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Not going to single out a particular person or event here in this posting. But I am continually amazed at the TGO membership. The outpouring of sympathy, prayers and offers of aid in times of sorrow and need is sometimes beyond my abilities to fathom. In the times of "me" and all the attempts to secularize the world and all its people; I can come here and see and be reminded that we are not alone. I have seen evidence here of the values that the world at large seems lacking in. I have seen people offer time and money to others repeatedly, with no expectation of recompense. Just being able to help those who need some type of assistance. Any request is almost instantly responded to and generally fulfilled; be it life threatening circumstances, a request for aid in a project, or for prayers and support in a time of crisis. We have each other in all times and circumstances. This truly is a welcoming and caring community of brothers and sisters. When I first became involved here...I really could have used some of the support I so freely given here. But I was reluctant to involve strangers in my troubles...so I just went along without commenting. My mistake and loss. Some of the friends I've since made here would have been of great comfort then. Just having a voice not so closely involved would have been great. But I didn't. But I'm here, I came thru it all. lol I guess that's evident. Thru the prayers and support of my wife and my mother and family, co-workers, doctors and care givers, and of course, the Power of Our Lord; I survived. I really didn't expect to do so. I am still amazed at it. I still wonder why. Daily. Maybe to give my pitiful tale in offering to give someone else hope. Maybe I'll help a person and influence their life a good and constructive way. In any event, the additional support I could have gotten here would have been more than welcome. I guess what I'm trying to say is a great big "Thank You" to all here for the generosity of spirit that I see exhibited on an almost daily basis is nothing short of amazing. God Bless to all, and a Merry Christmas!

a pop-tart gun. It's all I can afford, and I can eat it in SHTF situation. [URL=http://s585.photobucket.com/user/HR_TR_2009/media/Pop-Tart-Gun_zps362002f8.jpg.html][/URL]

TGO brothers and Sisters, I don't ask for much in life but I'm asking now for ya'll to say a little prayer for us. I was just notified at 3am that my Momma has passed away. The best Momma in the world.   Rest in peace Ma...will miss you dearly!   Dave

Hello All, Figured since I have never posted here, but read for a couple of years now I would share my first build which happens to also be my first personal AR. It all started out around fathers day with a sale on a blemished FDE Hybrid TN Arms Company lower that I picked up for about the price of the FFL transfer. IT was originally planned as a bare bones, cheap as I could get AR build; with the plan being to buy a PSA rifle kit or something of that nature and building a rifle for $500-$600 and being done with it. Being right before fathers day I started looking at some of the online deals, which led me into picking up a 416 Stainless steel 1-8 twist 18" Barrel for a steal. This is considered a heavy weight barrel and is 18 inches so the rest of the rifle was built around that with a lean to hopefully shooting some three gun matches at some point with it. I also like to reach out and touch some stuff with this rifle if I can ever set back enough for a decent scope. Here are the parts currently. Lower Parts Lower Reciever - TN Arms Co, Hybrid lower Lower Parts Kit and Stock - PSA Armory Magpul MOE Upper Parts Upper Receiver- Aero Precision FDE Adjustable Gas Block Barrel Nut Rifle length gas tube Charging Handle - BCM Gunfighter MOD 4 Bolt and Bolt Carrier Group- Aim Surplus Barrel-18' medium contour Free Float 15" Troy Alpha Battlerail Hand machined 3 chamber brake Excuse the phone pictures. I eventually would like to put a harris bipod on it, Vortex PST 1-4, and need to grab a sling and case for it still. Ive put about 700 rounds through it over two range sessions and it amazes me how flat and smooth is it. The barrel, Brake, and adjustable gas block really take away any recoil out of my hand loaded rounds and its so fast to shoot. eventually I would also like to switch out the cheap lower parts kit trigger for a proper drop in, Im thinking CMC 3.5lb flat trigger or a giessele something or another.

I wonder if he can draw a liger?

:rolleyes: Ninja please......

I'm amazed it hasn't been reported before. It's stupidly easy to gut something innocuous and put a functional firearm in it. That said you won't ever find one in my house. My guns look like guns for a reason.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.   God bless the ones we have lost.

So maybe it's just the Liberterian in me showing through but am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy in gun owners demanding business owners cave to our demands, yet we are the same group that gets our panties in a bunch when the anti-gun owners make business owners cave to theirs?   The Second Amendment guarantees that the government will not infringe on our right to go armed the same way that the First Amendment guarantees that the government will not infringe on our right to free speech.  Neither of those amendments guarantee that a private person or business entity cannot ask us to exercise our Rights anywhere but their private property.  My rights end where someone else's begin.   Sure, we all have the ability to spend our money with the businesses that we choose.  I tend to spend my money with those that provide goods and services at a reasonable cost while providing good service and operating ethically and responsibly.  If they support things that are important to me, such as the Second Amendment, I am even more inclined to do business with them... but if they don't, I will evaluate my options and may still do business with them for a variety of reasons.   When I see a gun buster sign, I have a choice to make and I weigh that choice against various criteria and options.  One of those options is to contact the management or owner and let them know that I would prefer that they not ask me to choose between my ability to defend myself and my family, and buying from them.  But I won't leave a silly, passive-aggressive business card or decal telling them that no guns equals no money.  I prefer dialogue over drive-by.   But at the end of the day they still have the right to ask me to disarm, just as I have the right to shop elsewhere, and I respect that.  I see both sides of the discussion and both are equally protected.  I'm just not a fan of bullying business owners any more than I want to be bullied by Moms Demand Action or whatever the hell they're called.   Just my $0.02 worth of pre-church rambling.

He sounds like one of them "Tennessee Ninjers".

After I get finished with several AR builds.... 454 Magnum with 30mm grenade launcher....because I'm allowed to have dreams too dammit.

Looking at the data, its clear to me that the time to buy stock in firearm manufacturers is when the DEMs have the White House!

Mentally unstable, If you own  a firearm, you have to be crazy, if you want to own a firearm, you have to be crazy. Sounds strange, well just wait. Take a drug for depression, get your firearm taken. It wont be long before you medical records can be cross referenced, can you say OBAMA CARE!!! The left will come up with a way to take all firearms.

Well i sure feel safer knowing that no more shootings by crazy people will happen in new york!

  For me, the nose to charging handle works best.  It feels the most natural for body position since I've been doing it for so long.  With my position settled, I can focus on the rest of the fundamentals.     So, since this scope is so big I'll probably need to get the FSP removed on my upper to give it the breathing room I want, which means I might as well get a free float with a low profile gas block installed....and this is how gun projects get out of control, fast.

There Ya go dubs not included

  DREAMS DAMMIT! DREAMS!!!!!!!   :taser:

I have seen the USS North Carolina on display in Wilmington NC. It was the first Battleship to enter Pearl Harbor after the attack, brand spankin' new. The harbor was a wreck, full of oil and sunken ships. Thousands of men were working to get the harbor cleaned up. They all stopped to cheer the North Carolina. She was a fast ship, going in harms way. During the Guadalcanal Campaign she fell victim to the deadliest spread of Torpedoes every fired from a submarine. Six torpedoes were fired from the IJN submarine I-19. Three hit the USS Wasp and sunk her. The three that missed traveled over two miles where they broke the USS O'Brian in half and put a 20 foot round hole in the USS North Carolina. The "Showboat" never broke speed and shook off the hit like a champ.

It's really my only complaint on this forum. It drives me nuts. I would like to see what was for sale and the original asking price. I don't understand the purpose of deleting it.

Well said. It's kind of like an extended family here. :up: :up:

I've found myself wanting another full-size railed 1911 again lately. I'm inclined to go for the Sig TACOPS Traditional just to get the internal-extractor faithful all riled up.

I've been trying to find some Elijah Craig Barrel Proof.  Shoot me a PM and tell me where you found it so these other jackals don't beat me there.  ;)

Lightning Punch , I know I drank some of that in my college days ....

Reminds me of Rex, owner of Rex Kwon Do from Napeloen Dynamite.

Me and a couple buddies hit up a barrel proof tasting the other night. Tried small amounts of each neat, then with some water. Blinded them to each other so we could be as objective as possible. George T Stagg - 128.2 Elijah Craig Barrel Proof - 134.8 ECBP - 132.4 GTS Jr. - 132.2 Four Roses Single Barrel Barrel Strength - 110 E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof - 135.4 Our results (favorite to least favorite): GTS, FR1B, ECBP 134, EHTBP, ECBP 132, GTS Jr. Finished the evening off with small pours of EC23. Didn't include that in the samples above, but it would have placed 5th.

:gasp: A remote control AR?!? The antis will crap the bed! Mine will either the vz2008, which I already have several parts for, or the H&R single shot in 300BO for a suppressor host.

oooooh.  A ninja Uzi !!!     I got a question. If I learn to be an invisible ninja, will anyone be able to see my ninja Uzi? Or hear it?  Is a ATF tax stamp required?

If she starts rubbing her head, then we'll know it's really Shane's baby.

Got a trophy today! Biggest buck so far for me. We have worked really hard on our property, taking off tons of does and letting nice, but younger, bucks walk to help raise our age structure. This bruiser was 4.5 maybe 5.5 years old. The processor was shocked how big his body was, hard to tell from the pics, but he has had quite good nutrition since we took the property over. Anyways, I am super excited and getting him mounted! Made a perfect double lung shot at ~100 yards. He is a 10pt. I thought he would hit 200lbs, but he weighed in at 180. [url=http://s532.photobucket.com/user/jtv14/media/IMG_4003_zps373be436.jpg.html][/URL] [url=http://s532.photobucket.com/user/jtv14/media/IMG_3990_zpsa529e826.jpg.html][/URL] [url=http://s532.photobucket.com/user/jtv14/media/IMG_4001_zpsc68ff24d.jpg.html][/URL] [url=http://s532.photobucket.com/user/jtv14/media/IMG_3991_zps6c2920f4.jpg.html][/URL] [url=http://s532.photobucket.com/user/jtv14/media/IMG_3993_zpsa1cfdf73.jpg.html][/URL]

I had been out 4 days, and only seen a coyote, a bunch of squirrels and chipmunks and one fat little woodchuck. I had finally decided to come out of my stand about 5 minutes before I couldn't see and there they came, by the sound of them there had to be at least 5 or six of them. I kneeled down to get one in the scope hoping it could gather more light but nope, only managed to see a tail before I lost all the light. Still, snuck away with a smile since just earlier I didn't think mother nature would share her bounty with me. Went back out again today, perfect temp, a bit breezy but not bad. I usually stay in my stand till noon before I break for a bite, today I had decided I was going down at 11, but just as I was getting ready I glimpsed a doe going down the hill into an area I could not see into. I decided to use a bleat to see if she would reappeared, took about 5 or 10 minutes till two reappeared. I put the scope on the closest one but she had her vitals behind a tree so I used the extra time to slow my breathing and waited for her to present me a shot. Seemed like forever but she finally gave me a quartering shot. I dropped her with what turned out to be a lung shot, cocked for a followup (reflex, never used one) and seen the second had gone 10 yards and stopped with the opposite quartering shot so I dropped her too with a heart shot. Both were DRT though the second flinched a couple times. I guess mother nature is generous after all. [emoji7]

I love my paper white I bought it when they first came out and don't regret it for a minute. If anybody would like to check it out I'm in murfreesboro and will be more than happy to show it off. By the way thanks for all the book suggestions I've read many of them and really enjoy this genre. They have got me thinking and I've recently started putting some supplies back just in case.

Sorry for your loss Dave.  My thoughts are with you and your family.

Never heard of a .454 "magnum". I have owned a .454 Cassull, which is a magnum. How would you fire the launcher? I assume the video game explains that. :)

So sorry for your loss. Thoughts and prayers to you and your family.

I lost my mom when I was 13. It doesn't matter at what age she passes, she's still your mom. So sorry, you will be remembered in my prayers.

I think I'd rather be shot by that Glock than stabbed with that knife ...

We're here for you Dave!

Sorry for your loss, prayers sent

Glad someone out there understands what I'm saying, jughead. I've watched some of the most successful guitar techs in Nashville correct small issues in seconds for free or just $5-10 cash time and time again, knowing that these people have other options for future needs, and they want to build a relationship for that future refret or wiring job. In a few different cases I've done the same, both on the guitar and automotive side. I guess since I come from a business owner background and always made efforts to provide excellent customer service and build strong relationships, it really grinds my gears to experience the opposite. Again, everyone has the freedom (at least they used to) to operate their business as they see fit, and customers get to choose who they use.

Had a fierce wind but it has died down. No deer yet but just missed a coyote. 120 yards, still in the field, not sure how I pulled that shot. Hunted here 3 years and thats the first coyote I have seen.

You and your family are in my prayers. May God comfort you.

Sorry for your loss Dave. You and your family are in my prayers.

Sorry for your loss, prayers sent

My thoughts and prays from my family to you and yours.

Dave so sorry for your loss. You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers

  TN Firearm Freedom Act, TCA 4-54-101 thru 106   can't do direct link to individual statutes with Lexis, TCA at:   http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/tncode/ -----------------   4-54-103.  Chapter definitions.   As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:    (1) "Firearms accessories" means items that are used in conjunction with or mounted upon a firearm but are not essential to the basic function of a firearm, including, but not limited to, telescopic or laser sights, magazines, flash or sound suppressors, folding or aftermarket stocks and grips, speedloaders, ammunition carriers and lights for target illumination;    (2) "Generic and insignificant parts" includes, but is not limited to, springs, screws, nuts and pins; and    (3) "Manufactured" means creating a firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition from basic materials for functional usefulness, including, but not limited to, forging, casting, machining or other processes for working materials.   4-54-104.  Firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition manufactured in this state not subject to federal regulation under interstate commerce clause.   A personal firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in this state and that remains within the borders of this state is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce. It is declared by the legislature that those items have not traveled in interstate commerce. This section applies to a firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is manufactured in this state from basic materials and that can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported into this state. Generic and insignificant parts that have other manufacturing or consumer product applications are not firearms, firearms accessories or ammunition, and their importation into this state and incorporation into a firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition manufactured in this state does not subject the firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition to federal regulation. It is declared by the legislature that basic materials, such as unmachined steel and unshaped wood, are not firearms, firearms accessories or ammunition and are not subject to congressional authority to regulate firearms, firearms accessories and ammunition under interstate commerce as if they were actually firearms, firearms accessories or ammunition. The authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce in basic materials does not include authority to regulate firearms, firearms accessories and ammunition made in this state from those materials. Firearms accessories that are imported into this state from another state and that are subject to federal regulation as being in interstate commerce do not subject a firearm to federal regulation under interstate commerce because they are attached to or used in conjunction with a firearm in this state.   4-54-105.  Application of § 4-54-104.   Section 4-54-104 shall not apply to:    (1) A firearm that cannot be carried and used by one (1) person;    (2) A firearm that has a bore diameter greater than one and one half inches (1 1/2'') and that uses smokeless powder, not black powder, as a propellant;    (3) Ammunition with a projectile that explodes using an explosion of chemical energy after the projectile leaves the firearm; or    (4) A firearm that discharges two (2) or more projectiles with one (1) activation of the trigger or other firing device.     - OS

CZ Scorpion EVO. Just look at it. I shouldn't have to explain why this will be in my inventory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XAYsYwZGxI&feature=youtu.be

I'd hit it with compressed air. And keep in mind, American Water Heater makes water heaters right here in Johnson City, TN.

My new renewed HCP came today. Roughly a total of 4 weeks with a  Hoilday in there.   Who ever processed mine must be one that leans to the right.  :usa: 

  The AK ones sure seem to, but firing one of the original SlideFire stocks that my uncle has, I was able to keep it on target just fine.  The cyclic is probably 100rpm slower than an M4 on full auto (if I had to guess) and it makes it much more manageable.  Kinda like the slow cycle on a M45/Swedish K on full auto versus an MP5.  As for the video, they put a 100 pound girl in yoga pants who can't even hold the rifle properly to demonstrate their product.  If they wanted to show how it could be accurately fired with stability, they would have put a dude on there.   I feel pretty insulted by that marketing ploy.  If we're going to objectify women to sell men products, at least put them in something low cut so we can see their boobs jiggle.