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Colion Noir is usually spot on for my money.  He's also great at reaching a younger and more diverse crowd, which can only help grow support for guns.    Colion also knows how to use social media to its potential which I think is the way forward for the message.  Take Facebook for example...Jerry Miculek has more "Likes" on his page at 473,803 vs. Colion's 277,005, but Colion's Facebook page has 70,343 "People Talking About This" to Jerry's 6,403.  Big key to getting people to view his videos and into the cause.

What is confidence? A Navy Seal walks into a bar and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman. He gives her a quick glance then casually looks at his new Apple watch for a moment.  The woman notices this and asks, "Is your date running late?" "No," he replies, "just got this state-of-the-art Apple watch, and I was just testing it."  The intrigued woman says, "A state-of-the-art watch? What's so special about it?" He says, "It uses alpha waves to talk to me telepathically."  The lady says, "What's it telling you now?"  "Well, it says you're not wearing any panties."  The woman giggles and replies, "Well it must be broken because I am wearing panties!"  The Navy Seal smirks, taps his watch and says, "Darn thing's an hour fast."      And that, my friends.......is  Confidence!

POST THEM!!!!!!

all the wal marts around my area never has anything.  the same old group of old farts gets the ammo here.  i hope they have to eat it.    

  I searched for "Tennessee logo" in the threads and came up with zilch.  Then I painstakingly read every thread all the way to June until I had to stick my finger into an electric lamp socket just to get my brain re-synched.  I sent private messages to several in-the-know TGO member fanboys who searched their memories for a similar thread and all I got back was, "Why don't you grow a pair and step up with a new OP?"  Ok, my fault that I didn't include monkeylizard and OS in that clique.  I figured they'd be too busy reading the gun rags, waging caliber wars or having a beer with hickok45 to lower themselves to respond to a peon like me with only a measly thousand posts.  So out went my manhood on the table and it got sliced up like a Thanksgiving turkey.  I'm sure I'll heal after a few dozen Walker, Texas Ranger episodes and a sampling of every bottle in the whiskey and spirits thread.  Or maybe get a new computer, change my username and email address and sign up as "Rawhead Tac-Man" and live the rest of my life in the basement with a neon Glock sign and R. Lee Ermey poster.  But, I got a few replies to this new thread, so I really should be happy for now.    :drama: 

  :owned:   What say we just forget the whole thing, huh fellas?  I'll be spending the next few weeks on the Paper Doll Forum.  When I get back, I'll put up my guns for sale to help pay for my Caitlyn Jenner operation.  Toodle-oo.

Blue collar worker you say.  My perception is that the majority of the dem voters live in urban areas, and don't work.  You know the low information crowd.

The FSD shoot is to raise money for Toys for Tots.  It's not a LE sanctioned or demonstration.  I can assure everyone here none of these weapons are owned by any LE agency nor would they sponsor any such event... that, you can definitely thank the media for.    We do hope to raise money for a good cause and let you folks shoot some guns you might not have had an opportunity to shoot before.  None of us backing this are pocketing a cent from it.  On top of that I'm sure it's going to cost us all several thousand in maintenance after the shoot.  These things are not cheap to keep running and I'm not talking about the ammo.    But come on JR, not you too ;o) .. et tu Brute ;o) ... As far as to why... I have to ask why not? We all remember the BOA robbery in LA with the full autos and the police were outgunned for over an hour?  They were outgunned because of the touchy feely media pressure.  You are correct though, the media has every department on their toes and under normal circumstances most of this weaponry would not be needed.  Our SWAT only has a few select fire weapons but we ourselves have been in a few shootings recently where our deputies did not even have patrol rifles.  Just by fate backup arrived who did and ended the firefight and we went home.  I can tell you  It's a daunting task to engage someone with a rifle, even a deer rifle and all you have is a G22.  Is a 240B or SAW needed, 99.9% of the time heck no... I hope and pray they're never needed but at the same time I see nothing wrong with any agency being prepared.  You don't normally need a sledgehammer to drive a thumbtack but if you show up and there's a railroad tie that needs hammering would be nice to have that sledgehammer.  The same media that looks at that boat or any of our guns and says why would also be the one when 50 people are killed by some jacked up meth head with an arsenal at his disposal asking why we were not prepared for the worse.  You can't win with these jerks and I for one don't waste an ounce of worry on what our leader thinks is too much... when he walks around without his secret service detail armed to the tee then he can throw stones at us.    Our job is to protect the public and ALL of us go home... period... it's not supposed to be fair.. we don't start the fights but we are tasked with meeting force with force.    We ARE responsible for every round that leaves any of our weapons and every officer knows that.  Given this, media or not, I would never expect any LE agency, border or not, to roll up onto any public demonstration anywhere (not just TN) with a MRAP mounted with LMGs.  Same token though, I'm sure the THP doesn't fire up the boat above when they want to check to be sure folks fishing licenses are up to date... these weapons have specific purposes and would be used in special circumstances.  I'm sure Ferguson had much more firepower than they showed up with... but their officers riding up in MRAP with the crowd throwing rocks and god knows what, I don't see any harm in that at all.  My media rant is why should those in charge of order be concerned with how they look when they're up against people who clearly have no issue with disobeying the laws.... The first level of force in any situation is officer presence... Hopefully that alone discourages most the rift raft... But even when THP boat is just being trailered down the interstate, it's serving a purpose in my mind...if nothing more it says don't start nothing, won't be nothing!   I dig the bravos too!  little jealous, would love to drop that sucker in at Watts Bar ;o)

  Such old news, figgered everybody knows. Got any updates on how that War of Northern Aggression thang is going? ;) :)   - OS

This is a Springfield 1863. I feel sure that it saw action in the civil war. Muzzle loaders were obsolete by the end of the war. Many were destroyed. Many were fitted with a trap door option. Many were taken by poor soldiers to hunt with, either as a rifle or shotgun conversion. The first pic shows the gun as a whole. The next one shows where the owner carved his initials in the gun, which I've seen in other period guns. The final one is the interesting one. There are three notches carved into the underside of the stock right in front of the butt plate. Of course, there is no way to say for sure what they represent, though it caught my attention and imagination.

This is made from 1/4" thick 1095 carbon steel and is a whopping 17" long with a blade length on 12". It has red oak scales and SS pins and lanyard hole. It's double acid etched. It's headed to the sheath maker tomorrow for a sheath exactly like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcgbXSCyAMo

Said something to her about her empty holster?  Sounds like the woman was completely decked out in her mall ninja uniform.  Ridiculous?  Yes, but still not illegal.  To my knowledge  DMV employees are not peace officers.

It's great that happened, however the reason that many do not help anymore isn't because they don't have a heart, but because of liability. People want to sue for anything now, looking for a payday. "Helping" someone now could very well mean loss of a job and costing their dept thousands or millions in lawsuits. If you try to pull someone out of a ditch and something on their car breaks, you get sued. If anything happens on their cars electrical system after he jumped them off, likely to be sued. My cousin(civilian non LEO) stopped to help someone on the side of the road, they pulled a gun on him, he threw his hands up in a natural reflex reaction ( like to stop it) and they shot him in the hand and drove off. He now has no use in that hand. Like I said, it's a risk stopping to help someone any more unless you happened to know them.

Thanks for understanding, btq96r.  I guess it's time I finally upgrade from this IBM PC Jr.  :waiting:

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Shoot, that's pretty cool lookin! He probably wasn't ever gonna be prettier than he is now, might as well take him out of the gene pool. Make a cool European mount!

Am I the only one that wonders why a state needs a logo? Our flag kinda has one built in with the 3 stars, no? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There's someone besides Hickcock45?

Heck, I'm all for keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.  I'm just not willing to give up my rights to accomplish that, plus that wouldn't accomplish that task anyway, IMO it's just an excuse to disarm America, Bernie isn't stupid he knows this.    I noticed last night on the debate it was said several times that it wasn't their goal to infringe on the hunting traditions of America.  These clowns need to realize that our gun rights have absolutely NOTHING to do with hunting. 

IF Sanders won, he would be the first socialist elected POTUS since 2008.

For the uninitiated, don't let the "Outlaw" thing discourage you.  These things are FUN.  You young folks get there early to help set up: those things are heavy.  Put your gym membership to work. 

Mixed feelings here. If they can prove that the shop was negligent, nail them to the wall. If they can't prove it, I say slippery slope. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dude is full of horse shoes from what I can see in my FFL regulations guide. I'll do a more through search and hopefully one or some of our vetted dealers here can clarify, but the whole thing seems super fishy to me. He's advising you that the sale is a crime, yet encouraging you to commit said crime by... selling it to him. Only for $100 less than advertised.     Riiiiiiiggggghhhhht. That makes perfect sense in crazy land.*     Now I will say I would personally spend the couple of bucks fixing the safety before I sold it, but then again thats in part because I too would low ball the hell out someone selling a broken  gun. I wouldn't try to piss down their neck and tell them it was raining, but I wouldn't buy one like that for anything less than a serious discount, existence of kits for pistols and all.           *Crazy Land.  Population: That guy.

It might just be me, but I'd not sell or trade until it was fixed regardless of the law.

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

If they were going for the third grade look, they could have done it themselves. Heck it only took me 1 minute to come up with my third grade version.

Bought a new pistol for the wife from Bud's and of course had to send to a FFL. When selecting which one to use, I saw some rather ridiculous prices. Franklin Gun shop was charging $70 ......to push some paper. Most seem to be around $35-40 which I also think is ridiculous. Nashville Pawn was lowest at $25. Anyone else noticed this escalation in FFT transfer fees?   Making me think that maybe I need to get my FFL license.       Update: Nashville Pawn did charge $25 for FFL transfer but added a $10 for TICs fee

I keep meaning to post this but life has been kicking my butt lately and haven't had much inter webs time. Surplusammo.com runs a 24hr sale every month or so on Armscor 55gr fmj and I think the sale price is around $281 + shipping for 4,000 projectiles. The shipping bumped it up to $320 ($0.08 ea) which is better than anything I've sourced locally in some time. Here's where it gets good, they have now gone to free shipping on them and I think that's all the time so that puts you at about $0.07ea when on sale. I found out that they have a coupon code "saarocks!" Which takes an extra 5% off every item you purchase (even sale items) which put my last purchase at about $0.065 per projectile. You can buy them in lesser qty (500,1,000 or 2,000) if you want but the price does go up slightly. I think the non sale price is like $29? So use the code and free shipping option and it's still pretty cheap. Anyways, just thought I'd post this in case anyone else is tired of paying $89+ per thousand like I was. If the code doesn't work then try it without the "!" But I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be there and I'm pretty sure it said that the code was good all the time.

Folks like that just don't get it.

Just roll your floor jack under the differential and Jack it up. Once the tires are about 5 or 6 inches off the ground make some sort of cribbing and stack underneath the reciever hitch the lower the diff back down. The tires should almost be on the ground. Chock the front too.

I really like the 15 year, thats not just hype either.  I love the full body and flavor.  Opinions vary

I was trying to be funny with the "weighting" [emoji20] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hickok45 , Colion Noir , Hank Strange , Sootch00, iraqveteran8888 .  jiujitsu2000 is really awesome about his reloading videos . He is very down to earth and teaches reloading on videos and makes it very easy to understand .

I'm all in favor of the police having anything they need. As long as it's also available to citizens. Passage of the 1986 FOPA was the first time in US history that citizens were forbidden from having weapons that were standard issue to a soldier.

Maybe they did it to attract a bunch of Yankees to move down here and tell us how to do things.

Great price! Try John J Bowman - it's even better and no one has figured it out yet

Academy in Smyrna still had about 20 500rd bricks of Remington thunderbolts at 9pm today for $24.99. I assume they didn't sell them all in their last hour, so there will still be more tomorrow.

The majority of the youtubers that do firearm reviews have moved to a website called full30.com check it out. Also this is a good break down of the best one https://youtu.be/o-wuhtyHzz0

Pretty cool. Almost like he has a drop tine :) Nice pair of yotes, too.

You might also try some natural lump charcoal. I have a Big Green Egg smoker and the BGE brand of charcoal is made by Royal Oak. It's all hardwoods, oak and hickory. You can purchase it online or at any Big Green Egg dealer. About $20 for a twenty pound bag. I've tried a lot of cheaper lump charcoals and found a lot of crap like nails and screws in the ash but never any problems out of the BGE brand. I've turned out some great BBQ tenderloin and shoulders. As soon as I fire it up my neighbors start coming out of the woodwork. You can't beat the flavor and it's easy to transport.

    Yep! Carnik Con!!!!!!!!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgpEuCUm6SE

My opinion from both sides.   As the seller or trader- I would make sure to inform the potential buyer that the safety did not function properly and with all the recent lawsuit buzz I would probably draw up a document stating such and make sure to have it signed and dated by both parties to have something in writing just in case. It might be butt wipe with ink on it in a court of law but I'd at least feel better about selling a "broken" gun.   As the buyer- I would expose it as a flaw in the gun and try to haggle you down with it :)  But I wouldn't preach law to you, however true or not. That approach never flies with me when I'm selling something.   Personally I would wait for another rainy day and attempt another fix of that safety. Or find someone who will :))

After 20 rounds sounds like it may be the chamber getting dirty. If he cleans it after the jams occur does it work again for 20 rounds?

I've been arrested three times.    First was a gun charge in another state and was an A misdemeanor, fine plus 1 year in jail. Dismissed.    Second was a felony assault. Unfounded by DA.    Third was a DUI. Convicted.    I've been clean and sober for 16.5 years and not one lick of trouble since. However, I should have been arrested a dozen times prior.    I had a rough life, made my bed and slept in it. I own the trouble I caused and got into.    Stupid people do stupid things, the smart people clean up there messes and never return to it. 

  Thanks, I just found my next BCG

Soon enough I will be traveling around the state at gun shows and will be selling Protech and eventually others I assure you I will give the best prices and service that you all will find anywhere

In the second pic... is that the roll pin I see exposed in the buffer tube? If so, can you get some narrow needle nosed pliers on it and wiggle/push it out a little? Withe the cost of that buffer, I understand not wanting to mangle it.

Thats actually a really good price. Had one and down sized to a 26 - never gave me any issues. Id be all over that like Bill Cosby on unconcious groupies. Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

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.

That price for a new logo was absurd.  $46k for what is essentially a 12yr old level of graphic design?  They could have had a held a contest for high school & college students with a $500 gift card as a reward and gotten some decent submissions.   They need to probe hard between who had authorization for that contract and the people of the agency it went to for links.  If this was simple stupidity and not corruption in some way I'll be...well, still pissed, but astoundingly pissed instead of same old corruption pissed.