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Sorry for your loss. Leave the Colt alone. Treasure it for what it is.

National Reciprocity will lead to National Regulations, then of course, National Restrictions. No.

I am regretting my decision a little.

I recently lost my grandfather,he was the greatest man I've ever known, anyways I could go on forever. I was lucky enough to get a few treasures he had. One was this old colt 38 that belonged to his father. I will never part with it so value doesn't mean much to me. I'm thinking I would like to have it restored but want it done right do any of you guys have some one you would recommend? Let them know how much you love them while you can. R.I.P Esko J Barnard. Thanks for looking and letting me rant.

I havent been in a week, but I'll probably get after it again this weekend. I haven't seen ONE deer since muzzleloader started!!! They're all wearing camo or in their underground bunker I think. It got frustrating. Even the cameras went cold. I'm wondering if they packed up and headed for more water because of the drought, so maybe there'll be more activity this weekend since we finally got some rain. good luck!

The history and love are in the slight imperfections. If 2 generations treasured it, then keep it the way it is, but I agree, go shoot them some and remember. You will treasure them more that way than as a wall hanger.

Well, I got a great Christmas present from my son and youngest Grandson this morning. They just filled my freezer up with about 160 lbs of processed assorted cuts of deer meat. They killed two 8 points and a 6 pint and had it all processed and it is now in my freezer. I will have some great eating for a year now......................

Blazer .22 and CCI Standard are the exact same bewlitts. The specs are identical and I've shot tons of both with the same results. I got the bee in my bonnet for Blazer after pimping out my boyhood 10/22 with a fancy Adams & Bennett barrel from Midway a few years ago. Blazer is the only bulk pack (not bricks for those that know the difference) that rifle will now shoot but it does it exceedingly well. Think one dime sized hole at 50 yards for 10 shots. Blazer does have a slight waxy or "greasy" coating like fancy European target ammo that I've observed. CCI Standard does not. WM never carried the bulk packs of Blazer, only 50 round boxes. I bought a crap ton of it in 525 rounds boxes thanks to Dick's and their sales and also when another LGS has a stoopid sale on it. It's darn near my favorite cheap .22 ammo. All that being said don't make it a point to go try and buy it all up.

I found a solution to that problem.....I haven't been near Chicago since 1980

Been a musician all my life, too late for that already, lol

Ebow, as I read your posts, I keep thinking, "Here's a guy that needs to find a trade." Plumbers, electricians, welders, mechanics all make a very good living, and most times those jobs aren't difficult to learn. You might have been better served by going to trade school instead of college. A lot of trade schools can be attended in the evening, and for a short while, then you are ready to go. Or, find someone willing to take you under their wing as a helper and learn on the job. It's gotta be as good as, if not better than hucking pizzas, pay-wise.

I'm not done, but took a week break. I process my own deer, and I like to age mine, so I wait until I'm done to try for another. If doe, looking for a smallish one, buck...something with at least 6 points or so.

Speaking of our women, gun ads, and Christmas...

Holy crap. I just saw a Henry Rifle commercial on TV. Oops, sorry. About those Christmas specials. Sometimes it's wise to just let them be on TV and not comment on them. And keep a laptop handy. Any woman that would puts up with some of us guys probably deserves to watch whatever she wants without any comment.

Sorry for your loss, sounds like your grandpa was a hell of a man. Leave the Colt as it is, it looks near perfect from what I can see.

I think if it was me, I would leave it in the same condition that it's in. Pass it on down the line along with the history.

OK, on a side note, I had to watch this again, I had one of the dogs on my lap, the ol lady was napping, when the "engineer" started laughing, I started laughing, the dog started barking, i then put the video on my smart tv and cranked the volume up, I was laughing so hard i was in tears, especially when she stormed out of the room screaming what the f is going on??? the dogs saw her and ran off, and there's the engineer going off on the screen as im almost in tears laughing so hard........that was some priceless stuff!

My parents watch the Hallmark ones. I watched what felt like one 17 hour mind number. Come to find out it was actually 2 different movies and only lasted about 4 hours. I managed to suppress most of the memories so far, but cheap gin, diet mountain dew and children's cough syrup will only numb pain for so long. I do seem to recall a few things, Shirley MacLaine and some other lady were angels, but people could see the other lady, but not Shirley. Some dude kissed the other one, which was gross since she died pretty early on in the movie and way before they locked tongues anyway. Shirley said she spies on her still living husband and uses angel powers to keep the women in his apartment building away from him. She wants to see him lonely. He probably pushed her down the stairs. I love the holidays.

Wingshooter, you make a great point. Thanks, I believe you gave me just the input I needed. Guess I'll keep the Saiga!

Ok, I'll admit to it. I watch them with my wife. That's all. (Actually, some of them aren't too bad. Most have the same general plot line, and the others usually parrot some version of A Christmas Carol or It's a Wonderful Life. But it does this old man good to see something wholesome now and then.)

I'd keep the 308 if you can't have both. Especially since you say "it's the only serious caliber rifle I own." 5.56 can be a serious caliber too for some criters, but what happens when grizz starts to migrate to TN The 308 has a much wider range of definsive/offensive capabilities against everything in TN. With 3 acres outside the city limits, I think a 308 is required equipment lol. Personally, I'd keep that Saiga and consider selling something else if you're itching for an AR.

The problem with the NRA is a simple one... They tend to negotiate our rights away, instead of taking a hard line against any new gun laws, and push for repealing gun laws on the books. I'm a double lifetime member, my grandfather bought me a lifetime membership as a baby, and I purchased another life time membership as an adult. But lets look at some greatest hits: 1. They helped craft the FOPA of 1984 which included the Hughes Amendment, when offered a veto they turned the veto down. They promised to remove the Hughes Amendment in following years, and have made no attempts to. 2. The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, the helped craft the language of that law, instead of fighting it tooth and nail they compromised. 3. Heller v Washington DC, early on in the process the NRA tried to get the lawsuit dismissed because they didn't feel it was the 'right time' to challenge the no ownership laws in DC. 4. After Sandy Hook the NRA started to work with Senators on a new Assault Weapons Ban, only after this was leaked by Gun Owners of America did they have a 'change' of heart and stand firm against any new firearms legislation. 5. After the terrorist shootings in CA last year, the NRA approved language for a bill which would have allowed the justice department to ban a person on the no fly list from purchasing a gun. There are 400,000+ people on the no fly list. Including Ted Kennedy, Steve Hayes (Fox New contributor). It took Steve Hayes 14 months to get himself off that list, and he's a well connected nationally know journalist. Those are just some of the 'hits' on the NRA. Every time they call seeking a donation, I send money to Gun Owners of America, because they don't mess around and compromise.

This, plus the boss's advice, plus stop drinking. Success is hard. If it was easy, anyone could do it.

I can appreciate your " not getting it" over my year long, plus a couple of months, failure to get Rossi support on a "back ordered" buttstock for my Rossi Circuit Judge 45 Colt/ .410 bore. The gun is selling for $550 plus in Wal-Mart, and about $100 more in other sportin goods stores. Now, if I "had"... which I didn't, listed it in the classifieds "for sale- as is", would you have paid me $500 for it... which would have been a discounted price for a gun with less than 50 rounds through it? I kinda doubt it. You, or probably anyone else would have expected it to be a distress sale, and expected to buy it for $350 - $400. Remember, I have the original,serialized box, and everything it came from the factory with. If it was the only gun I owned, or only one available for me to shoot, I may have "wasted" a year. But that is not the case, thankfully. I just haven't been able to shoot this particular gun in over a year. I come from a generation when a man's word and handshake was as good as a signed and notarized piece of paper. A man's word was his bond... and defined his reputation and integrity... plain ole honesty. If this huge corporation can't keep their word over a small thing like replacing a faulty buttstock, then it doesn'y appear to me that they have any honesty/integrity, and are well on their way to establishing a bad reputation for their company. One small incident like mine won't take a company down... but, enough of them will. There are many companies that failed in their responsibility to their customers, lost the loyalty of those customers, and ultimately lost their businesses. In the "high tech" world that we live in, word like this gets around, not only the country, but the world pretty quickly. If you look on the internet, you'll see pictures of some of these buttstocks shattered! Suppose someone looses an eye from one of these shattered buttstocks? If one could loose an eye, then potentially anyone with a cracked buttstock could loose an eye. How many "personal injury" lawsuits do you think this company could endure? Probably not too many! Therefore, if the officers of this company are using smart judgement, in accordance with their pay scale and job title, it would be to their advantage to get these faulty buttstocks back in their custody, as quickly as possible. Even if they have to replace the entire gun, it may save them money in the long run. Incidentally, they have told me they would do that very thing! They even sent me a prepaid shipping label. Only one problem... they wouldn't tell me when I'd get my "replacement" gun either in writing or over the phone. Here's where that "integrity" thing comes into the picture. I don't trust them, as I feel they have already lied to me, so I won't ship them my gun... until I get a definite guarantee that they'll ship the replacement immediately. Well, I don't know about all of you, but my "trust factor" in Rossi keeping their word is zero! Probably others are beginning to feel the same way. No, I haven't "wasted" a year. I've "used" a year watching Rossi ruin their reputation and probably loose a lot of would be new customers. The option of "bubbaing" up my gun, with a mismatched buttstock, is always there. But... if you can believe what the Rossi phone personnel tell me, none of their other buttstocks will fit the "Circuit Judge". How many believe them? How many "trust" them? If all of this is going on with the knowledge of the top man at Rossi, then the company is in serious trouble, in my estimation. What say you?

That Truck was made to do that, just not that.

I'm surprised I didn't hear one of them say "But it worked for the Duke boys"

+ 1000. some of us do get it.

this is my little buddy,,Memphis that's a butter knife he is holding so he can help his daddy clean the deer

I've never seen anything like this before. There wasn't many people at this local auction, and prices for guns and knives were at near giveaway levels, so, being a good TGO member, I tried to do my part. I scored an 1894 Marlin in 38-40, a Colt DA 38, A Colt Bisley in 45 Colt, a Remington New Navy Cartridge Conversion with perfect ivory grips, a Cattaraugus pocket knife, and a Winchester pocket knife. Not pictured is a 1917 Commercial Smith and Wesson my father confiscated from me. I guess a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while.

I got lazy after I harvested a doe in early October. Time for me to get back out there and try to get a second doe or 8 point. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ar's are cheap now. Buy one and keep the saiga too!

Oil them and shoot them.

Hey...that's my line!

I have a LEFTY Galco belt holster for a HK USP 45. Black leather, FBI cant. I've had it forever but haven't had a USP in over 15 years. Someone wants it, let me know.

Our definition of the sum of money that constitutes a lot for a vehicle differs. And those people in CA must have a surplus of currency sitting around they want to burn through quick.

This is not exactly a philosophical discussion per se. And no one is suggesting we live in any kind of ideal world, or that such a world would be easy to attain. But part of why we have the problems we do is that there are people who think they can arbitrarily strip others of certain things (or "rights"). Whether or not we've always had and always will have "the government" or "a government" is not the question. It is rather what is right or wrong, just or unjust. Your rejection of The Lawgiver leaves you as a law unto yourself. There is nothing any mortal can do about that, but it would be good if you restrict your lawgiving TO yourself. You want your ideas imposed upon other people, which would be all well me good if they were the right ideas and should be imposed, but you have no fixed standard of justice to which you can appeal. You can only advocate what seems to be good to you at the moment. You would declare this man safe and that one unsafe (and what if others disagree with your assessment?), and by that arbitrary declaration the second man would be stripped of his defense at the point of the bayonet, by naught but your say-so. Crime will always exist this side of judgment, and no one is beyond the potential for it. So once you've disarmed the unsafe man, you'll see the need to look for another. For the children, of course. Since it's all quite relative, as soon as the unsafe man is gone, the next least safe man will appear to be unsafe, and so it must go until ALL are disarmed but the state, by far the least "safe" entity to ever plague humanity. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't find it odd. I find it encouraging. At least they show they recognize there is a threat now. I hate to say it, but I am against the general public being able to take guns on a plane. Too many morons already carrying guns. At least when they shoot themselves or someone next to them now they can't take down an entire plane. You can check a gun, that is good enough for me. The guy carrying the AR wasn't TSA for sure.

No, actually, it is the fact that I realize we have to live with reality and not in some philosophical ideal of how things 'should' be that causes me to realize that not everyone is capable of safely and responsibly carrying a firearm. Further, the fastest way for everyone to lose the ability to legally do so is to not recognize that some people can't. Would things be better without governments? Maybe. But it ain't gonna happen. Even if we 'abolish' the current one (and I am not certain that doing so would be a bad idea) another will take its place. As long as there is a group of people lumped together in one place there will always be a 'government' of one type or another and there will always be a give and take between government authority, society and the rights of the individual. That is just the practical reality. Deny it all you want - don't believe in it all you want - but that won't change the reality. The truth is, you might be surprised to find that, from a purely philosophical standpoint, our views may be more alike than you know although there are definitely some fine points where our views differ. Thing is, philosophical discussions are all well and good and our philosophies can inform our realities but reality also must encompass other individuals' philosophies - philosophies which differ vastly from anyone on TGO - as well. Insisting that only our philosophy be followed results in A. tyranny if we have the power to enforce our philosophy absolutely or B. complete subjugation of our philosophy if we try to push it on everyone else and find that 'everyone else' overwhelmingly pushes back. BTW, I was raised Southern Baptist. My 'Deism' - which may not even be the best way to describe my beliefs - is not due to a lack of knowledge of the Christian faith but, actually, an informed and intentional rejection of it. I am not what I would call a 'Bible scholar' but I am well aware of and fairly well versed in what it is that I am rejecting. Probably more so than a significant portion of people who purport to 'believe' (not aiming that comment at you, just in general.)

What actually belongs to Caesar? What was the coin in question, and why did a Jew have one in his possession? Not that I'd entertain getting into a Bible study with someone who denies its validity, but for those so inclined, these are things to think about. Yes, Christians believe in laws. There are quite a few in the Christian Bible, but as you say, they won't interest you. Your disbelief in an absolute Lawgiver is what leads to your belief that you can arbitrarily declare that this person may defend himself, and that person may not. You called what I said about carrying a gun naive, because it won't prevent violence in every instance. No one thinks it will. Having a fleet of aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons doesn't either. You can't prevent everything. You can't find all the "mental defectives" and take their guns away. That's a "naive" notion if there ever was one. You talk of "likelihood" and of what "may" happen, and your fears of unknowable future possibilities make you want to use government violence to actually, really, now, strip others of their means of protection. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I label your view as "gun control," which it manifestly is, and so you label my view as "a ridiculous extreme," which is a all-but-undefinable adjective with a loaded noun. I don't mind; I just think it's funny. You claim certain people shouldn't have access to guns, and want the government to enforce your arbitrary view. With guns. All government edicts imply potential lethal violence. It's because we live in this imperfect world that we don't need or want centralized and organized government guns restricting private, individual guns. That's just solving a small problem with a big one. A REALLY big one. A private citizen didn't invent the atomic bomb, which is an utterly immoral offensive weapon, nor did a private citizen drop two of them on innocent men, women, and children. "If government is the answer, I don't think I care to hear the question." I didn't say the framers' ideas were all irrelevant; I said their views on voting are irrelevant to this topic, which is still my position. Regardless, the framers' ideas just give us food for thought; they do not establish absolute right and wrong. That establishment predates them by a significant period of time. If they said government shouldn't let citizens go armed, they would have just been wrong. It happens. They were wrong about more than a few things, you may be interested to know. Your "driving while intoxicated" analogy is another large topic, and easily handled without government violence as well. For one thing, if the government hadn't nationalized almost all roads, whoever owned them would set the rules and allow or deny access. And more importantly, driving blitzed wouldn't and shouldn't be a crime until you aggressed against person or property. Why should I care if you drive drunk and don't hurt anyone or anything? Anyway, as I said, that's another topic. We're so immersed in a sea of statism we can't conceive of air or dry land. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"The Ref" with Dennis Leary and Kevin Spacey, best Christmas movie for grown-ups.

I only post this here in good humor. It is what I referenced earlier but it took me a while to find it. It's from 2008 when Apple released a new MacBook, not MacBook Pro as I stated. Back then there was a lot of complaining about the available ports and having to use dongles too. http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-macbook-no-firewire.580472/ Reading through a lot of the comments and you might mistake them for being about the 2016 MacBook Pro if you didn't know they were from 2008!

The new USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 port... (they couldn't even name it one or the other). It is the only port type on the new macbook pros. Want ethernet? Dongle. Want USB? Dongle. Want Thunderbolt? Dongle. Want HDMI? Dongle. Each one of those connectors, I can access without an adapter on my current macbook pro. - Also, there are only (4) of these ports on the thing, so if you are using one for the power adapter, then you have just 3 ports left. I guess it's not a big deal since you'd need an adapter to plug anything into any of them... so what's one more adapter to mult one out to several devices. Hahahaha! This video ^^^ rules. Oh yeah,... want Firewire? well... I know old school, but still. Dongle.

The AR pistol with 10.5" or 11.5" barrel in a blue UTG 30" Alpha Battle discreet bag for $55.00 makes for a good truck gun without having to put your AR pistol together like you would in the Bulldog discreet case. The Bulldog case doesn't have shoulder straps. If you have CCP and your vehicle breaks down, and you need to walk away from your vehicle, you would be legal with your AR pistol.

Going to give you some advice that may seem somewhat unsolicited, but maybe you were hoping folks would offer some? Anyway... I think your problems, or at least the past ones, stem from two major things: Impatience (leading to anger) and lack of resolve to see something through to completion. Thematically, the experiences that you described were short-lived and terminated by your own hand. A few of them you rationalized were out of your control, but you still ended them yourself: Fired from one job for throwing a pizza Didn't have the resolve to run a kitchen job (sober) Wasn't easy to find time to exercise while working a prison job, so you didn't Nursing education didn't work out for undisclosed reason Phlebotomy education didn't work out because you didn't prep enough to pass the exams So my advice is this: Sack up. Life isn't easy. Hard work and perseverance will take you past where talent or natural gifts (such as academics coming easy) let off. There's nothing wrong with bouncing around between things while you figure out what makes you happy, but there's a nothing right about giving up prematurely or blaming outcomes on circumstance. You are the master of your own destiny. Make your own "luck". Find something in life and stick with it past the point of your own comfort, just to prove to yourself that you can and so that you discover that "comfort" is a state of mind and therefore something that you control. Just some honest talk from someone who was restless in his 20's and thankfully had someone sit him down and talk to him like this. I hope you get it all figured out.

Honestly my biggest concern with constitutional carry is what effect it will have on reciprocity with other states now and what effect it would have later if nationwide reciprocity gets passed. I'd rather have to get a permit to carry here and be able to carry in other states than not have to get a permit to carry here but not be able to carry elsewhere. For those of us that travel a lot that is kind of a big deal.

I just went through this same thing back in March and even made a thread on it like you. My son turned 18 in March and I got him a nice used Glock 17 9mm. I gave him that since he had shot mine several times and loved it. Since you don't seem to want a Glock , I suggest these two : 1. The Ruger SP101 in .357mag so he can shoot 38 and 357 . It will last him a lifetime ! and the other would be a nice used Ruger P-Series in 9mm. They are built to last and he can experience a hammer fired DA/SA pistol like we did growing up. Good luck and happy birthday to the little guy !

At 18 my son's first personal handgun that I gave him was a .38 special revolver. That has been quite a few years ago now and he still has it and still loves it. He has several of semi-auto handguns now and likes those as well. The revolver also worked well for training his bride and it's her favorite now as well.