old dude driving at the limit at rush hour! I do believe your shotgun is legal; you can visit the SASS website and download the current .pdf rulebook to confirm. Steve004 the hardest thing about medicare for me is the daily conversations with folks who literally, month to month, have to decide which meds and how much of them is it safe to ditch so they can afford the Kraft dinner, and a little milk to make it with. Nobody I’ve talked to will admit to eating dog food, but I know it has to happen, a lot. Don’t get me started! Anyway All, I sure hope I can give back what I get, cause I’m here to soak up the experience and the data. Y’all tell me to shut up if I carry on too much!

@Steven Gabrielli I did not have the honor to serve, so I cannot appreciate the qualities or lack thereof for combat of the AR platform. Nor do I desire to play tactical games and train with the weapons at my age. I’m a simple sort, basically fascinated by the engineering concept of direct impingement. I love it love it love it when my suppressed 308 goes ka-chunk, so fast that unless you’re tuned to it you completely miss it! I build guns that I can use in long range target competition, and that is another fascination for me, the load development, the parts swapping to coax more performance, the beauty of 0.10 minute of angle 3-shot groups is what keeps me in the game. I have two hummer barrels right now, a 7mm Remington Magnum made by Tikka, and a 308 Winchester made by Faxon. I’m hoping I’ll uncover a third with my new Winchester in 44-40 tomorrow. I also hear the siren song of the historical period of which you speak. I collect and buy and sell Lugers and Luftwaffe and Heer pistolen, and, of course, wider Europe was also fertile ground at that time for some really Great pistols, such as from Beretta, CZ, FN, Radom, Astra, even FEG, all of which were used by German officers and armed administrators throughout the Reich. As to medicare, alas but marketing departments are everybody’s enemy. I spend a good deal of my time just setting peoples’ expectations back in line with reality. Not always easy to do when they have become convinced that they ‘deserve’ something, and I seem to be a blockhead standing in the way, or a crook who is trying to cheat them out of it, when in reality they have been suggestively misled by jerks. People seem to think that because medicare is provided by the government that it must stand apart from any other business and be guaranteed forthright, honest, and pure. They don’t apply their critical faculties to those they encounter around the medicare scene the way they naturally do with, say, a TV auto sales pitch, a vacuum cleaner salesman at the door, even the hand-scrawled sign that says “Please give, I have a wife and children” when they’re waiting at the light. Whenever I call the company on it, they shrug and say “The others are doing it. If we don’t follow suit they’ll walk all over us!” Jeez, I should shut up.