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Finally acquired a WWII Springfreld M1 Garand. Serial number says it's from May 1942 that was rebuilt in 1947. She's greased up and ready to go to the range. I want to get some accessories for it, like a cleaning kit, bayonet, ammo pouch, but I'm trying to not spend more money right now! Hope you enjoy h

Got a double at Land Between the Lakes this morning. It was a great hunt, both of us shooting 20ga TSS loads, both very thankful to be able to get a public land double, especially as tough as those LBL birds are. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

How important to you would it be to be able to buy shirts, hats, etc. embroidered with the TGO logo any time you wanted? I am looking at an option that would allow me to make that available to you all. There's a bit of a setup cost that I would have to pay, but honestly, it's not enough to really deter me if enough people were interested. Basically, there would be a website with a catalog specific to TGO where you could order quality hats, shirts, and other things embroidered with our logo. They would be responsible for filling the order and shipping the items to you. There wouldn't be any minimum quantities to order and the lead times would be very reasonable. Just trying to gauge interest.

I'll believe this when CMP announces it. Until then, its just added to the carbines and 1911s that have been rumored for years.

Guilty as charged! Touche! Bingo!

I always tell people, if at all possible, try not to live West of where you work. Otherwise, you will be driving into the sun twice a day. 5 or 6 acres is nice if it's not all cleared. Trust me, mowing that much land every week gets old. You will need to dedicate an entire afternoon to it. Do you have a riding mower? You'll need one, or a small tractor. Pay close attention to your potential neighbors, and the neighborhood. You meet all kinds of people out in the country. Try to see if they are your kind of people. Are you really willing to not see neighbors every day? That was a big thing for my stay at home wife who didn't want to be a recluse. Think about what you want to get out of life by living in the country, and then make sure the properties you look at support those things. Is there a place for a garden? Can you shoot there? Is there a good place to shoot with a backstop? Is there a place for a barn, or a chicken coop. Check out the availability of Internet. Having to use a satellite dish for internet sucks. Be sure to check your cell signal when you visit a place. We ended up having to change providers because Verizon's signal was so poor here. How close is a store, gas station, hospital. As you get older, the last one may be pretty important. Where is the closest fire station, or ambulance. Overall, living in the country is amazing, if that is what you like. The peace and quiet is awesome. You'll see and hear wild life. You can see the stars at night. Good luck in your search.

Now that I am home I will elaborate on my above statement. I live an hour away from work. Less depending on traffic and cruise velocity. Not much less. Until recently I paid for my own fuel, in my own car, that I performed maintenance on. It is rated at 30MPG EPA HWY, but real world stop and go rush hour traffic drops that to about 22. I was going through a tank of gas a week. That is $30 depending a week in fuel. If you get one week of vacation a year, that is $1530 in fuel. For work. Not counting errands or pleasure driving. Most tires are rated at 40-60k, that is two years of driving. So add another $250 ($500/2) to your yearly total. We are at $1780. Oil changes will be more frequent now too, lets just ballpark that to get to an even $2000 for the year. That means that in real world parlance, she is taking about a dollar an hour pay cut to commute an hour each way, using my rough numbers. Which are based on 5 years experience. That is not taking into account weather, or traffic, or unforeseen events that can turn an hour drive into a two hour drive, or worse. Snow, rain, dark of night, all of these are factors to consider. Two hours less a day or home time, down time, etc. For me, I work 10-12 hours a day. Add two hours to that. I am essentially at work for 12-14 hours a day. Leaving time to come home, eat, Triple S and sleep. That is it. Every day. Now, I am making it out to be rough, not to be mean, but to be realistic. You say your wife is unhappy where she is, this will compound this ten fold. I love my job and I make mad money doing it. My wife and I just recently broke into upper middle class. My suggestion is for your wife to search the job markets at the fringes of town, and then you shop from there. For instance, while I drive an hour to get to downtown Louisville for work (which is a misnomer now as I drive from job to job) my wife works on the outskirts of the city proper. She drives 20 minutes one way. Quite a different commute.

I drive an hour one way everyday. I make really good money, but I often question my sanity on the commute. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Nice birds congrats.

An hour to the Southeast of Gipson would put you somewhere around Laverne unless your wife works an odd shift.

check gunbroker closed sales. I recently picked up a Colt 1918 vintage myself and found Gunbroker showed a pretty good range of value. I think that front sight has been replaced. Numrich is your friend for date appropriate parts. I just got my order in to repair mine.

Looks like a mostly genuine Colt Black Army to me...with a busted (or maybe filed square) front sight. Prices for things like this are all over the place and definitely in the four figure range. My WAG, $1500, more or less, depending on condition and this, that or the other. This is all assuming I know what I'm talking about.

I just imagine my wife going thru the same ordeal when I'm gone.

Here ya go. Put a camper in the back and you have a zombie-proof mobile home. I've often wondered why this isn't the go-to vehicle in The Walking Dead. Zombies between here and your destination... no problem... take the wife and kids with you. Cars blocking the interstate... no problem... drive over them.

Sorry to hear of a friend passing. Boy do I wish I found this kind of stuff in the attics of houses am in. Nice of his widow to offer and nice of you to make sure you give her a fair price.

You need to check out the rush hour traffic both ways. I drive from Nashville to Brentwood at 8:30am 2-3 times a week on I-65. Southbound traffic is okay, but northbound backup sometimes goes past Harding all the way to Concord Road. It could take an hour to get from Concord Road to Nashville some days on I-65. On the zero turn versus tractor, if you have a field with ruts, the zero turn is going to have problems scalping the field. You might just try driving your car over the field a few times. If the car is constantly rocking, it's going to be worse on a zero turn. Also, in the summer when it gets dry, all that chaff is going to come up to you... same with a tractor with a belly mower. I have 4 acres to mow and use an old Kubota tractor with a 72" rear mount 3-blade finishing mower. That puts the chaff behind me. I had no allergies when I moved to Tennessee 20 years ago, but it became a problem for me about two years ago so I wear a surgical mask when mowing. Trimming around trees and bushes will be more of a hassle with a tractor, so it's a trade off. Placement of the house will make a difference in heating/cooling. EDIT: Oh, and no matter how long the commute, it will be longer when it rains. Nashville drivers forget how to drive in the rain. And snow... forget about it.

Oh my! That's worth a lot just for the cool factor! I'm guessing $1500 would be a fair price to both buyer and seller?

http://thegca.org/product/gca-membership-2/ $25 dollars and you can buy from the cmp or you can do the rifle match thing at i think a gun range in oak ridge tn i cannot remember

My gen 2 17 from Aim has a lot of holster wear, and I love the look, but the internals look damn near new. I didn't bother changing anything.

You've already been provided good advice pertaining to a one hour to work daily commute which is actually two or more hours of driving per day. When you factor in bad weather driving and the narrower rural roads once off the interstate it becomes interesting at times. From personal experience if you find ten or less acres of rural property for sale its generally not the most ideal of farmland so I wouldn't count on finding a farmer who'll use it. Not saying they won't cut it for hay if times or bad but its just not enough land for them to bother with. I used to live on a fifteen acre property and was constantly dealing with trespassers, feral dogs and stray cattle. Deer would eat up every garden or fruit orchard you planted. It's also very unusual to find that amount of rural acreage where DSL is located so a cellular WISP will be a far better option to a satellite receiver. Do your homework on who provides the best cellular service/reception in the area that interests you. Now as to the Z-Turn vs. Tractor. It depends on what your doing with your property and how much you intend to cut. If your only cutting your yard and relatively even fields then a Z-Turn is faster and easier on you. If you plan to maintain any fields by bush hogging them then you should consider around a thirty horse power tractor as your lower end option and something closer to the forty HP range as preferred. Used tractors are more of a hit or miss deal then a lot of used cars so be careful

All jokes aside, demand for .40 handguns has greatly declined. They just are not selling.

I'll 2nd what @Murgatroy and @analog_kidd are getting at. I spent 7 months living 37 miles northwest of my job. 45 mins to get there at o'dark thirty and 60-90mins to get home. Into the sun both ways. My car got 37 mpg, so that helped with the fuel expense but it still got old real fast.

Got my omega 9k out of jail the other day and now my mpx is complete. This thing is a blast to shoot

Great bunch of guys! Now we need to see the veterans affairs secretary out there.

APX. In our modern world of firearms, where they can and should be extremely easy to maintain... ... my people (I'm Italian) have again shown their propensity to hit the vino while working, and designed this where you have to have three hands to field strip. You have to hold the frame, pull the slide back, and while you're doing that, you have to be pushing in a small button with a punch or a pen. Marrone. Stupid.

24lbs 10oz, 10.25" beard, 1 and 5/16" spurs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I don’t find it hard to believe that 83% of the people or even higher answered “Yes” when asked if a person should have to pass a background check to buy a gun. The real crime in that story is that an AK knock off costs $700 or that anyone would pay that.

Dude, you have a serious problem. And I love it.

I use round hollow punches, 5/16 inch for the overpowder wad and 3/8 for the overshot, and scrap cardstock.