Warbird

Another vote for Honda. i have a 94 Accord with almost 300k miles on it and still gets 25+ MPG. That is a lot better than my explorer V8 4x4 which gets 16 mpg. My Subaru Outback also gets outstanding MPG and will likely run forever plus the AWD will go anywhere. I had a diesel 300 Mercedes which went for 300+k before I sold it to my college roommate's mother. She still has it and it now has over 450k miles on it.

They are scheduled if I recall rightly to end the session on the 23rd, so most decisions should be made by then. If they choose, which they usually do not they can add days to the end of the session or the middle of the month if they chose which they have already done. For instance, they almost always release decisions on Monday, however this Thursday is set for a decision day, though they did not disclose which decision if any would be released on Thursday. tomorrow.

I'm sorry you took such great offense. As I said I did not intend to simply dismiss your opinion and I certainly did not say it was worthless. I agree that you certainly know more than many much older, however there are some of us who not only have age but a lot of miles on this course. For me it's in the millions and its worldwide in this fight. So, I know from where I speak. My point was simply that it is not paranoia or paranoia w/o basis that gives some of us our opinions. I have seen the cycle and I have seen the rights dismantled in other countries, witnessed it first hand. I have seen it happen here in this country. When someone suggests that others are simply paranoid and they should chillout and get a grip or whatever some have suggested, I pointed out that there is a strong basis for some people to feel like they do. They have the mileage and the years and the wisdom to see the potentials. So I hope you never have to fight the defensive fight, though I think you will at least by being an involved citizen. There are things which are fact and known by logic and reason and there are things known by experience. We haven't had a bad fight in 14 years now, but those days and the days leading up to it were to be the tip of the ice berg here in this country. That is our fact and that is our history. So just as you say do not call me young and ignorant, I say don't call me paranoid or ridiculous for understanding the sentiment of those who do not desire to leave behind them trails. It in no way means that they have ANYTHING to hide and I resent the implication by whoever said it. As for me I don't care if you sign a form or not, I really could not care less. I have rarely done so, and I would have to decide on any particular situation if I would again on a private sale. I understand that is the law for a gun shop, that's their law not mine as a private citizen. I exercise my rights fully when need be. Oh and thank you for your service to our country punisher. I for one greatly appreciate it.

I like both. I have a number of revolvers and have had a lot more. I usually carry semi-autos, except when I go hunting. When I hunt I almost always carry revolvers as a back-up weapon. The gun I am most likely to pick up for hunting is a S&W 681 .357 with a 4" bbl and a nickel finish. No frills, just shoots when i need it to shoot. My other favorite pistols are my old Colt DA's and my Ruger Bisley Vacquero's.

Exactly. WD 40 is a dessicant, not a lubricant. It has very little lubricating properties and no real viscosity. It is not designed to lubricate during heat. It displaces water, dries up moisture and prevents rust. It has just enough lubricant to make a door hinge stop squeaking and keep it dry, but certainly not enough to lubricate anything which gets hot, especially as the result of friction. If you want it to prevent rust while it is put away, OK, but don't use it to actually lubricate a gun. My gosh.

No offense here, but you show your age with this post. You are too young to remember a time when our rights were against the wall and we had a government which was just looking for any reason to take more rights, to storm your house etc. There were politicians just salivating over a coming opportunity. But, they overstepped and got smacked down. Whether you realize it or not your rights are under asail again, and could be more so in the future. The UN is putting intense pressure to conform to more 'european ways'. A pro- UN pres and congress would mean huge fights and probably a return to fights at many state levels. You don't understand the mentality of some here because you have lived in a time when we are fighting to get back more rights, not with your back to the wall to keep what we had. But, many of us remember full well. I remember full well and I understand completely anyone who wishes to make some purchases w/o any paper trails. A receipt for a car is nothing, nothing in comparison to a gun. Nothing is, no constitutional rights under potential asail allows you to have a car or most any other product. But, the exercise of your 2nd amendment rights guarantee you the right to buy and own and bear arms, w/o the intrusion of the government knowing or potentially knowing what you own. Katrina is a modern example but not the only one in US history. It doesn't surprise me, nor does it encourage me much to know that so many are so willing to capitulate. I will also say if you hope to use some receipt as a potential contract in the efforts to protect yourself, you are fooling yourself. A contract entered into based on an illegality is void. It's like a non-compete or giving up your right to sue even when there's negligence. It's not usually worth the paper its printed on.

Sounds like a fun event. I will try to attend myself.

But I doubt they were only for sale to a LEO. There are a lot of surplus LEO guns out there with different police insignias. The guns they are talking about are ones that are in gun shops only for sale to LEO. As someone said this is marketing and special pricing, nothing more. There's nothing special about these guns that you couldn't order yourself.

It certainly isn't new to have a Goodman and Pope show on the same weekend. Most dealers are loyal to Pope and they are always better attended than Goodman. I have only been to one RK show, but I found it to be full of mostly crap. And it was in a dirty facility. I just wasn't in the least bit impressed. I will go to the Pope show which is about the only one I go to each year.

Jr.'s boy won the race. The Navy car. Nice to see an armed forces car in victory lane.

I have Comcast and it stayed on till the end for us. My dad had tickets and wanted me to go with him, however I am getting over a bout of pneumonia and did not think I would be able to sit in the heat for that long. It was a good ending, I'm sorry the sat folks screwed it up for ya.

Get the longer barrel. The semi-auto is the best to shoot IMO as long as you are right handed. The .416 has some advantages and disadvantages, probably a flatter projectile, but it was essentially designed for the states and municipalities banning the .50. I predict the .416 will get more military use in the future. A lot of the other .50's out there are cheaper for a reason, they aren't near as good. I've shot most of them and wasn't impressed with most of them.

The American Hunters andShooters Association is a sham group, a front group for gun control advocates to try and create divisions and diversions. Their income is derived from liberal gun grabbers. BE ye not fooled. This old argument about hunting is one the libs and so-called progressives are using to try and obfuscate the terms. We cannot allow it. For one we all know and must adhere to the fact that the second amendment is not about hunting rights. But, this is the way they won in England, Austria and Australia. This is part of the same PR campaign put up by the gun grabbers in the U.N, now they seek to do it to us here, slowly but surely.

Ummm excuse me. Hold it right there for a minute. The NRA has not endorsed ANYONE for president as of yet. The NRA has continually stood firm on their opposition to private sales regulations and on the opposition of the Crime Control Act of 94, worked for its repeal, sunsetting and is against any new similar legislation. IF you look at McCain's record on gun control it was extremely good for many years, followed by some bad nd worrisome calls on his part, and his support to an gun rights community opposed Campaign finance reform. Based on what he says he would do as president and the people he would pick for justices and knowing exactly Obama's on gun rights record we each have to make our own decision. There are always those who whine and moan and most never join anything saying well they all suck and none will do it my way, so none will get my money.But, know of what you speak before you speak please.

Are you talking about guns usable in SASS? S&W made the best of the DA's of that time period, but the SA's were far and away the better and most often sold guns. Most SA shooters could also shoot faster than the old DA revolvers. There are several companies making repros of those old DA pistols. A Ruger Redhawk is definitely not a cowboy gun, a fine revolver, but not a cowboy gun.

I grew up racing motorcycles and flying airplanes. The smell of racing oil, castor oil and racing gas is still in my head. I also love the smell of oil burning off the cylinders of an old radial engine. I love the smell of leather. I also love the smell of a good cigar or a nice pipe tobacco.

I don't think i have ever gone off on you before. I do think I answered some of your previous questions raised seemingly only to chastise a certain brand of gun. I will give you this Mike, at least you aren't one of the 86 million gun owners in this country who believes in the second amendment but won't support organizations that fight for their continued rights. Kudos to you. I was harsh yes, because I have for years fought these perceptions and I find it difficult to see others act what I consider recklessly. I never came here to be difficult, I wanted to make acquaintances who share a commonality. However, my field requires argument by nature and that just is me. You live as you feel you need. I hope your grandson will take the love of firearms and leave the drinking to non-shooting times. But at least you are teaching him the love of guns and shooting and perhaps hunting I don't know.

Yes I misspoke , I meant alcohol and guns do not go together. I don't care if he left or not. However, you stated he left and you continued plinking and drinking beer, nothing to suggest you started drinking AFTER he left. Continued, means to go on with what you were doing. So, now older age means you can drink and shoot? Somehow I thought age brought wisdom. Obviously not eh? I like beer as much as anybody, yet I know when and when not to drink. The fact that you say it won't affect your judgment shows me exactly what your mindset is to begin with. Yeah I was running at the mouth, I tell you what, you continue to perpetuate the stereotype of the beer drinking, gun shooting redneck and I will continue to fight against that stereotype, OK?

Perhaps I read it wrong. Perhaps he didn't start till after the boy left. However, plinking and ALCOHOL doesn't go together. That's just my opinion. I have seen generally smart well trained people make lapses in judgment and harm themselves others or property with a firearm. Adding alcohol to the mix increases the odds of lapses in concentration exponentially. Again, my opinion.

I am certainly glad citizens are not required to qualify with one weapon and use that. That's the way it could be done when the law was first passed and gave the sheriff's the power. Fortunately that was taken from them 2 years later. Private citizens are not Armed guards or LEO, their rules are what they are, but a citizen should be allowed to carry what they want and change anytime they want. It is up to each person to be proficient and I have met quite a few who qualified with the gun they carry and I sure wouldn't call them proficient with the training they received. The cost to exercise your right here in Tennessee is still too damn high. It shouldn't be more than $50. And if you move here you can turn in your permit from another state and get a TN license, unless you accidentally let that one expire, then all of a sudden you have to take everything all over no matter what advanced courses you may have had previous. We have a law and it is better than not having one or the one that was first passed, buit damn I wish it was like Vermont.

Dang I thought there'd be at least be a couple of others.

Way to go, teaching your grandson that alcohol and shooting go together.

Len I have to disagree with you here. Michelle Obama was very clear for many many years even if you go back to papers and editorials she published that she comes from the school of racial disharmony. She has made it clear time and again that she feels, that America is do blame for much of the world's ills and that America is still an extremely racist country and rife with injustice. This is very very clear. She is just now proud of this country because her husband may win the nomination and every non-racist will vote for him and he might win over evil, while her husband prances around lying about who and what he is knowing he could not win as leftist hack he truly is. Her thoughts were not of the current administration, but of the America she was taught to believe we are from her academic upbringing and her spiritual leaders. One need to only look at Obama's record to know he is the most liberal, about to be major party nominee in US history. He makes McGovern look like Helms. Obama comes from the same school as his wife and anybody who doesn't think Obama comes from the same line of thinking as his 'spiritual guide' Jeremiah Wright, his words not mine, then they are fooling themselves. I'll add lastly that Obama cannot accomplish all his goals without first accomplishing one of his highest set of priorities, gut the second amendment. He supports the DC gun ban, supports the elimination of guns for home defense use, he has proven this in numerous instance, supports the federal elimination of all right to carry laws in every state, supports the banningof the sale or transfer of semi-auto weapons, the stamping of all ammo, the ban on all handguns. He as voted for or stated on the record his support for all of these things. Anyone that afraid of us who cling to our guns and God has to be very very dangerous. Not only that but anyone who truly goes that far against common sense that they think taking guns from law abiding citizens will stop crime is just too fu*%&ng stupid to be the president of the United States. Period.

Any of you guys also belong to SCI, Safari Club International? What do you hunt and where? What kind of rifles do you shoot?

Skeet, Trap and Sporting Clays are a lazy man's shooting sport, which is right up my alley some of the time. It's classic and timeless. It is not a poor man's sport however. That is not to say you can't get in it for fairly little money, but to be really good you need good, especially at all 3, you need good equipment. People who complain about $500 pistols have yet to see the cost of a sporting shotgun. I have a new Beretta on the way. A great way to get in it is to buy a shotgun, semi-auto or O/U which has removable chokes and probably a 30" bbl. That would be satisfactory for all three. I have shot skeet with a pump however, difficultly, but any shotgun can provide for some fun. I am personally just getting back into after several years off. It's kind of like golf, it's a great place to conduct business. Most of the folks I hang out with are pigeon shooters, big game hunters and collectors. So the natural place to go is a sporting range.