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I really don't see that any of it matters. As long as we have a federal reserve continuing to pump completely worthless money into the economy and perhaps even having melted down and sold all the gold is supposed to have in safekeeping and an administration that continues to spend 45% more than it receives in taxes; this economy is going to have no choice but to collapse in on itself. Once that happens, tax rates and about 95% of the rest of the things we worry about going to be non issues - we'll all just be trying to survive.

[URL=http://s612.photobucket.com/user/gregintenn/media/IMG_2427_zpsf874903e.jpg.html][/URL] My oldest son killed this doe early this morning. It was at least a 250 yard shot, and it was dead right there. A good end to the season. My little one didn't want to get out of bed. Maybe next year.

Ok, I guess the facts are in. Since the rover landed on mars and began sending back information it has not found any proof of ESPN, Cold Beer, Porn, pick up trucks or Playboy on the planet it proves that men are not from Mars!!!!

Well, yesterday was the excitement of the last youth season. I am fixin to tell you why :)   We got up this morning, the kids pumped and ready to go, and so was I. We ate protein bars and a banana each and hit the road. We spooked deer pulling in the driveway, sad for the adults, exciting for the kids. But it meant there were deer moving in the area, so I'll take it. We all get out, wish eachother luck and head to our spots. After sitting there from 5:40 till about 7:30, we hadn't seen anymore deer but heard a gunshot on the property next to us. The laughing begins now. My daughter says "Well, there go all the deer! They probably killed the last one!" LMAO! I said "Sugar, Daddy saw 15 of them the other day". To which she responded "WELL WHERE ARE THEY?!" Holy crap, she had me cracking up! I wasn't making a noise but my belly was shaking! About 8 she said she was freezing to death, that her whole body was frozen, and her feet didn't work anymore....again, more belly shaking from Daddy! We finally got down when I noticed she was literally shaking. We stalked a little while and headed back to the truck. My buddy and my nephew came out shortly thereafter and we headed home. We saw 5 deer on a neighboring property, 3 does, a big spike, and a nice 6 pointer. My daughter said "SHOOT IT DAD!" HA HA Wish I could have! Well, I love hunting, I love my daughter, and I love the experience and being able to share it with you guys here. I may have lost a pound or two laughing today, but dadgummit, what a day with my daughter!!!

I've asked it over and over again on this and other forms; why in the world any parent allow his children to be in the public school system today? Get your children out of the public schools; do what you have to do, sell your house, sell your car Sell some guns whatever it takes - if you love your children get them out of the public schools. It's too late to try and change them (the schools), all you can do now is get your kids away from them.

Ah. The new Kalifornia state flag.

In addition to what JWC and the others have said which is correct.  Do yourself a favor and read the TWRA hunting manual cover to cover, it is available online at TWRA's website or you can pick up a hard copy for free just about anywhere that sells licenses.  I seem to constantly hear that you can or cannot do something hunting related that is completely false information.  Hunting laws are not mythological, they are written out in an easy to read and mostly easy to understand format.  There are several laws in this state that either don't make sense or are in place for a peculiar reason, and even things that a non hunter or new hunter wouldn't think of but may accidentally violate.  Game wardens generally don't have a very good sense of humor and are pretty big on the whole "ignorance of the law is no excuse" thing.

Picked this up for $200, Revelation 205 30-30. I am really liking this thing, I can see this may lead to more lever guns and I havent even shot it yet.

Since this is about history and its accuracy; General Sherman said that.

I know what you mean, it makes me nervous too. Then I feel the need to start checking myself for parasites like ticks, or politicians. :rofl:

Real inflation is triple the published rate.  Real unemployment is at least double.  Keep that in mind when you're thinking about this.

Because I've been involved enough, long enough and had had enough person to person conversations with enough legislators to have a pretty good sense of what is and what isn't possible with the current makeup.   This horrid parking lot bill passed last year should be a clear indication that these people have NO intention of actually restoring our full 2A rights. Anyway, if you think I'm wrong then call your State Senator and State Representative and get them to introduce the bill...assuming you can even get them to do so see how far it gets.

  Why?? We already have Glocks.    :rofl:

Now you see, here we were, having a nice, civilized, intelligent conversation pertaining to current social matters, and it devolves into this ... We should be ashamed. :rofl:

So I took my daughter's friend out hunting for the first time ever today. She was so excited to go and I was glad to take her. She wanted to go with me and my daughter in the morning but had other family plans. We got to the woods about 2 pm and climbed in the stand. About an hour and a half and saw nothing but squirrels. I turned to my left and 25 yards away in some thick brush. I nudged her and got the rifle in her hands and then the w....a....i....t....began. That doe didn't move for probably 6 or 7 minutes which seemed like 45 with me helping her hold the rifle up while whispering "stay still, don't move". My heart was thumping through my coveralls, I was so excited thinking that she could be only moments away from killing her first deer on her first hunting trip! It finally moved....2 steps...lol I was about to die and my arms were starting to shake. Not counting the fact that I was dipping and needed to spit something fierce but knew that was out of the question till this deal was done  :rofl:  So we wait, it moves a few more steps, and this process is repeated for almost a half hour. The wind was swirling but we had scent reducing showered and sprayed, so she smelled something but not enough to have her really freaked out, just cautious. The doe finally walked behind me and I had her stand up and was helping stabilize the rifle above me and knowing the sound was going to be loud when she shot, but worth it! Then the doe turned around and walked right back where she came from in the same method....HOLY HECK! It ended up never giving her a shot, but lemme tell ya, she was sooooooooooooo excited and what a way to start a new hunter, with excitement like that. Later she said "I really hate that I didn't take the shot when she was behind you". But not only did my left ear thank her, but I thanked her and commended her for being patient and not taking a shot that she wasn't sure of. Pretty SMART girl!  All in all, she said she can't wait till next year and wants to start with me during bow season. So now, I'm getting my daughter ready for the hunt in the morning, and a buddy of mine is sitting in his blind with my nephew to give him a chance to hunt for the first time! God, I love this stuff and thankful for your blessings! And I love to be able to share this with my TGO family!!!

Barack Obama is a festering carbuncle on Satan's scrotum.

Red, I fear the problem is that they are not idiots, and have a preconceived plan that is being executed precisely. Scary stuff man!

Just posted on FB Maybe upper, lowers, barrels etc??? :-)

Guns, like cars and many other things, go through a period of depreciation, then appreciation as the vagaries of time make then rarer or more desirable.  Even in the relatively short span of time you mentioned, some firearms have achieved collectible status, as many of these items have disappeared over the years, the law of supply and demand has increased prices.  You are the ultimate arbiter of the amount you are willing to spend to get the gun you want, and guns that can be traded or sold easily tend to bring higher premiums over the less desirable ones. 

Water and toliet paper. Sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

Oh, and since we are comparing worn out trucks, my 97 Dodge has 322k, and counting ...

Exactly, "homeschooled children have parents that take a very active role in their child's education" which is as it should be.   The schools are the problem or at the very least, the center of the problem and are beyond salvation given their current state of existence. Not a week goes by that something outlandish doesn't happen in the public school system and I don't just mean NYC or LA or Clevaland ...a child expelled for making his pop tart look like a gun or:   "A 16-year-old student called a "good kid" by her principal will be tried as an adult on two felony charges after conducting what her classmates called "a science project gone bad '   "6-year old Hunter Yelton kissed classmate and get charged with sexual harassment"   "The mother of 8-year-old Jordan Bennett said her son was only playing with his friend at Harmony Community School in St. Cloud.  She fears his one-day suspension, which was handed down Friday [9/27/2013], wrongly labels Jordan as a violent person.  There was nothing in his hand.  He used his thumb and index finger, Bonnie Bennett told a local TV station.  It was a game.  He made no threatening advances or threats to harm anyone.  No words were said.  They took a child that has never been in trouble before and went to the extreme, the mother continued.  A child that has no history of violence is now classified as a violent offender."   "The arrests of several students who unwittingly and accidentally violated school weapon policies has some Georgian lawmakers saying "zero tolerance" makes zero sense.  A Cobb County high school senior was charged with the felony of bringing weapons into a school zone after police found fishing knives in a tackle box in his car.  Cody Chitwood, a 17-year-old student at Lassiter High School and avid fisherman, turned himself in and was released on $1,000 bond. The alleged offense occurred on private property, well away from their school."   "Like thousands of others in Hampton Roads, Khalid Caraballo plays with airsoft guns.  Caraballo and his friend Aidan were suspended because they shot two other friends who were with them while playing with the guns as they waited for the school bus.  The two seventh graders say they never went to the bus stop; they fired the airsoft guns while on Caraballo's private property.  Aidan's father, Tim Clark, told WAVY.com what happened next lacks commons sense.  The children were suspended for possession, handling and use of a firearm."   The above are just a fraction of available examples; I could fill pages with such. Even worse, the above has nothing to do with the so-called "history" and "science" and social engineering children are being taught today. Certainly; parents who care can have a significant impact and undo some of the damage but not all of it...not nearly all of it.   As harsh as it sounds, I rally don't care and can't help kids who have parents who don't care and use school as a day care center.  It's not mine or any other person's responsibility to provide daycare for the children of parents who don't care. That sucks for those children; it really does...but parking them in public schools aren't going to help them because if they learn much of anything it will just be how to be good little slaves with minds that have had every original thought forced out of their brains.   The discussion I see centering around public schools is uncannily similar to discussions about Congress - most people like their Congressman but think most of the others should go which is part of the reason why so many incumbents get re-elected...most people think that the kind of idiocy we see in the public schools on an almost weekly basis can't/isn't happening in their school; that's it's just other schools in other states or other counties where children are being indoctrinated into the welfare state-America is bad mindset and where  five year old children are labeled as sex offenders for holding hands with another child. The entire system is corrupt...good teachers, and there are good teachers and administrators, don't have a chance in Hell of changing anything or making a difference against a system that forces them to comply.   It's time to get out of the mindset that we need government run public schools...they need to go or at the very least, parents who care need to stop using them so that at least their children have a significant chance of being functioning, moral, literate adults.

Just don't tell that to Buzz.

That's the whole point of taking the first shot at 15 yards.  There is no need to pull the bolt and the shot will almost always be on paper at that range with the windage and elevation adjustments in the middle.  From there complete your steps 4 and 5 and you are good to go. 

14.99 a box for CCI isn't much more than it was a year ago. I've paid 11.99 to 13.99 over a year ago in some locations.

Oh I don’t think we will be either. But “Yankee agitators” and “Dixie”… Really? The War of Northern Aggression was 150 years ago; and will never be fought again. We may someday have a civil war but it sure won’t involve the “Yankees” and “Rebels” it will be economic and will know no state lines.

As a society we have to drive more than we used to for work. My suburban has around 180k on it. My last truck had over 200k on it. Vehicles are made to last longer than they used to.

I will cast my own

My biggest issue with Lone Wolf is their back order practices. If you order from them and the barrel is on back order, don't believe the expected arrival dates, they will change the dates multiple times and not communicate with customers when that happens. They need to take some lessons on customer service from Midway. Anyway, I ordered a 9mm barrel for my G23, and it took over 6 months to get it after 4 changes to the expected delivery dates on their website and not one single communication from them during that time. Moral of the story is don't buy anything from them that is not currently in stock.

That's what it's all about. She won't remember what you got her for her birthday or how much money you made, but she'll remember the times you spent with her long after you are gone. :up:

Being a mechanic for over 35 years there was one thing I did notice as newer cars and trucks came out. It seemed that miles were put on cars and trucks much faster than in years past. I decided one day to put it to a small test. Now this was not science by any case of imagination but just a simple test with 6 different vehicles. 3 cars and 3 pick up trucks. One weekend a couple buddies with a few friends and their vehicles and we got together and went to an old airport that was closed and we took a tape measure which took a lot of time but only way to be accurate. We marked off an accurate 1 mile stretch of 5,280 feet. Then each of us drove the vehicles around until each speedometer was at zero at starting point of the 1 mile beginning line. We drove each vehicle the 1 miles stretch 1 time. Only 2 vehicles actually read 1 mile exactly and passed the test. the other 4 vehicles turned 1 mile with anywhere from 100 to 300 feet prior to reaching the 1 mile mark. Now that may not be a scientific test but it does prove that most automobiles and trucks can and do rack up more miles on speedometers  than are actually on them. Now if you figure that most folks do drive more that means that their vehicles are going to add on more false miles in reality then are truly on them. I don't know if this if for the fuel mileage stats most companies like to brag about or if it is designed to get folks to trade more often. Don't know but I do know that most speedometers are inaccurate in how many miles are really on most vehicles...............jmho.   For those of you that may be interested in the vehicles that passed the test..........1 was 2009 Toyota Tundra 4x4 regular cab and the other was a 2010  Nissan Maxima 4 door sedan. Both with automatic transmissions.  The other 4 vehicles were all  American that failed.   Thought it was an interesting way to spend a nice Saturday.

Three years ago, It took me a good three months of searching to find my current truck.    I knew I wanted a full size truck with a V-8, extended cab, automatic, tow package, power windows and lock, A/C, less than 100,000 miles, and not a penny over $8,000 cash.    This is when I quickly realized people never stayed home. I can't tell you how many trucks I looked at (even 3-4 year old trucks) 150K-200K+ miles on them. I also realized that cash wasn't king when buying a used truck. It wasn't easy to find someone who was willing to negotiate on the price.   I finally found a 2002 Ford F150 with everything I was looking for, except the dealer wanted $9200. It had only 90,000 miles on it, so I decided to check it out. After some haggling, we agreed on $8300 out the door. I went $300 over budget, but after three months, it was a small price to pay. 

I disagree. You have to communicate with your kids. Whether they go to a public school, or private school they will get information you do not agree with. The thought of some of the people I know that have said they were going to home school is far scarier than the school system; these kids don’t have a chance. Don’t make you kids pay the price for you being upset with some political belief the school has or how they feel about issues like guns. I remember when I heard my step son and his friends talking about a traffic stop and one of them said “The Police need a warrant to search your car.” Now… usually I stay out of their discussions, but I felt they deserved to have the proper information so those dumb azz words would not pass their lips on a traffic stop. When I asked who told them that they said one of their teachers and another kid said his Dad told him the same thing. I didn’t tell them both the teacher and the Dad are dumb azzes and should stick to what they know, so we had a discussion about traffic stops. I think they understood better than their teacher, or the uniformed parent. You know the teachers, no matter whether public or private, put their own spin on history. So you have talks with your kids about what they are learning. This is just my opinion, but I believe home schooling should be outlawed. Most of those kids will be left behind not only in their education but also in their social skills. When that happens will the parents accept the blame? Of course they won’t, they will blame the schools, the government and anyone they can find to blame.

Robert,   I agree with you but where do you send your kids?  If you're not religious or your church doesn't have/run a school your options are very limited...    While TN has homeschooling laws, it only involves 2 methods....  The first is controlled by the local school district which is as bad as putting your kids in public schools...     The second is to 'register' with a church related school...  You're completely out of luck with this method if you're not an Evangelical or Catholic...  there are no 'certified' schools in the Jewish faith, let alone any other faiths approved by the state.  And no way to use this non-government method of homeschooling if you're not religious.   The fact is you're options are very limited to pull your child out of public school altogether...  And this is another area of freedom where we should work to restore more freedoms to parents.  

Thanks for the story Ruger!  That is 1,000 times better than my first hunt!! I didn't see JACK.  haha!  You are a true gentleman and a hunter.  Thanks for teaching the next generation.  I hope you get some deer down tomorrow!  Prayers sent!!

What a great outing!

This is exactly what I do,reload .357 brass to lighter .38 special velocity.lots more fun that way.

Sometimes your answers scare me :) I use a plain edge.

[quote name="TMF" post="1093455" timestamp="1389481133"]Yup. She just needs to take a road trip to Ft Bragg. Someone will take her home at closing time and use her as a receptacle, which is what she wants deep down. How does she think our species has propagated throughout history? Every act of sex is rape simply because we enter them? No chick has ever enjoyed it? While it isn't in dispute that women don't normally have libidos as strong as men, they still do desire sex. Even lesbos cram dildos up each other, based on my research. It is biological. She's either mad that she wasn't born a man or she is mad that no one wants to penetrate her disgusting meat wallet.[/quote] Pretty sure I've conducted a fair amount of that same research. :cool:

Good news in that article. The author will most likely not reproduce. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

I believe I would have told them, "I'm sorry, I thought you were in business to sell vehicles, not run errands in them.  There's plenty of trucks for sale on the lot down the road.  See ya."

After the initial enthusiasm and then careful consideration, I'm out on this product. I hope those who buy it enjoy it, but $500 can buy a lot of ammo, and even more reloading supplies.

Focus on the root cause of the problem...  The Government (on any level) shouldn't be running schools...  Take away public schools and the problem solves itself.

I kind of like the idea of young women wearing bikinis with AR's slung across them. Can we do that here? :)

I was just waiting for this guy to be named Leonard Embody.....   I think we need to walk a fine line as gun owners in what we do with our guns. Legally, we definitely can open carry, and should be our right to. I just don't see the point of doing it if you're only doing so to to prove a point and/or freak out the public. Doesn't help our case as responsible gun owners.    I carry my weapon to defend my person and loved ones, not to make a statement. 

  It will reach our state eventually. We already see tons of liberals influencing our state. At some point we will see the tide turn enough that our guns will be seriously threatened. We have way too many who want something for nothing for our state to not become a liberal stronghold. Stand in Walmart or any other major grocery store after the first of the month and watch the EBT cards fly. And every single one of those will vote democrat as long as they continue to get their cupcakes, coffee, sirloins and lobsters tail for free. And along with those votes for free food comes votes against our guns.   I have said it 90% of gun owners would turn their guns in. 7% would hide their guns away and 3% would actively fight. Problem is the 90% would readily rat out the other 10%.   People might think I am awful but all those "assistance" or "benefit" programs should go away. And if they can't feed their children then they should do the right thing and turn them over to someone who can. I can guarantee that 90% of the items I see getting bought are not for the kids and if they are then the parents should not be parents. Using most of the EBT money for what I have seen just tells me they are as not bad off as they make people think. I know if I was in dire need, and I have been, I would not waste money on lobster because that is a lot of beans and rice.   There should be a lifetime limit on assistance because everyone hits hard times from time to time. Make the lifetime limit 3 years. If you choose to use it from 18-21 then you are done for life. If at age 30 you hit hard times and your benefits have already been used you better have family or friends to take care of you. If you don't then you either starve or work. Too many people think they are too good to work, no wonder when the government is giving them everything. Hunger can be a powerful motivator and I bet those who are starving would gladly work for a few hamburgers a day.   I bet people in the states that have constitutional carry are saying that they can't believe people in Tennessee don't stand up and willingly pay for their right to carry a firearm.

  Yep. The other barrel. I had a 223 rifle configured for long range, and decided to part it out. Since I had the second set of receivers and most of the barrel parts, I only had to get a handguard, barrel heat sink, gas tube, and the upper receiver parts. It will be a helluva rifle too. It will look more like a JP rifle. I also have an EGW bag rider, so I plan to use this one with my Rock BR front rest, and Protektor rear bag. I have a Larue mount showing up on Monday, so I'll actually be able to share the scope between the two rifles, or use one of my cheesy long range scopes. I just hope I can share loads between the two rifles.

I would but I'd rather give them to a member such as yourselves. Someone who actually contributes not just someone who only uses the classifieds and never reads posts like this.

I use box.com. If its on the Internet someone out there can see it. It's all about accepting the risk.

As a born and raised Memphian I'm pretty well pissed about it.  There have been a couple of other events in that city the past month that have really set me off as well as far as my heritage goes, but I'll not go into it.   I'll leave it that and with this...there is no other city in this state I would have preferred to be born or grown up in, but the inmates have taken over the asylum.