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Here is the back of the TGO LG1O1

  I'd be trying too. I'm all about paying as little as I can for your stuff. If you agree to it, then it's a good deal for both of us. Ain't capitalism grand? ;)

1) I am thy loaded weapon, thou shalt place no innocent persons before me 2) Thou shalt not send to the grave any who hath not assailed thee 3) Thou shalt not spray and pray bullets in vain 4) Remember thy targets, and make them holey 5) Honor thy family, and keepeth them safe. 6) Thou shalt prevent murder 7) Thou shalt not take another man's gun as thine own 8) Thou shalt know and obey the meaning of a cold range 9) Thou shalt bear arms, even against thy liberal neighbor's wishes 10) Thou shalt covet the weaponry of thy TGO neighbor

[quote name="Oh Shoot" post="1158267" timestamp="1402619505"]Maybe you saw exit for Barack Obama [i]Avenue[/i] in East St. Louis? There's also a BHO [i]Boulevard[/i] in St. Louis somewhere too. There is a BHO [i]Parkway[/i] in Orlando, though. All presidents get lots of stuff named for them. Bet none of them beat Martin Luther King in total number though. - OS[/quote] If you ever find yourself on MLK, don't pull over and stop because you are in the wrong part of town. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Probably had an empty left lane that went nowhere

Nice to see this stuff under 3 bills.... After shipping it comes to $320... Haven't seen it that cheap in quite a while.. thats $5.92 per box http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/411554561 or if you wanna pay more you can get it for $6.49 per box http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/57680/Federal+5.56+Remington+55+Grain+Metal+Case+Boat-Tail%2C+20+rds Better hurry I don't see it lasting very long

  Actually, I bet willis has spent many, many more times the amount of effort dealing with us and posting info than he has in dealing with ProTech.   Now for that he deserves a great big "Thank You."   Keeping track of everything here , answering all the questions, and just keeping us all happy probably has given him an ulcer.

I'll bet his wife made him sell it. :rofl:

[quote name="BigK" post="1158108" timestamp="1402596136"]If those people don't want freedom enough to fight for it, I find it hard to justify our involvement any more. Missiles, drones, boots on ground, and airstrikes aren't cheap. [/quote] There are people there who want freedom enough to fight for it. In fact, they are fighting for it, have been and we are turning our backs on them. They're called the Kurds. They just seized Kirkuk today (overnight). That is a huge deal in regard to establishing their own country; it's also nearly half of Iraq's oil. This is the end of Iraq as we know it. The insurgency that Sunni extremists have been waging may have wound down over time. Gains in Mosul and Tikrit could easily been temporary for a whole bunch of reasons. It wouldn't have lasted. However, the taking of Kirkuk signals a secession from Baghdad and the creation of Kurdistan. Iraq will never recover from that. They will never see that territory again unless Baghdad can drag Turkey into this mess. I hope that doesn't happen. If it does, the US will not support the Kurds and may go so far as to continue to support Turkey and Baghdad with military hardware and cash, which is crap. The Kurds could be our only true ally in the region. Anyone that has ever fought alongside the Peshmerga know the kind of people they are. They aren't like the Arabs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The M1 Garand. I will post pics asap, but here are a few little details.  It's a 964xxx serial number Springfield receiver. Has a VAR barrel. All the other parts are SA stamped.  Came with original stock with the cartouche, but the stock fitted to it is one the previous owner bought and kinda refinished a bit. I like it.   I also came out with 60 clipped rounds of black tip armor piercing and 16 clipped rounds of M2 ball.

Wow. Sadness. Yes, I believe that God is in control and works all things together for the good of those who serve Him. That does not negate the fact that we will experience and endure terrible events hardships like Hunter's family and close friends are going through now. I remember Hunter from the OHGC meets, too. I remember one time, he had his M1A there, set up at the 100yd lanes. His father had recently passed away. The ammo he was shooting was reloaded match ammo his father had made. I didn't know that at first. I am very unexperienced with long guns. I looked at his gun, asked a few (probably terribly stupid) questions and within seconds he had me at the bench, rifle on my shoulder, sending rounds downrange. I fired 4 or 5 rounds and was very appreciative. I was going to stop shooting, ya know, how we do when we want to be respectful of another dude's ammo supply/expense. He wouldn't have any of it... he could see I was having a great time. I mentioned something to the effect of "this ammo must be realy expensive, I don't wanna shoot it all up!" Previous to this meet, Hunter had shared on the forum about his Dad's passing. He replied that this was ammo his Dad had made years ago, so it didn't cost him anything. That REALLY hit me. I got quiet, and he just smiled and said "He'd want us to shoot it!" and plopped two more loaded mags on the bench right in front of me. They must have kicked up some onion dust at that moment or something... I nodded, loaded a mag, and fired them in respect, reverence, and humility that Hunter would share all that with a complete stranger like me. I'll be praying for Kelly and the kids. And I will try to be more thankful for what I have, and for my wife. She is not a touchy-feely person at all, but she's going to be held a little longer and a little closer tonight.

Agreed. Not too great for those of us sitting on a bakers dozen of rimfire weapons in the collection already though. Still, I'm glad the kids will be more likely to gets chance to shoot now. And I guess there are a few 22. guns out there I could still buy. ;)

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!!!

Thank you! I should have known that I did pretty good when my wife said "Don't lie to me, that's a new gun!" :rofl:

I should have kept my mouth shut and been thankful for the single star. This might turn into a prank war between members. 

  How can you use a word like superfluous, spelled correctly I might add, yet still butcher the rest of your post?    :P

Is there any way to do something about that?  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:   (I have much lower impulse control than you do broox.)        

It is all I can do to not start another thread about thread merging.

In reverse order, personally, I think the Shield in 9mm is a viable option to the LCP. But that's jut me. I don't find it much larger than the LCP, and in fact can carry the Shield in the same belt slide holster that the LCP rides in.   And with the price on Shields dropping as they are, it might be worth saving and getting one.   As far as 380 ammo, I really haven't looked for any recently. But it does seem that I've seen some in Academy Sports.    I was lucky enough to get 500 rounds of PRVY a couple years ago from a local member who evidently had bought several cases at a steal. So when I shoot anything else, I try to run a mag of it thru mine as I leave. It kinda keeps me up on the trigger for it.   But the more I shoot the Shield, the more I favor it. My only complaint is that with my girth, read fat gut and waist here, it rides into me a bit when driving, where the LCP doesn't.   Sorry, I guess I'm just a Shield fan.   I'm going to try and get to the Gander Mountain Store tomorrow morning, I'll check there as well.

That one is a 308 Marlin, but Savage and Winchester both made levers in 308 Winchester since the 50's.

I realize every manufacturer has issues from time to time with their products, but after my experience with them last year; I will not deal with them again.   And I'm not bashing the company or the product, just relating my experience with them and their customer service line.   I purchased 2 of their Kalashnikov Autos from a dealer early last year and paid what the above link mentions, 35 each.   After I month, one of the knives literally fell apart. I called Boker's customer service and was told that the auto knives were not covered under their warranty. Just that. No ifs, ands, nor buts.   Not covered. Period.   No mention of this from the dealer. Nothing about it in the packaging. In fact the dealer even mentioned the warranty in his pitch.   For me, Boker does not exist.   Just my own experience with them.

They probably named it after him because it wasn't a road that was needed, It cost three times what it should have to build, and the contract was given to a foreign company, who hired illegal immigrants. 

I was thinking of posting that very picture myself Hersh as our experiment in Iraq is destined to end that way.

If he had listed it here, people would be trying to get him to $200.   Lots of the newer folks here want "gifts," not "deals."

Wow, the price point sure is attractive to cheap bas... I mean frugal people like me.  :)

I have sold millions of them . had a few tell me they wouldn't go off but without fail it was no powder or primer not seated

Sigh....Someday.

  I'm sure we're doing our best to funnel winter clothing and wet weather gear to the Iraqi Army.   At this point, the only thing that would undo the damage by the insurgency would be to put boots back on the ground or provide overwhelming air support to the Iraqi Army.  I don't predict either will happen.  Up until now, the limited support that the administration has been overt about has been the increase in intelligence personnel.  It ain't that type of war anymore.  This is becoming quite conventional.  A bunch of analysts generating reports that we could get from CNN or al Jazeera obviously isn't helping.   They need gigantic American balls to stop what's happening.  The type that schwack bad guys like it's cool and piss on their bodies.  We aren't in that business anymore.

  Sure it can,  just now Biden revealed to have told al-Maliki that we will "intensify and accelerate security support".   So we're about to "help" a government that is losing its army and police by the hour.   - OS

If those people don't want freedom enough to fight for it, I find it hard to justify our involvement any more. Missiles, drones, boots on ground, and airstrikes aren't cheap. 

Big shock there right? That whole section of the world wouldn't know what to do with peace time. They've been killing each other since killing was invented....I doubt they'll ever stop.

That's a bird's head grip... Several companies make them. BTW, The loop on the pump forend isn't just for looks... You'll need it to hang on with anything but the lightest loads

2 main reasons... The first is that steel cases do not readily expand and seal the chamber, allowing gasses into the breech. This is especially problematic with blowback pistols (which most .380s are) since the cycle is not delayed by case friction. This results in higher slide velocities and more frame wear. The second is extractor hardness... Steel (actually ductile iron) cases are much harder than brass, and may cause some premature extractor wear or chipping.

Aim Surplus has Silver Bear for $13.95/box if you don't mind steel cased ammo and shipping.  It's good stuff IMHO.   http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=ABS380FMJ94&name=Silver+Bear+.380acp+FMJ+94grn+50rd+Box&groupid=6

380 acp ammo is out there. You got to look a little more for it. Wal Mart has it.

If I were you, I'd try to trade the star for a box of ammo :)

Nice job!

For $1500 you can buy two RIA's in govt. model, one to shoot in your left hand and one to shoot in your right hand and have enough money left to buy enough ammo to put up a pretty good gun fight.

Granted, a 100 loss is significant; but it's up to you to determine if it is reasonable to accept it and move on to the 642. Even if I knew the cost of the revolver, I would not tell you it was the thing to do.   Personally, and this is just my opinion, not a recommendation for you. But if feasible, and liking the LCP, I would keep it and wait for a little extra cash to purchase the Smith. I don't think the ammo situation is going to be so critical forever(at least I hope not).   And the purchase from freedom munitions isn't a terrible idea. 100 for what appears to be 300 rounds of 32 isn't the best price in the world, but again, if you like the LCP; that would give you ammo for the amount of loss you are looking at on the 642.   Then, unless you have ammo for the revolver, you are looking at a purchase for it now.   All this is just words and speculation though. You still have to do what you think best for your situation.   Good luck with it.

Well, if it was in the heart of East St. Louis, the name is appropriate. He didn't destroy that place, but would if he had the chance.

Thanks for the time and work you've contributed on this.

These are perhaps one of the most fun fondling knives I've ever played with!  Cant wait to be able to carry them legally in a few weeks!  

I don't reload, but a squib indicates the primer did indeed ignite, yes?  Perhaps you just didn't put powder in those two carts?   - OS

They make a lever action .308  :panic:

Just one big single special delivery package from the tube of one of our Nuclear subs placed directly center mass of Iraq would do the job. If a people won't fight for what our troops gave their lives to give them they don't deserve a second chance...................jmho

No one ever asks me this.  They know people hate lawyers.  Especially their husband or wife's divorce attorney.         It's just to bad I've been doing this just long enough that I've forgotten how to do any honest work.... 

I notice people carrying all the time.  I don't run my mouth about it.  The guy sounds like someone who doesn't value discretion.