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Mostly they are expensive because millions of them were sent to the scrap yard a few years ago.  Stupid .gov programs have consequences.

Better kick your GF out before the wife gets home :)

Funny. But I just wish 'em all Merry Christmas. If they don't like it, they can lump it!  :usa:

 I saw this on Facebook and it rings awful true,    To My Liberal Friends--if I have any: Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2014 but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. To My Conservative Friends: Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!   Sorry it's showing up in light gray but it's late and i'm far to lazy at this hour to type it all out so this light gray copy and paste will have to do, Luke

That's a better offer than I made him Spots... Now I feel like an ass.  :wave:

I'm not against buying one with a rebuilt title, but will not pay a clean title price for it.

More likely to be a switching error at the Switch. Rare, but it happens. Most likely to happen if the call is being made as either the caller or receiver is in a handoff between cell sites...not getting too deep into it but although it happens it's very rare now.

I didn't realize tin foil came in camo

They're high because people are willing to pay that much:)

Look into Summit or Lone Wolf treestands. Both are great, safe, and comfortable.

Not all training is "fantasy camp"....While there are some "tactical dude ranch experiences" out there that does not mean ALL training is that.   Some folks teach civilian training classes based on the NRA safety class with a sprinkling of legal info (which is essentially what the TN HCP class is) , some teach based on IDPA match prep with some awareness and legal info added, some try to teach from a police or military perspective and try to bend that to fit civilian encounters and then finally there are some who actually know the difference and teach from the perspective of  the criminal assault paradigm. They teach what the typical criminal assaults will most likely look like , teach you to avoid it if possible and then provide concepts and solutions for the likely situations, not just teach you shooting techniques with no clear vision of WHAT you are actually training for and expect you to figure it out in the heat of the moment......    So just like there being good lawyers , doctors or mechanics and there also being  bad lawyers, doctors, or mechanics, there are people in the training industry that can speak with authority on all subjects from human reaction time, to effects of adrenaline on your motor skills to recognizing the cues of an assault about to happen, to how to shoot more efficiently and effectively to how integrate hand to hand skills with use of the gun,  to treat a gunshot wound to how to talk to the police afterward....and then there are those who can do little more than follow a syllabus someone else wrote.....not ALL training is the same. 

There has been such a rash for terrorist pedophile kidnappers stalking secondary school children in rural TN that we had to do it for the children!   Something smells, a lot like bull scat here :)    

Found this in my old archives mass cleaning in marine corps boot camp circa 1980 ! Enjoy Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.

Warning - There are a couple of bad words in the video.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0uvh1yCCbA

Good thing for you all long actions are the same size between the action bolts. So the only other concern is whether it is a stagger or center feed.   The easiest way to tell is if the rear of the bolt has a cocking indicator in it. When they switched from stagger to center feed they also added a cocking indicator to the rear of the bolt. When the gun is cocked and ready ro fire there should be a rod almost sticking out of the recess in the rear of the bolt. If it is a stagger feed it will look like a 1/4" allen wrench hole.   Another indicator is the barrel nut. If the barrel nut is smooth it is, for the most part, a center feed. If the barrel nut has grooves in it then it generally is a stagger feed. But during the transition it may have had either.   The other way to tell is to load two rounds in the magazine. Then look straight down into the magazine. If there is about 1/4 of the second round showing it is a stagger feed. If all you see is the top round then it is a center feed.   If the rear of the receiver has a flat area (like a Remington 700) then it is 100% stagger feed. If the rear of the receiver is round it can be either a stagger or center feed depnding on the descriptions above.   If the bolt release is on the bottom of the stock in front of the trigger guard it is a center feed. If the bolt release is on the right side of the action it can be either a center or stagger feed depending on the descriptions above.   110, 111, 112, 114, 116 are all the same actions. The only difference is whether it is a center or stagger feed. For the most part the action screw spacing is the same for all long actions regardless of year. There were a few odd models.   What kind of stock are you looking at.

Good place to go for what we talked about.

Is this what you need? Tapatalk ate my spelling.

Easy answer is they are over-allocate the connections on the towers.

Looks like he got what he paid for.

I normally use the same WEIGHT and start out at the minimum load then increase until the gun cycles reliably.

Two observations. 1st: If Mr. Howe did something before the video started why wasn't he arrested earlier? Because he sure didn't do anything during the video deserving of arrest. B: It's mid November. If they haven't gotten the traffic problem worked out by now then they're not going to. ;)

VICTORY!!!   Two boxes of Federal .22 LR, 550 rounds each, $23 a pop! HAHAHAHA!   Haven't been able to buy any .22 for damn near a year... it feels so good to finally have some on hand!   And I'm not gonna resell it for 3x the price either! :D

Man! How can someone not be searching high and low for their lost dog? He's a very good looking dog.

A few years ago, we had a guy here in Clarksville who harvested a deer, and he and his buddy threw it in the back of his truck. He was setting at the traffic light at Riverside and 41A, when his buck decided to jump out of his truck and run through down town Clarksville. CPD wound up shooting the wounded deer.   DaveS

Magpul BAD lever. 

Here he is. Good looking dog.

   Putting hot lead in a deer is the same as putting it through paper.. point and click. You'll get another chance and at least you're seeing deer! There are much worse things than shooting low, last year I lost my first deer. I was tucked between two pieces of bluff rock that were sticking out of the side of the hill and as the sky started to get a little gray that morning I saw 3 doe come out of the woods about 40yds away. I eased my safety off, put the crosshairs on her and pulled the trigger, she bucked up sprung back into the woods crashing through brush and limbs and I smiled because all I saw was meat in the freezer. I stayed put for about 15 minutes or so and then eased down to the spot she was standing to start tracking her (first time i've ever had to tracked my own deer, they always dropped withing 10yds). I got about 2/3's of the way down and noticed a sapling about the size of my thumb that was broken and doubled over and started to worry i'd missed her. It ended up being way worse than a miss, I got to where she was last standing and found a pile of stomach contents and followed a sparse trail of it for 10 yards before it stopped. I never found the first sign of blood and even after picking up my Dad and grabbing a dog she still was not found. After 3-4 hours of looking I decided to call off the search and that was the worst I have ever felt about hunting. Not only did I almost certainly kill that doe but I gut shot her because I didn't see that sapling between her and the tip of my barrel. I'm sure it was a long painful death and for that I felt horrible but i'm sure the coyotes had a feast. No matter how big a bullet you shoot there is no replacement for shot placement and knowing everything between you that might throw that off. I for one will be more mindful of things like this in the future. Good luck taking your first deer this year!

  Pissin' off liberals is one of my favorite pastimes.

I don't disagree that there are exigent circumstances where the police may be required to enter a private property without a warrant...  I just think we should place some reasonable restrictions on the cases where they do.   First being that any and all evidence discovered during one of these exigent situations is fruit of the poisonous tree is ALL cases, period.  This would create a serious disincentive to use such exigent situations to advance an investigation while still preserving the ability of the police to rush in save people's lives.   Second, if the exigent circumstance turns out to be false...  For example claiming to hear somebody calling for help and it turns out there is nobody inside calling for help...  then the police and the department would lose all sovereign immunity for their actions.     As for your points on the courts basically dismissing the 9th and 10th amendments...  you're right they ignore them with wild abandon, but I don't recognize their ability to rule what is or is not unconstitutional...  Where SCOTUS and I disagree on an unconstitutional infringement, I readily ignore their interpretation...  We are talking about the same body that said slavery and placing American citizens in concentration camps was constitutional.     At the end of the day I can read and understand the Constitution (and the State Constitution) just fine, and I use that as my guide... even though I regularly question the ability of men born more than 225 years ago to bound me to a contract I had no say in.   That doesn't mean I don't stay out of trouble..  because I realize that the government is happy to use violence to enforce their interpretations of the Constitution, even if they use the Bill of Rights as toilet paper on a regular basis... :)    

I appreciate your viewpoint Smith, and my response is in no way a flame and is respectfully submitted.   On instructors: It is our obligation to choose wisely. I agree that some classes are indeed just fantasy gun camps with an over abundance of Walter Mitty types. And some instructors simply don't possess the background, or teaching abilities they may profess. I have been fortunate that the majority of training venues I've attended contained serious adults with realistic goals and expectations, taught by competent and gifted professionals. But I did the footwork first...   The greatest value I personally gleaned from professional training was the realization that "I didn't know what I didn't know". So for me it is an ongoing venture from "unconscious incompetence" towards "conscious competence" and maybe, just maybe, one day "unconscious competence". It's merely a personal goal.   We are extremely fortunate in this day and age to have many learning opportunities available to us. There were only a few "schools" when I started this journey.   To repeat myself (I getting old and old people do that sometimes...)...It's our responsibility to choose wisely where we spend our hard earned dollars. But investing in yourself is never a bad idea, imho.   We are also pretty darned fortunate to have some talented professionals as frequent contributors here at TGO.   :2cents:

  Because they wanted the bullet to go really fast.

This is the 2nd year hunting some property (20 acres) near Sardis, TN.  Last year we saw 2 does in the field as we pulled up the drive.     This year my FIL saw 2 deer from his stand, they didn't stop long enough to get a shot, dang it. About 3:30 sunday, sitting in my stand had a small buck come into view.  Waited, patiently while it meandered around in front of me.  Got my shot off but went low.  Oh well, the deer are there, I'll be back out next weekend, praying I get something then.   Got to admit, that this was only the 2nd time in my life I've shot at a deer. The first time was prolly back in '91.   Over the summer got lots of pics of does on my trail cameras, trying to figure out where put my stands and food plots.

  Most Auction's use a service called Auto-Check. I have seen to many bad Car fax reports.

Was in JCPenny's over the weekend and saw a holiday decoration. It went like this:   Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah Happy Quanza Feliz Navidad   I just felt that it was ironic that Christmas was on there twice.

I just borrowed that to help me make more friends on Facebook.  :D

Sharpton spent decades loudly, publically spewing hate-whitey racist rhetoric on a national stage, now he condemns some of the resulting racial violence with a single comment? Yea he's absolved.

Oh...but he isn't calling people names; just making observations. ;) 

Trayvon got himself shot & killed through his own actions, rehashing the case isn't going to change a clear case of self-defense into murder, regardless of how badly you'd like it to be because of whatever color or age the thug was, or what sort of bone-headed stuff Zimmerman had done prior, has done since, or might do in the future. As far as this current debacle, guess we'll have to wait & see the actual evidence & testimony, the news media is about as "trustworthy" as Ms. Jeantel was ...

  No, federal law does not say that at all, Dave.   Federally, in both cases to be unlawful, the seller must  "know or have reasonable cause to believe" that such is the case. Otherwise, it is not unlawful, simple as that, as the statutes are precisely worded. I don't know of any seller in his own state who was stung for that unless he saw the buyer's out of state ID or was told by the buyer he was from out of state, and sold anyway -- never have seen any mention of a precedent where simply not asking to see ID was grounds enough alone for a conviction.   AFAIK, TN law doesn't address the issue of private interstate transfer at all, not sure regarding proof of culpability for intrastate transfer to a minor.   - OS

Here is an example of how this sort of situation would play out with me. I believe that if there is not an identifiable victim, there is not a crime. Any prostitution, nonviolent drug, or other consensual act offense I would vote not guilty. I'm not telling the lawyers involved because if I did, I wouldn't be able to stop the state from committing the immoral act of putting someone in a cage for a consensual act.

Having someone else do the deed for you doesn't absolve you of culpability in that deed. If you have the opportunity to serve on a jury where you can prevent the state from committing an immoral act and actively have yourself removed from that jury, you share responsibility just the same as if you voted to convict. I believe that jury nullification is not only a right of the people, it is a duty. If the lawyers don't ask about my views on the subject, I am not going to volunteer that information and remove myself from a position of being able to actually do something about it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

  It's not a bad enough headspace problem that the firing pin won't reach the primer. Just need to measure everything.

Yeah, I'm still not convinced it's a headspace problem. Could be, but I'm not sure with the information provided. A bad box of ammo isn't exactly rare.

    Junk piled on top of junk.

Two weeks ago today, I adopted an 18 month old male basset hound through Belly Rubs Basset Hound Rescue. I just couldn't go without a hound any longer. :) His name is Wally and he has an interesting story... About five weeks ago, an elderly couple who live in Lenoir City were RV camping up in the Smokies when they saw this dog wandering toward them. He went to the door of their RV and whined like he wanted to be let in. Being dog lovers themselves they obediently opened the door at which point this hound went inside, promptly jumped up on the sofa and went to sleep! He was a bit of mess, dirty and tick infested...they washed him up in their on board shower and dealt with the ticks as best they could and too him to their vet to get fully rid of the ticks. That's when they contacted the rescue organization. They named his Wally and I decided it's a good name for him! We don't know much about him but it was obvious that he had been on his own for a while. He is negative for heart worms which was a big relief but he was positive for worms which he's been treated for and we are also treating him for a couple of bacterial infections (ears, toenails and positive for a tick born disease; all of which is very common to basset hounds and especially in Tennessee) but overall, he's a pretty healthy boy. Based on his teeth, my vet believes he is not older than 18 months. He's already made himself quite at home here and quite at home with me...I still miss my girl Millie and I suspect I always will but Wally is a great hound and already a good friend! If you have or ever had a dog who has made you laugh, brightened your life, and every day silently accepted your tears without judgment, snuggled with you, forgiven your faults and loved unconditionally - dogs are a gift that most of us don't deserve!

^^This. When I travel to MO, I only drive for 20 seconds through IL and I stop on KY side, unload, separate ammo from gun/mags, drive through IL and stop on the MO side and reload. Don't test them. My two cents

.......yawn.

    Sorry, no owner impression, here.  Honestly, when I first saw in one of the gun rags that Taurus was going to do a 9mm carbine, I kind of eagerly flipped over to read the article.  The wind was taken out of my sails by the '10 round proprietary mag' statement.  My thought was, "Well, then, it has zero benefit over my Hi Point 9mm carbine that has been 100% reliable and also uses 10 round, proprietary mags.  At least Hi Point carbine mags are, supposedly, compatible with their handguns (but not vice versa - the handgun mags don't work in the carbine.)"   Then I saw the projected price tag and thought, "Okay, so now the Hi Point has an obvious advantage over the Taurus.  Price."  I see nothing about the Taurus that would make its end user value worth any more than the Hi Point, to me, much less more than double the price.

Also need to make sure they're food grade. I have about four or five but they were used to transport Vinegar.

Ive wanted one bad for months now, but Ive always had an intrest in them. The only difference is I want one with a wood stock and 22.5" barrel. Tapatalk ate my spelling.