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Sounds like they just wanted a distraction to bounce out of there without paying.

My Occam's Razor theory is that the perps left the wedding reception headed home (or somewhere else). Brainard and DeLoach were crossing the street as the perps drove through and nearly hit them. Words were exchanged and the douche nozzles got out of their car to kick some ass. Simple case of alcohol + assholeitude. I'll be very surprised if there was some prior knowledge of one another. Male perp is an account manager at a cabling/wire company.

Went out this morning and seen 5 Hogs. Two of them went "Wee, Wee, Wee", all the way to the cooler. This little sow dressed at 150 pounds taken during a LEGAL hunt . Have a blessed day! Dave

http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/     Zoom in to TN and go county by county.

What kind of pû22¥ is scared of an empty holster? How is America not home to the weakest people on earth? Jeez.

If I owned or managed that eatery I would have called the police and had the people that failed to pay for the food arrested. They were the only people that actually broke any laws...............jmho

  You think you'll be safer on the move, in a country of no law and dwindling resources?  No, I'll take my chances in a place defensible with resources.  I've carried heavy things long distances.  You simply can't carry enough to survive long, and if you think you're going to "hunt" your dinner when 350,000,000 are trying to do the same thing, you're in for an empty belly.  White tail deer would go extinct in less than a month.  Birds, squirrels, rabbits, dogs, cats.... they'd be gone soon after.    I know what it's like to be out in the wilderness and only be able to eat or drink what you can find.  It isn't easy.  It's harder in the winter.  I would reckon impossible when tens of millions of people are trying to do the same thing you are.

Well really wish I had known that earlier.

Fighting Sheep Dog is kicking off it's annual "Toys for Tots" drive and this year is gonna be epic! Forget the raffle for the custom-built 6.5 Grendel AR (1st prize) or the Silencerco SpecWar 762 (2nd prize). It's the day that we DRAW for these prizes and close the silent auction that'll be the most memorable for you! We're teaming up with Windrock Shooting Range and Mike Dresner of Law Enforcement Sales to bring you a day of FREE hamburgers and hotdogs, FREE access to shoot any of our firearms (suppressed, sbrs, 300blk, and more)... ...but that's not all! See, Dresner's bringing some full-auto goodies (SAWs, M60s, and more) and Windrock already has a full auto Glock and full auto AR available. And all you have to do is get the ammo from Windrock to play! Full details are available through us at Fighting Sheep Dog. Swing by and introduce yourself, grab some flyers to put up at work, and let's make this a fun time for both you, your family and friends, and the kids who'll receive a very special gift from you this year.

Like all TN "panther" threads anywhere on the web, enough folks have "seen" them, that they ought to be found dead on the roads like possums. :)           Since no melanistic cougar has never been documented in history, from Alaska to South America, I'd call that a rather weak supposition.  Some animals simply never manifest a certain trait, the DNA strand for whatever reason just rejects it if it exists at all. So far (edit: among the big cats, to be clear) only leopards and jaguars are known to have black representatives, and apparently did not occur based on a limited number of breeding pairs. Interestingly, black leopards and jaguars actually do retain their spots, they're just not visible except under close examination.   And by the way, just for sake of pedantry :), there is really no such thing as a "panther", it is a wide colloquialism based on the genus name "panthera". The  jaguar, lion, tiger, and leopard are in that genus, but the cougar is not. And indeed there may well be some genetic possibilities based on the genetics of that genera that others simply can't manifest, any more than one of us could pop out of the womb as Neanderthal though many of us have recessive genes for that species.   - OS

Well, that's absolutely true.  Gross played a role for money.  Penn is a douche bag with a capital D for a head.  

They guy with the holster might have been in cahoots with the theives.

No different than my shooting technique. If you set out enough clay targets on the berm and keep shooting amongst them, eventually you'll hit one.

Does not surprise me...they are more than welcome to move back to wherever they came from that doesn't allow guns.

Meh. It's a fun round. Screw logic and all that crap. What place does that have in a hobby? Haha! I just got into 10MM last fall and love it. If i used logic, I never would have gotten it. Harder to find, more expensive, all the things you just stated about 357 Sig. I love it anway. In fact, because of this thread, I'll probably be ordering 357 Sig conversion barrels for my 3 M&P 40s, a compact, full size, and Pro. I have 19 40 cal mags between them that will already work. $450 dollar's worth of barrels and I have 3 new 357 Sigs! I already have a 9mm barrel for the full size, and the swappability is just awesome. I let new shooters start off with the 9, and then go 40 when they're comfy. It'll be sweet to hop over to 357 Sig. Party on dudes!

Yall continue. It is a great conversation. A few corners need touching up, but at least the plow is in the garden. I'll jump in later today and tomorrow, as I got a few project deadlines before a long weekend (which is what happened yesterday also). But... this is a good place to discuss. A forum, albeit electronic, just like Mars Hill where Paul explained his seemingly ridiculous faith in terms that they, the debaters, could understand. We do the same here, on many hard topics. B.

Wells full of water. Renewable food in the form of a garden, game, hogs, chickens, goats and cattle. Draft animals to farm and for transport. Blacksmith shop for repair work and barter material. Heavily built log cabins miles away from population centers that would take one hell of a pounding. Resourceful family full of survivors at my back. I'll take my chances at the fort. I was born and raised on that land, just like my daddy and his daddy, and back past the civil war. Seems like just as good a place to die as any if it comes to that. Sent from behind the anvil

What time? I don't want to go to bed and miss it!   (So far, so good, btw)

Saw this on FB today, a possible cougar sighting (panters to you natives), moutain lions if you think its older woman: http://www.tn.gov/twra/news/18363 [URL=http://s963.photobucket.com/user/runco0318/media/panter_zpsr0ac4oue.jpg.html][/URL] TWRA Receives Photo of What Appears to Be Cougar in West Tennessee Tuesday, October 06, 2015 | 8:36am TWRA Receives Photo of What Appears to Be Cougar in West Tennessee NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has received a photo of what appears to be a cougar (mountain lion) taken on a trail camera on private land in Obion County in West Tennessee. The photo is being analyzed by photo/graphics experts. It was taken shortly after 8 p.m. on the evening of Sept. 20. The trail camera date was incorrect stating it was taken on Sept. 19. An investigation to solidly confirm the sighting is ongoing, although a TWRA official was unable to recover any tracks, hair or other physical evidence. Like all wildlife species in Tennessee, cougars are classified as a protected species which cannot be hunted or killed until a hunting or trapping season is established by the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission, the governing body of the TWRA. States with breeding populations of western mountain lions are Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Texas. There have been documented sightings of cougars in Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Connecticut, and Kansas. Biologists believe these sightings were young males leaving their home ranges in search of new territory. These males have been known to travel hundreds of miles. TWRA biologists assure Tennesseans that in the event of a confirmation of one animal it does not mean there is an established population. A cougar sighting could easily be attributed to a transient young male or an illegal release of a captive animal. ---TWRA--- - See more at: http://www.tn.gov/twra/news/18363#sthash.kjv6rTju.dpuf

You should sit at lunch with him sometime.         :D  Just messing with you Oh Shoot.

I'm sure it will perform great. It is a very nice looking weapon.

  maybe, if we can get the politicians to pay us $20 every time they open their trap or write something down.   They should have to get a license to talk/write, that's ok to do, right?

2 of my daughters work for a popular restaurant in Franklin and one comes in last night after work and tells me the following story.   A group of people having already ordered and halfway through their meal spots another customer nearby with wearing an empty holster. They proceed to pitch a fit and call management over to complain. He responds that it is perfectly legal and there is nothing he can do. They get up and leave without paying. I asked her if the restaurant is posted and she says no. They even went out and double checked for a gun buster and found none. I think if that was me I would have gone over and slapped them across the face with the empty holster so that they actually have a reason to be scared of a piece of leather. Well, not really. Hopefully I would have the piece of mind to try and set a good example as a CCW, but still what a bunch of idiots. Management should have called the cops for dine and dash.

Comm... We have a dillon 650 that i bought from an old buddy that wuz downsizin and tired of reloading... I like em, and their customer service is excellent...   The main problem with progressives is that ya need to settle on a recipe that ya are gonna use and load it... If ya do, ya can pile up bunches of ammo... If ya are a tinkerer and experimenter, ya just as well have a single stage...   That bein said, we have several "standard" loads that we load a minimum of about 500 rounds for on the dillon...  They are great for straight side pistol cartridges, but lots of folks load 223 on em too... I never have...   The most dangerous thing with a progressive is powder charging, so ya need to use a powder recipe that will allow you to spot an overcharge... We have double charged some cases; but i always select a recipe that will overflow the case if ya have a double charge... We also use a powder check die in the station to make sure as well... Lots of folks make them and they are a valuable tool...   The thing about the dillon is that you can set up your dies in a die head and just change them out when you change calibers...Another down side is if ya change bullet designs within a caliber, ya need to re-set the seating and crimping dies... That's why ya need to settle on the bullets and recipes that ya load... Initial set up is a pain with these things, so it's handy to be able to lock down the dies on the die head after ya get things the way ya want them and just change them out with the change in calibers...   Finally, the speed of a progressive is overhyped...Speedy reloading is dangerous reloading, i think... I've never loaded 500 rounds of anything in an hour... It's more like two hours...   Hope this gets ya ta thinkin a bit...  I'm sure others will chime in on this...   leroy

Ya know, when I got in the Class 3 game I kinda figured it was the good Lord's way of telling me that I needed to learn to be patient. It's like getting old and forgetting where you left your 3 finger pour of top shelf scotch just to wander in a room a few weeks later and find it like Christmas in October.

  A computer can react much faster than you can.  By orders of magnitude.  As for trusting the programmer, you already do... your car would stop dead in the road if the geek behind its computer did his job wrong.    As for the guy in front of you, if his car is also automated, he can't really screw up anymore, can he (this is the #1 benefit to me...  an end to traffic incidents caused by idiots).     And on insurance, the idea is that *everyone* uses the automatic car which 1) allows cars to talk to each other (I am here, you are there!), 2) does not do stupid human stuff like changing lanes without signals or speeding or talking on its phone instead of driving or drinking and driving or thousands of other human screw ups  3) can use extra information (in a fully set up world, it could know when a light would change and compute the velocity required to make the light well in advance, avoiding stopping at lights more often and certainly avoiding the "stop or floor it" decision of a yellow light, etc.   They would also know if nearby emergency vehicles were coming and clear a path, for another example of extra data. Just to name a few of the things that are possible ... most of them are already possible. 

  Aw, that was probably just Elvis without a haircut since 1977.   - OS

  Europe is still way ahead of us in that regard.

Better than Sean Penn playing "The Gunmen" while simultaneously saying guns should be illegal and violence in the media is ruining this country. The hypocrisy of Hollywood...knows no bounds. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

Sometimes I think we are. Certainly not everyone, but we seem to have some really sorry folks running around amongst us.

I'll throw this in the mix. One thing I have toyed with for a few years is a .357 sig AR15. I've talked with Dolomite ad-nauseum and we both agree it would work quite well with sourcing a barrel being the only real barrier. The advent of Glock magazine lowers alleviates the stress of feeding. A 6.8 SPC carries the same head size so a gas operated, pistol length gas system AR is very doable. With a 16 inch barrel the Sig should pick up a few more feet per second and become exponentially more accurate. What a thumper that would be! Fed from Glock magazines to boot!

I hit the Reloader's Bench in Mt Juliet last Saturday. They had more powder on the shelf than I had seen in years. I grabbed some 800x and HS6, but no longshot to be had. Almsot grabbed Autocomp, but realized I got a can of that last time but hadn't cracked it open yet. Side note, prices were very reasonable again. I remember $30-35/lb a few years ago. Before all the madness most things were $18-21/lb, this weekend things were $21-25/lb. Fair enough for me. I have to clean out the garage this week... can't hardly get to the reloading bench, haha! That's the way it always works for me. I reload in the winter months and then shoot it all up over the summer. I'm coming towards the end of my blasting ammo stash, so it's time to get to work.

  So...not evening acknoledging the 3rd or 4th?   I liked the firepower and everything in the 3rd. The 4th was sort of interesting showing the history of the town.   In as simple words as possible, if this 5th one is any good, it'll meet my expecations and I'll be quite happy. Some things you just like because you like them, not because they are great.

But but but the media said I can buy a gun at a gun shop with out a background check...

Barry and Michelle - the dating years ?? :) :)

Man, I really hate that I'll be at work when the world ends.

Runco. ..lived here all my life and never heard that story...sad story...dawgdoc the one I saw was brown, forgot to mention that Sent from my SCH-I435 using Tapatalk

  All these thousands of "sightings" and nobody ever gets a credible picture. Till now, and TWRA ain't denying this one, eh? Maybe they waited the three weeks or so to acknowledge it to have it analyzed to rule out digital fakery.   - OS

Almost half unpaid for , let's pony up  !

there are a few different people here that can make a holster for you depending on what you want, you've been around here for a while and should be able to search them out.

LMAO     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5cMZymSr0

Consider an M1A or perhaps an M1A Scout Squad.  I recently acquired one in Walnut and it's the bee's knees.  Haven't scoped it or reached out past 100 yards with irons yet but it is more than capable and I find myself questioning the need for any other rifles.   http://www.springfield-armory.com/products/m1a-scout-squad/

Congrats!  Be sure to give us a range report.

#Bearlivesmatter

The best flashlight to be had is the one what ain't got dead batteries in it when you actually NEED the dang thing.  

Complaining that Franklin Gun overcharges is like complaining about a politician telling a lie. You know'd that before you went in that place. Won't surprise me a bit one day when they start charging a cover charge to walk in the door.

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”   I’ve been playing the geocaching sport for 10 going on 11 years.  And, one of the very positive aspects of this game are the people I’ve me and befriended.  Prior to my consolidation of my work phone to my personal phone, there were more cachers in my contact list than family.  Outside of finding caches on private residential property, I have been to more homes of fellow cachers than members of the church I attend.   As a whole, we help each other out, via phone-a-friend, tagging along on cache runs and just plain ole fellowship.  Once, prior to a trip to Michigan, I contacted cachers in the area where I would be hunting and one replied giving me his phone number for PAF.  He asked about my agenda and on a Sunday, he suggested that we meet and I along with my daughter got a personal tour of Windsor, Ontario that was very enlightening.  When asked I have provided personal cache tours of my home region.  I have called upon my caching friends when my truck broke down in Millington, provided transportation from Memphis to Jackson when I returned from Kuwait on R&R and last year, asked a geo-couple from Nashville to keep my truck at their house as my family flew to Florida, saving me over $70 in parking fees.   Because of the game I have re-taken/taken up/ or increased my activity:  Scuba diving, kayaking, hiking, mountain biking and disc golf. As for my geo-accomplishments:    I am one of less than 1% in the game to complete the 81 terrain/difficultly grid. Have over 4,800 finds in total, occurring in four countries (US, Canada, Kuwait, Iraq ((last country earning me the title of combat cacher))), 26 US states and one district.    Been to and experience the sites of: Fall Creek Falls, TN USS Alabama in Mobile, AL Empire State Building, NYC Disney World Magic Kingsdom Alien Museum in Roswell, NM Southern most point in US Carlsbad Caverns, NM Grotto in Memphis St. Louis Arch Elvis Presley birthplace in Tupelo, MS Covered Bridge in Trimble, TN Lamberts in Sikeston, MO Ruby Falls in Chattanooga, TN   Battlefields at:  Yorktown, VA, Paducah, KY, Franklin, TN, Hartsville, TN, Nashville, TN, Confederate Mass grave near Hatchie River   Final resting places or places of death of: Chicken George (of Roots) Alex Haley Gen. Forrest Birdman of Alcatraz Stonewall Jackson (to include his main grave, where arm is buried and where he died) Johnny Cash Minnie Pearl

I'll be the one. Whenever you have an Easter egg hunt for adults that ends up with Ar15s and calling 911 for Deputy assistance, you have a stupid game. Sorry, my opinion only.

Reliability is the big one.