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Yesterday evening i was out in the storage shed behind my house. While i was looking out a car pulls up to the stop sign by my yard as i live on a corner lot. They throw a bag of mcdonalds garbage out the window right into my yard. Now i ride my bike a lot and i knew exactly when this person stays or lives. Which is 3 streets over. Anyways i wait for night and ride my bike right over to his house and throw his bag of trash right in his driveway by his car. Was that wrong of me? Cause i felt justice when I did it.

Yesterday I went to Knoxville for work.  Things went faster than normal so I had a few minutes to kill.  Went to Gander Mountain to take a look at some guns, ammo, and reloading supplies with the ideal of I might buy something.  Got the "got to have something new" thing going on for about a week now.  Not knowing what I want, just want to look to see what catches my eye.  Now, it has been several years since I have been in one of their stores and it did not take me long to remember the reason why.   Prices!!!  They are proud of their guns and ammo.  I don’t see how they stay in business.  Yes they got a good selection, but who is going to pay the price.  Need to say that "got to have something new" feeling went away fast and a bad taste came in my mouth.  So on the way back home I made a stop at Fugate Firearms to see the gang and to get the bad taste out of my mouth.  Looks like it will be several more years before I go back into a Gander Mountain store to kill sometime.  I am going to put them in the same box as Benton's Shooters Supply, a store to stay out of. 

Moving here and complaining about how our state runs is paramount to someone picking on your sister. It's okay if you do, but nobody else is allowed. But seriously, we get a lot of transplants here and all they do is bitch and moan about how much better things were where they came from. It just gets old and we tend to get defensive after hearing it for so long. They are usually from much farther north, though. "Take your whining ass back home" is just a natural knee-jerk reaction. There must be something they/you like about TN or you wouldn't have moved here. It's usually jobs, no income tax, or some other economic reason, but everything can't be perfect for everyone or we'd be WAY too crowded by now.

Can't wait to go troll the hipster bars while wearing it. :lol:

Can't believe that no one else has brought this thread back yet. Did anyone watch? "If you don't know who I am, your best course is to tread lightly." Freaking epic setup, can't wait till Sunday so we can see the follow up.

I hate litterbugs just as much as thieves.  They are no better than the trash they throw out the window.

Last time I bought a gun at Walmart, they escorted me out. I ask the lady " why are you carrying a unloaded 22 for me when I have a 45 on my hip and a 9mm in my pocket". I thought she was gonna croak. Lol

The only thing that makes me feel old is getting out of bed every morning.

You should post that in the survival part of the forum, and name it "Emergency protein source".

From the mouth of Peter, Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: I don't believe these things plagued men of clear conscience years ago like they do now. At least, not with such great frequency. Something bad is coming. AND HEY!! If it ain't, you'll have lost NOTHING by being prepared for it. Quite the contrary, you will rest easier. That in and of itself is worth much. Be prepared for as much as you can. The darkest days of this country have only just begun.

Gander Mountain is for "gandering" only.  "spending" is done elsewhere :D

I always keep an AK in the truck. Is that not normal?

Please, please, please let one of them boys run for and win ANY public office! Well ok, maybe just Willie and Phil. As entertaining as it would be to watch Si adress the state of the union and go visit foriegn officials, maybe for the good of the civilized world we should draw the line.

I went to the local Walmart here in Greeneville to buy a shotgun the other day and they told me that it was going to be 24 hour wait because of some terrorist red flag policy that the government was under. I told him that was bull crap and that I would just buy it somewhere else. Now that didn't hurt his feelings, but its the principal of the matter. If you are going to delay my transaction don't give me some lame excuse, man up and tell me why you are doing it. Luckily for me I went right down the road and got a better deal on a upgraded shotgun and got it order in a timely manner. I would rather wait three days because someone had to order a gun than wait a day because your store is lazy and wants to give out crap excuses. 

  "Old fashioned way" is a paper 4473 and a phone call. Only waiting period is the time on hold.   - OS

On another thread we speculated about why Midway charges so much for shipping.  So I asked Larry Potterfield.  It took a while but here is the response I got -      Dear Richard,   Thanks for your contact with Larry.  I’m sorry it’s taken a while to respond—As soon as the November election was complete Larry’s customer contact rate via email, voice mail and letter skyrocketed to well more than 2000 per week. He reads/listens to all his contacts but obviously can’t respond to them personally.  Between this and his other obligations as CEO, it takes him a while to respond to customer inquiries.    He asked me to follow up with you.   We used to roll the cost of shipping into the price of the products.  This meant customers in the Midwest were subsidizing the shipping cost of customers on the coasts.  The policy we started in May of 2001 charges our customers their actual cost of shipping (plus a small charge for packing/insurance/etc.).  We do not pad our product profits to offset "free" or artificially low shipping costs.  The charges you pay are not used to offset the orders of other customers nor are their orders used to subsidize yours.  You will notice that this philosophy means our shipping charges are based on the cost of shipping the order, not on the VALUE of the order.   As ammunition is an ORM-D class product it MUST ship via UPS Ground regardless of the number of rounds shipped or the weight of the ammunition in the package.  That’s the reason for the shipping charge.   I appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.   If you have any additional questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at 1-800-243-3220. Our hours of operation are Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CT; Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CT. You may also email us at customerservice@midwayusa.com.    Thanks for Your Business!   Brian MidwayUSA Customer Service    

This may likely have been posted before, but this little recently rediscovered homemade film of a spontaneous parade in Honolulu (August 14, 1945) is worth watching! Audio on will add to the experience! Here is the link - http://vimeo.com/5645171

I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more of this thread.

Seems very reasonable to me. Also nice that they took the time to send a response that doesn't reek too badly of a form letter. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure 100 of those same responses went out at the same time but at least they took the time to make it a good one. Plus you got thanked for your business, how often does that happen anymore?

I must admit I have followed my neighbors home and returned their "lost" trash to them. I laughed all the way home thinking of the look on their face when they found it in their yard the next morning. If you want to be a pig, be a pig your own turf!

  The cop suing the family is a preemptive strike. Best wishes to him.

    I DO.   Maybe to a lesser extent but it would still be happening. The NSA would still be spying on us(much like they did under Bush) and the other government organizations would still be abusing their power.

I Am Spartacus Posted on August 15, 2013 | 212 Comments I am Spartacus* because for all too long I stayed quiet.  I stayed quiet because baby needed shoes (often literally) and I needed work in a biased field that would blacklist me as soon as they knew my true self. I allowed my loyalties and beliefs to be assumed from external appearances and origins – I allowed them to believe I must be extreme left because I’m female, of Latin origin, and have somewhat more than a Master’s degree in Modern Languages and Literature. (I would go back for the doctorate, I would, but I’m not willing to stay quiet anymore.)  Those years of festering silence weigh within me, and in the scales of eternal justice I’m afraid I’ll get counted with the enemies of Liberty, because I was quiet, I consented. I am no longer quiet. I am Spartacus writ small.  I am Spartacus praying that I never need to stand  physically facing the might of the largest power the world has ever known.  I can tell who would lose. Because of that I am battling in the mind, to avoid the evil hour as long as I can yet. Maybe, if a miracle occurs, to avoid it altogether. I’m fully aware that even in this battle of the mind the consequences can be death or worse.  I’m fully aware that once you identify as an enemy of the utopia to come – or even if you just fall in a category they don’t like – there are a million ways for death to come: in the dark of night, with a bullet to the back of the head, like the Polish officers in the Katyn forest; in public trials like the people who thought “if only Stalin knew”; in the despair of an engineered famine like the victims of the holomodor.  No, we haven’t got there yet, but there are ways for a living death too: anyone know where Nakoula B. Nakoula is?  And we won’t talk of the unjustified hounding of the lady who runs True the Vote.  There are ways to drive you to darkness and despair, even now.  And if they can get away with it, it will only get worse. Here's the link to the rest of the post. http://accordingtohoyt.com/2013/08/15/i-am-spartacus/

What a bunch of BS.  So I guess that, from now on, if someone calls 911 because there is an armed intruder in their home they need to take a minute to caution the perspective responding officers that armed intruders can be dangerous or run the risk of getting sued by officers, part of whose job it is to respond to situations involving dangerous individuals?   For the record, it is also BS that the family would try and sue the officers.

Like Mark A said, I'd bet it's the trigger. My very first AR would do the same thing. No matter how gently I pressed the trigger, it would jerk at the let-off. Combo of a stiff pull and then a sharp release, I guess. None others have done that for me. A better trigger, Dolomite's trigger kit or even the "15 Minute Ar-15 Trigger Job" will probably help.

I've found my EMP 40 to be a good choice for carry.  The EMP 9 would be a consideration if weight is a large factor.

AR-15 fully loaded with spare mags behind my seat. I consider myself pretty normal. Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk 2

  Doesn't everyone?

Get her into a nice bottle of blackberry wine before u tell her and she may just giggle with your news.  Maybe not... might swang yo head wit da bottle.  Daaang!

Frivolous lawsuits are made against the Police every day; this goes the other way. One of the family members was saying the shooting did not go down the way the cops said, and said they murdered his family member. This may just be a preemptive legal strike?

  Only complaint is that since it isn't on HBO or Showtime we get no boobies, ever.

I'm hell around my 1/3 acre estate with an electric Craftsman chainsaw.  :D

Lee Enfield! 10 shots, low recoil, halfway between .30-30 & .308, cheap & readily available ammo (& guns) detatchable box magazine & well proven for transferring critters & bad guys to the past tense for 150 years. What's not to love!

i use imr 4895 in my 7mm-308. 

You wouldn't have to retake the class if you had a current Kentucky CCDW permit.  Kentucky and Tennessee have reciprocity.  I moved here from Kentucky in 1997 and simply paid the fee, got fingerprinted and waited for them to mail my HCP to me.     <-- I was wrong about this part.  Outdated info.  My age is showing.   By the way... the roads run both ways between Tennessee and Kentucky.  Since it's better up there and all that.

Awesome. I wanted to send my wife to a class last year, but it just didn't work out. She's gonna go to this one.

I will not vote for Christie.  Nor will I vote for Billary.  If he gets the R nomination, we are damned if we do and damned if we don't.  I will vote for whoever the Libertarians run, and pray that there are another 20% that are finally disgusted enough to vote with me.  Then I am going to pray that Texas sees the writing on the wall and withdraws from the Union, so I can move to a country with sensible laws.   I know, it's a pipe dream, but if either of those two get elected in 2016, we are screwed blue and tattooed. :(

  Good thing about TGO. Sooner or later, somebody will come along and give you the answer you wanna hear.

  Do you read threads before you post? I said early on that Streamlights were rumored to be OK. I just couldn't pass up an opportunity to give you ####. It's a character flaw :)   And BTW... trade your Glocks in on some Bersas. They're just as good :)

I remember when Saturday morning cartoons were funny.

I'm so old I remember when you could buy guns at an auto parts store.

oh no you jest had to do it , temptation you could not hold back it was driving you insane , we will have to start a post aholic group now hehehe will call it the tricky post forum sounds better than sticky post . And see you made me do it to .

Hey look, No One is posting to the thread. That aught to make lenoirgunner happy I bet.

While buying ammo at Wal-Mart tonight there was a sticker near the register that said "no guns allowed" over a gunbuster.    I took it down. Not sure who put it there but it's clearly not Wal-Mart policy.

That's against the current law. I would not be doing business there.

I've watched one episode. They camped by a stream and never caught a single fish. The guy was whining about being cold and he was sitting with his feet in the stream!

Born and raised in germany..we had plenty of nudist beaches and actually belonged to one until I turned  7 or so..   But anyway..at this stage in my life ...I wouldnt want to try to surive with all my naughty bits hanging out.. what is the purpose in that? You are already vulnerable as it is...I wonder if thats a mental thing? Either way ,the show is OK..e watched it and where suprised how whiney the guys get..lol

I have the Magpul MBUS rear sights on all my rifles. I buy them because they're light, cheap, and they work. I might get something a little better if I ever actually shot with irons. I don't. They're strictly for backup.   There's a little more to the selection of a front sight. The Magpul won't work on a railed gas block. It's too low, and it will melt. There are a few metal flipup sights that are designed for gas block mounting. I have a couple. One is from Midwest Industries, and I don't recall who made the other. I do have one rifle with an MBUS front sight that's mounted on a Daniel Defense railed handguard.   Optics... most folks settle on Eotech, Aimpoint, or one of the many cheaper Chinese sights. I have all three, but I'm an Eotech guy. There are threads out there that deal with the Eotech vs. Aimpoint selection. There is no consensus. I'm not a big fan of the Chinese sights, but they'll work well, even for years until you can drag up the money for a quality optic.

Not quite. The 5.45 does need velocity to perform just like the 5.56. 5.56 will yaw, just like the 5.45, providing the twist is correct and the bullet is not over stabilized. Fragmentation is secondary to tumbling. If a bullet does not yaw or tumble is generally does not fragment, at least not FMJ. And the 5.56 will tumble and fragment providing the velocity is high enough AND the twist is slow enough. If is generally accepted that a FMJ 5.56 will fragment as long as the bullet tumbles and the velocity is sufficient. I will have to go back and look but I believe it is generally accepted that FMJ bullets need at least 2,600 fps to fragment AFTER they begin tumbling. Under 100 yards either 5.56, 5.45 or 7.62 will be adequate performers with barrels of 10.5" or longer. Once you get below that the 7.62x39 will work better. 7.5" barrels in 5.56 or 5.45 will not fragment beyond 25 yards and if the twist is too fast they will perform like a 22 LR because they will not tumble at all.

  I've carried one since I was a kid, too.  However, I will also point out that I carried mine at school, the teachers knew it and no one ever objected.  In fact, as we didn't have pencil sharpeners in every room in my high school, some of the female teachers would sometimes either ask to borrow a pocket knife from one of us male students or would simply ask us to sharpen a pencil for them.  The male teachers didn't need to borrow ours - they all carried their own.   That was in the mid/late 1980s, though.  I imagine a student carrying a pocket knife to school these days would likely have a very different experience.  I'm simply throwing that out there to say that just because some of us who grew up in a more reasonable, common sense society (a society that still existed even as little as twenty or thirty years ago) carried knives at young ages it doesn't mean that it might not spell trouble for a youngster/minor in the Bizarro world we now live in.