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I heard my name mentioned.....   Look, if you want to learn some skills for solving lethal force  interpersonal conflict without getting yelled at, belittled or made feel like you don't belong here then I've always got room for another student in class.   If you want a "boot camp" or high school lunch room experience or fraternity house hazing experience while someone tells you how bad ass they are ...then I'm NOT your guy.   I don't need to make myself feel good by trying to belittle students or to prove to anyone how bad ass I am.... I'm here to make YOU more bad ass than you were before you came to class. And that can be done without the over the top histrionics. If people are interested........they know where to find me. 

Here is a good video which addresses both instructor zero and the infamous Yeager, once you get halfway through to the range demonstration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBaISwLnrgo   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBaISwLnrgo ETA- Warning: Some language and scantily clad ladies.

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  Soak it in transmission fluid.

I know this is about Electric smokers , but I made an old school Pit from concerete foundation blocks and didnt even cement them toagther. I just layed them on top of each other and use two pieces of plywood for the top. It makes such awesome BBQ . The Blocks were $50 for a bundle and everything else was just cheap scrap wood ,expanded metal and rebar . I use an old 50 gallon drum barrel to burn my wood in . I cut small hole to get my shovel inside it and then shovel the wood coals over to my pit. Here is the pit and drum barrel . Its was cheap to make and will last several decades. Here are some chickens and three pork shoulders . The chickens take me 5 hours and the shoulders take around 10-15 hrs depending on thickness. I use Oak wood and Hickory Wood. [url=http://s768.photobucket.com/user/tercel89/media/pit1_zpsp8vpatpi.jpg.html][/URL] [url=http://s768.photobucket.com/user/tercel89/media/pit2_zpspynjgkw6.jpg.html][/URL]

It's a shame that Critical Incident Strategies isn't still around.  Todd and Dustin had a way of presenting good training that was applicable to 99.999% of what the average Joe needs to know about surviving an incident and they managed to do it without profanity, a boisterous YouTube channel or shopping for clothes at The Buckle.   The reports that I have heard coming back from students of Randy's (Cruel Hand Luke) classes are nothing but glowing with praise and I have likewise heard excellent things about Tom Givens and Reid Henrichs.   (By the way, Tom has been in the industry for about 25 years and knows a thing or two about gunfighting from first-hand experience.)   We're rather fortunate in Tennessee to have reputable trainers close and accessible to us.  We're also in close proximity to some folks I'm not an advocate of.

  OMG... the sister's shirts comment.  Nearly lost my drink.  Priceless.

Voting a party line without researching the candidates voting records, if there are any, is about like voting for a person because of his race. 

Those of you who voted for free crap are getting what you deserve. Those of you who didn't....welcome to the reality created by those who did.

Our forefathers faced similar oppressive taxation, albeit not in the form of "healthcare reform".   They did something about it too.   I wonder when the American taxpayers will finally hit the limit of what they are willing to put up with?

If you read what I posted, Dave will let me know this week

  Well there you go... you don't even need to carry your gun.   :cool:

Of the ones mentioned I would pick Reid. I would also suggest you get a hold of Cruel Hand Luke. He supports this forum by being a vendor. He also regularly passes along his knowledge on the forum as well.

I looked far and wide when I was playing with my .458 SOCOM. That thing stings a little. I ordered one of these, but will probably get more. Hard to beat LimbSaver pads.... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AU6EPQO?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

For my birthday my brother gave me a Mosin nagant and my wife gave me a Springfield XDS-9 3.3, Yup I'd say it was a good day for sure.

No, we just had a policy through them for our family's coverage. Paid roughly $500/month for good coverage, albeit with an $11000 family deductible. As a small business owner for the last 10 years, we've definitely become informed consumers of healthcare. I think what really makes my wife mad is that we've really been careful consumers of healthcare. And now, as usual we're being punished for making careful choices as we float this doomed experiment. I could have the healthcare system fixed by breakfast tomorrow morning and still get a good night's sleep tonight. Problem is the system is rigged. We the people are going to lose.

That's exactly how I feel about glocks. Who woulda thunk it?

Funny how no one can explain how if Bush was supposedly so anti 2nd Amendment but yet he put ZERO effort into renewing the AWB in 2004.....it was simply allowed to go away and that was that....   Do we really think that if he REALLY wanted an AWB renewal that he would not have suggested to Tom Delay (the speaker of the house at the time) that they allow the renewal to happen and to come to a vote?   So did he just "forget" to get an AWB done on his watch? Or was he saying what he felt he had to say to get elected and allow the Republican controlled congress to do their job?   The "fix was in" on the AWB expiring and most people in the industry knew that it was NOT going to get renewed according to what Tom Delay's office was telling us in the summer of 2004. There was NO support for it from the White House and they (the speaker's office) were making sure that it did not get support in the congress......

This was a picture of a slide I took in my annual benefits meeting a couple of weeks ago. And this boys and girls is why it was passed as a TAX.

I've decided to get mine from Willis68 HQ for a while.

I'm so thankful that videos like this exist.   My training dollars are limited and these videos really help narrow down where not to spend them...

Sorry to rain on your parade, but Bush would have signed the assault weapons ban in a heart beat. He also supported mandatory background checks on all gun sales.... Also, the landmark Heller v DC court case, Bush's DOJ fought tooth and nail to support the complete handgun ban in Washington for more than 4 years. Don't believe me, here is Bush in his own words, complaining about the AWB not being renewed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh8oubGJo8M BTW, John Kasich who is currently running for President as a Republican helped round up 48 republican votes in the house to get the AWB passed in the first place.... Just a quick note, Kasich, even though he campaigned and voted for the AWB, has an A rating from the NRA, whats wrong with that picture?

The plethora of snakes in North America have helped prevent plague and famine throughout history. Take away the snakes and watch the rodent population explode.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but.... A vote for a democrat is a vote against the Second Amendment as originally intended by our framers. They are patently Anti-Second Amendment. None of the democrats running for the office of president are pro-2A in the sense of "shall not be infringed" for law abiding citizens. They're all in favor of Assault Weapons bans, which again, are modern semi-auto sporting rifles, and numerous other restrictions, such as magazine capacity limits, etc. Vote accordingly so we don't have another Clinton era of Second Amendment (Constitutional) oppression! If we lose these rights now, we'll never get them back because I don't believe democrats will allow another sunset clause since it backfired on them when we got a Republican president (Bush) who refused to renew the law. Again, vote accordingly. Your constitutional rights are at stake here! :usa:

Thanks for all the guys that made suggestions for the name of this Knife! I have decided to name will be Predator. 13 inches total 8 1/2 inch blade, made from 5/32 of an inch 01 tool steel, 2 inch wide stock at the widest point, hardening to 61 from peters heat treating. The scales are orange canvas Micarta with bright yellow G-10 liners and very heavy beautiful copper tubes. The scales were sprayed with an antiskid material so it will never slip out of your hands !!The blade was acid etched and taken down to a very very very smooth finish. There is no sheath for this knife, I can guide you to where you can have one made. This particular knife was flat ground almost to zero in the heat treating came out absolutely perfect I can probably guarantee you'll never find a knife sharper than this as it is a practical and legitimate razor blade that can stand up to huge punishment a beautiful combination of severe performance and toughness !! Contact me on my personal email if anyone is interested !! Here's a shot of the anti-slip spray it's really really cool stuff

I've taken courses at Yeager's place, along with a Army SF guy I know. Yeager himself didn't have too much to do with our course, more the people he has working there (such as Reid at the time). FWIW, I didn't get yelled at, or anything of the sort. Is Yeager someone I'd want to hang out with? No. But I took the course because of who worked there, not really because of him. I learned a lot, and even more impressive to me is the SF fella told me he learned as well, which really stood out to me. I don't care where you do your training or with whom you do it with. I'm not paying for it, I don't care. I'm definitely not telling you that some of the things posted in this thread aren't absolutely true. I just figured since I had actually taken a class there I should speak up. I will personally do my training from here on at Valor Ridge because I'm a fan of Reid's attitude and ethic. As far as the Zero vs. Yeager thing, as far as I know (and I believe the video Zero posted said) Zero does not train civilians, so that comparison is apples to oranges. As far as background, it's my understanding that Zero has a pretty extensive background with Special Forces and private security type folks. So again, apples to bowling balls Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The only time that matters is when your time is up ;)

The training classes at Royal Range in Nashville should be up and running by the spring. The training provided by their head trainer will be top notch. No silly videos or fluff, just good solid foundational training.

In my experience, I've found the people that know what they're doing- whether it's metalwork, leatherwork, horse training, firearms training, etc are out there doing it and not making internet videos of themselves doing it so they can "prove" that they know what they're doing. Todd and Dustin had a good thing going, and didn't need goofy videos to prove it.

  I don't have cable and so I watch TWD with friends at their house.  My first comment as Morgan was heading out the door to leave the cabin was, "Be danged if I'd leave that place behind to go wandering around among walkers, again.  He wouldn't have to stay there alone, as Eastman cautioned him against doing.  Instead, I'd use it as a base to start a community.  The first thing I'd do is go and find those two people he saved and bring them back there."    I know they wanted to get Morgan back with Rick and his group but I think it would have been more interesting if Morgan had ended up bringing a few people to the cabin and training them in Aikido just as Eastman trained him before he left.  They could have expanded the gardens, etc. and - once they were established and he knew they could protect themselves and that Eastman's cabin wouldn't be going to waste - then Morgan could have told them one day that he was leaving.  Even if he had only brought those two people he encountered in the forest back and helped them get set up to feed and defend themselves it would have been more satisfying.  Instead, it was like, "All life is precious but not precious enough for me to postpone my walkabout for a few weeks to save those two, obviously good people who I just ran across in the woods and possibly even start a safe haven/community that could be here even after I am gone."

:jester: They shouldn't mess with God's time. If God wanted us to be on DST he would have made us on DST. :rofl:

If our economy isn’t fixed the 2nd amendment won’t matter. I couldn’t possibly care any less what a Federal government candidate thinks about the 2nd amendment; that fight has been fought and will be left up to our state legislators. I care what they can do for the economy at the Federal level. So I certainly won’t be voting for any Democrats I’ve seen.

I've been looking at a Winchester Model 250 lever action in 22LR, but I've never owned one or known anyone that has. Does anyone know anything about these rifles? All I really know is that they were made from '63 until 2005. How accurate are they? dependable?  Any help appreciated.

While all career politicians seem to be liars, the Democrats are far in the lead and will use any means possible to further their agenda. They must spend a lot of time reading the Koran, if you get my drift.

Thanks for the tip!  I found some of this and you are correct on all counts. The salt was one major drawback for me with Tony's, but the flavor is better also. I'll be frying up some crappie soon and I'll be adding this to my homemade fish fry mix.  :up:

In my opinion, he's been running his mouth and hitting the HGH since entering the public sector as an instructor in an attempt to compensate for his acts of cowardice back when he was a pretend "operator". He's a puffy little peacock, and he figures if he can present himself as a AAA personality, take some roids and wear his little sister's shirts, people will be less likely to question his cowardice under fire and buy time in his courses. Or maybe he is the badass he wants everyone to think he is. I don't think so, but maybe he believes it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm sorry for your loss but you may be in luck I think there are more than 2 gems here.    -Doesn't look like the 5100 is in great shape I would expect it to bring around $250 in current condition, possibly a little more if you clean it up.  -That 03A3 is a Remington 1903 I'm no expert on the different nomenclatures of 1903s, you need to have someone that is an expert on them take a look at it so you know exactly what it is, it wouldn't surprise me if that gun brings $1000 from what I see on GB. -That DM 101 I think should bring around $250.  There are two on GB that are in better shape for $350 but there are no bidders.   -If that Sport King is as clean as it looks it may bring around $400, these are superb shooters. -Your 1911 could bring better than $2000 that's another one you need to get a professional opinion of, I'm just a guy on the internet. -Lastly, your 15-4, I think you will see $400-500 out of it.   Please don't rely on anything I've said, I'm shooting out these prices based on what I've seen and a little help from GB, I'm just trying to give you an idea of what they may bring. 

You don't need a "breacher's tip". Make sure you have your angles correct, the breaching round will do the rest.

I would imagine handloading .45 for the colts, ubertis and cimmarons is a lot of fun. Especially with hard cast bullets

Very quick about shipping.  I've had numerous positive experiences with them; no negative.

Me and my old man discussed this before. They came up with DST in the 30's, but it never made sense. My Grandpa was a farmer just like all our family has been. The work started when the sun rose and stopped when it set. It never made one bit of difference what the clock said. The only reason for the clock was because he was a third shift coal miner so he knew when to leave for work. Farmers run off daylight not clock time. Sent from behind the anvil

Upon hearing about Daylight Savings Time for the first time an Indian Chief said. "Only the white man would think that you could cut a foot off of one end of a blanket, sew it on the other end and think you had a longer blanket" 

  F- what ever time change that makes it dark at 4:30!

I grew up in Mt. Juliet and spent a lot of time in Lebanon with my grand parents.  I've lived elsewhere since 2004 and moved back to Mt. Juliet this summer.  Well, Lebanon isn't the bigger of the two towns anymore and the whole county has been saturated with tons of people moving in from other places.  Unfortunatley it seems that most of them are yuppie liberals that didn't like it where they lived and want to make our home exactly like where they came from.  Mt. Juliet was more or less an agricultural community when I was growing up but now there are very few farms left.  We traded all of our farms for yuppie housing, if that's not depressing I don't know what is.  I did see a tractor on Mt. Juliet road between Walmart and Providence during rush hour, made me laugh when I thought about how many of those yuppies must be mad about being stuck behind a tractor.

The scales look sharply keeled, which you don't see in corn and rat snakes.

If it has Made in Tennessee stamped on the frame I'll add it to the "To Buy" list otherwise probably not. But FWIW I do consider it a solid upgrade to the 92FS I have stashed away in the gun safe. I'm not letting it get away either, it might be big and clunky but it goes bang every time I want it to and is more accurate than I'm capable of proving with it.

I thought it was Neal..lol... screamed at him to not touch it.. it just had been run over by our neighbor on the road. What threw me off are the scales..

You need to find some Slap Ya Mama and give that a shot instead of Tony's. Its way less salty and tastes a lot better. It has slowly taken over as the #1 seasoning out of Louisiana over the last couple of years. Its great stuff.

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Comms, Not sure if you watched any of the reloading vids on you tube. Type a search with press you want to see and you get an idea of what you have to go through. "Most" of the videos are really educational and you also get an opinion of the operators good and bad of the press they run. I shoot mostly pistol and reload on a Dillon SDB. It's been a very reliable press and has the no BS warranty which is a plus ! The die sets are only usable in the SDB press. Extra tool heads make caliber change over faster and less trouble as your setting don't change. Used presses and die sets are always found fer sale and save you some $$ from new, but not to much . With the amount of pistol shooting you do it's a good option in a progressive press. The Dillon 550 uses same dies as all the other presses and tool heads save time in change over. Yes you have to rotate the plate but once you establish a routine it will pump out Ammo. If you are wanting to speed load, then save your self lots of trouble and just purchase Ammo ! NEVER BE IN A HURRY TO RELOAD ! If time is an issue, and you don't have much time, DRIVE FAST to your local store and buy ammo. Just my $.02 worth. Be safe always, Mike