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Thanks to vontar for inspiring redneck layaway on this one!!! First,Find the signs: Hide em: Or move em to a better place!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.

Forgive my dissent.   Recognizing it is "harmless fun",   I still do not believe continued annoyance of a WW clerk (who has to reset the inventory) is placing our best foot forward in support of 2A.

Congratulations to leftyk82!   :woohoo:   He is now a State Champion!   On May 17 leftyk82 won the Tennessee Reduced Course High Power Service Rifle State Championship.    No doubt a large part of that win was the results of the great shot calls provided to him by the "Seasoned & Experienced" shooter from relay 1.  :whistle:        Well Done leftyk83....., WELL DONE!     :up:  

I've build roads in Wilson County almost exclusively for several years now. I don't know why this is, but everywhere I've been, there have been old tires piled up EVERYWHERE!!! Rocks and used tires. I think that's what Wilson County is made of.

I have collected guns for over 30 years.  One thing I have learned, men will loose thousands on buying a new car, and then selling/trading it later, but will not be willing to lose a dime on a used gun.  Go figure! 

Haven't been on here in a while. Got a new job and have been really busy. I've been building this for the past few months and figured I would share it with you guys. Thanks to Nathan for helping me put it together! Now I've just got to start saving up for a good optic. Planning to do an Aimpoint Micro. Started with a budget and sure didn't end with one.... -Spikes Tactical lower -Daniel Defense LPK -Sig Brace -BCM upper -BCM 11.5" lightweight barrel -BCM Gunfighter Charging Handle -BCM full auto bolt -Troy Industries 11" Battle Rail -AAC Muzzle Brake -Magpul MOE+ Grip -Magpul AFG2 -Magpul ASP Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm gonna ask ya'll to bare with me a little here but I want to talk about another dog. My oldest sons dog. Many folks here know I lost my oldest son to an auto accident. He had the accident in May of 86 and it finally took his life in 90. When Doug Jr. was 6 years old I was sitting out on the front porch when I saw him walking down the road we lived on. He had a rope stretched out behind him and on the other end of the rope was this puppy that looked very much like the Queen in my avatar but it was just a puppy, a very skinny puppy. The puppy's feet were stretched out in front of her pushing backwards as hard as she could. He and the puppy arrived at the porch and my son said " hey dad, look what followed me home, can I keep it"?  I said"followed you home huh" and he said "yep". i thought about it for a minute and figure he  and his 5 year old brother should have a dog so I said yea but you will be responsible for all of it's care and he promised he would. About a day or so later we took her to the vet and got her checked out and all her first shots and de-wormed and all the things you do with puppy's and I was very proud of my son because he did everything right for all the years while he was able to. He trained her to do tricks he taught he how to mind and they became inseparable She went to school with them when they rode bicycles and wanted for them to come home and followed them home. He would take lunch out to her and put water out by the bikes for her (weather permitting) In bad weather she remained at home in his bedroom and he would leave the radio playing on low volume for her. Then as he grew older and got his drivers license and interested in girls like most teenagers do I watched and he never disappointed me. She went in his car everywhere he went just as Kasey does in my jeep. She even went on dates when he would take a girl out to a movie or a dance. ( Oh I have gotten ahead of my self a little)  When I asked him what he named her and he said "Dog" And I said that's not really a fitting name for a pretty little girl dog so he said "ok" Her name is Girl Dog and that became her name.     Now she went for all of her vet visits and shots and to get spayed when the time came and there was good Vet files kept on her. She was 10 years old the night of his accident and she was also injured in the accident which happened about 3 miles from our home. Hi back hips were broke and Doug was unconscious when emergency help arrived and when the ambulance rolled every kid with a  car rolled two and all the kids that went to the wreck knew it was Doug and his car and they all knew his dog. When the EMT went inside the car to help Doug Girl Dog had crawled and dragged herself up on his lap and growled at the EMT and was protecting him. One of the kids said "I will get her" and soon as Greg called her by name he was able to gently lift her of Doug. The police officer told him to put here on the side of the road and he would put her down and Greg said  I'll take care of her and they took her to the Vet that had been caring for her the entire time we had her. She was at the Vets office for 6.5 months and after she was healed and was out of surgery and traction for hip repairs he kept her at his office and fed her. I didn't go and get her till 6 months after the accident which small town everyone knew everything. I told the Vet I had come to get Girl Dog and I told him, "I don't know how much I owe you but what ever it is I promise to pay you." He looked at me and said "You don't owe me anything Doug."Just take care of her and your son." I did to the best of my ability do both. When we were finally able to bring my son home Girl Dog was all excited because she knew he had come home. He couldn't speak but he could pet her and hug her and remember her. She slept under his bed every night until that last night and at 3;15AM she came into the bedroom with Margie and I and laid down beside my bed and I knew my Son was gone. I went into his room and Girl Dog was right. Doug had passed away in his sleep. Now if your keeping track Doug passed away at age 20 and that made Girl Dog 14. She became my dog and as the vet told me to take care of Doug and Girl Dog I did. Doug was gone but I still had her. I fed her just like he did, from the table every night what ever we had for supper was what her plate had on it all the time they were growing up together. She loved Catfish and home fries with a passion...lol. In 1997 I lost Margie to a heart attack. In 1998 I had to have Girl Dog put down because she had developed Uterus Cancer and had a Tumor forming causing her pain. I took her to the vet and got the diagnosis and asked him to put her down because I would not allow her to suffer. He had the nurse pull Girl Dogs file and he opened it up and began to make notes when it dawned on him. He began scratching his head and he turned and looked at me and said "Doug do you know how old Girl Dog is and I replied "yea  22." With that he put her to rest and I took her and buried her on top of my Son with my younger sons help. There's a lot more to this but I don't want to bore ya'll any more than I probably have already. The Vet did ask me several days later when I ran into him at a filling station. He wanted to ask me what kind of food we fed Girl Dog to enable her to have the longevity of life she lived. I smiled at him and said what is it you tell people to never feed their dogs and he said table food and I said except for the time she spent with you table food is all she has ever eaten. The next year he retired and we never spoke again. I cannot explain how she lived that long except by Love and care. I have nothing else I can think of. I hope Kasey is with me that long but what ever God has in store for her I will accept. I have a few friends that have said they feel that when one goes the other won't be far behind. Don't know if they will be right or not. I guess only time can tell that.  If any one feels this should be deleted do to length I will understand. Just wanted to tell ya'll about a very special mutt named Girl Dog. I have some pictures of he somewhere and I will try and dig them out and post them if I can make my old scanner work.

For the people who wanted to see him now.. he isnt done growing by no means.. but wont be any higher than 25inches at shoulder Almost at 6 months and 64.4lbs... he is becoming a beast and a really nice dog.

  Well, putting on my grown up hat, even though I don't want to - I do have to agree with this.   Still funny though.

After seeing this I moved the ones at my local "superstore" and put them where they belong... With the tampons.

Got home about an hour ago.  Was a good ride and nice to meetup with some of the other TGOr's.  A little cool down around Lynchburg, but still a nice ride.

According to the book Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, when Gaston Glock first brought the 17 to market in 1985 there was a recommended retail price of $560 (which was less than the competition).  How much is that in today's dollars?  And how is it after nearly 30 years they can sell it for the same price or even less despite inflation and higher fuel costs?  Compare that to a car, or a house, or anything else from 1985.  I mean I'm really wondering how they do it!   I agree that $500 is an excellent value for a new Glock.  And that you don't have to spend the equivalent of another gun just to get a few extra magazines is a real bonus.  Now I did pretty much spend the equivalent of a new one on magazines, but in Glock's case that means I have over 20!  :woohoo:

My wife has a friend in Indiana that named their female St.Bernard "Kitty".......call out   "here kitty kitty kitty"    and you get a 150 lb slobbering idjit

Stack 'em up, fill 'em with dirt, and grow yourself some potatoes.  At harvest time, push 'em over, sort out the potatoes and repeat.   (Or, you could go with your plan.)

All this about not keeping one in the chamber because of children in the house is ridiculous. No handgun should ever be accessible to children. If you carry a handgun you're foolish in both instances; not keeping a round in the chamber and leaving any gun accessible to a child. If you think someone is going to allow you the time to rack the slide on your gun to shoot them if you are presented with a situation where it is immediately needed you're a dead man. And if you leave a gun lying around and a child gets a hold of it and either shoots themsef or another child, you'll wish you were dead. I'm sure I'll catch h*^# for this post but seriously! 

I had a blast checking that Hahahaha 59 bucks a piece lol, If u look at the first photo, someone had them shelved under driveway markers... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.

I'm taking a $145 beating on a SIG in the classifieds, and STILL none of you want it. I got an offer of $400!! WTH?   This site used to have good folks that would pick up a decent deal, and not try to gouge when selling. Now, it's dang near as bad as a gun show.

For me it is nothing to do with how fast they deploy, I have always been fascinated by Switchblades and automatic knives, the good ones out there just have a mystique to them that I just love

Good things come to those who ask their wife nicely. I found and bought my dream gun today. A s&w 65-3 3" .357 mag, quite possibly the most utilitarian , practical handgun ever made. They were common on the used market about 10 years ago but then they dried up to where they do not hardly exist. The best part was I bought it at 10 years ago pricing. It was a Puerto Rican Police Trade in. I have all these 4" and 2" revolvers now that I do not have a use for because I have a 3" k frame.

mosin-nagant: The Mosin-nagant is an old school bolt action rifle from Russia. Originally designed by a drunk Russian engineer and an even more drunk Belgian gunsmith, who drew up blueprints on napkins in the back of a pub somewhere in Siberia in a vodka-induced stupor. The Mosin-nagant fires the 7.62x54r cartridge, which can kill a polar bear at a thousand yards and keep going right through the tree he was standing in front of. The Mosin-nagant was used by the Russians in both world wars, so it's killed more Germans than collisions on the autobahn and under-cooked sauerkraut combined. Surplus Mosins can be found at gunshops in the States for like a hundred bucks on sale, and ammo is cheap surplus, so this is what real men shoot who don't want to drop $1299.99 on an AR-15 which fires a .22 round and that's made out of recycled milk jugs and Legos. Many of them come with a bayonet that's roughly the size of the sword William Wallace used in Braveheart. In the absence of gun oil, you can clean a Mosin by Urine down the barrel and wiping the bolt off with a dirty rag that you found on the floor in a Grease Monkey. Try that with a rifle that was designed less than 50 years ago. Joe: " I need a rifle that is ten feet long and fires anti-tank rounds, but Ive only got 200 dollars!" Ivan: "Amerikan comrade, you need mosin-nagant . Spend 100 on the rifle, fifty on case of ammo, use rest for vodka!" In Soviet Russia, rifle fire you!!!

I floated the Red river this afternoon to do a little fishing. The river had a little different feel today after it claimed a life yesterday. A man and his fiancé were canoeing and tipped, neither wearing vests. He didn't surface. I wear mine, please wear yours. You never know when it will be required to save you. Still managed to enjoy a great afternoon and caught a few keeper size brim. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I give up. Do what makes you feel good, even if it's not the best, or smartest thing. Isn't that the motto of our country now anyway?

Now that is determination! :up: :up:

  I don't know about other folks but I do got better things to do with my time than playing games in Wally World......

i have preached it for 18 years while I fish tournaments that Life jackets and kill switches save lives please wear them. My boat motor won't start unless I have my vest on because my kill switch tab is attached to my vest and I put my vest on and then plug up the kill switch slide so motor will start. Heard to many horror stories of folks not wearing them for me not to put mine on. If I have a passenger the must have one on also. I have extras in my boat for them. The old adage IT WON"T OR CAN"T HAPPEN TO ME don't hunt folks. It can happen to anyone................jmho 

As someone who has never owned one I can't get passed the "coolness" without owning one. So it's just a matter if getting one and moving on down to the next obsession ;)

I have a RG that was give to me as well, in double action, it miss fires regularly, however if you pull the hammer back with your thumb it fires every time.   I am holding it and waiting for one of those gun trade ins that give like 100 dollars cards or something crazy.  Might as well burn one of those places with it as I could never sell or give it to someone in good conscience.

[quote name="Luke E." post="1150067" timestamp="1400457637"] I've not tried a VFG on a short rifle before so I reckon I can't say for sure that I would be opposed to it. The main reason I don't care for them is the angle it puts my hand and arm but a shorter rifle might change that.[/quote] The reason I like it is bc of the way I grip and shoot the gun. I can wrap my hand around the entire rail. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, the name should be available soon, and maybe whatever remaining inventory that the Feds didn't confiscate ...

Great to hear y'all had a good time. Thanks for coming out.

once is an anomaly. If it happened routinely, would you still approve? Are you able to speak for WM associates in general?   How many events does it take to become a nuisance?

next time go hang them up in the ammo section on the case windows and listen in on the reactions lol

Some one mentioned that GOD and Dog are spelled the same, just backwards. Is that just coincidence or His plan? I think he created dogs for special purposes but that is........... jmho   If folks stop and think about all of the great services dogs offer humanity it is astounding. they help find people buried alive, they help the blind function, they track down lost children, they work with police officers and become a team and the dogs are considered an officer of the law and many have laid down their lives for their partners, They are working in the l military to sniff out IED's and are a very important part of our Military. They are now finding out that they are helping cancer patients both adults and kids but most of all they are mans best friend. I love Mutts for sure........ :up:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:   

I think it is because they charge a fee to  put tires in the city dumps and even tire stores charge to dispose of them. I have a few buddy's that have big sink holes on the farms in Wilson county and they tell their friends to bring their old tires and dump them in the sink holes in an attempt to fill them back in and then he will cover them with dirt. The state will take them over at the old prison on Centennial Boulevard as they have huge grinders there now that grind the old tires into dust and the mix it in with asphalt to put on the highways.

I said I grew up with guns and I did from age 6 but I was about 6 when I got my first dog named Pal to. I also grew up with dogs. I guess between me and my 3 older brothers and parents we had at least 5 or 6 dogs all the time as kids. We lived on a country road about 40 miles west of Chicago and it was a famous drop sight for people in Chicago that didn't want dog any more so they would drive in the country and drop them. My dad worked in Chicago about three blocks from the Cook County Animal Shelter so it was easy enough for him to take the dogs in when they showed up at our house if we didn't keep them. He made sure he got them gone before us boys got attached to  the mutt or he knew there would be trouble taking it away. I do remember a few times we may have had as many as 12 dogs including our own plus visitors Dad take to work on Monday. It seemed that Friday night was drop night and because we had dogs barking almost all the time the drops found our house pretty quick. I would have kept everyone of them if Dad would have let but I had a two limit when I was young but as I got older and became a wager earner meaning cutting grass or helping an old farmer work his farm down the road a short bike trip away then I was pretty much able to have as many as I wanted but I stayed with 2 most of the time Pal and Bearcat I had for quite some time and then someone stole Pal because he was purebred Springer Spaniel and was great at hunting Pheasants and Quail my buddy Dave and I hunted and He was gone on day about 5 years after I got him but there was something different about Pal when he showed up at our house and that is he was wearing a collar and none of the others were. My dad promised me he didn't take him to the shelter but he did say, you know son when he came here he was wearing a collar and there was a lot of people that hunted around our place because most most of it was farm land and maybe his original owner lost him while hunting and found him on another trip. At the time it made since but today nah!! not 5 years later. My Dad always had a way of explaining things that made sense. Since I had began hunting seriously I got two dogs given to me by my mothers boss where she worked as a cook in his restaurant. He gave me two young Tri-colored Beagles which Hunting came like a second nature to and that was when I name one of them John Henry because of the song about how hard John Henry worked and my John worked just as hard tracking rabbits. When we moved to Tennessee when my Grandfather gave my mother the Ranch/farm if she and her family would move south well here I am still!!! Came here at age 17 senior in high school. Brought Jack and John and oh yea old Bearcat was still tagging along. Don't exactly know what kind of dog he was. He was about the size of a Jack Russell and had a bobbed tail and his ears stood up like a Dobermans but had hair that felt like course bear hair but was as fast as any cat and could jump straight up into an adult arms so i just named him Bearcat. When I left for the military my parents took care of my dogs but both of them passed away while I was on tour of old age. My tour of duty was the first time I could remember not having a dog and I fixed that soon as I returned home............. :up:  :up:  :up:    

I watched it last night after DVRing it. Yeah, he committed murder. Wouldn't call it first or second degree though. A crime of passion in my opinion. Don't care that he did it though. What made me angry was the DA describing what he did as sitting in a tree stand deer hunting. He was in his own house and they broke in. It ain't like he invited them over and shot them as they came through the door. Oh, and screw those two little hoodlums. They deserved to be shot. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Even an abused Glock is still a good gun. You can take a police trade in that looks rough as a cob, change out the springs for $50 and have a like new gun. To answer the OPs question, Glocks are not expensive, $450-$550 is a great price for what you are getting.

That's what I've heard. Glad to hear it, I've got one of their rock chucker kits, hope to never need em, but glad to hear they are good to deal with.   I've had a good experience with Lee as well. Don't ask how, but I managed to strip out the threads on my 9mm decapping die. Called them up, told them it was my fault - they said just send it in and they'd fix or replace it. Had it back a few days later, couldn't tell if it was new or fixed but I was a happy customer.

[quote name="Steelharp" post="1149851" timestamp="1400383974"]I'm taking a $145 beating on a SIG in the classifieds, and STILL none of you want it. I got an offer of $400!! WTH? This site used to have good folks that would pick up a decent deal, and not try to gouge when selling. Now, it's dang near as bad as a gun show.[/quote] Hate to hear that, but I guess I can understand where he or she is coming from. That's why (especially on this site) if it's not already priced close to what I'd pay for it, I just pass. I'm not much of a haggler and I like to make both sides feel decent about a deal. It's a shortcoming of mine, but I'm ok with it. On the Glock subject, not sure I have an answer. I think one reason is they have a strong following. I'm not really a "kool aid drinker" but I am a Glock fan

That's the truth, buddy! It is rare that I sell something a make a "profit" on it. I shoot, sorry bad pun, for as close as possible to what I have in something.   Sometimes it works...sometimes not. But I do put a limit on myself. 25 loss is pretty much it, Unless I'm desperate.   And I ain't desperate.

Didn't mean to make no one cry. Just all talking about dogs and it brought back old memories of a wonderful dog that played a very important roll and touched many lives and never wanted anything but love in return and she got that....... :up:

The way I look at it if your pet is not spoiled your not doing something right and it is not the pets fault..................jmho

Just pull the chip loader tray out about an inch. You don't need to remove the chip pan. Also make sure the vent in top is open so there is airflow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And this gun-free school is a safe environment ? How? By attempting to keep kids ignorant of basic safety rules about firearms? Posting signs designating gun-free zones ? Believing in the tooth fairy? Besides, this fool missed the point completely ......it's not about "rights" it's about protecting the kids from the next nut looking for his exit via infamy.......

Talk about your bed-wetter, jesus christ. A right for a child to be educated in a safe, gun-free environment? I don't see that in the constitution. Am I missing something?

Ya mean "Pro Fisherman", Master Batters? :rofl:

  You still got ripped off.  :)

Got the replacement today; much better  :pleased: . The product box itself wasn't sealed - there wasn't a sign of a sticker ever being put on the box from the factory - but all the components were included and the optic switch was much better. It still has a small amount of play, but that's probably normal (certainly will make using the switch easier with gloves on).

this thread is worthless without pics

One can also practice malfunction drills and reloads.  Use dummy, inert ammo and a par timer with a buzzer.  Also remember you need perfect practice.  Practicing sloppy technique will only make you perfect at being sloppy.  Slow is smooth.....smooth is fast.