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Saw this and it made me laugh. Thought I would share it with everybody. [URL=http://s196.photobucket.com/user/kahrman/media/5566252C-C85E-4211-894E-8A5FEABFC97F_zpsm5pcwuzo.png.html][/URL]

  I probably would have fired back "somebody has to take the ugly ones".

People. They're the worst. - OS

I'd get one that plugs in.  I don't use mine a lot, but I've never had an instance where cordless would have been better. 

All this flag nonsense is really out of hand.I say if you can not even respect our countries flag maybe you should remove yourself to a different country.When I graduated in 1976(Whoa the bicentennial year no less)there was an American flag in every room in the school,and we said the allegience every morning when we were in the lower grades.Who are we offending other than ourselves-America get a grip already.If you don't like it here leave already.

My grandma said many moons ago... "if you have to tell someone how smart you are, you're probably not". 

Simple Newtonian physics states that for every semi intelligent human there is an equal an opposite moron.

Ok fellows, sometimes you see and read things that cause you to just step back, take a deep breath and forget some things that you've seen. Let me share some things here.   If you live outside the city limits and can safely do so, you may shoot coyotes off your deck with the following restrictions:   1) Shotgun: Loaded with 1 single ball (slug) or #4 shot or smaller (5,6,7,8). "T" shot or smaller (BB). The use of "buckshot" of any size (0,00,000,1,2,3,4) is strictly prohibited. 2) Centerfire: All calibers are legal. Soft nose, Hollow point and SST (polymer tips) are permitted. Full jacket ammo is strictly prohibited. 3) Muzzleloaders (see shotgun above) 4) Archery equipment. 5) The use of any artificial light to locate or aid in the taking of game is prohibited. Night scopes may not be used.   The placing of any food item or bait is strictly prohibited unless removed at least 10 days prior to hunting. IE: If throwing turkey parts in your yard to draw a coyote out of the woods for the purpose of shooting it, that is baiting and prohibited.   Legal hunting hours for coyotes is 1/2 hour before "legal" sunrise, to 1/2 hour after "legal" sunset. Shooting or attempting to shoot coyotes at night under lights is verboten!   A lot of regs boils down to what the officer thinks or believes what your intentions were/are. For example; if your throw out animal parts at night to attract a coyote under lights to shoot it....you may have a problem. If however, that coyote attacks or attempts to attack your pets or live stock, you may shoot to kill with whatever weapon ammo you have handy and day or night. Again, what was your "intent"? You have letter of the law and "intent".   It's published in many resources that the best cure for Coyote, Coon, possum and skunk problems is to keep pet foods inside away from wildlife. I've yet to hear of a coyote coming up on peoples porches to eat dog food. They are way too shy for that.   If you are hunting or shooting the coyote on "your" property, a license is not required. However, all other requirements must be met. If hunting, a Hunters Safety Certificate may be required. If defending your pets or stock no certificate is required.   Pick up a copy of the Tennessee Hunting guide or visit http://tnwildlife.org.   Be safe and happy hunting.   Dave

I think it's incredibly awesome you have such a sense of humor about it. Kings to you buddy. ....but guys, it's not funny. Don't be making jokes. You realize the man can only hold one boob at a time? That's no laughing matter. :)

Music City Tactical Shooters (www.mctsclub.com) will be hosting a beginner level 3 gun match this Sunday, August 30th at 1pm. There will be an emphasis on using all 3 guns on all stages, with minimal shotgun reloading. The idea being that it's more important to be familiar and safe with all 3 weapons when running a course of fire. Shotgun reloading can be practiced at home (WITH DUMMY ROUNDS ONLY!!!) to build speed and proficiency. Maximum distance with rifle will probably be around 100 yds shooting small auto-reset poppers, so iron sights and 1x magnification red dots shouldn't be a problem. All shooting divisions welcome (AKA bring whatever guns you want to run as long as they are in safe working order). .223/5.56 up to .30 caliber rifle, 9mm up to 45ACP pistol and 12 gauge shotgun birdshot loads #6 - #8 size. NOTE: STEEL SHOT, STEEL CORE and/or BI-METAL BULLETS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE USED ON STEEL TARGETS. This will earn you a disqualification, and potentially money out of pocket to replace damaged steel targets. Round Count: 75 rifle, 75 pistol and 75 birdshot will insure you get through the match.    Set up will begin at 8am, shooters meeting at 12:30pm, shots down range at 1pm. Hope to see everyone out at the range. Directions are found at the Website listed above.

  We all know in our hearts that two wrongs will never equal a right... We can't sink to their level as when we do we have truly lost all that is worthwhile....

  I guess Lanza just dumped the 154 spent .223 casings inside the school out of his pockets. Not to mention the rest of the live rounds still in the various AR mags. Oh yeah, and the Bushmaster Model XM 15 found next to his body. And the 3-11 wounds in each of the bodies.   There. I "waded in".   But of course, we didn't really go to the moon either and Elvis is still alive.   - OS

My apologies to the members of this board , I'm just in a bad mood. I don't mean to spread such bigotry, there's just too much government cheese for this kind of crap in my world.

I’m armed and trained; but I don’t think I could have saved either of those victims. I don’t have the protections I had as a Police Officer. I absolutely would have had no issue with getting involved to save someone, but by the time I would have been sure of what I was seeing; he would have been shooting.

So a gay black guy shoots a white woman. How will they spin this? Hmmmm. Screw it! Let's just beat the drums for gun control again. :ugh: :ugh:

  I get what you're saying and yeah, I've looked at people and told myself I'm going to do what I can to know where they are in the store or wherever...but I just don't like the line of thought that having people carrying is the cure all to these events from going the way they do with the "if only there was someone carrying" mantra.  My gun is for my safety, I'm too worried about what I'm doing and securing myself to actively think about others.  Not trying to be cold blodded or uncaring, just realistic.

Tennessee black panther sightings.

What? Y'mean the M38 jeep has been retired?

Honestly I would prefer this not be here as it serves no purpose besides watching innocents die and giving this moron what he wanted, views. No offense to you sir.

One in my hand and the other in my mouth?....lol

I like your incubator idea.  I followed peejman's advice and put the firing pin assembly in the oven on low heat and it worked like a charm to get the cosmoline out of there.

I don't post here very often, but here goes and remember this is just my opinion.   Many of us preppers have been saying for some time that the most likely SHTF scenario is not an EMP or Carrington Event or Yellowstone super eruption, it is economic collapse and that rather than a single event or point in time, the SHTF will sneak up on us like a thief in the night - or to use another analogy we are like frogs being slowly boiled and not noticing. That there will be no announcement, no balloon going up, no trip wire that is easily recognized to say yesterday we were ok, but now SHTF is on. So I will go out on a limb (not really) and say SHTF is on now. I am ringing the bell, LOL DING DING DING DING. First off I would like to extend my sincere heartfelt thanks and attaboy to - Hank Paulson, George Bush, Ben Bernake, Barak Obama, Mario Draghi, Janet Yellen and the all the can kickers world wide that stepped up in 2009 to keep the Titanic afloat thus allowing me the time and money to go from barely prepared to "bring it on". Here's my thinking. The central banks have been pumping air into a leaking tire for years trying to keep asset prices up because the elites that pull the strings on the Fed and other central banks fear the decline in their assets which are mostly stocks, bonds and real estate. Very few of them even think about investing in things like we are investing in - think Janet Yellen has a grain mill, dehydrator, etc? But now all the central banks have reached the law of diminishing returns in terms of their ability to keep paper asset prices from deflating. The central banks have lost their ability to have the desired effect and can kicking is no longer working. Japan was first, then Europe, then China and now the US. IMHO the central banks are out of bullets but the deflation zombie keeps coming. Forget a rate hike, that was never going to happen - they were just jawboning. When (not if) we get an amplified re run of the 2008 collapse these folks are going to have huge paper losses. Like what happened to the house flippers in Fl, Ca, NV in 2008 only far far worse. I submit we are there now and last Friday -530 on the dow is just the beginning of travails. The problem is that by not allowing the cleansing of weak players in 2008 and rather pumping stimulus into the system they have propped up companies that should have collapsed then but were able to borrow money at historically ludicrously low interest rates to stay afloat. And those companies now must sell at break even prices just to stay alive. That has resulted in excess supply and resulting deflationary pressure. The shale fracking companies are a great example. They have to sell oil at any price just to stay alive, because they are all leveraged to the hilt. It is a vicious cycle that feeds upon itself. Demand is down at the same time supply is up. And the general S&P 500 has been artificially inflated by companies taking on relatively free money in the form of historically cheap interest rates and using it to buy back their own stock which causes the stock price to rise and EPS to go up because the divisor (# of shares)is reduced. In other words, stock prices are about as reliable as the Unemployment Rate. Look at this chart and ask yourself why are basic raw materials across the board plummeting in price world wide? Just look at those commodities that are used at the basic first build industrial items, i.e. these are the first to be needed in and economic boon and the first to not be needed in a bust. Here are a few over the last 12 months: coal from South Africa  - 19.62 % crude oil Dubai              - 46.77 % Indonesian Natural Gas - 51.33 % Aluminum                       - 15.85 % Copper                          - 23.29 % Iron Ore                         - 46.34 % Lead                              - 19.61 % Nickel                             - 40.30 % Tin                                 - 32.79 % And I only highlighted the industrial feed stocks. Look carefully at all the red on this chart and ask yourself if this is not in fact a world wide, commodities of all kinds "Canary in the coal mine" situation: http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/ And what do these imply about world wide real economic activity - I am talking about mining and farming - not reality TV, iPhones, or Facebook:   The world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, Caterpillar, Inc. reported an 11% fall in its global retail sales for the three months ending Apr 2015, marking the 29th consecutive month of declining sales. http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/1758...-the-29th-time And just yesterday, this from John Deere. John Deere’s latest earnings report showed a decline in sales and earnings...According to the report, net sales of worldwide equipment operations declined 22 percent for the quarter. Net sales in the U.S. and Canada were similar, decreasing 21 percent and 17 percent.As for the upcoming fourth quarter, the company expected to be down about 24 percent, compared with last year. http://wqad.com/2015/08/21/john-deer...-and-earnings/ So what do I think this means and what am I doing. Of course I could be wrong and certainly have been in the past. I have no investments in the stock market except a tiny retirement fund I can't easily liquidate. We have no debt except the mortgage on our retreat where we relocated to Tn from FL in 2010. Basically I am slowing down purchases and accumulating cash to be used for purchasing things at fire sale prices, just like happened in 2009 when Craigslist got flooded with items people were selling to raise cash. Just like weak corporate players many individuals are ill prepared to be laid off which is what the companies are probably going to do soon. Kinda like the scene in Trading Places where Eddy Murphy and Dan Akroid decide the price has dropped enough and start buying. Watch that movie - could be a harbinger of things to come. Don't be Don Amiche, be Eddy Murphy. The exception and to illustrate my point, we will now fill our propane tank with another 300 gallons of propane and purchase an additional 300 gallons of diesel, but probably not for a few weeks or a month because I expect further price drops.   I am also stocking up on fertilizer and the like for my farm. Well enough pontificating, just my rant and certainly YMMV, but if I am right it is on and we are in for a wild ride.

So my dad calls me yesterday and says "I'm going to drop something by your house" and stops by while I'm at work and leaves this with the wife for me: New in the box Weatherby Mark V he bought back in the 80's. Never fired. He's had some significant health setbacks this past year, so he's thinking about things like this more now. I put it in the back of the safe, so maybe one day one of my sons will get it... never fired... in it's original box....... MAYBE! =) QUESTION THOUGH: I've never had anything this pretty before, do you guys think a silicone gun sock will hurt the finish? I put it in one so that it maybe doesn't get bumped in the safe.... it's tight in there.

The lawyer behind the ambulance.   The hooker with a sore on her lip.   Kim Jong Un to babysit.   Hey, this is fun! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Whatever you do, keep the damn thing away from guns! :wall: :wall: :wall:   There are three enemies of guns.....rust, politicians, and Bubba with a dremmel tool. :D

I like to look at Facebook to see what the ballistic experts are saying. People are dumb.

Maybe he listened to Farrakhan?

Starting to seem more racial than anything else...he got upset about the South Carolina shooting and chose to shoot white people even though he was bullied by "black males".   http://www.caintv.com/virginia-murderers-manifesto-a

You are right. I've been called out many times for it. Not so much looking for potential problems, I just don't make eye contact with people. Not sure why, just always been that way.

What was your SOP in the 90’s for a suicidal person pulling a gun on you? In the 80’s ours was to shoot them if they were putting us or others in immediate danger of death or great bodily harm.

The shooter is in custody after shooting himself when confronted by authorities. They say he is still alive but may not survive or be able to stand trial. Either way he will find himself in hell both before and after his death. I can only hope that he regains full cognitive function but is unable to move anything other than his eyeballs. That would be hell for anyone to be stuck in the tomb that is your own mind with no escape possible.   I watched the video the shooter took, it is sad and disturbing. What is really disturbing is the shooter pulled the gun out then stood there pointing it at the three victims before he began shooting. I guess at one point he realizes his gun does not have a round chambered so he chambers a round then begins firing 3-5 seconds later. All the victims were distracted by the interview and never noticed the shooter or had a clue about his intentions. It could also be that his former fellow employees might not have viewed him as a threat as well.   It truly is sad as the reporter just moved in with her long time boyfriend and they were planning on getting married soon.   We need to seriously look at the "justice" system. Not so much this case but other cases where the crimes were violent. Violent criminals should be classified differently and be punished differently than those who commit non violent crimes. I would have ZERO issue with some form of daily corporal punishment of anyone who is convicted of murder, rape, molestation or any of the other seriously violent crimes. Hold a separate trial to determine whether the crime was violent AND premeditated and if so let the daily punishment begin. Feed them nutritionally adequate meals that are made without the concern of how it tastes. Some sort of mush, like a thickened soup, that they get from a tube in the wall of their cell a few times a day. Feed them all the same thing and just enough to keep them alive, definitely not enough for them to work out or have the energy to escape or fight officers.   Right now someone who rapes a child then kills them gets to have most things we do on the outside. They also get free healthcare, paid for the work they do in prison, television, conjugal visits, televisions, free college, free food, not responsibilities and all of this in exchange for sitting in an air conditioned room. What criminals should do is fear our justice system but they don't because it is nothing more than a family reunion for most. Most criminals have it better than our soldiers which is sad.

Just heard he shot himself. Figured he would. Hope he rots in Hell!

This might work!  glowdot, maybe i could do some cerakote work for you?

Wow to that CCP guy!

I can do it. I drive a truck OTR and am coming up from Atlanta tomorrow evening through Chattanooga and back to Spring Hill.

Current uparmorded Vees are going nowhere. You can buy all the soft skin Vees you want on iron planet.

  I won't answer anything technical because I just started on the same press last night (congrats by the way). But, I had the same thing and mostly from brass that had been crimped and it was shaving a tiny piece off as I press in the new primer. I could feel that it was a little bit tighter when pressing the primer in, but not hard. I've just been keeping an eye on the area around the area where the new primer comes in at the shell plate and removing any grit or slivers of brass. I am not trying to go fast at all, hell I am pulling each case out and making sure the primer is inserted correctly even though it feels good. I'm just making sure each step is correct until I get used to the feel. There are tons of people on here who know reloading inside and out, they'll be along soon to answer in more depth and proper terminology, I'm still learning it all myself.

I heard that a quake today like the ones in 1811 and 12 would cause billions of dollars of improvements to Memphis and St. Louis. HAAAAAA.   now i'm going to feel guilty if the big one hits soon for making that joke.

You want to find suckers?  Go to a local flea market or a public auction.  PT Barnum was right!  You talk about low gun information crowd.  I have witnessed some stupid transactions!  Either they were felons, or just dumb idiots!    I have been on the other end, scored yard sale finds.  Divorce yard sales are the best! 

  I think the platform's popularity is responsible for some of it. Gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling thinking about how these anti-gun assholes feel about the result of their efforts. AR-15's everywhere! :)

  Decent quality AR stuff is so cheap right now it really makes sense to just stash a couple of basic rifles on general purposes. Catch the right sale on PSA and you can do complete blem lower and upper and have a purt decent $500 AR without having to "build" anything using the "Freedom" line, and not much more even with the "Premium". And of course even cheaper with the PTAC line, which will kill zeds pretty well too. :)   - OS

  I'm Oh Shoot or OhShoot pretty much everywhere on gun related forums.   Any brand name M16 type carrier should be fine. PSA name brand one is fine usually call them "premium" I guess, though they sell some that aren't PSA branded. Bolt failure is fairly rare even with cheapos, but of course it does happen, but it also happens with expensive ones too.   Absolutely no reason to get a SIG or Shockwave brace unless you're gonna use it against the shoulder though (so make sure Mad Max Kingery ain't watching when you do ;))   - OS

I have a 36 that has never failed me yet. I had an XDs 45, and I couldn't hit the target nearly as well as with my 36. It was just too small, and didn't fit my hand. For ME, the 36 is perfect.   I am kinda jonesin' for a 30S, though... I've grown to like the 36 slide on the 30 frame.

Let's compare this to the great AR scare of a couple of years back. "Newtown" we'll call it.   Remember the run of the mill $2k ARs, $100 Pmags, and dollar a pop plinking ammo?   Today, $500 will get you a serviceable AR. $10-12 for mags. Ammo has dropped by more than half. It is how a free market works. This doesn't mean it's time to go into your bunker.   The best run companies will survive, and some lesser companies will be purged.   I guess this is all a matter of perspective, and depends on your definition of "SHTF".   Being prepared for an emergency is a good plan whether traveling, fishing, investing, or just simply living life. If you are prepared, a great emergency turns out to be a minor inconvenience.

I'm surprised nobody has requested number 5,318,008. :D

Well, you certainly know how to make someone LOOK. :rofl:

I work with Sam. You can always drop off and pick up from the pawnshop Monday through Saturday. Tuesday Afternoon Sam usually leaves around 2 to start blueing. Ill stay around to at least 3 Then start back home to Hermitaqge.   Cheers,   Tad

Looks very grippy. The beauty of plastic framed guns, especially Glocks, is that you can really modify the grip to suit most anyone if you don't mind taking a 400.00 gun and turning it into a 200.00 gun.