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I've seen several pickups in the last few days driving around with great big confederate flags flying from their beds. They'll fare well here in Lafayette, but let them go into the the wrong neighborhood in another town, and the race war Obama wants is on.   I don't wish to see it, but it's gonna happen shortly.

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I bought myself a Confederate flag today.   My family were Union zealots and I personally can't think of a worse cause than the Confederate cause. I think the Confederacy cost us 800,000 lives without good reason and I could never support it, then or now. I think it is wise to remove the Confederate flag from government buildings in places where its presence causes offense. But there it ends. Removal of Confederate memorabilia from our Battlefield Parks, our cities, and our stores, vandalizing Confederate monuments, pressuring schools to change their names from those of Southern leaders, and even pressuring the Army to rename posts named after Confederate generals is political correctitude run amuck and weak-kneed cowardice unbecoming this nation. The Confederacy existed and it influenced the nation and its history- get over it.     I bought that Confederate flag because the Confederacy is a major part of American history, a part that helps define us as a nation, and a part every American should know about. That being the case, no dictatorial bunch of feather merchant liberals in denial about its importance as something more than a symbol of racism will have my support in banning that flag from its rightful place in our national heritage. About all I can do to help preserve it is to buy a Confederate flag. So I did. 

    it's an issue because the professionals always seem to need to blame some thing and not some one. 

they are available to anyone membership is not required, though you would be welcomed to join. The state is the one who will be damaged most by removing them if they do, as half the extra goes directly to the state and the other half goes to the Sons of Confederate Veterans who send it directly to the TN state museum for the purpose of conserving the many original flags they have in their inventory. It can cost thousands of dollars to conserve each flag and this revenue stream is used for that.   you may swap your tag any time you like. They prorate the cost so you won't be out any more if you change at your normal renewal or any other time.

Woohoo! Take that regulations! When demand is high enough, you can bet entrepreneurs will create a market to satisfy that demand.

what kills me is how these idiots always need to blame some 'thing' and not the crazy lunatic thug that committed the crime.   On one hand I'm thankful they're not going after the guns blindly again (because he wasn't using one of those evil black rifles of mass destruction), but on the other hand, WTF does that flag have to do with anything?  Because the thug had one?  He also had an American flag, and obviously had a digital camera, why not ban cameras so no one can take photographs of things that offend people.   good grief.

In accordance with my firm conviction that sometimes the only way a man can keep his self respect is to pin a big piece of mistletoe on his shirt tail and walk right down the middle of the street for all to see, I bought a Confederate flag this morning. I guess that's my gentlemanly way of dropping my drawers and showing the bas....ds what to kiss.

Yes. Get it. Now. But seriously, real 10mm ammo from Buffalo Bore, Doubletap, Underwood, and a couple others is no joke. Great hiking gun and great capacity vs revolvers. Don't misunderstand me, I love revolvers too and have a Smith 357, 44, 38, etc. However, those are range toys for me now and too heavy for the amount of firepower they carry vs something like a G29. I'm no Glock fan either, but they really are the only company making a solid, compact(ish) 10MM with real capacity. I personally have a full size EAA Witness Elite Match 10MM and love it. However, thei smaller framed 10MM designs are known to have durability concerns. For that reason I wouldn't be against the Glock. At the price and condition, you can't go wrong. If you don't like it you won't lose money, for sure.

BTW, this thread is worthless without pics. :D

I like a twin turbo V8 better.

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For the 80s kid in me, if it's good enough for Ricardo Tubbs then it's good enough for me. And for the adult I am today if it's good enough for Walter White aka Heisenberg then it's good enough for me.

Saw this posted on Facebook earlier this evening: Everything Weapons has entered into a deal to buy The Outpost Armory and merge retail operations. That's huge! Please join me in wishing them both the best of success. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I recently finished up a new build. [AR-15] I waited on giving it a stenciled finish and I'm glad I did.  I knew I might have to tear it down again.   It starts life as a Quentin billet lower, Magpul A2 stock and ALG trigger group. Vltor upper receiver, Nickel Boron BCG, Yankee Hill Todd Jarrett rifle length free float tube, Nikon M223 3-12x42SF glass and...my barrel.  The subject of this post.   I ordered what I WANTED.  ...or what I THOUGHT I wanted.  A Black Hole Weaponry, 18in, .930 diameter, rifle length gas, 1/9 twist stainless barrel.  It was .......pricey.  Everything went together and it shot like poop.  No, sorry, it shot like f'n sh!t.   Sorry, but that's actually appropriate.  Here's why. First go 'round, I shot some handloads that have always done well in all my other rifles.  My 9 twist CZ bolt action will make clover leafs with any of them.  Some 52g Nosler HPBT's,  55g Vmax,  & some 70g soft points that are swaged by a fella I know up in Montana.  Shotgun patterns! No really. The 70g soft points were not measurable because I only had a 6 inch scale with me.  They were well over 8 inches at 100 yards.  ...and before the twist rate thing gets brought up, twist rate needs are a function of length not weight and the 70g soft points are swaged from a pretty thin brass jacket and a large ogive.  The length of the bullet is only .870, conversely a 55g vmax is about .820.  AND, all the lighter stuff shot like poop too.   Anyway, maybe I'm a sucky reloader so I broke my sacred vows and bought some factory ammo. Best of (4) five round groups fired from a VERY solid rested position. PPU 69g HPBT match 3.5" @ 100 yards PPU 55g soft points, over 4 inches @ 100 Hornady TAP 55g - 2.8" @ 100 Hornady Varmint Express 40g Vmax - 2.1 @ 100   This BLOWS.  SO, today I go back to my local guy.  He's AWESOME BTW, he sells TOP shelf knives and AR parts here in town.  He's not happy at all and he jerks the barrel out and sticks in another while he deals with BHW on a possible return.  He didn't have to, but that's the kind of guy he is. Now i'm running a Black Hole Weaponry, 18inch, mid-length gas, HBar profile, 1/8 twist.  MUCH lighter BTW, my GOD it's lighter.  LOL! It's also about $75-100 cheaper than the one I had.     I couldn't get to my range to shoot on a nice solid concrete bench with my rifle rest and electric golf cart to the 100 yard line.  I had to go to a buddy's farm.  I stepped off 125[ish] yards because 100 was right in a big ditch.  Soaking wet, wearing shorts so my legs were eat up from briars, pouring rain, I had to stand on the back bumper of my Toyota FJ and use a rolled up blanket for rest on the roof of my FJ just to see the target through the weeds. 20 rounds of PPu 55g FMJ......about 2.5 inches.  For all 20 mind you. 20 rounds of 70g soft points loaded over 4064 [I forget the charge, that's why I keep good notes.LOL]......right at 2.0 inches.  All 20 rounds now, not five round groups that can tell lies. I only shot two groups, I didn't wanna be out there. This was under very crappy conditions.  Fat and outta breath by the time I got back to my shooting position.   Well rested (me and the rifle :rofl: ] it will do exponentially better.  A little load development....yeah, there it is!!!!   :up:  :up:  :up:       Moral of this stupid boring story? Money spent doesn't equal results.  Buying everything off the top shelf doesn't necessarily give you a top shelf rifle.  

Saw them here near Franklin several years ago.  Looked like a purple cloud.  Pulled over on I-840 near I-65 to look and figure out what I was seeing.  Not the curtain look we see on tv, just a blotchy cloud of purple but it was visible while driving.  Very early in the morning, was headed out to deer hunt.  But, it's possible to see em here.  Keep watching.   While we're on the subject, pretty neat alignment of Venus and Jupiter after sunset right now.  Worth a look.

Made the news.   http://wkrn.com/2015/06/27/confederate-flag-supporters-gather-in-smyrna-to-protest-its-removal-from-stores/

Fanatical open carry crowd I open carry a Springfield Professional daily.

I see no reason to disable the grip safety on a 1911.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there more "unrest" during the 60's?  Why wasn't the Confederate flag banned then?  The Confederate flag has been around 150+ years and now it's an issue?? :squint:

Standing on the side of the road out of traffic, flying a flag that is disappearing from stores under pressure and being removed from availability on license plates and dropped from battlefields isn't acting an ass. Acting an ass was in Ferguson and Baltimore with smaller reenactments daily in most big cities. A week ago these flags were spotted here and there and nobody noticed them, but now it's being attacked as if it was one of the bullets in the church. Not only are people attacking it, govt and businesses are acting against it so fast it's head spinning. With the lack of confederate flags in Chicago and its peaceful utopia , it's obvious that hiding it and removing it will make the country better :down:

As a multigenerational child of the South who's ancestors served and bled in a lost civil war I have mixed feelings about the entire Rebel Flag issue. Inescapably I'm firmly of the opinion its use by NGA and individuals is a freedom of choice matter not subject to governmental influence. But personally seeing people act an ass flying the thing irritates the hell out of me, but in the end its their choice. As in all things your own choice is simply that so choose accordingly.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LARGE-CONFEDERATE-FLAG-60-X-35-INCH-NEW-/331592628202?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d3475f7ea   boom! found one.

Buy it now! I love mine, haven't shot much of the heavy load stuff but I doubt you will have any problems with it. We both got a couple cheep kydex holsters off eBay and it carries great. Check out Underwood Ammo and look at the ballistic specs on all their 10mm.

I talked to a neighbor who is an experienced coyote killer.  He said he was on the job, so now I can move on. Suits me.  I appreciate all the replies, I can talk trash about coyotes now if it comes up in conversation.   Carry On.   Soap.

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Leg traps are cruel and sadistic.  I despise them. I'll even step on a few toes here by saying, I have no respect for people who use them.  Get mad if ya'll want but killing an animal is one thing, torturing it is something altogether different. I'm all for dispatching the animals if they are posing a threat but have the common courtesy and respect for the animal to not torture it and put it down swiftly and humanely.  Cage traps may frighten the animal a bit but they don't cause pain.  The animal can be easily put down with a .22 to the head without opening the trap.     Remember, they are JUST animals.  They're doing what animals do.  How would YOU like to have your ankle broken and sit there bleeding and in pain until someone came along to put you down?  People seem to demonize these animals like they have malicious intent against you.  They may be vicious and go after their next meal with tenacity.  They may kill your beloved pet and that would break my heart and certainly motivate me to kill the animals responsible but they don't have the cognitive abilities of a human.  They aren't motivated by evil like a human, only hunger and dominance.  Why people personify them as anything more than a simple animal doing what animals do is beyond me.     If they are a problem, kill them.  Wipe them out if that's what it takes to make your pets, livestock and children safe but for the love of God have don't torture the things.

Rove is a fool.   We don't get our rights from the Constitution.  The Constitution simply 'guarantees' them from encroachment by the Federal Government, for what that's worth.

This. Almonds can't produce milk anymore than I can. :dirty:

Sorry to hear that. I have two friends that I have lost to suicide from PTSD related to experiences in the GWOT. I consider them, and your friend, just as much of a casualty as those that die in theater.

Almonds don't have utters. They're nuts. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I547 using Tapatalk

I'm withholding judgement about the new Raptor until I see one and drive one.  I have no plans to trade ours at this point, but I have thought seriously lately about giving it the gift of forced induction.   :devil:

Conspiracy????   :tinfoil:

Not that easy a Dmax, tranny and transfer case will cost over $50k installed The motor must be detuned or you'll rip the portal hubs to pieces..

Lemme know when we get to this point, and I will buy one.

  At the time the Government started its coyote control program in Wyoming back in the 70's, sheepherders out there were suffering 20% losses of their flocks to coyotes. Now considering that a flock can be as many as 10,000 sheep, that's 2,000 sheep lost to coyotes in this hypothetical flock. A friend of mine was a Government coyote hunter and trapper in Rock Springs, Wyoming during the late 70's and 80's, and he and two others routinely killed 600 coyotes per year just in the county around Rock Springs by hunting, calling, and trapping. I talked to him a number of times after he had spent the day shooting coyotes from an aircraft, either a helicopter or Super Cub, and in every instance he had shot roughly 40 animals that day, while the others on horseback took another dozen or so. One day the chopper settled him in just above a pack of coyotes on a dead cow elk and he killed 12 of them with his issue Beretta 12 gauge auto before the other coyotes got wise and boogied. The chopper went off into the hills for a while and returned about a half hour later and shot another dozen coyotes off of the same cow elk. After the program was in full swing it managed to bring sheep losses down from 20% to 5% - or from 2,000 sheep lost per 10,000 to ONLY 500. This is what happens when the coyote has a reliable food source and no predators - they multiply to profusion and raise bloody hell with other animal populations.   So to try to answer your question, the coyote in numbers is a major league danger to any and all animals in the region, not just to dogs and cats. Once they get a strong foothold in a region, coyote eradication can become a major cost and consideration in any venture involving animal husbandry, and the local small game population diminishes accordingly as well.   My friend told me that the Piute Indians had a saying that "the coyote will howl over the last man's grave." They're that smart and that resilient. So in small numbers they may be just a nuisance to pets and fawns, but in large numbers they're a real problem that is almost impossible to solve. Just ask the State Legislatures of Wyoming or Utah. Hope these thoughts help answer your question.   P.S - I've never heard of coyotes attacking human children, but still,  I sure wouldn't let my toddlers outside unsupervised if I had coyotes In the area.  

Guys, I'd ask you to reflect on Mr. Rove's statement here before you start mailing out checks to the GOP this fall. Think about it again in November when you are about to pull the lever for the GOP establishment "candidate that can win" the general election.   This is what you keep getting with the party hardliners. Personally, I'd rather have Hillary Clinton in office. At least we won't be surprised by her actions.

And as he left that interview he likely had a squad of armed men with guns. He is just like every other elitist in that the common man cannot have what they have. Just like our politicians that believe they are some how justified in believing they are better than anyone else.

Why would you want too?  JMB placed this here for a reason. 

Wow, 6 posts in and already calling members 'ignorant asses'. You won't be here long.

  Goodbye.

Read it again. It means the federal government shall not place restrictions against owning or carrying a firearm. I don't feel the state should either.

I came from a state that had constitutional open carry long before you could conceal. Strangely there were not a bunch of law suits or blood running down the streets. In addition the class you take for your permit is a joke.

No laws, no masters! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I547 using Tapatalk

I carry an SP101. Little heavy but can handle 357 very well. I have 38 hollow points in it.

  Does the NRA have any power when it comes to BATFE? I was under the impression that BATFE was like the EPA: We make the laws and screw you if you don't like them. In other words, they are above the law.

  Truer words were never spoken and it also applies to everything in life.

Not very knowledgeable of the difference in barrel brands, but with the 14.5+pinned break vs. 16" debate, I say go 16".  Gives you a lot easier options if you ever want to switch what you have at the end of your gun.  The 1.5" difference is negligible. 

My "primitive hunting" setup:

I feel that way too when I'm at Shiloh.