Just checking in here for the first time today (it's a work day; self-employed people too often have to do that).
Good questions so far. And thanks for mostly keeping it about the questions.
I'll be back after work.
I hope we can keep this thread focused on the questions for now, and leave substantive discussions about them for later.
I teach courses. (Another story for another day, perhaps, but nothing that is directly suitable for discussion on THR, so we won't here).
But the point is, sometimes, I start class sessions by just having students ask questions. We make a list of them, sometimes group them into logical groups, then dive in. That way, everyone's questions are heard, and later addressed, but early deep discussion doesn't lower the chance that someone's questions don't get heard.
Now, I'm emphatically NOT seeing this thread as a class in that sense, other than that on forums like this, we're all students and teachers at the same time, learning useful (hopefully) stuff from each other. (I've often referred to this forum as THRU -- The High Road University -- because I've learned so much more of value about guns, ammo, safety, etc here over the years than in the entire period of decades before that.)
So for now, it's about the questions.