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I think Rosco might have been the best friend I've ever had, and he was just a little firecracker of black and brindle colored happiness. No one knew where he came from. No one knew how old he was. No one knew what breed he was. And it never mattered. He was probably at least 2 or 3 years old when he came to us around 10 or 11 years ago. He passed away this morning. I guess the neighbors may have wondered today why a 49 year old man was out in the back yard sobbing. But I ain't ashamed of it. Because I dearly loved that little feller, and I ain't ashamed of that either. My boys came home and helped me give him the proper and respectful burial he deserved right here at home. I have absolutely no complaints about him. He was one of the greatest blessings that God has ever given me. In the words of men from long ago that I have great admiration for: He would do to ride the river with. Rosco was faithful and true, and he will be forever missed and loved.

My condolences. Cried many times over a dog and will again. Not many words can help, but be grateful for the time you had. He will be waiting on the other side.

This is my Grandaddy's Kessler Westchester 12 gauge bolt action shot gun with a 2 rd detachable magazine. It is marked "Buffalo Bill Cody" edition. If I remember correctly I think Sears or Montgomery Wards made them. It is at least 55 years old. When I was 8 years old I remember my Granddaddy shot one shell at a flock of blackbirds. I saw 8 fall dead. I didn't realize how a shotgun worked at that time and I thought he and that gun were magical to get 8 birds with one shot. He died when I was 15 so I got his shotgun and kept it just the way he had it , even with the old electrical tape around the forearm.

My granddad gave me his Savage 22 Bolt action rifle when I was about 3 years old. First gun I ever shot. No telling how many rounds I've shot with this gun. Still as accurate as it was almost 50 years ago. And now a 38 S&W revolver my father in law gave me about 5 years ago. He had a stroke earlier this year and is now in a nursing from the stroke and dementia. These priceless treasures will be passed on to my daughters one day.

Bear with me for this struck my sentimental bone. I have my Dad's pride and joy that he left me which was his 1962 production Browning Sweet 16. It was fired 10 rounds since new. I have the original box of "Super X" as well. Then there is the Remington 870 Wingmaster my Grandpa bought new. I remember going with him to the Grand Opening of Wal-Mart #3 in Conway, AR to buy the Wingmaster. I stood at the counter as a small boy and watched my Grandpa count out $67 dollars and change for the shotgun. I remember thinking at the time that my Grandpa had to be RICH to have that much money. I have many fond memories of rabbit hunting trips with that shotgun and my Grandpa. There are others but those are my "special" ones.

I also inherented some guns, 1 was a single shot 12 gauge that my grandad owned, broke the firing pin and replaced it with a nail. The other 3 I inherited from my dad, 1 28 gauge shotgun, and 2 model 190 22 rifles. All are buried in the safe so deep they will never be found.

I have inherited three guns that have special meaning to me. The first was my Dad's Remington 11-48 12 gauge. He was a big quail hunter and that gun brings back memories of days afield, fine bird dogs and time spent with him. One day this will belong to my oldest son. The second is a 6" S&W Model 29-8 that belonged to my friend Bill. He was a retired LEO and had a love for the .44 Magnum. He actually had another Model 29 before this one and shot it so much that when he sent it in to the factory for its 3rd overhaul that they just replaced it with this one. That big ol' cannon was his EDC as well. He left it to me when he passed away in 2002. The third belonged to my best friend Bob. After he passed, his wife and I were going through the safes. She told me "Bob wanted you to have this one." and handed me his 1975 6" Colt Python. I'll never sell any of these.

I have a few guns that have special meaning to me, and as such doubt that I'll ever part with them. This S&W Model 36 Chiefs Special being one exception: Now there's a story (Oh, No! you may groan!) behind this gun. I was at the range one morning and mentioned to a good friend of mine that I was looking for a Chiefs Special. Now this friend was one of those who I knew only from the range, but a friend nonetheless. He told me he had just traded one at a local gun shop. I believe I left him standing there, so quickly did I depart. I hied to that store and there was the gun sitting in the display case, and I filled out the paperwork and went over to an ATM to get the money. And that afternoon I had my Model 36. Some time after that my friend died. He was the father-in-law of my gunsmith, and in time I learned his wife, the daughter of my friend, was trying to assemble her father's gun collection. Well, Christmas was approaching so I told my 'smith about having the gun. Well, he bought it from me to give to give wife for Christmas. He told me she teared up upon opening the package and finding that gun! Bob Wright

I am very very sorry for your loss as I just experienced this a week ago and if you would have been there you would have seen a 69 year old man crying like a baby. I know how bad it hurts. RIP Rosco...................

RIP Rosco! Nothing like the love of a good dog. Sorry for your loss but glad to hear so many good years were shared together.

My condolences! I am going to feel the same way when my precious Sugar passes. We hike each day and she loves it! She can't wait to hit the trail. She sleeps on the bed with us. She is something else. She dreams and growls in her sleep. Too funny! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It always makes me sad to see these threads. I'm sorry for your loss.

I had a 1895 Marlin in 45/70 . Should have kept it . It was a beast .

Not a shotgun but your situation is why I bought "thumper". It is Marlin 1895 cut down to 16". I use it in very thick stuff where the shots are going to be fast and short. Big bullets that are quick to get on target is perfect that situation.

Logical thought seems to elude liberals.

Another sad part of this, he was legally in the country under a program signed into effect in 1990 by Bush 1. Neither party is blameless.

I have only one gun that is close to my heart and thanks to many folks here I was not forced to part with it but would have for sure to do what needed to be done. My model 85 Bersa I have. It came from my friend of 30+ years, BT. He passed away last February while fishing on Dale Hollow Lake. He came for coffee and a biscuit about every other morning here for the past 10+ years and he always scratch and loved on Kasey when he was here and she looked forward to his coming by. She learned what days he would be coming by and she would lay in the carport waiting for him. For about a week after he died she bgan laying in the parking area where she could see the driveway better and I guess she did that for a month and finally realized he was not coming by any more. That 380 will be going to my son Ronnie when I am gone.

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I'm really happy to hear that

Bersaguy, I really wanted to extend condolences to you when you posted that. I could not bring myself to type it in. I think it was because I knew this was coming. Thank you all. It is very much appreciated.

I hate ta here about ole Roscoe's passing Brother... I know exactly how ya feel... I'm typin this a bit teary eyed over my ole retriever, Jake... He's been gone a long time... I'm still sad... I've cried and mourned for him a bunch... Here, i think, is a bit of the reason why.... Lord Byron said it best, i think... http://www.newfoundlanddog.ca/lord-byron-and-his-newfoundland-dog-boatswain.htm With sincere condolences... leroy...

So sorry for your loss. It is never easy. Prayers for you and your family.

My condolences. Nothing loves you like your dog loves you. I guess most of us have been heartbroken over a dog.

I've had some relatively close shots with my .270, 50 yds or under with no issues. I zero at 100 yds, and keep my shots to under 200 yds most times with no compensation on my part. At Ft Bragg, I hunted an area where all the pine trees were lined up dress right dress, so sometimes depending on angle you had a tight window to punch through and I never failed to make the shot. Same when we would walk the ridges pushing deer out of the bottoms, sometimes all you could see is the neck, or if lucky the vitals and yup, put it right through the window. Back when I was considering what caliber to move to, I did some research (pre internet) and came up with the .270 or the 7mm, but the .270 was the first rifle I came across that was in my ballpark $$ wise, which turned out to be a pretty good choice. I use the Speer Grand Slam, it seems to mushroom pretty well at all distances. They used to be sold loaded only, but then they sold as projectiles, now have been discontinued but I bought enough to hunt with for the rest of my time here.

...Practicing his religion of peace

The best place to stay up-to-date on all shoots across TN is on Facebook at TN Competitive Shooting: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TNCompetitiveShooting/

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Found info.

1st is a 40 S&W case and a cast HP boolit. 2nd is the 40 case and boolit that is pushed into the case. 3rd is the 40 case and boolit and nose formed from pushing the case and boolit into a die to swag the nose. 4th is the case and boolit swagged and the cannelure added, the black tool on the right does the job of adding the cannelure. 5th is the loaded round, 44mag.

Save all the brass and I'll either put them back together for you or buy them. 200 rounds will last a long time deer hunting

I have a few diff 44 molds, solid nose to hollow point, even swag a 40 S&W case to a 44 boolit. I use a fired 40 case, drop in a 190 gran 40 cal HP cast boolit.

I do not fit the profile of a Suave, debonair, romantic, and handsome young man anymore but I like to think I still am. Does that make me a nut? For the record my wife says yes it does and no I am none of those things anymore. Except romantic. Since I give her flowers weekly. She gets flowers weekly because once a week I have to go to the lab and it is next to the cemetery. Shhh!

Since when does crazy "Compute"? Does that not go hand in hand? Of course, that is exactly why we have conspiracy theories. Notice the term, theories. Not facts or proven, just theories. In the end it comes down to believe what you will. It can be discussed forever but never will it be proven either way. Thus why they stay theories, they cannot be proven one way or the other. Of course it could have been Hillary doing something to distract everyone from the upcoming indictments but she missed the timing of Mueller. Or it could have been Trump trying the same. Or even more out there it was both acting together to keep us distracted while they take over the entire world. Maybe they will release the files in 50 years and we can find out then that there are just more questions rather than answers. Either way I think I will go reload some ammo just in case because well, you never know.

Or we could slow down the importation of people wanting to kill us?

@TGO David

Wow....those membership rates make me glad I have a garage of my own, and make me miss the dirt cheap rates at the military base hobby shops.

Something like the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl? St. Petersburg Bowl

Great story. It is always nice when guns get back to where they need to be.

Isn’t there a football game on or something?

My favorite comeback is the using her words back at her, "Because it was on sale!"

When she says, "do whatever you want," she doesn't mean do whatever you want.

Check Middle Tennessee Shooters Club on facebook. Sometimes they have their info there. And check practiscore, search on mtsc. It's usually the 4th Saturday. Registration around 9:30. Match starts at 10:00 or 10:30.

I need to talk to an admin, my feelings are hurt! I thought this was a gun lovers safe space. SAD!

Google "biltong" and read a bit. It is an African method of curing meat outdoors. I'm not sure if it would work in our humid climate, but it is something I've always wanted to try.

I have made some pretty good jerky by first marinating and then smoking the meat on my offset smoker (with just about as little heat as I could manage while still getting smoke) for flavor and to begin the preservation/curing/drying process and then finishing it up in the electric dehydrator to get it as dry as I want it. This is the same method as I used for making chipotles several years back when I had a bumper crop of jalapenos (and have also used it for other smoke, dried peppers.) Being that I also sometimes like doing things the really old way, however, I would like (and eventually plan) to try something like the general method used in these, two videos (I am not generally a very successful hunter so mine will probably be made with beef.) I have also seen videos where folks use larger, multi tier versions of the tripod that Mr. Canterbury is using in his video and in some of those they spread some canvas or other, heavy cloth over the tripod to make a 'teepee' type setup that, I imagine, would work much like the setup used in the third video linked. I think the secret is (much like cooking with an offset smoker but probably to an even greater degree) to have coals and smoldering wood to create a lot of smoke while keeping actual flame to a minimum:

As an aside and a warning, for those of us who have gone through the process to have Class III items, make sure you have copies of your stamps and proper paperwork with you when these items are out of the safes. The public perception of suppressors, SBRs, etc is being distorted by the media now. And many officers that might make a traffic stop might not be fully aware of laws either, so watch your back guys and play safe and legal. Just my opinion....[emoji6]

This post is intended to present our ideas about maintaining an emergency food supply. It does not deal with a complete emergency plan, only the food part. If you are considering such a thing, I hope it will answer some of your questions and hopefully we have done some of the leg work for you. It is intended to be simple, obtainable, and easily transportable should you ever be faced with an evacuation, as well as being long-lasting and highly edible without cooking. Here 'tis It all fits on an 18"x48" shelf We aren't preppers or survivalists, but we have nonetheless maintained our emergency food supply since Nine-Eleven, over 13 years ago. We don't believe in Zombie attacks or the complete meltdown of Western Civilization, but we do believe our country is vulnerable to disruption by our enemies and that in such an event it may well be up to the individual family to provide for itself without outside assistance for a time. We have also seen essential services disrupted by natural disasters like Katrina and the megastorm up in New Jersey last year, so that is also on our minds as we do all of this emergency planning stuff. Now, here's another thought you might consider: There are certain events and circumstances in our region that, if they came to pass, would leave local government no choice but to order the immediate evacuation of your home area. If that happened, chaos will prevail and there will be neither food nor hotel rooms available on the evacuation routes. Even fresh drinking water would be very difficult to come by. So our emergency food and water supply is designed to facilitate quick loading in vehicles, easy consumption without cooking on the road, and long shelf life in such an event. With all that in mind, we have set up our supply to last us roughly a month on a survival basis, (but certainly not a culinary delight basis.) Here are the factors we considered to be important, presented in disorganized, willy-nilly fashion: (1) Emergency planning means to plan for the worst thing that can hit you, which in the case of an emergency food supply would be your inability to cook food. So in designing our emergency supply we chose canned foods over dried foods or MRE's because of their ready availability, variety, longevity without refrigeration, ease of immediate consumption, and much lower cost. We also chose only those canned foods that can be eaten out of the can cold. It isn't the best thing that ever happened to you, but I was in the C-Ration Army and have eaten a heck of a lot of canned food cold from the can and it will sustain you. We also went in big for high calorie foods, since it only stands to reason that food will be in short supply and you want every smidgen of nourishment you can get in relatively small quantities. .(2) Assuming that the worst season this could happen in would be winter, we went very heavy on protein, which is essential for keeping you warm. (Note that combining rice and beans gives you a complete protein.) (3) We went heavy on the foods that have a can completely full of product, like the Roast Beef Hash, SPAM Lite, Refried Beans, Spanish Rice, Fried apples, etc, etc. Greens, corn, green beans, etc. are pretty useless for providing the concentrated amounts of nutrition we want, and they have too much water in the can. Having said that, we did throw in some watery veggies like beets, carrots, and sweet peas just for variety and morale purposes, but these have far better nutritional values than the others I mentioned. (4) We went heavy on stewed tomatoes because of their high Vitamin C content and because they make a good base for a cold slumgulleon stew. I imagine diced tomatoes would work well too. (5) We went heavy on beans and bean products because of their carbs, calories, low fat, and their high dietary fiber content. (5) Getting away from sodium in canned foods is almost impossible, but I set an arbitrary limit of 240mg per serving in our canned veggies, and kept it as low as possible with our meat products. Be aware, however, that sodium content will vary from brand to brand in the same product, so you have to check each brand - i.e. Bush blackeyed peas have 540mg per serving, while Allens blackeyed peas only have 240mg per serving. Also, in the meat department, SPAM Lite has much less sodium than regular SPAM and Roast Beef Hash has less than Corned Beef Hash. So we opted for the lowest sodium content in each product category. (6) We stuck mostly with name brands unless we knew for a fact that a particular generic was as good, which didn't happen often. Our feeling is that in an emergency we will have enough to contend with without having to suffer third rate foods. (7) We stayed away from canned prepared foods like pastas and so on, but they are a consideration. We’re evaluating a 10 can pack of Ravioli to see if we want to include it. (8) It does no good at all to plan your supply around canned products and then forget the can opener. So we have one high-grade can opener, one high grade church key/bottle opener, and one good folding knife in each of our cars, and another package of these is kept with the canned foods. They are wrapped in Saran Wrap and then a ZipLok bag for rust prevention. Tough stainless steel can/bottle opener One of the best portable can openers on the market. (9) Your supply must contain a transportable supply of drinking water, and there are lots of ways to accomplish this. Here photos of the containers we used. Our total supply is 29 gallons, of which we could realistically take only about 10-15 gallons in the vehicles. Recycled half-gallon tomato juice jug 2.5 gallon water storage container with spigot (10) Your supply should contain a good supply of miltivitamins and any other meds you need on a daily basis. Finally, we do indeed have a stove to take on the road with us. It is an old fashioned Coleman gasoline stove that I've adapted to burn Propane as well as gasoline. So heating food shouldn't be a problem, but if it is we're prepared to eat cold food. OK, here is our supply as it now exists. (Cardiologists please sit down.) There are some photos thrown in to give you some idea of the amount of room it occupies. (It is all contained on a shelf measuring 18"x 48.") I believe the whole shebang would fit into, say, about a large plastic tub and a half for transportation. Here goes. NOTE IN THE PHOTOS THAT THE PULL DATES ARE WRITTEN IN LARGE NUMERALS ON THE FACES OF THE CANS. ALSO NOTE THAT NONE OF IT REQUIRES REFRIGERATION. FOOD FOR EMERGENCIES VEGETABLES AND FRUIT 105 each, 14 oz. cans of vegetables and fruit, as follows: 10 cans of Spanish rice 10 cans of refried beans 5 cans of mixed pinto and great northern beans 5 cans of blackeyed peas 10 cans of mixed vegetables 5 cans of shellie beans 5 cans of honey carrots 5 cans of regular sliced carrots 5 cans of sliced white potatoes 5 cans of sliced beets 5 cans of sweet peas 15 cans of stewed tomatoes 10 cans of fried apples with cinnamon 10 cans of Lite peach slices MILK PRODUCTS 10 each, 14 oz. cans of Vitamin D Evaporated Milk BREAD 18 each, 16 oz. cans of B & M molasses bread with raisins Excellent bread with a three year shelf life. MEATS 60 cans of meat products as follows: 15 cans of boneless chicken breast meat (Sam’s Club) 25 cans of Lite Spam 10 cans (16 oz.) canned ham from Aldi's. (similar to SPAM, but better IMHO.) 10 cans of roast beef hash OTHER 29 gallons of fresh water 100 Lipton tea bags 2 each, salt and pepper shakers 400 multi-vitamin tabs 500 enteric coated aspirin tabs We certainly don't have all the answers. This is an unsophisticated, easy on the budget, way to get a month's food in the barn. it's a work in progress, so we are constantly evaluating new products, like the ham from Aldi's. it's just the way we see things. Hope it helps answer some questions.

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Cool story... but pictures or it didn't happen.