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Not to mention his all out ban on newly created machine guns. Ill never understand the the fanaticism when it comes to Reagan. He did more damage singlehandedly to the 2nd then Clinton and Obama combined.

Odd that a supporter of the Brady Bill would say such a thing. SCREW YOU REAGAN!

It occurred to me that it would be beneficial to allow an easy way to identify where an Event or Gathering was occurring inside the state of Tennessee, which in turn helps knit communities together to create what I am going to call "TGO Rally Points". These Rally Points are really just logical representations of the way our Tennessee members are relatively close to at least one of the five major population centers in the state: Chattanooga Knoxville Memphis Nashville Tri-Cities With that in place, you can now choose to use (purely optional) an area prefix when starting a new thread about an Event or Gathering in this particular forum. You do so by choosing the option from the drop-down when you are creating your thread.

Something about these little 100 plus year old wheel guns that is intriguing. With a working one in my hand, I often think it may well have been assembled by an old Civil War vet. Well anyway, I picked this up on GB about a year ago for about a hundred bucks. Last month I did a similar rebuild on a little 22 short called a Captain Jack. The Ranger is a good choice for a rebuild since it uses coil springs for the cylinder latch lever and cylinder locking lug. Also the hand is sprung very nicely with a strong spring arm pined into the hammer. Many of these early mouse guns used tiny leaf springs that would be a real pain to fab up since they are usually shot. As with a lot of these, I had to beat the cylinder pin out of the gun. The cylinder had about .016" end shake so the picture shows the building up of weld that will extend the length of the cylinder and I will turn the weld into a thicker bushing face. The original diameter over the cylinder pin was very thin allowing the hammer to beat the cylinder forward over the many firings. Heres the turned cylinder with a new pin made from oil hardened drill rod. Once the cylinder is fit into the frame with virtually no forward to back play, The barrel face is turned back and drilled out to .250". Then a new 22 sleeve is turned to fit and epoxied into the barrel. most any of these early guns will have the hammer and or the trigger sear wiped out as seen here. The fix is once again a build up of weld and recutting the hammer sear notches. Reshaped and the trigger spring was trimmed to lighten it up to a far more comfortable let off. After the trigger is re-timed with the action, I simply hardened it with Kasenite. The front sight was missing so I soldered in a new blade and trimmed it down to POA. The target is a 7 round cylinder string fired off hand at 6 feet. The only rounds that I would say is safe to fire in a well functioning BP mouse gun are CCI #0026 22 SHORT CB rounds. These round have no powder in them. only a primer charge. I'm always on the look out for those CCI #0026 rounds. I use them in an old Belgian Flobert type rolling block I have. You gotta love putting life back into these grand old guns! I sure do

I picked up a Kimber Mountain Ascent in 308. The Mountain Ascent is the lightest production bolt action big game rifle available today. It weighs 5lbs 5ozs. It is really light. It has a kevlar/carbon fiber stock. The barrel is luted. The bolt is spiral fluted with the bolt handle hollowed out to remove more weight. Have not shot it yet. I have to figure out what glass to put on it. I can't decide if I want a silver scope to match or a black scope for the contrast. Here are a couple of pics.

I can't believe I lived there as long as I did.

I was just about to post the snoops link, but that's apparently frowned upon. *Cough @Ugly Cough*

Personally, while I like the looks of the new server version on a computer, I miss Tapatalk. I am sure that the mobile version performs decently well, but in my opinion that overlooks where Tapatalk excels. Tapatalk on my phone manages all of the forums I participate in. It keeps up with all participated threads in all of my forums. It makes private messaging people extremely easy and optimized for a mobile device. Notifications are great and reduce email clutter. The "unread" function of the app makes it very easy to keep up with new threads and replies to all threads, pushing active threads to the top constantly. Now, being an IT person myself, I completely understand technical issues and bugs during upgrading. As such, I completely understand if it is just best that Tapatalk isn't immediately or ever installed again. However, if that is the case I forsee that my usage will drop dramatically. Maybe that is a good thing, it's beautiful weather and maybe less forums altogether would be great. But this is honestly the first time I've "checked in" since whenever Tapatalk stopped working. I guess I already missed the potentially fake "Muslim beats Western girl for wardrobe". Merely mentioning that while the new software may generate a decently useable mobile version, I don't see it as fulfilling everything Tapatalk can be used for. Hopefully at a later date everything can be smoother and work together as it has in the past.

Look, I don't do this very often but I simply am not having this conversation. Tapatalk isn't going back on our server anytime soon. Maybe ever. IPBoard 4 is still fairly new and Tapatalk's development cycle is not in-step with theirs. The problems they caused me during the software upgrade very nearly became catastrophic. I'm sorry that it seems like a big deal from your side of the screen, but it's an even BIGGER deal from my side. I will monitor what Tapatalk does moving forward and may revisit this later, but for now it's a No-Go.

Well as long as it doesn't say "Made in China" I'm good.

Pretty much everyone who puts any REAL trigger time behind one will come to the same conclusion. It has nothing to do with historical value or significance and EVERYTHING to do with function. If one can acquire some decent stripper clips that feed properly, it's downright amazing how fast you can shoot ten rounds, reload and shoot again.

I've got an idea forming up for another shirt design later. Maybe we can do these quarterly or something. Do two runs of t-shirts in the warmer weather, long sleeve T's for the cooler weather and hoodies / sweat shirts for the cold weather.

There is also a link at the bottom right that says the same thing "Unread Content", great addition IMO, I used to have to scroll all the way back to the top to get to the link which was a PITA on a touch screen. When I first used the Unread Content it asked about making it my default stream, said yes but not sure what that did.

Pass. The Siminov rifle is a wonderful all around gun to have.....in stock configuration. Aftermarket magazines suck. Stripper clips and the original magazine is the only way to go IMO.

Thanks for your comments folks, its very satisfying to take a neat old gun in sad shape and put the jump back in them. I'v never used any Aguila but if their Colibri 22 is primer fired, I want some! I only have about 200 rds of CCI left. Many years ago I used to have the RWS CB's with the egg corn head stamp. Taught my son how to shoot on those when he was little. As a matter of fact that was nearly 20 years ago as seen here... Once bonded, How many of you know this feeling?

Say it ain't so...I love tapatalk...so quick and easy to browse...

You asked for it... HERE IT IS!! Just in time for Summer, we are making available for order for the next 21 days these high-quality T-Shirts with the TGO logo on the left-front breast area and a variation on our popular "Shall Not Be Infringed" decal design on the back, with words from the Tennessee State Constitution reaffirming the citizen's right to be armed for their common defense. These are available via Teespring and come in Black, Grey, Olive Drab and even Pink (for the ladies). >>> ORDER YOURS HERE <<<

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If I do not get called out to work before I will be attending this years Blade show for the 2nd time in a row, Protech is hooking me up with a Employee pass so I get in with the show early along with all the vendors. Dave will be handing me the Prototype of the TGO Strider SNG so I truly hope to make it! if you like knives you owe it to yourself to attend the show, it is in Atlanta and folks from all over the world attend, for us it really is not that far away

Looking forward to learning much more about the AR 15. And, getting ready to spend bucks on accessories. Got the Aero Precision AR 15, from Brownells. http://www.brownells.com/rifle-parts/receiver-parts/receivers/lower-receivers/ac-15-5-56mm-16-mid-length-rifle-prod82606.aspx?cm_sp=Landing%20Links-_-Landing%20Page-_-TP1_AC15_Firearm I haven't touched an AR since 1990, so I'm kinda stoked to get reaquainted. I know it isn't Daniel Defense or BCM, but I'll never compete or otherwise be in a heavy use situation until the SHTF. Went by Guns N More to ask about the Ruger and S&W on sale. Both are 4140 barrels and have carbine length gas systems, so I decided the AP price was pretty reasonable. I could have gotten close (w/stainless) @ Palmetto Armory, but prefer black. I think it will be a long time (or never) for a red dot sight; I'm thinking about the rail mountable M16 Handle. Any info or help welcome. Thanks to folks, in the forum, for helping with my education, past and future.

I don't see disallowing the manufacture of full auto weapons as significant restriction of my 2nd Amendment right to own firearms. I'll stand my previous statement that President Reagan's actions were on the whole favorable to the 2nd Amendment.

So, as President, Reagan's actions overall were favorable to the 2nd Amendment. His statements while President supported the 2nd Amendment. As far as California is concerned, I could give a fat rats' behind about what California does.

Ordered one. Thanks David!

Been a loooong time since I last had access to a workshop, but I had a fun day today! Got this hunter profiled, ground & heat treated. O1 steel 3/16 thick. 4¼" blade fully flat ground at 62RWC. 5½" handle. I'm just waiting on some bar stock to come in for the pins, but I'll be handling it with blaze orange G10 with blue & white liners.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news to those who get their history from memes but Patton never said that...at least that can be proven.

@TGO David I'm definitely down for a hoodie. Wanted to ask but didn't want to push our luck, I'm happy finally getting T shirts lol

Riverside on Manufacturers drive of of Rt27 is the best I've found so far.

Well I can make the font larger very easily. Let me play with some combinations tonight.

Thanks to both of you for coming to play in my backyard. There were 27 students. Four didn't make it. I hate to see someone not pass, but the certificate has meaning because of the standards attached to it. Tom will be teaching his Combative Pistol in Franklin on August 13-14. Sign up is here.

The first thing to check is the single action sear. It is #27 on the schematic. Visually, you can see it mounted at the trigger guard/frame junction behind the trigger. Take a small screw driver and push it back into the face of the trigger guard and quickly slip the driver off. The little bit off reward movement back, should "snap" back freely from the sear spring #28. As you thumb cock the hammer back, you should see this sear move back toward the guard and jump forward slightly once the hammer obtains single action position. Holding the hammer back, get a tiny screw driver behind the sear and force it forward and then let the hammer up. The hammer should hang or stall in the single action position while you put a little forward pressure on that sear. If in fact the sear is working freely with noticeable spring tension and the hammer is still not holding back, either the sear tip where it engages the hammer is worn and/or the hammer single action sear cut is wore out. It is possible that enough dirt filled oil could hamper the action of the sear spring and make the sear sluggish enough as to where it is just not engaging the hammer. That is why I described how to over come the dirt by putting slight pressure with a screw driver while you put the hammer into single action position and see if the hammer will hold back on its own while pressure is applied behind the sear. As far as you taking it apart, You would need to have knowledge on how to make and use slave pins to reinstall the trigger assembly. If you know how to do that, your probably going to be OK replacing the hammer or sear.

I watched one of those videos, Fitty. You did good as usual.

This is the playlist for my 6.5 creedmoor AR10 variant I just built.

It's nice knowing zombies and ghetto trash will have a hard go at it in our little neighborhood.

Two ordered. Nice design.

TULA/SIMONOV 1954 SKS-45 Its Russian, it's red, it looks like new and I would never even think about doing any mods. to it. As much as I like that gun, that poncho liner it's sitting on means much more. I brought that back from Nam 1967, they were worth there weight in gold back then. I've kept it all these years, some things are just hard to explain.S

You can rest assured that I am indeed kicking myself. If anyone is tight on funds and needs to move it along, I'm your guy. I'd sell one of my pistols before I'd let this knife go!

Yeah! One more ordered. Thanks, David.

And made in USA! Order placed.

@Capbyrd - Wow, good catch. Those should be fixed now.

There are a couple of things I'm loving so far: When I read a post and go back to the forum, I immediately see that post as marked read. On the old software I had to hit refresh, or leave that forum and click back into it to see the posts as marked read. I really like being able to hover over a thread and get the popup for the first or last post of the thread. The old software had that ability too, but I felt it was clunkier. I also like the paragraph spacing when you hit enter. Used to have to hit enter twice to get any real definition between paragraphs.

Ordered a couple

I have no problem with the stock or the paint job. To me those rifles have little historical value. They were too late for WWII and replaced by the AK47 shortly afterwards. However in stock configuration, they are good rifles, that tend to be a little short for me. I need another inch or so on the stock for them to be truly comfortable. If you could find an original magazine out there somewhere, you could have a pretty dang good semi-auto truck gun right there.

I haven't had much of a chance to pick up a camera in the last year or so but that is about to change. Got into Photoshop today to try to knock some rust off and cleaned up this picture I took of a rattlesnake a few years ago.

I can't think of more to add other than someone has taken a fine looking gun and every piece of history related to it.

Don't worry, I can make you an AIWB holster for that. lol

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PLEASE bring back TT. Still prefer TT over the mobile IMO.

As long as Tapatalk still works I am happy!

Osha would be proud

not really sure they should? looks too much like a toy.