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I took the Grandsons out on the youth hunt (Cross Creeks) yesterday and all three tagged out in about 40 minutes. What an awesome day! (L) Tyler (second deer) (Middle) Adam First Deer (R) Devin second deer (First Buck) Tyler's doe went about 20 yards and the other two dropped where they stood with neck shots. We were about a mile from the truck and Grandpa and Dad got put through the paces getting the deer out! We have lots of work to do this morning. Have a blessed day Dave

Getting my 5 month old grandson one next week. I was never aware of this until recently, what a bargain for $200.

Some people justify abortion in their minds because they are told by pro-abortion folks the fetus is not really a life until it's viable outside the womb. They go on about their daily business since abortion was deemed legal by the courts. Taking something that anyone agrees is a problem but is disinterested in solving is drunk driving. Over 10,000 each year are killed by alcohol related accidents but were's the proportional outrage? It's crystal clear this is not about solving gun violence, it's all about disarming the general public.

   Guess you could say, educators are slow learners.

So here was a college with about 3,000 students, multiple buildings, and ONE unarmed security guard to "protect" all of that?! And from what I've read there was a recent debate among the college administration on whether to employ "armed" guards and it was split 50/50 on whether to do so. They decided not to do so because "armed guards would change the culture of the campus." I think the culture of the campus is now changed forever.

This one is made from 1/8" 1095 carbon steel and has black canvas micarta scales with yellow G10 liners with kydex sheath. It has jimping on the spine just in front of the handle and up near the point for better grip during skinning. It's headed to Minnesota to it's new owner in a day or two.

It's projection - they can't wrap their brains around the idea that they might suffer random harm. Its this silly illusion of safety that the average liberal subjects themselves to and why they insist that the gubmint "do something• so they can feel all warm and safe. An abortion is a "choice" remember-so its a planned killing vs a random one.

What I continue to find amazing is the hypocrisy in this country. 7-8 kids college kids are killed in this shooting and the left freaks out.   Yet millions are aborted each year and the left defends planned parenthood. I really don't have that strong of opinion about abortion but I find this particularly frustrating.

Finally got to take it to the range yesterday with a neighbor. My dad gave me his Sig 1911 C3. Absolutely awesome pistol. I am new to pistols, but this one is a dream to shoot. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48650659/Shooting/20151003_163531.mp4 Really grateful for this weapon. But now I need more. :D Brandon

The beast finally got here. Here he is in all his glory. The 2nd pic is with his little brother, G20. Now I just have to decide what optic to buy.

Found this today, whilst antelope hunting up in Wyoming. Perfect, un-chewed, unbroken 6 point.

Stick a lens-looking thing on one of these and strap it to the same place. Problem solved. ;)

Ron's tongue matches his hair....silver.

  :)   The silence is deafening here after dem Hawgs. I figger all the hard core fans are just too close to suicidal to post. :)   - OS

Last one I killed fell to 62gn from a .223 With any round, sub 2500fps, I'd be looking for a double lung shot & nothing else. Fast & light, go for the neck. Piggy's don't stand up well to any kind of hydrostatic shock near the spine.

I can, without a doubt, say I would NEVER admit to be part of any group a killer is looking for. Honor and faith is good and all but I would rather keep my mouth shut and survive than proudly proclaim something that gets me killed. No way I would ever martyr myself if I had another choice.

Two things I dread:  (1) seeing pictures of myself and (2) telling folks about me. I'm not very pretty but may be interesting. I'll leave it up to your opinions.   I'm a proud USAF and Air Guard veteran. I've driven the Alaskan Highway (Alcan) two times and lived in interior Alaska experiencing one of the coldest days in Alaskan history (January 30, 1989; -60 degrees F). During my military experience, I've flown in the following aircraft:  OV-10A, F-16A/B, C130, C5, and C141.   I've traveled to 11 countries and lived in five U.S. states.   From the civilian side, I've obtained degrees from the two best SEC schools and been a supply chain manager going on 28 years working in many different industries and sizes of businesses. Currently, I manage global logistics and trade compliance for a company producing industrial and residential products.   I look forward to learning more about guns, ammo, and whatever else the group wishes to discuss.

I think with the difficulty we had getting the park carry law passed and signed into law shows the great difficulty we would have in legalizing carry in colleges and more so K-12 schools in this state with a handgun carry permit.  You will never get college carry legalized in a Constitutional Carry law in this state.  In roughly half the states you can carry on a college campus, with a license.  Out of that half, maybe ten you can legally also carry in K-12 schools, again with a license.   The politicians in this state somewhat tolerate the handgun carry permit system and like to throw a few crumbs toward improving it every so often so they get a vote.  It is important to remember that the House Speaker and the Lt Gov/Senate Speaker could have never allowed a floor vote on park carry.  The recent democratic house speaker never would allow floor votes on any bills that improved the handgun carry permit.   I think you'd have a greater chance in dropping the 'no guns' signs penalties for people with permits and maybe college carry with permits before you would ever get Constitutional carry.  With limited time during legislative session, that is what I would focus efforts lobbying for.   Gun rights organizations just need to work the best way that they can with committee chairs and other key legislative leaders, especially with realistic bills that make sense in improving the permit system.

The very best place I know of is The OK Corral in Woodbury.  They have a three sided pit where you can go and let your inner Rambo let loose.  It's a stretch, though you could go with a training partner, set up a few targets and train.   Unless they've changed, The Nashville Armory allows shotguns.  It has to be 00 buckshot and can't be steel.  You might call ahead to make sure nothing has changed.  One thing about The Armory - there is a line about six inches above the top of the target.  If you shoot above the line it is $8 per hole, so you'll want to watch for that - though it would never be an issue if you are in control of your body and gun.

Sorry for the loss of your father....   If they had been willed to me from my father there is absolutely no way I'd trade or sell any of them ever....

You can always use the trick where you put out a cheapo camera as bait and have another well hidden camera close by to get pictures of the theif, just depends how bad you want to catch them and how much risk you are willing to take.

  Someone gets it, but liberals aren't the only "group" to subject themselves to that fantasy.

Willis, I just sent you my payment. Thanks for doing this.

Make sure to keep this pistol.  Gifts from Dads, Grandpas, and other family, are priceless once they are gone.  You don't know what you have until they are gone.  I got a many pocket knives and a few guns. 

I waited till my boys and grandchildren show an interest in hunting and fishing before I spent the money and so far been lucky. All of them enjoy the sports of both Hunting and Fishing and bought my 10 year old grandson his last year and what does he do but a week after getting it, goes out and bags a 14 pointer................. :up: :up:

  I've certainly gotten that sentiment some, Leroy, but in most every case it is due to hypersensitivity of some Christians on board here.   A simple historical fact about the history of the church, a simple metaphysical statement of an alternate point of view, whatever, often gets a cry of "bashing" or "berating".   By that token, I guess I should see any of the many professions of Christian faith here as "bashing" and "berating" my agnosticism, eh?   C'mon.   - OS

[digital imaging pedantry] That does seem due to image compression -- image resizing, if done with effective resampling, will look identical on a given screen to original larger image viewed at same pixel dimensions. Compression on the other hand is the relative quality of the image at a given pixel size with formats that support it, just as JPEG, due to sampling rate and algorithm used. There is a difference in the quality level of the two images you post, and perhaps that is due to the PB's compression, I dunno, as don't know the history of the image. Are you saying you uploaded the same 4900 pixel image to both places and those are the results with link to the full image size? The reason I ask to confirm is because I don't see that level of compression artifacts in the many PB images posted online. Your two images are simply hugely different in actual pixel dimensions. The Mediafire image is some 4900 pixels across and the PhotoBucket one is about 800. And indeed, the 4900 across pixel Mediafire image has been resampled down to same size as the top image by the forum software. And sure, the whole image must be downloaded to display on screen, so larger ones take more bandwidth and time. Here is an example of common lossy image compression taken to extreme, your original Mediafile image resized to the same 800 pixels but also saved with high compression level in PhotoShop. The main thing lossy compression does is throw out more of the gradations of color in the palette, hence the splotchy artifacts in the solid fields and the aberrations where lines intersect and such (I lightened overall image some so that they show better). But one can resize an image so that it looks identical at screen rez to the same lesser pixel size than that of the larger image. If PB can't do that, then it is indeed a flaw in their process somewhere, as even the TGO forum software does a fine job of downsizing large images without any indication of image corruption. I'd experiment some myself, but I don't have an account with any of the online pix services, and don't want to mess with them anyway. For years, I've simply used my webspace on Comcast or my own domain to stash pix. I generally save them at about 1200 pixels across and just let the forums display them at whatever default they choose, and I never see any compression artifacts like any of the above. Btw, Comcast has stated that their free webspace accounts are being nixed, so I guess at some point a lot of my pix will disappear from forums as for whatever reason I've mainly used it for pix (used it for the one above for example), so will have to start using my domain space exclusively I reckon. [/digital imaging pedantry] - OS

Hozzie...   Here's what you said in the first post....     Here's what you said on post #12....       Again... "No good deed goes unpunished"... There's no way for you to be satisfied... My point is that he, a "ratty polititian" is helpin all he can...    Re-read this from post #11:     RE:   This...   I got no problem with ya not believin... The First Amendment covers this as well... My point is that ya cant seem to leave it alone... Ya wear this "no god, no Christian thing" on your sleeve for a past time, and seem to snipe and whine about anyone that is... Looks ta me like the old "double standard" to me... While i'm on the subject;  RE:  ... "...completely ridiculous and offensive..."; i find the "no good deed goes unpunished" and the "Christian" thing "... completely ridiculous and offensive..." myself, so we are even now... We both think eachother are "completely ridiculous and offensive"...   The point here is that ya cant seem to be placated nor satisfied... Ramsey stands up for a 2A issue and ya still bitch...  Ya bitch more anytime the word "Christian" or "Judeo-Christian" is mentioned... That's the point...   By the way,  i never claim "victim status" and neither should anyone else...   Thats what i think... We can agree to disagree on this but i reserve the right to have an opinion too..   leroy

  I have been shooting my blackout some lately too. The 125 grain Nosler ballistic tips shouldn't be overlooked.

I'm continually amazed at the "no good deed (...or spoken truth...) goes unpunished in some quarters here... Ron Ramsey told the truth...   My opinion is that it would have been better received if he had said "... Students should arm themselves..." instead of "....Christians should arm themselves..."... It's truly a fascinating phenomenon....I dont like career polititians any more than anyone else here does... I guess that ya could say im one of "...The Biggest Haters..." here... The sobering truth is that... A... He told the truth even though he is a "ratty polititian'... You need to take that at face value... B... The colleges are, in fact, a big lobby, and they have great influence and sway in this and other states... They get bowed to... Ramsey aint the cause of that, the idiot "educrats" are... They are the problem... not Ramsey...    I cant help but think (...im very suspicious, ya understand...) that some folks who are vocally decryin this alleged "hyprocracy" on Ramsey's part; are really bitchin and are "repulsed" that he used the word "Christian"... Saying, in effect, that "Christians" are "lesser children" and, as such, are not "worthy" of saving... You know who you are...   Remember this, the First Amendment allows for freedom of expression of religious beliefs (...or the lack of them...)... The Second provides that freedom of expression (...and all the ohers...)...   That is all...   watchin leroy

I do.  When I made my decision, it was only after reading 100s of messages on message boards about what reloaders regretted, or switched too after reloading.   No dust, and very shiny, reusable for life.  You do have to contend with the wet element, but I really like mine. 

Ordered the Trijicon rmr. Should have it on Monday.

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Thats good stuff DaveS

Very cool Dave S!

If a true military crimp is in place, it'll have to removed before re-priming, regardless of primer to be used.

I used to carry Glock, then I carried an FN57, then I carried a snub 38 and kept a SW357 as a house gun.    Not anymore.    Gone back to 20 rounds.    Times have changed. The Oregon shooter wore armor. It's going to take more than 5-6 rounds to take down an attacker who is set out to kill. Might take 12 rounds of suppression just to get a head shot.    Nope, no more wheel guns for me.         CZ P09 is my carry now.

most devices let you adjust the image size so you don't take 10MB ++  images per click.   Some more dumbed down devices refer to this as image quality (this isn't precisely wrong, but its not helpful to the user either).    Very few images should use up more than 1/2 a megabyte for your general public show and tell when in compressed format (jpg, usually).   Only if you NEED the extreme detail that allows you to count the threads in the clothing of everyone in the group picture should you have a 10-50 MB image.   1-5 MB is good for making an image that you intend to CROP for a high detail of something, for example if you were trying to show a small damage to a gun you were selling -- but you wouldn't post the entire image in that case, just the area of interest.   Another setting that *some* devices have can control the jpeg compression.  This varies from "lossless" (image is NOT damaged) low compression all the way up to pretty high (image is visibly distorted without zooming in).  Middle settings have distortion when zoomed in for normal images (world around us) or a little distortion on specific image types (an image of text on a page, for example, stark changes in color with hard defined edges).   So use a medium to high loss/damage setting for typical pictures of people and nature,  and only use lossless for things with high detail and stark, un-natural color changes (no gradients between colors).    So, as you can see, my approach to fixing the issue is to configure your device differently.   Hope this helps?

Ramsey is an auctioneer by profession. That should explain him.

Only 27 days left !   :cheers:

I don't see a handgun and spare ammo in there.

Who else was rooting for the bear to take her pepper spray away from her and spray her with it? :D

hard to beat a j-frame for all your carry needs.  I carried a model 36 for many mango seasons as my "bug" on my ankle while on the job.  now with the lighter wheel guns it is easy to carry one.  drop a speed strip in your pocket for one reload and all is well with the world.  put on a tyler-t grip and the j-frame is even better. 

  As always, victim's likely last thought --  "I wish I had a gun".   - OS

You might check the actual caliber.  :lol:

  Here's a good current article as to why. They completely retooled for the 1894 series after trying to suffer along with the old machines from North Haven.   What a lot of folks don't realize is that some of the worst rifles Marlin ever let out were made those last few years in the North Haven plant even before Remmie bought them.   http://www.gunsandammo.com/reviews/marlin-1894-review/   - OS

....because my Ruger LCR is my only gun that will fit in my pocket.

.... because it's lighter than my full size 1911 and conceals better in my summer wear.