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Welcome! You'll find TN a gun friendly state with gun friendly folks. (I'm a damn Yankee myself, but I don't tell these guys ... but I've lived here for 45 years, so I'm pretty southern grounded I'd say)

They already had that in the .327 Federal Magnum. Able to get 6 shots into the Ruger LCR or their SP101, it was a great idea IMO, but seems to be an obscure round to say the least. However Federal could've taken the same round and put it in semi-rim version to use for autoloaders. But ah ... just give me primers on the shelf at $30 a brick and I'll be happy.

I'd rather Federal put all their effort to bring us back $9.00 boxes of 9mm to Wally World.

Bump for another look.

Welcome to the "gun friendly" state! You'll find this bunch on TGO as really good folks.

I would go with whichever shoots best in my gun (accuracy, cycling, recoil factor). Either one is a good defense load.

Sold my inline, went back to my original 40-year-old T/C Renegade 50. More Nostalgia, more fun.

Spending 36 years with the Army, I'm a vaccination kind of guy. I took a flu shot every year since age 19, I'm 66 now. The last time I had the flu was when I was 18, so for me, I think they work. So it was no big deal for me to take the Covid vax, but to each their own. Some people just don't like the idea of a vax, period, That's the great thing of being an American, we have choices. Personally I'd rather take the vaccination risk than rolling the dice on how full blown Covid may or may not play out. Any doubts I had on getting the vax were erased when we lost Steel Harp. Him and I were about the same age. I wish the best to all of you for avoiding this damn virus.

Spent 36 years with the Army, 4 years active, 32 as an Army Civil Servant. 18 years of that as a tank mechanic, but then got burnt out on being greasy, and transferred into public affairs for U.S. Army Recruiting Command HQ my last 8 years. That was an interesting gig. I retired in 2010 and haven't had a bored day yet. Did I mention I like guns?

Thumbs up on Cedars, I've camped there. Right off of 840, and close to 40, Lebanon area.

It's pretty normal do have a slight "drag" the last 1/2" as the slide goes into battery if you're riding the slide back by hand. You have to remember everything is coming together at that point. But loaded, you should either pull back the slide and let it go, or if it's at slide lock, you can do the same or hit the slide release. If it functions fine when firing, you're good to go. At 100 rounds, it's not even broke in yet! I've got 5000+ rounds (IDPA shooter) through my Range Officer and the only thing I've had to change was a recoil spring at about 2000+ rounds.

Why not just include the 5x5 in a stage and give all those IDPA members a good warm-up for the upcoming state championship in Chattanooga?

Bump for price drop.

Two questions come to mind. 1. So why are you hiding the gun? 2.And what are you doing with it when you retrieve it at a later date? How about encase it in concrete for your new grill foundation, then jackhammer it out when you one day need it. You'd probably have less damage than sending it to the bottom of the sea.

Cool find. Bill Ruger made drills before firearms.

Bump for riding weather is here.

Wow. Just not fair for a dedicated pig hunter! You're doing the U.S. a favor! How many more dogs do ya have to groom before you can turn that green card in for the permanent one?

Of course the ticks are out, its almost turkey season!

That's a lot of fish sticks right there!

Bought this new, maybe has a half dozen rides on it. Good, thick heavy leather, size large, really cuts the wind. Sold the Harley, got a dual sport, Nobody uses black leather on a dual sport, so had to buy a dual sport jacket that costs twice as much ... go figure. $75

When the hog is 3x bigger than Rob, ya know that's one big animal! Just say'n

Wondered where you went Jim. You use to burn it up with a wheel gun at the steamplant matches aka, the old Gallatin Gun Club. Of course they've moved to Macon County, north of Hartsville. Now called MTSA, 175 Dry Branch Road, Dixon Springs, Tennessee 37057 There shooting IDPA 1st Saturday of the month. There's still a couple wheel gun guys there. BTW, you don't have to be a member to shoot the matches.

The two ways we kill deer are by blood loss or hydrostatic shock, or both. Big slow bullets tend to kill by hemorrhaging while fast bullets, regardless of size, tend to drop game animals even faster by hydrostatic shock which pretty much snuffs out the nervous system, which is why many times when you pull that trigger on a high power caliber, the animal drops in its tracks. Using a slow, small pistol round to take a deer is minimal in my opinion. A .38 at 1200 FPS, even if it's a 158 gr., is still twice as slow as a 150 gr. out of a 30-30, which to most riflemen, is at the bottom of the power scale. It can be done, but there are better choices. I have and like taking deer with handguns myself, but I've always stuck to .44 magnum. Seems to work for me. I'm no ballistic expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.

I'm using the factory ramp sights and there's no front hood on this model, which is good. Even on models I have with hoods, I always remove them. It allows more light to hit that sight I have found. I've also found that putting a dab of white paint on the front sight tip makes it a lot easier to pick up against a brown background, like the side of a deer. The rifle is a Winchester Centennial 66, made in 1966, in 30-30. When I bought it from my friend Terry W (TGO member) it had never been fired, nor loaded. I told him I was going to hurt the collectability and shoot the heck out of it. He was good with that. LOL ... actually, it's the nicest shooting 30-30 I've owned. It has a 26" octagon barrel which adds some FPS and really steadies out nice for off hand shots. I'm not a collector, I'm a shooter, so anything I have I shoot. It's a shame so many of the commemorative 94s are collecting dust. They're really made to shoot! https://www.chuckhawks.com/win_centennial_66.htm

Just get closer to your game. I called in this bobcat and took him at 35 yards with my 1966 Winchester 30-30. My eyes are 65-years-old wore out, so yes, iron sights are tough, but still work for me close up. I limit my deer shots to 50 yards with irons. Not hard if you hunt thick woods. If I'm hunting open fields, I still have some scoped bolt guns for that.