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Being full of Christmas cheer and all, I'm giving away two six-month TGO Benefactor Subscriptions. *EDIT* Our very own Fourtyfive has generously offered to pitch in for a one-year Benefactor Subscription. That makes a total of three winners! *EDIT* An extremely generous member of TGO who wishes to remain anonymous has offered to add two Lifetime Benefactor subscriptions to the giveaway. That makes a total of 5 winners. RULES: Must have a minimum 30 posts prior to the creation of this giveaway. OR You must have a minimum of one positive TGO iTrader feedback prior to the creation of this giveaway. If you have ANY negative feedback, you are not eligible to participate. Current Benefactors are not eligible to participate. If you meet the criteria above, simply post "Merry Christmas" to this thread for your chance to win. Two random winners will be chosen on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas and good luck to all.

These toys are side by side. Sandpeople always stand single file to hide their numbers.  

Liberals piss me off. Guns piss liberals off. Any questions? :)

I like to go light. Mall ninja is for amateurs. I go scuba ninja.

How else am I going to post operator pictures of myself onto Facebook?  Chicks dig selfies with military style rifles.  Just ask them.

Among other reasons....because I can. :)

One of my favorite holiday traditions...TDR's Christmas pay it forward!

We have a few ladies here. I don't want to steal them away from their husbands by tempting them with a constant reminder of my sex appeal.

Can't say enough good things about the HP. Only negatives are possible hammer bite and trigger. Both are fixable. Just remember the HP is what John Browning wanted the 1911 to be. It was his dream design. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

I am not the man, but I do know the man. His birth is what this season is about.

While I have already introduced myself, I thought I would start another post that others thinking of joining the TGO community.   I lurked around the TGO forum for a while then signed up for a free membership. After I did I found that other members have been VERY helpful and willing to share their knowledge. I am so impressed that i signed up as a paid member. Frankly it’s a bargain. For the cost of a good dinner with a drink I now have access to the TGO community and am doing my part to keep it up and running.   Thanks to everyone here at TGO and I look forward to being a member of this fine community for a long time!   Bob

Yes it does. Yes. It. Does.

because a gun is more fun than reading self-absorbed liberal hipster poetry....

I would say that if you get offended because someone says Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays respectively, it is you with the problem.  When did we become a nation of weenie's on everything.

If it ain't broke.....

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/16/us/los-angeles-sheriffs-department-guns-report/index.html   And, on top of that, your gun is more sensitive than say, a Beretta. So, make sure and give it a hug tonight.   ;)

Couldn't believe it a Star Wars figure has hit the shelf ready for jihad against all infidels. Using a trick from another TGO member i did my part to minimize jihadi/ Isis exposure to our "yutes" If you see them at a store near you place them in an about face.

The whole shebang costed me a fair bit of money, but after 10± years, my girlfriend finally obtained her HCP. I figured a gun of her own would be the next logical step. I picked up a 9mm Shield (her choice) and had Amendment 2 Custom Coating make it all purdy with some pink Cerakote. With her Birthday and Christmas being only a few days apart, she has somewhat reluctantly accepted the occasional Happy Birthday/Merry Christmas gift. I haven't been brave enough to try and get away with that, until now. With the HCP class, HCP itself, the Shield, and the Cerakoting, I think I was able to get away with it this year. She's super stoked!

I'm a new compared to all of you. Monkey had a permit and an dec when we met and I thought he was nuts. I never had any experience at all with them. That has obviously changed now. While we purchase with the intent of self defense, range time is always in the back of my head. I love it. And I think it makes it a fun "hobby" for us to do together.    That is up until he started liking guns I had that he didn't. Now it's an all out competition in this house about who has what and all that. I have to bribe him to leave me alone by making trips to Knoxville for Bourbon and GT has seen some business for me. I keep thinkinging if I bribe give him enough great gifts, that I might be able to get that Dan Wesson I have had my eye on.

:panic: .........you mean there are more????? Gosh!!! I just showed that one to Kasey and she went and hid under a.. :hiding:  .................... :shrug:  

Once something is seen, it cannot be unseen..... :stunned: :stunned: :panic:

There is nothing I can say that can improve on this!!!!! Priceless for sure.................. :rofl: :rofl:

Got this in my e-mail. I liked it a lot. --------------------------- (Apparently not from the original source quoted in the e-mail I received, but rather from Ben Stein in 2005)   My confession: I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat... Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old but there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking. In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school... The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Steven Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about.. And we said okay.. Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Are you laughing yet? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

I have self-defense as the primary reason, but I also very much enjoy shooting for my personal enjoyment.  My guns are bought with a combination of both in mind, but I don't have a gun I couldn't use in some self-defense scenario and doubt I'll ever buy one that couldn't fit a role for that need somewhere.

Because they're like Lay's Chips, can't have just one.

Just for fun and just in case.

Hmmm.... I was hoping to see an option that said "2nd Amendment" because that's my reason. :)

i am pretty sure there are more important things to be concerned with than merry christmas or happy holidays

The most obvious answer of course would be for defensive purposes. But I grew up in a rural area in the 50's and early 60's, so hunting was their primary use then.

  Hey!  I don't need a big truck to have a small pecker!  I can do that just fine without the truck, thank you very much!

its amazing how completely metal guns shoot when you've been shooting plastic. brings more fun to shooting. 

Some of the most perfectly finished semiauto handguns ive ever handled were FN Browning Hipowers... They are a work of art... As to reliablility... They are as reliable as any semiauto can be with good magazines... As to shooting... They shoot like a dream... If ya are into 9mm, ya need a hipower...    leroy

Liberals make my sick. that is all.

Thanks for showing me that. Signature is updated. Sent from my iPhone using tapatalk. Now here are some senseless lyrics from Beck: In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey Butane in my veins So I'm out to cut the junkie With the plastic eyeballs, Spray-paint the vegetables Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose Kill the headlights And put it in neutral Stock car flaming' with a loser And the cruise control Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D Got a couple of couches, Sleep on the love seat Someone keeps saying' I'm insane to complain About a shotgun wedding And a stain on my shirt Don't believe everything that you breathe You get a parking violation And a maggot on your sleeve So shave your face With some mace in the dark Saving' all your food stamps And burning' down the trailer park (Yo. Cut it.) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Double-barrel buckshot) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare Banned all the music with a phony gas chamber 'Cuz one's got a weasel And the other's got a flag One's on the pole, shove the other in a bag With the rerun shows And the cocaine nose-job The daytime crap of the folksinger slop He hung himself with a guitar string Slap the turkey-neck And it's hanging' from a pigeon wing You can't write if you can't relate Trade the cash for the beef For the body for the hate And my time is a piece of wax Falling' on a termite Who's choking' on the splinters Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Get crazy with the cheeze whiz) Soy un perdedor* I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Drive-by body-pierce) (Yo, bring it on down) Soooooooyy.... [Chorus backwards] (I'm a driver; I'm the winner; Things are gonna change I can feel it) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (I can't believe you) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? [Repeat] (Sprechen sie Deutsch, baby?) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Know what I'm saying

I knew there was a good reason I did not install it on my tablet.           Sent from the woods using voodoo. :rofl:

Ha! Friend of mine was just telling me what a great deal on his new truck. Ford F-350, 2015, diesel big ass engine 4 wheel drive all the goodies, etc,blah,blah. Listed at $65,00 and he was so thrilled to bring it home at $56,000. What the hell are people smoking?

My Secret Santa came today! WOW WOW hit it right outta the park.... [/URL]">http://[URL=http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/Armybrat1961/media/PC172280_zps8zhelcty.jpg.html][/URL] and now in use [/URL]">http://[URL=http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/Armybrat1961/media/PC172281_zpseyicbsfa.jpg.html][/URL] Excellent and thank you Secret Santa!

  I should have known better than to post this, rear main seal started pouring oil today ...

What, no zombie apocalypse choice?

Well I started a care bear online petition because these figures hurt my feelings and the Star Wars people are insensitive to the anti jihadi community. So far we've massed over 589000 signatures to have theses offensive Isis replicas removed from the store and 12 signatures that want to keep them in the store and 1 signature from the lgbt community that thinks these jihadi toys are anti lgbt. Thank the lord for GI Joe and batman ! On a side note having the klansmen and jihadists side by side in a French dept store seems par for course. Left field all he way!

Other: Because no one has the right to tell me what I can/cannot own so long as I don't use such things as a means to initiate aggression on others.

I never thought to own one until I received some of my father's when he passed(I was 30 at the time). I have since started my own collection and got my permit 4 months after we said our goodbyes.

Initially it was for self defense. The restaurant I worked at was robbed at gunpoint one night which really opened my eyes. Now I love shooting. I also want to be prepared for some sort of SHTF event.

" I do it because that's the way I was raised...and believe." Just a little add on, buddy. Hope you don't mind. Merry Christmas...ya'll! Said in a Southern Redneck drawl.

I've owned several Browing Hi Powers over the years and still have the first one I purchased about fourty years ago. As to how reliable they are, well some of the earlier models were a bit particular about what type of JHP ammunition you tried to run though them. That however was and to some extent still is a problem with some other older pistols. Simple solution, as with any other pistol, find out what the gun shoots best and stockpile a supply of same.

I have owned and still own many Hi Powers. For me it is a must have gun. At one time it was the most used military pistol in the world.

As far as the Christmas Trees go I had a long standing falling out with the manager at the local Lowes store here about 6 years ago about their sign that said in big bold letters "HOLIDAY TREES FOR SALE" I walked into the store and a clerk ask me if he could help me and I told him I was looking for a Christmas Tree. He said real of artificial and I said  real. He took me out side and pointed to the trees called Holiday Trees. I told him I didn't want a Holiday Tree, I wanted a Christmas Tree. He knew quite quickly he was in over his head so he requested a manager come and assist him. I went through the same thing with the management  and he finally told me the only Christmas Trees they have are fake and walked away with his clerk in tow. On New Years Eve I was back and there was no Holiday Trees to be found and I asked the a clerk to speak to the management. Dang if it was not the same guy. I asked him were all the Holiday Trees were at since after all New Years day was a Holiday and I wanted Holiday Tree. He just looked at me and said they were sold out and walked away. He saw me again on Easter and Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day. Finally he asked me just what my problem is and I said political correctness is my problem and companies that kiss Politically Corrects ass. He ask me for my name if I had an email and I gave him both. Somewhere on one of my old computers I have their letter stored and it is such a great email letter I am hoping to find it so I can post it. In the end I won the battle of the Christmas Trees in the Gallatin store that i know of. When the real trees went up for sale at the store the sign read. "CHRISTMAS TREES ON SALE." That year Lowes actually did sell out of live trees for the first time in about 5 years. None were thrown out. Walmart followed the next year here and employees in both stores began wishing people Merry Christmas again. Just a small victory but a victory none the less................jmho

I'm not sure I want to make that big a statement :hiding:

Felt the need to post.             Posted on the board through Google Chrome using a Mac Mini, wired mouse, wireless keyboard, on the left monitor sitting on a glass desk with the dog in my lap and a space heater running at my feet while taking a break from writing a 12 page literature review for a class that will serve little purpose in life after graduating, with Tapatalk.

When in doubt, get a Glock. Not bad prices I'm seeing here on all models listed. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk