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  I kept talking to the lady at the Palmetto State booth. That said, a buddy of mine is a bartender downtown, apparently the palmetto state guys went out saturday night and when a guy at the bar bought some food for a vet, they gave the guy an AR.... Classy all around

I was there the first day and stayed till 5pm. My feet were sore but I had fun. I got a cool Rock Island Tshirt and some bulet samples from X-Treme Bullets. I got a picture with Lee Ermey and one of those cool coins he was giving out. It's the size of a silver dollar. Here's mine. [url=http://s768.photobucket.com/user/tercel89/media/coin1_zpsbpo3p9fp.jpg.html][/URL] [url=http://s768.photobucket.com/user/tercel89/media/coin2_zpskeszcirt.jpg.html][/URL]

A single hat in a sea of freebie hats would've been hard to notice. Might I suggest next time to include some Rex Kwan Do pants? On a more serious note, the T-shirt wouldn't be a hard sell for TGO frequenters. You would likely be out of stock within a day. I believe the fact that you don't have your logo strapped on everything increases the odds of people quickly buying whatever is produced.

Reminds me of an old tale. THP officer was ticketing a gentleman for running a stop sign. No big deal, this young punk ride by on a harley, flipped the officer off and proceeded to ride off. Officer goes after him and the young punk says "you can't ticket me for flipping you off, it's my first amendment right" The officer, being a really smart man, says "you are right sir, I'm ticketing you for improper use of hand signals, you motioned a left turn and then stayed straight" The ticket stuck.

  It's just immature.  Besides if an officer can't summon the patience to deal with someone flipping them off and "wouldn't take it very long," I don't want that person wearing a badge, and the powers that come with it.

Found this online...     So it sounds like Tennessee just "does it for" 18-year olds now.   But this thread seriously makes me sad that a person can reach adulthood and not know what Selective Service is.  What the hell do they teach in schools these days?  Is Civics no longer part of the curriculum?

Hazard a ahead, move Right.

Being an asshole isn't illegal.

Want to make some scratch? Cheese? Coin? Loot? Dollar bills? Ever fancy yourself a bounty hunter? :) Websites like TGO need advertisers to stay afloat, let alone grow bigger and better and make it possible to do cooler things. To date we've been fortunate -- blessed even -- to have our advertisers find us. We've never had to go hunting for them, and honestly I've never really wanted to. I just don't like selling. I'm not a "sales guy" and I hate cold-calling. But recently I had a member approach me with a prospective advertiser and asked if I'd hook them up. So I did. And I also felt like I owed that member something in return... so I did something for that person too. Which brought to mind an idea: Pretty much everyone here has their list of favorite shops to do business with. But how many of those favorite shops support your favorite local forum by advertising with us? All of them? Some of them? None of them? Could you maybe help us by convincing them to sign on with us? Because if you can, and they tell me that YOU are the reason they signed on as an advertiser, I'll gladly kick a commission payment your way. :) So, what's the motivation? I'll make no bones about this: I'd like to eventually quit working for the man Monday - Friday and make TGO something of a full time job. I'd love nothing more than to work on new features, new content, videos, blogs, reviews, etc. all for the TGO community. But in order for that to happen, we need more advertisers and I'd be glad to share some of our increased success with anyone who helps get us there. If you are instrumental in helping bring a new advertiser on board, I owe you a debt of gratitude and I'd like to put some money back in your pocket to say thanks. Let's talk! For details, contact me privately.

Jerry Clower had a great routine about this very topic.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1sVS7nwits

I don't think anyone is saying that the car driver isn't at fault.  He clearly turned into oncoming traffic.  But I'm sure he didn't think the bike was going 100 either.   Both people in this one are at fault.  

  How 'bout a tgo range day for members only. An all afternoon kinda thing where we meet, shoot, eat.... maybe a pitch in lunch kinda thing.  

  Agreed - I was hoping more people would "find me" there but the hat really isn't enough of a give-away.  The NRA show and the desire among the members to be more recognizable to each other has renewed my interest in getting more hats and polo shirts made for the TGO membership who want them.  T-shirts might be a possibility as well now that services like SpreadShirt and others are producing better quality gear.   Their stuff used to be really substandard.

I guess it's OK to kill a motorcyclist because he was speeding. Drivers of cars bear no responsibility to look out for us because as we know, cage drivers never speed or change lanes without looking, or spend their time in their car with their cell phones plastered to their heads. Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out, right?

yep no gayness in GoT. ;)   That scene made the gay walking dead scene look like a handshake.

I know an older fellow who has two of the P238 pistols.  He had the same problem with both - feeding and ejection.  After being unable to get these pistols to behave he returned them to Sig for inspection or correction as needed.  Both came back with a list of the parts the factory exchanged.  Despite all this he continued to have the same problems with both of them.  I suggested his grip strength could be the problem.  He handed off both pistols and a full box of ammo for each to me, then waited while I enjoyed some time with them.  After 50 rounds through each, and zero malfunctions, he realized he would have to "man up" in order to get them to work for him.  These are very fine firearms, well designed and built.  In spite of this they do require the user to hang on tightly to make them function.

I walked by the PSA booth at least a dozen times the past 3 days and there was never a chick there!

  I don't want to knock your advice, but setting up high cfm air movement in a crawlspace with any kind of microbial growth can make things worse. Mold and fungus tend to "spore off" as a defense mechanism, so adding air movement could just spread whatever it is down there.

No professional company I know of or have worked for uses bleach to treat any kind of microbial growth. Some of the harsher chemicals they use are peroxide-based.   If it were me cleaning this up for myself, I would HEPA vac the visible growth off the affected areas to prevent any sporing off, then wipe the areas +2ft with Benefect or another reputable antimicrobial (my preference has always been Benefect just because of how safe of a product it is). Then I would soak the areas with benefect and let it dry as is.   If you have a lot of the crawlspace showing that kind of  growth, there is a lot more that "should" be done. If you want the better advice, contact someone certified in microbial remediation, like an AMRT certification through IICRC.   Here is a link to Benefect, this is not concentrate and is intended to be used at full strength: http://www.amazon.com/Benefect-Botanical-Disinfectant-1-gallon/dp/B000Y215W6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428889806&sr=8-1&keywords=benefect

The commercial is for the Selective Service. The government runs them every year around this time to remind graduating high school males that they must be registered if they plan to obtain student loans.

Both Remington and another company called New England Westinghouse were both contracted to produce about 3.3 million Mosin M91's for the imperial Russian government during WWI.  During the production run, the Russian Revolution occurred, and the Karensky government subsequently defaulted on the contracts.   Approximately 1.5 million or so had already been shipped to Russia, several hundred thousand more were waiting shipment, and additional rifles were in the production lines or stockpiled at the factories.  Both Remington and NEW were facing bankruptcy because of the default, the US government stepped in and bought up all the unshipped rifles and even had the factories produce more, many of which were issued to reserve troops and units of the national guard.  Both the US surcharged rifles and those which were purchased but never entered into Army stockpiles were later sold by the forerunner of the CMP to US citizens in the 20's, at a loss of about 90% of the original purchase price.  Others were bought by companies like Bannerman's of New York, then sold both here and abroad (some were even rechambered to 30-06).  Rifles that made it to Russia were confiscated by Finland after the Finns declared their independence from Russia, several were also sent to Spain during the Spanish Civil War of the 30's. Others wound up in various Balkan countries, and a large number were captured by the Germans and Austrians during the war, quite a few of those eventually were sold to Finland, as that country adopted the Mosin rifle as the basis of their firearms through WWII.   It's uncommon (though not unheard of) for a Remington or NEW barrel to be shortened to 91/30 lengths, and converted to those specifications.  It's much more likely that your friend's rifle is still in it's original M91 form, a lot of people who are relatively unfamilair with Mosins in general will often confuse those two variants.  Either way, $150 for any Remington Mosin rifle would be considered a bargain today.

Proper thing to do? Probably not flip off someone over something so trivial.

Yeah. I just pulled the butt pad off my Choate stocked Savage .308 & crammed in 3 pounds of lead ingots, dampened with dry short-grain rice. It balances nicely now, although it does weight 14 pounds. Am I tacticool yet? :D

WARNING - this thread is completely useless without pictures ...

  Gotcha!  Chances are you're registered.  :)

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You think anybody thinks I'm a failure because I go home to Starla at night? Forget about it!

LOL Are you say that like me you're getting older and weaker and need help with slides?

Would love to see TGO polos and maybe we could set up a TGO meeting point at events

Yeah. The same thing loads up on my IPad from time to time the last few weeks but not on a PC. Odd what, as the Britts would say.

Safety awareness is effective if it is emphasized on auto driers as well as motorcyclists. That should be the drive instead of a helmet law. I have witnessed effective safety campaigns in two states. Florida has even made headway by teaching school kids to be aware of motorcycles and bicycles on the road. Stiff penalties for car drivers go along way too! For too long the "I didn't see em" was an excuse that let drivers off with a slap on the wrist. Jail time opens up some eyes. I think the dude in the video was goin too fast otherwise he would've stopped or avoided the car. Of course the car turned in from of him and didn't have a clear path. Should be found at fault as well.

20+ years later, I've still got the card in a dresser drawer. 

A friend of mine in South Carolina bought one recently and left this report on another forum:   "I recently purchased a Canik TP9SA. I knew nothing about it but saw something on the web so I started to do a little research on it. The more I saw / read the more I liked, especially the price point at $340 and all the other goodies it comes with. As you can see in the attachment it come with two holster options: paddle or belt loop. Ironically I carry a very similar rig on duty. It comes with two 18 round magazines as well as two different backstraps to fit your hand and the cleaning bore and brush. I chose the Desert Tan just to be a little different. I have to say that it is one of the smoothest shooting pistols I have ever fired. If you like Glocks then you will recognize the trigger pull. I am just guessing but would put it around 5lbs. Very clean and real nice crisp reset... better that a Glock. With two 18 round mags you can have a lot of fun on the range without having to stop to reload. We shot 124 gr FMJ with a very very pleasent recoil. It was very accurate right out of the box even though you can adjust for windage. I have to admit I could not tell too much difference with the two different backstraps but I have largeish hands. I only wiped it down a little from the box then took it straight to the range. It breaks down real easy for cleaning and I have to admit that with the weapon being Desert tan made it easy to tell where you needed to clean better! The few bad remarks from folks on you tube all centered around this being used as a CCW. With the ambi decocker on the top of the slide like it is I can see the point however I did not buy this gun as a CCW but as a fun, inexpensive range toy. I will say one thing... you only have to pull the slide about 1/4 inch to re-engage the striker pin. At only $340 bucks I have absolutly no complaints."    Hope it helps.     Quoted from www.handgunsandammunition.com.  

If we assume the car saw him, the driver had no way of knowing that the squid was doing 100MPH in traffic. The driver had plenty of time to complete the turn had the rider been doing 60MPH, which was the speed limit.   This accident is 100% (or should we say 97%) on the rider, not the driver.

As a biker in traffic, you have to be on the defense constantly. I have become suspect of every single vehicle around me, I expect them to not see me. It makes me ride slower, keep my head on a swivel and avoid as much traffic as I can.

Met Ted Nugent, James Yeager, Colion Noir and Hickock 45, Mas Ayoob and saw Donald  Trump JR in front of me 

Robert,   Just to help out....., you can go ahead and drop my Stage 1 score.   You're Welcome!  :pleased:      Mark

*Hot In Her :)

An eye exam is a smart thing to get even if you don't need glasses. That said, I bet you optometrist could apply an anti-IR coating or corrective something to a pair of sunglasses.

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WOW! Nice wife!

For a lot of these groups as of late it has to do with money, making it that is, and that includes pro gun groups. They seen an opportunity to make a buck and jumped on it.

As much as I think Bloomberg is a douche and don't agree with his viewpoint, I can't back the idea that a husband would give his wife an ultimatum based on not agreeing on guns.  I suspect anyone that into guns probably knew when they got married a general idea on their partners viewpoint on the matter, whether it be full on anti, indifferent, or pro.  People can also change their mind.     I would speculate any deadline is just an excuse to cover up a bigger issue in the relationship.  It's a partnership, not a dictatorship.   If you think what he is doing is ok, we will have to agree to disagree.  There are bigger things in life than guns.   If he believes in the constitution so much, he should also believe in his wife's right to express her opinion on the matter, even if they disagree. 

  "Whoa Nelly", heh heh, good one.   - OS

Somehow, I see it quite the opposite. I COULD argue (I won't though) that those who pay $200, submit fingerprints, photo and whatever else to the feds, ask permission of their local police chief and wait several months simply to ask permission to own an item that is Constitutionally protected are the ones voluntarily taking it in the arse. Perhaps the people who are putting what is essentially a stock on their pistols (and NOT the pansies writing a letter to some bureaucracy asking for their blessing, BTW) are basically raising a middle finger to an overgrown federal leviathon and saying "eff yoo". I know which ones I think are most likely to end up in a threesome with the two chicks. BTW, I know it was just a joke and I do not intend to offend anyone who owns a registered NFA weapon. (P.S. Was that first paragraph a great run-on sentence, or what?)

I find it amazing that these people actually believe that posting a sign will stop thugs and criminals from carrying a firearm in these parks. It's like they would rather see armed thugs in parks than legally armed citizens.

I bet you carry the extended mag to

So why does the NRA have politicians fill out surveys on where they stand, but not people running for the board? I want to know where people stand on constutional carry, repealing the NFA, etc. As a life member I am sick of people who are just interested in keeping guns for hunting or sporting purposes.

I won't be skeered to buy those.