Hey Mickey,

I would have replied sooner, but had to spend some time on my therapists (us Kalifornians all have therapists) couch repairing my damaged inner psyche after the sound thrashing I got from you in regards to mammalogy, ornithology, and the way of the lemming. In my first post, defending the "Coleman BenchRest Lemming Theory", I cited trends in barrels to support this. Do you think barrel chambering methods have been affected by the Lemming Theory? The trend seems to be away from the old school chuck/steadyrest/tailstock method to the through the headstock method. Yet every gunsmith I've ever heard opine on chambering has said good guns can be built either way, and that one way isn't any better than the other. What do you think?

Big Stick...your comment about some azzhole who calls himself "BigStick" caused me to shoot a good part of my Starbucks vanilla latte out of my nose.

BossHoss...of all the tasteless, tactless, rude things you've said on this thread, your comment about me saying "hi" to Barbara is by far the worst. I would rather flatten my balls with a framing hammer than say hi to her. I think you have a serious misconception about us Kalifornians being all uppity, wacko, left wing elitist. I't just not true...most of us are uppity, wacko, left wing elitist, but a few of us are what the rest of the 49 would call normal. A few of us even like to hunt and shoot. And no...not behind game fences. In fact, this Kalifornian doesn't hunt big game with a rifle. I hunt strictly with a traditional recurve bow...which means I'm into it for the hunt...and I eat of lot of vegetables as a result. Kalifornia is a beautiful state...the high Sierras, the beaches, the forests of NorCal. The problem is LA and SF. If one had a giant jig saw, and could cut out these two problem areas and set them adrift in the Pacific, you might not want to live anywhere else.

I gotta go...I'm late for a tanning booth appointment,
Justin