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You know we bitch and moan about people driving and talking on the phone, texting, reading emails, etc. And when they pull over to do it safely we automatically think its ISIS here to diddle your goats? If it's a public street in a public neighborhood then anyone has a right to park on it, at any time. If you want to perch in a lawn chair at the edge of the grass, that's fine too, but you have zero right to approach the car with a weapon on the public right of way. Now, doing so may or may not be illegal depending on the weapon and how you are carrying it, but I'd suspect the action is not advisable from my standpoint. March around the neighborhood long enough looking for an opportunity to "defend" it, and you'll surely find one....just ask George Zimmerman.

Good reason to never believe anything he says in the future. - OS

This story has to start from the beginning. For the last five years I've put out Hummingbird feeders, some years it attracted more visitors than others. Last year was the least number of Hummingbirds around here. This year I had decided not to put out any feeders because of laziness and other things to do. On either the 1st or 2nd of May I was watering my garden with the garden hose. A Hummingbird came by and hovered 3-4 feet in front of my face for at least a full minute or so. I thought to myself, well it's that time of year, why not, this must be a sign. I did notice a number of Hummingbirds visiting the location where the feeders hung last year. I really haven't done any research on them but, it appears their tiny little brains remember exactly where the feeders were the previous year. I do recall they migrate a large distance back to Mexico or South America for the winter. If that be the case, that's quite a feat to pinpoint navigate that distance for a bird with a brain the size of maybe a grain of sand, it's amazing. Anywho, this year that Hummingbird that hovered by my face brought his / her buddies, they're as thick as mosquito's! Every other day I have to make 'a gallon' of sugar water, they drink 1/2 gallon a day from four standard feeders. I know their little bellies can't hold more than one single drop at a time? They're really neat little birds and fun to watch. They really get super aggressive with each other. Just thought I'd share.

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I told my wife I knew we were getting old because we love sitting and watching the hummingbirds feed on our back porch. Some of the fights rival the bests hockey fights I've seen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cooking oil or olive oil on the trap will set it free.

Here are my automatic Protech knives

Ok, let's get this back on track. I got the chance to shoot a Carbine version yesterday. It was fantastic! I can't say enough good about it. Like yours, this one also had the trigger replaced and the extended charging handle. Makes quite a nice difference in handling the rifle. It shot great. Was terrifically accurate. Of course the 1000 buck optic system on it might have helped me with it. lol The one I shot had the welded faux suppressor on it, so I got a good feel for what it would be like finished out. It really has me thinking about not going the SBR route, and just getting a carbine instead. Overall, I can't really see much difference if I did that. And what's worse...I got to run a mag thru a Bren as well. The less said here the better. I LOVED IT! Plain and simple.

Does ARFCOM even offer counseling services?

This should work in its place...

This is one of those situations where it doesn't matter if what he did was technically legal or not. This man and his antics certainly turned someone who may have been a neutral bystander into a supporter of "common sense gun laws." Seriously. Why go confront someone in a situation like this? It's stupid? Did he have backup in his little posse? What if the people in the car had had malicious intent? What if there were more than one of them? This guy, in his bravado escalated a situation needlessly. Because the lady was just talking on her phone, he just made gun owners at large look bad. Lord knows we need some more examples of that. This is Bellvue - not out in the country somewhere. Monitor the situation from your living room window - and call the cops if you think something is going down. It's Bellvue after all. They'll be there pretty quick. I'm all for taking care of your family and your neighbors. But this was stupid - and maybe across the line legally. Nobody wants the next Trayvon to be in Tennessee.

No mixed emotion for me, seems to be an over reaction on her part. While the whole rifle pointing thing is questionable, and may be an exaggeration, I don't see nothing wrong with people taking their own security seriously. You don't know what has been going on in a strange neighborhood and you may just of entered into one that has been subject to high crime rates lately.

I have mixed emotions about this one.

You could change the sign in Frame 3 to any of several other alphabet agencies and it would ring just as true.

How nice of you Robert to remember us Big Rig shooters! However, I reckon Matt-In-TN will have to carry the full-power flag for this match. While I will be shooting something in 7.62..., this one comes with a x39 case, a short barrel, a single chamber muzzle break...., and a tax stamp. Double Up on you hearing protection folks...., its going to be Loud!

The Next TGO knife will be its little Brother the Godson

Nothing gun related but we celebrated our 23rd anniversary yesterday. I still can't believe she said yes. Neither can her family...

Yeah, that is the kind of stuff I just don't get. Why would the guy who slept in and got there second think they deserve the spot? I get it, too many people think they're entitled to everything these days. But part of me wants to think that hunters would be different. Unfortunately a sportsman who respects the animals and the hunt, and someone who kills deer are two totally different things. I've even had guys walk in 2 hours after sun up talking as they walk, then stop to make a phone call while smoking a cigarette. They were directly in front of me no more than 15 yards and never knew I was there. I suspect they thought they were still gonna have a successful hunt after meeting at Waffle House to talk deer hunting over some scattered, covered, topped, chunked, and diced.I sat there steaming but didn't say anything because I'd hoped they'd run something my way as they walked in. But nope, about and hour later they repeated the same process walking right back to the truck talking about not seeing anything. I was about to flip my lid. I get up so I can be in my stand 1 to 2 hours before daybreak only to watch the Looney Tunes in live version. Oh well, public land hunting at it's best!

I was in a climber. The saddest part was the last guy walked in after daylight and I had to actually say good morning to get him to look up and move along. The worst case of this I ever had was on a family friends property. He lets lots of folks hunt on it as does his son. I was already in the tree one morning when two walk in. I wave the light and they keep coming. They finally get within 10 yards and ask who I am and why I'm hunting there. I tell em my last name and that the owner had given me written permission years ago. I also offered that if they went back about 100 yards the way they walked in there was a good spot where they could spread out and we could all hunt the ridge. One of them said if a very surly voice that the son had given them permission to hunt there. He then tells his buddy to get in the tree they had discussed which was only 25 yards from me. So I sit and listen to this guy struggle to hook on and climb this tree in what sounded like a steel with tin cans hanging from it climber for 30 minutes. Sun comes up, he's over there coughing and moving around so much I could hear it easily. About an hour in, I'd had enough so I climb down and prepare the area for the rest of their hunting day by laying down a puddle of "scent", waved and walked out. Be nice in the woods folks! Another buddy of mine said he had similar issues at another location so he got a bag full of hair clippings from his barber and left them spread all around that fellows favorite spot. Aint saying its nice, but woods etiquette is firm.....unless its your property, you let the fellow that got there first hunt it.

I've never understood people that walk in on someone and sit down anyway. I've walked in on people before a time or two and I waved and moved out immediately and as quietly as possible. I wouldn't have the gall to just think "Screw that guy, I want to hunt here too!". I don't even want to hunt close to anyone for any reason much less a disrespectful reason. I'm hoping we can find a spot that looks terrible to everyone else and I'll walk through whatever I have to just to avoid the idiots. I will definitely be in a climber, don't want to be on the ground on public land!

I always looking for an excuse to go there and then stop in at Moonlight BBQ nearby for some bbq mutton and pork

This is still funny. No matter how many times I see it.

That is exactly why I stopped hunting Fort Campbell, too many hunters without common courtesy. Not to mention MWR's messed up way they handle the sign-out process.

Most of my experience is with snakes in Georgia, but I strongly suspect that is a water snake. I can't say the exact species it is, but it most resembles a Northern Water Snake. http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/nersip.htm

Don't know what the odds are of drawing an elk tag but since they only give out 5 or 10 tags it has gotta be pretty slim.

Congrats. i just checked mine and was unsuccessful on both drawings. At least there is still a chance for elk.

Your lucky to get 2 out of 10 to even sound alike, they are all over the target and tend to choke most semi autos. What quality control? we don't need no stinking quality control.

She was a good one. We used to tumble and play around pretty often. Til she went nuts and i had to give her the boot. Ha!

Yeah, I was adding link as you posted. - OS

I'll go ahead and say it: sitting in an idle car in front of someone's house talking on the phone is highly shady and suspicious in this day and age. BTW, I am in no way defending what that guy allegedly did. He may just need some kind of counseling.

I call on your statement that we no longer have the emoticon.

He should have just called the police and reported a suspicious car parked on the street and let them handle it. She may think twice about parking in a neighborhood at night again. Why does she care if he gets prosecuted? After all she was the suspicious person in his neighborhood. It kind of cancels out. They both contributed to the situation. Question: Was it really that Important of a call to risk a distracted encounter with an armed guy in dark neighborhood. Lesson to be learned; put up the cell phone and keep driving. If you absolutely have to stop don't pull into a dark dead end road. I'd say both parties are lucky that nothing went wrong and hopefully they learn a lesson from this. No harm no foul.

What else should she have done? Kept driving along a darkened winding road taking an important call that's requiring her attention? Just pulled over on the non-existent shoulder? She did exactly as she was supposed to do. Dude playing Rick Grimes is a paranoid jackass. If Bellevue can go through the floods we went through in 2010 without devolving into Lord of the Flies, a simple power outage hardly justifies patrolling with a long gun. Cell service was up. The low clouds still had that dull pink glow of the Nashville light pollution. It was clear this wasn't some widespread EOTWAWKI event, and Bellevue is not exactly a powder-keg waiting for any little thing to send us all into a rampaging looting frenzy. As far as the cul-de-sac goes, (and I'm only guessing) it was likely one of several "neighborhoods" on the main road that leads to the neighborhood where KahrMan and I live. There are 3 or 4 in a row that are little more than a cul-de-sac with 20-30 houses.

That was stupid on the resident's part and he at the very least should have received a tongue lashing from the police. The use of deadly force to protect property is not justified in Tennessee, first of all, and secondly the resident was no longer on his property when he entered the public street to confront the motorist. Going off of your property, brandishing a firearm, to confront another citizen on public property to ask them "what the hell they are doing" is just stupid no matter the circumstances. He could have easily been arrested for brandishing a weapon. Probably should have been.

I've known about cougars for a while now. I've seen a few. I've even had one live with me for a couple years a while back.

I was pretty young at the time, but I vaguely remember this speech because of my dad. He was a strong southern democrat. Raved strongly against the concept of a Catholic president and how the Roman Catholic Church/Vatican would control his actions and thus America. But Dad was swayed by this and several other of JFK's speeches and became a staunch supporter of John F. Kennedy. To the dismay of several of our family and friends at the time.

The issue with Doubletap and certain ammo has to do with the primers being pierced by the firing pins. This leaves you unable to open the thing, but most of the time a couple of dry fires will release the firing pins. If not, I can easily pop the barrel off by pushing the takedown pin. I just had to find what ammo it likes and stick with them. I shoot mostly 124 gr HST +p in it. It's had probably a whole box of those without a single issue. It's not that the recoil is totally fierce; the shape just doesn't make it comfortable to shoot because it is the thickness of a dime. I do have a 45 Win mag derringer and full power loads exceed 44mag. It's just a different kind of recoil than the Doubletap. I have always had a soft place in my heart for derringers of different types. My father always toted one of some sort.

Sounds like a good job for Justin Cooper.

I need someone to walk the steel out........

We will use IMG RULES for this match. Plan on using the woods bay we created last month (stage 8) for the rifle steel. About 60 yards shooting at the MGM rifle poppers. Targets will be uspsa metric for pistol and the half size for rifle paper. Stage 2 is all pistol (32 rounds) with paper, 10 steel and a swinger. Stage 6 is all rifle. 6 paper and 6 rifle poppers. The other 4 is pistol/rifle using full size targets, half size targets, clays and steel. Heavy metal welcome, (Mark) Single shot scoring will apply. Stages 1 and 4 are 40 round stages, 20 per gun. Stages will be pistol only friendly. Only 5 stages for one gun match.

just celebrated 59 this year yes i forgot it after being chewed royally for 30 minutes she admitted she forgot too. her sister reminded her and then called me but the chewing had me in the doghouse for a few

Depends on how hard up you are for .22's. There one step above not having any ammo.

closer

At this point, if an entry for the time/date of my FFL assisted purchases and transfers aren't in a SQL database somewhere, that would be the real surprise.

Color me surprised. /sarc

5.56 AK and 7.62 AR? So, either of those can use whichever bathroom they want I guess? - OS