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WOW! Got mine already! Postal Meter FINE condition, 1.9M range, flat bolt, high wood, two rivet handguard, Marlin barrel, Type 1 barrel band, bore is shiny but well worn, stamped rear sight, lots of cosmoline, wood is well used, but no cracks. Photos after I have a chance to clean it up.

I learned quite alot that I didn't know Chip was responsible for. I had to do some searching, but Chip was only 51 years old. Let that be a lesson for all of us, we aren't guaranteed getting back home this afternoon. If you are not certain where you will spend eternity, make that a priority. You have to decide on the green side of the grass where you will spend it.

I am selling a few different firearms: SIG Rattler — $3,200 300 blackout 5.5 inch barrel AAC muzzle device ( I think ) Glock 19 Gen4 — $550 9mm 2 mags Factory Glock Sights Taurus model 85 Ultra lite — $350 38 special AR15 — Sold **gun is pictured with red dot, sling, and light that are not included** 10.5 inch barrel SB3 brace Palmetto State Armory upper and lower PSA Flash Can

I've seen them priced at that, but I'm not sure how many actually sell at that level ...

I don't have experience directly with USCCA except for attending some of the local education (recruiting) sessions they have done. I believe they are reputable and you wouldn't be making a mistake going with them. That said, I joined CCW Safe after spending a great deal of time comparing. It is like so many other things, they all have some strengths that you wish the others also had. After reading all the fine print, I concluded that CCW Safe had a higher probability of providing more coverage (criminal and civil), giving more say/choice in representation, had an advisory board of highly reputable individuals, etc... The fact that USCCA has a lawsuit by a member and that USCCA had not issued a statement (at least not at the time of my decision) did not weigh in their favor. Yes, I do understand that I do not know all the details, but it is concerning.

After 43 years of chasing drilling rigs around the world, the Chinese virus and the 4th major industry downturn finally kicked me out'a the saddle! Western Tennessee / Fayette County has been home for the past 15 years, so I'm planning on staying here. Me 'n the wife have kids, grandkids, and great grands scattered from Central Florida to NW Arkansas - so we're "centrally located" for visits! LOL! I'm a long-time hunter, occasional fisherman, reloader, bullet caster, and general firearms enthusiast and am looking forward to continuing in those lines for some time to come - regardless of the shortages for components. I look forward to swapping info, experiences, and mayhaps a few tales! WYT-P Skyhunter

I did a little research. There's not much out there but apparently Beretta made a bunch of M1 Garands under contract for Denmark. I think this was during WW II, but I can't seem to pin down the exact dates. Not much seems to be known. Oh yeah! I definitely want to see pictures of this!

Same place you did before you were conceived.

I really couldnt believe they ever said they were kosher.

Thanks, fixed now I believe.

That should be a prize!

https://www.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=2024 This should help on that front. He apparently has a rifle that managed to avoid the BM-59 conversion.

It may be my computer but I dont see the pictures.

No, mines not a BM59. I know what your talking about. My Garand is a 3006 and uses clips.

Here are a couple resources worth checking out that may help you decide. The Virginia Citizens Defense League has a legal plan comparison you can download at: https://vcdl.org/page/legal-plan-comparison John Lovell speaking with Andrew Branca about various plans. https://warriorpoetsociety.us/should-you-get-concealed-carry-insurance/

Sort of. I’ll bet it’s chambered for 308 and is a model BM59. I sold a copy to a fellow member here. I think mine was marked Golden State Arms.

Same here too. [USCCA]

Same here

I have USCCA. I don’t make use of the training materials they offer, but carry them strictly for the insurance. I’ve never had to make use of their services, thank God, so I can’t say anything other than I liked their coverage options the best. *Thread moved to proper forum section.*

A few months ago I got a used Springfield Armory XDS 45 subcompact . This thing is thin, I can carry it in my front pocket with a DeSantis pocket holster just like my Ruger LCP only a tad bigger. It is a .45ACP. It shoots great and is reliable. I liked it so much that I was on the hunt for another one since they are discontinued. You know , 1 is none and 2 is one. Last week I found a new one in the box at a store. It was new in the box but "old stock". I got it for $450. This one was the "long slide" 4 inch barrel. Man it is nice ! Still just as thin but just a 4 inch barrel instead of a 3.3 inch barrel. With the longer magazines it has I can make it a 5 rd , 6rd , and 7 +1 gun . I like Glock and have used Glock on my job for 24 years. The Glock 36 in .45ACP is so darn fat compared to this and it's only magazine is 6 rds. There is no other magazine for it , not even bigger magazines with magazine sleeves. The Glock 36 is the same size as the G19. If Glock would do something like this XDS 45 , they'd win a lot of customers in my opinion. This XDS has a grip-safety , which I don't like and has a few more parts too , but it is the best and thinnest .45ACP I know . As far as I know , Springfield Armory is making these in 9mm only now and they have the red dot cuts on the slide but no .45ACP. Enjoy the pictures.

I was very close to getting one of those . I like hammer fired pistols.

Defender —- Held at the MID-TN Expo Center

For sale is a barely used, probably not yet broken in HK P30sks. It is in new condition with everything that came with it when purchased. It is in pristine condition with sights that glow as new. NEW LOW PRICE!! Let’s get it gone today, folks… $620 in the boro

I don't think it's because they are basically poor shots, but how they train. I talked to retiring officer back when I was getting my HCP. We had just been through the range with his job the weekend before and I honestly had a much smaller group than he did. And he had just come off the range the previous weekend, where he had personally burned up about a 1000 rounds through his issue Glock (his words). He told me that they are trained to point shoot rather than aim and fire multiple rounds. They basically train to draw and have rounds down range as fast as possible and did not worry about grouping. He even said they trained to aim low, in order to hit under any armored vests and hoping for arterial hits, for bleed outs.

If a guy was looking for a hammer fired 9mm that could be carried both double action safety off or cocked and locked you'd be hard pressed to find a more reliable tool.

They make some good guns. I have one of their .45 ACP XDe's.

Eddie I would like to know how you practice shooting under stress. Even trained LEO have a very low hit factor when involved in gunfights, something on the order of 20-30%. I have read lots of articles that say there is good evidence though that many CCW holders to be better shots that most LEO. I can attest to that, when I used to shoot USPSA matches we had several LEO come and go and only a couple stayed with the group and I think most left because they saw they were a lot poorer shots than the rest of the group. Most LEO only have to qualify 2 or 3 times per year and some that is all the shooting they do. I know for certain that practicing every chance you get does help.

I have a buttload of them. No short barrels and no bump stocks. I really liked the pistol brace idea, but always viewed it as low hanging fruit.

Importation of milsurp rifles from Russia has been banned for years. In addition to the older bans, the Bush II, Obama and Trump administrations all added various individuals and companies to the "do not do any business with" list, a lot of whom control companies involved with arms and ammunition. Ukraine has some stuff left, but getting it out is very difficult, for one European export rules are much tighter now than in the past, plus they have this little civil war going on as well. A few years back, Russia announced that they were in the process of scrapping a lot of their older stockpiles of arms, likely many of them were old Mosins that had deteriorated over the years and weren't usable anyway. The endless wars throughout the middle east also suck up much of whatever is left and available, both weapons and ammunition stores. The firesales of WWII era rifles and ammo that Ukraine, the former Yugoslavian states, Romania, et. al. had in the late 90's and 2000's were made possible mostly by the collapse of their governments and the power vacuums left in the wake, allowing enterprising former Communists to sell everything that wasn't firmly cemented in place (and some things that were). None of those conditions are likely to be repeated, and with both our, and their current rules, bans, treaties and general ill-will towards each other, further sales are equally unlikely anyway ...

The Wild Bunch - Ben Johnson and Warren Oates, 1969

I like to imagine there are shipping containers and/or Russian warehouses full of old milsurps and ammo just waiting to be imported. Like some Lord of War or War Dogs scene. I know it’s probably not true, but I still like to pretend places like that still exist.

Count me into that. So, a gun owner can't anticipate our ####ty government acting the way they always act? Doesn't mean I agree with them. I just saw it coming. Bump stocks too.

Very true. You can even argue that importing huge quantities of milsurps, such as those brought in during the late 50's through early 2000's, artificially depressed prices below what actual market conditions would have normally dictated. After those shipments dried up, prices returned to what "normal" would have otherwise been. Now, years after the big surges of post-WWII weapons stockpiles have been exhausted, we're seeing large increases in prices as rifles wend their way through the secondary markets. We won't see anything like that again, as virtually all military organizations around the world adopted the use of so-called "assault" rifles in the postwar era, those will never be imported as surplus weapons here. WWII left an unprecedented supply of bolt-action rifles lying around unused after the cessation of hostilities, that situation and the laws of the times represented an historical opportunity for the importation of surplus weapons into the US. The unique set of circumstances that allowed that to happen won't be repeated ...

So glad I didn't buy into that particular craze. I almost did a couple of years ago, but felt like something like this would come along.

Never heard it put that way before MacGyver, but your probably correct one could find his pathway to perdition there if he had a mind too. Come to think of it, one could do that just about anywhere.

Sold

Careful… Pretty sure the gates to hell are in Daytona Beach somewhere.

I was a geophysical well logging engineer for too many years. I set foot in more foreign places than I can remember. What did you do around the borehole? I always wanted but never got the tee shirt that said… We trip for days at a time. Our dope comes in five gallon buckets Our joints are 20 feet long. Our boss is a pusher.

They saved a bunch of ships from ending up on the rocks over the years and I don't think many silo's did that...lol. They all have some kind of history behind them. If nothing else you can keep your better half happy on the trip...LOL

There are some things we know from the last several decades of vaccine science - coupled with things we've learned about this virus in the last year. 1. All of the vaccines available here in the US - whether you're getting one of the mRNA variants or a traditional viral vector variant like J&J - generally will generate a higher antibody response than the body will generate on its own in response to the getting the virus. There's a lot of well studied science here - but think of it like this - while you're fighting the natural variant - you're body is already compromised. It's not going to perform at its best. 2. People who've recovered from the virus successfully will naturally have some immunity. What's unknown is how strong and how long lasting it's likely to be. There are a lot of studies that are ongoing with people that got the virus early on trying to see what level of immunity they still have. 3. This is why early on when vaccines were scarce - providers were generally recommending people who had recently had the virus not rush to get the vaccine unless there were other mitigating conditions. 3. Even after the your bodies original antibodies have faded - your body's T cells and B cells will remember how to make the antibodies. To what extent is a topic that's getting a lot of research right now. Obviously we'd like to see a strong response years from now - but that's unlikely. 4. The virus is mutating - rarely do mutations become less effective. 5. The current vaccines respond well to the current mutations. Off the top of my head in order of effectiveness - Moderna, Pfizer, then J&J. 6. There are a bunch of mutations around the world that are being closely monitored. We don't want breakouts. If I could suggest one reason for getting vaccinated here in the US it's this. The longer we delay full vaccination here - the longer it takes the rest of the world to get vaccinated. And a major event in a place like India or Brazil will have follow on effects on the world economy. 7. Fading immunity from whatever vaccine you received plus mutations that break out will likely require most people to get a booster. Will that be yearly like a flu shot? Every 10 years like a tetanus shot? We just don't know yet. Here's what we don't know - we still don't really have any idea why this virus is a relative non-event to some and kills other people like @Steelharp. Until we do, I'm going to hedge my risk and get the vaccine.

While I appreciate your responses in this thread, I think we're wasting our time. It's the same folks saying the same things and asking the same questions since last year. We've answered the same questions multiple times and they come back the next week to ask it again as if they really want to know the answer. I've only seen a few people who I thought were willing to look at it objectively and came to ask questions with any sincerity.

It was never enough.

If you decide to go out fishing in St. Augustine I can whole heartedly recommend Endless Summer Fishing Charters and the guys on Endless Summer 3. https://www.facebook.com/EndlessSummerChartersOfStAugustine/ Went about 50 to 60 miles out with them the last time I was down there. It was a bottom fishing trip mostly and we targeted water roughly 80 to 150 ft deep. We got tired of catching fish. It was doubles or something big every drop. We pulled in Barracuda, Cobia, Mahi, Grouper, Snapper, Trigger, nurse and hammerhead sharks. It was well in excess of 200lbs of cleaned and processed fish split between the 6 of us even after giving most of the Triggers to the crew. I enjoy surf fishing as well but it is hard to beat a good deep water trip.

You know you could go to Michigan, and meet the same people and it would be cooler.

I'm with MacGyver on this. Good time of year for fishing FL. You never know what you might bring in. Since the wife has caught the bug, we're fishing every morning and evening. Love it!

This mostly. In another life I apparently was a sailor because I am drawn to water and the ocean. Even though I have been in Tennessee a bulk of my life I could live on the water. I get pretty fascinated with old boats, uninhabited islands, and stories of the seas. Lighthouses fit right into that. It is mostly the history and the tales that come with them. Since they are often in remote (or formerly remote) and hazardous areas the stories of the people who lived their lives working them can also be pretty fascinating.

Brain wifi is what your trying to say. If they cannot see each other it won't work!!!!

They're sharing the same brain. They have to be close together to get it to work for both of them. I love sarcasm. It's about all most of us have left.

That's why you buy three and do a mix-n-match.