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I submitted the form 1 on 3/1, approved 8/23. A big thanks to Michael Dresner of Law Enforcement Sales for doing my trust engraving and adding the folding stock. Sent from my SM-G930R4 using Tapatalk

We started getting serious about being prepared about 6 years ago. This followed the second incident where we were almost stuck in our car for an extended amount of time. The previous year we made it past where they closed roads due to winter storms twice by just a few minutes. I always had tow straps and such with me but I realized we needed some food and other things in a vehicle kit. Once we did that I realized how right it felt and we started learning to can and store extra food etc... I'm sure many of us went through some similar path. The thing is my extended family on both sides were country folk. Sitting on the porch helping my grandmothers prep beans and corn etc for canning was just what you did. But, I grew up and moved away and lost touch with that. Anyway, we move forward several years and we weren't self sufficient (really hard to do) but we had a couple months worth of water stored and probably 1-1.5 years worth of food canned, dehydrated, or frozen. Our path for that isn't as hard as some because it is just the 2 of us. I didn't realize how badly I wanted some land until I started looking for a piece of junk property to shoot at . I was looking for an abandoned quarry or land with a ravine that could be a backstop and would be cheap. As we looked for land I found myself drawn to places where we could actually live and have animals and a proper garden etc. We just kind of fell into it but I am blessed with a wonderful spouse who said go for it. We bought a piece of land and I started planting trees and berry bushes and things that I wanted to get started so they would be closer to productive when we moved in. We put a barn up, got all of our utilities in and now we are drawing up plans for a nice simple house that will be easy for us to maintain as we age. Spending the last 2.5 years working non-stop at the property (not blessed with millions so sweat equity is my middle name) has put a real dent in our preparedness. I'm not canning and dehydrating like I was and we are going through our stock of food. Part of that is a time thing but part is a desire to not have to move a bunch of heavy jars. We hope to start building next spring. So, as we get closer and closer to moving where we will be much more able to provide for ourselves at the same time we are burning through prepared preps. In some ways I think it was meant to go that way because the money we are saving by eating our preps is going right into land prep. Who knew dirt was so expensive. So that is how we are the least and most prepared at the same time. We just have to hang on for about a year and then we will be solidly moving in the right direction. This is by far the largest post I've ever made. I think I will go take a nap... Mark

Jury duty is one of the ways in which folks can do the most good in society. It isn't just the juror's right, but his/her duty to judge not only the guilt or innocence of the accused but the justness of the law itself. If there is no victim there is no crime and 'society' can't be a victim. Any opportunity one can take to keep the state from stealing from folks or locking them in cages shouldn't be wasted.

My wife's next car will most likely be a Subaru. What they offer at their price point is exceptional. Plus the rear seat room on an Outback is insane, even at 6' I am comfortable. Plus her girlfriend really likes them.

Don't let your wife drive it, she'll leave you......for another woman

No tree hugging or pot smoking for me, but that doesn't mean as an engineer I can't appreciate the product and what it offers. I've discovered that Subaru has their act together as a car company. I think as time passes the brand will lose more of its past stigma. If you check out some of the WRX and WRX STI offerings, you'll see those aren't the hippie cars most people associate with Subaru. They pretty much own the rally car world.

Yep. Subaru Impreza Sport. Before anyboby starts in on "Subaru is a Lesbian car", the more research I did on them, the more I became impressed with their Boxer engine design, superior AWD system, reliability, high resale value, fair sticker price, good MPG, brand loyalty, etc.

Aaaand Rosie O'Donnell gets the laundry done, can bake you an awesome pie, will clean the windows & is worth more than a few bucks, but a spade's still a spade.....

Can we introduce our wives to each other so your wife can convince mine not to trade every 24 months I would really appreciate it

50bmg in a smith. Lmao. I'll wait for the redhawk version.

A hand cannon! Too much for an old guy like me.

The easiest way to get off of jury duty is to download the cowbell app for your cell phone, when the lawyer asks you a question get up and say I have a fever and the prescription is more cowbell then use the app to make the cowbell sound they should let you go home fairly quick Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk, its either this or smoke signals!

Thanks for the replies... I don't know if anyone should be jealous. Once we decided to go down this path we went all in with my retirement plan. It looks like it is going to work out but I am 100% committed. Failure is literally not an option. I find that fear is a great motivator. My wife (who should have never said yes : - 0 ) deserves to have a comfortable retirement for putting up with me all these years. Folks in her family live about 20 years longer than they do in mine so I'm planning for the really long haul... I've learned a few things: 1) It doesn't matter how big of a tractor you bought, it will always be at least 1 size smaller than you need for some random task. 1b) Who knew tractors didn't have brakes on the front wheels? If you go down a steep hill with a heavy load in the front end bucket and the rear wheels come off the ground you are along for the ride until you get to the bottom. 1c) always keep a pair of clean shorts in your car. See 1b for any needed info. 2) Buying a backhoe attachment was a huge mistake for me. I would have done a lot better to save the money and rent a mini-excavator when I needed it. But, if you need a trench dug that is not straight, not level, and not smooth from beginning to end I'm your man! 3) The biggest leap of faith was drilling the well. It cost almost double what I budgeted. I haven't turned it on yet. Sort of like a lottery ticket: Until I check the numbers I'm a winner. If the well doesn't produce life will not be good for a while. 4) I knew the rule build a bigger barn than you think you will need. I built a 30x40. I had a 12x24 shed before. I thought a 30x40 was a huge overkill. It is only 50% too small. 5) Tractor folks only deal in 1,000's. As in: do you want to spend 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000 etc... They apparently have never heard of 10's, 20's or 100 dollar bills before. 6) Tractor implements are like AR's. Once you have the first one you realize how many more you need. It doesn't help if your normally very frugal wife is a implement gateway drug... She says things like: I want mulch on the inside of the fencing around the greenhouse. Can your tractor do that? My answer was yes (sounded like thousands)... But even though I haven't mulched any trees yet she loves her little greenhouse. We've been married 23 years and I never knew she'd always wanted one. It's been tiring but we own some dirt free and clear. It is really quiet out there. The wind is almost always blowing and so far we like all of our future neighbors. BTW: when we bring the dozer in to cut our permanent drive way he is also going to take the dirt we will be digging out for our basement and close the end of a little ravine so that I can have a pond in a few years. While the dozer is there he is also going to level out a 25 yard wide by 50 yard deep spot and use the rest of the dirt for a berm. Getting a place to shoot started us down this road and I WILL have a small range. I may not be able to afford any steel for a few years but I am going to try to have a big ole TN Gunowners Mid Tn shoot and celebration. Hope everyone likes pulled pork... Mark

The only "AR10" I had was a for-real KAC Mk11 that I suppose was sold as a run-off for far too much money than I care to admit to, it was an excellent platform and a lot of damn fun, but for the money it better have damn well been. Now - for straight off the shelf AR10s, I have not owned, but I have fired, is the Armalite AR-10 VSR, it was about 1700 if I remember correctly and felt very good, .308 I suppose you can say is a bit of a stouter cartridge for perceived (notice, Perceived, it is different for all) recoil impulse versus .223/5.56 - but it felt very nice. Good balance, good tight fit between the lower and upper, the trigger was crisp and using ZQI M80 Ball copy was very capable at 200m. Building an AR10 you will be hard pressed to be able to keep prices as low as just buying a complete unit - I say that because sourcing in stock parts is a major PITA - if you are patient, and can catch sales from CTD, PSA, and other websites you can piece one together but the overall cost to include shipping will add up to be more. Musicman, and others mentioned, it is not as easy as throwing together a Frankenstein AR-15 - where you can literally jump into a trash bin of mixed manufactured parts, and assemble a working rifle - the AR-10 has compatibility issues for fitment among other things, and a lot of manufacturers don't really sell components. For instance, your PSA or 80% Lower might not work with a LaRue upper, or whomever else you choose - being conscience of what you choose, and who you source the part from is just as important as safely building the weapon. Hence my point in the 3rd paragraph; try to find a distributor with a part in stock at a good bargain you are liable to drive yourself crazy. Like with any other weapon system, there are also ammo sensitivity issues and the general 'spunk' of your AR-10 that need to be overcome. My Mk 11 as amazing as it was would have trouble with FTEs any surplus ammo, not sure if it was soft brass, but as tight as the gun was it would choke on spam can South African ammo. I would pierce primers of American Eagle 308s and in general it would only fire 'premium' grade offerings where as ZQI was the only notable objection to that rule. The AR-10 platform hasn't been widely adopted for a reason but do NOT let that detract you from partaking in one, and enjoying it. Once you understand the niches, and what it likes/hates, there are plenty of great rifles from DPMS, SW, Armalite, LaRue, etc

The way I understand it you can shoot coyotes at night that are getting into livestock or posing some sort of threat to your pets. Any chance at getting TWRA to allow predator night hunting? People can already coon hunt and pig hunt at night so I don't see what the problem would be. Also any chance at getting TWRA to allow center fire rifles for predator hunting during archery and muzzleloading deer seasons? It is kind of a pain to have to switch to a rimfire or shotgun during archery/muzzleloading deer season if you want to hunt coyotes. Our resident hunting licenses have got to be some of the most expensive in this part of the country, so it would be nice if TWRA would cut some slack on the coyote hunting restrictions.

Nonsense! Gen 2 (or equivalent naming conventions, i.e. Mod 2, Mk4, E7, whatever) automatically give you innate shooting abilities and the gun "runs nicer" Seriously, you are right - reading that write-up I got a serious sense of dejavu, my opinion is that the G42/43, the Shield and some of the baby XD guns (Not a SA guy myself) have the market cornered on BUGs as well as some of the baby wheel guns - Remington needs to stop ruining classic designs *cough* R1911 *cough*

This entire thread is giving me mahogany.....

Glock 20 Gen4. I pretty much only shoot Underwood & Atlanta Arms Ammo. Both feed great!

I like small rivers and large streams but as of late most places I like to go are roiled up because of the rain so no luck. Anyone having any good luck? What is your favorite type of fishing? Come on people brag a little on your fishing prowness.

I decided to buy a new one. The Hillary hole doesn't bother me much! I like the 2.5 inch barrel. Also, the barrel is not overclocked like I've seen on other new Smiths. Already ordered a Simply Rugged holster last week. Here it is next to my EDC, a Glock 19, for a size comparison. Looking forward to breaking it in Thursday! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If velocity is what your after then Id start 10% under and work up and over max by another 5-10% in increments of .1grn. I would err on the side of extreme caution not to be a safety nazi but moreso because stupid stuff like a weak piece of brass or a bad batch of powder can/will happen. However you have said youve loaded a decent amount of rifle so just watch the pressure signs and look for unburnt powder And you should be fine. I wont get into the subjectivity of "stopping power" we can chalkboard all sorts of cool physics equations and harp about shot placement but if a grizz is about to Revenant me, Im just pulling the trigger until it goes "click" Hope that helps

I usually start around 10-15% below max... 1.3 - 2 gr or so in your case. A lot of that depends on the speed of the powder, imho. I don't worry so much about speed as I do a consistent load that functions and goes where I want it. As I start really getting into loads for 10mm (finally have around 4-500 pieces of brass collected) that may change as I chase velocity in earnest.

Got a form4 back today, filed on 2/2/16

My new(er) ride has cooled seats. I never thought I needed or wanted such a thing, now I'll never own another vehicle that doesn't have them. It's amazing what we don't miss until we know such things exist ...

So THATS why you sold your motorcycle...

Well, this is my new 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport. It has butt coolers. Now, I know that sounds ridiculous, but once you feel a cool leather seat, you can't ever go back. I got the turbo AWD ultimate package. We got a great deal and with a 10 year bumper to bumper warranty and a lifetime power train, I'm pretty much going to drive it into the ground! PS: no Teva's allowed.

Me to and never had a problem.

The only reason I would buy an old fury or crown Vic is to play blues brothers

Mindset. Skillset. Toolset - you are hitting all 3 home, you have had a vision and are making it come to fruition, which is a damned good thing. Being prepared and in the proper mindset goes a lot further than anything you can physically have. Thanks for sharing, definitely jealous of you right now.

I have an M&P10 and love it. Only mod I made was to drop a CMC 3.5lb single stage flat trigger in it. It's right at an MOA gun with off the shelf ammo in my hands, probably much better with a better shooter and tailored ammo. I will eventually change out the stupid round handguards and go free float, though. As others have said, building an ar10 is NOT as easy as an ar15. Too many variances to assure everything fits. You will have a VERY hard time saving any money while also trying to build a .308 that works. As much as I don't like DPMS, the G2 is a really good design and worth a look as well.

How many firebird X's were floating around when you left? I already know, ALL of them I'm still waiting for the revolution, Henry smashed a guitar and everything. Guitar of the week was the best idea (IMO) that came out of there in some time. Still some stinkers there, but the reverse V was awesome and a few others were pretty sweet as well. I'm a recovering gibsaholic, I WANT to relapse into addiction, but I've started building and painting my own through parts or kits and am thinking about tooling up to just make my own from scratch. I just made an "R4" out of a precision guitar kit that is absolutely fantastic, PLUS I got better hardware and pickups, POI caps that are really POI and not ceramic in a fake bumblebee housing. //End rant. I think the people at Remington, like the people at Gibson are able to put out a better product than they currently do if management would just let them do their jobs.

I am not sure that is correct. In fact, unless the rules have changed since the last time I checked it isn't. Unless I am mistaken, 'pest animal elimination' is viewed differently from 'hunting'. If I am not mistaken there are different regulations for dealing with nuisance animals than for hunting. Heck - again, unless I am mistaken - you can even get a permit from your local agriculture agent to shoot pest deer out of season. The special permit, to my understanding, is only needed for 'big game'. Endangered or protected species require special permits, too. As far as I am aware, however, there are no special permits needed to kill a non big game nuisance animal. In other words, hunting coyote at night is illegal but pest elimination is not hunting and the rules are different. As the coyote is most likely to show up and be a nuisance animal at night it wouldn't make much sense if you could only shoot them during the day. For example, I knew a guy who had raccoons tearing up his garden. He planned to put out cage traps to catch them and called the TWRA to find out what he should do if he caught some. He knew it was illegal for him to relocate them but wondered if the proper, legal thing to do would be to call TWRA to get them relocated. He was told, by the person to whom he spoke at the TWRA that they didn't do relocations for raccoons, etc. and that the best thing to do if he got one in his trap was to shoot it. Of course, the legal hunting season during that time of the year allows only one raccoon to be taken per person per night but that obviously did not apply to elimination of nuisance raccoons. Further, he was actually more 'trapping' them than hunting them and while there is no limit on trapping raccoon during the legal season that season runs from November through February and would not include the months when raccoons in the garden would be an issue. So, either way, the normal hunting/trapping regulations apparently did not apply. That said, I am not a lawyer and would recommend contacting the TWRA directly to get an answer. ETA: Here is a link to a page at the TWRA website discussing nuisance animal control: https://www.tn.gov/twra/article/adc-faq It doesn't specifically say that it is okay to kill nuisance/destructive coyote at night but it does quote part of the TCA. Notice that no mention is made of any limits to the legal ability to do this based on legal hunting seasons, regulations, etc. Again, though, I would call the TWRA for clarification :

Its all just the luck of the draw. I've been called twice, The case got dismissed the first time. The second time I didn't get seated. Jury Duty can be a real PITA and many people try to get out of it. But, if called again, I will go as I see it as a civic duty.

This is mainly for the Non note galaxies. Odd number releases have all seemed to be better and less buggy.

I think if you follow the three S's you will be fine.

I had the note 2 and 4 and they were great phones. What's your reasoning?

Call me harsh if you want, no worries. I worked at Gibson USA making guitars for a few years and watched them do a lot of the same dumb stuff Freedom group has done. Gibson has a gold mine in quality Les Pauls and SGs. They are both (especially the LP) fantastic designs that have stood the test of time and newcomers. Even today a Les Paul is just as useful and desirable as some whizbang Ibanez shred machine... maybe more so. I watched Henry and whoever else is at the helm that day push out some ridiculously crazy, poorly designed and executed garbage out the back of the plant, while reducing focus on their bread and butter. Like the R51, many were pushed out only to be found wanting and recalled. On some models we made entire production runs... literally thousands. Then scrapped every one. (Except the ones the midlevel managers snuck out the door) They also made some stupid decisions with the core products that really hurt LP sales for awhile (robotuners and stupid wide brass nuts, anyone?) but thankfully they saw the error of their ways (read million$ in lo$$e$) and for the most part have gotten back to doing what they do best. Freedom seems to be doing a lot of the same. The 870 is NOTHING like it used to be. I don't know much about the 700 because I never really liked them anyways (and I prefer to know WHEN my guns are going to go off) but I know it is an industry standard that still has appeal to many. I think they HAVE done a good job with their 1911s, and I hope they build on that. I feel like the R51, though, is a poorly done pistol (even the second time) that is a drain on resources for the company that could be better invested elsewhere. This is all my opinion, and worth exactly diddlysquat to anyone.

We just did exactly what you are proposing: Dumped DirecTV and moved to Comcast. We already had Comcast for Internet. Since AT&T / DirecTV couldn't get fast enough Internet to the new house we bought, they let us out of that part of the contract. Our contract finally expired, and we discovered we could save about $85 by going all Comcast. I had considered getting an antenna for local channels, Prime for movies and using USTVNow to pick up ESPN and FoxNews, but I figured I would only be saving $10 or so a month compared to the Comcast bundle. The convenience factor of having only one remote, and not having to switch input settings on the TV all the time was worth the $10 to me. My wife got the whole thing set up in a chat session started from their web site. It was pretty easy. If you hesitate on pulling the trigger, they keep sweetening the deal. My wife would say "Let me think about it" or "let me talk to my husband" and they would come back with "We'll throw in a $80 rebate to cover installation" or, "We'll throw in a free DVR for a year". I had heard that part of the X-Finity rebranding, they were trying to rebuild their customer service reputation. I felt the whole process went very well. They were respectful and helpful. I do think Comcast equipment and their TV offerings are far superior to DirecTV. I really like the DVR interface. You can talk into the remote to search for shows. Seems like everything I have searched for so far shows up in On-Demand. Comcast seems to group their channels a bit better, AND they don't put a damned info-mercial channel on every other channel. I swear DirecTV had hundreds of those things, which irritated me to no end. The installer came and spent several hours here. I wanted to move my router to downstairs. The previous owner had ran 4 cable lines to the bedroom, and I wanted to clean up some cables. They did all that for me. You will want to look up on Google how to hack the remote to add a 30 second skip ahead / 10 second skip back. It makes zipping through commercials on recorded shows so much better. It was very easy to do, just a few keypress sequences on the remote to modify the setting.

P32s are great. Ive got two of them, one with serial less than 200. It was a special order through the KTOG website when they introduced it a bunch of years ago. They really do shoot good and decently accurate for such a small gun. In the summer I carry one every day. The other is my wife's she does not carry hers as much. It has a grey grip with hard chromed slide. The only thing that has been a bit of a surprise was the .32 ammo. A few years ago I decided to shoot a couple of holes in a 55 gal. burn barrel since I didn't have anything else to punch holes with. To my surprise it would not penetrate even with FMJ. Made a good dent, but wouldn't go thru. After the first shot I decided I was way too close if it ain't going through!

I find that a lock with a universal key is not much of a lock at all. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I kinda wish all used cop cars went directly to the scrap yard. I can usually spot them from a mile away and seeing the old heaps interferes with my driving pleasure.

I've got you beat big time on access to the oil filter. See below. The filter is on the right hand side of the engine bay, staring you in the face. [emoji3]

Still looks like a ray gun. They totally bastardized a classic.

I just did the same thing. I've always been a Note fan. I've had the 2, 4 and now the 7. I'm liking the new 7 except for the lack of good screen protectors for the rounded edge screen. I'm working on a homemade solution to that though. Battery life has always been important to me so on my Note 4 I had a "zero lemon" brand 10,000 mah extended battery. It more than tripled the factory battery and doubled the weight but was a beast. I could stream about 16 hours of Netflix on one charge. My 7 doesn't have a removable battery but does have wireless induction fast charge which I'm really liking so far. I've had it 3 days and not plugged a cord into it yet. I really recommend any of the popular Samsungs. I've only had Note phones but the S series are good ones. And most of them have user serviceable batteries so there is the option of adding a larger battery. I'm one of the few lucky Verizon customers that got grandfathered in when it comes to unlimited data. If I ever re-sign a new contract I will loose the unlimited which means I have to pay retail for my phones so I take advantage of their 2 year device payment option. It makes that $850 sting a little less. But I consume an average of 60 gb per month so the cost of the phone is cheaper than any data plan I could buy in the long run. Sent from my SM-N930V using Tapatalk

I've caught more cats this summer than I know what to do with. Switched over to bass after I filled the freezer. It's been hit or miss on Old Hickory. Some days the action is really good, others I wonder if all the fish just died.

Wading the creeks have really paid off lately. The harder they are to get to the better. Catching lots of Redeye, largemouth and a few smallies, oh and a ton of bluegill. Ultralights with 6lb test and anywhere from knee deep to chest deep. Sorry, can't give up the lure of choice.

I used to be a bit hyper on the 223/556. Always wondering which to use or buy. Finally realized that my ARs are marked "multi" and quite worrying about it.

Don't worry about the hog regs too much, once they really over populate like in Texas and neighboring states, the DNR will be begging for people to hunt them. Watch "Pig Bomb" on Discovery and you'll see where we're headed.

I walked into my favorite gunshop this morning and spied two pre-owned LC9 s in the used pistol case. One was your generic LC9 with 3 mags, the other had a laser and two mags and the manager said to me, "pull the trigger on the one with the laser and you will recognise it." For the fun of it, I have put in two Galloway Precision LC9 triggers and the one with the laser was one of them. The gal who had traded it on for a S&W BG .380 wanted something smaller and easier to control. Holy S.......! Anyway. I had had a LC9 when they first came out and thought, along with some experienced friends, it had the worst trigger ever - so I traded it . A few months later along comes Galloway Precision with their trigger bar mods. I put in two for a couple of gals who come into my friend's gunshop. I love them, but don't have the jack to actually buy a new LC9 and install the Galloway trigger. Today was my lucky day. One of my own Galloway trigger installed LC9s came into the shop on a trade. I got to pick it up for a good price due to my volunteer work. I can't wait till my wife gets home tonight. This is going to be her favorite gun and it has a factory laser too!